Episode 3 A Strange Creature.

They walked on, Katie carrying one end of Roy and Yan carrying the other. Katie kept looking around trying to spot the creature she thought she had seen half way through their journey.

They passed by a thick clump of bushes, Roy thought to himself: This could be where Katie’s creature is hiding. Then out of the blue Katie yelled “I see something.” Katie didn’t yell so loud this time but it still pushed Roy’s eardrums to the limit. Katie was pointing to the North; the opposite direction to the bushes, she was only just managing to hold Roy up with one hand while pointing.

Roy asked “What is it?” But when he looked North himself he saw a magnificent creature with long leathery gold wings, a curved sharp black beak like a scythe and piercing red eyes. “What is…. That?” Roy asked in a whisper. “That my friend is a griffin; one of the world’s rarest creatures and also one of the most dangerous.” Captain Yan Herk whispered back.

“What shall we do?” Katie said in a hushed tone. “We stand still and wait for it to go” replied Captain Yan Herk “And we keep quiet.” They all stood and waited but the griffin never went. Roy thought that the griffin could probably sense that there was someone around and was waiting for them to move. Sometime later the griffin came dangerously near to them……….

By Woody