The Black Man in the Tunnel
One Friday evening at 20 o’clock, just as Autumn was ending and Summer was beginning, in a big museum in Africa, there were two seven-and-a-half-year-old twins called Daddy and Charlotte No. The museum was surrounded by wet grasslands and growling dinosaurs that were throwing their arms around, and the twins were there to see some dinosaur skulls. They liked big things. Daddy was wearing a blue t-shirt with a gold star in the middle (like Captain America) and Charlotte was wearing a pink t-shirt with a similar gold star; they both wore long, green pants.
It had been raining since 2am that day but at the moment the story begins, there was only an on/off dribble as Daddy and Charlotte No were looking at some triceratops skulls, because they had among the biggest skulls of the dinosaurs. As they looked at the dinosaur skulls, Daddy and Charlotte No noticed a tunnel leading from the floor of the museum behind a large, triangular door made of gate fence with a pink handle. The triangle of the door was pointed towards them. They decided to go through the door into the tunnel because they liked darkness and wanted to play in it.
However, they needed a key, so they ran around the museum until they found a key (a triangle-shaped dark-blue iron key with an orange plastic stripe on it) on the roof. They fetched a ladder to climb up and hooked the key with a fishing rod.
Back inside, the twins turned the key in the lock, the handle popped out and they pulled the door open. They had five seconds to get inside before the door closed, and as they did so, a whisper come from the door saying . Outside, the weather had changed to hailstones.
Inside, the tunnel was brightly lit with rainbows on the walls, raspberry-flavour candy floss, sweets and a purple-and-green gem. The twins noticed another darker tunnel on the left and wanted to go in to find a friend in the darkness. In the tunnel, it was too dark to see properly, but there was an 87-year-old black man, who wanted to give them both a hug because he was a good guy. However, the twins really liked his elf-like ears and decided to shout ‘Echo! Echo!’ To see if he could hear them in the dark. The man screamed ‘Aaaaaah!’ and clamped his hands over his ears, shouting ‘Postman!’ because he really wanted to give his postman a hug but there were no postmen there. Them, the man got angry and started to fight with the twins, telling them to get out.
The twins left and continued along the rainbow tunnel, jogging for an hour for five miles, until they they came to a huge, purple, plastic, circular door that was three miles in diameter. They realised they needed a key when they saw there was a lock, but they’d left the other key back in the museum.
A note by the door told them that there was a key to the huge, purple door at the top of it, three miles up. Charlotte No decided she had to get out, so she started punching a hole in the three-mile door. After four hours, one minute and 28 seconds, she was able to get through and found herself back in the museum in front of the first, triangular door.
An alarm went off that sounded like barking dogs and Daddy decided to stay inside the rainbow tunnel, saying that alarms would go off if he came out, but his twin sister took the first iron key and opened the triangular door. The old black man came out, carrying special torches that made the whole room darker because he couldn’t stand the light, and started fighting with them again as he wanted them out of the ‘world of Africa’. He kept saying, ‘sorry for nothing’.
The twins decided to go home to South Africa to tell their mum about what had happened, as the sun shone over the museum.
