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5th Class Mr O Looney

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I was horrified. It looked as if the world turned inside out. The floor was covered in thick hot magma and the air was filled with smoke. The sky turned black and flames surrounded me. I kept pinching myself. I kept blinking my eyes over and over again, but it wasn’t a dream. How could one earthquake possibly turn the world inside out? How was this even possible? Noone could survive this. My family was going to die . I was going to die. I panicked, I could barely breathe. I was shaking with fear and my vision was blurry. Earthquakes could stop but this was never going to change.

The heat was unbearable. But I managed to bend down and hide behind a tree stump. I looked at the ground and saw that the lava came closer to my feet. I stood up to try to escape but I tripped over the stump and fell into the..

I opened my eyes and saw the tree fall right in front of me. I was so lucky. But my foot was caught underneath. I was in such agony. I kept trying and trying to pull my leg out but it wouldn’t move.

Just then, the earthquake started to get worse. The loud noises began to get ear shrieking. I then notice gray clouds hovering over me. I started to panic. My leg was stuck. I pulled and pulled but it wouldn’t come out. I broke down into tears. I thought I was going to die. Bad memories were popping into my head which made me feel so guilty and upset. Everything got louder and louder. The thunder crackled in a long crescendo and the lightning started to strike.

But then it started to rain. I thought it was the universe mimicking me, but it poured down realy hard. Then I noticed that my leg felt a bit slippy. So I tried pulling it out one more time, and it worked. I stood up, jumped over the tree and ran out onto the road.

My whole body was burning and I was drenched from head to toe. All I wanted to do more than anything was stop. Just hug my parents and cry, tell them I was scared out of my body. I turned to hug them but they weren’t there. I was so busy trying to pull my leg free and running, I didn’t realize I was running away from them.

I instantly ran to the kitchen with my hands covering my head. I lifted myself up onto the counter and cracked open a window. “I saw my family racing after me. “Come on” I hurried. I crawled through the window and jumped down. I ran out of the driveway in my bare feet. The stones were making my feet bleed and my hands were cold and red.

The whole ground was shaking. Houses were collapsing, trees were falling. I was in despair looking at everything for the last time that I didn’t notice a tree falling towards me. I screamed, closed my eyes and fell to the ground.

Of course it was that night. The one thing I feared most. On the night before my twelfth birthday, I was lying in my bed thinking about all the things I could get. I was so tired that every thought seemed to make my eyes droop lower and lower, until they closed. The endless darkness made me fall into a deep sleep.

Then, the wall started shaking. It came in my direction,trapping me. I jumped out of my bed wondering why my whole room was shaking. But then it hit me, it was an earthquake.

My feet were burning from running against the cold stubborn wood flooring, but I had to keep going. Just as I pushed the door out of my way it fell to the ground with a huge bang. My parents ran out of their room along with my brother. “What do we do!!” I yelled over all the noise. “Run!” Dad screamed. We all ran down the stairs. I was about to open the front door but a huge cabinet fell and blocked it.

I stood there and cried for a second. But I realized that crying will change nothing. Crying won’t change the weather. Crying won’t change the fact that I'm all alone.

Then I noticed the weather wasn’t as loud or deadly. Maybe my family are alive. Maybe I could run back and find them. But just then the thunder roared louder, the drizzling rain lashed down. I could barely see at this point. Everything was so foggy and blurry. I took a quick glance behind my shoulder and I didn't notice anything. All I saw was these endless roads with pieces of destroyed houses laying along the side. Everything looked the same. At this point I didn’t even know if the earthquake was going to stop. I didn’t know what to do. Should I risk my life and run back and try to find my family. Or should I try to find shelter?

I decided to find my family. If anything happened to them I don’t know what I’d do. I ran towards my house wondering if my family’s alive. I tripped and fell to the ground. But then everything stopped. All the noise. The lightning. The rain. It all just stopped. I got up onto my feet and looked up to see the absolute worst thing ever.

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