Ending 1

There was a storm. The rain was beating down loudly on the boat and there were enormous bolts of lightning. One struck the boat and an oil drum caught fire. There was a colossal explosion and some of the animals were hurt. The smoke was thick and the monkeys were shouting each other’s names. The smoke cleared and Nia wasn’t there. Harambe and Gizmo are shouting loudly for each other as the boat keeps rocks violently and furiously. They found each other at last and grabbed onto the decking. They heard a faint cry- it sounded like Nia- but they couldn’t make out what the voice was saying. They got closer to the edge of the boat and there was Nia struggling furiously to stay afloat while she was screaming at the top of her lungs, “Help, help, I can’t swim! Help! Help!”

Nia’s arms were flailing desperately. Gizmo and the pandas grab Harambe to stop him leaping into the harsh water for his screaming sister. A tiger ran to tell the monkey driving the boat to slam the brakes on. The boat stopped slowly but surely. By the time it stopped they couldn’t see Nia anymore because there was a giant rock between Nia and the boat. A soaking Nia clambered onto the slippery rock. Most of the animals scrambled inside the boat for anything they could use to help Nia. Suddenly, there were yelps of fear from the animals that had stayed outside. A huge wave had hit Nia and the rock she was standing on. Now she was back in the water.

They now had 3 strategies as a rescue plan, a thin rope, a crocodile who volunteered to dive in and grab her gently in his mouth or an elephant’s trunk to stretch down her for her to clamber up. So first she tried to clamber onto the trunk but that failed. Then the monkeys tried to pull her in with the thin rope but that didn’t work either because the rope snapped in two. The crocodile decide to jump in and caught her in his mouth. Thankfully, this worked. The elephants stretched their long trunks down and scooped the crocodile and Nia up to the safety of the deck. After they were on board, they carried on their journey to their new home in Africa with no further catastrophies.