Myths: Connor and the Spider by Nathan

Conner and the Spider

Conner was a normal dude in a normal house built into a hill in the country… until one day when his life was changed… for ever!

It was a dark and doomy day when the beast descended from his mountain cave (before the portal started up) and came down in to the valley.

Conner was out walking when the beast went into his house, trashed it and stole his father’s legendary diamond sword. When Conner got home he noticed instantly that the sword was gone. He ran outside and saw footprints in the mud that the now beginning rain had made leading up to a mountain in the far distance.

The sword was legendary because Conner’s father had killed the only giant acid shooting spider in the world with that sword. Before he –Conner’s father had died he had taught Conner how to track the spider if another spider ever came along so Conner knew instantly that that’s what the tracks were from.

“It must be after that sword which with my father killed the first spider” Conner said to himself. Then he rushed into his house only to grab some food, some spare clothes and a backpack to carry the stuff in. then he rushed out and started the long walk tracking the spider. Three days later the tracks of the spider went into a cave and disappeared into a blue haze. It was as hypnotic as a python’s eye. Conner tried to follow but the blue haze was a portal that had started when the spider came back to his cave and he was teleported to the other side of the mountain.

He was walking back up the mountain when he fell into a hole in the mountain and when he got back up a god appeared and the god said to him “that hole that you fell into then, is a secret way into the spiders cave. So secret in fact that even the spider doesn’t know about it –not that he’d want to, he’s too big to fit into it.” Then he gave Conner a magic axe that he could use to shut down the portal at the end of the fight.

Conner sneaked into the hole –he was going to take no chances even if the spider didn’t know he was there. Finally he came across some metal bars. He swung his axe and the metal bars splintered and broke. He ran out at the spider and before the spider knew what was happening Conner had cut off one of its legs! But the spider had a surprise for him too and shot acid at him the shot missed but hit the axe instead and it was blown into smithereens. Conner looked wildly around for a way to escape and his eyes fell on his father’s magic sword ran over dodging in-between the spider’s legs and picked it up. The spider shot acid at it but it could not be destroyed. He ran at the spider and cut off its head. Then he destroyed the portal and went home. He hadn’t become famous for killing the beast like his father had but he had rid the world of a fearsome dangerous beast. He had completed his quest.

By Nathan      

My peace poem by Nathan St Teresa's Bluff NZ 

Peace is good 
Everyone needs it 
All around us 
Caring for other people
 Earth needs it

peace poetry

                                                        

                               My Peace Poem

Always be friendly

You have to say no more wars        

Now peace starts with me.

By Nathan        

                                   

Nathan's Speech

Should people who don’t recycle have to pay a fine of $50?

My opinion on this topic is yes I think should have to.

Hi my name is Nathan and I want to talk to you about this topic.

My first point is that each New Zealander consumes about 36kg of plastic packaging per year and only recycles 8.64kg. That’s a lot plastic that goes to landfills and remember plastic packaging hardly weighs anything! People really need to start recycling or even reusing and a good thing to do make people start recycling is to make them lose some of their “precious” money if they don’t recycle. People don’t like losing money (it’s a different thing to give it away) and if they have to recycle to keep it they are probably going want to recycle.

My second point is it saves a lot of trees if you recycle paper. You might say “how is that going to save trees?” so I am going to tell you. 

Paper is made out of trees as you probably know and when you recycle paper they can make new paper out of the old paper (just make sure that it is flat and not crumpled up) and they don’t have to cut down as many trees.

Here are some facts that you probably don’t know-for every 1 tonne of paper recycled, 13 trees are saved, 31,780 litres of water is saved, 2.5 barrels of oil is saved, 4 cubic yards of landfill space is saved, 4,100 kWs of electricity is saved and making paper from recycled materials results in 74% less air pollution and 35% less air pollution.

That is why I think people should get a fine of $50 if they don’t recycle but you might think the opposite. Thank you for listening. :)    

A cat named Dave

Once there was a cat named Dave
He was walking along
He saw a bag of cookies
He tried to get the chocolate chip cookies
But he owner put them on a high up shelf
Dave decided to kill his owner
He was a killing machine
His owner called animal control
They put Dave in a bag
Then they accidentally let Dave out of the bag
CRASH!
He zoomed around the room
He was like a tornado
He knocked over something and...
The bag of cookies dropped to the floor
Dave was happy again

Finally we Landed.

Finally we landed... on the moon. I stepped off the ship and I died- I forgot to put on my space suit. But oh well… A few years later I saw that humans had colonised the moon. Who cares if I’m not alive any more. :(

Stoats

Stoats are cute and fuzzy
Stoats run fast when they see a Whio
But they are still cute
When they're eating Whio 

My Anzac poem

As the soldiers died
New Zealand hoped that they would win
Zillions of people died
Anzac soldiers thought it would be fun
Country's fought to win