The Forgotten Treasure of Ned Kelly - By Sophie

The Forgotten Treasure of Ned Kelly
                                       By Sophie
In a small crooked house (half of it still needing to be painted), with an overgrown
garden, Jake and Tara Kelly woke up on a rainy foggy day. They plonked themselves in
front of the TV and Jake switched it on. Tara snatched the remote off Jake and
explained,
''Remember, Mum said no TV this morning."Jake mumbled and groaned and gave a
nasty look at Tara.
"But my favourite program is on!".
"I don't care Jake!," Suddenly the radio turned on.
"Did you turn that on?," Asked Tara.
"No," answered Jake. They froze as the reporter spoke in a serious and
deep voice.
"A letter has been discovered written by the legendary robber/
murderer, Ned Kelly, Australia's bushranger.
He has stashed rare treasure, coins, body armour, weapons, and guns all in an old
wooden box marked NK, deep down under his house."
Tara and Jake looked at each other...and asked themselves, could it be our house? The
reporter carried on saying,
"The detectives have not found the exact house and say it could all just be fake!"
Jake butted in, in a scared voice,
"I...It can't be ours."
"Why not?" Tara yelled waking up Mum and Dad,
"Shhhh!..."
"We haven't found any trap doors or traces of treasure in the house!,"
replied Jake. Tara ran to the radio, switched it off and turned to Jake.

"Just pretend we never heard anything!"...... A day has past now and Tara and Jake still
have the idea in their heads. As They crawled into bed, their Mum shouts from the
kitchen,
"You have got a message from your French cousin, Pierre! Oh.. he will be staying the
week with us."
"Oh great just great!" Jake lied.
Tara went down stairs and grabbed her iPhone. It said
"Bonjour Tara et Jake, suis donc sorti pour mon sejour! Vous voir bientôt, Pierre."
"OH MY GOSH!" Yelled Tara "This is such a challenge! This is not cool."
Three days have past and cousin Pierre arrived.
"Bonjour" Said Pierre... dead silence...
"Pourauoi fait face a la lounge mes amis?"
"What the?" said Jake
"Oh... wait you don't speak French?, well its your lucky day I now a bit of English!,
I mean, why the long faces my friends?" Said Pierre with a bit of sorrow.
Tara didn't bother answering him and grabbed Pierre by the arm then dragged him up
the long stairs. Meanwhile down stairs Jake was trying to balance all seven suit cases
under is arms up the stairs. They sat on Tara's bed and explained all the exiting news
about the treasure that they think is stashed in their house. Pierre was excited and they
wanted him to help find it! Pierre walked off to the bathroom. As the tap wasn't working
Pierre turned it 12 times ... suddenly trap door flipped opened and he fell through the
huge whole and into a pool of dirty water! It was pitch black and Pierre tried to yell for
help! Tara and Jake were wondering where Pierre was as he was taking for ever.
They knocked on the bathroom door.
"Hello Pierre are you in there?'' asked Jake.
Nobody answered. Tara accidentally lend on the door and it flung open they saw the
great big whole in the floor! They both could hear Pierre screaming for help! As they
looked in, they too fell and found three of them in a pool of dirty water. They all
screamed and Pierre fainted.
''Where in the world are we?"
"Hey, Tara there might be crocs in this water!'' Whispered Jake.

"AHHHHHHH!" they screamed. They scrambled out of the pool, stubbing their toes onto
some concrete. Jake tripped on a round circular button. It suddenly opened a huge
door, they finely found light! It was like the sun right in their faces! Pierre, Tara and Jake
were startled, but they walked towards the light. As they walked through, they found a
note on the floor, it said "find the right key, and you will be free!" They all looked up...
and found millions and zillions of keys dangling from the roof. "We need to focus on
finding the right key," replied Tara. Pierre grabbed a random key and ran to the yellow
door.
"Nope, this one doesn't fit," chucking the key on the floor. After 3 hours, they left a
massive pile of gold and silver keys on the ground,Terri pointed to the highest key that
was looking a bit rusty.
"I can't reach it!" screamed Tara.
Jake had an idea-
"Pierre, jump on my back!, ok... now Tara jump on Pierre's back."
"I've got it!", exclaimed Tara. She handed the key over to jake, who skipped to the door
and successfully opened the yellow door! Jake slowly walked through the door and
disappear into nothing. They could no longer see Jake! Tara and Pierre came after him.
As soon as they arrived, they spotted Jake caught up in a web! it took up the whole
room! then they heard a strange noise that they have never heard in their life!

They both screamed and the huge spiders picked them up and placed them next to
Jake!
"Wake up Jake wake up!''
By now they were stuck to a sticky web and been wrapped around in it too.
Luckily, Pierre always carried a pocket knife around with him. He pulled it out and Jake
and Tara screamed.
"Don't worry I'm not trying to kill you." insured Pierre.
So he saved the day and cut their way through the thick web. They escaped out of a
tiny little whole in the wall. They then entered a cold dark place, with mould and pipes
in the roof and on the floor.
"Its just so big," exclaimed Pierre. They were motionless as they heard a dripping
sound... a sound of water running through the roof and walls. Tara started panicking.

The floor began to be wet.. they all started screaming! Pierre was running in circles! It
was now up to their knees, and the quickly up to their wastes! It was up to their neck
now... their last breath. "If I don't make it out of this, I wan't you guys to remember how
beautiful I looked!" Said Tara with her lipstick smudged and mascara running down her
face. Their heads are under water, Luckily Jake spotted a red button on the roof. He
tried his hardest to swim to the top. Pierre and Tara were loosing their breath. Jake
pressed the button, and bubbles were coming out of the floor, roof and walls! Then the
water stopped rising and bubbles stopped bubbling! The water instantly went down. "
Well that was dramatic." muted Pierre. All wet, soggy and cold they sighed and moved
on to the next room. The room is surprisingly gold and quite bright, they saw all the
gold and silver coins, and guns, and lots of body armour too, there was diamonds and
crystals all in the box! they tried jumping in to grab some treasure, but a mean ugly troll
popped up right in their faces. The green ugly thing said in a Scottish accent
"don't you touch my wee treasure, or you'll pay."
"This is when Tara chucks her temper!!!"cringed Jake.
Tara's face was now turning absolutely bright red!
"OK, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!
THIS HAS GONE WAY TO FAR!
I'VE BEEN ATTACKED BY GIANT SPIDERS, ALMOST DROWNED IN A SPOOKY DARK
PLASE AND MY BACK IS ACCING!
MOVE OUT OF THE WAY NOW!!.''
"Nope." replied the ugly troll.
"THATS IT" huffed Tara.
She karate chopped the troll in the arm and leg suuuper hard, and he past out!
Terri pushed him aside and went to grab some diamonds.
"what are we going to do with this stuff?" questioned Jake pretending to fire the gun.
"Follow me, oh.. and bring all the treasure you can carry." said Tara.
So Jake brought 3 guns and stomach and back armour, Pierre brought thousands of
dollars worth of coins, and guess what Tara brought... yep the diamonds and crystals.
They climbed up a ladder, and once they got to the top they ended up in Tara's old
cupboard that she never used and was in the very back of her room.

They placed all there treasure into 3 brown bags, and rode of on their bikes to the
police station.
"So whats your plan Tara?" asked Pierre
"Were going to give the treasure to the police for them to examine, then give to the
museum to display... then we will become famous!!."
"NO WAY" yelled Jake and Pierre
"WE need to keep it!"
But by then Tara snatched their bags and was already handing over the Treasure to the
police. Pierre and Jake started crying,
"My guns and body armour!" sobbed Jake
"My gold and silver coins! sobbed Pierre. The police were not very interested at all and
thought it was fake! So they got on their bikes and whimpered sadly home. once they
arrived, Grandpa Dylan and Grandma Payjay were there. They went straight up stairs
disappointed and very quite.
"Grandpa and Grandma are here" said mum.
You could here a big long sigh from Tara, Jake and Pierre.
''Do you want a muffin or cookie?" asked Dad
"No" they Replied
"Well at least give us a hug then?" said Grandma and Grandpa
They ruddily went into Jakes room and slammed the door shut.
The next week the police examined the treasure and said that it was Ned
Kelly's treasure!!! They were overwhelmed! They cheered and they yelled
and shouted... "But who really is Ned Kelly?" They all stopped and actually

thought to themselves who was he? So they did some research on their
computer and found out that they were his great, great, great, great, great,
great grandchildren!! they were shocked and surprisingly thought they had
no relation at all to him. So the police decided they should go on TV and
share with the world what they found! They did go on TV and they did become famous
for finding Ned Kelly's Lost Treasure...unfortunately they did leave lots more treasure
behind, but thats a hole other story...