Writing Stories with

Story Cubes

“Our First Story”

Written by

Furkan Çakmak & Öykü Cemre Uysal

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PART ONE- JOURNEY TO EGYPT

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At a midnight I woke up with the ring of my phone. I

was worried and I thought there was bad news.

Because nobody called me at midnights. I answered

the phone and it was my uncle. He was an adventurer

and fond of travelling. So he said that he wanted to go

to Egypt and offered us to go with him. He was very

excited about this idea. Thus, he called us at midnight.

The next morning my uncle came to our house. We

prepared our luggage, locked the door of our house

and set off. We boarded the plane in the evening. This

was my first experience to get on plane. For this

reason I was very excited. While the plane was taking

off, I was very scared. The hostess served me ice

cream and then I felt relaxed and slept during my

journey. While I was sleeping, I saw an interesting

dream. In my dream I saw a big and shiny fish. She

told me her name “Holyfish”. When my mum woke me

up, the plane had landed and we got off the plane in

Cairo. We found a hotel to stay and checked into the

hotel.

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PART TWO - THE SECRET OF “HOLYFISH”

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The next morning I got up at half past ten. After

breakfast my uncle and I went out for seightseeing. We

went to the biggest pyramid of Egypt. It was Keops.

For me it was huge and amazing. We went inside to see

the tomb of the pharaoh. The inside of the pyramid was

like a labyrinth. There were a lot of symbols on the

walls. We analyzed them for a while and suddenly the

electricity went off. We had a torch and turned it on.

Then we tried to find the exit. When we reached the

door, it was locked. We looked at our watch and

realized it was too late. There was nobody around. We

heard a scream ”Help!” coming from inside of the

pyramid. At once we ran towards the direction of the

scream. A fire ball appeared in front of us, it went

forward and we went after it. More and more we got

closer to the scream and entered in a small room. There

was nobody in the room but the scream was coming be-

hind the wall. There were a lot of pictures on the wall

such as bees, flowers and pharaohs but one picture

attracted my attention. It was a picture of a small fish.

It was “Holyfish” in my dream and I touched it.

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PART THREE- OUR MISSION

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As soon as I touched the picture of “Holyfish”, I and my

uncle fell through a hole, we found ourselves in a jungle in

front of a pond. The holyfish was jumping over the pond, it

was about to die. Because there was not enough water in

the pond for the Holyfısh to live, so it wanted us to help it.

We asked it “Why is the level of water in the pond low?”. It

answered “This jungle is secret and I live here for

hundreds of years. A few weeks ago a man came and he

took a bottle of water from my pond. The water in my pond

has reduced quickly day by day. Unless someone bring a

bottle of water from the Lake Eyre –the biggest lake in

Austuralia– to this pond, I’ll die. If I die, the earth will be

destroyed!” We were surprised. My uncle asked “How can

we go to Austuralia? It’s far far away…” The holyfish an-

swered “I have got magic power and I can send you there.

Do you want to do this mission for the earth?” My uncle

looked at me and answered “We’ll do our best to save our

world!” It said that “Look at this huge pine tree, when you

get closer to its stem, you’ll see a secret door. As soon as

you get through the door, you’ll come across a labyrinth.

During all your travel you should move only with your emo-

tions. There will be a guide on your way and when you

choose the right guide you’ll find your way easily.

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PART FOUR – END OF OUR MISSION

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We didn’t have much time. Immediately we got through the

secret door of the huge pine tree. And then we were in the

labyrinth that Holyfish told about. There were two ways in

front of us; there was a turtle on one of the ways and a

snake on the other. My uncle and I looked each other and

remembered our bad memory about snakes. Once we went

to a picnic and a snake bit me and it bit my uncle too while

he was trying to save me. We had to stay in the hospital

for a week. So we hated snakes and preferred the turtle’s

way. As soon as we stepped on the way, the gravity force of

wind was so powerful that we arrived by the Lake Eyre. The

environment was so quiet that as if all nature was asleep. I

took a bottle out of my bag. We filled the bottle with the

lake water. Suddenly we found ourselves in the jungle near

Holyfish’s pond and we poured the water in the pond. The

water level increased quickly and the pond was full of water

anymore. Holyfish seemed very happy and said “Thank you

very much! The earth is very grateful to you. ”We were

very happy too. Holyfish told us “ Now, you can wish what-

ever you want from me. I’ll realize it for you. ”We said that

“We want all people in the world live in peace!” Holyfish

said “Don’t worry for it, I’ll do my best for the peace in the

world. We‘ll meat again soon!” And then suddenly we found

ourselves in front of our hotel. We were very surprised but

felt happy to be in our hotel and with our family members.

-THE END-

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Written by

Furkan ÇAKMAK

Öykü Cemre UYSAL

Supervisor:

Fatma BARLAS