The Island’s Catastrophe, by Riley Birkett-Willis

Dong! Dong! “Grain is guilty!” shouted the judge.

“Now!” Grain exclaimed. The dynamite started to lose its temper, and then everything went dark…

As Grain slowly opened his eyes, he realised he was no longer in the treacherous courtroom. Grain was now on a tropical island.

All of a sudden, there was something in the distance, but Grain was completely unaware of it. With every passing moment, it neared. Day by day, week by week, it drew closer, slowly nudging towards the island in the distance until…

The wind rose to a gale. The sky turned dark. The waves’ fists grumbled, and waves splashed against the island with great force. The lightning lashed the ground with a whip of pure force. With nothing better to do, Grain quickly dug a hole in the middle of the island, covered himself with a tree and waited.

After the storm had passed, Grain’s whole island was in ruins. However, on the bright side, there was no longer a storm, and there was an island in the distance where he could start a new life. Everything seemed fine.

But little did Grain know, this was just the first test…