The Dark Jungle - a thrilling adventure by asus

Tom was running. His feet were hurting, but he knew he couldn't stop because a group of gorillas was chasing him. He spotted a giant hole in a tree and without hesitating he leaped in! He saw the group run past him. He was relieved.

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Tom was 23 years old. He was an explorer and he was very brave because the dark jungle was the most dangerous place in the world! He was accused of the murder of the gorilla king but actually the murderer was the king’s servant Tomas.

Suddenly he heard a banging noise behind him! He turned around and saw fist-shaped dents in the tree… He heard the gorilla voices. Luckily the tree was hollow so he climbed up and just as he had heaved himself up he saw a gorilla poke its head in, but it was too stupid to look up.

Four long hours later Tom was sure they had gone. However he had made a terrible mistake. So he climbed out of the tree where the gorillas were waiting patiently for him. They grabbed him using their giant, muscled arms and he could not escape as they took him to the  prison and locked him in. He shouted,”It was Tomas but the king didn’t have time to finish saying his name!”

The gorillas shouted, “That’s just an excuse!” Tom thought hard. He noticed that there were big holes in the walls that he could just squeeze through, so he did and found himself with another gorilla!

Tom didn’t know if it was sleeping or dead so he just ignored it. This time he decided to go out of the back wall but as he emerged he heard a whining noise so he looked down and saw a wolf cub. He picked it up and saw it had a thorn in its tummy so Tom took the thorn out and carried the cub back to the hole he had been hiding in a few hours earlier.

Tom asked,”Can you talk like the gorillas?” The little wolf said, “Y… y… yes.”

“Don’t be scared I’m not the murderer,” said Tom. “Then who is the murderer?” asked the little cub.

Tom told him the real story.

The wolf cub said that he understood and that he would try to convince his family to tell the gorillas. So he took Tom to see his family . When the cub’s mum first saw her son with, as she thought,  the murderer she came running! As she did the little pup said, “Do not worry he is not the murderer”.

“Then who is the murderer?” she demanded. “Well it was Tomas.”

“How?” Tom told the story just as he had told the pup. She declared, “I will go and talk with the gorillas!” A few hours later she came running back looking very exited. She said, “The gorillas have evidence that it is Tomas! And the whole jungle is invited for dinner, even you!”

After a very pleasant dinner Tom went off with the new gorilla king who apologised for putting him in prison. Tom said that it didn’t matter because he had escaped. He added, “Can you make an alliance with the humans?”

“That’s a deal.”