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Monster Hunt I don’t know anything about you, but I know I’ve always feared the dark… So entering a pitch black cave is   the worst of my nightmares. Especially when I know I’m on my own and there’s a massive creature in the cavern. So, to overcome my fear, I start singing “Cave on the Hill” by Egg Sheeran, slowly to myself. Firstly, you need to know why I am in this cave and when is it happening: we are in the age of stone and I have been exiled because I have committed a crime: I kicked my lord… He sent me here; in the cave of the unknown monster, to bring back some information about it or kill it. I get to a fork in the path as I reach the end of the song; so, I stop singing and concentrate on my duty. I can’t see more than ten metres in front of myself. I decide to go left, though I don’t know why… To my surprise, I end up in a cave where you could fit a football pitch; and in the middle, the biggest and scariest creature I ever saw is lying in front of me. It’s

Chapter 1 Emma Bustle lived in a small American town called Turly. It was a beautiful place. In autumn, the trees turned orange and yellow. In winter a white blanket made of snow covered the colourful houses and people could ride sleighs. Emma was a young teacher who enjoyed winter for several reasons: one because she loved having snowball fights and riding sleighs with her school colleagues, secondly because she adored hot chocolate in front of a fire after skiing, and above all because of Christmas. The 1 st of December, Emma brought an Advent Calendar to the high school where she taught English to seventeen year olds. She took it to her classroom and the teenagers thought that it was super cool and that she was a fun teacher. When the bell rang Emma made her way to the staff room to get her coffee. In the corridor she bumped into her colleague Mark, Mark Moody. “Hi Mark, what are you teaching today?” asked Emma. “Oh, I have wood technology. By the way I have Lucas