The Three Great Mates by Levi, Ben, Marty, Noah and Blake

One wet Wednesday morning three great mates wanted a change. The three great mates lived near the Waikato River. Since the ETA had wiped out their homes their lives had changed a lot. Cruden the Crayfish had a girlprawn but when the ETA workers were clearing their homes she got taken away to The Prawn Park. Piri the Pukekho lived in a drain, but it dried up and the ETA workers put cement in it for the new road. Tony the tuatara was a road worker, one day he was trying to load cement into the cement mixer, but he was too slow that it dried up before he could finish. Kine the kiwi came out and shouted ANGRILY, “You were too slow and all the money we spent on the cement got wasted because of you! Get out of here YOU’RE FIRED!”

All the great mates decided that the ferns are much greener on the other side of the Huka falls bridge. Cruden the Crayfish decided he would cross because he wanted to get his girlprawn back. The only problem with crossing the bridge was that there was a ginormous Australian eel underneath. As he approached the bridge Quade the Quick Eel flicked out of the water and growled at Cruden, “Hey you! Nobody crosses this bridge unless they can score a try against me”. “Sweet as bro, she’ll be right”.

Quade was unaware that Cruden was a crayblack. Quade raced to the tryline but Cruden the crayfish nipped the ball off him and zoomed like a four wheeler to the tryline. “See ya bro, I’m off to save my girlprawn”. Quade slithered angrily back into the water.

Piri the Pukekho decided to the cross the bridge because he had heard about a pond where Paradise ducks lived. As he scampered to the bridge Quade splashed out in front of him. “Hey stickbird! Nobody crosses this bridge unless they can score a try against me”. “Too easy, mate” replied Piri. “This will be a piece of pavlova”, snarled Quade. Quade quickly wriggled towards the tryline but Piri used his feathers to tickle Quades gills which made him drop the flax ball. Piri swiped the ball up with his wing and skidded to the try line. “I’m no pavlova, see you later mate” and off went Piri.

Tony felt lonely and decided to cross the bridge to get a new job at Tuatara Century. As he slowly stomped to the bridge nobody appeared so he carried on. When we was halfway across Quade heard him thumping up above him. Quade was so exhausted because he had just had two games of rugby. Quade tried to jump up onto the bridge but the gates opened and the water flushed him away back to aussie. Tony slowly plonked across the bridge and saw his great mates and said, “Kia ora mates”. The three great mates lived happily ever after.