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    Monkey!
    Monkey!
    Monkey!
    Ebook83 pages56 minutes

    Monkey!

    By Kate Sargent

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    Lonely! Bullied! Ashley needs a friend...
    Kidnapped! Alone in the world! Monkey needs a friend...
    A fateful meeting on Copacabana Beach in Brazil brings Ashley and Monkey together and an unexpected partnership develops that will see them travel to England and face the future together...
    Illustrated by Adam Hayley
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9780244475444
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      Monkey! - Kate Sargent

      Monkey!

      Monkey!

      Kate Sargent

      Illustrated by Adam Hayley

      First published in 2019

      Copyright © Kate Sargent 2019

      ISBN #: 978-0-244-47544-4

      Kate Sargent asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author.

      Prologue - An End or a Beginning?

      Darkness... heat... noise... terror...

      What was that scratchy stuff over his face?

      Why had it all gone dark?

      Why was there so much shouting and screaming?

      Where was everyone?

      He had been playing with his friends as usual, messing about, playing catch, trying to prove who was the bravest at climbing up highest and jumping furthest. It had been a warm, humid morning and they had all been sweating from the exertion of their game. He had been expecting his mother to call him at any moment to calm down and have a drink.

      Then suddenly everything had gone dark and he found he could no longer see, or move, or even breathe properly. Something rough and thick was over his head and as his heart continued to pump from the exercise, he found he couldn't take the large gulps of air he needed. He tried to move his arms to sort out the problem, but found that they too were covered in whatever was over his head. Panic started to rise up inside him.

      ‘I can't breathe! I can't see! Where is everyone?’ he said to himself as his breaths started to come in quick, shallow mini-breaths that didn't seem to help at all.

      ‘I must calm down,’ he managed to tell himself. ‘Think calmly what to do...’

      So he tried to calm down. He kept still and tried again to see, opening his eyes wide to see if there was any light at all. As he peered into the gloom he found he could see specks of light, coming through whatever was covering his face. As his eyes adjusted, he found he could actually see more than just specks of light: the specks were actually gaps in whatever was covering him; gaps big enough to make out the familiar sight of the forest, the trees and moving figures. These moving figures were not however his friends and family! They were very different animals - bigger, slower, unsteady in the branches.

      Then he realised....they were humans!

      He had seen them before - and his mother had warned him to keep away from them.

      ‘They come here to hunt us,’ she had told him. ‘They try to catch us and take us away, who knows where!’

      ‘But they look so slow!’ he had laughed. ‘How can they catch me?’ 

      ‘They are slow, but very clever,’ she had gone on. ‘They work together in teams and use all sorts of tricks and tools to help make up for their slowness. Don't underestimate humans - ever! Do you hear me?’

      ‘Yes, Mother,’ he had replied obediently, but had quickly forgotten about them once they had gone.

      Now, through the gaps in the material covering him, he could see there were several humans moving around him and that they were picking up large wriggling sacks. His friends! A shock wave hit him as he realised that he and his friends must have been caught by the humans, just as his mother had warned him.

      A loud howl escaped him, leading one of the humans to come over to him and roughly pick up the sack he was in, knocking him onto his side as he hoisted it over his shoulder. The human chuckled and carried him over to one of his mates who skillfully attached the sack to a long pole on the ground.

      A few more minutes and it appeared the hunt was over. Two of the humans heaved the long pole, to which several wriggling sacks were tied, over their shoulders and started walking along the jungle floor. The other humans went ahead, hacking back undergrowth with long, sharp objects while they chatted and laughed with each other.

      The sack swung uncomfortably with every step the humans took and he was very hot and thirsty. He managed however to get himself back into an upright position so he could look out through the small gaps in the sack. At first he could recognise parts of the forest he had played in but then, as they walked further, it all became unfamiliar.

      After what seemed a very long time, the humans stopped. His sack was pulled off the pole and was dumped heavily onto a hard surface

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