Fatu and Click by Taparia Engu year 4

WOW!!! I had such an amazing time at Vodafone event centre! We watched a play called “Fatu and click". The people who acted it out were from Tangaroa college and MAN... They were amazingly awesome! If you would like to know more then READ ON!!!

The lights turned off and all of a sudden we saw 2 lovely ladies come out of the dark. They were the sea! "Hello boys and girls, we are here to tell you the tale of Fatu and Click," said the wave. Suddenly the background changed from sea to land. Now on an island there lived a family with lots of brothers and only one daughter. Their lives were about to change forever on this day.

"Mum! Mum! Something smells good is it for me?" asked the daughter. The mum looked at her and said "who's birthday is it Fatu?" asked mum. Fatu knew it was her younger brother, Ietie’s birthday. "Oh mum! Grr" grumbled Fatu.

Then dad popped up." Ah my son Ietie it is your birthday! I remember when you were born the sky grew bright with stars!" Fatu heard and went over asking "what about me, dad what did you see?" Dad told her that he saw an octopus but an octopus is smart.☺️

"Happy birthday Ietie!" shouted the brothers and sister Fatu. They celebrated till suddenly HAHAHAHAHA!!! An evil laugh was coming from the dark. Out of nowhere 2 dark figures stalked out of darkness laughing and cackling with dark evil intent. "We are the ‘The Witches!’ And we have come for our slave!"

“You’re what?" Shouted dad confused.

"Oh come on you can't be this stupid!!!" shouted the witches.

What did you do, that they ask this? Well when mum and dad got married dad accidentally made a deal that one of his sons would become a slave of the witches. They tricked Ietie into drinking a hideous poison that turned Ietie to rock! Gasp! Then they left the family heartbroken.

Quite a while later they heard more voices, "Who runs the world? AUNTIES!!" The aunties came in the house (they were and still are showoffs) and gave the boys a massive telling off!  (I wish I could give the boys a massive telling off).

Ietie was stuck in a rock and he couldn't talk or move till a crab came by the name Click. He climbed onto Ietie and pinched him so hard his voice box snapped back on! Ietie was horrified to see that his little crab Click was slowly crawling away while Ietie was still stuck as stone. The brothers came back home doing the same things they always did which was of course horseplay then all of a sudden they heard Ietie speak.  “Brothers you must be good to get rewards if you don't you will be stuck with everybody disliking you" Ietie wisely said. At first they thought they were crazy but then they realised that it was Ietie speaking! They listened and made some changes and because of that everybody liked them.

Kina the older brother was irritated because while the whole family were listening to Ietie he lost a spear throwing competition so he stomped to the house in a terrible rage then when he got there he pushed Ietie off the side of the house into the deep dark depths of the blue sea.

The family were angrier than an elephant stomping on a man! They threw lots of complaints at Kina and he knew that he had made them furious. Suddenly out of the dark stalked the Witches in a rage! "You think you can outsmart us with your Crab Click!?" shouted the witches. "And we want something to drink!" They demanded. (I forgot to tell you at the beginning, Kina hid the hideous poison in the sand that turned Ietie into stone. Watch this next part and see what happens.) Kina rushed out of the house unseen, grabbed the poison and rushed back into the house to trick the witches into drinking the poison. And guess what? They drank it! And in an instant they disappeared. Kina had killed the witches! They were happy so Kina grabbed a spear and threw it and it kept on going. They were happy and smiled.

And that is the story of Fatu and Click thank you for enjoying my recount and remember Effort brings reward.