Brrrrriiiinnng! Brrrrriiiinnng! went John’s alarm clock.

“Uhhh. I don’t wanna get up,” moaned John. “Maybe just ten more minutes,” he said while in the middle of yawning.

“JOHN! It’s 7am already, and you’re not making my cup of tea yet!”

John shot out of bed like a flash of lightning, and in less than three mintes he was up, dressed in his uniform, and serving the tea. His next job was to clean the fireplace. Now John absolutely hated cleaning the fireplace, he thought it was the worst servant’s job in the world, but he did it anyway because he liked to go outside and get the wood from the trees.

So there was John, cleaning the fireplace when he saw a shiny-like thing under the burnt wood. He picked it up and it was scalding hot, so he dropped it quickly. Then, when he thought it had cooled down, he picked it up and put it in his back pocket until he had finished cleaning the fireplace.

Next, he got the chimney brush and turned into a chimney sweep, and when all the soot was gone, because he was such a good chimney sweep, he found there was a door near the middle of the chimney! He reached into his back pocket for a tissue to wipe his sooty hands on, and he remembered the shiny thing he had found earlier. He got it out. It was a key!

The key started to glow, and a light shone out of the keyhole in the chimney-door. Then the key started to move on its own towards the lock! He let it do what it wanted to and it unlocked the door. When the key had finished unlocking the door John walked in. It was paradise, a nice Tropical Island with servants of his own. He stayed there for a few days in a nice mud hut.

After three or four days he saw a bottle in the sea. There was a message in it: it read PLEASE SAVE ME, IN CAVE, DAVE.

John wondered what it meant. In all the days he’d been there, he hadn’t seen a cave, so after thinking for at least a couple of hours he set off looking for a cave. He’d been looking for a good ten minutes when he found it. When he looked inside there was an old man locked in a cell shouting “Help! Help!”

So John tried to pick the lock but he couldn’t, then the old man muttered: “On the wall … the keys are on the wall.” John looked up at the wall and saw the keys. He picked them up, and very strangely the right key was floating in the air! John caught the key and unlocked the cell.

The old man was thanking John over and over again.

When he had stopped, Dave and John went back to his house and had tea. Dave was always worried that the evil man who imprisoned him would come back, so he went through John’s magic door in the chimney – but John stayed on the Tropical Island for the rest of his life, and was very happy!

The End