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Andrew Wong (5D)

Dodo Survival Plan Part One:

The Amazing Scheme

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21 August, 1609 (Dodo Year 5857) Wednesday (Sunny)
This is King Odod III writing from my personal diary. As you should know, I am king of the
dodos.
Recently, human sailors from Europe arrived. They instantly started cutting down trees
that were 100% our territory. We tried to fight back by shooting them with their own guns, but
the sailors easily retrieved their stolen weapons and unleashed cats to kill us. The Battle of Dodo
Island was a huge failure.
We tried to go diplomatic by pleading them to stop cutting down our homes, but they
wouldn’t listen.
Now, all the citizens of Dodo Island are panicking. I can hear a dodo screaming, “Wakanda
Forever!” outside. (Ugh) But panicking won’t solve anything, so I have hatched a masterplan for
our species to survive.
It goes like this: Tonight, we will harvest all the food from the trees and forests, then cut
them all down. Finally, we will take the food and hide them in their ships. I will be on their
flagship, of course. The next day, they will see all the trees cut down, and so they’ll take the logs
and set sail back to Europe. (Why? Because all the logs have been harvested, of course!) When
they reach their homeland, we will get off the boat after the sailors leave (in order not to be
discovered) and make our new homes in the forests of Europe.
All right, I’m bringing my eggcellent idea to the Royal Court. Let’s see if they like my plan!
Dodo Survival Plan Part Two: The Attack of a Cat
It was dawn at the busy port of Monaco. The great ship Voyager docked at the bay, and
Captain Ferdinand led his crew off his flagship on the gangplank. But then, a bird’s head stuck
out behind them.
“Clear,” it chirped when the sailors were all gone. Its companions, the dodos, jumped off
the ship. Then, their leader led them into a dark, murky forest.
“Well done, Scatterbrain!” praised King Odod III. “Now that we are in the forest, no one
shall find us! We shall build a city!” All the other dodos cheered and got to work.
Twelve months later, everything was complete. King Odod III took a fallen branch as a
loudspeaker, hopped onto a tree, and announced, “Citizens! Dodo City has been completed!”
Then his wife, Queen Fluffy, took the branch. “What are we waiting for? Let’s party!”
But during the happy celebration, King Odod thought he heard a meow. He left the city to
investigate. Driven by curiosity, further and further he went, until he approached a clearing,
where he noticed paw tracks. “The cat has to be here somewhere,” he mused to himself.

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