Anoek

Hi, I am Anoek and I’m a penguin. My type of penguin is the king penguin, but I’m not sure about it.

I’m stubby for my age, but I can jump lengthy distances. I’m not obese, but I’m quite fat. My face is very lovely, but when I’m furious my face becomes monstruous. Some penguins are grey with white, or black with white, but I’m a mixture of black and grey with white. My eyes are like little tea plates, and my beak has the shape of a rugby ball, but it’s hundreds of times smaller than the real ball.

At school, the subject I loved the most was Art, because I’m very creative and artistic. Now, I’m very curious, I have lots of questions in my mind. I always try to be cheerful, but sometimes I can’t. I like to be different from the others, and I often wear bright clothes. I always carry an expensive Mac with me.

Many years ago, I won the volleyball World Championship and I’m very famous for it. I was very proud of that.

I like a lot travelling, it’s my favourite hobby. I normally do crafts at home, I love it. At the weekend I always go from 12 a.m. to 14 p.m. to cooking classes. I especially like this pastime because I love eating delicious food. I like doing these things, but I hate cleaning my house or tidy up my bedroom.

I live in Windsor. In my house I live with Berry and Lucy, they are my best friends. I live with them because my family is in Norway.

I was born in 2004 in Maastricht, a city in Holland. I study economics and management at Oxford university. I go by train every morning to Oxford.

My best life would be being the director of my own bank, living in a mansion and being a professional volleyball player.

By Isabel Van Der Molen

Chapter 1

As every day Anoek was on the train from Windsor to Oxford. She was focused on her Mac because she was watching Wednesday, the latest hit on Netflix. Her friends, Berry and Lucy, were on the train with her. Lucy, who was a daydreamer, looked at the landscape imagining her future as a journalist, reporting all the unfair things around the world. Berry was listening to pop music trying to forget the stress of the exams.

Suddenly, when the train was going through the tunnel, there was a power cut, the train stopped, and everything got dark. The silence was broken by the sound of broken window glass. Anoek was asking her friends if they were all right, but the only answer was silence.

A few minutes later, in the inbox, an unknown email appeared. Anoek opened it and she felt frightened while reading the strange email.

“I've got your friends. If you want to see them again, follow my instructions.”

P.S.: don't call the police and wait for the next email.

Anoek couldn't find a reason for their friends to get kidnapped.” Why were her friends so important?” asked herself. Anoek had only one idea: an article that appeared in the university magazine explaining that the 3 friends had created an NGO to help people in need by providing food, clothes, or shelter to them. They have raised a lot of money and it was impossible to use it without each one of the three girls' fingerprints. She wondered if perhaps the robber knew it. At that moment another mail arrived: “If you want to see your friends again go to a famous place in London that has hands but no arms and a face but no eyes…”

By 6th year

Chapter 2

When Anoek arrived home, she started to think about the answer to the riddle. She thought and thought, maybe it was Buckingham Palace, the London eye.... Until she found the answer! She thought it would probably be Big Ben, and then she decided to write an email to the person who had her friends. In the email she wrote: "I'll be waiting for you at midnight in front of Big Ben. I hope you will come. From: Anoek" .

It was quarter to twelve when Anoek left her house, and at twelve o'clock there she was in front of Big Ben as they had planned. When she arrived all she could see was the dark and quiet night of an ordinary night in London. Suddenly she started to hear music in the distance, and each time she could hear it closer and closer.

Suddenly, a black van pulled up in front of her and a man in a black mask got out of the van.

There was silence for a few seconds and before the man said anything Anoek ran away. She was very scared and decided to call the police, but when she was going to take out her mobile phone, she got a message from the masked man: "If you call the police, you will never see your friends again" By: Anonymous”.

Anoek, not knowing what to do, decided to go back home, and began to think about a plan.

By Iker Bocanegra, Hugo Cobos, Jordi Ferrándiz and Ainhoa Diez (1st

Secondary)

Chapter 3

Anoek was thinking in her house and suddenly she imagined what would happen if she called the police. It wasn’t an option. Anoek didn’t know what she was going to do to save her friends.

First, she thought about going back to the train station to check if the security guards would give her or show her the camera recordings. Soon she realized that they wouldn’t give those to them because she wasn’t authorized. She thought it was a little bit strange, so she thought it would be a better idea if she went to have a drink to relax and think about a plan B.

When she was eating a croissant, some messages started to arrive to her mobile phone from someone called “enigma 69”. In a message there was an audio with the voices of her friends and in a second message there was a photo of her friends, but they didn’t look good, they looked very afraid and pale. At that moment Anoek was afraid too, but suddenly she remembered that she and her friends had an app called zenly. With that app it was possible to search for her friends’ mobile phones; and with that she would have a clue to start investigating.

When she checked the app, their mobile friends where both on an abandoned warehouse. She decided to call a taxi to go there.

In the app it appeared that her friends were about a half an hour by car from her location. Once the taxi arrived, Anoek explained to the taxi driver her plan. He thought it was a crazy idea because it didn't sound credible. Even so he accepted the journey and started driving to that mysterious place.

Half an hour later, the taxi driver left Anoek in the front of the abandoned warehouse. The door was opened, Anoek was a little nervous, but she decided to enter.

When she was inside, she saw…

By Hugo Cerezales, Eric Figueras and Lukas Rubio. (2nd Secondary)

Chapter 4

When Anoek got inside, she saw a lot of boxes on very big shelves. She walked along the room and saw a door next to a wide corridor.

When she was going down the corridor to get into the room, she heard a man’s voice singing. She hid in a box silently and waited until the singing stopped. Then, she carefully watched all around the room and got out of the box. She crossed the corridor quietly and entered the room. The room was very dark, so she searched for a light. She looked for her friends and called them, but there was no answer. She finally found a light and the room got clearer. When she adapted to the light, she saw something that shocked her: on the floor there were her friends’ mobile phones with a message:

LOL!!! You have fallen into my trap! I was not able to kidnap you in the train but now I have brought you here and I will catch you!

Suddenly, the lights went out and Anoek heard a loud voice laughing.

Somebody sprayed at her face and fell asleep. When she woke up, she was with her friends in a small room. They were trapped. At first, they were happy to see each other, but later they realized that nobody could help them.

Just then, the kidnapper, Enigma 69, entered the room and started to speak as he took off his mask, then Anoek was surprised to see who he was...

By Martina Bonet, Lucía Fernández (1st Secondary)

Chapter 5

The kidnapper was Rose Walter! Two years ago, Rose tried to kidnap Whisper, who was Queen Elizabeth’s favourite dog! For sure she was in jail, but 3 months later she escaped, and no one could find her.

She wanted to steal the money from the three penguins’ NGOs. Last time, her plan was ruined by the Queen's butler, but this time no one would ruin her plans again! Her biggest dream was becoming rich!

OMG! Anoek was very scared! She had met Rose Walter before, and she knew Rose was one of the most wanted criminals in England!

Meanwhile, Anoek found some dirt on the floor, so she threw the dirt at Rose’s eyes, temporarily blinding her, she quickly grabbed Rose’s penknife and ran to her friends, she cut the rope and they ran towards the exit, but the door was locked. So, they tried to find another way out. They ran as fast as they could and found a trap door to escape. When they entered, they found some stairs leading them to a roof 10 meters from the ground.

On the roof, Anoek called the police with her phone and gave all details. Unfortunately, Rose came out with a crowbar, she was determined to capture the penguins.

When all seemed lost, a police helicopter lowered down and saved the three friends. Before she could do anything, she was arrested and eventually imprisoned.

Rose was sentenced helping some NGOs for ten years. She would learn not to be so selfish and think more about the others. Anoek and her friends could rest easily knowing Rose wouldn’t return for a long time.

Eventually, the girls decided to celebrate by watching the new season of their favourite series Wednesday

By Carla Cortés, Paula Extremeiro, Pablo González and Júlia Torné. (2nd Secondary)