The Fantastic Tale of Vi Junior

Fighting Words: An extract from a story by 4th class, Scoil Mhuire, Newbridge, Co Kildare

Illustration: Pierina Campbell
Illustration: Pierina Campbell

It was one peaceful day. Not much was going on and there was no crime for Vi Junior to fight. She was in her house in Futuristic City. She was hanging out with Burp the frog, playing some video games.

“I’m so bored, there’s no crime in the city today,” said Vi Junior.

Burp replied with a burp of fire.

They went to King Burger for some food. When they came back with their food, Vi Junior rang her friend.

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Suddenly, they saw someone break into the bank and she hung up. She was supposed to call her work partner but she was so bored, she wanted to fight this herself.

Vi Junior told Burp to distract the robber. Burp went into the bank. The robber thought he was a normal frog and went to pick him up. Burp surprised the robber when he spit fire into the robber’s face.

Vi Junior jumped over the distracted robber and headed for his partner who was stuffing money into the van out back.

The alarm in the bank rang out, and they could hear the sirens of the police coming. The robbers were still trying to escape but Vi Junior was so fast that she clocked both of them. While she waited for the police she handcuffed the robbers.

One of them, however, had a knife and cut through the cuffs. He helped his partner too.

They surprised Vi junior and pinned her to the ground…