We ran down the steps, smiles on both of our faces as we tried not to miss a step. We made it down and yelled “can we come out yet!?” “Hold on one second.” Our mother said as she adjusted the camera to capture this precious moment. “What do you think we got this year?” I asked my sister. “Something big, Mom’s been telling me I’ll love it forever now.” She responded smirking. “Okay, you guys ready?” My mom asked. “Yes yes yes!” we responded, she open the door and we ran out.

We saw our pretty little tree decorated with presents all around it, there must have been at least fifty!
We spent an hour or so opening presents and rejoicing in our new belongings. After all he presents were gone my sister was already playing with her new doll and my dad with his new coffee maker. I looked at the tree and saw a small card underneath it, in the back. “What is this?” I asked my parents. I opened it and pulled out a pamphlet with African animals and a safari right on the cover. “Surprise!” Mom said. My eyes grew wide, we were going on a safari in Africa.

A couple years passed as my parents saved more money to make sure we had enough for our trip. I was sixteen now and my sister was thirteen, it was the last day of school. “You finally going this year?” one of my friends asked me, just minutes before the final bell rang. “Yea we are, bout time right?” “yea he said, have fun” he said as he walked over to the head cheerleaders desk to make plans over summer break.
The bell rang, papers flew as kids ran trying to be the first one out. I got in my car and drove over a block to the middle school to pick up my sister. “you ready?” I asked as she got in my car. “of course” she said. “You gotta be up by six tomorrow or we’ll miss our flight.” “I know I know” she said smiling.
We got home and made sure we had everything packed, then went right to bed, but none of us slept because we were too excited.

After a thirty minute drive to the airport and a fifteen hour flight, we made it to Africa. We were all jet lagged so we checked into our hotel and crashed. “Safari tomorrow, don’t be too tired.” My dad said as he laid down next to my mom who was already fast asleep. Me and my sister were wide awake, we were in Africa! How could we sleep? We somehow managed.
My sister, dad, mom and me along with an older couple poured into the back of a jeep, excited and ready to go. Our tour guide came and said “are we ready?” “Yes” we all said, some more enthusiastic than others.
Our tour was two hours long, we were about an hour in. We saw giraffes left and right, a baby elephant alongside it's mom, we saw many different exotic birds and we even saw a lion off in the distance.
“Sir I don’t have control of this car anymore, I can’t steer!” The driver said to the tour guide.” “What do you mean?!?!” “I can’t turn, and we are headed straight for the waterfall!” “Everyone JUMP!” our tour guide screamed. “What?” My mom said. “Get off the truck right now!” The driver said, we all jumped out as fast as we could. I rolled over into a big pile of mud and quickly got up to go make sure everyone was okay. One by one I helped everyone get up and checked on them, the tour guide and driver helping me. We got to the older man who was in our tour with his wife. “Where’s Lucy, where’s my wife?” The man said frantically as we helped him up. Just then we heard a scream.
We all ran over and as soon as we got around a patch of high grass we all paused in fear. About twenty feet ahead of us was a lion, the biggest lion I’ve ever seen, standing over Lucy, the older man’s wife. “Everyone stay calm, don’t make a sound” The driver said to us. “Lucy!” He whispered, “Don’t make any sudden movement.” She had a look on her face like she just saw someone get murdered. “What do we do? she’s my wife we have to save her” The older man said. The driver got a rock and threw it near, not at, the lion. The lion picked lucy up from her shirt, not hurting her yet and carried her over to the rock. Lucy scream some more.
Without thinking the man ran over to the lion “let go of my wife!” he screamed as he started punching and kicking the lion. The lion dropped Lucy and turned toward the man. “run” The tour guide said, “RUN!” We all ran back over to where we jumped out and hurt a big snap and a couple of crunches along with the man's screams. Lucy ran out of the tall grass with blood all over he, she obviously tried to save him. “Oh my god, oh my god.” She sobbed as she fell to the ground.
The distant screams and crunching stopped. Then a minute later the lion came back, he wasn’t done yet.

Lucy ran over to us as we inched closer and closer to the cliff. The lion licked his blood covered chomps.
I heard something, a noise come from behind us. It came again and again as the lion inched closer. A huge “SQUAW” came and a Fetty Wap rose up behind us with thousands of birds carrying him. The birds carried him right over to the lion and Fetty jumped and landed right on top of the lion. “Yeehaw!” he said as he rode the lion. Three jeeps rode around out of nowhere and four men got out and went to work. Two opened a caged as the other to get some bait ready. Fetty rode the lion right into the caged and jumped off. He tried to do a double backflip to impress us, but he failed. He landed right on his head and snapped his neck. #PreyForFetty. The other four men along with my family, the tour guide, driver and Lucy looked our savior, dead on the ground. “Oh well” one of the four said as they walked toward us. “I’m Jack Black” one said. Just then he tripped over a rock and snapped his leg. “OHHHHHH!” He screamed as he went to the ground. Blood gushed out of his leg as we all started at him the same way we started at Fetty. “...Anyway.. I’m Johnny Depp, and this is Jonah Hill.” Jonah waved with a smile on his face. Lucy’s eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted. She fell right back off the cliff, nothing we could do to help her. “That’s unfortunate.” Johnny said.
Anyway we are at war, we need some animals so we came here, you're lucky he got loose.” Jonny said pointing to the lions cage. “War?” I asked. Just then hundreds of Mongolians came out of nowhere, with weapons in their hands and surrounded us. “S***” Jonah said.

The Mongolians unlocked the cages and took the animals out and brought them over to us. “Oh I hate the mongorians” Jonah said. Johnny Depp said something in Mongolian that must of upset them. One drew his gun. Jonah looked at Johnny and in slow motion screamed “noooo” as he ran over to Johnny. He tumped to save him, but he miss. Johnny was shot in the arm and pulled out a huge sword. Jonah landed from his dive and fell right on a bar stool. He never woke up.
Johnny used his sword and started swingly frequently as he got shot a couple more times. My mom, sister dad and me looked in confusion along with the tour guide and driver. “I...I don’t even know what to say, except…. Surprise!” The driver and Tour guide pulled off their masked, they were actually Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. “Creatures of the deep! Attack!!” Mermaid Man said. Somehow thousands of sea animals and creatures flew up out of the river behind us and attacked all the Mongolians. The Mongolians ran in fear. After a couple minutes they were all dead.  “How are they breathing? My sister asked. “Oh…” Barnacle Boy said. They all dropped to the ground and flopped around and slowly died in the hot African sun.

Trying to figure out what just happened we started walking. A helicopter came from above and landed near us. “Need a hand?” A figure said as he got out the helicopter. It was President Eisenhower. My dad saluted as he was a member of the navy when he was a lad. They took us home all the way to America and dropped us off at home.

So that's the story of how our amazing christmas gift of a safari turned into a lion attack, then into a celebrity savior, then a mongolian war to be saved by two deep sea superheroes and then get rescued and brought home by a deceased president. The End.