Why Did the Cone Cross the Road?

St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P6
14th December 2022

Two guys called Cone and Rocky really want a cheeseburger, but they have to cross the road. Cone was a traffic cone, and Rocky was a rock who had telepathic powers. The only problem with crossing the road was that Cone was really scared of cars. 

‘Oh no! I’m going to get run over!’ said Cone to Rocky. Rocky says through telepathy, ‘I can carry you across the road.’ 

‘But I weigh one million pounds!’ said Cone. Rocky explained to Cone, ‘Cone, you’re a traffic cone. You can just stop the cars.’ 

They got across the road, but then they got hungry. So, Cone the traffic cone gave Rocky a cheeseburger. They had stolen it from the Super Burger King. But as soon as Rocky started to eat the cheeseburger, it disappeared! 

The Super Burger King found out that someone had taken a burger, and made it vanish because it was a trap. The Super Burger King ran a burger shop and put magical potions in the burgers.  

They needed to go to the wizard, Mark, to remake the burger. Mark the wizard lives in a creepy forest. The forest was surrounded by a giant dome of water, shaped like an enormous bubble. The only way to get across the dome was to get help from the huge fish. The fish was called Friend, and also likes cheeseburgers. 

Friend the fish said, ‘Say a password, and you’ll get through the dome.’ The password was ‘fish,’ but Cone and Rocky didn’t know that.  

‘Cheeseburger?’ they asked. 

‘No, but if you can’t get through, take this shovel.’ They took the shovel and dug underneath the dome. There was a magical border between the dome and Mark the wizard’s house. But the shovel wasn’t just a shovel. It was a magical shovel that could turn into a magic carpet that flies, and they went through the chimney into Mark’s house. 

‘Who are you, and where did you come from?’ said Mark. ‘We are Cone and Rocky. Can you make our cheeseburger reappear?’ they replied. 

‘Only if you do these five trials.’ said Mark. ‘Do the dishes, clean my house, make my bed, mow the garden, and make my lunch.’ 

Rocky and Cone said, ‘Yes, sir!’ and carried on with the tasks. They walked in with Mark’s lunch, but it was an empty plate with a few crumbs. They said, ‘We got hungry on the way...’ 

Once they finished, Mark the wizard accidentally added a spell that made it endless. Soon, they got fed up with burgers, but they couldn’t stop eating it.  

‘I’m full!’ said Rocky. Cone and Rocky keep eating the burgers. Then Cone says, ‘I don’t want to stop eating the cheeseburger. MMM, cheeseburger!’ 

The burger started getting bigger and bigger, and started to glow...