Last of the Apes

Bang! Bang! Bang! The noise of gunshots echoed through the forest, as the last gorilla ran from the trophy hunters. Ahead, there was a cliff. Behind, the hunters. Wishing to die rather than be used for cloning and trophies, the gorilla jumped. She had made it to the ocean.

As she fell, the water pulled back to reveal harsh and unforgiving rocks. The gorilla hit them. The trophy hunters got to the cliff, and saw the broken body of a gorilla on the rocks below. They lowered a rope, and as they started to climb down, a huge tsunami wave reared its head above the gorilla. The trophy hunters started to climb back up the rope, but it was too late.

The tsunami crashed against the cliff with a sound like thunder. When the waves receeded, all that was left was a rope, dangling in the wind. Another gorilla came out from the brush, looked down at the black ocean, and let out a ear-rending wail. I thought about how lucky I was, to have the only gorilla in the world in the sights of my tranquilizer gun.

I shot, and it hit the gorilla. As I ran toward it, the gorilla started falling. Falling off the cliff! I hadn't realized how close the edgeof the clif was. I dove toward the gorilla as it fell off the cliff. Tumbling off the cliff, I barely grabbed a clump of its fur before both it and I went over the edge.

Luckily, we were close enough to the rope that I was able to hold on. The gorilla got swept out to sea, but I had enough DNA from its fur to be able to clone it back in the lab. We (I) had saved the gorillas from extinction! Now for the dodos.