Pouakai the glutton

 Hey readers!

this week in Mrs Jones's writing group we have been writing about a local moari legend about Poakai the glutton, first we had to do a plan in our writing books then after we had to make a template to write about the legend once finished we had to self check buddy check and teacher check once we have done all those we start our blog post for the legend.

                                                     Pouākai the Glutton

Mt torlesse was the largest mountain range but there was a problem one day a giant hast eagle name poakai came to the range and perched himself on top of mt torlesse creating a nest up on the top, he could see far out into the ocean he would catch up the hunters and villagers that would go out hunting for food for the village and he swoop down from his mountain and scoop up the hunters and to devour them at his pleasure.

Every day in the nearby village more and more people would go missing the village were starting to get angry and annoyed that more and more people were getting caught and killed by poākai and taking him up to his nest to never be seen again so one of the most fearless hunters named ruru decided to form a group of 40 hunters and build a trap and kill poākai and bring peace and freedom to the planes one again.

So each night they made a plan to build the trap at night when poākai would be asleep in his nest on the mountain. Each night they would gather around and start building the cage piece by piece, then finally at last it was complete ruru decided he will be the bait being the swiftest and the fastest he will lure poākai to the cage. So ruru got all 40 of the men in the cage then he ran out to the planes teasing poākai getting him to follow ruru back to the cage.

Ruru ran as swift and as fast as he had ever ran before with the giant eagle trailing behind him getting closer and closer finally ruru made it back to the cage running into the door slamming it behind with poākai landing onto the top of the cage. Then pouākai clawed one of his legs into the cage killing some men. Then they started to hack off his leg so poākai put his other leg into the cage killing some more getting his other hacked off. In rage poākai pushed his wings into the cage killing more men. Then hacking his wings off too. Then as the gird was completely helpless.

Ruru ran out of the cage running at poākai clubbing him to death. In succession on killing the pest they decided to climb the mountain in search of any baby's in his nest so they wasted no time and started the climb up the mountain, half way up they start to hear singing it was pouākais babies so they climbed up and finally reached the nest and wasted no time and clubbed them to death. The planes was finally free of pouākai’s wrath and was no longer being held hostage by poākai and could finally hunt again. And they lived happily ever after.