Fortunately

This was an assignment for 4th grade. The teacher read a book to us, and then asked us to write a story in the same style, alternating between fortunate and unfortunate sentences.

It's hard to make a linear story when every second sentence has to be a disaster, but that's part of the fun as well. This was yet another story in which I far exceeded the required length, and spent a lot of time writing on this. Looking back it hardly seems very literary, but I was very proud of it at the time.

Fortunately the Lone Wolf found a mate.
Unfortunately a hunter came.

Fortunately the lone wolf got away.
Unfortunately his mate was shot.

Fortunately the lone wolf found a cave to hide from the hunter
Unfortunately the hunter found him

Fortunately the lone wolf dodged the hunter and ran out into the woods
Unfortunately he got caught in a bush and the hunter found him

Fortunately the hunter had run out of bullets for his gun
Unfortunately he had a knife which he grabbed from his pocket

Fortunately the lone wolf bit his hand and the knife fell into the bush and the lone wolf stood guard over it
Unfortunately the hunter pushed him aside and grabbed his knife

Fortunately when he did this he freed the lone wolf from the bush
Unfortunately the lone wolf ran in a cave and the bear who lived in the cave attacked the lone wolf

Fortunately the lone wolf ran out of the cave
Unfortunately the lone wolf stopped to rest and the hunter snuck up on him and grabbed him

Fortunately the lone wolf struggled free
Unfortunately the hunter threw his knife and gave the lone wolf a wound on his leg.

Fortunately the bear came out of his cave and scared the hunter away.
Unfortunately the bear attacked the lone wolf next

Fortunately another hunter came on the scene and shot the bear, and was going to help the lone wolf with his wound because he liked wolves.
Unfortunately he was attacked by a gang of robbers before he had a chance

Fortunately he killed one.
Unfortunately one killed him.

Fortunately the robbers were going to help the lone wolf with his wounds because they liked wolves too.
Unfortunately before they had a chance to, a bunch of police men arrested the robbers.

Fortunately the police men saw the wolf and were going to help him because they also liked wolves
Unfortunately the hunter was sneaking up on the limping wolf with his knife. (He had grabbed his knife as he ran away from the bear.)

Fortunately the police men saw him and told him not to kill the wolf.
Unfortunately he didn't listen to them

Fortunately a police man ran down and took the hunter's knife.
Unfortunately the hunter tackled the police man and took back his knife and killed the police man with it.

Fortunately the rest of the police men saw this and they arrested the hunter
Unfortunately while all of this was happening, the lone wolf had limped back into the forest.

Fortunately he wasn't hard to find and the police men found him and drove him to the vet
Unfortunately when they got there they learned that the vet had been killed

Fortunately a new vet came in ten minutes later
And fortunately he healed the wolf
And fortunately he returned the lone wolf to the wild.