Haida Legend The Whale's Good Deed Written and Illustrated by Patrick, Grade 4IT  

     Once long, long ago when time did not matter, there was a whale. This was a killer whale. He was not as popular as the other animals, but he could do something that the other animals couldn't do. He could swim the farthest out in the sea. The thing he liked doing the most was helping the other animals with their work. He liked doing good deeds for the other animals.
     One night as the sun went down all the animals went to bed, but whale stayed awake to see the stars. Just then a big  tidal wave came. It formed into a big body of water. It was the sea god, he was nothing but trouble.
     He said "I have stolen the sun and kept it in my cave down in the cold sea, no animal dares go there or they would freeze to death."
    "Well it happens that I am a whale and whales can swim in extremely cold water."
     The sea god laughed.  "I have locked it up in a magical sea box and there are one hundred locks locking it up. I know you cannot open it up with those flippers of yours."
      "Yes I can because I'm going to find a way to get the sun back!" yelled the whale.
     The next morning... well what was supposed to be the morning... the animals got up.  They noticed right away that the sun was not up, so they had a meeting and whale told all the animals what had happened. All the animals were sad, but they wanted to help get the sun back. They tried many things, but nothing seemed to work. Whale went to his dad and asked how he could solve his problem with the sea god.  His dad said he just needed one thing and that was himself.
     Whale was puzzled for a moment but then he said, "I think I know what you mean."
     He went to the sea god right away. He was still in his fortress.
The sea god said, "So have you found a way to get the sun back yet?"
     "Yes I have," and with a big scream the whale shook the sea. His big echo shattered all the locks all at once and the sea god got sucked into the box when the box opened and then the sun
rose up. Everybody had a big party and all of the animals were invited. The sun was up again and from that time on the sea god was never seen again.