Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 25

Pirate Adventure to Madagascar
International College Hong Kong, Ashby, Eli - 8
This is the story about two of the most courageous, adventurous, and brave pirates who worked for the
Yongle emperor in the early 1400s. Captain Fan, and Seamate Lam.
They went on a voyage under admiral Zheng He’s command to look for a very special treasure buried
somewhere in Madagascar, on the east coast of Africa. In fact, the place was so much trouble that no pirates
could return. People believed there might live a monster, and they called it Tremours. Finally, Captain Fan
and Seamate Lam boarded a treasure ship and everyone was very worried.
As they docked, they packed their supplies. A gun powder bomb, matches and knives. They camped on a
sheer cliff in the jungle for one night so that the Tremours does not attack them.
Both Captain Fan and Seamate Lam were walking across the plateau in the morning, and they slipped down
a hole the Tremours had made. The monster’s size was bigger than their ship.
“Ouuuoow”, said Seamate Lam.
“Can you walk?”, said Captain Fan. “Yes”, said Seamate Lam.
“Let’s go and find some treasure.” said Captain Fan.
They walked along a big dark tunnel and suddenly felt the ground shaking.
“Let’s run!”, said Captain Fan.
They ran until they saw another tunnel on their left, and they ran down it.
“Why is this tunnel so small?”, said Captain Fan.
“And the other one is so big”.
“Look”, said Seamate Lam.
“There’s an egg”.
“It looks like this one is smaller so that the babies have to go through it”, said Captain Fan.
And the baby Tremours can come out but can’t come back in as they grow so fast.
“Look!”, said Seamate Lam.
“There is the treasure!” Captain Fan said.
When they were stuffing the treasure into their bags, the eggs were already starting to hatch.
“Let’s run!”, said Captain Fan.
And every second the baby tremours grew bigger.
They found themselves running back into the big tunnel. Suddenly, they found a big Tremours slithering in
the tunnel. Quickly, they got out their knives and stabbed the big Tremours, so that they could hold on and
ride it to escape.
“I’ve got an idea!”, said Captain Fan.
He got out of his gun powder bomb and matches from his bag, and lit it.
Captain Fan threw the gun powder bomb into the air, and it exploded. It made the roof of the tunnel
collapse on the baby tremours. The big Tremours was heading right out of the tunnel. By then, the baby
ones came out through the dirt, and they looked very angry. They jumped off the big Tremours and ran and
ran toward their ship. The baby tremours were very close to Captain Fan and Seamate Lam and they were
very close to the ship. One of the sailors brought up the anchor then when one tremours was about to eat
them, they jumped onto the ship just in time.
Sailing away, they both said. “We are not going back there again!”