Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 77

A Sticky Situation
St Stephen's College Preparatory School, Ng, Kaylen - 6
“Help!!” I yelled loudly until my throat hurt.
“Let go of me! I am not one of the sailors!”
I was trying to explain that they got the wrong person but they just didn’t listen. I didn’t understand why
this was happening to me. I was supposed to be fishing with my mom and dad.
Two hours ago, we were casting our lines. We were on the shore not too far away from Zheng He’s fleet.
We had been there for a long time but the fish weren’t biting so I got bored and I walked away.
When I got onto the ship, I was asked to climb up a long ladder and one of the sailors followed me, making
sure I didn’t escape. When I had almost reached the basket, the sailor pushed me hard and I fell into the
basket! He took out a key and locked me up! I was so scared that I cried all day long.
I looked around and found weapons, such as swords, shields and bombs! Beside me, there was a long tube.
I didn’t know what it was and I was curious to find out what was inside, so I looked inside. WOW!! I
could see a very small stone on a remote island! Now I knew it was a telescope. I was asked to watch the
sea to make sure no pirates would come to steal our jewellery and weapons. It was such a boring job to stay
in the basket every day.
One hot and boring summer’s day, I saw a big dark shadow swimming in the water 20 meters in front of
our fleet. It swam closer and closer, I was petrified and started shouting,
“Beware Everyone! Something massive is in the sea!” Everyone rushed out to see what was happening.
The shadow was at least five times bigger than our fleet.
The black shadow slowly rose from the sea, everyone started to step back. The object became bigger and
bigger. All of the sailors ran away but I was not able to escape as I was high up in the basket.
The object raised one of its ugly black arms! I heard some of the sailors yelling, “It’s an octopus!” Everyone
was worried that it was going to kill us. Some of the sailors started to cry, some of them started to pray and
some of them started to scream. While everyone was trying to escape, I could not move at all as my legs
had gone numb. I closed my eyes, and hoped and prayed that I would see my parents one last time before I
died.
Suddenly, I felt something wet and slimy run over me from head to toe. I opened my eyes and saw the
whole octopus rising from the sea in front of the fleet. It……. actually smiled at me!!! It was his arm
running over my body!!! I could not believe what I had just seen. The octopus did not want to hurt us, in
fact, it only wanted to say HI!!! Everyone was shocked but glad that we were still alive.
The octopus brightened up my boring hot summer’s day and I was already looking forward to the next
adventure!