Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 96

Suspicious Pirates
Yew Chung International School (Primary), Cheung, Latisha - 6
Pirates usually fight travelers and steal their precious gold. But in the early 1400s, a band of
pirate ships did the opposite! They traveled to India, Africa and Arabia. When they got
there, they received gold and silk and other precious things. Sometimes, they meet kind
people and gave away their lovely gold. Other nasty pirates would fight and sink their
ship.
Fighting is hard work. Pirates would die from it. The two fleets sank each others’
ship. But the soldiers of the pirates are the people who work the hardest. They are the
people who get rid of the nasty pirates. They use hooks and swords to fight each other.
But the weapons are dangerous too. If they’re too heavy, they sink the ship.
Blackbeard was a fierce pirate. He was also handsome. He beat a lot of pirates but
one. Mayfield has a lot of pirates. There were so many that Blackbeard couldn’t even
stand it. He was shot five times before he was killed. But silly Blackbeard was famous for a
longer time than he was alive. Today Blackbeard could be in books, in computer books
and in legends.
Other nasty pirates use a trick called Tortoise. A tortoise is a trick when you hold
up your shields and form a tortoise shell. It would be hard to look and fight though, but
they don’t even mind. They repeat this several times. The helping pirates practice every
day to beat those nasty pirates.
Anxious pirates won’t be brave enough to fight those ridiculous pirates. They sleep
and stay in sailing ships. Do you know that they eat tree skin and don’t die? They have
got secret underground hiding places to sleep. They also hide weapons in their hiding
place too.
Pirates will be fewer than helping soldiers’ pirates as they just have a wooden club
and an animal’s soft and harmless skin. Others have hard armies and harmful swords when
their journey ends. They sail back to Arabia, Africa and India. Sometimes a terrific sunset
will fall and the pirates will enjoy! They meet their families and will have a great feast.