Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 165

Adventures In Time
International College Hong Kong, Yoong, Joshua - 8
Sixth Voyage, Yongle Year 19 (1421)
Sailing along the seven seas, our crew were steering our ship to
Africa, and so far we had a peaceful journey. We watched the horizon of China slowly fade, then started
doing our chores. When we finished, we ate dinner and went to bed.
When I was sleeping soundly in my
bed, I suddenly heard a ear-piercing scream coming from another cabin. I thought I was dreaming, so I
closed my eyes, but heard it again. I immediately threw my robe on, and stumbled onto the deck. When I
saw the giant, terrifying monster that was towering over me, my mouth was open with bewilderment.
The
monster was around 40 CHI tall, and had spikes everywhere! He shot steaming acid at us from his mouth,
and nearly destroyed our ship! We quickly retreated, and thought that it would be best to swim to a desert
island, and shoot flaming arrows at it. But most of our crew couldn’t swim, so we had to come up with a
different plan.
We quickly steered our ship, which was going up in flames, away from the monster. We
then borrowed some materials from one of our team’s ships and hastily fixed our ship. But disaster struck. A
thunderstorm was coming, and as fate would have it, our ship took a powerful shot to the mast by a bolt of
lighting.
We sailed away onto a nearby desert island and tried to use bait to get that nasty, evil monster on
land. The monster took the bait, and we stabbed him in the heart. But we still had problems. Another shot
of lightning struck our boat, and it capsized. We realised that our captain Zheng He took a powerful blow
to his waist. But at least we killed the monster. Two of us helped captain Zheng He to wrap his wound, and
the other crew members built a fire and sent smoke signals and thankfully got rescued by a passing ship.
We
thanked them, and gave some goods to them in exchange for the rescue.
They spotted a ship, and asked if
wanted to get on that ship.
We found out that it was one of our team’s ships! We appreciated them, and got
on that ship.
We peacefully continued to sail across the ocean for some days, and eventually met a big
fishing boat.
They were friendly to us, so we traded fishes for steel so they could make more harpoons and
hooks.
We asked to see their ship, and they showed us. I noticed that they had brown skin, and black hair.
They told us that their country is very hot and had lots of trees, has lots of rainfall, and has lots of fruit and
vegetables.
We told them we have snow in the winter, is hot in the summer and they were shocked when
we told them we have snow.
And we also told them we have a weird animal that is cute, black and white,
called a panda, which only lives in our Ming Empire. After talking, we became friends. I wish I would see
them again.
After a couple of weeks, we arrived to Africa and docked our ship. We encountered lots of
animals out in the jungle, even an elephant wrapped its trunk around me. After approximately 2 hours, we
arrived at a village. The village was really big, and we walked around it and offered goods to the villagers.
After a long period of time, we tried to go back to our ship, but was lost in the jungle. We first had to fight
of a pack of lions, then needed to outrun a cheetah, and finally hid from a vulture.
Whew! We continued
to walk in the jungle, until someone asked, ”Where are we going?” I thought we would be in big trouble
since we couldn’t remember where we docked our ship, until I heard that one of our crew members had left
a trail.
“Good.” said our captain, Zheng He. He was happy at that particular sailor who said he had left a
trail. Then another sailor piped up. “Um, captain Zheng, if we head east we will eventually find the boat.”
The captain’s spirit rose when he heard that. So we went east until we walked into another village.
We
scrambled out of the village, and headed in the correct direction, back to our ship. We found a ship, but to
our surprise we found it tattered and left in pieces.
This seemed like the end, until we found out that it
wasn’t our ship. I sighed with relief. We continued walking down the east coast of Africa, hoping to find
our ship, and there it was! After thirty minutes of walking, we finally reached our ship. We were so happy!

Overall, I liked this trip because it was very adventurous and exciting, met people from other countries, but
the most important part was that we were safe.
Soon, We organised our ship and set sail for home.