Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 210

The Ship that Saved People Lingnan University Alumni Association (HK) Primary School, Liu, Ken - 10 In the early 1400, China's Emperor sent a crew to go around the world, there were three little boats following the main ship who was packed with different kind of wonderful China treasures. There were thirty sailors in the main ship and twenty men on each little boat, the name of the main ship was called The Angel. The Angel's captain was me, Ken. There were six cannons on each side on the main ship, and three each side on the little ships. We were supposed to give treasure to poor people and exchange gifts from other countries. In 1403, the crew left the harbour and started to sail towards the sea. On the first day, the sailors delightfully changed the direction and sailed to East, and started to explore! After two days of hard sailing, I walked to the upper deck and watched the sailors running and shouting orders. Suddenly, I saw a little black dot moving towards us! I thought that a sailor saw this too, because he shouted, "Red alert! All people back to position! Pirate attack!" "Alert! Alert! Alert!” The sailor kept on shouting. I dashed to the bridge and took out my sword and placed it on my table as I watched the sailors hurried to put the fire powder in the cannons. “Boom!" A cannonball flew right past our ships and landed into the sea! When I saw this terrible sight, my heart sank. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The cannonballs flew in all directions. "KE-BOOM!" One of our ships sunk deep into the sea! Slowly, I watched it until it disappeared. Fortunately, two of the sailors survived, at the same time, one of our ships was smashed into pieces and nobody was alive. After the first battle with the pirates, I decided that we needed more security so I put some fire powder in each and every of the cannon, so that when the pirates arrived, we would give them some surprise! After two more days, we saw land! Yes! Real land! The sailors and I roared in excitement. When we were heading to the palace where the king lived, we saw poor people sitting or begging for money. We gave them some jewellery and money, they thanked us and prayed for us .We found that this place was very interesting because there were many things that China did not have. We attempted to taste some yellowish liquid. We each took a sip of it and spat it out quickly, because it had a terrible taste of chilli. I hated it! The aftertaste lingered in our mouths no matter how many times we rinsed our mouths! Moving forward, we saw a local bully attacking a poor woman, she was about to faint! That was outrageous and I felt indignant! I quickly yelled at the bully and shot an arrow at him. He ran screaming at the top of his voice. I rushed to help the old lady to stand up. I gave her some bread and some water. She thanked me with tears in her eyes. I was touched and I wiped a tear from my eye. We finally got to the palace where the king lived, we came into the palace and it was filled with gold and jewellery. Some people were dancing, some people were telling jokes to the king. When the king saw us, he greeted us cheerfully and gave us something special, the yellowish liquid. The terrible food we tried earlier! It turned out that this place was called Indonesia and the liquid was called curry. A special food in this place. It actually tasted delicious if you cooked it with the right recipe! We thanked the king and started sailing again! After four days sailing on the sea, we spotted a dot in the water, a big one! We fired at it, but we missed. When we got closer, I saw that it was a man! We pulled him on board. When the man woke up, I asked, “What is your name?” He replied miserably, “My name is Rex…” And I ventured, “Do you want to be a sailor?’ “Of course! My dream is to become a sailor!!” exclaimed Rex. I saw that he had dark hair and dark skin, he was an African. Two days later, I found that Rex was very helpful. So I promoted him to be my executive officer. The next afternoon, a pirate ship really came! I heard loud fighting sound outside my door! I was unprepared. In no time, the door was flung open and there stood Rex holding a bloody knife in one hand and a head in the other. I recognised the head. It was not a pirate, it was one of my sailors! Rex said coldly, “I tricked you, didn‘t I?” He came dashing towards me and I took out my sword to fight and my sword collided with his sword! But he was so strong and he poked me in the shoulder and blood splat all over me. Meanwhile, my people arrived in time and stabbed Rex on his back. Rex was dead. In the end, we defeated the pirates. My shoulder was fine. However, one more boat sank and three man down. I was really sad because I lost three friends.