Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 238

The Sea Serpent and the Red and the Diary
Pui Ching Primary School, Chan, Man Hei Hayley - 12
Day One
Hi! This is the first time to write this journal so it might be a bit weird. I am the pirate in Zheng’s crew,
The Red. I am not sure I can tell you my real name now. And you must remember that my favourite tea is
pu’er tea! Today was fantastic! Our captain, Zheng usually gives away gold but today we finally received
something worth going out to the sea for! I was sitting on the chair and daydreaming about my imaginary
boyfriend, Kan.
Then I suddenly heard Zheng yell, “All aboard! We have arrived at another island. This one looks fabulous!
Red, follow me!”
I packed up my things fast and followed him to the island.
We passed through trees and bushes then we saw a small village filled with people and joy. The villagers
were really kind. They even have a party for us! And the greatest part, we received a silver egg from them!
Day Two
Today was the worst day ever! You remember that I received a silver egg yesterday? It was all fine and the
sun was shining on our flag. I was having a dream about my Kan last night when I suddenly heard someone
yell, “Oh no! The egg has disappeared! Call Captain Zheng immediately!”
I was really shocked when I heard this. I went out of my cabin and a few minutes later, Captain Zheng
arrived. The crew yelled at him, including me.
“Stop!” yelled Captain Zheng. We all stopped yelling and looked at him.
“Well,” He continued, “Don’t forget what the king said. The king told us to go to different islands and
make friends! That’s why we are here. Don’t think about the egg. Get back to work!”
We walked back to our positions and started to work. I walked back to my cabin and thought, “Oh yeah, I
will follow what our ‘great’ captain’s idea.” Then I sat down and thought about what happened to the egg
and what the villagers said on the island.
Day Three
It’s a bit weird. I just found out that some sailors disappeared! I looked for them everywhere over the ship
but still couldn’t find them. I didn’t tell Captain Zheng about this but I told my friend Gon. He was the
type of the boy that always has a book on his hand. He didn’t want to join the crew but the captain thought
he was really clever and he had persuaded him for three days until he joined the crew. I had told him we
will discuss the sailors disappearing thing in my cabin tonight.
“Hmm……Red, do you think this happened because of that egg disappearance?” Gon asked me.
“I don’t know. Why?” I asked him.
“I had read a book before about magical creatures and the sea serpent is one of them. You remember? It was
really sunny that day. Almost every magical creature is born on sunny days.”
I closed my eyes and started to think about what Gon said. Suddenly, the ship shook. I got out of the cabin
and looked what happened outside. Gon followed me.
I couldn’t believe my eyes! I saw a gigantic blue sea serpent attacking pirates everywhere! Lightning was
everywhere. The sky was crying. Raindrops fell on our cheeks. It was really messy. Captain Zheng waved
his sword to attack the sea serpent. I asked Captain Zheng What happened.
“We don’t know. I think it is a sea serpent.” Captain Zheng replied.
Then he started to attack the sea serpent with his mighty sword again. It seems like that the sea serpent knew
that Captain Zheng was attacking him. He lifted his tail and tried to sweep Zheng away. Luckily, Zheng
jumped over his tail then he lifted his sword and stabbed the sea serpent. But the sea serpent wasn’t hurt.
Sailors started to throw rocks. Pirates started to stabbed the sea serpent. And some of them threw their
favourite grape wine. Everyone was really sad that he ate our sailors. But everything was hopeless
When I threw my favourite pu’er tea at it, I spotted a red spot on its blue, shiny head... Without a
thought, I threw the box of tea to the red scale. The next second I saw that the sea serpent uttered a dismal
howl. The sea serpent’s weakness was that red spot. Then I jumped as high as I could. I took Zheng’s sword
and run all over his long body. I went closer to that scale and at last I reached it. But it was really hard to
kill. I stopped running and jumping. Then I realized a huge tail was in front of my face. And whoopee! I
landed on my head. I felt really bad. Then I saw Zheng’s hand.