Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 24

Suddenly, the evil captain swiped ferociously at me with his cutlass. I ducked just as the blade came and
landed inches away from my hiding spot. I wearily pulled out my sword. The metal felt icy against my damp
skin. I drew up my sword and lunged at the captain from behind my hiding place. But the captain was
ready. He simply drew his sword and knocked me off my feet.
“HAHAHA” he cackled. “You fight like a baby!” As he was saying that, I got to my feet and tried again.
But this time, luck was on my side. The captain had just put away his sword when I knocked him on the
head super hard.
He got up, I could see rage and fury etching over his gaunt yellow face and down his ugly neck.
“Uh oh.” said a voice inside my head, I should have not done that at all.”
As the captain towered over me, I thought of what my mom had said just before I boarded the ship. “No
matter what happens to you always believe in yourself.”
The evil captain began to pull his sword out as these words swam through my head. “Believe in yourself...
believe in yourself…”
BAM!! I lunged at the captain with all my might, causing him and me to topple over. Before I knew it,
WHAM! The captain’s sword smashed against my cutlass. We started dueling.
He swiped.
I ducked.
And this went on for ages.
Until the racket of blades hitting blades was deafening.
“Oh, you’ve really done it now, Kid” warned the captain glowering at me.
“Oh yeah?” I said confidently for the first time in my whole entire life “Why don’t you look at your ship?”
The captain turned his head and saw his ship sinking into the depths of the ocean. And while the captain
was distracted, I bonked him over the head one more time, successfully knocking him off our ship. We
never saw him and his crew again.
As the captain came up from the deck he walked up to me and said “ Remember when I was so harsh to
you?”
I nodded.
“It’s because I wanted to see if you would stand up to people some day, and you did, you stood up to the
evil captain. And only a real pirate would do that.”
“Thanks” I said bashfully.
“It’s fine” replied the captain. “ I want you to have this.” He held up the gold medallion that he wore to tell
everyone he was captain and he placed the medallion on me.
“And I just want you to know that wherever you are, always believe in yourself” were the captain’s final
words after he delivered me back home to my beloved family and friends.