Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 - 2 | Page 61

Bloodbath’s Arrival Shrewsbury International School, Zarin, Henry - 10 “We are approaching Japan,” yelled Yang the Lookout. “Yay!” shouted the Ming team with joy. They were aboard the Golden Boy ship (the ship wasn’t actually made out of gold or boys, because then it would sink or be cruel). “Excellent work, team,” exclaimed Captain Ming, a seven-foot tall adventurous sailor with a six-pack stomach. He looked tough and mean but was actually a big softy who loved butterflies and unicorns. Yee was the team scout and secret agent. His hand was eaten by his greedy pet goldfish which was named Chubby because of his round shape. Now Yee has an automatic grapnel rope as a fist instead of a hand. He was very relieved that they made it because they were on a mission to give gold to poor Japanese people. He wanted to give gold to poor people because his Aunt Po once said, “With bionic grapnel fists, comes great responsibility.” Suddenly, the world-famous pirate Bloodbath appeared on the ship in a puff of red smoke. As quick as lightning, Bloodbath slammed his spear (also named Bloodbath) into the deck, causing a ball of fire to appear. It started rolling all over the place as if it had a mind of its own. It was really fast, and the adventurers could barely dodge it. Mong the Chef was not as sure-footed as the others so every time he jumped out of the way he fell on his face. Yee used his bionic grapnel fist to pull himself up to the lookout. Meanwhile, Captain Ming was fighting Bloodbath with powerful punches in the face while Bloodbath was kneeing the Captain in the nose. Mong the Chef was throwing gallons of “Buddha Jumped over the Wall” soup (that’s an actual soup, which the Buddha really enjoyed trying) at the ball of fire, trying to extinguish it. Bloodbath magically teleported up to the lookout and pushed Yang into the red smoke. Yee had to save Yang so before the red smoke disappeared, Yee thrust his grapnel fist into the devil cloud and was sucked in. Suddenly, Yee found himself falling through an endless red abyss. Two seconds later, he found his body five feet deep in snow. He quickly jumped up from the snow prepared for battle. In the distance, he saw a lot of huge, towering, snowy mountains but did not see Bloodbath or Yang. Shivering, Yee slowly began walking towards the mountains. Halfway there, he heard a distant howl that scared him. He slowly turned around and saw a pack of snow-white wolves staring at him. He knew that there was only one option – RUN!! Yee ran for what felt like an eternity. Just when the wolves were about to bite him, he saw an avalanche coming down from the highest mountain. The wolves did not seem to notice it and Yee ran straight towards the avalanche. Just when the snow and ice was about to hit him, he flipped out of the way and the avalanche knocked the wolves unconscious. At last he accidentally found glowing red footsteps in the snow leading up to the highest mountain around. On the top of the mountain stood a dark red fortress surrounded by a layer of fog. Exhausted and shivering from frostbite, Yee finally reached the top of the mountain which he could now see was made out of blood red ice. Guarding the fortress was an eight-foot tall, red furred Yeti, wielding a giant spiked flail. Yee knew he had to defeat it to get inside the fortress. He ran toward the Yeti and yelled, “For Yang!”