Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 228

I immediately took my pistol from the drawer next to my bed. The cannon sounds echoed around
me. I rushed up the ladders and saw pirates! My sixth sense was right. I aimed my pistol and shot down one
of the pirates. I saw captain keep bouncing off bullets with his sword. I aimed at another pirate and shot.
The bullet went through his heart and he fell onto the ground. Captain immediately smashed a pirate behind
him with his strong fist and stabbed him in his stomach. I pulled out my sword and approached Captain,
standing back to back. As the number of men on the pirate ship dwindled, the leader of the pirates started
turning his ship away. As we were about to turn away our boat as we didn’t want to fight any more, an
arrow went through the air and struck captain’s left arm.
Fortunately, the arrow wasn’t poisoned and we had medical powder for injuries, also we had bandaging
cloths to heal captain’s wound quickly. The only problem was he couldn’t move his left hand smoothly.
However, this wasn’t a big deal as captain was right-handed.
After 2 months of peace, we finally reached a coast near Ethiopia, captain gave out treasure for the poors
and met the head chief of this country. We stayed for a week then we departed again. A child gave me a
little knife he made by himself with bone. As I didn’t like to use a dagger, I kept it in my sleeve.
By our estimates, we still had a month of non-stop travelling to reach South Africa. To fulfil captain’s
wish, we promised to never turn back.
The night we left Ethiopia, I restocked the ammunition of my pistol. The whole ship was scared of a
pirate who roamed around east and south Africa. We called him Executioner, because he never showed
mercy to anyone whom he thought to be an enemy. His crew was small, but each crew member was
unnaturally strong and powerful. I noticed that Captain, who was usually fearless, seemed worried too. He
started sharpening his sword, as others did. We were nervous, but we were prepared.
That day finally came.
“Cap! A ship is coming towards us. Should we fight or turn back?” One of our crewmates shouted.
Captain looked through his telescope and scowled. It was him. Our men immediately pulled out our sword
and readied ourselves for a battle. We had approximately 70 men on our ship, and they had only 20 men.
We knew this fight was really important as we wanted to fulfil captain’s last wish, and we also didn’t want
our treasure to fall into Executioner’s hands.
I pulled out my pistol and ready for the fight. Executioner’s ship was coming in a fast speed. Everything
was quiet: in an instant, cannons were firing, swords were clashing, and blood was everywhere. I aimed my
pistol and shot down a random enemy. Captain was using his favourite sword and clashing with another
enemy. When I was rearming my pistol, I saw Executioner holding up a pistol and aiming it at captain! I
immediately shot at Executioner’s hand. My bullet hit his pistol and his pistol flew off his hands. Captain
successfully defeated 2 enemies. However, only 4 enemies were dead, and we had lost 13 of our men.
Everything was too fast and I couldn’t even react when an enemy smashed my head through a wooden
plank. Everything went black immediately.
I don’t want to die… I’m still so young …
I woke up suddenly in a room. I tried to move but I found that I was tied up on a chair. I looked around.
Executioner was in front of me, and Captain sat next to me.
“Cap!” I shouted. Captain did not respond. It was the first time ever I saw someone feeling that defeated,
let alone seeing that look on Captain. Executioner spoke, “Young kid, you are now defeated, and your
daddy won’t live any longer.”
I was angry and tried to break free of my chair, but the chair was bolted to the floor. I saw my pistol on
a table next to me. I couldn’t reach it as my hands were tied up behind the chair. I tried jumping towards
my pistol with the chair, but I found out I was stuck. All of a sudden, a sharp object poked me in my hand.
It was the little dagger the little kid gave me in Ethiopia! I immediately used a secret code to tell Captain to
count down 10 seconds as I went to work on the rope tying me up.
9 seconds left… Executioner was laughing manically. “He who dares trespass my territory shall suffer to
death!”
4 seconds left…. “What should I do to you Captain? Maybe I should start by cutting off your left ear?”
1 second left! “Maybe I should…”
“Snap!” The rope broke! No words were needed. I immediately fetched the pistol beside me, and
Captain balled his fists. Even though Executioner reacted fast, his face was punched by Captain, and my
bullet grazed Executioner, leaving a scar on his face. He immediately yelled incoherently, held up his sword
and fought back. I threw my dagger towards Executioner, but it bounced off Executioner’s sword. Captain
immediately knelt down to avoid being hit by Executioner and picked up my dagger. Suddenly I heard