Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 29

I understood at once, someone had attacked us. I went on the deck and what I saw was enough to terrorize
me. Uncle Zhang came towards me and asked me to go and hide in a cabin. I had started to run towards my
cabin but what I saw gave me courage instead of appalling me. Half of our crew was dead fighting. I
couldn’t leave my family at such a crucial time. So I took my slingshot and aimed at a tall person from other
crew. The stone hit the person on the head and before he could realise, I shot another stone towards him
and knocked him unconscious. It gave me more courage and I took out my sword before a half giant
looking person came towards me and without even thinking that I was so younger than him, took out his
sword and almost killed me when Li approached and stopped him. I came to know later that the half-giant
was the captain of the other crew. Li fought him and he almost won before 5 more people came to help the
half-giant. I was shrieking that this was unfair and ran to help him but Zhang caught me and sent me to my
cabin. I was locked in my cabin, furious for not being able to help. I was peeping through one of the holes
and saw that Li was badly hurt. The half giant got up on his knees and took two swords. Li’s back was facing
me and he was on his knees, trying to get up. The half giant pierced the swords right through Li and there
was blood all over. I was scandalized. After what seemed like hours, the opponent crew had left because of
losing and Uncle Zhang came into my cabin flinging open the door. I ran towards Li’s body. I was sobbing
like a baby and blaming myself that I couldn’t help. I shouldn’t have done that and listened to uncle Zhang
when he told me to go back in my cabin at once. We had lost more than half of our crew and Li. Everyone
was weeping and no one talked any more for days. Uncle Zhang explained me that it wasn’t my fault and I
was just trying to help. But I had lost my brother.
A year later everyone decided to make me the new captain and I ought to be a just and a humane
captain. I decided that we would visit different villages and kingdoms all over the world on our Thunder
Dragon and spend our time helping those in need. We would spend all our treasure in this task and ask kings
to donate for a nice cause. It will make a change in the world because if we as sailors can do such things,
why not others who are even more capable than us. After all, it is the most satisfactory thing I can do for Li.