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THE CYCLONE SWORDFISH by Justin Mak (4S student)
One warm spring evening, a curious boy called John was sitting on his bed, reading a book called “How to Build Submarines That Can Move Faster than Light”. “Why don’t I go over to Jim’s house and build a real submarine with him?” John said to himself.
Jim was John’s best friend and a very smart kid and he knew everything about building time machines, spaceships, rockets, robots, anything mechanical.
When John arrived at Jim’s room, he exclaimed, “Wow! Jim! Your room is just like a metal scrapyard!”
“I took these materials all out of this cupboard when I saw you in my binock-you-binoculars.” He pointed to a rusty cupboard made of silver and aluminium. “What’s binock-you-binoculars?” asked John curiously. “It’s just like a normal pair of binoculars but it can tell you where the person you are looking for is located and it can read the person’s mind,” answered Jim. “Now, what was that we wanted to do?”
“Build a submarine that can travel faster than light.” John said flatly.
In no time they had made an ultra-comfortable, super-fast, convenient and shiny but small submarine which could travel faster than light with the help from Springy the Robot out of unbreakable aluminium, stainless steel, mega-tough iron, platinum, bronze, leather, cotton, glass and wires.
“Okay, now we’ve finished. Let’s name it. Hmm…it’s vigorous, powerful, as slender as a sword and it can move swiftly in all directions, like a cyclone. So let’s call it the ...” said Jim.
“Cyclone Swordfish!” ended John.
“Why don’t we go on a trip right now?”
“Great idea, Jim! Springy can come too!”
“Super!” replied Springy.
When they had all climbed in and closed the cockpit door, Jim started the engines. Then John yelled over the rumbling of the engines, “Jim! Wait! Where are we going?”
“We’re going to visit the bottom of the South China Sea to uncover a long-lost treasure!” Jim screamed over the roaring engines. “Wahoo!” John and Springy cried.
Suddenly, the floor cracked open beneath them and the Cyclone Swordfish plunged rapidly into the deep icy water.
John let out a battle cry “Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!” as they were surrounded by the dark and mysterious water. They were covered in blackness for a few minutes until Jim turned on the submarine headlights. “Phew!” said John. “Thank god the drop was over.”
“Yeah,” agreed Springy.
Jim then turned on the “Locator Pad”. Seconds later, words flashed up on the screen: “One kilometre east away from a mermish city. 30,000 kilometres above a treasure.”
There were also some coloured blobs shown on the screen. “What exactly are the blobs?” questioned John.
“The black blob is our submarine,” said Jim. “The two orange blobs represent the two of us and the yellow blob is Springy.”
“What about the third orange blob?” questioned Jim.
“Um…oh my gosh! I think that … that might be a mermaid or a merman!” explained John.
Suddenly, all the lights in the submarine turned red and the alarms sounded. “SUBMARINE MALFUNCTIONING! HOVERING TOO LONG! CYCLONE SWORDFISH SINKING!”
In minutes, they were trapped in a deep dark pit. The two boys were horrified but Springy stayed relaxed. “I have good news,” said Springy in an expressionless voice. “We are in a rocky pit where the treasure is.”
“Maybe we can shout for help. Hopefully someone will hear us. Luckily I brought my Electro Microphones. They can make your voice sound 500 times louder!”
They shouted “help” for ten minutes. All of a sudden, an orange and blue immense submarine with spotless glass windows landed gracefully in front of the Cyclone Swordfish.
The two boys and Springy were stunned. “Magnificent,” they all whispered.
Then three mermen and two mermaids glided out of the submarine. The merpeople all had black hair, yellowish peach skin, brown eyes and a red tail. The mermen were more muscular while the mermaids were slimmer. The mermen also had darker skin and longer and thinner tails.
Jim and John put on their oxygen masks and went out of their submarine together with Springy. “Good evening,” said a mermaid. “My name is Ling. This is my friend, Jem.” She pointed to the other mermaid. “She was the one who heard your cries of help so we decided to come down and investigate. This is our submarine’s captain, Bruce.”
“Find out what caused their submarine to crash down here. Try and fix it.” Bruce commanded the two mermen.
Meanwhile, Ling, Jem and Bruce invited the two boys and their robot onto their mermish submarine. “Let’s go to the ‘weapon quarter’ first. It’s my favourite place,” suggested Bruce.
The “weapon quarter” was a small room with lots of extraordinary weapons including the whale scythe, the serpent blade and the thunder musket. John was fascinated, “Cool! I’ve never seen anything like these.”
The two mermaids laughed. “There wouldn’t be a weapon quarter if it wasn’t for Bruce.”
Bruce chuckled. “If you mermaids weren’t on board, there wouldn’t be a catering corner.”
“Can we go there now? I am starving and I bet our guests here feel the same.”
The “catering corner” was a very clean and large kitchen with a spectacular display of mermish food, including seaweed biscuits, sea grapes wrapped in sea grass and coral root tea. Both John and Jim ate some seaweed biscuits dipped in coral gravy. “That is the best vegetarian meal I’ve ever tasted!” the two boys yelled.
Then, the two mermen entered the lab and said proudly, “Everything’s fixed.”
“We want to give you a gift for saving us.” Jim and John asked Springy to find the treasure chest inside the rocky pit. Springy dug up the treasure chest and gave it to Bruce. “Thank you for saving us,” the three of them said gratefully to the merpeople and boarded the Cyclone Swordfish.
They took off and were surrounded by blackness again. John closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he found himself lying on his bed, waking up from his wonderful dream
RINGO SAVES THE SEA by Samantha Brooks (4M Student)
Ringo the pink dolphin whizzed hastily through her garbage-filled ocean home in the South China Sea. She was going to Tooth Rock, a place where Ringo liked to think. When Ringo glimpsed the jagged tooth-shaped rock as it loomed up ahead of her, she gasped with utter horror. The rock was surrounded by mountains of garbage! Ringo darted in between bags and cans, as she tried to reach the safety of her grooved-out cave, which was a slot in Tooth
Rock.
Ringo dived into her dark limpet-filled cave and as she did so she realized she needed to breathe. Ringo swooped out of her thinking cave like an angel, and headed towards the surface of the polluted sea. When she burst through the slimy cover of horrible brown froth, Ringo breathed deeply and swallowed.
“Yuck!” thought Ringo as she gazed in shock at the moldy ugly froth that covered her rose pink
back. Ringo gulped as she discovered that a piece of fishing net was caught over her swishy fishy
tail. She leaped back into the water and found a sharp rock on which she cut the blue net. The
shaggy net bobbed away and Ringo swam quickly back to her cave which was in the complete
opposite direction.
Ringo got back to her cave just as a heroic idea started to plot itself in her mind. When Ringo was settling herself onto a comfy rock in the middle of her cave, a wobbly black shape caught her blue eye. Then all of a sudden, three ebony shapes came zooming towards the terrified but amazed dolphin. Ringo rushed to the back of her cave and darted behind a large sturdy boulder to hide. In a second or two, the black shapes were in the cave and Ringo felt the water rippling lightly. As she shivered, she noticed the shapes had tanks on their backs. They were divers!
Ringo was horrified at the thought of being caught by the exploring invaders. What if they trapped her in an aquarium and she never saw her exotic ocean home again?
Ringo hushed herself and edged further back in to her cave trying to stay in the safety of her boulder. The divers, named Sam, Edward and Jenny, moved swiftly and elegantly through the barnacle-filled cave. Ringo noted that the three divers were enquiringly lifting up stones and putting shells into baskets, which were slung over their strong arms.
Edward and Sam looked behind the muscular boulder where Ringo was hiding. Ringo gaped as two gleaming eyes poked around the edge of the boulder. She realized that the boulder wasn’t exactly up next to the wall of her cavern and there was just enough space for her to swim between the boulder and the wall, so she could escape. Unfortunately for her, Jenny was searching for water crystals right on the other side of Ringo’s hideout. Then the dolphin remembered that she had seen blurry white writing on the divers’ sleeves earlier; she peered at Jenny’s sleeve to try and read the writing, but of course Jenny was moving around too much, so Ringo hardly got a glimpse of her left arm. She just noticed that the writing said “GARBAGE GATHERERS”.
All of a sudden Ringo noticed that Edward was poking her back. She flung herself round and nearly bashed him on the nose with her beak. She quickly murmured “Oh, sorry...” until she yelled at herself that she shouldn’t have spoken. Sam cried, “You can talk!”
Jenny informed her friends that she suspected Ringo was a magical dolphin and Ringo grinned at her. Without thinking, Ringo blurted out her heroic idea to her new friends (Ringo suspected they were friends). She blared it out so fast that Edward had to stop her. Sam asked Ringo what her name was and if she could help them. Ringo nodded a few times before then asking her new pals what they needed help with. They addressed her with their plan, which was this:
“We are trying to go through Hong Kong waters to look for garbage and if we find anything dangerous we will take it back with us to put in a proper rubbish dump or recycle it. So…. Ringo, can you help us?”
Ringo told her new buddies that she had the same idea as them and she would definitely help them. “But- but- but- there are sharks out there!”
“Don’t worry Ringo,” Jenny said calmly. “We won’t take you where the sharks are.”
Ringo nodded slowly, grabbed a bobbing plastic bag and zoomed out of the cave, calling after her “Come on guys, we’ve got an ocean to clean!” All four friends swam and crept about the Hong Kong sea, gathering rubbish and putting it in their large bags. After days of searching for stranded garbage, the four friends swam up to the icky surface for the last time, took a deep breath and looked around them. There was disgusting froth everywhere. Sam said that all this
garbage was really too much for three people and a dolphin to do on their own and we could keep this environment clean by being eco-friendly. That means not throwing garbage in the sea, not reclaiming land, not polluting the air, cleaning up and we can all help each other and have a wonderful green world if we do just that.
You can be eco-friendly right now by walking out of your door and going along your street and picking up garbage and by telling people to be green and not to throw rubbish in the ocean or cut down trees. You can be green in other ways too! Think about it – see what you can do to help the Hong Kong environment! Be green!
THE SEA by Gordon Reynolds (5T Student)
She sways and strolls as she collapse on each bay,
Her tears wash the beaches up and leave it undone,
Her cries echo the world as she plunges the earth,
She topples foolish sailors as they try and fish out fishes,
Her rage is very dangerous as she lungs at her targets,
Her threats are doubtful as she is rising,
She pushes her way through boats as they aren’t aware |
