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2010

Eri Vi

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Jasper Mason, the fool, stood on the edge of the ship; his toes curling at the sight terrible sight before him.
A squeaky voice echoed from the deck, “jump! Jump ya’ coward.” Twisting awkwardly, Jasper caught sight of his younger brother’s pitted face, its thin lips twisting in delight at Jasper’s impending dive.
“Shut it, Luke, your brother is twice the man you’ll ever be." The captain growled, “you’ll be fine mate, it’s totally safe.” He winked reassuringly, his stiff, silver beard glinting in the midday sun.
“No, no, I’ve changed my mind. I don’t want to anymore.” Jasper smiled innocently and turned away from the water.
“C’mon Jas,” the captain said, his thick arms pushing Jasper back to the edge. “We’ve come too far to turn back now."
Luke’s shrill voice ricocheted across the ship like a stray arrow, “jump boy. Jump 'fore I push ya’!” He rubbed his hands together in anticipation.
The captain lifted a large belt and strapped it to Jasper’s waist, then locked five solid, lead blocks to it. “You’ll be fine mate, no probs. Just remember, once you reach the bottom take a hold of the anchor chain, two tugs, and we’ll pull you back up again.”
Jasper’s knuckles turned white, “you’ve already said that cap’n. I just can't say I like the idea of...”
The captain sighed. “Well it’s too late now, isn’t it.”
Without wasting a second, the captain slammed the fishbowl-helmet down onto Jasper’s head and pushed him over the splintered, wooden balustrade.
“Ahhh! I don’t want...” Jasper’s words were cut off as he fell headlong into the murky water and sank out of sight.
Luke’s putrid grin grew even wider “Hehe! Jas fell, Jas...”
THUD
“Shut it, Luke!” The captain wiped his fist against his coarse tunic.
A thick fog began to fall from the sky.
~~~

27-May-2010 11:12:10 - Last edited on 01-Jun-2010 04:54:08 by Eri Vi

Jun

2010

Eri Vi

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Meanwhile, not far below the water, Jasper was sinking fast. Waving his arms pathetically, he turned to the green, glowing surface, watching the dark silhouette of the ship fade away and the darkness around him grow. Looking around frantically, he noticed that the slimy, weed-covered anchor chain stretched down only metres away.
His head still dry inside the fishbowl-helmet, Jasper hadn’t stopped shouting the whole time, “Come ‘ere you son of a chain, just a little more!” But it was no use, Jasper was floating further away by the second. Soon, the last ray of light washed out in the water and all was black.
~~~
CRACK – an old, rotting plank of wood smashed across the captain’s head.
“Don’t you eva, eva! Hit me again.” The skinny frame of Luke stood tall above the captain. “Do it again, and I won’t be so nice!”
The captain rose from his knees, twisting his neck back and forth. “You insolent brat!” He boomed, and then almost laughed as Luke lifted his scrawny arms, “you thought you could best me?”
They circled each other, waiting to see who would move first. It was the captain.
As they rolled on the deck, knocking over buckets and crashing into the rusting cannons, both were too focused on the brawl to notice the shadow of a ship slicing through the mist...
~~~
“I’m going to die, I’m going to die.” Jasper murmured to himself, over and over, as he continued to fall through the dark. “Oh God, oh God. I don’t even know which way is up...”
Lights, small lights, cut holes in the dark. And, from Jasper’s perspective, they were growing.
“Oh God, thank you God!” The ghostly yellow glow lit his face, revealing a huge grin. He let himself float towards their source.
Jasper’s grin faded in an instant, to be replaced by a look of both confusion and fear. The lights now revealed a paved track, made from hundreds upon thousands of small red bricks; it was easily two meters wide.
“Just follow the red brick road,” Jasper intoned. “Just follow the red brick road...”

27-May-2010 11:12:11 - Last edited on 27-May-2010 13:16:14 by Eri Vi

Jun

2010

Eri Vi

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Floating down past the suspended lights, he landed softly on the strange-looking path, and, looking left and right, decided there was really no other option. Right is right after all.
~~~
Luke lay pinned the ground, the captain poised on top of him; “you worthless filth, I don’t even know why I brought you along.”
The captain lifted Luke from the ground by the armpits, and walked him over to the mast.
The captain shoved him into the large wooden pole face first. Grunted, “You can stay here ‘till your brother gets back, 'kay?” And tied him to the mast in a way only sailors can.
Wiping the sweat from his thick brow, the captain walked over to the anchor.
He smelt the remnants of gunpowder and rum, his weary, grey eyes snapped up to the water. “Holy sea-monsters...”
He saw the black ship and the torn sails, heard the shouts and jeers echo across the still water. He quickly loosed the bonds on Luke’s arms.
“Pirates,” he pointed out, quite honestly, “scum of the sea. And I bet ya’ they aint here for a picnic.” The captain jogged over to the anchor. “Your brother had better be hanging on...”
~~~
Jasper, oblivious to the epic battle occurring above, was making his way down the red brick road; whistling to himself.
“This aint too bad now is it,” he said to his left hand.
“No, of course not,’ he said to the right. “We’re only walking down a path, UNDER THE WATER! Oh, and you’re talking to yourself.”
“Well yes, there is that...”
“AHHHHHH!”
“What?”
“Don’t ask stupid questions, look over there!”
Rampaging around a large chunk of coral, which protruded out from the otherwise flat seabed, were the most unsightly beasts. At least ten foot in length and with the body of a hideous lobster, their dark and murky-blue crustacean form glinted maliciously in the yellow light.
Their skinny legs scraped to a stop, only inches from Jasper’s quivering form. Rising on their hind legs, they aimed their claw-held tridents at his head.

27-May-2010 11:12:14 - Last edited on 28-May-2010 04:05:47 by Eri Vi

Jun

2010

Eri Vi

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“P-p-please, don’t hurt me. I just want to go home.”
“Shilenshe!” The largest lobster hissed, his bony claws clacking at Jasper’s head. “What ish your name?”
Jasper answered, still on his knees and facing the ground.
“Jashper, aye?” He eyed him suspiciously, “what, exactly, are you? And what ish that bowl doing shtuck on your head?”
“I... I’m a human. I come from the land. The bowl helps me breathe.” He motioned to the air inside the helmet.
“I shee...” The overgrown crustacean thought for a moment, then stated, “you shall come with ush."
With that, he hooked his claw into Jasper’s weight belt, plucked him from the ground, and the entire squadron of lobsters returned to their fast-paced skittering.
“Oh, and you can call me Krish,” he added.

An hour or so later, Jasper’s fear had turned to annoyance.
“Where are you taking me? How long ‘till we get there?” He whined, jittering around as Krish ran along the path with seemingly endless stamina.
“We’re off to shee the wishard, the wonderful wishard of Atlantish.”
“Uh huh... Are we there yet?”
“Um... No." Krish replied, thinking it was a rather strange question to ask.
“How ‘bout now?"
"Shtill no, ishn't it obvioush?”
“Guess so, how ‘bout now?"
"Halt! Everyone shtop.” Krish firmly planted his trident in the ground.
“Is this it? It’s kinda dull..."
"No, be shilent.” The little black beads that were Krish’s eyes twisted in their sockets, peering deep into the still water.
“Oh that,” Jasper said loudly, “that’s a ship. We humans use them to travel over the water.”
“Ah yesh, I shee it now." Krish’s face contorted slightly, “but what is it doing down here? Shurely it should be on the shurface.”

27-May-2010 11:12:51 - Last edited on 28-May-2010 04:09:24 by Eri Vi

Jun

2010

Eri Vi

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Krish was completely right; the ship was not where it was supposed to be. And as it slowly fell out of the dark, and its shape become more visible, it was obvious why. Almost an entire side of the ship had been blown out, and it was peppered with the tell-tale holes of cannonballs.
“Holy sh...” Krish cursed, jumping to the side as a mast planted itself firmly in the ground beside him.
“Holy sh...” Jasper gasped, noticing the Jolly Roger tied atop the dark, wooden pole.
THUD
“Holy mother of mermen!” Another lobster screeched as an anchor sunk into the soft sand, only inches from his head.
“What good luck,” Jasper smiled. Waving to the lobsters, he ran across to the anchor – tugging twice on the chain.
The End.
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27-May-2010 11:25:30 - Last edited on 28-May-2010 04:13:15 by Eri Vi