CHAPTER 4

BY RONNIE O’SHEA

Without hesitation, Captain O’Shea prepared to lift off and Max tumbled back into his bed and hit his head hard on the bed post “OUCH!” he cried as he rubbed his throbbing head, Helen who was reading a book, laughed but Max replied with a death stare that made her slink out of the room. Three hours later, Max put the happy elf to bed then walked outside and saw Helen looking out at the mesmerizing sunset. ”It’s beautiful isn’t?” she said, “Yeah” he replied but as he was about to say more Max was tugged down so hard that he thought ‘it couldn’t be Helen’. But it was. And she looked terrified.

There before their eyes, was the most horrifying sight ever.  A dragon. And it was crawling up the hull of the ship, when it reached the deck it was about to take a chunk out of the ship out but before it could, Captain O’Shea barged the door to the captain’s quarters and ran at the dragon with a sword in his hand. The next thing that happened was this, Captain O’Shea swung his sword at the dragon and cut its arm off then the dragon lunged at him but he dodged it and before the dragon could react Captain O’Shea chopped the dragons head off, just as he realised the dragon had cut his right thigh open and he was losing blood rapidly. He sat down and told the children he would be fine and he was going to go and lie down and contact the hospital. Four minutes later Max and Helen were looking out at the sky and hoping two things: that Captain O’Shea would be okay and that they could get out of the sky and back to earth and their families.