Prologue

You’ve probably had multiple fantastic adventures on wonderful skyships but not like this one. In summer, you would have seen the sunlight beaming at you in front of the arched windows. The calm breeze brushing past peoples faces. The clear blue sky was very happy whilst the sea was waving. When you flew there would have been hay bales on plain lands down below, cruise ships sailing to sea and there are doves that squawk their hellos. When you flew there would have been a beautiful sense of freedom. You probably got taken to the Grand Canyon and landed to have lunch. Travelling in a skyship is much quicker.

But travelling on an adventure to unexplored lands is hard. You should try the famous Oceanus. It will be able to carry you throughout the journey. The thunder rumbles while you try to sleep. You should try being there when the monsters arrive, which try to rip you apart. You should try being there when a rainbow pops out of the cloudy skies. Few people would want to go on this extremely exciting adventure like this. Even experienced flyers would wish to go on this treacherous but magical adventure. No-one knows what species could be living there. Rumours have it that there are giga-snakes which are as tall as the world’s tallest man, sky-rats that latch onto your arms and the blob. Few would wish to even see these giga-snakes and sky-rats or the blob, and people say that these rumours are for a good reason. 

Chapter One

The crowds waved and cheered their goodbyes as the skyship Oceanus shuddered and hovered above the ground. Captain Slovak smiled to himself as he started the engines of the esteemed Oceanus. As they ascended in the sky the crowd was as visible as a speck of dust as they soared through Lontown. Richard and Arthur surveyed what was below them: farmlands that had

been platted down by farm vehicles; cars racing past on the motorway; and  the sea’s waves hitting the pier of the beach. The Oceanus was sailing throughout the city. The river of Alantia could be seen from miles away. Richard and Arthur could hear the sweet birds tweeting, they could hear the waves of the Ocean lapping the cliffside and  the wind happily brushing past the Oceanus.

Shouting to distant crowds, the children turned to walk back to their seats. Richard and Arthur grinned at each other but Richard felt like he had butterflies in his stomach. Will he be safe on this adventure?

Later, when Oceanus was sailing through the Atlantic Ocean, they could see many things all around them. Arthur and Richard saw the largest sea animal, the blue whale which was doing flips in the water, fishing boats that were dots from the Oceanus, dolphins that were flipping out of the water and gannets were descending, getting ready to dive down in the Ocean to get its meal. Richard sighed, “ do you think we will ever find Ermitage Wrigglesworth  again?” as he was scrunching up his hair.

Arthur was staring out at the ocean “ I wonder if anything mortifying will happen to us like last time. Last time we had to get through orcs and trolls and skyrats, and that  definitely wasn’t fun.”

Later that evening, the breeze was as cold as dry ice, hail was coming off the Oceanus and  blowing in their faces, the storm was as loud as a stampede,  the lightning lit up the sky and you could hear the breeze brushing past the balloon. The moon was placed in the middle of the sky. Richard could barely observe the monuments on a faint little island. The captain was starting to get tired…