Lightning

You’ve probably been on an airship when the sky is sapphire blue and the light breeze just skimming your face. Remember how it feels the wind rushing through your hair and making you feel like you have no weight on your hands, to see the jade coloured sea and towns far below, to feel totally free of every day life.

I bet you’ve enjoyed long holiday flights across glistening bays. Journeys to see your distant relatives, knowing that once you get you will be able to relax for several weeks.

But you should also try a trip when the winter winds come at you like knives piercing through your frosty cheeks, with the clouds darkening, for that is another matter. When the thunder explodes in the sky booming like you’ve just awoken a giant from its long winter nap and lighting bolts strike through the air threatening to take your airship down. That’s when the airship ride is not so much fun…

Chapter 1

Lighting Strike

“Hoist the sails,” said Darrel, the storm was getting bigger by the second they thought it was never going to end until…

One sunlit Saturday Darrel (who was unbelievably good at building) and Leo (who was clever at planning), had the idea to build a sky ship, something no one has ever seen before, something out of this world. When they finally finished (which was about 3 months later) they started to get the engine working and everything else. All they needed to do now was press the button and send it into the air. They climbed on, got in their seats and carefully pressed the button. Whoosh, they flew into the air second by second, higher and higher until they were above the clouds with the emerald sea below, the sky sapphire blue above them. The clouds were like a blanket and they began to feel totally free of everyday life.

Until the clouds were getting darker the sea started to churned, boom a strike of lighting hit the ship they started to panic. luckily, they managed to stay in the sky but the sky ship couldn’t hold up much longer. it took them of course by miles.

At that moment, the shrieking devils struck. Leo saw a whole group of them streak out of a storm cloud and fire darted toward the lighting strike. Captain Truffle rocked the boat to the side just avoiding disaster and in one swift movement drove the engines as hard as he could.

For a moment, the devils disappeared as Darrel steered the Lighting Strike into a huge patch of storm clouds to hide. Thunder growled around them electricity crackled. Suddenly the engines failed and they crashed onto a deserted island.