Chapter 2

Anna stared at the Golden Bird as the steering wheel       dropped to the floor and a tear fell from her eye. In front of her, Jack struggled to get out from under his parachute but once he did he ran over to make sure Anna wasn’t hurt. Drowned from head to toe, with no shelter other than a palm tree that sat above them, they did not have the best shelter. As they had lost their crew, they would have to do all the hunting in the dark, wet and damp forest by themselves.

As Anna wandered through the trees, she spotted a cave. Walking towards it, she heard noises. Vines were covering it but the light still managed to shine through. Anna saw three things: a white spider the size of a mouse scuttling to the other side of the cave, the bright sun blinding her and a bottle of water lying on the ground half empty. It was like someone had been there before them.

Anna peered round the edge of the cave to see a beautiful deserted beach. It was as if the storm had just disappeared and the sea had recovered; the water was the clearest Anna had ever seen it. She ran back as fast as she could, jumping over twigs, determined to find Jack and tell him what she had seen. After running for about five minutes she found him, his arms were filled with supplies to make a shelter.

A couple of minutes later, Anna and Jack reached the cave. Out of breath they fell onto the hot sand. Jack looked around in amazement and shock, but Anna sprinted to a small waterfall to fill up their bottles. In no time at all, they were gulping down water. The palm trees swayed in the soft wind and the turquoise sea lapped the hot sandy shore. After some time admiring the tropical beach, Jack and Anna started walking back to the Golden Bird. The sun was about to set and they still had no shelter. It looked like they were going to be sleeping under the palm trees tonight with parachutes as blankets. Jack lay down to try and make himself comfortable, whilst Anna was in her own world, wondering what might get thrown at them next in their sky ship adventure.