Vanished

• Declan Hicks, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2016

As I awoke in a terrifying graveyard as old as the dinosaurs, I quiver and shake not knowing where I am. I wondered what horrors would await me in the abandoned fortress. When I get up, I hear the horrifying squawks of the crows as I walk to the fortress gates. On my way, I spot a spine-chilling ship in the distant waters off the cliffs edge.

The gates open as I feel a petrifying chill go up my spine. I skulked past the gates slowly I see 2 narrow passages and one big hair-raising fortress door. I walk towards one of the narrow passages I felt like the walls were getting narrower every second.

I walk further and further down but it’s like a never ending passage. Suddenly, water was seeping through cracks in the wall. The room fills with water and I’m washed down a big tunnel that pushes me through to end up in the open waters.

I see a light in the distance it looks like some kind of tour boat. I wave my arms in the air screaming for help, they see me and chuck a rope down they say climb up little boy. I grab the rope pushing through the agonising pain of the rope burn I climb to the top they asked me what I was doing out in the waters with all spooky misty fog. So I told them everything. Luckily they said that their cruise was ended right where I lived, the outback (Australia).