Death Trip

• Isaac Shooter, Grade 5, Wooloowin State School
• Short Story
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

Five hours ago, when I was waiting to board the plane I would have never expected to be sitting in a bathroom of a sinking plane. I sighed and thought of my friends and family waiting for me in America. My family had moved and I stayed back home for a while with my nan. I was going to visit mum. But the plane crashed and the only reason I didn’t die with everybody else was because I was in the bathroom when it fell into the ocean. Suddenly I felt a freezing feeling in my feet I looked down and gasped the black murky water was already up to my knees I needed get off the plane!
I turned around to look out the window and screamed there was an eye looking back right at me. It was huge and connected to a huge body of a shark octopus thing. It was actually a shark with giant tentacles awesome! It was cool until it rapped one of its tentacles around the end of the plane and bit it in half! The good thing was I wasn’t going to drown but the bad news was I was in the water with the octoshark. It tried to grab me with one of its arms but I dodged. This was getting serious, out of the corner of my eye I spotted some sort of weird case it looked like something out of a spy movie. It must have been someone’s luggage from the plane. I paddled over to it while avoiding slimy tentacles, as soon as I touched it a weird armour spread across my body and just like that I could fly and shoot a white fire out of my fingers. I Shot a beam of fire at the octoshark and hit it in the eye it screeched and fired back with black fire but it deflected of my armour it was amazing! I started firing at the octoshark but I couldn’t hit it in any weak spots because I had no idea where they were, so I was firing everywhere.
Suddenly one of its slimy tentacles grabbed me and shoved me into its mouth and swallowed me whole! I screamed as I tumbled down the dark slimy throat of the beast! Once I had fallen to the stomach I felt sick there were giant slugs, dead whales and ships all slowly being sucked towards some sort of spiky crushing thing that I guessed was to break up the food. The only problem was I was getting sucked towards it to! I tried to get out of the water but the current was to strong! But then I remembered something I had seen in a movie and start firing nonstop at one spot on the inside of the belly until I had blown a hole right through, water poured in and swept me around and then sucked me out. I wondered how long it would take to swim home.