Young Storykeeper Volume III

136 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE TEN | 137
RAMBO AND THE MYSTERIOUS SHIPWRECK
Our story starts with Jack, an ex-military sergeant moving into a lighthouse
to save ships from crashing into a cliff on the coast of America.
The lighthouse is on top of some dangerous cliffs. It is painted a
pale red and dark yellow colour and has vines growing up its sides. The
lighthouse has a large light so that it could be seen from a long distance.
Jack has so far saved twenty ships, ten planes, two aircraft carriers,
a jumbo jet and half a million people from hitting the cliffs.
One night there is a ferocious storm with waves the size of mountains
and a violent, driving wind.
A ship is coming too close to the cliffs, even after Jack has turned
on the lights to warn them off. After two minutes of trying to get the ship
to turn away from the cliff, the ship hits the cliff with a sickening crunch.
Jack runs down to investigate and finds out that it was no ordinary ship
but a spaceship.
He realises it has hit the rocks because it doesn’t know what the
lighthouse means.
Jack enters the UFO and comes face to face with a xenomorph,
Jack kills it with ease. He carries on down a small and bloody hallway into
a big room and sees a thing out of a horror movie. It has four arms, no
legs, a deformed head and a bloody torso. This monster puts up a fight
but, in the end, Jack comes out alive, but with a nosebleed.
The next door leads into the armoury, where there is a plasma gun
and a nuclear bomb that looks just like the Fat Man. He picks up the
gun and goes through the next door. This room has a vampire in it! Jack
needs three hits from the plasma gun to take it down.
The next room is very hard. Inside is a mind control demon and it
takes five plasma hits to knock this one out!
The door to the last room is plastered with skulls but he still goes in.
In this room is a mini dragon. Jack shoots ten plasma blasts at the
dragon but nothing happens. So Jack runs outside and straps the Fat
Man bomb that he has collected from the armoury on top of the ship. He
sets the timer to one minute and runs!
One minute later the nuke blows, but Jack is far enough away to
survive.
Zachary Bunce
Co Dublin
THE BUOY SAVER!
Once upon a time in 1998, a twelve-year-old boy named Jack was at sea on his
way to his favourite place on earth, Rockabill Island Lighthouse. Jack usually was
with his dad whenever he was out at sea. His dad was one of the best fishermen
on the mainland.
On this day, Jack’s dad’s boat hit something hard and the boat rocked from
side to side for at least two minutes! Then the boat started to go down, lower and
lower, until Jack and his dad knew they had hit the buoy from the lighthouse. Now,
they knew that they were near the lighthouse so if the boat did start to sink, they
would be able to swim to the lighthouse. Jack and his dad had been working on a
lifeboat at home in their garage but hadn’t been able to finish it yet.
After about ten minutes of the boat sinking, Jack and his dad had to jump off
the boat and swim to Rockabill Island. So, they both jumped off the sinking boat.
The water was freezing but they were either going to die or live by swimming a few
hundred metres. But when Jack’s dad jumped in, his leg got caught in the hole the
buoy made. He could not move his leg out of the hole. Jack knew that it would lead
to certain death.
Jack’s dad said, “Swim to the island and stay in the cave! The next day the
lighthouse keeper will come to the island in the morning. Get a lift home and tell your
mom about what happened to myself!” Then the boat went down with Jack’s dad.
* * *
When Jack got to the island, it turned out that the lighthouse keeper was in the
lighthouse drinking a cup of tea. He said that he would get Jack a lift home in the
morning.
* * *
Many years later
Jack is now forty years old and is looking for a new job. The last job he had was not
what he wanted to do full time. But one job caught his eye: a new lighthouse keeper
for Rockabill Island Lighthouse. It was apparently well paid - £100 per week. But
then Jack remembered that his dad had died on their way to Rockabill Island. Tears
swelled up in his eyes. But that was a long time ago so he got over it quickly.
Jack took the job. The next day Jack headed over to the lighthouse. That
evening Jack shone the light on the sea and he saw a boat smashed up right beside
the buoy with a boy who looked about 12 and his dad in the water. And the dad
looked like he was getting pulled under the water. Jack ran down to the shore and
dove into the sea. He swam up to the boy and took him to the shore.
JACK IS NOW KNOWN AS THE BUOY SAVER
Séimí McElarney
Co Dublin