Sea Monster

It was dark and shadowy in the depths of the deep, blue ocean. All you could see was a glittering glimpse of light amongst the web of darkness that was before me. The spiky red coral lay in clusters on the ocean floor. I paddled silently through the jungle of thick, green seaweed watching out for sea creatures lurking in the pool of mist. My crew were waiting in the boat above watching out for any potentially dangerous sea creatures so they could steer me in.

It was cold and blurry down there and my toes and fingers were becoming numb. I peered down deeper in to the deep, deathly darkness below my feet. “Deeper, deeper!” I told myself “You can do it” but I was wrong for deep beneath those mists was the most horrifying creature that ever lived. I began to swoop down through the complete darkness using all my strength to stabilise on this rocky terrain. My eyes still adjusting to the darkness. I could faintly make out a nest.

I swam nearer to take a closer look, but little did I know there wasn’t just going to be just a nest there! As I swam closer, first I saw part of fin moving, wiggling from side to side in a rocking motion. Then a tail! Then a neck! I just couldn’t take any longer I had to know what creature it was. I wadded through the darkness into an enormously large clearing the size of thirty football pitches, to find the one creature I’d never expect o find. “It can’t be!” I cried “It can’t be, but your’ a big blubbering, booming sea monster”

Suddenly I felt my heart like a rock plunging down into the deep pit that was stomach, and thudding at immense speed. I tried to dash through the dark mist but the monster stuck out and launched one of its tentacles at me. Viciously tugging me back quickly. My mind turned blank as I was wiped out by one of its striking tentacles.

It was dark when I woke up. I could hear a high pitched squealing, whistling noise. I sat up and scratched my head in confusion. My brain was still a little fuzzy but I could still vaguely make out the monster’s appearance. It had deep, gazing black eyes, curved yellow spikes along its back, it was a deep, glossy, reddish colour with four mammoth fins two on each side that were long thin and rugged and ten long slipper tentacles. “Oh, it looks like the most dazzling rainbow” I thought. Eager to take a second glimpse, alas before I could, the beautiful delicate but vicious vanished without a trace or so I thought. You see, my oxygen tank had ran out. I was sinking and fast. Soon I became unconscious and unstable. I was almost going to drown and if it hadn’t saved me it would have been the end. You see, it went something like this “This is the end” I gasped “This is it.”

Or so I thought, just as I had my last breath the monster carried me up through the dark whispering depths softly to the sandy shore. “Land” I cried “Land!” I buried my face in the damp grainy sand. Then I turned to it, I almost wanted to hug the wet beast. It nudged me and I nudged it back but it was now really time for it to go. No goodbyes. Just the shared memories forever and ever.

James Watson, 2016