A fantasy story
We are reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Also, we are studying the aspects of Science-Fiction and Fantasy. Mr. R said that we should write a short Science-Fiction/Fantasy story about a trip we recently had. This is the story I wrote;
A week on Sharrgsetrel (Sha-R-S-Tel)
It was the 31st of January in the year of 2058 (Christian counting) when the almost fourteen-year-old boy finished his spaceship. The boy’s name won’t matter to you, so I won’t tell you. The spaceship was a pencil-like craft that had a reflective silvery white colour. This was to reflect radiation and heat. Ek-874, as the space module was named, didn’t use any natural resources but solar power instead. This was energy was collected by the two foldable 250 by 200 meter solar cells and it was stored in the 9 trillion giga-watts capacity battery.
He asked his teachers if he could bring his grade on a journey in space, the teachers said, “yes, if you will let us come with.”
So, the classes went to the boy’s house and entered the capsule which had room for a few hundreds. The boy himself went into the control cabin with his brother, for they were pilots you see.
Ten minutes later the rocket took off. There was a loud crackle of electricity as a few billion giga-watts were used up to start the engines and reach escape velocity. When the ship exited the gravitational pull of the earth there was a crackle of electricity as the ship opened a wormhole. To see what a wormhole is look in the diagram below.
After the wormhole opened something really bad happened, the ship came out on an entirely different location than planned. They came to the planet Sharrgsetrel the second planet from the star Espolianete in the outer ring of the spiral galaxy Xyalgalirspa in the western part of the nebula Lubwenrannrest, exactly 22.43659870333 light years from Earth. Unfortunately the ship had run out of energy and needed three whole days to recharge. So the children unpacked the supplies and set up camp. On the first day when they went to find firewood they encountered the Xszyots, one of the native species of the planet.
Unfortunately Xszyots are very unfriendly with visitors so the group had to make a run for it. Fortunately, there were hoverbikes nearby and they grabbed them and drove. Another group went to explore the mountains nearby and found a huge valley with another of the strange species of Sharrgsetrel, the Onlainti a huge scorpion-like creature. Luckily they only saw one of these formidable foes.
The next day a group went to a inland sea that was found the day before by another group. Here the group built a raft of wood and a leaf that is very commonly found on Sharrgsetrel. This raft they used to go to the island in the very centre of the lake. On this island they made the first contact with the friendly species of Sharrgsetrel, the Umsaegriocf a race of humanoid creatures that can use magic to fulfill their wants, but rarely use this power. Meanwhile, in an old temple the most sinister of species in this part of the Nebula were planning how to get rid of these scum that had landed on their planet.
The day after this the group went to the lake to hide underwater from the Snpseciiisstree, the species earlier described as the most sinister in the galaxy. While underwater the group saw a huge arrangement of species, one important one was Gsrheaartk a 72-meter long shark-like being with a sword as a snout just like a Marlin.
Well, the next day the engine had been fully charged and the ship was ready for takeoff. And Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt the ship was off into the sky BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!! The ship opened a wormhole and passed through.
When they got back to earth they noticed something was wrong. The boy heard a muffled sound behind him and turned around. What he saw was terrifying. He turned and saw a tentacley beast that had 3 eyes, stood as tall as a human and had small scratches everywhere from previous fights of other opponents.
The creature struck with amazing force right on the arm of the boy who grabbed a metal plate to defend himself, the beast struck him though, hard enough to strike blod. The smell of blood seemed to drive the beast berserk; it attacked more ferociously than before and began to get the upper hand. Then the boy started to fight back he hit and hit and hit, but it seemed as if all were lost. Suddenly the boy was smacked right in the side of the head.
He woke up with a scream.
