"Purple Flowers"

Escape from Africa

       Luke and Jack were once in Africa riding elephants. Jack and Luke were very obvious with their elephant riding so, the police arrested them and put them in jail. This jail cell was weird. It was made out of bones. Luckily for Luke and Jack, they had really sharp teeth so they bit their way out of it their jail cell. An alarm went off as soon as they escaped. What could they do? Escape! Luke and Ryan ran to the coast of Africa and stole a merchant ship, completely unaware of the fact that there were hidden treasures on board. The first hour of Jack's and Luke's journey was peaceful - at least,  when Jack wasn't throwing up from seasickness.

       The lion came out of hiding in the second hour. It came out from a dark corner of the ship and attacked Luke. It bit Luke's leg off from his knee down. Luke was very lucky to have Jack as a companion, for Jack when he heard Luke's blood-curdling scream rushed down to the lower deck. He immediately caught sight of the lion chewing off Luke's leg. Jack panicked and managed to lead the lion to the upper deck. The first thing that came to Jack's mind was the anchor that wasn't attached to a rope or chain of any sort. He managed to throw the anchor towards the lion. It hit the lion on the head and the lion died, but the anchor went over board.

       Relieved, Jack returned to his dear friend Luke and cauterized the end of his missing leg. Luke was unconscious but the bleeding stopped eventually. The next two hours were peaceful. Jack and Luke ate some of the meat from the lion for dinner. Jack took two of its ribs and sharpened it in case something else may attack them.

       Another surprise attacked the two boys. This time it was an anaconda but it didn't exactly attack. Jack checked the darker corners of the lower deck and ran into a sleeping anaconda. Jack freaked out. He is afraid of snakes after all. Of course he had to run into an anaconda! Jack screamed and ran in circles.

       "Jack! Shut up," Luke shouted at him. Jack ignored Luke. Luke managed to get up on one leg and hobble over to where Jack was freaking out. Luke did catch sight of the anaconda and gasped. Was he surprised to see an anaconda? Yes. Was he expecting something dangerous? Yes. Did this anaconda freak him out? No.

       The anaconda woke up from Jack's hooting and hollering and attacked Luke who looked like easy prey since he had one leg. Luke took one of the bones that Jack sharpened earlier. The anaconda attacked quickly and wrapped itself around Luke's leg in a suffocating bind. Luke hesitated before his next move but decide that it was for the better. He cut off his leg and then killed the anaconda with the bone. Luke again fell unconscious. Jack calmed down at its death and took it to the deck. Jack looked over the side of the boat. He was surprised by what he saw: sharks! "Sharks don't normally attack ships, right?" He thought. Jack is indeed right. Sharks don't attack ships. But this is a new kind of genetically modified shark. Jack shrugged and threw the anaconda's body overboard. The sharks were attracted to the anaconda meat and directed their attentions to that.

       Jack returned to his friend whom he momentarily forgot. He stopped the bleeding and burned the end of his leg again. "Cannibalism is wrong," Jack said as he threw Luke's other leg over board.

       Jack thought that building a contraption for Luke was a good idea. This contraption would allow Luke to move around easily. Jack spent hours upon hours working on the contraption with the convenient extra wood, nails, and hammer that was on board.

       They arrived on India. The first thing Jack and Luke spotted was policeman who had the same uniform as the ones in Africa had. They decided that they should flee India as well. Jack took Luke on his back and sprinted to the ship. They set sail again!

       After setting sail, Jack found out that those "convenient extra wooden planks" were really a part of the boat. With these pieces missing, the boat sank. Luke and Jack had to swim the rest of the way. After a few minutes of swimming, the boys bumped into two beautiful mermaids, Snails and Starfish. Jack fell in love with Snails as did Luke with Starfish. Starfish and Snails took the boys where they could rest and have a decent meal that wasn't lion.

       Immediately after Luke and Jack are the food Starfish and Snails served them, they passed out. Starfish and Snails waited thirty minutes before they did anything noteworthy. It was at this time where Jack came to consciousness a little. Starfish and Snails plotted to kill Luke and Jack and serve them to their friends. Jack was disgusted and hurt. How dare they!

       Rather than giving the two mermaids a sassy dissing, Catullus style, Jack woke Luke up and swam elsewhere. That elsewhere was the closest continent: Australia.

       They swam until they got to an island where they rested for several days. Swim, island, rest, swim. That was the way life went for the two boys for a while until the arrived in Australia. They miraculously survived this impossible task and when they got to Australia, they immediately met the last caveman, Matthew. Matthew took the two boys in as slaves. Jack and Luke were too tired to fight this. Matthew forced Luke and Jack to chop down trees for reasons unknown to Luke and Jack. It was mostly Jack doing these jobs. When they would return, Matthew would give them some food which was the leftovers from his meal. Then one day, one one of the boys' outings, the tree "decided" to defy gravity and tip towards the direction Luke and Jack were standing in. The tree fell on Jack and Luke, killing them.

THE END

~*~*~*~

      There was some silence. "Your stories suck," Wyatt commented, breaking the silence. "And I'm not even in it! But you have Jack, Luke, and Matthew in it! I would add so much sparkle to the story!"

       "Oh come on, Wyatt! Be a big boy! You're older than us anyways," Matthew said, sticking out his tongue. "And plus, I bring all the sparkle to the story by myself!"

       "Matthew, you're older than all of us but Cynthia," Luke pointed out gesturing to Monet, Cynthia, Jack, Wyatt, and himself and then backhanded Matthew.

       Matthew retaliated by backhanding Luke. Luke exclaimed, "MATTHEW!!" and backhanded him. Matthew backhanded Luke back. This went on for a few more minute until Cynthia intervened. She separated two boys and gave them a glare that made the boys shutter. Michelle sighed.

        Cynthia turned to Wyatt and said, "If it makes you happy, you're the policeman who the boys run into in India."

       "But I'm only mentioned once!"

       "FINE! You're the police man who arrested them too!"

       Wyatt muttered something under his breath. "Wait, why did we die," Ryan asked gesturing to himself and Luke.

       "I feel like Matthew is picked on enough. Plus he and Luke just proves that Matthew’s already abused," Cynthia said with a shrug.

       "Yeah! I'm picked on enough," Matthew exclaimed with a victorious gleam in his eye.

       "And this is why you get abused," Wyatt explained to Matthew.

       Fake tears formed in the corner of Matthew’s eye. "Cynthiaaa~," He whined. "Wyatts being mean!"

       Everyone ignores Matthew. Luke muttered, "Well it's better than purple flowers either way..." 

     There was a loud gasp that caused the entire building to look at the source. Master Qiao, Miss Maggie, and even Ally, who was standing in the center of the mat in bo stands stopped to stare at the source. It was Wyatt, of course. Wyatt had his hands up as if he were surrendering to the police and has a very offended facial expression. "How dare you! Purple flowers is the best!"

Everyone who was staring at Wyatt rolled their eyes, sighed, or face palmed and went back to their business and the usual noise and movement returned to the lively building.