The Adventure

By Caitlyn McConnell

Earl the young polar bear was tired of seeing just snow. The exhilarating light of adventure gleamed in his eyes as he packed up his things and sprinted off into the darkness. After wandering around for a couple of hours he decided to call it a night and slept on a hard block of ice. Bad choice.

Next morning he woke up to brilliant sunlight. Summer was approaching, the ice and the snow were melting. Earl got up, stretched, and felt the ice he was standing on wobble dangerously. He looked down and saw that the ice below him was floating in the middle of the ocean. He bolted around the ice in his panic, trying to find some land he could possibly swim to. Suddenly, Earl slipped, and he was thrown merclissly into the splashing water below him. The moment he hit the water, he knew it was home. He joyfully swam through the water, doing summersaults as he went. Suddenly he spotted a glint of silver. He quickly swam toward it, noticing as he did so that the waves had become harsher ad stronger. He swam rapidly to the suface to get some air, and then dived back down again. The glint of silver was coming nearer and nearer until... he found himself in the company of a whole school of fish! He swam into the silver mass greedily devouring the fish one by one. Then, “THUD! ” a net fell onto the ocean floor trapping all the fish, and Earl. The terrified polar bear roared and roared as he was lifted slowly up, up ,up, to the sparkling water above. He slashed, snarled and bit at the ropes that bound him captive , but it made no difference. When he was completely out of the water, he saw a big brown piece of land! He ceased his roaring and waited quietly as he was tugged onto the mysterious land.

When the net was on the boat he saw a couple of mysterious animals gibbering to each other in a language he couldn’t understand. “Bingo!” yelled Bob, and then he spotted Earl. “Chris!” he shouted, “We have a Polar Bear!” “What should we do?” Bob asked.

“Return him to land of course” replied Chris, “There’s some land over there, lets free him.” Bob agreed, so they sailed toward the mountains, that were miles away from them. Earl, who hadn’t listened to any of the conversation, (how could he if he didn’t know English) was shocked to find that the “land” was moving! He settled down, full to bursting with fish, and was soon fast asleep. Hooonk! The ship stopped abruptly. Earl woke with a start. The men emptied the fish into a huge crate, leaving Earl alone. They opened the net, and the Polar bear cautiously crept out, looked back at them, and then sprinted off into the darkness.