A survival story by: Kermit96“Can I go?” Michael asked with a smile. He had dark brown hair with light brown eyes that looked like milky chocolate. He wore a blue green shirt that looked like the bottom of a coral reef.
Annie, his mother, had a smile as big and as wide as the ocean with light, baby blue eyes. She was wearing a white shirt with a beautiful necklace that simmered in the light. She replied losing her smile, “I don’t want you to get hurt.”
“I won’t get hurt. I’ll train first,” Michael replied with a smile.
“I am not happy about this, but you can go. You have to promise to write often, so I know how you are and send pictures.”
“I will make sure to send plenty of pictures and write to you every day and send all the written letters home every month.” Michael replied with a white pearl of a smile. Two weeks later as Michael was riding in a car to the airport, he saw all the beautiful lights of New York at 5:00 in the morning on May 6th, 2001.
“I am going to miss the city so much” Michael said looking out of the blue minivan window.
“The city is going to miss you too; you helped in so many ways. The community work, the work you did at the homeless shelter, the volunteer work at the animal shelter… You really have done a lot to help your city,” Annie said with tears in her eyes. Five minutes later they were at the airport where Michael met his director Jeff.
“I have to take a picture for memories,” Annie said taking out her camera. “Smile!” Snapping a shot with her camera.
“We are now boarding Flight 23. Please come to the gate.”
“I will miss you mom,” Michael said giving his mom a kiss on the cheek and a hug.
“I will miss you too,” She replied with a tear rolling down her face and on to Michaels shoulder.
“Don’t cry mom. I’ll be fine and I’ll write. I promise,” Michael said trying to be comforting. “I got to go,” He kissed his mom’s cheek. “I love you mom,” he whispered as he walked away.
“I love you too sweetheart,” Annie said.
Michael got on the plane and took his seat. Seated next to him was the Commander General and on his other side was a girl named Lulu from Hawaii. Lulu had beautiful long brunet hair with bright blue eyes that looked like water. When they leveled off, it was a bit bumpy, so the pilot told the passengers to keep their seatbelts fastened unless they were going to the bathroom or getting something from their carry on. About an hour later the plane started to go down. They were not supposed to be at the training base for at least another hour. What are we doing? Michael thought. So many questions ran through his head, but none of them came out of his mouth.
Everyone else was franticly fastening their seatbelts and asking a bunch of questions, but no answers came out. All of a sudden, the plane splashed into the water. Everyone franticly opened the emergency exit doors and swam to the surface coughing for air. They hadn’t known that they were going over water, so they weren’t prepared for what was happening. Amazingly everyone survived the crash.
Now they all needed to survive the swim to land. It was the longest swim of his life he thought as he kept swimming. He was about half way there, and he thought about giving up but that is not what soldiers do. NO!!!!!!
“We have been swimming forever,” people complained, but not Lulu. She was a strong swimmer and kept pushing everyone to keep swimming. When they got to land everyone was so tired that they all just fell to the sand and sat there.
They heard a loud scream, “HEL-!” that was cut off. Someone was still in the water! Lulu and Michael dove into the water and swam as fast as they could to rescue whoever was still out there. It was a little boy who looked about nine or ten. His name was Joey, the commander’s son. Joey had hazel eyes and light brown hair. He was franticly trying to keep himself up, but he was wounded. He had broken his ankle. Lulu and Michael grabbed his arms and swam back to shore. The commander ran into the water and picked Joey up. He walked back to the sand and set him down.“Are you okay?” the commander asked his son.
“My foot hurts, and I can barely walk on it, but I am thankfully alive because of these nice people,” Joey said as he pointed to Lulu and Michael.
“What are your names?” the commander asked Lulu and Michael.
Lulu replied by saying, “Lulu, commander sir.”
“And yours?” the commander questioned.
“Mmmmine is Michael,” Michael stuttered.
“Thank you for saving my son’s life,” the commander said with a smile. “We need to find supplies for shelter: leaves, wood. You ten go and do that, while you ten go and find firewood, dry firewood. We also need to find anything that was left over from the plane and if you nine could do that, that would be great. If you find anything then report it to me right away.”
Lulu and Michael were in the group to find firewood. We looked all over to find something to get the branches down from the trees. Michael started to climb the tree when Lulu said, “No, it’s too dangerous. We will have half of our group go back to the camp and see if they have found anything and the other half of us will stay here and see if we can find branches on the ground.”
Luckily, they found an ax that was in the sand. They didn’t know how it got there or why it was there, but they used it to chop firewood and some trees down. Inside the tree, tey found animals that they captured and ate. For a month, they survived in the wild. No one really talked. They all just worked and watched for planes.
After two months they all heard a loud engine running. It was a plane! It landed on the water and took half of the survivors off the island. Half an hour later, a second plane picked up the rest and took them back to the airport they had taken off from. When they arrived at the airport, everyone was there.
Michael needed to find Lulu. He wanted to make sure she was okay and know if he would ever be able to see her again. He found Lulu talking with her family; Michael went over to them. Lulu introduced Michael to her family, and they liked Michael so much that they invited Michael and his mother to dinner that night. Lulu and Michael where talking that night about how Lulu was moving back to Hawaii with her family. Michael talked to his mother and asked her if he could go with her. He was nineteen and could choose for himself what he wanted to do, but he still thought that he should ask his mother. Annie thought about it and told Michael that she was going to move to Hawaii with them. That same year, Lulu and Michael got married, and two years later they were expecting twins. On May 6, 2003, Lilly and Joanna were born.
