Kaleb’s Travels

One day I was out in the back garden of my house playing with my Captain Jack toy, which is a plastic figure of Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I suddenly felt very hungry, so hungry that I grabbed a leaf off the nearest tree and ate it, because I was too distracted playing my game to think about going to the kitchen which was all the way around the other side of the house. I closed my eyes while I was chewing and then there was a funny feeling in my body. When I opened my eyes and looked back at Captain Jack he was much bigger than before. Then I noticed an ant crawling past... I screamed, because it was as big as a small dog! Then I figured out that it wasn’t Jack who’d grown, but me who’d shrunk!!

I went over to Jack, who instead of just lying on the ground like a plastic toy was walking around by himself! Then I asked him if he had always been able to walk and talk like that, because I thought that he was just plastic! He said that he was actually a real person even though he was really small. Jack then said to me “I just have to look for something I’ve lost” and he started running around the garden searching. He pushed through some long grass and I couldn’t see him anymore. He yelled “found it!” and so I pushed through the grass too, and saw him sitting on the side of a miniature pirate boat that was hidden in some dirt and looked big enough to have a whole crew of pirates my size sail on it!

He said to me “Do you want to go to sea?” I said “No thanks.” Because I don’t like deep water very much. “Oh, okay” said Jack. He said that he needed to go back to his world and to the sea, and I felt sad. But Jack needed my help to get the boat down to Lake Cocibolca so he could get back to the Caribbean. So I got my toy crane, which I was now small enough to operate, and lifted the boat onto my toy dump truck. And Jack got into the truck and we prepared to drive the boat down to the lake.

We got out the front door, and it was all going really well, but when we got onto the street I saw a person walk up to the truck and stare at the boat. Jack and I got out of the truck and ran up to the person who was looking at it, and we yelled “What are you doing?” But we were so small, the person didn’t hear us! The person picked up the boat and ran off. Then a taxi pulled up at the end of my street, the person got in, and the taxi drove off!

Jack stood next to me with his hands up to his eyes crying. I asked him why he was crying and he said that now he couldn’t go and see his friends who were in the Caribbean because now he had no boat! I felt really sorry for Jack and so I invited him back into the house.

We went back inside and I said “I don’t like being small” And Jack said “maybe if you eat a leaf from the same tree you will grow bigger again.” I said “Would you like to be my size too?” Jack said “Sure, I would love that, but how would I get so big?”. “I thought that you could eat a bit of the leaf too and then you might grow like me.” I replied. “Well let’s give it a try” said Jack. So we went outside and found the tree. I got a little leaf from a branch and we started eating. After a while I had the opposite feeling from when I ate the leaf the first time. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was bigger than the two baby plants Dad planted the other day, so I was back!! When I looked behind me there was the big Captain Jack Sparrow!!!

Jack moved in to our house and he lived with us for a while. He wanted to buy a new boat so he and I both got jobs in an office until we earned enough money for a small speed boat. We bought the boat and then Jack was off. He had a map so he could find all the places to stop for food and supplies. After I’d said goodbye to my friend, I was sad because he was my favourite toy. But he had said that he would come back and visit so I was looking forward to that.