Nessa of Pindaric

"Mom, I really don’t want us to go on this ocean trip," said Nessa.

Nessa was 13 years old. She had long brown hair that she usually wore in a braid, and she had large Grey eyes. She was abnormally tall for her age.

"Nessa, we have been planning this trip for a year and nothing you say will change your dad and my mind. Everything will be fine, so just relax," said her mom.

Nessa's parents were millionaires and they had bought a yacht for a long family trip. As the days grew closer to the trip, Nessa, grew more and more tense and unsure about the trip, she even had nightmares about it, but her mom was right: she did need to relax.

So 3 hours later she was with her parents in the yacht, heading out to open sea.


They had been out 5 days, when a storm hit, huge waves crashed and some looked like they would swallow Nessa and her parents up, thunder roared, lightning flashed, and clouds rolled. Everything was dark and try as she might to block out the noise the roaring would not be quieted. The yacht was throne far off course. When the storm ended, and Nessa, looked around she found she was alone. "Mom? Dad? Is any one there?" her voice sounded empty and was swallowed by the enormous expanse of ocean around her.

Nessa lost track of how long she floated in the strange ocean currents, the sky stretching on and on seemingly with no end. Days, weeks maybe, it was all a void of misery. Her mom and dad were gone, she was alone. Nessa thought about her life, she thought about her older brother Benjamin who was away at school (the trip was just for Nessa and her parents) what would he think when he herd what had happened? Would he come looking for her? Maybe he would stay with her aunt or grandparents, she thought of her home what would happen to it? These thoughts brought tears to her eyes.

One day Nessa saw something solid and dark, could it be? Land! Yes land, Nessa could hardly believe her eyes, but at the moment it was to far to swim to, so Nessa, would have to wait. She waited 5 hours, but when she was finally able to swim to shore she did it without as second thought (well, she did pack food first).

When she got to shore, she got a look at her surroundings; the island was a thickly forested place, like a forest you would see in the time of the dinosaurs, the trees were huge beyond compare, and there where large rivers coming out of it. Nessa was intimidated by its size, but she convinced herself to go in, and when she did the trees were even bigger then she had thought, and she got lost immediately. The branches of the trees were so close together that it was like twilight underneath them, and Nessa kept nearly bumping into trees, then she saw a light ahead of her, she ran towards it, tripping over a root as she went, the light came from small meadow, it was the first small thing she had seen, Nessa blinked in the sunlight and looked around. The sun was starting to set and Nessa, realized that she was going to need shelter for the night. Sadly, Nessa did not know any thing about making shelter or fire, and so what she chose for the night was a tree.

Nessa woke in the middle of the night to strange sound, it was like every predator in the world was roaring, from dinosaurs and saber tooth cats on down to lions and bears, but instead of being afraid she was entranced, and it made her wonder what sort of creatures lived here.

Pindaric, 12 years old