Creative Writing: Empire Island

The ships were coming in to the harbor. The sun glistened off the water. The day was warm, yet there was a breeze, as always in the harbor of Sunnyvale. Mantis stood looking out at the ships, wishing that he could be on one of them. That he could sail off to another county, to see a world that he had never known. Someone called his name and pulled him out of his head.
“Hamunous, Mantis,” yelled Caroline, as she strolled up to him, “are you going to the meeting tonight?”
Caroline was Mantis childhood friend. They had grown up down the street from one another. She was short with long black hair. Despite her short saturator, she was not someone that was over looked, with her loud and outspoken personality. “Yea, I wouldn’t miss it,” he replied. …show more content…
She turned to go, but then turned back to watch Mantis walk down the street lost in thought. He was quite, reserved, layback, yet she knew that whatever he believe in he would support it. She sighed and entered the store.
Caroline entered the meeting room, at the pub. The room already seemed to be filling up fast. She tried to scan the room for Mantis, despite the fact that she stood a foot shorter than most in the room. Finally, she spotted his shaggy mop of black hair of one of the corner of the room. She walked over to him and tried to say but before she could say anything else, someone shouted for everyone to be quite. She looked and saw that it was Thomas leading the meeting. He started the meeting by saying, “We all know why we are here. The Edamasu have final said that they will here our proposal, about a mission to see what lies beyond our world. Now we have to decide who will represent us to speak for us.” Everyone was silence. So Caroline said, “I think that Mantis, would be good.” Everyone turned to look at her, and Mantis shot her a glare. Caroline knew that most people knew Mantis, that he was even headed, and would be able to speak well for their cause. Thomas said, “Ok. All in favor of Mantis, say aye.” There was an over welling number of ayes. Thomas asked, “Mantis are you willing to take part in this?” Mantis looked grudgingly at Caroline, …show more content…
Caroline walked next to him, and he knew that she wanted to talk about what happened at the meeting. How she had been right that Mantis would be part of the group to present the mission to the Edamasu. Caroline quietly told him goodnight, when they reached her door. Mantis continued on to his home. He entered and went to sit in the kitchen where a fire was still burning. Mantis thought how he could do this. What made him think that this could work or happen. Why would they choose him, he would not know what to do. He knew that Caroline thought he could, but he not sure. He knew that he not the only one, but still. What if he fail, what if is his fault that they cannot do the mission. Yet even as he thought this, he sat up and squared his shoulders it did not matter know if he thought that he was capable, he was part of it now. He would try to do what he thought was right and see how it faired. So he stood and went to bed.
The next day dawned bright and fair, Mantis woke and walked down stairs to find his parents eating breakfast. He grabbed a plate of the warm food on the stove. He sat down at the table and he had hardly started eating, before his mother asked him, “How was the meeting last

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