Fiction: Group 4
"Principal Pear…Pearl?!?!?!" Jack stuttered. Simon was now also looking at his principal with disbelief
in his eyes.
"What…but…how…you…weird." For the first in his life, Simon seemed to be at a loss for words. If
they weren’t in such a terrible situation, Jack would have laughed at Simon’s expression.
"What are you?" Jack asked. Principal Pearl sighed. He seemed rather annoyed and offended that Jack did
not know what he was.
"Didn’t you listen to the guide during your time at the museum?" Once a principal, always a principal.
"I am the powerful, awesome all mighty sea monster who chewed up the river dude," he explained. "Also
king of the ocean."
Simon knew if he wanted to survive, he would have to distract the king of the ocean’s attention,
which was a pretty hard thing to do for a geek like him. "So......um……you’re king Pearl?"
"Uh,duhh!!! " said king Pearl.
While king Pearl explained how he was going to murder them, Simon and Jack were trying to
think of a plan to escape. Simon said he could distract the principal while Jack sneaked up from behind and
pushed him into the river. They couldn’t think of a better plan so they agreed on it.
"So...um…how old…are you?" Simon asked. Principal Pearl squinted his eyes, as if sensing he was up to
something.
"Well, since today is my birthday, I’m three hundred and one years old."
Wow. Simon was really impressed. He didn’t even have to pretend to look surprised. "Woah…you
look good for someone who is like three hundred. So……what kind of cake did you have?"
Behind the creature, Simon could tell Jack was trying hard not to laugh, he was shaking
uncontrollably.
"Oh, you see my brother is the only relative I know who is alive and I just ate him for dinner. So for
dessert I’ll have you and Jack."
In the end, Simon had run out of questions to ask. But Jack was somehow still climbing up the tree and
wasn’t making much progress.
Eventually, Principal Pearl grew tired of answering questions and seemed a lot more interested in
slaughtering them. Jack had fallen off the branch and was lying unconscious on the ground. Simon had no
idea how to murder the king of the oceans.
Simon glanced at the ground and saw a pink hairbrush. Well, better than nothing. So he picked it up, and
aimed it at the king of the ocean’s eye. Principal Pearl was so startled that he lost his balance and staggered
backwards, then he was gone.
Simon assumed he had fallen into the river and was doing a victory dance, but Jack was so determined not
to let Simon be the hero of the story that he jumped into the river and tried to find his principal. He was so
joyful when he couldn’t find the body, yet a bit afraid that the creature was still lurking out there.
Two days later, Simon and Jack were sent to the police station for questioning. They told them a totally
different story, one where they were saving girls from monsters and strangling them with their bare hands.
20 years later, Jack and Simon got their story published. The real one. They never found out what
happened to Principal Pearl. The river was named after king Pearl, Pearl River Delta. As for delta, no one
knew why Jack put that in the name of the river. If you would like to read their real story, don’t bother
buying it online or in bookshops. There is only one copy in the whole wide world, and you’ve just finished
reading it.
