By:Max
It was a sunny day in Virginia beach. Finn and his family were down by the beach enjoying the warm sand and the cool ocean. Then, suddenly, Finn thought he saw a fin. He went berserk. “SHAAAAAAAAARK!” he screamed at the top of his lungs. He tried to move every one out of the water. The fin was coming closer, and closer, and closer. It was twenty feet from the shore when his 5 year old sister said, “That’s a shark floaty”. Finn felt his face get hot, “false alarm everybody” he said with a meek laugh. He heard giggling from a group of girls walking by. He back to his house. Alone. He figured that he may of overreacted a little, but it wasn’t his fault. When he was 5, he loved the ocean. He went out there everyday. Then one day, when he was out on the beach with his dad, his dad froze. He was looking at what Finn thought was him, but actually at the shark right behind him.
He panicked and stopped for a moment. Then he realized that he needed to swim as fast as he could. He was almost out of the water when, “CHOMP”, he looked back and saw red in the water. He lost his big toe. From then on, he had been extremely afraid of a shark coming onto the beach.
When Finn got home he had a snack and then fell asleep watching tv. He awoke to his parents coming home at midday for lunch. They told Finn to make himself some lunch and invited him to come back down to the beach with them. He agreed to because he was bored and there was nothing good to watch. So on the walk back to the beach, they talked about overcoming his fear of sharks coming onto the beach. “but fear is natural and it keeps you safe” he argued. “well too much fear is also bad, you need to have confidence in yourself” his mom told him. “when we get to the beach, I am going to go out into the open water and show you that it is completely safe.” his father said.
They got back to the beach and set up their shelter and all of them walked down to the water. Finn’s family kept walking into the water but Finn stopped. “I’m going to stay here, the water is kinda cold.” he said to excuse himself from getting into the water. “Okay, but you watch and see that it’s safe.” his dad told him. He watched as his dad swam away from the shore. “Ten feet, twenty feet, thir- hey wait is that a shark fin?” he yelled to his dad. His dad responded “no it’s just a porpoise, like I told you, this water is completely safe”. He was out about 100 feet around where Finn had seen the porpoises. “see look, I’m fine!” he yelled to Finn as a wave went by. “Where” Finn yelled back. There was no response. Then there was a crash as a legion of jets came by, shattering the windows of nearby buildings. Then they flew away to the aircraft carrier in the distance.
The shark was gobbling down everything in it’s path, “Gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble!” then there was a deafening roar as the jets came back and started shooting at the shark. The shark just ate them and expelled them with extreme force at the jets. “The jets are getting hit!” Finn screamed. His mom heard “I wanna throw a fit” and replied “why, that won’t do anything”. Finn heard “Fly, cat front to my ring”. Then suddenly there was a hiss as a missile was released. Then there was a boom louder than anything Finn had ever heard. when the smoke cleared, they saw that it was raining shark guts. Then the shark guts turned gray, then they grew fins, and mouths.
The shark had multiplied then the jets started shooting them. “why are they doing that? they’ll just shoot them back.” But then Finn realized that there weren’t bullets going up, but the babies were vaporizing. The Jets flew away when the sharks were gone. “phew” Finn felt relieved. Finn’s family left the beach happy that nobody got hurt. They continued going to that beach and never had another problem about sharks. Finn didn’t quite get rid of his fear of sharks, but after the run-in with the mutant shark, he was much happier to go into the ocean because he knew that if he was in trouble, help would come.