Quest for the Pearl- The Story of Jack and Jeffy

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A short story for English class, I had a lot of fun writing it

Quest for the Pearl- The Story of Jack and Jeffy

Jack the sparrow soared through the sky, Jeffy gripped tightly in his talons. “Do you see one yet Jeffy?” Jack chirped down to the small hermit crab.
“Nope, no pearls yet” replied Jeffy. Flapping his wings a bit less, Jack descended down to window level as the whizzed along Drewry Lane, shops flashing by. Jeffy clicked his claws open and shut in anticipation. They had been looking for a pearl for months now.

It was the only shiny object they had not yet collected. Jack had been an avid collector of the “shineys” as he called them, since the day he hatched. He had nearly everything, paper clips, earrings, bits of tinsel, thumbtacks, and the occasional dog tag. The only thing missing was a pearl. Once he and Jeffy found one, the collection would be complete.

Jeffy was excited for Jack, they had been friends ever since Jeffy had managed to escape the pet store 2 years ago. Jacks obsession was starting to rub off on him. Jeffy looked eagerly into shop windows as they flew along, his beady eyes searching despratly. There’s one!” Jeffy exclaimed, claws clicking furiously. “It looks like the windows open too, you can just throw me in.”

“Fantastic job, truly admirable,” Jack chirped. Making a swooping turn, Jack headed for the pearl in the jewelry store window. Jack’s heart raced with joy at the prospect of finally completing his collection. About three feet from the window Jack swooped upward and released Jeffy, sending him hurtling towards the pearl. Jeffy soared towards it, his claws outstretched, ready to grab the iridescent orb.

“SMACK!” then “CRACK” and then a resounding “CRUNCH” echoed for blocks. It turns out the jewelry store they had spotted the pearl in had cleaned the windows with Windex that morning. Because of Windex’s amazing cleaning power, Jeffy and Jack had thought that the glass wasn’t even there. Poor little Jeffy hit the window and fell onto the sidewalk and broken his protective shell. As he scurried franticly through the enormous feet of the shoppers, a particularly tall and fat man stepped on him, turning him into paste-o-crab right there on the sidewalk. The large, fat gentleman didn’t even notice and proceed to walk down the street, one of Jeffy’s claws stuck to the bottom of his shoe. He turned the corner and entered the Ice Cream Emporium as Jack watched, stunned, from atop a street light.

Jack felt as if his stomach and gizzard were playing leap frog inside of him. Full of rage, Jack dive-bombed the large fat man who has stepped n Jeffy, intending to show him just how Jeffy had felt when he was so un-courteously squished. Unfortunately for Jack however, the Ice cream Emporium also used Windex so Jack ended up just smacking into the front window. After sitting on the sidewalk for a moment, dazed, Jack picked himself up and flew off.

As he flew home (in a very disoriented, drunken manner because of the head trauma) He thought about how the “shineys” had killed his friend and most likely had give him a concussion. When he arrived back at his nest, he immediately threw all of the shiny objects out of the nest and onto the forest floor below. As he watched them fall, Jack thought to himself “Golly, I’ll never let trivial objects take precedence over any of my friends again.”



The cheezyness in the ending is very much intended. What do you think?