I am taking part in a homeschooling creative writing linkup for tweens and teens. This post is for the 11th linkup and will be using the “He had two thoughts before jumping out of the plane” writing prompt.
He had two thoughts before jumping out of the plane. “This is crazy” and “I should stop thinking”. Last week, John had finally made the decision to go skydiving. Now, he’s having second thoughts. “Relax,” the pilot told him “You’re over thinking it. Just step out.” That was the last thing he heard before he willed his legs to move, and jumped.
The next thing he knew, he heard a deafening roar in his ears, and he saw a row of clouds rushing towards him. Instinctively, John closed his eyes and waited for himself to be creamed. But it never came. He opened his eyes once again, but the clouds were gone. Below him, lay one of the most beautiful sights he had ever seen. As John looked out over the vast mountains, valleys, canyons, and lakes before him, time seemed to slow down. He took in every detail of the landscape below him. Then, as he began to recall procedure, time began to flow normally again. He reached for his parachute rip-cord, but couldn’t find it. He looked over his shoulder, but when he did he was paralyzed with fear. The rip-cord was gone.
The pilot set the plane controls to autopilot, and stepped into the back of the plane. “I need to close the hatch,” he told himself “Then I’ll radio in to ground control.” But he changed his mind on his way back. He rushed back to the cockpit as fast as his ever tiring legs could carry him. When he reached the cockpit, he nearly fell out of his chair as he reached for the radio controls. “Ground control” he gasped, “We have a problem!” Moments later he heard a crackling voice respond “We read you, what’s going on?” He glanced back over his shoulder through the cockpit door to the main hatchway. There, stuck to the hatch door handle, was a parachute rip-cord. “My passenger is free falling.” he replied as a sick feeling set into his stomach. Quickly, he ran back to the hatch to close it, but when he got there he was actually surprised. He picked up the rip-cord and examined the end. It was a clean cut. “That explains why his parachute didn’t deploy. It was cut.” He thought to himself. He reached to close the hatch, but jerked back his hand in sudden pain. “Ow!” he yelled. As he examined the hatch handle, he noticed a tiny piece of jagged metal; just big enough to cut through a rip-cord and a finger.
Panicking now, John began to fiddle with his backpack, trying to manually open the parachute. He hauled the pack off his back, but his trembling hands failed him. He accidentally let go, and stared over his shoulder in horror, as his backpack tumbled end over end towards the sky. But he knew it was merely an illusion, he knew what was really happening. He was falling, rocketing closer and closer towards the ground. He knew these would be his last moments.
Ground control had been completely useless, the pilot thought to himself after a brief discussion. Frustrated, he grabbed an empty can and threw it against the wall. He watched it as it rolled across and followed its direction. It rolled right up to the flight suit cabinet, then it hit him… He knew exactly what he had to do, but he had to act fast. He opened the cabinet and snatched out a parachute.
As John frantically looked around for something that could help him out of this predicament, his life began to flash before his eyes. He saw everything from his first steps to when he got his drivers license, he saw it all, in startling detail. Then he heard someone calling out his name, almost a whisper. Could it be a part of his past memories? It grew, and grew, until he knew it wasn’t in his head. Wrenching himself back to reality, he looked up, but couldn’t believe what he saw.
There, rocketing towards the ground at almost double his current speed, was the pilot. If it hadn’t been for the circumstances, John would have shouted for joy. But his thoughts were jostled as two huge arms enclosed him, sending him and their owner tumbling. It took a few seconds before he actually realized what happened.
He had made it! John shouted his thanks, and heartfelt joy, but he couldn’t hear the pilot’s reply over the wind whistling past his head. Once he was back on the ground, he once again thanked the pilot. “I promise to do two things,” John said “First, to repay you somehow one day, and second-” He paused. “And second, never to go skydiving again!”
bit of an extreme sport for some, but for others, like the people from my 
repelling gear to get into your cave. There are 
caves in Guangxi China called Tiankengs and they go straight down to a cave that winds through the ground. Other caves you can not even see because the cave is covered in brush and other times it may look like a normal crack in a mountain. And other times the cave is so obvious and huge, it’s scary. 
Another type of caving I would love to do is cave diving! Cave diving is much harder than caving because you have a limited time and you can easily get lost. There are special caves called blue holes that I REALLY want to dive in. They got their name because, from above, they look like well… blue holes in the water. But these underwater caves are some of the most treacherous ever, one wrong move and you might not ever get out. But it is worth it, because blue holes are special, they can hold bones from thousands of years ago. The way these caves preserve them so long is that one half of the water contains oxygen rich water and the other doesn’t and without oxygen the bacteria in the water can’t break down the bones so scientists and divers can recover these ancient bones and study them. 
There is one more cave I want to talk about, it’s beautiful, dangerous, and 122 degrees Fahrenheit and can kill a human in 15 minutes. It’s the Crystal Caves of Mexico that was discovered by miners in 2000. But these aren’t normal crystals. Alright lets say you have a long strait crystal 2 inches wide by 2 inches thick and 6 inches tall, multiply that by 50 and you get the size of the crystals of this cave. That’s right, their huge, bigger then the average human in width and obviously length. And this cave is a paradise for geologist and virologists because some ancient bacteria are in these crystals. And there is a problem with exploring this cave, it will flood soon, so scientist are studying it as much as they can before it floods.
