The+Lucky+Turtle

The Lucky Turtle It was 11:25pm, and almost everyone and everything was asleep, but not these turtles. Tonight was a special night. It was to be the night that the female sea turtles were to lay their little eggs into the sand to have them hatch in the morning and start their life as a sea turtle. One of the female sea turtles buried their egg into the sand and thought about what a bright future it could have. She stayed there for awhile until she heard a noise coming from the bushes. She looked up and noticed a couple crabs hanging around. The turtle figured it was time to go so she said good bye to the egg and crawled back off into the ocean. As she was swimming away, she was thinking about the egg and she couldn’t wait to see if she could find her young child in a few days. She looked back one more time and saw a pelican flying low. She knew that her baby was going to be special and would make it to the ocean for sure. The next morning was peaceful and calm. This was the morning of the baby turtles hatching. All around the beach were little turtles hatching from their eggs, and some bigger turtles were resting on the beach. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, was a big group of crabs, trying to capture the turtles and take them back to their camp. It was like a race. All the turtles were running toward the ocean hoping not to get caught by crabs. In fact, most of the turtles didn’t even know what was going on. They were hopeless and no match for the crabs. The low tide also made the crawling getting to the ocean harder for the turtles. Most of the turtles were lucky though and made it to the ocean. The pelicans were also sweeping through and were grabbing the crabs off the ground. It turned from peaceful to crazy on that beach. There was one egg though, “the special” egg, that didn’t hatch completely through all this. By the time he hatched, the crabs had caught two other turtles and were heading back to their camp as they saw him. One scurried over, snatched him, and took him too. The three turtles were all carried to the crabs’ camp and were thrown into a ditch. From here, the young turtle could see a great portion of the camp. He saw crabs hanging around in groups, some sleeping in other areas, and he saw several small fires scattered around the camp. As he looked around, he noticed that turtles weren’t the only thing the crabs were capturing. They also captured some snails, small fish from the tide of the ocean, and smaller crabs such as hermit crabs. The young turtle didn’t know what to think and just rested in the ditch for the rest of the morning. The young turtle woke up to see one of the other turtles getting pulled out of the ditch. At that point, the other turtle was also being violently pulled out to. The turtle sat in the ditch ready for claws to grab at him and pull him out too, but nothing happened. The young turtle started to get curious and crawled up to the edge of the ditch and saw the other two turtles being surrounded by a group of crabs. It was about noon now and he figured that those two turtles were the crabs’ lunch. The young turtle crawled back to the bottom of the ditch and started thinking. He knew that if those two turtles were for lunch, he was probably going to be for dinner. He also knew that he had to make an escape before then. He crawled back up the edge of the ditch and saw that most of the crabs were done eating and were heading back into bushes or to where they were before. This was his chance to escape. He crawled up out of the ditch carefully, trying not to make a sound and crept behind a bush. From here, he snuck into a bush he was sure there was no crab in. the young turtle tried to make a guess from which direction he came from and he went in that direction. All went according to plan as he crawled onto the beach. By now it was almost dark and the sun was on the horizon. The turtle sat for a little and enjoyed his escape before he made his way to the water. As he opened his eyes and walked forward, he saw a crab was walking across the shoreline looking for fish and other helpless sea animals. This crab spotted him and ran after him. The young turtle, although mad at the crabs and determined to stay away, was no match and was recaptured and brought back to the camp. Before long, the young turtle found himself sitting in the ditch again. His escape did not work, but he did stay away long enough to not get eaten. By the time he got back, a lot of the crabs were already asleep. This time though, there were two crabs sitting around the edge of the ditch. The young turtle had no chance of escaping. As he was thinking about how the crabs would like him on their greedy platters, he was starting to get tired and fell asleep in the center of the ditch hoping nothing worse than the crabs already did would happen. When the young turtle woke up in the morning, he saw something he would never have expected. Pelicans were flying around everywhere, some with crabs in their mouth and some trying to capture them. The young turtle got up and tried to make another escape, except this time, he felt two feet grasp him and he was lifted into the air. He didn’t know what to do so he didn’t move around or try to get loose. He knew that if he stayed, he would be eaten, and if he fell, he would plummet down to his death. The pelican was flying away from the crabs’ camp and the young turtle was getting very dehydrated. He knew that he wouldn’t survive much longer, so there was no point in trying to escape. All of a sudden, there was a big thump as two pelicans accidentally flew into each other and the young turtle was dropped. As he looked down to see how hard he would splat, he noticed he was over water and that he was going to be safe after all. The turtle hit the water swimming. He felt very refreshed, being in his natural habitat for the first time in his life. He saw a couple of turtles swimming around so he went up to them. After talking with the turtles for a while, he became friends with them and told them about his adventure. He noticed one of them was about 10 years older than the rest. He went up to the older turtle and asked why it was hanging around all the younger turtles. The older turtle replied saying that it was waiting for its child to come from the beach. Also, the turtle told him where she buried her eggs, but none of the other turtles said they were buried there or saw the turtle’s son come into the water. When the young turtle heard this, he knew that the old turtle was his mom. They talked a little bit, made up for lost time, and swam away together knowing that they could conquer anything they came up against, even fate.