Lord of the flies

Chapter 11

(At this point there is only SamnEric, Piggy, Ralph, and Percival at the beach. Since Piggy's glasses were taken, Ralph tries to light a fire without Piggy's specs.)

"It's supposed to work when you rub two sticks together," Said Piggy. "The friction creates heat."

"Alright," Said Ralph as he put the stick in between his hands, then twirled in on top of another stick. He tried many times, but still couldn't even get the tiniest bit of smoke. "You see, it doesn't work this way, we need the fire to get rescued, but we can't make one without Piggy's glasses."

"Who do they think they are, scaring us like that, then stealing my specs." Piggy argued.

"They just want a fire so that that they can go and eat their meat. Well, I say we get the specs back, I'm still chief, I still have the conch. They have to listen to me."

"But they have more people-"

"And what happens if-"

"They don't listen?" Samneric questioned.

"Well, I have the conch, they have to listen. And if not then, we have to bring spears along, for our safety," At this point, Ralph turned to Piggy. "I'm sorry piggy, but we don't want you coming with, since you can't see without your glasses, and we don't want you getting hurt."

"Oh, I see, well I suppose I should watch the littluns. Make sure they don't go out and get scared somewhere and be lost."

"Thanks, Piggy. You're a good friend. Don't worry, we will come back with your glasses. SamnEric, grab a spear, we'll go now before it gets dark." Ralph said as he himself picked up a spear. A spear sharpened on both ends.

As Jack came up on the route to the opening in the castle rock, Roger yelled out "Halt, Friend or foe?"

"Neither," yelled up Jack,"I'm your leader. Now let me pass."

"You told me to ask and make sure I secure the place," Roger said as he and the other bigguns lowered their weapons.

"Well, you didn't have to ask me, I'm your leader, and I'm not stupid enough to cause my own downfall." Said Jack as he walked up the path. "I have come back to get more people, the pigs are hiding on the other side of the mountain. We need to gather and go hunt. Roger, you and Johnny stay here and guard the fort. Everyone else, grab a spear and let's go. Hurry, before they move."

"But we just got a pig, and we have tons of meat to eat." Complained Roger.

"I know, but we are going to need more if we are going to stay on this island. Now come on, I'm the leader and I make the decisions." Ordered Jack. Both littluns and bigguns were howling and whooping as they went to grab spears. Jack waited till all of them were ready, then raised his spear and turned around. He put his spear by his side and howled. Then they set off into the forest.

The boys stopped on their crusade as they heard whooping and howling.

"Do you think-"

"It's the beast?" Samneric asked fearfully.

"No, there isn't any beast, it's them, they are coming out of castle rock to hunt something." Stated Ralph.

"I hope-"

"It's not us" Said Samneric and all of them shivered remembering how Simon went down.

"Well, whatever they are hunting, this helps us, while they are away, we can go into their camp and snatch Piggy's specs back. They probably have some kind of guard there, so Samneric, make a diversion. Then I will sneak in there somehow." Ralph said as he hid the conch under some big mushrooms by a tree. "Remember where this is, and if anything happens, grab the conch and run for the shore.

"But what do we do to make a diversion." Samneric said synchronized.

"You're going to join them, or at least pretend to. Then when I get the glasses, we run before the others come back."

"But what if-"

"They don't let us join?"

"We will think of something." Ralph said a little hesitant.

They all started walking faster toward castle rock.