The Adventures of R. Mayweather

Raymond Mayweather had tuned up his ship.
He checked every latch, and he fixed every drip.

It was time for his voyage to deep outer space.
As always, he hoped to find some unknown place.

Raymond flew his ship straight out of the galaxy. Through an asteroid field and beyond a large star field, Raymond found a small blue planet. He lowered his ship to find a place to land, but he didn’t have much luck. Almost every inch of the planet was covered with water!

There was a river of rocks flowing nearby. Raymond couldn’t land on the rocks or his ship would be tossed and turned. So instead, he pushed a big red button (it was by far his favorite button to push) and his spaceship turned into a space-submarine! Once the submarine was underwater, he turned on the lights so that he wouldn’t miss any of the planet’s underwater creatures.

Hours later he had seen nothing but a sea castle with many doors (when it comes to underwater castles, even windows can be used as doors since you can swim right in). Raymond parked his space-submarine outside the sea castle, put on his underwater suit, and swam inside.

Raymond entered a great hall which was beautiful but empty, except for a large fish sitting on a throne.

“Huzzah, Huzzay, who comes my way?” asked the Fish King.

“It is I, Raymond Mayweather, space traveler extraordinaire and friend to all who swim in the sea. Might I ask, where are all the other sea creatures hiding?”

“They’re not hiding,” said the Fish King , “I ate them all up, and now I am hungry again. What kind of delicious fish are you?”

“I’m a human,” shouted Raymond as he swam away back to his ship, “quite poisonous for Fish Kings to eat.”

Raymond hopped into his submarine and tried to drive away as fast as he could in the opposite direction, but his controls weren’t working. His submarine was being pulled into a cyclone of spinning water. Soon he and his sub were sucked in! The cyclone ate them up and spit them out through a fountain of water on the other side of the planet. His ship fell onto a patch of grass underneath a large tree.

“Finally, land!” thought Raymond. He pushed the red button one more time and got ready to fly his spaceship off the scary water planet, but then he heard a noise up in the tree.

A furry animal hopped down and said “Hello.”

“Who are you?” asked Raymond.

“I’m the King of the Mamors,” said the furry animal. “Are you a friend of the Fish King?”

“I am certainly not. My name is Raymond Mayweather, space traveler extraordinaire, and friend to all land animals. The Fish King tried to eat me!”

“Then you have seen what has become of our planet. There used to be land everywhere. The only water on the entire planet was in a lake surrounded by rocks. That is where the Fish King lived until he broke down the rock wall and flooded our planet. A cyclone was created, and the rocks have flowed in a river ever since. We were forced to live here on the only land left,” said the Mamor King.

Raymond was taken on a tour of the Mamor village atop the large tree. The Mamors were all very nice to him, and they told him how the Fish King had eaten all the smaller fish on the planet and grown huge because of it. Raymond went back down to his ship and prepared to depart.

“Where are you going?!” asked the Mamor King.

“I’ve got an idea,” said Raymond.

Part 2

Raymond set off into the sky and settled his ship on the water, right above the Fish King’s sea castle. He put on his suit and swam back down into the castle.

He found the Fish King searching the Royal Dining Hall for anything to eat. He looked hungrier than ever.

“Fish King, I beseech you! Please come quickly. Mamors have fallen into the water and they cannot swim!” cried Raymond.

The Fish King turned around with a grin on his face.

“Huzzah, Huzzay, what luck today!” said the Fish King, “It will not matter that they cannot swim because I am going to eat them. Right after I eat you!”

Fish King by Lauren Beasley

The Fish King took off after Raymond. Even though the Fish King was large (even bigger than Raymond’s spaceship!), he was still a fish, and fish are very good swimmers. Raymond swam out of the castle in the same direction as before, but the Fish King was gaining on him. Just as Raymond was about to get swallowed, the cyclone of spinning water started to suck them both in.

“Whooaaaaaaaaaaa!” said Raymond as they spun around.

“Huzzah, Huzzay, what’s this at play?” said the Fish King.

Raymond got sucked through and out the other side of the planet, falling onto the grass beneath the large tree once again.

“Where did you go, Raymond?” asked the Mamor King as all the Mamors gathered around.

“Look!” said Raymond, and he pointed to the fountain of water.

The Fish King had not been spat out. He had grown too fat to make it through and was now stuck inside. This stopped the cyclone of water from spinning, and that stopped the river of rocks from flowing.

Raymond took the Mamors on his ship and they went around to collect the rocks. After hours and hours of work, they had built a wall, and the Fish King had been trapped inside along with all the water. This time, the wall of the lake was twice as strong as before!

Pretty soon the planet started looking completely different. Grass started to grow where the sea used to be. The Mamor King lived in the castle once again. Without any fish to eat, the Fish King started to get smaller until he was no longer stuck, but this time he could not break down the wall.

The Mamors were very grateful to Raymond for all of his help. They were so grateful that they made him an honorary Mamor, and they told him that he would be welcome on their planet whenever he liked. The Fish King was not as grateful for Raymond’s visit, but that is the way things go when you are a space traveler.

Raymond Mayweather had tuned up his ship.
He checked every latch, and he fixed every drip.

It was time to head home, with his mission completed.
New friends had been made, and new foes were defeated.