Personal Narrative: Captain Sly

When I was younger, there was never a dull moment down the block on the street where my best friend Sylvester lived, better known as “Captain Sly”. There were two factions on the block that constantly battled for control of our meager living space. The Pirates, us, and the Knights, them. The Pirates consisted of Sly and I, as well as our friends Mason and Oliver. On the other hand, the Knights were composed of Sly’s little brother Loki, a kid named Jimmy, his little brother Sylas, and Cameron from Wales. It was summertime, and I was probably about ten or eleven. I was over at Sly’s house, and we were sharpening our skills with a classic battle of wits and reaction with Nerf guns. We did this often, sometimes we all put thumb tacks in the dart heads to make them especially deadly. As we were playing, we caught wind of an attack that was soon to happen from the Knights. Quickly, we rallied Oliver, and since Mason wasn’t home, it was just us three. We stepped out back, planning on entering Sly’s tree house as a defensive measure - however, there was a problem. Wasps had built a nest in the tree house and they were very much in our way. …show more content…
We went inside and brainstormed, time was of the essence. We needed that tree house for battle, but we also needed to rid it of the wasps. They buzzed at us mockingly as we watched safely from inside, brewing a plan. After a period of about half an hour, it finally came to us. Sly’s mother had a large garden out back, and this meant she also had a large garden hose. This garden hose had a special nozzle on it, the kind you could use to control the stream of water and the pressure of it. We had the perfect tool to destroy the wasps, we needed only to set the plan in motion, and that’s what we set out to