New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Beacon Hill School, Felcia Fong, Fiction: Group 2
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egend has it that every 1000 years a child was born, with wisdom, strength and power.
But no-one knows who the child is! But what the people didn’t know, was that one child
has managed to survive. The child was now 1000 years old and was living in the depths
of the Gobi Desert was given the most important job of history by intelves, tiny little
invisible creatures who were servants of the person who discovered this legend, she had to choose
the child.
Azalea was the chosen girl, today was her 10th birthday and she was having a lovely day with
her sister Eliza when suddenly both of them fell down a gigantic hole in the floor, the next thing
they knew they were on a cloud in the sky and were falling down again. The sisters were petrified
and kept shrieking” Argh! Save us god!” as they went crashing down.
When they woke up after they fainted, all they saw was sand, little did they know that this
was a test for both of them to see if they had what it took to rule everything living in the depths
of the Gobi Desert.
Of course, Azalea being more active and wild and fearless didn’t bother to pace up and down
like Eliza thinking of an idea, but nor did she panic. She did something no-one knew she could do,
she started praying with her legs crossed and eyes closed, while Eliza stared at her gob-smacked.
“I never knew you could do that!” exclaimed Eliza not quite afterwards and interrupted
Azalea’s praying and she was lucky Azalea wasn’t mad but was shaking with excitement. As
Azalea stumbled up she told Eliza that god told them that they needed wisdom to find a way out.
But as soon as Azalea finished she started exclaiming”How are we supposed to find a way
out? There is no out! We’re in the middle of nowhere and we haven’t even got a car or any single
kind of transport!”
That’s when Eliza came in helpful, she quickly switched to her nerdy though know-it-all
voice and started explaining all about the Gobi Desert and the Legend but was stopped right
afterwards by Azalea’s now curious and chatty voice “So… you’re saying that we are in a place
called the Gobi Desert and that there’s a legend which… wait a minute, I thought no child has
ever survived!”
“There is a rather rare legend that one has survived and is living in the depths of um here,
Gobi Desert” replied Eliza rather chockingly “So there’s a rare legend that one child who is
probably like 999yrs old now is living right under our foot?!You’re kidding me” teased Azalea
disbelievingly “Uh huh” nodded Eliza.
Soon, their hunger started attacking, luckily before they fell into the hole they went to the
grocery store and the supermarket and had enough food for 3 days. After they attacked their food,
they found a comfy place to sleep and drifted off, while Eliza slept peacefully without a dream,
Azalea dreamt that they had found a way out in the middle of the Gobi Desert, which was to the
west of where they were sleeping, there was a large hole and they down they dropped into the hole
and appeared in the house, she was very happy but of course was frustrated to find that it was a
dream when she woke up.
As Azalea told Eliza her dream while breakfasting, Eliza listened thoughtfully and said
“You know, we might as well go to the middle of the Gobi Desert and just see. Since we haven’t
