HKYWA 2014 Online Anthology (Fiction 1-2) - page 147

burst open. The dinosaurs stormed out and their roars made the ground quiver and rocks tumble
into the air. Their eyes grew crimson in greed as their gaze fixed upon Isalonis. Isalonis turned
around and darted away like a bolt of lightning.
“Thump! Thump!” as the dinosaurs fell to the ground in exhaustion, Isalonis stretched out his
long neck, and gulped up a mouthful of water. As he scampered, he gazed at the rivers and lakes
that he had drunk. As he was the son of a giant, he was also a massive man and needed a lot of
water to keep on running. Gradually, many dinosaurs perished of hunger and exhaustion. Slowly,
the decaying dinosaur remains sank into the lakes and underneath the sand while minerals gathered
in the titchy holes in their bones, which eventually turned into the Gobi Desert dinosaur fossils.
Eventually, Isalonis was the only one left. He was no better than the dinosaurs as he had
drunk up all the water of Gobi. He was extremely feeble that his body was swayed from side by
side, and he felt as he would collapse any second. He smiled. He knew he was going to die, but he
did not regret what he had done. His vision began to blur, and as death approached, he fell to the
ground and soon, darkness overcame him…
“My son! My son!” the Goddess of Freeze howled in pain when she was told of Isalonis’s death.
She stumbled to the corpse and fell to her knees wailing when she found the composed smile on
his lips. As she wept over her son, she glared at the terrified Gobi people in rancor. “I will turn
Gobi into a cold dessert as punishment for being the accomplices of my son’s death in electing
him to go against Matalion for you! Ha…ha…” Laughing insanely, she disappeared, leaving her
mournful laughter echoing in the cold winds of Gobi…
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