The Adventure of Nico
Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten, Ingrid Chan, Fiction: Group 2
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n the year 2114, on the planet Jailius, in the planet’s jail, there was a female prisoner called
Nico. She was stupendously dumb and incredibly unlucky. She was unlucky enough to be
sent to jail even though she did nothing wrong! She stupidly went to the police station after
she saw a “wanted” poster looking for someone who looked like her!
One day the jail was too crowded so she was sent by spaceship to the Intergalactic Jail on
planet Earth. Everyone on Nico’s planet learnt how to control spaceships but Nico had forgotten.
Unfortunately, she crashed the spaceship onto the Earth. While she was falling, she screamed,
“Help! I’m going to crash to the ground!” After she had landed, she saw the GPS screen in her
spaceship with a text on it which introduced, “Welcome to the Gobi Desert! Here are some facts
about it: 1. location : northwest China, planet earth 2. size: 1,295,000 km2 3. population :0. Enjoy
your stay!”
Nico thought that it was extraordinarily great that no one would ever annoy her. It was so
hot that she lay down on the warm sand and tried to sleep. She looked at the clear sky free from
light pollution. The sky was scattered with beautiful shining stars. She wondered which one of
them was her home planet, then she fell asleep. After a while she woke up and found that she was
freezing. However, she was too tired to do anything so she fell asleep again.
The scorching sun woke Nico up in the morning. She needed a few things: food, water and a
warm shelter. When she stood up and looked around, everything looked the same in all directions
the first time, but then she saw a group of snow leopards coming toward her. There were no snow
leopards on her planet so she didn’t know that they were dangerous and ran slowly. One of the
snow leopards roared at Nico. Then she realized that they were dangerous enemies. So she ran as
fast as possible.
Suddenly, she fell into a hole and slid down a long slide into a cave. She looked around and
realized that the cave was suitable for a shelter. She found that there were three gigantic golden
treasure boxes inside. She opened all of them and found nothing in the first box. There were two
huge fossilized dinosaur eggs in the second box and a machine with a label on it in the third one.
The dinosaur eggs were worthless so she closed the box. The label on the machine showed that it
belonged to Mars, but she knew that there wasn’t anyone on Mars ever and it might be handy so
she took the machine with her.
A sudden breeze blew a map of the whole Gobi Desert into the cave. Nico followed the route on
the map and found a camel. So she traveled through the desert by camel. She said to herself that
she might be one of the luckiest people on Earth.
While travelling, she saw some dangerous scorpions and some cacti that had lots of sharp
spikes. Cacti can keep water inside them and that’s why she took two with her. One beautiful
morning, her camel stepped on a nest belonging to some silver ants and thousands of silver ants
crawled up the back of the camel and also under Nico’s clothes. She immediately leapt off her camel
and drove the evil silver ants away by jumping constantly. Then, she continued to travel. Nico who
was naive first thought that it was really annoying to have ants to stay with her in a hot desert.
But then she thought that it might be better to have ants to stay with her in a lonely desert. Soon
she found her way to some gentle gazelles and thought that she was a genius to find them.
