Shortlisted
The Video Game
Diocesan Preparatory School, Cheung Kiu Ching, Nicholas, Fiction: Group 1
I
t was a boring evening. While my parents were out, I was playing a video game called
“Wizards and Spells”. It’d been recommended by a friend. At first I thought the game was
brilliant but soon I found out that my friend was wrong. It was just a “Harry Potter” knock
off. I wanted to shout, “This is so boring!”
Suddenly, a wizard popped out of the screen and exclaimed, “You want excitement? I’ll give
you EXCITEMENT!”
I was so shocked. Suddenly, the wizard raised his wand and pointed it straight towards me. A
lightning bolt struck me and I floated into the screen with the wizard. In a flash, the screen came
into the view of a desert. Was it really? “The Gobi Desert! The biggest desert in the world!” I said.
(Actually, it is only one of the biggest deserts in the world.)
I saw a terrible sight: a herd of dinosaurs was charging towards me! I ran for my life. I didn’t
want to get eaten by dinosaurs! What should I do? I wanted to hide but I saw a sword and picked
it up. Wow! I realised it wasn’t actually a sword: it was a wand! I whirled the wand towards the
sky and a gigantic tornado whizzed towards the dinosaurs and the wizard. “I surrender!” shouted
the wizard.
“If only you would send me out of the screen!” I ordered.
I picked up a few of fossils and coins and I whizzed out of the screen.
My mum asked me where I got the fossils and coins. I shouted, “I will tell you later!”
I rushed into my room and locked the door; then I saw a book called “Gobi Desert”. I opened
it; inside it said, “The Gobi Desert is one of the largest deserts in Asia. It was a part of the great
Mongol Empire, and along the Silk Road…”
“Mum! Did you buy a book about the Gobi Desert for me?” I inquired.
“No!” answered Mum.
Then… who bought it for me? The man on the moon? Aliens? The wizard? Let me continue
to play that game and find out! I turned on the television and played the game and the wizard
popped out of the screen again and said, “Like that book, don’t you?”
“Why did you give me the book about Gobi Desert?” I asked.
“I wanted to say sorry. I may have frightened you,” the wizard mumbled.
“Apology accepted and thank you for the book,” I murmured.
