New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Kennedy School, Isabella Gross, Fiction: Group 2
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t all started on a very hot day in July when Lizzy and her best friend, Jack, were going for a ride
in a helicopter, enjoying all the amazing sights over the Gobi Desert, while on holiday in China.
All of a sudden the helicopter started to spin out of control. It spun and spun and all they
could hear was the chugging of the helicopter “brrrr brr br.” Lizzy and Jack realized by now that
something wasn’t right. All of a sudden the driver grabbed his parachute and jumped off the plane.
Now Jack and Lizzy were really scared and wondered if they would make it to the ground.
“What are we going to do?” Jack shrieked.
“Well, we’re going to have to take control!” shouted Lizzy.
“What?” Jack answered.
“Fly the helicopter! Come on, get over here and help me!” Lizzy exclaimed.
Lizzy scanned the switches and buttons. Jack grabbed the wheel. The helicopter started to slow
down, and then eventually, after what felt like hours, it touched the ground.
“Phew, ” puffed Lizzy, “That was a bumpy ride!”
“It sure was!” agreed Jack.
It was summer in the Gobi Desert, thankfully, as temperatures could be well below zero
during the winter months. Lizzy and Jack looked all around. They could see huge, steep hills
of goldish, crimson sand, the sizzling hot sun beaming over the desert, the azure blue sky with
fluffy white clouds and some magnificent golden eagles soaring overhead.
“We should start walking.” Lizzy said, after taking in her surroundings. So they set off.
They had no idea where they were going but they kept walking. Then, suddenly, they saw
some strange brown lumps in the distance. They walked a bit closer and soon realised they were
camels, so they went up to take a closer look.
The lead camel said “Hi!”
Lizzy turned to Jack and said, “Was that you?”
“No, I thought it was you?” Jack said puzzled.
“Actually, it was me, the camel” said the camel.
They turned and saw to their astonishment that the camel was speaking. The lead camel was
a heavily coated camel with a mane from the chin all the way down his neck. His hair was a
dark, crimson-brown and he had very long eyelashes that made it hard to see his eyes. He was the
biggest out of all the camels.
Lizzy saw some kind of scroll between the camels’ humps but she was so amazed that the
camel could speak that she was stunned into silence and so was Jack.
The camel then spoke again and said “This map will show you to the unknown treasure of the
Gobi Desert.”
Lizzy and Jack had no idea what he was talking about, until he gave them the scroll that Lizzy
had noticed before. It took a few minutes to take these words in, but eventually Lizzy and Jack
decided to unravel the scroll to see where the treasure was hidden.
Lizzy and Jack started to read the map. It seemed like the map had been buried for a long
time, as it looked very old. Shown on the map was an old fashioned looking compass, great big
mountains, animals they had never seen before, such as marbled polecats, black-tailed gazelles
