Secret Gobi
Marymount Primary School, Phoenix Hui, Fiction: Group 2
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hoenix walked down the hospital ward with a heavy heart. Standing at the doors she
silently wiped her tears and pushed the door open gently wearing a pretentious smile.
Andy, Phoenix’s father, an eighty-year-old man, was once an eminent astronomer.
Phoenix, under the continual influence of his father, has also become an astronomer.
Phoenix slowly sat down beside her father’s bed, softly held his father’s hands and asked
gently, “You specially asked the nurse to call me in today, what is it?”
Andy replied with a serious look on his face, “Before I die, I want to tell you this deepest
secret that had been hidden in my heart for years. Do you believe in aliens?”
Phoenix paused for a moment, “Perhaps……”
Andy continued to say, “The secret I wanted to tell you is….I had met aliens who lived in
this world.”
Andy went on to tell Phoenix about his adventure, “Your grandfather was an expert in
treasure hunting. When I was ten years old, he went to Gobi Desert in China to find the treasure
of Genghis Khan, the King of Mongolia. During the summer, my mum brought me to visit my dad
at his camp site. He only briefly stayed at the camp site before he set out on his treasure hunting
expedition while I and mum were left to wait at the camp site.
One morning, I stealthily crept out of the camp site to explore the surroundings. As I
wandered, a powerful sandstorm struck. When the sandstorm finally passed, I found myself
surrounded by similar sand dunes and my foot prints are nowhere to be found. Slowly, I lost my
consciousness under the scorching sun.
“Babo…lawo..saho…” What was that? I opened my eyes slowly and followed the direction of
the voices. Oh golly… They are monsters covered with golden scales, their head is gigantic on
a small body, with long and thin limbs. I freaked out and dash for my life. But the two golden
monsters immediately apprehend me and said, “Don’t be scared! We won’t hurt you.”
I asked horrifyingly, “Wwwwhh…. Who..are…you? Wh…What is this place?” One of the
monsters replied, “I’m Karu. This is my friend, Barabu. Five thousand years ago, our ancestors
came from Mars to the Earth. Our ancestors have lived together with the human’s ancestors and
even passed on our technology. However, the humans used our technology to develop weapons
resulting in a war almost led the humans and our ancestors to extinction. For the few ancestors
who survived the narrow escape, they used technology to fully erase the memory of those human
survivals. Our ancestors retrieved to live underground since then. You are now under the Gobi
desert, in one of our treatment rooms.”
I was totally overwhelmed by Karu and Babaru’s identity. “How old are you? Why can you
speak our language? Why didn’t human ever discover you? Why did your ancestors migrate to
the Earth?”
Karu replied amiably, “According to the human’s calendar, Barabu and I are already one
hundred and twenty years old.
Mars originally resembles the Earth; there are mountains, sea, plants and animals. It was such a
beautiful place. But our over-development completely destroyed the planet’s ecological system. The
surface of Mars became bare and unlivable, so we eventually moved to the underground for survival.
