The Desert Mansion
Sha Tin Junior School, Gordon Wu, Fiction Group 2
Chapter 1: A Random Sand Castle!?
The sand blew, the wind rustled, and the sand slowly swallowed him. Steve the explorer was
wandering around the Gobi desert, not really knowing where he was heading to. He was with
his best friends, Jake and Peter. So as a sand storm faded away, to the explorer’s surprise, they
found…..nothing.
“Well, there’s nothing here.” Steve said disappointedly. Then he slowly turned around, and
he found … nothing. When he turned back to his original direction, he mysteriously saw …
something. “A sand castle? In the middle of the Gobi Desert?” wondered Steve. No kidding, it was
about a one-meter tall sand castle. Meanwhile, Jake and Peter were approaching to the little sand
castle. ”Wow, nice sand-cattle!” joked Jake, “Get it? Sand-cattle?” ”Not really.” mumbled Peter.
As the explorers stopped in front of the little sand castle, the three explorers peeped through it
and discovered a gigantic mansion with high sandstone pillars and everything. “Oh my god!”
exclaimed all of them.
Chapter 2: is it really a Bottomless Pit of Bottomless?
So the explorers came right through the doors, but they saw another door. Then another! Then
another! And so as the explorers tiredly opened those doors, they saw a library full of books
made from sand. ‘Wow, it’s… Sand.” puzzled Peter. Then they saw roast chicken made from sand.
And boy! Everything was sand. So they sat down on some sand chairs, (yep, more sand!), and
discussed about the eventful things that had happened so far, while eating a divine feast which
Steve took out from his pocket. “Everything recently has been so strange.” spoke Jake “Yep.”
replied Peter and Steve. Suddenly, the ground opened, as if the explorers were worms, the ground
was a person eating the worms. Then they fell into the darkness. ”AHHHHH!” shouted Peter. “I
don’t really see a bottom to this” said both Steve and Jake. But just as Jake said that, they hit
a pool of water. “I’m alive!” shouted Peter in Steve’s face. And as they looked up they all were
speechless. “Wow,” they all thought, and surely they were shocked. For once actually they saw
something that wasn’t sand. They saw a beautiful view of Mongolia, and a person getting sued in
the black market. ”Let’s get a move on!” Steve voiced. But when Jake walked away, he triggered
something on the ground. Then suddenly, the explorers were hijacked of the ground, skyrocketing
up, and landing two floors deeper from where they were before. “Come on!” shouted Peter. Jake
curiously turned around and spotted a large gold coffin. “What’s that?” Jake wondered.
Chapter: 3 in Which They Discover Some Pharaoh
Before anyone moved, the coffin started shaking and the ground rumbled. Suddenly, a figure
emerged from the golden coffin. “Santa?” Jake mumbled, “Is that you?” The figure ignored him.
And so the mysterious figure stepped into the light and revealed himself. They were speechless
at the moment but just stunned. ”Oh my god.” Steve finally murmured. The three explorers were
