A Deadly Tale
Shanghai Singapore International School, Chao Ethan Samuel, Fiction: Group 2
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ho am I? Where am I? Who are they, why did they do this? Bob stood there in the
middle of the desert. The scorching heat was unbearable, he was going to faint.
In his sight, he saw a faintish figure. Its black beady eyes made it look terrifying.
He thought that he was hallucinating or maybe even dreaming. It started to grow
bigger and bigger until it looked enormous. He started to go backwards but stumbling a few times.
He could only look on as the thing looked as if it wanted to eat him alive. He braced himself for
the impact but suddenly it was driven away by a loud screeching voice. He was rescued.
As the rescuers approached him, he knew that they were natives, people who looked different
from him. They looked at him in curiosity. They started mumbling among each other, as if
discussing what they should do with him. They stared at him intensely and he didn’t know what
to do. Before he could run or do anything, he lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he was in a circular tent. The structure was covered in layers of sheep skin
and cloth. He immediately thought of the people he saw before he blacked out. He got up and went
out of the tent. He saw the people sitting around a fire and tried communicating with them but it
only seemed to make it worse. They started getting agitated and started yelling at him. Bob in his
frustration, yelled, “I don’t care about your issues. I’m British and that’s what matters most!” He
then realized that his conscience took over but he did realize that he was British and he was in a
foreign land.
He ran as fast as he could out of desperation, heading towards nowhere into the arms of
darkness. He paused for a moment to orientate. He felt slimy things and heard loud hissing. When
he tried to move, he realized that he couldn’t move. He was poisoned. The bite was too venomous
for a snake as the pain was excruciating. It must have been something else.
Bob was in so much pain, that he thought that the world was coming to an end. The ground
beneath him started to sink in. Unable to grab hold of anything, he was at the mercy of the
sinking sand. The fall seemed everlasting and he didn’t seem to land but when he did. Bam! He
landed with a thud.
Bob looked up to find two bulky looking men staring at him. One of them was Jack who was
working with the military and Bobby was a doctor and scientist working on a secret mission in
the Gobi. Bobby helped Bob with the venom and took a sample of it. When Bobby examined the
sample, his face looked shocked. “My Gosh” he said, “It’s here! The death worm is here! Get ready
the nuclear bomb and the cage.”
The creature was the one that Bob had first encountered in the Gobi Desert and before he fell.
Bob was in the hot spot. He gave Bobby and Jack a description of the terror. Within minutes, the
death worm was caught in the cage designed as part of the secret mission. It tried spitting acid but
nothing happened. Jack threw a bomb at the death worm while the other two ran as far as they
could. The bomb was detonated. It was so strong that the whole base was destroyed.
Their disappearance never made it to the news. No one seemed to even remember the
existence of Bob, Bobby and Jack. They were never heard of ever again. It could have been the
bomb or whatever the monster had produced that probably devoured them. If that was true, that
means it still lives.
