New Tales of the Gobi Desert
SKH Yuen Chen Maun Chen Jubilee Primary School, Fung Tsz Ching Sharon, Fiction: Group 2
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nce upon a time, there was a wonderful place called Gobi. It was a forest. There were many
animals and birds living there happily.
The governor of Gobi who was appointed by the God called Oasis. He was nice to
everyone. All the animals and the birds loved him. They got on with one another very well.
One day, there was a beautiful girl appeared in Gobi. She was nervous and scared. She ran
and looked all around aside. One bird saw her and flied before her. The bird said, “ Hello, can I
help you?” The girl was more scared and asked curiously, “Who are you?” The bird said, “I am
Lily, I live in the forest. Are you a stranger here?” The girl said, “Yes, I am lost. I am a princess
from Gold country. My name is Starry. I was lost when I was going through this forest with my
army. My father wanted me to marry the king of the neighbor country. I didn’t want to do so. I
ran away. But I don’t know where I can go now. Can you help me?” The bird said, “I don’t know
how to help you, but I know Oasis can help you. Oasis is our governor. He is nice. I take you to
meet him. Please follow me.”
Then, Starry met Oasis at Oasis’s house. Oasis’s house was simply but clean and tidy. They
sat down in the house. The bird told Oasis the story about Starry. Oasis was attracted by Starry’s
beauty. He said to Starry, “If you would like me to help you, I would be only too glad to. You could
stay here with me if you want.” Starry said, “Yes, I want to stay here.”
From then on, they married and lived in the forest happily. One day, Starry said to Oasis, “You
are the governor of the forest. You must live in a gorgeous palace but not this simply house. Your
subjects should build a gorgeous palace for you if they thought you were a ruler enthroned in the
hearts of them.” Oasis said, “You are right. I will ask them to build a gorgeous palace for us.”
On the next day, all the animals that lived in the forest started to build the palace. They cut
many trees for the palace. But Starry still didn’t satisfy. She wanted more trees to build the palace.
Finally, a gorgeous palace was built but a lot of trees were lost. Most of the birds flied away.
One day, Oasis could not hear the sound of the birds. He went outside of the palace. He
couldn’t see the trees around his palace like before. Oasis was shocked. He asked the animals what
had happened. The animals told him the reason. He was regret. He said to Starry, “We can’t cut
the trees anymore because the trees are important to the animals or us.” Starry said, “Don’t worry,
we are still very well. The trees don’t affect our life.” Then, Starry asked the animals to cut the
trees making the furniture and decorations for her continuously.
Two years later, the more trees were cut, the more animals left Gobi. At last, there were few
trees in Gobi. Oasis and Starry lived in the palace. They felt lonely.
One day, a wind scraped to Gobi. After the wind raged for three days, the wind became
hurricane. Suddenly, everything was covered with sand because there were not trees to resist the
hurricane. The hurricane was a great misfortune for Gobi. Gobi became a desert.
Oasis and Starry were regret very much. They prayed. They asked God to forgive. At that
time, an angel came before them. The angel gave them a seed and said, “You must grow this seed
diligently. If the seed grow up to a tree, the desert will disappear.” Oasis and Starry said with
tear, “Yes, we will grow this seed diligently. Gobi will become a forest again.” Then, the angel
disappeared in the sky.
From that time on, they grew the seed diligently every day…
