New Tales of the Gobi Desert
The first rain in Gobi Desert
SKH Yuen Chen Maun Chen Jubilee Primary School, Lau Woon Sing, Fiction: Group 2
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fter Pangu had died, his five sons carried on their life stories in the world. Let me
introduce them to you. The eldest was Antarctic. The next was Arctic. Then, the
third son, who has brown skin, was Sahara. Arabian and Gobi, the twins, were the
youngest. They all lived happily.
They played together, they slept together…Since they were immortal at that time, they kept
their affectionate relationship for millions of years. They also had countless wealth, land, power to
control the weather… It’s really a perfect world to them!
However, they had an argument one day! A cloud suddenly came and everybody thought it
was theirs. They then fought for cloud. The spirit of Pangu was woken up. He challenged them
to have a competition. He gave each son a fighter: Aiced, Afroze, Asun, Asand and Afuchi. They
would fight on behalf of their masters, the eldest to the youngest son.
The first round started, the competitors needed to grow as many plants as possible in a year.
Although Aiced and Afroze worked so hard, they couldn’t get any plant because their weather
controller had been spoilt. They kept having cold weather. The other three people did it well.
Afuchi had got different seeds from different places, so he won the first competition by growing
100,000 kinds of flowers.
The second round came. The sons had to induce the strongest wind to destroy others’
territories. However, Aiced cheated! He used magic to make the land disappear so he was foul.
Others did their best to make ‘the speediest’ wind. Afuchi, the winner of last competition, won
again. He made wind that ran 10000 miles per hour! It was even faster than the speed of sound!
Although Afuchi used all his strength to win the competitions, his master, Gobi wasn’t
grateful for him. Gobi still gave so little food, so few clothes for him, Afuchi had almost nothing-
except his body. Pangu’s anger was growing. He made a lightning to strike at Gobi’s House. Gobi
ignored it. Eh! He still kept doing bad things though all his money was swept away.
The third round started. Every competitor was ready-but not Afuchi. He was called back to
Pangu. Therefore, no one would help Gobi anymore. Gobi needed to do everything by himself.
The task of this round was to chat with one another because Pangu wants them to bridge their
relationship. Everyone gradually became friends except Gobi. No one liked him.
Gobi felt upset. Also, Pangu put him to replace Afuchi in another world where he needed to
work hard to get food. He would starve if he did not. Gobi hadn’t eaten nor slept for hundreds of
days and millions of hours. He regretted and wanted to say sorry to Afuchi and everyone.
Gobi went back to his world but… all competitors had disappeared. His four brothers had
become four big deserts. Human beings had invaded their all land for residence. Gobi became the
fifth desert. Thousands of Mongolians were living there.
Gobi now realized his fault had brought much suffering to others. He admitted his mistakes
to Pangu. The sky opened! It’s Pangu! He said, “I am pleased with your apology, so I won’t destroy
you. However, to punish you, I will take away most plants Afuchi had planted here. I will only
leave 400 kinds plants for you. Your wind strength will be down to 85 miles per hour too so that
you can’t be boastful again! You can feel relieved now because Afuchi has forgotten everything.
Live well.” Gobi cried and his tear became the first rain drop in Gobi Desert…
