New Tales of the Gobi Desert
S.T.F.A. Ho Yat Tung Primary School, Leung Yuk Wah, Fiction: Group 1
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ast Saturday, I went to Wetland Park with my sister, Charlotte, and my friends. We played
and ran at the big field.
Suddenly, all of us fell into a big hole and we entered a different world. We felt scared
but it was very beautiful. We were in a desert called the Gobi Desert.
There was a moon-shaped pond and a large, tall magic tower. The tower was wonderful and
miraculous. The water in the pond was clean and clear.
We went to the tower. It was dark inside. We went upstairs to a big room. It had a ghost in it.
We ran downstairs. It was my friend Peter pretending to be a ghost!
After that, we saw a picture of a cute dog called Duffy and a tiny girl called Nini. They came
out of the picture. We screamed and shouted and did not know what to do.
Nini said softly, “It is dangerous in here. In the afternoon, this tower will shake and smoke.
All the villagers go back home in the evening because a large monster will come out and eat
them.”
“Oh! If we do not have a place to hide, the monster will eat us. We need to make a house to
hide in,” said Charlotte.
“How can we make a house? It is very hard,” I said.
We walked for long time and arrived at a village.
I bought some wood and Peter asked the villagers to help us. We put two fans in the house but
it was still too hot because we were in a desert. Peter said, “We need to stay here for a night so the
monster cannot eat us.”
When we were sleeping, I could hear a strange sound. We walked in the corridor. All of a
sudden, a tiny monster was on the floor. We screamed loudly like crazy. All of us ran back and hid
under the quilt. The monster followed us. It touched our quilt.
All of us were shivering. We shouted, “Monster, monster, go away!”
“I’m not a monster, I’m Nini,” Nini said with a smile. “I know that you don’t have food so I
took some food for you.”
In the morning, I said “It’s time to go back to our real home.”
“How can we go back to Wetland Park?” I asked Nini.
“Walk one hundred meters, turn left then walk two hundred meters, turn right, then walk eight
hundred meters,” said Nini. “You will get to a cave. You can jump into it. You’ll be home in no time.”
We followed the instructions and walked a long way to get to the cave. We looked down into
the dark, deep and big cave. Charlotte was very afraid. She said she would never jump in it. I did
not waste time. Before Charlotte could say anything, I pushed her into the cave, then I jumped
right into it. Peter followed us.
The cave was very deep. We flew in the air and found some sweets and peanuts on the sides of
the cave. Finally, we went back to the Wetland Park, a good place, our home, Hong Kong.
