New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Yew Chung International School - Primary Section, Barnabas Tam, Fiction: Group 2
I
am a camel. This is a journal of my life in December the first, 2013, until January the
twelfth, 2999.
I am a camel living with a couple that are both archeologists. They have two sons, and
are now digging for fossilized dinosaurs and their eggs with their sons in China’s Gobi
Desert. Their two daughters are watching Liverpool versus Chelsea on TV back home in England.
The couple and the sons set up a camp, sat down, then they ate their dinner and gave me mine
too, don’t you think camels don’t eat!!! They tied me up onto the post that holds the camp up, got
into a jeep, and set off. As soon as I was out of their sight, I bit the rope that was tying me to the
camp so it broke, and then wandered off into the wild.
It took me a long time to reach my destination, my birth place. I am here, but not quick
enough to save it from those murderous humans turning it into some stupid thing called the
“Jurassic Park”. I shout at one of the workers “Stop it!! Stop it, you foul being!!” But he ignores me.
I spit at him, but I miss, so I do the last trick up my sleeve: and that is to stomp on him. I know
that is cruel, but I can’t bear to see them hurting my ancestors. I think I broke his skull, because
he was dead after five minutes, but in the time when he was still alive, he was still swearing and
pointing his middle finger at me. I stomped on one more, his reaction was the same, so I stomped
on another and another and another and another until the whole place was a bloody battlefield.
Finally, after all the killing, I went into the “Jurassic Park” thingy and found out there were lots
of camels being took care of very well!!! There were even signs praising them saying they are
gentle. Wait, what??? It says: Gentle new dinosaurs discovered!!! They are called Camelsaurus.
What an insult!!! I change the notices to: They are camels, exactly the same as me!!! The crazed
humans finally understood my message. They quickly took the signs off and built an all-new
mating ground for camels. When it finished, they moved all the camels there. Even I mated there.
I wandered blindly across the desert, occasionally even bumping into cactuses, until finally,
I bumped into something. It was not a cactus, nor another camel. I look up, and there, in front of
my eyes is my owner himself holding an unfossilized dinosaur egg!!! After what seemed like a
day but is actually a minute, it started shaking, then cracking, then…
It hatched into a baby male Tyrannosaurus!!!
After a few seconds, news reporters of different continents and countries came rushing in.
They started filming and taking photos. After a few minutes, every TV in the world turned on and
showed a live video of the dinosaur, the couple and me.
Back home in England, the football screen turned into the dinosaur scene also. When it
appeared, the two daughters just stared straight at it. After about five minutes, the elder one said
suspiciously “That man looks like dad!!!” Then the younger one noticed it also and exclaimed “And
that woman looks like mum, that camel also looks like ours, and they look like they’ve found a
baby tyrannosaurus!!!” So they booked a ticket to go to the Gobi Desert.
When they arrived, they found their mum, dad, me and the two sons already waiting for
them! We exchanged kisses, but in my case, I can’t kiss, so I spat. We were very happy and after
that, we never needed to work anymore, because people are willing to pay a million dollars just to
take a look at our pet tyrannosaurus.
