New Tales of the Gobi Desert
Ying Wa Primary School, Lai Wing Chun James, Fiction: Group 2
I opened my eyes. I felt for the first thing I felt every single day--pain. But this time, I didn’t
feel it. “A miracle! Did the wound I got from fighting with a snow leopard finally heal?” I thought.
But before I knew the answer to that, I heard the fearsome growl of a snow leopard that nearly
made me deaf.
My name is Max, 25, adventurer and explorer (and an orphan) and this is my first trip at the
Gobi Desert. As for my last name, don’t ask me. I don’t even know it myself. But, I vow to find
out about my family. Okay, back to the snow leopard. The growl alerted me to prepare for battle.
Instantly, I took out my deadly dagger. The nanosecond the snow leopard appeared in front of my
eyes, I tried to stab it with my dagger without a bit of hesitation. But before I knew it, someone
attacked me first.
“Clang!!!”The sound of “dagger-fighting” roamed through the Gobi Desert. It stopped. “Who
are you?” I asked loudly, trying to act scary. The “intruder” said, “Adam White. This is my pet,
Rover. Who are YOU?” I told him everything I knew about myself. I figured that out he never
knew his parents too. Well, at least he’s got pictures He invited me to his cave. In his cave, I saw
a picture—a drawing of a young woman. She looked strangely familiar. This made me extremely
inquisitive. “Is that your mother?” I asked. “Yes,” Adam replied. “I wish I knew more about her.”
That made feel that we have a bond as I think of that every single day.
We travelled around Gobi Desert without many problems with Rover as our guardian. But,
when we were climbing on a mountain Adam accidentally slipped off a mountain unexpectedly.
“No!” I exclaimed. “No…”Adam was my only friend. What about Rover? Who’s going to take
care of him? Rover gave me a look that said, “What’s going to happen to him?” He looked really
worried. “Adam…”I spluttered. “Adam’s dead.”
Little did they know that there was a young man named Adam White who survived a fall
walking in the lands of Gobi Desert…
“They must think I’m dead.” thought Adam. He was walking slowly through the Eastern Gobi
desert steppe eco region, home to the Bactrian camel and many other animals. He only had 3
buckets of clean, drinkable water left. He needed to find clean, drinkable water as soon as possible
or he will die out of thirst pretty soon. “It has been a long time since I met Rover, eh?” he thought.
Unexpectedly, an anonymous old man ran extremely fast towards him and whacked Adam on the
head. Adam blacked out.
Max patted Rover on the back. “I’m sorry buddy, but Adam is gone. Forever.” Just as Max was
rubbing Rover’s cheeks, he felt something hard, something deadly. Something fishy was going on.
Adam woke up in a very beautiful room. He looked around the room. He saw many gold and
silver. He even saw fur coat! (which was not really made out of fur) He felt like a rich person.
“Where am I?” he thought. Suddenly, the old man that whacked him on the head opened the door
and answered him, as if he was a mind reader. “You’re home, son.” “What?” Adam exclaimed. He
didn’t know a thing about what this old man was talking about. “Who are you?” Adam asked.
“Why did you whack me on the head?” Suddenly, the old man tore off his beard, moustache and
white hair. It was a disguise. The old man wasn’t an old man anymore. He was a very handsome
man, who’s at his 50s. “Adam,” the man said. “I am your father.”
