Fiction: Group 3
The Dragon's Pearl
King George V School, Tang, Timothy - 12, Fiction: Group 3
minutes ago, I walked out as an ordinary young man, 7 minutes later, I walk out as an adventurer, I
needed to find the 7 parts of the dragon’s pearl jewel, I have a girlfriend living with me and it is hard
to depart. My name is Colin Kam, I am a 30 year old, accompanied with only one friend who has
been with me since my first day at school: Antonio Li, now walking out of the Hong Kong airport world
trade centre, I am ready to begin a new life.
November 18th 2015 6:00pm
“So they say that the first part of the dragon’s pearl is in Macau right?” whispered Antonio, “Yes and they
say that it is located in a hotel.” “There are lots of hotels in Macau, how would you know where it would
be?” Antonio whispered a bit loudly, reading a book I replied:” The dragon’s pearl was made in the Tang
dynasty but lost by a Ming emperor, it was chopped up and scattered, a poor fishermen bought one the
pieces and hid in a hill in Taipa and that is near the airport, another was hidden on top of a statue in Zhuhai
and we have arrived!!” Antonio looked up and saw lights of the Macau outer harbour terminal, once on the
pier, I saw a sinister looking figure wearing a liquorice colored coat.
As the taxi pulled up right in front of the Macau airport hotel, a bellhop greeted us and barely noticed that
we did not had luggage. “Rest now” I said to Antonio” Tomorrow we have to wake up early.”
That night I could not sleep, not only there was flights taking off at macau airport when I slept, but I kept
wondering about that sinister figure in that coat…..
Waking up, I found myself on the mountain, I tried to speak but my mouth was tied with rope, a ninja in
transparent clothes They were speaking in fast Portuguese but I recognised one word: Coloane, in less than a
second i knew what they were going to do: Drown me off the shore of Cotai or kill me in Coloane. Heart
weak, I knew my glad days were over so I fainted in horror.
When I came to, I saw my friend Antonio, he smiled, then I realized where I was: ten thousand feet in the
air in a helicopter over Grand Lisboa hotel. I asked:” Where are the thieves.” His smiled darkened: They got
away but we escaped luckily.”
Meanwhile on a beach in Coloane, the ninjas opened a sack with nothing in it, the boss wearing a coat then
signalled for a private jet to come and land at his secret airfield….. An evil laughter echoed over the island.
As the helicopter landed at Zhuhai’s heliport, a private car in black escorted us to a promenade, there I saw a
piece of rock, no not rock my eyes blinked again, it was pearl. Pure as possible, without warning, a hook
came out from the car, the pearl was caught and given to us. Eyes with tears I tried to thank the driver, he
was gone in a blink, the car was gone too well most of it anyways, it was on fire. Antonio dived in the water
and with no other option, I jumped into the murky waters.
My eyes were murky, I was drowning, short breaths out of the water helped me survive, suddenly a leg
pulled me up, no not a leg a hand, out of the water, I saw my friend once again, Antonio had survived, he
smiled and said:” Amazing my friend, you have crossed the water from zhuhai to Zhongshan. I could have
smiled if my body was not hurting like crazy, then I fainted on the ground tired of swimming. But my spirit
was not safe, when I woke up I found out that my body was tied up to a tree, a gun was pointed at me, that
hooded figure again, he laughed an evil laugh and putted the gun towards my throat. I had no choice, with
no friends around I died bravely on the bark of the tree, unable to help anyone. Little that I knew I had
saved the region from what had might been a disaster.
5 years later….
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