Fiction: Group 4
(in the outskirts of Asia and on the crossroads between the two continents to be exact), suggesting that
perhaps ancient Greeks had probably inhabited this region once. I immediately made up my mind that I was
going to the region between Hong Kong and Macau as mentioned by my teacher in the coming Christmas
holidays. Who knows? Perhaps I’ll find a new region there. Moreover, I needed a topic for my English
presentation and there simply couldn’t have been anything better.
I convinced my family to go with me as they were fond of travelling but they wouldn’t believe in my
hypothesis of another region existing there despite the seemingly flawless theory my teacher had given me
which I had passed to them . I was determined to prove them wrong by saying that I would take a picture
of any proof I see. Then they were bound to believe me!
Upon our arrival, we were made acquaintances with a local tour guide there and he took us to the place as
per the directions my teacher had given me. He had warned us that there was no transportation that could
access that area due to its extreme remoteness. He also refused to proceed with us upon reaching a certain
point and when we turned around, he vanished. We were on our own and it was getting dark.
A sudden burst of energy erupted from the bushes behind where we had set camp and this mysterious light
emerged. My family was fast asleep and I was the only one who had noticed and so got up to investigate
with my camera in my bag. When I got closer, the light was so bright that it somehow caused me to faint.
I woke up after several hours and it was daytime. I found myself in a time period different from the one I
was familiar with. No one was holding a smartphone; there certainly were no cars or any means of electrical
transport for that matter. In fact people were dressed in white robes and were busy constructing three
enormous statues of the Greek gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. It was a jaw dropping sight.
The inhabitants there called the place Demaxus. They looked very surprised upon seeing my presence as
they had never before seen a person like me. One of the Demaxians approached me and questioned, “Why
art thou in such attire?” Another suggested I was a demi-god meaning I was probably a messenger from the
three Greek god brothers of whom they were building the statues of. Nevertheless, they gave me enormous
respect, catering to my every need. Days had passed and it bothered me that my family must have been
looking for me and so I had decided to depart. I made up the excuse that I was being summoned by the
gods and that I must leave at once. The people there heeded immediately to my commands and prepared
me for my departure.
Before doing so, I had asked one of them to help me take a picture and after I made sure everything was
done, the time to leave had arrived. I thanked the citizens of Demaxus for their hospitality and bid them
farewell. As soon as I said goodbye, I started to feel this dizziness take over me and passed out once again.
It was night once I woke up and saw my family approach me. I was thinking that I would get scolded for
having been missing for several days, but instead I was told to stop fooling around and go back to sleep. My
mind was blank when I was told that I had only been gone for a mere 6 minutes. Then I proposed to myself
that time must have been moving differently in the other realm.
I took out my camera to see what had appeared in the photo that I had taken and all I could see was sand
with some blurry structures in the background. I knew they were the statues but no one would believe me
as they hadn’t have seen it for themselves.
I came back a bit disappointed, but I was still quite excited of what I had seen. I only regretted the fact that I
had no solid evidence to prove what I had seen. Two weeks later, school resumed and it was a Tuesday,
meaning we had liberal studies lesson first. Upon my entrance to the classroom, I greeted my teacher and
she asked me how my holidays were. I tried to tell her the story of what I had witnessed but she dismissed it
saying, “You kids and your silly imagination”. I was tempted to ask her about why she had mentioned a
fourth region in the Pearl River Delta in the first place but then I decided against it. Oh well, back to
hibernating in class.
