Fiction: Group 4
During his time on the galleon, he was drinking some ale to calm himself down to ease down the emotions
of what was going to happen, but the ideas still quizzed his mind.
“What will happen to Hong Kong?”
“Will its culture will be eradicated?”
Suddenly, the quartermaster of the Galleon shouted “To your posts!” he cried “Chinese galleons on the
Horizon!”
Harold slowly got up and then clumsily, walked up the decks.
During his stint, he saw a lot of fire and echoes of death from the exotic Chinese war ships, ships that went
up in flames just like paper. He was shocked and his drunkenness ceased. He couldn’t believe what he saw
and slowly, collapsed onto the hard wooden floor. Soon after he was awoken by his fellow comrades as he
felt the sea’s wrath on his eyes enflaming it. He became quiet, short-spoken and shortly after the naval
battle, he completely changed his heart. He hated the fact that his comrades were not respecting him at all
invoking traitorous thoughts like, murder, sabotage and thought that he was doing this for Hong Kong.
A strange spell fell upon him and he murdered a few people that disrespected him. Harold was a charmer,
he covered his tracks well, craftily pointing the finger at others, watching “those traitors” receive their dire
punishment. A few days later, Harold deftly poisoned the captain of the ship making him really sick. As he
continued executing his vengeful plan, no suspicion fell upon him but the invasion of Hong Kong soon
dawned.
On the day of the invasion of Hong Kong, he was nervous, sweaty and angry that his own country was
invading a city that he loved and would’ve settled. They landed in Hong Kong and were greeted by several
cannons. The cannons proved little effect to the ships and the British Galleons returned fire and they were
destroyed.
Hong Kong Island would prove difficult to go across. The Mountains were high and low. Flat ground was
nowhere in sight and the constant ambushes made his regiment’s morale plummet but suddenly, a drastic
change in his mind had popped up.
His traitorous thoughts still remained, but he soon felt misplaced, that he shouldn’t be in Hong Kong but his
love of his city was still immense and soon those ideas about not living in Hong Kong faded away like it was
just a breeze. There was a huge accident which also made his attitude change.
He received a letter from his parents. The letter said that,
“We're going to have to sell our farm; we had really bad harvests and we couldn’t sell, so we’ll be going off
to the India to find land and work and hopefully get things going again – From Your Father”
After Harold read the letter, he was stunned for a moment. In his mind he really had to choose his family or
give in to the city that casted a spell upon him. Harold hesitated and felt really uneasy, he felt that he was
shaking and then he fell unconscious.
Soon, he was woken up by his friend Matt; he asked “Are you alright Harold?”
Harold slowly got up and then told him what was going on in his mind. Matt was interested, surprised and
intrigued at what Harold just told him.
“That seems fun and crazy at the same time!” Matt said delightfully.
Harold felt that it was a curse and thought Matt was quite crazy into believing that his misfortunes were
good to have. Harold thought what to do. Stay in Hong Kong and leave his own poor family behind or
give in to the magic of Hong Kong. He felt that Hong Kong touched his heart but his family felt more
important than just a mere fishing village. He thought that supporting his family after the war would be the
best choice for him and his family. He felt at peace knowing that his inward conflict with himself died
down.
Very soon all of his comrades were on deck. They were listening of what the battle plan is. The commander
said that they would shell the fortress and would land and try to take it. They felt that the plan was suicidal
as it was armed with a lot of Cannons, but during the course of the battle, the Chinese cannons barely
punched a hole to the British ships. Once the cannons were disabled, they landed and charged forward to
the fortress having no doubts. They were ready for death but luckily the enemy had ancient weapons and
most of the occupants in the fortress fell to the gunfire. It seemed that they were fearless men ready to die
for they’re Emperor.
They took the fortress by Storm and the occupants surrendered. Orders from the General were to shoot the
survivors. Harold stuttered for a second and said “There’s no point, we’d be wasting bullets and on them.”
“No, we can’t risk it, they could inform the enemy.” said the General.
Harold found this disgusting and refused to do the shooting of the unarmed prisoners of war.
