Fiction: Group 2
The Tale of Xiao Hua
Discovery Mind Primary School, Willeter, Freja - 10, Fiction: Group 2
uring the reign of the terrible and cruel emperor Genghis Khan lived a wealthy merchant called
Loa Wang. Loa Wang had three beautiful daughters; the oldest daughter was called Xiao Wang,
she was extremely intelligent; the middle sister was called Xiao Hong, she as breathtakingly
beautiful and could sing like an angel; the youngest was called Xiao Hua, she wasn’t good at anything. Most
of the time she was sad, miserable and jealous. One night a man that was working for Genghis Khan quietly
sneaked into Loa Wang’s home and sole Xioa Hua. He put her in a brown bag. Since the man was rushing
he accidently dropped the bag into the rockpools! Xiao Hua slowly died. The next morning Xiao Hua’s
spirit slowly awakened. Her spirit rose up from the water but as she rose her spirit started to faded – she was
evaporating! Eight hundred and fifteen years later and airport was built over Xiao Hua’s rockpools, Xiao
Hua wasn’t too happy about this.
Fast forward to the present day.
“Woohoo!” I shouted, I was so excited to be doing a lion dance in front of the government! It had taken
about thirty minutes on the bus to get to the airport. All of a sudden a black smudge whizzed past the
window, I couldn’t make out what it was so I stopped thinking about it. When we finally got there I
jumped off the bus and into the line. We went to the library so we could change, get ready and line up. It
was time to go on stage, I felt the butterflies in my tummy starting to flutter around. When I got on stage I
didn’t feel so good, the butterflies in my tummy weren’t fluttering around, they were punching me.
The show had started, it was going great so far. All of a sudden I saw the black smudge again but it didn’t
seem like a black smudge anymore it seemed more like the figure of a person. I couldn’t see I anymore, I
think it was just my imagination. Just then a black flower fell on the lions but then thousands more came
until you could barely see the lions carry more, I crept up to the piles of black flowers and poked them.
“Roar!” I saw a swoosh of a yellow tail in one pile, I ran as fast as I could and screamed “lions, real lions are
in those piles!” no one believed me until both lions sprung out of the piles. Everyone ran like crazy to find
the nearest exits. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt so I screamed out “Yoohoo!” to the lions.
Both of the lions landed and were now chasing me. In the corner of my eye I saw an exit. I shot straight
towards it. Just in time I warned into the doors and sprinted outside. I stopped dead in my tracks, the hairs
on the back of my neck were standing up, I turned slowly, my heart was pounding but instead of real lions
they were costume lions. I have never seen the black smudge since.
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