Fiction: Group 2
“Thanks!”
“By the way, what’s your name? Mine’s Arka..”
“Nice to meet you Arka! I’m Adreanne...”
As they chatted Arka, smiling, handed some cool soup to Adreanne. “Drink up! You don’t want to be
dehydrated when you cross the gates” she said with an even wider grin.
“What’s the soup called ?”
“ It doesn't really have a name but I just call it what it does!”
“What does it do?” Adreanne queried.
“Exchanges the hearts of an immortal and a mortal.” Arka answered, then quickly covered her mouth
realising what she had said, but Adreanne had already finished drinking.
Rumbling, the ground split. Adreanne felt a tingle in her chest and realised she was now immortal! She
looked up to see Arka swimming towards the gates.
Without hesitation, Adreanne swan after Arka. She gave her a mighty punch which sent her unconscious to
the ocean floor. Figuring that killing her was the only way of retrieving her mortal heart, Adreanne dived
and dragged Arka back to shore. She used a sharp shard to finish her off and immediately, lightning struck
her. Her mortal heart was back!
With a mighty leap Adreanne was back in the water, but then she remembered that Chyna was short of
water and the only way of improving that was to bring this water back to Chyna! But how?
Minutes passed, and she turned to see Arka’s dead body and a pill floating above her. Cupping the pill in her
hands, Adreanne read the words ‘WISH PILL’, and gulping it down, wished the water here to revive the
dry riverbanks in Chyna. Suddenly, a goddess appeared before her..
“When you use a wish pill, one hour after, the person that wished will die”. Adreanne felt like she had no
choice. She downed the pill, then immediately the land under her began to give way.
As she neared the riverbank, she felt streams of hot tears behind her eyes. Seeing her house, her heart sank.
As her mother hurried out, she raised her hand to wave, but her mum’s brows narrowed. The water
lowered into the dry riverbed, and Adreanne clambered out and hugged her mother.
“Adreanne Pearl! Where have you been? I’ve been so worried”.
“Oh mother…” Adreanne sobbed “ So much has happened”.
“I’ll never let you go again.” Her mum promised.
“But you have to...” Adreanne said pulling away from her mother’s grasp while telling her about the ‘Wish
Pill’. Hugging each other, rivers of tears fell down their cheeks, and soon the news Adreanne spread across
Chyna.
As for the river, it was named after Adreanne’s last name Pearl, and the country Chyna has yet to find the
chest that started the journey.
