Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 14

New Journeys to the West
Dulwich College Beijing, Zhou, Amy - 7
“A
lex, Annie, what are you doing?” asked Mrs. Tate. She was always cross with anything they
did.
“Oh mum, we are just fin... No! We are just playing games.”
“Well, you can’t play anymore, you have to come down and eat breakfast!”.
“But”, cried Alex “we um... lost... the emeralds!”
“What?” shouted Mrs. Tate, “THEY COST HUNDREDS!”
“So?” said Alex quietly.
“So we have to find them!” whispered Annie. “Tate’s emeralds cost lots!”
She was ten years old, and knew better than her younger brother, who was still four years old. Sometimes
Mrs. Tate lets her to help and dig more fresher to sell. One day a bigger came to their house and told them
he wants to stay, and he gave them two emeralds as beautiful as the sun for their kindness. But now they had
lost them. They felt sorry for him but they couldn’t find them. “So... what do we now?”
“Of course find them” snapped Mrs. Tate. So they quickly changed their clothes, ran to the breakfast table,
gobbled up their breakfast and ran outside.
“Hey Annie, I saw a stair case!” cried Alex,” let’s go up!”
“No, that is a stair case, but look, it’s m ade of cloud!” Surely, it was a staircase made of cloud.
“Come on, let’s go up!”
“I’m excited!” Alex cried. “Oh yes, we must go up, It must be for us!” His sister followed. She raced her
brother up the staircase, it was fun! At first, the staircase did not end, but then, they were just about to give
up hope... bang! They fell down onto the long, green grass.
Suddenly, they saw someone walking towards them, it was Emma, Annie’s best friend, and she told them
some really bad news. “Alex, Annie, I’m so glad that you were here, Ben Pickle has stolen the magic
emeralds!”
“Magic emeralds?” asked Alex, “they are not magic!”
“Oh yes, they are, they can grant their owner ten wishes!”
“Oh,” said Alex “what about Annie?”
“She’s lucky, she still has ten wishes.” So they set off to the west. They all knew Ben Pickle was a thief. A
thief in Annie’s class. He always stole things that belonged to other children. They ran to Ben’s house, they
were surprised that he was not home. But, they saw footsteps leading out the door. There were his! They
followed the footsteps to a big rock. Ben was not there. They followed the footsteps to a river. Ben was not
there. They followed... they came to a forest, and there he was at the end of the forest! When he saw then
he pulled out a sword. It glittered in the moon light. A handsome horse ran up to him. He galloped towards
them. What could they do? Suddenly, Alex had a plan, he told them his plan. Alex and Emma ran around
Ben. Annie ran to get the emeralds. They set off home happily!