Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 328

Journey to the west of the mansion
Kennedy School, Chua, Emma - 8
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n 87 Peak road, Hong Kong, there is a huge mansion, Othorodox Mansion, which is very grand
and gigantic. It has 1,000 rooms and all of them looked very posh. It was so big that you will get
easily lost, even if you have lived there since birth. Larandeous who lived there, was planning to
enter his big brother Hammel’s room - a forbidden place for all.
Hammel was one of those kids that was good in front of adults and mean when adults aren't around. Well,
that was what Larandeous thought about him. “ Such a hypocrite” he thought.
Hammel’s room is located at the West of the mansion while Larandeous’s room is at the East. Larandeous
tried to sneak into Hammel’s room before to get his wood and metal work to play with. Not surprisingly he
was caught by Hammel, and he gave him a very punishing mouthful.
This time he would start in the middle of the night. To make sure he wouldn’t fall asleep he would use a
very small analogue alarm. BUZZZZ!!!!!!! Larandeous shrieked, nearly waking up everybody!
Larandeous went in the direction of the West not knowing that Hammel put booby traps in every single
possible place you can imagine. While he was on his way Larandeous heard what sounded like mice
scuffling. This made Larandeous extra observant. Hammel had robots hidden which makes the journey
harder. The robots will run up to you. They will squeeze you until you will laugh and your side hurts. Then
the robots would press a button of a machine that would set off an alarm, which then would make a
Hammel clone open the door and arrows would shoot at the intruder.
If the arrows missed the target, Hammel has a plan B. Hammel was certain that his plan wouldn’t fail. If you
step onto a particular tile you’d fall through and you’d be smacked by iron hands. Then pushed up to the
top and placed in ‘jail’.
Larandeous continued his journey to the West of the mansion, but despite being extra cautious this time,
robots came whirling about from nowhere. Clenching Larandeous the robots took of with their prisoner,
while Larandeous is wailing “RAGING ROBOTS!!!”. At Hammel’s room the robots pressed the button
softly and the alarm went off. Clone Hammel came forward, opened the door and
ZZZZOOOOOOOOOOMM, SHWOOOOOOOOOM Larandeous was pierced in the stomach…!
Wait...the arrows missed him! Larandeous managed to escape. He ran with Hammel chasing him at the
speed of a bullet train. Hammel stopped at the trap tile but Larandeous went ahead and fell through.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!! He jumped on to an iron hand. He helped himself up but he slipped.
He fell and was pushed into a what seems like a dungeon and a sign that said “ENJOY YOUR STAY”.
Larandeous pushed at the hand that brought him up and whistled “Not today bro!”
He crawled past the robot hand and pushed a button, the hand grew larger and the hand grabbed at him and
threw him back into the dungeon. The dungeon began to shake and there was an unbearable clock chiming
sound. The jagged bars opened and Larandeous found himself in his own room. It was day at last! He
wished that he was born before Hammel and his parents had given him the magic headband. Then he could
tighten Hammel’s headband which will give him headaches, and he would have taken his room which was
300 times bigger than his own. He wished he had the iron, metal, wood and many other materials Hammel
keeps in his room. He wished...
Just then his brother came in and said “ Here you go pesk!”
Giving him a load of rubbish. For a second Larandeous thought he was giving him a bag full of iron and
metal and wood that he so wanted. “It's your turn to do the rubbish!” Hammel said. “I did it last week!”
Larandeous moaned. “How many times do I have to say that it's your turn to do the rubbish”.