Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 171

“Two. ” Yong answered.
“I need you to go to go there and get your friends.” Jay said.
“Okay,” Yong ran off.
Circling around, Jay stared at the globes, trying to decipher the deeper meaning which the globe held
“Jay, I’m back! I brought my friends Niao and a foreigner named Jim!” Yong dashed down the stairs to the
basement, only to find Jay gone.
“Hey, what’s that on her desk?” Niao asked. On her desk there was a scribbled message. A couple of the words were
too smudged to read. This is what they could make out “I needed…go. There…no…other choice…I had to go
stop the deadly future. I studied…found …going…happen near the…boat…go…find out where.”
“The main boat port is,” Niao declared.
“Near the harbour,” Jim continued. “When I was a castaway on the boat, I heard the crew talking about a drug that
would be sold and make them wealthy. The boat I got off stopped at the Harbour with the trading port. I say that
is our best chance.” Yong and Niao nodded. Before departing, Niao asked, “Wait, is it just me, or has that globe
grown bigger since we arrived?”
Yong explained, “The bigger the globe gets, the higher the chance that the future the globe holds will happen. We
need to go to the harbour… Now.”
When the boys arrived, they saw a sight unlike anything they had ever seen. Boats were crowding the harbour,
foreigners were unloading the deliveries and bringing them to the new trading port. Suddenly, Niao pointed at Jay,
“That looks like Jay. It matches your description perfectly.” Yong nodded.
“Opium?” Jay asked.
“Jay!” Niao and Jim screamed. Jay walked towards them.
“Go,” Jay uttered.
When they arrived at the basement, Jay said, “We need to warn the Government about this upcoming...”
Suddenly, a loud knocking surprised them. Jay, Niao and Jm ran up the stairs and opened the door. Standing in front
of her, were two government authorities. “We were informed that you may have some critical information about
what you know about the boats and the drug spreading around in China.”
Jay, Niao, Jim and Yong told the authorities everything they knew. The authorities then investigated the cargo on
all the ships, and then lead to the confiscating of the cargo. Jay and the others were heroes and Jay and Yong were
happily reunited as mother and son.