Old Shanghai
S . K . H . St . Peter ' s Primary School , Lam , Ethan – 10
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t all started one night while I was reading a book called Tales of the Oldest Cities and I found a story about
Shanghai which was truly touching . Suddenly , without warning , I felt like I was being sucked in by the book ! I knew that this was ' No good ' so I quickly grabbed on the desk but it was no use , I had been sucked in .
I screamed and screamed , I felt like it had been years until my feet finally touched the ground . I rubbed my feet and glanced my surroundings , I quickly realized I was in a hotel because I saw the rooms of hotels in old Shang Hai in my history book . Suddenly , a man carrying a badge came in , he looked like a police officer . He yelled , “ Hey ! You are not supposed to be here ! A Lot of gangsters are in the area so this Peace Hotel is closed ! come with me , I will escort you to get out of here .” I nodded because I know if I didn ' t follow his orders , I ' d be in major trouble . The officer took out his gun and lead me to the exit of the hotel . Suddenly a gunshot scared me half to death ! The officer who escorted me out of the hotel muttered ,' Oh no , the gangsters are invading the hotel , quick , we must evacuate now ! take these , son . They might be useful .' And he handed me a bulletproof vest , a rifle and a handgun . We ran together and reached a very secret spot where I saw a lot of wardens and a lot of villagers ! I guess this happens almost every single day . Then , suddenly , the most horrible , terrifying thing happened . A man with an AK-47 rifle ran in , shooting crazily , a lot of villagers went down in the blood until I pulled out my gun and fired at the gangster ! The gangster went down in a BANG and blood spread everywhere . I , stood exactly where I fired my gun in shock . I guess I am not used to fire a gun at gangsters . A warden patted my head and said ,' Good job boy , did you know you were very brave to fire at that gangster .' I agreed , what else ? I mean , this was the first time I murdered a person . Then I looked back and noticed all the wardens are wearing vests , getting armed and carrying bags full of ammo . We sneaked out of our ' shelter ' which had been discovered ages ago , checked that the streets are clear and began to search if there are gangsters . Suddenly , I heard gunshots , again ! It seemed like an officer found a gangster wandering around the road . I exclaimed my gun closely and fund out how to reload and how to fire thanks to a book I read last week . Suddenly , I heard a loud BBAANNGG ! ' RPG !' someone yelled . I gulped , RPG is a rocket launcher which is very scary ! The other wardens took out their super big walkie-talkie and radioed for backup . 1 minute later , a helicopter appeared and used a mini gun to shoot where the loud bang came from ! The shooting noise was loud so I sighed a relief until the helicopter stopped shooting .
All the wardens cheered when the helicopter came close to us and we jumped on . The pilots seemed to saw me a minute later and asked , “ What is this little guy doing here ?' A warden quickly explained why I was here but I knew I came here by magic . A pilot nodded and he instructed us to take the machine guns hanging on the wall and continued to pilot the copter . The machine guns were extremely heavy so I carried it with every muscle in my body . After a long time , we found a large area of people gathering around . We quickly realized these were gangsters because they were wearing caps and carrying guns ! My god ! There were a lot of them so the wardens and I reloaded the gun ' s ammo and pointed our machine rifles out of our copter . The pilots piloted the copter like a pro and pointed it toward the gangsters . The wardens and I fired finally ! It felt so cool controlling a heavy machine gun . Suddenly , the worst thing in my whole life happened . The warden , who rescued me from Peace Hotel , who gave me reinforcements , who guided me all the way through here was shot by a gangster . I screamed , “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!” His body fell off the copter and fell to the ground in a bang . I decided to avenge him so I threw a dynamite thingy down the copter and the thing exploded and men blasted into pieces . I quickly begged the pilots to land and I found the warden who saved my life still lying on the ground . A doctor in our team exclaimed his body and a few minutes later , he pronounced the man ... dead .