Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 395

The Old City of Shanghai
Sha Tin Junior School , Hui , Augustine - 9

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n the old city of Shanghai many different kinds of tales were told . Some were funny , sad , happy and angry tales .
Different tales meant different beliefs , but one of the most common and the one which most people believed in was called “ Old city of Shanghai ”
Old city of Shanghai On a stormy pitch black night in Shanghai , there was an enormous storm . The storm was a disaster the lightning struck many different sized huts and tore them into flames . That tore the whole of north Shanghai into pieces . Over 5000000 people were killed in that natural disaster , the remaining 32.1 million people were either seriously injured or wounded .
The remaining people went to the mountain top to find the old sage . The old sage said nothing but “ stray dog ” which sent them crazy . All the villagers felt terrified and chill went down their spines as their teeth chattered the old sage said nothing useful to them . So the villagers decided to walked slowly and silently down the mountain top . As they walked down the hill they noticed a small tiny black and white striped stray dog . The villagers thought it was so cute that one of them stroked the stray dog on the back and walked it down the hill . But little did they know this was the dog which caused all the damage done to the village . As they were walking down the hill the dog started barking several times in a row . But the villagers were so imbecilic that they thought it was hungry but actually it was a sign to the lightning god Zeus to get ready to strike another huge storm sixty-seven hours later .
All the villagers went to different types of stores today to buy ingredients and equipment they need so that they can build something new . They were building a time machine to launch them into year 2169 , so that they could get all the newest effects and building equipment , to create the highest technology secret base . Now that they have gone the stray dog could talk to Zeus around the clock about the surprise attack . They were planning to launch a surprise attack to the villagers . But little did Zeus and Charmaleena know that there was a device which could hear every single detail and point that they were talking about . They put it there in case that there was anything suspicious done in the village .
The next day they were ready to launch their surprise attack at 7pm , Zeus had a teeth showing smile with blinking eyes and red cheeks because he was ready to launch the surprise attack . When the villagers got back at 1am in the morning they got straight away into building their time machine . 2 hours later they finally finished their teleporter or time machine to go into the new known world and dimension 2169 . They went there to collect titanium , diamond , emerald , iron , potions , fancy new technology , science books , experiment chemicals , and fancy new weapons and shields . They were soon building factories and houses , but they didn ’ t build that secret base . Instead they started creating other construction buildings . They created all the present materials and left the diamonds and emeralds in caves .
While the building was finished Zeus struck all the buildings with lightning but nothing happened and broke apart . Zeus was infuriated his intense eyes were staring at the villager ’ s apartments and sent a lightning bolt as huge as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai ( it was 2272 ft 829.8m ). Still nothing got burnt down , so instead he shot lightning at a nearby standing tree , which then sent a wild fire around the whole north Shanghai . The fire started to come closer to the village and within seconds the fire had reached the village . The villagers scurried to find huge buckets of water and trash it against the fire .
Hours later , the fire did stop but instead it turned into lava , everyone dived to get materials and different floatable objects and stood on top of the objects . The lava was a cheetah it was rising a meter every second no matter what