Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 159

Future Adventures of the Greater Bay Area
Kennedy School, Wang, Sophia - 10
My eyes glimmered with enjoyment as I walked across BoKok street. I beamed glamorously at random
people, who whatsoever didn’t notice me. Cantonesia was interesting … All those blissful families, delightful
shops, ancient galleries and healthy crops!
The red taxis rushed through the winding road, beeping loudly. Trees gathered around together enjoyably.
Tall, large buildings overpowered your eyes, and dragonflies soared through miles everyday on its own
fascinating journey. Eagles swung high away from land, gliding through the sky with their eyes on the watch
for prey.
When I was born, I popped out of the earth’s crust and found myself invisible. Mother nature took good
care of me, she was the only one that could see me, feel me, and hear me. The only mother nature in the
world actually lived in Cantonesia.
Sometimes, the world couldn’t help what you were - for me, I was a ‘no-one’, who wandered around the
streets, completely unnoticed.
My hair was long, medium curled, ginger-gold, my eyes were sparkling, emerald green. I wore sky-blue
trousers and a black t-shirt, and I had green and white colored trainers.
Come to think of it, I forgot to introduce myself, I’m Katana Gladiolus. I didn’t name myself, if you’re
wondering. Mother nature named me after the first plant I’d touched - a green Gladiolus.
Thank you, mother nature - for everything.
I rubbed my shoes onto the fresh dirt layed on the ground. It was my first day without mother nature
looking after me - I was already 12 years old, so it was about time I set off on my own. Yes, I was a bit
concerned, but I knew these worries had to stay behind and I would need confidence to survive on my
own.
I travelled back to the mountains, on my way back to my cave, I met my eyes on a patch of lifeless flowers.
The flowers were facing downwards instead of upwards, and were getting a bit black, they were definitely
dying. Investigating, it probably wasn’t humans who did this, neither was it God.
At a leisurely pace, I carried on exploring the features of the plants and discovered even more dying on my
way. The dying was spreading one by one! This had never ever happened during my whole lifetime living
in the mountains. I observed the plants in sympathy, and my mind gave a quick click in thought:
Was something happening to mother nature?
It was just one day when we were separate and this happened? What a disaster! Knowing there was no time
for whining, I followed the sound of cheering coming from the mountain top. I heard a scream that’d faded,
and people whistling in joy. This was probably what was going to happen ‘next’. Sprinting up, I peeked
through a bush, observing the crowd of people.
The crowd all had ginger-gold hair like me, however, their eyes were all blue. Unlike mine, green. They
surrounded a figure that was tied up - with an instant glance, I knew it was mother nature. A few of them
looked quite… violent, having the urge to kill.
Why had these strangers captured mother nature - the protector of life?
I was the kind of person who was always curious, but never brave. I bit my lip, having a strange feeling
mother nature might’ve already been killed. Peeking around, mother nature’s eyelids were closed and it
looked as if she’d fainted - What did these maniacs do?!
Rather randomly, I jumped out and revealed myself. A crowd stared into my eyes, I was quite surprised they
saw me - I thought I was invisible!
“That’s her.” a tall, hunching man claimed.
“Let’s just get rid of her!” a rather skinny woman roared