Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 123

During the attack , I was so busy looking for shelter and for Chloe that I haven ’ t had enough time and energy to work about the arrows flying right next to me at all . Eventually , an arrow flying high up in the clear , blue sky shot down as fast as the speed of light , right into my front left leg . I was paralyzed and I became unconscious , I thought I was dead for sure , but the next thing I knew , was that I woke up in a weird place , with two people in white standing near me .
Chapter 3 - The human world
At first , they looked a lot like the wolf hunters who tried to kill me , but when I looked again , I realized that I actually didn ’ t know who they are . I didn ’ t know what they ’ re doing but I must have squealed because then , the weird people came to me and said “ It ’ s okay . You can get out of here in …” she thought for a moment , “… half an hour .” I was on a dark blue table that was used for operations . I tried to stand up but I was tied to the table and my wounds hurt me like crazy , so I made the wiser decision and decided not to try to stand up on the table .
A fair amount of time later , the white people came to me with a very sharp knife . They told me to be still and it was going to hurt less and that it was going to be over shortly , so I kept still and a short amount of time later , it was finished and I have finally been released from the blue ground and they led me to a cage which I refused to go into but got shoved into it anyways . My cage was carried to a small dark room that started to move shortly after my cage was shoved into it . Even with the very dim light from a hole in the roof , I couldn ’ t quite make out if I was the only one in the room or if there were others with me .
After an extremely long time later , the room stopped moving , and the door opened … Chapter 4 - My home ?
When I was released from my cage , I was lead to a rather peculiar white building . The first room I went into had rather soft white chairs which I wasn ’ t allowed to touch . In front of that was a long black box which has people trapped inside it . To the left , there was a room connected to the room , which had lots of metal boxes , circles and sticks in it . I wasn ’ t allowed to touch any of that either . Then there ’ s floating metal rectangles that lead to more rooms above my head .
I was astonished by what this peculiar white building had inside , but I was shocked to see that three humans walked down the floating rectangles and came over to me .“ Is it coming to live with us ?” Asked one of them .
“ Yes , it is .” Answered the other , and then came over to me and said , “ This is your home now . I am your mother , this is your father ”, she pointed to the tallest one , “ and this is your sister …” she pointed to the smallest one .
“ You ’ ll sleep here ,” ‘ Dad ’ said pointing to a blue mat , “ you ’ ll eat here ,” he said pointing to a metal bowl , “ and you ’ ll do your business here ,” he pointed to a stack of peculiar looking paper , although I didn ’ t quite understand the term ‘ business ’.
“ Oh , I almost forgot !” said ‘ Mom ’, “ You are forbidden to go upstairs .”
After 9 years of doing the exact same thing everyday , every week and every year , I finally learned to live like a human . But just when life was getting comfortable , I was sent back to the exact cage that brought me to my human home . I got into the van again , but only this time , after a long time , I was dropped off in the middle of nowhere … But before they left , Mom came up to me and said , “ Stella , your dad and I , we decided that you should return back to the wild .”