Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 293

The door spoke, "Children, please complete your task. If you fail to complete it in time, all of you will
turn into statues of stone. If you succeed, all of you can go and take your treasure and leave safely. Your task
is to go inside the room together and solve the riddle while fighting against the beast." The door opened,
waiting for the teenagers to go into the room of doom. They hugged together, deciding who should go in
first.
"Jake, why don't you go in first?" stuttered Caroline.
"I thought the "mighty Caroline" isn't afraid of anything!" mocked Jake without any hesitation.
"Let's just go in together." Emily suggested.
They all stepped in the room at the same time. A hideous monster! They glared at each other and
thought of a plan. Emily and Christy would go and solve the riddle while Caroline and Jake would confront
the monster. ‘What