Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 31

New Tales of the Ming Treasure Voayages
Korean International School, Wong, Ho Wang - 7
One day, the king from China told Zheng He to deliver presents by using a smelly ship. Zheng He was
excited because it was the first time ever to board a ship. He invited two of his best friends, Tai and Chu to
join the journey.
The journey eventually started after few months of preparation. The ride was choppy and it went up and
down. Chu was furious. “I don’t like it here and it’s so smelly!” He shouted out crazily. Suddenly, a heavy
rain started to pour.” Zheng He! There was a really big rain coming to us!” One sailor screamed. “ On
no! What are we going to do?’’ Zheng He cried out loudly.
The waves crashed the ship and washed all passengers including Zheng He off to a desert island where it was
dirty. “Why is this island so dirty and how are we going to get out?” Zheng He questioned yet no one
answered.
When everyone was trying hard to figure an escape plan, “Ahhhhhh! It’s a cobra and its venomous, run!’’
screamed Zheng He as loud as possible. But the cobra only travels one mile per hour, it came up to Zheng
He’s smart mind. He ran up to the cobra and stepped on it, the cobra was dead. “Hooray! I killed the
cobra!” shouted Zheng He. Yet they were still stranded on the dirty and horrible island filled with all the
dangerous animals and plants. “I guess we would be here forever ’’ Zheng He thought. Suddenly, Tai
screamed. “I am trapped by a gigantic pitcher plant, it is eating me up!” Zheng He rushed to the plant and
tried to open the pitcher plant, but it would not budge open. Suddenly, Zheng He got an amazing idea, he
grabbed grains of sand and threw them inside the pitcher quickly via it’s slits. The pitcher plant was sick and
the person trapped inside pushed the pitcher plant opened and finally was saved. Zheng He jumped happily.
But they were still stranded on the deadly island. “I want to leave here, I m starving. ’’ Chu claimed.
“Don’t be so worried, our ship might come to our way as the current suggests.’’ said Zheng He. They
waited for hours and hours but no luck.
On the second day, luckily, their ship was washed to the nearby beach by the dirty island, everyone saw the
ship from the distance and screamed. When the ship finally arrived, everyone shouted, “Hooray, we can go
home now!” As soon as Zheng He boarded the ship, he decided to continue the journey and he mastered
to deliver colossal pile of presents to all of the designated countries on time.
Finally, they sailed back to China and Zheng He told the king what has happened and the king was very
delightful. Zheng He was thrilled because he completed his mission. The king praised him as a true
warrior and named him as “Best Sailor”.