Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 90

The Magic Adventure of Blue-Elephant
St Stephens College Preparatory School, Zhang, Audrey - 8
I’m an eight year old girl from the Kingdom of Lanka, a beautiful island country in the Indian Ocean.
People call me Blue-Elephant because every day, I help, a “Saint”, elephant to take bath in the River of
Orchid, to eat and play. This is near to the Temple of Tooth where I live with monks.
We are safeguarding and serving the most important treasure in Lanka, The Buddah’s Tooth.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people come here to pray.
Where does the Budda’s Tooth come from? It comes from India as a gift from thousands of years ago.
We always wanted to take the Tooth back to the people of India but we didn’t have a ship big enough.
One day, Monk Master and I went to a harbour nearby for a visit.
He asked: “Do you want to go on an ocean adventure?”
“Of course, but we need a ship,” I answered.
Suddenly, I couldn’t believe what I saw!
I saw a giant fleet in the sea, with seven large ships. Each ship carried a flag with golden words “Ming”.
A smiling captain was standing on the deck waving to us.
“This must be the famous Ming Treasure Voyage from China to India and Africa!” Master said to me.
“And the captain looks very friendly,” I shouted out.
We ran to ask the Captain: “Can you take us on your journey too?”
“Of course,” says the Captain.
“Great!” said the Master: “Can you help us to take the Buddah’s Tooth back to India for a tour?”
He added: “After that, we can show it to your country too!”
“Good idea!” Captain answered: “but our fleet can only take three more people.”
We went back to put the tooth into a small treasure chest, and carried it onto the ship.
We set out for our next adventure!
We sailed many days and nights on the ocean.
We went through a lot of beautiful sunrises and sunsets, but also thunders, storms which were very
dangerous!
Finally we arrived at India and we took the tooth to a hotel nearby the sea.
At night, while we were sleeping, some pirates came to try to steal our treasure!
I was woken up by the sound and jumped up to stop them.
“How dare you!” shouted the pirate, captain Goldbeard.
“No, stop!” I shouted.
I battled with him bravely…, before Master and Captain come to rescue me.
At last we won!
I asked Goldbeard to give back the tooth.
“It’s a hope for many people in many countries!” I tell him.
“Stop stealing, and we can become friends.”
“Yes, Blue-Elephant, thank you for pardoning me and the love! Sorry!”
In the end, Goldbeard and myself joined the Ming voyage after India tour. We became ships captains and
sail among China, Lanka and India.
Suddenly, a tropical lizard woke me up and I jumped to my feet. I was actually reading a pirate book on a
Maldive beach! It had been a dream!