Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 1 | Page 93

Lost in Space: The untold story of Admiral Zheng He
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Chu, Christina - 8
Once there was a man called Zheng He, he was a famous Admiral in China long long time ago. He was
famous for his adventures and brought many beautiful things to China. The history books tell us that he had
sailed more than seven times to Africa and the Middle East, but nobody knows that he had a secret
journey... until now !
On one sunny day, Admiral Zheng He his friend Zheng She, his god-daughter Zheng Me and his dog
Zing Zing, were sailing in the famous treasure ship called the ‘Chicken King’. Suddenly the weather turned
bad and the sky turned wild and purple! Strange objects like green peas and Chinese dumplings all crashed
into the sea together with lightning and thunderbolt made of toothpicks. While everyone on the ship were
panicking, a tornado sucked up the ship ! The tornado was in fact a Black-hole! Everything started to
stretch like noodles and spin around like a carousel. They were travelling through the Black-hole at the
speed of light, then suddenly everything stopped.
‘Everybody brace yourselves! Let’s get out of the ship and explore!’ said Zheng He.
The Black-hole had taken them to a strange planet called TTA 8813. It looked like a garbage dump full of
giant squids which were actually aliens. The aliens were eating disgusting stuff such as slug pies, purple ink
and chewing bubble- gum made of horse poop. The aliens called themselves names like ‘Europa’, ‘Galli-
storm’, ‘Lo’, ‘Nose-picker’, ‘Chatterbox’ and ‘Poop-eater’ Zheng He thought the aliens might eat them, so
they hid behind some slug slime.
Just when Zheng He thought he and his friends could quietly return to their ship, something unexpected
happened. Zing Zing barked at Nose-picker because it looked like a sausage! The aliens tied up Zheng He
and his friends with pony-tails and forced them to eat their disgusting food. Zheng Me tried to be polite
and took a bite of the horse-poop bubble gum. She hand started to shake, her face turned green and she
turned into an alien! They called her ‘Greenie-pie’ and wanted to eat her! Just when the aliens turned their
backs to get the knife, Zheng He and his friends ran away in time and got back into the ship. Zheng He
went to his cabin and took his magic wand that the King of Africa gave him as a birthday present. He waved
the wand at Zheng Me and said “hullaballo !’, she turned back into human. Suddenly their ship started to
spin and the Black-hole took them back to China. Zheng He said to his friends, ‘this is the worst adventure
ever! Let’s not write it down in the history book because people might think we are very crazy!’
Guess where his next adventure will be?