Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 250

The Telepathic Sisters
Pui Ching Primary School, Kong, Pui Ga Alyson - 12
Hundreds of years ago, in Shanghai, lived two good-hearted and wealthy leader pirates of a pirate crew that
was called The Snow Foxes. Although they stole, they stole from the rich to give to the poor. Their names
were Law Tin and Yuk Tung. They gave birth to beautiful twin girls, and named the older one, Yia and
younger one, Ying. Although they were twins, they grew up to become two completely different girls; Ying
being very wild and Yia being quiet.
They have only one thing in common; they always knew what each other wanted…they can read each
other’s mind. Once, Yia’s favourite toy broke, Yia was upset... and no one else except Ying understood
why. Ying kept hearing, ‘Yia is sad because her toy was broken.’ in her head.
Five years later when Yia and Ying were seven years old, since Yia was older, their mother gave her the
responsibility to look after her younger sister when they were out at sea. When their parents were out for a
mission, Ying insisted on going to sea.
The next thing they knew; they were out of the door to the barque the girls owned. They walked to get the
cannons, daggers, blunderbusses, cutlasses…. They boarded the barque with high spirits, humming songs as
they rode on. Yia started sailing the barque to their destination, a little island a few miles away.
Yia noticed a big storm coming and tried to steer back to the island, but it was too late. The storm whipped
Ying out of the barque like a ragdoll. Yia started flailing her arms around like she was on fire. She tried to
contact her sister with her telepathic connection.
“Ying!” she called out. She saw her sister unconscious and flopping around in the sea like a jellyfish. She
strapped a rope onto her waist to the barque and jumped into the water to save Ying. Yia put Ying’s
unconscious body onto the sand. Yia carried Ying on her back to the nearest hospital. Ying fell into a coma.
Yia started feeling a pain at her arm which slowly spread to the rest of her body. It dawned on her – Ying
was in a coma because of her.
Every day, Yia visited her sister. Months passed. Ying still hadn’t awoken. Yia grew impatient and gave up
visiting her, thinking she was dead. The grieve faded in as the connection faded away.
Twelve years later, when Yia was nineteen, she helped her mother rule the ship. What she didn’t know was
that Ying was actually alive. When Ying woke up, she completely forgot everything except fake
information that the psychopath told her, one including that she was a psychopathic killer, she got this
information by her mother’s enemy, the psychopath, Long. She always killed then got away with everything
while looking like an innocent little girl with large doe eyes.
She was now the leader of Yia’s enemy pirate group, The Howlers. since Long died trying to “save” her.
Ying hated Yia with burning passion. They always were slashing each other’s throat… literally. What Yia
didn’t know was Ying was the leader of the group, because she always wore a mask that almost covered her
entire face, but that was not until one day. That day was the first day in the week of a little battle between
the two pirate groups. Yia was finishing practice on the ship when the other pirate team suddenly barged in.
Ying’s group thankfully had their swords and daggers ready.
They started to fight with bows and arrows, daggers and swords. Blunderbuss noises were loud and sharp;
flintlock bullets were flying everywhere. Blood was covering the floor in puddles. Screams of pain were
sounding. Ying saw that Ying wasn’t looking at her way so she took the chance and socked her in the
stomach with her fist.
Yia shouted, “Oh, it’s on!”, in pain. Yia whipped her hand across Ying’s face, bringing her mask down
while trying to stand up. The piece of fabric floated softly towards the floor. Yia saw Ying’s face and was
shocked. Yia immediately stopped what she was about to do: punch Ying. Yia thought she was
hallucinating, but then Ying tried to do some extreme karate moves.
Yia snapped out of her thoughts and tried blocked them but it didn’t work since she was distracted. Ying
kept punching Yia until Yia started to cough and spit blood. Ying then took this weak moment of Yia’s and
took out her dagger and stuck the blade into Yia’s gut. Yia’s last words were,
“Sis….I..I…mi...ss..th..e...o..ol..ld..yo....u....p..lea...se...co..me...b...ac...k” before she slipped into an eternal
slumber. Ying had this extremely psychopathic look on her face but not for long. When Yia departed, Ying
felt some searing pain in her arm and it burn up. She suddenly had flashbacks of when they were younger
and that what Long had told her were all fake. She wanted to make up with her sister, but it was too late.
Ying admitted to her mistakes and The Howlers merged with The Snow Foxes and they turned their name
into The Snow Howlers. The crew surprisingly let Ying be their leader. Ying did a really good job leading
the crew as a memory of Yia, like giving food to the poor, helping some homeless animals get a lifetime
home, helping some kids get adopted... Ying made it down to history as one of the best pirates. Yia was
proud of her as she looked down from heaven. Everything was peaceful.