Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 - 2 | Page 20

The Selfish King
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School, Chan, Zachary - 11
On a long summer’s day, King Billy was very bored in his castle which he called Brave Castle. He looked
around the outside of the castle and he saw a bigger castle in the distance. He thought to himself, ‘There will
be a lot of gold there’.
King Billy went to the bigger castle and asked their king, ‘I’m the king next door to your castle, it’s
called Brave Castle, can you give me some gold?’ The other king answered, ‘No! Go back to your castle!’
So, King Billy went back to his castle.
King Billy sat on his throne and looked around again. He saw that next to the bigger castle there was a
town. A princess had been stolen from the town by a dragon. Billy thought, ‘If I can save the princess from
the dragon, the other king will maybe give me a lot of gold.’ So, Billy called Prince Peter to save the
princess.
Prince Peter then came to see Billy. Prince Peter asked, ‘King Billy, how can I help you?’ King Billy
answered, ‘Can you help me save the princess from our next-door castle’s town?’ Prince Peter thought for a
minute, then he said, ‘Okay, but how do I save the princess?’ Billy answered, ‘I’ll prepare a lot of soldiers for
you.’ Prince Peter said, ‘Okay’.
Prince Peter went back to his room and thought ‘Why did King Billy call me to save the princess?
What do I need to do? How can I save her?’ Prince Peter thought of a lot of questions.
The following week, Prince Peter brought a lot of things for the rescue. King Billy said, ‘Peter, you
are a prince, so saving the princess is your job. If you can’t save the princess, you can’t come back to Brave
Castle!’ Prince Peter was so scared he couldn’t come back to Brave Castle, but he said, ‘Okay’. Prince Peter
left.
At first Prince Peter needed to go into the castle so that he could go inside the town. He ran into the
castle without the soldiers seeing him. He then went into the town. The town had a lot of steps, so he
needed to climb up them, which took a lot of time.
Then Prince Peter saw the princess, but the dragon was very fast. He tried to attack Prince Peter.
Prince Peter took out his sword and attacked the dragon. The dragon fell down and Prince Peter saved the
princess. The dragon asked Prince Peter, ‘Why do you need to save her?’. Prince Peter answered sadly, ‘I
don’t know. King Billy called me to save the princess,’ The dragon was angry and said, ‘Oh!’ that is a selfish
king, he only thinks about himself!’. Prince Peter said, ‘I think it too’.
They went to Brave Castle to kill the king. King Billy saw Prince Peter had brought the dragon and
asked him, ‘Prince Peter, why have you brought me a dragon? Where is the princess?’ Prince Peter didn’t
answer. Then he said, ‘Dragon, fire!’ then the dragon killed the king.
The villagers were very happy that the selfish king was dead, so they chose Prince Peter to be the new
king of Brave Castle.