Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 35

“Hanxiao! Come back! Come back!” whispered Taojun.
“Wait! Wait!” I shouted to the tall man and tried to stop them. I showed the whole box of gold to him.
The shiny gold attracted his attention. He reacted with alacrity by turning around and reaching out his
hands. He stopped in front of the gold.
“He likes gold!” said another crewman.
“Hanxiao is in danger. I need to rescue him.” I told myself.
I took a deep breath and rushed to Hanxiao and grabbed him back. All of a sudden, there was an invisible
force pushing us and we crashed towards the wall. A cube dropped off from the wall. I picked it up. In a
flash of time, his palms glowed and all the gold melted. We froze in alarm and held our breath.
“You guys carry Hanxiao! Let’s run!” I bawled. We all finally climbed on board and heaved a sigh of relief.
* * *
“Captain Xuefei, it’s a weird island.” I gasped in horror.
“Hanxiao was bewitched by the tall man,” said Taojun quivered.
“What have you traded with the gold, silk and the porcelains? said Captain furiously.
“A…a strange man melted our gold with his…his glowing palms. The porcelains were all broken when
we’re fleeing,” I wailed in fear.
“Take me to the island now!” Captain urged.
“What? We have to go there again?” I shivered.
When our ships almost approached the weird island, something strange happened.
“Where’s the island?” I said in surprise. Suddenly, the sky became coal-black. We all gazed up. Everyone
was surprised that a huge thing was slowly hovering above the sky. In the blink of an eye, a huge serpent-
like object rushed through the sky and disappeared into thin air. We were stricken into silence and staring in
disbelief. Some sailors cried, “It’s a dragon!”
Epilogue
On that night, I looked at the cube that I brought from the weird island. Is the legend of the dragon true?
Why did the island disappear? Many questions popped up in my mind. In retrospect, it was a nerve-
wrecking experience.