Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 24

Mahad and Axmed gave the plan a second thought before really doing it. They knew that their
parents needed this so they started the heist. They got the chicken and put it on the floor, they then gave it
a little smack and it went wild. The guards started to get irritated and started chasing it with their spears.
Then Mahad got onto the ship and ran to the barrels; he saw a sailor collecting barrels to organize them.
Mahad then jumped, scared him and punched him in one shot out cold. Mahad changed into the sailors'
clothes. He then followed a sailor with some gold in his hands to the basement. After the sailor put the gold
back into the basement Mahad silently grabbed the gold and spices and put it into a big sack and rushed to
the gate. Outside the gate, he saw the two guards with a dead chicken. Axmed saw Mahad. Axmed then
immediately rushed to the dock and grabbed the chicken and started to fake cry to distract the guards. The
guards were laughing but they also were starting to get irritated. So irritated that they lifted up their spears
and were about to stab Axmed. Right before they did, Mahad struck his spear across the two sailors bodies.
Mahad was in shock but didn’t want to show it so he threw the spear with the bodies into the water.
Axmed and Mahad sprinted back to the shed and didn’t know what to do with all the loot. Axmed
had a great idea; he thought they could pretend to dig holes to plant crops but put the loot inside the holes
so it looks as if they just came across the loot while digging. The next morning Mahad was “digging holes
for the crops” and came across the loot. Mahad immediately ran to his parents and told them about the gold.
They all darted to the loot. Axmed and Mahad’s mother and father were in shock. They said it was a miracle
from God, but in reality it was a miracle from their boys.