Dragon of the Wall
Jennifer Ander
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son, Group 2: Fiction, Discovery College
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It's about a girl, a tiger, a group of runaways and the evil man who wanted to take over China.
Not many people know it. It happened in the beginnings of the Opium wars……
"
Oh, come on,
at the best you can do? Come on Tin, you're a tiger and I'm just a tiny girl, how can you still not
ei Niao was an orphan of about 15, living in the wild with a tame tiger Tin Li.
Suddenly, Mei heard a group of people coming by.
"
Quick Tin, we need to hide!" Mei and Tin ducked behind some nearby bushes and watched through gaps in
the leaves.
They saw a man leading a group of 7.. The man with dark blue cap was walking in front, a bump
pouch was wrapped, and a black book, with lots of bookmarks it was hanging out.
"
How much farther till the
Great Wall, Dai Pei?”
"
Stop asking and we'll be there sooner, solider," snapped Dai Pei.
They groaned but kept walking.
"
Now remember the plan, I will turn the Great Wall into a dragon with my book, and the emperor shall turn
the throne over to me! We will all live in luxury for the rest of our days! Understand?"
"
Understand," said the
soldiers in a bored way.
When Mei couldn't see or hear them anymore, she sat down and thought.
Should I help China or not?
I've never really cared for the Chinese villagers, but things might go terribly wrong. If I help China, then all
of those villagers might suddenly give me more attention and I wouldn't have time to do anything, like play with
Tin. Maybe I should, but I just not tell anyone about what happened......it will just be like nothing happened!!!
That works!
While she was deep in thought, Tin had been pawing Mei. He thought she was sad and wanted to
save the villagers. Thinking they understood each other, they stood up and started walking, determined to save
China.
Meanwhile a group of six British runaway soldiers had their own problems.
"
Come on! We got a shelter to make! We got destiny to follow!
"
Ok Johnny, a little less exaggerating, ok?
We want to go, we have to make a shelter, but we didn't need to go." The other men glared at Tom.
They had
escaped in Hong Kong and after 3 weeks, arrived in Beijing. They would walk to the Great Wall, dig under it
and create a home
The men arrived at a stream. Upstream, they could see movement. "Hey, look!" said Charles.
"
There is someone else here," groaned Tom, who was tired of walking.
"
No! There is a girl on the other
side and a tiger!" Charles cried.
"
The tiger is trying to eat the girl! He is sneaking up on her, she doesn’t not
know he is right behind her," said John.
"
We have to save her!" cried Charles.
"
Lets go!" shouted John.
Mei, looked sideways and cried in Chinese, "Oh no!"
John ran and jumped in front of the tiger, pointing
his gun. Mei shouted in Chinese, "NO! He is my friend! He will listen to me!"
Charles, from a rich family had
learnt Chinese. He understood what Mei said, and shouted to John," The girl says the tiger is tame!"
"
Really?"
asked John.
"
Show him that the tiger is tame" said Charles to Mei.
"
Come on Tin! Over here!" said Mei Niao
shakily.
Tin followed Mei. "Ok Tin, jump over this log, and the scary man won't hurt you,"
Tin Li jumped
over the log, and sat down in front of Mei.
"
It's tame, but what do we do now?" asked Ken.
"
What were you
doing?" Charles asked Mei.
"
Those men, camping further upstream are trying to take over China by turning the
Great Wall into a dragon!" replied Mei.
Charles translated and told the rest of the men what was happening.
"
What should we do?" asked Paul.
"
We have to save China. Who's with me?" said John.
"
Me!"
So they sat
down together to make a plan.
Mei peeked through the bushes. She could see Dai Pei and his men casually strolling out of their tents with
weapons.
When they left, Mei crept into the clearing. She looked around, and headed for the most luxurious tent.She
crept inside. There was a scroll wrapped up in a grey blanket in the corner. Mei carefully unwrapped it and saw
a scroll. The title was “Dark Magic”.
Mei gasped. She could hear footsteps coming!
"
What's this?" asked Dai. "Tie this thief up. She was trying to steal my scroll."
Mei she screamed"HELP
ME!"
Charles heard her cry and called out . "Lets go! We have to save Mei and China,"
"
Run! we've been
ambushed!" screamed a soldier.
John and his gang ran into the clearing. Soldier ran, screaming at the sight of
the muscly British men barging in.
John & Charles untied Mei while Tom and the others searched for the scroll.
They didn't notice DaiPei crawling towards Tom, who was about to rip apart the scroll. "Aha!" yelled