Tails of a Wall
Dennis Toepker, Group 2: Fiction, Pui Kiu College
came back home, screaming my head off, YYEEEESSSSS! I went, WOOOOOHOOOOO! I yelled, then,
my mom came in to the living room and yelled, “What is all the shouting all about!?”
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It is the beginning of the summer vacation!” I said with happiness.”
I see…”said mom.
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What’s the matter?” I asked.
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I nearly forgot, have I told you that we are going to Beijing?” asked mom.
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No,” I replied.
I
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Well I already told you, shall we go?”
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Sure,” I said.
After the conversation, I got into my room so I could prepare a little bag for myself while mom got into her
room and started to sweat already!
After a lot of packing, we got out of the door sweating and went toward the airport.
When we got to the airport, we couldn’t believe our eyes, it was bigger than ever! I looked around the art
museum of planes and I found the most interesting thing: There was a dummy sitting on an airplane , putting
both of his arms in the air, I thought it was pure abnormal, but we had no time for seeing the beautiful view of a
dummy sitting there and doing nothing, so mom pulled my arm and we continued our “adventure” in the airport.
After all the centuries of ticket taking, walking and waiting, we finally got on the plane and started our journey.
It was a super long flight from Hong Kong to Beijing , but luckily, I was able to survive part of the flight
since I brought my portable Nintendo DS , but it ran out of battery in a flick of a switch, so I could only survive
ten minutes of the flight, the rest of it is too boring to describe.
After some massive boredom, we got out of the plane and took our first steps into Beijing, the capitol of
China. We booked a hotel room for two weeks and started our first journey: The Great Wall of China. We took a
regular bus to The Great Wall of China, but the only problem was that my stomach was feeling extremely
uncomfortable, and because of this, I got carsick and...BLLLLOOOOUUUUGGGGHHHH! CCOUGH COUGH
COUGH GAG GAG!
I threw up, just in time for the people who were getting out at the stop to get a good old view instead of the
smell of the youngest vomit in the bus. When we got there, I saw the gate with an enormous height, we got in
and a random man popped out of nowhere and introduced us to the Great Wall of China. He said, “The Great
Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in
1987.
Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and
plateaus, stretching approximately 8,852 kilometers (5,500 miles).”
I was amazed that a regular wall could reach such an incredible size! He continued to speak,
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This stupendous wall was built to defend the Chinese Empire from Mongolians and other invaders. The
construction started in the 7
th
Century BC, but most of the Great Wall we see today was built during the Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644). It is the longest fortification ever built.” After he finished talking about this Great Wall,
we started our walk along the Great Wall of China.
After I walked like a very small fraction of the whole wall, my legs started to kill me. It was as if my legs
were stabbing themselves. I couldn’t stand it, I needed to stop and find some kind of teleportation device that
could beam me to the end of this wall, but unfortunately, that has never happened yet…I kept walking and
walking until finally. We all got to the end of the wall, sweating and exhausted. But I think I was the most
exhausted one compared to all the others who walked with me, because I didn’t have any water for two hours.
While I was drinking my water, I saw something waving in the air; it was coming from the back of the wall.
Everyone should have noticed too, because everyone was looking at the same area as I was. When we were
brave enough to get closer to it, the wall suddenly jumped up, making both sides of the wall crack! I thought we
were done, but then, I saw somewhere safe to go to, and the only way to get there was to jump.
I was willing to do it, CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! It continued to crack, but while it cracked, we all
jumped from one side to the other. When we got to the safest area we could find, we saw the wall evolving into
some sort of dragon or something. As it evolved, people were jumping off the wall and hiding in the plants,
waiting for all the chaos to be gone. It finished evolving, It WAS a dragon.
After some time, the dragon really didn’t know what it was doing, it started flying all over the area, making
swirls of strong winds. I didn’t know what kind of religion would let an animal spirit in the greatest wall of all
China, but if it was meant to kill the Mongolians, then it would make a lot of sense.