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GROUP 2
– JUNIOR MIDDLE 2
Champion:
THONG ZI FOONG
Class: 2 Ai
– Write a story beginning with the following sentence:
I woke up with a
headache
and noticed that
I was nowhere near my
neighbourhood...
I woke up with a headache and noticed that I was nowhere near my neighbourhood.
I woke up to the sound of people screaming in terror. I realised I was in the back of a moving
van when a sliver of light slipped through a crack on the side of the van. I saw thousands of
civilians screaming and running for their lives, and I noticed that there was a leviathan-like
being behind the terrified civilians.
I went to confront the person that put me in this van when I realised the driver was
actually my father. He explained to me that the government had released an entity with an
unknown origin into the state and we had to get out of there fast as we were on thin ice.
The entity was slaughtering civilians left and right; it was a massacre. I was petrified by what
I was witnessing, deafened by the screams of horror.
My father stepped on the gas pedal and accelerated the car like there was no
tomorrow. We went off-road and kept driving away from the vicinity of the entity. Eventually,
we arrived at an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere. When I entered the shack, I
saw a familiar face greet me - it was my uncle! Apparently, my father and uncle were ex-
militants of the country; therefore, they had access to military gear.
I armed myself with equipment I had never witnessed before in my entire life. It felt
like I was starring in a John Wick movie! As my uncle joined our party, we decided to keep
driving to the nearest military base, as it was heavily guarded and safe. Half way through the
trip, we had to stop for fuel and supplies as it would take us days to reach our destination.
We stopped by at a random gas station and filled up the car with petrol as I went
into the store scouring for food and supplies. I grabbed everything that I could and loaded
them into the car. As I was about to help my father and uncle, I noticed something over the
horizon. It was the entity; how did it catch up to us so quickly! I alerted everyone and we
rushed back into the car and drove off.
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The entity was pursuing us with immaculate speed. My father decided to go off-road
into a thick dark forest to try to lose the entity. As we entered the woods, there was an infinite
amount of humongous trees; my father zigzagged through the trees and dodged them all.
When I looked behind, the entity was still hot on our tails as it destroyed the trees with ease.
across a huge body of water. Without hesitation, my father drove the van into the lake and
As my father was coming up with an idea to get us out of this situation, we came
I thought that we were done for good. Suddenly, the van transformed into an underwater
mobile with powerful motors. Though it might have been a close call, we managed to
escape the entity.
As we were navigating through the water, we noticed an underwater cave. We decided
to go into the underwater cave and try to find a way out. There was no fear of getting lost as
the van apparently had a state-of-the-art GPS tracker. We traversed through the exceedingly
long tunnel in the cave, eventually popped up on the other side and managed to get back
on land.
We continued the excursion to the military base for a couple more days. After what
felt like months of travelling, we finally made it to the military base. However, to our horror, it
was destroyed and abandoned. We went through the wreckage and found countless bodies
of the supposed highly trained militants.
We decided to press on, pushing further away from the trail of the destruction made
by the entity. I was on the verge of tears as it felt like all hope was lost. To add on to the
occasion, the entity was somehow back on our tails chasing us. This time it looked like it
had changed to a form of a falcon. I thought there was no hope left but to my surprise, I
saw countless armed helicopters above us firing at the entity.
Thus, the battle between the helicopters and the entity commenced. The helicopters
fired loads and loads of heat-seeking missiles but the entity dodged with ease. The entity
countered with an attack that took down some helicopters. It seemed like the entity was
going to win but the skilled fighters used up all of their ammunition on one final attack. A
giant explosion occurred in the sky and something fell out of the sky. It was the entity! We
had won the battle.
The remaining helicopters took us back to the military’s secret underground base.
I saw hundreds of survivors, some were severely injured and some were on the verge of
death. We were very lucky to escape uninjured. The general of the military greeted us
and explained that scientists working for the government built the entity in a laboratory.
Apparently, this was an experiment conducted by the government to test their new military-
grade weapon, which was the entity, and there were hundreds more made in the lab.
This could lead to another worldwide war if the government decided to use this
weapon. However, for now, we are safe.
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