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Chicken

Published by benny cheng, 2022-10-31 14:13:49

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1 Chicken By Benny Cheng

Cheng 2 Once upon a time, Aafien lived in a wooden house in the center of a forest. He lived a self-sufficient life by searching the forest for food and meat. “KNOCK” A loud sound came from the door of Aafien’s house in the morning. Aafien asked:” Who is that?” No one replied. Aafien opened the door and saw a dead raven.(S) Aafien didn’t pay much attention to it. Instead, he continued with his stone sculpture on the roof of his house. It's a sculpture of his grandfather, one of his favorite people he’d ever met. His grandfather was a professional climber. However, he gave his cloth to 2 teenagers who got lost on a mountain; as a result, his grandfather died to cold.(CCX) Ever since he died, Aafien moved into a forest and started exploring himself. When he finished the sculpture, it was already midnight. (CX) He decided to find some fruits from the forest for tomorrow’s breakfast and went out. “DONNNN” ferocious lightning struck from the sky with neither stars nor moon. (PCC) It was dim; he could barely see anything.(C) Meanwhile, the temperature was so cold, as if time had stopped. Every single frigid 2

Cheng 3 snow that fell on his body made him shiver. Regardless of the situation, Aafien needed to go into the forest for fruits; otherwise, he would be starving tomorrow morning. He followed the path that he usually went into but found nothing. Thus, he went on a path that he had never seen before. Then, his eyes were captured by a sign: \" FOODS AND FRUITS.” The words on the sign repeated in his mind again and again as if something was drumming in his ears. Suddenly, he walks in unconsciously and falls into a hole. “Where am I,” Aafien thinks in his mind. He tried climbing back to the entrance but didn’t know how because of the complexity in the cave. Then, he saw fireflies and followed the fireflies up. When he was 10 meters away, he saw a beast. The beast had black stings covering its body like a hedgehog and a beak as sharp as a knife. The eyes were magnified with blazing flares. Its speed is enchanted with the alacrity of a cheetah. Running out and into the cave repetitively. Suddenly, the beast zoomed toward the fireflies and deleted all of them from existence in a second. The sudden shock precipitated an impetuous recoil. At the bottom of the cave, Aafien damaged his leg because of the fall from the entrance to the bottom. Aafien was afraid, helpless, and indolent. Aafien decided to sleep because there was nothing he could do while a beast was guarding the entrance. Aafien woke up with a blurry vision for the first few seconds, then found himself inside a forest he’d never seen before. His pain were all gone. The wind flew over his arm like a docile genie. He feels nothing here but pacific and serenity. An 3

Cheng 4 owl flies down toward Aafien. Then, a mysterious jade light covered the owl. A few minutes later, a man with a white beard walks out from the jade-lighting ball. “Grandpa?” Aafien shouted hastily. “Aafien, you were stuck in a cave. Weren’t you?” He asked “Uhhhhhh, yes, I don’t know how to get out. A beast is guarding the entrance. There’s no way that I get out,” Aafien answered “Listen, things aren’t as bad as they look. When something you think is bad happens, it perhaps isn’t. When I was young, I encountered thousands of ‘Beasts’, but I realized they weren’t offensive toward me after I freaked out for hours. Go on, take one more look closer to the beast, and face it even though it doesn’t look friendly. (PL)” Aafien’s grandpa said. Then, Aafien’s grandpa turned back into an owl and flew toward a firewall in the forest. Afterward, Aafien woke up and started heading toward the entrance. Each step Aafien took was an absolute torment for him because of the injury. Finally, he arrived at the entrance and saw the beasts. He approached the beasts slowly, crouching to avoid the beast’s attention. However, Aafien slipped and the beast noticed that and rushed toward him. Aafien noticed that and ran as fast as he could out of the cave. “BWARKKK” the beast yelled. Under the brilliant sunshine, the vague picture of the beast in Aafien’s mind has become clear; it's a chicken. “What” With a few seconds of hesitation, Aafien rubs his eye and confirms it's a chicken. “I thought it was something else,” Aafien laughed and lay on the ground. 4

Cheng 5 On the way home, everything Aafien saw looked better and smelled better. Under the warm sunshine, Aafien arrived at his home with the raven gone mysteriously. 5


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