1. My life for Gold!By: Young Ho Kim

2. Your king has just spoken that your task was to dig gold and make jewelries for the king. His servant brings you a heavy pickaxe and a huge armor, then for a comfortable wear he gives you a long silky sleeve for relaxation and sleeping wear. The last word that the King said to you is “You’re my private gold digger. I will give you anything you want, but if you find some fascinating things while you’re digging, report it to me first.” Then he gives you a big tap on your shoulder and leads you to the exit room. The king shows you which road to take and 40 minutes later you arrive to a huge mine that plenty of gold diggers dug for many years. You ask yourself “Why am I here and how did I wake up in the King’s room”? Others were only focusing on the digging, nothing else. It is like they didn’t have feelings and thought, but their only desire was to get gold for the king. They barely talked to each other, or even look at each other. You get your pickaxe and tray, find a spot, and start mining the hard, dark gray rocks. Suddenly a guy next to you stopped his digging and says “This is your destiny. You can’t escape from this world or they will try to kill you.” You get confused for a moment and keep digging your holes. There was still no gold, but you were still wondering about how you got to this world, and what the man said. Was this going to be my “destiny forever”? Or would you be able to escape? During lunch you’re walking around the other places in the mine. You turn to your left and see a dark silent place, in which you couldn’t see. There were no torches, or any worker trails. • Will you go through the darkness to explore • Go back and eat lunch with your workers

3. You grab your pickaxe strongly and bite your lips to calm yourself. You find a broken torch and try to light it up, it worked. You are keeping coming forward the darkness and hear a wind blowing that crashes together hardly. Finally the path was a dead end and you can’t keep going. You’re relief that it wasn’t that much and think to yourself that why were you so frighten at that moment. You take a big sigh and you are trying to go back. A drop of water fell into your foot. You get shocked for a moment then tried to relax.” It was just water,” he said. You look down and clean the water up. Then there was a little bit of green color under coal and rocks. You lift the green thing and it was a leaf. You grab more rocks and coal and find more leaves. • Continue digging and find more leaves • Stop what you are doing

4. You go back the land and join other new friend’s miner in tent. You go inside the tent and surprising thing happen right in front of you. Rats were eating miners flesh. It was a puddle of blood and the smell was rotten dead bodies. Under their arms and other part there are big swelling black things. You’re paralyzed for a moment and stare at the rats. You hesitate for seconds then you run outside and you see other more dead bodies outside. • You get rid of the rats and bury the dead bodies • Leave the mining area and go back to the kingdom

5. One last strong hit on the big rock, the loads of rocks crumble and fall down. The only view you can see is great dust. The dust slowly fades away and it appeared beautiful view of floating island. You get surprise and you think everything is dream or illusion but it was real. You jump into closest island, but luckily you made it. While you’re passing by the forest of floating island you see weird looking blue slimy trees with red spikes on the leaves, or a puddle of squishy green mud. Little creatures that live on strange floating island look so different with the world you live. You hear something coming to you. You get afraid so you walk little bit faster. The sound is very close to your area. Then a moment of silence anesthesia needles shot in your neck. You start to have a blurry view, when you almost faint you see a human leg. You feel some comfortable feeling. You open your eye. You look around and all the time you were sleeping in the bed, but you don’t know where you are or how you came to this room. There is a window, you look out the window and see most of the part and the place you’re at and it was the great palace, middle of the floating island. You smash the door and run outside to escape the palace. You thought you were kidnapped or going to get killed. You were running to fast you slip down the stairs, bounce 2 times in the air and you are falling down with the water stream. You reached to the dead end. Splat, your body smash and all your guts are popped. The End

6. You think for a second that right now the time isn’t right, so you stop finding more leaves. You drop the pickaxe and slowly stand up. It appears a shadow behind you. You quickly turn around and it was your partner for the mine digging. Your friend came closer. He starts to speak weird languages and spit it out dead rats in his mouth. You pray to god and say “Please god, save my life”. You pick up the pickaxe. You run fast as you can, and you finally got out the mine. You cry for joy and freedom. The End

7. You go closely to the dead bodies and hold your pickaxe. First you grab other people pickaxe and throw it to the rats. The rats are all gone in your area. You pick up dead bodies and clean their bodies with towels and bury them next to next. You started to cough and cough. Splat! Dark red blood comes up in your throat and realizes you got the same disease from them. You don’t know what to do, so you eat your own food. The food made it worse for your throat. Black spot starts to swells on your legs. You think the disease spread in your body, so you get your pickaxe and slice it into your right leg. Screaming with pain and terror you rip off some of some fabric in your bed clothes. You tie it to the part where your leg got chop off. You thought this was the end of your life, just as a moment you see rat coming toward you. You grab the rat rip into half and eat him like an animal. You close your eye and start to remind the past and everything was right in the beginning where man said “This is your destiny. You can’t escape from this world or try to die.” You wake up and you have survived the black plague. The End

8. You leave all the dead workers and walk back to the kingdom. You walk miles and miles with hunger and thirst. You finally see the kingdom. You go near the kingdom gate, but the guards thinks you’re a homeless beggar so they don’t let you in. “I am here to tell very important things to the king, so let me in” you said. The guards laugh and said “Nice try, but we don’t allow outsider and beggars, so get lost.” You said one more time “I’m not kidding, the king gave a special order to me, so seriously let me in!” Now the guards started to get annoy so they threaten you by shooting arrows. You try to stay clam but the guards pushes your temper too high so you suddenly bring rats, cockroach and other small spreading disease creature around you. You throw them high to pass the kingdom wall. You smirk to yourself and say to the guards “good luck.” “Ahhh! Gahhhhhh! Help!” scream the people inside the kingdom. The rats was going inside people’s flesh immediately and into their mouth. The guard was surprise what is happening so they said to you “STOP!” You had no choice so you just run, but unfortunately you got shot on your back and you slowly close your eye. The last sight you saw was king luxurious and shiny shoes. The End