The Legendary Car

• Mohamed Gadelhak, Grade 11
• Short Story
• 2020

Ali was a writer in the modern future newspaper. Ali was a workaholic; Ali's texts were all about
featured cars and latest technology innovations. One day the head of the newspaper agency
approached Ali and told him "it's been quiet for a very long time ......I guess we need to enhance our
productivity or we will shut down, We haven't made more than 94 sales for the last 5 months!!!".
That’s when Ali decided he had to look out for something that is different. He realized that he
needed to write about a topic that attracts the reader's attention. One day Ali was walking
downtown, from his work to home and then he heard a very loud sound coming of two cars running
on a high speed. Few seconds later he looked behind, it was a navy-blue car designed to be looking
like the water flow. The navy-blue car was been chased by a forest-green coloured car. Instantly Ali
got out his digital camera and called for a taxi. After Ali called the taxi he asked the driver to hurry-
up and chase those cars. While the taxi was driving Ali opened the window and started taking
photographs for the blue car. Suddenly without any delay the police car joined in the chase and
started chasing those speedy cars. then surprisingly the navy-blue car made a clicking sound then it
disappeared out of sight while the green one vanished by speeding in the horizon. the driver
dropped Ali in the spot where the chase stopped. then the police came asking Ali if he knew who's
the driver of this blue car but unfortunately Ali didn't know. Few moments later Ali kept walking in
the dark night alone. then suddenly he heard that strange clicking sound again and from nowhere
the blue car appeared in front of his eyes!!! The car spoke in a robotic voice: "Thank you for saving
me". For a moment Ali couldn’t believe himself that the car spoken to him. He replied, "You're
alright". then the car asked: “would you like to be my driver?” he said: “Maybe yes”. The door
automatically opened as Ali hoped into the car. Ali was surprised that the car drove by itself; while
the car was driving it spoke to Ali saying: “I’ll take you to the place where I was born”. After a while
the car entered in a short black building it had CCTV cameras that recognised the car and the
building’s doors opened automatically. The car went inside an elevator that took it to an
underground room. The room was full of scientists who were working on other projects. Suddenly a
professor approached Al and said: “Thank you for saving Aqua – Hydro”. Then he gave him a big
book and he explained to him that if he car want him to be it’s driver, then he should know
everything about it. Ali wen home happy, as he finished the car’s manual he wrote about in the
newspaper.