Jurong Island 3/3/08 - 11/4/08

Mutated dicoloured mimosa?

The road to the only water in the dessert

CPTC

The fishless pond

Cup noodles everyday when there isnt time for Oaisis T_T

Our favourite secret toilet

The big briuse is from falling into a drain and the small one is a birthmark most of us get from climbing the distillation column

Its JI's night scene not a some nebula

Shadow Part 3

‘Maybe he didn’t believe it like you do?’ Weiwen suggested.


‘Anyway, our first priority is to get everyone out safely. We shall wait for evening then.’ I spoke and looked at my watch which is ticking away happily. 3.15pm. It is still too early to leave.


Rena is sitting cross legged right in front of me as her faint sitting shadow projected on the wall behind her. Tired from all that has happened, I lowered myself down to the floor to join her. It was then that I looked into the eyes of my reflection in the mirror for just a millisecond before my butt touched the floor.


All of a sudden, a monstrous shadow appeared on the wall in front of the mirror. It is slightly crouched and its legs are as thick as tree trunks. It also looked rough and bumpy all around with long crooked fingers reaching down to Rena’s shadow.


The girls screamed and Rena gets startled. ‘Wh-what happened?!’ as she looked around.


‘Oh my god! ’ she gasped and backed off the wall when she looked up at the towering shadow beside her. Rena’s shadow was no longer behind her, it had stood up and is dueling the monstrous shadow.


We stared wide eyed at the wall as there is nothing we can do except to watch the fight. The huge shadow swung its fist at Rena’s shadow and she fell to the floor with one hand clutching onto her head. As it was about to launch another attack, a stray shadow with a ponytail who looked strangely familiar sprinted towards the monster, hopped onto it and shove it away from Rena’s shadow.


I whipped around to face the wall behind me and I saw nothing but the blank white wall. ‘Its.. Its.. Its ME!’ I exclaimed.


Like a wayang performance which uses puppets supported by strings dancing behind a screen, we watched Rena and I battle against the monster except that there are no strings attached to the shadows. It was only a couple of seconds when another shadow came running around the room’s wall towards the battle scene.


‘Dan! Its you!’ Korin spoke shrilly.

‘Yeah it does look like me though.’ He replied monotonously with a dazed look.


There is a fierce shadow battle and soon, Dan’s shadow was pinned down by the monster. Rena is trying to push it away with futile effort because the monster was not budging. All of a sudden, the monster vanished. Rena fell to the side and Dan’s shadow stood up. My shadow stirred and is crawling up weakly because it is still recovering from the monster’s previous attack. Everyone in the room was looking at it intently and our breathings are shallow.


Dan’s shadow pull his arm back and slammed it onto Rena.


'NOOO! What the hell are you doing?!' Dan bellowed to his shadow.


Hwee Tong stood up. He folded him arms and said ‘We ought to help! The monster must have possessed Dan’s shadow!’


Right after he finished what he said, all 15 of our classmates turned to their shadow and instructed them to aid us in the battle. Soon, 15 shadows sprang up from their original position and are on the wall battling against Dan. Knowing that he is outnumbered, he gave Guo Lun’s shadow who was nearest to him a mightly push and while the other shadows are supporting him up, the monster emerged from Dan’s shadow and hopped back into the mirror on top of the cabinet leaving Dan crumpled on the floor.


‘Good gracious we have won!’ Guo Lun shouted with his fist punched into the air and half his body tilting upwards. We rejoiced and hugged each other for comfort while the shadows went back to its respective owners and mimicked their positions. Guo Lun had not lowered his fist and it is comical to see his shadow having difficulty adjusting itself to that abnormal position.


To be continued...