Article (Night Without End)

Race Across The Pole

By Wei Fai

     When I approached across the ice glacier, immediately I saw a group of people not far from us in pirate ship. They were carrying weapons and wearing protected suits while rushing towards somewhere.  I wondered where were they running to and as I swept my glance towards the direction that the criminals were running, I gasped.

          Suddenly, I saw a person who looks like a priest pointing his gun on the hostages. Among the hostages, there was one girl that looked terrified and the man beside the girl seemed  trying to tell me something and the man in front was shouting something at the priest-in-cover, although I can’t hear a single word from him.The priest heard him and looked toward me. He lost control of his tractor. He shoved the girl into a tractor and roared on the engines. The man tried to stop him, but to no avail. The priest shot him in his arm . They sped off into the vast landscape of ice on that tractor, and it spun and turned so unpredictably that it could crash at any time.

                Suddenly, it crashed into a pile of big boulders without warning. The tractor was totally destroyed. Unfortunately, the captor was still alive but fortunately the hostages survived. At this time, the air force was already shooting upon the crude ship and the terrorists that came out of it. The ship couldn’t hold for long and it was already sinking by the time the men rushed towards the crevasse. The man threw down a rope into the crevasse and before I knew it, he fell into the crevasse. The man who was still standing outside the crevasse looked grim, and I bit my lips as I hope that they would make it out fast.

                 Then, miraculously, their captain and his crew came to their rescue. He hauled the girl up, but he was still tense, very tense at the sight of what was happening down there.  I waited as the men threw down two ropes consecutively into the crevasse. Finally, the man was pulled out of the crevasse. As the crew looked down into the crevasse for one last time, a man threw down an entire coil of rope with contempt and hatred in his eyes down the crevasse, the crevasse closing after it a while after and all the terrorists died inside.