∏THE LORD OF

LIESWRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY

JING JING, PUNN PUNN, AND HANA

THE WORLD WAS FINALLY FREE. FEAR WAS LONG GONE, MEMORIES FROM THE DARK WAR WAS FORGOTTEN. THE FLOODS THAT DROWNED THE WHOLE WORLD WASHED AWAY REVEALING THOUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES- PEOPLE WHO HAD NO CHANCE OF SURVIVING. ALL OF THIS HAPPENED WHEN PEOPLE STARTED LYING BECAUSE OF A UNSTOPPABLE CURSE.SOMEONE CLEARLY WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD.AS THIS WENT ON EVERYDAY THERE WERE MORE THAN A MILLION LIES JUST TO COVER THEMSELVES UP WITH A FAKE IDENTITY, PERFECT IN EVERY WAY.

Illustration By Hana

No-one knew who started the curse so one day the spirits guarding planet earth couldn't stand it anymore.They decided to put a curse on all mankind- When an adult lies, a child slips into a coma but that didn't stop them from lying, the curse was too power- ful. A man lied to his wife that he didn't forget her birthday so his child slipped into a coma and when a farmer lied to his pigs telling them he didn't forget to feed them, the child next door fell to the ground. Every day millions of children slipped into comas until there were only two people stand- ing: a boy and a girl who hated each other, they couldn't even be in the same room together. But if they wanted to save the world, they had to team up and track down the liar.

"I said shut up!" bellowed the boy. They were searching for people who could join forces with them and get rid of the liar for good, and once again, they were arguing with each other.

"Well you've planned it out all wrong. We have no clues to help us, everyone here are in co- mas they don't know whats going on!" hissed the girl. "We should go to other countries and find some clues there. You never know, we

just might save the world." The boy finally looked at her and sighed.

" Fine! Maybe you’re right. This may be the first time I'm ever agreeing with you on some- thing. Travel all around the world though? Isn't that a waste of energy?" the boy questioned her.

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Illustration By Jing Jing

" Trust me it'll be totally worth it," answered the girl confidently. "Lets go then!" said the boy forcefully.

"I can't believe we went around the continent when he was in school all this time. What a waste."

"So, how are we going to get rid of him?""We can't let him know that we know, otherwise he'll just go on the run."

The children tried very hard to get rid of their teacher, but this was near impossible be- cause they had to remain anonymous. Their assassination attempts were quite clumsy. One of their first tries included the children dressing up as ninjas and ambushing the teacher with knives. This did not work, as the ninja costumes were quite tight and did not allow for much movement. By the time they caught up with him, he was gone. Another time, they put arsenic in his coffee, but the Liar accidentally dropped the mug that contained the coffee.

"I give up. Let's just lay down and wait to slip into our own comas," the girl said. "Maybe it's for the best. The world doesn't need humans," the boy agreed.

"At this point we might as well resort to gassing the classroom," the girl joked. "Actually, that's a pretty good idea."

The children stole some chemicals from the science lab and using the reference books in the libary, they created a toxic gas. They planned to quickly throw it into the window of the classroom while the Liar was in there.

"Why is it so heavy?" the girl grumbled, carrying one end of the container with the toxic gas.

"Deal with it," replied the boy, who was carrying the other end. Finally they reached the classroom. Fortunately, the Liar was reading, unaware of what was going on outside. They opened the window and flung the container in. The girl ran to the other end of the build- ing to lock in the teacher. The boy watched through the glass window as the teacher started to suffocate and slump to the ground.

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The English teacher was so angry at the boy and the girl who caused his downfall. He was trying to curse the boy and the girl, but all he could do was splutter because of the poison- ous gas that he breathed in.

Later on that day, hundreds of armed police rushed into the school, found the Liar lying onthe ground and put spike shackles on him ,then carted off the English teacher to the most ridiculous mental institution on earth with blood stains from the patients spilled all over the

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wall. The English teacher was doomed to spend the rest of his life in a deep, dark dun- geon with rats, spiders, and cockroaches, and he would forever live in isolation.There were also hun- dreds of specially trained armies who would blow up the English teacher's head with a sniper rifle if he even dared to take a step out of the dungeon. The teacher spent his days and nights for planning his revenge and also blamed the boy and the girl. People would sometimes hear groans from the dungeon like a furious ghost moaning from his grave.

The government was concerned about the English teacher who lost his mind, so they sent out some of the best professors from around the world to find the crazy teacher's prob- lem. Just about an hour into the discussion, every professor figured out the problem. Their answers all matched up so they went to tell the government straight away.

" Dear citizens of earth. We have breaking news from your government,"a news reporter announced.

" As many of you know, an English teacher lost his mind, and brought our children into co- mas," the reporter said ,"The government recruited some of our best professors to find out the cause of this. They all came up with the same answer. They said that education af- fected human minds negatively."

" This is a very serious issue," the reporter continued. " They have come to a decision which requires great changes. From now on, students do not

have to go to school and we are sending out machines to turn schools into unicorn farms," the reporter finished his sen- tence and television screens all over the world turned black .

As the poison gas had destroyed the teacher's voice, his curse was over now. Children re- covered from their comas one by one and found their beloved parents and family to live to- gether once again."Hooray! Hooray! We now have our children back. We will never lie again," adults from all over the world would say as they saw their long gone children ran back to them, recovered from their comas.

" I miss you mom, I miss you dad ," the children would shout back to their parents as they ran to hug them again.

Everyone was thankful and honoured the boy and the girl were so young, but solved the greatest problem that none of the adults could. Leaders from all over the world showered the boy and the girl in awards and a diamond statue of the boy and the girl holding the toxic gas container was built to honour the two kids who saved the human race.

As all this was happening, the girl said to the boy," You might think that we saved the world together, so we are now friends, but that's not true. I still hate you."

The boy answered the girl," That is exactly what I was thinking. We can never be friends. I still hate you too."

And everyone lived happily ever after.

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