Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 369

New Journeys to the West
Kowloon Tong School (Primary Section), Lam, Cheuk Yan - 11
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nce upon a time, there was a magical gem. This gem fell from the heaven and landed on a hill for
thousands of years. One day, a monkey was born out of the gem. The monkey from the heaven
was very naughty, he told everyone his name was the great “Monkey King”. He was a good
leader to all the monkeys, but he was also a big problem to the Sky Palace. He went to challenge the Sky
Palace one day. He believed he was the most powerful monkey in the world. To punish the naughty and
arrogant Monkey King, Athagata Buddha who was the most powerful Buddha of the sky trapped the
Monkey King under his Buddha hand for five thousand years.
Years after, a monk from the Tong Dynasty was given a quest to the west to save the world which
was suffering. Monk Tong freed the Monkey King from his “prison” and took him in his journey as a
student. Later, they met Monk Tong’s next two students: Piggy and Sha Monk.
During the journey, the four of them had faced many problems, but with their perseverance, they
overcome all the difficulties. All things were going in the right way until they met the white bone demon,
their biggest enemy ever. As they entered the creepy and mysterious cave, they were all frightened by the
skeleton in the cave. Every corner of the cave was covered with white bones. All of them shivered with fear
when they heard a hissing sound coming out of the dark.
They all expected there came a monster inside it, but instead, an old woman appeared. She was
very old and clumsy. She fell down on the floor on her own. Monk Tong who was kind rushed to the old
woman immediately wanting to help her up. But the Monkey King, Piggy and Sha Monk had already
detected that this old woman was a disguise of a demon. All three of them tried to warn Monk Tong from
helping the old woman. However, Monk Tong shouted in anger asking his students if they knew what
mercy was “Why don’t you all just give a helping hand?” The three of them rooted there in shock, while
Monk Tong went to help the old woman. The old woman had a wicked smile on her face and she suddenly
turned into its demon form and knocked Monk Tong to the floor. Monkey King and Piggy immediately
entered into an intense battle with the white bone demon, while Sha Monk was trying to rescue their
master from the demon’s hand.
When the fight was over, the Monkey King killed the demon. However, the Monkey King did
not notice a tiny spider had gone into his body.
Two days later, when they continued their journey, the Monkey King started to act strangely. He
suddenly attacked his friends. The Monkey King was uncontrollable. He kept fighting with Piggy and Sha
Monk. Two of them was no enemy of the Monkey King and were nearly killed in the fight. Monk Tong
knew that there was nothing he can do to help Monkey King to escape from the demon’s control. When
they were at the critical moment, the Monkey King yelled at them “Kill me! Or you all will die!” They
were in shock! How could they kill a friend? At that very moment, GuanYin appeared from the sky. She
splashed some water onto the Monkey King’s head and his sense started to come back. All of them were as
happy as a clam, they were all relieved when they knew that the Monkey King had turned back to normal.
The four of them thank GuanYin gratefully and continued their journey to the west.
This was an unforgettable experience for them, but they all understood that if they stayed together
as a team, they will be blessed and overcome all the challenges in front of them. They had also learnt that
they should cherish the time with their friends, and forgave them if they had made mistakes. If Piggy and
Sha Monk just killed Monkey King in order to save themselves, they would have lost an important friend.
And there will be no story of the great Monkey King.