Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 105

New Journeys to the West
Beacon Hill School, Chan, Raphael - 10
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eep in outer space, the chief of space patrol Tang Sanzang called his officers who were Sun
Wukong and Zhu Bajie to meet him in the center of their home planet called Cegrid 203e to tell
them about a strange dream he had.
Sun Wukong was a playful and mischievous monkey with glistening, brown fur and a golden headband
while Zhu Bajie was a friendly pig man with both human and pig features.
In no time, they reached the meeting point with their space buggies. Tang Sanzang said: “I dreamt of life
forms in the west and I have decided to head west and see if they are real.” They were all very excited and
immediately started to build a massive spacecraft. The reason they couldn’t use their space buggies was
because the engines were not very strong and they could not go very far without having to refill their fuel
and oxygen tanks. A few months later, the spacecraft was finally complete and ready to take off.
They went inside the spacecraft, made their way to the cockpit at the very front, and then started to get
ready to take off. Zhu Bajie started the engines. There was a low rumbling sound that got louder and louder
until the spacecraft blasted off into space. Zhu Bajie exclaimed: “Snort! Grunt! Grunt!” Translated: [I feel so
weird and disoriented!]
Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie were talking about the things they might see and the events
that might happen. Just when they were talking about black holes, the space ship began to tip sideways and
go round and round in a large circle. They soon realized that they were being sucked in by a huge black
hole and panicked. Tang Sanzang told them not to worry and to start the extra nuclear engines to escape the
black hole’s powerful suction grip on their spacecraft.
They were all panting by the time Zhu Bajie steered the spacecraft out of the black hole. He shouted:
“Snort! Me! Grunt! Snort!!” Tang Sanzang translated it to Sun Wukong and told him that Zhu Bajie was
saying he hated black holes and replied to Zhu Bajie: “Please calm down. Hate is a strong word. Anyway,
we escaped the black hole.”
By this time, they were nearer Earth and had travelled a few hundred miles west of their home planet. Sun
Wukong used his long tail to swing outside and try to fix the damage the black hole had done to the
spacecraft because his fixing skills were the best, while Tang Sanzang oversaw the process because he was the
wisest and gave good instructions and advice. Sun Wukong only managed to fix a tiny bit but failed to
repair the rest of the damage because it was too complicated for him to repair. Just then, the spacecraft’s
engines stopped working and it began to plummet down on a nearby planet filled with trees, sparkling
streams and green aliens.
The spacecraft crash-landed on the planet. At once, aliens rushed to help them. They told them where they
were and gave them directions to go to the solar system. The friendly aliens waved goodbye when they saw
the spacecraft zoom off into space once more. Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang and Zhu Bajie were surprised
there were life forms there but continued exploring in case there were others. Zhu Bajie sped up the
spacecraft and steered it in the direction the map showed them. He uttered: “What a Grunt! Snorty!” Tang
Sanzang and Sun Wukong agreed.
Extremely far away, just visible, was the solar system. They cheered and cheered and high-fived each other
loads of times. They finally could see the solar system!
When they were closer to it, Sun Wukong said: “But wait! That’s not the solar system! Those aliens have
tricked us! Now our spacecraft has no more fuel!”
Sun Wukong and the others were suddenly extremely mad at the aliens. Zhu Bajie steered them back west
and the emergency rocket boosters to blast them forward. They found out that the cheeky aliens tricked
them into using all their fuel in going the wrong direction to try and stop them! But since there was a
wormhole [a black hole and a white hole merged together] in front of them, they steered the spacecraft
towards it and it slowly went in. They saw flashes of light and dark as the spacecraft entered it. The
wormhole blasted them out at a high speed. They were now much nearer the solar system. They marvelled
over how beautiful it looked and couldn’t wait to explore all the planets. They scanned the planets for life
forms and when they reached Earth, they saw cities and started to descend into Earth. When they entered
the Earth’s atmosphere, the outside surface of the spacecraft burned orange-red just as any other vehicle that
entered the Earth’s atmosphere would. They were very happy that they had finally discovered more life
forms!
The spacecraft plummeted into the blue, sparkling Pacific Ocean and began to sink. The three of them
jumped out and started swimming towards a big piece of land. The land turned out to be a rural area in