Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 156

Journey to the West
Creative Primary School , Leung , Theodore - 10

M y name is Sun Wukong , also known as the Monkey King . I actually prefer you to call me the Great Sage Equal to Heaven . I like magic and games , and I hate rules . You ’ ve probably heard of my name as someone wrote about me in this very ancient book named Journey to the West . It was about me getting this Tripitaka scripture thing from Buddha who lived in the West to somebody who lived in the East . OK , it was not just about me . I did not exactly go there by myself . This guy named Xuanzang , whom I didn ’ t like at all , was supposed to be the leader of the gang . He took his “ disciples ,” or I would just describe them as bodyguards , Pigsy , Sandy , and the White Dragon Horse with him . I heard they all needed to redeem themselves for all the sins they had committed , so I wouldn ’ t call them my buddies . Besides , they caused me lots of troubles along the way to the West .

Anyways , back to that Xuanzang . He was such a helpless little baldhead guy who couldn ’ t even defend himself from a few hundred bandits . What I really didn ' t understand was that how he was chosen to be the leader . Everyone had heard about me . But how many people actually knew about Xuanzang ? Why was he chosen to be in charge of getting those “ important ” scriptures ? That was not fair to me . And the worst part was that while everyone thought he was a virtuous guy , he actually tricked me into wearing this Superman headband . I seriously thought he was nice when he gave me this super cool looking present but the headband was actually an electrical ankle bracelet only for the head . I had to obey him throughout my trip even though he was physically and mentally weak . That ’ s what got me so mad .
You know , I was a much better leader in many ways . I created a monkey army back home . They all looked up to me . I could do hundreds of somersaults in the sky . I had the ability to transform into seven-two different objects . I had transformed myself into a mosquito , a tree , few types of birds and copies of myself , just to name a few . Oh , and I had laser fiery golden eyes too . I could see things better than the dual-energy X-ray machines at the airports . As you can probably guess , I am super brave and super strong . I was the only monkey who volunteered to jump into the Water Curtain when I was just a young lad . My friends were so impressed that they gave me my Monkey King title . Speaking of bravery , even before I met Xuanzang , I had fought against more monsters and demons than all the Avengers had ever encountered . By the way , the Avengers were very much like me – we all loved gadgets . Batman had his Batmobile . Spiderman loved his Web-shooters . My favorite was a gift from the Dragon King . He gave me a 17,550 lbs Magic Golden-Clasped Rod . That tool came in handy when we took our trip to the West . I could shrink it or expand it whenever I liked .
Let ’ s get back to our journey . To tell you the truth , I didn ’ t know how the gang could face up to those monsters without me each time . There was one time Xuanzang banned me from continuing the trip . I was so excited so I went back home . Then that Pigsy came over begging me to return . To make the long story short , I saved them all . This happened all the time .
I wanted to tell you this one story that was missing from the book . I was there again to save the day . It was toward the end of our trip and it was a hot day . I was sweating like Pigsy . I wanted to take a shower and all of a sudden , we came upon a beautiful Koi fish pond . I told Xuanzang we should stop there to get some food and water . Everyone was like , “ Yeah ! Woo-hoo !” Even Xuanzang ’ s favorite pet was on my side , I secretly smirked . Xuanzang then got off his horse and sat down by the pond . There were thousands of koi fish in the pond . As I was taking off my clothes , the koi fish all turned into mice . If there was one thing in this universe I fear , that would be mice . They simply freaked me out . I turned myself into thousands of cats and chased them off quickly . But there was this one mouse with funny looking ears , red shorts , large yellow shoes and white gloves . I couldn ’ t stand that mouse ’ s voice . My ears were hurting . I got an opportunity to hit the mouse ’ s mouth . Then I almost got a chance to kill it but Xuanzang kept shouting . “ You are a Buddhist now and Buddhists don ’ t kill .” That headband was squeezing my head . The mouse then vanished . I flew off to find Buddha and asked him what that mouse demon was doing there . It turned out that mouse was supposed to be a guiding service to lead us back to Chang ’ an . I asked him why he had to be in that ridiculous mouse shape . He said this mouse could help us run faster . Sounded like a good idea but I really couldn ’ t stand that mouse ’ s voice . I flew back and only found Xuanzang and the gang singing with that mouse , in acapella style . My goodness , I freaked out again . Pigsy and Sandy covered each of my ears so I wouldn ’ t be able to listen to their singing . Little did they know that the singing was actually mouse ’ s way of