Journey to the West
Heep Yunn Primary School , Cheng , Chloe - 11
E very night before bed , my mother always reads me a chapter of the storybook -- Journey to the West . I think the book is so fascinating and I always dream about it when I am sleeping . One night , I woke up upon hearing a strange buzzing noise . I looked around and was startled to find my book , Journey to the West was glowing . I approached it cautiously and touched it . A small tingling sensation washed over me . And I watched myself falling into a whirlpool from the book . My room was disappearing slowly from view …
I landed with a very hard thump onto the floor . I looked around and recognised the mountains and hills from the book . I looked down at myself and discovered that I was wearing Tang Sanzang ' s robes . ' I am in the book ! I am Tang Sanzang ! I fell into the book !' I screamed to myself . Then I began to ponder what to do . ' Umm ... shall I go to visit the monkey king or maybe go and explore this whole new world ?' I was deep in thought . Then as if it was lightning , an idea struck me . If I were Tang Sanzang , I would have gone and found the West Longitude .
I started to walk around and soon found the Monkey King trapped underneath a huge mountain as punishment . I rescued him with my powers and he promised to protect me from the dangers along the way . I also asked Pigsy to accompany me in exchange of a bag of sweets . Then I came across a monk and he asked to follow me around too ! I also took a donkey with me so I would be able to ride it along the way . We all strode across a cave and since it was already dark , we decided to spend our night there . Then I remembered from the book that this was actually the temple of the spider of demon . They were all creatures which could be transformed . They would pretend to be humans and trick the travellers . As I was about to ask the others to leave , two young girls ( presumably the spiders ) walked towards us . ‘ Oh no !’ I thought , ‘ It is too late !’ Fortunately , my fellows defeated them with swipes of their weapons .
After resting , we continued our way . I came across a huge mountain of fire and needed to go across it . I decided to ask if the wife of Bull Demon King the Princess Iron Fan . They lived at Fire Scraping Cave and we needed to go there immediately .
Unfortunately , Princess Iron Fan refused to lend us her banana leaf fan . The Monkey King transformed into Bull Demon King and tricked the princess into giving us the fan . The bull king then arrived and turned himself into Pigsy and tricked the Monkey King into giving him back the fan . The Monkey King and the Bull Demon King battled and as the bull was about to charge towards us , the Nezha also known as third lotus prince came and brought him to heaven to decide his fate .
After crossing the flaming mountain , we found the west longitude on the stone pillar . We walked towards it and took the book , ready to start our journey again . Fortunately , a big buddha appeared in front of us and said , ‘ Congratulations on getting the west longitude . I will grant the Monkey King to be forgotten of all his punishments and Pigsy to eat the atlars . Tang Sanzhang , I will now send you back home . Good luck and farewell .’
Once again I had a tingling sensation . After opening my eyes , I found myself standing in my bedroom and clutching the west longitude . I looked at my storybook and flipped it open . In the very end , I was amazed to find a sentence which has just appeared , ‘ I will send you back home .’ I knew that my trip inside the book was not a dream and that it had really happened .