Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 405

Forward Motion
Quarry Bay School, Morrison, Maeve - 10
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he sun shone brightly in the sky. Sun Wukong had just reached the top of the hand shaped
mountain that he had been imprisoned in for 500 years. He sat down and thought about what he
had just done.
“It’s masters- no, Zuanxang’s own fault. He didn’t respect me. I respected him and guarded him from any
harmful thing in his way, including those demons! I was right to say no to zhu bajie.” But then, another
thought went into his head, his brighter side of his heart.
“Xuanzang did free me from the imprisonment that I still could be stuck in now” He shivered at the
thought of spending more time inside the hard rocks in the mountain.“I could have come to help. Actually I
can still come to help!” Sun Wukong sat and prayed “ Please god's, help me choose the right path.” He
waited. And waited. And waited for a sign of somebody to help. “ Stupid gods!” He cried. “ I am way
smarter than any of them. They only walk around heaven choosing other gods to banish and punishing the
people on earth. I could be a god if I wanted to. I could me better than the Jade emperor!” At that cry, a
huge light shone down from heaven. “How dare you insult me!” A loud voice boomed that the monkey
king recognised as the jade emperor's voice.
“ Who do you think you are? You shall be punished deeply!” “Uh Oh!” The monkey king thought. “ Not
more time under this!” The bright light suddenly became blinding and started to pull him towards the sky.
And then he was pulled away.
Sun Wukong looked around at the bright sunny place he was in. People were pushing and shoving to get to
places. “Where are all these people-More like peasants from their clothes and hair- going? And where am
I?” He thought. He walked over to a big window, from the ceiling to the floor and looked out of it. “Why
are there such big birds out there? They seem enormous. Are they even breathing. Why do they have
wheel’s?” “Flight 3YX8092 to Thailand Phuket please board the plane at gate 3. Flight 3YX8092 to
Thailand phuket from Hong Kong please board the plane at gate 3. Thank you.” said a voice above him.
Scared, He looked around to see a pretty young lady walking towards him.
“There you are Finn” She said. I’ve been looking for you everywhere. You're already in your mask ! That’s
great. You must have found a really good monkey jumpsuit, that one looks so realistic. How was the flight.
Good? I hope business class was nice. Anyway let's get going! “My name isn’t Finn” he muttered but with
no choice than to follow her her silently trailed behind her.
The Lady and Sun Wukong stopped at the taxi rank.
“Why are we getting into this metal box?” He asked
“Oh Finn, you are SO funny” The lady laughed, revealing her snow white teeth underneath her bright red
lipstick. She gracefully climbed into the taxi, and Sun Wukong clambered into the back after her. The taxi
ride was very rough, so rough that when they got out the monkey king vomited. “Oh dear, you must really
have bad jet lag. He looked up, slowly, to see a large sign on a building above him reading: HONG KONG
OPERA. TODAY SHOWING: The Monkey King “ There's a show about me! And we’re watching it!
“ Yeah’ The lady said “ I’m watching it silly, you are the star of the show! “Uh Oh” He thought in his
head.
Backstage Sun Wukong sat in silence and fear. What would happen to him out there? He took a look at the
painstakingly long script “Hey” He realized “This is the story of my life! I can do this easily. He saw his cue
on the paper and an hour later he was on stage acting perfectly.
In the middle of the show, The Pretty lady (Actually called Stephanie Fung) Received a text from her best
friend Finn.