Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 47

A New Journey to the West
St Margaret's Co-educational English Secondary & Primary School, Keogh, Rebecca- 8
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t was another day in China, but this day was a bit more interesting. Xuanzang wanted to study more
about Buddhism. But this time he went even further into the west, and he needed to kill even more
demons than last time. Luckily on the last journey he met three unexpected people or creatures: Sun
Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing. Xuanzang found them and told them what he wanted to do. So they
set off to find even better Buddhism books than last time.
The demons they met were not like stray floating around demons, they were leader demons or boss demons!
And they were not so easy to kill. You need to kill them with the right object or powers.
The first demon they met was on a mountain, and this demon was an animal demon. It was a snake demon
with her little snake minions. This snake minion should be defeated by the right powers and because it is
cold blooded it does not like the cold. So, Sun Wukong froze the snake demon and stepped on the snake
demon’s little minions.
The next demon was not like the first, and this demon did not have any minions. It lived in a tall grass field,
and this demon was a bit weird. This demon was a slug demon and it could shoot poison out of its mouth.
Also when the slug started moving it left a sticky trail behind and the slime of the slug is poisonous. So, back
to the story. The way to kill the slug demon is with an object. The slug demon can only be killed by any
kind of rake except a one-toothed rake. So, without even thinking, Zhu Bajie raked away all the poison
just like leaves and used the extra poison on his rake to poison the slug demon.
After killing the slug demon and walking 10km, they reached a long river called the Ganges River. It is not
easy to cross but Sha Wujing used his small gourd which can become huge to cross the river. And he did. It
was like crossing a long pond when you are big. After crossing the Ganges River, they could see an 11km
tall and 10km wide stone building. They all guessed that the stone building was the place with the best
Buddhism books. But in front of it was something they did not notice at first - a huge demon. And this
demon was not any sort of demon, this was the god of demons. However, this demon can easily be killed by
people who worked in heaven and were punished and sent to earth, or any type of animal king. If you
weren’t any of these you would just be killed by anything the god of demons uses. After the fight, Xuanzang
can finally get his books and bring them back to China.