Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 477

The Battle on Europa
St Stephen ' s College Preparatory School , Chan , Ralph - 12

Thousands of years ago , a mischievous monkey named Wu-kong committed a number of misdemeanours in the heavens , stealing and eating magical food that made him invincible and immortal . The heavens had tried to defeat him many times , but Wu-kong , along with his magical staff , made defeating him almost impossible . Then the heavens decided to ask the most powerful deity in the universe , Buddha , for help . Buddha was able to fully restrain Wu-kong by trapping him under a mountain with a single piece of paper . The piece of paper was actually a talisman that would stop Wu-kong from destroying the mountain and freeing himself . The Buddha told Wu-kong that one day a monk would come and release him and that the monk would become Wu-kong ’ s master . Wu-kong longed for this day to come .

Since then , Wu-kong had waited for five hundred years , until one day he saw a young monk walking by . A voice in his head whispered to him that this monk was THE monk who would come to his rescue . Hence he shouted , “ Master ! Master ! Please take this piece of paper away and stand back !” After the young monk , who was called Tang-zeng , did what he was told , Wu-kong successfully destroyed the mountain and freed himself .
It was at that time that the ground began to crumble , the cracks in the ground grew larger and larger , and the soil started to vanish . Eventually , there was nothing but air under their feet , and they kept falling into the unknown . As the master and the disciple were falling , Wu-kong tried as hard as he could to summon his magical cloud that could lift them up to the sky , but the cloud kept dissipating before he could reach it . After a while , strange things began to happen : coloured flashing lights appeared everywhere , and the temperature fluctuated sharply , making it scorching hot in one second and freezing cold in the next . Wu-kong and Tang-zeng became weak and dizzy , and their bodies felt so numb that they couldn ’ t move or feel anything . Suddenly , an enormous force was exerted onto their bodies , knocking Wu-kong and Tang-zeng unconscious .
When the master and the disciple came to , they found themselves in a frozen world with very thin air . Wu-kong used his magical powers to keep themselves alive . When they looked up to the sky , they saw a huge planet covering a large portion of the sky , and on it were bands of different colours and a giant red spot near the south pole . Wu-kong was just about to fly to that planet when Tang-zeng shouted , “ Look ! There are two man-like creatures imprisoned there !” Tang-zeng and Wu-kong then walked over . “ Who are you ?” asked Tang-zeng . “ I ’ m Ba-jie , and he is Sa-zeng ,” replied one of them . “ We are held captive by the supreme ice-monster . Can you please free us ?” “ Absolutely ,” replied the kind-hearted Tang-zeng .
Without warning , a huge explosion occurred next to the four of them , and a ginormous devil-like creature in pure white appeared . It sent white shards to the direction of the four newly-made friends . Wu-kong immediately deflected the shards using his magical staff . The monster then grabbed Tang-zeng and tried to squeeze him to death . The other three immediately leaped towards the monster . Wu-kong then used his staff to pin down the monster ’ s foot . In retaliation , the monster fired three enormous ice shards to the three . Wu-kong used his staff to block the ice shards , but two of them still managed to knock Ba-jie and Sa-zeng into unconsciousness . Wu-kong remained the only one left fit enough to fight the monster .
Wu-kong pulled as many strands of his hair off his head as he could and turned them into his own duplications . Hundreds of thousands of Wu-kongs charged up to the monster . Likewise , the monster turned the ice around him into hundreds of thousands of ice minions to fight the Wu-kongs . Wu-kong kept pulling hair off to make more copies of himself , and the ice monster also kept turning ice into more ice minions . At first , it was an even match between them , but poor Wu-kong eventually ran out of hair to pull , while there was still an abundant supply of ice from where they stood . The monster gradually gained the upper hand , and Wu-kong began to lose hope . Fortunately , right at this moment , Ba-jie and Sa-zeng regained consciousness . Hand in hand , they marched up to the ice monster . Brave though they were , it was clear that they were no match to the power of the ice monster . At the end , all the poor Wu-kong avatars were dead , leaving behind the original Wu-kong and his two comrades .