Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 485

New Journey to the West
St Stephen's College Preparatory School, Hsu, Jeremy -11
“E
rn, you are so annoying. C' mon, why didn't you tell us about the arrangements," complained
Billy. "You don't even care about anything, Billy, you only know how to eat!" shouted Ern.
" Stop it you two!" yelled Susan.
“Passengers, this is your captain speaking, we are going to experience some turbulence near Tibet, you
are strongly recommended to stay in your seat,” said the captain.
Suddenly, the plane tilted, bumped and swirled. Ern, Billy, and Susan were very dizzy. A few
seconds later, everything went black.
“Ah, where am I, help, Ern, are you here?” yelled Billy.
“ I am here,” replied Ern, “ Wait, why do I look like a monkey? You look like a pig, Billy, and you
look like a monk carrying luggage, Susan!” exclaimed Ern.
“ Quick,” came a voice from nowhere, “I am Xuan Zhang, and Buddha told me that you would be
here to meet me. I want to go to India quickly and get Buddha’s original manuscript and bring it back
China and tell everyone about it, so stop your arguing and teasing immediately,” said Xuan Zhang.
“ So, we need to help you to get these ancient papers, right,” asked the boys. "True," answered the
monk.
" Let’s get started," said Susan excitedly. It was cold as they were walking in the mountainous areas of
Tibet. The hills were very, very steep and they were all breathing very slowly, except for Ern who was now
the monkey king. Ern was running miles away from the team. The sky was getting dark, and everyone was
very hungry, especially Billy who was now the pig who liked to eat, Ba Jie. He wanted a perfect feast.
The monkey king went out for a couple of hours and only found four ginseng fruit. He shared
them with his mates. But Ba Jie was ferocious, so Xuan Zhang got out some Momo of his bag, and they had
a scrumptious dinner.
The next morning, they all woke up very early even before the sun had risen; they ate breakfast and
then started their journey that day.
Susan who was now Wujing took out a GPS and searched, and the monkey king announced," We
still have to walk at least 8100 miles. It is winter so the sun would set in about 18 hours, so we would have
to hurry."
Xuang Zhang muttered to himself, "How lucky it is to live in heaven with all these special things,
how amazing!"
They walked as fast as they could through the rough part of western Tibet. After ten hours of
walking, they finally arrived at the bottom of the Himalayas, but climbing up to the base camp would take
nearly 7 hours. It was so steep and some parts of the paths were so narrow that they had to crawl through
them, in order not to bump their heads on hard rocks. It was extremely harsh.
As they had climbed for a long period of time, they rested for a few minutes and searched the
web to see how long it would take them before they would arrive at the base camp. There was still 10
meters, so they continued and tried their best to finish the journey. They were planning to climb Mt Everest
and hopefully they could arrive in India.