Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 49

A Mysterious Night
St Margaret's Co-educational English Secondary & Primary School, Membrey, Kaydyn - 8
I
t was a foggy and windy night. I shivered as I was getting ready for bed and startled as a branch rattled
against my window. As I walked towards my bed lightning flashed behind me with loud thunder not far
behind. I sighed and turned round to close the curtains.
Just as I was pulling them together I spotted a cloud coming towards me. Strange though that was, it was
even stranger when I saw someone standing on it. When that creature came closer, I recognised him
immediately as the Monkey King from the movie I watched last night! He said to me, "I know everything
right now makes no sense to you, but I really need your help."
"But ... why ...?" I stuttered.
"No time for questions now! I will explain everything on the way," urged the Monkey King.
"But it's the middle of the night! You know humans need at least eight hours of sleep!" I grumbled.
The Monkey King swung me over onto his shoulder and before I knew it, we arrived at this dark and scary
forest. After we landed on the ground, I heard a snarling voice - and then a ferocious, hungry-looking
demon came charging towards us! The Monkey King very skilfully navigated his cloud and flew up in the
air and distracted the demon, then he threw his bow and arrow to me and I grabbed it just in time to shoot
the demon.
"We need your help to defeat the demon king because he created a portal that can travel between different
worlds, and he is going to send his army to kill us and get the Monk's flesh. They believe it can make them
immortal!" said the Monkey King.
"I thought that only happens in the movie! This can't be real!" I said in surprise.
"Oh trust me, this is all truly very real!" the Monkey King replied.
While I still couldn't believe how I managed to shoot the demon with my new found courage, we had no
time to spare but continued our journey to find this demon king's base. The Monkey King shrank us and
put me on his palm as we flew off. He then used his laser-vision to detect any demon aura coming from the
mountain ahead of us.
There were demon guards everywhere patrolling the entrance. The demon guards had fangs dripping with
blood, and on top of their head a skull helmet.
"I know you will come in handy! How about I distract the demons while you go in and break the portal?"
asked the Monkey King.
I fiddled around the portal panel and screamed at the top of my lungs, "Run! The portal is going to
explode!"
The Monkey King thanked me. "I will take it from here, thank you very much for your assistance this
time!"
I waved goodbye as the Monkey King blew me onto his cloud and I got sent home.
"Jack! It's time for school now! Wake up!" Mom urged me out of bed.
I smiled and looked at the sky as I jumped up.