The Second Journey to the West
St . Paul ' s Co-educational College Primary School , Koo , Cheuk Yu Kimberly - 9
This is 2017 . It has been 1,372 years since Xuanzang , the Tang dynasty monk , travelled to the West to find the sacred scriptures . That journey was an exciting one . Monk Tang and his three apprentices , Zhu Bajie the ‘ Piggie ’, Sha Wujing the ' Friar Sand ', and the famous Monkey King , Sun Wukong , battled against many demons and monsters , and Monk Tang was almost eaten alive a few times ! Luckily , they made it safe to India , and managed to find the scriptures and learnt a lot from them .
After the journey , they decided that continuous learning is very important , so they separated and each went out to find the best teachers to improve their knowledge . For example , Piggie travelled around the World to learn from the chefs of the Michelin restaurants on how to cook mouth-watering dishes . Obviously , there is one dish that he would not cook - barbeque pork meat ! Over the years , the four friends have been staying in touch using different ways of communication , from pigeon letters to telephone to the latest WhatsApp . To remember the good old times they spent together , they actually called the WhatsApp chat group ‘ Monsters Killers ’!
One day , Monk Tang was doing his research on Google to look for new knowledge . He found a website which talks about a treasure in a cave located in the far West of the world . The one who finds the treasure will have all the knowledge in the world . To find this treasure , one must go with three friends . In addition , the website warns about the danger of the paths to the treasure , including traps and poisonous animal attacks . Monk Tang thought of his three friends , and hoped that they would join him for another great adventure .
The first friend Monk Tang called was Monkey King because he was the bravest of all . If Monkey King agreed to join , the other 2 friends would follow . At first , Monkey King did not agree because he was busy building a new banana kingdom with his pupil monkeys . Monk Tang kept on telling Monkey King the benefits of the treasure , and the knowledge may help Monkey King complete his kingdom faster with fewer bananas . Monkey King finally agreed to go . As expected , Piggie and Friar Sand also agreed to join .
Different from the first adventure , they now had the technology to help with this trip . They used paper map in the past to plan the journey , now they just needed Google Map to guide their way . For transportation , they had only one white horse , Yulong , for Monk Tong to ride to India . The others had to walk miles and miles over the mountains and deserts . This time , all of them decided to fly business class and take Uber rides to make this trip more comfortable and enjoyable . With the poisonous animals , Monkey King wanted to bring his heavy golden cudgel , but Monk Tang suggested to use new helmet and protective clothes instead which are a lot easier to carry . Finally , for the traps , Piggie and Friar Sand brought along shoes with suction cups so they could climb up from the traps if they fell in them .
After three days of travel , they finally arrived at the cave entrance . All of a sudden , there was a loud noise coming from the cave . " Quick ! Wear your helmet and protective clothes ! The bats are flying towards us to attack !" Monkey King cried . When everyone was busy putting on the clothes , Piggie realised that they were too small for him - he could not put his pig head through the hole ! The bats were ready to bite on some pork meat . At this critical moment , all three friends already in the protective clothes formed a circle to cover Piggie and protected him from the bats . The bats soon disappeared , and Piggie was glad that his life was saved by his best friends .
They kept on walking until they saw a boulder blocking the way . There were two paths ahead of them , one with the sign ‘ Shortcut ’ and the other all covered in dust . Piggie insisted to take the shortcut path to save him from walking . The gang agreed , but soon they realised that the shortcut path just led to a dead end . As they turned around , Friar Sand thought something was different : there were only three people and one was missing . Standing in front of Friar Sand was Monkey King , and behind was Piggie . Where was Monk Tang ? " He must have fallen into one of the traps !" Monkey King exclaimed . They went up and down the path to look for Monk Tang , and saw two suction cup shoes next to a dark hole . " I am down here , please help me !" They could hear Monk Tang screaming for help . It was a very deep and narrow hole . Even if Monk Tang had the shoes on , he would not be able to climb up . Monkey King decided that he would save Monk Tang but going into the hole , and let Monk Tang grab his legs while Piggie and Friar Sand pull them up . It was very dark in the hole but luckily Monk Tang was able to hold on to Monkey King ' s legs , and they got out safely . “ I understand now ,” said Monk Tang , “ that all these challenges would take four great friends to overcome together .”