Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 514

The Monkey King
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Gou, Richard - 10
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long time ago (probably 100,000,000 years ago), there was a high mountain, and on the mountain,
there was a giant rock. One fine night, the rock exploded and everybody died...
Okay, it did not explode, it just cracked open, so nothing exploded, but a monkey jumped out...
Whatever, let's just start the story:
After the monkey jumped out, he said: "OMG WHY AM I NAKED?" Then, he surprisingly did a backflip
into some bushes, and made himself some clothes with some gigantic leaves.
He went down the mountain and found himself in a crowd of monkeys and the monkeys are shouting:
"YOU GO!!! I WON'T GO!"
"HELL NO!"
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? I AM NOT RISKING MY LIFE!!! YOU WEIRDO!"
Then, an old monkey said: "Whoever goes, will be our king!"
The second the old monkey stopped speaking, the Monkey King, the monkey who had jumped out of the
rock said: "I will go… But then he thought about it and asked, "wait, where are we even going to?" asked
the Monkey King.
"Into that big waterfall over there" replied the old monkey.
The Monkey King jumped and did a triple backflip into the waterfall and found himself in a cave, which
had a bed. So he went to sleep.
When he woke up, he was in a vast desert, thousands of miles from anywhere. He looked all around and
saw huge hills of shifting red sands, and heard the wind whistling through his ears.
"I have to get out of this desert," he said to himself. "I'm a young monkey, and I don't want to die in this
awful place!"
When he stopped for a while to rest, he met a handsome Buddhist monk named Tang Xuanzang, a fat
talking pig that was standing on his two legs named Zhu Bajie, and another calm friar, named Sha Wujing.
They were on a trip to get an ancient book from the original Buddha. So the Monkey King decided to help
them, and they had a lot of cool experiences on the long journey to find the book. This was two of them:
Monkey King picked up the butterfly knife, moved slowly to his target, doing tricks. Then he slaughtered it,
digging deep in. A red substance flowed out and he placed the beast onto a platter. “Have some strawberry
mousse cake, Master Xuanzang”. But since his master was allergic to strawberries , his Master kicked
Monkey King so high that he could see a black hole right in front of him. Then he fell back to earth with
his butt cheeks on fire. “Call the fire department” screamed Monkey King.
After that chaos, they went on with their useless and meaningless journey. They walked a thousand miles
without stopping, then stopped because a wall stood before them, blocking their way, almost moving, trying
to smash them. Monkey King was way too hard for any wall to smash, but his Xuanzang was not as hard as
him. So Monkey King had to turn himself into a bigger wall in order to stop the moving wall. After
smashing the moving wall and breaking his ribs, they went on with their journey.