Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 1-2 | Page 62

The Four Great Challenges
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Choi, Marcus - 7
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ock monkey king named Sun Wu Kong who learnt 72 tricks and think he was the best. The rock
monkey went to heaven caused a lot of trouble and made every god angry. One day he pee on a
strange looking rock and suddenly the sky turned dark and thunder roaring! “How dare you
pissed on my head! Rock monkey!” Sun thought it was funny. “Your hair was too short Budda, so I
watering them.” Then the Budda punished Sun by trapping him under the mountain and 500 years had
passed…
Sun Wu Kong saw a monk passed by one day and he asked for his help. “Please release me and I will follow
you master.” Sun said. The master’s name was Xuan Zang and he remembered God told him before that he
would meet a monkey that will help him to get the holy book from the west. So he nodded his head and
Sun was free. On their way they met a pig in a farm and a friar lifting weights under the sea. The team
headed to the west in search of the holy book from the Budda.
They walked and walked and met a lot of monsters that always wanted to eat master Xuan Zang. But each
time Sun saved the whole team and finally arrived the temple of the West. The Budda was there already so
they asked where was the holy book? The Budda said, “Go and search the library. You will find the holy
book.” But guards at the library tricked them by hiding the book and they said, “Search the Book inside!”
So they went in the library to search and search but no luck. They went to the Gods and they said: “Yes we
will help you to get the book but you will have to get pass of four final challenges.”
The first challenge was eating. They chose Pig. Pig ate one thousand fruits in thirty minutes and God said
“Past!” then the second challenge was mind power. They chose Sun. Sun got 2000 out of 2000 points for
picking who the monster is. Buddha said ‘Past!” Then, the third challenge was weight lifting. They chose
friar. Friar left up twenty stones at a time. Then Buddha said “Past!” then the forth one was singing a holy
song. They chose Master Xuan Zang. Then Buddha said ‘Past!” They all asked:” Where was the book?”
Then Buddha said, “If you can connect all four challenges you will find where the holy book is.” Sun
quickly thought that the garden outside the library had many fruit trees and stones, and there was a stone
monster singing in the garden. So he knew the book must be there!
Finally, they got the holy book and opened it. “What? It is a vegetarian cook book?” Master Xuan Zang
cried. “Now you can use the book to teach monsters to cook delicious veggies and not eat you!”