Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Seite 271

New Journey to the West
St Paul's Convent School (Secondary Section), Chan, Madeleine - 12
O
ne school day, Noah and John were having History lesson. The teacher taught them a lot of
things about the story “Journey to the west”. She said, "It may be true! Suddenly, Noah and James
have a bright idea and they want to go and find the answer. Is it true?
After school, Noah asked, “Should we go and find the answer? It looks interesting, James? What do
you think?” James said, “I will never go with you , you don’t look like safe… maybe let’s find someone
who is interested in “Journey to the west” too!” Noah whispered, ” Actually you don’t look like safe
too…” After a few minutes, he said, “I know!! Jacob and your sister, Mia! Let’s go home and plan the
journey!” said Noah.
They planned everything and ready to go! But Mia said, “Should we plan more first? That’s too
dangerous!” Jacob then said, “Adventure is like that! Let’s go by this door!” By the way, Noah has a magic
door which can go everywhere, James has a telescope which can see things no matter how far, Jacob has a
table mat which can turn out food and Mia… she has none.
“Take us to the place where the “Journey to the west” take place please!” said Noah. Just then, the
door opened, they went to have their interesting adventure!
The first question has come, where should they go? They were in an unknown city and no instructions
from anyone, what should they do? Jacob said, “Oh gosh! Where should we go? Hey James, I remember
you got a telescope right? Use it and see where should we go!” James said, “Oh yeah, I almost forget it!”
Mia said,” Stop it! Take it out faster!”. James took it out and looked through the telescope, it pointed out
that they should go to a kingdom to find the king there, that kingdom has served the main characters in
“Journey to the west” before and they should ask for a place to sleep in the nearness temple as it was already
evening now, they were all very tired! And Jacob took out his magic table mat and started to eat! He was so
lucky to have this kind of treasure! Mia was really jealous because she has none!
When they went to the temple, the imperial guard asked them to figure out some general questions
first, and they can sleep one night there and have a little present! Mia came forward and said, “Let me try,
I’m good at solving”. Not surprisingly, Mia solved it all correctly. The imperial guard said, “Here you are,
miss, your present! Mia screamed, and shouted, “What! An apple! An apple only!?” James said,” Calm down
Mia, it’s a magical apple! There is only one magical apple in this world, it’s special and useful, it can treat
different kind of sicknesses, right?” The guard said, ‘Yep, but that’s only have 1 day left to eat that, because
it has been stayed in our temple for too long!’ But they didn’t regard as a matter and go to rest.
The next day, Noah said,” Guys, its time to wake up!” And then, all of them woke up and have their
adventure again! James took out his telescope and saw where is the kingdom. After a few paths, they saw a
river and a turtle, without a think, Noah rushed to the turtle and asked, “Dear Mr. Turtle, we are having an
adventure to the Kingdom over there, would you like to take us to the other side of the river?” “Sure, but
please help me to ask the king, how long can I live?” said the turtle. “Okay we can!” said Mia. After the
river, they finally saw the kingdom! They quickly ran into the kingdom and begged to see the king. When
they saw the king, the king was heavily sick and looked ill. Mia remember that she got a magic apple from
the guard that could save any sickness, it might help the king. But time was limited, the day was nearly end!
So, four of them immediately put the apple into the king’s mouth and the magic thing happened! The king
was recovered after that and he told the whole story to them, that’s true!
“Boom!”, Noah used his magical door to come back to 21 st century. The History teacher asked, “Did
you guys search information about the Journey to the west?” Noah and James both said, “We are well-
known of the story now!”