New Journey to the West
St . Margaret ' s Co-eduational English Secondary and Primary School , Wong , Mitchell - 13
1400 years ago , there was a young monk called Wu who wanted to travel to the west not like anyone in his own place did before . But he was just a monk in a temple who wasn ’ t allowed to go anywhere or explore , so he just kept on dreaming and dreaming : Is the west a heaven ? Or is our place just the only place in the world ?
After years of dreaming , he couldn ’ t hold his curiosity to travel across the world , so he decided to leave his place and go exploring . But the elders in the temple all objected his request to leave , because in the Buddhist rules , monks were not allowed to go outside unless they are doing things for the temple . So , the elders decided to lock Wu up in his own room and did not let him go away . But the elders have forgotten one thing : The windows . Since the windows were not locked , Wu decided to pack his clothes , foods and necessities , then climbed out the window and ran as fast as he could as he was running for his life .
After he had run a long distance away from the temple , his heart was beating so fast he couldn ’ t stand it and fainted away . But then a monkey nearby saw him and told the others , so the group of monkeys took him to their monkey emperor called Kong . Once Wu woke up , he was frightened by the amount of monkeys beside him and got his stick waving against the monkeys . Then , Kong came as he heard the noise made by the monkeys and asked him why was he here , so Wu said :’ I … am a monk from a nearby temple … and I am going to the west and explore like nobody did before . ‘ Then , Kong had a talk with him and decided to go with him since he wanted to get famous after the exploration . So , Kong and Wu left the monkey ’ s place and headed for the west . After they arrived a nearby lake , a God called Sha popped out from the water and shouted ‘ I am the God of this lake ! You shall not pass unless you have beaten me in a fight ! ‘, then Kong picked up a branch and fought with Sha . After a series of chaos between the two of them , Sha finally felt tired from all of the fighting and gave up and said : ‘ You have won fair and square . You shall pass the lake by the help of my powers . ‘ Then , the lake ’ s water suddenly split by two leaving a path on the lake bed just like Moses did , and the both of them were amused by his powers , and convinced Sha to go to the west with them . But Sha refused for a long time , but the two of them convinced him for a long long time , so Sha finally agreed to go with them . Along the way , they also met a talking Pig who wanted to discover food from the west and went with them .
In their journey , they faced a lot of problems when passing through countries and districts . One time , when they were trying to get through the mountains of Iran , there was a dark and lonely forest that hides a wide varieties of monsters , such as lion headed snakes , bird like wolves and spider humans . But they all killed the monsters and the villagers nearby praised them and invited them to a grand feast . But the Greedy Pig was greedy and he ate the whole village ’ s food supply , so the were banned from that village and continued their journey .
The next day , they went across the plains of turkey , they were spotted by a group of Muslim hunters , and they were firing arrows towards them because of their religion against pigs , so the pig was raged and his face turned all red , and killed all the hunters with a farmer ’ s axe next to him . But Wu was disappointed and angry because of the pig ’ s acts , so he told him to stand still for 5 hours so he never killed anyone but monsters again . After that , they walked through the terrains of Europe and was chased by an army of knights in armor , because of their thoughts against sorcerers , witches and wizards , so Wu and others ran , but the pig was too slow , therefore he got killed behind and was eaten in a celebration feast in the army .
But finally , they have stole a ship in a nearby harbour and set sail across the sea . After waves of storms and wind , they shipwrecked on a stone in shallow water , but Sha had superpowers , so they finally got to the west safely . They discovered the lands of the west , ad became famous for centuries for travelling across the world , which also inspired other explorers to travel around the world . So , they made a great discovery for the world , and was remembered for their brave acts .
The End .