Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 63

New Journey to the west
Harrow International School Beijing, Cui, Hanna - 13
I
booked a flight to America, because I seriously need a holiday and take some days off from my schedule
to have some rest. My flight is this evening and I’m going straight to New York. First I finished all my
work so I don’t need to worry about phone calls from my partners and get some sleep cause there is
time in the western countries is different from the eastern countries and I know that I’m already have to
struggle because of the time differences.2 hours later I finished everything I need to do and before going to
bed to take a nap I prepared a dairy that I named ”journey to the west” that I’m going to write during my
trip and put it in my suitcase, then I went to sleep.
Several hours later I was in the airport when I saw a man wearing a hoodie to cover his face and I didn’t
know if it was my imagination but I though I saw a tail behind. I followed him to get a closer look and what
I though I saw was a face of a monkey. Just when I was about to freak out the thing caught me and dragged
me to an empty room with no security camera, he took off his hoodie to reveal its face and I could not
believe it when I realized that a monkey just captured me. The creature told me that his name is “Wu
Kong” and he is on a mission and he needs to travel to the western civilization to find a precious object. He
needed my help since he need a human companion to hide him from suspicious people and also we don’t
need to ride a plane says that he already prepared a transport. Then he grabbed he and dragged me out of the
airport and I realized that my feet is not on the ground. Wu Kong was flying while dragging me with him. I
was freaking out but eventually calm down when I started to enjoy this moment.
Later we arrived at New york and Wu Kong said he doesn’t have all day and told me to hurry up and
follow him. When we were walking he told me that he is a native of Dongsheng of China, and has entered
the cave and led a group of monkeys, and is known as "monkey king". He said that his weapon which is the
“golden cudgel” was stolen and he is able to track down where it is before its too late. Wu Kong told me he
does not know who took it and might be one of his enemies or his friends that has the intention to play a
prank on him, also he only need me to block him from suspicious people and get him to the area where the
empire state building is which apparently is where the golden cudgel is. I really wanted to leave him but at
the same time I want to know more about him and his experiences, but I was afraid to ask him since its
pretty clear he is a powerful creature. While I was leading him to his destination which isn’t far at all I had a
million questions I had and if I’m going to ever encounter this “Monkey King”, I was thinking so deeply
that I didn’t realized we had arrived. Wu Kong told me that if he encounters me again he will properly tell
his story to me and told me to go away cause he have some private business. I have to admit even though I
barely did anything I hope I would see him again and I definitely have to record it in my dairy about my
“journey to the west”.