Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 315

Journey to the Magic Forest
Korean International Springboard, So, Kristy - 13
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nce upon a time a bad witch lived in a magic forest. The witch had a magic sword and wanted to
capture the famous monk Tripitaka. It just so happened that Tripitaka was out walking through
the magic forest when he came across an old woman selling apples. As Tripitaka was very kind he
bought an apple from the old woman, but really the old woman was the bad witch and the apple was
poisoned. Tripitaka fell down after he had taken only one bite and fell asleep. The witch took Tripitaka and
locked him up in her house. A few days later Sun Wukong who was Tripitaka’s friend decided to look in
the magic forest for him. Sun Wukong came across a small house so he looked through the window. There
he saw Tripitaka in a cage. Sun Wukong was just about to save his friend when out of the house came the
witch with her magic sword. Sun Wukong tried to fight, but he was powerless.
The witch let out an evil laugh “Ha, ha, ha. Your powers won’t work here. This is a magic forest.”
Sun Wukong was defeated and ran out of the forest. He thought long and hard how he could defeat the
witch, then he had an idea. He knew that all witches had a magic number and that if he could guess the
witches magic number then he could get his friend back. Sun Wu Kong went back to the forest and
knocked on the door. He told the witch that he wanted to guess her number and if he did then he could
have his friend back. The witch agreed. But she said “If you guess the wrong number then you both must
stay here forever.”
“So be it” said Sun Wukong “Your magic number is 12”
“ARRRRGGGHH” screamed the witch, “You are right. But how did you know.”
“It is the number of your house, now you must let us both go.”
The witch let Tripitaka go and they set off to go out of the forest. After a while they got tired and decided
to have a nap. When they woke up something strange had happened. There were two Sun Wukongs! The
bad witch had copied herself to look like Sun Wukong. Tripitaka was very confused.
“Follow me” said Sun Wukong,
“No follow me” said the bad witch.
Tripitaka decided to hold a test to see who the real Sun Wukong was. As they were at the edge of the magic
forest he said “Go outside of the forest and fight. Whoever is the winner is the real Sun Wukong.”
The two went outside, but because Sun Wukong had his power back he won easily and the witch vanished
into smoke.
“Let’s get out of here” said Tripitaka.
From then on they never did go back to the magic forest.