Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 39

New Journeys to the West
Cheung Chuk Shan College, Ng, Cynthia - 15
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t was a day when birds finally chirped. Megan was startled by a deafening roar that made her hair stand
on end. Slowly and quietly, she managed to stand on her feet, but her soul was still whirling about how
she had arrived at this spooky forest, and….. how she survived without being attacked when she was
still asleep.
Making her careful steps towards the cave exit, Megan fell into deep thoughts. She started to recall and
analyze what she had done. In her mind, she saw a faint image of herself taking a pill that had written on it
“eat me”, and the next second falling into a coma. “That must have been my fantasy, like the tale Alice in
Wonderland,” Megan reminded herself. Stunned by the surroundings but still bursting with curiosity,
Megan took her first step into the leafy woods.
What she saw then fascinated her, a cat that disappears and reappears, teacups that have legs and were
dashing around in her sight and seven little dwarfs marching along the branches high up the tree. Longing to
meet snow white in person, Megan followed the tiny dwarfs until she reached a hole, more or less the
identical one she learnt in the story Alice in Wonderland when she was just a child.
“Ouch” pain struck Megan down her spine and by the time she was able to figure out the sudden fright, she
was sent down and down the hole with almost no end. She yelped and struggled frantically, but again what
she saw miraculously calmed her soul. Deep inside the muddy hole, she saw pictures of herself falling from
above, from her infancy to her childhood and lastly adolescents. She tried to grasp them, but they disappear
whenever she reached her hands for them. Puzzled, she stared into the deep end. “When would it ever be
the end?” she realized and gasped. Just then, she landed on a pile of leaves with a “thump!” She got on her
feet and again, she was in another great cave, and “Whoosh!” she arrived at the Louvre! Though Meagan
was bewildered, she still decided to wander through the gorgeous building and enjoying herself in the
breathtaking scenes in paintings and sculptures. There she felt she spent the whole days, travelling through
rooms and corridors, imagining herself in the famous artwork the Mona Lisa and so many others! She was so
overjoyed that made her reluctant to return.
“Ring ring…..” The alarm clock brought Megan back to reality. “Time for school!” came her mother’s
voice from the kitchen. Unwilling to leave the amazing “trip”, Megan rubbed her eyes and pinched herself.
How she wished she could go on another “adventure’!! Still, she got up and smiled, thinking of all her
encounters in he western fantasy world and the western grand architecture. “May I go for another journey
to the west tonight?” She laughed and left her cozy bed.