Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 312

Journey to the White Demons
Korean International Springboard, De Groot, Leonardo - 13
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nce upon a time there were four friends Tripitaka, Sun Wukong, Piggy and Sandy and one day
they were walking down a road when suddenly they passed the cave of the White Demons. The
demons in the cave could smell Tripitaka. They then planned to eat him. One of the White
Demon’s was a shape shifter, this meant that he could turn into anything that he wanted to. The white
Demon decided to turn himself into an old man so that he could fool Tripitaka and catch him. The demon
as the old man then went out on the road and called to the four friends. Sun Wukong looked at the old
man, but could tell that something was not right. Then he picked up a tree and hit the old man. The old
man fell to the floor and turned into smoke.
The White Demons then came up with another plan. This time they thought of a way to get all of the
friends split up. They put some cookies on a plate and left it for Piggy, they pretended that someone was
drowning in the river to distract Sandy and made a trap with a box of bananas for Sun Wukong. There was
only Tripitaka left and they managed to get him to enter their cave. Tripitaka was defenseless and was easily
caught by the White Demons. They decided that they would cook him on a big bonfire like a barbecue.
They tied him up and went off to fetch some wood to make the fire. When they had wood Tripitaka was
placed on top of the fire and the demons lit it. The White Demons waited happily for the monk to be
barbecued. With all the smoke in their cave they had not seen the cloud that had arrived. On top of the
cloud was Sun Wukong and he was not happy that his friend was going to be the main course. He leapt
from the cloud and took out his mighty staff. Within seconds Tripitaka had been untied and was free. Then
Sun Wukong beat up the White Demons and threw them on the fire until they were nothing more than
smoke. The two friends ran out of the cave and found Sandy who was wet and confused and Piggy who was
still eating a massive plate of cookies.