Book 3: Heart Strings

Chapter 5: Burned Clay

Heart Strings

Chapter 5

Burned Clay

Macaque watched the hut that had his son and Tyla in. The soft lamp glow went out. He sighed going back into the hut he had made. Curling up in his own bed did he finally close his eyes to rest.

When he opened his eyes all he could see was flames, and hear screaming. He ran to the door and looked outside. There were monkeys running around. Being chased by smaller golems, the side of monkeys. Actually they looked like smaller versions of himself. That really pissed him off, why did people use him to gain.

He heard a loud scream and he jumped up looking around. He needed to find Tyla, she had his son. He jumped across and into the hut. Tyla kneed the golem in the face. A second one grabbed her hair and pulled her back.

"Mama!" Tao cried from the bed. His eyes fell on Macaque. He curled into a little ball peaking over his tail at his father whose teeth were bared.

Tyla turned just as a clawed hand that grabbed hold of her hair was punched away from her. The claws tore through her hair. It rained down at their feet. She saw the hair at her feet and she gasped looking in the small mirror. It was cut into different lengths.

"You ass!" She kicked the golem and gasped at the pain in her foot. She jumped around and gasped feeling the tree sway. Macaque picked up his son and stuffed him in his shirt. The tiny monkey's small face poked out. They didn't have time to fix his papoose. An arrow hit the bed catching it on fire. She gasped motioning to the door.

"Hurry." She could hear her sons whimpering. Macaque felt her hand run along his shirt. She was comforting his son, he felt Tao's fingers tighten around his fur. Something baby monkeys do when they ride their parents.

Macaque ran and jumped into the trees. He heard Tyla right behind him keeping up.

"Into the water!" She called out. "Swim downstream! They are Golems! They'll just sink!" Tyla yelled.

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'Hey idiot! Wake up!' Tang sat up and looked around. He was sleeping in a low hut. He looked around at Pigsy who was shaking him. Suna was on his back. He had changed into his bigger form.

"Come on Tang." He picked up his partner and started to run through the Golems. Most of which hit the ground and turned to dust.

'Oh wow, now he's a power house isn't he, no wonder you like it.' Tang wanted to argue, he wanted to scream out that he loved Pigsy for more than just his strength, he did so love him for his natural protective instincts, his kindness, his tender touch...

"Tang, you okay?" Pigsy stopped just before hitting the water. He didn't want to create a huge wave and knock over the monkeys.

Tang realized that he had tears going down his face. He wiped them away quickly.

"No no, I'm fine. Just the dust. Let's help the little ones get across. Some can't swim." Pigsy nodded motioning to come to climb on. For monkeys that wasn't too hard. The water felt warm in the summer evening.

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MK looked around for any more stragglers before throwing his staff hitting the last of the golems.

"Everyone's out on this side!" He called out. Wukong looked up at his adopted son and nodded.

"Yeah, come on lets catch up. We'll take them to Flower Fruit Mountain. Their places they can live there. It's no longer safe here for them."