Lydia was sitting on a stool in pigsy's noodle shop, on her phone while tuning out the stories that Tang told MK right next to her. She had met MK after he had delivered her some noodles and after she saw him in the grocery store. Needless to say MK was very persistent of becoming friends but her anti-social ass was having none of that. Eventually she agreed to become friends after all the pleading he was doing.
"Here's your noodles kid." The pig demon slid a bowl of noodles towards her. She gave him the money owed "Thanks Pigsy."
"Oh, that's so good! Monkey King's so cool! He's so strong and handsome-
"Oh, MK. And you thought you knew all the Monkey King stories."
Lydia tensed up hearing them mention her missing father.
"Oh, but I do. I got his whole life documented extensively in this unauthorized autobiography of Monkey King. Written and illustrated by yours truly. Like I knew he was born from a stone, and live behind a waterfall with his sweet little baby monkey friends! And- and- and oh!
"It's nice to know someone's taking in all these stories. Pearls of wisdom, dripping from my lips." Tang clear his throat. "Well, you know the deal: one story, one free bowl of Zha jiang mian.
"Huh? Oh right, free noodles! Yep, on it. How heavy do you think a mountain is? Compare to like- " MK reaches for the bowl of noodles but a spoon is thrown at him before he can.
Lydia just sits back and watches all of this unfold with Tang as she eats her soup that she actually paid for unlike Tang.
"Free noodles?!" He snatches the noodles away from MK. "No one gets a free meal at Pigsy's! I'm not running a charity here, Tang!"
"Ah, but Pigsy. I was paying with wisdom."
"Yeah? Well, wisdom don't pay the rent, you freeloader! And you!" He points at MK aggressively. "You've been slacking off all morning! I've got a dozen orders that need to go out, so quit slacking and get packing!"
"Yeah. I was about to take my break. So..."
"Break? Break?! There's no break in war! I need workers. Soldiers in the army of Pigsy's Noodles, home of the world's longest noodles. How else am I gonna expand my business into enemy territory?"
"Uh, do you mean across the street?"
"I stand by my statement! Now, hurry up! Pigsy notices Tang trying to not so sneakily get the bowl of noodles and he grabs a wooden spoon and starts chasing him around with it. "Hey, get back here, you coward!"
"No, Pigsy!"
"I want my money!"
Lydia yawns and stretches then packs up her things. "Alright it's about that time for me to go back to sleep, see you guys."
"But it's only 11:30!"
"Exactly my point Pigsy! I'm already 3 hours behind schedule!" She walks out the door heading back to her apartment.
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"Ah home at last!" She throws her stuff on the ground and heads towards her bedroom. Her room is an absolute mess, there's clothes everywhere and there's also just a bunch of empty cups just chilling around. "Meh I'll clean it once I get up." She thinks to herself knowing full well she probably won't. She puts her phone on her dresser, and the second she touches her bed she's knocked out.
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The little girl is running around the forest enjoying nature while training when suddenly she bumps into somebody. "I'm Sorry-!" She looks up to be met with a boy with beautiful eyes and beautiful red long red hair.
"Watch where you're going peasant!" He yells at her his hair turning into flames and burning bright. "Woah! Your hair is so cool!" His face turns red. "Wha-?" She gets up. "I've never met somebody around my age before!" His hair and face cools down "Neither have I..." she thinks for a second before smiling brightly "Hey! We should be friends! My name is Lydia what's yours!"
"Redson" she shakes his hand "Wow! Such a cool name! How did your hair turn into fire before?"
"I'm from the Demon Bull King family!" He said with much confidence.
"Hmmmm... Never heard of them. Come on let's go play!" She grabs his hand and leads him deeper into the forest.
They spend the day playing tag and hide and seek and even though Redson won't admit out loud he had lots of fun and hoped to see her again.
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Lydia is sleeping peacefully until she wakes up from a loud noise coming from outside. "God what is it now? I just want to sleep in peace!" She pulls back her curtains and looks out the window to see the city in ruins and people screaming and running away while others are hurt pretty badly. She gets flashbacks from her fight with the Demon Bull King and how she dies and how he left the city in shambles. She starts to have a panic attack, curling up into a ball and sobbing. She though she was over those memories, she thought she had gotten rid of all of the feeling she had about it. She's just as weak and powerless as last time...
Her wall bursts open but she's blocked out all noises. She feels somebody grab her and she screams and kicks them.
"YOU STUPID PEASANT I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!!!"
Peasant...? Wait she's heard that voice before she looks up tears making her vision blurry but she can still see the beautiful red hair that has turned into flames and those same eyes she met in the forest 408 years ago...
"Red...?"
He stares at her back surprised. Only one person had called him that before..
"Princess...?"
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"The Watcher" (LMK x OC)
Fantasy"Sometimes I think I would have been better off dead if I was never given to you." The girl at the monkey with cold, dead, unreadable eyes. She hated him. She hated him so much. She was never given the chance at a normal life, killed at the age of 1...
