Sleepy watches as the boy hammers at the mural. "You know, when I found out I was going to be trained by the Monkey King, Great Sage, Equal to Heaven, I had no idea that I'd be stuck here hammering walls 12 hours a day. Why am I doing this again?" MK exclaims throwing his hammer, never to be seen again probably.
"Oh, so I can make a nice little breakfast nook. Get some light up in here." The monkey king smiles at his apprentice, relaxing from his cloud.
"But I'm meant to be Monkie Kid. Not Construction Boy!! How am I supposed to do the hero stuff if I don't know the fighting... stuff?" The monkey complains.
"Oh?" He stops swirling the staff. "So you want to know the "fighting stuff," huh? Like.. this?"
The monkey kings eyes glow, getting up, spinning the staff to then throw it at the same mural his apprentice has been hammering at.
MK yelps at the impact before getting excited, sleepy tiredly admiring the king. "YES!, exactly like that. I am ready for some awesome!!"
The monkey king laughs, "Look, bud. You can't rush this stuff. You'll get there. You just need practice!"
MK frowns "But this isn't practice." His mentor groans at his response
"I'm never going to teach you something you don't need to know, okay?" MK huffs, his phone then starts ringing with notifications. " Okay. Now, this priceless, ancient mural is not going to destroy itself. So remember: Step into the strike."
After many text notifications coming from MK's phone, it rings. It was a call from Mei, he picks it up.
"MK, we really need your help." She says frantically then explaining the situation to Mk.
" A monster attacking the city? That's terrible. Dang. Guess I got to go do some boring hero stuff instead of this. Okay, bye!!"
"What did I miss?"
" MK, what took you so long? "
"Dude, I've been messaging you all day. You have my glasses still!" Zhara exclaims.
MK ignores his sister, focusing on information about the monster "Sorry, sorry, Monkey King was making me do boring stuff. That the bad guy?" He turns to the big monster. An menacing purple monster looms over the trios heads. "Okay. Be right back. Here comes.."
"No, wait!" Mei calls out to her friend who has jumped towards the monster.
"Monkie Kid!"
MK without a chance to land a hit, gets slapped down.
Zhara laughs at him.
"We've tried that knucklehead!" She exclaims putting her hands on her hips. Next to MK lies the defeated Sandy and pigsy. A dark shadow then flies over the,
Mei looks up. " Is that"
"Monkey King?" MK finishes Mei's sentence.
"Dude i got no idea. I'm BLIND." Zhara grumbles squinting
A dark shadow flys over them and defeating the monster with a glowing purple staff.
"Huh, how come that did work but not when we tried 3 times." Mei asks
"Fourth times the charm..?" Zhara replies still squinting. "Since thats dealt with can you please- And hes gone."
"He's over there climbing up that building the monster was in front of, if you wanna go after him." Mei suggests.
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MK climbs up the side of the building,
"Yes! Monkey king!!" He says out of breath before falling off the building. He quickly reappears in front of the dark monkey he thinks is his mentor. "That was awesome. I can't believe you came back to—" MK now notices the distinguished monkey. " oh, this is awkward. You're not Monkey King. "
Macaque sheepishly rubs his neck smiling. "I get that a lot. Monkie Kid, right? "
"How did you --"
"Your staff kind of gives you away, dude. Not just anyone can wield that thing." The dark monkey points out.
"Uh, sorry. Who are you?" MK finally asks.
"Macaque. Actually, the "Six-Eared Macaque" is, you know, my full name. Well, see you around, MK." Macaque turns to leave just to be stopped by Mk appearing in front of him.
" Can you teach me that awesome thing?" MK asks gleaming.
He laughs nervously. "Uh, don't you already have a Master? I thought Monkey King was training you."
"Ah, yeah, yeah, no, he.. he is." MK looks to his staff.
" But you can never have too many teachers, right? I'm sure Monkey King would agree. It's not like he would want to hold you back."
" Um, yeah. Yes! He totally would be cool with it."
Macaque smirks. "All right then."
An angry voice calling for Mk is heard before they start leaving.
"My glasses. NOW." MK startled turns around. He sees his sister struggling to get ontop to the building, rushing over to help Zhara up.
"I swear, when something pops up you just don't hear me!" His sister complains.
"Yeah, Yeah I know! I'm really sorry!" MK chuckles handing her glasses.
"I'm never letting you hold onto these when im doing something!" She says as she wipes the lenses. "Yo Monkey king,—" MK tries to hush Zhara "Zhara that isn-" ignoring him to continue, " teach your apprentice how to listen!!" She huffs putting on her glasses to also view the monkey. Dumbfounded as her brother first was when she realized it was in-fact not the monkey king. The monkey just chuckles turning to signal MK to go. MK catches on, "I have to go now Zhara!! I'll see you later okay!!" He waves to his sister to go catch up with his new mentor. Leaving the sister to goggle the sight.
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Zhara
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And he just leaves with some other monkey. Whatever, atleast i can see now. I turn to go back down, a really long drop.... I guess I can just chill here for a bit.
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I knock on MKs apartment door, to be greeted by Sleepy.
"Oh, sleepy! Where's mk?" I ask trying to peer into apartment.
" Zhara!! MK is just training with his new mentor. Wouldn't even tell me who it was!!"
"At this time? No wonder he's been tired these last few days."
"Isn't that a good thing? Theres been good progress too!" Sleepy smiles. "He's not dumb Zhara, he'll be fine." He assures me even though it looks like he didn't really believe that. The kid's been cranky and tired the last few days, and I don't know what to do.
"It was another monkey, similar to the Monkey king." I say regarding what sleepy said earlier, He doesn't even who it is.
"Similar to Wukong..?" Sleepy questions, i nod "The only thing i noticed was the hair, it was black. Couldn't get a good look at his face though. You know who it is maybe? You're pretty old." I cross my arms. He looks like he thinks about then shaking his head silently. I sigh, "That sucks. Well, goodnight sleepy, text me when MK comes home!!" Cause he can't even do that!
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I for once went with Mk to see what he'd be doing while in Monkey King's care. I sit next to sleepy.
"Patience and focus. Step into the strike."
MK throws the staff and destroys the wall in a blast of purple smoke. Huh, Thats new.
"Whoa. How'd you learn to do that?" He dramatically gasps "Have you been running around with. other. mentors?" Monkey king crosses his arms.
"Patience and focus. Isn't that what you said? "
The two say some words before MK leaves. I turn to Sleepy shocked, Wukong glaring at Sleepy. Shooting the demon into defense, he puts his hands up.
"I don't know whats going on with him. Neither of us do. Apparently some new dude's been training him." A mixture of realization and anger washes up on the monkey kings face. He then leaves with his cloud, Sleepy and I following behind on a.. giant ass fish... I always learn something new about this demon.
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We get there just to see MK get launched towards a mountain, getting pinned by his staff. I call for him, but we were too far for him to hear me. Sleepy has us go quicker than the Monkey king. As we get closer I jump off land, i look back to see Sleepy quickly retreating back to Monkey King. I stumble to my feet to MK.
"MK!" I run in front of the kid, Monkey King then arriving. You can tell since he wants to make an loud ass impact to the mountain.
"Enough!"
MK stops struggling for a second when he notices. "Monkey King!"
"Hey, lets focus on getting you of there yeah?" I say as i try to pull the staff.. its so HEAVY FOR A STICK.
"Monkey King.. It's good to see you, bud!" The other monkey? chuckles. I turn a bit to see whats going on.
"Are you ever going to get sick of living in my shadow? It's time to give back what you stole." Bunch of words back and forth these two are getting at. Wheres sleepy when you need him?
"So you chose," I pull on the staff. "Some lunatic for another mentor?" I scold.
"I know, I Know It was a bad idea!" He stops squirming from under the staff. "I just.. wanted to get stronger." I can't get mad at this boy ever, no matter how frustrating he can be.
"Gosh what am I gonna do with you." I chuckle to myself. I look to see Mk has gone pale looking..? I look behind us to see the same monster from that day!
"MK it'd be great if you got your powers running now..!" I urge him.
"Im trying!" He cries.
"Sorry, kid. Nothing personal!"
I look over my shoulder to see the monster ready to crush us, I turn back stressing to get this stupid staff out while MK just screams.like dawg whos screams pussy asss mf. hi will
I ignore whatever the two behind us go on about, I let go of the staff shaking my hands since it feels so strained. I look as MK struggles to break free again.
"Come on, staff. I can't. I'm not strong enough." He mutters. L get good
Monkey king calls out for MK. " We're definitely going to have words later. But it's time for the hero stuff!" Corny ass
and mk beats dawgs ass cause he got that dog in him hes that guy hes the one who shits
