Chapter 12

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"Wukong, we need to talk." Macaque's said. Wukong stiffened up and started to sweat. "..." Wukong couldn't say anything and just waited for a punch or for a full out blame storm from Macaque.

"We can start over and try... try to be friends again." Macaque said. "..r-really..?" Wukong felt relief and happy. Macaque nodded his head and smiled softly. "Y-Yes! I mean- Ahem.. yes please." Wukong said happily.

Macaque chuckled and shook his head. "Alright peaches, what do you want to do for our start?" Macaque asked. Wukong's heart beat rapidly after the long lost nickname he was given by his old friend.

"Hmm.. wanna try.. *snort* crocheting-?" "Please don't remind me of last time we tried that-" Macaque said with a cringed look on his face, thinking about what happened before when they BOTH tried crocheting.

Wukong laughed and nodded. "Alright, alright.. I was joking I wanted to see how you react to that! Maybe we can try.. drawing! I haven't drawn in a long time." Wukong said smiling. "Sure. And.. please don't make fun of my artstyle. I never got the chance to update it when I was dead." Macaque said. They both laughed and headed to get some papers and maybe some crayons.

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"BRO WHAT?! HOW DO YOU EVEN DRAW THAT PART?!" Macaque yelled out. Wukong laughed out loud. Macaque was having a hard time drawing a certain body part.

Macaque was putting on a fake cartoonish crying face and was scratching the back of his head aggressively. "ABAHAH- Aha- okay okay! So like- AHAHDS- y-you draw it like this, than like this and then.. like this! Got it?"  Wukong said trying NOT to laugh.

Macaque stared for a while and yelled out "WHAT?!!" Wukong covered his mouth trying not to laugh but really, he was dying so bad inside that he needed an inhaler.

"BRO-" Macaque was trying to do the same method that Wukong did but it didn't turn out great. It just turned out the same as his other disasters. "AHAHAH- IM SORRY AHAHAHVBAAA- IM SO SORRY-" Wukong laughed out loud.

Macaque groaned in annoyance and tried redoing the part but it ended up being the same that as the last one.

"WUKOOONGGG HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT??!!!" Macaque whined. Wukong chuckled and patted Macaque on the back. "Don't worry.. you just need to practice more then you'll get it." Wukong said while smiling.

Macaque sighed and smiled back. "K, I'm tired from all this.. why don't we take a rest for a few hours?" Macaque asked shyly. Wukong smiled and chuckled a bit. "Yeah, sure bud." Wukong said. They then headed to bed and slept for 4 hours.

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(Meanwhile with the crew)

"THAT IS NOT HOW YOU PLAY UNO-" "I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!!" Mk yelled out. For starters, the crew wanted to play Uno, with THE lady bone demon. Sandy told her how the game worked and she understood correctly. But surely, Mk didn't. Of course he couldn't.

"NO YOU DON'T- YOUR DOING IT SO WRONG" Mei yelled out. The others watched the two bicker on how the game was supposed to be played. Lady bone demon watched the two and face palmed her face.

"I guess Uno isn't for everyone." Tang shrugged. Lbd chuckled at the two friends reminding her when her and Wukong used to get revenge on each other after Wukong killed her pet frog.

Then she thought about the death of her frog. 'Why did I even start a fight with Sun Wukong just because he killed a simple frog? I can just steal a thousands of frogs from the rain forest.' Lbd said in her mind, cringing at how dumb she was when she was younger. But she wasn't even that young either.

"Say Lbd.. if you don't mind me asking.. how did you become you?" Tang asked. Lbd stared at Tang and hesitantly thought. "Well, when I was a little girl, I was just a girl in a village. Until I saw the mortals being tortured by mortals who were higher than them. I hated to see the way they would treat them. So I wanted to find a way to have all the mortals be one, to be equal to each other." Lbd explained. Tang frowned at the thought of a little girl watching higher ranked peers be tortured and be mocked everyday.

"But once I found a solution, everyone thought of me as a demon. You know.. before I wasn't even a demon? I was just a normal girl? But after I was sealed away, I obtained this.. power.. this power from my old throne I found when I was banished from the village I was born in." Lbd said.

"Wait.. really?" Tang asked and Lbd nodded. "I don't know what that power had done to me, but.. it made me feel more alive, more.. more confidence and power to help this world to the better. But, I've learned my lesson that it is not my job to fix the world. It's somebody else's." Lbd explained and smiled at the still two bickering young adults.

"I'm here to look out for Sun Wukong. As much as we both don't have much in common and get along, I'm at least willing to help one's life if I can't help the universe." Lbd said as she looked at the tea cup in her hands.

"Wow.. I'm really sorry what happened to you. I'm happy that you had second thoughts. I'm glad you are helping Monkey King. I wonder how long he had these.. inner feelings?" "Thousands and thousands of years. After the death of his best friend, he couldn't face the fact that he did it. So he hid away after defeating the Demon Bull King. But that wasn't the only reason. The reason was because he was sent off to his final duty to watch over a certain stone monkey." Lbd confessed.

Tang's eyes widened. "You don't mean.. Mk? Right?" Tang asked for reassuring. "Yes. I'm talking about Monkey King's successor." Lbd said. Tang was shocked, surprised but mostly shock. He only nodded and continued to watch the young adults STILL bickering about a stupid game.

[End of Chapter]

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