The Multiversal Shadow

Celebrating Independence Day!

Y/n's POV:

*ring-g-g*

" *yawn* What date is today?..."

I picked up my phone next to me, "Why am I waking up this early anyways..." I mumbled to myself, I heard Mk snoring plus it was still dark outside. I opened my phone, '5:00 a.m. August 31st' was the date and time, "Oh, it's just the 31st of August... nothing special..." I was tired, probably from yesterday, I had so many deliveries to do.

"Wait... 31ST OF AUGUST!?"

I quickly became covered my mouth with my hand, I forgot that it was five a.m. in the morning, I looked at Mk, he was still sleeping like a baby. "Oh, phew..." I murmured out.

Why do you think the 31st of August is so important to me that I have to wake up early you may ask? Well, it's because it's independence day for Malaysia of course! (ps, it's also the writer's birthday 👍)

I stretched my arms, I had to prepare, especially how to explain to Mk, Pigsy and the others about why I was celebrating another country's independence day in China. I quickly got ready, I wore my normal jacket and stuff, tied my hair in a nice and tidy way, and rushed down stairs.
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Mk's POV:

*ring-g-g*

"Wha?"

I fell down on the floor, "Ow... Y/n, a little help here?" I called for y/n, but she wasn't there.

"Y/n?"

I looked over to her bed, her phone was there, it looked like her alarm went off. I went over to her bed to close her phones alarm, "Where is y/n anyways?" I put my hand on my chin to make some sort of exaggeration.

Suddenly, I heard a loud scream, "Y/N!?" I panicked, I quickly summoned my staff and ran down stairs, "I'M HERE! WHAT'S WRONG!?" I turned to see y/n laughing as Mr. Tang and Pigsy ran to find water, or at least Pigsy was, Mr. Tang just freaked out.

"Uh... What's happening?"

Y/n slowly stopped laughing and started to explain what happened, "Oh! Mk, today's an independence day for a place where I'm from in the other universe. So to celebrate, I made some of their traditional food for you guys to try!" y/n held out a plate with rice, fried chicken, half a boiled egg, some chili sauce and some other stuff on it.

"Try this, it's called Nasi Lemak, the coconut rice goes well with the ayam goreng!" (pronounced ah-yum goh-ring)

"Ayam goreng? What's that?"

I asked my sister, "It's fried chicken in malay, now, try and see!". I used a spoon to scoop up some rice, a bit of fried chicken, and some of the chili sauce. I carefully took a bite, "Yum! I don't get what the fuss was about, this is really nic-" I quickly stopped, feeling the heat kick in, I rushed to find a cup of water, and gulped it down in one go. "W-what did you put in that y/n!?" I asked her, panicking.

"Really? I didn't mess up the steps though, the recipe was passed down to me from my grandmother..."

She took a spoon and ate a spoonful of the chili.

"Y/n how are you-"

"This tastes great! I don't know what you guys are talking about?"
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Y/n's POV:

"This tastes great! I don't know what you guys are talking about?"

I looked at my Mk, he was looking at me in shock, "Mk, go change first, your still in your pj's and it's eleven in the morning already.".

"AH! Your right y/n!"

And Mk rushed upstairs again, I turned to look at Pigsy and Mr. Tang.

"So what do you think about the sambal?" (sum-bah-le, you have to pronounce it fast!)

"Its... Spicy... In a good way though!"

Mr. Tang nervously said, and Mei and Sandy came in the shop.

"Heyyo! Watcha doing y/n?"

Mei leaned closer to me, eyeing the nasi lemak, "Just making some traditional food from Malaysia, wanna try some?" I gave Mei a small plate of nasi lemak, I wasn't sure if she liked it for not.

"So y/n, your from Malaysia? I've heard about that country, never been there before..."

Mr. Tang questioned me, "Yea, but not from this universe" I shrugged. Mei took a bite of the nasi lemak, and she complemented my cooking skills. "Yum! Did you make this by yourself y/n?" she quickly finished it, "Seconds please!".

I gladly gave her some more nasi lemak, while Pigsy and Mr. Tang just starred at her in shock. "What!? How did you-" Pigsy was stammering out words. I turned to Sandy, "Would you like some? I gotta warn you, it's a bit spicy" I told him, Sandy shook his head, "No thanks, spice isn't really my thing anymore, do you have any Malaysian tea I can try?" he asked me. I thought for a while.

"Oh yea!"

I rushed into the kitchen, preparing ingredients. I came out with two steel jugs, some condensed milk, and boiling hot water plus a tea bag.

"What are you going to do y/n?" Pigsy asked me.

"I'm making Teh Tarik, also known as 'pulled tea'. "

I put the tea bag in a I pu strainer, then the strainer in a mug, and poured the hot water on top of it. I waited for a while for the tea to be dark and intense, then I waited for a while longer for the tea to cool down. I took away the strainer and used a spoon to scoop some of the condensed milk and mixed it in the tea.

"Now for the hard part..." I mumbled to myself.

I poured the tea in one of the steel jugs, then used the jugs tea and poured it to the other jug, I made sure that I tried to pour the tea as high as possible cause this was the main element in Teh Tarik. I continued on pouring for a while, then it was done.

I poured some in a cup, then handed it to Sandy.

"There you go!"

"Thanks y/n!"

He took a sip of the tea, and he said he never tasted anything like it before. The others wanted to try it too so I poured a cup for all of them.

"So, y/n, how many languages do you speak?" Mr. Tang asked me.

"I speak three, how about you guys? Two right? One for English and one for Chinese?"

"Oh! Yea... Actually.."

"Only me and Mr. Tang speak Chinese" Pigsy spoke up.

"Really? That's new."

So I spent the rest of the time teaching Mei and Mk Chinese plus some Malay, you might be thinking why I didn't teach Sandy too. I did ask him but he declined.
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Bonus!

"MK! BODOH LAH YOU! YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYA AND SAYANG!"

I was using a rotan to hit Mk while Mei laughed at the side.

"I'M SORRY Y/N! BUT IT'S ALMOST THE SAME!"

"BUT IT'S NOT! I swear your even worse than f/n..."

"F/n? Who's-"

*Bonk!*

"OW!"

"DIAM LAH YOU!"

"BAHAHAHAH" - Mei

GUYS I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER!!! Sorry its this short I really can't think of anything for this😕I might try to write angst... Maybe I'm good at that 🤔 but if I do I'll prob postpone the birthday special and do an angst one next.

! I edited some of the chapters so I suggest you to read y/n's Backstory for the next one because you might get confused if you didn't read that if you red it b4 yesterday (August 28) you should read it again if you haven't because I edited that !