The Monkie Kids Shadow

Chapter 13

Calabash 1.1

"Ready, Mk?" Dark brown eyes flashed purple, a shadow staff materializing in his right hand.

"Ready, Leo!" The young monkei kids eyes flashed in excitement, he took his staff out of his ear and took his stance.

Both teens planted their feet in the ground and launched at each other leaving dust behind. Clashes of their staff created light shockwaves as they kept attacking each other.

Leo sunk into a portal as the golden staff went past his head, he then cane out of MK's shadow and raised his staff to strike. Mk turns around quickly and blocked the in coming attack. The ground under the brown haired boys feet cracked as the shadow staff made contact with his golden staff.

Mk grunts and soon pushed Leo away. Leo backflips in the air and landed on his two feet. "You're getting good, Mk!" Leo complements.

On the sideline a voice shouted, "That's because I'm his mentor, the best mentor!" It came from the great sage himself, Sun Wukong. A black furred simian slapped their hand over the lighter counterparts mouth to shut him up.

Mk giggles, Leo couldn't help but get a little distracted at the cute sound. Mk seems to notice and dashed at him to attack. Leo snapped out of his trance and blocked, "Oh, man. I almost got you!" Mk retreats putting distance between him and Leo.

"It's your fault for being so adorable..." Leo quietly mutters, a cough from the side made the black haired boy stiff. Oh, macaque heard him. Him and his stupid mouth. He could honestly feel two simians teasing smiles.

Leo and Mk continued to spar. "ahh!" The monkie kid felt his feet leave the ground, he then landed on his bottom. Leo had kicked his feet off the ground making Mk lose his sense of balance.

"Got you." Leo's staff disappeared into the shadows, he then walked up to Mk. Mk angry expression looked like a pout that even Leo couldn't help but be in awe. Leo shook his head and helped Mk off the ground.

Mk groans, "Why do you always use your shadow thingies, it's so unfair!" Leo chuckled, amusement laced in his tone as he replied smugly, "It's called playing smart."

Macaque walked up to them, "You two have improved. But, do be reminded that you have to take your spars seriously next time. A real battle won't be to kind to joke around, but I'll let this slide this time." The two teens nodded.

Wukong stood beside Macaque and brought him in a side hug, "Oh come on Mac, don't be too hard on the kiddos. It's just a spar, it isn't even a real battle. I'm sure they know when to joke around or not. They're big boys anyway!" He then proceeds to kiss his opposites cheek. Macaque smiles softly, he then sighs, "I guess."

"Do you think it's just me or are they intentionally getting affectionate when in front of us." Leo questioned as he whispered into MK's ear. Mk nodded, he did notice that the two monkeys get very affectionate when they're around mostly but when in front of others they act neutral with each other like normal partners.

The two boys got hungry and set out to search for fruit in flower fruit mountain, Leo suggested it for future survival situations. The simians were too busy with each other to even notice them gone.

Leo shadows up a tree branch, "I found mangos!" He yelled, he then see Mk bellow with his arms out. He already had lots of different fruits in his arms but he's still willing to catch the mangos.

Leo picked out the mango from the tree and threw it down to Mk. A loud yelp caught Leo's attention and looked bellow, the fruits Mk had earlier was on the ground. No Mk on sight.

"Mk?" Leo called, at first he thought Mk was pranking him. He waited for a full ten minutes gathering the fruit in his shadow portal. "Mk, come on. This prank isn't gonna work you know, you can come out now."

No answer, another minute passed and Leo started feeling nervous then panicked. "Mk! Mk, answer me! This isn't funny!" He screamed. His voice echoed through the forest, the birds flew away frightened.

"Kid, why are you screaming? Where's Mk-" Macaque went silent as Leo turned around to face him, he looked angered and worried. His glowing purple eyes held dark intent, shadows everywhere becoming violent while tearing the environment apart.

"Macaque? Macaque! MK's gone, I-I don't know where he is. I think he might've been kidnapped or worse!" Leo started hyperventilating as thought of Mk getting hurt badly filled his mind. Demons and all those dangerous stuff.

The dark simian pulled Leo into a hug and rubbed circles on his back, "Calm down, take deep calm breath. Just follow my lead, okay?" Macaque took a deep breath and Leo did the same, "Exhale." Macaque instructs patiently, both exhaled at the same time. The shadows soon retreated.

They did this process repeatedly for 1 minute until Leo was calm enough to explain what happened. "Don't worry kid, I'm sure Mk is fine. You know sunshine's are very stubborn." The Simian jokes, Leo laughs and nodded feeling a little reassured.

Leo looked around the partially ruined forest, he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. "S-sorry about the forest... I wasn't thinking straight."

Macaque waves it dismissively, "It's fine, Wukong and I can fix it later. Come on, we gotta tell Wukong and your friends."

The two portals out of the forest.
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Mk snores loudly as he lays on his bed, a comic book of Monkey King on his face. A sudden shake made Mk sit up quickly, it was an earthquake!

"What? Earthquake!!!" Mk screamed, all his belongings falling down making a huge mess, his room was already a mess but this just made it worse.

He then covers his head with his arms, when he sensed that the quake was gone he looked around his room, which was a real mess. "Oh, no-o-o-o. All my pwecious pwossessions."

An alarm rang making Mk look at the fallen clock on the floor, "Huh? 9:01." He then puts both his hand on the side of his head as fear appeared on his face, "I'm late for work!" Pigsy is so going to have his life for this mistake.

"My staff, my staff, where's my
staff? Staff?" Mk tries pulling something out of his ear but nothing came out which confused him, the time hit 9:02. "Pigsy's gonna kill me!" He screams.

He then recollects himself, he proceeds to put on his clothes, "Okay. Socks. Jacket. Bandana. Let's go." He dashed out of the home apartment and went to Pigsys noodles. Which is a block away.

"And I'm here. Pigsy! I'm so sorry I'm late. I overslept, and I guess I didn't set an alarm? Honestly, I don't even remember going to bed, I thought I was with Leo— oh! And the earthquake, and-and-and-- please don't fire me." He cried kneeling down on the floor.

"Fire you?" Mk flinches away in fear of getting hit by Pigsy's spoon which Pigsy is using to stir the inside of a pot. "Ha! Why would I fire you?" Pigsy turns around showing a bright smile, which is really not like Pigsy at all!

Mk blinks as he stares at Pigsy in disbelief.