Macaque's Redemption

Chapter 8- apologies

(Narrator POV)

Everyone just kind of stared at the man as he continued to sob on MK, thanking him as MK was just frozen in confusion as he did know what was happening until Macaque remembered that LBD had forced him to be her servant. "I guess the necklace was what she had used to continue to use him." he whispered to himself but Wukong heard him and looked over, "Wait, you mean that the NOT mayor was also being controlled?" "Yes, I just never realized that I could have freed him sooner if I knew it was an actual object that was keeping him here." 

Soon enough the man had stopped crying and looked over at the rest of the group and walked over to Macaque "I'm sorry for anything I did while LBD was trying to take over the world." and Macaque just patted his shoulder. "Hey, it wasn't you who was doing all that, besides now we're both free." and he just smiled as the dark monkey forgave him. "Well, I suppose I can reintroduce myself, I'm Menshen the mayor of the city Megapolis."

"Wait, you were the mayor before this whole LBD started." Mei mentioned but Menshen just looked nervous as he rubbed the back of his head, "Well, I have been under her control for about 300 years." "WHAT!?" the whole group yelled out which caused Menshen to flinch at the noise. "Yeah..." "How old are you?" MK questioned "Well, I'm probably around 550 years old considering that I'm still a demon." The monkey king then paused before gasping so loud that the others thought he was having a stroke. 

"Wait, you're the missing Ice demon that the others were talking about a couple hundred years ago!" which caused Macaque to whip his head so fast almost getting whiplash. "You're actually an ice demon, that wasn't just LBD's powers?" "Yep, that's me. One of the only few demons that has the power of ice instead of fire and darkness." Eventually the group decided to head back to the city and Menshen decided that he would continue to be the mayor but actually do things for the city and focus on his job now that he was his own person again.

Wukong on the other hand was standing on the deck of the flying TEA thinking about how he was going to apologize to Macaque for everything and attempt to make it up to him but MK found him lost in thought. "Hey, Monkey king?" snapping the king out of his trance for him to look at his successor and noticed that MK was nervous "What's up, bud?" "Well, I just noticed that you were thinking about something probably important and I think I know how I can help you." This surprised the other but Wukong just smiled at the offer considering that he wasn't getting anywhere by himself, "Well, what did you have in mind then kid?" and MK basically dragged the golden monkey to his room. 

"Well, I had a few ideas for you to apologize to Macaque but you can pick one or use them to create your own." and the monkey laughed as MK got some stuff out from the desk in his room. "One is you could find his staff, not just his shadow version but the physical staff that he used to have." "Wait, how did you know about that?" "Well, Ao Gorge gave me this book when we were on their ship and I read it, finding a lot of stories that are not in history." MK said this while giving Wukong a look, which probably meant that there was a story in that book that probably explained something stupid he did.

Wukong became nervous with sweat building up as he hoped it wasn't one of those stories but tried to get MK back on track, "What are your other ideas?" and MK just has this evil smile at Wukong. "You could get your head out of the clouds, swallow your pride and freaking ask Macaque out on a proper date since it has been over two thousand years since you have done that for him." Wukong just freaks that hell out, yelling at MK asking how he knew that while MK just ran out of his room with the Monkey king right behind him and ran over to Mei's room where their trap for the monkey was at the door. 

Which said monkey fell for it when MK ran through the door to the room and he was caught in rope and his tail was wound in string wire, and he struggled to get himself free until MK used his powers to move Wukong through the door and set him up to talk. "Alright, what you're gonna do is something nice for Macaque whether you want to do this or not." "I'm still confused as to how you knew about our relationship in the past." "You can thank Demon Bull king for that, Wukong."