Magnolia

From servant to Princess.

“H-Hong Se?!”

A strange golden symbol on the floor seemed to appear, circling the little red monkey. The pillar rising up from the floor further and further. For a moment she couldn’t be seen. Just a tall golden pillar.
“S-Shit,HONG SE ARE YOU THERE?!”

Panicking he hid the potions if wukong ever showed up,turning his full attention to the red monkey,punching the pillar in a attempt to break it.
“HONG SE CHIRP IF YOU CAN HEAR ME!”
Then the pillar started to crack, splitting open gradually.

It made a weird shape before crumbling away revealing a strange result. Instead of a little red monkey in a uniform. There was a fully fledged monkey demon, with red fur and hair. Her face marking in an odd red butterfly like shape. She was wearing a simple red and pink cheongsam with an orange scarf .
“H-Hong Se?..”

He cooed poking the red monkey demon curiously,tilting his head,oh how was he going to explain this to wukong…

Hong Se took a moment to blink, taking in all her surroundings before grumpily turning and pointing at Mihou. “ Liu Er Mihou what have you done now - AH !”

“O-Oh my god…YOU ARE SO CUTEEE!!”
He chirped picking the demon up and spinning around with her,his motherly energy filled the room,which was clear indicator of hong se’s future for this point on.

“Look at how adorable you are!!”
“ Let’s not change the subject here! What did you do ?” She said before feeling her forehead, the paint circle now permanently part of her fur. “ I … I feel different. And I sound different.” She was only a few inches or so shorter then he was. If she had to guess she was somewhere between 8-10 in psychical age. However, mentally she was a great deal more mature then Mihou it seemed.

Mihou put the small demon down on the countertop,his fluffy fur puffed up as his tails wagged,he poke her cheek yet again giggling.
“Awee you are so so cute!!!,little cutie!”

“ Liu Er Mihou staph squishing my cheeks!” She squeaked but it didn’t help her much.
Mihou stayed silence before absolutely loosing it from the squeak,seemed like all the isolation from any other monkey was backfiring now as he did not stop bothering the small monkey.

“ Liu Er ! Stop. This is serious !” She batted her little hands away attempting to put some distance between them. But it failed.
She gave a grumpy huff as she folded her arms, her tail swaying back and forth. “ We need to figure out what just happened before Sun Wukong returns ! Or I’ll get turned back into a terra-cotta figure again!” She said frowning. Though Liu Er Mihou didn’t think it was possible anymore.

“You’ll be fine…Come now”
Mihou scooped the little demon up,carrying her to a room,where his nest was as he happily purred,this could only mean one thing,a very bad thingy for Hong Se’s liking.

Sun Wukong returned to a surprising sight. No upset Hong Se, no apparent mess. Something didn’t seem to sit well with him for some reason. He couldn’t help but wonder why that was.

Was was the most strange was the fact there wasn’t a whinning Mihou already glued to his side as soon as we walked in,the palace was strangely and eerily quiet,that was until Hong Se’s voice started to echo in the main bedroom.

“ Would you cut that out! This is serious ! Stop it !”
Wukong didn’t think much of it, until he realized that Hong Se was supposed to speak in chirps not in Chinese. He rushed towards the source in confusion.

In the Bedroom. her cute short fluffy hair was being tamed into into two equally fluffy buns that made her look even cuter.

In Mihou’s nest was the shadow prince grooming and rubbing his scent to the small red monkey demon as he chirped happily,not noticing the king’s arrival.

“ Mihou ? What’s going on. Who is this ?!”
There had not been a monkey demon on the mountain in over 500 years?! So where did this one come from ?

He looked up at the king for a few seconds before proudly showing him the small buns he made on Hong Se’s fluffly hair,proud of his work.

“ I am sorry you’re majesty , there was … an incident.” The young monkey said with as much of a bow she could manage, she was being practically smothered in Wukong’s maternal instincts. She attempted to squirm away only to be pulled in further.

The prince whimper hugging Hong Se closer to his warm body laying back down on the nest as he keep rubbing his sweet smell on her not paying any of his attention at the king.
“Shhh my sweet Nǚ'ér,Māmā is almost done with you..”

He had to admit things had been a little too peaceful. But this was not what he’d been expecting at all,After the excitement died down a little, Wukong examined Hong Se.

“ Hmm. It seems that by using some kind of spell, she’s become a demon like us. Like …” Wukong paused, keeping himself from having to say it. She was like the others of their kind who all but died in the fire.

“…Like…what?”
He tilted his head,finally letting go of Hong Se for a few minutes as he sat up,curiously at the king’s pause.
“ Well… like a little bit of you and me. I was born from stone, and she was born from terra cotta. So we are similar in that way. Our fur is similar and she has your red markings. Like that.” He said choosing to spare Mihou another painful reminder,But this explanation came with a whole other set of problems.

The prince seemed more puzzled now,his ears twitching as he thinks,But he only nodded in response,dragging the king to his nest and began to smell him for any unknown scent.
Hong Se just gave a frustrated huff as it seemed the king would be useless in trying to reason with the six-eared macaque.

Hong Se simply leaned back and left the macaque to his devices. It wasn’t like she was going anywhere anytime soon. She folded her arms in a grumpy little huff.
“Oww dont be grumpy Hāizi..”
He cooed giving her a kiss on her forehead as he cuddled her between him and the king purring happily.

This was how Hong Se went from a simply lowly servant, to a princess of sorts. Though it’s not a change she exactly wanted she’d make the best of a strange quirk of fate.