Monkie Kid: The Lost Tribe

A Day in The Life of a Teenage Monkey

Megapolis was a bustling city on a summer afternoon with the sun shining bright without a cloud in the sky. The citizens were going on their daily lives on the subway, the markets, and the city streets. Like the rest of the city, Tao was one of them, going about his day.

Tao, now 13 years old, zoomed through the streets on the board MK had given him as a gift; these days Tao wore a white sweatshirt with an orange shirt tied around his waist, dark blue pants with turquoise sneakers, and turquoise backward hat with the design of an orange band with a design similar to the circlet his dad wore during his journey. Tao had earbuds in, listening to music and humming along to the song playing, when he jerked forward, falling off his board and onto the ground. 

"Ow." He groaned, rubbing the elbow he landed on. 

"Sorry, Your Highness." A kid called out. "I didn't see you there!"

Tao looked up to see a kid his age with light blue hair wearing a dark green jacket and black pants with two kids behind him trying to stifle their snickering, one with glasses, the other with a hat. He glanced to the side to see a soccer ball beside his board.

"Don't worry about it, Han." Tao nervously chuckled as he stood up. "Anyway...take care."

Tao tried to pick up his board, but Han had put his foot on it. "Leaving so soon?"

"Yeah," Tao tensed up. "I need to get--"

"Why the rush?" Han put an arm over Tao's shoulder and pulled him in closer. "Since you're here why don't we--"

Han was cut off when the area around them turned dark. Han's two lackeys jumped when they heard the giggles of a girl echoing in the dark.

"M-Maybe we should leave." The one with glasses is suggested.

"Y-Yeah." The one with the hat agreed.

"Oh please," Han rolled his eyes, "it's just one of Monkey Prince's little magic tricks."

"It's not me." Tao shook his head.

"Then who else could it be?" Han sounded smug. 

At that moment a hand emerged from the floor and quickly took hold of Han's ankle, making him scream and fall. That caused his two lackeys to run away screaming as Han stumbled to pick himself up off the ground before running the same way the other two did.

The darkness disappeared and emerging from the ground was Daiyu, who just like Tao was also 13 years of age, began giggling to herself.

"I love seeing those jerks squeal." Daiyu giggled.

 These days Daiyu wears her hair down with a magenta headband, a purple long-sleeve shirt with a gradient to magenta then a soft orange to mimic a sunset, dark blue pants, and magenta shoes, with her was a dark blue circle bag across her shoulder with a pale blue crescent moon embroidered on the front. Daiyu, as everyone said she would, was on her way to becoming a beautiful young lady much like her mother but was developing some of her father's "mischievous" views.

"Why do you let them pick on you?" Daiyu turned her attention to her friend. "Aren't you tired of me coming to save you?"

"T-They weren't picking on me!" Tao protested. "And I was about to handle it before you showed up!"

"Sure." Daiyu rolled her eyes. "Anyway, since I found you wanna help me?"

"With what?" Tao raised an eyebrow.

Daiyu pulled out a sheet of paper from the bag on her. "Errands."

The two walked through the busy market area. Tao, who now has his board strapped to him walked as he and Daiyu carried a few bags of groceries. 

"When are you going to tell Han to back off?" Daiyu continued the conversation they were having earlier. "You can easily take him in a fight."

"That's why I let him bother me, he doesn't know that." Tao explained, "If I told him to back off there's a chance, he'll find someone who can't beat him in a fight. He'll eventually get bored of me, and when he finds someone like that, that's when I'll show him."

"Playing the long con, I see," Daiyu smirked. "Even when you don't aspire to be a hero, you're still a--"

Daiyu was suddenly knocked over by a cloaked figure running out of a store with a few apples falling behind them. The shop's owner came out, angrily shaking his fist with one hand, while a broom was in the other.

"Get back here, you thief." They yelled out. "Someone needs to stop them!"

Tao and Daiyu looked at each other, and almost simultaneously, they smirked at each other with a mischievous sparkle in their eyes.

"The first one to catch them wins?" Tao raised an eyebrow.

"Good luck catching up," Daiyu said smugly, before dropping down into a shadow portal, a recent trick she learned from her father.

The race was on, Tao threw his board down and hopped on in as he raced through the streets. The thief noticed that they were being followed and turned onto a busy street, hidden amongst the crowd noticing this had to think quickly, luckily a random resident was placing a broken mirror against a trashcan.

"Perfect." Tao smiled.

He used that as a ramp to jump over a large group of people, while up in the area he managed to spot the cloaked thief. When Tao managed to land on the ground again, he had his eyes locked on the thief. Tao got a little closer behind the thief, before launching himself off his board to tackle the thief, while in the middle of his tackle Daiyu opened up a shadow portal causing both to fall into the portal and fall out into an empty alleyway, with Daiyu reappearing up from the ground with an amused smirk as the two crashed.

"We got you!" Tao exclaimed as he stood up and pointed at the thief in a triumphant manner. "Now return what you stole from the store or else we'll--"

Tao stopped mid-sentence and Daiyu's smirk was replaced with a look of disbelief to compliment Tao's shocked expression. The cloaked thief was a monkey, just like them, and a girl too; with shoulder length brown hair to match her fur and green eyes.

"You're a--" Tao couldn't finish his sentence for the monkey had thrown a rock at him, before pulling out an ancient tablet with a yellow gem in the center and disappeared with a yellow flash.

Daiyu and Tao stared at the spot where the monkey once was, shocked to discover that there are others just like them.