The Moon's Successor

Unnerving Fight, Terrible Title

Awww yeah baby! Time for the ink menace to finally face the one who's been fucked up since coming into the scroll. Let's go!

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The creature in front of Linwan giggled and giggled, copying how she laughed down to the small crinkle in her human nose, making the girl back away slightly. "What are you?" "You, obviously!" The creature "popped" its neck before standing tall. "Why so tense, hm? Something wrong?" "Yeah... I don't know what the hell you are." "We already told you, we're you!" "We?..." Linwan stared into its glowing blue eyes as it smiled at her sweetly. "I get it!" "Get what?" "You want to go back to how it was before. Back when we were happy to follow our best friends around, quietly listening to Mei and MK ramble about whatever. We can have Redson join that. We want to cook with Pigsy while listening to Tang's stories, pretending to hate them. Drink hot cocoa with Sandy and Mo. You even want to add King into that by training with him right? Maybe watch after the monkeys while you're at it?" The warrior lowered her cudgel slightly with a saddened frown as she thought back on all of it. She did want that again. "I..." "You especially want to get back to relaxing on the couch with dad and enjoying his little shadow plays that we "forget" all the time, or having him get interested in our little games and stories. Back when we could pretend that we weren't so scared of what we could do." "That's not-" "But we can't!" She lowered herself into a defensive position that made the ink version snicker. "We can't go back to any of that. Not after what we've done, what we've felt. Besides... there's a lot you don't know that you should." "What... are you talking about? You don't know anything about me." It sighed and sat back on one of the rocks near the cave, lazily draping itself over it like Linwan had done on her couch so many times. "Sure I do. I know more than even you admit, let alone know about yourself. It's cute really." She shuddered a bit at that thought then growled as she backed away, but it vanished and she ended up quickly turning in every direction. "You still do that, huh? The growling, I mean. I suppose that monstrous side never left you, huh?" "Monstrous side? W-what are you talking about?" "Remember how unruly you were? Snarling at people and attacking when they got too close?" "That was a long time ago. From before Pops helped me!" "And yet you still do it! Even after he's long gone and you found people to relax near without being scared, you still do it. It's instinct, I tell you!" She continued to try to locate it as it practically chirped at her but jumped when it touched her back, flinching away and turning quickly as if it had burned her. "You're so jumpy. I'm surprised being around dad for so long hasn't tipped you off though." "Tipped me off? I don't... Stop it!" Linwan scooted away from the ink creature and put a hand over her left eye with a grimace, having been reminded about LBD's little mind games. "Don't worry, I'm not trying to play any games like the Lady Bone Demon." Her eyes widened a bit before she shook her head and aimed her cudgel at the creature again, speaking with a sneer. "Talk. What are you?" "We already answered that. So forgetful." It giggled as it held a hand out. "Why don't you tell us something to start us off?" "What? You want to fucking play 21 questions or something?" "No, nothing like that. More like one big question." She tilted her head slightly and narrowed her eyes. "Which is?" "What do you think we are? I really, really want to hear us say it. From you specifically." "Well that's a dumb question. I'm Linwan. A human who learned from the Six-Eared Macaque to do awesome... mystic monkey... things..." She trailed off and thought on it for a moment. "I-I mean, MK did that with King and Tang has powers while being human, so why not me? Th-that's gotta be normal!" The giggles from earlier came back before it broke into full blown laughter.