Mercy And Forgiveness

The Great Tang Man

Y/n's P.O.V
Once in the scroll, Mei, MK, and I were checking out the place.

It was very nice. It gave me old ancient China times.

There was even a guy selling dumplings.

As much as I love dumplings, everything in this place is probably made out of ink, and I do not feel like having a mouth full of ink.l, especially when part of my arm is ink.

"Whoa, I'm in the past! Which means..." MK got excited, running to a stand and slams a few pieces of junk down on the counter. "One ancient souvenir, please."

The owner of the stand, and inspected the small pieces of junk. "These aren't chickens. And what are these?"

The stand owner pointed at MK. "Demonic accessories!"

Guards started to approach us.

I quickly grabbed MK and Mei, running into an alleyway and escaping the guards.

Just as we made it into the alley, Azure Lion appeared, but in Astral Projection form.

"You made it in safely! Great! Y/n, Mei, MK, welcome to 7th Century Chang'an. I trust you've experienced astral projection before?" Azure Lion says.

"Yep." MK nodded.

"Nope, but I know what it looks like." I added.

Mei shook her head no. "No. Is this what dying is like?"

Azure Lion looks at us. "A little astral projection never hurt anyone. Listen, I don't have much time. Remember how I told you the scroll has a protective curse?"

"And that it'll try to find and destroy us. Uh-huh, yeah. Wasn't really gonna forget that part." MK said, partially freaked out.

"I definitely remember, but that doesn't explain what happened to my hand." I held up my right ink-covered hand.

Azure Lion justs completely ignores me, nodding, gesturing to our clothes. "Good. Try not to draw too much attention to yourself. The curse will be drawn to any imperfections it detects within its stories. So, for starters, we need to do something about those."

"New outfits?" Mei squeals.

"You betcha. I found some duds your size over in that trash pile." Azure gestures to a pile of clothes in the alley. "Finding your friends won't be easy, but— Oh, come on!"

Azure covers his eyes at the sight of MK beginning to change. "At least let me turn around first!"

I turned around, only to see MK pulling down his pants.

I immediately covered my eyes, trying to hide the red tint on my face. "MK, I love you, but have some decency."

After that whole fiasco, and new outfits, Azure Lion had one last thing to say to us, but I will say, I did like my outfit.

It was a gold color, and black on it as well, thankfully, my gauntlets that I keep with me at all times hides my inky hand.

"If your bonds of friendship are as strong as you say, you will always find your way back to one another." Azure said before we walked off to find our friends.
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We walked through the city in our new clothes, MK holding the instructions Azure gave us.

MK puts the instructions away. "Alright, find our friends, defeat the curse, and get back to the good old-fashioned story of the week. But where to start?"

"You're a big brain boy when it comes to legend stuff. Got any idea what chapter of the Journey to the West we're in? What about you, Y/n?" Mei asked the two of us.