The Moon's Successor

Breaktime? Nope!

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─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽Jungle☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄Linwan⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧

"Hmmm..." MK looked around with the group waiting behind him. Mei excitedly spoke up first. "He's gonna do it. He really knows which way to go." "Lead us to the next stone kid." Pigsy held up a fist proudly and Linwan scowled a bit. 'Why are they putting all this pressure on him? Surely someone else can see this is bad, right?' Linwan peeked at the others and noticed Sandy frowning a bit. Okay, so she wasn't the only one to see this might be bad for MK. Good. "The right path is... iiiisss..." He began pointing at the three paths in front of them with clear uncertainty. "I don't know!" Everyone who was waiting fell down as they let out comments like "what?" and "come on." which must've been soooo helpful to the hero's panic. "I mean, we got lucky with the first stone! We wanted a map or a magic compass or something. Normally, we get a preguffin, but we skipped straight to the full-guffin!" The young warrior went to take a step forward as the others spoke, but Sandy gently grabbed her shoulder when Mei spoke up. "It's okay MK, we're figuring it out as we go together." "But we can't keep doing that!" As MK walked away from Mei, Linwan motioned to their big blue friend but he shook his head, which made her give him a "really?" look. "We don't know where the other four stones are, or what to do with them if we ever find them. We're just walking into-!... Chaos." Everyone began speaking to him at once, clearly trying to make him feel better by being optimistic, but it made the boy stressed until Sandy suddenly yelled. "ENOUGH!" Everyone stopped and Linwan sighed in relief. Alright, so Sandy told her not to intervene because he had it covered. Good to know. "MK's right, we don't know where we're going so it's time we found out. Split up, cover more ground, regroup, and then get going! Nothing's going to stop us!" Mei got into her jet as she spoke. "I love this new commanding Sandy!" Wukong grabbed Linwan, which made her give him a minor inquisitive look. Was he up to something and should she be worried?... Probably. "Didn't know Big Blue had it in him." The nimbus he put them on took off so she held on, but did peek over to see Pigsy driving off with Tang before they were out of sight.

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽Nimbus☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

Linwan looked down at the jungle, peeking over the nimbus but still holding onto the Monkey King, who helped by keeping his tail around her. "See anything yet?" She paused and peeked at him to see him looking ahead. "... No. Not really."  She looked back at the trees then let a long silence pass over them before she sighed and looked at the ginger. "King, why'd you bring me along?" "Huh?" "You could've totally gone on your own, but you didn't. Even if it would've been faster for you to zoom about on the nimbus alone, you dragged me along. Why?" "I figured you could use some alone time." "Uh huh... Hope MK is getting that with Sandy too..." She looked away and stared at the cracked sky again. "We better find that stone quickly though." "Yeah." With that, he used his gold vision to look around with her. "You feel anything? Like you did before." She thought about it and tried to focus on that feeling again. It was easy to sense it last time, but this time... "No, not even a little. MK was right. Totally wish we had a map or other pre-guffin. Too bad we had to get the full-guffin right off the bat, huh." "We'll figure it out." "Yeah... Hey, think we should look elsewhere? We should still be able to find it quickly, even if I'm slowing you down." "If you used your monkey form, you think you could do more?" "... I'm not sure." She peeked at him nervously to see him give a weak smile like he wanted to ease her. "You haven't been super sure lately. What happened to that confidence you usually have?" He joked but she looked down at the trees to avoid looking at him. "To be fair, it's been a lot. Not super used to being unable to confide in dad about it either." "Well, what about me?" She looked at him with an eyebrow raise which made him huff before gently knocking her head. "Hello, since I'm your mentor, I should be able to listen to you right?" "Mm... I don't know King." She thought about it for a moment then sighed. "I can give it a try I guess. I'll try my best to make sure it doesn't sound like complaining, but I can't promise anything." He made a motion with his hand, as if to tell her to go on. That made her give an amused huff. "Alright, here we go then." She took a small breath. "MK has been worried that everything is falling into chaos and that we're helping in that, which... Come on, he's not exactly wrong. We didn't start it, but we definitely aren't beating the harbingers of chaos and destruction allegations with this around." She motioned to the sky lazily then paused when the cracks were gone... but they came right back which made her scoff at the timing. "See? Not only that, but I haven't exactly been the best at protecting MK or the others lately. Dad literally sacrificed himself because we couldn't..." She looked away and rubbed the back of her neck before peeking at the circlet on him. "We couldn't make up for the fact you were out of commission... I... actually feel like back when everything happened with Pops. It's not a good feeling, especially when I haven't had training or meditation to vent out those frustrations and show myself I'm still capable of at least something. You know?" She peeked at him then paused for a bit before continuing.