The Jade Warrior

Stress and Relief

     MK stared at the large warrior who returned the look down at him. MK expected a order of noodles or ramen from Wukong maybe, but.... Y/n? Really?

"I have your order sir?" Y/n takes the ramen before sitting down with a clunk. Passing MK gold coins as he opens the container smelling inside. "Um, do we take gold?"

"Sit awhile, we can talk while I taste the food" Y/n commands In a cold voice as MK does so. MK hearing the odd clinking against glass as Y/n holds the bowl to his face. "I don't like Wukong seeing me try mortal things... it is ineffective if he trusts me"

"Won't he come out here?"

"I made sure he was distracted, I hid a bunch of peaches around the house."

"Oh"

*At the noodle shop*

Pigsy rings a bell. "Order up! Come on, get the let out."

"On it!" MK yells Grabbing the noodles and speeding out the store. MK then puts on his headphones and drives around in the Tuk-tuk.

*Timeskip*

"Pigsy's Noodles! Pigsy's Noodles! Pigsy's Noodles! Pigsy's Noodles!" MK sings as he drives back from his order run, running into Sandy at the harbor on his way back.

"MK! Well boy, did you arrive at the right time. Scoop up a brush! We're giving the old girl a fresh coat of paint!" Sandy says painting the boat a nice blue color.

MK comes out of the tuk-tuk with a paint brush and bucket. "Yeah! Painting boats is my middle name!" Sandy and MK paint the boat, showing off the fresh blue coat. They fist bump at the end.

The day is over and MK is getting ready to sleep, putting on some comfy pajamas. "Now for eight to twelve hours of uninterrupted Mei!"

She is pulling clothes out of his drawer. "Get up, get up, get up! We are going out!" They spend all night at the Anti-Gravity arcade partying, MK spending over 24 hours awake working.

The cycle continues for 3 days as MK attends to whatever tasks his friends need help with.

However one day, MK flops over the counter in exhaustion. "Wow, MK. You look like hot garbage. Tired?" Tang who was sitting next to him smiles. Grabbing ahold of some noodles and eating.

"What, me? No, I just need to close my eyes for a couple of seconds..." MK then collapses into his bowl of noodles

Tang picks out MK's face with his chopsticks. "You're pushing yourself too hard, MK. Working all day, partying all night, painting boats? It's not good for a growing boy. You need to have time to relax."

"I just- I don't want to let my friends down, you know. It's like I want to help out in store, do arts and crafts with Sandy, and party with Mei. But it's too hard. I'm just one guy." He says slumping over.

"Too bad you can't make duplicates of yourself, like Monkey King." Tang says smiling, taking a bite out of some noodles

"Huh?"

He grabs the Monkey king book and flips to a section, pulling a piece of Wukong’s hair out and holding it infornt of MK’s face. "You know one of Monkey King's 72 transformations. Pluck out some hair. Blow on it." Mk does so with a tired huff.