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Warning : I write this instead of sleeping and not beta read so there will lots of typos. Will be edited in a few hours....
Chapter 1 : The Sun and The Moon
"If you think of me as the sun, then I want you to be my moon. So that we can be together in the sky." - The King said to The Warrior.
When Sun Wukong first hatched in a mountain filled with monkeys and other predators. All of the surrounding monkeys who saw the cub hatched from the stone egg is awed by the beautiful cub. Golden fur like the sun and eyes like gold. Fluffy fur and adorable face with pink heart marking. The looks alone capture the hearts of many. Then a milky chirp left the lips of the newborn cub, it sound like a melody. The elders of the monkeys community have agreed to protect the precious cub, feed him, shield him from the storm and care for him. He is named Sun Wukong but most called him Sihou and treated like a little prince of the mountain by the monkeys. The golden flower only need to chirp, bat his eyelash or whine to get his wishes to be fulfilled.
Under the care and comfort of the beloved monkey tribe that consisted of regular monkeys and minority of demon monkeys. In a young age the elders already drilled to the young celestial monkey that he isn't like the monkey demon race that is in their tribe. His energy oozed with divinity unlike what their inhabitant monkey demons have. He is special, one of a kind. Therefore, they don't really know how to raise a celestial monkey properly. Although that was the case, he is still treated like the flower of the monkey tribe.
The celestial monkey grow up to know love and protection and wish to do the same for the people that raise him. The death of his people, sadden the golden eyes prince. Day by day a monkey die and become a meal for the predators roaming around the feet of the mountain. That's why when the young Sihou noticed that he is gifted with streght stronger than others, he began to fight the predators approaching their territory on the top of mountain, despite the concern chirpings of the elders. "Sihou can protect his people. After all they all have raised Sihou well! It's time for Sihou to repay their kindness!" The young celestial monkey reassured the elders.
Not only Sihou protect his people as promise but also expand their territory, slowly helping others building huts to live in. He remains unbeatable when he fight with predators of the island, earning adoration of the tribes cubs and praises od the elders. He is the shining sun of the tribe. One day, the golden celestial monkey and the others pre teen monkeys chattered near the cliff that located near a waterfall. An eldery monkey demon came by, her old wrinkly face smiled, her brown fur is graying but still maintained a youtful energy. A leaf crown on top of her hair, and leaf dress carefully sewed. She is the current leader of the tribe, "Shouldn't you youngsters help harvesting fruits for the tribe? Elder Hua is tired to see you youngsters being lazy..." She questioned amusedly, at the group of pre teens.
Sihou who heard this smiled at the eldery, "Ay, We are just chattering a bit before we help harvesting." He reasoned, not even lying. The weaved baskets that he should have filled since morning is still empty, laying on the grass beside him. While the other pre teen hanging around him at least have a fruit or two in their basket. The eldery tsked at the spoiled teen cub. A light brown furred monkey beside Sihou laughed nervously, "We are almost done chattering anyway, Elder Hua.... We will be harvesting fruits soon.".
"That fast? But the day is still long!" The celestial monkey pouted. If the eldery weren't standing there, the other monkey demons would have willingly stayed with the golden furred monkey. "It's getting dark soon, Sihou. Elder Hua worried that the harvest alone aren't enough and we can't have the cubs starving." The eldery softly reminded the lazy celestial monkey why the tribe divided tasks.
"True, true.." the celestial monkey agreed and sighed before laying his back on the grass and stared the eldery from the ground. "But is this all Sihou's life will be? Wake up, collect fruits, chatter, sleep and repeat until the day Sihou die?" the celestial monkey questioned. The golden eyes celestial monkey witness death at a young age. And left a bitter taste every time the topics come up. His eyes narrowed to glare the dimming sun, he hate the concept of death, to perish forever, to be buried in the soil, to be griefed, and one day forgotten, abandoned as just soil nobody want. Countless people have died, due to old age, illness or eaten by predators. And his heart clench every time a burial ceremony happens and he imagined himself to be buried in the soil or if they all die but he is the last remaining survivor and couldn't do anything about it. His fear of death, make him tired for a repeating peaceful cycle. If he will die someday he want everyone to remember him. Let the body perish but the name last forever in the realm of living.
The elder laughed softly, "Of course not Sihou. One day Sihou will find someone Sihou love, start a family and that is an adventure of life itself. Life is always interesting surrounding your love ones."
"Elder Hua said that as if Sihou will ever marry to someone. Sihou will be too busy take care of the eldery to even think about romance." The celestial monkey rolled his eyes, the eldery continued to laugh at the silly teen. Sihou is clearly bored and the eldery want to give him a motivation. "Fine, Elder Hua give Sihou a challange if Sihou can jump to the waterfall, you'll be given the title as the king of the mountain." The eldery joked, the waterfall aren't dangerous. Multiple monkeys swim there to catch fish. But the celestial monkey eyes already glimmer and take it as a challange, "Don't regret your words Elder Hua!! Because when Sihou is back, he will be The Monkey King!!" The celestial monkey boasted and run off the cliff and jumped startling the elders and other pre teens. Because not only the cliff is far from the waterfall, it's also dangerous to directly jump off from there instead of the top waterfall. But miracle did happen as if heaven favored Sun Wukong a gold sigil in front of the waterfall appeared and unlocked at the presence of the celestial monkey. The waterfall streams halted as the cave behind it opened. "A secret cave?!" The golden furred celestial monkey excitedly rush towards it.
"Sihou, wait!!" The eldery shouted but it didn't reach toward the celestial monkey ears. An unmarked territory that even the elder didn't know of she feared that there will be monster lurking in there and quickly tell the pre teens to call up some warriors to help and rescue Sihou.
While Elder Hua gather warriors, the celestial monkey run inside the cave with amazement upon seing the large stone palace befitting a king. Exploring the stone palace, he found a throne room and sat on the throne like a little king. There are pitter patters of the sound pf rushing group that opened the door and relieved to find the celeestial monkey to be save and uninjured. "Sihou!!" Elder Hua scolded the reckless young monkey.
"Elder, look Sihou manage to jump to waterfall and found a stone palace. Am I the king now?" The cheerful pre teen asked while batting his eyes. Even the elder can't stay angry at the reckless cub and sighed. Although the challange is a joke, she is already old and she know that Sihou is strong enough to defend and care for the tribe. It's not a bad idea to let him rule their tribe. "Yes sihou, congrats you are the new ruler of the tribe." The elder smiled and taking off her leaf crown and place it on top of the golden furred celestial monkey's head. "All hail The Monkey King." Sihou said pridefully.
It didn't even take long before being the king of the monkey tribe. Sun Wukong also get rid of all predators, now he is hailed as the king of the flower fruit mountain that no outsiders know of. This island is very secluded and dangerous to even get near to. The small island that circled or protected by tectonic mountains and lavas filled obsidian soil. Sun Wukong world view is small. He is born, raised and grow in the small island. Further away is just dangerous mountain that can burn someone alive. He is perfectly safe here. This is his world. Small and filled with protection. That's until a stranger washed up by the shore and the monkey cubs who saw the stranger quickly rushed back and tattle to the monkey king the current ruler of the tribe. Due to the worried chirping of the cubs, Sun Wukong quickly rush to the shore to see a laying figure on the shore line. Half of the upper body on the dry sand while the lower half is engulfed by sea water that threatening to snatch the unconcious body back to the cold sea water.
Upon inspection, Monkey King noticed that the figure is a monkey demon... but he never seen a monkey demon with black fur. All of the monkey demons in his tribe have varity fur shades of brown and grey for the elders. He is the only esception with fur as bright as the sun, Elder Hua once told him that it's due to born as a celestial monkey. Is the unconcious monkey with black fur also special like him? He will not be alone anymore to be special amongst the tribe? Not only fur as dark as the night sky, the stranger also have six pointy colorful ears that reminded him of flower petal. The clothes wrapped around the darker fur monkey aren't made of leafs like his. He wonder what type of plant that can create such fabric? The red and brown fabric is prettier than the green leafs he is accustomed with. And the bronze armor also look cool. The injury on the stranger demons told the monkey king that he was fighting someone before ended up here. Not that he know how did the stranger manage to cross the land of lavas.... But it's too pitiful to let the stranger to be dragged back by the sea or worse eaten by whatever sea creatures hiding beneath the water. Sun Wukong unconciously chirped at the sleepy monkey before deciding to take the monkey to his home.
Bringing back an unknown strangers with no background check to the tribe is basically asking to be scolded by majority of the tribe elders for being reckless. The monkey king nervously smied as if on his shoulder isn't an inconcious monkey he just grabbed from the shore. "Aww, come on guys... He is injured. Sihou can't just leave him there to be get dragged back by the waves." The celestial monkey reasoned before escaping the crowds to enter his comfy hut inside the waterfall. Having a stone palace is great and all but not comfortable because it is made entirely from stone just like it's name.
So he build himself a hut not far from the waterfall's cave. Sihou placed down the stranger on his bed and put ointment on the istranger's injury. Sihou eat an apple while weaving a basket in the living room. The daily life of a king of the flower fruit mountain is to multi task. He is a ruler of the tribe, he is the protector that defend the tribe from danger and a weaver to help lessen the tribe's task. In a few hours, the celestial monkey made over twenty basket when he heard the door creaks open. The injured monkey he saved is holding the door frame and glared the monkey king. "Who are you? And where am I?" The six eared monkey hissed.
"Monkey King of the flower fruit mountain and this is Sihou's hut." The celestial monkey doesn't mind to answer after all it will be confusing to wake up in someone else home.
The stranger frowned, "Flower fruit mountain? Never heard of it. Where is Jiang Village located from here?" The stranger with purple eyes questioned the owner of the hut.
"Sihou don't know any village named Jiang. And you are probably mistaken. There's only flower fruit mountain and outside is just flaming lava mountains. There is nothing out pass it." Sihou explained.
"Flaming lava mountaiin? There's an actual island inside the flaming mountain?" The dark furred monkey demon muttered in confusion. "No, you are the one mistaken. There's a lot of places outside the flaming mountain." The stranger told him.
"Really?" Monkey King look at the six ears demon with disbelief.
"Yes, the world is larger than just a mountain island." The stranger told him.
"So what's your name? Sihou is named Sun Wukong but is called Sihou since a cub." The celestial monkey said, and the stranger winced at the way the golden furred monkey talk. "Stop that." The darker fur monkey demon stated.
"Stop what?" The celestial monkey asked.
"Stop using your name to replace subject 'I'. It's confusing me, as if you are talking about someone else instead of yourself." The stranger scowled.
"But this is the way everyone talk in Sihou's tribe." Monkey King explained.
"And that isn't how a normal person outside this mountain talk. My name is Liu Er Mihou or Six Ears Macaque. Thank you for saving me, it's nice and all but I need to leave." The monkey demon stated and tried to walk to the exit door but got blocked by the shorter monkey who glared him with rare gold eyes. "Listen here, Mihou! Sihou doesn't appreciate the way you want to leave before your injury healed."
"My injury is none of your business." "It is if you are in Sihou's mountain, now stay here and eat some fruits. You can return to your home once your injury is healed." The monkey king scolded the injured monkey. In any case, Liu Er Mihou the direct heir to the extinct shadow clan would have his shadow clones to deal with the unreasonable nosy monkey. But upon staring at the shorter monkey who called himself the monkey king.... he couldn't. The shorter monkey have gold shimmering eyes under those butterfly wings like eyelashes, heart shaped mask painted across the pale skin and fluffy gold fur. He look like the incarnation of the sun. Even the last shadow monkey demon race conflicted why the pretty monkey is a king. Shouldn't Sun Wukong be a beauty instead of a king. The tip of the shadow monkey ears painted with red flush the longer the pouting celestial monkey glare him, "Fine..." the shadow demon grumbled and returned to the previous room he rested in.
The shadow demon grumbled and lid on the soft bed again, it's so outdated to sleep on the sand bed. Great for natural heating bed but not so great on the cleaning part especially once an insect dug its way in it. But now that he grumpily laid on it he notice that the leaf woven blanket and pillow smelled like sweet peaches and honey. The shadow monkey force himself to not think of it and sleep.
The next morning the shadow monkey woke up and walked out of the room to see the celestial monkey sleeping on the wooden couch. There's guilt trying to swallow his gut along with the hunger due to sleeping without consuming food. He felt guilty to not check if the room he sleepon is a guest room or the only bedroom. Of course he should have be suspicious that the room smelled like sweet fruits. But he is too tired and angry to think about it. Even stranger that the monkey king heal him and let him take his bed. If they swap places, the six eared macaque will never be that kind to a nobody. He is the grandson of a famous shadow king. He don't need to indulge with others. But now the title of shadow king have no value in it. His clan has fallen. He is the only survivor of his clan and the rage kept in his heart make him feel crazy. Mihou want to destroy everything and reclaim the shadow king title. Let his enemy swim in their own blood as he proof that even if he is the last of his kind, he will still be on the top of the food chain.
But now that his head no longer thinking about mass murder, Mihou felt like he need to thank his saviour and will leave the moment his injury is healed. The shadpw monkey who stood behind the wooden couch kept staring down at the sleeping celestial monkey. When Sun Wukong woke up and sleepily blinks, he yawned and stretch his arm. "Morning Mihou." He greeted while the other stay silent.
"Okay, time for harvest. Let's go before the younglings take all the ripe fruit." Monkey King told the shadow demon and give the other a fruit basket that he handmade last night and carry the rest. "Do you need help with that?" The shadow manipulator can't help but asked. "Thanks, Sihou can always need a helping hand." The celestial monkey said before giving a few more basket to the shadow monkey.
"I will never get used of the way you talk." The shadow manipulator muttered while accepting the baskets.
The monkey king shrugged, "Mihou will get a hang of it sooner or later."
The two walked out of the cave and went to the main location of the tribe. Most of the monkeys stare at the six ears demon beside Sihou. "I made fruit baskets!!" The celestial monkey announced before distribut it to the pre teens and cubs. Noticing the weird stare, "Everyone this is Liu Er Mihou. He will be staying until his injury is healed." The king explained the curious eyes and nudged the shadow demon to follow him. "They don't seem to like me." The shadow monkey pointed out.
"Nah, they just aren't used to stranger in the tribe. Don't worry about it. Anyway.... this mountain have a lot of fruits. Just pick whatever you like." The monkey king stated before climbing a peach tree and pick a few to place it in his empty basket. The shadow monkey summoned his shadow clones to harvest the fruits for him. Earning the awe look from the mountain king. "You can do that?! That is so cool!" Sun Wukong praised.
"I am a shadow demon, it will be weird if I can't." The shadow demon rolled his eyes.
"I knew it! You aren't an ordinary monkey demon." The peach lover jump down from the tree to approach the shadow monkey. "You are just like me! One of a kind!" Sun Wukong said excitedly.
"Something tell me that we are meant to meet eachother, Mihou!" The monkey king chirped and hold the shadow monkey's hand. The ears pf thd shadow manipulator burned, the milky chirp plus touching combo is too intimate for the shadow demon. One only chirp to someone that is their family or their mate. So it's embarassing to be chirped at by the shorter blonde monkey. "Please let go of my hand." The shadow monkey face look away from the shorter monkey in fear that the pretty face of the celestial monkey will manipulate him into doing the unthinkable. Sun Wukong let go of the dark furred monkey hand thinking that the shadow demon is just shy. "Okay." He chirped again, not helping the red flush on the shadow monkey's ears.
After gathering fruits and sharing it to the tribe. The two eat the leftovers. The shadow demon can still feel the glares of the few monkey that dislike him but ignores it. "Are you really letting him freeload you, Monkey King?" A brown furred monkey demon glared the shadow monkey demon. "He helped us harvest fruits." The celestial monkey defdended his guest.
"A cub can do that task. He should do more if he wanted to stay." The brown furred demon said and some elders in the area agreed, cornering the shadow monkey. The six eared shadow manipulator growled, he only played nice because of Sun Wukong not because of the pesky tribe. The king of the flower fruit mountain hummed, "Fine, he can join the warriors to protect the mountain." Monkey King suggested earning a jaw drop from the same brown furred monkey demon.
"Warrior?! He can't just join the warriors!! He is a stranger, what if he is secretly an enemy!!" The monkey complained but got hushed by the golden furred celestial monkey. "It's wrong to judge someone you don't know, Shu." And that's how Mihou officially joined the warriors team. He was treated like an outcast the first few weeks but with his power, he gained favor from the local warriors and no longer receive a cold shoulder. The shadow manipulator hate to say it but he began to like living here. He didn't even move out of the monkey king's hut. He stayed long enough to the point the celestial monkey stop sleep in the couch and decided to sleep in the same bed with the shadow monkey. And will argue if Macaque decided to sleep on the couch because Sihou quoted "What kind of host will I be if I let you sleep on the couch?". So the two ended up sleeping next to eachother. Sometimes even wake up to be snuggling close to one and another.
One night, Monkey King dragged him to a cliff that have a scenery view of the waterfall. "At night the sky will be filled with stars. Mihou should see it. Because it's pretty." Sun Wukong explained. True to the mountain ruler's words. The night sky of this place is beautiful. Illuminated in the dark sky is dozens of star surrounding the moon. The shadow monkey look at the sky and then the monkey king beside him. Even the shadow of the night sky can't cover the gold fur from shining like literal sun. "Have anyone told you that you look like the sun?' The shadow demon wondered. Because this short monkey beside him does remind him of the ever lasting sun. The gold eyes of the celestial monkey turn into crescent eyes as he stared at the shadow demon eyes "If you think of me as the sun, then I want you to be my moon. So that we can be together in the sky." The King said to The Warrior. After spending a long time hanging out with the shadow manipulator, Sun Wukong ablebto change his speech pattern, but during stress the celestial monkey will revert back to his old way of talking. Liu Er Mihou isn't sure if this is counted as a date or a cobfession... but he think he likes it to stay with Sun Wukong so he agreed. He will devote his life for the sun incarnation.
While the king rule the tribe, the shadow warrior stay hidden under the king's shadow ready to strike down any enemy that target the golden sun. With the shadow manipulator devotion in protecting Sun Wukong, the tribe monkeys begaj to accept him as part of their tribe. Even the elders start gossiping that Mihou is trying to court Wukong.
Sun Wukong is cheerful. Like the sun his smile shine bright. His love for his people is overpouring from his actions and words. He rather sacrifice himself than let his people suffer. He is someone cherished by the tribe since he is a cub. So when the celestial monkey gloomily lay down on the grass field one day. Many is worried over the king's mental health. True he is cheerful but he is also an overthinker. The shadow warrior decided to emerge from the king's shadow and sit next to the laying monkey. "What's on your mind?" The shadow manipulator questioned.
"I will die one day." The celestial monkey muttered out his fear to the shadow manipulator.
Mihou already know that this is Wukong's fear. "We all will die one day and reincarnate." The shadow monkey told the celestial monkey. "Don't be sad of the dead, Wukong. Their cycle of life haven't end." The shadow manipulator told him of what he learned from Buddhism.
"But if I die, who will protect the flower fruit mountain?" The lone question was greeted with silence because even Mihou don't know how to answer that. If Sun Wukong die it most likely he die first. After a moment of silence, "Whoever fit of the title. Life goes on wheter we like it or not." The shadow manipulator answered.
The six ears demon words didn't comfort the celestial monkey but it did cheer up the monkey king a bit. "If I die, and reincarnate... will you find me?" The monkey king joked.
"I doubt that I'll remember my past life but I probably will because you are a trouble magnet." The shadow demon shrugged eadning a playful scolding from the chuckling celestial monkey "Hey!"
"Please never leave Mihou." The golden furred celestial monkey said and hold the arm of the shadow monkey. "I think I will go insane if you do." The celestial monkey added. The burden he felt in his shoulder is too heavy, his mind is often fogged by his worries. He need someone to keep an eye on him at all time. "Anything you wish, Wukong." The shadow demon muttered, letting the tired celestial monkey to hold on to his arm like a clingy newborn fearing that their comfort will be taken away.
A crazy idea have struck the monkey king one day and he rushed to find his black furred housemate. Currently Liu Er Mihou is sparring with the other warriors and heard the quick steps of approaching figure and turned around to be engulfed in a hug by a celestial monkey. "Mihou!! I figure it out!!" The celestial monkey announced.
The other warriors look at eachother with a knowing look before quietly leave to let the two some privacy. "Immortality, with it I will be able to protect the tribe forever!" Sun Wukong said happily.
"Immortality? You sure you wanted that? It won't be easy." Mihou frowned, immortality isn't something you can easily get.
"Yes, I want to go out there, get immortality and share it with others. We all can be immortals!" The happy celestial monkey said.
"I am worried that this plan might end up bad..." the concerned shadow monkey said but the determined celestial monkey don't want to back down, "Trust in me, I can do it. I am the monkey king after all. I need you to guard the mountain, can you do that for me until I return?" The shorter celestial monkey blinks his eyes at the taller shadow monkey. Knowing that Liu Er Mihou aren't immune to his gold eyes. "I dont want you to be in danger." Mihou said and closed his eyes to prevent himself being bewitched by the celestial monkey. "If I can't handle it. I will rush back to the mountain." The celestial monkey suggested.
"Fine but not today." The shadow manipulater gave in, "Thanks Mihou." The celestial monkey nuzzled his face to the shadow demon's neck lovingly. Macaque face flushed red, Sun Wukong is playing a dangerous game of flirting. But he maintained to be frozen on the spot and not let the evil thoughts drown him.
The next day Mihou quickly prepared items for the celestial monkey. The shadow manipulator even shadow travel to steal a nice yellow hat, green scarf, yellow robe and red pants for the celestial monkey. "Stay safe, and if you are in trouble..." "I will rush back or run to a large shadow area to call you.' The celestial.monkey repeated the words that Mihou have drilled in his mind.
"Good now return as soon as possible." Macaque told the departing celestial monkey. "Don't have too much fun, will I go." The celestial monkey joked before leaving with his nimbus.
After seven years, Sun Wukong returned with seven times immortality and proudly said he have wiped all of the tribe's monkey including Macaque's name out of the death book. Bit their happy ever after didn't last long because Sun Wukong's reckless actions have gained the wrath of the jade emperor. When celestial realm raise a war flag to Sun Wukong, Macaque show them why his ancestors are feared by all.
It was day time when a group of celestial guards arrived. The shadow demon swiftly sink into tge shadow of his feet and appeared in front of him. Stood behind him is his giant kaiju striking all intruder while he slashed the celestial guard's neck and dodge every attack by sinking into the shadow. The other victim got stabbed on the heart while others unlucky enough to be stabbed, pierced open by the angry shadow demon. The shadow manipulator claw ripped the skin of a guard and take out the lung out of the corpse. Under the eyes of many celestial realm's envoy, the shadow warrior bite and chew the raw organ. His eyes glowed magenta and a manic smirk graced on his face. The remaining guards paled up and decided to flee but quickly got clawed down by the last remaining of the shadow demon race. Liu Er Mihou ears flickered, the blood stained his armor... he need to clean it before Sun Wukong see it. He swallowed every celestial guards corpse into his shadow, he will feast on them later. First he need to clean himself up.
When the celestial monkey returned back to his hut he noticed that mihou changed his clothes and is chewing on chopped raw meat. The celestial monkey scrunched his face, "Is that raw meat?" "Yeah." Macaque replied while eating the meat that Sun Wukong suspect is wild boar's meat. "At least cook it before eating." The celestial monkey scolded.
The shadow monkey hummed, "Next time." Mihou promised.
"Anyway... it's weird that Erlang Shen do the whole dramatic speech of 'You will regret this Sun Wukong.' But nothing happen for the whole week." The celestial monkey pointed out.
'Yeah because I get rid of them before they get to to you' was left unsaid by the shadow demon. "Well... you did told me that they are cowardly. So they are most likely just bluffing." Macaque lied.
"Huh, they are cowardly... I don't even know why I am so worried." Sun Wukong said and flopped himself on the couch next to the shadow demon. "Can I have some?" The celestial monkey asked while eyeing the bowl of raw meat.
"You won't like it. It's bunny meat." The shadow demon lied earning gasp from Sun Wukong. "How could you eat adorable creature like bunny?!" The shadow demon only shrugged and continued to eat the bunny meat that is secretly celestial guard's meat. The celestial realm didn't dare to send anymore guards when their last one didn't return alive. And macaque will keep it that way.