The reborn primordial...

An Unexpected Arrival (part 2)

The strike of lightning was so powerful that it released a shockwave upon contact with the stone egg, A powerful gush of wind emitted from the egg that blew Macaque back into a nearby rock pillar that broke in two, the gush of wind mixed with the shockwave caused the shadow clones Mac made to be blown off  Wukong

Wukong however held onto the ground to keep himself from being blown back, Within the light he could see the egg had began to shake and crack violently before coming to a stop
The shockwave changing directions and instead of continuing outward, It went inward as Wukong had to hold onto the ground to make sure he wasn't pulled along

Once the shockwave retreated within the egg it stopped shaking, Completely frozen in place for a moment until it suddenly exploded, The pieces of the stone egg flying in several direction as the light had shone once again, Wukong using his arm to block the light from blinding him

As the light went dim it revealed a small figure with blue fur that was still, The orange and purple outline within it also went dim as it began to fall from the sky, Wukong getting up quickly and racing towards the figure, Leaping forward with a dash as he held his arms out, Catching the figure just in time as he slid against the ground to a stop

Once in contact with the figure his face went pale, He could barely feel the heartbeat coming from it as the beating was scarily slow, He looked down at what happened to be a baby stone monkey that was barely breathing
With a worried expression he summoned his legendary staff, Using his ability to try to heal what was causing the baby to be on the end of life's string, Despite it being just born

An outline of gold surrounds the baby as the staff made contact with the infant, Wukong focused as the healing began
Once he did what he could he noticed it stopped breathing, He instantly curled his tail a bit on the ground and used it like a chair
Setting the baby in his lap once he crossed his legs, Gently adding force on the baby's chest to try to get it to breathe
"Come on kid, I know you can do it...
You just got here!"

The great sage shouted with a plead in his tone, After a minute passed he heard the baby gasp for air before it began to cry weakly
Each cry grew louder and stronger as Wukong had a smile of releif grow on his face, He thought his healing failed for a moment there but seeing the baby now active was like fresh air
The moment of course had to be ruined by a large dark purple paw coming down upon the two, luckily Wukong snapped back into fight mode and moved out the way, Keeping the baby safe in his arms as he looked up to the smoke Monster macaque was in

"Of course YOU would take this chance to try and kill me when I'm worried about someone else!"
Wukong exclaimed in a serious and angry tone as the baby kept crying
"What can I say? That thing's a very good distraction!"
Macaque exclaimed as he brought a fist down upon Wukong who instinctively dodged, Macaque had a toothy grin as he kept bringing down his fists one after another

Wukong made sure that the baby didn't get hurt as pebbles and rocks bounced off the great sage's body, there was no safe way for him to fight head on when this small and fragile being was in his arms
He used his golden eyes to scan around the area quickly and found an opening to escape, He summoned his magic cloud and zipped off between the gaps of the smoke monster's scarf

Once Wukong was far and high enough, He summoned his magical staff and leaned back, his arm reeling back as the staff extended, Stepping forward into the strike and with a mighty battle cry he threw the staff down towards the Six Eared Macaque
Macaque's eyes widened as the staff shun gold, Twirling towards him as great speeds and exploded in gold upon making contact with the shadow monster, Macaque's scream was heard but was overcast by the sound of the explosion

Wukong caught the staff as it flew back towards him and flew off on his magic cloud from the explosion's radius, Once far enough away and making sure the Six Eared Macaque was defeated for now, He gave a sigh of relief and looked down at the crying baby stone monkey in his arms
"You got some strong lungs there kid!"
Wukong pointed out with a cheeky grin and began making funny faces for the baby to see, The baby opened it's eyes to witness said faces and the crying slowly turned into bubbly laughter

It smiled during it's giggling fit and the great sage's heart was struck with an arrow of love
"Awww, aren't you just the cutest little thing?!"
Wukong exclaimed with eyes of adoration as the baby continued to laugh, Wiggling around in his arms
"Who's a cute little baby stone monkey? You are!"
Wukong exclaimed once more as he spoke in a babying voice, The great sage equal to heaven had his heart wrapped around the baby's pinky finger

He noticed the sky turning grey and decided to head home first, Getting the baby sick on it's first day was the last thing he didn't want to happen right now
With his magic cloud he cruised into the sunset heading back to flowerfruit mountain, The baby yawning after being warn out by crying and laughing had clinged onto Wukong's shirt as it curled it's tail around his forearm, Closing it's eyes and calmly drifting off to sleep as the sound of the wind was pleasant and relaxing...

Wukong took notice of the baby curling up in his arms, Seems like the kid imprinted on the monkey king...
'Wait... I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A KID!'
He thought as the realization hit him dead in the face
'Heh... can't be harder than the journey to the west... right..?'
Oh... was the king in for a surprise. . .