An Unexpected Host

+ CHAPTER 1 +

"Noodles! Noodles! Noodles!"

Mk chanted along with Mei and Tang. They'd just defeated the Demon Bull Family yet again and were heading back to Pigsy's Noodles to celebrate.

When they got back, Mk immediately took a seat at the counter, Mei followed and sat next to him, pulling him into a tight hug.

"Thank you for letting me use the Monkey Mech Mk!"

She grinned, Mk just giggled in response.

"Ah, it's nothing Mei, really. Hey Monkey King! You wanna join us for some noodles?"

Mk let go of Mei, looking over at Wukong, who stood in the doorway with his arms crossed. The ginger monkey shook his head, smiling a bit.

"Nah bud, I'll just see ya tomorrow"

Wukong waved, turning and walking out of the shop to who-knows-where.

"Okay then! By Monkey King!"

Mk waved right back frantically as he watched his mentor leave. Soon after, a bowl of steaming noodles was placed on the counter in front of the brunette, his eyes lit up as he looked at the person who'd put them there, Pigsy.

"My favorite! Thank you Pigsy!"

"No problem, kid."

Pigsy just gave a warm smile to the kid, turning and walking back to the kitchen, coming back a few moments later with two bowls in his hands, placing each in front of Tang and Mei.

"On the house, cause I'm feelin' nice."

Mk had eaten 3 whole bowls of noodles before concluding he was full. The Monkey Kid decided to go for a walk, stepping out of the noodle shop, pulling out his phone and plugging in his headphones and stuffing his phone in his pocket.

The young man started walking down the street, not paying much attention to his surroundings as he walked.

The late day soon turned to night, and Mk checked his phone, it glowed brightly in the dark, seeing as most establishments and their lights had been turned off, excluding a few dim street lights. It was around 23:00, he let out a quiet gasp. Shoot, he'd been gone for hours and had no idea where he was!

Mk looked around, he was hardly sure what kinds of turns he'd made in the past few hours, he facepalmed, opening his phone and loading up a map of the city, is phone took a moment to load but it eventually gave Mk a route back home, he quickly turned on his heel, following it.

After what felt like forever - despite being only 10 minutes - Mk looked up from his phone, seeing he was in some kind of alleyway, he looked around for a moment before hearing a sudden crash, he yelped, looking behind himself and seeing a box that had fallen over, it was shaking a bit. Mk, being the not-so-intelligent hero he was, walked over to it and carefully pried the top of the box open.

Mk peered inside, there was this translucent, glowing blob inside, it had a weird, freaky-looking face on it. The brunette opened his mouth to make a comment about it to himself when the blob lurched forward, forcing Mk backwards, his back to the ground as the blob neared his face. Mk very quickly began to panic, swatting at it and shouting. But nothing seemed to affect it, the bluish thing moved up Mk's neck, soundlessly going up to his mouth and slipping inside, down his throat. It hardly felt like anything as it did so, but he could still feel it.. Mk sat up, coughing.

Everything was cold for a moment as Mk wheezed, trying to cough up whatever that thing was, but nothing came out, he gagged, putting a hand to his mouth.

"Oh gross! I have to tell Monkey Kinnnnggg..-"

Mk started to feel dizzy, swaying slightly as an overwhelming urge to just fall over and pass out hit him like a truck. The hero blinked quickly, trying to fight the feeling, but he couldn't, falling to his side and closing his eyes, passing out on the cold hard concrete.