Your POV:
"The thing you need to understand about the old legends is that the story is never finished. There maybe no pages left to turn, but there is always more to the journey. Rising from the Netherworld, the Demon Bull King attacked. No one could stop him, no one could resist. No one except... the legendary Monkey King. The Monkey King used his magical staff to pick up a nearby mountain. He trapped the Demon Bull King underneath it. The Monkey King sealed the mountain with the staff that no other being could wield, trapping the Demon Bull King forever. With the battle won, the Monkey King vanished, never to be seen again. Legend says the staff still lies on top of that mountain, the one thing keeping our world from certain destruction. And with the Demon Bull King gone, civilization was able to advance into the amazing city we now live in. A world of elegant cultures, gentle loving people, a city brimming with five-star cuisine, and all because of the Monkey King."
Tang finished his narration about one of the many legends about the legendary Monkey King, Sun Wukong. I was on cashier duty for the day so I was able to hear Tangs stories about Monkey King. Just as he finished MK became excited after listening to the story, almost practically jumping out of the seat.
"Ohhh, that's so good! Monkey King's so cool! He's so strong and handsome-"
"Oh, MK. And you thought you knew all the Monkey King stories."
I chuckled at MK excitement, watching him get excited about such things, livens up the place. I then saw MK rush to Tang to show him his sketch book, I got him for his birthday.
"Oh, but I do. I got his whole life documented extensively in this unauthorized autobiography of Monkey King."
He showed the sketch book to Tang with two little doodles of himself and Monkey King next to eachother. MK has always been such a great artist it was nuts.
"Written and illustrated by yours truly. Like I knew he was born from a stone, and live behind a waterfall with his sweet little baby monkey friends! And- and- and oh!"
"It's nice to know someone's taking in all these stories. Pearls of wisdom, dripping from my lips."
Tang cleared his throat as to gain my brothers attention and I knew what was coming next but I let it play since it was always funny to watch. Then a customer came up to pay for their food so I took their money and bid them a farewell. Faust woke up from my finger and slithered off my finger and onto the register. I leaned forward and gave him a little kiss before I went back to the others.
"Well, you know te deal: one story, one free bowl of Zha jiang mian. Hmm?"
"Huh? Oh right, free noodles! Yep, on it. How heavy do you think a mountain is? Compare to like- "
I felt an angry presence near me and ducked before the spoon could hit me and fly towards MK, hitting his hands and almost dropping the noodles he had in his hands. Smirking to myself knowing who it was.
"Free noodles?! No one gets a free meal at Pigsy's! I'm not running a charity here, Tang!"
"Ah, but Pigsy. I was paying with wisdom."
I saw Dad jump onto the counter I just cleaned, I glared at him as Tang waved his hand to defend his case.
"Yeah? Well, wisdom don't pay the rent, you freeloader!"
"Dad! Get off the counter I just cleaned it!"
"Oops sorry kid. And you!"
He quickly got off the counter and started to stomped towards Mk, backing my poor brother into the wall.
"You've been slacking off all morning! I've got a dozen orders that need to go out, so quit slacking and get packing!"
I shook my head in amusement seeing Mk get abit worried trying to get out of Dad's glare.
"Yeah... I was about to take my break. So..."
"Break? Break?! There's no break in war! I need workers. Soldiers in the army of Pigsy's Noodles, home of the world's longest noodles. How else am I gonna expand my business into enemy territory?"
"Uh, do you mean across the street?"
"Dad, are you talking about Billy the Boar?"
(A/n- I made up the name idk his real name)
Mk and I both question the 'enemy' dad is talking about. I looked to Tang and saw him enjoying the noodle Mk was going to give him. I leaned towards him and whispered sang.
"You know that, dad's gonna whoop your scholar ass if you don't stop eating his noodle's without paying~."
He gave an innocent look and kept eating as I saw Dad kick MK out with some orders to deliver.
"I stand by my statement! Now, hurry up!"
Dad finally turned around and was ready to beat Tangs scholar ass. I pulled out my wallet and pulled out some money to pay for Tang. After all I did owe him for letting me borrow a book on Egyptian God's and Goddesses. I slapped my hand with the money on the table making a loud smack to get both their attention.
"I'll pay for him, Dad don't worry."
I then grabbed the money and placed it in the cash register. Dad sighed and then turned back to Tang, glaring at him as Tang gave me a thankful look.
"You're lucky she covers for your ass half the time. You freeloader!"
I chuckled and just as I finished putting the money inside, I heard Mk again but only popping his head into the shop.
"Actually Sis, you mind coming with me for these. I'd like to have some company."
"Mmm sure. Hey Dad, I'm taking my break and joining Mk on his deliveries."
"Fine. Better if you go with him anyways or else he'll get lost. Just stay safe both of you."
"Sure thing. Let's go MK."
I took of my apron, moved my hand for Faust to climb back on my hand and walked out the restraunt to join MK on the little delivery truck. It was small but it could fit us both, I pulled out an aux splitter to connect to his phone so we could both listen to his playlist since my phone is charging back at Dad's shop. As he put the deliveries inside the box, I seated myself in the tuk-tuk and placed the address to the customers location.
Mk was jamming out to the song he had on while he was driving. How this boy got his license will forever be a mystery to me but what can I do. I on the other hand was looking at the directions and pointing where to go. Faust slithered back onto my hand and went back to his ring form before we started the drive so I could focus on the direction.
I started to look around and noticed we were going to an abandoned construction site. I got confused and looked back down at Mk's phone only to find out that we were headed the right way. Maybe it was a construction worker but why in the abandoned site.
I unplugged my earphones from Mk's phone and stuffed them in my pocket. Mk on the other hand swerved the truck making me hold on to the rails trying to steady myself. He finally stopped and started to dance his way to the destination, he and I went into a elevator and the lower we got the more I started to worry.
I was fast walking, while Mk was dancing his way inside. I looked up to see a beautiful golden colored bird looking back at Mk and then it set its sights on me before flying off.
I was so focused on the bird that I accidentally bumped into Mk.
"Hey..."
I saw Mk freeze and I turned to what he was looking at. There I saw two people with what looked like bull robots?
"It feels like I waited an internity for this moment."
The person that spoke first was a woman with black hair, with two horns coming put out of her head, though it looked more like hair than actual horns. She also had small mole on the side of her cheek. She wore a red dress with a few gold trimmings along it.
"Is everything in order?"
This didn't feel right, these people were planning something bad. They didn't look like regular people either. Then I heard the other speak.
"Just making the final adjustments, mother."
Mother? The second person was a man that looked no younger than Mk. Except one feature you could clearly see, was his long red flaming colored hair that was tied into a high ponytail, it almost looked like fire. He hand little round glasses, a red dot on his forehead, and a small scar on his face. He also wore blue pants and a red Chinese coat on top a black shirt.
Both of them had a very sinister smile on them and their eyes looked liked they were glowing red too, which was unnerving.
Mk immediately moved back in surprise making me trip luckily I caught myself so it didn't make any noise. By the time I gathered my bearing I saw Mk hide behind the broken part of a wall. I quickly joined him and peeped along side him.
Looking forward I could clearly see a small hill with a tree with orange leafs, growing on top. Though what caught my eye was red staff with golden tips, and little designs across it.
Mk was shaking alittle with fear as he had his hands on my shoulders since I was kinda crouching below him. I looked up and waved my hand in front of his face.
"Mk...Mk I really don't think we should be here, somethings not...."
Before I could say the rest of my sentence the bull lady spoke once more and as she spoke I felt Mk lean more forward.
"Finally...after all this time, we've the means to lift Monkey King's Legendary Staff."
"Monkey King's Staff?"
I whispered to no one in particular as I looked at the staff. The one that supposedly trapped the Demon Bull King, so then these people are most likely demons. Now I really had bad feeling about this my magic started to show. Mk probably saw it spilling out alittle he squeezed my shoulder, letting me know my magic was showing.
I knew the sign he gave me from the multiple times it has happened. I breathed in and breathed out to calm myself from activating my magic. I grabbed Mk's hand to let him know I'm ok and we continued to look at the demons in front of us.
"Whoa. Monkey King's Staff."
I heard Mk say and I looked up at him and saw him look around and swiftly climbed up onto a pipe.
"Mk...Mk get back here."
I yelled whispered but he didn't listen and kept climbing. I wasn't about to leave him alone or stay near these guys so I quickly started climbing too. Jumping onto pipes swiftly and quitely.
"My love will finally be returned, once we remove the staff."
As I climbed I saw one of the bull robots with one horn bent down climb up to the staff. I looked up and saw Mk hanging onto one pipe and on closer inspection I could see the same bird from earlier. I quickly climbed up and landed left of the bird next to Mk.
"How'd you get up here so quickly?"
He looked at me shocked I made it up here so quickly. I didn't want the risk of falling myself so I settled myself onto the pipe and actually sat down. I looked at Mk and gave him smug grin.
"I workout alot, Mk, maybe you should workout with me sometime."
I stuck out my tounge alittle at him. I then looked at the bird in between us and saw that he actually had orange feathers and oddly enough had red, blue, and yellow feathers too. Though what caught my eyes with his eyes they were golden, so they were really pretty to me. He also looked like a male.
"Well hello there aren't you a cutie. Were you the one who ordered noodles."
I smiled and moved my hand to give him a good scratch on his head. He seemed to like the scratches I was giving and moved closer to my hand to get more scratches. I chuckled alittle as I felt Faust moved from my left hand and slithered around my body to land on my right hand where I was giving scratches to the bird.
I looked back at the bull robot that was eyeing the staff, it gripped the staff tightly and tried pulling it out. It looked to be really trying to pry it out, that the metal on it looked like it was ready to burst. That was until it popped out from its own arms and fell backward, leaving its arms on the staff.
As I kept giving the bird scratches I felt him jump onto my legs and sit down. I started to pet his feathers as they were really soft to the touch.
"Aww you're so cute."
He really seemed to like the compliments I kept giving him and cooed softly. I smiled as I looked to Mk.
"How you holding up?"
"Meh it could be worse."
"Just sit on the pipe so you won't fall."
He waved me off as we both turned back at the scene in front of us. I felt bad for the bull robot he looked so sad as he looked up at the other two.
"You fool. You think we didn't try that already. It's going to take more than a few robots to lift the Monkey King's Staff. Only those deemed worthy can wield it. But I Red Son have designed this gauntlet to bend it to my will."
"Well isn't he just charming."
I said quietly as the bird leaned even closer to my hand. I heard Mk start to cry out in and turned to him seeing him have trouble regaining his balance. I was about to reach out until he caught himself but he was in a more dangerous position. He even had the noodles in his mouth.
"Mk! Be careful...."
I quickly turned back at the guy named Red Son and he stepped up to the staff but that was my least worried. Right now I was slowly scooting towards Mk, careful not to make noise since the pipes started to squeak alittle.
"Mk... can you lift your hand up enough for me to reach you."
He looked at me and tried to lift his hands but anytime he did his arms started to shake, so I tried getting closer to grab his wrist. However, when I wasn't paying attention Red Son tried pulling the staff with the gauntlet getting a tight hold on it. As he pulled the place started to shake violently.
I pulled my hand back from Mk feeling very strong energy coming from the staff. A power of mine that can sense energy from anything around me, though the stronger the energy the more painful it is to feel. It's almost as if I can sense the soul of something or someone. Since I only recently discovered this power I am still training myself to block out energy I don't want to feel.
The staff held very strong energy that it felt almost painful to feel it. This made me hold my head tightly as I felt a bad headache coming on. This almost made me fall back, I quickly grabbed onto the pipe to hold myself steady.
The bird hopped off my legs and looked towards me with worried eyes. Just as the bad headache came on quick it was gone just as fast. I looked at the front where the red guy was holding the staff, I shook my head to gather my thoughts and looked to the side where Mk and the bird was.
Mk also had the look of worry on his face when looking at me.
"I'm...f-fine. Sorry I don't know what exactly happened. Are you ok?"
Mk nodded and I looked at the bird, I smiled at him and petted his head. Letting him know I was ok, then I heard the demons at the bottom. The red one had a victory pose as he managed to pull the staff out but nothing had happened.
"What!? Why isn't anything happening? Mother, are you sure this is the right mountain?"
"No. Maybe it was that other mountain with a magical staff, sealing my husband."
Then suddenly the ground shook again but this time the ground broke open, with wind blowing strong and a green light coming from it.
"Aghhh! Fuck!"
I grabbed my head tightly and closed my eyes tightly as this energy was strong but very bad making my head throb painfully.
I started to breath heavily as I opened my eyes slightly only to see a bull rise from the ground, but everything was getting blurry then clear so I couldn't see it clearly. Though I was in pain I could hear the demons talk.
"Yes Father! Rise! Rise!"
I could hear manical laughter and a loud growl. Once I could open my eyes I could see a giant purple bull with a broken horn. My eyes widened.
"The Demon Bull King!"