Everyone stared in horror at the teen who stares at them blankly with a smile "what have you done to him?!?!" Macaque said, Kai chuckled stepping closer to MK tracing his finger over the amulet on the teens neck "all I did was gave him a special necklace of mine and now he's all willing to do what I say, isn't that right darling" Kai said turning MK's head to him, MK smiled and nodded leaning his head into Kai's hand. The cursed immortal chuckled and spins the teen in front of the others "stop it you sick bastard!" Mei said glaring at the cursed Immortal "you're lucky that I'm stuck in here, otherwise I'll-" but Kai interrupted the pig demon "you'll what, try to hit me with a wooden spoon?" Kai mocked as the pig demon glares bloody murder at him when the cursed Immortal pulled the teen close to him
"Even if you could, you cannot stop me from doing what I please to him, not even this" Kai said and pulled MK into a kiss. The others gasped in shock while Red Son snarls at the cursed Immortal, pulling his chains wishing to burn the cursed Immortal to ashes "you sick twisted bastard!!!" Mei said thrashing around, Kai pulls back from the kiss and chuckled from the sight "hold your tongue dragon girl, you're scaring my future wife" Kai said pulling MK closer " stop it, let him go!" Tang said, Kai chuckled "have you forgotten that HE traded away his freedom for yours, he belongs to me now "Kai said smirking at the scholar "so why didn't you let us go?" Sandy asked, Kai smiled " I would have, but it'd be more fun to kill you, but don't worry, I'll kill you tomorrow AFTER the wedding" Kai said turning around with MK in his arms " oh and uh, here, my bride doesn't need any shabby objects" Kai said tossing MK's yang necklace to them "goodbye" Kai said and walks out of there with MK
"GET BACK HERE!!!!" Mei shouted thrashing around wanting to rip Kai's head off with her bare hands "dragon girl stop! Wasting energy won't help us with our situation" Red Son said looking at the dragon girl "Red Son is right, we need to save our energy and find a way out of here and save MK" Macaque said, Mei looked at the tanned simian and sits down letting out a sigh 'hang in there cub, we're coming' Macaque thought looking at the direction Kai and MK left through his tail sweeping up the yang necklace
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Kai stands in front of the large fireplace staring at the fire as the flames dance and the wood crackle while MK stands by the side staring mindlessly at the ground "darling" Kai said making MK lift his head up and look at the cursed Immortal giving him a smile, Kai chuckled and took the teens hands in his and began dancing "isn't this wonderful, the two of us together for all eternity" Kai said MK just smiles and nods his head "you know I once tried and use this amulet on your mother, but his love for that simian King was too strong and fought its control, but you are very special, and I will treasure you forever" Kai said lifting the teens head up and pulled him into another kiss "come now, let's rest, we have a big day ahead of us" Kai said and let his clone leads MK to the bedroom as he heads to his
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Outside of the palace the two figures who jumped into the portal hops from building to building as they jump closer to the palace, the second figure pulls out a rope with a grappling hook at the end and toss it to a window the hook latching on. The two figures climb up the wall and into the palace, once they were in they began sneaking around the palace avoiding any of Kai's clones. One of the figures spotted a door that was opened ajar and slowly opened it revealing a room filled with all kinds of treasures and gold, gems, and precious artifacts, the figure then spotted two glowing balls of lights in a jar, one red and one green and a Jade sword
The figure took the jar, the blade and ran off to out the room to catch up with his brother while hooking the jar and the blade around his waist
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Mei grunts as she slams the large rock on the chains for the hundredth time creating sparks but not breaking the chains, she slams the rock again nothing, then again, nothing, and again, still nothing, she lifts the rock and slams it down on the chains but the rock broke into pieces "Damnit!!" Mei said throwing the small rock in her hand away "give me another rock Sandy" Mei said looking at the water spirit "Mei you need to rest" Pigsy said, Mei turned to the chef "I can't rest, my best friend is going to get married by some sick psycho and we're stuck down here!" Mei said clenching her fist tight "I know, but we can't waist our energy on banging rocks" Pigsy said
Tang buried his face in his scarf and burst into sobs "Tang, what's wrong?" Pigsy said immediately going to his husband "thi...this is all my fault, I-If I hadn't yelled at him o-o-or kept pressing him to tell me what's wrong, none of this would be happening, I-If I had just been patient and waited for him t-t-to come to me a-a-and talk to me" Tang said tears spilling down his face "n-n-now he's going to....t-to" Tang couldn't finish his sentence as he began hyperventilating "hey, hey, Tang breath" Pigsy said pulling the scholar into a hug "none of this was your fault, none of it, so don't you dare say that it's your fault" Pigsy said patting the scholars back
Just then the sound of footsteps were approaching the group looked to see two familiar demons standing outside of the cell smiling "hello mortals" the orange demon said smiling "did you missed us?" The blue demon said smiling as well "Yin, Jin?" Macaque said in shock "the one and only!" The silver and gold demon said at the same time "you two again, what do you two want, came to gloat that we're in here and MK is captured!" Mei said glaring at the two demons "what, no, we're busting you lot outta here!" Yin said his hands on his hips "huh?" Macaque, Pigsy, Tang, Mei, Red Son, and Sandy said in confusion "how do we know that this isn't some kind of trick?" Pigsy said pulling Tang close to him "of course this isn't a trick, what that cursed Immortal doing is bloody nuts!" Jin said crossing his arms "the Monkie Kid is still a kid for Pete sakes, and if anything the only person that the Monkie Kid should marry it's Red Son" Yin said making the fire demon blushed from the thought "I thought it was Mei?" Jin said making the dragon girl blinked in shock
"Of course it's not the dragon girl you blot, it's always been the demon bull prince!" Yin said making the fire demon redder in embarrassment. Thankfully Macaque interrupted the demon brothers quarrel "do you know where he's keeping my cub?" Macaque asked making the silver and gold demon look at the tanned simian "we'll he's being held in a room that's guarded by his clones and we also heard him talking about a blood binding ritual" Yin said remembering the best he could, the tanned simian gasped "blood binding" Macaque said in shock and horror "blood what now?" Pigsy asked confused "it's an old ancient demon marriage ritual where two demons cut their hands and bind each other eternally through their blood and share their powers" Macaque explains to the others "so if Kai does this blood binding on MK then, he'll have MK's powers too" Mei said, Macaque nodded his head
"We need to save MK, now!" Pigsy said, Yin looks around and saw a pair of keys hanging on the wall "bingo!" The silver demon said grabbing the keys and unlocking the cell door opening it and unlocking the cuffs "oh, almost forgot, I found these while we snuck in the palace" Jin said pulling out the two jars and the dragon blade out "my blade!" Mei said quickly grabbing the dragon blade, Macaque takes the jars and turns to the others who were freed "alright you guys, ready to crash a wedding?" Macaque asked, the others nodded with determination and Macaque smirks opening the jars and the two balls of light fly out of the jars and towards the teens
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MK, wearing a long red hanfu with black sleeves, a yellow undershirt, gold sewn patterns, a black sash with a gem in the center and a sleeveless maroon hanfu jacket, sat very still as the clone dipped the brush in the red pallet and brought it up to the teens eyelids gently colored it red, then placed red lipstick on his lips, putting red blush on his cheeks and painted a red lotus flower at the center of the teens head, another clone was combining his hair back tying it up in a ponytail with a ribbon, and another clone came and placed a gold headdress on top of the teens head, the clone finished and the teen opened his eyes and smiled as the clone placed a red long veil over his head, he stands up clasping his hands together and the clones leads him out of the room and towards the throne room where Kai was waiting
Soon they came to a stop at the doors and the clones pushed the doors open revealing the throne room that was decorated with candles, lanterns, a red carpet, and red curtains hanging on the walls and ceiling, at the end of the room was Kai wearing a long black hanfu, a red, purple and white under shirt, a red sash with a black ribbon over it, a red hanfu jacket, and part of his hair tied in a bun. Kai turns to the teens direction and smiled making MK smile back and walks down the red carpet. Soon MK reached the cursed Immortal and stands next to him "you look so beautiful darling" Kai said cupping MK's cheek with his hand, MK smiled and leans into the hand, Kai then takes a knife from the pedestal and turns around to the teen "this will only hurt for a little while" Kai said taking the teens hand and lowers the knife to the open palm
But the knife was thrown out of his hands and lodge into the throne chair, he turns to what threw the knife and saw Macaque standing there with Red Son, Mei, Pigsy, Tang, Sandy, Yin, and Jin standing at the entrance glaring at the cursed Immortal "objection your honor!" Jin said smirking, Kai growls "so...you've escaped from your cage again moonlight" Kai said raising an eyebrow, Macaque glares at the cursed Immortal "I am not your moonlight, and I was never was" Macaque said gripping his staff tightly "give us MK back or will break every bone in your body!" Mei said pointing at the cursed Immortal with her dragon blade
"Have you forgotten that HE belongs to me now, so I suggest that you all leave, now" Kai said glaring at the tanned simian "we'll incase you haven't noticed, there's one of you, and eight of us" Red Son said, Kai chuckled and smirks at the group "have you forgotten that YOUR in my domain" Kai said snapping his fingers, a wave of red magic swept over to the group making them grunt at the force, then they felt a faint pulling sensation and saw their shadows being pulled from underneath them zooming towards Kai and forming into their shadow reflection "shall we dance, moonlight" Kai said pulling out his sword and charges at the group the shadows following behind, Macaque grips his shadow staff and charges forward with the group behind them the tanned simian staff colliding with the cursed Immortals sword
The others fight against their shadow "it's like I'm fighting myself" Mei said swinging her blade at her shadow clone "that's because you are, he's using our shadows to fight us!" Red Son said dodging a punch from his clones, Sandy blocks the punches of his shadow, the water spirit then grabs the shadows wrists and throws him to the other side of the room nearly hitting MK who stood perfectly still "oh sorry little man!" Sandy called out but the teen didn't answer due to the amulet, Yin and Jin backs pressed together as their shadows stood their in front of them ,the twins glance at each other and nodded, just as their shadows charges at them they jumped into the air just as their shadows crashed with each other. Pigsy grabs a shield from the wall and blocks his and Tangs shadow punches the shield repeatedly "go to the kid, I'll hold them off!" Pigsy said grunting, Tang nods and runs towards his son
Then Sandy shadow blocks the scholar path, Tang gasped in fear as the shadow towers over him, but thankfully Sandy came and lunge himself at the shadow throwing himself and the shadow out of the scholars path "go!" Sandy said holding the shadow down, Tang nods and runs towards the teen finally reaching his son "MK, MK I'm here, can you hear me MK!" Tang said gently shaking the teens shoulders "MK it's me, it's Baba, if you can hear me I'm going to get this off you!" Tang said looking down at the amulet, he went to grab it but the amulet glows and the scholar had to step back as fire appeared and surrounds the teen "MK!!!" Tang said in shock, Kai turns and smirks "forgot to mention, my amulet has a little defense mechanism that if anyone that isn't me touch it, it creates a blast of fire that surrounds the wearer and burns the threat to ashes!" Kai said dodging Macaque swing
Tang stared in horror as the fire died down not knowing what to do, but before he could do anything his shadow ran up to him and grabbed the scholar by the throat squeezing tightly, Tang gasped as he tries to pull the shadows hand off his neck while the shadow lifted him up in the air "Tang!!" Pigsy called out but the shadow over powers him and pins the pig demon to the ground. Tang gasped and tries to pull the shadow hand off his neck feeling his strength leaving him and the side of his vision going black 'MK....I'm sorry....I'm so sorry' Tang thought his vision fading
"Baba....Baba, don't give up!"
Tang opened his eyes and found himself back in the city covered with snow and lanterns standing in the middle of the street with MK in front of him five years old and wearing the same outfit he wore when he found him. Tang stared in shock as the five year old of his son stares back at him "you can't give up Baba, if you give up he'll win, you can't let him win!" Five year old MK said, then when the wind blows the five year old change and became sixteen years old "please Baba we're family and nobody gets left behind or forgotten!" MK said with tears in his eyes
Tangs was back in the throne room and looked at the amulet and grabs it, making the amulet glow and creating a giant tornado of fire and a shockwave burning the Tang shadow and the rest of the shadows dispelled due to the shockwave "what?!" Kai said in shock "Tang!" Pigsy called out, Tang grunts in pain as he felt the fire burn him he grabs his arm and with all his strength tears the amulet off his son's neck and throws it to the wall shattering the amulet. Tang breathes heavily as he was covered in small burns, the tip of his scarf burnt and his hair tye was burned off making his hair come out of its braid, he heard a gasp and turns to see MK's eyes returning back to the color brown "Baba?" MK said before collapsing, the scholar quickly catches him making the veil and headdress fall off as the teen passed out "I'm here MK, I'm here" Tang said holding his son close ignoring his own pain
"NOOO!!!!" Kai roars pushing the tanned simian back and charge at the scholar his sword raised, but Sandy appeared and scoops up the two quickly dodging the sword ,the water spirit quickly runs back to the others "get us out of here!" Pigsy said, Macaque didn't answer and quickly made a shadow portal under them and they fell through it, Kai watch as the portal disappeared with a glare
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The group lands in the grassy courtyard piling on each other "ow" Yin said sore from the rough landing "now where are we?" Pigsy asked looking around "at my home, don't worry, we're safe here" Macaque said making the others sigh in relief. Soon Macaque and his shadow clones began patching up the others "so far nothing too serious, just second degree burns, I have something so that it won't leave a scar, I'll be right back" Macaque said getting up and leaving to go get it, Tang stared down at his hand, turning to the others who were all fast asleep and back to his son all the makeup and the hanfu dress was gone, Tang leans over and gently petted the teens head, but the teen groan and opened his eyes "Baba?" MK said looking at the scholar "hey there, it's alright, we're all out and safe" Tang said smiling, MK smiled but if fell "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for-" but the scholar cut him off
"No, no, no it's my fault, I was the one who pressed down on you into telling me what was wrong when you just needed time, so take all the time you need, and this time I'll be patient" Tang said smiling, MK stared up at his Baba and smiled "Baba....I don't hate you anymore" MK said, Tang chuckled "I know you don't, you can never have, cause you love me too much to hate me and I love you too much hate you" Tang said smiling. Just then Macaque came back with the ointment "I got the ointment, now it's gonna be cold" Macaque said gently applying the ointment onto the burn "Baba...can we do something together?" MK asked looking up at his Baba "sure MK, but for now rest, you deserve it" Tang said and MK fell into a deep calming sleep
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It was late afternoon just as the sun was about to set when MK woke up he sits up and looks down to see that he was wearing white tang dynasty hanfu pajamas and his yang necklace was back on his neck, he then saw something moving in the corner of his eye and turns to it and saw it was a shadow that was slithering out of the house, he quickly gets up and follows it. the shadow then disappears when the teen was in a clearing of trees, MK pulls his staff out and kept his guard up, "so I see that you followed my shadow huh?" Kai's voice echoed out from the trees "what is your deal, why did you do that?!" MK demanded looking around for the cursed Immortal "hmm, oh, why'd I brainwashed you, well I was gonna do the whole watch the prince be torment by his mistakes thing, but it seems you and him are already doing that, which honestly has been an absolute pleasure to watch"Kai said before moving into his shadow and disappearing into sight "you know, I meant what I said, you really are a good kid, a good kid with a really terrible teacher" Kai said with a smirk
"I thought you were my teacher?" MK said glaring "Ohoho, ouch!" Kai said chuckling. Then MK realized something from his Ma play "it was you, wasn't it, in the story, Monkey King was the hero, Ma was the prince, and the warrior....was you...wasn't it?" MK asked, Kai chuckled "maybe you're not as dense as you look" Kai said from behind the teen making MK turn around only for the cursed Immortal to disappear "something's coming" Kai said crouching on a tree branch making the teen turn to him "something you or Moonlight aren't even close to ready for, don't worry" Kai said stand up "you can never have too many teachers, right" Kai said before disappearing in a puff of red smoke, MK stared at the spot where Kai was and heads back before everyone gets worried thinking about what the cursed Immortal said
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Back in the palace, Kai stood at the throne room his amulet floating between his hand as he repairs it, seconds later the amulet was good as new plopping down on the cursed Immortals hand, suddenly he heard clapping from behind him and turn to see the Mayor standing there slowly clapping "bravo, bravo, what a wonderful performance!" the Mayor said with a smile, Kai immediately felt something wrong coming off the man and slowly turns around to leave "uhh yes, but I'm afraid that you need to leave no-ARGH!!" Kai said when the Mayor appears in front of him grabbing him by the neck lifting him off the ground with inhumane strength everything flickering blue with the Mayor glowing blue and Kai glowing red "Lady Bone Demon would like a word with you" the Mayor said smiling "oh and, she'll be needing that" the Mayor said turning his gaze to the amulet in the cursed Immortals hand