Chapter Text
You never really thought you were special, you had a quiet childhood on a peach orchard your family owned outside of Megapoilis. You only went in town to sell your fruits and herbs you gathered yourself. That's what your life was for a long time.
Gather peaches and herbs in the morning.
Walk to town before the market opened.
Sell what you could to pay for food and the little bit of bills you had.
Go home. Well and occasionally stop by the noodle shop to break the monotonous routine.
It had started to bore you to be honest.
It seemed like it would be another boring day to you when you woke up.
You put on your black and jade green plaid skirt and slid on your black tshirt that had faded from wear to more of a grey instead of black, your usual jade pendent carved into a small monkey around your neck. You had this pendent ever since you were a kid, your mom had said it was passed down through the family for generations.
It was the only real thing your family had besides the orchard
You served yourself some tea, Sandy had basically shoved into your hands and looked at you with those big blue face and sparkling eyes. You took with a smile and drank it in the mornings instead of your usual sweetened milk. This morning you ate leftover noodles -from your usual haunt Pigsy's Noodles, you reheated for breakfast, a break from toast and peach jam at least.
You had slid on your shoes like you always did, a pair of jade sandals that were dirty from walking the dirt road that lead from your home to Megapoilis.
You picked herds from the center of your small siheyuan-style cottage, a very small courtyard that you decided to fill with herbs and green onions when you had them. With a basket full of herbs set waiting you headed out to what remained of a family orchard. It was only about ten trees now, but your mother said it used to be hundreds.
You reached the tree you normally started, and instead of birds that usually flutter away at the sound of your footsteps you find someone eating peaches and laying in one of the branches. It felt so different then. But also. For some reason felt so familiar to you.
Words came to you before you even thought to speak them.
" I've never seen someone like you before. "
The person. No monkey? Both? Turned their head in your direction with their cheeks puffed out and filled with what you assumed was a peach. They looked at you with golden eyes and swallowed the fruit down in loud gulp. The monkey person -man? - wore what looked like traditional Chinese garments and their tail was waving around in a wild manner. He slid off the branch and gracefully landed on his feet in front of you.
Man some serious deja-vu.
" Oh! Crap were these your peaches? " He said, wiping the juices from his chin and lips, tossing the other fruit he hand around in his hand like a ball. "My bad, they just looked so good. "
His eyes finally looked at you fully and the fruit missed the mark of his hand by a few inches and it tumbled across the grass and wild flowers beneath your feet. You put your hand on your hip before bending over and picking up the fruit.
" Well, I guess I don't mind. As long as you actually eat them. I don't like seeing rotten peaches laying around you know. " You said with a slight huff as you place the peach back in his hands, looking up to what seemed to be a searching look.
His fingers wrapped around the peach almost tightly. His eyes lever leaving you and your face. It was starting to be a bit weird. What was he even thinking? Who was this guy?
He looks so familiar. But I would remember a monkey man. Right? Right. So he's just some mischievous spirit that wondered his way into my orchard. That's all. Yeah.
You sigh gently and cross your arms, " So who are you anyway? It's a little rude to just stare. "
He looked like he had been shaken out of a trance and he cracked a big and almost goofy looking grin. " Oh right!" He then took the peach in his hand and tossed it in the air and caught it before posing like a hero might on a cartoon. You held in a laugh finding it a little endearing.
" I am Sun Wukong! Monkey King! Equal to Heaven!" He looked at you expecting something as he introduced himself in way to excessive of a manner.
" The Monkey King huh? " You say, kinda not believing him but not wanting to be completely rude to a spiritual being.
Wukong sighed as he stood back normally, seemingly disappointed about something. But right after, his chipper tone and playful grin was back. " Yep! You better believe it. So what is a maiden like you doing here?"
You make a snort of a laugh and your tension you were carrying in your shoulders releases. " I'm not a maiden. Who even calls a lady that anymore? Just call me Y/N. " You tell him with a laugh.
His gold eyes seemed to gleam for a moment, but you think it must just be the morning light reflecting in them. " Yeah that suits you! "
You tilt your head. That was something odd to say about someone's name. But you guessed Wukong was just. Odd. You were about to ask him what he was even doing here in your peach trees when there was a sudden rumble in the ground. You made a startled noise as you brace yourself on the nearby peach tree, the ripe fruit fruit tumbling out of the trees and hitting the ground. You look over to Wukong, he had his eyes on the city just a few miles away, the whole town look like it was shaking.
But you don't get many earthquakes here.
" Whoops looks like I'm running late! Sorry maybe I'll see ya around y/n!" He said before he hopped into the air.
Your cover your eyes just in time for a golden flash to blind the surrounding wildlife. When you looked back to where Wukong had been, there was a golden bird flying off into the sky. You stood there wondering what the hell just happened before another sudden quake nearly brought you to your knees. Your eyes go up as what looked like a golden wave of energy get released in a boom across what was a beautiful sky.
It was kinda beautiful.
That was when the Demon Bull King was released back into the world. That small meeting with Wukong seems to have been a mark of a new kind of normal in your city and the friends you had in the city. When you returned to the city, and more specifically the noodle shop you spent most of your afternoons, you were greeted by quite a scene.
Almost pure chaos was what might have come to mind. There was a table broken in half with a red pole staff crushing it and MK, the lovable guy who you watched grow up was holding the other end of it with a cheeky grin on his face. Pigsy looked like he was going to have a stroke right then and there, his hand clutching at the area around his heart and his eyes were glaring stubbornly at MK. Mei was laughing and banging on a non-damaged table, saying something incoherent through her fits of laughter. Your eyes finally settle on Tang. Unsurprisingly eating noodles.
Ah . The universal constant.
"So.... What happened to you guys?" You manage to ask, setting the basket of peaches and herbs you didn't sell from the day on the counter for Pigsy.
They all spoke at once. Some angry and worried - Pigsy- others excited and so much that it was like hearing a pack of dogs when their master got home. You hold up your hand and try to shout over their collective noise.
" Alright ! Hey! Not all at once damn. " You hold in a laugh and try to keep a Stern face. " Now. MK it's obvious you will explode if you don't tell me so go ahead." You cracked a teasing smile.
Then he went into a long and sometimes reinacted bits of his fight with Demon Bull King and how he got the staff. His eyes got so full of excitement when he said that he had met the Monkey King. " I mean THE Monkey King! Sun Wukong himself! He said he was going to train me to use the powers and how to be a real hero! Isn't that awesome!?"
So the spirit from earlier hadn't been lying. Not that you really believed it was a lie. Somewhere inside you, you knew it had been true.
" Really kid, you should be more worried. I mean come on, some random monkey guy said he was the Monkey King but what if he's just like the other demons that you had to fight. " Pigsy had said, using the ladle in his hand to punctuate his sentence toward MK. " I just want you to be careful. An do your damn job!" He added the last part quickly and in angry tone.
Tang sat his bowl of noodles down and pushed up his glasses. " Well from what I can tell from the staffs properties and the examples of powers MK is displaying," he pulled out his big 'diary' as Pigsy had called it several times, " See here! "
He pointed out the Monkey King and his companions, the staff depicted inside was a near exact to the one MK was swinging around. You look over the drawings and you stare a long time at Wukong, almost not hearing Tang's long lecture on the seventy-two transformations and other powers he was known for.
MK bounced excited and he started to twirl the staff around. " Yeah! So I'm basically invincible. Well kinda. " He laughed and then looked at you with bright shining brown eyes.
" Well I guess if you ever need help you can let me know. " You tell him with a small laugh. " I can't do much but I'd hate for you and your friends to be jumping into this alone. " You made the excuse easier then you thought you would.
You really just wanted to change up your boring life and this was the perfect chance.
"Of course! Mei and the others are helping too! I can't do it without my friends." MK said it with such conviction and determination. " And you're one of my friends too!"
You let out a laugh and a smile as the other ones chimed in that he was right. " Alright alright. I guess I'll be hanging around more then just for noodles now. "
Yeah. Life is about to get very interesting.