#the spider and the rabbits kappa

[zoitza-pizza]

Omg, we're back again 🎶... sorry

Ok, Ch4, here we go!

By the time Usagi had arrived at the village, Leonardo only had a few hours left. His horse collapsed with exhaustion, not wanting to waste a second he brought a bowl of water to the horses lips. He turned and sprinted for the palace, where the shogun was where lord nor Yuki was, where Tomoe Ame was, all caring for a sick and injured Leonardo. Leonardo who fought alongside Tamoe Ame when he didn't even know her, when she had even attacked him. He had risked his life to protect Lord nor Yuki and save them all from Lord hebi.

By the time he had reached the palace, the guards almost drew their weapons in surprise until they realized who was running towards them. They had stepped aside for him to pass. Sprinting Usagi let out a quick thanks in response. He couldn't stop now. Bursting into the shoguns personal pavilion, he almost yelled,

"I HAVE AN ANTIDOTE!"

With that, he marched with a sense of purpose towards where the sickly turtle lay. Trying to not think about how pale his skin was or how the scales were glistening with sweat. He held his dear friend up and slowly poured the elixir down his throat. He kept pouring it into his throat until he heard a gulp. He lifted the bottle to see his friend open his eyes for the first time since being poisoned by that discussing villain. His own eyes started to water against his will.

"Leonardo, you're alive." Usagi let out his realization breathlessly with a crack in his voice to match. Leonardo could only smile a weak and small smile, something Usagi was not used to seeing. He wondered what he was doing wrong, until he looked at the bottle realization hit him. He hadn't given him the whole bottle. He then turned to Leonardo and said, "My apologies, Leonardo san, but you need to drink the rest."

At that, Leonardo grimaced Usagi could only imagine the taste if Leonardo couldn't bear it. He still held his friend in a firm grip as he slowly poured again. This time, Leonardo drank the whole bottle. After he was done, he set him back down to rest, and then the healers hands found their way to Leonardos head. It was at that moment that he had found everyone's eyes on him. He was then picked up by Genoske, who no doubt was going on about a reward. He didn't care enough to listen as Tamoe Ame gently pulled him from Genoske's grasp and pulled him aside the worrisome look on her face told him all he needed to know.

"He escaped, didn't he." Usagis ear twitching in annoyance. The defeated look on her face was enough of a response. She looked away for a moment to think of her response. She seemed conflicted in telling him it was odd to see her like this. "He used Leonardos illness and the neko clan ninja as a distraction. He had tunnels underground leading all sorts of directions. And by the time we found it, it had already been an hour. I'm sorry, Usagi, but we will do everything we can to find him and bring him to justice."

Usagis thoughts were swimming around in his head only when he fully comprehended what she had said. Did he speak? A week, "thank you," was all he could manage. She understood he needed space and was ok in giving it to him. As he made his way down the hallway, he made a vow not just to himself but to Leonardo as well. The next time he and hebi met, he would kill him.

Ok, so that's all right now, I'm glad these bfs are rejoining. And I just had my shots so my arm is sore.

Mkay byeeee

[shellshocklove]

crush | peter parker

pairing/au: college au – frat!peter parker x female!reader

summary: you accidently learn peter parker's secret

warnings: swearing, fwb relationship

word count: 1.2k

a/n: trying my hand at frat!peter parker since it’s the new craze with a little ficlet lmao. i don’t know what i’m doing and i had no plot or plan for this. i’ve set the pairing as female!reader, but it can be read as gn!reader. i’ve only done it like that in case i would want to write more for this later. anyways happy reading <3

main masterlist / ao3

Peter’s bedroom window moaned and complained as Peter pushed it open. He was tempting fate, but what else was new. The music coming from downstairs vibrated through the brick underneath his hand. Climbing through the window, he hit the floor with a soft thump!

The summer had been long, dank and sweaty, but now the evenings had started to bite. Living at the frat throughout the summer had made Peter lonely. His frat brothers all jetted away – scattered like dice across the world – while Peter stayed put in the old brick house.

The frat house was made for noise, not silence, he’d realized after a few weeks. Every noise he made amplified somehow, like the house fed on the sounds. He’d never noticed how loud his footsteps was; or how the clicking of the metal spoon against his coffee mug bounced against the wall, until he was alone. It was unsettling, and wrong. The music that now moved under the floorboard, and the sounds of people over it, put Peter at ease. With the start of the new fall semester, and his brothers finally back, the house was fed again.

Peter never saw himself in a fraternity. He was working on a degree in biophysics trying to balance classes with his late-night vigilantism ­– he didn’t exactly have much free time. But he’d kinda just fell into it. One night when he’d missed Uncle Ben too much, he’d fallen down a baseball rabbit hole on Youtube. He watched pitcher reels, and top ten craziest moments, and had gotten a ridiculous idea. He tried out for the baseball team at ESU – careful to not to run too fast or hit the baseball out the park – but still they’d wanted him. Peter Parker, a recovering nerd, played college baseball. One thing had led to another, and soon enough he’d been accepted into Zeta Kappa – the captain of the baseball team’s fraternity.

With a sigh Peter pulled off his mask, he was dead tired. He’d had to cut tonight’s patrol short after running out of webs. Everything had been just a little too much lately and he’d forgotten to make new web fluid for his web shooters. After a failed attempt at swinging down a crowded street, he’d fallen face down on a busy street.

He’d played it off as smoothly as possible, hiding the bruise to his ego as he’d instead interacted with some of the passers-by. Spider-Man had handed out lots of high fives tonight. Climbing the wall of some building he’d had to run across the roofs of New York city to get back home. He was exhausted to say the least, dying to feel the softness of his bedsheets against his skin.

Waltzing over to his desk, he rummaged through one of the drawers for his emergency stash of web fluid. Occupied with refilling his web shooters, he missed the creak of the floorboard behind him.

“Holy shit!”

Frozen dead in his tracks, fear sank to his stomach. He didn’t know what to do; if he turned around, he’d be busted, but he couldn’t turn his back forever – he couldn’t do that to you, could he?

His eyes flicked to the corkboard over his desk, to the polaroid he’d taken of you only a few weeks ago after you’d convinced him to go take you swimming. You’d begged and whined, “Peter! Please, please, pretty please!” and he’d folded. It had been the last real day of summer, and together you’d snuck into one of those fancy hotels with a rooftop pool. As soon as you’d dipped your feet in the water, a big smile spread across your face, a smile that, to Peter’s horrifying realization, had tugged on his heartstrings.

It was supposed to be casual, the thing between the two of you, just something so you both could fill that void inside screaming out for intimacy. Peter didn’t have time for a relationship. This was perfect, almost.

“Peter?”

Your voice was barely a whisper, almost cautious, like he was a shaking bunny you were afraid of scaring. His head fell, eyes scanning over the worn wood of his desk. This wasn’t supposed to happen. He’d told himself he was gonna keep you at arm’s length, not in the crook.  

“Don’t tell anyone, please.” The words fell from his lips, a coldness coating them.

He could feel you move behind him, light feet shuffling with nervousness. “I won’t, Peter, I won’t– I swear!”

With a sigh, Peter turned around. He looked you up and down. You were dressed nicely – dressed for the party howling downstairs. He tried to ignore the way you looked at him. It always hit him too hard, made him want to crush your lips with his own, wrap himself up in you and never untangle. You were dangerous.

“I’m sorry… I looked for you at the party but couldn’t find you– so then I figured I’d wait for you in your room, and…” you trailed off, the rest was self-explanatory.

With a huff Peter started moving about his room. He pulled some sweats from his closet and vanished through the door to the bathroom. It was like he needed to get rid of the evidence. He couldn’t talk to you before it was gone. Back inside his bedroom, he ignored the way you sat at the edge of his bed, hands folded in your lap. He put his suit away, hiding it in the back of his closet.

“Let’s forget about this,” he turned around to look at you, a mistake. He watched the way your body sank into the mattress, mirroring the way his heart sank in his chest as he uttered his next words, “and maybe we should just forget about everything else.”

Your face was hard to decipher, it shuffled through an arrangement of emotions: confusion, hurt, anger. All the same emotions Peter tried to hold back.

“I…” you tried to say, “a-are you sure, I mean–”

“I’m sure,” Peter stressed, “this didn’t mean anything right? It was just sex…”,

“Right,” you nodded slowly, like you were still processing, “it was just sex.”

“It didn’t mean anything.” The words felt like they were stuck in the back of his throat.

The look you gave him, cut him across his chest, sliced away at his skin until it reached his heart. “Let’s not pretend it did…”

“No, let’s not,” you glared at him, and Peter could feel a pressure behind his eyes.

“And don’t say anything about me and…” he cocked his head in the direction of his closet, “If anyone knew you knew– it would put you in danger and I don’t want to put you in danger.” It was probably the most honest thing he’d said to you all night.

You rolled your eyes at him, and quickly stood to your feet. He watched how you clenched and unclenched your fist, keeping your quiet rage under control. You shook your head in disbelief, probably wondering why you’d wasted so many months of your life on a loser like him.

Peter hated to do this to you. He wanted only your love. To live with it inside and give his love to you. But that was a selfish thought. He couldn’t do that to you, he couldn’t love you the way you deserved.

One lonely tear escaped you, and it broke Peter’s heart.

“You know what,” you tried to hiss but the sadness in your voice dimmed the bite, “Fuck you, Peter!”

Gathering yourself, you gave him one last look before you slammed the door in his face.

i hope you liked this! <3 please let me know what you thought of this little story. i would love to hear them in the tags, or a comment or through my ask box! <3

tags: @hollandweather

© shellshocklove, 2023

[candlecoo]

Vigilante Doll AU:

Can we get a list of all the first year Hero Course students’ favorite Changeling forms?

Possibly also a few pro heroes’ opinions on Changeling, if you’re feeling up for it?

Aoyama - Unicorn

Uraraka - Incubus

Mina - Rabbit

Tsuyu - Kappa

Iida - Lion Dog

Ojiro - Red Oni

Denki - Bat

Kirishima - Hunter

Koda - Rabbit and Neko

Sato - Red Oni

Shoji - Blue Spirit

Jiro - Skull

Sero - Day of the Dead

Tokoyami - Crow

Toru - Masquerade

Bakugou - Dragon

Momo - Toon

Todoroki - Phoenix

Monoma - Masquerade

Kendo - Lion Dog

Tetsutetsu - Lion Dog

Pony - Unicorn

Awase - Kitsune

Ibara - Dove/Angel

Shishida - Hunter

Rin - Dragon

Tsuburaba - Neko

Shoda - Blue Spirit

Kodai - Kitsune

Kuroiro - Skull

Komori - Spider

Manga - Toon

Tokage - Dragon

Kaibara - Crow

Kamakiri - Spider

Bondo - Bat

Yanagi - Skull

Midnight - Incubus - absolutely adores this kid!

Hound Dog - Hunter - like the kid well enough but definitely thinks he needs therapy. Will wrap him in a blanket and make him talk about his feelings.

Recovery Girl - Dove/Angel - thinks someone needs to put a leash on this child before he hurts himself.

Present Mic - Crow - this is his new son, you fight him on that, but you won't win.

Fat Gum - Lion Dog - kids got a lot of potential! But doesn't seem to be eating enough...

Rock Lock - Kitsune - somebody call this kids parents, they must be worried!!!

Ms Joke - Jester - this kids a riot! Is he looking for an internship?

[ladysigmaart]

List of angels (that I've thought of) and their powers~

-Alpha, polymorphic crystalline pearls, pearls can absord energy based attacks and release them as beams or blasts.

-Gamma, Boom, creates explosions from symbols around his body or his entire body, releases radiation proportional to charge time.

-Delta, Jamey and Jezzebel shadow ambassadors, Jezzebel can meld into walls and transform into various weapons, Jamey is sould bound to jezzebel and proficient with most weaponry and is extremely agile.

-Zeta, Devours stars, really fucking big.

-Theta, Black Rabbit, counters all incoming attacks perfectly, can only be actived just before an attack lands.

-Iota, Living starship, second fastest ship in the universe, hyper intelligent.

-Kappa, planet sized biomechanical super structure, contains smaller cyborgs sharing the same mind as the larger structure, cyborgs have interchangeable limbs.

-Lambda, Half-life, fission; splits in half, doubles lifespan and durability, halves offensive capabilities. Fusion; returns to full strength, loses increased lifespan and durability.

-Xi, nightmare demon, exudes a terrifying aura, can detatch limbs and continue moving them, blood coagulates into spider like haemomorphs.

-Omichron, assault android, capable of light speed travel, can change color and summon hard light constructs.

-Pi, Mosaic, fractured psyche, system, each personality has access to specific powers, dominant personality can unite the others and use all powers temporarily.

-Rho, Everyman, Can mimic anything within a 5 mile radius and up to half an hour after wandering away from his current host, can also gain whatever powers are held by his host.

-Sigma, metallic polymorph, can amalgumate metals to increase mass, each amalgam has unique properties.

-Psi, most powerful psychic in the universe, wears a two layered lead helmet to dampen telepathic signals (can "hear" an entire galaxy without it, his star system with one layer on, and just his planet witg both), kept alive entirely with psychic energy, forfeited all other sensations to improve psychic sense.

-Omega, Mostly comprised of violent energy, lives on Olympus Mons, believed to be the legendary black knight.

[kanzuus]

Tbh, I have so many AUs that sometimes I even forget what they are and I have to make a list so as not to leave any of them aside, what's best? Each AU can be very different or focus on other things.

So, here is a list of the AUs I have and some information about them:

The Book of Life (Leosagi)

For one of my main AUs, I haven't drawn them that much, but I plan to do it more and change their designs a little so they fit the character a little more, I don't know if I ever will

Monster High:

"It would be nice if everyone could go to a school where they fit in and enjoy their adolescence," I thought. Then I saw a post from an artist who had drawn Draculaura, and the rest is history

It was one of my favorite AUs when creating it, the varied amount of monsters in Monster High made me think for a long time about which one would be best for each one, it was definitely a lot of fun to plan

Spiderman (Donsagi and a bit of Leosagi)

One of my favorite Aus in general! I have put a lot of dedication and lore into it here, one day I hope to share it all or make a mini comic

But long story short, Usagi was bitten first, being Spiderman first for 6 months, until the boy he liked (Leo AKA MJ) died in an accident he couldn't prevent. Weeks later, Donnie shows up, being a helpmate at Spider-Man's work (And later falling in love with him). To be clear, it's a Miraculous-Ladybug-type of situation.

Galaxy AU (Donsagi):

These children are my protégés. This Au isn't finished yet (I'm still missing Raph) but basically it's about each one representing something different in the universe.

Usagi: Sun. Donnie: Moon. Leo: Stars. Mikey: Earth. Raph: Black Hole. April: Nebula

Yansagi (Donsagi)

Another one of my favorites, also with a ton of Lore that I plan to show once the fanfic I'm writing about this AU is finished being written. This AU is special since it also has iterations, i.e. Sub-Aus, where some roles change

Ghostbusters:

I love Ghostbusters, and what's better than putting together two things you love? I'm still missing some characters like Sunita, Cass and Casey, but in general that would be the concept

Emo Rockers:

Like, why not? Leo and Donnie are the guitarists, Mikey is the bassist, Raph is the drummer and Usagi and April are the singers.

Pirates:

I have even designed the boats. Come on, I still have half a universe left

Other Aus that I have in mind!

—Alice in Wonderland

—Corpse Bride

—Mary Poppins

—Bendy and the Ink Machine

—Hanahaki Disease

— The era of the 70's

—Maybe Avatar?

—How to Train your Dragon

—Robots

—Criminals

Sorry if this is too much, I love sharing about my ideas and Aus

YOU HAVE A USAGI-VERSE TOO!? THAT'S SO COOL

I've never met someone with a concept like this besides me. I can't wait to see what's next, this seems to be very interesting!

TELL ME MORE KANZUUUUUU!!! I love silly rabbit concepts, here's some sketches of an Axolotl Yuichi and Princess Miya(moto) !

Also, anyone viewing this post please check Kanzuu's blog, they have amazing artwork of Usagi & Donsagi (including a bunch of different AUs), and I am a huge fan of everything they do so make sure to spread the love <3

[dancingthesambaa]

The Smell of Plum Blossom Tea Ch 3

Summary: Just like a butterfly wing, a single act of kindness can change the course of the future, it certainly did for MK as a black-furred monkey put out a hand towards him.

Rating: Teen and up

Chapter 3: Shadows of the Past

“Mhmmmmm,” Mei's eyes sparkled as she munched on the moon cake on the outdoor patio. “This is the most amazing thing I have ever eaten, I don’t even think the chefs can top this.”

“I seriously have to ask your parents what they do one day,” Macaque said as he ruffled her hair and picked up the empty plates with his hands and used his tail to set down the plate of mooncakes right beside an assortment of origami made by both Macaque and the kids. They were in the shapes of people, a vulture, monkey, jellyfish, rabbit, lion, and other varieties of animals and objects. They had a little too much fun making them all. After he put the dishes in the soap-filled sink he took off his apron and sat down next to MK, who was stuffing his face, “cause there is no way they can have normal jobs to have a chef.”

“I think they dig stuff up,” Mei shrugged her shoulders.

“Archaeologist,” he mused as he snatched up a sugar ring from MK plate, receiving an outraged ‘Hey’ from MK, “Didn’t think they were the down and dirty people, though...” The first time he met them was when Mei wanted to go visit MK at their house for his tenth birthday. Nice people, a bit cutthroat and sharp tongue, but nice people, especially when it comes to the safety of their daughter. “I have been wrong before.”

“It’s nice to hear you admit that,” a deep voice chuckled as both the kids jumped up in fright at the unexpected voice.

“Yeah yeah yeah, can it kitty cat,” Mac grumbled as he took a bite of the sugar ring, then wrinkled his nose at the sweet taste. “Can’t afford Raki to hear that.”

A figure softly leaped down from out of nowhere and by the lanterns' soft glow, they saw that the figure was dressed in an extravagant red robe that had rings of gold displayed all across, but the kids were more focused on the figure being a giant lion demon than anything else.

“I brought Eight Treasure Rice Pudding,” he tempted him as he held up the dessert in one hand and a floating lantern in the other.

“Well then you're more than welcome to join,” the monkey jokes, “Happy New Year kitty.”

“Happy New Year,” he said as he put the tray down and gave a smile as he noticed that Macaque was not alone, “and a Happy New Year to the both of you as well, I’m Ahmed.”

“MK!” The boy greeted him as his eyes went from the figure to the pudding.

“Mei the name and let me say that the pudding smells really good,” she drooled a bit.

“Well I hope it is, here,” he cut a slice for the two of them and sat down on the other side of Mac once the two began to dig in.

“Delicious!” They both said in glee.

“Bottomless pit I swear,” the monkey demon muttered.

“Your food is just that delicious,” Ahmed teased and gave a small nudge to his shoulder.

“Flattery will get you everywhere,” Mac then took notice of his mane and gave a small eye twitch, “oi when’s the last time you took care of that mane of yours?”

The lion stiffens as he avoided eye contact, “oh not too long ago.”

“How long?”

“I don’t quite remember it could have been-,”

“How. Long.”

“....a few months ago.”

“I swear-what is with you guys and not taking care of your goddamn fur,” Mac grumbled as he forced the lion head to lay down on his lap as he began to fix his fur, “only can count on Bohai to take proper care.”

“But he doesn’t even have any fur,” the demon tried to refute, only to be met with a stink eye.

“And he can still take better care than the rest of you lot.”

“Does this happen a lot?” Mei pointed out the scene and MK nodded.

“Tons, usually it’s with Daiyu since she tends to get blood in her wings, the monkeys, or even me.” He can’t remember the first time he had his hair played with, but once it began it just never stopped. “He said that monkeys tend to the other fur when they care for the other.”

“Ohhh,” then Mei's eyes widened, and had to hold back a large smile as she realized that Macaque had been messing with her hair for the past month. He may be gruff, but he is just one big softy on the inside. Though she couldn’t help but take a longer look at the pair and noticed that the lion's eyes were closed in pure content...like a cat, she couldn’t hold back a giggle.

Ahmed's ears perked up and looked towards her, Mac's eyes didn’t even move from his grooming as he was used to both children's strange outburst, and he saw the young child just eerily smile at him. He decided that it would be better if he just ignored all of that.

Almost an hour later, Mei noticed that a soft glow of light was slowly flying above the forest. “Hey what’s that?”

They all looked in the direction of her pointed finger and it was MK who reacted first.

“Someone released their lantern! Can we do it now!” He eagerly said as he watched many more lights begin to emerge from the treetops.

Mac laughed as he pushed the purring cat off his lap, who didn’t take any offense as he stretched, and grabbed the lanterns, “yeah we can.”

“Yes!” He grabbed his lantern and waited by the edge of the patio with Mei.

“Don’t forget yours as well rocky,” he handed a lantern to the surprised Mei.

She blinked, a bit taken aback by the sudden action, but smiled brightly, “thanks fluffy!”

“Not fluffy,” he muttered as he slapped his tail at the back of the laughing lion's head. The two joined them with their lanterns and at once they all released it in the air as they all joined the small trove of floating lanterns in the air as the light almost illuminated the pink forest in its entirety.

They watched the scene until they could no longer see it anymore and when they thought it was all done they diverted their attention to the first crackle of fireworks and the kids cheered loudly as much more came.

“If I was a snake, where would I be?” MK hummed as he looked through the trees, hoping he didn't run into any creepy crawly spiders, as he tried to find his slithery friend.

The Qilin merely snorted as he laid down against the Yao grass, MK met him one day when he was visiting Whatever. He tried so many times to call him Shui Gui or Kappa, but the webbed spirit would just ignore him, and the horse-like creature trotted from across the lake and up to him, and after a moment of staring, just decided to take a nap next to him. Ever, MK managed to haggle that nickname out of him, once again busted out laughing and left a confused eleven year old.

“They have to be around here somewhere,” he grumbled as he searched further through the woods only to stumble upon an open clearing with an old house in the middle. “Huh, didn’t know anyone lived here.”

He walked closer to the home and he gave a cheerful yell “Hello! Anyone home?!”

No response.

“Doesn’t seem like they're here right now...let’s take a closer look,” he mischievously scurried over to the open window and peeked inside to see that it almost looked like he traveled back to the Tang Dynasty, see he has been paying attention to history, take that Dad.

“I wonder who could live here?” He pondered as he looked through the clean wooden and sun dried brick structure. “It actually looks clean, but everything is just so...well old?”

“What are you doing here kit?” He jumped up at the melodic voice.

“You scared me Ní!” He yelled at the Huli Jing, the brown nine-tailed fox.

“Well everyone needs a good scare every once in a while,” they said with a grin as they walked forward.

“Course I did,” he grumbled as he turned to face the shack, “so do you know whose house this is?”

Sadly, the fox smiled, “just one filled with fond memories kit, now come,” they nudged him away from the old home. “I heard that you were looking for our lost slithery friend of ours.”

“Yeah, they took my fidget spinner after learning that they could spin it on their tail,” he huffed as he once again.

“I presume you mean our Xian,” she hummed as they walked back to the trees.

“Who else?”

“Well there are our many reptilian friends amongst the trees, for all I know you could mean our biggest companion,” they teased.

MK looked at the fox as if they were crazy, “I don’t think that there even is a fidget spinner big enough for her.”

“You never know,” they swished their tails as they made it back to where the Qilin was and they took on a grin, “oh, it seems that we have found them.”

MK's eyes twitched as he saw that the snake was just chilling next to the horned horse beast as they played with the spinner, “Hey!”

All nine snakeheads lift at the voice and with a unison hiss, they promptly slither away with fidget spinner in hand, or rather tail in their case.

“Don’t you dare run! Get back here with that! I need it for class!”The boy yelled as he ran after the Xiangliu with much fervor.

“-but how?!” MK threw his hands in the air, “Monkey King has all these amazing powers, it doesn’t make sense that he can’t use them underwater.

“He is a stone monkey!” Mei pointed out to a section of the book as she leaned against MK’s bed, “stone sink, not float!”

“But he can still transform into all these different animals, can’t he just make himself a fish or something?”

“He is still stone!”

“But he can fly!”

“I don’t know magic,” she was half tempted to throw her book at her friend, she doesn’t have all the answers either.

“Then why can’t he use it underwater then?!” He was then hit by a thrown book as he fell off the bed, “you didn’t have to throw it at me.”

“Well maybe I did,” she crossed her arms and just laid down on top of him, “this is so confusing...maybe we can ask Mac, he knows a thing or two about magic.”

“He does,” the thirteen year old shot straight up, knocking Mei off, but then he slumped down when a thought occurred to him, “but he’s currently helping Ning right now.”

“Ning?” She asked as she sat back up.

“She’s a client,” he added.

“Oohh...I wonder what she’s in for?”

“When she sneezes or burps, she breathes fire,” MK easily answered. He already saw this happen when she first crawled in, she gave a wave to him, but quickly turned away when she sneezed. He is glad that the wood in the house has been enchanted to be fireproof, cause he doubted that there would have been a house standing after that fireball.

“She’s a dragon!” Mei got in his face, if there was one creature she loved it would hand down be the dragons.

“No, just a lizard demon.”

“Well technically dragons are reptiles,” she slumped down, her dreams of seeing the magnificent beast being thoroughly crushed. She then picked up the Journey to the West book and she gave an amused huff as she saw what page it landed on. “I still find it funny that your dad shares the same name as Monkey King rival.”

MK shared her grin, “it is pretty funny, like can you imagine him going toe to toe with the Monkey King.”

Mei’s grin widened, “the same monkey who let me put braids in his fur with ribbons!”

“The one who has a heart attack each time I get a bruise out in the forest,” he joined in.

“Who wears aprons when cooking food!”

“Let the baby monkey cling onto him!”

“He makes medicine for any demon or human that stops by!”

“He uses scented shampoo cause he likes the smell and it makes his fur soft,” the two couldn’t help but roll on the floor laughing.

“Do you want to hear something even more hilarious,” MK grinned.

“What?!” Mei asked after her laughter died down.

“There are some customers who even call him the Six-eared Macaque,” he snorted even louder.

Mei's face completely froze, “Huh?”

“Yeah,” he vigorously nodded, not taking any notice of his friend's change of mood, “I heard them call him with full respect and everything!”

“...what?”

“And what’s even better, he has six ears!”

“What?!” MK jumped up at Mei’s outburst.

“What was that for?!”

“You just told me that he has six ears?!” She began to shake him. “Do you not realize what you just implied?!”

“NoOoOo,” he shakily answered.

Mei then dropped him as she reached back towards the book and flipped through the pages until she found another, “oh my god, how could I have not realized it before!”

“What?” He asked as he managed to sit back up.

“Shadow manipulation, clones, stealthy,” she read out some of the powers, “they both share almost the same abilities! Hell, he even is a black-haired monkey!”

“Fur, but yeah and?” He still didn’t get what she was implying.

“And doesn’t he have super hearing?” She pressed further hoping that her dense friend would get it.

“Yes andddd?” He didn’t.

She pushed the book to his face, “Your Dad is the Six-Eared Macaque from the book!”

“What?! No he isn’t,” he snatched the book from her hands, “I mean it doesn’t make any sense, he may be grumpy, but he is not anything like the one from the story! He is downright mean and cruel!”

“Well, maybe he changed?!” She threw her hands in the air, “it won’t be that big of a stretch, I mean 500 years is a long time.”

“But I have never seen him fight before, not even when Daiyu would plead to him for a spar, he would just roll his eyes.”

“Maybe he just doesn’t fight when you're around,” she threw in her answer.

“But, but, but it just can’t,” MK threw the book away from him, “it just can’t.”

“MK,” Mei worriedly put a hand on his shoulder, “are you okay?”

“Yes-no-I don’t know,” he leaned on the ground with a groan. “He just can’t be the same one from the book okay.”

“Well, why not?”

“He can’t, he can’t because if he is then he has purposefully kept this a secret from me,” he whispered out.

“Then that’s more reason to ask him,” Mei insisted.

“No!” He shot up and grabbed her shoulders, “we can’t!”

“Well why not!”

“It might not even be him!”

“But what if it is?!” She countered back.

“But what if it's not,” he firmly stood his ground.

“And if it is?”

“It’s not!”

“It is!”

“It’s not!”

“It is!”

“It’s not!”

“MK, we have to ask him.”

“Ask me what?” They both scooted back in shock when the said monkey demon walked into the room. “I’m hoping by those reactions that you were just startled and not guilty of doing something you weren’t supposed to.” He decided to check out their yells after he had finished with his patient.

The two shot a look at one another.

“Right?”

“Yeah, nothing bad, nothing and at all,” MK nervously said as he scratched the back of his neck and avoided his golden eyes.

“You know that right there isn’t helping your case,” Mac deadpanned.

“It's just that we have a question,” Mei butted in as she grabbed the tossed book.

“Mei no,” MK tried to stop her, but she was determined to get her answers.

“Are you the same Six-Eared Macaque from the book?!” The pigtailed girl showed him the Journey to the West book up to him.

Macaque stilled at the question for a moment before easing down as he took a look at the book, “Huh, haven’t read this book in a while,” he said noncommittally.

“Well? Are you?!” Mei pushed him for the answer, she was not leaving until she got one.

Even MK was silently watching this whole interaction but didn’t move an inch, because deep down, even he wanted to know.

The monkey demon let out a sigh as he nodded, “yeah, I am.”

It was silent as the two kids took in that information.

MK's mind was racing, he didn’t know what to even think. The cruel demon in the story, the one who constantly attacked innocent people, killed so many, clashed fiercely against the Monkey King, is the same one who found him all those years ago and took care of him. It just doesn’t make any sense!

“Want to talk here or in the living room?” Macaque’s voice pierced through the silence.

It took a moment before MK finally responded, “living room.”

“Alright, I’ll go make some tea. This won’t be an easy talk,” he said as he began to reach out to ruffle his hair only to stop at his child's nervous stare. He puts his hands down and promptly walks out of the room and turns away to the kitchen, while he ignores the tight squeeze in his chest.

“So,” Mac sat down on the opposing chair from the couch that had the two kids on it as the pot of tea and a bowl of peeled mangos sat in the middle of the table, “where do you want me to start?”

“Were you ever gonna tell me?” MK blurred out first as he clenched his fist. “Or was this gonna be kept in the dark.”

“When you turned 18, I was gonna sit down with you and talk about this,” he firmly told his son. “I had no intention in hiding this from you forever.”

MK didn’t reply as he lowered his head.

“The beginning is usually a good place,” Mei tried to joke, but only the demon gave a small smirk as MK stayed silent.

“That’s as good a place as any, well before that book ever took place, before even the thought of the Journey took place, me and Sun Wukong were friends.”

“You were friends?!” This time MK didn’t stay silent as both kids shouted.

“Surprising right,” he mirthlessly chuckled.

“It never said anything like that in the books!” Mei exclaimed as she held up her book.

“Well first that’s a kid-friendly book of the story,” he pointed out the childish cartoon design on the front cover. “Don’t think they want kids reading books about graphic violence, especially with the disembowelment and all types of gore,” he muttered the last part quietly to himself. “And second, not everything you read or hear is correct.”

“Huh?”

“History is told by the victors and survivors, not by those who lie dead,” he softly said.

“Oh,” Mei shuffled at the uncomfortable thought.

“So how did you two meet?” MK prompted.

“When we first met, he looted some food from a shrine and got caught like an idiot, which pissed off the mountain god.”

“He did?!”

“Yeah, this was way before he met Subodhi, the one who taught Wukong about how to take on immortality.” He reminisces back to the scene where he met his first friend.

‘Shit! Shit! Shit!’ Sun Wukong leaped from rock to rock as he tried to get as much distance as he could from him and the deity. He spotted a cluster of rocks that looked like it had some amount of cover as he leaped behind it and waited. “All I wanted was some damn food! How was I supposed to know that it was supposed to go to a God?! It makes no damn sense to just leave food lying out!” He whispered angrily.

“So you're the one who pissed him off,” Wukong managed to suppress a yelp as he noticed that he wasn’t alone in his hiding spot. It was a bit surprising to see that it was a Monkey demon like him, only with black fur and a red scarf hiding the bottom of his face. “One would think that you shouldn’t piss off a deity, but that is just my opinion,” he snarked.

“Well one shouldn’t leave food lying out like an idiot,” he shot back.

“So you decided to steal from a mountain God? Yeah, real smart,” Macaque drawled out. “Usually I steal from fields, but you took the idiot crown today.”

“How was I supposed to know that it was for someone!” He retorted.

“Just by looking at it dumbass, have you never seen a shrine before?”

“What’s a shrine?” He questioned.

“I’ll take that as a no,” he deadpanned. “How can you not know? Were you living under some kind of rock before?”

“No, I was born from one!” He cheekily grinned.

“...I don’t know if you're insane or if that’s just the weirdest thing I heard,” he then froze as he dragged Wukong closer to the rocks.

“Wha-,” he was about to break free but was hushed by his fellow hider.

“Shhh,” he silently pointed to the right of them and after a moment noticed that a shadow was getting larger. Wukong smartly decided, for the first time, to keep his mouth shut.

It was only after the shadow left did the two relax.

“So I guess we’re stuck here for awhile,” the brown-furred monkey sprawled against the rocks and made himself comfortable, “I’m Sun Wukong, but people call me the Monkey King.”

The other monkey let out a burst of laughter at his ridiculous name, “Ha! Yeah, no I’m not calling you that. I’m Liu Er Mihou.”

“Pfft, boring,” he grumbled back as he then got curious, “so why are you hiding behind this rock anyways? You certainly were here long before I was.”

“Well unlike you, I was taking a nice nap before this happened,” he smirked as he leaned back.

“Just napping you say,” his eyes happen to spot a bag filled with different goods and food.

“Well napping after I nicked off some things from the fields and market and unlike you, I didn’t get caught.”

“Would have been helpful, but-,” they were cut off when a huge explosion erupted from underneath them.

“You thought you could run from me you little ape!” The mountain God’s echoey voice boomed out. “I am one with all upon this mountain! Every pebble is my ears! Every rock is my voice! You can-,” he was cut off by a voice angrily yelling at him.

“I’m not an ape!” Wukong screeched as the two of them started to run.

“That’s what you're concerned about?!” Liu Er confusedly asked though it was laced with a twinge of amusement and fear.

“I have a tail!” He emphasized the tail carrying the bag of food. “Obviously not an ape!”

“You can’t run forever little ape,” the voice snarled out with every crushed rock booming behind them.

“You got one more time to call me an ape!” He yelled out as his eye twitched.

“And what are you gonna do about it little. Ape.” The voice mockingly said with a toothy grin.

“That’s it!” The angered monkey stopped in his tracks as he flung the bag over to Macaque, “hold this!” And with that, his eyes started to glow bright yellow as he flung himself at the God.

“What are you doi-,” he cut himself off as he noticed that the impulsive monkey that he was hiding with had suddenly begun to shoot lasers from his eyes. “Huh, maybe there was something about him being born from the stone that was true.”

“GHA stop that!” The Mountain God wheezed out as he was hit by another bludgeoning punch from the mortal monkey.

“Not so tough now are you!” He mocked as he sent a flying kick towards the immortal being, only for him to slink down into the mountain. “Oh now who's the coward! Come out and fight me!”

“This dumbass,” Macaque grumbled as he was half-tempted to just take the bag and run, but even he doubted that he would hold up against the enraged monkey like this. His ears twitched as he heard the lingering God about to move so he yelled to Sun, “you might want to duck, he’s about to strike from the left.”

Sun Wukong heard him and managed to leap high enough to avoid the Mountain God claws, “got you now fucker!” And with a couple of spins, he struck down upon the God and landed a killing blow upon his head. “That’s what you get.”

“Remind me never to piss you off,” Macaque said as he casually walked up next to him, tossed his stolen bag of food, and examined the dead God.

“Thanks!” He cheerfully reverted from his enraged form once he got his food and happily began to chew on an apple as he sat down against the fallen God. “So how did you know that the God was there?” He curiously asked as he took another bite.

Liu Er blinked at the odd scene and let loose a snort as he sat down a little ways away from him. “Well seeing that you managed to kill a God with your bare hands, mine is definitely not weirder than yours,” he said as he pulled down his scarf to reveal his two extra pairs of ears.

“Cool!” Wukong's eyes glisten as he immediately began to touch his ears.

Macaque only flinched for a moment at the unexpected touch, but became a little more at ease when he didn’t feel any sharp pulling or twisting the longer he touched them, but he batted his hand away, “Heard of personal space?”

It was after the two had eaten that Mac decided to speak again, “alright let’s make a deal.”

“What kind of deal?” Wukong hesitantly asked.

“You are shit when it comes down to stealing,” he bluntly told him.

“Rude, fair, but rude.”

“But I can.”

“Where are you going with this?”

“How about we team up for a bit, with your strength and my stealth, I think the two of us make out with a lot more goods than this,” he tossed up their near empty bags.

“Hmmm, I don’t know. How do I know that you can actually steal,” Wukong pointed out, but the six eared monkey smirked.

“Well you haven’t noticed this,” he tossed up the half eaten apple in his other hand.

“Wha-,” his eyes widened as he now noticed that the apple in hand had disappeared in a poof of violet energy. “How did you do that?”

“Misdirection,” he tossed his apple back to him.

Wukong blinked as he caught the apple then a large grin took up his face as he wrapped an arm around his shoulder, “I think that this is the start of a beautiful relationship.”

“And the start of so many headaches,” Mac couldn’t help but grumble out.

“Well you can only blame yourself.”

“I already am.”

“So you two had stuck together from that moment,” MK said as he stayed in his seat with his knees covering his face.

“For all of nine years, until he left to learn under Subodhi, then I was free roaming once more. Though I did learn a few things from Wukong as it made my travels a bit easier,” Mac said as he took a sip from his lukewarm tea.

“And he probably learned a few things from you...like how to steal so many things from the celestial realm,” Mei's eyes widened as the realization hit her. “Now that’s how he managed to do that! You taught him how to steal!”

The simian paused as that hadn’t occurred to him in the slightest, “...to be fair I didn’t teach him shit, he simply watched what I was doing and used it in practice. All the havoc he managed to cause in the celestial realm and below was his reckless ideas, I had nothing to do with that...for the most part.”

“But the Monkey King is an immortal being,” MK interjected, “and you're not...unless.”

“Yeahhh, I’m immortal too,” he sipped his tea at their dumbfounded stares.

“How?!”

“Once again, blame Sun Wukong for that.”

“I’m sorry, run that by me again,” Mac let the book hang freely from his hands as he listened to Wukong.

“You're immortal! You can thank me with words of praise and/or delicious food,” he cheekily grinned at him as he hung upside down from the tree branch above.

The monkey demon had to blink for a moment and take a deep breath before closing his book and putting full attention to his friend, “I’m almost scared to ask how the fuck you managed to pull that off, but also dying to know.”

“Well,” the simian jumped down to the same branch as Macaque, “I was kidnapped by Yama lackeys, which was uncool you know, I earned my immortality fair and square,” he huffed out.

“You got kidnapped by the emissaries of the God of Death...okay that’s kinda funny,” he cracked a grin.

“Well it wasn’t for me,” he crossed his arms, “so I kicked all of their asses and spoke with some old folks, who call themselves the ten kings which is a stupid title itself, to get things straight you know and they tried to do? They tried to pull a fast one on me and say that they meant to take another Sun Wukong, which I call bullshit on. I mean who else is a stone monkey that’s name is Sun Wukong?”

“No one,” Mac snorted as his partner threw his hands in the air.

“Exactly! So they take me to the place where they keep track of the ones dying and we all look around to find where those names happen to be and lo and behold, I found my name and you want to know what I did?”

“You erased your name,” he was getting more and more amused by this, he can only imagine the chaos that must have happened due to Wukong antics.

“I erased my name! And I also decided that I wasn’t gonna be alone in this so I decided to erase some of the other monkeys back at Flower Fruit Mountain and I found your name and I erased that too,” he proudly grinned. “You can’t believe the sheer amount of panic that was on all of their faces when they realized what I did.”

“I really can’t,” he chuckled as he then scooted over and wrapped his arm around his neck in affection, “thanks for immortality I guess, never thought I would ever get anything close to that.”

“Well a little more praise than that would be nice,” he teased as he felt the back of his head get slapped.

“Oh, I’m sorry your royal highness, did that harm your oh so precious fur of yours?” Mac took on a haughty tone, “let me be the first to go to my knees and bow for your kind gesture that you have bestowed upon me.”

“Shut up,” Wukong snorted as he nudged his friend's shoulder.

“You asked for it,” the black furred monkey tone returned to normal as he grabbed his book and began to read it once more. Though he was interrupted by Sun sprawling over his lap all of a sudden, “can I help you?”

“Read to me!” He demanded.

“Don’t you get bored with stuff like this? Actually, I’m surprised you haven’t already left to cause some sort of chaos at this point Sunny?”

“Meh, don’t feel like moving now, so read to me!”

Mac knew that when he got like this there was little to change his mind, so with a mockingly reluctant sigh he said, “As his highness wishes,” and began to continue where he left off. It was during that, when Macaque was lost in the book and Wukong was lost in the soft words, did two tails slowly curl up and intertwine with one another.

“You know, it’s a bit surreal to hear that the Gods are real,” Mei hummed out. “I mean reading about it is one thing, but knowing someone who actually met with a God is another.”

“If you think that’s surreal then that’s nothing compared to actually meeting one,” Mac pointed to her.

“Trueeee.”

“So what happened next?” MK spoke up as he managed to get out of his curled up position halfway through the story and was instead leaning in close.

“Well you know what happens next, he gets a position in the heavens, his infamous havoc in heaven, left the heavens, fought some gods, got tricked by Buddha and he had the mountain pin him down for 500 years or so,” he casually said.

“Only you would manage to screw it up big time huh peaches,” Liu Er said as he jumped off the top of the mountain and back down next to his friend. “I mean, what were you thinking?”

“Heyyy mango,” Wukong nervously chuckled, “I might have pissed off all the gods in the heavens, you know how it goes.”

“Yeah I heard, but how did they do this,” he gestured to the entire mountain.

“Well, that was maybe...Buddha,” he softly said the last part, but Macaque didn’t have six ears for nothing.

“You managed to piss off Buddha themself,” he said incredulously. “How in the fuck?!”

“I didn’t piss him off!” He said in defense, “I just maybe lost a bet with him.”

“You lost a bet with Buddha.”

“Look, it's complicated!” He huffed as he tried to wiggle under the mountain, “look there’s a seal on the top of this mountain, if you can just rip it off I can easily-,”

“Already tried that,” he showed him his blackened fingers, “didn’t quite work for me.”

“Well shit there goes that idea,” he muttered as a horrible thought occurred to him, “Flower Fruit mountain! The tribe-you have to-,” he was cut off once again.

“Already have a few clones stationed there since you got that position in heaven dumbass,” he whacked his head, “you don’t have to worry about them, now let’s think of a way to free you.”

Wukong let out a breath of relief as he lay his head against the ground. “It ain’t gonna be easy you know.”

Macaque grinned cheekily at him as he sat down next to him and his dark purple daxiushan flared out underneath him, “who said it ever was,” he joked as he began to groom his friend's fur.

“Might have to go against the Gods,” he said as he relaxed to the grooming.

“You can’t have all the fun,” he retorted back.

The Monkey King merely hummed as the grooming went, they can discuss more later, but he sorely needed this.

“But you didn’t free him,” Mei quietly pointed out.

“No, I didn’t,” he shook his head as his tail silently swooshed behind him.

“But you did something,” MK noticed that something was amiss by his relaxed position as he ate a peeled mango.

“Welll, let’s just say that there was a reason why Guanyin happened to find Wukong.”

“You tricked Guanyin,” Mei deadpanned.

“I wouldn’t say trick, more like a gust of wind in the right direction,” he knew that he teetered along the line when he subtly diverted the God's attention to his friend. He heard through some of his contacts that they were looking for immortals for the Journey, so he managed to arrange some coincidental happenings that maybe got the Goddess of mercy to float in Wukong’s direction.

“You tricked Guanyin,” Mei still bluntly told him.

“Anyways,” Macaque ignored Mei as he picked up his empty cup, “then you all know the rest, Wukong infamous Journey to the West and all that.”

“But that doesn’t explain how you went from friends to enemies in the book,” MK pressed and watched as his father's shoulder slightly slumped.

“I-,” he looked down to his empty cup and sighed, “I was an idiot, I-I thought he was being tortu-something cruel was being done to him. When Tripitaka used that sutra, I thought they had managed to enslave my friend and harm him,” he gripped his cup before setting it down, he refused to dive further in that memory. “Clearly I was wrong and you know how that went down.”

The two once again became silent as they took in the information.

“Okay, okay,” Mei nodded as she crossed her legs, “but here’s what’s confusing me. In the Journey to the West, it told you were ruthless, but I know that in some other books it is said that you are a minor deity of trickery and medicine and that you would help wandering travelers by giving them medicine and give them protection by tricking the bandits and Gods. So what is that about?”

“Okay that minor deity thing is just not true,” Mac pinched his nose, “I still don’t know who even put that down in the first place.”

“How did you change?” MK added as well.

“Well,” he let out a soft smile, “I met someone.”

“Ooooo,” the two couldn’t help themselves.

“No,” he firmly told them, “No. No-fuck no. Hell no. Hell to the no. By all the Gods-no just no,” he shuddered. “It’s not anything like that at all.”

“Who was it?” MK asked.

“It was a weird man named Ping who found me on the side of the road somehow and decided to just drag my body to his house,” he snorted at their confused faces. “Yeah, that was me when I first awoke.”

Macaque groggily came to as he heard the faint sound of clinking metals coming a little ways away from him, but as he got up a sharp pain emerged from his entire body as he fell back to the bed.

“Shit, what the hell knocked me ou-...oh,” his memories came back to him in a rush as he remembered just who exactly did this to him. “Fuck, but why? Why, why why!” He gripped his fur and then his right eye as he noticed that there was a distinct lack of sight from that one, “it doesn’t make sense! Why the fuck would he, just why?!”

“So you're finally awake,” he had to freeze as for the first time in a long while, he was snuck up on, “you were knocked out for quite some time.” The monkey turned to see a graying middle aged man wipe his hands on the cloth.

“Who are you,” he went on the immediate defense. He doesn’t sense any celestial or demonic aura coming from him, but he knows it better wary than dead.

“People call me Ping,” he gave a small bow to him, “it’s nice to see you awake.”

“...Are you blind by any chance,” Macaque couldn’t help but blurt out. “Cause there's no way in hell would someone be happy on seeing a demon alive unless they were a goddamn monk…” he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

“Ohoho, believe me, I am no Monk,” the man chuckled as he began to pick up some materials from the side, “I have very little patience for just sitting around and meditating all day.”

“Can’t front ya there,” he grumbled as he tried to get back up only for him to wheeze in pain and cough viciously.

“Here, this will help your throat,” Ping handed him a steaming cup of tea that was next to a brown rabbit, which was a bit strange as he didn’t even notice it before.

The monkey hesitantly accepts it, he was unsure if the tea had poison in it, but decided that the human literally could have left him on the side of the road to die and spare him the troubles of killing him himself, so he took a sip of the tea and his nose scrunched up, “why is it sweet?”

“Not to your liking,” he chuckled as he sipped on his own cup.

“You know people-humans are usually terrified when encountering a demon,” he deadpanned as he realized that not only was he half clothed, but his six ears were out in the open. “Just saying.”

“And usually, most demons would have tried to take a bite out of me,” he retorted

“And that is usually enough to not even get close to one of us, let alone bring one to your home,” he emphasized.

“Well we're all a little bit crazy in this world,” Ping chortled as he ambled off to the other room. “You can leave when you want to!”

Macaque could only watch dumbfounded at what just took place as he loosely cradled the teacup in his hand. Though he could do without the rabbit gaze boring into him.

“So what happened next,” MK asked.

“I left,” he shrugged his shoulders.

“You just left?!” Mei shouted as she squished the fruit in her hand.

“Yep.”

“Why?!”

“I had no reason to stay with a man who just up and saved me for no reason, especially one who was so confident in his capabilities that I wasn’t going to attack him,” he pointed out.

“So where did you go?” MK asked next.

“A little bit of everywhere,” he lied a little, he may be spilling his secrets, but even he has a hard stop on some of his more personal ones. He was not about to tell them that he essentially stalked Wukong and his friends for a good portion of the Journey. “But, for some damn reason, I went back to Ping.”

“You went back?” Mei said as MK asked, “Why?”

“Curiosity? Boredom? I honestly still don’t know,” he sighed and leaned back in his chair. “But I just kept going back every few months and the strangest thing is, he would just give a slight wave and give me some tea. Each and every time, until eventually I stayed a bit longer.”

Macaque watched in interest as Ping began to crush some herbs together and mix them. He knows some of those plants and they tasted downright horrible. “What’s the point of making that? It doesn’t taste any good with food, old man.”

Ping simply chuckled as his rabbit laid silently to the side, “I'm not that old, unlike you. It helps with backaches, I know many of the elderly will need it in the coming winter, so it’s always good to prepare ahead.”

“Oohhh, that’s medicine,” Mac hummed. He hasn't seen much of it since he was able to heal fairly fast and also that usually medicine is one of the hardest items to steal due to it usually being hidden or secured.

“Would you like a closer look?” The graying man asked as he stepped a little to the side.

“Sure, why not,” he shrugged his shoulders as he watched with rapt attention to how the medicine was being made.

“He must have a lot of patience to be able to teach you,” Mei grinned.

The monkey huffed in amusement, “I honestly thought the same thing.”

“But how was he different?” MK hesitantly asked as all he heard was of Ping doing completely normal things. “How did he get you to...well change?”

“Does it matter that he was supposed to be some amazing being with special abilities,” he gave a small smirk.

“Well no,” he deflated a bit.

“Cause let me tell you that Ping was one of the farthest things to have anything godly about him. The only thing special about him was his strange ability to practically befriend anyone that passed him and that was it. He never went on any magical adventure, wasn’t appointed a great duty by a God, hell the man has never taken a single martial art or learned under any great sage before,” he couldn’t hold back laugh at their confused looks. “He never tried to force me to change into what he believed to be good.”

“Then why did you keep going back?” Mei jumped off the couch and leaned over the table. “If he didn’t have anything mystical about him, why did you keep going back?”

“Have you ever heard the age-old question on if you can teach a monster how to love?” He suddenly asks, throwing them all off guard.

“No?”

“Cause the answer is no, but rather you have to show them,” he smiled fondly.

“...what does that have to do with this?” MK whispered out.

“He may not have any special abilities, but there was something about him, something- I can’t say good because it’s not strictly subjective in that, but just something comforting about him. About the way he wouldn’t bat an eye at my appearance, the way he would simply give me a cup of tea, the way he would let me stay when I had my bad days, just the way he was just was comforting,” he breathed in as he unhooked his fingers that he unconsciously grabbed together. “He was just Ping and that was enough for a monster to change.”

“You're not-/Don’t believe-,” he cut off both kids.

“I know I did...horrible things in the past, things can’t be redeemable no matter how many times I may help those, I couldn’t forgive myself, but he showed me that I could.

“How?”

“I planted a seed.”

“What?”

“Oh yeah, I was just as confused as you guys were too,” he smiled as he leaned back. “He straight up told me to plant a seed each time my anger or frustration overwhelmed me.” He threw his hands in the air, “I didn’t know what he meant, by the Gods know how many of those things I planted even long after he passed.”

“So he did pass away,” Mei said underneath her breath.

“Humans tend to do that, especially with one as old as him,” he said with a small smile.

“You still kept planting,” MK huddled together as he wrapped his arms around his knees.

“...Yeah,” he wrapped his tail around his waist in comfort, “I didn’t know what else to do and I know I raged and cried, but I couldn’t just go down to Yama and demand his soul back or up to the heavens and just steal a peach. Not even the drunk old man could change fate,” he whispered that last part quietly. “I’m not that strong, so I did the only thing I could and just planted the seeds and plant and plant until one day I was interrupted.

“I’m terribly sorry to bother you, but did you happen to grow these yourself?” The woman asked as she carried her child upon her back.

“Yeah, and?” He didn’t feel in the mood to even attempt to snark back against a human as he tended to some of the flowers.

“Well let me tell you that they're simply beautiful,” she smiled at him.

“Huh?” Mac froze at the sudden compliment.

“Yeah!” He looked down to see a young girl with a wide smile, “they are super pretty.”

“Very pretty,” another child shyly piped up as he peeled from behind his mother's skirt.

The monkey demon could faintly remember their goodbyes as they proceeded to walk away from him. “What beauty is there in a bunch of seeds?” He turned to look at his plants and for the first time, he realized that they haven’t been seeds in a very long time as they sprouted into a giant, pink, flourishing Plum Blossom trees-no not trees a blossoming forest.

“Oh.” He then decided to slowly walk through it all as he plunked a plum from one of the branches. “Damn, I must have been really out of it for so many years that I didn’t even realize that it...that it grew…during all these years it grew and grew into something beautiful.” He paused as he now realized what Ping was trying to show him for all these years, that even when he got angry and made so many mistakes, they can turn into something beautiful. He let out a full body laugh as he just screeched and screeched.

“Only you, you fucking coot! Only you would think of such a weird ass idea and actually be of help, I swear if you weren’t already dead I would be yelling at you for this!” He screeches as tears or amusement and anguish filled his eyes, “you made me plant a forest of mistakes and did a fuck you and made it something worthwhile, something beautiful!”

He eventually laid down with plum in hand, ears out as he listened to the chirps of the bird and rustles of the leaves and his heart didn’t feel as empty as before. “Couldn’t have told me straight out his thoughts,” he huffed with a watery smile as he took a bite out of the plum.

“You made this forest-the Plum Blossom forest?!” MK asks shockingly despite listening to the story.

“A good portion of it, yes, the rest done simply by Hòutû herself.”

“So what happened next?” Mei said as she kneeled and put her elbows on the table.

“Life happened and time slowly crawled forward and I slowly began to change and probably still will,” he shrugged his shoulders.

MK fidgeted in his seat before finally speaking up again, “so...what happens now.”

“That’s for you two to decide,” he stood up and stretched, “You're the only ones who can decide for yourself.” He picked up the empty plates and cup, “Take as much time as you need kiddos,” he began to walk away with a heavy heart.

He knew that he couldn’t force their minds into completely accepting him, but he prays, one of the very few times he does, that he didn’t fuck two of the few good things he had. He can accept that they may not forgive him, but he damn hopes that there is still a sliver of affection-he stiffen as he felt two pairs of arms hug tightly around his waist. “Wha-?”

“You can’t get rid of us that easily Goldilocks,” Mei smiled as she cuddled her face in his soft fur, “No amount of scares can force us away from you.”

“Mei-,”

“At first I was angry,” he heard his son's voice even when it was muffled against his fur. “You kept secrets and I didn’t like that, but you told me and I was so confused, still am, but you aren’t the same mean monkey in the past, I don’t think you would have saved me if you were the same as your past self and I am happy about that. I am happy that I know you now, because I may have not liked you and if I didn’t like you then I would have never stayed with you and I really don’t like that,” MK looked up at him with tears in his eyes as he hugged him tighter. “I really don't like the idea of never being here, being with you Dad, so thank you for being you, thank you and I love you so much.”

Liu Er barely had the forethought to place the dishes down before wrapping his arms around them both with a tight grip. “Well I guess you're stuck with me.”

“Like old gum stuck in your fur,” MK squeezed out through the fur.

“I swear you spend way too much time with Minsheng…love you too Starlight,” he huffed as he ruffled his child's hair.

“And besides,” Mei started, “you may be a grump but you're our grumpy monkey demon now. And if anyone tries to say otherwise then I would need to have a few words with them,” she ended with a wide creepy smile on her face as her eyes promised vengeance.

“I’ll direct them towards you little newt,” he chuckled as he also messed with her hair as well and gave them both a gentle kiss on the forehead.

“Fuzz butt,” she shot back then got a gleam in her eyes, “a fuzz butt who can teach us how to fight.”

“No.”

“I’ll wear you down eventually,” she grinned, “sooo can we see what you really look like?” MK’s head shot up at that and shared the same gleam as well.

“Nosy, all of you,” he said as he gently pried them off of him, and in barely a flicker, he had transformed and he looked more...dangerous. His nails and teeth have become sharper, a few scars were more visible upon his hands and feet, the scar on his right eye was very prominent as it displayed a dull yellow pupil, even his ears seemed to add to his threatening appearance as the middle violet ear on the right was missing a portion of the upper cartilage.

“You look badass/So Cool!” Though he didn’t have to worry about scaring those two off as their eyes sparkled at his appearance and rushed to touch his fur as MK happily exclaimed as he put his face on his fluffy chest, “why does your fur feel even softer than before?!”

Macaque snorted loudly as he sat down on the floor and let them have a better reach, “shouldn’t even be surprised that was what you took away from this.”

“Seriously, now it looks like you actually know how to fight,” Mei ‘ooed’ as she felt some of his scars underneath his fur. “How’d this one happen,” she felt a faint scar right above the left shoulder.

“Well let me tell you that it all began by a river and I just found out that a certain monkey can’t fight underwater,” the two teenagers leaned in close as he began to tell the tale of the blood demon beast that rested underneath the river.

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Touhou Crossword (Characters)

I have made a Touhou crossword!

The clues are after the “keep reading”. You can also download a PDF version from my Deviantart page.

~Across~

1) Truth-twisting fantasy reporter in geta 7) Naughty rabbit without the W 8) Vampire girl who manipulates fate10) How Clownpiece makes players feel 12) Kappa dressed in blue and green 15) The Moriya Shrine’s storm goddess 17) As-yet-unseen “boss” of the Tengu 18) What sort of animal is Chen? 21) Tenshi’s long-suffering oarfish minder 23) Okina’s scatterbrained dancing servant 24) Fantasy reporter in a chess-board skirt

~Down~

2) The girl who plays with people’s shapes3) The stone-stacking extraordinaire 4) An ordinary witch who’s nothing ordinary 5) She also loves crosses, so... 6) Yukari’s nine-tailed shikigami 7) Yamawaro due to appear in Touhou 18 9) The lost Prismriver Sister 11) Tengu with a leaf on her shield 13) Alternate name for dragons 14) Ms Kaenbyou’s real first name 16) Cave-dwelling spider 19) May or may not be 12’s personality 20) Komachi’s long-suffering boss 22) Surname of the autumnal goddesses

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Well, no sketchbook again, so...

Usagi had been traveling for ten hours he had his instructions. Though he didn't like the "ninja treachery" he needed to do in order to get the last ingredient he needed for the antidote. All he needed to do was go into an old, seemingly abandoned house where a medicine man resides. There is the dragons tooth. The root when pressed can cure any ailment.

He found sneaking around distasteful, yet he knew he had to do this. It was almost like Leonardo was walking him through it. "Use your skills, not just learned but inherent. You can hear when there are horses coming or going. If you hear someone approaching blend into the shadows." Finally reaching the garden, he spotted it with blood red petals and a firey core. It was hard not to notice. He mumbled a soft apology to the medicine man and uprooted the flower carefully, wrapping it into a bag.

He needed to get back fast. Leonardo only had two days left at this point. As shameful as it is, he took a horse from the medicine man's stables. The journey on horseback took half of the time it did walking.

Arriving at Jorogumo's cave, he entered and presented the flower to her. "What a gentleman �� " she praised " and not a scratch on you." She reached out with her boony clawed hand and tentivly took the flower. She then plucked the flower from it's root " There, now you can present him with something nice." Handing it to him, she strode over to the couldren with a strange elixir bubbling inside.

She crushed the root in a bowl and poured the liquid into the couldren, turning the contents inside into an almost lavender color. She then took a bottle and dipped it into the boiling couldren. "Now that that's done, I believe you should go and see your lover."

Usagi stammered, " he's not... I- I " he shook his head she'll use anything and everything to get to you. She only speekes lies. He reached for the bottle that she had just corked. He had expected it to be hot, but it was cool to the touch. Almost icy, he shivered as he put it and the flower in his bag.

"About this favor -" he started but was interrupted by Jorogumo hurriedly pushing him out of her cave. "I'll send you a letter to tell you what I need." She offers him one more of those stomachs turning smiles that make him want to burrow and hide. With that, she turned and entered her cave once more. He thought it was strange, what was she hiding in there. However, he was pressed for time. Climbing onto his horse, he waisted no time and pushed the beast to its limits to arrive as soon as possible.

Hi, I'm glad you like this so much. If you have a request for me to draw or write anything, please just ask. And sweet dreams, cause it is currently 12:52 rn.

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More Headcanons

So @00-jackielantern-00's part of the art trade got me thinking about things and various headcanons.

Didn’t realise how long the list got so some will be put under a read more. Hope you enjoy~

Sobek loves looking after Bastet's cats. They're just as lazy as he is and so they can be found spending most of their time laid in a warm spot or sleeping. 

They like to sleep on his back and sometimes on his soft belly.

He says he doesn't have a favourite but he really does and that cat gets to sleep on his head where its warmest. 

Bastet adores watching him look after her cats as he's so good with them and soon enough word gets around to the rest of the gods. 

It’s always obvious when Sobek has looked after the pets because they are always so happy and well groomed. Sometimes they even have their nail painted to look even fancier. 

Initially it was only a coupe of gods as they were a little nervous about leaving their beloved pets with the giant croc but, after watching him from afar they saw how good he was with them and relaxed. 

It also helped that SWK spent a day there, even though Sobek knew it was him.

Word got around to the rest of the gods and suddenly everyone who had a pet was asking him to look after them. So Sobek's pet daycare was founded. 

All of the dogs are kept together and they all get along, however they are separated if they begin to scrap. As lovely as Sobek is, he is still very intimidating but would never harm any of them. All he has to do is glare and they behave themselves.

The cats and dogs are all kept separate for obvious reasons and have their separate areas which cater to all of their needs. 

Each pet has it’s own themed space for the pantheon it’s from. 

All the pets have allotted times for when Sobek spends time with them (when there’s a lot of pets there) but if there’s only one god’s pet(s) he will spend most of his time with them. 

Amuzen Caab's bees have their own bee hotel/hive with a load of flowers that help with pollination and to make them more comfortable. There is 1 one AMC’s hives there also just for extra comfort.

Arachne's spiders have a similar thing thing but they are kept separate for obvious reasons. They have a secluded area so no one accidentally destroys their webs. Arachne made them a special web so that they can all stay on it.

Tusky stays with the dogs as that's who he's most comfortable with. He likes their energy and their sense of pack. He even plays fetch with them.

Ao Kuang's spirit noodle dragons have a high rock that they like to sit on and relax. They have a certain aloofness about them though they like Sobek's company. They sometimes follow him around and curl up on his head when they feel lonely. 

Chang'e's rabbit is very fearful of most of the other pets and so will sit with Sobek as much as he can. However he does like to hangout with Erlang's dog. He is getting better though and has been seen to sit near Aphro’s birds.

Guan's horse and Hichiman's horse both have their own separate paddock and stable. They compete for Sobek's time a lot and try to be the best horse in looks and ability. 

Aphrodite's birds all have their own bird houses which is very luxurious. They are allowed to fly wherever they wish within the boundaries of the daycare. 

Poseidon's Kraken enjoys the daycare due to the warm water and sun that they can bask in. Sobek and the Kraken have swimming competitions. Kuzenbo's Kappa sits from the sidelines and watches. 

The kappa once tried to drown Sobek, only to realise that the croc was glaring at him under the water. The kappa has not made this mistake since. 

Raiju is very careful when he plays with the other dogs, he accidentally shocked a couple of them and made them look like balls of floofy static. 

Suku is the most pampered pet out of them all. Bastet's cats look up to them in admiration and then bug Sobek for an equally luxurious pad. 

Suku loves getting ear scratches from Sobek, his claws are just right to give the best scratches ever. They are nearly on par with Ah Puch’s nails.

The dogs have to be separated from Suku, they like to mock the dogs and so in order to get some peace and quiet, Sobek put a large space between them all as well as a divider.

Camazotz's bats are given a cave away from others due to their sensitive hearing. They are not allowed near the spiders or bees. 

Kaldr is a very relaxed dog and likes to hang out in the shade most of the time. Though he does offer get worked up by the other dogs and proceeds to case them around, all in fun though. 

SWK sometimes goes to the daycare in his animal forms for pampering. He thinks that Sobek doesn't know but he really does, though he allows it anyways as he thinks it's kinda funny and it's nice to have another God around. Plus have you ever heard tiger SWK purr? Sobek will not confirm or deny it but it’s rumored to be a very relaxing sound.

Loki has tried to get Sobek to let Fenrir to stay but he won't allow it, due to the fact that he's too aggressive and boisterous with the other pets. 

Ratatoska has also tried to get some pampering at the daycare, he is also not allowed due to the squirrels fib telling nature. He doesn't want the other pets to fight because of Ratatoska's lies. 

Sobek gets nothing from this apart from company from the pets and enjoyment from them. Though the other gods respect him greatly for it and see that he's got a softer side.

Sobek’s pirate parrot is a permanent resident of the daycare and acts as a guard parrot when he’s not there. He is a menace and should not be taken lightly when encountering. 

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Wooden Doll AU, can we have a special mask masterlist? I love each of them, but sometimes I think “that would be a neat idea” but have no clue if it’s already been done…

Kitsune, ghost and rabbit

Bat, neko and dragon

Dove/angel

Kappa

Crow

Spider

Lion dog

Jester

Incubus

Oni's

Masquerade

Day of the dead

Unicorn

Toon

These are all the masks with official sheets and data, masks that don't have official sheets like fawn and Phoenix will be added at a later date.

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Ok, I don't have my sketchbook, so bear with me. Here is the unofficial 1st chapter of leosagi.

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Lord Hebi cowardly fled his palace. Usagi turned to Leonardo, hopeful to see his friends face alive with pride and victory.

However, he found him slumped against the wall where Lord nor Yuki sat trying to wake the seemingly unconscious turtle. His stomach felt like lead, the smell of blood wafting towards his nose. He felt fear grip him.

Lord nor Yuki humbly asked the shogun for his healers to tend to Leonardo. However, there was little they could do except give him more time, and that is what they did. They traveled to the shoguns' personal healer who did not journey due to his age. The healer is very wise and powerful, a man who is loyal to the shogun and doesn't question where he came from. Only what happened. Afterward, he tried everything, every potion, remedy, and spell.

Leonardo could feel the poison creeping in his blood streem, he didn't know what was happening until one of the women in a crisp wite robe with black fur mentioned potions and spells having little to no effect. Leonardo realized what happened in that moment. He was dying before he could save his brothers and father. Even with the thought of dying, all he can think of is trying to get to his family.

Usagi sees his friend stir in the futon he's tucked in and rushes to try and keep him still lest he make his wounds worse. Leonardo then starts speaking, "My family, usagi, please, I have to find them before -" his words die as he's lost conciseness. Usagi knows who can help, but he will have to travel alone and make a mental note to leave Leonardos' name out of her cluches. Otherwise, she might use that against him.

With Leonardo in danger, he wastes no time, and gently placing on his head, he says I'll return shortly, my friend." It pains him to ignore the whimpers of his dear friend, who he has discovered he wholeheartedly does love. He discovered this when Leonardo came to his world. He could not shake Leonardo from his thoughts ever since the battle nexus.

He gathers what he can and gives a grateful apology and goodbye to his friends. Asking them to watch over Leonardo. From there he walks to the cursed river and cave of Jorogumo.

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No sketchbook again so...

Ch 2

Usagi has been on the road almost at every hour of the day. This road was different, almost as if it was trying to tire him. He then straightened his back and said, "I am traveling to Jorogumo to offer her my services in exchange for a antidote, I will not harm her. You have my word."

Just as quick as the road had turned against him, it calmed. He soldered on and soon reached Jorogumos cave. Behind the water fall, he heard singing he would've been lured into her cluches. had he not asked the damio for a protective amulet. He approached the water fall and took a deep breath, and walked through.

He found spiders when he first arrived. They were small and harmless. However, as he trecked deeper into the cave, he saw that they had grown to the size of horses.

He tried to keep his composer, although he couldn't stop himself from jumping after he herd the sickening sweet voice of the spider witch herself.

"Come close, young ronin, let me see you, and do tell me about your dear friend." The "woman" in question had on a crisp light purple kimono with white accents. A black fan in her hand with silver writing on it spelling 'wind'.

Usagi was fearful, but the concern for his friend outweighed it tenfold. He then pulled himself together as he took in a breath.

"I'm here to make a deal," he stated, almost emotionless that emotionlessness was good it didn't show vulnerability. Armor of the mind, emotions cloud the mind, and any since Leonardo was poisoned, he's been faced with multiple emotions. He recognized anger, sorrow, hurt, pity, and vengeance. There was one that he had never experienced before, but he couldn't find the right word for it.

She looked at him with hungry eyes. Taking in his expression, he almost had her fooled had she not seen if she neglected to look in his eyes. She grined a fanged smile all six of her eyes now open as she circled him.

"Well then, let's get straight to business," as she eyed Usagi Miomoto, the young ronin who had fought lord hebi who's friend was in the damios personal healers pavilion, she knew all of this due to the amount of small spies she had. She would love to control and puppeteer a ninja to her very whim. However, she'll have to help him first. With a sickening smile, she sweetly asked, "What's your wager?"

Jokes on you, he's as straight as Obanais sword. Heh...

Long story short, thanks for all the likes. I still don't know how to do the whole underlined numbers that take you somewhere else on Tumbler, so if someone could tell me. Plz and thank u 💓

Have a nice day/ night/ whatever 😘

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Hi, another Eve drawing. I'll get to ch 5 of the spider and the rabbits kappa soon enough.

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Hi, I just want to say this so it's said please don't repost my art it's mine, and I'd like to keep it on my page. Thank u and goodnight 💖

The spider and the rabbit's kappa.

A 2003 Leosagi story I am writing, the just is leo was bitten by Lord hebi and usagi goes to Jorogumo. And she can and will create an antidote, for a favor.

Ps, i got the idea for my doodles from @traulisms

Still don't know how to link things yet. I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me how.