#you cannont tell me this is how MK learning the cloud thing didn't go

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A Bone to Pick (Chapter Preview)

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“What do you mean you don’t know how to make a flying cloud?” Bai He asked incredulously. “That’s like, the most basic Monkey King power there is!”

“I know, I know!” MK said sheepishly, hopping from one roof to the next. “It’s trickier than it looks, you know.”

“What’s so tricky about stand on cloud and fly?” Bai He narrowed her eyes at the hero. “Have you even been trying to learn how to master it?”

“Of course I have!” MK told her.

One Week Ago

“Ok bud,” Monkey King told MK, “it’s just like riding a skateboard. The most important thing you can do is to stay on the board, er, cloud.” The simian monarch reached over and adjusted the red helmet on MK’s head. “Keep both feet on the cloud at all times, and just focus on riding down the track. Got it?”

“Got it!” MK responded eagerly. He was wearing a bright red helmet and matching knee and shoulder pads. The Monkey King had been particularly excited to teach his successor this trick, as it was one of his favorites. They were starting simple. Just ride down the track and slow down at the bottom. Easy peasy!

Monkey King had even made a special track just for the occasion. He had gone out the night before and flattened the side of a mountain, smoothing it out to a nice, polished shine. The mountain itself, while definitely not the tallest mountain in all of Monkey King’s domain, was definitely tall enough to pass the height the average bird flew at.

MK smiled like a little kid in a candy store, glancing down excitedly at the large, foreboding track before him. He was bouncing in place like a video game character standing in place or a honky-tonk cartoon character at the start of a walk-cycle. Monkey King smiled fondly at his successor, his enthusiasm very infectious.

“Alright, you ready, bud?”

“You know I am!”

“Okaaay,” Monkey King pulled his arms back and then thrust them out. Pushing MK off the side of the mountain and onto the track like a dad giving their child their first push-off on their big kid bike. “Le-go!”

“Woo-hoo!” MK cheered. As the Monkie Kid hovered in the air for that one second before gravity kicked in, he had a sudden realization.

For all of his and Monkey King’s excitement about teaching him how to ride a cloud, MK realized his mentor never once showed him how to summon the cloud. MK felt his heart drop into his stomach. Then, he felt gravity starting to kick in.

“Uh-oh.” MK dropped like a stone into the water, letting out a terrified scream as he did. Monkey King’s eyes widened in horror, the realization of his mistake hitting him a second after it had hit MK.

“Hold on, bud! I’m coming!” Monkey King cried out before zipping down the track after MK.

Present Day

“It just… hasn’t been going all that well, y’know…” MK avoided Bai He’s judgemental glare.

“Pfft, doubt.” The little girl scoffed, thoroughly unimpressed.

“Oh, ok, little missy! Let’s see you try and summon a mystical cloud and ride it around like a skateboard, see how easy it is for you.”