#I actually really liked that Monkey and Tripitaka got to just... hang out together this chapter

[pompomqt]

Journey to the West Chapter 62

Minion demon's taking the fall for their boss and having to deal with Sun Wukong:

Welcome back everyone to this week's chapter of Journey to the West with @journeythroughjourneytothewest. With the Bull Demon Family saga now behind us, it's onto new adventures! So let's get into it shall we?

So time passes and our pilgrimage is traveling along until they finally come across a moated city. When Tripitaka asks what kind of place they are in, Monkey says it's probably some kind of royal capital, despite Pigsy trying to argue with him. However despite being able to tell it's a royal capital, he still doesn't know what capital, so they enter the city to get more information.

While most people there look rather distinguished it's not long before they come across some rather destitute looking monks. All wearing cangue's- which is something similar to the french pillory, which is basically that medieval thing where prisoners have their arms and hands locked in a piece of wood so people can throw tomatoes at them or whatever in the town square. Only Cangues weren't nailed down, and didn't have their arms trapped in holes. Still it restricted their movements and even made it so people trapped in Cangues often starved to death because they were unable to feed themselves. Anyways- I had to look up what a cangue was so I figured I would share what I just learned.

So Tripitaka sends Monkey to ask the monks why they are being punished like this. So Monkey asks the Monks why they are being punished like this so they tell him that they are from the Golden Light Monastery and they are being wronged. So the Monks bring the entire pilgrimage to their monastery, which is also rather destitute looking at the moment, enough so to bring Tripitaka to tears. After Tripitaka pays his respects to Buddha to the best of his current ability, the monks ask if they happen to be monks from the Great Tang Empire? Monkey asks how they could possibly know that, and the monks explain that they've been getting dream messages from various gods that a holy monk would come from the land of the east to right the wrongs committed against them.

So Tripitaka asks them for their tragic backstory and it goes like this: This city is called Sacrifice City, and it used to receive tribute from four smaller tribes. The reason they received this tribute was because this monastery used to have a beam of golden light flashing from the building, able to be seen from thousands of miles away. And because of that they were considered a divine capital of heavenly prefecture. However three years ago, it suddenly rained blood. The monks and daoists of the kingdom both tried to pacify heaven, but the damage had been done and the other kingdoms had stopped sending tribute. The King blamed the monks and assumed that they must have stolen the treasure in the Pagoda, and punished them accordingly. The Monks deny stealing the treasure and say they had been sentenced unfairly and ask Tripitaka to help them.

Tripitaka says he would like to have an audience with the ruler of this kingdom, which he has to do anyways to get his travel script certified, but first he has a vow to keep. Back when he first began this journey he vowed that he would sweep a Pagoda when he came across a Pagoda. So he'll do that first, and in the meantime, hopefully find out what caused the blood rain so he'll have something to actually tell the king.

The monks then offer Pigsy a knife and ask he can cut the young monks chained to a pillar free, if he can then they will be able to make them a meal and prepare a bath. Pigsy rather then cutting the chains simply point out their groups locksmith Monkey. And indeed, Monkey is able to use his lockpicking ability and set chained monks free, after which they prepare a meal for the group. After everyone is done eating, some of the monks that are still locked in cangues come back and offer a broom to Tripitaka. After Tripitaka takes his evening bath, he tells the monks to get some rest while he sweeps and investigates the Pagoda. Monkey offers to go with him in case any funny business happens, which Tripitaka gratefully accepts.

After Tripitaka is done praying to Buddha and asking for guidance for the current situation, Monkey and Tripitaka begin sweeping the Pagoda. By the time they reach the seventh tier, Tripitaka has begun to seriously tire, Monkey offers to finish for him, but Tripitaka pushes on for another three tiers, before finally accepting Monkey's offer to sweep the last three tiers for him. So Monkey sweeps the eleventh tier by himself without incident, but on the twelfth tier, he hears voices coming from above him. Considering everyone else should be asleep right now, Monkey assumes it's probably some kind of deviant creature and decides to take a look. So Monkey hops onto his cloud to take a look at the top of the Pagoda and see's two monster spirits, drinking and playing a game. Monkey immediately confronts them and accuses them of being the one to steal the treasure.

Luckily Monkey very recently learned the meaning of restraint and doesn't immediately kills them, instead he captures them for questioning and brings them to Tripitaka. Luckily interrogating them isn't exactly difficult, they don't even need to ask them any questions, the two demons just immediately start spilling their entire life story. These two minion demons are called Busy Bubble and Bubble Busy respectively, and serve the All Saints Dragon King of the Green Wave Lagoon. The Dragon King has a daughter, named Princess All Saints and a powerful son in law called Nine-Heads. Nine Heads and the Dragon King were the ones who sent the blood rain and stole the Pagoda's treasure. Meanwhile the Princess, stole the nine-leaved agaric from heaven itself, and now both treasures are kept at the bottom of the lagoon. Since the Dragon King heard that Sun Wukong would be passing through this area soon, they were sent here to patrol the area to be prepared for his arrival. Apparently this Dragon is also the one who sent the Demon Bull King that dinner invite, which troublemakers attract I guess.

Around this time Pigsy and some of the Monks have woken up and gone to find Tripitaka to see what was taking him so long and why he hasn't gone to bed yet himself. Monkey explains the situation to Pigsy, is Pigsy is all for executing the minion demons on the spot- but Monkey says they'll still be useful for proving to the king that the monks are innocent. So Monkey has the monks lock up the minion demons and keep watch while he and the others finally get some sleep for the night.

Once morning comes, Tripitaka prepares to speak to the king with Wukong, while Sandy and Pigsy stays behind until they are summoned along with the minion demons. Monkey and Tripitaka reach the palace gates and has a guard announce their presence to the king. So Monkey and Tripitaka are led inside, everyone is as usual terrified of Monkey, which is probably why nobody says anything when Monkey doesn't go through the proper greetings like Tripitaka does. So the King reads his travel script and says the Tang Empire is lucky to have such a good monk, since all the monks here are good for is stealing and bringing ruin.

Tripitaka asks him what he means by that, and the King tells us the same story we heard earlier. Tripitaka uses this opportunity to clear the monks name by telling the King they actually know who's really responsible, and have captured the fiends responsible. So the King orders some guards to go fetch the fiends from the monastery to bring here to interrogate them, and Tripitaka suggests they take Monkey with them, just in case, which the king agrees to.

Monkey gets to arrive at the Monastery in style, having traveled in a large carriage. When Pigsy see's this he jokes that Wukong is finally living up to his title of 'Monkey King'. Monkey then unties the two fiends to take with them, Sandy offers to go with him, but Monkey just tells him that he and Pigsy should stay to watch the horse and luggage. Which you would think the horse would be capable of guarding the luggage since they are secretly a dragon- but instead the very normal human monks volunteer to watch the stuff so that Pigsy and Sandy can go with Monkey. So Pigsy and Sandy both grab a fiend and pile into the carriage after Monkey and the entire entourage travels back to the palace.

So they drag the fiends before the king so that they can explain that the dragon king and his son in law are actually the ones responsible for stealing from the Pagoda. The king is willing to accept their testimony and after hearing their story, he has the two of them imprisoned and issues a decree to have the monks freed. He also decides to throw a banquet to thank the pilgrims for capturing the fiends. However he isn't just throwing this banquet out of the goodness of his heart, he also wants to ask them to arrest the ones who actually performed the theft.

During the banquet Tripitaka takes the time to properly introduce himself and his disciples to the king. And after Pigsy is done cleaning them out, it's time to discus the matter at hand- after another banquet I guess, because the first was to thank them for capturing the two fiends earlier, but I guess they need another one to pre-thank them for capturing the Dragon King. Anyways, the King asks which of them will go to subdue the Dragon King, and Tripitaka volunteers Monkey for the mission. The King offers to send some men and horses to help them- but Pigsy is for once full enough to be happy to go and do some work for once. They then tell the King they don't need any of his weapons either when he offers, but they would like to take the two fiends with them as informants. So with that finally settled, Pigsy and Monkey take off with the two fiends leaving Tripitaka in the care of Sandy once again.

Current Sun Wukong Stats: Names/Titles: Monkey, The Stone Monkey, The Handsome Monkey King, Sun Wukong (Monkey awakened to the void), Bimawen (Banhorseplague), The Great Sage Equal To Heaven and Pilgrim Sun. Immortality: 5 + 94,000 years Weapon: The Compliant Golden Hooped Rod Abilities: 72 Transformations, Cloud-Somersault, Ability to transform his individual hairs, super strength, Ability to Summon Wind, Water restriction charm, and the ability to change into a huge war form, ability to duplicate his staff, ability to immobilize others, the ability to put others to sleep, and the Fiery eyes and Diamond Pupils, intimidating horses, churning large bodies of water, sleeplessness, seizing the wind, enhanced smell, discerning good and evil within a thousand miles, Spirit Summoning, lock picking, object transformation, distance reduction, vanishing in a flash of light, super healing, transforming others, Invisibility, and Wind Immunity Demon Kill Count: 10 + Unknown Number of Minions Human Kill Count: 1039 God's Defeated: 23 + Unknown number Defeats: 7 Crime List: Robbery, Murder, Mass Murder, Arson, Theft, Coercion, Threatening a Government Official, Resisting Arrest, Assault, Forgery, Employee Theft, False Imprisonment, Impersonating a Government Official, Treason, attempted murder, failure to control or report a dangerous fire, desecrating a corpse, breaking and entering, trespassing, violating Tree Law, looting corpses, trading counterfeit goods, criminal threat, animal abuse, Assisting or Instigating Escape, Damage to Religious Property, contaminating a substance for human consumption, Identity Fraud, Disorderly Conduct and Joyriding Cry Count: 9 + 3 fake cries Mountains Trapped Under: 4

Current Tang Sanzang stats: Names/Titles: River Float, Xuanzang, Tang Sanzang, Tripitaka and the Tang Monk Abilities: Curing Blindness, making branches point a certain direction (allegedly), reciting sutras, pretty privilege, memorization, Heart Sutra, Meditation, and Being Heaven's Specialist Little Guy Cry Count: 32 Tight Fillet Spell Uses: 63 Paralyzed by fear: 6 Bandit Problems: 3 Kidnapped by demons: 9 Falling Off Horses: 10

Current Bai Long Ma Stats: Names/Titles: Bai Long Ma (White Dragon Horse), Prince of the Western Ocean, and third prince jade dragon of the dragon king Aorun Abilities: Transforming into a human, a water snake, and a horse, eating a horse in one bite, flight, Magic of Water Restriction, Singing, and Sword Dancing. Cry Count: 1 Crime List: Arson, and Grave Disobedience. Contributions to the plot: 3 Kidnapped by demons: 1

Current Zhu Wuneng Stats: Names/Titles: The Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds, Zhu Wuneng (Pig who is aware of ability), Zhu Ganglie, Pigsy, Idiot and Eight Rules. Weapon: Rake Abilities: 36 Transformations, parting water, fighting underwater, cloud soaring, size enhancement and CPR Demon Kill Count/Kill steals: 6 + Unknown number of minions Kidnapped by Demons: 4 Human Kill Count: 1 Failed Flirtation/romances Attempts: 4 Cry Count: 2 Crime List: Sexual Harassment, Murder, Kidnapping, arson, defamation, Damage to Religious Property, contaminating a substance for human consumption, Identity Fraud, Theft and Forcible entry

Current Sha Wujing Stats: Names/Titles: The Curtain-Raising General, Sha Wujing (Sand Aware of Purity), Sandy and Sha Monk Weapon: Monster Taming Staff Abilities: Fighting underwater, Cloud soaring, and fetching water from a well. Demon Kill Count: 1 + Unknown number of minions. Kidnapped by Demons: 3 Human Kill Count: 1 Cry Count: 1 Crime List: Breaking a Crystal Cup, murder, desecration of a human corpse, Damage to Religious Property and contaminating a substance for human consumption

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[krystal-dragon]

A New Journey (Monkie Kid x OC)

Krista gets sent to another world filled with magic, celestial gods and demons. There she has to deal with Bull's, Spiders and Bone Demons. Will Krista look for a way home or is she already home?

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The info below is my Oc Krista, I've been changing her a lot so hopefully you like her now.👇

Name: Krista

Age: 20

Height: 5'4

Hair color: brown

Eye color: chocolate brown

Skin color: light tan

Nationality: Mexican American 

Personality: Kind, Caring, Will go crazy if you hurt her friends or family, When she does go crazy she'll start cussing in Spanish. Basically the mom of the group, Can be a worry wort sometimes.

Likes: Strawberry's, Reading, Drawing, The Cold, Spicy food, Sweet food, Stargazing, Witchy Stuff.

Dislikes: Vegetable's (is a picky eater), The Heat, Spiders, Her ex, Needles, Lady Bitch Demon.

This is what she looks like, just ignore the part where it says she gets chased in the woods from her bullies, that's for my other LMK Au story. Art by me. If you want to see more of it you can go to my social media's.

Other things about Krista: Has a hard time communicating with others. Cries when frustrated. Does not like the ocean thinks it's haunted. Likes collecting nicnaks, rocks, feathers, shell's, marbles, dried flowers, stuffed animals, crystals, hat's.

Likes witchcraft and tarot cards. Loves scary movies even though they give her nightmares. Gets made very rarely but when she does get out of the way or run.

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Chapter 1 : Jungle

Krista POV

I yawn after I just got done watching the Lego Monkie kid pilot. It was way late at night, my family was probably asleep by now. Stretching my arms up I get off my bed to get more snacks doubting I'll be able to fall asleep again.

After coming back with snacks I put them on my bed and grab my fluffy purple blanket wrapping it around me. I decided to just watch the rest of it, for a cartoon show it was really good and Mk is absolutely adorable he must be protected at all cost. The other characters where good too I liked there design's. Monkey King was a different story I mean I liked him but the way he was just going to let MK a literal human/kid fight a giant ass Bull demon on his own, I wanted to just grab him and shack the every little immortal ass out of him. But who knows maybe more in the episodes I'll start liking him.

Although I do feel back for the Monkey King in Journey to the West, the celestials were a bunch of assholes in the story and don't get me started on Tripitaka! He was such a whiny baby!

I grab a barbecue chip popping it in my mouth as I stare at my t.v. yawning again. Hearing a ding from my phone I reach for it seeing a notification. I frown to see a picture of my "friends" together at a party. Looks like I didn't get invited . . again.

"Looks like there having fun. . ." I mutter.

Sighing I toss my phone beside me pulling my blanket closer to my form. After graduating it seemed like they wanted to hang less and less with me until they just ghosted me, well except Skylar but she's more like my sister besides I couldn't hang out with her she had moved to a whole different state.

I feel tears sting at the corners of my eyes. Maybe I was being too clingy or because I didn't hang out with them enough.

Looking back up at my t.v. I smiled wishing I had friends like Mk and the others.

Checking my phone to see the time it was getting really, really late. Rubbing my eyes I turn of my t.v. falling backwards on my bed not even bother to get under my covers.

"I wish I could go on some type of incredible adventure with friends who actually care about me like how it is in Mk's world. . . sigh but that's just wishful thinking like the gods would be bothered to grant a wish like that especially if its from a weird ordinary girl like me." I say feeling sleep take over me.

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However unknown to the sleeping girl one goddess had listened to her having been watching the brunette for awhile, so she decided to grant her wish.

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Chirp, chirp, chirp.

Why do I hear birds right now? I mean I know I live in the country but that sounded really loud especially to hear it with my window closed.

I groan tossing over on my bed, but why does it feel so hard? Wiggling one of my hands from my blanket I touch to see what was wrong however instead of feeling fabric it felt like dirt? Did I fall off my bed or something? But I would've felt the hard wood floor. Something wasn't right.

I sit up pulling my blanket off me to see it was day time and a jungle forest . . . A jungle forest?

My eyes widen jumping up in panic. Why the heck was I in a jungle?! This better be some kind of prank!

I look at the ground to see some of my stuff. My phone and snacks, sketch book, wallet, along with my black backpack. Looking at my self I still had on my pajamas and fuzzy socks.

"If I find out it was Bow and Quinton who did this to me I'm going to kill them." I say.

Gathering my stuff I put them including my purple blanket in my backpack and start to see if I can find my way out of here.

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Two hours later.

"Argh! What the hell is going on!? Why can't I find a way out of here!!?" Krista yelled out in frustration.

She was sweaty, tired and has been walking for who knows how long. Her feet were killing her because she kept on stepping on a rock's or a  bloody thorn!

"Maybe this all a dream and I'm actually still asleep on my cozy bed." She said to reassure herself.

But if this was a dream shouldn't she have woken up by know? She did stub her toe and step on a thorn pretty hard. That would have definitely woken her up. Unless she needs to try something else?

Krista huff's and starts walking again. Guess it wasn't so bad the jungle was pretty at least.

Then she freezes up hearing movement in the bushes. Grabbing the first thing she saw Krista picked up a long heavy stick. The bushes start moving again as she held the stick above her ready to swing at whatever it was.

Out emerges a adorable monkey with light tan skin and it's fur was a like a peach pink color.

The brunettes eye's sparkled. "Ay, Que lindo!" (Oh! How cute!) She squealed dropping the stick.

The little monkey looked at her curiously going closer until it jumped on Krista's head. She let out a laugh as the monkey combed through her dark brown hair. "Your are just to adorable!"

Krista then heard moving in the brushes again. The little monkey jumped from her shoulder to where the noise was coming from.

"Awe! Do you have more little monkey friends?" She said however the brunette saw two glowing red eyes looking at her. Krista felt a chill down her spine as she backed away.

A figure came out slowly but Krista didn't stay long to see what it was, she took off in a run far away from it.

She kept running until the brunette came at a cliff side, stopping abruptly Krista looked over the edge a little seeing it was a very long way down. "Oh come on!" She then heard movement again along with heavy panting. Looking back she saw those piercing red eyes a wave of panic flooded her making Krista step backwards.

"Don't come any closer!" She exclaimed.

The creature made a weird chirp sound as it was coming out of the darkness of the tree's. Her eyes widen to see a human sized monkey with dirty orange long fur/hair, red and golden eyes with a couple of scar's one in particular across his head. He had his hands up as if he meant no harm to her. However Krista was still slightly frightened. The orange monkey went to go closer to the girl only for her to shout. "NO! You stay right where you are!" She said stepping back. His red and golden eyes widen making destress chirps, Krista didn't know what he was trying to say when one of her feet didn't meet ground. She felt herself falling backwards letting out a blood curdling scream.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

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I know this was kinda short but next chapter will be longer hopefully but hope you like this story 😊👋👋👋.

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[tigerseye46]

Headcanon: one time Tang and Pigsy got totally sloshed bc reasons and started bemoaning their own romantic woes at eachother. And in that drunken 'everythings a good idea' haze, both tried to 'help' the other.

Pigsy actually tried to text sandy some of the bullet points from the 'Why Tang is Boyfriend Material' list, but it came out borderline incoherent, Sandy just thinks Pigsy hit that 'i love my friends so much' state of intoxication. And is all "Tang IS a very good and smart person youre right!"

Meanwhile Tang AKA "known bastard" convinces his friend he's gotta REALLY up his flirt game so Wukong KNOWS hes into him! Here, hes got this poster copy of this or that Monkey King media thing, use this to practice. Tang wakes up the next morning thouroughly hungover but with some shaky phone footage of Pigsy drunkenly hitting on a poster. Haha blackmail.

WHEEZES The mental image I get from this is too great so I had to write it down!

TW: Alcohol

Tang took a swig of the bottle, his head slumped against the couch. “It’s like he doesn’t even see me,” Tang said, his words slurring together. “I’m right here! I get I’m not the great monk but I’m just as good.” He sighed and sipped his drink. “Why won’t he see me?”

“I’m sure he sees you fine, Tang. Y’know with his eyes,” Pigsy responded as he placed his palm on the floor and leaned back.

The scholar rolled his eyes. “Not what I meant, Pigsy. He’s probably just not interested… we’ve all known each for years if he was interested then he would have said something back then.” Tears prick his eyes. “It’s like you said with the Monkey King, Sandy has probably seen so many things that there’s no way he would look at me. It hurts every time he’s near me then Tripitaka gets brought up and ugh! It’s like I’m not there, only Tripitaka.” There was venom in his voice as he stated the name of the monk.

“At least Sandy goes near you! Wukong won’t even come close! Everytime I try to get to close to him, he flinches! I don’t know what I did! Did I do somethin’ wrong? Maybe it’s cause I yelled at him the first time we met. I ruined my chance… and he likes Zhu Bajie anyway, not some lowly pig demon.” He cracked open another bottle and gulped it down, the cold liquid pouring down his throat.

“You’re not some lowly pig demon, Pigsy! And the monkey king tries to protect you so that counts for something.”

“He probably thinks I’m too weak to fight any demons,” he grumbled. “That’s the only reason he does it.”

“At least he does something. All I’m asking is for Sandy to pay attention to me but nooooo, he’s too busy paying attention to his brother or something else. I’m not invisible! Ever since we learned he was Sha Wujing, it’s like I know nothing and everything about him. I’ve read the Journey a thousand times and I know what he was like but it’s like he has too many secrets, like I don’t know who he is. I just want to be part of that.”

“That’s the same with Wukong! I know a lot too but when it comes down to it, he’s so secretive! I want him to open up to me.”

“Same! Sandy could let me help him with stuff and I could get to know him better. He’s so changed from that rage-filled warrior he was a couple years back and no matter what, I still love him. If only he could like me instead of Tripitaka. How could he not like Sandy? Sandy is great!” He took a small sip. “The monk only tolerated him, I love him!” He stood up on the cushions, bottle in one hand. “I would be a great partner!” He took out the list from his back pocket, the corners slightly crinkled. “Every bit of this list shows why I should be his boyfriend.”

A lightbulb hovered over Pigsy’s head, his eyes widen. “I got a great idea!”

“What would that be?”

“Why don’t we help each other out? I help you with Sandy, you help me with Wukong!”

A bright appeared on the human’s face. “Okay! Sounds like a deal!”

“Give me that list and I’ll text Sandy.” He made a hand motion and the human leaned over to pass the list to him. “He’ll see why your boyfriend material.”

“Thank you, thank you, Pigsy! Okay so.” He tapped a finger against his chin then smirked. “If you want the Monkey King to know you like him, you have to up your flirting! I have this poster from that Monkey King movie from a year ago! I’ll get it!” He scrambled off the couch and rushed towards his room, definitely not tripping on the way, definitely not.

The pig barked out a laugh. This might actually work. He read over Tang’s list then texted Sandy. He squinted at his phone, drunkenly pushing buttons to craft the perfect message.

What was supposed to be:

“Hey, Sandy! Here’s a bunch of reasons why ya should date Tang and why he’s 100% boyfriend material. Number one, he’s pretty smart. He knows everythin’ about your journey. He’s also amazin’ when he’s not freeloadin’ off of me. He knows a lot of topics and stuff. He can make tea and he’s always there to cheer you up when ya need him. So here’s why Tang is awesome.”

Turned into:

“HEy, Sa7dyn Here’s a b@9as of reskns whY ya sddd ddds Tang and whY h4’s bLsfaDfhd ma/“:: N@0she 1, hy”s smort. KnPw’s j5urney. Also amazin’ w3$n he’U not fr33l”adin’ off of me. Ksfs lOT’s of Topics. C0n make TEA aLD alYS tH3r3 to cheer u ^ when ya Nkkd hIM. So H9r@‘s wHY Tang is a53some.”

Sandy must have been up since he responded with: “Pigsy? Are you okay?”

“Yea, ‘m fine.”

Sandy wasn’t the type to judge or question others for their choices so he deduced quickly that Pigsy was drunk and in the ‘I love my friends’ stage. He typed back, “So your message is about Tang?”

“YE2.”

“Oh well, I agree. Tang is extremely smart, it’s amazing how much he knows and he’s such a good person! You’re correct about the tea bit too, he makes the best tea!”

Pigsy was about to send something back when he heard “Alright! I got the poster! Woah!” A small thud sound was heard as he hit the ground. “Ow. I got it!” He stood up and brushed himself off. “Did Sandy respond?”

“Yea! He said he agreed with everythin’!”

They both giggled together, Tang beamed from ear to ear. “Wonderful! I’ll text him later! Now for you.” He skipped over to a wall and placed the poster against it, sticking it there with a small piece of tape.

“This is a fantastic idea, Tang!” The pig stood in front of the poster, Tang held up his phone, hitting record. The pig opened his mouth to speak and the human’s vision blurred.

The human’s head pounded, he slowly opened his eyes, taking in the light in the room. He sat up carefully and held his head, his phone was in his lap. He glanced around to see the pig laying on the floor in front of a Monkey King poster he had obtained last year. What the f-?

He checked his phone to find a new video on it with Pigsy’s arm against the wall near the poster. He turned up the volume and pressed play. The footage was shaky but tried to remain on the chef.

“Hey, Wukong,” Pigsy greeted with a wink. “You’re- you’re really cute. You’re like… really strong and handsome. Look at your muscles, really strong.”

Tang paused it when he heard a groan, he covered his mouth to muffle his laughter, only stopping when a stinging sensation ran through him. This was prime blackmail.

There was tapping on their door. He opened it to reveal Sandy with Mo on his shoulder. “Oh uh, hi, Sandy!”

“Hey, Tang! I figured I would check up on you two after Pigsy’s message.”

Message? “What message?”

“Oh, a drunken message saying something about you.”

He swallowed. “What did it say about me?”

“Just how cool you are! I think Pigsy wanted someone to see his rant about how cool his friends are.”

A sigh of relief. “Okay, good.” He stepped aside. “Come in.”

“Thanks! I brought tea!” His lips pursed as his eyes landed on a certain object. “Why is there a poster of my brother taped up?”

“Oh, ummmm… see, I received that last year and I finally decided to hang it up but I might move it,” he lied.

“Oh, okay! Want to help me make tea?”

He nodded with a grin. “Sure.” They walked into the kitchen together, the scholar’s heart thumped. He had no idea what Pigsy texted Sandy exactly but he remembered bits of that night, oh well, he could piece it together later.