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Deep within the caverns of the Lady Bone Demon's old lair, a pair of immortal Monkey Demons dodged traps as they looked for information on the demon that used to reside in the cold environment.

Wukong grunts as he holds up a spike ceiling trap that threatens to crush him. "Baby! A little help please!?" He shakily asked for Macaque's help.

"Hold on for a second, Peaches!" The Shadow Demon yelled as he dodged traps himself.

"Any minute now, Honey!" Wukong exclaimed, quickly pushing the spike ceiling trap above him away. Macaque dipped himself and his husband into a shadow portal transporting them to the outside of the throne room.

Wukong pants, sighing in relief, and wiping away sweat. "Thanks, Plum. I told you this place would be full of traps," Wukong grumbled.

"I know. I'm sorry, okay?!" Macaque whined, tail drooping as he followed his husband.

Wukong turned and caressed his mate's face. "Macaque you gotta calm down, I know you're worried about the cub and so am I but he’s got the others with him.”

"I know, Wukong..."

"It'll be okay…," Wukong smiled, giving his husband a quick peck on the lips.

All of a sudden a golden projection of MK and Mei appeared. "Baba, it worked!" The teen said smiling at his achievement while Mei seemed to sigh in relief.

"MK?" Wukong and Macaque gawked in surprise, not expecting the teen to have mastered Astral Projection so quickly on his own.

"Hey, Baba! Hey, Papa!" The young prince's tail wagged gleefully. "Look! I mastered Astral Projection!"

"Yeah," Mei scowled in the background. "After about five nosebleeds." At that moment MK grinned nervously, wiping the thin trail of blood from his nose.

"What!?" The husbands screeched in horrified unison, their tails puffing up.

"Bud that's incredibly unsafe!" Wukong said in a worried tone.

"D-don't worry!" The golden-eyed teen was quick to try and calm his parents. "That's why I have Mei here! She’s backup!"

"More like here to make sure you don't overdo it," the jade dragon said while rolling her eyes.

"Well, congrats on mastering it bud!" Wukong smiled, giving his son a thumbs up, yelping as he had to duck, not realizing that he'd set off another trap.

"Is everything okay?" Mei's brows furrowed in worry. "Are we distracting you?"

"Don't worry kids," the Shadow Demon smiled gently as he used his powers to stop a barrage of poisonous darts whilst his golden buffon of a husband bashed through the locked door in front of them. "We're just finishing up in Lady Bone Demon's old hideout, we've gotten past most of the more deadly traps."

"How is the search going so far?" MK fiddled with his tail a bit, something the teen tended to do when he got anxious.

"More dead ends," the golden simian sighed, shoulders drooping. "But hopefully this witch's old lair will give us something to work with."

Macaque's six ears perked up, hearing the sound of eerie whispers. "Peaches..." He trailed off.

"Uh bud, I'm afraid I'll have to cut this a bit short," Wukong spoke up, giving the trio an apologetic look. "But! I do have a new lesson for you to try."

This makes him excited. "MK, keep working on shrinking your staff."

“Oh, you mean like this?” MK said as he pulled out his staff and perfectly shrunk it and grew it.

“Okay, smart guy, try shrinking yourself then!” Wukong said with a laugh, proud that his son had mastered so much in his absence.

MK nodded, "You got it! Stay safe. I love you and Bàba!"

"We love you too," the scarred royal chuckled. "You stay safe as well!" Wukong called from the background.

With that the boy cut off communications and slumped back on the bed next to Mei, who ran her fingers through his hair soothingly, a sympathetic look on her face, "They'll be okay, don't worry."

"I know," MK sighed. "But that won't stop me from worrying about them or Daisy."

It had been a month and she still hadn’t returned, it was starting to worry the group.

"I know, let's call Red Boy and hang out together," Mei suggested and then snickered at her friend’s bright red face.

The Food Wars incident had happened a week ago and Red Son seemed to be avoiding them after what happened. Though something MK had yet to tell the others was that since then he had been receiving gifts and flowers from an unknown person. He’d found a bouquet of red and orange roses on his bed next to a large basket of apricots the day after the competition. The following days he found similar things on his bed. He hadn’t told anyone else about it except Mei who believed it was Red.

Before MK could answer they heard Pigsy’s voice shout, "MK! I need your help down here!"

“Looks like I can’t hang out with you and Red today, got to help Pigsy with whatever it is he needs,” MK said with a nervous smile. Mei smiled and shook her head.

They then heard out of the room and down the stairs.

Meanwhile, in the sewers, the little girl held up her arms, she was still currently creating the mech. The powerful artifacts that were needed hovered next to it.

"I don't know who taught you to take revenge, but it ain't normally this boring! Can we hurry this along?" Spider Queen demanded, hanging upside down, her arms crossed.

The girl blinked, her eyes focused on the hologram. "With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown," she said as she spun a small part of the projection in front of her. "There are still more items we have yet to add to the furnace, destiny cannot be rushed my queen," the little girl said.

The Spider Queen huffed in frustration. "So, you keep saying. Well, my patience is growing thin, Little Miss Mystery.” She rolled her eyes. "At least lighten up a little, your creepy whisper business is getting on my nerves."

The little girl turned her attention back to the furnace uninterested in her patience.

"Hey Dadsy, what's up?" MK asked as he hopped past the last stair, and onto the tile floor. "Whoa, what's with the cleaning fest?"

The mountain prince had to squint when he looked around the practically glowing restaurant, whilst his adoptive dads both zipped around, frantically cleaning.

"Health inspections moved from next week to today," Tang spoke up, scrubbing away a tea stain left by a customer as the scholar helped his husband turn the place spotless. "The jerks didn't even bother to tell us they'd done so until they were an hour away from the shop!"

Eyes wide, the teen bolted off towards the kitchen, "I'll get started on the dishes then!"

"Thanks, kid," the Pig Demon sighed in relief, glad he could count on his partner and adoptive son for help.

About an hour and a half later while MK was draining the sink after cleaning all the dishes, his mind wandered back to his lesson of the day.

'Shrinking myself...I wonder how--EH?!'

Not having noticed himself glowing, the young Monkey Demon gave a high-pitched shriek of fear when he suddenly found the world around him had grown.

He fell through the pipes, hitting against the side at every turn before finally falling to the ground in a large cavern.

"Ow! Fuck that hurts!" MK said standing up and rubbing his sore head but then looked down at himself. "Hey, I did it. I shrunk myself!" He exclaimed.

The poor boy then realized that not only had he finally shrunk himself but he shriveled up in fear when he recognized he was back in the Spider Queen's lair.

"No, no, no, No! The Spider Queen's lair," He trembled in fear as his arachnophobia started kicking in. "Not here, not now, come on!" MK yelled, his voice echoing throughout the lair walls.

Spider Queen perked up when she heard a familiar voice echoing off the walls. "Ah, the Monkie Boy!" Spider Queen grinned, landing back on the ground. "My day just got a little more interesting. She said with a smirk.

The little girl sighed, "My Queen, perhaps you should-" The Spider Queen interrupted her.

"Sorry! Can't hear you over the sound of me rushing destiny, kay bye!" Spider Queen taunted, swinging her web MK's location.

The little girl smirks, her eyes flashing blue.

MK focuses on his breathing, trying to calm himself but continues to panic more, “It's finally gonna happen! A spider's gonna wrap me in its butt web and eat me!"

He shook his head, "Okay, okay. No! I am the Monkie Kid, I ain't gonna keep being terrified of spiders my whole life!" MK said clenching his fists. "I can do this, I can get out of here!" He shouted before closing his eyes and focusing.

Before he knew it, MK turned back to his normal size. "Yes! I'm normal-sized again!" MK cheered. The teen froze when he heard the sobbing of a little girl. "Hello?" MK calls out, slowly walking towards the sound pulling his staff out in case it was a trap, he peaks around a corner and sees a little girl sitting between some rocks.

She's dressed in a qixiong ruqun with a standing collar. The ruqun consisted of a white top that secured the right blue trimmed lapel using two blue bone-shaped buttons and a long flowing black skirt. Her hair was rolled up around a jade green bun holder that curved up into sharp tips on its ends.

"S-stay back!" The girl cried out, flinching and frantically backing away from the MK.

"Oh, it’s just a kid," The elder male said, putting away his staff and asking in a soft and soothing voice, "What are you doing down here?"

"I-It's you..." The little kid gasped. "You're the Monkey Kid."

"Um, yeah," MK gave a nervous laugh. “Come on let’s get you out of-”

He was cut off as the girl quickly hugged him. ”Please, you have to help me, there's not much time!" She said, looking terrified. She gasped as she heard whispers coming from the pipe. "What was that?" She asked curling back to the wall sobbing.

"Hey, it's okay. I get it, it's scary being alone," MK said, kneeling down to her, trying to ease her sorrows. "But you're not alone now, I'm here now. We'll find our way out together,” MK said, smiling. "I promise." MK held his hand out for her.

The girl started to reach out to him but stopped. "Wait! You're the Monkie Kid..." she muttered, her terrified face turned into a determined one as she quickly got onto her feet.

"Come on! You have to follow me!" The girl exclaimed, running off in the direction of Spider Queen's lair.

"Hey, wait!" MK cried out, rushing after the child, trying to stop her from getting hurt. "Hold up. We really shouldn't be here!" MK pants, finally caught up to her.

"We can't go yet. Spider Queen is building something...evil," she said pointing at the giant blue hologram of a mech suit.

"Whatever she's planning, it’s all to do with that," she told him, pointing at the furnace. "I-I've seen you use your staff, surely you could use it to smash that thing?" She suggested.

MK stared at it. "Don't let her hurt someone else, please?" She begged.

MK turned to look at her. "Okay but maybe step back," he told her, watching her take a step back as he prepared his staff.

"Here..." he launched himself forward with his staff. "Comes..." he pulled it above his head. "Monkie Kid!" He said about to hit the hologram.

“DON'T DO IT!!!” A voice yelled before a large wave smashed into the side of him, throwing him to the side. When he landed he couched out water and looked up at the thing he was about to smash and recognize it. "Wait! Is this...this is the trigram furnace! From the Celestial Realm! How is this-"

“Monkie Kid!” The young girl called out, making a run towards him.

The water around him started to form into something which made her stop as growling was heard before it formed into several Water Elemental Foxes. Rainstorm appeared over top of MK.

“Rainstorm?” MK asked.

“Young Prince, trust your instincts!” Rainstorm called out to him, still growling at the young girl.

“Monkie Kid please!” The young girl yelled.

MK closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes his golden vision was activated.

He looked over at the furnace and gasped as blue spirits came out from under the furnace, whispering quietly. MK recognized the whispers from when he fought the Demon Bull King.

'No, it can't be.' He slowly turned as he remembered everything he'd seen and it sent chills up his spine.

The sound of cackling came from the girl as a light blue storm of spirits surrounded her as her true form was revealed.

MK yelped as the pack continued to growl, their fur fluffed up as well. "It's you- you're-"

"I am the Lady Bone Demon," the girl’s chilled whisper rang in his ears as his head started to hurt, the pain getting stronger as the seconds rolled by.

There was a large growl followed by a weak whine. MK looked up and watched as the Water Foxes started to yell in pain before turning into water. Rainstorm backed away from him and had her eyes closed tight in pain.

"You're quite the observant little boy," she started, getting closer to him with every unstable change of scenery. "MK, I do apologize, but I need to take that staff," She demanded.

MK, in a panic, quickly got to his feet, collected his staff, and tried to make a break for it, but with every step he took the pain kept growing bigger and bigger.

“Young Prince,” Rainstorm said, struggling to move. She let out a scream and collapsed on the floor, half her body turning to water.

"Calm yourself," a whisper came from behind him. "It is pointless to deny me," MK couldn't take it anymore. He turned around and aimed his staff toward the girl, her not even flinching, standing there with a calm collected smile.

“I helped you! I thought you were-” MK started but was cut off by the demon, “-a helpless girl?”

“Oh yes, my disguise has fooled many. This body in particular is useful...for now," she said smiling.

"Body? What do you-" He stopped, he remembered what Macaque had told him before they left.

"Let her go! She's just a little girl!" Lady Bone Demon stood there for a second before she began to giggle.

"It's so cute, you really think you can stop me," LBD cooed mockingly at the boy, who groaned in pain as his vision flashes blue once more, the world around him glitching sporadically.

"I'm not going to let you win, Monkey King and Macaque will stop you and-" He gripped his head more as the glitches continued.

"Monkey King? Do you really think he can stop me? Curious that he is not with you now? Perhaps he made the wrong choice, he picked the wrong successor," her voice seems to come from every direction.

"You were right, you know.” His attention was drawn back to the bone witch, holding her hands in front of her as his vision switched from her host form to her true form.

”It's scary being alone!" She whimpered in the little girl's voice before her eyes were shadowed. One glowing a bright blue as she grinned. "I do pity you."

MK gagged as the Lady Bone Demon slowly started to rise out of the ground below him, grabbing tightly onto his neck as she smirked at him.

"You're just a piece in a game you simply cannot possibly comprehensive," she grinned squeezing tightly, MK tried to loosen her grip but to no prevail.

Then an explosion shook the room behind MK, making her let go and MK left gasping for breath as he dropped to his knees, his eyes filled with fear.

The Spider Queen cackled as she slowly made her way through the hole in the cave she'd just exploded, grinning. "Monkie Kid! I'm done waiting! I'm going to enjoy this!" She said happily, launching herself at him.

However, Rainstorm appeared over top of him and her flowers glowed before a large storm of water appeared around them before they disappeared.

"Run. Run along as you wish, Destiny will find you soon enough."

On Flower Fruit Mountain, Foxes and Monkey Demons were all around the pond in front of the magic pond that led to the hidden castle of their kingdom’s royal.

Kits and cubs were running around playing in the water while the adults talked to each other and teens played with each other in the trees. The mountain monkeys and foxes were playing around as well.

Lotus and Zhao Xiyang were on a date by the water. Zhiu Ye was playing with her nieces in the water while her sister and brother-in-law watched and talked with her mother.

All of a sudden the water started to shake causing everyone to grow quiet and the young cubs and kits to cuddle up to the oldest ones around them or to each other.

Suddenly there was an explosion in the water as a tornado of water appeared in the center. All the cubs and kits started screaming and running for their parents on land. Many adults jumped in the water to grab the kids while the ones that were already in the water grabbed as many kids as they could and ran for shore.

They all watched as the form of a large fox appeared in the water storm. All of a sudden the water broke to reveal Rainstorm and MK. Once the water broke apart, Rainstorm collapsed in the water while MK, who had already fainted, lay in the water near her.

“Prince Qi Xiaotian!” Zhiu Ye yelled as she darted over to him with Lotus, Zhao Xiyang, and a few other servants who worked in the castle following her.

“Lady Rainstorm?” Jink called out as she approached the large vixen with a few other Spell Foxes following her.

The vixen opened her eyes and smiled at the vixen, “Jink it’s been a long time since I last saw you.”

“What happened? Where is the queen?” Jink asked her.

She let out a laugh, “I can’t tell you that but I was sent by her to help her kit but don’t worry if all goes according to plan then you will see her soon.”

Jink opened her mouth to say something but was cut off by Zhiu Ye, who yelled, “Lotus help me get him into the castle and someone call the royal doctor.”

The group of servants rushed away and Rainstorm smiled. “It seems it’s time for me to go.”

“Lady Rainstorm, please! Don’t go-” Jink pleaded but was cut off.

“I was only supposed to stay and make sure he was taken care of and that has happened so now I have to leave and go back to the queen, I’m sorry Jink. I know you long for her but you have to wait a little longer,” Rainstorm said before standing up.

Her eyes then glowed misty green as she looked up at the vixen and said, “She is right dear friend, you must wait for my return.”

“Lilith!” Jink cried. Several of the other foxes got on their knees in a bow. “No please stand up, I’m not here now am I?”

She then turned to Jink and said, “Jink, I know you crave my presence because of your loss but I can’t comfort you and you know that but also you know that you are not alone. You have family, you just ignore them because you are scared of what they think and of seeing your sister in them but you can’t keep waiting and holding it in. Please talk to them.”

Jink had tears in her eyes as she watched the green leave the vixens' eyes. Rainstorm smiled at her before disappearing into the water.

"No physical wounds as far as I can see," the doctor, a male Monkey Demon, said, having finished checking over the awoken boy, who held an ice pack to his head to ease the headache and was in his own bed. "Seems like the headache, alongside a bit of mental trauma is all you have."

Zhiu Ye had called Pigsy and Tang to ask what had happened but they didn’t know. Pigsy had promptly kicked out the Health Inspector, telling them he'd reschedule. Tang was the one to call Mei and the three of them rushed over to the castle just as MK had woken up.

They'd had to coax most of the information out of the prince, who seemed to be in some sort of shock, the encounter having been quite jarring for him.

"Who's gonna' be the one to call the Monkey Dads?" The sword user asked, squeezing MK's free hand in worry.

"I will," both the chef and Zhiu Ye said in unison, looking at each other in shock. Tang stepped forward and said, "You kids have a movie night or whatever to cheer MK up and the three of us will talk to his fathers, okay?"

Nodding, the Dragon Demon turned to her friend and asked, "Fluffy blankets, hot cocoa, apricot slices, and a wholesome movie?" Mei offered up, knowing her friend's go-to comfort items, frowning when she only received a silent nod in return.

The other adults left the room and headed for another room on the other side of the castle so they could contact the kings. Shouting was never something MK handled well, especially when he was so emotionally drained like right now and in need of some comfort. And given how protective Wukong and Macaque were, there would be a LOT of shouting.

Far away on an island surrounded by large storm clouds is a large stone building. On the shore around the building are many Elemental Foxes. On a large stone on top of other stones are eleven foxes. They are Wildfire, Snowstorm, Oakley, and Hurricane. The others are Dustin and Umbra with their mates, Mudslide and Zalaph. The other three are Storm the Lightning Power Fox and Rockslide the Rock Power Fox and his mate.

They are longing on the rock and watching the packs, waiting to be called for a mission by their queen. The other Power Foxes were away on a mission while the Star Foxes were hiding on another part of the island.

All of a sudden there was a loud bark which caused all the Power Foxes to look up at the storm barrier. Most of the other Elemental Foxes stopped what they were doing and followed the gaze of their pack leader.

The storm then parted in front of them and they all watched as a large wave of water was headed their way.

“It’s not slowing down,” Wildfire said as she stood up.

“Somethings wrong with the water pack,” Oakley said as he got up as well with worry in his voice. Many of the other Power Foxes stood up as well.

“Go figure Rainstorm would fail her mission,” Storm said as he stood up.

The others looked at him with frowns.

“Everyone move away from the edge of the water, something is wrong with the water pack,” Dustin cried out to the other foxes. Many scampered away towards the rock their leader was on.

The wave didn’t stop as it got closer to the shore and when it hit the land water scattered on the land before it formed into the bodies of many injured Water Foxes. In the middle of them all was Rainstorm, who stood on shaking legs as she pants heavily.

“Rainstorm!!!” Wildfire and Oakley yelled as they jumped off the rock and ran towards their friend. The other Power Foxes followed as other Elemental Foxes ran out to check on the injured Water Foxes.

“Rainstorm what happened?” Oakley asked as he went to one of her sides and let her lean on him.

“The Lady Bone Demon. I tried to protect the Prince but she was too powerful. I managed to get him out and to Flower Fruit Mountain as well as get my pack out and here but many are injured,” Rainstorm said.

“What about Daisy? Is she ok?” Oakley asked with worry. Storm’s eyes narrowed and he frowned.

“Daisy wasn’t there,” Rainstorm said.

“What?” She’s supposed to be with him!” Wildfire yelled.

“She is away on a mission but it’s taking longer than I thought,” a female lighting vixen said as it approached them with misty green eyes.

“Your Majesty,” Rainstorm said as she tried to stand up straight only to fall over.

“Do not try to get up, you are injured and so is your pack. You did well protecting my son. I feel guilty for allowing your pack to go and get hurt so I apologize for that,” Lilith said through the Lighting Fox.

“My queen, what now?” Dustin asked.

“We must stop her from getting the last three items. Oakley head to the Mystic Jungle of the Emerald Lynx and guard the Crimson Jimson Weed. I will send Unbra to guard Macaque’s Shadow Lantern.”

“What about the staff?” Rockslide asked.

“Yes, I understand that you trust your son but if she gets it…” Snowstorm said with worry.

“Why do you think I gave Daisy that necklace to summon you all?”

All the Power Foxes looked at her in surprise.

“Oakley, Storm, Rockslide, Jet, Umbra, and Sirius have yet to be called and once they are I will be fully charged once more. Also, I have already put Plan Hibiscus in order so be ready for that.”

They all nodded and the misty green disappeared in her eyes.

“Lady Rainstorm!” The vixen yelled as she ran towards her.

Rainstorm smiled, “It’s alright Tempest, I’m fine.” She then nuzzled Tempest and looked at all the Water Foxes scattered on the land and then she looked up at the stone building.

The building only had one window, on the very top which was the room that held the stoned bodies of the Nature Foxes, Spell Foxes, and Lilith. In the center of the room was a symbol that allowed them to speak with her, to go into her world, her mind.

All the Power Foxes wondered what emotions she was feeling now because, in the last few months, it had been nothing but temper tantrums as she was forced to watch her kit be thrown into problem after problem and she couldn’t help due to her stone prison.