Journey to the West Chapter 31
Man Pigsy just makes a habit of instigating stuff doesn't he? At least this time he's using that ability for good.
Anyways in this chapter of Journey to the West with @journeythroughjourneytothewest we get to see Sun Wukong back in action, and he's got a bone to pick. So let's get into it shall we?
So Pigsy gets dragged back to Monkey, who demands to know why he was insulting him earlier. Pigsy tries to deny it of course, but Monkey reminds him that he has super hearing. When Monkey threatens to beat him however, Pigsy finally confesses but asks to be spared for Tripitaka's sake. Which- was a bad move considering he and Monkey still aren't on speaking terms. When that doesn't work, he instead brings up Guanyin- which does actually work.
Monkey decides to get to the point and asks Pigsy what Tripitaka has gotten himself into this time. Pigsy once again tries to deny any trouble and insist that Tripitaka really just missed him- but caves when Monkey threatens to beat him again. So Pigsy gives Monkey a rundown on all the events that happened since Monkey left them. Afterwards Monkey asks why they didn't use his name to protect Tripitaka like he told them to. At this Pigsy gets an idea to push Monkey into action. He says that they did use Sun Wukong's name, but that the demon just scoffed and said that if this so called 'Sun Wukong' show's up, he'll skin him alive and boil him!
Monkey is never one to let people doubting his badassery slide so he is all geared up now to fight this Yellow Robe Demon. Oh and rescue Tripitaka while he's at it to he guesses. His little monkey's aren't so happy to see him go however, and ask him to stay with them instead. Wukong however tells them that Tripitaka just granted him a little vacation to see them all, but he has to go back now and finish his mission. Once that's done though, he'll come back home to them.
With that Pigsy and Monkey take their leave. On the way however Monkey takes a quick dip in the ocean to clean himself up a bit before he see's Tripitaka again. My guess is he wants to make a good impression so that he really will be invited back into the pilgrimage. Anyways after Monkey has his bath the two continue on their way to the demon's lair.
For the first order of business, Monkey kidnaps the two demon's kids, which of course causes all the minion demon's to report the kidnapping to the princess. So the princess runs out to stop Monkey from dashing her kids on the rocks below, demanding to know what he thinks she's doing. She warns him that her husband is rather frightening. Monkey introduces himself and offers a trade- he'll give the boys back in exchange for Sandy.
So the princess goes inside to untie Sandy, which she wanted to do anyways and was just trying to think of an excuse. She tells him that his older brother Sun Wukong is here for him, which absolutely delights Sandy. So the three disciples have a touching reunion and Wukong starts up phase two of his plan. So Sun Wukong immediately rescinds on his deal with the princess by telling Sandy and Pigsy to take the two boys to the kingdom and drop them at the palace. And when anybody asks who kids those were, tell them that they are the Yellow Robe Demon's kids, that way they can lure the Demon back here to fight Wukong instead of fighting in the kingdom and causing a bunch of collateral damage. Pigsy isn't to hype about this plan, since the demon will most likely come after Pigsy and Sandy for killing the boys while Monkey get's off scott free, but Monkey tells them not to worry about that and just lure the demon here.
So Sandy and Pigsy take off with the hostages in tow while Monkey has a little chat with the princess, who super isn't happy with him for refusing to hold up his end of the deal. Monkey however just calls her an filial daughter for being kidnapped by a demon and makes her cry. Yeesh. After that though he assures her that he will take care of her demon husband so she can return to her parents and ushers her off somewhere so he can disguise himself as her and take her place.
So while Wukong is busy cosplaying as the princess Sandy and Pigsy meanwhile have arrived at the kingdom and have killed the two boys by hurling them out of the sky and yelling that they are the Yellow Demon's children just as Monkey instructed. The Demon meanwhile is way to hungover to want to deal with this right now, and decides to head home to see if those really were his kids or if Pigsy is just trying to trick him or something.
The Palace meanwhile has been clued in on the fact that this guy is indeed a demon, due to all those serving girls that he didn't get around to killing and eating earlier who escaped and told them all about it. They can't really do anything about it however, so instead the king just has more guards assigned to Tiger Tripitaka because I guess knowing that other guy is a demon doesn't mean Tripitaka is in the clear yet.
Meanwhile the demon arrives back at his cave and theater kid Sun Wukong starts putting on the show of a lifetime and starts up the waterworks, crying for his poor kidnapped children. When the demon asks his 'wife' why she's crying, Wukong tearfully explains how Pigsy came by freed Sandy and kidnapped her children, and now she doesn't even know if they are still alive. The Demon of course angrily exclaims that his son's have been killed and he vows vengeance- after he takes care of his poor distraught wife of course.
Luckily the Demon has just the thing to fix his wife's heartache, he takes out his treasure, an internal elixir, and explains that all she needs to do is rub it on the spot that hurts and the pain will go away. He warns her however not to fillip her thumb onto the treasure for if she does it will reveal her true form. So Monkey of course proceeds to rub the treasure on a random spot before filliping his thumb and then swallowing the thing whole.
When the demon tries to punch him in retribution, Sun Wukong blocks the blow and reverts to his true from. The Demon of course has no idea who he is, so Sun Wukong explains that he is the eldest disciple of the Tang Monk. The Demon however doesn't believe him because when he caught Tripitaka earlier, he only had the two disciples, if he really is a disciple then why wasn't he with them earlier? So Sun Wukong explains that his habit of slaying monsters offended the monk, so he was dismissed. When the Demon asks why he's here if he was banished by his master, Wukong says 'Once a teacher always a father' and 'between father and son, there's no overnight enmity' so of course he came to save Tripitaka when he needed help.
All that aside however, Sun Wukong has a bone to pick with him, how dare he abuse him behind his back? The Demon of course has no idea what he's talking about, and points out that Pigsy is a lying liar who lies. However it's to late for that anyways, since Sun Wukong has already made the decision to kick his ass. The Demon however isn't to worried, after all he has an army. Sun Wukong also isn't worried because he's never been one to be intimidated by the other side having superior numbers.
And so the fight begins with the Demon rousing his army, only for Sun Wukong to respond by changing into his three headed war form and absolutely demolishing the army, until only the big boss demon is left. So the two of them fight for a while before Sun Wukong uses a bit of trickery in order to whack the demon on the head. However the second he does, the demon vanishes. So Monkey scans all for directions, only to not see him anywhere, so he concludes that the demon must be a heavenly spirit. So Wukong immediately breaks into heaven in order to take a role call and see who's been missing.
Turns out that the Wood Wolf Star, has been missing for thirteen days in heaven, which translates to thirteen earth years. So the Jade Emperor has the Wolf Star's colleagues call him back to heaven. When he arrives he is greeted by Wukong who would very much like to hit him, but is being stopped by the Wolf Star's friends. However while he's not in danger from the Great Sage for the moment, he still has to face the Jade Emperor for what he's done.
So the Wolf Star explains his story, that the princess he kidnapped is also a heavenly spirit, a jade girl in charge of incense. The two wanted to elope, but such a thing couldn't happen in heaven. So the girl went down first, and then he followed afterwards and took over a mountain and kidnapped her so they could be married. And wow, that is one strange relationship... but whatever works for them I guess? I still think there had to be a better way to handle all that but oh well. And the Jade Emperor agrees with me because he has the Wolf Star demoted to be an assistant for Laozi, with the chance to be restored to his rank if he did a good job, and punished further if he didn't.
Monkey is satisfied with this outcome and takes his leave with a single bow, which most gods find rude, but for the Jade Emperor, any day where Sun Wukong leaves heaven in peace, is a good day. So Monkey returns to the Princess and gives her a rundown of the situation, just as Pigsy and Sandy also show up ready to help Monkey fend off the demon army. Monkey informs them that, that's taken care of, so the three of them then proceed to fast travel with the princess all the way to the kingdom. Pity they can't ever do that with Tripitaka.
So they perform a trade with the king, they give him back the princess and explain the story to him, and he brings out Tripitaka who is still trapped in the illusion of a tiger. Monkey of course takes this opportunity to mock Tripitaka for his fearsome appearance when he is such a good monk, and asks why Pigsy doesn't save him since he's the favorite disciple and all. Eventually though he get's around to freeing Tripitaka by asking for some water to spit on him in order to break the spell.
Surprisingly Tripitaka is actually thrilled to see Wukong again, even more so when Sandy explains the whole situation to him. So Wukong is welcomed back into the group with open arms and the pilgrimage is united once again and ready to continue on their journey to the west.
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 and distance reduction.
Demon Kill Count: 5+ Unknown Number of Minions
Human Kill Count: 1006
God's Defeated: 20 + Unknown number
Defeats: 3
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 and looting corpses.
Cry Count: 4 + 1 fake cry
Mountains Trapped Under: 1
Current Tang Sanzang stats:
Names/Titles: River Float, Xuanzang, Tang Sanzang, Tripitaka
Abilities: Curing Blindness, making branches point a certain direction (allegedly), reciting sutras, pretty privilege, memorization and Heart Sutra.
Cry Count: 16
Tight Fillet Spell Uses: 27
Paralyzed by fear: 5
Bandit Problems: 2
Kidnapped by demons: 3
Falling Off Horses: 6
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: 2
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 and size enhancement
Demon Kill Count/Kill steals: 1
Human Kill Count: 1
Failed Flirtation/romances Attempts: 3
Cry Count: 1
Crime List: Sexual Harassment, Murder, Kidnapping and arson.
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 and Cloud soaring.
Kidnapped by Demons: 1
Human Kill Count: 1
Crime List: Breaking a Crystal Cup, murder, and desecration of a human corpse.
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