Blazing Blue part 3
warning: bit of blood, injuries and broken bones
Chapter 3: Macaque attack!
They approached Sandy’s ship, the big blue fellow greeted them warmly and offered Red Son a cup of tea and a cat to cuddle. Red Son scared of what would happen to him if he said no to a hulking sailor with a mohawk accepted both and had to endure Tang and MK’s giggles as he soon became a literal hot spot for all the cats on the ship.
Sandy came back with a tray of tea to find cats swarming over Red Son who was trying very hard not to lose his temper, Sandy shooed most of them off.
“Sorry about that, cats can’t say no to a warm lap” he smiled.
“Clearly.”
“So, MK says you need a place to stay” Sandy asked as they sipped their tea.
“…did he say why?” he replied looking at MK.
“No, but I’m guessing you wouldn’t be sofa surfing if it wasn’t for a good reason, you’re free to stay here as long as you want!”
“Really? Just like that?” Red Son spluttered.
“Yeah, why not?” Sandy beamed but the conversation was interrupted as a green motor cycle suddenly appeared from the sky landed on the deck and Mai leapt off grinning like a little girl with a puppy.
“RED SON! I KNEW IT!” She cried triumphantly “I knew you couldn’t resist destiny; you’ve joined the side of good and became a hero! Well done you! I knew you had it in you…”
MK rushed over and grabbed the cat as Red Son leapt up screaming flames dancing over him as did. “I HAVE DONE NO SUCH THING!!”
“Then why are you here?”
“Get that hero nonsense notion out of your head right now! I have no intention of becoming a hero I’m just…just…”
“Taking a hiatus from evil?” Tang offered.
“YES! THAT!” Red Son confirmed angrily.
“Really?” another voice called out. “I heard you got disowned!”
Red Son froze, his fire flared up and died out as he spun around to see Macaque standing on the pier. He gave a smirk as he leapt over to the boat and walked over to Red Son. MK grabbed his staff and took a battle stance to the confusion of his friends who had never met this person before.
“W…what are you talking about?” Red Son stuttered.
“Well, what can you expect when your find out your failure of a son not only ran away from home but immediately bunked up with the apprentice of your sworn nemesis? I got to say I would’ve given you a chance to explain yourself but your dad was quick to get the word out that he disowned your pathetic butt.” he explained casually pacing back and forth in front of Red Son who clenched his fists, he glanced back at MK and the others painfully aware that his shameful secret was out. Rage bubbling in him at the fact that this Monkey King look-alike was bragging about it openly in front of him like it was the funniest thing ever.
“Red don’t listen to him…” MK started but was taken aback from the flames that erupted around Red Son as he leapt forward to strike at Macaque. Though Macaque effortlessly dodged all of Red Son’s attacks he always made sure he was in striking distance of the enraged demon, dealing out swift kicks and hits to not so much as hurt Red Son but to anger him further. They quickly made their way to cargo bay on the pier and was bouncing between crates and cranes but Red Son could never seem to get a chance to pin Macaque down.
“You don’t know anything about my father!” Red Son roared angrily between blasts of fire and attempted attacks.
“Maybe but I’m not blinded by delusion like you, wasn’t it you who freed him by bypassing Monkey King’s seal? Made all those cool robots and gadgets? You even made that sweet armour for him? Does he care?” Macaque taunted before vanishing from sight and reappeared behind Red Son and with a quick and powerful swipe from his shadow staff attacked him from behind. Red Son staggered forward to his knees and he heard a small ringing crack that seemed to run through his whole body.
“Nope, cos as far as your folks are concerned, you’re a failure as a demon, a mistake that they have to deal with for the rest of their lives…”
“Shut up. Shut up. SHUT UP!” Red Son screamed, a pillar of flames erupting around him.
Meanwhile MK and his friends had rushed over to try and help.
“Who is this guy? Why does he look like Monkey King? What’s his beef with Red Son?” Mai asked.
“Not to mention why is he so determined to tick him off?” Tang exclaimed. “It’s like he wants him as angry as possible…”
“And also, why is Red Son’s back glowing?” Sandy asked, that got MK attention as his eyes glowed gold and could see the battle clearly. The symbol on Red Son’s back was glowing purple but as if a meter was filling up.
“Oh no…he’s trying to steal Red’s power!” MK cried and leapt into the fray but when he got close enough to attack, he was suddenly grabbed by several shadow monkeys holding him in place with his arms held out, he struggled to get free as a third appeared in front of him.
“Sorry kid, I can’t have you interfering with my plan. Tell you what? I’m just going to put you in a little time out” and before MK could ask what he meant the shadow Macaque swung down with his staff onto MK’s arm. A flash of pain quickly became a surging wave of agony as Macaque broke MK’s arm with ease.
That howl of pain broke Red Son out of his enraged state and he spun around to see MK fall to the floor with shadows swirling around, MK was holding his arm and sobbing in pain, his friends running to help. Macaque sniggered as Red Son looked on in horror.
“Hah hah hah! Really? Are you seriously concerned for Monkey King’s little protégé? That’s hilarious no wonder your family is ashamed of you!” Macaque laughed and twirling his staff as he headed to MK. “But hey if you want, how about I just kill him now? I’ll let you take the scraps back to daddy dearest maybe then he can look at you and not have to fight the urge to throw up!”
The ringing sound seem to get louder as another crack could be heard, Macaque looked back just in time to see an explosion of blue fire engulf the area and take on the form of a giant bull. Macaque beamed happily seeing in the centre of this creation was Red Son, blue fire streaming out of his eyes and mouth.
“I knew those rumours had to be true!” he cackled “I’m going to be taking that power of yours thank you!” and leapt forward only for the fire bull to head butt him with such force he was sent sprawling and he had to roll onto his feet as the infernal heat of two huge hoofs slammed down around him. He leapt up again to swing down his staff but it burned away before it even came close.
“Man, the True Fire of Samadhi is certainly worth the hype” Macaque chuckled, he rushed forward dodging the flames getting ever closer to Red Son to make that final strike and steal the power. Only to blindsided by a staff to the ribs which sent him stumbling off kilter and away from Red Son, he looked back at MK who with one arm hanging limply was gripping the staff with the other. Too late did he realise that he took his attention off Red Son before he was blasted into the sea by the roaring fire beast. It stood there for a second before evaporating into the air and Red Son fell to the floor with a heavy thump, he rubbed his head gingerly as he got up.
“MK are you ok?!” Mai cried out.
“Hold on let me get my med kit!” Sandy stated as he rushed back to his ship.
“Who was that guy?!”
“Bad news…” MK spluttered “Very bad news”
Red Son staggered back to them as Sandy rushed over with a med kit, MK and the others looked up at Red Son as he approached.
“Dude what was that? That looked awesome! How come you’ve never done that before?” Mai asked. “I mean I’m glad you haven’t you would’ve kicked our butts if you could but why not until now?”
“Is MK, okay?” he asked.
“Just a broken bone, I’m out of the fighting scene for a while, but I’ll live!” MK grunted with a pain smile.
“I…I feel hot” Red Son muttered to himself.
“Yeah, you are! You were on fire figuratively and literally! You sent that Monkey King Rip off packing!”
“Red…Red are you ok?” Tang asked as he noticed that Red Son was now struggling to remain standing Tang gasped when he saw his face.
“Red! What’s wrong with you?” he cried, Red Son felt wetness on his face and put his fingers up to it, he pulled it away to see blood. The others froze in disbelief as blood dripped from Red Son’s eyes and mouth, he just looked at his hand blankly.
“I…I…don’t know…why…do I feel…so…hot…” with that the ground rushed up to greet him as he blacked out. The last thing he heard was MK screaming out his name.
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Monkey King lounged on his cloud enjoying the afternoon sun on his fur, he had to wonder if it was ok to let MK make that agreement with Red Son but if it meant that he didn’t have to deal with Demon Bull King’s half-baked son running around his mountain then he didn’t care. It wasn’t like MK hadn’t beaten him before anyway.
Not to mention it gave him time to cook up more lessons for when he gets back from his Truce Buddy play date, teaching was a lot more complex than he thought.
He opened his eyes when he sensed the presence of others nearby, he leapt down to investigate but relaxed when he realised, they were the familiar auras of MK and his friends. But that feeling quickly died when Mai ran in looking terrified.
“Monkey King we need your help, its urgent!” she cried as she gasped for breath.
“what’s wrong?” he said suddenly concerned, it wasn’t like MK friends to approach him like this.
“This Monkey King look-alike attacked and…” she began.
“Macaque? What happened?” he asked but before Mai could answer he dashed down to find MK, Monkey King gave a small sigh of relief when he saw MK walking through the temple with Sandy and Tang but that was quickly side stepped with a wave of rage as he saw his protégé was nursing a broken arm.
“What. Did. He. Do?” he snarled.
“Don’t worry about me, it’s…” MK began.
“Don’t worry? DON’T WORRY!? HE BROKE YOUR ARM!” He roared “I’m gonna kill him when I find him!” his nimbus flew to his side and he got ready to leap onto it when MK grabbed his cloak.
“Wait please!” MK begged which brought pause to the impulsive immortal, “we need your help with someone else…we didn’t know who else to turn to…” he gestured to Sandy who was walking tenderly with something no, someone in his arms. Monkey King strode over to see Red Son nestled in the giant’s embrace, his skin glisten with sweat, dried blood caked around his eyes and mouth and his breathing sounded painfully ragged and short, Red Son gave a grimace of pain and began to shiver.
“Bring him through and tell me EXACTLY what happened!” Monkey King demanded as he rushed through and began to rummage through his hut.
“Macaque attacked Red Son and I think he was trying to do to him what he did to me. I tried to stop him but Macaque just broke my arm…” MK looked up when he heard the smash of pottery to see Monkey King had accidently broken a jar in his grip. “But then…Red Son defeated him using a giant bull made of blue fire!”
Monkey King spun around to look at him.
“Blue fire? He used blue fire? Oh no this is not good!” he leapt up into the tree and began to grab peaches, jumping back down he began to mush them into a paste rapidly adding other ingredients faster than MK could register what they are.
“Why? What’s wrong with him?” MK glanced back at Red Son who Sandy had laid out on a blanket nearby. Red Son curled up clutching his stomach in pain as sweat poured off him.
“Go get water from the spring nearby, ice if you have it” Monkey King commanded to Sandy Tang and Mai “We need to bring his body temperature down!” they rushed to comply as Monkey King knelt next to Red Son.
“But…but’s he’s Red Son! The guy walks around on fire all the time why is it hurting him now?” MK asked feeling utterly helpless.
“Because he normally uses mortal fire to do it, that blue stuff is dangerous its fire in its purest form.” Monkey King explained sitting Red Son up and holding the bowl up to his lips.
“Drink up buddy this’ll help…”
Red Son groggily opened his eyes to see…a monkey…the monkey that attacked him! He gave a strangled cry and swatted him away, Monkey King darted back and grabbed the bowl before it could spill its contents. Red Son staggered to his feet but fell back on to his knees, blue fire rippling over him in defence.
“Get away from me!” he cried.
“Buddy I’m trying to help, if you don’t drink this, you’re going to roast yourself alive!” Monkey King declared and tried to pin him down but that just made Red panicked even more; weakly struggling to escape the Monkey King’s grip when that didn’t work engulfed himself in blue fire which cause Monkey King to flinch and back off momentarily. MK gave a gasp as he noticed Monkey King’s singed hands, he had seen Monkey King take on worse than a small fire and walk away unscathed, can this blue fire hurt the immortal warrior? This train of thought was broken when MK looked up to see Red Son scrambling away blindly looking for a way out.
“Get away! Don’t come near me!”
“Demon boy calm down!” Monkey King shouted and tried to grab him again but Red Son could see he was trapped and too weak to fight so just clung to the wall.
“I won’t let you!”
“Let me what? Help you?”
“I WON’T LET YOU STEAL THE ONLY PART OF ME WORTH HAVING!” Red Son screamed tearfully; Monkey King just stared at him as Red Son collapsed on the floor again the fire dying back to small embers around him. He coughed and spluttered and MK stared in disgust as blood splattered onto the floor.
“Monkey King…I think you’re scaring him” he said softly.
“I’m trying to help him why can’t he see that?” Monkey King demanded.
“He’s delirious or something, he can’t tell you and Macaque apart; he’s probably terrified because he thinks Macaque’s back to finish the job.”
“Then what are we supposed to do?”
“I’ll give him the medicine”
“Kid you’re not fire proof, if he flares up again broken bones will be the least of your concerns!”
“Let me try” MK said quietly and took the bowl off Monkey King and slowly walked up to Red Son who was trembling.
“Hey Red…it’s me” he said softly. “Remember? Truce Buddies? We were going to just hang out today and relax…” Red Son looked up at MK and he could see how absolutely ragged and worn out he was, he wasn’t sure if Red Son was trembling from the fever or pain or from the sheer terror of being utterly helpless in front of his sworn enemies.
“N…noodle boy? What…what’s going on? Every…everything feels hot and …it…it hurts…” he whimpered as he curled up again, MK knelt down in front of him.
“I have something that will help but you need to drink it ok?” MK explained holding it out, Red Son looked at it and took it, with shaky hands he brought it to his mouth to drink. He gave another wince before finishing the mixture.
“Did it help?” MK asked, Red Son clutched his sides and gave a staggered moan of pain. Monkey King approached quietly and picked him up. MK panicked when he noticed that Red Son had gone limp.
“Is he okay??!” he cried, Monkey King laid him back on the mat as Mai and the others brought two buckets of bagged ice and four of water. As they applied the ice around him, they could hear it sizzle and the ice began to quickly melt.
“The mixture should have numbed his pain and help heal him, hopefully he should be ok but for now all we can do is keep him cool and let him rest.” Monkey King explained as he looked at MK who was staring at Red Son’s body with tears in his eyes.
“Let’s get your arm sorted now, alright kid?”
“He’s going to be okay right?” MK asked in a strained voice.
“Like I said all we can do is wait…”
“Ok…”MK mumbled as the adrenaline finally wore off, he hit the floor as he collapsed from the pain.
