Flying Lesson
(Lego Monkie Kid) Sun Wukong x Reader
(Prompt - Falling)
“Come on! You’ll never get anywhere just standing around!”
You shot Wukong a dirty look. “Easy for you to say,” you snapped back, watching him float on his personal cloud without a care in the world.
Wukong scoffed, pointing his tail accusingly. “Hey, you were the one that wanted to learn Cloud-Stepping, remember? This is how you do it.” He gestured out to the open air around him with a grin. “It’s not so bad once you get used to it.”
In any other situation, you would be enjoying your time on Fruit and Flower Mountain. You could see everything from the highest peak; the waterfall cascading in brilliant blue, the monkeys playing in the jungle, and the ocean that separated the paradise island from the rest of the world. But the problem wasn’t the view.
Swallowing your nerves, you glanced over the mountain ridge. Nothing but rocky cliffside all the way down; not even an overhanging tree to break your fall.
“Is it safe?” you asked, trembling slightly as you toed the edge between stone and air.
“Frankly…no.” Wukong quickly waved his hands to calm your rising panic. “But, don’t worry! I’m literally right here! What’s the worst that could happen?”
The Monkey King smirked in self-assurance but you couldn’t help the primal urge to stay planted firmly on the ground. The more you thought of the empty space below, the more you wanted to scramble back down the mountain. “You’ll…catch me if I fall, right?” you asked quietly.
“Whaaa? That’s not the attitude you wanna be using right now!”
Instead of retorting, you only stared with a fearful plea. Wukong seemed startled at first but quickly sobered his attitude. He met your gaze, golden eyes more serious and reassuring than you were used to. “I promise, I won’t let anything happen to you.”
You nodded and glanced back down to the cliff. Steeling your nerves, you took a breath and jumped, flinging yourself towards the void.
For a gleeful moment, you felt like you were flying, floating weightless on the wind.
Then gravity took hold, breaking your hopes with a ruthless pull. You saw Wukong’s mildly surprised face spin away as you plummeted off the side of the mountain and towards the rocks below. Wind whipped past you, doing nothing to slow your fall. You could only scream and brace yourself for the inevitable crash.
Instead of the ground, something much softer caught you. Hands scooped you out of the air, gently breaking your fall and holding you close. Still trembling and fighting to breathe, you peeked your eyes open to find Wukong. His grin was teasing but his tight grip was almost apologetic as he cradled you to his chest.
“See? Told you I was right here!”
“You couldn’t catch me sooner?” you cried, clinging to his robes. The ground was still too far away for your liking even from the safety of the Monkey King’s arms.
He shrugged, slowing his cloud down to an idle float. “I was waiting to see if you could actually pull it off.”
The words prickled your already frayed nerves. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Wukong realized his mistake too late, chuckling a bit and refusing to meet your furious stare. “Weeeell…only immortals and demons can really figure out the whole flying thing. But you seemed so excited to try it and I didn’t want to discourage you.”
“So, you’d rather watch me jump off a cliff to try and fly like an idiot?” you asked, crossing your arms.
“You wanted to try Cloud-Stepping; I was there for safety reasons,” he argued with a frown. “Besides, if you train hard enough, maybe one day you’ll learn it for real.”
“Like that’s ever going to happen.”
“Hey, you never know! But for now,” Wukong nuzzled against you before pressing a kiss to your cheek. “I’ll be more than happy to fly you wherever and whenever you want.”
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