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yenalogyy · 2 years

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Shen Xiaoting | Short Meeting III

A continuation of the previous part.

Going to have to find a better title if I’m turning this to a series.

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A windy night, which made people who were living in such a condition to be wary and carrying their own umbrellas in case of rain.

There he was, the guy named Y/N, sitting alone at the gazebo whilst moving his feet back and forth, none other than hoping to meet Chaehyun as it had been a few days since he last saw her at the park.

But of course, doing such a thing where it’s not even a sure thing that she’d come by would be unproductive, so he started reading his school materials in order to get those lessons earlier inside his head.

At one moment, he noticed someone walking towards the gazebo which he was at, making him lift his head up to see who it was.

It wasn’t Chaehyun, which made him disappointed. However, it was one of her acquaintances, Xiaoting. She glared at him, before speaking her mind.

“You. Han Y/N.” She said,

“Yeah? Do you need something?”

“Yes, actually. Who are you and how are you acquainted with Chaehyun?”

Her question was odd, was what he thought at the time of their encounter. Leaving her unanswered would be rude, of course. So he replied.

“Well, as you have said before, I am Han Y/N. And as for the second question… we had a small talk a few days prior, that’s all.”

“Okay? Anything else?”

“I have nothing more to say other than the words I have said earlier. Why does this feel like an interrogation?”

“Because it is. It just seemed suspicious that someone like you would talk with someone like her.”

He felt attacked by her statement, and replied.

“Are you implying something?”

“Think about it. You’re like the type that sits at school all alone, being the quiet student who has the average score in most of his exams without even having a single friend to hang out with. Chaehyun on the other hand is the popular student whom all of the students in the school know of. Do you get my point?”

Not wanting to feel low of her, he stood his ground.

“That’s up to her to decide, is it? She initiated a conversation with me, and so I replied. Who are you to forbid her from talking with me?”

“I can’t handle this. Just stop interacting with her. If you have anything you want to talk to her about, just talk to me about it.”

“…what? What do you mean by that?” She coughed, before retracting her statement.

“Forget it. I’m just gonna-“

Just then, a loud sound of raindrops hitting the ground started to echo as the rain approached them at full speed, trapping the two alone under the gazebo.

“Going to what?” He teased the other person. She gave him a glare, which sent shivers down his spine before she turned her head away and looked at the rain.

Xiaoting walked back inside and sat at the only seat available and waited for the rain to let up. Y/N on the other hand had no intention on starting a conversation with someone who was hostile towards him in their first conversation, and went back to reading his school lessons.

Few moments later, he heard a sneeze coming from her, which made him concerned.

“You cold? Want to wear my jacket?”

“Who would want to-“ She sneezed one more time, this time looking away from him. He proceeded to let go of his sweater and handed it to her.

“Just take it.” She stared at him, with menacing eyes before snatching it out of his hand and making herself warm.

“Just because you’re acting the way you are now, doesn’t mean I’m seeing you in a better light, okay?”

“Whatever you say, Shen Xiaoting.”

“…you know my name?”

“Yeah? I mean, we’re classmates aren’t we? Just like how you know my full name.”

“That is a different case! How come you know my full name?!”

“Because you’re Chaehyun’s friend! Okay? And by that, I mean because I’ve heard her call your name a few times. So… yeah.”

She went silent after, not speaking another word as he did the same. Time went by, and no conversation was initiated by either party until the rain had almost let up, signaling Xiaoting that it was time for her to leave the place.

“I’m gonna go home. Do you mind lending me this for the night? I’ll return it tomorrow.”

“Okay, sure. Be my guest.”

“So… see you tomorrow then. Good night.” She gave him one more look before walking away, not looking back despite him returning her goodbye. He felt confused by her sudden change of behavior, which made him question.

“What’s gotten into her all of a sudden?” He said to himself, before sitting back down.

Unbeknownst to him, there was one person standing from afar witnessing them having a moment, which caused her to turn away with lots of questions coming to her mind.

What’s Y/N doing with Xiaoting?

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unseelie-robynx · 1 year

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Cult AU Snippet

So this is a snippet from my Curse AU (breakdown can be found HERE) placed somewhere midway through Xiaotian’s backslid into his cult upbringing, where he still doesn’t believe that what the cult wants is good, but he doesn’t not believe that either. This snippet is about the gang finally starting to learn what’s actually going on with the cult, (courtesy of a certain pair of demon brothers), beyond just the basic ‘there’s a creepy demon worshiping cult that wants to maybe destroy the celestial realm but also maybe destroy Yama / we know they think there’s some king that supposed to do all of this and-slash make things quote-unquote ‘better’ by taking over’.

It is under read more because long, please enjoy.

(No real warnings apply I don’t think, beyond mentioning a cult)

Xiaotia- MK was twitching. He was trying really hard not to be, but he was. He’d had to shove his hand behind his back, to hide the fact they were shaking, and it was taking more self control than Xaio- MK knew he had to keep from just throwing the demon twins out of Pigsy’s shop altogether.

Because that would be suspicious. In like, the worst ways.

So instead, he was stuck, listening to the twins spill information they had NO BUSINESS KNOWING and he was going to have to tell Shifu about- no. No he wasn’t involved with them anymore. He was MK, was the Monkey Kid, and he didn’t know anything about anything Yin and Jin might be babbling on about. He didn’t.

And man did the two of them have a lot of things to go on about. It was like they’d never had a good meal in their lives with how savagely they were tearing apart the noodles Pigsy had given them, and while their manners were atrocious and Xiaotian ignored the suspiciously familiar voice in the back of his mind that was wrinkling its nose as said behavior they were appreciative, and dumping out a lot of information between bites.

“So like, I really don’t see how you don’t know this-“ Jin said around a mouthful of noodles.

“-like *really* don’t see how you didn’t know.” Yin added around his own.

“I mean, honestly-“

“-considerin’ the subject matter-“

“-the fact that you don’t-“

“-almost seems like-“

“-could be an oversight on their part. But then again-“

“-might be a reason, you know? Don’t want you findin’ out before the ‘end game’ or whatever. Although-“

“-how that would work-“

“-considerin’ how said ‘end game’ is supposed to go-“

“-kinda goes back to that oversight on their part thing, ya know?”

At least Xiaoti- MK, wasn’t the only one getting annoyed. He could see Xiaojiao’s eyebrow starting to twitch, and honestly the fact that Red Son hadn’t flipped his top yet was a minor miracle. Maybe, if he was lucky, one of them would get fed up first and throw the twins out preferably before they spilled anything that was actually important or made sense without preexisting context that the others didn’t have, so that MK didn’t have to be the one to break character and do it.

But of course, Xiaotian was never lucky.

But… was that true? He’d been lucky that Shifu found him, had taken him in and raised him and given him a home and the truth but- NO. Because… because it wasn’t… it was a c-… was a… that. His friends all said so, MONKEY KING, said so. So it… it was and he was right to try and get away but then Shifu reminded him that Monkey King couldn’t really… that he… Xiaojiao’s sword came down in a streak of lighting, halting right above Pigsy’s counter (which was good because he would have killed her, resurrected her, and then killed her again if she’d actually broken it). It was enough to both snap MK out of his thoughts, and shut the twins right up, and the both swallowed HARD before turning in jerky unison to stare at the glaring (and glowing) girl.

“So since Pigsy was kind enough to convince me to not chop you into little pieces despite you trying to break in and steal his stuff, why don’t you get to the POINT, m’kay?” Xiaojiao hummed out, tone entirely too cheery for the murderous expression on her face.

The demon twins both swallowed in unison, turning to look at each other and doing that silent ‘twin communication’ thing with their eyes before turning to the group and moving in eerie synch to point… at Monkey King.

Shit.

(He should have taken the opportunity to throw them both out the door when he had the chance)

There was a bit of confusion as everyone looked between the pointing demon brothers and Monkey King and back again, which was only compounded when Monkey King himself raised a confused finger, pointing at his chest as if to confirm ‘Me?’, while still looking just as lost as everyone else about what was going on and what Yin and Jin were talking about. And this was bad, this was really bad Monkey King couldn’t know. It’s not like he didn’t know but THEY couldn’t know that he knew and they were watching (because they always were) and if Monkey King ‘found out’ they would know that he knew and probably do something even worse than what they already had and!

“Yah um, we’re going to need a bit more than that, actually.” Mr. Tang’s voice cut in his voice was so similar but so wrong and even after all these years Xiaot- MK had still never fully gotten used to it, gotten over the way the similarity felt so wrong.

MK knew he needed to do… something, but he didn’t know what and the more he panicked the less chance he had to do anything, just like now because the twins were speaking again and-

“Well it’s obvious, aint it Yin?”

“Totally obvious Jin.”

“I mean, It’s not like they even tried that hard, what with the name and all.”

“Nope, didn’t try hard at ALL Jin.”

“Great King-“

“-Great Sage-“

“-Equaling Heaven-“

“Uniting Heaven and Earth?”

“Use the same kanji and everythin’-“

“-really aren’t trying all that hard to disguise it.”

“Plus I mean, with all their ’natural order was disrupted’-“

“-’the new age where the heavens are PROPERLY overthrown’ and all that-“

“-makes it hard not to reference what they’re takin’ ‘bout, you know?”

“Not that WE want anything to do with any of that.”

“Oh absolutely not. We done saw what it was like the first time-“

“-and if they’re planning on any sorta carnage like the last time, Whoooooh boy.”

“Nope”

“Nu-uh.”

“Not happenin’.”

“No offense-“

“Mr. Great Sage-“

“-but you was terrifyin’ back than-“

“-not that you aint now-“

“-oh no, you’re still plenty terrifyin’ now-“

“but like, you get it, yah? There’s like-“

“-levels of terifyin’ and you used to be on a whole different one.”

“And not that the Celestials are all that great-“

“- I mean we definitely jumped ship soon as we got a good chance-“

“But like if that’s the kinda thing these guys are seein’ as the ‘ideal’-“

“-that just gonna be like, slaughter for most people.”

“You understand?”

There was silence around the room for a few long moments as everyone sort of… digested what the twins had said. Everyone but him. Finally though, Xiaojiao broke the silence.

“Wait. So you’re saying that the creepy doomsday demon cult, and their whole ‘evil demon king to destroy the three realms’ and all of that, that they’re talking about Monkey King?”

The disbelief and incredulability in her voice was blatant, but not in a way that she disbelieved the twins, oh no. That would be to easy and nothing in Xiaoti- MK’s life could ever be EASY. Instead it was disbelief at the quote unquote ‘stupidity’ of this ‘cult’.

And a part of him rankled at that tone. What did she know after all? Nothing. Nothing true, anyways, nothing important. She didn’t understand, had never been shown how things would be better, why they would be better. She only knew the painful reality they were stuck with, and the layers upon layers upon layers of masks that Sun Wukong was compelled by enchantment and self-preservation to wear. She’d never learned the truth of who the Great Sage truly was. (But Xiaotian had. And he’d learned it sitting in the lap and by the side of one who had managed to catch glimpses of the truth for himself)

“So, um, gonna have to actually agree with the twins on this one.” Monkey King pipped in rubbing at the back of his neck. “Never thought I’d say that one.” He added in a softer tone before continuing. “Just, I feel like if I’m supposed to be like… important, to this cult, they probably should have like, you know, told me, or something. I mean, I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to be this ‘Great King’ of theirs if I, you know, don’t know I’m supposed to be doin’ the job and all that.”

It was clear that Monkey King was trying to be funny, to play the whole thing off. To distract the celestial realm, to not let his watchers know that he already knew.

But it was also clear that it… wasn’t working. All that well.

This whole thing was making Monkey King anxious, and it showed.

And Monkey King being anxious was making him anxious, because what terrible thing was going to happen to his mentor (slash kinda father figure but he was really trying not to think too hard about that right now) because of this? What ‘punishment’ would the celestials come up with simply for the crime of other people knowing the truth and wanting to see justice done?

Not that, that he thought it was justice, or anything. Because he… he didn’t. But he also knew that what the celestials did certainly wasn’t justice, and Monkey King didn’t deserve any of what they would probably end up doing to him because of this.

“So wait,” MK finally found his voice to cut in. “Do you guys like actually know that it’s Monkey King, or do you just think that it’s Monkey King based off stuff you’ve heard?” (Please let it be the latter, please let it be the latter)

“Oh no, it aint speculation-“ Yin quickly pipped up to defend his honor, or something.

“Not at all!” Jin agreed.

“What do you take us for?”

“Charlatans?”

“You think we’d just go ‘round,”

“Givin’ out fake information like that?”

The twins were giving their own incredulous looks, while everyone else in the room suddenly had something else to look at.

“Well we aint!” Jin declared, evidently incensed by the unspoken accusations.

“We most certainly aint!” Yin agreed right on cue.

“We’ll have you know that we got his bona fide information the hard way!”

“That’s right! And it was a real mess of a situation believe you us!”

“Why when that Monk came in I thought for sure we was-“