(Art by me!)

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The next morning, the bird from before could be seen flying through the city as if looking for something, or more like someone, explosions could then been seen from left to right inside the town.

And then down there was the one and only demon bull king, who was terrorizing the town with his loud roaring, absorbing anything and everything within it's vicinity which only made him more stronger.

The demon bull then smashed his both his fists in the ground shattering it and creating debris in the process, he then cried out and started to laugh maniacally, as someone lowers down with a jet pack on their back, revealing that it was none other than Red son, landing down on a building looking down with white manic eyes, with a sinister smile to fit it in.

"Yes! With every item absorbed, my family becomes one step closer, TO TOTAL DOMINATION!" Red son yelled out. "Once we get the monkey king's staff, WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!" He said, as his expression became more manic.

He then lowered down and looked down on the ground. "And once we rule, I'd get rid of that pesky noodle boy and I'll finally claim the butterfly girl for my own!" He said before he rose up and started laughing maniacally once more.

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Back to the gang, all of them were driving in a small vehicle, it was so small it squeezed all of them together in a mush, MK complained about it while pigsy was driving the car.

Y/N sat between MK and tang and she didn't enjoyed being squishes by them, not one bit, which resulted a vein appearing on her face out of pure annoyance despite her smiling and unfazed expression. "Ara Ara! This is certainly one bumpy ride!" She as she tried to remain calm, with the rest of gang being annoying did not help her one bit, amidst the chaos that was ensuing upon the town.

Tang gets beside pigsy, with his neatly hair do now disheveled from the ride. "Pigsy! Watch where you're going! You're gonna kill us!" He cried out in panic, MK then got in beside pigsy, shoving tang away in the process, Y/N could see pigsy was getting annoyed by this.

"Yeah! We've gotta get to flower fruit mountain! Without getting smushed in a car crash!" He said as he starts flipping through the pages and practically shoving it in his face. "All we need to is drive through an entire ocean, simple." He said before mei chimes in with worry, her phone in hand.

"Guys! Demon bull king's been moving on to downtown, he's destroying the cheese tea stall!" Mei said. "All the more reason to get this staff to monkey king! Flower fruit mountain, it's the only place he could be, right Mr. Tang?" MK quickly responded.

Tang adjusts his glasses in a serious manner. "Mm.. Indeed, however flower fruit mountain is hidden away deep and dangerous and unknown territory... So I guess we gotta turn back!" Tang said nervously. "What?!" Both MK and mei said with shock by tang's response, pigsy then shoves him away. "Ahh shut it you big baby, I know a guy that can take us there, the most dangerous.. Deadly.. Rage filled warrior I've ever known." Pigsy said before flooring it to go faster.

Y/N looks down on the ground with a blank face, that last part almost reminded her of herself when she still worked for the demon slayer corps, just hidden away with a happy facade as a memento for her dead sister kanae, who loved seeing her little sister smile when she was young before remembering her death and her own, which made her clench her fists against her lap out of anger, but she had to remain calm and took a deep breath and just sighed, putting back her happy facade as they were now in where pigsy was leading them to.

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All of them were now inside a giant cargo ship, where 'sandy' was, all of them were shaking with fright all except Y/N who watches with her usual smile on her smile and only watched as the massive figure places down the knife back in with the others and approached the group.

"It's a lot to take in." Said a deep masculine voice, obviously coming from him, he then looms over them which made even more intimated except Y/N once again, though it did made her a bit uncomfortable. "You know what I do to people who disrupt the peace?" He asked. "Nope!" Y/N chirped cheerfully, which made the rest wonder on how she was so calm with all of this.

"Serve them tea!" The big blue man said, holding up a tray of tea with a happy smile, she saw a kitten who looked just like him, color wise lying on his shoulder which made her face darken at the sight of the cat and chose to ignore it.

"You guys want some?" He asked them, while showing them the tray of tea at them, when it got in front of Y/N, she gladly took one for her on and smiles happily. "Why thank you!" She said. "It's no problem! Now anyone else wants some as well?" He asked the rest as Y/N blew away the steam and took a small sip of the tea.

"Certain noodle shop owners learn a lot from your hospitality sandy." Tang said smugly. "Not unless some freeloader decided to steal their noodles." Y/N said, which made him sweat drop at her once again for ruining his moment once again.

"Sheesh piggy you're right, this guy's dangerous, he'll kill us with cuteness!" Mei said as a cat landed on his face which got him angry. "Now now you two, don't go poking and teasing pigsy like that." She told him as she placed the empty cup on the table once she was done. (*cough* ironic coming from you *cough*)

"it's my own blend of anti stress fruits! It really brings the heart rate down." He said, ' I could ask him for some more remedies like these later to relief me some anger off of me that I've been having for a while..' Y/N thought to herself as she felt the effects of it relaxing her body from the stress she had just faced today, finally calming down completely for now.

Pigsy finally had enough and grunts out in anger which resulted some cats falling away, he then slammed his hands down on the table out of anger. "Sandy what happened to you?" He asked before grabbing him by his beads and yelled at him. "Where's the angry glass chewing fist throwing buddy I used to know?!" As he starts becoming red out of anger at his friends new state.

Sandy, who was now on in a sitting position, puts down pig sy on the ground with little effort. "Well.. My therapist said I really needed to calm down.." He said as he patted pigsy by the back who was still stuck in his angered state.

"So that's why I started drinking tea, doing yoga, investing in therapy cats, really helps." Sandy said as his cat jumps on to him and he started to cuddle the cat. "Aww don't you mo?" He cooed out to the cat, as pigsy was now lying on the ground.

"Uh... Mr. Sandy, sir." Mei said, who was now on her knees in front of sandy, who then looks down at her. "We could really use your help, we gotta get to fwower fruit mountain!" Mei pleaded, pulling out her baby eyes with some tears in her eyes, hands clasped together in hopes if would work.

MK decided to do the same thing and got on his knees in front of sandy as well pulling the same face she did. "Pwease? The faith of the world is at stake." MK said in a baby like voice, Y/N giggled at the two as she came from behind them and placed a hand on top of mei's shoulder while lifting her hand up to clear it up for them.

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(Think of it like this)

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"What the two are trying to say is that we need to get to flower fruit mountain and we hope you could help us get to it Sandy-san, if you don't mind of course." Y/N said with a bright smile at him, not noticing that mei was sticking he'd tounge out at MK since she touched her head while glared at her out of jealousy, planning to notes it in his diary about Y/N later.

"Okay!" Sandy stated, which made Y/N smile even more, while the two were a bit skeptical about his quick acceptance. "Really?" MK asked.

"Anything for pigsy! I can get ya there, but it ain't a pleasant trip." He said simply, which made the both if them happy and run around the room like a bunch of excited kids on the playground.

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Y/N sweat drops at the both of them before turning to sandy. "Sorry about them, they tend to get over excited about new adventures." Y/N said, rubbing the back of her neck. "That's alright Y/N I'll get use to it." Sandy said.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Pigsy chimes in getting in between of them. "You already knew her?" Asked pigsy, while pointing at Y/N. "Why yes we have! His cats were one of my patients and he would occasionally visit me for other activities when I'm not busy." Y/N said and shivers at the memories with his cats. "Why am I only hearing this now?!" He yelled. "You didn't ask." Sandy casually told him, shrugging his shoulders.

"Alright, let's get moving." Sandy said then looked at pigsy. "I'm telling you now old friend, if things get hairy I've changed, I don't go around picking fights no more." Sandy said which made pigsy sigh and closes his eyes.

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As they were sailing away to go to flower fruit mountain, they were unaware that one of the bull clones had watched them sail off into the distance with his binoculars.

They went back to report red son about it, kneeling down before him and let out some grunts as if to tell him what happened, which only made red son furious by this and clenched his fists before turning to them with bursting out of him.

"WHAT?! YOU LET THEM GET AWAY?!" He yelled furiously before his flames disappeared hearing his mother's voice from behind and gusts of wind starts to flow behind him.

"Awww, so your plan didn't go according to plan hmm?" Princess Iron fan cooed in a taunting matter as the winds disappears to reveal her flying in the air above them both, before floating back down on to the ground.

She floats up towards him, as red son was looking down on the ground with his arms crossed. "Awww, don't worry my sweet useless boy." She said in a baby like tone as she lifted her son and pulled her towards her, cupping his cheeks and squishing them. "I'll get the staff and the girl you're so eager to capture." She replied before letting him go making him tumble back. "I'm not about to let anything stop us... Not this time.." She said as wind surrounded her before vanishing with it and left to go after them.

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They were now all on their way to flower fruit mountain to give the staff back to the monkey king and to save the world from who knows what they have in store, with sandy and the others busy doing their thing, MK, mei along with Y/N were currently at the center at the boat.

Y/N sat a fair distance from mei as she was busy polishing her blade and adding the chemicals inside her blade and it's sheath, she looked up and saw MK doing some moves with the staff while talking to himself which made Y/N shake her head at him and looked back down on her blade.

Y/N looked up just in time to see MK holding the staff up and it automatically increased It's height and nearly stabbed mei straight in the face, but she remains unfazed by it.

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"Whoo! That was awesome!" Mei said as she jumped from from her sitting position and stood up, cheering for him. I put back my blade aside along with the other items I brought along with and stood up as well. "Careful where your hitting though MK-San!" Y/N called out.

"Uh, sorry mei!" MK said as he went to pick up the staff and tried to lift it, but it suddenly starts moving again and wiggled before it it landed on MK's face bonking his head and dropped in the ground groaning in pain from the impact.

He looked up when he noticed someone looking over him and saw that it was Y/N who was standing above him, raising her hand out near her face as if she was calling out to him from a distance despite their closeness. "You alright there MK-San?" Y/N asked sweetly.

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"She's like an angel from the heavens...." MK thought to himself, a small blush dusting his cheeks before quickly gaining composure and mentally slaps himself for his goofiness.

"U-um.. Yeah I'm fine!" He said nervously and looked up to the horizon and gasped in shock when he saw that they were now in there destination. "We're here! Flower fruit mountain!" MK said excitedly as holds on the edge of the boat, but he was quickly started when lava bursted right next to them, making everyone tumbling in the boat.

Y/N slipped on the ground and was about to fall when someone grabbed on to her hand and yanks her forward, hugging her close to their chest by her waist, she looked up and saw that it was MK who saved her and holds on to her tightly.

"Oh my gosh! Are you alright Y/N?! You almost fell down there for a second!" MK replied in a panic, quickly pulling away and rubs the back his neck nervously from his actions, Y/N giggled at his cute little antic and just pats his shoulder on reassurance. "It's alright! Thank you for the help!" Y/N said and both walked to where the gang were to continue on their journey.

"Welcome to the flaming mountains gang!" Sandy said, wrapping an arm around MK while stretching his other one out to gesture the sight before them. "A volcanic ring surrounds the mountain making it virtually impassable!" He continued.

"This path is the only safe way through, that's the closest the boat can get... Be careful..." He told them worriedly as the gang got off the boat and begin walking forward, and being careful on their travel as one mistake would probably kill them by the lava.

"Stupid sandy, stupid tang, staying cozy in their stupid boat.." Y/N heard pigsy muttering as she stood walking right beside him. "Oh! What did I do to deserve this noodle gods?!" Pigsy cried out, Y/N stuck her hand out in front of pigsy, which confused him until a burst of hot steam came out in one of the cracks, startling him and made him scream.

"Careful piggy! You gotta think why monkey king decided to live here of all places." Mei said, which only made pigsy more angry and Y/N only pats his shoulder out of comfort and looked up, seeing MK tapping the staff against his staff as he was explaining about monkey king once again, and looking up when she heard mei panicking, you take out your blade, and slowly got to a fighting stance.

"You know when monkey king had to go to the flaming mountains, he actually had to use princess Iron fans fan to-"

"MK LOOK OUT!" He stopped when he heard Y/N yelling out to him, he turned around just in time to see none other than princess iron fan floating above them although was covered in smoke, she chuckled darkly as MK looked on with shock.

"Well, well well... Aren't you a monkey king fan boy?" She said, and in que, lava bursted out from behind her, as if giving her a grandiose entrance.

She lifted her her fan and threw a fire ball at their way, wasting no time Y/N grabbed all of them and jumped away from it just in time, the ground exploding as a result from the blast, she puts them all down and got in front of them with her blade out to fight her.

"KIDS! Is everyone okay?!" Pigsy said in a panic, Y/N was more focused on princess iron fan, she probably won't stand stand a chance against her in a fight, but knowing that her son wants her alive, she could could perhaps use this as an opportunity and a distraction so they could go bring the staff back to monkey king, even if it meant her sacrificing her own freedom for this psychotic woman's son.

Princess iron fan chuckled once again, floating up in front of us looking at the gang, but mostly was directed at Y/N, she could hope she could distract her long enough so they can get away from here, Y/N gripped on my sword tighter as princess iron fan spoke up.

"I'll be taking the staff, and that girl as well now.. There's no use fighting me either little girl.." She announced, pointing at Y/N when she was now in a fighting position and with her sword out, MK suddenly got in front of Y/N before she could even do anything.

"This belongs to the monkey king and were not giving away Y/N to you either, there's no way I'm letting you take either of them." MK declared and standing up as well, I looked at MK as he spreads his arms out to protect Y/N. The staff still in his hold, before Y/N then quickly focused back on the enemy before them.

"Oh, just a little noodle boy playing and being a hero for his little princess." She responded, in a cutesy like voice, like a mother talking to her child about how adorable they are, but in a more condescending way.

"Sorry to disappoint.. But playtimes over." She told them, her voice changing in a serious tone.

"KID NO!" Both of them heard pigsy crying out, the only thing Y/N could only do now is just watch in worry since mei is now holding on to Y/N so tightly as if she would die If mei ever let her go and her just begging Y/N not to fight as well, watching as MK went to attack princess iron fan with the staff and an explosion happened.

Princess Iron fan, now seemingly recovered from the explosion moves her hand out to reveal the giant gauntlet that Red Son had used to pull the staff from the mountains, the blocks the hit with just a finger creating a shockwave.

"What?" MK said with shock, Y/N finally managed to slip out of mei's grip and started running towards him at a fast speed, jumping over every gaps before jumped out to him, and she quickly got a hold of his torso and clinged on to him tightly like her life depended on it, which made him shock but it quickly turned to fear realizing on what's about to happen.

"Y/N WAIT!"

"Y/N STOP!!"

"NOOOO!"

All three cried out to her, but It was already too late, as both of them were now sent flying away at high speeds to who knows where now.

"MK!! Y/N!!!"

MK started screaming as we were both sent flying away, Y/N only held on to him tighter and buried her face on his shoulder, she suddenly felt him turning her around before quickly encasing me in a tight embrace as if to keep Y/N away from any incoming debris or the impact they were about to face.

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Y/N ould only do now is pray and hope that the gang would be alright and fine while MK and her are away, let's hope we can get back somehow as well.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝.