Royal Christening (A Hero Is Born, #1)

Royal Christening (A Hero is Born, #1)

I found this Risen Shadow/Fallen Sun au by @lavender-descendentheart wherein Lady Bone Demon finds Sun Wukong under the mountain and frees him, so Tripitaka is forced to settle for Macaque when about to go on the journey, that just REACHED my heart, so I had to write out like… like a first chapter for it.

Whatever this is. MK will be referred to as Xiaotian because what else do you want from me? You want me to call him SK for “Shadow Kid”? I’m not calling him SK. I’m not a vsco girl. And Xiaojiao Long for Mei because I just like that better than “Mei Dragon” to be completely honest. This note is because authors be writing these fanfics, using the Chinese names and then expecting people to just… KNOW who everyone is.

Qi Xiaotian was just a delivery boy. Nothing more, nothing less.

He was an orphan, with no memory of his life before meeting the noodle shop’s owner, who’d taken him in- of course, not without grumbling about how he’d have to pull his weight around the shop in exchange.

Xiaotian didn’t have any complaints. It was sometimes a hassle, but it was fun sometimes and it was certainly heaps better than being on the streets without a thing to his name. He was happy to do anything asked of him.

But a delivery to an unfinished construction site- that was halfway underground? He had to draw the line somewhere, right?

“An order’s an order, kid,” His boss, and as far as he was concerned, surrogate father “Pigsy” (that wasn’t his real name, but that didn’t make it any less fitting.) had told him gruffly, pointing his spoon matter-of-factly.

“I can’t have a costumer giving me a bad review! That’s exactly what the competition wants.”

“Oh, don’t be so dramatic, Pigsy,” Tang had said, leaning on the pig demon’s shoulder without a care, spinning around a chopstick with his free hand. “It’s raining cats and dogs! You can’t make Xiaotian go out in all that! Your noodles are the best in town!”

A cartoonish vein popped up on Pigsy’s forehead as he shoved Tang off of his shoulder. “Yeah, I bet!” He’d barked. “That’s why you’re always around here freeloading, ain’t it!?”

The moment another one of their typical childish arguments began, it became apparent to Xiaotian that he wasn’t getting out of this strange request- for noodles… underground.

Unfortunately, his little delivery boy cart wasn’t exactly accommodated to rides underground, especially considering the seemingly constant poor weather in Megapolis.

No matter the season, it was either foggy, raining, or snowing, which made it especially hard for a delivery boy such as Xiaotian. Scientists yet to have come up with an official theory for why the whether was so bizarre despite the location and season, but there’s been talk of a constructing a weather station to control it.

Matter of fact, he thought as he finally came across his destination, ready to climb down underneath the unfinished building and deliver his boss’ noodles, that was the very building he would be trespassing beneath this afternoon.

“Hoo boy,” he said aloud, a little bead of sweat rolling down his face at the sight of the undone building in front of him.

The heavy rain helped nothing, and since none of the workers were out, perhaps because of the violent storm, it looked throughly abandoned, thoroughly unstable, and thoroughly creepy.

He cracked a nervous smile, hesitantly walking forward and ducking underneath a wooden scaffolding, crawling into a hole that looked like it was about to become a basement.

He checked the directions on his phone (all of which had been manufactured waterproof, as the constant rain called for a lot of accommodations.) and hummed unsurely before taking a left, poking his head through a recently dug out hole.

As for what he saw- well, he wasn’t really sure what he expected in the first place.

It was just a cave, with pipelines for the unfinished building above lining the ceiling- but inside that cave was an entire squadron of mechanic-seeming… bull demons, all of which looked exactly the same, as if they’d been mass produced.

A tiny squeak of surprise escaped him, but none of the bull… robots seemed to notice.

Their appearance reminded him of one of the many stories Tang had told him while he cleaned up the shop- the story about the Demon Bull King.

It was no more than historical fiction, of course, but it described an epic battle, a raw display of aggression between two demons, the Monkey King and the Demon Bull King.

Monkey King emerged victorious, sealing the Bull King underneath a mountain with his staff before he vanished, never to be seen again until finally being defeated by the famed Six-Eared Macaque. (The details of that second battle were unknown to him until Tang got another bowl of free noodles.)

He shook away his thoughts, scrambling to find his phone. He hoped with all his heart that he’d found the wrong underground hideout beneath an unfinished business.

Of course, that was not the case.

At a genuine loss for what to do next, Xiaotian just sat there for a moment, awkwardly wedged in between an unfinished bathroom and a freaking underground lair.

”It feels like I’ve waited an eternity for this moment,” Over everything else, the sound of a feminine voice stood out to him. “Is everything in order?”

“Just making the final adjustments, mother.”

Xiaotian flinched, turning his eyes in the direction of the female voice, which was then followed by a male’s.

The woman was tall and dark haired, with an impractical but impressive horned headset and a traditional dress you wouldn’t see on anyone in the modern day.

The boy was much younger, her son, he inferred, and had red hair tied into a high ponytail and small glasses, along with a random scar on his upper cheek.

He didn’t recognize either of them, but one of them had ordered noodles, and Megapolis was a big city after all. Most of Pigsy’s shoppers were regulars. First time for everything, he guesses.

He used his teeth to hold the bag, laying both hands flat against the stone to force himself out of the hole. With an alarming lack of grace, he fell, rolling into the dirt.

He quickly recovered, however, pushing himself off the ground. “Hey!” He yelled, dusting the dirt off of his red hoodie.

“Huh?” The boy’s expression contorted into disgust at the sight of Xiaotian. “What are you supposed to be?” He demanded, as if Xiaotian were some creature that just crawled out from underneath the bed.

“Oh! Uh, I’m Xiaotian.” He smiled sheepishly, holding up the bag of noodles. “Here from Pigsy’s Noodles? Order for two classic bowls, right?”

“Not right, you oaf!” The redhead seethed, slapping the noodles to the ground. “Nobody here ordered your peasant food.”

In the corner of his eye, Xiaotian noticed one of the Bull robots start to seemingly sweat nervously, but the redhead didn’t see it. Instead, he pointed an accusatory finger at Xiaotian.

“Do you know who we are?” He hissed. “I am Red Son, the one and only son of the Demon Bull King, and I-”

“Enough of this,” The mother hissed, tired of her son’s rambling. “We’ve no time for games. Be on your way, peasant boy.”

She narrowed her eyes at Xiaotian, who broke into a sweat as he spared her a nervous chuckle.

She turned away, training her eyes on a little hill filled with dead grass, and a similarly wilted tree. In he middle of tiny hill was a staff. “We must focus all our energy on lifting the staff.”

Xiaotian furrowed his brow. Lifting a staff didn’t seem like it would be that hard.

A Bull robot, the same one that he suspected ordered those noodles, quickly scrambled up the top of the hill, pulling on the staff.

Instead of running like he probably should have, Xiaotian watched intently as the Bull robot heaved and heaved, pulling on the staff, but in the end, his arms gave flying off instead.

The Bull’s body landed at… Red Son(?)’s feet. “You fool!” The redhead said smugly. “You think we didn’t try that already? It’s going to take more than a few robots to lift the Monkey King’s staff. Only those deemed worthy can wield-”

Xiaotian cut him off, shoving his palm into the redhead’s cheek to move him aside. “Monkey King’s staff? That is a really realistic model, but that staff isn’t real, you know.” He said lightheartedly, ignoring Red Son’s cries of umbrage as he walked up to the hill, smiling until he reached the staff.

“You just have to twist and pull. Righty tighty, lefty loosey!” He said, quoting the old rhyme.

As he wrapped his hand around the hilt of the staff, a shudder went down his spine- not a chill, but rather a sweltering heat.

“You idiot,” Red Son said, rubbing his cheek. “Get down from there immediately, peasant! Someone must teach you your pla-”

The arrogant boy was immediately silenced when Xiaotian tugged on the staff, pulling it out of it’s spot situated in the ground. As far as he knew, it wasn’t even in there that tight.

The mother gasped as the staff can free, and Xiaotian held it in his hand, above his head in a mock victorious pose. Whispers aligned into an odd term as he held it, brushing against his ears.

“Sun Wukong,”; they told him.

“He did it…!” The mother gasped aloud, but the son wasn’t very amused.

“Then why is nothing happening!?” He demanded, before looking at his mother flatly.

“Mother, are you sure this is the right mountain?”

“No,” The mother said in annoyance, holding her palm to her forehead. “Maybe it was that other mountain with the magical staff, sealing away my husband!”

Xiaotian glanced down at the staff in his hands. There was no way that thing was the Monkey King’s staff, right?

His thoughts were proved wrong in a flash of erupting green light from the ground beneath him, tossing him across the room, clutching onto the staff for dear life.

Out of the ashes of what used to be ground, a giant bull- who could only be the Demon Bull King- the real Demon Bull King, even with a broken horn and a body and face that was riddled with scars from his head to his toe, the demon exuded power that Xiaotian had never seen before.

“Flesh,” he utters, “Bone…” He stared down at his clawed hands, clenching them, simply to test out movement. “I have returned to the realm of the living!”

“Demon Bull King!” The woman said, a wicked grin on her face. “How I’ve missed you.”

“Princess Iron Fan,” The King greeted in return. crossing his arms with what can only be described as ‘something kind of like a smile’. “The years have been kind. How did you free me?”

In response to the King’s question, Xiaotian’s body was quickly kicked away by Red Son, explaining what had happened in quick recession that was barely understandable.

“I-It doesn’t matter though, Father!” The boy sputtered. “If we have the noodle boy, we have the staff, and we have them both right here!”

The Bull King glared at Xiaotian, who backed up in fear and alarm, clutching onto the staff for dear life as Red Son continued.

“Together, we, the Demon Bull Family, will plunge the world into eternal darkness!”

Oh jeez, The supposed Demon Bull Family, along with their little gofers, the robots, turned to give Xiaotian a glaring look, their eyes gleaming in the darkness. Xiaotian stared at the staff in his hands, sweat rolling off his forehead.

This was all his fault, wasn’t it?

Next? 👀

Azure Lion: Without ugliness, there’d be no beauty in this world!

Lady Bone Demon: I suppose that’s true. Let us thank Macaque for his sacrifice.

I made up a Backstory for Lady Bone Demon

I think we all knew I would get to this point some day.

In Jttw, demons are typically animals brought back as demons, for example the Black Wind Demon, a bear. As a human skeleton demon, it’s incredibly likely that LBD was a human before she came back as a demon.

With this in mind, how did she die? LBD despises war, pain and famine of all kind, so I assume she might have died on a war front and, while I don’t think she retained memories from her life as a human, she still subconsciously hated wars.

Her body when she was the ivory lady was probably her own body, which she woke up inside of because it’s technically her corpse. The demon itself is within her skeleton, but that doesn’t mean her old body can’t be an accessory 🥳 fashion first, get ya look right

She just randomly woke up on one of those carts with all the corpses on it and was hella confused

So I feel like as a demon, she kind of became some Good Samaritan, since she looked human everyone was just cool with it. She was a seamstress and you can’t convince me otherwise. She would fashion clothes for the homeless and give fruits to travelers coming through whichever town she found herself in.

I mean she’s a little older than SWK at this point I feel like, she’s doing nice things to hold onto her sanity at the sight of the world crumbling and rebuilding itself again and again and again in a ruthless cycle 🧡

In JTTW, she was 110% just trying to poison Tripitaka and the gang so that she could eat him, but I need something to reinforce her hatred and lack of faith in the world so we’re switching that up a little.

She’s just doing her thing, giving fruits and vegetables from her garden (bc she has a damn garden. She’s giving garden.) to every traveler passing by and the monk and the boys happen to be one of them.

At this point she’s grateful to them because what they’re doing could help end a lot of conflicts and she doesn’t like conflicts 🥰

Wukong recognizes her as a demon and kind of misunderstands, thinking she’s trying to poison them.

So yeah he responds with violence.

Yeah so that was how she discovered she could take her mfing skin off when she had to wiggle out of it to save herself from being pummeled into bone cartilage

you best believe SWK got his ass kicked out of the group for beating up some random ass lady who he absolutely convinced was trying to kill them 💀

but dw they let him back in when they needed protection from the yellow something demon

They buried her damn corpse so she had to go underground to get back inside it, and then dig her way out of the grave.

And the night after all that is the first time she has ✨ the dream ✨

Where she sees herself destroying the world.

She brushes that off as just a nightmare yet, but then she starts having different bad dreams, of things like plagues and wars and you know… people dying

And damn, those start COMING TRUE??

She tries her best to change them, but nothings working??

Ooh, here’s an idea! What if she becomes and advisor and guides their emperor into being a better person?

HOO BOY DOES THAT MAKE THINGS WORSE

The emperor is the worst, why 💀 She becomes besties with the mayor, at the point the war chief, who the emperor just loves to overwork the hell out of

And she’s constantly getting precognitive dreams and changing them has proven to be impossible so that sucks

And I feel like she’s just on the last threads of her sanity when that one dream she had where she destroyed says “hey what if you just killed them all” in her sleep

And then BOOM

They’re in the middle of a crisis the very next day. She’s 100% prepared to ignore that dream because she’s still in the “the future is what you make it” phase but then as she’s talking to the emperor about handing the crisis, just imagine him doing the cruelest possible thing in that situation and that’s what he did bc i can’t think of anything

And that’s it, that is IT

This goofy mf is dead. His ass is grass.

And then she’s like “y’know what. I have tried to fix the world and these dreams have just been constantly telling me that it can’t be fixed. Let’s torch the earth, screw the environment”

But then Tripitaka and the boys come together to stop her 😒

So she peeps Macaque’s decaying corpse and decides he has some potential

SHE WAS WRONG

I assume in that box, her destiny talk was just her way of not losing her shit trying to get out

“Yup, this is all for destiny. I’ma get out of her one day, I’m a survivor, I’m not gon give up”

Every second spent being pissed at Macaque’s goofy ass

I imagine she was super nice to him fr, she was looking for FRIENDS but his trust issues really said “stop ✋🏽 You violated the law”

Presumably, her body rotted away when she was locked up because she was IN IT when she was first imprisoned, but when she was freed there was nothing but bones?? 🤨

And now she’s gotten free and

She is not very happy 🧡

because like Tripitaka said “I’m locking you up until you learn the error of your ways” because he saw that her intentions were good, but like

you know damn well he wasn’t actually gonna free her. There would have been better ways of changing her mind then locking her away and you know it 💀

what were you gonna do fr fr just show up every now and again to check on her and then leave like “Oop, nope, you haven’t learned your lesson looks like you need a little more time in your box, I’ll be back in fifty years, don’t go anywhere now teehee 🤭”

🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

Six-Eared Macaque Disstrack

He was honestly one of my favorite villains, but he’s absolutely my least favorite anti-hero 🥰 so enjoy this diss track! :D

Bro 

You literally a demon 

You know you always be scheming 

You can actually fly 

And boy, do you know how to lie 

Like bruh, when everything gets dark

You know this guy got control 

He got a whole ass shadow monster 

Along with disposable clones

Bro, even if you couldn’t fly 

You can still turn into a hawk, I seen you

My guy 

You op as frick 

SO WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS THROWING? 

Pls explain with all of these powers you slid off into a FREAKING pitch-dark hole 

When literally everyone else on board 

Could catch a ledge and keep their hold 

DUDE 

HALF OF THESE BITCHES WERE BEAT UP 

HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SCREW UP 

THEY AIN’T EVEN HAVE THE STAFF 

THEY WERE BEAT UP AND DOWN ON THEIR ASS  

YOU SHOULDA BEEN ABLE TO DO THEM DIRTY AND FAST 

THE BONE LADY PRACTICALLY HAD THEM GIFT WRAPPED 

SO DUDE 

HOW DID NE ZHA 

DO YOUR JOB BETTER THAN YOU 

LIKE BRO 

WHY DOES THE FANDOM RICHARD RIDE YOU LIKE YOU JESUS ABOUT TO DELIVER A MIRACLE 

NAH, YOU MORE LIKE JUDAS 

WHY EVERYONE PUT THEIR FAITH IN THIS BITCH 

YUH

THAT’S WHY ONLY FOUR PEOPLE CAME TO YOUR WACK ASS PLAY 

‘CAUSE YOU’RE BASICALLY JUST A TRASHCAN, WITH LEGS 

AND NONE OF THEM ACTUALLY WANTED TO BE THERE ANYWAY

YEAH BRO  

UR WACK 

MY GUY IS COMPLETELY INCAPABLE 

OF COMPLETING THE SIMPLEST TASKS 

ALWAYS BE DOING THE OPPOSITE 

LIKE FOR ONCE JUST DO WHAT YOU’RE ASKED 

IF YOU DID THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE BONE LADY WOULDN’T EVEN BE MAD 

BRO LITERALLY THE ENTIRE SHOW 

HAPPENED CUZ YOU AND SUN WUKONG ARE ✨ ASS ✨

Y’ALL NEEDA HOP OFF HIS DICK 

BRO AIN’T A SNACK 

HE A WHOLE ASS BRUSSELS SPROUT 

Y’ALL STOP FEELING BAD 

HONESTLY LBD SHOULDA DONE THIS NIGGA WORSE 

LIKE MAN 

LOST THE FRICKEN RING 

TO FRICKEN TANG 

HOW? HOW DID YOU SCREW THAT UP? 

BRO YOU HAD LITERALLY ONE JOB 

LBD, FIRE HIM 

LIKE WHY DO YOU KEEP HIM AROUND? 

WHAT IS HE FOR 

ALL HE DOES IS BETRAY Y’ALL 

AND WHEN HE AIN’T 

HE’S LITERALLY USELESS 

IT AIN’T NO SURPRISE 

THAT EVERYONE TREATS HIM LIKE SHIT 

Y’ALL NEED TO STOP STANIN 

YOU KNOW THIS SHADOW-LOOKING PRINCESS LUNA KNOCK OFF DESERVE WHAT HE GET 🙄✋🏽

Lady Bone Demon Playlist bc I love her

💙 I don’t have Spotify 💙

Weirdly enough, lot of these are either FNAF songs or Neoni, and ironically, one written by “Bohnes”

I’M Not Sorry - Neoni

Angry Too - Lola Blanc (yes the Gacha song)

This Day Aria - … My Little Pony? It goes hard I promise

Who is She? - I Monster

I Can’t Fix You - The Living Tombstone

Dance to Forget - TryHardNinja

Bad Moon Rising - Morning Ritual (ngl I heard it first on teen wolf, this is from their soundtrack)

You’ve Created A Monster - Bohnes

Here Comes Trouble - Neoni

MACHINE - Neoni

Spooky - Duke Skellington & Kumiho

Bones - Imagine Dragons

Horror Show - CG5

Absolutely Anything - CG5

The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At the Disco

dumb dumb - Mazie (honestly I think this one suits her the very best, right next to Machine & Horror Show)

If I got an amv or animatic of her to ANY of these songs that would be 🤓 RAD 🤪