The 16th Century.
The gods were formidable in Ancient China, soon the be toppled and bested by a monkey. You must have heard stories of him. Some say he helped Tang Seng fetch the Buddhist Scriptures becoming the "Vicious Fighting Buddha". From then on he stayed in LingShan. Others say it was not him who was granted Buddhahood. Others say he was already dead on the Journey to the West. Some say there is no such Journey. He's just a storyteller's fictional monkey.
But...You must've not heard the story I will tell. This story starts with a golden cicada. Such a bug passes by a stone with fruits and beautiful Lotus flowers resting on it. On Mountain Huago there was a fierce battle between the gods in the sky. Not knowing that their fight shall result in extreme measures.
(AN: This story will follow some history, but will not always be historically accurate. This is my story so I will do what I want with it. Also, some random OC's that are side characters deal with it.)
The golden cicada with great magical powers gets struck by a lightning strike. The gods were too angry with each other to pay attention to their surroundings and the destruction they were guilty of. The golden bug dropped dead on the stone that bore fruit and flowers. Such so that life had sprung forth in exchange for its death.
It was a small little monkey that had been born from stone. This event will change next year's forever. This monkey had nowhere to take off or call home.
But he saw the mass destruction the gods had caused and watched. He found the battle to be interesting only to be blasted away from a random skill one of the gods had used. The monkey was rolling down the mountain with no signs of stopping.
"Oh man that hurt like badly, do those gods know how to show some self-respect?" said the Monkey with a sarcastic tone talking to itself.
Feeling hungry and thirsty he decided to wander around for water and fruit which he successfully found. After he was full and hydrated he began to wander around more until he found a palace-like building.
'What is this?" the Monkey said
(AN: "" = conversation/dialogue and '' is for thought. Oh and I'm ready for the oogway monkey memes)
Monkey had peaked curiosity when he had entered the palace, some humans were fighting and others sitting very still while breathing calmly. He was interested in the people sitting very still nonetheless he thought the people fighting were awesome.
A human walked up to the Monkey and offered its arm so it can climb up on it. To which the Monkey complied, this human looked older than the rest but that did not stop him. The human began tapping the Monkey's forehead and suddenly some random information had flown in.
"Woah what was that?" the Monkey had asked
"I made you be able to speak our language." the old human had replied.
The Monkey almost panicked when the human understood him. He wondered if the rest of the humans also understood him.
"So what are these people doing?"
"Meditating and Training." the old man replied.
"Can I do that as well?" The monkey had asked with a curious tone.
"Well, I've never seen a Monkey cultivate so possibly." the old man had given Monkey his answer.
"So what is your name young Monkey?" the old man had asked him.
"I don't know, all I know is that I came from a rock and some angry people were fighting. It was an amazing sight if I do say so myself." the Monkey had given the old man his explanation.
"A Monkey born from nothing huh?" the old man stated
"Well, it's not like I had a choice whether to be born or not." the Monkey had shot back his quick reply.
"Then your name shall be.....hmmm how about Sun Wukong?" the old man had changed the topic.
"Sure, that sounds good to me." the Monkey had replied.
-Smoll Time Skip-
So then, the Monkey had begun being taught Taoism practices He already had a great energy flow and began eating very healthy foods.
"So you shall be reading the Tao Te Ching book. One of my favorites to be in fact." The old man had said.
He did not hear a reply since Wukong was eating some fruit.
"So basically you can meditate to gain Qi and you can use that Qi in several ways, including martial arts and Qi-controlled skills." Sun Wukong had already known the way of power.
"You how did you know that?" the old man said in a shocked tone.
"I snuck in the Sects treasure room and library." Sun Wukong had replied.
"YOU WHAT?!?!" the old man almost gave himself a heart attack.
"Relax some of the treasures there I didn't even look at, I just read in the library." Sun had replied to reassure the old man.
"Anyway, is there a form of martial art I can learn?" Sun had asked
"That will be up to you to learn how to fight. Experience is the best teacher so this is your first task. Find a bear and kill it." the old man had said to the toddler monkey.
"Okay, how do I prove to you that I killed one?" Sun had replied
"Bring me a tooth." the old man had begun getting busy and had no words left for Sun
Sun began to work on his task wondering how he was going to find a bear while dashing out of the temple walls.
Soon enough while wondering he saw tracks of an overly sized animal but he wasn't sure it was a bear, so he decided to follow the tracks. It had led him right next to his destination, a bear fighting 4 wolves that we're standing upright and swinging some kind of spear.
"HEY, THAT'S MY BEAR YOUR KILLING!!!" Sun had shouted out.
The wolves were stunned and had turned around to see a Monkey on the ground.
"Who are you?" the wolf gang leader had asked him
"I'm just a monkey" Sun replied
"Great then, more food." said the Wolf Gang Leader.
"Uh-Oh."
Sun began dashing to two of the wolves that were standing up-right and launched a kick with his right leg. The wolfman had side-stepped his kick while swinging his pole-arm to hit Sun. Sun saw it coming and grabbed the polearm to run upon it. He quickly crawled around his shoulder and punched him on his ear. The wolfman now being disoriented Sun took his chance and SQUISH! gouged his eyes in with his thumbs. He was weak but he analyzed the real parts of a human body and realized that some of the animals also had these weaknesses After he was doing he punched him in his throat to stop his airflow. That's when another Goldman had snuck up behind him and punched Sun in the back sending him flying to a nearby tree.
"Ow, that hurt." Sun had said
"That's the point little monkey." Wolfman #2 replied.
After regaining his stability, Sun had run up to him in 4 arms making him very agile and brisk. He circles a few times before the wolfman did some kind of sweep attack that Sun jumped over, he grabbed wolfman# 1's polearm and begun a flurry of polearm strikes, the damage was almost none since Sun was currently weak but the damage racked up until the Wolfman blocked an attack breaking Sun's chain of attack. Not knowing what to do Sun stuck his polearm to the ground, jumped with all of his might, and kicked the wolfman right in the chest.
This action had sent the wolfman flying with a hole in his chest. Using this duration of energy Sun had killed the other two wolfmen, before tricking the bear and also killing it. Having pulled out its tooth he began making his way back to the sect. To see it destroyed, nothing was there, it was reduced to a pile of columns and ashes. There was nothing but a Blue Gi the clothing of the old man that had brought Sun in and taught him for a few weeks.
Although it was a short period Sun had begun crying, his only place he has considered home.
But he had steeled himself before taking the blue clothing and wearing it, even if it was big on him. He decided to get stronger to find out who did this, he was determined to get stronger.
Having gone back to the forest where the wolfmen and the dead bear were, luckily the bear was still fresh. Sun made a fire out of sticks and rocks to cook it. While looting the wolfmen's bodies. He also figured out that they had a cart of supplies. There was a wooden polearm that Sun had decided to take, he wasn't interested in blades or any type of sword. He ate his bear meat and slept on a huge old tree.
-Next Day-
Sun had spent 4 hours meditating and getting Qi, the price was slow but he was fine with it. He made a wooden dummy to practice striking with his arms and polearm. He trained like this in the rain and hot days, this became his daily routine for 3 weeks. Sun had begun consuming a lot of protein he had muscles since he always trained from morning till dawn. He had grown bigger even though he was 1 month old.
He wandered until he sought another mountain, to which he dashed to, and there he saw a lot of monkeys that looked at him with curiosity. Until one of them plucked one of his grey fur it was soft a firm. Sun had done the same but this time he had blown into the hair so then it can go away but, some smoke appeared and another Sun had appeared.
'What? Another me! That's impossible!!' Fun ad thought but remained calm. After some time the clone had disappeared.
The monkeys had seen this and began praising him in some monkey language that Sun had understood.
"There is no need to praise my fellow monkeys." Sun had said to the group
"Blasphemy you are wonderous we shall name you the monkey king." the leader of the monkey's responded
-Time transition- 5 months.
Sun had enjoyed the properties of life, but still had his goal in mind and kept following his daily routine.
But he could not take this position of King he wondered that what would life give if it was nothing but feasting. To die of old age? To die of illness? or to start a family? He wanted none of it, so Sun had left the mountain and sought immortality.
Sun had come across a waterfall and decided to find the source of it. Which led to another forest, and in turn let do a town. Normal non-cultivators see Sun and flee, there he saw clothes out to dry and took them to appear as a commoner. His face was covered with a hood to prevent people from seeing it. Through town he sees human examples of degeneracy and vice, it was only a street with building on the side. He had smelled food but ignored it, as then so he continues on foot.
Sun hears a woodcutter singing an interesting song so Sun had asked him about it without trying to be a bother. The Woodcutter says he heard it from in a immortal who lives in a forest.
Sun had come across a fancy temple with Tori Gates in the front.
"You are not welcome here monkey." ??? said with a neutral tone.
"It does not matter I will wait here until I can come in." Sun had replied.
"Well that it is your fault if you die Monkey." ???replied.
Then so Sun had waited at the entrance for many months, the Immortal within the temple was impressed with his persistence. He eventually let Sun in and introduced himself.
"Hello there my name is Puti Zhushi." Puti said with a welcoming tone.
—END CHAPTER—
Authors section.
So i'm pretty much zooming through Sun's origin I guess he'll get his powers in due time since this novel will mostly be action. Chapters will be average of 2k - 4k words or characters depleted.
2-3 times a week I will update.
Author: Hey sun you can't do SHIT HAHAHAHA
Sun: COME HERE, IMA BEAT YOU UP.