We are getting some long-awaited family drama.
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*Two weeks later.*
Miwa had for the last two weeks stayed at Wukong's place, against her own will, but she slowly grew used to it. Though can't say much about how the rest took it.
Mk was surprised when he saw Miwa there, and started asking all kinds of questions about her and Wukong.
All Miwa could say was that the situation was complicated, but tried reassuring him that nothing was going on between them.
Wukong didn't take any of it seriously, and simply told him that it would be safer if she stayed with him until she was better. Since she lived alone, there was a chance her attacker might show up again.
Mk didn't fully buy it all, let alone the others that he told everything to. But they let it be for now, though it was clear they wanted some actual answers.
As of now, Miwa was all better and her arm wasn't broken anymore, and she could move around without it hurting everywhere. And right now, she was hanging upside down on a branch with her tails, along with some monkeys clinging to her as they watched Mk smashing a wall.
"You know, when I found out I was going to be trained by the Monkey King, Great Sage, Equal to Heaven, I had no idea that I'd be stuck here hammering walls 12 hours a day. Why am I doing this again?" said Mk, turning to look over at Wukong and then up at Miwa. "And why isn't Miwa helping? She is already all better."
"Oh, so I can make a nice little breakfast nook. Get some light up in here." said Wukong, who was resting on his cloud. "I haven't found a new weapon for Sunny yet, and the last thing I want is for her to break anything in her body again."
Miwa rolled her eyes in slight annoyance. "You have a whole fucking room filled with random shit and weapons, but you haven't given me anything, and I've been fully recovered for three days!"
"Hey! What did I tell you about such language, missy." Wukong sent her a harsh glare, which earned him a simple but annoyed huff from her.
"Stupid old baboon." Miwa mumbled, crossing her arms.
Mk had been watching their interaction with a raised eyebrow, but quickly returned to the topic at hand. "But I'm meant to be Monkie Kid. Not Construction Boy. How am I supposed to do the hero stuff if I don't know the fighting stuff?"
"Oh? So you want to know the "fighting stuff," huh? Like this?" Wukong's eyes glow. He throws his staff and smashes a hole in the mural.
"Show off." Miwa rolled her eyes, only to get hit in the forehead by a small pebble. "Ah!" She almost fell off the branch with the monkeys, but quickly caught herself and the small monkeys. "Dad is the worst."
"Huh? Whoa. Yes, exactly like that. I am ready for some awesome." said Mk filled with excitement.
Wukong let out a laugh at Mk's excitement. "Look, bud. You can't rush this stuff. You'll get there. You just need practice."
"But this isn't practice." said Mk looking over at the wall.
"Yeah, if anything, it seems more like you're just too lazy to take that wall down by yourself." said Miwa, earning her another pebble that hit her forehead. "Ah!"
Wukong groans, turning his attention back to Mk. "I'm never going to teach you something you don't need to know, okay?" He placed a hand on Mk's shoulder as he huffs. "Okay. Now, this priceless, ancient mural is not going to destroy itself. So remember: Step into the strike."
Just then, Mk's phone rings. It's a call from Mei.
"Mk, we really need your and Miwa's help." said Mei through the phone.
"A monster attacking the city? That's terrible. Dang. Guess I got to go do some boring hero stuff instead of this. Okay, bye." Mk quickly rushed out and back towards the city.
"Don't even think about it, missy. Until you have a new weapon, you're staying here." said Wukong, already catching a glimpse of Miwa trying to leave.
"Argh! Come on dad! I can still fight without a weapon!" Miwa groans, getting surrounded by a cosmic aura getting down on the ground, while the little monkeys quickly left.
"Not without your powers going out of control, like they are right now." Wukong pointed at her with his tail and raised an eyebrow.
Miwa's eye started twitching in annoyance, causing the cosmic aura to increase. "I've stayed here for two weeks already?! I'm fully recovered, and so I can go back to my apartment!"
Wukong crossed his arms, staring at her. "And what if your so-called attacker shows back up? What are you gonna do without a weapon to defend yourself with?"
"Oh my Buddha, would you just stop being so overprotective! You're the reason I can't even die, and I've been through worse things!" Miwa, not wanting to talk about this anymore, ran out of the cave, which soon turned to her skating through the air after Mk.
Wukong let out a heavy sigh watching her leave, but didn't follow nor stop her. "Why does she have to be so stubborn, I thought spending some time together would help us grow closer."
*Miwa quickly caught up to Mk as they both arrived back in Megapolis.*
"What did we miss?" Mk asked, landing next to Mei.
Miwa landed next to her friends, but her attention was turned to the big monster in front of them. "What the fuck is that?"
"Mk, Miwa, what took you so long?" Mei questioned.
"Wukong was being stubborn, and wouldn't let me go without a weapon." mumbled Miwa in an annoyed tone, crossing her arms with a huff. Still surrounded by a cosmic aura.
Mk let out a nervous laugh, scratching the back of his head. "Sorry, sorry, Monkey King was making me do boring stuff. That the bad guy?" An ominous purple monster looms over Mk, Miwa and Mei's heads. "Okay. Be right back. Here comes–"
"Mk, wait!" Miwa tried grabbing his arm but was too slow.
"No, wait!" shouted Mei, trying to stop him, but wasn't fast enough.
"—Monkie Kid." Mk jumps towards the monster, swinging his staff towards it.
Mk is thrown back to the ground by the monster.
"Oh, yeah, we tried that." said Mei, pointing towards the others.
"At least think of a plan, instead of jumping into it." Miwa let out a heavy sigh.
Sandy and Pigsy rest beside Mk, defeated. Something dark flies overhead, catching Miwa's attention.
"Papa?" Miwa raised a confused eyebrow at this.
"Is that–" Mei took notice of the movement like the others.
"Monkey King?" Mk questioned, a bit surprised.
The three watched Macaque defeating the big monster, much to everyone but Miwa's surprise.
Miwa noticed Mk had already left them and was now climbing a ladder at the side of the building that Macaque was at. "What are you doing, papa?" She quickly followed right after him.
"Yes. Monkey King." Mk quickly rushed over, giving who he thought was the Monkey King a hug.
Miwa had gone on to run into the air and up onto the building, Mk and Macaque were on.
"That was awesome. I can't believe you came back to -- oh, this is awkward. You're not Monkey King." Mk quickly let go after seeing that it wasn't the Monkey King that he thought it was.
"I get that a lot. Monkie Kid, right?" Macaque rubbed the back of his head, but gave a carefree smile.
"How did you–" Mk asked, surprised.
"Your staff kind of gives you away, dude. Not just anyone can wield that thing." said Macaque as he was pointing at Mk's staff.
"Uh, sorry. Who are you?" Mk asked, raising slightly an eyebrow.
"Macaque. Actually, the "Six-Eared Macaque" is, you know, my full name. Well–" Macaque was about to leave before another voice spoke up.
"Macaque, what are you doing here?" Miwa had been sitting on a billboard that was on the building, watching Mk and Macaque for a while, until she finally jumped down.
"Starlight, so good to see you. How've you been?" Macaque asked with a smug grin.
Miwa gave a slight shrug, resting an arm over Mk's shoulder. "I've been okay, for the last two weeks has been a little eventful."
"Sorry, do you two know each other?" Mk pointed at the two confused.
"You could say that. Anyway, it was nice chatting with you two. See you around, Miwa, Mk." Macaque turned around and started walking away.
Miwa narrowed her eyes at his back, finding him acting strange. "What are you plotting, papa?"
Mk quickly rushed after Macaque and got in front of them in pure excitement. "Can you teach me that awesome thing?"
"Uh, don't you already have a Master? I thought Monkey King was training you." said Macaque looking at him.
"Ah, yeah, yeah, no, he-he is." said Mk though slowly grew quiet.
"But you can never have too many teachers, right? I'm sure Monkey King would agree. It's not like he would want to hold you back." said Macaque, looking over at Miwa with a smirk.
Miwa couldn't believe what she was hearing, he was using the same words she used when she asked him to teach her.
"Um, yeah. Yes. He totally would be cool with it." said Mk trying to play it cool.
"All right then. It will make it easier to teach both of you." said Macaque, giving Miwa a wink.
"Wait, both of us? That's why you've been all busy some of those days." Mk looked over at Miwa.
Miwa rubbed the back of her head with an awkward smile. "Well, yeah, I thought it couldn't hurt to have more than one teacher."
"How about we go back to my place, and you can show me what you got." Macaque touches Mk's back, and the monkey symbol changes from sweet to sinister.
Miwa didn't take any notice of it, but she still found it weird as to why Macaque only now was showing himself.
*At Macaque's dojo.*
Miwa was sitting to the side, watching the other two trains, but was still a little surprised to find out Macaque now had a dojo. Instead of the old place they had been using before.
"Not bad. Don't get me wrong, but I was kind of expecting a little more from someone with your power." said Macaque, looking a little disappointed.
"Hey, hey, I've got more. I can give way more than that. I can do better." said Mk almost sounding desperate.
"Okay. Maybe show me next time." Macaque and took a glance over at Miwa. "How about you, little star? It's been a while since we did any training, unless you aren't up for it."
Miwa looked over at Macaque with a raised eyebrow, while Mk went to take a seat next to her. "Umm, I don't have a weapon."
"You can pick one from the weapon rack." Macaque pointed to some weapons on a rack.
Miwa got up from where she sat and walked over to the weapon rack, taking a good look. "Hmm, none of them seems like something I would wanna use."
Miwa took a glance back over at Macaque, or more so, his staff. "I wonder..." She looked at her own shadow, a small idea growing in her head.
"Found a weapon you wanna use yet, or did you get cold feet?" Macaque taunted as he was waiting for her.
"Actually, Mac, I wanna test something." Miwa looked back over at him, clearly scheming something.
"Oh?" Macaque raised an eyebrow, curious about what she had in mind. "And what might that be?"
"You're gonna have to find out for yourself." Miwa gave him a similar smug grin that he was wearing too.
Mk watched the two slightly confused about what Miwa had in mind, and how their training was gonna be like. "So, how did you two meet?"
Miwa grabbed a chain whip with one end being a blade, and the other end being a small ball with some weight on it. "Well–"
"It was simply by chance, she was hiding from some cops and ran into me." Macaque watched Miwa picking up the chain whip, wondering why she picked that out of all the other weapons.
"The cops?!" Mk turned to Miwa with wide eyes. "What did you steal, for them to chase you this time!"
Miwa gave Macaque a short glare, of all things he could say, he had to mention the cops. "Nothing important, just some random vase." She walked over to stand in front of Macaque, holding the chain ready as she started surrounding it with cosmic energy.
"That doesn't make it any better." said Mk, letting out a sigh.
"The chain whip? Interesting choice, Starlight." Macaque raised his staff, ready to start the training.
Miwa narrowed her eyes at him and slowly started swinging the chain whip in her hands. Getting into position and ready to start.
Macaque charged at her with his staff aiming at her side, Miwa acted quickly by dodging backwards and then went on to throw the blade part of the chain towards his leg.
Seeing what she was trying to do, Macaque jumped up and had his staff catch a hold of the chain, then pulled her towards him as to knock her off balance.
Not used to using a chain whip, she was taken by surprise when she got pulled forward. But with the training, she had gotten from him so far, she was able to think fast and moved her body with the swing of his staff. Taking that moment to take back control with the chain still wrapped around his staff, and had him thrown towards a wall.
Macaque had a smug grin and let out a laugh at the trick she pulled, by using the hold of his staff against him. But was still able to save himself from hitting the wall. "Not bad, little star, looks like you haven't gotten all rusty."
Miwa narrowed her eyes at him, not letting down her guard like the other times whenever they trained. But she did notice the chain whip was starting to break from her cosmic energy surrounding it. "Hmm, on to the second part of the test."
"Mk, can I borrow your staff for a moment?" Miwa asked, but didn't move from where she was standing.
"Oh umm, sure? But why? Don't you already have a weapon?" Mk threw his staff over to her, but was confused on why she needed it since she had the chain whip.
"Just part of my small test." Miwa threw away the chain whip, and quickly caught the staff. "Time for round two, unless you're already tired, old monkey man."
"Oh, I'm far from tired, Princess." Macaque's eye slightly twitched from her taunting. "If anything, I think you are the one who's gonna need a nap after this."
Miwa once again had her weapon being surrounded by cosmic energy, and got ready to continue. "Try me, Mac." She would have gone on to say papa, but with Mk around, she decided against it.
Macaque let out a chuckle at her confidence. "Looks like the warm-up is over, but I do wonder what her small test is."
"Woo-hoo! Go Miwa!" Mk cheered from where he was sitting, as he was getting a feeling this was getting interesting.
Miwa decided to make the first move this time, charging at Macaque and swinging her staff at him, a smirk grew on her face when he blocked it with his own. Planning for him to do that, and went on to use her tails to grab his leg, and throw him off balance.
Macaque acted fast and used his staff to push her back, and started aiming his attacks on her left arm. Wanting to see what she would do.
Miwa's eyes flashed red for a moment and her demeanor seemed to have changed, like she was someone else. She began to misdirect his attacks whenever he went for her left arm, while carrying a calm look in her eyes.
Macaque noticed her behavior change and was a bit surprised by how easily she was able to steer his attacks away from her left arm. Narrowing his eyes skeptical at her, he became more aggressive and tricky with his attacks.
Miwa could see that he was getting aggressive and harder to fight against, he was pushing her back, and she could feel her left arm was starting to hurt.
Macaque could see that the slight painful look in her eyes, clearly from the pain coming from her left arm. Taking that as time to stop, before anything got worse. "I think that's enough for today."
Miwa had fallen to the floor and was looking up at Macaque, who was pointing his staff at her. Letting out an exhausted sigh, she laid with back down on the floor. "Finally, I'm tired."
"That was awesome!" Mk ran over with a big smile, picking up his staff that she had dropped. "I can't wait to learn more of those cool techniques!"
Macaque chuckled at how excited Mk was to train, but took a glance at Miwa laying exhausted on the floor. "We'll continue tomorrow, for now, this is enough for one day."
"Oh okay! I can't wait for tomorrow!" Mk happily smiled and began to leave, but turned to look over at Miwa. "Are you coming, Mimi?"
"You go on, Mk. I need to catch my breath for a moment." said Miwa just laying on the floor.
"Okay, see you tomorrow then too." Mk left the dojo, closing the door behind him.
"Well, that was something." said Macaque, standing over her with a smirk.
"Shut up, papa." said Miwa looking up at him, but didn't move from where she was laying.
"So where have you actually been for the last two weeks?" Macaque questioned, raising slightly an eyebrow.
"Wukong decided to kidnap me, and had me stay at his place for those two weeks." Miwa slowly sat up with a sigh.
"Wukong did what?" Macaque narrowed his eyes at this, a bit agitated by the sound of his voice.
Miwa didn't take any notice of the anger in his voice, and just rolled her eyes. "Wukong came by to check on me, and then ended up taking me to his place. Though it would be more "safe" for me, so I wouldn't worry about my "attacker" coming by again."
Macaque let out a slight huff, crossing his arms. "What kind of mentor goes and kidnaps his own students."
"I don't know, but clearly Wukong was being very overprotective." Miwa finally got up from the floor. "But besides that, papa. What are you up to?"
"Need to be more specific." Macaque turned around and signaled with his tail, for her to follow him as they headed towards some stairs.
"The big monster attacking the city, I could feel your powers coming from it. Then you go and act like you beat it, and thereafter, you decide to teach Mk." Miwa gave him a skeptic look as she followed right after him. "Papa be honest with me, you aren't scheming something bad, are you?"
Macaque took a glance over his shoulder at her, and could see the concerned look on her face. "You're overthinking about this, you know how I am. Just wanted to make a good impression on the kid, since you two are so close, I didn't see a problem to why I couldn't be his mentor too."
"Unless..." Macaque turned around and leaned slightly forward, with a smirk on his face. "Are you feeling jealous, that I might give him more attention than you, in our training?"
"Wha-No way, I would be jealous of Mk!" Miwa leaned back a little, narrowing her eyes at him.
Macaque chuckles, seeing her face growing a bit red. "Good, but there is nothing wrong with a little competition between students." With that, he turned around and led her up to his home.
*A week went by with Macaque training Mk and Miwa, but mostly Mk.*
"Stop holding back. Stop trying to be nice. Your first strike should be your last strike. Every time you attack, give it everything you've got. Other people are going to tell you to be patient." said Macaque while he was training Mk.
Though not saying anything, Miwa watched closely with a skeptic look. The way he was teaching Mk was different from her, and she couldn't help but think something else was going on.
*The next day, Miwa and Mk are back at the Shuilian Cave.*
"Patience and focus. Step into the strike." said Wukong.
"They are slowing you down. You have power inside you. Use it. Take the power and destroy. Remember. You don't use a weapon. You are a weapon." said Macaque.
Mk throws the staff and destroys the wall in a blast of purple smoke.
"....Mk?" Miwa gave him a concerned look, but was a little nervous to get close.
"Whoa. How'd you learn to do that?" Wukong gasps as realization hits him. "Have you been running around with other mentors?"
"Patience and focus. Isn't that what you said?" Mk gave Wukong a cold glare.
"Look, kid. Using that much power, your body can't handle it." said Wukong, placing a hand on his shoulder while growing a bit concerned.
Mk went on to slap Wukong's hand off his shoulder. "You just don't like that there's someone who's actually teaching me what I need to know." He turned around and started leaving.
"Mk, wait!" Miwa ran after him and got in front of him. "What is going on with you? This isn't like you at all, and Wukong is just doing what he thinks is best for you."
"Right, because you know him so well." Mk rolled his eyes, letting out a scoff.
"Mk, where the fuck is this coming from, I'm your friend, and I'm just trying to look out for you." Miwa's temper slowly started raising, along with her tails lashing out in irritation.
"As if! I don't get it, I'm the Monkey King's successor and yet, you seem much closer to him! I mean, you even call him by his name! And don't even get me started on your closeness with Macaque!" Mk pushed Miwa out of the way, not saying another word as he left.
Miwa was shocked by his outburst and didn't know how to react as she watched him leaving.
"Macaque." Wukong having heard and watched the whole thing, was now standing in front of Miwa with his arms crossed and a raised eyebrow.
Miwa completely froze, hearing Wukong's voice, forgetting for a moment that he was still here as she slowly looked at him. "W-well, you see, umm.....he offered to teach both of us."
Wukong narrowed his eyes harshly at her, it was clear he was mad. "You stay here, I've got something to take care of." He summoned his cloud and took off.
"Dad! Wait!" Miwa shouted as she watched him fly away. "I need to stop this, before something bad happens." She took a look at the shadows, slightly nervous since she hadn't had much portal training. But it was the fastest way for her to get to Mk and Macaque.
Just like with her other shadow training, Miwa took in what she had learned so far and jumped into the shadows.
*At the mountain, Mk and Macaque was at.*
Miwa jumped out of her shadow portal, just as she saw Mk taking on Macaque's big smoke monster.
"Here comes Monkie Kid." Mk uses the Golden Staff and lunges toward the Smoke Monster. "I am the weapon!" Mk attacks the monster, but it reveals itself as Macaque. It punches Mk in the stomach, and the monkey logo on Mk's back glows purple. Mk falls to the ground. Out of a shadow in the ground comes another Macaque.
"You know, you really are a good kid. Super nice... I see why Starlight likes you." said Macaque with a smug grin.
The second Macaque disappears into a shadow on the ground. Macaque holds a stone in his had; Mk's powers, which he absorbs. The staff launches towards Mk, pinning him to the mountain. "Thank you, for giving me all of Monkey King's power. Huh? Oh, no. Can't you hold the magic staff anymore? Well, you know what that means. There really isn't anything special about you. You're just some kid with a heavy stick."
"Papa stop!" Miwa couldn't take it anymore as she ran over, pushing him away from Mk.
"Miwa! Wait, papa?" Mk was happy to see her, but grew quickly confused by what she just called Macaque.
Miwa gave Mk a harsh glare, making him slightly nervous.
Macaque let out a slight nervous laugh. "Little shadow, what are you doing here?"
"What are you fucking doing to my friend! I knew you were scheming something. But this! This isn't right!" Miwa raised her hand towards Mk, while shouting out at Macaque, and started getting surrounded by cosmic energy.
Macaque scratched the back of his head. "Listen, Miwa, I have a very good reason."
"Bullshit!" Miwa narrowed her eyes coldly at him, and went on to try and punch him. But got stopped and pushed down by some of his shadow clones.
"How about you sit down and calm down first. Wouldn't want your powers going out of control." said Macaque, leaning over her.
Miwa growled, looking up at him, about to shout something. But was cut off by the sound of Wukong's voice. "Enough!"
"Monkey King!" shouted Mk relieved that he was here.
Wukong went on to give Mk the same harsh glare as Miwa did, making him even more nervous.
"..... Hi, dad." Miwa grew a little nervous, but was happy to see him.
"Wait, dad?" Mk gave her a puzzled look.
"Wukong. It's good to see you, bud!" Macaque taunted, while giving a smug grin.
"Are you ever going to get sick of living in my shadow? It's time to give back what you stole." said Wukong, crossing his arms. "And stay away from Miwa."
Macaque's eye slightly twitched, clearly offended. "You are such a gem. It's going to be so satisfying, killing you with your own powers."
"What?!" shouted Miwa in disbelief.
Wukong and Macaque then took off as they started fighting each other, while Miwa and Mk were still on the mountain.
"Why did you call them, dad and papa?" Mk took this as a good moment to ask.
Miwa glared at the shadow clones, before looking over at Mk. "..... Because they are my actual parents, these last few months I've gotten some of my memories back. But not all of them yet."
"Why didn't you tell me and the others about this?" Mk questioned, a little surprised to hear this.
"I don't want things to change between us, knowing I'm Wukong's daughter would bring too much attention to me. Along with a target for dad's enemies to go after." Miwa looked at her hands, and then at the shadow clones. Her anger slowly gone as she summoned her own clones and had them take on Macaque's clones.
"You have the same powers as Macaque?!" Mk was surprised to see that.
"Some of them, but right now." Miwa narrowed her eyes to where they could see the two monkeys fighting. "I want some fucking answers."
Miwa rushed into the air, skating towards her parents, tired of keeping secrets.
"Seriously? You fell for that?" Macaque taunted, leaning over Wukong who was being pinned down by his clones.
"Enough!" Miwa landed on the ground, leaving a small crater. "What is going on with you two?! I want answers!"
Macaque and Wukong gave each other a glance and then over at Miwa, that was surrounded by cosmic energy that was quickly growing with her rage.
"Well, you see, Miwa, it's a little complicated." said Wukong, trying to get the clones off him.
"What, so fucking complicated, that you wanna kill each other?!" Miwa's eyes were flashing golden, with her body going back and forth with her monkey form. "I have a right to know! I'm tired of secrets!" A faint golden seal on her forehead was slowly showing.
"We had a fall-out, nothing much to it." said Macaque, glancing to where Mk was still struggling to lift the staff.
"Don't you fucking try anything, papa." The cosmic aura around Miwa was growing slowly out of control, destroying everything around them.
Not wanting it to get worse, Macaque created a shadow portal under Miwa, causing her to fall in as it closed after her.
"What the fuck, papa?!" Miwa shouted in the dark, empty, shadow-like realm.
Miwa tried finding her way out of the place, creating her own portal, and found both Mk and Wukong sitting on the mountain watching the sunset. Clearly, the fight against Macaque was already over.
"You did it, bud. You remembered what I told you." said Wukong looking at Mk, giving a proud smile.
"I'm sorry." said Mk, feeling genuinely sorry about what he did.
"Oh, oh, you totally should be. I can't believe you two-timed me on your training. Let alone Miwa too." Wukong scolded him.
"I just wanted to be good enough. Like you." said Mk with a sad look on his face.
Wukong let out a small sigh. "Hey, your heart's in the right place, kid. We can work on the rest.
"So you'll keep training me?" Mk asked.
"Of course, bud. I've got something special in mind." said Wukong smiling at him.
"I take it you won." said Miwa slowly walking over.
"Miwa!" Mk got up and rushed over to her. "Are you alright? We couldn't find you anywhere after the fight."
Miwa wrapped her arms around herself, letting out a heavy sigh. "I'm fine, Mk. Just tired."
"I'm truly sorry about what I said to you." said Mk, feeling bad about what he told her.
"I forgive you, Mk, but it's also partly my fault for not telling you the actual truth until now." Miwa gave him a soft smile, though it dropped to a scowl when she looked over at Wukong.
"Freckles, listen, I–" Wukong walked over, raising a hand to reach out to her.
"I don't wanna hear anything you, or papa, has to say. It's one thing for me not say anything to either of you." Miwa narrowed her eyes coldly at him, tears slowly running down her face. "But for the both of you, ruining my trust in either of you, by lying and keeping secrets. Even though I deserved to know. That's a whole other thing."
Miwa turned around and made a shadow portal. "Don't follow me, and stay away from my apartment, dad." She then left through the portal, ignoring the painful look on Wukong's face.