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MK and Mei were training on flower mountain with Sun Wukong as they were doing this, MK thought it would be a great idea to invite Macaque to help with training. Wukong obviously was against the idea, but it was too late as MK yelled “MACAQUE!!!” at the top of his lungs.
“Gods, kid I'm about to revoke your yelling privileges! *sigh* anyways what do you want?” Macaque says, rubbing his ear annoyed as he appears from a shadow portal on the ground.
“WOW! How did you hear MK from? Uh… Where did you come from? Actually never mind that part. How did you hear him?” Mei asks curiously.
“I’m called the **six** eared Macaque for a reason ya know” Macaque responds, crossing his arms.
“but wait, that means you have… ahh that means you have six ears” the black haired mortal says in amazement.
“No, he can’t have six ears look” MK says confused, pointing to Macaque’s very obvious two ears.
“Glamour kid ever heard of it” Macaque huffs out, pushing the kid’s hands away from his ears.
“Umm… No. What's glamour?” MK asks with a simple minded look.
“It’s a-“ Macaque starts only for Wukong to cut him off.
“It’s a type of magic that can hide stuff that’s actually there. Some use it in combat while others use it to change their appearance” Wukong explains.
“Cool! Wait how do you know about this magic” Mei questions.
“I’m Monkey king I know tons of spells-“ Wukong states confidently before Macaque speaks.
“He uses glamour too” Macaque says nonchalantly, ignoring the ginger monkeys denial and outrage.
“Can we see you without your glamour?” MK asks the monkeys excitedly.
“No” the two monkeys say in unison.
“Oh come on we barely know anything about you two” MK says disappointed. “Especially you Mr. Dark and gloomy, '' Mei adds. “Isn’t only fair as you’re shared students and kinda son and daughter that we get to see the real you’s” MK says in hero speech mode.
“Please” the mortals say with their biggest puppy dog eyes.
The monkeys almost immediately caved both sighing and giving a begrudging “FINE”
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Mei and MK now sat down on the grass in front of Macaque and Wukong, Mei holding out her phone to record and MK just excited to see what the two immortals truly look like.
Both monkeys sigh before they snap their fingers, magic swirling around them and showing their true form.
Macaque’s hair becomes extremely long, almost touching the floor along with half his fur being white and even streaks going through the black fur. His once two ears now show six, 3 on each side of his head the top, being pink, the middle, being purple and the bottom, being a dark blue. The most notable change is a large scar coming from his forehead, going down over his right eye and ending at the middle of his cheek. His right eye is also pure white, showing he is obviously blind in the eye.
Wukong’s once ginger hair takes a more rustic/brown color, becoming medium length and curly. Like Macaque he also has white streaks in his hair along with burn marks (probably from the samadhi fire). His eyes turn a bright red with gold pupils and adorable star freckles on his cheeks. He beautifully has a braided hair crown across his forehead that seems to be covering a circlet indent in his fur. His teeth become sharper and he shrinks down to be about 4 feet.
“Wow you both look so cool” MK says in amazement.
“I wasn’t expecting the monkey king to be so short,” Mei comments, earning an offended “HEY” from Wukong.
“How’d you get that scar Macaque?” MK asks, pointing at his own right eye. This question makes both Macaque and Wukong tense up.
“A fight between a real strong demon… I managed to get away though” Macaque plays off casually.
“Cool also I am rocking with this long hair you got” MK compliments.
“Thanks kid” Macaque says with a half smile.
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Both MK and Mei gush about Macaque and Wukong’s new looks, asking questions about less serious scars and oohing and aweing at the stories told with them.
It was almost sunset when the kids left but the two monkeys still had their glamours down.
“Um… you’re really beautiful like this ya know” Wukong says, breaking the awkward silence.
Macaque chuckles “and you’re very handsome like this, Peaches.