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"Become God?" The Monkey King said to me with a confused expression. Three weeks ago I had woken up on the outskirts of New York.

I had no idea what had happened, last I could remember was fighting that blonde lightning guy...

I quickly found clothes to cover me up, hence the rags on my body; And then went back inside New York.

That's where I found out about the prison incident, and the false suspicions the city had for me, so I fled.

It was the plan to leave anyway so it's not a total loss... Though I wish I could have said an actual goodbye to Sam, I wonder how he reacted.

Now, why was I asking the troublemaker of Heaven how to become a god?

Well, during my three weeks of travel I found myself in a book store to go to sleep. There I read various mythologies, including Chinese mythology.

The Monkey King, a monster made god, How? How had he done it?

Why did I care so much? Honestly I couldn't explain it, perhaps this was simply a side effect of years of abuse; or maybe I'm just indecisive; But on the inside I could feel how angry I was, even if I didn't feel it on the outside.

During these three weeks I had thought on this, all while being homeless and in need of course.

"Hmm" The Monkey King stared down at me from his pedestal; his hand on his chin as he seemingly thought about it, "Why would you want to do that?" He asked after a while.

"Why wouldn't I want to?" I asked back, causing him to nod with a small smile.

"Well, no. Sorry kid but I'm not allowed to give out that info, go on home now."

With these words The Monkey King began to stand, only to raise his hand blocking the punch I had tried to get in on him.

He had obviously been expecting it, I could feel it the whole time he was "thinking".

"Now… what's the meaning of this? A mortal has tried to strike a god… according to the ancient rules…" The Monkey King's expression morphed into one of glee as the sky became overcast. "… I can defend myself with all my power."

I flew back into the stone wall that covered the shrine area of The Monkey King as a bolt of lightning flashed down revealing a 6 foot staff looking thing in his hands.

Before I could register anything happening I was already flipped over and kicked the other way, only catching the tiniest movement from The Monkey King; A twitch of his tail to be exact.

"There… No there," I whispered to myself as I was hit in the jaw, not hard enough to knock me out or even kill me; Which I knew wasn't The Monkey Kings goal.

With the books saying how much of a prankster/troublemaker this god had been, I assumed he just wanted to mess around.

I would treat this as a test, if I failed I wouldn't be able to get the info I needed to become a god, if I passed however…

Hundreds of hits tore the rags I was using as clothes, messed up my dirty hair, scraped up my body; but I simply stood still, not fighting back until I finally saw it.

"There."

Using my full speed I burst forward, using my knife to stab forward into the chest of The Monke King as he prepared to move.

All this time of him hitting me I had been looking for an opening; Even the smallest one.

He hadn't revealed one until now, this was all I needed.

The Monkey king looked down at the broken knife that I snapped upon hitting his chest with a smile. "Good… Though it wasn't as fun as I hoped, still enjoyable though."

With a flash of lightning the disheveled area returned to normal, and the staff that he hadn't used once also disappeared in the same moment.

"S-So?" I asked, stuttering a bit as I hoped my extensive effort wasn't gonna go to waste.

The Monkey King was an entirely different level than Zeus, though I hadn't been able to fight Zeus at full power either; I could just tell; Zeus would be destroyed by The Monkey King… Just how strong are the gods?

"So you want to become a god huh? Well… It's not for everyone…" The gods words trailed off as he seemed to be in deep thought before he finally looked back at me.

"How about I give you a task? Should you complete it correctly then I'll tell you, deal?"

The Monkey King said this as if it was a gracious offer, and, from his standpoint at least, it probably was.

From my standpoint though? It was shit. I just spent the better part of a half hour getting hit just to be told to do something else.

What could I do though? So, with a small sigh, I nodded and waited for him to continue.

The Monkey King smiled and snapped his fingers, a scroll appearing in front of him. "Ah yes… this is a good one."

He turned the scroll toward me, showing a stick drawing of what seemed to be steps?

At the top it had weird Chinese scrawl that I couldn't quite make out, should have learned that at camp… Oh well.

"What is it?" I asked with a confused expression as he thrust the scroll at me.

"It's your task, follow the steps and complete it at the location I send you, don't worry about the words, I didn't even know how to read until 400 years ago haha!" With these words The Monkey King snapped his fingers once again, a flash of light sending me away from the area…

(3rd Pov)

The Monkey King smirked as Argen disappeared, remembering his old prank scrolls. The one he had given him was an old one, one that took actual skill to pull off.

Yes, the deciding factor for Argen to get the directions to become a god was a prank, a prank on who? Well The Monkey kings old fling of course, Princess Iron Fan, Wife of the Bull Demon King.

(A/N: Alright house it done, back on the grind yay! Anyway, I have the first poll available on Patre0n, as well as a straw poll for something else not as important, it's also something i don't really care about. Anyway, should this fic have sex scenes? As I said before I couldn't care less, and it won't matter for quite a while since Argen is still 13 but I'd rather know your guy's thoughts sooner rather than later. The Poll on patre0n is to decide the next route Argen takes after learning the info to become a god, if you are interested in being able to interact with the story plot then go ahead and go there! Next chapter will come later today!)

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