Sun Wukong

The year passes for Arthur as Athena's time with him ended and she says, "As I told you. No one should find out about your elements understood. I don't want any problems with Shura because of it."

"Understood," says Arthur as he really liked his time with Athena when suddenly a Monkey appears in front of them.

The Monkey was wearing a red armor with gold linings. He was carrying two wooden staffs as he walked towards them.

"It has been long, Athena," says the Monkey when Athena looked at him angrily.

"Monkey," says Athena back as the Monkey laughs.

"You are still not over what I did in Olymp. It's not like you people didn't have it coming," says the Monkey as Athena just sighs and turns to Arthur.

"Arthur, this is Wukong you might know him as Sun Wukong or Monkey King," says Athena as she turns to Wukong and says, "Monkey this is Arthur. Break him and Shura will kill, you understand."

"You know very well that Shura likes me a lot," says Wukong as Athena just moves her eyes.

"That's why you are here then and not outside," says Athena as Wukong begins to laugh.

"Alright alright," says Wukong as he backs away.

"Now the Arthur right. I will be teaching you the way of the staff. Normally I would recommend ten to twenty years but Shura seems to hold a good opinion from you to succeed in two years," says Wukong as he throws the wooden staff to Arthur.

Arthur catches it and Wukong looks at Athena and claps his hands, "It seems you trained him good. I thought you only trained his body but it seems he has good reflexes."

"You will be surprised. I will leave now to report to Shura that you have arrived," says Athena as she leaves.

"Now then let's begin your training. First, you will imitate me. Follow every move I make. I want to see how flexible you are," says Wukong as he begins to make some normal moves with the wooden staff.

Arthur follows without a problem and two hours later Wukong says, "Good, you will train those sets of movement for the next month. I want to see the moves to be polished. I want that you make them yours like this."

Wukong swings the wooden staff again but faster than before and uses different combos out of all the movements he showed Arthur before when suddenly molten magma was surrounding his staff on the last hit.

"Did you see? I want your body to move on its own like fluid water. It should be like breathing. After achieving it we will talk about the rest of your training," says Wukong as he leaves Arthur alone so he could train.

In the meantime, Athena entered Shura's office and finds Shura browsing through some books quite intensely when Shura asks, "Why have you come, Athena?"

"Just to inform you that the Monkey began the training of the Monster," says Athena as Shura laughs at her comment.

"Don't call them like that. Arthur will feel hurt hearing you say that and Wukong is already used to being called Monkey by every God and Immortal because of his personality," says Shura as he looked back down while asking, "But anyway, how did he develop over the two years with you?"

"He is a Monster like said before. He is more like a sponge than a person. He learned everything I could teach him. I even repent of gifting him an eidetic memory," says Athena as Arthur was learning far too much even for her taste.

"So you just came to inform me only about that?" asks Shura as he was looking at Athena.

"Yes, I will be leaving the palace then," says Athena as Shura nods and Athena leaves the palace.

The weeks pass as Arthur was training with his staff. He was making great improvements while Wukong was watching him while laying on the ground relaxing.

"You are improving but you still haven't found your flaws it seems," says Wukong as Arthur looked at him annoyed.

"Maybe I would make more improvement if you helped me train instead of just watching," says Arthur as Wukong laughs.

"You would do the same mistake over and over again. How about you think about this," says Wukong as he walks towards Arthur when he takes a hair from his arm and summons a clone while transforming into Athena.

"What are the differences between me and Athena?" asks Wukong as he takes Athena's fighting position while his clone was in his fighting position. Then both begin to fight for a bit before turning back to Arthur.

"Tell me the differences," says Wukong as he turned back and his clone turned back into a hair.

"Athena is like a Fortress like you are unpredictable," says Arthur as Wukong snaps his finger.

"That's right. Now think about it. You trained for two years under Athena. It's normal that you took some of her strong points but you also got her weaknesses. You are like a second Athena. You need to find your own style instead of copying someone else," says Wukong as he explained to Arthur why he wasn't improving.

"You need to let new information in. It's like with novels. They are similar but never the same. Just that you will have ten novels to read and memories and compare them to each other," says Wukong as he lays back down while picking into his ear with his pinky before blowing on it.

"Everyone has his own style and you will copy us without a question. But after the training. you will have to create your own style of fighting," says Wukong and Arthur understanding a little more about what Wukong was telling him.

"So I have to begin from a blank page," says Arthur as he tries to clear his head and ignore everything that Athena taught him until now.

He begins to move more flexible as if a burden was taken from him. Wukong began to watch him again when he sees that Arthur was now completely copying him in everything when suddenly molten magma appeared on the wooden staff.

Wukong opened his eyes wide seeing that Arthur even copied his last move. He begins to clap slowly not believing that Arthur could copy it when he asks, "You have the Earth and Fire elements in your Qi?"

"Yes," says Arthur as he could answer that question since it didn't involve the truth of having all elements.

Wukong suddenly got excited as he walked over and says, "We will be having so much fun together."

Arthur didn't know what Wukong meant but thought it wouldn't be bad while Wukong was so excited because it was the first time meeting a human that interesting.

"No wonder Shura wanted to train you," says Wukong as he took a stance and continues, "We will go now a level higher. I want you to continue copying me."

Wukong began to make his moves while one end of the wooden staff was on fire while the other end had earth around it. The style changed and Arthur could see that he had to use different muscles for those movements.

Then Wukong mixed the first moves and second moves together in a chain attack when he stopped and says, "This is your second assignment. Complete it like before in a month's time. We will make a fine warrior out of you in one year and the next year you will be forming your own style with the staff."

Arthur nods as he began to train his new set of moves that he got from Wukong. Wukong was quite excited that Arthur could adapt that fast as he couldn't hide his smile from seeing it.

A year passes when Shura suddenly arrives to see the improvement Arthur was doing. He was seeing Wukong sitting on the side while Arthur was fighting one of his clones.

"How is he holding up?" asks Shura as Wukong smiles at him showing his excitement when Shura says, "He is that good."

"I was thinking of giving him my bloodline before I found out who he was," says Wukong as Shura closed his eyes looking at Wukong who suddenly felt fear because Shura would only look at someone like that when he wanted to kill someone.

"So you knew since when?" asks Shura as Wukong was quite nervous when Shura says, "Answer Monkey."

"A month ago," says Wukong as he tried to make distance between him and Shura.

"Did you tell him?" asks Shura as Wukong shakes his head making Shura open his eyes and says, "Good he should find out when someone else tells him."

"You mean Tyr," says Wukong as Shura nods.

"Yes, but how did you find out?" asks Shura curious about it.

"I fought him many times before. You think I'm known as the Rebel because I only stay in my Pantheon," says Wukong as Shura sighs.

"That's why you are stuck here remember," says Shura as Wukong gives a small laugh from himself since it was the truth.

"So Tyr will have the honor to tell him. When is his turn?" asks Wukong as Shura lifted five fingers telling him that Tyr was the fifth.

"I really want to know his reaction when Tyr tells him," says Wukong when Shura now laughs.

"Too bad you won't be around when the time comes," says Shura as he then walks away leaving Wukong to watch Arthur fighting against the clone.

The months pass fast as Arthur now had a second style under his belt when Wukong says, "Try not to fuse both styles yet. Learn the others first before fusing them together. It will be easier that way."

Wukong looked around when suddenly a three-headed spear comes for him. He evades the attack when suddenly a red and golden staff appear in his hand while where the spear landed a giant dust cloud appeared.

Wukong rushes at the dust cloud when someone else suddenly appears out of the dust cloud. The person was a Chinese man with long black hair that was in a ponytail. The forehead had a third eye in it that was completely blue.

They clashed together and after a little exchange both began to laugh when the man says, "You are still strong that's good. Once we both leave here we will be back fighting each other, old friend."

"Well, we can't do much about that Erlang Shen," says Wukong as he puts his hand on Erlang Shen's shoulder and turns to Arthur.

"Arthur, this is Erlang Shen. He will be your next Teacher," says Wukong as Arthur walks over.

"I'm Arthur," says Arthur as he stretches his hand out when Erlang Shen takes it.

"Erlang Shen is my name," says Erlang Shen as he shakes Arthur's hand when he lets go and says, "It seems you and Athena trained him well. I should have less trouble with him."

"You should," says Wukong as he walks away and says, "I will await you at the usual inn for a secret drink before going to war again."

"I will see you soon," says Erlang Shen as Wukong wanted to leave but turned around and puts his hand on his head.

"About your gift, I will have to ask someone to make it for you since I'm not powerful enough," says Wukong when Erlang Shen hears him.

"Is that a ritual?" asks Erlang Shen when Wukong smiles.

"Something like that," says Wukong as he leaves both to report to Shura to ask for a favor before leaving the Warriors Realm.