11th Taunt | Action

[misterbrief]

Arriving back in Luceti, he returns home, genuinely happy for a change. Because all the hard work has finally paid off. A brown, long monkey tail pokes out of a hole he's created in the seat of his pants, a reward he's been seeking since he found out it was possible. He felt stronger with it. Now he could reach his maximum potential, a level of power he hasn't had access to since he arrived here. He keeps his tail unwrapped, not feeling any danger of having it grabbed or cut off.

But, the tail comes with its own problems. Problems he hasn't had to worry about in thirty years...

Action

A:

[In the morning, he's headed right for the Clothing Shop, getting new pants for the moment with holes in it for his tail. On the way, he seems to be walking normally, tail bobbing behind him, but he's still a little wobbly. So much that out of the blue, he loses his balance...and crashes, right into you. Or maybe he didn't crash into you, maybe you were just walking by when he started to faceplant and his tail instinctively just wrapped around your arm and took you with him on accident. Or maybe he's hanging onto you by his tail because you are heavy enough not to get dragged down.]

B:

[All that shopping has made him sort of hungry, so he heads to Seventh Heaven to get a bite to eat, mowing down food like a vacuum. But it won't go without something happening on the way there. That book you were reading, the coffee you were drinking, or whatever it is you've got, there's a tail wrapping around it trying to thieve it right out of your hands. He doesn't know his tail is doing that, but it's doing its own bit of exploring and wrapping around things. The Malnosso couldn't let him go home without a little bit of mischief, after all.]

C:



[After all is said and done, he's going right to the Battle Dome to test things out. Inside, those who frequent the Dome would find that the man with the golden hair isn't there today- instead there's a man covered in red fur, wild brown hair, and looking quite simian instead of human. He's going through his drills, for speed and strength, taking advantages of the shifts placed on the walls to test out the power of his ki blasts, rocking the room inside. He's coming out every hour to reset the simulation, keeping the form up. He's taller, by a grand total of two more inches, setting him at a towering 5'7''.

Though there is a point in time where he's reverted back to his base form, and he's...latched his tail in what looks like a clamp. And he's leaning forward, using his body weight to pull on it almost as if he's trying to stretch his tail. Either way, it looks painful, especially when he screams in pain, gritting his teeth. What is he doing? Who knows.]

Comments

[misterbrief]

[His eye opens, and it sort of snaps him back to reality. Which causes him to get very, very red.]

What? No! [And he tries to remove his tail from her grasp! EMBARRASSING.]

[windandrain]

[She lets go, slowly though.]

Yes...[Her voice is singsong-y] You were falling asleep there.

[misterbrief]

[He growls back at her. And then he wraps his tail around his waist for good measure.]

Quiet. I was awake the entire time.

[windandrain]

[She shrugs and leans back. Guess who's found your greatest weakness?]

So, this other form?

[misterbrief]

[Oh how much he doesn't like that she's found that weakness already]

You want to see it? Alright. Let's go.

[He gets up, and starts to semi-stomp out of the restaurant.]

[windandrain]

[She follows, of course, smiling quietly to herself. Oh, she won this round, friend.]

[misterbrief]

[He goes outside, and takes off from the ground, heading out towards the mountain range where he knew he could safely transform without causing too many problems. Once there, he touches down, giving it a once over to make sure no rocks would fall on them during the transformation.

Turning, he folds his arms.]

Are you ready? Hold on tight.

[windandrain]

[She follows along, and when he warns her she actually does take a few steps back. She trusts in the wind not to blow her away if that's what he's doing. And if he attacks her? Well...he won't do that.]

I am. Go ahead.

[misterbrief]

[First thing he does is take his shirt off, throwing it to the ground. He likes that shirt and doesn't want to rip it up.

There's no jumping between forms, no powering up to the first and second ones. It's a leap right away to the fourth form, the mountains shaking with the effort until his body almost seems to morph into his ape-like form, the red hair growing over his upper body and hair growing wild and brown.

And no sooner than when he started, a red ape with green eyes surrounded by a red border stood there, radiating ki and looking pretty smug about it.]

And there you have it.

[windandrain]

[It's impressive, certainly. But it's not at all what she'd expected. She'd figured there would be more gold, more hair. Much like Goku's third stage. And...then there's the fact that his eyes have changed color.

And he's red.

And...looks more like a monkey.

Aaaaand she knows better than to laugh at him. He looks absurd, but he's clearly proud of it. And he's clearly stronger...so that's something? Even if he looks like...well...actually...he looks like someone she knows.]

Impressive. If I didn't know better, I'd say you had to be related to a family friend of mine.

[misterbrief]

Oh? [He knows he looks like a monkey. He's completely aware. So he's not sure if she's making fun of him or not.]

What, is he a monkey, huh?

[windandrain]

[She smiles faintly, an oddly fond expression.]

You could say that. He's the Monkey King, after all. Sun Wukong.

[misterbrief]

Hm. [He wasn't expecting that answer.] A monkey god. Who would have thought. Maybe he's a Saiyan and you just didn't know it.

[windandrain]

Oh, I know he isn't a Saiyan. He was born as a stone. And he came to life through magic. [And his own stubbornness.]

[misterbrief]

[He just blinks at Saori. He knows better now than to question weird god magic haxxor crap.]

I don't think I even want to know how that came to be.

[windandrain]

Well, no, even I do not know the specifics. But he's a warrior beyond compare. His weapon is one of the pillars of the universe, a staff meant to hold Heaven and Earth apart. And he's defeated the Jade Army single-handedly. The foot soldiers, anyway.

[She smiles even wider, obviously quite fond of this great ape.]

In fact, he's only been defeated once, since time began.

[misterbrief]

[He huffs at that. He doesn't know what the Jade Army is and he doesn't care.]

Is that a fact. Let me have a crack at him. That is, if he can get his weapon out safely so that he doesn't destroy the universe while he's at it.

[windandrain]

[She huffs a laugh, waving a hand to start moving some sand around, forming the shape of the Simian Overlord.]

He doesn't need it. He's a martial artist who created many of the martial arts I use, and one of the first to combine magic with his Anima. Ruyi Jingu Bang is absolutely overkill for nearly any opponent. It weighs as much as a planet, and only he can lift it anyway.

[Not to mention, it's as long as the Great Wall, and as wide as Japan, if it needs to be.]

But if he comes here, you'll be the first person he either makes friends with, I would say. He respects strength above all else, and only the Buddha has ever bested him for a reason.

[misterbrief]

[His eyes widen. A weapon that weighs as much as a planet?]

I'll have you know I don't make friends. I'm looking for opponents. He better be as strong as you say he is, same with this Buddha. [He wants to fight both of them...]

[windandrain]

Well, the Buddha doesn't fight for sport. He's...a mortal who transcended mortality, and he has little reason to fight. But the Monkey King caused enough problems that he had to put a stop to his antics. And it just so happens that he's more clever than the cleverest monkey.

[misterbrief]

Caused problems, huh? [He looks pretty pleased about that, actually. And that she said monkeys were clever.] Well. Then I guess he can't be all that bad.

[Maybe he would like Sun Wukong.]

[windandrain]

Well, of course. He was an arrogant, troublesome monkey at first. But the Buddha taught him how to be wise, as well.

[misterbrief]

Who cares about your Buddha. [He actually gets a little offended, for himself more than Wukong.]

[windandrain]

Well, the Monkey King does now? The Buddha taught him a new path of strength, and helped him in the end. They're close friends...though Monkey still likes playing pranks.

[misterbrief]

Good for them. [He's stopped caring about them. They're stupid gods from another stupid world so he doesn't care bluuuuuuuh]

[He goes to walk past her with his tail bobbing behind him, in the direction of the village, because he's a drama queen.] I want to test this form at the Battle Dome. Standing around here isn't going to help.