DN: I do not own Legend of the Sun Knight and Saiyuki series.

AN: I was sidetracked to reading the wonderful classic by Kazuya Minekura and this idea just popped out of nowhere! Hahaha... Still, I love both stories and thought it was quite similar to the later volumes of LSK (major spoiler, but not quite). And really, Sanzo and Sun are somewhat the same, I mean, they're both very high ranking priestsbut gambles, smokes, drinks, and uses gun (Sanzo) and likes women, money, wine, and knows necromancy (Sun). And they have acquaintances which are "of the dark".

Oh well, please do enjoy this mash-up! Don't forget to comment and suggest! ^.^


Shang Ri La…

…A world where human and youkai, science and magic, once co-existed in harmony.

That balance was suddenly broken by something 'unknown', though dark and vile. It devoured the land causing great disaster to every living thing in its realms.

The world started to crumble towards darkness. Youkais started losing control, the undead started increasing in number, the earth's life force just slowly diminishes, natural calamity became worse to worst, human's fears went higher and higher…

So for the sake of restoring 'order' in the world, a journey to the West, where all evil seemed to sprout from, was made… And it will be one heck of a journey.


In a faraway kingdom of Forgotten Echo, inside the Church of the God of Light…

"You know very well about this issue at hand. It is something that you should fix." A young looking pope said with a serious expression. He looked in the direction of a certain holy knight with hair of gold and eyes so blue. The holy knight himself looked quite troubled.

"I know that it is my responsibility since 'dealing with the dark' is one of my duties but you should know as well that this immensely massive 'dark energy' can't be dealt by just me and my men. Heck, if it is as serious as this, we should even need your power too." The holy knight replied.

"I know that as well. But we can't dispatch the whole church or else no one will protect the kingdom and the church. The Church of the God of War is also in the same predicament as us but all they could do is use their strength and defend. Unlike us, they can't 'purify' this darkness and are barely holding on." He went and read past documents pertaining to the issue while explaining.

"Yes, I am aware of that. But do you have any idea what caused all this?"

"I don't really know what it may be. But I have an idea, a theory without any basis."

"It's better than nothing."

The young man took a deep breath. "I believe the Church of the God of Darkness has something to do with it. They may be trying to resurrect a great evil being that was once subdued by the gods."

"That- Then, what are you suggesting we do?" The holy knight was quite shocked by the idea.

"I guess I'll have you go west and confirm my guess. Then you decide what to do next."

"Easier said than done. That's a very long way. And we can't really waste time if ever I decided to bring down the cause. The roundtrip is not that short."

"We'll, that may be why I'll be sending you together with the other Knight Captains. Me and the platoon can manage in your absences. We must stop this corruption at all cost!"


*Sigh*

I am a knight. To be precise, I am the Church of Light's Sun Knight. As to why I'm sighing, the conversations up above reveals it all. It's not like I'm deeply troubled about this whole evil corruption thing, it's the fact that I have to leave the church, travel an agonizingly long time to the west to the church of the Shadow God, be under the hot sun against all odds, this kind of errand is something so tiresome. No wine, no babes, no rest!

But still, the issue about the end of the world is so intense that I have to sacrifice. For the benevolent God of Light, bless me for I will be your servant and carry mission to cleanse the world of darkness and bathe it once more under your benevolent light.

So now, here I am walking down the corridors towards the meeting room where all the other Knight Captains and their Vice-captains are waiting for me. I have to break in the news for I am, after all, the leader of the Holy Knights.

"Captain! We've been waiting." Adair, my vice-captain told me. He was waiting by the door expecting my arrival. He opened the door and let me in and we seated at the table with all the knights looking at me with anticipation.

*Ahem ahem* I coughed to clear up my throat and to break in the silence.

"A-" I started when one of the captains, Storm Knight, raised his hand and interrupted me.

"With all due respect, as this is a serious matter, I humbly respect that you use plain and simple, easy-to-understand words and sentences." He said with all sincerity. I don't blame him though. I am actually quite happy that he did. He did us all favor.

Why you ask? For the whole continent know that the Sun Knight speaks of the God of Light in every sentence and no matter what happens, he must always, always, connect it to the God of Light no matter what the topic may be. And for that, I was spared from saying, and they too, from hearing this:

(WARNING! The following texts are full of God of Light nonsense. Skip if needed)

"This Sun has been enlightened by the benevolent God of Light under the words of his Pope of this heart breaking news of the corruption that is eating away the life of the earth. It was a grave situation now that even with the luminance of the benevolent God of Light that the darkness has sprouted evil and that we must defend our land with the help of the benevolent God of Light from the creatures of doom. In this sense, it was agreed upon me and the pope that we take action and spread light once more under the guidance of the benevolent God of Light and that whatever may be the cost must we pursue and hold on. The pope has given his thoughts about this dark event and that he sensed great evil where the followers of the Shadow God has taken action and that it itself must be stop by means the benevolent God of Light will.

It was a sad predicament but as the God of Light will do, this Sun will take the arduous journey to defend the living and destroy darkness with the help of the benevolent God of Light. In line with this, the pope believes that Sun alone cannot fight this great evil and that the aid of the other knights dedicated to the benevolence of the God of Light is needed. So the benevolent God of Light has prepared this journey to the west with the help of everybody carrying the principles of the God of Light itself and end this nightmare the land is facing. The pope has also taken the sacrifice to head the church in the absence of our presence and that the vice-captains must be one with the God of Light in protecting the kingdom and its people. Since the journey towards peace is too long and hard, the God of Light may send us difficulties along the way and so it is up to you guys to continue our mission to spread the benevolence of the God of Light. In this expense, I ask all of you your cooperation to bring the teachings of the God of Light and stop the growing darkness that threatens all…"

That's the summary though, I can't take up too much time thinking of the whole speech or you'll never see the end to it.

Well, going back to reality. I directed my gaze to Storm and gave him a reassuring smile. It's not my imagination but I do think everyone in the room except Judge and Ice, sighed a sigh of relief. I'm sure Judge and Ice would do too if not for their ever-there stoic expression.

"Well then, as you all know, the Pope and Sun have discussed this event concerning the evil corruption happening and it was hypothesized by the Pope that it may have been the work of the Church of the God of Darkness. If that was the case, it is our duty to stop this and so the Pope asks all twelve captains of the Holy Church to travel west and seek the roots of it all. Also, since all of us captains will be out, the vice-captains should fill in our roles and report to the Pope." I said with a serious tone.

This report made everyone lost in thoughts. It has been some time already since the corruption and the dangers of going outside the country is just increasing by the day. And to mention that the destination is towards the root of this darkness, the threats just pile up.

"It's no use worrying about it now. The situation has already been this grave and we'll sooner or later be dealing with it. So I think it is better that we deal with it now, as early as possible to avoid any worse case scenario. And the order is absolute. We can only follow." Judge commented breaking the intense atmosphere lurking in the room.

"I guess you're right Knight-Captain Judge. Then tell us when do we depart." Ice Knight said.

"I suppose we travel three days from now. Finish any unfinished business, command your platoon, and prepare for this very long journey." I answered. Since no one seemed to disagree, I dismissed the meeting. I went to the Sun Knight Platoon right after the meeting and briefed the other guys for the next days. There was quite a turmoil about the upcoming absence of all the captains but it was settled in the end.


Three days later, eleven knights in their travel clothes were gathered outside the church. They were waiting for their leader to finish the talk with the Pope.

"I'm sorry my brothers. The talk with the Pope is quite lengthy that's why Sun was delayed." I said.

"What did you talk about?" Leaf Knight asked. Though, it seems like everyone else wants to know.

"As you can see, the Pope gave us this travel clothes that has no connection to the church in any way. He said it was a precaution to avoid alarming the Church of the Shadow God. In this sense, we are ordered to hide our identities and disguise ourselves as just an ordinary adventure party." I answered.

"Then, we can't use our holy magic?" Ice Knight asked.

"Not necessarily. Of course, in dire situations, we have to use all means we have. But we'll have to avoid using it if we can." I replied.

"That's troubling for you… I mean, for us since we are limited to using only swords." Metal Knight commented. His tongue is as sharp as always.

"Well then brothers." I ignored Metal Knight's words. "Let us leave now, we have a very long way to go. Let's go to the west!"


In a Buddhist land somewhere in China, in the temple of the Settling Sun…

"Genjo Sanzo, servant of the Lord of the Heavens, at your service." A young monk with blond hair, deep purple eyes and a mark on his forehead greeted.

"Welcome Sanzo, we are running out of time. Our apologies for calling you in such short notice." The three aspects said.

"Not at all." The monk replied.

"You know of these 'strange occurrences' that are disrupting the world, I suppose. From the west to the east… Even as we speak, the casualties are growing throughout all of Shang Ri La. The humans are under the threats of these and are living in fear every day." They explained.

"Who could possibly be the mastermind behind this?" the monk wondered.

"Sanzo, do you know of 'Gyuu-maou?"

"He's a demon king who refused to live with humans peacefully. So 500 years ago, the God of War subdued him in the far west."

"Someone is trying to revive that same Gyuu-maou. On top of that, by doing it using forbidden incantation, the balance in the universe is disrupted. It results now to the growing minus wave corrupting the land and the living.

Genjo Sanzo, you are hereby ordered, along with your former comrades, Son Goku, Sha Gojyo, and Cho Hakkai, to go to the western lands. There, you shall stop the resurrection of Gyuu-maou and restore Shang Ri La to the way it was before."

"As you command." The monk accepted.


I am a Buddhist priest. Though I am not that devoted to the teachings of Buddha, I am a high ranking priest – a Sanzo priest.

Now, I'm travelling together with Goku to a nearby village to meet up with two more guys to accompany me in this journey mentioned above. This is troubling since our enemy are youkais or demons and yet…

"I'm hun~gry~!" a certain boy complained. "How long before we met up with Gojyo and Hakkai? I'm starving to deat-"

"Stop whinning!" I scolded while hitting the boy with paper fan on the head – hard. "To hear this coming from a guy who wouldn't die even if I killed him…"

"That's because I'm rechargeable!"

"That's not something to be proud of!"

Then, just as Goku was about to retort to me, a group of demons appeared and started attacking. Though it wasn't that much of a problem since we're used to fighting.

Goku called his weapon, Nyoi-bou, and counter-attacked the demons who were approaching us. Of course, I did not let any of them come near me. They fall dead with a head shot I gave through my gun. But even that, they're just too many and it would really be disadvantageous to us.

Then a chained sickle started cutting the enemies like sashimi. It was Gojyo. It seemed they went to us instead of waiting in the rendezvous point.

"Yo! Good for nothing priest and stupid monkey!" A red-haired guy greeted with a grin.

"Hello!" A calm looking gentleman with a spectacle said with a warm smile.

"Gojyo! Hakkai!" Goku said enthusiastically. "I told you to stop calling me stupid monkey! You perverted kappa!" he then protested to Gojyo.

"Then, is it Chibi-monkey eh?" Gojyo snapped back. It was the usual that these two stupid children fight whenever they're together. It is as if destiny says that whenever they meet, an annoying fight must commence.

"How'd you know we're here?" I asked the only other sensible person in the group, Hakkai.

"We felt an enormous amount of evil aura gathering here." He replied. Well, it's true that with these number of demons attacking us, with a killing intent surpassing normal sanity, these two have no reason not to be curious.

"Those earcuffs and diadem… Youryoku limiters?! You three are youkais?! Why- Why are you fighting us?!" A random demon asked pointing to Gojyo, Hakkai and Goku.

"I'll tell you! If you're still alive by then!" Goku said just before killing the demon.

This is troubling since our enemy are youkais or demons and yet... my companions themselves are demons.


"Honorable three aspects. There's something I would like to ask. Why have you chosen those three who are youkais?" I asked before leaving the temple.

"They may be youkais, but they're also 'humans'. Genjo Sanzo, you should already know that well. The scars from each's past has become the thread that binds you together now. Their strength that can rival that of a youkai are our last hope."

"There's no doubt that I acknowledge their strength, however, s long as they have youkai blood flowing through their veins, there's no telling when or where that blood will invoke and turn against us. Granting them our trust is an act of suicide."

"Then Sanzo, you must place your trust in the eyes of your heart."

Eyes of my heart? I don't understand…


The three of them fought as if they were playing, enjoying while killing those demons. Well, they're undoubtedly strong so the small fries couldn't ever compete. One by one, the wall of surrounding demons vanished to pieces or corpses.

I stood watching them massacre the ambushing party.

"Hold it, our comrades…" a demon struggled to say while trying to live after the attacks of those guys. "You traitors who side with the humans, your place is not with them. Reconsider and join us once again… Long live the Youkai Empi-!"

He wasn't even let to finish when Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai killed him simultaneously.

"He sure does talk a lot of b*llsh*t." Gojyo remarked.

"Human side?" Goku said. "Since the day I was born, till the day I die…"

"I stand only by my side!" The three of them chorused.

Trust in my own eyes… I still don't know what it means, but well...

"Come on. Let's go to the west!" I said to them facing the direction to where the sun sets.

-Chapter End-