To Kiss a Monkey Statue

After endless nights of nightmares and little sleep Monkey Fist left her to find out what the nightmares meant, tricked into a deal, he never came back to her. She went to get him. He was a statue; he was no longer with her. He was taken away by Amy. What's Shego to do? What she does best of course, steal her boyfriend away and find a cure, simple right? Wrong! Shego is going to have to go through genetic mutants, Amy and Kim Possible to get her lover back, but what's the cure after that? Set after Shego and the Monkey, before Oh No! Yono! After, Oh No! Yono! And set after Graduation Part 2. Monkey Fist/Shego

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Chapter 2: A Promise and Forced Madness

Monty slowly opened his eyes and quickly shut them again; he gently rubbed the caked sleep out of his eyes and tried opening them once more. This time, he was successful. He looked around the room and noticed a chair by his bed, had Shego sat with him sometime, watching him sleep?

"How long was I asleep for?" he asked aloud. He quickly got up, discovering that he had lot of energy, more than he had had in three weeks. That pill had worked! He hadn't dreamt at all. He took a nice, hot shower and donned a clean gi before leaving his room to find Shego and Drakken.

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When is he going to wake up?" Shego asked Drakken.

"As soon as the pill wears off," he responded.

"Which would be about twenty minutes ago," said a voice and Shego and Drakken turned to see Monkey Fist standing behind them with a smirk on his face and his arms crossed.

"Monty," said Shego in delight, jumping up from her seat and hugging him. It was only in these circumstances did she show her soft side and only to those who knew her well.

Monty hugged her back and planted a kiss on her forehead, "How long was I asleep for?"

"Four days," said Drakken.

"Four days! No wonder I feel so energized," said Monkey Fist and then his stomach growled and he looked sheepish.

Shego laughed, "Hungry?"

"Famished," he said. They all went to the kitchen for lunch and afterwards returned to the lounge where after Monty had sat down, Shego sat down on his lap without hesitation and he wrapped his strong arms around her, drawing her close to him and she sighed in contentment.

"Well Monkey Fist, Shego told me what you told her about your dreams, about the Yono and thanks to the scrolls you brought with you, I've managed to decipher what your dreams might mean," said Drakken.

"Well, what do they mean?" asked Monkey Fist, not sure if he wanted to know. As the world renowned expert on all things simian and an archeologist he had of course collected many scrolls, one of which had mentioned the Yono. He'd never looked through those scrolls as he'd become interested in collecting the Jade Monkeys at the same time he'd gotten the scrolls. The scroll of the Yono had been put away and he'd never give them a second thought until his nightmares and it was only in the second week of nightmares had he even remembered that he'd had the scrolls but by then he'd been too tired to do more than just take them out of his scroll box.

"Well, the Yono, also known as Yono the Destroyer, is a dangerous Deity that is the counterpart to a weapon called the Han. Making a deal with the Yono is equivalent to making a deal with the devil for if the one who unearthed him should be defeated in any manner they shall follow the path of the Yono; they'll be turned to stone and become the next Yono. There's a way to break the curse but I haven't been able to decipher that part," said Drakken, looking at Monkey Fist intently.

Monty was worried, this Yono sounded like bad news but why would he be dreaming of him? Ever since he'd regained his sanity he had stopped obsessing over being the only one to have Mystical Monkey Power, reasoning that one day the power itself would have to choose one person to belong to. He'd just have to hope that he was the one worthy of it, which was why he'd stopped searching for items of power; he had to prove himself to the Monkey God that he deserved to be the Ultimate Monkey Master. It was also much more rewarding and less painful.

"I'm confused as to why the Yono would want me. I've stopped craving more power because I now know that one day that what power is meant to be mine shall be mine when the time is right, remember my accident?" asked Monkey Fist.

Drakken did remember, it had been before Shego and Monkey Fist had started dating. Duff had been visiting him and Shego when they'd gotten a call and had answered to hear the frantic screeching of monkeys. Knowing that Monkey Fist had gone to Africa to track down some monkey artifact that could grant him power certainly helped them track him down. The monkey that they'd met while trying to find him, Chippy, had shown them the way and they'd found Monkey Fist, buried under a mountain of rocks, unconscious and bleeding, he'd been practically half dead, if it hadn't been for his monkeys he most certainly would have died. They dug him out and Drakken and Shego stopped the bleeding and set the broken bone in his left leg while Duff and the monkeys made a stretcher to carry him back on. They'd gotten him back to Drakken's lair and had feared for his life as he fought to come back to them. He'd healed quickly once regaining conciseness and told them of how he'd found the artifact but Possible and Stoppable had stepped in. Possible had kicked him into the mountainside; that part had been weak and when he'd crashed into it, it had buried him. Stoppable, he had wanted to stop and help but Possible had said no, they needed to get out of there and she'd dragged him away before he could protest further. The whole ordeal had taught Monkey Fist a big lesson and he'd vowed not to go after power that wasn't his. It had given him a big shock, enough to snap him back into sanity, just like before the jade statues, before his obsessions had kicked in. The fact that this Yono character was contacting a changed man was worrying.

"So what can we do?" asked Shego, breaking the silence.

"I'm afraid that I'm going to have to go to Japan and find that out…by myself," said Monkey Fist.

"NO! I'll come with…" and Shego was silenced with a sweet and brief kiss from Monkey Fist, who then pulled away.

"Shego, you're the most important person in my life, I'm not having you come with me because I don't know what will happen and I won't put your life in danger. I must do this alone, this is my fight, my responsibility and I must be the man that you know me to be and face this head on in order for our lives to go back to normal. I promise you Shego, that whatever happens, no matter what, I will come back to you. I swear on my honor as ninja, my lordship and my soul that I'll come back, I promise," said Monkey Fist. Shego started to cry, Drakken left, knowing that Shego hated to appear weak and it would be better for his health to leave. Monkey Fist was a man of honor and Drakken was sure that he would come back to Shego.

Shego clutched Monty's gi and buried her face in his chest, "You better keep your promise Monty or else I'll hunt you down, fry your fur off and make it into a pair of gloves!" she sobbed and Monty threaded his hand through her lustrous, thick black hair and buried his face in it, marveling for the thousandth time at how soft it was and breathing in the scent of cinnamon and hydrangeas.

"I'll make sure to come back then if that's my fate if I don't return," he said, attempting to lighten the mood. Shego let out a sound that resembled a half sob half giggle and then they pulled away from each other. Monty looked into his lover's jade eyes and said firmly, "I will come back. I love you Sheena." She got off his lap and he stood up, then Shego pulled her towards him and they embraced.

"I'll be waiting for you. I love you too Monty," said Sheena, for a moment she wasn't Shego, hardened and fearless mercenary who had an evil reputation to be proud of and that made others fear her. No, just for this moment she was Sheena, a young woman in love who feared for her loves life.

Monty then let go of his lover and walked out of the lair, outside he saw Drew filling up one of his hover-cars and then he looked at him. "This will get you back home and to Japan before you need to refill it. This one is bigger than normal, fully capable of holding your monkeys," said Drew, who then looked at him sternly, "You'd better keep your promise to Sheena, Monty or else, remember, that young woman is like my daughter and that means that I have the right to hurt the boyfriend who hurts her and I am very creative. So like I said, you'd better come back to her."

Knowing that Drew wasn't joking, for if there was one thing the mad Dr was serious about it was Sheena, Monty nodded and said, "I already gave her my word and I'll give it to you, I will come back to her and I'd never break a promise unless I was rendered utterly incapable of seeing it through."

Drakken nodded and then smiled, "Go on Monkey Boy, get out of here, find out what's going on and get back here as soon as possible."

Monty nodded and hopped into the hover-car and drove off into the sky, with Drew watching from the ground and Shego watching from her window. "Come back to me Monty, please," said Shego softly.

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Monkey Fist landed on his ground and called his ninja's. He stocked up on supplies and was ready to leave for Japan, he just had to call Shego and then he'd be on his way. A short conversation later with a promise to call when he could Monkey Fist left his castle and flew to Japan, ready to solve the mystery of his nightmares.

As soon as he crossed the border into Japan, a force more powerful and evil then he'd ever felt invaded his mind and brought forth his old power obsessed, insane self while he was pushed to the deepest corners of his mind. The force laughed darkly as it directed him to where it wanted him to go.

'No, stop it, get out of my mind! I'm not that person anymore, I've learnt my lesson, let me go!' cried Monkey Fist, trying to gain control but to no avail, the evil force was too powerful and he was knocked back. They arrived at an empty place and he ordered his monkeys to begin digging to uncover what the force wanted him to unearth and he could only watch helplessly as Chippy and the others dug.

"That's it, keep digging. We're getting close, I can feel it!" he said and yet it wasn't him, Monkey Fist wanted to tell his monkeys to stop digging but he couldn't. He was filled with dread as the monkeys started digging with their hands and he rushed forward, demanding to see it. There was a ring protruding from the ground and although Monkey Fist didn't want to, he pulled the ring up, making the Dark Temple of the Yono appear. He put his hands together and chanted, "Simi an… Mon kay ala ono… A waken Ser vant Yono…" From on top of the temple a figure appeared, it shed the cloak and a short monkey dressed in purple and gold appeared.

Monty's gut filled with dread and fear. He was Yono the Destroyer and he cringed when his poor monkeys were shocked by the Yono's powers. Ouch! That hurt! Why was he such a fool? Monkey Fist gasped in horror as his hand reached out to shake the Yono's.

'No, no, no, stop, you're not in your right mind! Don't do it!' he screamed, trying with all his might to regain control of his actions but he couldn't, the dark cloud of evil was in his way and it was too strong to push through. 'Am I really that evil and terrible a person that there is no goodness in me that I can use to fight this?' he asked himself, it was a depressing thought and his despair only increased the power of evil in his mind. He could only watch in horror as the mark that haunted his nightmares appeared on his hand.

'Oh no, oh, Shego, I wish you were here with me,' he thought and he began to glow pink and warm red, he noticed the dark cloud squirming in discomfort and realized that thinking of his lover made him strong, she was his strength, his goodness. He began to focus on his memories of her and their time together and very, very slowly the dark cloud receded. However by the time he'd made any headway he'd already done so much damage. There he was, standing at the top of the temple, next to a stone statue of Kim Possible, it actually was Possible, he realized and there, on the ground were statues of the rodent and Master Sensei , with the young ninja girl beside them, she was not stone, the school of Yamanouchi was destroyed. His shock and disgust at the horrible scene prevented him from realizing that he was now crouched down and talking to a cute little girl. He was jolted back to the here and now when Stoppable tackled him, saying to stay away from his baby sister. He hadn't known that the boy even had a sister.

He watched as his monkeys attacked the boy and the Yono attacked the baby. She was the Han, the weapon that his scrolls had spoken about. He watched as she danced out of the way to some music called the Flippies and to his horror, she dragged him into the fray, causing some very near misses from the Yono's powers. He fell to the ground after the child had finished dancing on his face. He felt the insanity leave him and he was in control of his body and mind once more. He began to get up but it was not to be as he heard those dreaded words that had been in his dreams;

"You have defeated he who summoned me, now he will follow his destiny…the path of the Yono!" said the monkey and he felt himself turn to stone. He tried to scream but found that he couldn't. He was on the top of the temple and felt it sink into the ground.

"Path of the Yono…Path of the Yono," said Stoppable and darkness claimed him as the temple finished sinking. He was never going to see Shego again.

'I'm sorry Shego, I couldn't keep my promise,' and he wept.

Thousands of miles away Shego woke up with a jolt and a feeling of dread settled in her stomach, "Monty, what's happened?" she whispered and then, she somehow knew that something terrible had happened to her love and she dashed out of bed and into Dr D's room, they were going to Japan!

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Well, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. What do you do think of the other sides of Monty and Shego and Monty in his mind? Let me know in a review.

Will Monty ever be able to keep his promise? Find out in a chapter coming soon to you.