Chapter 17: Cursed
For the first time ever Ron was glad he had school. Something about Sheila's glowing eyes had made him terrified and something else he shouldn't be thinking about surrounded by the cheer team. Ron had to explain what happened three different times.. Which was needed since the entire school was thrown off its game. The entire school had been huddled up in the cafeteria for almost an hour when Ron showed up; he pretended to be almost stabbed by Barkin whose nerves was so high strung he lashed out at the first thing to change.
Barkin was horrified that he'd almost killed a child and took the rest of the day off along with the entire staff as global justice was all over the place having found a lead to the missing amulet. Ron was questioned over and over again which annoyed him to no end. All good will for the global assholes went out the door. They sacrificed one of their own for money. They weren't global police, they were janitors. Sent in at the last second to pick up anyone actually taken care of or steal whatever gadgets the villains used. They tried taking the amulet from him after finding it he simply used his power to make it impossible to remove. The agents had tried everything to remove it and after failing a lot they had brought up the idea to cut his skin off around the amulet which he was wearing around his neck.
Ron was never one for needless violence and neither was Kim but it was justified to them and the teachers when they both jumped the agent who had pulled out a medkit with a knife far too large to cut just skin. Kim had a few miss giving at first but when said knife was knocked out the agent's hand he immediately pulled out a taser watch to try and put Ron down. It wasn't just him, the other four agent's all tried to shoot Ron at once for throwing a pencil at the man's hand.
That had been twenty minutes ago and now Ron was sitting down at the seniors table. After getting the run down that Sun Wukong had covered for him, Ron was taking the time to relax and enjoy the Thanksgiving feast in front of him. The senior table really was unfair. The rest of the school got mystery meat which was actually pretty good but the seniors table could custom order damn near anything. Ron was sitting next to Amelia who he could have sworn was a senior last year. As per usual with everyone focusing on him she took an interest and brought him over to eat since he misses lunch. If it wasn't for the slowly approaching feeling of starving Ron would have ignored her. One spoon full of mystery meat didn't dent his old stomach let alone the new bigger one.
As Ron ate he simply ignored Amelia's attempts to strike up conversation and simply got up and moved when she tried to touch him. His playing hard to get proved to really draw attention which in turn made the annoying girl want him more. Ron ended up moving chairs six times before getting to a point where he didn't feel a pit and got up to leave. Amelia followed him all around the school. Since classes were canceled due to GJ and the students were free to do what they wanted until the lockdown on the building was released rumors were spreading wildly. By the fourth attempt at getting somewhere he could disappear at without being seen Ron was getting annoyed. All he kept hearing was the most far fetched ass pulls he's ever heard. Him running away from Amelia had either made him gay or a horrible person running away from a pregnancy.
Ron didn't really care for the rumors. He knew they weren't true. His friends knew it wasn't true but that didn't matter to Amelia. Ron had to stop her from going off to add fuel to the fire multiple times. Which only made the rumours spread more.
'Why is high school more stressful than fighting Jackie… Amelia why can't you just go away'.
The giddy girl that was just talking into his ear about how popular the two were getting with their show suddenly stopped making Ron and a number of people watching them freeze. Ron realized what he just did and cursed at himself as the students started screaming. It wasn't any of the agent's roaming the halls to come or was it the scientists trying to track Jackie's location using some weird tool Ron knew for a fact didn't work. The librarian showed up first followed by Kim who didn't look happy at all probably due to her screaming match with Director Betty.
The librarian scanned the hallway like a hawk scaring everyone but Ron and grumbled darkly while slipping away. Everyone ended up pressed against the walls in fear of the older woman. She had been actively hunting the super villain she believed to ruin her personal dictionary and had no problem giving anyone in her way a taste of her ruler. Even the GJ agents had given in to her after it spread around through the commutation she caught Will Du snooping in her private office in the library. All they needed to hear was Will was taking a month's vacation to know his fate. The man never took a day off let alone a month. For whatever reason no one understood but Will and the Director why the lady wasn't arrested.
"Hey KP".
"Hey Ron...oh come one Ron I need your help uhh… scanning for the Jackals energy".
Kim grabbed Ron and pulled him along just as the GJ finally made it walking casual. As per every time they saw him they requested to see the amulet on Ron's neck to scan. He'd been scanned around twelve times and every single machine found nothing on him. Ron's already low opinion on GJ fell even lower. They had the amulet close to two years and couldn't tell he wasn't wearing a fake. They even said the reason they couldn't take it off was because Jackie used magic to make it stuck. While it wasn't far from the truth just replace Jackie with Ron they had machines to detect the amulets powers. If Jackie used the amulet to make the fake amulet unmovable wouldn't that have the amulets power on it.
Once Ron and Kim was cleared they made their way into the girls locker room after Kim cleared it. The two locked the door and sat down on the ground in sync.
"Where'd you send Amelia Ron? I know the rumors was getting out of hand and she was annoying you but that doesn't excuse you using your powers on her".
"I sent her home by accident...I was a little worried I accidentally sent her somewhere bad so I checked don't know if it's her house per say but I mean their was a dog there giving her licks".
"Ron you really need to control your powers, what if you'd have teleported her away in front of the agents. You can't just snap your fingers and make someone disappear and not gain attention".
Ron smiled as he told his best friend " the snapping was just for dramatic effect and to you know show off that it was me doing it didn't want you to connect it to Sheila gaining new powers".
"I wouldn't… Okay I probably would… you don't have to look at me like that. I mean it would be easier to imagine Kerm… sorry Shego to gain another ability than you. You never really showed off the mystical monkey stuff before so I didn't even think it was real".
Well it was hard to use it you know. I hated it was there and I couldn't get rid of it but gotta say loving having it a part of me. Confidence feels good having and not losing my pants because my tail is nice. Just wish I could change it. Like seriously out of all the animals a monkey, why couldn't Sun Wukong be at least an ape".
"Sun Wukong? Like the one from the myths"?
"Not myths anymore he's real. He's the one that showed y'all the camera footage then took it".
Huh...wow. It's kinda bizarre. You've met a mystical figure in history and Anubis is also real. A-are you considered some type of God now"?
"Haha what god of mole rats? Fear me and my army of rodents mortal. Bring me and my companions all the cheese you can grab".
"God of shoving things down your throat more like it. Your eating got even worse".
" Sigh it sucks I ate like that whole meal and it did nothing. I'm gonna have to spend like three hours a day just eating".
"Why not ask Wukong if he has something to help you out? I mean you guys are friends right?
"I don't know how to contact him".
" Just call me brother".
Kim and Ron both got startled by the sudden voice looking at the man that appeared beside Ron.
" Nice to meet you Kimberly".
"H-hello…"
"No need to be nervous child, a friend of my brother is a friend of mine".
"She's gonna be like this for awhile".
" Like what… oi don't you bow to me"?
"I'm sorry god… your lordship? Your majesty? Lord"?
"Stop it".
"Yes sir God sir".
"..."
"Back when KP met Felix, my friend in the wheelchair, she kept doing this for like a week. Trying to be considerate of his condition but kept saying the wrong thing over and over".
"…. I hate it here already, first that scary woman with the ruler now this".
"Wait huh you're scared of the Liberian but you're a god".
" Stop that… that lady is scary. I was peacefully sipping that yummy liquid y'all call coffee and she snuck that guy from that origination. That beating was more vicious than your entire fight. I've lived all these years and that's the first time I felt something was far far far too far. I didn't know fingers or kneecaps could bend that way" .
Wukong shuddered and wrapped his thick tail around himself. Kim was stunned watching this legendary figure comfort himself because their school librarian was a mean old hag.
"Hey… she's a scary mean old hag and stop with that legendary or god stuff. I'm just a monkey who likes to do what I want to do. Fun little tip for you two if you want people to stop being able to read your mind, practice whispering in it, don't think normally think like your thoughts are a secret".
"Wait, you can read my mind… just how much do you pay attention to me".
Nah cuz you listen here boy I got beef with you this conversation needed to happen y-you got damn perv you need to pay for my therapy. You going through puberty was the worst thing to happen to me".
"Oh gosh I'm going to hell god really was listening and watching everything I swear my search history was ed…".
Ron was interrupted by a tail slapping the back of his head sending him face first to the ground.
" Whoops muscle spasm you never get used to tails doing what they want"
Ron's tail blind sided the cocky monkey catching him twice in the ear as Ron was falling.
" Whoops sorry new tail".
" Gah I was soft with my hit. My fucking ear drum hurt".
" Soft? The knot on the back of my head says different".
'Oh no theirs two Ron's now'.
" I'm nothing like this flea ridden buffoon".
"You're the one with fleas fur face".
"Ha you call that an insult how does it feel being naked all the time pervert".
"I don't know since I wear clothes. You should know you've been watching me change them since I was little... pervert".
"That ain't true".
"And I was not pervatic growing up. Only one of us can prove what they claim is true. I grew up next to KP and she's beautiful. Never once have I been caught with a tent. You was watching me and Sheila the other day. You like seventeen year old boys huh".
"Your mouth got real smart for someone in fighting distance".
"You've gotten really soft for a stone monkey… he's a stone monkey right KP".
"Well a monkey born from stone, he's right there ask him".
"Grrr when you become able to take a punch ima fuck you up"
"..."
"..."
Kim and Ron looked at each other, smiling at each other knowingly and sending Wukong the same thoughts. Wukong growled out louder and gave the best friend duo a good smack each before throwing down a worn out journal.
"You're lucky I like you brother or oooooo I swear we'd have to fight. Calling me a pedophile over and over".
"You do whatever you want though so it's not out of your realm. I'm just copying you and saying whatever I want". Ron stuck his tongue out at the older monkey and Kim followed along. Wukongs face turned a dark shade of red and he jumped on the teen next to him, lifting Ron up by his tail and spanking him hard.
Smack owwww smack stop it that h smack owww smack smack smack
"You want what he's getting"!?
"N-no God sir".
"STOP CALLING ME A GOD".
Smack "oww fuck off why me".
" You can take it and that's your friend".
"Why does it hurt so much".
" Oh you reminded me".
Wukong dropped Ron on his face leaving his butt in the air which was kicked so Ron would slide over to Kim's side.
"You can stay here KP but it won't be too useful for you. Ron just how dumb are you that fight was like watching two children fight over a snack. You let the man bite your crotch off and your response was breaking his jaw. You suck at fighting".
"Hey….you know what sucking at something is the first step to being great at something so thank you for the compliment".
"Hahaha see this is why I like you".
"What, I'm sorry, WHAT"?
"Quiet child Ronald needs to learn".
"Okay… but my questions WILL be answered after".
"You have a lot of bossy women in your life. Anyway, did you think punching a hole in dog face Jr was going to do anything? What if I cut off your arm right now? Would you feel it more than a second? You and him aren't fully humans anymore. Punching a hole through his torso won't do anything but waste energy for him to regenerate and it's nearly impossible even for me or dog face senior to stop him from regaining energy when he's adamant about it. Only if we think like you do. I mean Ronald you can cause tornadoes and earthquakes yet you think a little spark of a fireball would get rid of all that food. Let me tell you something. You scratching Jackie's skin would have been a hundred times more painful and effective than cutting his limbs off".
Ron was worried about Kim not looking her way as he absorbed the information from.the much more experienced Wukong. Hearing the sound of snoring shocked him. Kim was out cold using the worn out book a sa pillow.
" As if I'd let her hear about what you did neither of us would hear the end of it. She's gonna wake up having believed I berated you over beating up Jackie and not killing him and with the knowledge it would have taken far too long to teach her such as making your thoughts quieter. Now back to paying attention. Energy used for regeneration is different than you would imagine. A small cut with your sword and regrouping his destroyed torso is the same amount of energy. In fact, ever heard of cutting someone with tiny cuts and spreading lemon juice on it? That's something our kind came up with to kill off others. While dumb for not protecting the rest of his body that boy Jackie was smart leaving those teeth in you. It was taking up energy you didn't know you was losing since your mind was so preoccupied. Just the tiny little marks they was leaving was draining you dry. The first lesson you need to learn as one of us is that we aren't gods, we're not immortal, we can be killed and in some cases far easier to kill than some animals".
Wukong stopped talking. He had a thousand mile stare as his mood heavily dropped. The monkey lost the grin always on his face and and his golden eyes dimmed turning into what looked like rocks.
"I tolerated it for now but restrain from having us in the same room… we're not gods… we're not unkillable… we're cursed. Cursed to always look to the future since the past is too painful and the present is meaningless.
"What do you mean by that"?
"I was born in 602. I'm considered young to Anubis... in your words he was born 3150 BC".
Ron didn't know what to feel. The words stuck to him and wouldn't let him think. Ron got it instantly and the thought made chills go down his spine. He would live far longer than anyone he came to love and still roaming the earth long after they died. Ron turned to look at his best friend and his imagination went wild. Ron knew it was happening but he could see Kim slowly aging, becoming old, then leaving him. Mr. And Mrs. P would go before her. He'd out live the twins, his actual parents, his friends. He'd outlive Sheila.
Ron was on the breaking point. He was fighting hard no to experience an existential crisis. Wukong didn't seem to register what was going on staring far off into the distance.
Their used to be so many of us. Some died from infighting, some left and never came back. It's just us four now. You, me, and the two dog faces. The ones that left… I know them. They went in thinking exploring would be so majestic and the universe was theirs. I've traveled many worlds and found their corpses. Apparently some alien conquerors had found them. Their lucky I could never find their planet. I wouldn't mind getting revenge. Was someone older than me named Icarus. He did it himself, getting to our level just to achieve his dream of touching the sun. He left claiming he'd touch every sun in the universe; he didn't even make it halfway. He was the fastest of us yet still got hunted.
Wukong went on and on summoning a drink and downing it on repeat. The flask seemed endless as the monkey slowly drenched himself with wine. Ron wasn't listening to the drunk monkey talking about his friends who was gone. He was staring blankly at the floor trying his best to not think about it. It was futile Ron slipped into a daydream.
Anubis's Graveyard
Ron stood there with others. Anubis, Jackie, and Wukong all stood behind him as he watched in horror as everyone he knew walked towards them. From friends like Felix and Monique to Family like the Twins and Kim. Everyone slowly aged as they went along trying to reach him. It didn't matter what Ron did. He couldn't move forward to stop them. He couldn't use his powers to move them or teleport at all let alone trying to teleport them away. He screamed till his lungs burned and he couldn't make any sound. Yet they seemed to never hear him or acknowledge he was there. Ron scratched and banged on the invisible wall til his fingernails bleed and his hands were useless . He didn't feel powerful anymore being forced to watch his loved ones age and die. Each one that slowly turned old then to dust was a blow to Ron's heart and his brain. After he watched Mrs. Dr. P. Fade away Rob broke each one after whether it be people he didn't like but known for years like Bonnie or strangers he met briefly like Vivian Porter further affected him. His eyes was dim and glossed over until there was no one left. Even watching someone like Drakken or DNAmy turn to dust was a blow to the chest.
The graveyard was empty, giving Ron a moments rest until the one person he didn't want to see showed up. She looked concerned for him and made her way over. Ron found new found strength seeking her coming his way screaming with everything he had left demanding she stay away or go the other way. Yet despite doing everything he could she still made her way over. A new word came to Ron, a word he didn't even know he knew. The word came to him as Sheila came closer. She aged slower than others and made it further. When her old wrinkled hands touched his face the world had arrived taking over. This was his limbo. Sheila turned to green dust right as her hand touched him, showing him in what used to be his girlfriend. It blocked his vision and when it cleared they all were back. He watched again as everyone now back to how he knew them lined up and went through it again. Watching them the second time was worse. Why couldn't it all be a dream? Why was he chosen? Was this a sick joke? Bring forced to become some chosen monkey fighter sucked from the start. Yet it got worse. It didn't even give him full immortality, just making his life long enough to hate how long it is. Ron didn't want to be like Wukong slowly watching his friends die knowing they'll be gone forever and he'd live to see their family bloodline prosper or end.
Over and over. From single digits to triple Ron watched everyone die. Hundreds of times didn't make it any easier. Every time the dust blew in the non existent wind it felt like a piece of him went with it.
Ron had enough he couldn't take seeing Sheila go again. As soon the graveyard was empty again and right before the worst part of it came Ron ended himself. The pain of hurting himself shocked him out of the day dream. The graveyard didn't exist and he was still sitting on the ground with a monkey god and his sleeping best friend. Ron gently shocked Wukong til his dead eyes lit up. Wukong was surprised seeing the look in Ron's eyes and sighed. He knew that look it was what he was experiencing just a second ago. It was something Ron would learn is very much the truth. Their was plenty of people Wukong had made friends with that aged to death. Lovers and children lost to time. Wukong couldn't imagine how Anubis felt having lived so long he grew bitter at humans for their own mortality.
Ron waved are Wukong as he left no longer in the mood to go over how dumb Ron was. Before leaving Ron grabbed Kim returning to her home. Ron didn't even think about what the two disappearing would do to the investigation he didn't care. He visited his parents who both was in the middle of going through all the videos. Ron didn't register Mrs. Dr. P getting upset with him or Mr. P trying to cover the multiple screens. Ron went over to them giving them a long hug which confused them. Their concern and attempts to know what happened fell on deaf ears. Ron ended the hug and teleported home to his backyard.
Sheila POV
Ugh… I'm going to kick Ron's ass. Who the hell does he think he is? I've never needed someone to fight for me even before the powers. That idiot was willing to fight a god for me… fuck come on Sheila your not five anymore. You don't need a knight protecting you or to get defensive when it feels good to feel safe…
Ugh… Ron's stupid look… He's saved the world for years and I've never seen him look so serious so focused so fucking sexy. I'm not a little school girl yet I couldn't keep my hands off him. I'm supposed to be the one having him wrapped around my little finger, not the other way around. He wasn't even trying to yet I'm tracing his muscles thinking about him looking at me like that.
Ugh… fuck it yoga isn't helping… training isn't helping… why can't he just teleport me, grab me and fuc…
I'm never about hesitating so when I feel hands wrapping around my waist from behind I act immediately not thinking. I wrap my arms around their neck from behind and make sure my head hits their chin as I jump up bending as I pull them over my shoulder. My feet hit the ground and I use it to my advantage since whoever is so tall to pull them over faster and harder. I butchered the move instead of throwing him. I ended up seeing Ron's surprised face in front of me as he slams on the porch. I wince as I see my boyfriend's pained face as he bounces and lands on his stomach groaning.
" My tail...owww fuck me that hurt...why is my both NY asses so sensitive".
Great going me your fantasy is about to come true so why not destroy his tail.
Ugh… Why's a relationship so hard? I apologize and go get him ice. When I come back he's still on the ground face down, his tail lying limply on his back. Why wouldn't he get up?... wait he has a tail that's usually connected to...
" Oh god Ron are you alright please tell me I didn't just cripple you".
"No but if I try to sit down it's just going to hurt worse".
"Maybe try making a sound when you appear behind someone".
" I just wanted to hug my badical girlfriend and get my ass kicked and bullied… the sadness".
He's joking… while I'm over here worried if I accidentally hurt him… Why am I in love and worried about this goofball? I already know he can heal.
"If you can joke you can get up on your own".
" I definitely can't get it up by myself".
"..."
How is he so lame when trying to be funny and funny when he's being an idiot.
"Well that's just too bad I'm going to go shower enjoy the ground".
I can feel his eyes on me watching me sway my hips. I can feel his gaze on me and hear him getting up. This is how it should be. Me leading and him following like a puppy.