Yay! Thank you for the nice reviews! They always make me feel better!^^ Answers for them now:
VampireNaomi – Good thing that you think like that about them, because that's exactly what I wanted. Well, actually Shendu was going to be a bit different, but I'm still pleased with his current performance in this fic.
Forgotten Love – Thank you both for the review and for the "Huns" hint. About Hsi Wu... eh, I mentioned in the beginning of chapter 1 that he wasn't born yet.^^" In fact, this chapter is basically about him.
Sorry, my English is not very good today (I don't know why), there were some slangs and puns in the original version. And the chapter is kinda short, but I wrote it almost at midnight and I only stopped when I was about to sleep on the keyboard!
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Chapter 5: One Hundred Years Later
One hundred years passed since the incident with the guides and the Huns slaughter. The demons were living their normal lives – or not – and nothing has changed a lot. A new demon was born – removing Shendu from his position as the youngest one – and his name was Hsi Wu. He was the sky demon and his most notable characteristic was his wings.
"Of course, he is the sky demon! How would he fly without wings?", Shendu had affirmed.
Other interesting characteristic about Hsi Wu was his size.
"It's because he is a baby! Just give him vitamin, one day he'll grow.", Bai Tsa had said.
Hsi Wu was much smaller than any of his siblings even when they had been newborn. Their parents could say that even in his adulthood, the sky demon would not be much bigger than a normal human man.
"Of course, he is the sky demon! How would he fly if he were as big as a whale?", Shendu had stated and received a punch from Bai Tsa when she had had enough of his insolent remarks.
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Despite his age, Hsi Wu was a very intelligent demon and didn't used to get involved in his siblings' violent fights. Especially because he was the one who always got a spanking, even by Shendu. But he had an open mind and often accepted the company of almost all his siblings.
Hsi Wu is seated in the ground in front of Xiao Fung with an expression of who understands absolutely nothing he's being told.
"Why a cock never enters a bar?", Xiao Fung asked and Hsi Wu blinked. After five minutes of silence, Xiao himself answered. "Because he doesn't want his tail turned into a cocktail! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hsi Wu was as confused as before, watching Xiao Fung dying laughing. Their other siblings approached and observed them.
"What is a bar?", the sky demon finally dared to ask and nobody paid him any attention.
"Get lost, Xiao. Even Hsi Wu is not interested in your stupid jokes.", Bai Tsa said lifting her youngest brother.
"Come on, Hsi. Let's teach you how to swim."
"No, let's teach him how to eat.", Po Kong said trying to take Hsi Wu from her sister, who pulled him back. Others also joined the fight.
"Let's teach him how to dig!", Dai Gui suggested.
"No, let's train Kung Fu moves with him!", Shendu said jumping to try to reach him and Xiao did the same.
"I saw him first!!! Give me him back!!!"
"Let's teach him what real pain is when we use all our powers to give him a very slow and painful death until he loses all his blood and begs to die!", Tchang Zu proposed and the fight immediately stopped when everybody stared in disbelief at him.
"I like the idea.", Shendu said after a long while.
"Let's teach him how to tell jokes already!", Xiao started again.
"No, how to dig!"
"How to swim!"
"How to eat!"
"How to fight!"
"How to die!"
Hsi Wu was being pulled for six different directions at the same time and probably would have died if Tso Lan had not come to the rescue.
"Come, Hsi. I'll teach you about the moon.", the moon demon calmly said taking his youngest brother and going away with him. All the others stared at them puzzled, then angry.
"Hey, not fair!!"
"Tso Lan!!"
"Give him back!!!"
"Waaahhh!!!"
"Tso, you are bad!"
"Hey, I've got an idea!", Po Kong announced triumphant and everybody, including Tso Lan, looked at her – for Hsi Wu's despair. "What about we teach him how to fly?", she suggested.
"Good idea!", Xiao said.
"Indeed.", Tso Lan admitted.
Bai Tsa placed Hsi Wu in a tree's high branch and went down to join her other siblings. Hsi Wu blinked and felt cold shivers going down his spine as he glanced at down and saw he was very high.
"Fly, Hsi!", Bai yelled and he gulped.
"You have to flap your wings!", Po Kong added and the sky demon spread his wings and drew a deep breath before jumping forward. He fell straight to the ground and his siblings flinched, then looked unsure at him.
"I bet it hurts.", Tchang Zu remarked.
"Hahaha, he fell like a potato sack!", Xiao said grinning.
"Shut up, Xiao!", Bai Tsa ordered. "Try again, Hsi!"
Seven hours later, at night...
"Come on, Hsi! Nobody fails for the 3719th time!", Tchang encouraged and Hsi – already all crippled – nodded weakly. He closed his eyes and jumped in the air flapping his wings with all his strength that still remained. He was going to fall again, but a strong wind blew and made him float. He opened his eyes and though he was really flying (poor him).
"Look, he did it!", Xiao yelled, waking Shendu and Po Kong up, since they had fallen asleep some while ago.
"Congratulations, Hsi!"
"Very good!"
"I knew you would do it!"
"But he is not flying, he is just float-", Tso Lan said but Bai Tsa interrupted him.
"Ah, Tso! Stop spoiling our fun!"
Hsi Wu grinned pleased with himself for finally having learned how to fly. He couldn't believe how easy this was, he wasn't even making effort to do it!
"I can fly! I can fl-", he could not continue when he was hit by something in the head and his siblings could just watch Hsi falling to the ground again in a 'bird-with-an-injured-wing' trajectory.
"What happened to him? Looks like he's drunk.", Xiao commented. Everybody approached to see Hsi Wu and a bat fallen unconscious, with this face: @_@
"You mean I didn't fly?", Hsi Wu asked discouraged, rubbing the bump on his head.
"Yes!/No!", Bai Tsa and Tso Lan answered at the same time, and then glared at each other.
"You flew like a stone.", Xiao Fung said.
"Cheer up, Hsi! You will learn how to fly someday.", Po Kong encouraged.
"Yeah, you still can train for many years.", Dai Gui pointed out.
"No way, you are useless!", Shendu snapped and everyone looked seriously at him.
"You know Shendu, that's the sort of remark that Hsi Wu didn't have to hear."
"But it's the truth.", Tchang Zu commented shrugging and the others looked hopelessly at him (¬¬U).
"HEY BAI TSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", someone yelled hysterically from the window and the demons pressed their hands on their ears in order to avoid becoming deaf.
"J-Jin?", Bai Tsa stuttered.
"Guesswhat?IsaidIwantedtogotothePerditionForestandmyfatherallowedmeto!Hesaidyoucancomewithme!Doyouwantto?Doyouwantto???"
"What?! I didn't understand a word!"
"What about in the morning?"
"Morning-"
"Then it's a deal! I'll talk to your father!", Jin said and went away. The demons glanced at each other and shrugged.
"Ahh, today is a great day to swim.", Bai Tsa said stretching her arms admiring the blue sky and was about to leave when her father pulled her by one of her tentacles. "Ouch!"
"Where you think you're going, young lady?"
"I'm going to swim, I'm the water demon.", she said proudly and her father nodded.
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"NO WAY YOU ARE GOING TO SWIM!!!! YOU ARE GOING TO THE PERDITION FOREST RIGHT NOW!!!"
"What? But... but.... but.... but.... but......"
"NO 'BUTS'!!!!!! DO YOU WANT TO DISOBEY YOUR FATHER?????"
"But why do I have to go....?"
"It's going to be very educational for Hsi Wu, and I know that you couldn't enjoy it the last time since you were very busy looking for the guides captured by the Huns."
"But- I- Don't- How- Why- .... Father, I don't want to go there!", she complained and his eyes glowed dangerously.
"DON'T QUESTION ME!!!!! JOIN YOUR SIBLINGS NOW BEFORE I GIVE YOU TO A JAPANESE FISHING SHIP SO THAT THEY CAN SERVE YOU AS SUSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Ack!!!! Yes, sir!!!!!!!!"
"Jin, why do you want to go to the Perdition Forest??? You said you were afraid of there, that it was a cursed place!", Bai Tsa said desperately while she, her friend and her siblings walked with no enthusiasm at all.
"Ah, but you were there and are still alive even after one hundred years, then there mustn't be any danger. You were right, that curse thing is nonsense."
"Jiiiiin........ and here I though you were my friend...." (T_T)
"Oh, Bai Tsa! Your brothers are sooo cute!!!", Jin said pinching the cheeks of Shendu and Xiao Fung.
"Oow, zat hurzs!", Xiao murmured.
"And your youngest brother is the cuddliest thing I have ever seen!!!", she said grabbing Hsi Wu and squeezing him so tightly that he turned blue and fought hard to get some air, almost having his bones all broken.
The oldest ones sighed in frustration and tried to convince themselves that Jin was not there.
"Ignore her... Just ignore her... She's not here... She's not getting on my nerves!"
"AHHH!!! CUUUUTE!!!!!!!!!", Jin yelled one more time and the demons flinched.
"I'll kill her before we get there...", Dai Gui muttered.
"C-Calm down... Just some... hundred of kilometers until there...", Po Kong said trying to sound encouraging.
To be continued...
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