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Song: Leave out all the rest

By: Linkin

Start song at (1)

Suggested/Requested by: WinterCrystal1009

And party they did! Jack had his hands full; he was being congratulated by the festival goers and marveled at by the guardians. Not that he didn't like the attention. It was actually a relief after all the worrying he'd done earlier. After a while he slowly fell behind the others, who were preoccupied talking to Chesh and the rest, which is when he noticed a feeling of being followed.

Even in the huge crowd of milling spirits, mythics, and legends Jack easily spotted their tail. A hulking figure that was none too good at appearing like he wasn't following them. Jack lifted into the air then moved behind the figure to surprise them.

"Ah hem!"

The tail spun to reveal a shaggy man monkey wearing a wool cloak. Underneath that the teens saw the unmistakable clothing of ancient China.

"Why are you following us?"

The monkey man looked greatly ashamed, he fully faced Jack and, putting his hands together palms flat, he bowed. "My sincerest apologies! I should have come out right away but I am ashamed to say my fear stopped me."

"Fear of what, and you still didn't answer my first question." Jack said.

Still bowing the monkey man replied: "you are correct, forgive me! I am following you, or Toothiana to be more accurate, because I wish to speak to her. But my fear, fear of my past transgressions to her especially and the other guardians, has stopped me."

It dawned on Jack at that moment, who he was talking to. "You're The Monkey King aren't you!?"

If possible the monkey King bowed deeper and seemed to radiate this there. "Yes, the very one who hurt Toothiana in such gravy his ways?"

Jack had heard of the monkey King from tooth, but could find no resemblance to the being before him; however he still kept his guard up.

The monkey King was still bowing but must have somehow sensed Jack's defensive attitude for he said: "you have every right to be cautious, I deserve no less! For my transgressions I was severely punished, and then someone came and offered me another chance." The monkey King touched a hand to his four head where a one wide gold band and circled his head. "Through journeying with him, and to others we met on the way, I learned many things. Not the least of these what I had cost others in my greedy ambitions. I am now on my own journey, I have secret out those I wronged and sought their forgiveness. For some I received it, for others I did not. Whatever the answer accepted it, as well as any punishment they saw fit to bestow. The last on my journey is Toothiana."

Jack thought the monkey King's words over. His tail, though brief and short in details, struck a chord of memory. The Chinese story of the journey West! "Do you happen to go by the name Goku now?"

"You know the name my master gave me?"

The plan was simple, so simple Goku had misgivings it would work.

"Relax! This song is perfect, just sing from your heart and let the rest work itself out."

"Now where did that show pony go off to?" Bunny asked as he realized Jack was missing once again.

"Do you think he went back to the stage and dance floor?" Tooth asked.

"If I know Jack, that's exactly where he is." Tiffa said.

As they headed that way another song started up. (1) The voice seemed familiar to tooth, as she got closer she saw a Chinese outfitted individual on the stage. They were obviously uncomfortable, standing like a rigid statue, but you could tell that the words they saying were from the heart and the true representation of their wishes.

The closer the group came the more details could be made out. The individual was Harry and seemed to have an animalistic shape. Tooth's heart clenched as an idea came to her but it wasn't until North shouted, "De Monkey King?!", that it was proven true.

A tidal wave of emotions hit the last sister of flight hard. All the fear from the night of her parents death, sadness at her lost childhood, anger at the monkey King, bitterness of revenge, and surprisingly picky and guilt for what he had become. Something had changed in him he wasn't the maharaja who went after the flying elephant, he wasn't the roofless hunter who captured her in a cage, and he wasn't even the pathetic creature that had sided with pitch to get his humanity back. He was a being who had traveled long and hard, learned his lesson the hard way over and over again, and was now trying to put right his wrongs.

The hope she had received watching the wolves performance returned. She could now see the boy who had once been her father's best friend!

Goku walked off the stage and headed towards Toothiana about a foot away he stopped and went to his knees. Then putt his hands together palms flat and bowed. "Queen Toothiana, I have come to ask for your forgiveness and am prepared to accept whatever you see fit to make up for my crimes."

Tooth hovered for a while then landed directly in front of her old enemy. He remained in his bowed stayed until her hands wrapped around his.

"Stand." She said. When they were face-to-face she continued. "I forgive you but I can't trust you, not yet. That will take some time... But I want to know more about my father, and I know you were his best friend."

The monkey King smiled gratefully. "It would be my great pleasure. Thank you!"

The Journey West is an Ancient Chines story about a monk you is told to travel west on a journey to recover ancient Buddhist texts. To help him on his pilgrimage he is told to release an imprisoned being from under a mountain and given a way to control him. As the two travel they meet a water spirit and a pig monk who join as protectors. All three are met with multiple trials and hardships that test the group and the individuals.

The name Goku comes from a Japanese anime adaptation of the same story, Saiyuki