The New Legends of Monkey

Oh! Look! It's the Monkey King!

Monkey had scattered the seven scrolls to every known corner of the world,

and our mission was to get them back.

We were travelling to the Mountain of Fruit and Flowers,

where the first of the Sacred Scrolls was hidden.

I am Tripitaka.

At least that's who my friends think I am.

When you pretend to be someone else,

you can never really let your guard down.

How much further is this Mountain of Fruit and Flowers?

It was much closer when I was travelling by cloud.

However far, it will be worth it to find one of the Sacred Scrolls.

If we make it. Has anyone got any water?

You are carrying half a village on your back,

and you didn't bring water?

We can drink from that cactus.

Is it meant to smell like that?

They call it the rotten corpse cactus, but it's not poisonous.

It's better than dying of thirst.

Is it? Is it really?

Sandy, you must be thirsty.

I am severely dehydrated but I'll wait till we get to the lake.

What lake?

The lake behind that ridge.

Why didn't you say anything?

Just did.

Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo!

Whoo!

You're not coming in? We've been travelling for days.

It's not that. I... can't.

I'm not permitted to bathe with others.

It's a monk thing.

No-one's here to see you. We won't tell anyone.

It's not about who sees him.

- It's about doing the right thing. - Hmm.

I'll have a bath when you're finished.

Good day, travellers. I am the Monkey King.

We'll take your weapons. We'll also keep the shoes.

You may then go on your way.

And, ah, if we don't agree?

We destroy you.

Sorry, I didn't quite catch your name.

I am Affe.

I have been chosen by the great Monkey King's spirit. I am the keeper of his legacy.

- His power lives within me. - Do you know who you're talking to...

Be quiet, little wise man.

And what legacy do you keep? Dirty fighting?

We protect the Monkey King's sacred relic from Demons.

Demons like you.

Tell me about your Monkey King.

He was courageous and skilled in combat.

And?

He was a symbol of hope in the battle against the great Demon scourge.

- And? - And...

He's also very handsome.

It's him!

I'm unsure what's happening right now.

I am the Monkey King.

And I am pleased to meet you.

Well... Well, the Monkey Clan's greatest dream has come true.

We are your humble servants.

All hail the Monkey King!

All hail the Monkey King! All hail the Monkey King!

All hail the Monkey King! All hail the Monkey King!

All hail the Monkey King!

Ah, can... can I have my boots back, please?

It's amazing. It's amazing! It's amazing!

My family, he has come.

500 years ago, our forefathers made a promise,

to protect the Sacred Scroll Monkey entrusted to us with our lives.

And ever since, we have waited for the day in the hope that he would one day return

and now, that day has finally come!

Whatever you want, benevolent leader, it's yours.

I would rip my heart from my chest and give it to you if you asked.

- Does he seem a little... - Odd?

He's crazy.

- To the Monkey King! - The Monkey King!

At last, we can see for ourselves, brothers and sisters,

the King who can harness thunder and fly upon a cloud.

Owner of the magical Wishing Staff,

who can shrink himself to the size of a bee and sting the whole world.

Sting the world?

Our Monkey King!

Thank you.

It's good to be back.

Monkey, splinter yourself into 100 exact and perfect replicas of yourself.

- Yeah! - Call up your cloud!

Let us see you fly through the sky on your cloud!

Yeah! Yeah!

I'm afraid that, ah, due to my many centuries of imprisonment,

some of those powers are momentarily diminished.

Ohh.

Some. Some. But not all.

So, who wants to smash some Demon skulls?

Me! Whoo!

Who wants to join me and create a Monkey army?!

Yeah!

Let's carve our own path through this so-called Demonic reign.

Let's do it!

- Who will stand up? - I'm standing.

It's time to take the fight to our enemy!

Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!

Oh, I'm used to eating like this, you know.

A banquet for every meal,

pillows of the softest feathers.

But it all came at a cost.

Oh, I know that look.

Oh, no, we're just friends. We work together.

- You need some advice? - Yes. Anything.

- Can you dance? - No.

- So don't dance. - That's your advice?

The message is, work to your strengths. You'll get there.

So I got all of these at the Jade Palace.

And this?

I had to fight 12 Demons. It wasn't easy.

And this, I don't remember where I got that from.

Can we talk?

Disperse.

These people might not like it when they realise that you're lying to them.

An army?

Who says I'm lying? These are good people. They fight the good fight.

We came here to retrieve the first of the ancient scrolls. That's all.

And who's to say that training an army of Bandits isn't a better plan?

I do, because it isn't.

Who appointed you ruler and judge?

You would abandon everything the Scholar has worked for,

the entire resistance,

just so you could be adored by a bunch of derelicts and sycophants.

Are you really that shallow?

You know what I think?

I think you and the Scholar spent too much time with your head in books

and not enough time in the real world.

Maybe he wasn't as smart as he led you to believe.

Did you ever stop to think about that?

And besides, he's dead, so who cares what he thought?

I'm glad he's not here. He would be so disappointed in you.

For 500 years we have kept the scroll safe

by cultivating and maintaining a series of traps,

so that no-one could ever find it on foot.

However, as the esteemed cloud

is not available to you at the present time,

that is the only way for us to retrieve it.

Which is why I present to you two of our finest warriors,

well versed in the traps and how to disarm them.

I present to you Jiro and Bobbo.

I'm Jiro.

Ah, my great-great-great-great

great... great... great-grandparents

helped design and build

the cleverness that protects the Scrolls.

And I am Bobbo.

I am the smartest member of the Monkey Clan ever to be born.

I have studied the ancient maps

and have devised some more modern ways to disarm

and outwit the perils we will encounter within.

Okay. Lead the way.

Monkey.

I will get the scroll for you, Monk.

But that doesn't mean I have forgiven you.

Left. No, right.

Wait.

Do you hear that?

And so we find the ancient fire wasps.

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Magnificent.

Too many stings and you'll scratch yourself until...