The night before the next day of adventure Daniel had another series of
strange historical dreams. Daniel first dreamt that he was a U.S. Soldier fighting
the Vietkong in the Jungles of the Vietnam War during the late 1960s, than he
dreamt that he was a Russian Cossack warrior fighting natives in Siberia during
the 1600s, than he dreamt he was a disciple of the famous Gautama Buddha the
founder of the religion of Buddhism in Nepal, than he dreamt he was a disciple of
Jesus Christ in Roman Judea the founder of the religion of Christianity, than he
dreamt he was a disciple of the Prophet Muhammad in the deserts of Arabia the
founder of the religion of Islam, than he dreamt he was a follower of Guru Nanak
in the Punjab region of India during the 1500s the founder of the religion of
Sikhism, than he dreamt he was a follower of Zoroaster in Persia the founder of
Zoroastrianism, than he was a disciple of the famous 3 rd century Persian Prophet
Seku, and the Persian Sufi-Magian teacher Rumi in Turkey during the 1200s, and a
follower of Martin Luther in Germany during the 1500s, and of the founder of
Mormonism Joseph Smith in 19th century America, and one of the male followers of
Charles Manson in the 1960s, he was a member of the Thule Society and the
National Socialist or 'Nazi' Party in Germany and a follower of Adolf Hitler in the
1920s in Munich, Germany, and a member of the KGB in Moscow in the Soviet
Union in the 1950s and a devout follower of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, He
was an American soldier fighting in the Revolutionary War against the British
(1776-1783 C.E.), and a Union soldier fighting the Confederates at the Battle of
Gettysburg in 1863 C.E., a Tsarist-Russian soldier fighting the German army at the
Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 during WWI, a Hindu-Indian freedom fighter fighting
the British during the Indian Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 C.E.-1858 C.E. who was being executed by the British authorities in the year 1859 C.E., than a Sikh Warrior
battling the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani on behalf of the Sikh Empire in
the 18th century, who was reading the words of Guru Nanak and the other Sikh
Gurus from the Sikh Holy Book known as the Guru Granth Sikh before grabbing
his sword and heading off into battle against the Afghans, A Prussian soldier in
Frederick the Great's army fighting the Austrian army in the 18th century, A
Mongol warrior of Hulagu Khan's army butchering the people of Baghdad in 1258
C.E. but actually feeling some remorse for the people, a Russian soldier fighting
the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 C.E., a German soldier fighting the
Allies from the Beach at Normandy, France in 1944 C.E., an Imperial Japanese
soldier loyally serving the Emperor believing he is the living embodiment of the
Japanese Sun-God and being both a devout Japanese-Shinto and
Japanese-Buddhist. Charging with is fellow soldiers into combat in Shanghai
China in 1937 C.E. during the Japanese invasion of China killing countless
Chinese civilians, One of the Arab-Magian warriors fighting under the commander
of Khalid ibn-al Walid "the Sword of Shén 神," and the Prophet Muhammad's
favorite general. He died fighting under al-Walid at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636
C.E. fighting the Byzantine-Christian.
Being cut down and killed by
Byzantine-Roman swords while engaging in military Jihad and enjoying a martyr's
death and ready to be rewarded by God in paradise, experiencing the same thing
as a Viking who is killed by Irishmen who fight against the Vikings invading their
lands feeling the bliss of the fact that soon he will enter Valhalla and meet Lord
Odin, Serving as Christian-Crusader Knight killing Magians, Jews and
fellow-Christians in the walls of Jerusalem during the Crusader-Siege of Jerusalem
during the First Crusade in 1099 C.E., as an Ottoman-Jannissary originally a Serbian-Christian slave-boy converted to Sunni-Islam. Helping with the Ottoman
siege of Constantinople in 1453 C.E. hearing a speech from the Ottoman-Sultan
Mehmed the Conqueror that the first soldier to breach the walls of Constantinople
would have a place in paradise. He was the first soldier/Jannisary named: 'Selim,'
shouting above the walls; "SHÉN 神U-AKBAR!!!!!" And preceeding to butcher
the Byzantine-Christian civilians within the city-walls and helping steal the city's
wealth excited that now he was guaranteed a place in paradise by God himself,
Serving as a Nazi Prison Guard at a Concentration Camp for Poles, Jews and
Gypsys, serving as an NKVD officer that was in charge of butchering enemies of
the state at a Soviet Gulag in Siberia during the 1930s, a black Haitian-rebel
fighting and killing French whites and Mulattoes in Haiti in the late 18th and early 19 th centuries, a Muscovite-Russian warrior fighting the Islamic Tatars after
entering the great city of Kazan the capitol of the Khanate of Khazan in Tsar Ivan
the Terrible's army, a Peasant in England, a Serf in England, a Serbian rebel
fighting the Ottoman-Turks in the 19th century, a French soldier under Napoleon
fighting the Mamlukes in Egypt, a Peasant in Scotland, a Peasant in France, a
Peasant in China, a Russian Serf, a Polish Merchant, a RoSekuan Jew, a Russian
Jew, a Polish Communist in the 19th century, an Ottoman-Turkish soldier fighting in
Hungary, a Christian Hungarian soldier fighting the Ottomans in Hungary, a
Parisian artist, a Polish nobleman, a Polish peasant, a Japanes samurai, a
Japanese merchant in Feudal Japan, a Russian merchant, a Hindu Brahmin Priest
in India, an Imam in Turkey, a Catholic Priest in 9 th century France, a Buddhist
Monk in Korea, a Taoist Monk in China, a Chinese soldier of the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1912 C.E.), fighting and being killed by British Troops in the Opium War
(1839-1842 C.E.), in the year 1841 C.E., a British soldier getting shot and killed by German bullets in the trenches of France during WWI (c. 1914-1918 C.E.), in the
year 1916 C.E., an English knight in the 12 th century C.E., a Ukrainian serf in the 17
th century C.E., a person in the year 3,182 C.E. fighting against Robotic
Cybermen, an Alien Elf fighting a native-Warlord on another planet, a Sage from
another realm, an Ant following a group of ants, an wolf following a Pack of
Wolves, a Dolphin following other Dolphins, a Bee following other Bees, a Flowe
blooming besides other flowers, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. it seemed to just go on
forever until finally the Caterpillar appeared again.
"All you have done is follow others. Perhaps follow your own conscience for
once in your many lives." Said the Catepillar.
"My many lives?" thought Daniel. Could this mean that those were all his
past lives before this one and why he was reborn as an Elf. But why had he
forgotten about all these other lives but remember the life he had before he
was reborn as the Gate Keeper. He had always thought that reincarnation
was nonsense but after all he had seen in the past couple of years and after
meeting the Caterpillar he wasn't ready to count it out just yet. As Sun-Wukong and his compatriots traveled in the skies above, Daniel and
his allies traveled in the lands below. In fact they would soon have to head deep
underground.
The gang had crossed the fields of Mamarra and they were reaching one of their final great destinations the Twilight Abyss. The Abyss Twilight was a
large whole or crevice in the ground that lie to the north of the fields of Mamarra. It
lead to a world called the Twilight Realm which infinitely vast so it was easy to get
lost within certain points of this realm but also infinitely mysterious, it was truly an
enigma. As they reached the giant pit that was the Twilight Abyss several Dwarves
approached them. "Excuse me but you have to pay a tax to Emperor Rohan XIII if
you wish to enter his domain." Said one of the Dwarves. "Emperor Rohan who the
hell is that?!" said Tatu. "Emperor Rohan is the 13 th member of the House of
Rohan king of the Echidnas and lord of the Twilight Realm soon to be ruler of the
world." Said the other Dwarf. "You can't mean. Damnit that clown's bloodline has
gone through twelve more descendants I was sure it would have died off a couple
hundred years ago." Said Ungar. "Are you saying you knew Emperor Rohan I?!"
said Narcis. "No it was King Rohan I, King of the Echidnas, not an Emperor back
then and even though he was a complete clown he actually was a nice guy and me
and him kind of became close but maybe his son isn't like him. He's an Emperor so
he probably has quite the ego." Said Ungar. "That makes sense after all a king is
nothing compared to an Emperor." Said Sarai. "If his ego gets out of hand I can
quash him Warlock!" said Zaiyal. "This Echidna, this Clown really wants to
conquer the world. That's almost funny enough to make me laugh!" said Tatu.
"Don't insult our king you degenerate!" said one of the Dwarves.
"Or what?!" said Tatu. "Or we'll have to sick Old Bessie on you guys!" said the other Dwarf.
"Who's old Bessie?!" said Daniel. As Daniel said this a giant flea appeared as
large as an elephant and it began to roar. All of them got into their fighting stances
but none of their magic seemed to work it was clear that this battle would not be
easily won.
Meanwhile... in the skies above, Monkey, Tripitaka, Pigsy, Sandy and their
two new comrades Tecumseh and Mani continued on their journey to the Pig
Demon Kingdom on their way to the Jade Emperor's Celestial Palace. Little did
they know that they were being followed by the Chinese Lightning Goddess known
as Leizi but also known as Dianmu. Eventually she shot in arrow at Sun-Wukong
the Monkey King himself and all six of them got into a battle stance but Monkey
insisted than everyone lay down their arms and he wished to fight this mysterious
woman alone. He soon discovered it was the Chinese Lightning Goddess Leizi who
was the ex-wife of Leigong who was one of the now deseased Thunder Brothers.
Leizi made it clear that she knew it was one of Monkey's allies who killed Leigong
and that she was greatful for that for she hated Leigong. While they were married
Leigong had numerous affairs with other maidens and abused Leizi both
emotionally and phyisically. As a consequence she hated him. So the reason for the arrow wasn't revenge it was to see if the great Monkey King or Monkey God was
as powerful as people had claimed after all he was now a harmless Buddhist
convert wasn't he? Perhaps he had gone soft. But Monkey insisted that this could
not be further from the truth and that he would show her his incredible powers and
would not hold anything back. But Sun-Wukong knew that Leizi was no light
weight. It was known that she used flashing mirrors to send bolts of lightning
across the sky. She was also known famously as Dianmu or, 'Mother of Lightning.'
At the drop of a hat the battle began and of course Leizi used her flashing mirrors
to shoot round after round of lightning bolts at the Monkey God. Tecumseh and
Mani were shocked by the fact that Tripitaka, Pigsy and Sandy were completely
unfazed by the battle for the Shawnee and the Chinese could not even follow what
was happening both of them were moving so fast it seemed as if they were
invisible. Leizi made a minor error which enabled Monkey to appear right in front
of her but when Leizi used a kick Monkey simply grabbed her foot and threw her
downwards. Following this Leizi rotated backwards and landed on a series of soft
clouds. "Well I must say it seems the stories are true after all. You are as powerful
as they you are." Said Leizi. "You're not so bad yourself." Said Monkey. "Are you
trying to butter me up?" said Leizi. "I don't know, is it working?" said Monkey.
"Nope." Said Leizi. The fight continued but it was not clear if anyone had the upper hand. After some time the two stopped and called it a draw and the heroes
were once again off to Pig Demon City but they were not much further away from
the Metropolis in fact a new threat await their arrival.
The seven heroes reached the city but were surprised to find that the city was
nearly empty in fact one of the pig citizens had told them that the population of the
city had evacuated to the countryside because a group of five Ruffians had appeared
and caused massive destruction before leaving shortly before the seven heroes had
arrived. Monkey was almost certain that these Ruffians were the Dark Tao but he
could not wait for long. As they stood there an energy blast headed towards the Pig
Demon but Monkey grabbed the Pig at the last second saving his afterlife when he
looked up it was the five members of the Dark Tao floating above them. Monkey let
go of the pig and he ran out of the city to safety. "Well, well, well.... If it isn't my
old friend, Sun-Wukong, the Monkey King." Said Commander Tao. "Who hired you
scum this time was it Lord Zeal?!" said Monkey. "I'm not at liberty to disclose that
information Monkey." Said Commander Tao. "It was Lord Zeal who hired us." Said
Chi the Monkey. "Will shut your mouth you fucking idiot!" said Commander Tao.
"It seems that none of you have changed at all. These people didn't do anything to
you." Said Tripitaka. "Oh you're fuming with rage aren't you Monk. Well lets not
beat around the bush any longer than lets do battle. It'll be our five crushing your seven.
Lets fight!" said Commander Tao. As Commander Tao said this the five of
them leaped into battle. Yin and Yang fought the most of the warriors taking on
Leizi the Lightning Goddess, Tecumseh, and Mani on their own. While Chi the
Monkey took on both Pigsy and Sandy. Po the Mantis with the power to stop
time took over Tripitaka the Monk. And finally Commander Tao himself battled
Sun-Wukong the Monkey King. Regarding the battle between the Tiger and the
Puma Sisters known as Yin and Yang in their battle against three it began with Yin
and Yang firing blasts of concentrated negative Chi at the warriors. Tecumseh like
the Shawnee-Indian warrior that he was took out his bow and began to fire volleys
of arrows at Yin and Yang but the two cat sisters brushed no less than 200 arrows
aside with ease. Next Mani the Persian master of war leapt into battle with his
sword and began to summon the power of the Wind and asked for strength from the
Great Tao so he would be able to land a strike on either of the two sisters but the
two dodged him without even breaking a sweat and when Mani had tired himself
out Yin slapped Mani to the side where he smashed into the concrete wall of one of
the Demon Pig City's buildings forcing him to pause and catch his breath. Finally
the Lightning Goddess Leizi began to use her mirrors to shoot bolts of lighting at
Yin and Yang but they simply began to side-step every attack as if it were like
playing jump robe and Yang knocked Leizi into the side of a wall with a simple back slap.
The three realized they needed to work together if they wanted to stop
them so they began to formulate a plan. Meanwhile Pigsy and Sandy were fighting
the Monkey warrior Chi who was perhaps the fastest of all the warriors said to be
faster than the speed of light. No matter what the Pig and River demons did they
could not catch Chi off guard and the Monkey was landing blow after blow on both
of them as neither Pigsy and Sandy had not landed one attack. This continued for
some time until Pigsy and Sandy found themselves in a rut and before they knew it
they were both on the ground defeated and Chi laughed at them in a state of
victory. As Tripitaka was about to battle Po the Mantis, Po believed he had this
fight in the bag but he had no idea that Tripitaka had developed a technique that
could slow down his heartbeat so low that he would not be affected by the flow of
time. So the Monk closed his eyes and began to breathe quietly and then seemed to
not be breathing at all. "So that's your plan Monk, playing dead. Alright I'll play
along. Here it goes!" said Po the Mantis. But when Po struck he began to bleed all
over his body and screamed out in pain as Tripitaka knocked him back. Tripitaka
had won the bout with Po the Mantis. Meanwhile Commander Tao and the Monkey
King were fighting on top of the buildings themselves and causing incredible
damage to the ancient city. Blow after blow but if anything the Monkey King
seemed to be tiring and not Commander Tao. On the ground Tecumseh, Mani and Leizi had worked together to catch Yin and Yang off guard using the blinding lights
of Leizi's mirrors to temporarily blind Yin and Yang while Mani finished them off
with his sword.
Three of the warriors; Chi, Yin and Yang of the Dark Tao were now
defeated. And finally in the brought between Pigsy and Sandy and Chi. Pigsy
formulated the idea of shape-shifting into Chi which he did an ability that both him
and the Monkey King shared. And Sandy was instructed to attack both of them as
Pigsy would be fighting strategically on Chi's side at the beginning of the battle.
This worked and when Chi foolishly lost track of Pigsy, Pigsy in the form of Chi
grabbed the monkey from behind and Sandy used his devastating river blade to
defeat Chi the Monkey now four of the five had been defeated. But Commander
Tao was far stronger than any of the other members and had a secret weapon he
was ready to use. "Well Tao, all four of your men have been defeated. You want to
call off this attack. It's seven against one now you don't stand a chance for a
tyrant." Said Monkey. There was a long silence that seemed to last an eternity and
then the great Panda Demon Commander Tao began to laugh in an almost cliché
villainous manner where it started off as a chuckle and then slowly broke out into
howling laughter. "What's so funny, Tao?!" said Monkey. "Oh I just find it
humorous that you thought I didn't come here with a Plan B!" said Commander
Tao. "What are you talking about Tao?!" said Monkey. "Well a pictures worth a
thousand words so why don't I just show you what I'm talking about. Members of the notorious Dark Tao its time to become one!" said Commander Tao. The four
other members Yin, Yang, Chi and Po stood up and began to glow with a dark
purplish light and then turned into dark balls of energy that flew inside of
Commander Tao's body.
As this happened the ground began to shake. The
Commander's teeth began to sharpen and his eyes turned red his voice began to
become animalistic and boom like the rolling thunder as the sound leaves the
mountains for the fields. Commander Tao was still a Panda but he was giant and
looked to resemble more a really nasty looking Sloth with long razor sharp claws
and armor fit for a Demon King. His armor was full of characters from both the
Chinese and Japanese languages and had the Yin and Yang symbol of Taoism on
the front of his armor. Commander Tao began to speak in his new booming voice.
"Why don't you look at the new me Monkey King! Come on drink it all in. I know
it's a lot to handle. Hahahahahaha!!!!!" said Commander Tao. "This is a new low
even for you Commander Tao what did you do to your men?!" said Monkey. "I did
nothing this is a technique we've all been practicing for two centuries since you
defeated us and wounded our pride all those years ago. They're all still alive and
once you kill you and your friends we will return to our old bodies. In any event,
the fact that you would show concern for your enemies in the first place is why
you're going to lost this fight Monkey King! So I hope you've made peace with
Heaven." Said Commander Tao. "We defeated you last time we can defeat you
again. There's seven of us and one of you." Said Pigsy. "Hahaha! Weren't you fools listening all five of the Dark Tao are in one body our power level has exceeded
what should be possible you're as good as dead. Make peace with your gods now
it's the last chance you'll get." Said Commander Tao. "It is you who must make
peace and end your vile ways."
Said Tripitaka. "Shut your mouth! If I wanted to be
lectured by Monks I'd become a Taoist or a Buddhist. So I'm in no mood for your
shit Tripitaka! And I don't have to take it because all of you die here today! Its time
you felt the power of a God of Destruction! Hahaha!" said Commander Tao. "God
of Destruction?! Those have been extinct for at least 5,200 years." Said Sandy.
"Well your math is a little off because you're staring at one right now. NOW
ENOUGH TALK! IT'S TIME YOU MET YOUR FATE YOU VERMIN! IT'S TIME
TO DIE!" said Commander Tao after he said this he smashed his huge fight and
claws into the side of a building and threw it across the sky which almost hit Leizi,
Tecumseh and the Prophet Mani. Next Tripitaka tried to surprise him by sneaking
up around him but the Monk was surprised to find that even for Commander Tao's
huge size he had not sacrificed any of his speed in fact he was significantly faster
than he was before kicking Tripitaka into the other side of the great city. Pigsy and
Sandy tried to land blows with their swords but when they did the swords simply
broke and Commander Tao simply blew them away with his breath. He began to
laugh but Monkey was still left. Monkey had gotten on his flying Cloud cloud and
thought he was going to land a devastating blow to Commander Tao but instead
Commander Tao just shot a burst of white energy from his mouth that Monkey barely dodged and hit a mountain in the distance, the blast instantly turning the
mountain into dust.
The others tried to help Monkey but Commander Tao used his
dark powers to summon an army of demons who began to overpower the other six
heroes. Which left Monkey the only being who could truly challenge Commander
Tao. But Monkey was not optimistic. "This whole time over the last 200 years
while I was pursuing a path of non-violence like Master Tripitaka had instructed
me to do. This tyrant has gotten stronger. I couldn't even defeat him in his normal
form. How can I hope to defeat him now? This is bad! We're all living on borrowed
time. We need a miracle." Thought Monkey. As this continued another half an hour
went by and by this point the other six warriors had nearly been worn down by the
demon horde that Commander Tao had summoned. And Monkey was face down on
top of a building in the ruined city. All seemed to be lost and as this all occurred.
Commander Tao jubilantly proclaimed his final victory over the Monkey King.
"And so your journey ends here. Of course you wished for immortality but you
forget that only an immortal can kill another immortal. Its over for you Monkey
God. You should have never crossed me that was your biggest mistake." Said
Commander Tao. As Commander Tao was about to squash Monkey like a fly
something whisped by and the Monkey King was gone. "Huh?! What on Earth is
happening here! Where is the Monkey King?!" said Commander Tao. "You can
thank my friend for that one." Said a mysterious foreign voice. "Who is that?! Its
you the bearded swarthy man with the sword. You must be behind this. Tell me your name so I'll know the name of the man I'm about to kill." Said Commander Tao.
"My name is King Gilgamesh. Formally the famous ruler of the city of Urak and
you you terrible beast you're days of terrorizing the innocent are over." Said King
Gilgamesh. "Gilgamesh?! King Gilgamesh?! You're real I guess it shouldn't
surprise me. This is no concern of yours I'll make a deal with you if you leave now
I'll spare your life." Said Commander Tao. "No I will not leave the Monkey King is
an old friend of mine and he is currently being cared for by my old friend Enkidu."
Said Gilgamesh. Enkidu was King Gilgamesh's best friend who traveled alongside
the King during life in the great epic The Epic of Gilgamesh. Now in the afterlife
the two who were like brothers fought and traveled together for all eternity in the
afterlife. Enkidu was a man with lots of hair and the horns of a bull and King
Gilgamesh was an extremely muscular Semetic Middle Eastern man with a dark
beard and nearly perfect physical features he was a Demi-God after all. Born of a
mortal Human father and a mother who was Goddess. In the afterlife he was even
stronger than he was when he was alive and Commander Tao knew it. "Well King
Gilgamesh it seems your long journey ends here. If you want to die so badly I'll
gladly send you on your way to hell! One way, of course!" said Commander Tao.
Commander Tao tried to hit Gilgamesh but Gilgamesh moved at lighting speed and
blinded Tao but slicing his eye socket causing great pain to Commander Tao who
began to hold his face while shaking and crying out in pain. "My eyes! You bastard!
You're going to pay for this you little rat!" said Commander Tao. But after
Commander Tao had just barely gotten all his words out. He fell on his back and
King Gilgamesh began to land blow after blow making the new all-powerful
Commander Tao look no more powerful than an Imp. Finally Gilgamesh grabbed
Commander Tao by his elongated tail and threw him to the other side of the city as
Commander Tao began to shake in pain. After this he began to shrink Gilgamesh
had knocked all five of the Dark Tao out of their fused form. And stood before all
five of them. The other six heroes stood behind Gilgamesh in awe of the famous
King's incredible fighting power. "Curse you King Gilgamesh! You had no right to
take this victory away from me!" said Commander Tao. King Gilgamesh simply
stood there and plainly said to Commander Tao and the other members of his gang.
"I'll give you the same luxury you gave me. For I believe the highest code of all
men is an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth." Said King Gilgamesh. "If you leave
now I will let all of you live. If not, you will die where you lie right now." Said King
Gilgamesh. "You don't have to twist my hand back we're all leaving but there is
something you should know." Said Commander Tao. "And what is that?" said King
Gilgamesh. "Agitha said if we failed Lord Zeal would send the Dark Triad after
you. If the rest of you thought me in my new demonic form was too much to handle
than you stand no chance against the Dark Triad. They make us look like a couple
of Jains in India too filled with Pacificism to even hurt an orange tree. You're all in for a rude awakening." Said Commander Tao. "The Dark Triad?!" said Tecumseh
worringly. "No way the Dark Triad is coming here!" said Mani. "That's right and
when you fight them I know they'll end all of your lives and I can finally be at
peace. Good luck! You're nothing more than dead men walking! Lets head-out
men!" said Commander Tao. And the other five warriors of the Dark Tao; Yin,
Yang, Chi and Po flew off into the distance behind their leader Commander Tao,
ragged and defeated. "Who is the Dark Triad?! And why are you guys so quiet all
of a sudden?" said Pigsy. "Allow me to explain," said the Prophet Mani. "The
Dark Triad is a group of three evil wizards with un-imaginable dark powers. They
were once respected holy men belong their respective religions and close friends.
They lived in Ancient China sometime between the 7
th and 9th centuries C.E. and all
they wanted was to make their country a better place.
The first was named Han he
was a Confucian Beuracrat for the Chinese Emperor and was of course a
Confucianist following the teachings of Confucius to fulfill harmony and order in
society. The second was a Buddhist Monk named Qin who devoted his life to the
teachings of the Buddha and Buddhism, and the last was a Taoist Monk named Sui
who devoted his life to the teachings of Laozi and the Taoist religion. All three were
good friends and all represented the three great teachings of China being the
ideology of Confucianism and the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. They would
often speak together and debate each other in what teachings the Chinese Emperor
should impose on the people from the teachings. They would give ideas from
Confucius, the Buddha and Lao-Tzu and other ideas of their own in order to make
Chinese society more harmonious, strong, peaceful and orderly. They would
sometimes disagree but they more often than not agreed and got a long because
despite the fact that they belonged to three different ways of thinking they were
interested above all else in securing the moral purity of the Chinese nation. Of
course these three ideas had co-existed mostly peacefully and had formed ideas off
each other in China for centuries if not over 1,000 years but these men symbolized
the trinity of the three teachings in Classical Chinese civilization. But one day
while the three were using alchemy to find a spell that could grand eternal life they
accidentally released an ancient and very old demon named Yakuu. Yakku was
banished to the deepest depths of the Underworld by four different gods but he was
able to communicate to them from that realm. He used his dark magic to feed on
the worst temptations and thoughts of the three men and persuaded the three wise
men to reject their old beliefs and love of their homeland and join him in his
crusade to overthrow the corrupt and decadent government of the Jade Emperor.
His malice began to worm his way into their brains and soon they would all reject
their beliefs and two of them even their faiths. Han openly rejected Confucianism
and gave himself to Lord Yakuu, Qin openly rejected Buddhism and accepted Yakku
as his new master and finally Sui rejected Taoism and became a disciple of Yakku.
This is why the three men despite coming from three different Chinese traditions
are often known as The Three Apostates because they rejected their old beliefs and
allowed darkness to enter there hearts. Yakku was not too different from his new
desciples he was once a Taoist Monk who wondered the Chinese countryside
helping those in need whenever he could but in his personal studies he discovered
books on the Dark Arts and was so enthralled by the Dark Arts he rejected Taoism
and the teachings of the Taoist religion. He replaced his Taoist beliefs with the teachings of the Dark Arts and gave up his huSekuty in the process, slowly
transforming into an evil demonic god that we know today as Yakku.
The Dark
Triad have worked for the last 1,000 years to bring Yakuu back from the dead as he
was sealed in the Underworld for all time for trying to overthrow the Jade Emperor
with his demonic army. The Jade Emperor cast Yakku out of heaven which is why
Yakku is sometimes referred to as Dark Lord Yakku: The Fallen One. While they
await and help in the return of their master they will often work for other tyrants
who ask them to sow chaos in the world. They do this as it is one of the teachings of
the Dark Lord Yakku; to sow chaos in this world. They are some of the strongest
fighters of the Celestial Realm they are so powerful it is said they nearly defeated
the Shinto Sun God Amaretsu (天照大神/天照大御神/天照皇大神) in a
duel which nearly resulted in the death of the Sun God. The three are so powerful
that one begins to tremble in fear just as they approach you some of the bravests
died on the spot once they confronted by these three monsters." said Mani. "Well
there not heading to kill us, they're after the Gate Keeper kid and his friends." Said
Gilgamesh. "WHAT????!!!!!" said everybody at once except for Enkidu. "I can
sense their dark energy and its not heading for us its heading towards the lands
below to the Dark Underground Caves of the Twilight Realm where this Gate
Keeper and his friends are currently headed don't worry I told that Ungar fellow
all about it. I hope its enough to prepare them. Right now according to the Warlock
they were captured by the Echidna King Rohan but they won't have to worry about
that for long. The Dark Triad will make quick work of those fools." Said King
Gilgamesh. "How do you know all this?!" said Sandy.
"I have the ability to know all of the senses and events around me for a million square miles its something I
picked up while traveleing through the lands of darkness in my futile quest for
immortality." Said King Gilgamesh. "Does Ebisu know of this?! Does he know
they're in danger." Said Tecumseh. "Its hard to say. But If I'd to guess Monkey's
friend the Wind God most likely has no idea of the danger he's in." said Enkidu.
"We're going then come on Tecumseh." Said Mani. "Right behind you!" said
Tecumseh. "We're going to ask Ebisu for aid against the Dark Triad if there's
anyone who can help us against them." Said Tecumseh. "Well you two better hurry
you're on borrowed time." Said King Gilgamesh. "Alright lets go then!" said
Mani. After this Mani and Tecumseh took off in the direction of the Wind Palace.
"As for us Monkey told me with his mind that you were headed to retrieve the
Blade of Heaven from Lord Confucius. Its lucky he called me or you all probably
wouldn't be here right now. It took a lot of courage to do what he did the Monkey I
once knew would rather die than ask for any kind of help." Said King Gilgamesh.
"The King is right. Monkey has grown so much and sometimes its easy to forget
this fact." Thought Tripitaka. "Now in order to get to the Celestial Palace we will
need to cross the great Cloud Desert on our way there we will pass into my empire
The Urak Empire. But we cannot stay for long we must hurry to meet Confucius.
Come on friends, lets go!" said King Gilgamesh and so the seven heroes,
Sun-Wukong the Monkey King, the Buddhist Monk Tripitaka, Pigsy, Sandy,
Leizi, King Gilgamesh and Enkidu traveled further north to the great Cloud Desert while Mani and Tecumseh went to warn Ebisu of the empending threat
posed by the Dark Triad. And so the adventure continued both in the skies above
and in the depths below.