Tournament of the Gods

The Plan

   A figure swung speedily from the tops of redwoods to another, it was over six feet tall with a long 15 inch tail, it looked like an hybrid of a man and a monkey, it had yellow fur covering his entire body except his face, hands and feet, it was the Monkey King.

The Monkey King stopped swinging once it had gotten to the tallest redwood, standing at it's top, Sun Wukong grinned to himself as he looked ahead, the sky was black with a few red clouds shrouding it.   Sun Wukong looking in the distance, he saw a light and in the midst of the light were four figures.

"And now it begins," Sun Wukong grins to himself as his body fades away from the top of the tree he stood upon.

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"Why is the God of mischief so incompetent, he should have been given another name, God of uselessness and that's even a compliment as he has never been useful for anything in his life but nothing!!" Pangu shrieks clearly aggravated, Pangu was about seven feet tall, he had large silver claws emanating from his finger tips and sharp fangs, he had brown fur all over his body and his eyes glowed yellow in the darkness.   Surrounding him were three other figures of whom were all women, one was Change'e.   Change'e was also known as the goddess of beauty, the wife of Hou Yi or Renkui as he was later called, she wore black garment and her eyes were swollen, she had long silky black hair and wore a dazzling black dress.

Even though she looked very pitiful, she was nothing compared to another of the goddess who was dressed in a strange grey dress, she had long Golden hair but she was constantly weeping as she stood on a spot, her name was Guanyin.   The last woman was the most terrifying of the bunch, She wore a great and intidimating aura which completely turned the grass around her to nothingness, her eyes were white and scary, her hair stood on her scalp as if controlled by an unknown force, she was the fearsome goddess of power, Xiwangmu.

"Pangu, everyone knows nothing describes the word uselessness no more than your contribution to existence," came a cheeky voice from above, the four figures looked above at the voice that had spoken, it was Sun Wukong, he was riding on a white cloud, he gave a cheeky smile as the pair of four eyes were turned at him.  Pangu's face twists into a frown as he heard that comment, Sun Wukong seeing that couldn't help but smile cheekily as he lets himself down from the top causing his tail to wrap around a part of the cloud in order to balance his body while in the air, stretching his right arm, a small banana appears, he grins as he greedily peels it.  "So we have all gathered, what's the purpose of the meeting?"

All the gods' facial expression changed, they all wore great annoyance, Guanyin was the first to speak.  "Why must you be stupid, are you stupid because you mean it as a joke or you were bred stupid."

"And they call me a savage," the monkey king grins as he swallows the entire banana in one mouthful.

Xiwangmu though aggravated did her best to inhale and exhale three times as she spoke. "Sun Wukong, you called this meeting, you told us you had found a way by which we could avenge Hou Yi, we all have several existences to tend to, so could you try and not be foolish for once in your life and reveal the reason for why you actually summoned us."

The monkey king upon hearing that snaps his fingers, the cloud he was riding on disappears and he landed softly on the ground.  "Ooh, did I?" He asks, shock apparent in his voice.

"You bastard!!!," Change'e shouts aloud tears falling from her eyeballs.  "My husband didn't deserve this, I have mourned him for several years and I came here thinking I would finally have a chance to avenge him and you come again acting like a...like a... like a..." She couldn't finish her sentence as she bursts into tears, Guanyin appears directly beside her and the beautiful goddess slumped to her chests, her head resting on Guanyin's firm breasts as Change'e resumed crying.

The Monkey King's eyes opened wide as he noticed that Change'e was resting on the goddess boobs.  "Is there room for one more to lay between those firm boobies of yours."

Guanyin threw an annoyed look at him but of the three goddesses, she had the biggest boobs, at least G cups.

"This is a waste of time" Xiwangmu sighs unhappily as she turns to leave.

"Don't be offended I didn't ask to lay my head between yours, it's only natural, I mean, have you heard of anyone begging to lie between rocks" Sun Wukong grins evilly at her.  The goddess of power couldn't take that insult, she was already annoyed that the God of mischief had summoned them to a meeting, not only did he come late to the meeting he summoned them to but actually, he had the guts to play and joke around lackdasiacally as if them answering his summons meant little or nothing and now he insulted her.

"There's a reason I am the most feared of all the gods and goddesses amongst all mortals," Xiwangmu says calmly as she turns towards Sun Wukong's direction, as she said that, shockwaves began to appear from all sides destroying the very ground and vanquishing the very air, her eyes appeared even more white and her hair was being swayed in the wind more violently than usual, Change'e had stopped crying and she wore a fearful look on her face, in fact, all the gods appeared worried, they all knew how terrifying Xiwangmu could be when she decided to be fearsome.

"And so, should I now peel banana," Sun Wukong grins as three more bananas appear in the air.  "I have heard so much women take pride in different things but here's my first about hearing a woman actually wanting to he terrifying."

"I have endured your insolence long enough," Xiwangmu continues still walking towards him.  "I shall take this insult no longer, it matters not if you be god or a lower creature, anyone who insults me shall be punished accordingly as I am Xiwangmu, the goddess of power and death, the orchestrator of the Underworld, the binder of souls, the mistress of wickedness, the empress of..."

She was cut short as a banana peel fell on her face, Sun Wukong was smiling creepily as he unpeeled the skin of another banana and ate it speedily.

"Were you saying something, I lost you at the part when you started making noise which you started doing once you opened your mouth."

"This is the last time I endure this asininity!!" Xiwangmu growls in multiple voices as she dashes at Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong seeing her approach snaps his fingers in hopes of a cloud to appear but before it could, Xiwangmu appeared directly in front of him, before Sun Wukong could react, he felt a heavy slap on the right side of his face.

"IGBATI!!!" Xiwangmu shouts aloud as she slaps Sun Wukong repeatedly on his face, Sun Wukong tired of his face being thrown by the motions of her palm as she continued to slap him raised his hands and held the hands slapping him, as he did that, Xiwangmu multiplied into an uncountable number of clones.

"Oooh no," Sun Wukong frowns, sweat breaking off his face.

"Ooh yes," all the Xiwangmus says aloud, Sun Wukong jumps backwards as he lands on a cloud which had materialized in the air, stretching his right arm, a 6 foot long brown staff appears, stretching it to the Xiwangmus which surrounded him, hails of fire fell from the sky burning and scathing all of them badly but almost immediately, the burnt Xiwangmus replenished themselves.

"The only thing you did was multiply yourselves, you are still as useless as the letter 'G' in the pronunciation of your name," Sun Wukong mocks.

"While you are still as stupid as you look," all the Xiwangmus reply and as they said that, Sun Wukong could feel the aura of the fearsome goddess multiplying exponentially, turning behind, he saw a 800 foot tall Xiwangmu.  The abnormally tall Xiwangmu smiled at Sun Wukong stretched her right arm at him and as she did, thousands of riders on horses shrouded in darkness each holding different weapons dashed at him appearing from nothingness. "Demons of Na'zreel, one of the strongest that I have personally bred in the underworld, you shall truly know why my name carries fear amongst all those who speak it," Xiwangmu says in a million intimidating voices.

As she said that, the dark riders dashed towards Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong began to mutter some words under his breath as he blew in the riders' direction.

"What sorcery is this? my powers don't work" Sun Wukong mutters in disbelief.

"They are completely invulnerable to any form of magic, I have personally shaped them to be so," Xiwangmu grins evilly.

And as she said that, the riders caught up to Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong dodged at the last moment as one of the riders had raised his sword towards him, just as he had dodged, an arrow pierced him in his lower belly.   As the arrow hit, Sun Wukong was thrown into the worst mental agony he had ever felt, he could feel everything collapsing from his perception, he was losing control of his body as he only felt one thing, unimaginable pain.

His body kept getting heavy, his ears were ringing and his eyes were were bleeding.

"What the hell is this?!" Sun Wukong shouts in agony.  "I am a god, I do not feel pain."

"Correction," Xiwangmu grins evilly.  "You are not supposed to feel pain but I have personally shaped my lovely demons with power, the power they posses is so great that it instantly nullifies the power of it's targets no matter how mighty the target is supposed to be, it affects even gods and that's not the only thing, it can make even anyone including a god feel immense pain that even comprehension can't comprehend." She grins as she looked over at Sun Wukong who was kneeling on the ground, his hands to the ground as he looked ahead, blood was flowing from his eyes like water falling from a waterfall.   "And now, you shall pay for your insolence with your miserable and pathetic life." She ends as she fists her palm, as she said that, all the riders in darkness dashes towards Sun Wukong hacking and lynching him with various weapons.

At first, the monkey king screamed loudly in pain as it was unbearable but soon, he stopped screaming and the riders of dark had disappeared leaving a completely lifeless body of the monkey king.  "There was a detail I forgot to add," Xiwangmu smiles evilly as she reverts to a 5'7 tall woman. "in the prescence of the demons of Na'zreel or as I prefer, riders of dark, immortality and Omnipotence becomes irrelevant and meaningless meaning I can kill any god or goddess whenever I please as I wish." As she said that, the other gods who were beside her couldn't help but wear fearful looks on their faces as they staggered back in fear.

Just as Xiwangmu has spoken, white clouds surrounded her, entrapping her to the spot she was and making it impossible for her to move.

She tried frantically to free herself but it was useless, she looked before her and she wore a look of fear, the other gods wore a look of fear mixed with amazement, standing before Xiwangmu was none other than the god of mischief, Sun Wukong.

"How is this possible?" Xiwangmu says clearly shaken. "I killed you, I felt your essence fade out of existence, how are you still alive?"

"They don't call me the god of mischief for nothing," he smiles. "I tricked your mind into believing you were facing the real me, I needed you to go all out so I could assess how strong you are, it's very crucial for the task at hand."

"Wh..what do you mean crucial," Guanyin asks still trying to find her voice.

"When Hou Yi's severed head appeared in the heavens, I realized one thing none of the rest of you did," Sun Wukong said with a grave expression.  "All his godly essence was gone and for some odd reason, the essence was yet to fade out of existence meaning there was only one logical explanation for it."

"And what is that?" Pangu asks.

"Whosever killed Hou Yi stole his Godhood," Sun Wukong continued. "what is most scary about it isn't that he killed a god but he found a way to siphon his power and if he could steal the essence of one god, what's stopping him from stealing our essence," Sun Wukong chucked lightly as he continued. "gods are supposed to be Immortal and perfectly invulnerable but the fact that a mortal not just defeated Hou Yi but also stole his power meaning the mortal was able to achieve two things," Sun Wukong says as he raised two fingers.  "One, he was able to disprove our immortality and two, he showed us we are vulnerable as the pitiful creatures we made."

"Where are you going with this?"Change'e said wiping her face.

"We have to accept that Hou Yi's killer whom we all speculate is the son of the Jade Emperor has attained Hou Yi's power though he isn't as powerful as he was before but still he is more than enough to kill us, that's why I needed to find a way to kill a god and thanks to our lovely and terrifying goddess here," Sun Wukong grins in Xiwangmu's direction.  "I now know it's possible to avenge Renkui." As he said that, the clouds entrapping Xiwangmu disappeared and the goddess was free once more.

"You are the god of mischief and once in the past, you were even referred to as the god of wisdom and knowledge, I suppose you have a plan" Xiwangmu scoffs.

"Ooh, I always do," Sun Wukong grins.  "If the Jade Emperor's son is who I think he is, he would obviously want to siphon our essence as soon as possible, he never liked us meaning that we give him an opportunity to actually get our essence."

"Are you crazy?!  That's basically suicide!!!" Change'e shouts aloud.

"Yes, she's right, if he could outsmart a god, what he would do with such an opportunity to take us out will be disastrous, he shouldn't be underestimated!!!" Pangu also retorts in support.

"Just because someone gets an opportunity doesn't guarantee the utilisation of the already given opportunity but one thing is sure, every man who deems himself wise would never miss an opportunity regardless of how it appears like, if you guys can learn to trust me on this, I promise and swear to you by the council of the gods, we would have our vengeance."

"You know I am still aggravated with you right," Xiwangmu pouts in his direction.

"Is that another way to say you can't resist me," Sun Wukong grins but immediately, Xiwangmu wore a deadly expression causing the smirk on Sun Wukong's face to vanish. 

"You said something about giving an opportunity to the Jade Emperor's son," Guanyin began. "what do you mean?"

Sun Wukong wore his most mischievous smirk as he spoke. "how about we hold a tournament for one particular purpose, appointing a new god."

"Yes, that's true, a tournament to select a new god has to be performed,"Pangu begins. "Someone has to appointed as the caretaker for the fifth Omniverse, I think one of the patrons of Hou Yi should fit in nicely."

"Aren't you listening to me at all," Sun Wukong frowns, this causes all the gods to turn in his direction, each having even more puzzled faces. "this is the first time one of us has died but in the past, in order to enthrone or dethrone a god, we would rid the god of his immortality and Omnipotence and set him to fight in a tournament with patrons whom were also willing to achieve Godhood."

"And how is this supposed to help me avenge my husband!" Change'e cries aloud.

"We are going to do this tournament differently," Sun Wukong had a sinister smile on his face.  "This challenge won't just be thrown to the heavenly patrons but to all creatures in all of creation."

Guanyin begins to stammer.  "But what if Hou Yi's killer gets wind of this tournament, he would come here a...nd an...d and..."

"Don't you worry about that," Sun Wukong smiles lightly.  "That was why I deliberately tried to annoy you all at first, I needed to know if you there was truly a way to destroy a god," Sun Wukong grins as he focuses all his attention on Xiwangmu.  "And thanks to the Queen of the Underworld, the most powerful amongst the six gods, we now know it's possible, so what's left is to use this knowledge to our advantage."

"If the purpose of the tournament is just to capture Hou Yi's killer," Xiwangmu finally speaks. "can't we just throw the challenge only for the inhabitants in Hou Yi's Omniverse, the fifth one."

"That would be too obvious," Sun Wukong smiles lightly.  "Besides, the murderer found a way to bring his head to the highest of heavens whose location is the most hidden in all of creation, if he could find that location out and know precisely at that moment that we were all gathered in heaven, what's stopping him from living in any one of the other Omniverses, and I know for a fact that the Jade Emperor's son intends to kill us all, he's simply waiting for an opportunity, that's why we are going to set a trap, one that he must compulsorily fall prey to," Sun Wukong smirks mischievously.  "A trap is only useful when it catches it's prey meaning if the Jade Emperor's son isn't caught, then all is for naught, neglecting that, I also intend to do something else, we need to find a caretaker for the fifth Omniverse so for the upcoming tournament, I intend to do two things, find a replacement for Renkui and kill the one who killed him."

"And what do we have to do for that to happen?" Change'e asks, her eyes brimming with anger and determination.

"Relax, Change'e," Sun Wukong puts on his most mischievous smile.  "That's just what I am about to discuss with you all."