Tournament of the Gods

Tale of three friends III

Sun Wukong was still lying on the bare space, he could see Dishra and Sun Wukong closing on his location from the two opposite directions.

"These two are idiots," Sun Wukong thought to himself.  "Why didn't they just appear beside me, why did they appear far away, now, I have all the time I need to set all the traps I want," he ended with a maniacal smile as his eye immediately opened up.  "Crap, that's actually what they want, they want to use more of my chains, it will destroy my life force and at the same time, strengthen them."

"Looks like you aren't falling for the trap," Dishra smiled and as he did, he vanished.

"Where did he vanish to?" Sun Wukong thought, his body shaking.  As if to answer that question, the very space he stood upon opened up as if it was an ocean, Sun Wukong jumped away to to avoid whatever was coming, stretching his other arm, his staff came speedily towards it.   Putting one end of it towards his mouth, he blew towards the opened space in the air, he had a smile on his lips, he thought he had outsmarted whosoever wanted to get him from below but almost immediately, he heard someone pushing through those flames, it was Kredek, using the chain on the end of his sword, he was twirling the weapon like a rope and every flame that the sword came in contact with began to nullify.

Kredek got to Sun Wukong's position, raising his blade, he swung at the monkey king, Sun Wukong brought his staff forward as he intercepted the sword swing by him, Dishra smiled as he appeared behind Sun Wukong.

"What's up guys, mind if I join in?" He grinned as he swung the chains he held, it wraps around Sun Wukong by his arms and pulled him towards Dishra, Kredek grinned as he pressed on the attack, raising his right leg, he connects it to Sun Wukong's crotch causing him to crouch back, Dishra still holding him by the chains spun him in the regular 360 degree fashion before finally releasing him.

Dishra and Kredek disappeared from their position, they reappeared around Sun Wukong while he was still in mid air.

Dishra wrapping the chains around his fist as if to form a boxing glove hits Sun Wukong with his right arm, Sun Wukong spat out blood as he moved towards Kredek's position, Kredek threw the blade towards Sun Wukong's legs, it pierced his skin.

"AHHRRGGHHHHHH!!!!" he screamed but Kredek grinned maliciously as the other end of the sword was still attached to the chain that Kredek still held, tugging at it, he caused Sun Wukong to suddenly move in his direction.  Sun Wukong gritted his teeth as he flew towards Kredek, Sun Wukong put his two arms together, he was bracing to avoid the damage, Kredek slashed with his might ripping off Sun Wukong's two arms as he fell to the ground.

"Now this is what you are going to say next," Sun Wukong muttered while he grunted in pain.  "Had enough, primitive."

"Had enough, primitive," Kredek said moving towards his position but almost immediately as he had, some runes which were underneath him began to glow with a red and yellow light.

"I was intentionally letting you two pieces of s**t hit me before," Sun Wukong grinned and as he did, his two arms grew back.  "I bet you never heard of a seal, it's another useful ability to learn when dealing with dimensional beings, every thing created can be sealed," Sun Wukong looked over at Dishra.  "Don't even think about attacking me, the runes will trap your friend in an endless nightmare world if you attack me, he will know only suffering and pain there, I have directly linked it with my soul force, if any damage whatsoever comes upon me, the seal activates and it's bye bye for your friend."

Dishra looked at Sun Wukong, he had a sly smile on his lips as if he wasn't flustered by what he said at all.

"You bastard!!!" Sun Wukong gritted his teeth as he thought.  "Why is he still stubborn, his friend has no hope of escaping the seal with my help, yet the way he looks at me like a father looking upon a child, his smile isn't the same as he showed before, if anything this smile seems to be mocking, ooh, I would show him that I am not someone to be f****d with," Sun Wukong grinned as he began to perform different signals with his hands.

"Now, this is what you are going to say next," Dishra smiled.  "I will teach you that I am not f*****g around."

"I will teach you that I am not f*****g around," Sun Wukong shouted gritting his teeth in annoyance but almost immediately, his eyes opened up as he looked over at Kredek, Kredek had left the runes that he was on, "How is that possible, the runes are supposed to restrict every form of entry and exit, how then did he move away from the trap I set," Sun Wukong's eyes opened up as he thought about it, he looked down and to his shock, the same runes he had set for Kredek were directly below him, though they were blocked with an opaque object, one of the 20D metals that composed the sword Kredek had.

"You must think everyone is blind but you have to understand, not everyone is like you," Kredek grinned.  "We could clearly see you setting the runes with your blood as we were dealing damage upon you, that's why whenever we saw you make runes, we too were also making runes similar to the style you were drawing yours, when you were done, my friend here," Kredek motioned over to Dishra.  "Dashed towards you and hit you in the face, at that point in time, you were focused on the damage that you sustained that you didn't even notice me teleporting you to the place you had originally made your runes while we both had stayed in our fake runes, in other for you not to suspect, I had delibrately cut my sword and put it to be levitating about 2 feet above each rune so you wouldn't notice, lucky for me, the metal was dark in color which easily bended without the space where we are."

Sun Wukong was really annoyed, he had actually been beat, there was no way he could escape the runes prison as he had actually activated it.

"You two aren't half bad," Sun Wukong laughed nervously.

"You want to cut a bargain, don't you?" Kredek grinned maliciously at him.  Sun Wukong bit his lower lip as he looked over at Kredek, it was almost as if they had anticipated everything up to that point, they knew what he was going to do next and he exactly didn't like it when he was being predicted.

"You aren't wrong about that," Sun Wukong, he put a cheeky and mischievous smile on.  "Even though these two have seen through my ruse, I can't let them think I am all defenseless on the inside, I will keep smiling the way I am, they will become unsure of their Victory and begin to look for loopholes that don't exist and during their search for one, my staff that I had delibrately left outside," Sun Wukong smiled internally as he looked to his left, his staff was invisible and it was floating a few feet high.  "Midway during the fight, I intentionally switched my staff with a mere dud, I had calculated the possibility of them trapping me, it's at the moment of victory that the victors slack off, it's impossible for anyone not to feel a Sense of accomplishment after a victory and with that feeling of accomplishment comes a comfort and with that comfort comes neglect and following that neglect shall be their doom, I shall use my staff to break out and destroy the both of them, I just need to wait for the right time."

"Don't think I am stupid that I don't know this is what you desire to use next," Kredek said as he dashed over to where Sun Wukong was looking at earlier, he held the invisible staff and as he did, the staff became visible.  "So you had delibrately left it here, you planned on using this to plot your escape later on, that explains the cheeky smile on your face, you are but a mere monkey, you don't understand tactics and strategy," Sun Wukong now had a look of fear but internally he smiled evilly.  Kredek continued.  "You looking in that direction would obviously arouse my suspicion, if anything, you just gave out the location of your only trump card, you really are an i***t, you must have replaced this with a dud during our fight moments ago, now, you have no chance against us, I might just spare your life," Kredek now a demeaning smile on his face.  "If you would just cower on your legs like the untamed wild animal that you are and plead for your life."

"That young cheeky bastard," Sun Wukong thought to himself.  "I intentionally looked in that direction so he wouldn't see that my actual staff was actually behind him, when someone makes a new discovery, usually, they are so preoccupied and excited by their discovery that even things they used to know in thier environment is temporarily forgotten about until they have paid less emphasis to their new discovery," Sun Wukong smiled evilly as he looked over at Dishra.  "He too must be looking at Kredek and the supposed staff of mine that the i***t thought he found, little does he know he's playing around my palm like a mere toy."

As he thought that, a 6 feet object which was behind Kredek suddenly became visible, it moved speedily towards Kredek and it was aimed for his neck.

"Crap," Dishra thought to himself as he now noticed the staff which was coming towards Kredek.  "Even if I pause time here, since that staff is of a 20D origin, it won't freeze in his position, I could communicate telepathically with Kredek but he won't be able to understand my message as he's still rejoicing in his victory, I have to find another way to warn and help my friend," he thought to himself biting his lower lip as he looked over at Sun Wukong.

"I know what you are thinking," Sun Wukong smiled creepily in Dishra's direction.  "And you are wrong about two things, first my sword is beyond the concept of dimensional existence itself, that was why in case you haven't noticed, you can't view the internal structure of it, you are using the scan of my life force to base what my staff  should have but I am sorry to tell you, it don't work like that," Sun Wukong smiled even more cruelly.  Dishra looked over in Kredek's direction, Kredek now appeared frozen in his steps but the staff still kept hovering as it moved in a circular fashion around him but yet Kredek couldn't react, he just stood where he was, paused and frozen.

"My staff has disabled the concept of perception for Kredek, now he's unable to perceive anything at all, if you are wondering how I knew his name, my staff had read the entirety of his memories and fed it back to me," Sun Wukong continued.  "You must have thought that you had to find a way to save your friend but I am sorry to inform you, you can't save him, you can only but rely on my help and if you want me to help you, there are certain conditions I need you to fulfill."

"We could talk conditions or I could just snap your neck," Dishra smiled at him, it was then that Sun Wukong noticed the chain of subjugation around his neck.   "How is this possible?  How didn't I notice?" He thought to himself.

"I am not exactly a pure 20D being," Dishra said as he motioned his right arm, there was a small ring on his middle finger.  "For a while, this lets me become a 21D being, the downsize is that I have to activate it, once I noticed Kredek was in danger, I had immediately activated it, then I began to read your mind, I realized all you have been doing from the very start, how when you were a stone statue, you had ascended to every dimensional plane of existence from 1D to Infinite dimensional and even some of the heavens and you were even conscious during the process, that's how you knew how your haxes and abilities worked as you had seen it severally for hundreds of millenniums, the problem was it was your staff that absorbed most of the energy in those planes and not you exactly, then, I stopped your perception of time, came over to you and wrapped the chain around your neck, you are a monkey, never think you can be on the same par with us regarding wits, it's simply impossible, monkeys should stick to doing what they do best, eating bananas and being stupid."

Sun Wukong bit his lower lip at what he heard, it was actually offensive on several levels, Dishra had insulted him further.

"I don't think you'd be telling me your conditions giving the situation you find yourself," Dishra smiled.  "Well then, do you want to hear my conditions?"

"What are they?" Sun Wukong asked.

"Be our friend," Dishra said, he now had a warm smile on his face, Sun Wukong was clearly taken aback by the question, he hadn't expected that at all, what he thought Dishra was going to ask for was how to create chains of subjugation and sealing runes, Sun Wukong had predicted for a while earlier that there was a chance for a higher dimensional being to suddenly come and read his mind so he had found a way to hide those memories even in his mind so that even if his mind was probed, that information would have remained hidden, he was hoping that was what Dishra would bargain for.

"I am lost for words," Sun Wukong said, the look of amazement still on his face.

"Come on, don't be, you know quite a lot and your knowledge would really benefit us," Dishra began hugging himself.  "Besides, it's better to be friends than enemies."

Sun Wukong scratched his head.  "Working along with this company doesn't seem so bad, besides, I want to cause mischief in higher dimensional planes, it will be good to have friends like them, I will be free to use and dispose them how I desire, this is truly exhilarating."

"Kredek and I are going to go an adventures in higher dimensional planes, we want to explore the whole of existence itself, have fun, battle strong opponents along the way, it will be full of mysteries, adventures and dangers."

Sun Wukong eyes immediately opened up at the hearing of he word 'danger' there was nothing he loved more than going on life threatening and dangerous tasks.  He loved the thrill of near-death experiences.

"Count me in," Sun Wukong smiled excitedly.

"Yippee," Dishra smiled to himself as he did a celebratory dance where he stood.  "Let's be friends forever."

"That's if you don't die early."

"With your attitude, you'd surely die before I do," Dishra retorted.

"What are you two blabbing about, I will definitely live the longest amongst the three of us, you two with your foolhardy and asinine attitude won't outlast me."

"Says the fucker that fell for my trap like a dimwit,"

"Speaking about traps, how did he get out?" Dishra asked.

"We are friends, aren't we?" Sun Wukong grinned at Dishra.  "I delibrately set him free once we became friends, it's not friendly to leave your friend in a trap."

"That settles it then, we three are friends forever," Dishra said hugging himself, there were red on his cheeks, he was truly happy.

"Why do you keep blabbing forever?" Sun Wukong said, his forehead turning red.  "I am going to outlive the two of you but I'd make sure I visit your graves regularly so you wouldn't rot," he ends with a sinister smile.

"Hehehehehe," Kredek laughed.  "Since we are all so confident that we will outlive the other, how about we place a wager right now," he said as he brought his hand down.  "I bet I am going to outlive you both."

"Tough luck," Dishra grinned.  "I am definitely gonna love the longest."

"Look at you two, your lifespans are the only ones thing shorter than your crotches."

Dishra and Kredek had puzzled looks on their faces.

"You know we can just manipulate the sizes of our crotches to any size we desire, right?" Dishra began.

"It felt like a good diss at the time."

"If you consider that good, then saying you are retarded is really an understatement," Kredek added, he had a mocking smile on his face.

"Right, I agreed I messed up, let's move past that."

"Na, we aren't gonna do that, you really are a such a dumbo, you sure you aren't the reincarnation of stupidity, you should go work in a circus cause you act like a clown."

"Bastards!!!" Sun Wukong shouted as he gritted his teeth.  Kredek and Dishra looked at him as they suddenly burst into laugher.

"So stone monkey, what would you like to be called?" Kredek asked.

"I know a name for him, circus monkey, that really fits him," Dishra smiled but Sun Wukong gave him a look full of disdain.

"Na, dumbass, that's a more preferable name," Kredek continued.

"I really pity your children," Sun Wukong said by patting his head.  "You two give the worst names possible."

"And that worst is still better than your best," Kredek laughed as he fist-bumped Dishra.  "But it's over to you, for real, what would you like to be called, we are going to carve our names into legend itself, we shall shake countless archverses with our feats, we shall contend with gods and together, we shall achieve things which are deemed impossible so you better choose a really good name."

"Alright then," Sun Wukong smiled.  "I know what name I would like to be called, Sun," he smiled.  "Sun Wukong, that's what I would like to be called."

"Not a bad name," Kredek said stroking his beardless chin.

"Yep, not bad, I'd still stick to calling you stone monkey, that sorta stuck on," Dishra smiled, Sun Wukong's forehead turned red, his staff immediately dash towards him, it danced round the runes which were on the ground, the runs were smeared, as a result, it's potency was lost.

"Now, I am free," Sun Wukong grinned as he jumped from it.

"You two should stop acting like kids," Kredek smiled as he held Sun Wukong with his right arm and Dishra with the other, looking towards the cosmos as he held his two friends.  "A fun life awaits us, it's going to be extremely challenging and goddamn difficult but with the three of us together, I doubt there's any force in existence that's capable of stopping us."

"Don't you mean capable of stopping me," Sun Wukong smiled.

"I smoked yo ass, didn't I?  It's me who's impossible to beat," Dishra said with an overconfident grin.

"You two," Kredek said as he burst into laughter, Sun Wukong and Dishra joined with him.

Countless millenniums had passed, The trio had visited countless different archverses, contending with higher dimensional beings, meeting beings that were even as powerful as (Infinity - 50)D.  [When a being is referred to as Infinity minus whatever number, it means the numerical value of the dimensional tier of a being was so high to the extent that it was closer to Infinity than zero, even septillion to centillion as large as they are closer to zero than infinity, some numbers exist that are even closer to infinity than zero, don't try and wrap your head around it, you are but a mere 3D being, you can't handle the complexities]

And no matter whom the trio faced, they always triumphed, sometimes, they would escape barely but no matter what, they didn't die.

Their friendship eventually came to an end when they encountered Laozi, the god of wisdom.

They had grown cocky from their previous encounters and had actually tried to defeat a god who was a 2A being, above every dimensional plane of existence, the god was above Transcendence and Immanence itself.

They were trapped in a cage and they were reduced to nothing but powerless and weak beings.

"We shouldn't have gone against a god, we were too cocky for our own good," Kredek frowned.

"At least, we are friends, we are going to die together, I couldn't have asked for anyone to die beside than you two," Dishra said.

Sun Wukong didn't pay any of them any mind as he stood in his corner.

"Stone monkey," Dishra said in his direction.  "What are you thinking about?"

"Laozi shall come here any moment from now, I have rigged my staff, it shall open up a path for escape for you two, escape," Sun Wukong continued.  "He might wipe me out of existence but I want you guys to remember me no matter what."

"You are f*****g with us right," Kredek smiled.  "Usually, you are only after saving your skin, I doubt you would be doing anything to protect us."

"I know it might be hard to believe but over all that happened, I have come to love and respect you both," Sun Wukong said.  "I have acted selfish several times in the past but let this be my last and friendly act, I love you guys and I am willing to risk my lives for you two," as Sun Wukong said that, a portal appeared underneath Kredek, Kredek fell inside, Sun Wukong was about to push Dishra but Dishra stopped him.

"What's happening? This is unlike you," Dishra said.

"No, it's unlike the me you know, this is the real me and you guys matter to me, I might get wiped from existence but I want you to remember me, after all, you were my first friend," Sun Wukong smiled as he pushed his friend into the hole.  Dishra could feel tears falling from his eyes as he fell into the portal.

"Now then," Sun Wukong said to himself.  "You are here to finish me right."

As he said that, a tall burly figure about ten feet was outside the cage, it towered several feet above him, Sun Wukong gritted his teeth as he saw the figure.

"You rescued your friends but it's a pity, there's no one to rescue you."