| Pre-Chapter: Awaken in The Big One |
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Iron Fan Princess comes to Doctor Sun and asks him to deliver her baby to the father. Dr.Sun asks:"Who is the Father?" " When the baby open his eyes, you will see who is the father." Iron Fan Princess say:" Monk Tάng and his west journey team pass through my Mountain of Flame, they borrowed my Iron Fan to put off the flame and left. They didn't know they left the baby to me, I can't raise the baby." "Where are the team now?" Dr.Sun asks. Iron Fan answer:"Monk Tάng is at Chicago, Monkey King is at New York. Friar Sand is at Alabama. Pigsy is at Las Vegas, and White Dragon is at Hollywood." |
| Chapter 1: Dragon, How High Can You Jump? |
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White Dragon opens his eyes and is instantly shocked by this own reflection in the full-size mirror. His dazzling reflection mirrors a puzzled expression on his face. Surprised by what his is seeing, Dragon peels his lips back into a smile, showing off his full set of white teeth. ¡§I'm back to being a human body form again", Dragon says to himself smugly. It seemed like he was still a horse, just before a blink of an eye ago? Isn't he the son of Dragon King in the West Sea? The dragon prince initiated the volcano under sea committed arson and burned the illustrious bright pearls. He was sentenced to join the West Journey mission and was turned into a horse to serve Monk Tάng because he ate Tang's horse while he was waiting Tang's arrival. Unsure of his surroundings, he stands still for a moment. He remembered that he had to transform into a horse to serve the Journey mission, but his next thought was unclear. In his mind remembers all of this teammates being sucked into thick giant crystal mirror. In the mirror reflections of magnificent and adornments and fancy costumes hang from racks on the walls. A collection of masquerade dresses, burgundy velvet dresses, and skirts suspend from large hangers, behind Dragon. Various costumes such as: pleasant gowns, maiden dresses with patterns of puffed short-sleeved blouses, a head piece with veil, a boy's lined cape with lined doublet and leggings, spats, and various hat lay sprawled on the floor. ¡§So many clothes does one need?", dragon ponders. Which one shall I wear? Dragon carefully studies himself in the mirror. He looks at himself in the mirror with his sword shaped brows and starry eyes, grand nose and slender lips, long arms and legs. His back display muscles as strong as a tiger, his waists are steady like a bear. He is not only handsome, but also well built with sleek edges on his chest and abdomen. He smiles to the mirror and the mirror smiles back. Dragon and his reflection meet eyes, and stare at each other with intensity. Along the frame of the mirror hang flashing light bulbs, with an intaglio of writing in small print at the base. The sign reads, ¡§Objects Viewed in this Mirror may appear bigger than they really are." He holds his fist out and his reflection ripples with gibbous rim and snug, convex flange, concave hollow, and sunken dented muscles. To be a human body, this is the most magnificent perfect form. He flexes his chest muscles, watching them wave up and down. Looking down he thought he saw a horse's chest. He stands confused for a moment. ¡§Did I really just recall a glimpse that I was a horse again", Dragon ponders to himself. Shaking his head, he grins to himself. These are the muscles of a vainglorious dragon. The abdominal muscles robust with majestic posture appear to be scales of a Dragon. He blinks and stares at himself. He scratches his head in disbelief and displays a confident smile. Turning to change his angle for a better view, he flexes his biceps while twisting his abdomen. He turns his head to see his buttock, legs, and claves. He almost suffocates as he holds his breath while he vainly watches his buttock flex. As conscience of his new body as Dragon was, he did not notice the fat bald man whose who had been starring at him for the past ten minutes. The anguish on the man's face tells a story of its own. Benjamin, the costume manager, bellicosely scolds Dragon. ¡§Have you had enough? They are shooting already and you are hiding in here staring at your butt?!" "What shooting?", questions White Dragon stunned by the sudden appearance of Benjamin. He remained motionless in a quandary. "Put this on and throw yourself there now!" Benjamin, almost driven to the point of madness, throws Dragon in a martial arts uniform. "Where now?" Dragon nonchalantly puts on the uniform, struggling to get the top of his head. "There! See the tree?!" Benjamin staunchly walks over to the window and opens it pointing at a huge tall tree far away from their three-story building. White Dragon looks out the window and sees that it is windy and sunny outside. He positions himself planning to jump to the tree. ¡§What the hell are you doing", screams Benjamin. He tosses Dragon a pair of pants, ¡§We wear pants around here. This isn't a Porno Movie buddy." It's not everyday you meet a dumb temporary actor. Almost losing his head because of the yelling, bold guy Benjamin opens his mouth wide. Trying to think of an array of scolding words to shout, he stands there with a menacing expression on this face. Suddenly, Dragon grabs the pants and jumps out of the three-story building. Benjamin stands watching in awe. He is frightened with his heart out of his mouth. Running to the window, he looks down at the set. He thought he had driven the young naive actor to suicide by scolding him to death. Yet, his expression of fright turned into surprised. He could not believe his own eyes. Dragon dropped down like a shooting star, bouncing up like a jack rabbit. Soaring through the air like an eagle, he jumps two stories high into the tree. Benjamin even watches as Dragon put on the pants, ties the drawstring and adjusts the costume during his jumping frenzy. Far and near, all the working staff are on their job assignments. Actors dress in costumes ready for rehearsals. Staff busily works around them. Everybody is busy, but don't bother to see what's going on around each other. Dragon's aerial performance went unnoticed by everyone. In the foregrounds of the studio, a huge curvy banner reading [RHINO STUDIOS] shins under the morning sun shine. A long, high brick wall protects the illustrious studio grounds. One huge iron gate divides reality from the world of illusion. People are stopped by a guard, who inspect their bags and grants them access to the studio. People mill around very busily not paying attention one another. Some people are dressed in fancy clothes while others wear jeans and sneakers. On the set lots of people run in different directions with strings, papers, books and heavy metal objects. Various equipment such as lights that blind and burn you when you get too close and chords resembling big black snakes are spread throughout the set. A few cameras are strategically placed by camera men. This is an average day here at the studio. From the lighting technicians to the producer assistants with their walkie-talkies, these are the facets of a movie studio. A pretty girl is waiting impatiently near a craft service table drinking a cup of juice. She quickly gazes over the poor selection of stale doughnuts and bagels. Jack Fellstein, the Assistant Director, approaches her. "Leggy!" Next shot you are up." Leggy Migliaia, staring at her newly manicured nails, doesn't bother to answer him. Jack added quickly "The director is looking for you, Ms. Migliaia ." Dragon observes Leggy and follow her eyereach from his position in the tree. A group people surround the director who sits in a elevated chair. Everybody watches a guy in a fighting costume underneath the strong spotlight. Another man waits for the director's signal before he enters the lighted area. A woman hurries over to him and brushes something on his face. As she runs out of the site of the camera. "Camera! Action!" Director John Kleve yelled. Dennis Berkley walks in slowly in the steps he just rehearsed. Under the bright light, Jerrod Narcisse says "I think they are waiting for us..." Dennis looks around, his eyeline not very far away from the tree where Dragon waits. "Cut!" Director yelled: "One more time." Dennis steps away from the bright light. Jerrod repeated the same dialogue and action again, in he same tone and temperament. Dragon looks really puzzled. All this looks like a stage drama, like a theater play but without a stage and an audience. There are two magic black boxes surrounding the actor, and it seems they are performing for these black boxes. These cameras service as actor's audience. "Cut!" the director smiling yells, "Print! Check the Gate!" "Moving on". Everybody starts to run around and continue their busy work. As he looks down, Dragon realizes out that everybody seems to be gathering around his tree. To Dragon the camera appears to be a large cannon pointing in his direction. Unsure of what to do, he nervously unties his pants drawstring, and reties it tightly. At this point, everyone is focused on Dragon. The camera zooms in tight on dragon's face. Jack climbs up the tree and passes a sword to dragon. Dragon studies the sword, but is unsure of what to do with it. Weighing the sword in his hands, he thinks to himself, ¡§this feels really too light to be a real weapon?" "Camera!" the director yells, staring at dragon high in the tree. Everybody looks at the teleprompter that focuses on a close up of Dragon. Dragon's nervousness intensifies as the cameras move in closer. Confused of what to do, he stares at the director. The Director waits for dragon's response. Dragon continues his blank expression. Jack screaming in a deep low voice:" Jump and attack him!" Frightened, Dragon jumped immediately. A stuntman on the other bush cues dragon to use his sword. Dragon thinking that the fake sword is useless lunges at Jared. Jared tries to counter Dragon's attack but fails. Dragon launches three powerful kicks dazing Jared. His right leg first kicks Jared's arm. His second kick knocks Jared's sword away, while his left leg kicks his chest knocking Jared to the ground. Jared collapses in a dazed stupor. Dennis, angered by Jared's defeat, runs at Dragon in revenge. Realizing that he still has the fake wooden sword in his hand, Dragon jumps up and spins around in mid-air kicking Dennis in the head. Jared gets back up instantly and throws a punch at the dragon. Dragon jumps high in the air riding on Jared's fist. He proceeds to do one complete flip while delivering a roundhouse kick to Jared's cranium. Everyone is frozen with shock. The Director watches in awe. Suddenly he yells, "Is the camera still rolling?", he asks. The cameraman nods with his mouth wide open. "Play it back!" the Director exclaims. Jared and Dennis are helped off the ground by a couple of grips. As they rise Jared pushes Dragon aside. Dennis begins to talk but notices that everyone is staring at the monitor but him. Dragon walks over to where everyone is looking. Dragon is amazed because he is watching himself on the monitor, jumping and hitting Jared in the same fashion and he just did. ¡§what a magic mirror!" he thinks to himself, looking back at the camera. "Replay that again." the Director roars. Dragon looks, in the monitor and watches he doing the same moves again! Everyone looks up from the monitor and stares at dragon. Leggy Migliaia doesn't seem to share the same excitement at the others. "How high can you jump?" Jack asks. Dragon responds by turning around and jumping back up to the tree, which was 24 feet in height. He completed the jump by only taking one step and a leap. "No, No! Wait for the camera!" the Director shouted. Dragon was puzzled, "Wait for who?!" The Director stared at him: "wait for Camera!" "Wait for the what?" the thinks to himself Dragon confused. "The camera! Is he hard of hearing?", screams the director. "Of course NOT!" Dragon rebuts. Everyone laughs out loud except the director. "Everybody wants to be a comedian. Did SAG send you!" the Director asks. Dragon continuing his confused response pattern replies" Who?" "You got a name, right?!" questions the Director. Dragon thinks the question over twice. He stands high on the tree, holding one fist and makes a bow with his other hand. Looking down at everyone under the tree, loud and gently he exclaims" I am the third Prince from West Sea Dragon Palace, Ao2-Ang2 is my name, and people call me White Dragon!" There is a temporary silence around, and then everybody explodes into laughter and applause. The Director almost loses himself because he can not decide to be mad or laugh. Guessing the way he acted was like Broadway Show Theatrical, he figured that the Dragon could be a struggling actor who just moved here from New York. He couldn't remember if he had ever heard of any Broadway Show about a West Sea Dragon though. Perhaps, it must have been a one time running show that got cancelled, he figured. The Director of photography had aimed his Camera to the tree, The Director yells to Dragon:" "Never Mind! Just jump and do some kicks!" "How many kicks?", asks Dragon. The Director raises his eyebrows and then says, "How about, seven!" Dragon nods and with one flying high jump he spins his left and right legs kick five times each, while he twisting his waist. As he descended from his jump he to added a few more kicks, landing the final one directly in front of the Director. Every kick was a full extension of his leg kicking out, and a short foot drawing back. The entire set cannot believe what they just witnessed. Jack stunned for a moment spoke slowly to Dragon, "How many more kicks can you complete in the air?" The Director, amazed dials his cell phone, and says "Mr. Pulpo, Can you come to the set immediately, there is something you have to see." "Print." Jack directed to the Director of photography, then says to Dragon: "Try it again. This time kick exactly seven times." But just as soon as the last word escaped his lips, "Never mind." the Director interrupts, as he puts the cell phone into Jack's palm: "Get the writer! I want this script rewritten right away!" "What's going on here? What are you trying to do? "Jared asks winking his eyebrows. "What now?!" Dennis adds. "That's a wrap for today! We will shoot tomorrow at 11 am." The Director exclaims, ¡§I need to change the script a little bit." Jared pulls off his microphone, and walks into his dressing room fuming with anger. Everybody loves to get a half day of work. Before the director could say, ¡§that's a wrap", most of the crew was packed up had gone home. Shining in her jewelry, Leggy Migliaia's garments reveal her slender legs and voluptuous breast as she approaches Dragon. He stares at her with a smile. Her beauty enamors him. Her eyes are bright green protected by very long eyelashes. Her body is very curvy and one can get lost in her essence. Leggy Migliaia did not say a word as walked past. Her steps were smooth and silky. A young man wearing glasses and goatee, comes up and taps Dragon on his back, "I'm Jeff Swan, special fx technician, What's your name?" "Ao2-Ang2." Dragon asked, "What's special effect do?" "Aó-Áng?!... ... No, that won't work. As a stage name, let's name you White Dragon or something like that. " says Jeff with a smirk. "Stage name?" Dragon asked, "Why do I need a stage name?" Jeff stares at him for a while and decides to ignore his questions. "The director wants me to chauffeur you. He wants me to take good care of you. We need you back tomorrow. We wouldn't want you to get lost or anything." "What about me", cries Dennis. Jeff ignores Dennis's baby-like reaction. "Follow me." They walk into a parking lot, where Jeff escorts Dragon into a Mercedes. "You don't have car, how did you show up here?" "I jumped." Dragon answered. Jeff holding his tummy so he won't burst out laughter, exclaimed "How many jumps did it take you? No more than two or three, right ?" "Right." Says Dragon very serious. The car leaves and exits Rhino Studios. "So this is a car", dragon thinks to himself. Moving without a horse, Dragon had observed these so called cars when he was observing this strange city for the first time, now he is sitting in one. The seat was made of grain leather. Dragon sat with his eyes wide open. He was impressed with the dashboard with supported many dials and lights. Jeff ignites the car, and stares at Dragon's surprised face. Dragon can't believe the car moving. Jeff turns on the music and starts to groove. Dragon raises his ears at the delight of people singing through the radio. "So what's your name? Really, Who are you?" "Ao2-Ang2." Dragon intrigued by the technology of Jeff' s car, pushes the window buttons. ¡§Wow, they go up and down", dragon says to himself. They pass Beverly boulevard. Dragon sees a lot of fancy gates and fountains on the property of these Beverly Hills houses. "The director and myself checked the cast. You are not on the list. It's only supposed to be one person in that scene on the tree." Jeff pushes the radio button, and dragon notices that the music has changed. Dragon catches on to the trick and begins to change the radio himself. "A fat bald guy wanted me to put these clothes on and pointed for me to jump in the tree." "You know Jared was very angry at you. Everyone can see that you are going to ruin his chances at him being the lead for this film. He is getting old and he is losing his appeal with the audience. The last movie he did bombed. The director is having the script rewritten with you in mind to be the lead", explains Jeff. Dragon seems very confused, by both Jeff and the radio. "Hey I'm curious. How did you learn those kinds of moves? Your agent told you to come here and play those tricks on us. Right?", inquires Jeff. Dragon, looking more confused than ever before asks " What is a movie?" The high way is flowing with cars, Jeff winked and looked at Dragon in the mirror. All of sudden, there is one car cut into front of them blocking their path. Jeff stepped on the brake. At that instant, another car collides with them the left! Through the intensely bright headlights of the vehicle, Dragon could vaguely see Dennis's face behind the wheel of the car. The accident happened so quickly that nobody had time to think. Dragon springs up his leg, and kicks the oncoming car. Unable to avoid the car, Jeff spins uncontrollably hitting the two other vehicles. Jeff and Dragon come to a complete halt. A screeching of tires is heard. Jeff looks up to see the other vehicle speeding away. Jeff drives his car back onto the road, but he heard a woman's screaming voice behind his car. The car behind them was a mangled red sports car. Jeff still trying to catch his breath sees a woman jumping out the vehicle. ¡§Are you ok? Jeff", says the woman. Jeff stares at her and nods "Are you OK?" The pretty woman touches his shoulder, "Nancy Devine, American West News. I'm OK, That car was trying to hit you on purpose, right?" She smiles at Dragon who sat in the back seat, checking out the scene. "This is our new movie star, you better watch out, he is going to be big." Jeff says. "Oh yea?!" Nancy smiles," What's his name?" "White Dragon." Jeff says as he tests the ignition to discover that his car is fine. He jumps out the car and let the Dragon out. " How many cars did you say hit us?" asks Jeff. Nancy surprise at the question answers, "One?!" "There was another one blocking us in the front." Jeff is thinking, as he looks at Dragon. Dragon blinks his eyes but doesn't comment. He realized that just before the cars collided, he caught a glimpse of the drivers face. It was Dennis! But he remains silent. The attacker aimed for Dragon who was sitting in the back seat. Yet, unrenowned to anyone, Dragon quickly sent a backwards kick in the direction of the car, there to be a concaved dent on the outside of the car. Jeff looks at the dent but is puzzled. "I'm on my way to a big news event right now, " Nancy said," Would you like to follow me. I guarantee excitement because it's , the LA BIG ONE. Supposedly, two hundred years ago there was a California Earthquake that unraveled tons of Gold. Just up the road a little is the supposed site." "No no, "Jeff answered: "We had enough of excitement already just minutes ago. We've just seen our lives flash before our eyes. Plus, I need to get him back to the movie set in one piece. Hey, why don't you come to the studio for our next movie wrap party, I guarantee the movie is going to be a BIG TIME surprise. It will be a BIG news for you." "It will definitely be BIG news if those two cars come back for you!", Nancy hints. "Be sure to give me the details when they hit you again! You better only give me exclusive the news to release, I'm the witness." The two exchange goodbyes as they return to their vehicles. Nancy turns to go back the downhill, and Jeff carefully backs up to make sure that he is safely back on the road. Turning the wheel, he speeds off into the sunset. ¡@ The sky suddenly becomes dark. Jeff switches the radio, discovering that every radio station has no frequency. All the stations appear to be inoperative. The gloomy dim atmosphere has Jeff feeling horror stricken. Every hair on his neck stands erect. As he drives the road and sky darken. Dragon appears to be obvious to his surroundings. As Jeff drives further down the street, the darkness of the road begins to impair this vision. Stepping on the gas very hard, hoping this would help him get home faster; the car begins to slow down??? The fog and darkness add to the gloomy ambience of the atmosphere. As they drive they see an exit post in the dark light showing the names, "Blue-Ridge Mountain" and "Deep-Wide Gold Mine." "Am I still in Malibu Valley?", Jeff nervously questions himself. Jeff feels his heart beating heavily and his right leg steps on the gas harder involuntarily. He panics when he sees Dragon in the backseat unsure of what's happening. Dragon's dreadless face somehow makes Jeff feel a little bit secured. Jeff finally gets his foot off the pedal but as he does the car speeds up faster?! Gradually, they start to see light in front of them. Just as soon as Jeff feels comforted by the lights he is flustered by the sights of an western old town. Oddly enough, he see many Chinese railroad workers constructing the railroad. It seems they just left Hollywood and Beverly Hills, and now they are in San Francisco or some peculiar Western town. Then they see an old guy holding a baby riding on a huge leaf-fan floating down to their heads. The old guy holding the baby waving to a young railroad worker and yells,"Great-great grand pa, I'm Shin Sun! go find the ty-yi crystal!! Don't bother trying to find the nonsense gold! Dragon and the
railroad workers all feel very confused, then Shin Sun flies closer to
Dragon's car. The baby still sleeping soundly never opens his eyes. Shin Sun
takes a very careful comparing Dragon the features of the baby. Since the
baby never opens his eyes, Shin Sun shakes his head and tells Dragon;" You
are not the father!" while flying away on the leaf-fan. Jeff and Dragon hear people are yelling "Gold Rush! Gold Rush! There is gold in the Mountain!!" Groups of gold diggers run around their Jeff's car in a competing race. Hysteria and tumultuous rage from the miners with shovel and spade on their shoulders, set in as they see that they are approaching the Mountain. Tides of gold diggers almost push over. The car begins to roll into the dark Mountain cave which opens into a portal. Jeff doesn't want to enter this underground passage at all, but the wheels lock up and the brakes and gas step become impressible. The car is sucked into the portal, yet quickly they find themselves in a mine tunnel. The mine is completely dark. Jeff's car lights, and light from the hats of the miners are seen. Hundreds of miners chip away at the Mountain diligently. Their ore marked faces tell many stories of the hardships that they have faced. Suddenly the earth begins to shake vigorously. Jeff is shocked by seeing that some pitmen has broken or burned his nose and eyes. These soot faced people dig unconsciously. Finally, there is one pitman whose eyes connected with theirs. He mouths some words that are at first inaudible. Jeff looked at him and holding his breath to hear him good, he finally heard the pitman burst out yelling," Explosion! it's going to explode!!" All of a sudden, the whole ore tunnel ground is echoing "Explode! Explode!!" "Explosion! Explosion." At this point Jeff's car is completely out of control. Jeff attempts to turn the wheel and slow down the car, but this is to no avail. The car zooms by random gold diggers and pitmen nearly running them over. At once the car slows down on it's own right next to a pitman with a goatee and glasses. He thumps on the car window yells in a stern voice," I'm Jeff Swan, I wanna go home!!" Jeff stunned," You are Jeff Swan?! I'm the Jeff Swan!" then he sees the pitman thumping, with his dirty goatee, glasses, and his identical nose and chin. Every facial feature looked exactly like Jeff. Now he remember his grandfather named him after his great-uncle who died in the goldmine explosion Hesitant to speak Jeff mutters, Great Uncle?" his hands had push down the car window unconsciously. Then he sees his uncle's glasses are almost the same design and style, his own. ¡§Is this style back in fashion or what?", he oddly thinks to himself. Jeff's Great Uncle continues to yell, ¡§Explosion, explosion." For that instant, the entire car filled in with the smell of soot and smoke. As Jeff invites his Great Uncle into the vehicle, the car begins to start moving again. Knocking everything out of it way, the car continues its journey down the endless goldmine. This is such a mysterious ghostly goldmine, as now the car is able to drive through the various pitmen as if they are ghost. One old man with a calloused hand shouts at the passing car," Jeff, be like Charlie Riverbank and come back to save us! " Pitman Jeff shouts" Charlie Riverbank killed us all, I will do the same to him!!" Dragon and Jeff are startled in astonishment, as the front seat of the car is full of faces and human body parts. Jeff unable to see very clear screams, ¡§Where is the exit? Which way?" "Left!" the old face with callus hands and elbows answered, who turned the wheel for him then disappeared. As ground continues to roar and shake, Jeff is unsure if what he is experiencing is an illusion or reality. In the distance cable cars consumed by flames roar uncontrollably into a two-mile long mountain tunnel. The Palm-Leaf-Fan appears again, spreading and carrying Dr.Sun who still carries the sleeping baby. Sun yells cheerfully," Follow me, we can find the Crystal now!" What crystal? Dragon didn't get the chance to yell back then he heard violent screams escape the cave. "Robert! I found the Ti-Yi crystal!!" screams a woman. " Debra! Debra?!...." replies a man's voice. At this moment they hear the goldmine explode. The impact pushes Dragon into the front seat. Jeff discovers that he is inches away from crashing into a solid rock wall. As Jeff pulls off the embankment of the bridge, it collapses. The car is quickly sucked outside the core of the cave, Robert and Debra are gazing at a purplish gray crystal. The car burst out of the deserted mine with Dragon stuffed in the front seat, and Jeff with his eyes closed and head on this knees. Jeff Swan raised his head with a ghostly expression, staring at the crystal in Debra's hand. Talking like his Great Uncle Jeff explains, " So this is the Crystal of Charlie Riverbank?!" Robert is in such joy with showing off Debra's Crystal, he did not realized Jeff's ghostly tone. "Yes, it's the Ti-Yi Crystal. If it wasn't for Debra coming to this way, we won't have found it. Look at these gray winkles with colorful shining. This crystal was worthless two hundred years ago. Now it is going to aid us in the revolution of the computer age. The silicon ships can only store the data either in zero or one, black or white nothing between, therefore the computer production are also either true or false. All the human lives in the computer's machinery have no way out. Look! this crystal was able to store data in gray color digits, we are going to make computers think like human beings from now on!! It's going to be a computer innovation!" Jeff answered angrily," Is the Ti-Yi crystal able to sojourn the souls, that the wizards and witches and all the wealthiest have been fighting over? Charlie Riverbank explored and killed the entire pitmen of the Deep Wide Gold Mine, please take me to him!" "That's a hundred years legend, " Debra said: "During the gold rush of California, the whole state came to dig the gold mine, nobody ever got rich from the gold mine. Except Charlie Riverbank who opened the franchises to sell the digging tools to the pitmen. He loaned the money to the miners to and made tons of money over these gold rush. The people who really got rich where the store-owners who sold all the mining equipment. Now it's hundred years later, three generations ago, how do you find him to collect these old debts? Or do you want to see his grandson? Richard Riverbank's company is fighting Big Blue for this computer chips!" Interested Jeff asks, "Exactly what is Richard Riverbank doing right now?" Robert raises his hands. "Capital Town Group is running every business nowadays, they are based under Capital Town Bank, their credit cards are for people with bad credit or new only." Replied Robert. "Credit cards?" inquires Jeff. "For people have no credit or bad credit especially young adults, they say they got the lowest interest rate, but their credit limit is only $200, you will get charge $49 if you over charge the card, even mail your payment, they charge you late fee of $49. If you get to manage these problems, they will just hide your payment and charge you a late fee anyway, and the interest rate grows when you don't pay the bill on time. Millions of young college students get their first credit cards at 19 years old, but owe over $1,000 by the time they are 25 years old, but their credit limit never gets to be increased because they could never pay off the balance" Robert explains. Jeff yells,"So Richard Riverbank, is no different then his grand dad Charlie Riverbank. He is still sucking the blood from people and preying off their dreams. Tell me how to get in contact with this Riverbank fellow!" Robert and Debra look at each other holding their laughter. "Your friend seems a little shocked from the underground explosion, maybe you need to take him home for some good rest" says Robert to Dragon. Dragon agrees, "Jeff now has the burden of avenging all the lives of the lost pitmen. He promised he would. Yes, he is definitely tired." Dragon, mutters these words to himself. Robert and Debra drop their jaws, then they hear a woman screaming and shouting:" Help! Jeff! Help!" They see the news reporter Nancy stampeding towards in panic followed by a moving formicary of giant ants. Every ant is a giant with tiger and wolf baring fangs and brandishing claws. Their nostrils blow on the back of her legs. Also there is one huge pink cocoon as large as a human, patching over with a thousand insect feet, rolling in the ants group, snarling all with menacing noise. Dragon jump up and opens the door, "You get into the car, I need to rescue her!" Dragon bounced and hopped into the ants front line. Debra got into the back seat and slam the door. Robert dove into the front seat with Jeff. Jeff grabs the Ti-Yi crystal and smells it saying, "Get me to the Vampire!" then he loses his conscience. Robert shakes Jeff trying to wake him. He pushes him over and switches to the driver's seat. Circling the ant's riffle he shouts to the Dragon and Nancy, "Get in ! Get in the car." Dragon grabbed Nancy thinking that he could escape from the big purple and black ants. But his rescue mission worked to no avail. Dragon kicks the cocoon with Nancy screaming in his arms. At once the cocoon opened up, its strong and dense fragrance spread all throughout the air. The fragrance of sandalwood with ant's acid and gill fungus was present. There was one Migliaiantic pink centipede tangling and fighting with a purple black ant queen in a triangle. The two bite and coiled each other. They both fought for a purple and red cyst. The enormous fragrance smell came from the purple red cyst. The Ant queen and centipede fought for it so hard that neither would give it up. As soon as the centipede was untangled from the cocoon, all the ant soldiers follow up and helped the ant queen. Centipede is instantly stunned by this onslaught of attack. Dragon jumps away from the Ant Queen. Robert became bolder and drove the car closer and yelled, ¡§Jump in! Jump in!" As the car is almost about to bump into ants battle field, Dragon suddenly holding Nancy up and high, shouting "Jump on!" then toss Nancy up to the sky, shooting her like a rocket into the car. Nancy screams and shouts in terror. Her wailing continues until she releases that she has be perfectly placed into the vehicle. It was as if the palm-leaf had gracefully delivered her to the car. Dragon tries to jump alone, but his foot is colluding with Centipede. Centipede attempts to lock her legs around him as the ant soldiers do the same. Dragon tries desperately to escape shaking some of the ants away. But the centipede's grip is too strong, forcing Dragon back to the pool of ants. Centipede smiles in pains with her beautiful bright green eyes. Her long eyelashes like daggers hang from her eyelids. He can see centipede's pretty eyes and he thinks that he has seen her before. Yet he has no idea where. In another escape attempt, Dragon shakes away every chelae and pincer of the Centipede and ant soldiers. His goal is to escape the strong scent of the Ant Queen. Centipede holds up the fragrance cyst and raises herself up whirling into a huge thousand legs cocoon. All the ants drop and quickly run away. Ant Queen is caught unaware by this sudden fickle of events. She jumps onto Dragon in a flash, her eyes madly flick like lightening bolts, her dense and strong fragrance smell flood to Dragon's nose right away. Her chelae strikes quickly landing a punch to his head. Dragon bounces back and avoids the strike by an inch. He jumps away and the ant soldiers follow to charge the attack. Dragon is so good at the jumping and bouncing, he doesn't even fight back, rather he jumps high and runs far. Shouting to the car Dragon waves his hands," Go! Go!" Because the Ant Queen doesn't want to bite him at, she gives up Dragon by missing with one last strike and, runs and after the centipede immediately. All the ant soldiers follow Ant Queen. The battle array disappears quickly in the flash. Dragon finds the car and everyone is gone, except Jeff who sits in the front seat; sleeping as if he lost his soul. On the next day, the sun shined bright. Jeff gives Dragon a ride to the set. The bald guy is not there, only Dennis waiting for them. "The Director is still with the script writers," Dennis tells Jeff," he wants you to meet him over there." "What about Aó-Áng?" Jeff points Dragon. "The Assistant Director and me will rehearse some scenes with him." Dennis gives Dragon a new costume, and tells Dragon to chose a dagger to use. "Let me watch you guys rehearse as I wait for the Director" says Jeff nervous not wanting to leave Dragon alone with Jeff. He follows them to the outdoor studio. Jack waits under the tree, without any staff or cameraman. "Let's practice swordplay, " Jack tells Dragon," you let Dennis stick you once with the knife, then you kick him away, then holding the wound and say, ¡§YOU!" Dragon is so so confused, stand still. Dennis stabs Dragon with knife. Dragon cannot kick him away, instead he squats on his heels in pain. Jeff helps Dragon stand and finds that he is bleeding," Dennis! How could you use real knife?!" Dennis and Jack are shocked. Jack inspect the knife in Dennis's hand:" No, it's still his old wooden knife for the stage prop." Dennis inspect Dragon's dagger and change his face:" He is using a real dagger!!" Dragon crouching and holding his little wound, Jack inspects his wound and ask in angry," This is not new wound! this is blood stasis busted out, are you a druggy?! That's why you could jump that high?" Jeff is seized with surprise: "Jack?" Dennis disarmed Dragon's dagger and starts to search his costume. He finds a little pack of powder under his garment. Jeff confiscates the pack of powder:" Where could this come from? He just put this costume on today" Jack starts to dial his cell phone and tells Jeff" Jeff, we need to get to the police station to make him take a drug test. I believe his blood is so full of it! Our new movie is almost ruined by this druggy." When they enter the police station, Dragon was still holding his wound. He can still only tell his name, nothing else makes sense to people. His wound is bound up, and the police press every finger to collect his fingerprints. After a brief interrogation, the police push Dragon into another room. This is all happening so fast for Dragon. While his finger is cleaned, a tube is showing in front of his nose:" An officer enters the room and demands that Dragon, ¡§urinate in this receptacle." The office left and close the door, Dragon only get one kind of so so confused expression on his face the whole day. Dragon pulls down his pants and aims into the tube. Unfortunately, his aim is inaccurate as the entire wall is half watered, leaving only half of the tube with urine. The Police directive enters the urine room, and thinks the ceiling is leaking. He puts a lid on the tube and pushes Dragon out of the door. Then Dragon is sent into the holding cell behind the bars. Dragon stares at the bars in front of him his eardrums still echoing with the questions from different people saying," Who are you?" "Who are you? Ao2-Ang2? Where do you come from? Why did you come to Hollywood? Ao2-Ang2, you don't know what this world all about?" He stares at the other prisoners behind the bars, they make up various kinds of people. Some big, some small. And their eyes showing the same confusion and frustrations about this world they all share. While he finally falls into an uncomfortable nap, he is awakened by an erotic nightmare. Pigsy fainted and seeing the past scene of Flame Mountain, before he drop into the crystal mirror, they were in flame mountain.... "Why it's so hot here?" No grass and tree, the earth is burned all over... Monkey King fly up to the sky, he sees the Flame Mountain. Blame this to noboday but you! Monkey! Monky King was a stone monkey conceived by a fairy stone in the Flower-Fruit Mountain, the monkeys crowned him as king because he dared to jump into the waterfall and found a marvulus kingdom there. After over years of seeing moneys getting old' sick and died, in order to compete with the lifespan of heaven and earth and achieve immortality, Monkey King left home and was apprenticed to Bodhi thus named Sun-Wù-Kong 孫悟空 meaning "Pondering on emptiness". After he obtained the powerful golden cudgel, a gift from Dragon King Ao2 Guang3 of the East Sea, he immediately claimed himself a saint that enjoyed equal power with heaven. Jade Emperor appointed Monkey King as Stable Assister, Monkey King stole and ate most of panacea pills from the Heaven Pharmacy and ruined Jade Empress's Fairy Peach Party. Emperor pharmaceutist cooked him in the stove and tried to smelt him and get the panacea pills back. Monkey King escaped from the torture, his eyes become fire eyeballs and golden pupil. The flames of pharmacy stove dropped onto earth and created the Mountain Flame. ¡@ Monk Tάng and his team stopped at Mountain Flame, where they saw no trace of living things. The whole mountain was covered by fire. To pass through, they had to borrow the palm-leaf fan belonging to Princess Iron Fan, wife of Ox King. Unfortunately, Monkey King had earlier captured their son, the Red Child, whom Budhisattva had taken in as a finance boy. The Princess remembered that incident and therefore refused to lend them the fan. Monkey King changed himself into an insect and hid among the tea leaves. Once he got into the Princess's stomach, he started to move around violently until she could no longer bear the pain. Finally, she agreed to lend her fan. However, she gave him a phony one. ¡@ Centipede swims onto his knees, with her one thousand legs and hands wearing brightly colored jewelry. Centipede's legs, hands, and jewelry spread all over Dragon's body. Suddenly he becomes a dragon, then the centipede's touch change him into a horse. Dragon looking over his new horse body is shock. Suddenly, centipede turned into Leggy Migliaia. Leggy's bright green eyes shutter under her long eye lashes. Her eyes are piercing allowing one to only bare but a seconds gaze into her eyes. She could turn men into salt. Leggy Migliaia stands naked, patting her horse's chest, touching his long neck, as she rides him and laughs. "Ao2-Ang2." Dragon slowly opens his eyes to see the Reporter Nancy and a police officer standing in front of the holding cell bars. "You can leave with her now", said the officer very sternly. "Your background is so simple, why didn't you just tell them yesterday?" Nancy leads him through the station. ¡§You are clean on the urine test too! What were you afraid of? Your mom came to clean everything up for you, with all the documents." "My mom?" Dragon can't believe his ears. "Who is my Mom?" Nancy stares at him pausing in mid-step. Dragon looks at her in confusion then looks up following her eyesight. A beautiful woman with high fashion prestige standing in front of him, "Ao2-Ang2." She opened her arms. "Mom? " Dragon, puzzled, walked over to study the woman's face," Is that you???" Her angry eyes flash. A fragrance smell of sandalwood and gill fungus enter Dragon's nose, then immediately she greets him with a powerful "slap" in the face. It was a bad night with no sleep so Dragon almost fainted by impact of this slap. "My foolish child!" The woman holds him in her arms and starts to cry. |
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Chapter 2: Pigsy, it's parade for the winner only.
Chapter 3: Friar Sand join the presidential election.
Chapter 4:
Monk Tang2's Chicago spring.Chapter 5: Monkey King's New York spring, with Lady Liberty.
6: Dragon enjoys Hollywood.