I don’t believe I’ve ever been this angry. Ever.

I stared at the loud snoring bastard in front of me, and was tempted to use my sword to put an end him right now. Drunk bastard.

Fuck. This world he dragged me to might have some strange rules. I wasn’t sure I could kill him.

I put my sword, Lonely Moon, back into my necklace.

I went to the window. A full moon in the sky. Just a single moon. But when was the last time I saw a moon?

It felt invigorating. Outside the window, I could see the rest of the monkeys still celebrating. Well, it wasn’t everyday their king came home dead drunk with a lady slung over his shoulder and declared he was marrying her.

Fuck, how did I even end up in this situation? All I wanted was to dance under a tree. Then some drunk guy showed up, declared he was going to marry me, slung me over his shoulder, and hauled ass through the portal as Lady Ethereal tried to kill him without hurting me.

Then to top it all off, he destroyed the anchor point for the portal. I had no idea where another one was.

And now our “marriage” was being celebrated by the hundred or so monkeys that called this island home.

Maybe I really should try to kill him. I mean, I wouldn’t know if I could until I tried right?

No, think sensibly. This guy was an idiot, but he was clearly strong. He fought off Lady Ethereal’s guardians like they were nothing, while being drunk. First, I should try to disarm him.

His weapon was a staff which he held loosely in his hand as he snored. I snuck closer, and grabbed it. Now, just to slip it away…

It wouldn’t budge.

I tightened my grip on it and tried again.

Nothing. How heavy was this thing?

Shit. I abandoned any notion of sneakiness, and did everything I could to drag it away.

Well, I didn’t succeed in moving the bar, but I did succeed in getting him to let go of it.

Bad news. He let go of the staff, and grabbed onto me. He dragged me into bed and now was cuddling up to my back while he slept.

I tried to push him away. Nothing. He was as immovable as his fucking staff.

“Let go of me, you bastard!” I yelled, and punched at his arms, but he just kept snoring away.

Fuuuuuuuck. At least he was asleep, and didn’t drag me into bed while he was awake. It probably wouldn’t have ended with cuddling then.

I continued struggling for a while before finally giving up. Until he let go of me, I wasn’t moving.

Fuck my life. What was even the point?

I was just tired. I already had a bad day. And now, I’ve been kidnapped to one of hundreds of different worlds to be the wife of the strongest yet dumbest monkey I’ve ever met. I lashed my tail in frustration.

I wanted to go home. Not back to the in-between. My real home.

But I couldn’t. I could never go back.

Ugh, forget it. I was stuck, tired, and I just couldn’t bring myself to care anymore.

At least I could watch the moon from here.

Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. The moon eventually vanished from the window, and was replaced by the light of morning. This world seemed to have a day-night cycle similar to my old world, except the sun was far cooler. It seemed simply warm rather than scorching.

It rose higher in the sky, and the morning was far quieter than the night was. I guess everyone but me was sleeping off all the booze.

It seemed to be about mid-morning when he stirred. He finally let me go as he groaned and rubbed his forehead.

He blinked sleepily. And zeroed in on me.

“Who?” He blinked and rubbed his eyes again. He stared at me again. And smiled smarmily.

“Hello there pretty lady. What’s your name?”

I slapped him.

He stared at me stunned as I yelled at him. “I don’t know my name because you fucking kidnapped me and married me without introducing yourself!”

I jumped out of bed and stomped over to the window.

“What? No, last night I went through the portal to have some fun with…” He trailed off as last night’s memories came back to him and he grimaced.

“Fuck, um, well, sorry about that. I can just take you back through to home, and we can call it even right?”

“How? You destroyed the anchor point! We can’t make another portal!”

“Uh, I did?”

He zoned out for a moment before wincing again. “Oooooh, yeah, I guess I did. I, uh, didn’t do anything bad to you last night right?”

“Besides claiming to all the monkeys out there that you married me and ordered a feast? Besides throwing me over your shoulder and dragging me to your room? Besides grabbing onto me and refusing to let go all night?!”

“Uh, yeah, besides that.”

“If you’re asking if you raped me, no, you didn’t. It’s the one thing you didn’t do. And if you try to change that, I will find a way to kill you.”

“Fair enough. Ugh, this hangover is killing me. Is there any water around?”

I growled. “Seriously? Your hangover? My life! You fucking kidnapped me, and now I can’t get back!”

“I know that! But I’m not going to come up with any good solutions while my head’s pounding.”

I hated him so much. There was water in one of the pots nearby. I tapped into my chi, and used it to manipulate the chi in the water, lifting it up, and dumping it on the bastard.

He stared at me, soaked and shocked as I stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind me.

Fuck him. Fuck my life. Fuck these monkeys.

I didn’t know where I was going, just away from him. Soon I was surrounded by smaller monkeys, who clambered around me.

“Queen! Queen!”

“I am not your queen!” I stomped my foot, and they scattered.

They continued chittering. “Queen is cranky. No sleep!” They laughed.

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Ugh, I was not in the mood for this. “Go away!”

They began tugging at my clothes again. “Queen, food, bath! Follow us! No longer cranky!”

They tugged me along, and I let them at the mention of food and a bath.

They brought me to a large hot bath, where steam filled the air. “Royal bath! For royalty!” They chittered, and a group of four or five brought forward a large platter filled with various fruit.

Hmm. Not bad. With one last withering glare, they disappeared, rushing back through the door. I was alone now. I activated my chi sight just to be sure.

Fine. A nice warm soak sounded nice after everything I’ve been through.

I slipped my clothes into the storage space of my necklace, and lowered myself into the water.

Ah. That felt good. I reached for the platter, which they set beside the bath, and grabbed some kind of reddish-yellow fruit. Hm, crunchy, a little sweet and a little sour. I finished it and grabbed another. This one was yellow, and long. Hm, this one was more mushy, and sweet.

Oh. There was a fruit that looked similar to one in my homeworld, but it was pink instead of blue. I grabbed it, hoping it would taste similar.

Hm, not as crunchy, but the sweetness was similar. If I closed my eyes, I could almost pretend I was home, relaxing in the river in the shadows as the sun warmed the water.

I finished the fruit too quickly. I had to open my eyes again.

I wasn’t home. I was in a strange world, with no hope of ever going back. Now even the in-between was gone to me, along with Lady Ethereal.

What was I going to do? I sank into the water, fully submerged. I stayed there as long as I could before surging back up for air.

I gasped. As I caught my breath again, I made my decision. I was trapped here because of that bastard, so he’d have to help me find a way back. And if he showed any sign of turning on me, I’d use everything in my power to make him regret ever coming through the portal in the first place.

I probably shouldn’t stay here for too much longer. I didn’t have any soap to really get clean, and I needed to try and pick up the pieces of what my life has become. I ate one more piece of fruit before climbing out.

No towels to dry myself off. It seemed like this world was extremely primitive. Only monkeys of high importance wore clothes, like that bastard earlier. From the amount of chi inside that bastard, there were some chi manipulation techniques, but they seemed limited to collecting chi inside oneself to amass power. And it seems limited to important figures, so it wasn’t well-known among the population. Maybe on purpose?

I don’t know. I used my chi again to manipulate the water and draw it off of me. I was dry in a few moments, and activated my necklace and dressed in a flash.

Bath time was over. Time to go throttle that bastard.

I turned towards the door I came in, but the sound of talking stopped me in my tracks.

“Just entertain her for now! I’ll talk to her after I get the smell of booze off me. And I'll reschedule the brotherhood meeting! They can’t come over tonight!”

The door popped open, and that bastard was standing in front of me. Naked.

My eyes automatically travelled down. Fuck, he was hot. That just made me even angrier.

“Uuuhh.” He seemed at a loss for words. “Wait, what are you doing here? This is the royal bath.”

“Yeah, and you married me, which makes me royalty.” I think. He was a king right? Those monkeys were calling me a queen earlier. “And you’re fucking lucky I’m already dressed, or I would’ve gouged your eyes out. Now would you care to cover up?”

He glanced down then just shrugged. “I mean, I’m about to take a bath, so, no?”

“Ugh!” I could feel my face burning as I shoved past him. I should kill him. Or I should at least try.

Once I got past him, I stood face to face with a much taller monkey. He gave me a bow.

“I am General Beng, Your Majesty. Would you like a tour of the cave?”

“Anywhere away from here.” I followed him away from the bath.

We seemed to be inside of some kind of cave, called the Water Curtain Cave, which was inside Flower-Fruit Mountain, which was on a large island named Aolai. The palace apparently ran throughout the mountain. It has springs, kitchens, bedrooms, dining halls, and lots of other rooms I quickly lost track of.

Several smaller monkeys littered the corridors. They played cheerfully, tugging at our clothes mischievously before Beng half-heartedly lifted his lips and gave a half-growl and they scampered away.

“Are these the servants?”

They didn’t seem to behave like servants. They behaved more like spoiled children.

Boquin shrugged. “Not really. They readily help the king when he asks, but otherwise all his subjects are free to come and go as they please. Only we four generals stay in the palace full-time. Along with you now Your Majesty.”

“Don’t call me that. I won’t be here for long. Once I find another anchor point, I’m leaving.”

“I’ll let you discuss that with the king.” Beng had a sour look on his face. It seemed like he didn’t want to touch that topic with a ten foot pole. Yeah, me too.

The tour ended in the throne room. It wasn’t much, just a stone throne with a bunch of fruit and monkeys sleeping off what seemed like a crazy night.

“Please wait here. I’ll go inform the king you’re waiting for him.”

He walked off, leaving me alone with the sleeping naked monkeys.

None of these guys knew how to treat a lady. I sighed and sat on the throne. Might as well enjoy the peace and quiet now. I’m sure everyone will go wild when the “king” arrives.

This entire palace was in disrepair and horribly messy. The citizens were disorganized and had only the barest concept of power structures.

Calling this a kingdom would be an insult to civilization everywhere. Even this throne was falling apart.

I mean, what was even the story here? Clearly this civilization was advanced enough to carve a mountain into a palace once. A collapse due to poor leadership?

Nah, it was something older than that. An entire palace couldn’t collapse in a single generation.

Ugh, not my problem. If this so-called king wanted to rule over the ruins of his people, that was his business.

Beng walked in, followed by another, shorter monkey, and they each stood to the side.

The shorter monkey bellowed out. “Attention! The king has arrived!”

The sleepy monkeys startled and many of them jumped up and started hollering and cheering. Ugh, how the hell did he trick them into loving him so much?

The bastard himself walked in. Wearing some shiny new duds. And a fucking cape. The prick.

He walked in like he owned the place, waving down the crowd. He walked over to me.

“Well, you’re a brave one aren’t you? Sitting in the king’s throne. That enough fun now though. C’mon now, up up.”

Did he think I was like the rest of these mindless monkeys? I matched his smile with a sickeningly sweet one of my own.

“But this is my chair darling. I’m your queen after all. If I leave this throne I’ll have nowhere to sit.”

His smile dropped before coming back a moment later, looking far more wicked. “You know honey? You’re right, you need a seat worthy of a queen.”

With one effortless motion he lifted me up, sat down and put me in his lap.

“What the-put me down!” I struggled, but he held me without breaking a sweat.

“But then you’ll have nowhere to sit dear. There’s no more worthy a seat for a queen than the king himself!”

The monkeys howled in laughter, and I could feel my ears turning red.

First kidnapped and now humiliated. Damn it! I should’ve tried to kill him last night, consequences be damned!

I could feel my anger and embarrassment reaching a breaking point, and tears rose up in my eyes. I looked into his eyes on defiance. I was not his fucking toy.

His laughter cut out as he saw my face and and he paused. Then he shouted out into the room. “Okay, that’s enough. Everyone out!”

The monkeys seemed shocked and few kept snickering.

“I mean it!” He slammed his staff down, rocking the ground. “Everyone out! Beng, Liu!”

The two larger monkeys ushered the smaller monkeys out, leaving just the two of us together.

Once everyone was gone, he finally let me jump out of his lap. I walked a few feet away from him, trying to hide my true feelings.

“Sorry about that. It was just supposed to be a joke. And you were defying me right in front of my monkeys you know, so…”

“What are you going to do with me?” I still didn’t turn around, and tried to keep my voice even.

“Uh, well, since I can’t just send you back through the portal…”

“Your general said your subjects are free to come and go as they please. Can I leave?”

“I mean, I won’t stop you but, you’re not from around here. Do you know how to survive out there?”

I don’t know. I didn’t even know the name of this world.

“I’ll figure it out.” I moved towards the door.

“Hey, wait!” He grabbed my arm, and I spun around and did my best to yank out of his grip.

Too late. He saw.

I was scared.

He was too strong. The amount of chi I had couldn’t compare with his, even if my manipulation of chi was better.

He already kidnapped me and destroyed my way back. He had me in his grasp.

He could do anything he wanted to me.

His grip loosened, and I finally managed to pull away. Once out of his grasp I just trembled.

“Um, I…” He seemed at a loss for words.

“I’m leaving. Please, just leave me alone.”

I didn’t wait anymore as I ran through the door and the palace, heading for the iron bridge that was supposed to lead outside. Other monkeys screeched in surprise, as I abandoned any sense of decorum to get out of there as quickly as possible.

I was at the edge of the bridge. Okay, this waterfall should lead outside.

“Wait! Stop, come back!” Shit he was following me.

No time to think. I opened the storage space in my necklace and summoned my sword. It flashed before me, and I levitated it using chi. It’s been a while since I did this.

No time for hesitation. I stepped onto it and sent it forward at full speed through the waterfall.

I burst through.

Brightness. Shit, I needed to get out of the sun.

Wait no. This world’s sun was fine. I caught my breath, finally outside for the first time since I left my homeworld.

Lunus, how I missed it.

I leaned on my sword into a spin, and leaned forward to decrease my drag. And I looked down at the island.

It was big. Flower-Fruit Mountain dominated the center, a massive river running from it, and wrapping it’s way through the island to the ocean.

I checked behind me. No one seemed to be following me. Maybe they couldn’t fly.

Ok, now what?

Well, this entire island was apparently his domain, so I think it would be best to leave. I activated the invisibility ability on my necklace.

Me and my sword disappeared in a flash. Gone. I flew out over the ocean.

Maybe I could find a kingdom not in complete ruins. Then... I’d think about that when I found it.