Stitching A Broken Heart

Chapter 28

Two weeks later:

MK leans against the building wall with an exhausting sigh, for the last four days he has been delivering noodles, cleaning the shop, hanging out with Mei, painting/repainting Sandy's ship, and training with Monkey King. All doing so without having a break even though everyone says to take it easy, it wasn't until he felt a sharp pain from his left leg that he had to rest. He lets out another sigh as he gently massages his leg easing the pain away 'come on pain go away, I can't let everyone down because of this stupid injury' MK thought looking down at his boot cast "everyone is counting on me, I can't let them down....I just can't" MK said to himself

Just as the pain ebbed away he heard laughter and turned to the source, approaching in front of him was a group of gang members that was known across the city for their fighting, robberys, looting, vandalism, and drug trafficking, known as...The Huns. It was strange for them to be in this part of town since the leader has no interest with this part of the city "well, well, well..lookie what we got here boys" the first gang member known as Feng said to the other two walking closer to MK "seems to me the little Boy got lost from home" the second gang member known as Cheng said smirking at MK who immediately got off from the wall and stands up with his crutches "and he's not just any little Boy, he's the Monkey Runt!" The third gang member known as Heng said smirking as well

"What do you three want?" MK said as the three continued to walk up to him "oh nothing much, just wondering around, looking at the sights, stealing things since half of the city is getting repaired" Feng said as he and the others laughed "you guys know you shouldn't be anywhere near here" MK said as the three began to circle around him like prey "oh, and who's gonna stop us...you?" Heng asked and the three laughed while MK clutched the crutches handlebars tight glaring at the gang "oh please...you can barely stand with that leg" Feng said wiping away an imaginary tear from his eye but MK wasn't fazed by it "awww don't be like that, we're actually here to help you" Cheng said just as Heng and Feng grabs MK by the shoulders tightly "let me go, what are you doing?!" MK said struggling to get out their grips, but they held on "oh relax, we're just gonna relieve you of your injury, is all...you know what they say, if a part of the limb is injured and infected...just cut it off" Cheng said pulling out a large machete

MKs eyes widened at the knife and struggled more "now hold still runt...want this to look even, wouldn't want to cut your stomach out" Cheng said raising the machete high. MK looked up at the machete, he closed his eyes and kicked Cheng with his boot cast right into his face knocking the gang member to the ground, he then kicked Feng from behind in the crotch making him groan and loosen his grip on MKs arm and MK hits Heng with his crutche in the face knocking the third gang member down, when all three of the gang members were down he quickly hobbled away as fast as he could. Cheng sits up cradling his bleeding nose along with the large gash on the bridge of his nose as he glares at MK running away "Get him you idiot's!!" Cheng said as he, Heng and Feng picked theirselves up and began chasing MK

MK hobbled as fast as he could not looking back as he heard the three gang members started chasing him, he knocked over a towering trash bin to give himself some more distance from them and the group jumps over the trash pile "Get back here you runt!" Feng shouted as he ran closer to MK, just as he was about to grab MKs bandanna tails he quickly reels back as a motorcycle drove in front of him. The three gang members stopped as they watched MK hobbled into the busy traffic loosing him "Come on!" Cheng said and the three began running through the busy traffic jumping over cars and going around them

As MK hobbled into an alleyway he came to a stop when he saw a tall wall in front of him 'Oh no, a dead end' MK thought, he was about to tu around when he heard voices 'come on, he went this way!'. MK was trapped, he tried to pull out his phone but it slipped away from his grasp and fell to the ground into the dark part of the alleyway, MK got down and scrambled around to find his phone but stopped as the sound of pounding footsteps grew closer and closer with each passing second. The teen closed his eyes wishing that he wasn't here, wanting to be somewhere else that was far from here, somewhere safe, somewhere...familiar