Summary: An explanation of how Munak and Bongun ended up in Payon dungeon, and Hyegun and Munak in Louyang.
A/N: Yao Jun in iRO is the same as Hyegun.
READER BEWARE: If you enjoy characters with personalities, this might not be the best read for you.
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Moonlight Flower skipped down the ornate pathway. She paused and pouted slightly. The rude lady who had been mean enough to summon her all the way to Louyang with a dead branch ran away before Moonlight even had a chance to hit her. Now she was stuck walking all the way back to Payon. She summoned a few ninetails to keep her company, but they couldn't carry a conversation, and all they did was crowd around her. Sure, they were cute and all, but Moonlight wanted more. After a century or two with them as her pets, she grew bored.
Looking around, she saw a crumpled figure dragging itself toward her. She jumped up to it. "Hello there, sir!" she chirped enthusiastically. He really was a mess, with a dirty torn yellow robe and legs encased with crystal. "Hey!" she realized that he was wearing a robe that could only be made in Payon. "We're from the same place! I'm from Payon too!" she grinned, ignoring the man's silence. "Wanna come live with me in my dungeon?" Moonlight offered. "I know I don't look like it, but I'm a super powerful demi-human! I promise that you'll never get bored with me!"
Ignoring his murmurs about a "church" and a "Munak", she tapped the ice surrounding his legs and it broke off, allowing him to stand. "Here, I'll give you a reanimation scroll. You're probably gonna die without it anyway!" she stuck the scroll to his hat. His eyes glazed over and he crumpled to the ground, a small doll falling out of his pocket. "Sorry mister, the reanimation requires you to be unconscious first," Moonlight said in an embarrassed tone. She picked up the doll and examined it. "Wahh…. so cutee!!" she spoke aloud. "I know! I'll make this big and animate it too so whenever I get summoned away, mister won't be lonely!"
She put her hand on the doll, which glowed and grew to the size of a girl. After scribbling another amulet, she stuck it on the girl's hat. Moonlight sat down and waited for a few more moments until the strange man finally opened his eyes.
Hyegun blinked. A blurry figure with a cat costume on was bouncing up and down in front of him. He tried to speak, but the words seemed out of his reach. The person turned to him with excitement her eyes.
"Oh! You're finally awake!" she gushed excitedly. "My name's Moonlight Flower, nice to meet ya!"
Ignoring the girl, he searched his memory. He couldn't remember anything after being partially frozen in the church. Glancing around, he saw Munak next to him…and she was alive and well! He jumped up, and tried to get her attention. He opened his mouth, but the words just wouldn't come out. Hearing the sound of a bell and turning around, he saw a swath of mist and a hazy outline of a woman coming out from behind. The fog parted like a curtain, and a noble lady with porcelain skin walked out from the vapors.
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Ugh. It was her. Moonlight never really liked the White Lady, sure she was beautiful, but her kindness was a façade. The White Lady looked at the man that Moonlight had animated, that's right, Moonlight's man in yellow, and raised an eyebrow.
"Found another cursed human to play with?" her voice was gentle and amused, but Moonlight knew she was being mocked.
"Back off!" she complained. "I found him first, so he's mine. And same goes for the doll with him!"
The Lady smiled chidingly. "My my, so protective. But you did find him here in Louyang, did you not? And you know how hard it is to find humans left alive after being touched by dark magic. After all, they're the only ones we can safely reanimate."
Moonlight glared at her. Stupid, evil White Lady, always swooping about wither her flock of green maidens, meddling in other demons' business and never revealing anything about herself.
"Look! You even wrote his animation scroll wrong!" the White Lady hid her laugh behind an elegantly embroidered sleeve as the maidens around her giggled. Now he can't even speak. This is why you leave animation to higher beings, such as myself."
Moonlight Flower felt tears sting her eyes. Wiping them away, she retorted, "That was just one little mistake. This man and his doll are mine, I animated them!"
"Really? I'm sure Ifrit wouldn't see it that way. After all you found them in Louyang, and that's my territory."
Moonlight flinched. Ifrit would probably kill her for disobeying demonic law again. Although she would always reincarnate within 30 minutes, dying hurt.
"Fine, take him!" she huffed.
"And the doll," the Lady added.
"And the doll," Moonlight echoed bitterly.
The two spirits bobbed to the Lady as she held out her hand. "I'm glad you agreed," she spoke. "It would've been messy if Ifrit got involved." The group of demi-beings turned and left a sulking Moonlight behind.
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Moonlight stuck out her tongue at the White Lady's retreating back.
"Evil lady," she muttered.
Skipping no longer, Moonlight moped her way towards Payon's dungeon. However, one of her ninetails howled and ran in the direction of one of Payon's villages. Grumbling to herself, and even more upset, she started running in pursuit.
As she ran, Moonlight realized that the village was empty, and it almost looked…abandoned. Looking around for her ninetails, she saw it sniffing around at the base of the village church.
"Hmm…what's this?" she wondered aloud.
Tiptoeing into the large church, she spotted the two frozen people on the ground.
"Hah! White Lady can have that other toy to herself," Moonlight crowed victoriously. "It must be my lucky day, I've got two more people to play with!" she stuck the amulets to the hats of the two people. "And, this time, I'll be sure to get it right!"
Bongun awoke blearily. "What happened?"
A little girl in a cat costume waved a hand in front of his face.
"Hey! You can talk! It worked this time!" she exclaimed.
"…Who are you?"
"I'm Moonlight, and I reanimated you and your friend so you can live in my dungeon, with me!"
"Wait…" Bongun paused. "Moonlight? You mean, you're the boss monster, Plague of
Payon, Moonlight?"
She frowned. "Well, you're a monster too, now that I've reanimated you. Maybe you'd like to die instead?"
"S-sorry…" he stuttered. Beside him, Munak shifted. "Munak? She's alive!"
"Of course she is, dummy," Moonlight rolled her eyes. "Why doesn't anybody ever listen to me the first time? I said 'you and your friend', meaning her too!"
"Bongun!" Munak exclaimed. The two lovers embraced.
Moonlight smiled. "Now, just come back with me to my dungeon…"
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And so it was that Munak and Bongun spent eternity in Payon's dungeon, together at last. Hyegun haunted Louyang with his doll, which he thought was Munak. The White Lady never had the heart to tell him that his companion was but a doll made of cotton and cloth, so he lived in the dungeon in blissful ignorance.