Monkey Curse

Cursed by the Leopard Goddess, Ashtart, Monkey Fist now has seventy two hours left to live unless he can find a cure. With the help of Shego, Drakken and Duff they can't fail, right? Kim and Ron find out and Amy is also in the game. Can Monkey Fist survive everyone who is after him and his curse? Set after To Kiss a Monkey Statue. Monkey Fist/Shego

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This is the third in the Monkey series. It is strongly recommended to read Shego and the Monkey and To Kiss a Monkey Statue first.

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Chapter 1: The Curse

Monkey Fist leapt from branch to branch with his ninja's right behind him. He enjoyed the wind brush past his face and the feel of the rough bark under his calloused hands. After his stint in stone he'd been careful to never take life for granted ever again.

It had been a month since his release and he'd been careful not to let Team Possible or Amy know of his release, so far only Drakken, Duff and Shego knew and they hoped to keep it that way for a little while longer. He was in the jungle of Japan, he was going after an artifact and it wasn't anything to do with power or monkeys but his other love, archeology. He'd been looking for this artifact for two weeks. He had missed searching for old and ancient things and he wanted to go back to it for a little while, hence this little excursion.

He landed outside of a temple, it belonged to war goddess who was associated with Leopards, the Goddess Ashtart, she was the Monkey Gods, Hanuman's rival. "Stay here," he instructed his monkeys and they chattered and nodded. Satisfied, he walked into the temple, it wasn't very complicated and there were hardly any traps. What had the goddess been thinking? Then again, no one but him had even been able to find it in over two thousand years, when it was first built, so it didn't really need too many traps.

He came across a bright room and saw what he'd been looking for, "There it is, the Amulet of Ashtart," he breathed and gently picked it up, looking at it in wonder. It was a remarkable piece of work, in the shape of a leopards head, made out of gold with onyx for the spots and two miniscule emeralds for the eyes. They reminded him of Shego's eyes, he missed her so much and he couldn't wait to get back to her. He was lost in his thoughts of his lover and didn't notice the room start to gently tremble, however, when it shook, that was when he became aware of the danger he was in.

"What, what's going on?" he asked.

"You have trespassed and touch my sacred amulet, now you, disciple of Hanuman, will be cursed! Prepare for death!" said a woman's voice and Monkey Fist cried out as the floor beneath him began to shine. He felt pain and then he knew no more as he lost consciousness and darkness overtook him.

He was in a dark place and he was hurting all over, he gasped as a blue spirit came out of him, slowly becoming to represent a monkey. It spoke to him in a deep voice, "You have been cursed by Ashtart, your life, power and mutation will be lost in seventy two hours should you not be able to break the curse. Go home and gather your friends and loved one, you will need them to overcome this curse, my disciple," and then the monkey went back to the blue glow that flowed back into him. Then the world tilted and he woke up to the sound of his monkeys screeching and slowly opened his eyes to see them around him and that he was lying on the ground where the Temple of Ashtart used to be. He sat up slowly and got to his feet even slower. He felt so weak, so dizzy and nauseous and he felt the Mystical Monkey Power fluctuate inside him and he groaned. He didn't feel well at all, even going over to a tree stump and sitting on it felt like a chore.

His monkeys came and sat around him, looking worried for their master, Chippy sat the closest to him and he had been his master's first ninja and was the most skilled ninja. His master had saved his life and he'd let him mate with Kiki very recently. They were expecting a pup very soon. He was a good master, even if he scolded him for eating bananas on the job.

"What happened?" he asked out loud, holding his aching head and then he remembered and Monkey Fist paled, oh gods, this was not good and if the curse didn't kill him, well, Shego would for getting himself into this mess. Monkey Fist reached into his pocket and pulled out the cell phone that Shego had gotten him and called Drakken back at camp. His friends had come with him, wanting to experience the beauty of Japan and have some fun, just as regular people, not as villains.

"Hello, this is Dr Drakken. Monkey Fist, what's wrong?" asked Drakken.

"Send a hovercar to this location, quickly Drew, I don't have much time," gasped out Monty.

"Wha…?" asked Drakken and then the line went dead but a beeping noise started and Drakken saw his phone's GPS going off. He quickly got his hovercar and traveled as fast as he could to Monkey Fist's location. It was a good thing Shego and Duff had gone to get more food from the nearby market or there wouldn't have been enough room for all of them plus the Monkey Ninjas. Drakken himself was rather fond of the one called Sammy while Duff, although he wasn't too fond of Monty's monkeys, he did like the one called Oscar. Monty had promised Shego that Chippy and Kiki's pup would be hers once it was ready to be on its own.

"Monkey Fist!" shouted Drakken, landing not too far from the young British Lord.

"Over here Drakken," and Drakken rushed over to see his friend looking worse than he had seen him two weeks ago when he'd left them to search for the Amulet.

"What happened?" he asked.

"I'll tell you when we're back at camp," said Monkey Fist and slowly stood up and Drakken gasped as he staggered and immediately put his arm around his shoulder.

"Come on Monkey boy, let's go back and you can tell us what mess you've gotten yourself into this time," Drakken said, helping his friend into the hovercar with the monkeys getting in behind him. Monkey Fist just nodded. Drakken started the hovercar and they were back at camp in record time.

Shego and Duff had returned by then and Shego was angry, "Dr D, where the hell have you been, no note, the hovercar gone and..." she then noticed her boyfriend in the car, with Chippy on his shoulder, pale and looking weak, this was not a normal look for him. "MONTY! What happened to you?"

"Wha' happened? Ya look ghastly lad!" exclaimed Duff and he and Drakken helped the simian man get out of the hovercar.

"Monty, what happened?" asked Shego. Monty sighed and told them about his curse. Shego was angry and slapped him. "You idiot! One month and you've already gotten yourself in trouble and this time we have a time limit and I could lose you forever if we don't find a cure!" she screamed at him, there were tears that threatened to fall but she refused to let them, she wasn't weak. She may have let love into her life and she may show her love behind closed doors or in front of Drakken and Duff but she wouldn't show tears, never, if she did, it would be in the confines of her room and now wasn't the time for tears.

Monty winced, both at the slap and making the love of his life almost cry, she'd never admit it but he could see her holding them back, "I'm so sorry Shego, I didn't know. It was never my intention to hurt you like this and I certainly didn't plan on getting cursed. Please don't leave me, I need you," he said softly.

Shego couldn't stay angry at him, especially when he looked at her with those big doe eyes that were full of sadness and guilt. She gulped back her tears, "Monty, I'll never ever leave you, I promise. Now let's think; we have seventy two hours to find a cure. Where would be the best place for us to go and get some advice on this?"

"Either Yamanouchi or back at my castle, there are scrolls in dealing with curses," said Monty.

"Ok, here's the plan, Shego, you and Monkey Fist go to Yamanouchi and Duff and I will go back to the castle and get the scrolls," said Drakken taking charge of the situation. Ever since he'd saved the world he'd been a lot more focused and now he tried to think before he acted and so far it was working well for him.

"Ah think yer forgettin' one thing Drakken," said Duff.

"What's that?"

"Monkey boy here is supposed te be stone, an' ah don' think that the school will be too welcomin' to him," said Duff. He couldn't believe that Monkey boy had gotten himself into this mess, hadn't he learned from the last time with the Yono? Then again, that was a different story from what the lad had told them, how his mind had been taken over by the Yono, so that one wasn't really his fault. Still, even though he'd recently gone through a couple of rough spots and had managed to get back part of his sanity you'd think he'd have learnt by now.

Duff shook his head; the taste for power was too strong for the lad to resist, even though he had the lass in his life now. Then again, Shego was practically power incarnate with plasma of hers. Shego and Monkey Fist, they were a good match for each other as they both loved power and would do anything to get it but Shego was not power mad, she was Monkey boy's buffer along with him and Drakken. It was a good thing that the lad no longer just teetered on the brink of insanity but still, he had a long way to go to leaving his obsessions for power behind completely.

"We have to try; we can explain what really happened. Monty's done nothing wrong and is cursed, they have to help him," said Shego, there was determination in her eyes.

"Ah kin only hope tha' yer right lass, otherwise the lad is finished," said Duff, looking at Monkey Fist in concern.

"We thought he was finished when he was stone and that didn't stop us, so a mere curse and people who won't help won't stop us," said Drakken.

"Right, let's stop yapping and get to work. You two go and do your part, Monty and I will go to Yamanouchi, the sooner we get there the better," said Shego and they agreed.

Drakken and Duff got into the smaller hovercar and after wishing the lovers luck, sped off to England. "Ye' know Blue boy, I hope that we kin find a cure for this, otherwise the results won't be pretty," remarked Duff to Drakken.

Drakken nodded and then his face took on a darker expression, "If he dies then Shego will never heal and she may very well try something drastic. I'll never forgive him if that's what happens. She was so closed off when he was stone, just, going through the motions and it scared me. I don't want to lose the young woman who is my daughter in all but blood."

"Ay," nodded Duff.

"You know what Shego and I both hate?"

"Wha' do ye both hate?"

"The way people think that she and I are a couple, that's just wrongsick," said Drakken with a shudder and Duff shuddered too.

"Well, ya do spend almost all yer time together. It's no wonder that people think tha'," said Duff and Drakken gave him a glare and Duff shut up after that, he didn't want to be thrown overboard with Drakken's new vine powers while in the air at this height. Come to think of it, now he was the odd one out as he was the only one of their strange family that didn't have some sort of power or mutation.

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Shego and Monty watched their friends zoom off before Shego turned to her lover, "Come on Monty, we need to get going," said Shego and Monkey Fist nodded.

"Drive until I tell you to stop, there are ancient enchantments that prevent vehicles from going any further, that's partly how Yamanouchi s still a secret," he said as he climbed in the bigger hovercar with all twenty six of his monkeys in the back. Shego nodded, Monty had told her all about the school and she understood the need for secrecy. She just hoped that the Sensei would help her lover.

Time was ticking and once again events were centered around Monkey Fist, only this time it was his life on the line.

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