(ノ▽｀*)ノ Who was the pawn?
In the end, the Black Bear Spirit was not killed, of course. After all, if they'd really wanted to kill him, Tibbers could have beaten him to death on the spot the night he went charging into Black Wind Cave. Why go to all the trouble of beating him up and dragging him back?
Anyway!
Annie and her "monkey" Tibbers had taken over Black Wind Mountain and Guanyin Monastery just like that. Tibbers was now the Monkey King, the biggest demon king on Black Wind Mountain, with Guangzhi, Guangmou, the Bull Guardian, Poli the Wave, Great King Black Wind, and others under his command.
Yes, the Black Bear Spirit had been subdued, too.
At first, he'd stubbornly refused to submit, even insisting that he was the mountain's guardian deity from some place or other.
But once Annie heard about the headband, she promptly put one on him, too.
So he gave in and behaved himself soon enough.
There was supposed to be a White-Robed Scholar as well, but apparently, after Tibbers beat him up that night, he said some weird things and ran off. They hadn't caught him, and he hadn't come back, so now Black Wind Mountain was left with just this handful of big and little demons.
As for the Red-Bearded Dragon the Black Bear Spirit said was sleeping in seclusion in the mountains, and Elder Jinchi, who'd gone mad and was trapped in the old Guanyin Monastery by the formation the Black Bear Spirit had set up with three huge bells, Annie hadn't bothered with them. She'd simply let things be.
That was because Annie had found something more fun to do: gather all six of that monkey's roots, then take them back to Flower-Fruit Mountain and see what would happen.
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