He could feel wind blowing as he slowly was regaining consensus.

"…ughhh." he moaned. He thought that being dead would be a little less painful. But considering what he did in his life, he guessed he deserved it.

Lord Shen slowly opened his eyes. He saw that he was laying on the shores of the river, so he guessed he wasn't dead. He tried to get up, but found that he was unable to.

The last thing he remembered was the canon falling onto him, and closing his eyes as it fell, than suddenly feeling bursts of pain all throughout his body, mainly around his right wing. He also remembered the panda's last words to him, "The only thing that matters, is who you choose to be now," and telling him that he should forget his past, and to move on. But Shen didn't want to. How could he? How could he throw away everything he's ever worked for? And for what? Peace?

"Hey," a voice called out. Shen tried to tilt his head to see who was calling out to him, but a sudden burst of pain in his head kept him from doing it.

"Are you OK?" the voice called out again.

Shen tried getting up again, but felt even more pain than before.

"Aughh" Shen cried out as he felt a sudden burst of pain in his head that was worse than before.

As he closed his eyes, about to fall faint, he heard the voice say something again as he heard it stepping up to him.

"Oh no, your really hurt, don't worry, I'll help you."

Than, he fell into darkness.

When Shen awoke again, he was somewhere different. He'd manage to sit up this time, apparently the pain wasn't as worse as before. His red eyes scanned the entire room. He was in a small, brightly lit room. Sun shone in from the windows. The only thing he wanted to know was how he got there, he could remember hearing a voi-.

"Hey, your awake, I'm glad to see that." Shen was pulled from his thoughts when he heard the voice speak, and turned to the doorway where he saw a young white fox looking over at him.

"I thought you'd never wake up, than again, you were pretty beat up when I found you, I was surprised I even found you alive. Speaking of which, you should be lucky you even alive." The young vixen approached him.

Shen gazed upon her for a second. "Wh-Where am I?" he asked her.

"Your in my house. I brought you here after I found you knocked out near the river. My name is Meili by the way."

Meili came up to him, and removed the blanket that was covering him.

"What are you doing?" Shen suddenly yelled out at her.

Meili flinched a bit, but didn't get away. "Easy, geez, I'm just checking on your wounds."

Shen looked at her a bit perplexed, until she removed his robe, and he saw the red marks on his wings, and some on his thighs. His wings looked like they'd been cut, probably from the blades that he had in his robe. Meili picked up a wet wash rag, and gave it to Shen.

"Here, put it on your wing, it'll help heal it."

Shen took the rag from her. He, at first, resisted to put it on his wing, he never liked pain, and he didn't know how fresh the wounds were, but judging from the way they looked, he thought they might only be a few days old.

"Hey, are you going to put it on your wing, or am I going to have to do it for you?" Shen was once again pulled away from his thoughts by her.

Shen glared over at her, bitterly. "I don't need your help, I'm perfectly capable of doing this myself!"

Meili backed away at this. "Ok, fine, whatever, you just seemed hesitant."

Shen glared at the fox again, but she didn't seem too scared of him, in fact, she seemed kind of intrigued by him. Shen looked back at his arm, and slowly put the washcloth onto his wing, and as he did, it felt like a hundred knives stabbing him there.

"AHHH," he screamed as dropped the cloth onto the floor. Meili rushed back to his side.

"Oh no, that hurt didn't it?" she said as she tried to get a look at his wing, but Shen pushed her back.

"What do you think?" Shen bitterly yelled out again to her. The pain in his wing started to go away. He looked at it, and put his other wing on it.

Meili stepped back again. "Sorry, just trying to help as all."

Shen looked at her again. "Well, I don't need your help," he tried to say as calmly as he could.

Meili just looked at his wing. It was somewhat throbbing. "Well, it's obvious that you do."

Shen looked at his wing, than back at her. He never liked others helping him, it made him feel week, like he couldn't do things for himself. But than again, as he thought it over, she did save his life, and is somewhat trying to help, even though he didn't want it.

"Hey, are you going to do that all the time?" Meili pulled Shen back out of his thoughts again.

Shen looked at her again, than sighed. "Fine, just do what you have to do."

Meili seemed kind of surprised by his response, but found this as her window to get his wing fixed up. She got the cloth back, and Shen gave her his wing as she slowly started to work on it, it hurt, but Shen managed to ignore the pain.

Shen than looked at the fox again. He saw many foxes around China, but none that had the same colorization as her, her fur was pure white, kind of like his feathers. But what really amazed him was her eyes, they were a bright, stunning red, like his. Shen never saw another animal that had the same disfigurement like he did.

Meili looked up at him. "Are you going to stare at me all day?" She asked him.

Shen pulled his gaze away from Meili, and back to his wing, which she was now wrapping in gauze.

"You sure know a lot about medical treatment for someone your age." He said to her.

"Yeah, well, I have to teach myself a lot of things, when your living on your own, you kind of have to know these things." Meili said, somewhat solemnly to him.

Shen seemed somewhat surprise by this. "Your living by yourself? What happened to your parents?"

Meili suddenly looked up, and gasped quietly. "They're…not around…anymore."

Shen noticed she said that quite strangely, as if she was trying her best to avoid the question.

Meili tied the gauze tightly around his wing. "There, that should stop the swelling, until your wings get better you should rest."

Shen watched as she slowly left the room.

"Let me know if you need anything,"

Shen than suddenly remembered, "Oh, Meili, could you tell me how far away we are from Gongmen City?"

Meili looked at him, kind of like he was crazy. "Gongmen City? We're pretty much a two days journey from there."

Shen was surprised, he didn't know how far the river had taken him.

"Oh, what's your name by the way?" Meili asked.

"Shen, Lord Shen," He replied. Meili's expression didn't change when he said his name to her, which meant that she didn't know who he is.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Shen," she said to him before she walked out of the room.

Once she left, Shen began to mull around in his thoughts a bit. Now that he's still alive, he began to plot his revenge against the Dragon Warrior, and his friends, and will restart his plan to conquer China. But the problem was, where to begin, he basically lost everything: his wolf minions, his canons, his home, although that one was by trying to kill the Dragon Warrior. He honestly didn't know how to start over.

He laid back down, and closed his eyes. One thing was obvious to him, he wanted revenge, and will do anything he can to get to it.