Kung Fu Wolf: Rising Of The Moon
Chapter one: New Faces
No one's P.O.V
It had been three days since Hiro had brought peace and tranquility to his new home and his new master. A peace that was hard fought and we'll earned. The fight in question was against the rouge Kung Fu Master, Tai Lung.
Tai Lung had successfully dispatched all the members of the Furious Five, and the current Grandmaster of the Jade Palace, Shifu. However he could not succeed in defeating the Dragon
Warrior.
The battle, which could have been seen from the edges of the valley, could only be called legendary, as the two masters did battle that left the village scarred. Scars the villagers, and their new savior were trying to heal.
The dawn rises on the fourth morning since Tai Lung's arrival, and the mountain wolf, Master Hiro; the Dragon Warrior awakens to reflect on his now greatest achievement, as he prepares to continue to repair the damage he and Tai Lung caused.
Little did he know, that the challenges he will face in the future, will make his fight with Tai Lung look like child's play.
Hiro's P.O.V.
Even after something as big as the fight I had with Tai Lung, the very thought of a vacation is almost unheard of. With the injuries my new friends had received at the hands of my greatest foe, they were put on bed rest until they are able to walk normally. That, however didn't stop Tigress, who was found attempting to get into the training hall on multiple occasions in just one day.
That woman's got guts, no denying that.
I, on the other hand was on my way down to the village to continue to assist with the repairs. The sun had risen about an hour ago, and everyone was wide awake, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and curly tailed, fluffy tailed, feather tailed. You get my point.
I walked down the street, passing by the villagers who took every opportunity to praise my deeds. After a while it starts to get a little embarrassing, but I'm sure it will die down soon. Eventually, things will get back to normal. Just gotta wait it out till then.
I stepped up to the home of the villages resident carpenter, a old goat named Maku, real nice guy. Started carpentry when he was in his late teens, been doing it ever since. He met his wife while he did repairs on her father's house, and built their home from the ground up. I know all this, because he told me. See, that's the thing about Maku, he likes to tell stories. He says it makes the day go by faster.
I respectfully disagree.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the occasional tale from time to time, but while I'm working, it only serves as a distraction. And of course, I can't tell him that, cause then I'll just seem like a prick. So I'll just suck it up, and listen to the time his daughter's first boyfriend came to visit. Actually, that one sounds a little entertaining.
I knocked on the door of the village carpenter and waited. It wasn't long, he came out a minute later. He was wearing a green carpenters outfit, complete with a leather belt with a iron loop on his side. His hammer was in the loop.
"Mornin' Hiro! Glad to see ya again." He said heartily. I swear no matter what the circumstance, this man always has a cheerful demeanor. I like it. Reminds me of myself when I was a pup. Good times...
Mostly.
"Hey there Maku. Where we gonna work today?"
He and I have been working on repairing the different buildings that got damaged in my fight with Tai Lung. Thankfully it was only three or four homes and honestly they aren't that hard to fix, if you know what you're doing.
"Well, we are going to start with Mr. Ping's noodle shop, I'm betting we will get done with that by lunch."
"Convenient, huh?" I said with a grin.
"Very. You think we can get free food for all our hard work? He asked with a hopeful look. My stomach started to grumble after he asked. Sometimes my hunger can be a problem, got me in trouble a couple of times.
Different story, another time.
"Nah, he'll most likely just give us a discount. But hey, better than nothing and paying full price, right?" I said with a little mischievous smirk.
"Yeah, I suppose so." He replied in a somewhat defeated tone. Can't blame him, free food is a great incentive for working with any restaurant.
We went around back to pick up some supplies; planks of wood, tools you know, stuff we need. We piled everything into his cart and started for Ping's Noodle shop. Maku led the way while I pulled the cart, he offered to help but I said it was part of my training. Shifu usually gets upset if I don't do at least one form of training, and heavy lifting seems to work for him.
We went down the street to Mr. Pings and on the way we passed a group of people who didn't look like they were from around here. Working on repairs gave me an opportunity to meet everyone here in the village, so now I know almost everyone here.
There were six of them, at the front of the group was an elderly female ibex, her face had lines that told me she smiles a lot. I like her already.
On the far left was a cute snow leopardess, who walked with a bounce in her step and a sway to her hips. She wore a light blue fighting dress that really made one notice her curves.
Keep it together Hiro, keep it together.
Next to her was, I kid you not, an honest to goodness polar bear! She was tall to the point you'd have arch your neck to look her in the eyes. I'll admit I was starring, for two reasons. One was her outfit. Her pants were torn, ending at mid thigh, showing off a lot of leg. But her shirt, oh gods above, her shirt looked several sizes too small and barely covered her chest.
Ok there is one more reason I was starring...
Her breasts were enormous! I actually thought the fabric of her shirt was going to tear from straining to keep her triple D mammoth melons in place.
I looked to the next person before my pants started to feel tight.
It was female sloth, with a laid back look on her face. She wore green baggy shirt, and baggy pants held up by a rope belt cinched tightly around her waist.
The next one, I couldn't tell if it was male or female, or even what species it was. It was covered head to toe in black silk and leather. Leather boots, black silk pants complete with black silk belt, black silk shirt under a black leather vest, black leather gloves, black silk scarf covering its face and a reed hat, painted black of course, covering its eyes. Nothing else to tell here, moving on.
The last was a clouded leopard who walked with a strut and had a cocky smile on his face. He wore a grey shirt that had a few clasps opened showing off his chest. I could already tell, this guy thought a lot of himself.
All six moved silently, except the snow leopardess who was humming cheerfully to herself. They were heading straight for the thousand steps that led to the Jade Palace. Part of me wanted to follow them to make sure they weren't up to anything devious, but two things stopped me. One if they were up to anything bad, it would show in their appearance, these guys look too dignified and kind for that (most of them anyway, don't know what to say about the walking pile of clothes).
Two was after I decided they weren't up to anything, I remembered I had a job to do. I drew my attention away from the newcomers and kept walking with Maku.
"Not often you see visitors like that around here." I heard Maku say beside me. I was pretty sure we had nothing to worry about, but still...
"You think we have anything to worry about?" I asked. I just needed to be sure. I didn't want to leave my new friends unprotected, normally I wouldn't be worried but with them injured the way they are...
"Nah, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Master Bi Long probably just stopped by for a visit." Who?
"Master who?" Seriously I've never heard of that person before. But Maku turned and looked at me like I was growing an extra head.
"You mean to tell me you've never heard of the master of the Sapphire Palace?" Can't say I've ever heard of the Sapphire Palace. Sure, I've been all over China, but I never covered every square inch. There's still plenty of places I haven't been. "It's built into the side of Changtse Mountain."
Well, no wonder, never been there.
"Well anyway" he sighed, " let's get to work before we get behind schedule." And he continued to Mr. Pings.
After looking back once more, I followed.
Tigress's P.O.V.
We were all in the kitchen having breakfast (sans Hiro of course) enjoying the meal Hiro left for us. Like the rest of his meals it was very tasty, Viper, Crane and I were savoring our meal, while Mantis and Monkey abandoned all pretense of civility. They were scarfing down their food like there was no tomorrow. I'll admit, Hiro's food is good, but there is no reason to eat like savages.
"How did we ever survive without Hiro's amazing cooking!?" Mantis asked. An unnecessary yet valid question. I however just kept eating.
"We're still here, so I guess we managed somehow." Viper said after wiping the corners of her mouth off with a napkin. I agreed with Viper, still I don't think we could ever go back to what we ate before Hiro came.
He's only been here ten days and he's already made such a huge impact on our lives.
I almost couldn't believe it when I heard Hiro had completed the legendary Master Ken Lu's Lunar Style Kung Fu, and used it to defeat Tai Lung. I wanted to spar with him that night, but Master Shifu would have none of it. We, except for Hiro, were all put on medical restriction; meaning we couldn't train or spar until we had fully healed. It won't be much longer though. Then I'll be able to-
"Ahem! Attention everyone!"
We all looked to the doorway and saw Master Shifu with his cane. Fighting against Tai Lung had did a number on him. He started walking with a limp afterwards. I had asked Hiro if he knew any healing techniques, but he said he got kicked out after an incident with too much gauze.
"You are all to come to the front courtyard, we have guests." And with that he turned and left for the courtyard. We all glanced at each other, then followed suit.
"Who do you think it is?" Crane asked, as we made our way to the courtyard.
"Who knows, maybe it's someone to congratulate us for the whole Tai Lung thing." Mantis said, riding on Monkeys shoulder.
"Why would they do that? Tai Lung kicked our asses." Monkey said. He was right, none of us were able to beat Tai Lung. I heard that even Master Shifu failed.
Hiro was the only one to pull it off.
We made it to the courtyard and found a small group of people waiting for us. I recognized them immediately. Well most of them, I could never see the bundle of clothe's face. The females smiled and waved, the snow leopardess did a little more strongly than the others. The clouded leopard lifted an eyebrow and looked me up and down with a grin on his face.
I guess I'm going to have to beat him up again.
"Shifu! So good to see you again." The old female ibex stepped forward, arms wide open as if she were going to embrace our master. Which she did.
"Good to see you too, Bi Long. It's been awhile since our last meeting, hasn't it?" Shifu said with a small smile, which was rare for him. We stood a little a ways from them, Viper waved back at the while she had the chance.
"Twelve years is indeed a long time old friend. We came as fast as we could once we heard the news." What was she talking about? What had she heard that we didnt?
"When you heard? I'm not sure what you're talkin-"
"I'm sure you remember my students." Master Bi Long interrupted, one of her habits.
"Ah, yes, good to see you again Do Foon." He addressed the snow leopardess, who practically skipped forward and hugged Shifu like he was her favorite grandfather.
"Oh Master!" She giggled. "You know you can just call me Didi, everyone else does." She was always a real girly girl.
"Yes, well... I'll keep that in mind. Good morning Kira Ni." The well endowed polar bear stepped forward and bowed and spoke in a surprisingly feminine voice, considering her appearance.
"It is good to see you again Master Shifu, I hope you're well." I've know Kira for a while now, she's strong, polite, she just has one problem...
She's a compulsive gambler.
Loses money the same way I lose my patients.
"Very well thank you. Ah, Shu Lan I trust you enjoyed your journey?" The female sloth stepped forward, slowly, and smiled at Shifu like she was on a weird plant.
"Hey there, Shifu dude! How's it hanging." I've got nothing to say.
"As fine as can be expected I suppose. Are you still hiding from us, Zoyo Li?" The pile of clothes moved. To put it simply no one knows anything about Zoyo. He is an utter mystery, only Master Bi Long knows what he looks like under all that excessive attire.
"There's something new here." He spoke, almost whispering. Could he be referring to Hiro?
"Indeed there is, nothing escapes you does it?" Zoyo remained silent and still.
Shifu moved on.
"And Chin, welcome back." The clouded leopard stepped forward, like he owned the place.
"Good to see you too master, or should I say grandmaster." I felt a snarl rise in my chest, but I held it back.
"I would like to say that the Sapphire Palace offers their condolences for the passing of a great man." That calmed me down a little, but only a little.
"Well thank you Chin. Is that What you all came for?" Shifu asked. I was hoping that would be the case. Its not that I don't like them, I just don't like one of them.
"No sir, once we heard Tai Lung had escaped, we rushed over to offer our assistance." Wait. They didn't know?
"You came to fight Tai Lung?" Shifu asked. We all looked at each other as if we missed something.
"Yes we have, but I..." Chin turned his attention to me. "Wished to see the lovely Tigress again." He moved to me and took my hand in his.
I moved quickly, in the blink of an eye Chin was on his knees, with his arm twisted behind his back.
"The last time you tried that I nearly broke your arm. Do you really want history to repeat itself?" I said through clenched teeth.
"Tigress, let him go!" I heard Master Shifu say. I did, reluctantly.
"I'm afraid you're too late. Tai Lung has already been defeated by the Dragon Warrior."
Di Foon gasped and started bouncing up and down like a schoolgirl,clapping her hands. "Oh Tigress, I always knew it would be you! Congratulations!" The others started to congratulate me for something that I had actually failed at. Time to tell them the truth.
"I'm not the Dragon Warrior." I said simply. They stopped talking, and donned looks of disbelief.
"Well if you're not the Dragon Warrior, then who is?" Kira asked looking at the rest of the five, who shook their heads when her eyes fell on them.
"Come on, who is it?" Chin asked impatiently.
We then heard a whistling sound coming from the stairs, we all knew it was so all five of us pointed to the direction the whistling was coming from.
Hiro climbed the last of the stairs when the Sapphire Palace masters turned their attention to him. Hiro was whistling cheerfully as he walked towards us.
"Well, Pings noodle shop got done earlier than expected, so I'm on break for a couple hours. Think I'll take the time to make a fancy lunch for our guests."
Di Foon was purring as Hiro walked passed, for some reason it rubbed me the wrong way. Hiro nodded to us as he walked, we nodded back, and he was about to head to the kitchen until...
"Wait a minute! Who do you think you are wolf?"
Hiro slowly turned around and faced Chin with a "I'm not amused" look.
Thankfully Shifu stepped forward.
"I'd like to introduce to you the Dragon Warrior, Hiro."
They let that sink in for a moment. Di Foon's purring got louder, Master Bi Long got a look of happy surprise, Kira nodded her head in acceptance, Zoyo just stood there, and Chin...
Chin burst out laughing.
Hiro got a look of annoyance as Chin laughed, I couldn't blame him but the I would have knocked Chin out by now.
Chin barely was as to contain himself enough to ask...
"You're the Dragon Warrior? You're the one who beat Tai Lung?"
"Yes I am." He said with pride and confidence, I can't explain it but it was interesting how he said it.
Chin must've found it funny, because he started laughing even harder this time.
"This is a joke, right?" Right now I wanted nothing more than to drive my fist down his throat.
"I am, but if you don't want to believe it, I really don't care." And with that Hiro continued on his way to the kitchen.
Wow. He looked so dignified just now... it really suits him.
Chin got a look of anger that he poorly tried to hide behind a smile.
"Prove it, then."
Hiro stopped and turned around again. We waited, knowing what was coming.
"Fight me."
A/N. Hey guys I'm back! Sorry this next story took so long, I was busy and a little distracted. Well, you know the drill, comment, like, fave, review, let me know how I'm doing.
Peace.