Chapter 1: New Beginnings
There was a scream and the sound of glass breaking, and I found myself sitting up in bed with a cold sweat. Looking around my dark room, it seemed to be night time and I couldn't see much in the room I was in. My head was in pain and as I brought my paw up to it and noticed I had bandages around my head.
'Where was I and why does my head hurt?' I thought to myself, not being able to recall what happened earlier that day. I sat there trying to think but the only thing that I could remember was a vague vision of two figures and that both of them were holding some type of weapons in their hands. it was all fuzzy, I must of hit my head pretty hard, I flayed back down looking up into the blackness of the ceiling and I heard the noise of a door opening up, I looked over to my left noticing a small figure standing in the doorway with the moonlight shining in causing me to shield my eyes for a second.
"I see you woke up and made yourself quite some noise while doing so" The figure said, as though it was lecturing me. The figure started walking towards me and I heard him clear his throat. "You must be thirsty," He said walking towards me, "There is a glass of water on the small table next to you." I looked next to me and reached towards the table, but there wasn't anything there. I didn't question it, I just looked back at him, and he was walking back towards the door. "Now, please get some sleep we will talk in the morning, we have much to discuss." I flayed back down, many questions wandering through my head who was that, where am I, and why am I here. I sat there for bit thinking to myself wondering what else I might have forgotten, clearing my mind to remember my life. I remember my name is Kiryth, my friends call me Ki, I was 15 years old, unless I was sleeping longer than I thought, and my parents... With that thought I realized that my parents must be worried about me, where was I, did they know I was here. I hope they are ok, is that why I was injured, was it bandits or were we attacked. I sat there with slight tears coming to my eyes worried as to what happened to my parents. I soon fell asleep after those thoughts drifting into a deep sleep.
"Well, looks like we've go ourselves a hero" The one figure said, unsheathing his weapon, holding it at the ready. I was standing there trying to stop them, from what I didn't remember, but I knew I had to do what I was doing. "Come on kid I don't want to hurt you, just step aside" HE than ran towards me screaming and with the look of anger in his eyes.
I sat up in bed looking around, once again in a cold sweat, I remembered a little more, but something was wrong. I looked around and it was early morning, the room was well lit but I knew something was wrong. There were tears coming to my eyes, everything I was seeing was in black and white. I wasn't seeing color; I looked at my hands and fur noticing that they looked blackish when my real fur was a golden brown color. I sprang out of bed and ran outside, looking up at the now white sun and the rays of light it was producing. It was freezing out, but I hadn't even noticed. I looked around wondering if this was true, I looked towards the sky it was a gray with white clouds. The trees were gray; the building I had run from was many shades of gray and black then came the tears. I fell to my knees wanting to know why this happened to me, my tears were still clear falling to the ground. They were making spots on the ground and I sat there pondering what was going to happen. Before I knew it I was running, I got up and ran and ran. I ended up running to a nearby tree bearing fruit and fell down next to it. I let more tears fall for a while and after the crying I rolled over to my back, put my hands behind my head and stared at the newly disappointing sky. The tree was holding some kind of fruit, I couldn't tell from here trying to see detail with my new vision. 'How was this tree bearing fruit during winter?' I asked myself.
"Why did this happen to me," I said aloud for no one but me to hear, and then there was a stiff breeze that made the tree shake and made some fruit fall. With my luck so far today there was one falling right towards my face and as I braced for impact but nothing. I looked up and saw the fruit, a peach, sitting there; midair and I stared at it in awe.
GONG! I jumped to the sound of a gong getting hit in the distance and the peach landed on my face, I got up wiping the juice from my face when I heard people talking towards the building I ran from. I started walking back towards it, realizing that the figure from last night still wanted to talk about what happened and what is going to happen. I was walking up to the door I initially ran out of and opened the door to find a small panda sitting by my bed.
'He must have figured I would return sooner or later' I thought to myself, but I saw he had a look of disappointment on his face.
"Is something wrong?" I asked him, wondering what I could have done to make him upset. He only looked towards the wall at the opposite side of the room and I saw a broken glass. I realized that that must of been what I heard when I woke from my freight last night. "I-I'm not sure what to say" That was the only thing I could think of saying, looking back at him. He just shook his head and got up, grabbing his walking stick.
"Come, we have much to discuss" He said walking past me walking towards the door. We were walking down some hallways and I was trying to figure out what it was he was going to tell me, I had lots of thought running though my head. HE opened up a door to the outside and I followed him. We walked back towards the peach tree and he stood next to it. "You know, this tree always brings wisdom and understanding to those who need it, here have a peach." He said hitting the tree with his walking stick. I grabbed the peach as it fell, taking a bite and taking a seat. I looked out over the horizon and looking down towards the valley.
"Wait," I said, standing and looking out, "The valley of peace that is it right?" I said looking towards him. "You're Master Shifu of the-the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior" I said taking a breath and trying to calm myself down. "Why am I here?" I calmed down and asked Master Shifu.
"What is what we must discuss, but please tell me your name" Shifu asked.
"Oh how stupid of me, my name is Kiryth" I answered him, "But my friends called me Ki, for short" He looked at me and nodded.
"So, Ki, do you know why you are here?" He asked me, I looked at him and shook my head.
"No, I don't remember what happened yesterday." I told him and he looked away.
"Well, I'm not sure on all of the details, Tigress is the one that brought you back-" HE was saying when I cut him off.
"Master Tigress helped me?" I said out of shock and disbelief, looking at Master Shifu with surprise. He took hit stick and whacked me on the hand, "Ouch, what was that for?" I said.
"Do not interrupt me; if not for that head injury I would hit you in your head." He said in a serious tone.
"Oh forgive me" I said looking down with disappointment.
"Now where was I," He said rubbing his chin, "Ah yes, She brought you back up here after you incident and we had our nurse take care of you. She could explain more of what happened, here let me go get her." And with that he walked away to find Tigress. I sat back down and realized I was going to meet my idol. Tigress was my favorite of the furious five, I would sometimes dream about meeting her, but now it's going to happen. I sat there daydreaming about meeting my idol when a thought popped into my head.
"Kiryth, don't forget the salt and pepper. You don't want to miss out on my soup tonight; I know how much you love it." A female voice said as I ran out the door.
"Okay Mom, bye, love you," I quickly said as I ran out the door, not giving her time to answer back.
"Okay Mom, bye, love you," I said to myself, not realizing that I had actually said it aloud loud.
"I'm not you mother" A female voice said. I shocked me; I jumped and spun around looking at Tigress as she fell backwards all of a sudden.
"Oh, umm, i-i-im so sorry I didn't mean to scare you" I stuttered, finally saying it to her, offering her a hand back up. She just hit my hand out of the way and stood up, brushing herself off.
"You didn't scare me..." She said and she gave me a weird look, "Master why did you bring me here? I told you everything; I should be training not talking to this child." She said turning towards Master Shifu who was next to her.
"You found him; you can at least tell him what happened after the thieves attacked." Shifu explained to his pupil, giving her a lecture along with it. I phased out, realizing that this was my idol, my hero, MY Dragon Warrior.
"Okay fine, listen here..." She said looking at me as though asking a question.
"Oh, I'm sorry, m-my name is K-Kiryth, Master Tigress" I said as I gave a short bow before her. She just rolled her eyes and started her story.