Tou Yang

Kung-Fu Panda 2: The Next Threat

Chapter 1: The Explosion

The sun was shining down on a quiet and peaceful yet commotional valley as villagers from the Valley of Peace walked around and did their daily routines. It had only been a year pass the time when Tai-lung had attacked the Valley. Mr. Ping was selling his noodles, the bunnies were walking around playing with a soccer ball, and some villagers were selling groceries and merchandises at the market. The valley was loud as usual and from a distance, you can hear the commotions of the villagers.

More than that, the Jade Palace was as always, quiet and peaceful. It was located high atop the valley and the stairs to get there had not been an easy one. The wind was calm, the sky was cerulean blue and everyone was in high spirits. Master Shifu, the little red panda master, was sitting on top of Master Oogway's cane, playing his flute on the training ground. He was wearing his bright orange robe and his golden sash.

Then BAM! Out of nowhere, Crane, Viper, Mantis, Monkey, and Tigress came in for an assault on Master Shifu. Tigress with her fierceness, attacked with all her might from her claw slashing swipes, to her side-swiping kicks; while at the same time Viper, with her swiftness, slithered through and tried to wrap her body around Shifu's tiny legs. But even with her swiftness, she had been smacked down by Shifu before she could wrap herself around him. Shifu blocked and dodged Tigress's punch and kicks as if it they were nothing but a mere dodge ball game. Monkey flung his roundhouse kick at Shifu as fast as he could but Shifu caught him by the tail and threw him right back at Mantis. Mantis dodged Monkey and sneakily moved into the battle spar. But before he even got to attack, Shifu had him locked with his toes. The battle spar was fierce with explosions of punches and kicks. Right before Crane made an attempt to jump in, he flew up high into the cloudless blue sky, and was ready to dive down with a swirling-dish dive. But as he was about to swirl his way down, he saw something shiny from the corner of his eyes. Then…….BOOM!! A loud explosion had been heard. The masters froze at what they were doing and looked in the direction of the explosion. Crane, shocked from the explosion, fell down to the hard sturdy ground floor of the training ground.

The fierce, practice spar between the Masters had come to a halt.

"What was that?!" cried Viper.

"I don't know Viper, but it must have been pretty big for us to be able to hear it all the way from the Jade Palace." replied Shifu.

"Should we go see what's going on?" inquired Monkey.

"Yes! Furious Five, go and see what's happened in the valley and report back immediately," spoke Shifu with a shockingly surprised look on his face.

"Yes Master Shifu," replied the Furious Five.

And without a minutes' notice, they were well on their way down to the Valley of Peace.

After the Furious Five had left to see what was going on down at the valley, Master Shifu felt a presence in his mind, as if someone was speaking into his mind saying ,"Go to the Sacred Peach Tree where I shall await you."

Shifu reached the tree in a matter of seconds for his swiftness is as fast as the wind itself. He again felt the presence but this time, he could feel the whispering wind seep pass his tiny body.

He was standing right in front of the softly colored, pinked petal, peach tree on top of the hill, not far from the Jade Palace itself.

"Master Oogway, was that you?" Shifu quietly whispered to the tree.

No answers, no replies; it was quiet and the wind was calm. Shifu just stood there, gazing at the tree waiting for a response. As he was standing, he could feel the wind lift with an enormous amount of pressure. Shifu felt something coming and he knew it wasn't a good sign, but just right then, the wind blasted from behind Shifu and blew off all the softly pinked petals off of the Sacred Peach Tree.

"Master Oogway! What was that suppose to be? Why can't you just talk to my mind? Was that a sign that you gave me? What could it mean?" Shifu questioned the now petal less tree in front of him.

Master Oogway always liked to speak in riddles, could this mean something bad? Could it be about Po, the Dragon Warrior? By the way, where is Po? As Shifu was thinking to himself.

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"HIYA!" "BAM!!" "KABLOOEY!" "SHAKALAKA ZAM!" Po was practicing his kung-fu while finding berries in a forest not far from the Valley itself.

"HAHA!" replied Po snickering as he plucked a berry off the oddly colored brushel, "You cannot face the Dragon Warrior for you are only a berry."

"Take THAT! And THAT! And THAT!" shouted Po as he shoved the berries he collected from the bushels into his ogrely mouth with his furry paw.

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"MASTER! MASTER!" exploded Crane as he was flying back with his feathers fluttering everywhere. "The valley is being attacked!!"

"W-W-W-WHAT?!" mumbled Shifu as widened his eyes. "By Who?!"

"I don't know!? They looked really strong though!" shouted back Crane.

"What!" Shifu exclaimed.

Shifu have heard warriors who had mastered their animalism style of fighting using the scrolls they stole from villages and sacred places. But now they search and attack villages holding rare and secret scrolls. Already they had attacked many villages in search of a scroll. A scroll no one knew about except Shifu and Oogway. The one scroll to immortality.

"Tigress and them are trying to keep them occupied but it seems like they aren't doing so well master!" bellowed Crane.

"What are we waiting for then?," replied Shifu, "let's go help them!"

"By the way Crane, what happened to you?" questioned Shifu.

"Umm, well, you see master, it's kind of hard to explain…umm maybe it's better if I didn't explain," replied Crane.

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Shifu quickly did a quick sprint and jumped off the hill with the petal less tree and did a head first dive down to the valley. From where he was, he could see the Valley Square. Crane trailed along behind diving down with ease.

As Shifu were on their way down to the valley, they could see the smoke of the burning fire rise from every end of the valley. Many of the houses were burnt down and some were still burning. The gates to the Valley were on the ground shattered, as if someone threw an explosive dynamite at it. From Shifu's point of view (while in the air free falling), he could see Tigress and the others struggling as they tried to defend the citizens from being attacked by their invaders.

As Shifu finally arrive at the scene, doing a forward flip and landing perfectly on an unburned house roof his two feet, he saw that Viper and Mantis were out cold, meanwhile Tigress and Monkey were still holding their own. Tigress was going against a pretty huge muscular lion that looked like he had the strength of ten elephants. Monkey was held down by a gorilla, two times bigger than monkey was.

Shifu looked around him and saw houses burning down to ashes and citizen's struggling to evacuate.

Some of them were screaming, "Where's the Dragon Warrior?!"

At this point, Shifu was pretty furious from seeing the valley destroyed and covered in smoke.

"What in the name of Tai Lung is this?" he questioned.

No answers, no reply. The others were busy fighting.

"Ok you're asking for it!"

Shifu dived down at the gorilla and landed an upper cut on the gorilla's face. The primate was knocked back pretty far, at least ten feet away from Monkey. The lion saw what had happened and jumped off Tigress and flung its claws at Shifu. Shifu did a quick dodge as the lion threw a fist at him, and missed. Shifu then did a quick knee into the lion's chest and then flung his self up behind the lion and did a karate chop on his head. The lion growled in pain as it stepped back a few feet while tendering its head with its paw.

"Master Shifu!" cried Tigress, "these beasts started attacking us as soon as we got down to the valley; they left no mercy."

Shifu looked at Tigress, then to Monkey, it seemed he was out cold. Then he put his focus on the lion whom he had attacked.

"Crane, Tigress! Go and retrieve your fellow peers! NOW!" Shifu shouted at Crane who had lost some feathers and Tigress who had looked like she had played in mud.

Tigress and Crane quickly went and retrieved Mantis, Monkey, and Viper and took them back behind Shifu.

"So you're responsible for this destruction?" asked Shifu. "A lion and a gorilla?"

"It's not just them, there's us too," said a voice from far ahead of them of whom they could not see because of the smoke that was in the way.

"Oh so there's more of you?" asked Shifu, "so its not just mister lion and mister gorilla?"

"No old man!" replied the voice.

"No one calls Master Shifu 'Old Man'!" roared Tigress.

"Not even us?" came the voice as they finally emerged out from the thick fiery smoke that was blocking them.