This story is on hiatus. I'll surely rework this and finish it. This piece contains my old writing style and lots of mistakes. If you wish to read something of mine I encourage you to read other stories that are not marked as "Old pieces" or you could read "Legend of the Otherworld" my main focus at the moment. Thank you.

"Sir, our men can't keep up with the enemies. I might suggest to retreat, reorganize and try again later!" A rhino gave me a simple yet terrible report on our actual condition.

"I see." I calmly replied "Prepare the troops and leave."

He winced "Sir, aren't you coming with us?"

A bull stepped his way between them "You cowards can leave! Me and Oogway can defeat them alone too!"

"Forgive my arrogance, but…you two against an entire army? There's no way you're gonna win."

I ignored him, my friend, instead, threatened him with a terrifying glance. He was ready to pierce him with his jade knives.

"Let him go, Kai." I said analysing a map.

The rhino slowly walked backwards trying to not show how scared he was and disappeared outside. "Same old plan, right?" Kai started to sharpen his weapon.

I was going to say something else, but it changed when they heard people outside screaming.

"They were already here?! I thought they checked this place before…" Kai yelled upset. Being fooled and defeated by an ambush was humiliating.

I stood up "I guess the same old plan will work." picked up a spear "This time I won't lose, Kai."

He grinned excited "You're still hoping to defeat me at my own game?! You should give up! I always defeat more people than you!"

"We'll see that." narrowing my eyes accepting the challenge.

10, 20, 30…they fell one after another so easy that we couldn't keep the count anymore. I was so proud, so confident in myself. Nobody could defeat me, nothing could touch me. I left my guard down.

They knew about us there, they knew how strong we were and took countermeasures. A rain of arrows fell upon us and our men. It came so fast that I didn't notice. I was too busy building my ego up talking with Kai.

When the first one pierced my left leg I couldn't believe it. I completely forgot what was pain and what it felt like. My mind, my vision went crazy for a couple of seconds and it happened again on the opposite leg. I fell on the ground, I saw my own blood leaving my body. It was too much to handle. I gave up to it and lost consciousness.

I lost the track of time. I woke up, lost consciousness and again countless times. I noticed that someone was carrying me, that I didn't die, but I couldn't focus enough on who he was and where he was bringing me. I passed out once more.

I woke up again. The pain was unbearable, can I just die already? I noticed that this time I wasn't moving. My vision was still blurry, shadows surrounded me. They pointed at me something gold and I felt quickly better. My vision went back to normal, my pain was now just a bad dream.

The shadows were now pandas. Black, white and fluffy all around me.

"Where can I let him rest?" Someone behind me asked to them. I recognised that voice. Kai dragged the whole way down here? Alone? I was surprised he didn't let me die.

They pointed towards one of their houses, probably an empty one. Kai putted me on his arms again a brought me there. "What happened…" I finally spoke.

"Don't talk. Rest now." He insisted, but I was out for so long…I didn't want to sleep AGAIN.

Kai walked outside leaving me behind. I think he's curious about what they did to me before. I closed my eyes again and I fell asleep.

In the middle of the night I heard some weird noises and I raised half of my body from the bed. "Kai?" I called for him thinking that he came back to watch over me, but nothing. I tried to stand up. I rested enough and looked over my legs, both bandaged.

I wasn't able to walk and I fell on the floor moaning in pain "Did I really almost die for two arrows in my legs?" It destroyed everything I believed in.

"You can use this…" Someone there listened to me and replied "If you want" added shyly.

I tried to follow the voice, but it was so dark, but I saw that he handed me over a wooden stuff to help. "Thank you…" I said trying to give an image to him. He looked at me hoping that I was able to stand up now and I did it. "What's your name?" I questioned him approaching closer.

He whispered something, but I couldn't hear clearly. He walked backwards, was he scared? I widened my eyes when I saw who he was and his peculiarity. A panda in a blue and green vest. It's a panda village what should I expect? I was surprised by his white hands. Pandas should've black hands not white! I tried to ask about that, but he ran away and closed me inside.

I returned to my bed, it was pointless to stay up. I'll look for him tomorrow in the morning.

I opened my eyes seeing Kai watching over me. Excited and worried at the same time. "What did you find out?" I smiled getting up.

"Something you would really like." He grinned "Leave everything to me."

"What?!" I complained dragging myself towards him using my stuff "I can help! Whatever you wanna do."

He crossed his arms and laughed "You can barely walk. What are you going to do?"

"I said, I'm fine." I remarked trying to show him my resistance.

"You know what? Maybe you will help me."

I widened my eyes when he suddenly changed his mind. He walked outside leaving the door open and I slowly followed him. I didn't leave my room for god knows how long and it was my first time watching the whole village. I saw a peaceful and happy place, pandas walking, rolling, shouting all around me. It was nice…a weird feeling overwhelmed me completely. I couldn't explain what it was.

Soon I forgot about Kai and where he was going, I stopped as soon as I saw that panda again. He was talking with his friends.

"We're going to our daily lessons! See you later Nova!" They shouted to him rolling away. He waved at them watching them go by.

"Nova, uh?" I repeated approaching to him. "That's not a common name for where we live."

He didn't seem to be interested in talking with me, but more interested in what condition I appeared. "They didn't heal you completely…" he muttered to himself ignoring me.

I tried to understand what he meant, but I didn't have the chance to. He left heading the same place where Kai was going.

I walked across the entire village and reached the edge of it. I saw a group of pandas dressed with a golden tunic moving all together around a peach tree. Were they training?

"I'm sorry, but we can't teach you." One of them said to Kai.

I knew it. Kai asked them to show him how to use that weird thing.

"It's a secret technique. Only pandas can learn it." Another one added.

"Chi can be dangerous in the wrong hands…" the third one continued.

Chi? That's the name of that gold glowing stuff?

Kai begged towards them "I won't force you to teach me….but, at least, heal my friend! I know you can completely restore his wounds…"

The pandas looked at each other through fully. "We did what we could do. He needs to rest. His wounds will soon heal."

Kai was upset. They didn't even want to recover his friend. He tried to be as humble as possible, but he had enough. He was going to attack them when a voice interrupted him.

"YOU'RE LIARS!" Nova's voice shouted from Kai's back towards the pandas. "I don't understand your behaviour. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!"

"Nova…please calm down. You know perfectly why."

"What's the belief our village is built on?" The panda asked walking past Kai and closer to them.

They remained silent. I wonder what's going on between them.

"If you don't say it. I'll do it for you. We believe that there's good in everyone. They just need to try, right?" He continued asking the bull the stood up "He bowed towards you, like you were some sorts of gods, asking you to simply HEAL him."

"They are warriors, Nova. Healing them would mean that we're on their side and they'll go back to fight…to kill more innocent people."

"That's just a stupid excuse. If you don't heal this tortoise you won't be different from them! They deserve help and we should help everyone who came here!"

The pandas glanced at each other again and nodded "Bring here the tortoise."

Kai turned to me, picked me up and dropped my body on the ground right in front of them.

And again their bodies started to shine with golden lights. Now I was able to examine what they were doing. Their putted their paws towards me and injected some weird magic things in me. I felt better, even better than I was before of getting injured.

"Try to walk now." One of them suggested me.

I easily stood up like nothing ever happened. I was surprised and shocked what kind of weird powers are…I needed to know more.

"Now please…leave our village at once." He said.

"Please let us repay your kindness…" I bowed again hoping to get more time.

Kai did the same again. He read my mind.

"There's nothing for you here."

It was going bad. I didn't know what to say. Forcing them to keep us will raise suspects. They trapped us.

"That's not true." Nova spoke again "We need a lot of things." He opened a scroll and started to read "We need to repair some houses. When rain starts there are holes everywhere. There are so many cubs to take care of. We need someone who can watch over them for a couple of hours to let the parents rest for a bit. We're running out of food. Too many people to feed. We must ask to the surroundings about trades. There are—"

"OK, NOVA STOP NOW." Another panda joined. It was bigger compared to the others, but he was wearing the same gold tunic. "We perfectly know our current situation and…since they are willing to help us we will let them stay."

Nova stared at him differently, like annoyed by his presence there.

"But…you will look over them. If something happens you will be the one to pay for their crimes."

"Fine. Remember to change your rules because our beliefs are different from our actually actions." He turned his back to them and walked away.

I didn't know what to do, neither Kai. I glanced over both sides until I decided to follow Nova. "We should thank you for what you did…"

"You misunderstood." He quickly replied "I didn't do it for you or your friend." I stopped and let him go away. I wasn't really interested to hear what he had to say and probably he wasn't going to tell me either.

I removed my bandages around my legs, I was completely healed now. "I have a plan." Kai said after checking that nobody was listening.

"I know already. You want to earn their trust, learn their secret techniques, destroy everything and getting revenge on what they did to me." I quickly explained everything.

He laughed "That's why you're the best!"

"For a bloodthirsty stubborn fighter like you. It will be hard to be nice." I giggled mocking him.

"I bowed 3 times in my entire life towards someone and it happened in 2 days. I think I can do it."