So this16 is the sequel to "Tai Lung – The Journey". When15 you want23 to know9 everything from this12 story you need to12 read it.

"Kung Fu Panda" (c) DreamWorks Animation

I own1 nothing except16 for the written16 word.

Characters5 you don't know are from1 me.

The quotation is from18 "The Forbidden Kingdom"


"As One tale ends…

Kung Fu Panda

Light and Shadow

Prolog

It is a glorious view.

The Greatest Kung Fu School of all china is expending in front of me: The Sun Wukong School for Martial Arts.

It is such an adequate feeling to sit here and look at the pupils training in front of me. It is said that tomorrows heroes are coming from this school. My school. The school, which was founded centuries ago by one of the greatest heroes of all times: Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.

And like he was a hero many of his pupils and many of their pupils, who were taught here, became heroes.

I remember still my younger days, when I was called a hero.

With my twin brother we traveled through china and did good deeds. We were called the Sun Brothers. We rescued people, princesses – and even one prince – defeated bandit gangs, won in battles and brought peace.

Battles…

On one of these battles my brother died. The Battle at the Sunset it is called today. My brother and I against a whole army. I survived because of him. He was always the greater of us two.

And now I am the master of this school, which our ancestor had founded.

So many pupils are in front of me. So many….They are the future. The future of the heroes as well as of Kung Fu. Why is it so, that old people always begin to think about the old times, when they see the future?

I breathe in and out.

The Sun was setting already.

"Li Sai.", I call to my son in front of me.

He is like me a silver-haired monkey with red surrounded black eyes and a pink mouth. Our ears were standing out and our black hands and feet were furless. Different from me his fur didn't form a magnificent moustache and his fur was darker then my silver-grey. He is standing several stairs lower than me.

"Master.", he addressed me proper and bowed his head.

"It is late. Let's call it a day. Send the pupils to prepare dinner." I say to him.

"Yes, master." he replies with another bowing. Then he turns back and goes to the pupils.

I use my staff to lift myself. Oh my old bones. Good that it is still tolerable.

I take the stairs upwards to the main building of the School: The Sanctuary of Sun Wukong.

I open the closed gate and enter it. The ground is completely out of white marble, the pillars which are holding the roof up are out of bluish stone with azurite spread in a whirl in it.

But although for someone like me, who knows this place, it is noticeable, for everyone new here it all fades cause of the statue: A golden Statue of Sun Wukong, like he is standing with his staff ready for guarding the weak. It is almost 10 times my size and expends till the roof.

In front of the statue is his staff, which had endured the time. It was made out of a blue-greenish metal, which is as strong as steel, but didn't rust. And it is said that it has magical powers, although neither I nor my brother nor some of my ancestors could find out like it worked.

Beside the staff were several other relics from the so many heroes, who were taught here. There is the shell of the Armored Turtle, the lance of the Never-loosing Crane, the flute of the Singing Croc and many others. Only the collection of the Jade Palace is comparable with this collection.

I stop in front of a staff. It is normal not so magnificent like the others, but still the most magnificent of all. This was the staff of my brother. I take an incense stick, inflame it, knee down and pray.

It so long ago, but it still hurts.

"When the greatest Warrior falls,…"

I hear something. From where?

"The dragon will rise to take his place."

There is a melody. This melody. I stand up.

"The Dragon will encounter big crisis,

when Light and Shadow will arise."

It is this melody. I know it. I look around. From where is coming this melody.

"The Light is blind to see his road;

the Shadow sees his road but takes the wrong."

I see it. In front of Sun Wukongs statue and staff is someone sitting. A dark figure.

"Will they change their course?

Or will they change the face of the world?

Will the city of the Star rise back again?

Or Will the Dragon fall?"

I go to the figure. This can't be.

"Maybe the world will be a darker place?

Maybe the world will be a brighter place?

Or will it be the Dragon's place?"

"Who are you?" I yell at the figure,"What are you doing in these sacred halls? Only dignified Masters of this School are allowed to enter it. Justify yourself immediately!"

The melody has ended. The figure is moving and stands up.

"I always thought…" it begins. This voice. It can't be!

"…that members of the family are allowed to enter this hall." the figure says and turns around to me.

No…

"You!" I shout.

"Me.", he replies.

"What are you doing here?" I demand to know.

"Visiting home."

"That is not your home anymore! It is forbidden for you to enter this School forever!"

"Oh that hurts, father."

Yes it is him! No doubts. My first son Sun Tian Yi. He is also a monkey, but his fur changed. Once it was silver-grey like my, but now I see that his fur was black.

"What happened to you?" I ask him not believing how he changed. He wears a black silken suit.

"What happened with me? I thought you want that I disappear immediately, or not?" he says spiteful.

He chuckles. He is so different from earlier. Which path did you go, son?

"You should. I call for Li Sai."

"Oh don't make yourself trouble." he says and then turns to the closed gate. How did he enter it?

"Boys!" he yells and the gate is opened. Three persons enter: Two Rhinos in black armor and a third person, which is held by them. In the narrow light I can still detect, that it is Li Sai.

They throw him between me and him.

"Li Sai!" I yell, go and knee down to him. He is still breathing. Thank Gods.

"What have you done to your own brother?" I say while I turn to him again.

"Oh no worries. He still breathes. I need him alive." he says arrogantly, dismisses his guards and turns around to the stature again.

I stand up. I wait until they close the gate again, but I get interrupted by him: "Do you know it still?"

"What?" I ask honestly surprised.

"This melody." he tells me and turns back, "Uncle Mato sang it always."

I hesitate. "Of course I know." I admit.

"Then you can say the last phrase."

"Why should I?"

"Tell it!" This was not a request, but an order.

"Why should I?" I reply defiantly.

He hides his face behind a hand. I sense the change of atmosphere. I lift my staff.

But then he disappears. I look around. Where is he?

Then a kick hits me. Argh! It is so strong that I fly away. I hit the gate and open it in this way. At the end I land crushing on the stairs.

Ahhh….My old bones. What was that?

I look around.

No…

The pupils of the school. They were there. Beaten. Hurt. On their knees. Dependent on the mercy of the soldiers behind them. They seemed to be a mix out of all cultures and species. I see rhinos, gorillas, wolves, lions, tigers, crocodiles and many more.

I am shocked. How could all this happen, while I was praying?

"Say it!" my former son demanded from me, when he left the Sanctuary.

I stand up. Argh. My arm. It seems broken.

"Never!" I reply with as much strength as I still have.

Then someone grabs me by my broken arm. I yell.

It is a Lion. A big lion with a golden mane. He wears a silken suit but in gold and not black like my son.

"The master demanded something from you!" he yells at me with a cold voice.

"Adum let him go." First I don't know from whom this voice is coming. I look to the direction only to see Tian Yi. This voice was so cold, that it had run my blood cold.

The Lion let me go and sink down on his knee.

"I am sorry, master."

Tian Yi steps to him. "I said you already that you shouldn't dare to do another mistake, Adum." And then he kicks him. The big lion flies further than I earlier. From where he has this strength?

Tian Yi turns to me. He smiles.

"Afraid of me, father?"

I admit that my face shows something after seeing his incredible strength.

"No, only pitiful. What had happened to you?"

"Only the right thing.", and then he grabs me by my throat.

I can't….breathe.

He lifts me up.

"It is so pitiful that you don't want to say it. Then I need to do it."

Then without a warning he throws me up. After a short while I am so high that I can see the School below me and feel the fresh wind like it surrounds me.

Then I see like he reappears out of shadows and land a kick into my stomach. I travel back to mother earth and land hard on the ground.

The pain is ineffable.

I am close to losing consciousness.

He lands on my belly.

"´That decides Fate`.", he ends the prophecy.

And I died.

another begins."