chapter one, amber mountain
A light snow was falling, dusting the magnolia forest in powdered white. a group of students from the Academy of the Jade Palace were trekking up the mountain, on their way to the shrine of Amber Mountain, where each one of them would be initiated into the noble world of Kung Fu. Zhang Lei, a simian monkey boy, shivered. "This looks like a pretty good place to camp for the night, don't you think?" most of the group agreed, except for Tai, a snow leopard with boundless energy."Come on guy! We're almost there!" Shi Long Zhi, a lioness cub and Tai's sweetheart, said, "oh, Tai! I know we're close, but it's getting dark." Wen Rou, an owlet, added,"And some among us get grumpy at night," under her breath. In the end, the friendly bickring gave way to the group's leaders, Masters Shifu and and Oogwei, to step in. "Young ones, what are you fighting about?" Oogwei said. Rong Mou, a bull calf, answered, "They disagree about where and when they should set up tonight's camp..." Shifu chuckled. "You do know that the shrine is over the next rize, right?".
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"Oh! I'm so excited! You younglings are hours away from becoming neophytes!" said the ever inthusiastic Re Quing, a lynxess. She was the keaper of the shrine, and sometimes slightly desprate for company. They had reached the shrine, and were settled into the barrack room. Tonight at midnight, one of them would attend a cerimony inside the shrine, and so one for each of them until they were all advanced learners. As expected, it took forever to fall asleep that night.
Tai awoke to Shifu shaking his shoulder. "It's time, my son." Tai leaped out of his bed, raced to the changing room, and got into his cerimonial robes so fast that he put both legs through one pants leg. Shifu almost laughed at the cub's antics.
"Focus, youngling, focus." Said Oogwei, inside the shrines meditation room. "I know, I know, but it's just so exciting!" Tai whined. Eventually, the cub calmed down, and entered his trance. It was said in the scrolls of kung fu that a student must meditate to recieve wisdom.
Oogwei entered a trance of his own, and was emediately surrounded by a colorful scene. It was the valley of peace, his home. At the middle of summer, the valley was at its peek in beauty. But something was off. A cloaked figue was walking through the streets, observing everything. For hours, the figure continued to search for something, oogwei didn't know what. Then it happened. As a family of tigers visiting from a nearby village walked by, the cloak dropped. A young female tiger picked it up, and handed it to the stranger, saying, "Here you are, sir. You dropped your cloak." the stranger took the cloak, and said, "Polite young lady, aren't you? To bad you won't live to see the light of day!" The tigress was terrified, and looked around for her family, which had disapeared. The stranger punched her, knocking her out cold. "Hey! What do you think your doing!" said a pig, standing nearby. "Mind your own buisness while you still have it!" said the stranger, and he lunged. the pig was dead before he could speak. "wow, that felt good." the stranger said. As more people gathered, tension grew. "Who are you?" a rabbit asked. The stranger merely smiled. "Your demise."
Oogwei then was taken to the valley later. Every building was destroyed. nothing was left alone. he found the tigress from before, almost dead, covered in dust, and crying,. "Why?" she said weekly. "NO!" Oogwei said. No, this wouldn't happen. This couldn't happen to his beloved valley. He had to do somethi-
"Master, are you ok?" a nervous voice broke his trance. Tai had been shaking the tortoise master. "Yes, it was just a horrible dream."
But he knew it was more that a dream. It was a prophecy.
Not twenty years later, Tai Lung was imprisoned for terrorism, and the first part of the prophecy came true. But what of the second?"
a/n: trust me, the story gets happier, just hang in there! and a shout out to whoever reviewed the first chapter! :)