Author's Note:
Hello, everyone! I am GrayZeppelin! I re-edited this chapter and soon will go for six chapters on this short novel to eradicate grammars! Stay tuned!
GZ
8/16/2017
The Last Survivors
Chapter One: The Battle
The night colored into dark crimson horizon above China's famous sanctuary town, Gongmen City. A dark tangerine sky on the far side near the mountains crawled slowly, and most knowingly, the morning sauntered as you can expect the night would end from howls of terror on the river near the harbor, filled with black ships with bright red sails and torches. Most of the crews on these black ships with red sails were wolves snarled, dashing over their wreckage ships. Behind their war vessels, the gigantic War Ship with a symbol of the eye spot onto large scarlet sails. At the center of War Ship behind the golden dragon cannon, white peacock stood, visualizing his army of wolves sprinted across damaged ships.
"What?!" the ambitious evil Lord baffled after his ship wobbled forwardly.
Lord Shen sought every wolf pack running wreckage boats that went on his War Ship's way. Every wolf crept on vessels, growling against China's most famous warriors: the Masters of Jade Palace (Furious Five, Dragon Warrior, and Shifu), and two Masters of Gongmen. All nine heroes leaped into the air as the albino peacock feared his life that his accomplishments to control China and people bow to his talons, will conclude by his enemies. Wolves have no choice but to defend Shen and the greatest and a destructive weapon that will terrorize of all China. Most used swords against all nine Masters; plenty locals thrust their attacks forward. The Masters of Jade Palace Gongmen rulers coursed through stranded ships.
An Ox master combated the wolf units, using his strength against surroundings of the pack, striking multiple in his way and deflecting swords using his large horns as defensive strategies. All of masters stroke their kicks and pounded rapidly to the rest of the pack boot them all to the river. The heroes drew to the main vessel near; nevertheless, wolves had nothing else to diverge all nine masters from Shen and their potential war machines. Notwithstanding the wolves cannot counter all in a struggle conflict situation, Lord Shen expressed his burst toward his second-in-command at the vessel's bridge, who was the Alpha of the wolf bandits.
"Why aren't we firing?!" Lord Shen demanded thunderously, indicating pack of wolves mopped over the sides in front.
Shen's partner Wolf Boss, who stood in front of him and large cannon revolved his head quickly, carrying a torch to ignite the cannon. "They're taking out our gunner, sir!" Wolf Boss answered solemnly. "They are getting close!"
Lord Shen peered back to the clash, realizing how masters seriously need to conclude this battle at once. The albino apprehended that he would be defeat by a warrior of black and white from Soothsayer's prophecy. Shen gazed to the young, and stupendous panda ahead along the masters where all nine rushed through in a crowd of wolves. The panda, knowing as the Dragon Warrior as one of the most China's hope, gestured the peacock to lead straight to conclude the final battle, and bring the albino to justice. Lord Shen trembled his feathers and felt the wrath ahead.
At the last boat beside the War Ship, two bravest wolves sought the masters approaching them and Shen as well. They stood still in their fighting stance in motionless. "Quick! Gather more men, and push them all back at once! NOW!" The Bravo leader shouted, summoning his dark blade and lurched forward across the crowds.
The two wolves are likely twin brothers. They have just been fought over the years of darkness to support Shen and their alpha leader; therefore, they did not aspire to be part of this madness after all. Both were young and anxious. They have just promoted to one of Wolf Boss's Bravo pack and must not revoke any leader's order. However, the twins chose to gain any leaders' honesty and truth.
"This isn't right," the tall wolf spoke nervously, "There is nothing we can do to defend Shen and these potential cannons."
"Lee," his brother called beside him, wearing a metal mask. "We cannot push forward. It is impossible to shift them back."
"Fire at them!" Lord Shen ordered Wolf Boss solemnly. "Well, fire at THEM!" The twins overheard Shen louder tone. Wolf Boss peered to the wreckage sail boats that many packs of wolves were thrusting against masters. On what this Alpha determined a circumstance, the wolves he sought were possibly had families from home. Their sisters from the woods, and cubs with their mothers on the woods also. By any such madness, Wolf Boss does not want to fire towards them all. Many packs and masters were in the cannon's way.
"But sir," Wolf Boss warned Lord Shen, "we'll kill our own!"
"I… said… fire at them!" Lord Shen repeatedly command his partner for the second time, then yells. "FIRE!"
The twins have warned. They sought many packs ahead, realizing something far worse can occur. They swiftly turn a cannon, then the pack fighting masters.
"Oh no!" Lee gasped worriedly. "Lin! That peacock's trying to fire towards our pack!"
"WHAT?!" Lin confused.
The twins turned back to Lord Shen's War Ship. They can visualize both peacock and their alpha wolf on board. Wolf Boss cannot fire. The reason the alpha does not want to follow Shen's solemn command is what because his pack was currently fighting in front of them were all of nine masters rushed against wolves on the strand. And broken ships where all boats carried cannons, but a massive artillery what Wolf Boss stood beside, was in the masters and his own trustworthy packs' way.
The twins oversee them both. Lee and Lin are very concerned. They could notice how this peacock cannot trust toward alpha. The masters are near and approaching rapidly. Once Shen tries to command Wolf Boss for the last time, the alpha softly turns to his partner, evidently refuse to Shen by throwing down his torch away from a massive cannon. Wolf Boss knew he would not let Lord Shen kill his local army on the board of the ships ahead. Lord Shen shocks to his partner. Both Lee and Lin were peering the peacock. Just then, the peacock narrowed his crimson eyes with a flush of scorch. Summoning his pierce feather blades, and impacts the alpha wolf.
"TRAITOR!" Lee shouted. Lin pulled his brother's arms by not going near Shen's War Ship.
These two brave warriors were the only ones they both saw their leader been stabbed and injured as a sudden shock. Their alpha leader was dead to twins' point of view. Lord Shen bounded through his cannon after Wolf Boss cost his own life after he fell beside the ship. The peacock switched one trigger to drag down the pointing line of fire in the exact spot of masters down ahead. Lin and Lee sprints to the pack, reaching every packs forward as fast as possible. Once Lord Shen ignites a match with his claw, two wolves are shouting few packs to evade the line of fire.
"ABANDON SHIP!" Lee screams.
"GET OUT!" Lin yells also.
Two wolves jumped out of the boat, and the others around at least ten of them did the same, but the rest moved to a different direction. One of the Furious Five members screamed and pushed the Dragon Warrior simultaneously that a large, massive cannon aimed the panda and all the masters. Once all twelve wolves leap out and separate, only two, who were the only survivors after Shen ignited the blast cannon.
All few packs submerged underwater. The line of fire dazzled into flames above the water. All packs who leaped with an unexpected delay burned to their furs. Lee and Lin both are near unconscious as the water descends them both. Foams are everywhere in every wolves' surroundings inside a submerged level, soaring beneath the water above. The metals with swords are dragging the wolves. They feel the touch of water bursting like a wind below, floating how they can sense. In a sudden quiet after a boom, one of the twins begins to panic after awake.
Lee immediately crawled above. But, as a sort of struggle and cannot ascend, he notices that a mask including his sword behind are the two items can continuously drag his struggling body. He acted his mind quickly and removed his mask and a sword weapon to save his own life by not letting himself drown. Lee peered above the water from submerging. Few of the packs' lives, were lost. Lee can feel how guilt, and impacted his life that most of the wolves are dead, and possibly drowned. One thing he only must save is his brother.
His breath is nearly wasting. He quickly found his brother down below him as he felt a paw grip. Lin does panic also, and Lee quickly draws his brother's sword from the back, and dismantle it away. Lee points above the water space on a right side of the bridge as Lin can understand the gesture. The two wolves bathe their breaststroke to ascend, and they have nothing else to save many wolves behind.
Both of the warriors increases their gasping air after being submerged for a minute, and severely cough once plenty of waters nearly entered their mouths. Both quickly stayed afloat using an elementary backstroke to let their heads staying above water. Two wolves may learn how to swim, from their Bravo leader. Lee and Lin are gaping all wolves floating on water, most are dead, and some survived including twins. They all see themselves fearfully, and now being horrified since they saw a massacre that all loyal wolves were slaughtered and once burned to ashes by the feather hand of Lord Shen.
"No," Lin upsets dearly, swimming next to his twin brother close to the harbor. "That treacherous peacock. He murdered our leader."
"I know, brother," Lee realized. "This is very bad."
Both twins have found a climbing ladder beside the land that was supported the bridge but destroyed on a front after the blast where Shen massively destroyed everything in his path including dead wolves. Lee and Lin quickly ascend to hide in a shadow, moving away from the water where they shall not be allowed to be seeing from Shen's wicked eyes. Both warriors breathe themselves slowly whenever they lay rest behind a wall where twins hid.
"This is madness!" Lee murmured loudly, continues panting. "I should have warned the packs back there."
"No one noticed our leader darted," Lin reasoned, calming his breath. "We are the only ones witnessed a betrayal." The twins relax through their minds. Lee and Lin worked themselves supporting their Bravo leader for a long time. Both escaped through the darkness of Lord Shen's wrath. Plenty wolves have seen such madness toward the albino who only cares of controlling China to deliver every single being must bow before him. The twins noticed about the tragedy of pandas from the Alpha leader, and they have felt the insanity that Lord Shen killed most of the wolves today in such similar of tragedy. Lin thought about the pack and must be informed.
"What are we going do, Lee?" he asked his brother worriedly. "We need to get our brothers away from the city, and must tell them all the truth about what the heck just happened to our Boss."
"We can surely try, Lin," Lee enunciated to his brother. Trying to be normal but his voice continues trembling as a cold. Lee rose softly instead rushing. "The pack must notice."
"Then how are we exactly can inform all brothers out there at the harbor?" Lin demands. He struggles by helping himself arise on a wall behind where he sat beside his brother. "The pack needs to perceive about Lord Shen, and they must discover betrayal from us."
"We will have to clarify everything that we saw," Lee told him, frequently. "And then tell our pack that Lord Shen should never be trusted again."
After their short conversation has ended, the twins discern most of the various clangs from the fire breathing cannons near the harbor. Lee and Lin heard tremor voices of Gongmen pedestrians while the twins stepped out of the shadows from houses, and local civilians communed that the ships are going to fire at the panda.
"What is going on?" Lee agonized.
Both wolves dashed to the corner; Gongmen villagers rushed to the left of another side as they were also glimpsing the harbor. Lee and Lin reached the edge of a dock. The bridge was formed to saunter another way but demolished. Onto their gazing eyes, all reddish sails billowed gently. The largest vessel lingered along twelve sailboats. These sailboats have filled with wolves in one cannon on each ride. The Warship as the twins hardly visual few bandit wolves including two giant apes supporting Shen.
Lee and Lin both observed the skirmish across the dock, and they pondered what cannons are aiming at the front. Wolf twins could gaze, however. Lee and Lin shifted slightly to the right as there was a gap in between the boat and Warship sails. A black form was spotted in a middle of the harbor after the twins found what many cannons were aiming. They can barely see a panda standing on a flat, wreckage wood from one of the sailboats that were completely devastated after Shen fired his massive artillery.
What is he doing? Both of the twins inquired themselves thoughtfully. The panda forms a half circle from his feet to the right after he closed his own green eyes. His massive arms flow as a soft air by creating a space within as both of his hands devised a hidden ball. His master from Jade Palace once shown the panda on what Shifu has learned by Oogway's final teachings from kung fu. The panda gazed the Warship shortly as Lee and Lin apprehend Shen's command.
"Fire!" the peacock commanded the wolves from one of the sailboats.
As the sound of cannon triggered, the panda adjoined his eyes. He imaged a single tearful water from a gentle rain, collapsing as the fireball formed into a tear. Inner peace. The panda echoed his tone through his peace of mind without distractions. He focused a falling tear when it continuously collapsed. In a peace of mind, every sound had shut. A small, leaf plant snatched a tear from the broken sky, and extended its arms, tossing the water gently like a catapult.
The panda rapidly opened his eyes. The fireball nearly reaches the Dragon Warrior shortly. The fireball has caught. The panda grasped the flaming fireworks from the metal ball as he swiftly tossed the inferno from behind. The city gaped their hero who threw a piece of the cannonball to the heart of the dock. Both of the twins trembled in surprise. WHOA! Many packs of wolves went startled their wobbling voices.
"Oh... My..." Lin shocked softly. "How did the panda do that?"
Lee glimpsed the Dragon Warrior far at the harbor where twins caught their own eyes at the panda standing on a broken wood ahead of Gongmen Harbor.
"I.. have... no... idea," Lee rose his eyes momentarily.
Both Lee and Lin has sought the Panda done himself worthy by deflecting the fireball with his Inner Peace. The city imaged of the white and black creature, something as if their mind started to peer him, and where his greatest enemy shall fall. The wolves increase their startle of fear. They think a Dragon Warrior will smash a cannon ball through each ship to cleanse and destroy. The peacock considers another try to command wolves take the next shot.
"Again!" Shen ordered at once again after he solemnly informed the pack on the boats.
One fire triggered towards the panda, the rain of terror repelled at once again by Dragon Warrior, and the other cannon fired. Most of the cannon balls cannot impact the hero, however. The panda apparently evaded one fireball with a spin with roll jump. The peacock could not handle his patience through his aggravated feeling. He continued shouting towards all pack of wolves.
"Kill him!" Lord Shen commanded the wolves to fire the cannons at will. "Somebody kill him!"
No matter how wolves continued shooting against the panda, the Dragon Warrior deflected more of being unstoppable. The peacock knew he was frightening that the panda will accomplish the battle by destroying every boat that supported Warship. Many triggers of cannons spread a clang of fireworks. Ships randomly shot the Dragon Warrior at no matter the cost.
The twins barely heard their terrifying brothers on the board of ships ahead. They perceived that all bandits could not underestimate any of the famous kung fu masters.
Lin overheard a dying howl from the back of War Ship. Lee caught listening with his brother also during fireball shootings. Once both of the twins immediately peered through Lord Shen's Warship, Lin sighted an Alpha struggling on the balcony.
"Lee! Over there!" Lin points to Lord Shen's Warship behind the deck after he called his brother beside him.
Behind the larger ship where Lord Shen was on above the cannon and the gorillas using their massive dragon artillery to fire, and eight wolves beside the Warship. On behind the deck of the ship, the alpha wolf groaned in a conflict where four feather blades impacted on his chest severely that he wore his armor to protect himself from any attacks. Wolf Boss goes into critical. He crawled away on the balcony from Shen and the cannons on the ship. The twins surprised; Lee and Lin thought the pack's leader was dead. Luckily, Wolf Boss does not allow his demise.
"He's still alive!" Lin shouts.
"No way!" Lee shocks.
The alpha went over the balcony rail on the back side of the Warship, breathing weakly and could not gain his strength to escape. Wolf Boss continued emerging his scruffle, then trying to figure his approval for his final leap towards the edge. He sighted two wolves ahead of apartments beside the demolished bridge. After a final mount through alpha's continuous struggle, he bounded through a fall, collapsing to the harbor as the water swallowed him.
At suddenly, Lin sprung into the surface, swimming under the shreds of darkness as he in his thought must salvage Wolf Boss from the final fight. "Lin! Come back here! It's too dangerous!" Lee yelled worriedly.
Lin nearly hear his brother's muffle hail voice from the submerging water. He gazed Wolf Boss struggling his swim, he breaststrokes while ascending. The alpha can notice his armor outfit can drag his body; his chest soared within a sharp stab of severe pain that his blood swarmed softly. At first, Lin ignored his brother's voice while he continues swimming in a front crawl through the harbor where all the ships are firing to the panda in the last stand as after the wolf returns above the surface of the water. Wolf Boss's whole face ascends the surface, then continues drowning as no other woods over feets away from everywhere can arise a float for him.
Lin sighted the Alpha flooding while many of boats shortly firing the panda for awhile. Next, the panda threw the ball at one of Lord Shen's ships. The ship cracked the woods into collateral damage; Lin nearly stroke one of the boarding woods from the wreckage sailboat close enough; plenty of wolves leaped away out and dived to the dock. Gongmen civilians cheered their surprise; once Lin was nearly reaching to Lord Shen's ship on the right side where Wolf Boss struggled with a gentle whine, craning his neck as he barely swum with backstroke slowly, as if the flesh wound burned him, making him drown above the water surface.
The peacock screamed in rage and confusion that one of the fireballs smashed into sailboats.
"WHAT?!" Lord Shen shouted after another ship shattered into pieces. "NO!"
After the impact, Lin swam closer to Wolf Boss. "Boss!" Lin called his leader, sustaining his swimming crawl as he nearly reached the alpha leader. "Hang on!"
Wolf Boss stayed above the surface as he can quite use the backstroke to float. The alpha's wound tormented his weakness, letting Wolf Boss sunk and he knew his strength could not last, and his time to conclude. Lin hailed his leader shockingly. He can see the panda throwing multiple fireballs away from water surroundings before Lin submerged. Lin snatched Wolf Boss's paw; subsequently, they both reached their neck surface of the water after their return. Lin managed Wolf Boss's float when holding his left arm instead upper chest because of severe agony.
Next, Lin searched a wreckage wood. He immediately pulled his alpha towards the broken line of the grove. The peacock directly aggravated when glaring a clumsy panda ahead of Gongmen Harbor. The panda taunted his finger, pointing to Lord Shen as the albino clenched his beak, and trembling his feathers in which irritates more. Lin and Wolf Boss hanged on a light wood to stay afloat after this terrifying wolf salvaged his alpha leader.
"Are you alright, sir?!" Lin demanded to Alpha worriedly. "I'm going to get you out of here as I can. Just stay with me!"
Next, the peacock immediately orders the gorillas to fire his massive cannon.
"Keep firing!" Lord Shen screamed to the gorillas.
The dragon cannon triggered its flames. The fireball distracted Lin, and the frightening wolf glimpsed a rapid flow towards the Dragon Warrior.
Lin's paw once touched. "What are you doing, kid?" Wolf Boss demanded in weaker tone, as you could perceive his lungs punctured with a wheeze. Lin swiftly turned to his leader when Wolf Boss inquired him dyingly. "Save yourself..."
"I'm not leaving you here, Boss!" Lin refused, trembling his head. "I will escort you out of this treacherous battle!" When Lin again turned to the panda, the Dragon Warrior caught one fireball, spinning downward. The fires scattered and water revolved below the wood like a hurricane. "Uh oh!"
Wolf Boss coughed when whining. "Just get out of here... Leave... without me…"
"We act like brothers, sir!" Lin spoke loudly, gripping to alpha's paw softly. "And brothers do not leave behind!" The alpha began looking into Lin's courageous eyes. Lin disliked leaving any more of his brother like a pack of wolves behind where they suffer and die. As a soldier, if you sprinted through terrorize land and sighted your ally collapsed during a firefight, you must carry your soldier by vacating the enemy lines. "Lord Shen is crazy! He's insane!"
"I… I know..." Wolf Boss spoke in vulnerable. "Shen's no longer be trusted..."
"He betrayed you. He turned back on us." Lin added.
Lin grabbed one of the broken lumber platforms that came from the wreckage war boats. "Come with me," he implored Wolf Boss while pointing the Dragon Warrior, "before that fluffy panda will doom us all." Wolf Boss and Lin gazed their own eyes shortly.
"You're right," Wolf Boss whined weakly.
As soon as Wolf Boss nearly shut his right eye, the light approached from behind Lin. The flash of a starlight roared, Wolf Boss's right eye grew wide, and Lin swiftly turned behind, the bright light blinded both of their eyes. Lin screeched before a final fireball stroke Lord Shen's Warship, crashing directly to the front like a blasting flares turn to screaming horror.
"NO!" Lee exclaimed, lingering to his twin brother.
He possibly considered that Lin and Wolf Boss might be killed from the blast beside the light, or dodged the uproar after submerging below Gongmen Harbor once the Dragon Warrior has ended the battle. Plenty of pack of wolves swam through the harbor. Not as much around a thousand, but only more than a hundred wolves. Lee foresees the wolves on the water to swim away, some may can, but some struggles as a result of drowning. Lee jumped down to the harbor, bathing across the wreckage as crawling forward to save the rest of the pack as possible. Many debris on the water comes from all war boats including Lord Shen's War ship that shredded apart. The Gorillas have evaded the battle and must have run away from the fight after the ship has destroyed, they shall never again to return to Gongmen through the end.
On the brightest morning light after the final attack, Wolf Boss grasped on to his both arms on a single broken wood that comes from Shen's ship but losing his blood below his chest and struggled in rest. Lin does the same as Wolf Boss but floating much far as about one acre in the distance. Lin awakens to himself in a far off to the seaside at the end of the harbor on the upper right side, searching around the surface everywhere first and then sights Wolf Boss right behind him.
A moment later, Lin pulls his Alpha leader by the leftover light wood gently. Lin sighted the beachhead. The sound of breeze whispered the seaside waves. The wolves arrived the beachhead as Lin sensed sand below his paws. After the approach, Lin carefully extends Boss's right arm across through the back of Lin's neck behind while supporting the alpha to enable a walk shortly after they land a beach.
The wolves soaked over their bodies. Their feet paws gathered sands. Wolf Boss coughed brokenly; Lin carefully placed his Alpha by moving him away from the off shore and laying Wolf Boss on the sand. Lin helps Boss for using his left paw like a pillow to stay above as the wolf must find help from the pack.
"Boss," Lin trembled Wolf Boss as the alpha suffocated his air gently. "Boss? Just… Just hold on, okay?"
There is a short three stories tall building at right about hundred feet away from the wolves while Lin finds the apartment, partially one of Gongmen City's building. Wolf Boss conveys himself a hard time breathing from his lungs that time is running out for him.
"Just try to stay calm," Lin advises to Boss, whining continuously. "I'm gonna get help and find our pack as I can."
Before Lin leaves, Wolf Boss snatches Lin's arm.
"No," Wolf Boss refuses, coughing. "Don't... leave me here."
"Why not," Lin queries anxiously, pointing a single three short story apartment. "I must find help. I'm not going to watch you die, sir. Without you, our pack will grow weaknesses."
"I know," Wolf Boss's breathing is no longer ordinary. "I need you to stay here with me. Just take my paw..."
Lin and Wolf Boss gripped their hands that to have more faith and delivers more time for Wolf Boss. "Say your word that you will never leave me."
Lin can understand the Boss's command. He may not able to leave his leader behind, sticking together is what brothers shall do in combat, and even a family, as well as friends.
"I'm not gonna leave you," Lin promised the alpha, nodding while both paws are currently in a grip.
"Good boy..." Wolf Boss murmured.
It is a long morning light that shone suffering wolves on the beachhead. The waves sang clearly, whenever impacted near the beach, and the wind blew a breeze of woe among Lin's anxiety and Wolf Boss's final time of near death. Lin feared that many packs would isolate including his twin brother Lee, and also one of their closest friends from the homeland of Wolves Village. His concern was immediate accurate. He can sense alpha's dying breath below. Wolf Boss gazed a morning light that a spirit warrior called the Alpha's existence of incarnation.
At suddenly, they both perceived a single explosion on a far side of Gongmen Harbor where Lord Shen's ship lightened fireworks. While the boom had lasted, Lin continued looking a small, light flash of fireworks in Gongmen Harbor while he listened both Alpha's suffocating air and the blast simultaneously. Facing down to Wolf Boss, and spread his own green eyes that his leader nearly concluded his dying breath.
Just then, the veggies of radishes began to drop. Someone has spotted the two wolves near approach the beachhead. Lin caught his attention from radishes. A child rabbit was wearing a white robe with cherry blossoms design over a cloth. The young rabbit became solidified, beginning to tremble, and frightening.
"Help!" Lin bawled after he found a child near beachhead apartment. "Help me!"