The Five; Tigress, Monkey. Crane, Viper, and Mantis ran, flew, hopped, and slithered as fast as they could. Monkey suddenly tripped and fell to the ground face contracted with pain. Without a moment of hesitation he got back up and sprinted towards the location they where focused on in the first place. They all had worried faces except for Tigress who had a look of anger. They all had battle wounds. Viper had slashes along her scaly body. Crane's feathers where ruffled and he had slashes across his chest and wings. Mantis looked like he was stepped on. Monkey had a black eye and slashed across his body. They had learned, in a not so fun way, that Shen was back with a more highly trained army then before.
A pack of ten wolves intercepted the five as they ran. Tigress looked past the wolves and then back at them. She growled and the two sides locked into conflict. Viper and Crane took on three wolves, Monkey and Mantis took on three wolves, and Tigress took on four.
Viper and Crane took defensive stances while the wolves lunged. Viper whipped her tail out knocking the wolf of his feet, she then wrapped herself around its feet causing it to trip. Crane blocked a punch from a wolf and flew into the sky coming back down and grabbing his shoulder and fling him at another that was coming behind Viper. Viper seeing an opportunity lunged and wrapped herself around a wolf that was about to attack Crane. Crane seeing this flew up, grabbed the wolf be the shoulders allowing Viper to slither on to his shoulder and coil around his neck so she wouldn't fall. Normally Crane would have been distracted by this, but not today. With a serious look he flew up and came back down slamming the wolf into the ground.
Monkey and Mantis dashed around the wolves, not in a playful manner as they normally would, but with such focus it was scary to see the normal jokers like this. They jumped around randomly hitting and kicking their foes. The three wolves callused on the ground quickly.
Tigress's rage intensified and she leaped into the air and came down kicking a wolf into the ground. She spun around and grabbed the fist of a wolf as he punched at her. His eyes widened as she swung him around into another wolf. She turned around to see a wolf throw a punch at her. She swiftly dodged the attack, tripped the wolf, and the kicked the chin of the wolf as he was falling causing him to spin around and land on the ground in a painful state.
Monkey and Mantis did not comment on how Viper was coiled around Crane's neck like they had earlier that week. Their serious expressions changed to worried ones as they dashed again. The ran around a corner of a large building.
They slid to a stop. Tigress fell to her knees, all her anger now replaced with depression, a single tear fell down her cheek. Viper gasped and Crane's beak dropped. Mantis looked away. "Po . . . " Monkey whispered.
Tai-Lung turned to look at them, he retracted his hand from finishing The Dragon Warrior. Hundun, Fenghuang, Tai-Lung, and Shen where all there. They had defeated Po. Shen smiled once seeing the five. "First the old masters, then the panda, and now you? Today is my day. The day I reclaim my city, and we conquer China! The day the last panda died!"
Tigress didn't get up, she stared at the downed Panda. She felt her chest tighten.
This is my fault. I put Po into danger, I killed him.
"Time to finish this. Tai-Lung, Fenghuang, would you do the honor." Shen nodded towards The Five. Fenghuang and Tai-Lung stepped towards The Five, then they dashed.