Here's where we seek Musaki...enjoying a normal morning of training until something not-so normal happens in an unexpected way.


Chapter 2: An Unexpected Rescue

It was a normal peaceful morning in the Valley of Peace and that followed up with a peaceful yoga session at the Sacred Peach Tree near the Jade Palace where Musaki began meditating away, keeping his focus on thinking peaceful thoughts. Within a span of 20 minutes, all Musaki could do is just sit down and let his mind do some serious flowing.

Then, he opens his eyes as one cherry blossom tree falls down and lands on his head. He lets out a soft chuckle and then, he gets up, stretches himself and proceeds to head to the training hall to do some serious sparring. He was hoping that he can beat Tigress yet again, but knowing her, she'd pummel him to a bloody pulp if she loses...again. And when he got inside, he could see that everyone has already started and when he faced Shifu, he only said these two words:

"You're late, Musaki." Shifu said, sternly.

Musaki bowed to him and he quickly said, "Sorry, Shifu. I guess I just expanded my yoga session a little too long."

Shifu nodded his head quickly and then, he said, "Your sparring partner for today will be Monkey."

Musaki lets out a huge smile, knowing that he's gonna spar with Monkey instead of Tigress because he knows that she is his least favorite person to spar with because of her temper and he lets out a huge sigh of relief, saying, "Well, at least it's better than sparring with someone who has every intent to claw my arms more than once after losing for the billionth time."

Tigress overheard Musaki's remarks over this and she lets out an angry groan and said, "Do we have to repeat this incident again? It was just a way to let go of my steam."

"Which left some marks on my elbow, no thanks to you." Musaki added.

Tigress was about to beat the crap out of Musaki, when Po, Crane and Monkey tried to stop her before she could do damage to Musaki and Monkey quickly said, "Let's just spar, okay? The last thing we need is a bloodbath between you and her."

"Yeah, you're right. We won't have a bloodbath...not without two weapons; my sai or my new sniper...which I may be determined to use to shoot out that thick ego she calls a skull." Musaki said, in a cocky tone.

"That's it!" Tigress said, pushing them all to the side and planning to take him down, but Musaki used his new power on her, which gave her a shock as she falls backwards to the floor.

Everyone gasped in awe and shock over this new power Musaki had, even he himself was surprised to have that come out of him. Po hung his mouth open at this and asked, "What was that?"

Musaki looked at his hands for a second to have his 'did I really do that' moment and he replied, "Looks like...force fields, just to shield myself from getting attacked."

"That's awesome!" Po said, in a singsongy tone.

Shifu immediately went in and he looked very stern and agitated towards Musaki and Tigress and he said, "Just once, can you two try to be civil without resorting to killing each other? I get enough of that from her and Po."

"I can try to be civil, but it's in my experience in the 4 years I've been here that she can't keep her temper in check like a little 2 year old." Musaki replied.

Tigress seemed to be offended by this remark and she asked, "What does that supposed to mean?"

Musaki tried to calm himself down and decided to just let it go for a while before it gets worse and said, "No use of wasting my energy with you. I've got some sparring to do...but I'll admit, I was so happy when Shifu told me I don't have to spar with you when you nearly killed me 2 weeks ago after that big sparring match."

"Hey, don't blame me! I shouldn't have to lose to you!" Tigress exclaimed.

"Yeah, but did you really have to show your killer instinct in front of 50 million people from the crowd?" asked Mantis.

Tigress was trying to get that thought out of her head and she said, "I just don't think that it's fair to lose out to a 16-year old and get humiliated for it."

Musaki lets out an exasperated sigh and said, "No one humiliated you because you humiliated yourself. Just take your loss like a true warrior."

Shifu lets out a big sigh seeing that she still hasn't gotten over this and he said, "Losing is not dishonorable if it is for the right reason, but trying to choke, strangle and nearly murder a teenager in front of a crowd of onlookers because of a loss is not the right reason. It's just downright childish and you almost scared off half of the crowd, which in turn embarassed me mostly. At least be civil to your loss and just accept it."

Musaki lets out a chuckle and said, "Whoa-ho! That's telling her, Shifu!"

Tigress snarled at him and Musaki lets out a mock snarl and said, "Grrr yourself!"

Shifu lets out a deep breath and tried his best to not let this go to his head and said, "It's like raising two competitors who are acting like kids."

"I'm still a kid." Musaki added.

"You know what I mean." Shifu added.

Seconds later, Monkey and Musaki began sparring each other under Shifu's supervision as Monkey took him down with his boa staff while Musaki did the same as the two staffs clacked each other. Monkey did his best acrobatic move to strike at Musaki, but Musaki did some backflips while twirling the staff around and when he dropped the stick at an attempt to leap up in the air, he does an aerobatic backflip in which he dodged Monkey's kick and landed on his hands in which he picked up the staff with his feet, in which shocked and surprised everyone.

When he got up, he did his best ninja pose and Monkey was impressed by his moves, but is still willing to take him on as both of them dropped their staffs and Monkey quickly went up to him using most of his acrobatic moves to take him down again, this time with swirls, kicks and flips and when he tried to kick Musaki, Musaki grabs him by the foot, does a complete spin that goes faster and faster then kicks him straight up in the air and everyone looks up wondering if he's gonna come down. A minute and a half later, in comes Monkey who lands on his feet, while looking at Musaki.

Shifu snapped his fingers to end the sparring battle and he said, "Musaki, excellent form and those new moves...I can tell you've been practicing on this a lot. Monkey...brilliant and excellent, but I expect more moves from you."

Both of them bowed to Shifu and he said to the students, "That's enough training for today. You're dismissed."

All of them bowed to Shifu as they went off and Musaki decided it was best to take a little walk and not long before, Monkey went up to him and he said, "Sweet moves. It's not the first time I got by butt taken down by a teenager."

Musaki lets out a soft chuckle and he said, "Yeah, well...I have a gift."

"That you do, good friend. That you do." Monkey said, with a chuckle.

A few minutes have gone by and Musaki went walking towards the Valley of Peace to do some exploring to maybe take a little walk to Wu Dan Mountains just to get a look at the view and maybe do some independent exercising for a little bit and on his way, he went through a remote forest which seemed a little bit unfamiliar for him. But when there's a new place, Musaki is always eager to see what it looks like from there so he carries on with it and he quickly sees that it's a little bit foggy there.

Despite all of this, he continues walking his way to the Wu Dan Mountains and as he kept walking, he seeks a burning tree in flames and he figured that something weird has been happening here and as he continued to investigate, he hears some screaming and fighting coming from the other side. He quickly ran towards the other side of the forest and he hid behind a tree and to his shock, he sees a young white wolf and a young white tiger being fought by an evil white tiger and the shock on Musaki's face was filled with horror and outrage to see this happening.

"What do you want from us?" the young tiger asked.

Benkei snarls at both of them as he drew his sword out and plans to use it to kill both of them for running away and he said, "You boys know better than to run away from me! At least my parents never died for monsters like you!"

Byakko felt like he wasn't gonna take much more of this and he went in front of him and decided to use his Brass Spike Knuckles to strike him down and beat him in the face with it and Santiago went in using his claws to scratch him in the face as he let out a huge deep growl and then used his sniper to shoot at him, but Benkei dodged the bullet by an inch and almost landed on Musaki's way.

"Frick..." Byakko whispered.

Benkei brought out his mallett attempting to knock both of them out and he said, "You think you two are gonna leave here and try to find people who care for you, take pity for you and would eventually trust them? There's no one out there you can trust because these types of people don't exist!"

And then, he knocked both of them out as hard as he could and just beat them down really hard until they were unconscious. Musaki looked really shocked after witnessing this scene and realized that these two did not deserve to be treated this way and once Benkei quietly went to both of them, Musaki felt like this was his chance to stop him before he could literally kill both of them.

As he was getting ready to stab them with his sword, he threw his sai and it landed on Benkei's sword and then stuck to the ground. Benkei looked up and he saw Musaki popping out of nowhere as if to end this brutal murder. The evil white tiger snarled at him and he said, "Who the hell are you?"

"No, the better question is what kind of devious person are you, harming these poor boys from the likes of you?" asked Musaki, in an angry tone.

"You don't even know them." Benkei replied, in a cold tone.

Musaki picked up his sai and plans to aim it at Benkei and he said, "Not yet, anyway."

Benkei looked at Musaki like he was crazy to take both of them in and he started laughing at him and he said, "You honestly believe that you'll care for these two?"

Musaki began to bring his sai out as if he wants to start a battle to defend these two strangers from this evil tiger and said, in a menacing tone, "Who wouldn't?"

Benkei then drew his sword to aim at Musaki as if he'll do anything he can to prevent Musaki from letting that happen and he said, "I wouldn't let you do that because these two boys are nothing but demon menaces!"

Musaki looked sickened by the way the white tiger called them off and he said, "Are you sure you're not talking about yourself because you might be one of those demon menaces!"

Both of them looked at each other with menacing looks as they fought with each other and Benkei struck Musaki down with his claws, but he dodged his attempts to claw him and just backflipped and beat him down as fast as he could. Benkei growls at him and leaps up to claw him again, but Musaki flips him down and slams his face to a tree then punches him in the face.

Benkei gets himself up and he asked, "Do you ever give up?"

Musaki lets out a cocky chuckle and said, "Dude, giving up is not an option nor is it a word in my dictionary."

Then, Benkei lands a punch directly at Musaki and fell down to the ground and groaned in pain as Benkei went over and planned to kill him with a sword and he said, "You'll soon regret that you ever intruded into our business!"

Just as he was about to stab Musaki, Byakko somehow wakes up with a power to turn him into a daiokijin creature and uses a very powerful attack to strike Benkei down.

"Hissatsu!" Byakko shouted, as a powerful attack struck Benkei down all the way, leaving him in multiple rounds of pain.

Then, Byakko quickly turned back to normal as he laid back down to the ground again and very quickly, Musaki groans as he turns around and sees that Benkei has been knocked out and when he looked around, the one power woke him up and when he looked at Byakko, he can tell that from that power that he's no ordinary tiger...but a half-demon. But even that didn't stop him from planning to take both of them to a safe place so he picked them up and took them back to the Jade Palace.

Musaki was amazed by how this kid actually did and that both of them have a dire need of safety and compassion and he whispered to both of them, "Don't worry, guys. You're safe now."

Minutes later, Benkei gets himself up, groaning in pain and as he got himself up, he was shaken by the core of Byakko's power that wiped him out and he limped his way over to the other side and he sees Musaki taking them to his home and he said, "So that panda thinks he can take these two beasts and get away with it?"

The thought of revenge seeped into the evil white tiger's mind and he said, "When I find you, I will get you both...and your little panda friend too."


This is where the story gets even more awesome! Thanks to vampire1031 for suggesting this power; hissatsu. BTW, the power of hissatsu is an instant kill attack which isn't an instant kill, but a powerful attack. Anyways, there is more coming up!