Terribly sorry for the wait, guys. But, I was kinda busy, and was not. Anyways, enjoy Chapter 2~! Happy New Years! ^_^

Chapter 2: Old Enemy/Awakening

Kenji wakes up from a soothing voice that moans out his name in his ear. He turns to his side and sees Tigress beside him. He smiles and slowly gets up, rubbing his eyes. It seems time didn't fly as he had hoped when looking at the dark sky, seeing no light. He heads outside to the Peach Tree for his meditation. When he reaches to the tree, he sees a hooded figure in black. Kenji stops at the stairs and stares. The hooded figure slowly turns around while it sways its grey tail.

"Who are you…?" Kenji asked, gripping his fist.

The hooded figure did not say anything but removes its hood, Kenji widen his eyes and jumps away into a stance. It's the Wolf Boss! He raises his hand at Kenji.

"I'm not here to fight, Dragon Warrior." He said, "I'm here to talk."

"Then talk quick, Wolf, before I blast you out of this Valley." Kenji threatened with a growl.

The Wolf Boss takes a deep breath and opens himself.

"I'm unarmed, and you are." He said.

"What does that prove?" Kenji asked, "Why are you here?"

The Wolf Boss looks away and bites his lips as his ears went down.

"I need your help…" he replied.

Kenji lightly lets his guard down and widens his eyes a bit.

"What did you say…?" Kenji asked.

"I need your help…" he repeated, "I had no one else to come to or to trust. You are the only one who I can say about this."

"Why me, Wolf?" Kenji replied, "What, or why, does this have to do with me?"

"I hear you can heal the weak, wound or sickness." He said.

"So, what of my powers?" Kenji growled as he draws his lightning on his arm and forming a ball in his hand, "Get to the point!"

"I need you to heal my daughter…" he said softly.

Kenji widens his eyes again and slowly draws his lightning away, and puts his defense down.

"You have a daughter…?" Kenji exclaimed softly.

"Yes." The Wolf Boss nodded, "And, if you're wondering of how I have a daughter, it began 9 years ago. I had a wife that was giving birth to my daughter. After her birth, 3 months later, Shen found us and threatened me to join him or else my family will die. I joined him and done his bidding, but what I have done was foolish and regretful. I was going to assassinate Shen, but he got the best of me. He held my daughter and wife hostage… and killed my wife first. The next was my daughter, but I pleaded Shen that it will not happen again. I kept my word, but I took my daughter away secretly. Now, since Shen is dead, I went to my daughter and had spent time with her until she… got sick. She's only been sick for a week from now. It just seem to get worse."

Kenji looks away, and his mind tells him that the Wolf Boss must be lying. But, his guts and instincts tell him that it's the truth. Kenji growls softly and looks at you.

"And, what would you have me do?" Kenji asked, "Come with you alone and heal your daughter?"

"You don't have to go alone. You can bring your friends if you want." He said as he puts his hood on, "I want you to think about it. But please, Kenji, I beg of you. She's the only daughter I have, the only one who I love and cherish the most. You know love, don't you?"

Kenji looks away again, and thinks about Tigress. He closes his eyes for several seconds and looks at the Wolf Boss.

"I'll do it, for the sake of your daughter and your wife." Kenji said, managing a small smile.

The Wolf Boss smiles happily and bows, "Thank you, Dragon Warrior. Thank you so much."

"Please, call me Kenji." Kenji bowed back.

They both stand up and smiles at each other.

"May I ask of what is your name?" Kenji asked, "I don't want to call you Wolf once every time."

"My name is Ryu. Ryu Zhang." He said.

"Ryu…" Kenji repeated, "Where do you want me to meet you?"

"At the gate." He gestured his head to the gate, "Farewell for now, Kenji."

Kenji nods and walks to the training room, thinking if it's a trap.

I can't decide… in his eyes are desperation and sadness. He thought, I can't ignore this… guess I'll have to meditate in the training room.

As he keeps his word, he comes in the training room and gets into his meditating stance. He takes a deep breath and a bit of static sparks around him. As he breathes in and out, more static appears around him and a ball of lightning begins to form with static sparking around.

Breathe in… breathe out. He thought as he inhales and exhales.

He begins to have visions, good visions, of the future. He sees Tigress and himself laughing in joy. He couldn't help it but smiles. He walks up to himself and watches them both enjoying themselves. They then hear children running and laughing towards Tigress and his vision self. He sees himself picking one of the children up and snuggles their noses. Kenji smiles again as he tries to stroke their cheek, but his hand goes through the children. He sighs sadly and looks at Tigress. He sees her talking to the children and kisses their foreheads. He then realizes that the children are his, in the future. Then, in a flash, he sees someone else there. He didn't know who it is, knows it's a tiger. He slowly walks closer to that tiger. Just as he touches it, he goes flying back and lands on his back.

"Oof!" he huffed as he landed on his back.

He pants a bit heavily from being struck so hard and slowly gets up. He looks at the tiger, and sees bright, red eyes with a wide smile, showing fangs.

That can't be Storm… can it…? He thought.

Then, he notices the tiger's right arm and its glowing bright blue with a few scales on it. The tips of the claws shine bright as the moon itself. Kenji widens his eyes when he realizes what he's seeing. He's seeing himself as what he's going to become!

"No… No!" Kenji exclaimed.

He snaps his eyes open, and the ball of lightning disperses with a loud spark. He breathes heavily as if he just woke up from a bad dream. He feels something on his shoulders, and he sees a blanket on his shoulders. He doesn't remember putting a blanket around him.

"Finally awake?" a voice asked.

Kenji turns around and sees Storm with a grin.

"You…! I thought I had you gone for good…!" Kenji growled.

"Hmph. I thought you already figured, but I guessed wrong." Storm said coming up to Kenji, "I am a part of you. You can't escape me because my soul is bound to you. Get it now?"

"I'm not that dumb, Storm…" Kenji growled deeper.

Then, what he realizes is that usually Storm is in his head… but now, he's "out" of his head! Kenji backs away with the blanket whooshing out of his shoulders and gets into his stance. Storm stares and starts to burst out laughing crazily. Kenji gives a confused look, but doesn't let his guard down.

"I guess you figured now that I'm not in your head anymore. That's probably the good news, so I won't have to torture you much in your head." He explained.

"What's the bad news…?" Kenji asked.

"Well, the bad news for me, which means more good news for you," Storm explained, "I can't touch you nor hurt you. I can only chit-chat with you."

Storm slowly walks towards Kenji, but he backs away.

"What did I tell you? I can't touch you." He repeated.

"And, how do I know that it's a trick?" Kenji asked.

Suddenly, Storm roars with a punch, and Kenji blocks, but Storm runs through Kenji like a ghost! Storms sigh and look at Kenji.

"Convinced now?" Storm asked.

Kenji bites his lip as if it's just a coincidence. Kenji shoots lightning at Storm, but the lightning itself fly through his body like it's nothing.

"How is it possible?!" Kenji growled, "You can't just be a ghost just like that."

"Hate to break it to you, but I'm a ghost-like." Storm shrugged.

"Kenji…?" a voice called out.

Kenji turns around and sees Shifu. Kenji wonders how long has he been watching as a sweat comes down his cheek.

"Who are you talking to?" he asked.

Kenji went speechless and opens his mouth only.

I can't speak…! Kenji thought.

"Looks like he's got the butterflies in his stomach." Storm laughed.

Kenji bites his lip and looks down.

"No one, master… I must be going crazy or something…" Kenji said.

"Nonsense, Kenji." Shifu said as he walks up to him, "But, my concern is, why you are in the training room? You're usually at the Peach Tree."

Kenji licks his lip and bites it again, and then looks down.

"Master, there's… there's someone who met me at the Peach Tree." Kenji explained, "Someone who was supposed to be dead a month ago, after Shen's plan."

"Who is it?" Shifu asked.

"…It's—" Kenji said before his ears flip up and hears the bell of danger, as Shifu did as well.

"Bandits…" Shifu growled and looks at Kenji, "You know what to do, Dragon Warrior."

Kenji nods and runs out to the Valley. The Furious Five and Po meet with Kenji a few seconds after getting to the stairs.

"You guys ready?" Kenji asked.

"Yeah!" they all exclaimed proudly.

All of them, Tigress, Kenji, Po, Viper, Crane, Monkey, and Mantis, charge all the way down from the sky to the surface. Again, Po faces the other way, and turns around.

"It's the Dragon Warriors!" The villagers said, "And the Furious Five!"

A Bandit Leader-looking tiger turns around and then grins.

"So, it's true…" he said as he sees Kenji's static spark, "The Mighty Lightning Warrior is alive…"

"Alive?" Kenji asked with his head tilted.

"Don't you remember?" he grinned, "You went to Hell, or could you have forgotten already?"

Just by him saying about Hell, Kenji gives a little chill in his spine and growls.

"Save your breath!" Kenji growled as he throws a lightning bolt at the bandit leader.

The leader jumps in the air and throws knives down like rain.

"Look out!" Viper exclaimed as all of the gang moves away from the knives.

When they all back away, bandits jump and lock them from behind, to the ground. Kenji knocks his head back at the bandit and jumps away from them.

"Stop!" the bandit leader said.

Kenji freezes as he hears the leader's voice and turns around. He sees that Tigress's being hold as hostage and a buff bandit holds Kenji from behind.

"Agh! Let go of me!" Kenji roared.

One of them hits Kenji in the face to have him barely conscious as Kenji tries to stay focus. He narrows his eyes towards Tigress and the bandit. He then senses energy, conduit energy, toward the bandit leader. He sees a light energy swirling around the bandit's wrist, and then impales Kenji with his hand. Kenji could feel his hand going deeper, trying to reach for his heart.

"Stop!" Kenji hears Tigress's voice.

Kenji feels the bandit's hand taken out of his chest, and walks away from him. Kenji could barely stay focus when staring up at Tigress and the bandit. His vision becomes blurry as he bleeds out from his chest… the same place from where he got shot from the cannon. Then, he sees the bandit slap Tigress across the face and begin to beat her on the ground. In anger, Kenji stands up with no pain whatsoever why, and pounces the bandit leader off of Tigress.

He can feel his anger taking over as he jackhammers down the leader. His ear flickers up as he hears his gang going to tackle him. He somehow pushes them back without even touching them! He quickly comes over to whoever he sees and somehow swipes them in half on the waist. Blood splashes on his fur. His instinct begin to take over and tells him to shed more blood.

"Kill… shed more blood… Become more powerful…!" it says in his head.

He knows that Storm wasn't saying it. It's more demonic, he thought. But, now he doesn't care. All he cares is to have the bandits gone, and what he means by gone, as in "dead" gone. He dashes toward the others and have the gang split in half in any kind of way. Kenji misses the last, but kicks him. After seeing the bandit recruiter cowering in fear of Kenji, he walks up to the recruiter, almost looking bloodthirsty. Tigress shakes her head to get the dizziness out of her head and sees Kenji cover in blood. She widen her eyes because of the way Kenji is now behaving.

This… she thought, this is not Storm… Nor Kenji himself!

She runs up to Kenji, and hugs him as hard as she could. Instantly, Tigress sees the look in Kenji's eyes. Red mist in Kenji's eyes and it look bloodthirsty. It wasn't Kenji, or Storm.

"Kenji…! Please come back!" Tigress pleaded, "I'm alright. I'm alright!"

Tigress feels his muscles stop flexing, and Kenji leans back in pain, breathing heavily. Tigress catches him and looks in his eyes. By the time Kenji open his eyes, the red mist is not there anymore.

Whatever it was… Tigress thought, I don't think it'll be coming back for now…

Tigress looks at the recruiter running away in fear as he sees the bandit leader still alive, but has bruises on his face with blood.

"We'll come back! Mark my words!" he threatened before running away with the recruiter.

Tigress watches them run away as Kenji comes to. Kenji slowly sits up and shakes my head.

"What happened…?" Kenji asked himself.

Then he remembers being impaled by the bandit leader, and he looks at his chest. It's fully healed, though the cannon scar was still there!

"Wh-what happened?!" Kenji repeated, but at Tigress.

Tigress looks away, because of the blood all over him.

"Y-You mean, you don't remember…?" Tigress asked.

"What do you mean? I—" Before he could finish his sentence, he looks at his hands.

They're cover in blood, and it stinks like rotten flesh. He widens his eyes and looks up at Tigress. Then, he sees Po, and the gang staring at him in awe. He also see Master Shifu come running and widen his eyes. Kenji slowly stands up and backs away from the gang. A few seconds later, Kenji turns around and sprints away on his four paws.

"K-Kenji! Wait!" Shifu exclaimed.

Kenji didn't dare to look back as he continues to run.

Something inside me has awakened... something foul...! Kenji thought as he continues to run.

I was thinking about something. This other author who I read before, and he did a story, or... not so much. The author is Mitchicus. But, he pretended to interview the characters according from his stories. I was wondering if you guys want to do the same, ask some questions of how Kenji and the gang meet up, how they go, how they train, etc. Leave a comment if you guys want to do it or not. If so, put the question up, and I can put up your names, so I can answer your guys's questions (More like, the characters will, and I will be doing the questions for your guys. X) )

Anyways, hopefully you guys like the story so far. No haters, no flames. Patience for the next chapter 3~ Again, HAPPY NEW YEARS~! 2014~! ^_^