Kidnapped

"Guess What!" Zeng said as he bursted into the training room. Everyone was there. Most of them were trying to dodge your mother's accidental flame balls that would get out of control every now and then. Anyways, we all stopped to see what Zeng needed.

"I'm guessing that your wife has decided NOT to kill you," Lion joked.

"No, but I'm working on it," Zeng said with equal playfulness. "I just got some news that will get us out of this place." Everyone immediately crowded around Zeng. "Whoa, whoa, guys! Here's the message." He gave the scroll to Master Shifu. He read it and finally said.

"One of the emperors who migrated here has lost his daughter to some rogue Huns."

"They kidnapped her?" asked Krista.

"No...he lost her in a bet," Shifu said as the room was in confusion. "It seems that it's the brother of the emperor that needs our help. The daughter's mother died a couple of years ago, and the emperor lost her gambling in his...stupor."

"How long has she been kidnapped?" asked Alex. Shifu paused for a minute as he dropped his head sadly.

"Two years," he said making the others gasp softly, "The brother of the emperor only now learned that she was in the Huns hands."

"What do you suppose we do, Lion?" Viper asked Lion. Lion sat in a chair thinking.

"The Huns maybe thought as brutes, and some are, but there are many within the territory that are...humane, in the least. Which of the Huns did he lost her to?" Lion asked.

"Doesn't say." Shifu replied.

"Po, why don't you use that sensing technique to help us find her," Lion requested. I sat down, crossed my legs, breathed deeply. In my mind, my vision went past green hills, watery valleys, and snowy mountains. It finally settled on a stoney corner with a small young female lion girl inside it, about 16 years old. I zoomed out to see a grey stoney palace on a high hill, with a yak with a lot of armor in from of it. He stood there shouting, 'I am Attila the Hun all shall fear me!' I shot back to reality and sighed. The kind of sigh that you make when you realize that you have to do something completely insane.

"He gave her to the King of the Huns, Attila, and she's being held at his palace. In the very heart of Hun territory," I said. Lion groaned very loudly while the others were discouraged. How were they supposed to do this? Lion unsheathed his claws.

"I want to talk to this idiot of an emperor. Where is he?" he asked.

"Down in the Valley, in the rich people's district," Shifu said, "Please, Lion, go easy on this person, he's important."

"Why Master Shifu. I'm always merciful," Lion said with a devious smile.

The lion emperor was thrown into his priceless furniture. The lion rubbed his head gently as he was picked up by the rat. "How... Dare you throw a royal emp-"

"Silence!" Lion shouted as he threw the emperor roughly on his bed.

"I don't think that's what Shifu wanted in the 'go easy' department," Tigress said.

"Sue me later," Lion said gruffly. He picked up the emperor and growled his lion growl. Just then the emperor's brother came in. He was taller and bigger than the 5'9" weak excuse of a ruler that Lion was holding by the collar. "You are?"

"Yoshi-Song, brother of the emperor, you can call me Yoshi. I'm hoping that you are the Lion Warriors?" he asked. We all nodded, "Well, there is no time to waste. I want my niece back safely, or at least tell me what has happened to her."

"Lion Warriors can sense people. Do not worry, your princess is alive and safe, for now. We checked when we got the message. The bad news is that she's being held in the very heart of Hun territory by the king of the Huns," Alex explained.

"Attila?" Yoshi gasped in fear. "Please, you have to bring her back! If anything happens to her, I-"

"Don't worry, we'll get her," I said comfortingly.

"But first." Lion threw the emperor out the window and into a local trash can where he was laughed at. "That takes care of that. Here's what we do. Yoshi, you'll be in charge of your district until we get back," Lion explained. Since the Valley of Peace was so big, rulers from other tribes, kingdoms, and villages all had their own district. Yoshi paled.

"Mmmmeeee?" he asked stuttering, "I can't lead these people. I can hardly resemble a king." Suddenly, Mantis jumped on top of the lion's head and placed the crown on him.

"Ring-a ding ding, you're a king," Mantis said quickly.

"Please, I'm not cut out for this type of work," Yoshi said.

"Sometimes, it is not whether we are prepared for a test, but whether we know how to perform," Lion said wisely.

"Thank you Master," Yoshi said bowing. "But that makes NO SENSE!"

"It's okay, you'll be fine. And if you fail, or become corrupted in anyway, I'll be coming here faster than you can say 'two'," Lion said threateningly. Yoshi gulped. "So while your disgraced brother is fishing for trash, maybe you can give me the skinny on what happened."

"Well, My brother was going on one of his gambling nights...which is every night. Because the previous emperor of our district planned ahead, none of my brother's gambling was from the subjects taxes or money. So, my brother gambled away most of his stuff. I tried to tell him to stop, but he just brush me away. Actually, he did more than that, he put me in prison," Yoshi explained. Krista, Alex, Viper, Crane, and Mei-Ling gasped.

"Idiot," Lion muttered.

"Still, my brother," Yoshi said. "Anyways, I got out of prison when the guard there said I could go. Said that he knew that my brother was a...well I can't really say what he said but you get the idea. When I first got in prison, my brother went down to the best club in the valley. It just so happened that Attila came down to that club once every year to gamble. Attila wagered his golden sword and my brother wagered his daughter, who only went so that she didn't have to drag her father out in stitches...again. They were playing mahjong and the luck was with Attila. So he took her. My brother tried to keep the secret away from me, knowing that I was a real father figure to her. So when I got out and heard that my niece was in Hun territory, I sent for you. I couldn't hurt my brother, I wasn't planning to, but I just wanted my niece back. That's all I know."

"We better get going," advised Lion. "We'll be back with the princess."

"Oh, one more thing," Yoshi said as they were about to go out the door, "I've sent for as much help as you want or needed, so I called in a friend of mine from my tribe."

"Who's that?" Tai-gee asked.

"His name is Peng," Yoshi replied. Lion, Tai-gee, Po, and the Furious Five all seized in shock then they scampered out the door and ran to the top of the mountain.