Chapter 02 the Terrible 8
Quanktumspirit: "Please review. I only own their counterparts. Written date: Friday 8th November 2013."
As the Furious 7 returned home they saw Master Shifu waiting for them, he cooked a special meal for all of them.
The Furious 7 sat at each of their own places: Viper, Mantis, Crane, Monkey, Po, Tigress, Tai Lung and last Master Shifu. They first prayed, during their dinner not a single word was spoken. Even Po learned it after a while. As everybody had their fill they ate in absolute silence, after a while and the last food was consumed Master Shifu declared the Dinner for over.
After dinner Master Shifu left to meditate, his mind was so scared and confused, he had with him his stick just in case he was being attacked. As he suddenly felt himself being lifted up he freaked out, but couldn't attack. He came face to face with a pair of golden eyes and gray fur.
"Tai Lung? How did you manage to sneak up on me?" Master Shifu asked scared.
"I was always good at it Master Shifu, I wanted to know if I could meditate with you again?" Tai Lung asked him.
Master Shifu looked at him scared and worried. But seeing that there wasn't going to be an attack he nodded, Tai Lung let Master Shifu go again, went into his meditating pose and calmed down again, he showed his master a few more poses that really calmed him even further down, but it didn't help Tai Lung at all. Just being in the presence of each other, made them scared that one of them could suddenly turn on the other and kill them. Finally the long pause was broken by Tai Lungs speaking.
"You are scared Master, about the Furious 8, am I right?" He asked as he looked at Master Shifu.
"They are nothing to what we have ever faced before Tai Lung, I'm scared that I will lose any one of you. You all are a precious gems fitting perfectly together," Master Shifu explained.
"True… have you worked out why I have to calm down?" Tai Lung asked his master.
"Well I know it is not the same worry like mine, you have a different one," Master Shifu said.
"Correct," Tai Lung said.
Master Shifu breath calmly in and out, whiles Tai Lung kept his eyes closed and thought mainly about Tigress and how beautiful she has grown Master Shifu suddenly worked it out.
"I know now why you are here Tai Lung, you are scared," Master Shifu said.
Tai Lung's eyes shot open as he looked horrified at his Master. Shifu chuckled calmly as he saw the horror writen all over his face.
"I am a Kung Fu Master, I have mustered each and every one of my fears, why would I be scared of my counterpart?" Tai Lung asked.
Master Shifu grinned, "That is not what I mean, I mean you are... scared of Master Tigress."
"Of…. of Master Tigress? Has the meditating gone to your head Shifu?" Tai Lung snapped back at him.
"No, I am being serious Tai Lung, you have fallen in love with her a few years back, and jet never had the guts to tell her that. That was one of your reasons you left in the first place. But you will find the right words someday. How are you feeling about the fight against the Furious 8?" Master Shifu asked.
"I think we all need to know each and every strategy against each other, so if we are faced with the other opposites of us we know what to do," Tai Lung said.
"That is a wise idea. So come tell them and then train with each of them," Master Shifu said.
Tai Lung and Master Shifu got back up, bowed to each other and then left to the other Furious 8.
With Po and the others,
Everybody stood in the Training academy and warmed up perfectly before practicing all of their own moves again and again, giving more power, prestige and focus to everything they did. Everybody, even Po were doing good, as suddenly the door opened and Tai Lung came back with Master Shifu. As they saw them they immediately stopped and stood in 1 line before bowing down to the two.
"Furious 6, we have come up with a plan, but we need each and every one of you to focus hard, long, prestige and exact during your training hours with each other. Each of you will be a teacher as well as a student to your pairing, then we will swap and you will teach and learn with another till all of us 8 have mastered each and every fighting move that everybody has. Only when you all are in union can we defeat the other 8," Master Shifu explained.
Everybody looked at each other and nodded, the training will become harder than they have ever faced, but just as they were going to start with Po's moves a black and white bird in a black uniform flew towards them and landed on the top balcony watching them.
"Guy's stop, we have company," Tai Lung said and pointed at the bird.
Everybody turned to him and looked at it, Crane could work out that it was his own counterpart. The other crane landed down before handing Master Shifu a letter and opening it up to read.
"Welcome, who are you?" Master Shifu asked the bird.
But he just rolled out the scroll and started reading from it.
"Dear Furious 8, we the Terrible 8 will challenge all of you to a counterpart match to see who is the stronger, wiser, skilled and many more person from us all, if you refuse this offer we are forced to burn down the Jade Palace with all of you in it. With greetings the Terrible 8," The crane read.
"Can we please know your names?" Tigress asked the crane.
He nodded, then he performed a perfect cutting flight style which impressed Crane a lot and then the door was opened, there stood a white leopard, an orange female Tiger, a big black and white pander, a gray snake, a brown monkey, the white and black bird flew above the others, a green grasshopper stood on the brown monkeys head, an orange pander was even further at the front and then he nodded at them to perform something to them whiles telling them their names.
The bird flew up first, did a twist, loop the loop before flying through the rings and landing back on the ground.
"Master Crane, as you can see I am your opposite, I am skilled in all the flight Kung Fu as well as Marshal Arts, my name is Flint," The bird said before landing again.
Next the small Grasshoppers turn, he destroyed a lot of the dummy's pinned a pattern exact on the ground with the wood before he did a forward flip and blew the ground away.
"Master Mantis I am your opposite, I am skilled in the prestige and speed fighting of Kung Fu and my name is Grap," The Grasshopper explained.
Then the brown monkey swings from vine to vine before pulling down the entire sealing and creating under a few minutes a new climbing frame.
"Master Monkey my name is Orfanos, I mastered the art of building as you can see as well as the power of all the monkeys of this universe from the grip monkey all the way to the gorilla," The monkey told them.
Next the Panda punched exactly their stupid children's training dummy and turning it into pulverised dust. Po swallowed with fear as they could think that, that thing could be his body.
"Master Po a.k.a Dragon Warrior my name is Mo, I mustered all the strength skills and can't wait to pulverise you," Mo said darkly.
Later on a gray snake came slithering up, she launched several plates into the air, threw the chopsticks after them and managed to nail all of them into the wall before pulling them out.
"My name is Simanta, I mastered in the thin and slithering Kung Fu and I am Master Viper's counterpart," She spoke before hurtling them all into the cupboard.
Now came forth a orange Tiger growling darkly at Tigress, before chopping directly through 3 massive posts that were holding the roof, after they fell she launched quickly one of their huge tables up as a replacement stand and chuckled darkly before bowing down to Tigress.
"I am Pantora, one superb chopper as well as a singer and a master at fighting," Pantora said.
Next came a white leopard and Tai Lung could tell he was his counterpart. His paws suddenly turned red and launched after Tai Lung one brutal attack after the next, Tai Lung reflected it quickly off, it was extremely hot, after fighting against each other for 3 minutes the white Leopard launched himself from Tai Lung and returned behind the other Terrible 8. He then bowed down to Tai Lung whiles turning off his red fire on his paws.
"I'm impressed Master Tai Lung. My name is Karol Punch. I am a master at temperature fight, mostly with my fists, tail or feet," Karol Punch said.
Then came the orange pander, he swings his way through the punching match thing and landed a few feet from Master Shifu before bowing down to him. Then the Terrible 7 launched a massive fire attack after him, he reflected it off, hurtled it out of the door before letting it burn out on the ground.
"Master Shifu, my name is Master Hems, I trained and formed the Terrible 8 to become the stronger Yang balance over the Ying which you 8 represent. We 8 will fight each and every one of you till there is nothing left of either us or your side. Then the side that wins will be permanent ruler over this city," Master Hems said.
"It's a pleasure to know what we are up against. And what we have to do," Master Shifu said.
"All 8 of us want to give you a fair chance of fighting. We will meet again once the Full moon has shone exactly between the Forbidden Mountain and the Jail Palace, we will meet there at the stroke of midnight for the final fight, no holding back, only one side can win, the other will lose and fall. Terrible 8 retreat," Master Hems said and then called.
Within under a minuet all 8 animals disappeared. Master Shifu was shivering with nerves. Everybody now sat around each other trying and failing to calm anybody down. All except for Tai Lung, he went back into a meditating pose and focused all of his years of training to find his strongest point. After finding it he nodded. The others still looked at him as to what they have to do.
"It's easy guy's we will continue with our plan as before," Tai Lung said.
But the other 7 didn't feel that brave to go through with it, especially Po. Tai Lung knew he has to be the main trainer now and get those fears out of everybody before they can focus on their powers again.
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