Okay then here's the start of the first of (hopefully!) many fight scenes I promised those of you that have read the first chapter! Again, this is a rather short chapter, but I will be making this chapters longer as the story further develops, so hopefully you'll stick around until then! :) Also, this is my first time, writing a proper detailed fight scene, so I don't know whether I'm good at it or not! So again, please leave a review telling me what you think about this chapter!
Without further ado, I give you the second chapter of 'A Grand Master's Legacy' I hope you enjoy it! ^_^
The cloaked figure began to ascend the flight of stairs leading towards the Palace whilst rain, still fell heavily upon the Valley with the occasional bright flash of lightning followed shortly by the strong boom of thunder.
Once he reached the top of the stairs he was stopped by a pair of pigs. They were two of ten pigs that kept watch over the Palace every night to alert the Masters if any dangerous intruders came to attack the Valley, whilst they were asleep. All of this was new security measures taken ever since Tai Lung's rampage.
"State your business here!" said the first pig clearly annoyed at the horrendous weather during their night shift.
"I am here to see Master Oogway." replied the figure as he lowered his rice hat so the guards couldn't see his face properly.
At this the two pigs looked at one another sceptically before the second pig sarcastically said, "You've kind of missed him. What with him being dead and all for the past five years!"
"So what? I'd still like to see him." responded the figure, as if Oogway no longer being alive wasn't a problem.
By this time the two guard's patience wore thin. "Look come back in the morning and you can speak to Master Shifu then." said the first pig as both turned around to head back to their posts.
"But I need to see Oogway now!"
Whatever little patience the pigs had finally snapped as they both held their sharpened Qiang spears to the figure."Look what part of 'come back in the morning' don't you understand?" Now get lost before we ram these through you!"
At this the figure put up his hands and calmly spoke, "Listen, I don't want any trouble. I just need to see him! So please just let me through, otherwise I will be forced to get through myself."
"Hah just try it! We're not letting you in so just come back tomorrow!"
The figure then muttered "I warned you." Shortly, before running at them. The remaining guards quickly came in to assist the two. After, only a few short moments nearly every guard was knocked out cold except for one. The final guard was running towards the gong to alert the other Masters, once he realised this intruder was far more powerful than any of the guards could handle. As soon as he had hit the gong the figure was upon him and all the young pig could see was black...
Only a few moments later; Shifu, Po and the Five all came out of the Palace, having been woken by the sound of the alarm gong, followed by an ear-piercing scream of one of the guards. What they saw next shocked them. The bodies of all the guards laid scattered across the Palace courtyard. With the final guard groaning out loud showing he was barely conscious. Shifu quickly rushed out to the guard and urged him to answer his questions:
"Who did this?"
"Uuh..." the guard moaned out, as he slowly raised his finger pointing towards the centre of the courtyard, before, joining his comrades in the sweet arms of unconsciousness.
They all looked towards where the guard had pointed to find no one there. That was until after a flash of lightning had lit up the stormy sky around them, blinding the Masters for a split second. After, they had regained their ability to see, the figure stood in front of them in the middle of the courtyard, having seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
Master Shifu, now angry at the nerve of this intruder shouted angrily at the figure, "What is your purpose here!"
The figure answered back, "I am here to see Master Oogway. I do not wish to fight any of you, but nothing will stop me from seeing him." He was clearly annoyed and the Masters could not help but question the figure's sanity. But they didn't dare underestimate him after seeing the bodies of the unconscious guards on the ground.
"Po let your fellow students face him for now," Shifu said as he gave a nod signaling for the Five to attack.
At once, Crane flew up towards the pouring skies overlooking the battle waiting for his chance to strike whilst Tigress, Viper and Monkey; who had Mantis perched on his shoulder ran onto the raining battlefield at the figure in a triangle formation with Tigress at the front, Viper to her right and Monkey and Mantis to her left. As she went in to land a punch on the figure, he disappeared and shortly after reappeared net to Monkey.
Time slowed for a moment as the figure swung his fist and hit Mantis clean off Monkey's shoulder with a punch, without making any contact with Monkey. Then, whilst Mantis was at the end of his attackers fist, the figure arched his fist into the ground..
The Masters couldn't help but flinch at the sickening crunch of Mantis's body being crushed, between the wet concrete tiles of the courtyard and the figured fist. As the figure lifted up his fist, a heavily beaten Mantis lay on the ground barely conscious, and unable to battle. However, the most shocking thing was the time it took for the entire string of events to happen. It couldn't have been more than just a few seconds. But, in those few seconds this guy had just squashed one of the Furious Five like a bug...
"One down, four to go." the figure muttered under his breath.
Monkey screamed and charged at him whilst spinning his Bõ staff in one hand, blinded by fury at his fallen friend. Despite, the call of his allies to not attack the figure directly, he didn't listen as he swung his staff, with the motive to avenge his comrade. However, the figure simply move his arms in a sweeping wide arc blocking the staff and continued to do so as Monkey persistently attacked with his staff. Thrusts, jabs, swipes, sweeps, smashes, feints. He tried everything he could think of. But, nothing could seem to break through the figure's impenetrable defense.
Just then when another one of his attacks was parried away, the cloaked man grabbed the staff and pulled Monkey towards him. The speed and fluidity of his action caught Monkey completely by surprise, and so gave him very little time to react as the figure delivered a fist to Monkey's gut. Monkey was brought to his knees as he felt the wind rush right out of him, from the powerful strike. Monkey had no time to even catch a hold of his breathe as he was unmercifully sent crashing into one of the walls surrounding the Palace by a front and round kick combo.
As Monkey fell to the floor unconscious the figure announced, "That's two," shortly before another flash of lightning blinded the Masters, and he had seemingly vanished again.
Before, the remaining members of the Five could recuperate from the quick knockouts of two of their members. The figure reappeared again, this time in mid-air. Or more precisely, behind Crane who was still a hundred feet in the air. Po being the first to notice called out to warn him:
"Crane! Behind you!"
However, before the avian Master could turn around the figure had grabbed his wings from behind holding them in a lock whilst wrapping his own legs around Crane's legs, preventing Crane from making any sort of movement causing both of them to begin to fall from the great height. Crane continued to try to struggle out of the hold, that his opponent had him in as the ground came closer and closer to them.
However, just before they were near the ground the figure manipulated Crane's wings so that they would hit the ground at an angle rather than head first and, at the very last minute the figure unwrapped his legs, and kicked off of Crane's back, releasing his hold of Crane. Crane having no time to adjust his flight, crashed into the ground. However, the last minute manipulation of Crane's wing had significantly slowed their descent down. So the impact was only hard enough to knock Crane into unconsciousness.
"And that makes three..."
Meanwhile, still standing on the sidelines of the battle, under the shelter, Po was ready to join the battle. But, Shifu held them back.
"Why are you stopping me? You should be ready to help them as well! Can't you see their losing to him!" Po shouted.
"That may be true Po but you're forgetting that now it is just Tigress and Viper left against him and I'm sure you know that those two together are one of the most famous Kung Fu partnerships in all of China. In fact the two of them are more powerful together, than when they are with the others as the Five," Shifu said calmly.
Po instantly calmed down, as he realised his Master was right. Tigress and Viper being the only two girls at the temple, trusted each other more than any other person. This close relationship, along with the number of years they spent training together resulted in one of China's most powerful Kung Fu partnerships to ever be heard of. There were many tales of the two Masters partnership, including one where it was said that the two of them alone, defeated an army of two hundred bandits! If the legendary tales he had heard about the two were true, then he had nothing to worry about...he hoped.
Meanwhile, the two girls were staring their opponent down as they thought about what their plan of action would be. The figure simply waited patiently to see what their next move would be. Just then, Tigress got into a fighting stance with one of her hands to her side holding up two fingers. Whilst, this may have looked like any other normal battle stance, the fingers were actually a message to Viper to inform her to use a specific fighting formation. A message which Viper got very clearly, whilst their opponent was not aware of the planning behind their next attack.
Both Masters began running towards him. The figure readied himself for the on coming attack. He followed their movements as they ran at him. Both of them start to zig-zag across one another as they ran towards him. First, he saw Tigress in front and then Viper, then Tigress again and this kept on getting faster and faster. This formation would've brought confusion to any opponent as they kept trying to guess who would attack first. Add this to the poor visibility that the downpour was causing and it made the formation stronger than it already was.
Finally, Tigress began to send combinations of fists and kicks at the figure who was keeping on par with her with his own blocks, whilst, also sending a few of his own strikes in retaliation to which she also blocked without much difficulty. As the two fighters continued to exchange blows in the middle of the storm, the figure then realized something wasn't quite right...where was Viper?
At that point, as he blocked another strike from Tigress with his hands, Viper shot out of Tigress's sleeve and wrapped around his arm before moving across his body. She hten proceeded to bend his arms to the point where they were about to break, therefore immobilizing him. Giving Tigress the chance to go for an attack whilst his guard was down.
Tigress's flurry of fists were raining down on the figure's defenseless body and at the end of the beat down Viper slithered off the figure's body and up Tigress's left arm as she delivered a double palm thrust to the figure's chest. Finally, just as he was sent flying from Tigress's double palm thrust, Viper finished the attack off by slithering up Tigress's left arm, going around her neck and down her right arm before launching herself off her right arm, and connected a flying headbutt, straight into the chest of the figure. This smooth and fluid combination, last no more than a few seconds. A few seconds which brought the figure crashing to the ground. His rice hat having fallen off and landing on the drenched tiles of the courtyard. He remained lying face down as the rain continued to fall.
"They did it!" cheered Po as Shifu breathed a sigh of relief. Tigress began to breathe heavily, having been tired out from her spar with the figure. Meanwhile, Viper slithered closer to the figure to take a closer look at him, now that it was safe. As she moved around the body, she saw the white fur of their opponent's head. However, after moving in closer to take a look at the rest of his face, the gloved fist of the figure smashed into her as she was sent sprawling back a few feet.
"What?" Po shouted as Shifu's eyes widened as did Tigress's.
The figure proceeded to pick himself off the ground, along, with picking his hat up and placing it back on before any of them could catch a glimpse of his face.
"That was a most impressive combination from the two of you. It seems that I've underestimated you. Looks like I won't be going as easy on the two of you as I was with your friends." said the figure with a dark chuckle.
At this everyone's eyes widened as they all thought the same thing: 'He was going easy on us/them!'
Well that's the end of that Chapter, hope I left it at a decent enough cliffhanger. Again, please do remember to leave a review to tell me whether or not the way I wrote out this fight scene was good or not. If good, then that's awesome! :D It not, then please do tell how I can improve! There will be a lot of fighting in this fic, what with a martial arts tournament going to be featured in it and all! So it would be beneficial not just to me, but to the future chapters of this story as well if you could give some constructive criticism for me to improve on!
Apart from that again, I hope you enjoyed the second chapter of my KFP Fic, and until I post the next one up, all I have left to say is: BlackSpire out!
