Kung-Fu Panda 2: The Next Threat

Chapter 2: Meet, the Fierce Five

As they emerged from the smoke, one-by-one, there came to be five of them.

The first one appeared. It was a greenish reptile with a big jaw. His shiny teeth's were showing and he also had a muscularly, big and bulky body like the lion. His scales were sleeky with slime and his glare was disturbing. He had a face that looked as if he was in pain. His claws looked sharpen and his arm band made him look tough. He was carrying a giant scimitar on his back.

The next one could compare to Viper. Except it was a cobra. It looked fierce and powerful, probably way stronger than Viper. (No wonder Viper didn't stand a chance). The cobra had smooth black scales with yellow cross bands down the length of his body. The cobra's two fangs were bigger than vipers and its eyes looked sharpened with the instinct to fight. Its ribs spread into a cobra hood the size of Shifu's head to show-0ff its abs.

The third one emerged quietly and silently. This fellow looked pretty similar to Crane himself. They were both the same size and they both were aves, birds. But this one was dark red and wasn't a crane. In fact, it was a red falcon. The falcon had large razor sharp beaks that looked like it would hurt if someone got bit by it, and its large wings made it look like it had huge wingspans.

The fourth one was of course, the orange lion he had fought with earlier. His size is enormously huge compared to average lions. He had bright blue eyes and was wearing a black torned pants and a sleeveless shirt. Behind him, he carried ten spears (these spears were his collection as he travelled the world it looks like.) He had huge arms, huge bulking chests, and his darkened orange mane made him look even more furious than Tai Lung. Of course, he would compare to Tai Lung except for the fact that Tai Lung was long gone now.

Lastly the gorilla that had held Monkey down when Shifu got to the fight scene got up from the burnt ground. Like before, this dark blue furry primate was two times larger than Monkey was, and he looked much bulkier too. He had only pants on, no shoes, and no shirts. His arms were big, his pecs were bulging out, and his face looked like it had many battle scars on it. Besides him, was a staff known as the Totem Pole of Strength. Not much is known about the staff except that it had special powers incarved in it.

These were the warriors that he had heard from Oogway a long time ago. They spend their time finding scrolls of unlimited techniques through-out the world.

The Lion came out of the group and introduced himelf, "Pardon me for the surprise attack on the valley; I am Leon, the king of lions, and this here is Ape, the king of African Gorillas, at least that's what he says. The slithering one is Cobra, the King Cobra, king of all snakes. The one with wings is Falzar, the Peregrine falcon, fastest animal in the world, able to dive at 200 miles per hour, and lastly, the crazy, slimy one, we call Croc, the swamp master. We call ourselves, The Fierce Five."

"What are you doing here and why did you attack the valley!" shouted Shifu.

"You know clearly what we want Shifu," remarked Leon.

"Could it be-" but Tigress was cut off short.

"Yes! It is! We want the Dragon Scroll, more than that, we want the scroll to Immortality and only Master Oogway can tell us where that is," Leon interrupted.

"You will never get the Dragon Scroll, I can see your heart is full of darkness and pure evil" replied Shifu, "you'll never get the Dragon Scroll, besides, there's already a Dragon Warrior."

"What! Show me that so called Dragon Warrior, let me at him!" Leon exclaimed cockily, "I want to see what he has to be the Dragon Warrior."

"You shall never see the Dragon Warrior, nor the scrolls" Shifu replied back.

"Don't make me force you old man, just let us have the Dragon Scroll and tell us where the Scroll of Immortality is and we'll be on our way."

"Never!" yelled Shifu, "Not in a million years will you ever get it!"

"HaHAHA!" Leon laughed, "I guess we'll just have to force you to give us the Dragon Scroll, then that so called Dragon Warrior is next."

Leon had his paws gripped and his chests tighten while the other Fierce Five did the same. They all looked as if they were ready to go into war.

"Crane, take your peers back to the hideout! Tigress, get the villagers to safety!" hollered Shifu, "I will see to it that these so called Fierce Five will not attack the valley any longer."

"But Master!" cried Tigress.

"Just GO!" Shifu yelled back.

And soon, Tigress and Crane were on their way with the task given to them by their master.

"So, there's five of us, and just one of you" Leon said with a grin while cracking his knuckles, "shouldn't you just give up? You are pretty old you know."

Shifu said nothing, he closed his eyes, and then in a second or two, he opened them up and was in his fighting stance, ready to fight and protect the valley and his students.

Leon and the others charged at Shifu.

Shifu felt an evil presence similar to Tai Lung's when he attacked him and Oogway, but, this one was much stronger than that one before.

Leon went in first and attacked. He was fierce and strong. He had the pride of something more than a lion but it was buried in darkness. The lion's attacks were unpredictable. Shifu saw punches and kicks like he had never seen before. They looked like Lion style fighting techniques. The Lion Scroll was a well guarded scroll from the Jungle of Panthera, the village of Lions. It seems that this Leon guy has been there and successfully abducted the scroll and mastered it. Shifu was not frightened by this lion's attacks, but they were new to him. Yet Shifu dodged and attacked and kept repeating it.

As Shifu finally had a chance to get away from the continuous punches of the lion, he had a split second to look up and see what was coming from above. It was Falzar the flacon. Her razor sharp claws came at Shifu faster than any he had ever seen. It also seems that this Falcon was able to master the Aves Scroll, which was hidden high up in the second highest mountain never to be reached by those that cannot fly. Shifu dodged these talon attacks while at the same time, dodged Leons punches and kicks.

Then out of no where, a punch, strong as adamantine, swift as lightning, flung at Shifu from the side. Shifu could not dodge the punch quick enough and was smacked at the ribs and flew back to the stairs leading to the Jade Palace. The punch was so strong, Shifu went out cold for a second. Like Monkey, the punch came hard and fast except that it was much faster and much much stronger. Ape has to of had have mastered the Primate Scroll. The land of apes was destroyed long ago in a war; it seems that this scroll must have been hiding in a village they had attacked.

"That was for your punch from before" Ape said with a smirk on his face.

Shifu got up and rubbed his chest. It seemed broken. He was seeing stars but after a second or two, he came back to his conscious and realized that he was still fighting with the Fierce Five's. He knew he could still try to take them on, but when he moved, his chest pounded in pain. He saw Leon fling his self at him again. This time Shifu was too hurt to move and in too much pain to dodge. All he could do was think about how to react. He did, but there wasn't much use to it if he couldn't move his tiny body away from the oversized claw slashing lion. He feared that this should be the end. His journey will have to end here and his students, the Furious Five's will have to take over for him. His last words were, "Po, where are you?" And then the last thing he saw was darkness.

*Italicize sentences are Shifu thinking to his self*