You probably were curious what Shan was talking about, saying that Shen had saved him from something years earlier. OK, I know you weren't curious. ;) But, there actually was a story behind that. As far as I remember, he didn't say it because of Qiu's sudden appearance. Well, that idiot didn't have any sense of timing. I'll fix his mistake now.

I don't own any of KFP characters or locations. I own only the OCs.

Brothers

It happened many years ago, one warm afternoon, on of the beautiful hills around the Gongmen City. A very young blue peacock, who arrived at the city a few days earlier, was now training there alone, waiting for his white cousin to join him. Unfortunately, they could rarely spend time together, for young Lord Shan lived very far away from Gongmen. Unfortunately, because he would rather spend the rest of his days in this city, instead of living so close to his brothers.

So, there was a bamboo forest on the hill.. and a small glade in the middle of it, from where he could see the city and the Tower of Sacred Flame.

He was moving his wings and legs calmly, fighting in slow motion some invisible opponent with his favourite steel fan. He was just a beginner, but if Shen said that he would help him become better...

The grass rustled behind him, and he heard that. "Shen?.. You scared me..." The bird managed to say before he turned, then he saw... a big brown bear standing now right before him. And he was sending him a perverted grin. The peacock's heartbeat quickened as he had a very bad feeling about that situation.

"My... What have we here?..." The bear spoke, leering at the boy, and decreasing the already small distance between them, while Shan looked completely disoriented. "Nice dress, little slut." The bird took a few steps back, staring the bear in the eyes, and his wings and legs started shaking with fear when he realised that he was in danger. "Do you want to know what I'll do now?.." The pervert asked.

The bird unfolded his steel war fan awkwardly, because his wings were still shaking. "I have a weapon.." He warned in a wavering voice. "..and I won't hesitate to use it."

Yes. He totally failed to frighten the other guy.

That pathetic attempt to scare him off made the bear stop grinning. In the next second, with one strong blow, his paw knocked the fan out of his wing and to the peacock's horror, the weapon fell on the grass a few metres away from him. He looked at the bear again and... turned immediately, trying to dash away. Suddenly, he felt someone pull his train hard and he fell on the ground, not able to get up again. Panic and despair started to paralyse his mind and body as he was trying hard to yank his feathers out of the bear's grip, but it didn't work.

Then the pervert turned him onto his back and pressed him to the ground with almost his whole body. "No, please!" The bird screamed and started to cry when the bear was trying to yank his blue robe off him. Shan realised that he had no chances.

"Scream more." The bear grinned, still trying to get the bird undressed. The disgusting guy was already panting, knowing what he would do in the next moment, and trying to immobilize the bird's wings and legs, though it wasn't a big problem to him.

"Get off of him." Someone's calm, low voice spoke somewhere behind the bear. Shan's heartbeat quickened with hope when he heard him and his mind stuck to the sound desperately.

Genuinely surprised, the bear stopped whatever he was doing and turned his head to the source of the voice. There was a white peacock standing on the other side of the small glade. The pervert chuckled, seeing the other bird. "Prince Charming... Fuck off, or you'll be next." He said, turning to his prey again. Shan didn't understand why the bear was so calm.

"Well... Remember that I asked." Shen said and in the next second, the rapist's eyes widened and he froze for a moment. Shan didn't know what was happening and how long it lasted, but eventually, the bear's body collapsed onto him limply.

The boy couldn't move. He was too scared and the body lying on him was too heavy. The white bird ran up to him and helped him roll the dead brown bear onto the ground. When Shan was struggling to stand up, the other peacock took his four or six knives out of the rapist's back and wiped the blood on the bear's clothes.

"He tried.." He started, but his elder brother just walked up and embraced him protectively. He stroked his back, feeling his blue cousin's body shake violently as Shan broke down in tears again. He understood that it would be better to shut up.

"It's OK now." Shen said very quietly, trying to calm him down. He realised that he had almost been too late... And he didn't want to think what would have happened if he had come too late. When he let the blue bird calm down a little, he adjusted his robe and smoothed it. "Listen." He said, looking into the other peacock's black eyes. "Don't tell anybody about what happened here."

Shan nodded, and he didn't want to wonder why Shen was saying that. He just wanted to forget about that damned day. The white peacock picked up the fan and folding it, he handed the weapon to his cousin. "I'll teach you how to fight." He assured and the younger bird looked at him gratefully, with relief.

After a moment, their gaze landed on the dead bear lying nearby on the grass. "Let's go." The older bird said. "We should hide the body."