Hey hey hey! What uuuuuup?!

Well anyways, I don't have much to say right now except: Chang's fight scene from chapter one was purely based on the movie "Sherlock Holmes" and... that I do not own Kung Fu Panda but the Oc's are mine.

Mr. Gao never liked loud noises, although being a cranky, anti-social sixty eight year old recluse with a short temper, he pretty much hates everything in general. The sound of pounding went on and on from the second floor apartment and to 's displeasure, it was conveniently placed exactly above his apartment. A woodchuck was currently inhabiting that room (and ironically enough, he happens to be a woodworker) and he was quite the hardworking fellow that he tends to work on projects throughout the day and barely gets any sleep during the night, therefore resulting the lack of sleep and rest from his neighbours. in particular, despises him with a passion. The old goat had been shouting and cursing as loud as he could at the noisy worker but it never works, so he tried the old 'bang the broom to the ceiling' but with the same results. Pissed, he grabbed his walking stick, enragely tore the door open and shuffled up to the stairs not minding that had just left the door unlocked.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Open up! Open up! " Mr. Gao demanded as he knocked or rather used his cane as a battering ram on the door. It eventually opened, reveling woodchuck wearing a pair of worker boots and a ragged overall with a hammer in his left paw; He wa covered in soot and wood shavings, evidence that he had been working on a current project and Unlike Mr. Gao, the woodchuck was grinning like a wise guy.

" " he greeted "What brings you here?"

"Your confounded racket brought me here bucktooth!" the old goat snapped, the woodchuck looked offended.

"Whoah there Mr. Gao, Easy on the name calling"

"Serves you right, you chainsaw with legs! "

The woodchuck was getting mad now.

"Okay , whatta ya want? " he demanded, looking very dead serious now.

"What do I want? I want ya to keep it down and do us all a favor and shut the fuck up before I report you to authorities!"

"I'm doing my job Mr. Gao"

"Then get a damn new one you worthless bum! "

The woodchuck didn't want to hear anymore of that, so he slammed the door on the old cogger and made sure it was locked. Mr. Gao grunted inaudibly, thinking that he'd won. The other people who resided on that floor looked on after hearing the arguing outside of their doors.

"The fuck are you looking at?" he cursed at the on-lookers, making them retreat into their apartments.

He arrogantly 'Hmp!'-ed and limped towards the stairs back to his apartment. When he eventually got there, he noticed that the door to his apartment was wide open; It dawned on him that he had forgot to lock thethe door when he left. But instead of being cautious, he just barged right in, only to see a red note on his living room table. He picked it up and read it.

'Never leave your door unlocked' it says...

At first he only disregarded it as some sick prank, but the ever so paranoid man that he is, he went off to lock the door and to make sure it was locked. As soon as he closed the door, he found another note sticking to the opposite side of it.

'Don't forget the windows' he read

Now he was getting scared. He ripped the note off the door and made sure he had locked it twice. He then waddled as fast as he could towards the windows, he made sure that noone is getting in, and no one's getting out. It never occured to him that he had just trapped himself inside his own apartment.

By now he was sweating bullets and hyperventilating. He felt as if he wasn't alone in that room; in a desperate atempt to calm himself down, he quickly made a bee-line towards the bathroom, planning on splashng some water onto his face, but as soon as he got there he found, yet another note sticking to the mirror of the sink. To what was written on the note had sent a cold chill riding down his spine.

'I never said I was outside the apartment'

He couldn't panic, he couldn't scream, he couldn't even run...

Because an ax had already severed his neck...

Mr. Gao's head rolled off of his shoulders as his still-warm blood gushed out of the stump of his neck, coating the bathroom tiles in red, his body flailed about in its last seconds of being alive. The legs spasmed for five more seconds before it had eventually stopped.

The killer licked the blood on his finger tips before jamming his murder weapon to the wooden floor. He grabbed the dead body in its middle, lifted it over his shoulders like it was a sack of rice before dislodging his ax from the floor. More blood dripped from the stumpped neck as the murderer reached for a bag retrieving a rope and an arsenal of blades from it.

Po banged on the bars of the prison cell for the twentieth time now, his nose was slightly bruised and throbbing, one would think it came from an intense brawl but instead it came from a female panda (of all things) he remembered clearly how he even thought she was a helpless citizen who got caught in the middle of the raid, and man can she pack a punch.

Right after the bandit incident, the five were very much surprised when they found themselves pinned against the pavement while their so-called helpers were busy shakling them. They we're now currently jailed at the local precinct, it wasn't really that big of a prison but it was enough for the six of them.

"Come on! Let us outta of here! There's been a big misunderstanding!" Po begged

"Give it up Po!" Tigress yelled back. The rest of the warriors were locked up in the same cage, Mantis however, was locked in a small cast iron cage due to his size and Viper was forced to sit next to a very very pissed off tiger. Of all the missions they've been on, of all the craziest things they've encountered, this had to be the most unexpected: Going to a murder infested place to catch the killer But instead getting arrested themselves, wasn't part of the plan.

Viper Watched her feline friend closely, she had never seen the tiger this angry before. Tigress was practically carving her claws into the wooden bunk bed that was attached to the wall of the cell, and the fact that she was growling at every time she mutters 'Lion' under her breath then quickly being followed by a curse or two and it scared the hell out of Viper. Tigress being in a furious violent fit was one thing, but if she was being really quiet and probably muttering somebody's name in a murderous fashion was another. "Get the hell out of there!" Was the ringing shout from Viper's thoughts, she and Tigress may have been friends for a very long time but secretly, the snake was scared to death of her. Normaly she'd ask what her problem is, but judging by the deep dents on the bunk bed Tigress was sitting on, the tiger would've shouted at the snake.

"C'mon! Let us out already. We were just trying to help, we didn't do anything wrong" Po continued to beg. It was then that Monkey had to grab the Panda by his shoulders and shooked him

"Po just give it up!" The simian ordered the panda

"Why? We didn't even do anything wrong!" He argued

"Alright look..." Mantis spoke up from his cage "This is how they do the law here in Shanghai" he confessed, noting the bewildered looks of his fellow warriors "I should know, I've been arrested here a couple of times"

"What for?" Monkey asked

"Where do I start?" Was the insect's reply

A clang from cell block door caught their attentions, an eagle -female from looks of it- was standing at the doorway, beaming at the six warriors. Po and Crane had instantly -especially Crane- recognised her, undoubtedly she was one of the four police officers that helped/arrested them.

"Hey! Excuse me!" Po called to her, making her look into his direction "yeah, let us out!"

"Why?" She asked, shrugging nonchalantly

"Oh I don't know maybe because we're innocent!", he argued at the avian who still didn't look interested "Don't you know who we are?"

"Of course I do, you're the Furious Five; the five students of master Shifu and one of the most finest warriors in all of China"

"You sorta forgot me" Po pointed out.

"Oh of course, and there pack mule" she quipped, faking dismay "how could I forget?"

Po's jaw dropped, then his ears flattened against his head, feeling majorly offended.

"For you information, lady! I happen to be the dragon warrior"

Rae wasn't impressed by the tittle

"Oh sure, and I'm the emperor's favorite concubine" she snapped sarcastically

"Could've fooled me" Crane suddenly shot back, surprising everyone -even himself- for he had just stood up disrespected an officer.

But instead of chastising the other bird for his lack of respect, she only smirked and crossed her wings across her chest.

"Master Crane, I assume?" She said, almost civil enough.

"Rae Han Li" Crane greeted flatly "It's been a while"

Po and the rest of the five had stood still, baffled by what the avian master had said.

"I believe there should be an officer in there somewhere"

"Yes, and I believe that when the gods had finished creating the universe they thought it might be fun to make my life a living hell by creating the greatest reason for my tail-feathers to shed"

Rae smirked at that comment.

"You know, you've always liked being the dramatic type"

"And you've always been the type to be the constant pain in my ass" He cursed; he noted the reactions on his teammate's faces, Viper in particular seemed to stand out the most. The snake had hardly ever heard Crane curse at anything, but yet on rare occasions the avian would frequently groan 'crap' or 'damn' but he had never used anything much stronger. Whoever this Rae Han Li is, Crane surely despises her.

"Tsk Tsk Tsk... Is that anyway to talk to your girlfriend?"

Well... Damn!

"Oh my god! Crane is that true?" Po asked (Read: interogated)

"Ex-Girlfriend and evil incarnate" Crane corrected "Plus that was a million years ago"

"Oh boo-hoo!" Rae exclaimed "Let's not forget that you're the one broke my heart when you left Li-Dai"

That was a little too farfetched, This was Crane! The most sensitive, shy person they've ever known!

"You're still talking about the same Crane, aren't you?" Mantis asked suspiciously

Ignoring the insect's question, Rae just took out a score of keys, one of which opens the prison cell. The six warriors were at a loss when Rae jammed the key into the keyhole and opened the barred door. She then took a second key - smaller than the first one - and threw it at Po, who was fortunate enough to catch it into his paw.

"That one opens the Cockroach's cage" she informed before casually walking off, ignoring the look Mantis was giving her

"You're letting us go?" Crane asked suspiciously

"As much as I want you to die in this prison and rot, you and your little friends are clean"

"Wait, what about our equipment?" Mantis asked once he had gotten out of his cage

"At the station" Rae replied as she beckoned them to follow her into the hallway

"You better make sure nothing's missing" Tigress pointed out, if not harshly

"Don't worry, the station will make sure your belongings are accounted for" she said

Rae made a turn from the left of the hallway and out into the prison yard, not one prisoner lingered the ground for it wasn't time for them to be let out, it was already dusk and every prisoner was already in their cells.

"So, where Is this station?" Viper asked

"We're here" Rae answered before pushing two wooden doors open.

"Hey Rae!-" Cynthia suddenly popped out of nowhere, slightly catching them off guard, she herself was at a loss when she spotted the six warriors.

"-and company" she trailed off, not knowing exactly what to say.

Luckily Rae came to her rescue, deciding to introduce the female panda.

"Masters, and Crane" she mocked, noting how it annoyed him "meet our forensic analyst Cynthia Mei Xiang"

Cynthia greeted them with a smile and a respectful bow, "It is an honor to meet you all" she said politely, her eyes then trailed over to Po, who was staring guffawed at her, this didn't come unnoticed

"Is there something wrong?" She asked warily

"Uh...nothing, just er... I just, sorta recall you punchin' me in the face" he said, pointing at his bruised nose for emphasis.

Cynthia blushed immensely and cupped her hands over her mouth in attempt to hide her shame.

"I'm so sorry about that" she said as she made her way towards the other panda "does it hurt?"

Po winced when Cynthia gently put a finger on his nose.

"Yeah, it hurts when you poke it like that" he said, moving away from her.

"Oh sorry"

"Cynthia..." Rae spoke up "If you could wrap it up that would be great, I still have get these guys to Chang"

The eagle noticed how Tigress seemed to get tensed when she brought up the Lion's name.

"Do you know where he is?"

"He and Peng are upstairs at the gym" Cynthia answered " Oh and can I borrow him for a sec?" The female panda pointed at Po who fidgeted uncomfortably, no thanks to his other male companions who were giving him a look that said 'You lucky bastard'

"Why?" Rae asked

"I'm now obligated to at least treat the wound I gave him" she looked at Po with concern and a shy smile "It's the least I could do after I punched him the shnoze"

"Urgh! Alright make it quick" Rae said dismissively

Po felt himself grow warm when Cynthia held his hand firmly and guided him along towards the station's clinic, feeling the looks of his male friends on his back. It was very quiet between the two pandas, Po just sat there on a stool while Cynthia reached up into the shelves to find some gauze for his nose.

"So..." Po started, then just trailed off.

Finally founding gauze, she turned to face Po.

"So...What?" She asked expectantly as she prepared the gauze and antiseptic.

"You're a forensic analyst?"

"That I am"

"So what does that mea- Ow!"

Po yelped when he felt the antiseptic on his bruised nose.

"Sorry"

She went on and as gently as she could, she swabbed a bit of antiseptic on Po's still throbbing nose with cotton. It still stings but the pain was much more manageable.

"You haven't answered my question" Po pointed out, she sent him a confused look

"What question?"

"About your... You know? Your job"

"Oh, well..." She disposed the cotton and began to prepare the gauze.

"...I get to examine a dead body"

Po froze, suddenly thinking that an untreated wound on a nose wasn't worth treating anymore. Cynthia caught his terrified look.

"Oh, I mean er... I examine dead bodies from let say a murder, and nobody knows how that person was killed so its up to me to find out what killed him" she explained, sighing in relief when Po eased up.

"Okay..." Po trailed off, not knowing what to say next.

"What about you?" She asked suddenly as she began to wrap the gauze around his nose "Tell me a bit about yourself"

"Well, I don't want to brag but I'm actually the Dragon Warrior" he said smugly, hoping she would be impressed, To say that he was disappointed when he saw nothing was a bit of an understatement.

"Really?" She asked, she paused from treatng his nose to look at him skeptically

"You? A panda? As the Dragon Warrior?"

"Well yes, is that kinda hard to believe?"

She would've said: Yes, yes. Hell freaking yes, but the kind hearted side of her only answered: "Well, a little bit" before focusing on the task at hand.

After she made some final touches on the gauze, she took medical tape to hold the gauze in place.

"And...done. All better now" she said as she put away the first aid kit

"Want some tea?" She offered

"No thanks, and shouldn't we be going? Ms. Li said not to take too long"

"Ha... 'Ms. Li'" she giggled "Better not let her hear you say that again or else she will kill you"

"Okay" was his only reply, not knowing to make of that statement

She offered him her hand and said "Shall we?"

Absentmindedly, he took her hand as he stood up.

VVV

The sound of battle cries and clanking metal filled the air when they arrived at the third floor of the building. When Rae opened the door, the five warriors were met by a display of exotic forms of martial arts. On the left side was Chang, sporting nothing but a pair of white trousers, a black strap around his waist (kinda like a Karate/Taekwondo black belt), completely bare chested, exposing his impressive physique and glistening with sweat, beads of it were dripping off of his face as he panted from the hard sparring. Wielding a katana blade, one would immediately knew that he was a master when it came to the art of swordplay just by looking at how he wielded it.

On the other side of the arena was Peng. The snake flicked his tongue at the feline, tasting the air as if he could foresaw what Chang's next move was. Equipped with a tail blade, he flicked it from side to side like an angry scorpion.

The two combatants were fixated on themselves that they hadn't noticed that they had an audience watching them. All was quiet as they stared each other down. Then... Peng struck!

The serpent went at him with everything he had, zigging and zagging from all angles, swiping his tail at the lion with a speed only a snake could posses. Though, no matter how fast he struck, Peng couldn't even slice a hair off of the cat.

Chang parried each and every attack with his Katana, using the very technique he used on the wolf from the bandit attack earlier today. Reading the snake like a book, he calculated the right moment to go into the offensive. Once in a while, Peng would falter a bit, until he completely lost his focus. Chang took the window and gave the serpent all he got. He slashed the Katana blade with lightning fast accuracy that Peng couldn't out match. The Furious Five gawked at the display, never had they seen such fierce sword play, even Tigress (Who was the most hardest of the five) felt intimidate. Looks like threatening him just got a whole lot harder.

It was quite obvious that Peng was struggling, and Chang knew that.

The Lion's eyes focused themselves at the snake's rather obvious flaws, little things that would serve big results to the outcome of this match.

Chang's jade green eyes saw the look on his opponent's face.

*Listing, deducting*

'Sluggish movement, Panting, Less power when striking back. signs of extreme fatigue'

*noting Peng's eyes*

'Pupils dialated to full extent, flooding with anger. Sign of frustration, typical Peng'

They kept exchanging and blocking each other's strikes, until Chang saw the window he was waiting for. He ducked sideways as Peng trusted his tail blade forward, making the snake miss and ad his tail was still extended, Chang slashed his sword to collide with the snake's weapon. It was well known that Katana Blades were made with a very strong metal alloy, making it one of the most durable weapons in a warrior's arsenal, also rendering it virtually indestructible. So when Peng's tail blade collided with the sword, it was instantly reduced to merely peaces of metal shrapnel, that was propelled at every direction. Lucky for Peng, Chang had angled his sword in a way that it would only hit the tail blade and not the one who was wielding it.

And just like that, the match was over. Chang withdrew his sword and bowed to the snake in respect, Peng didn't bother returning the gesture, instead he just discarded whatever's left of his weapon off of his tail and slithered towards the only exit, not bothering to acknowledge Rae and the five, who quietly stood aside and let the snake through. Viper eyed him warily, if not curiously.

"Chang" Rae spoke up, making the massive Lion look into her direction, it was then he noticed that they had company, they don't look like friendly company (Especially Tigress, who was glaring daggers at the Lion), but they were company nonetheless.

"Ah, the Furious Five" he said as he reached for his black shirt that was draped over a bench "It is an honour to be in your presence" he fisted his hand into his other and bowed respectfully. He could've sworn that he felt a pair of angry, smoldering eyes at the back of his head as he didn't need to deduct whom those eyes came from.

His eyes brought him to Master Tigress. The striped master sent the Lion several glares that could've killed him a thousand times over, her fists clenched, her fangs on the verge of completely emerging from her lips and her ears flattened against her skull, trying her best to not throw herself at the other feline and beat him senseless for what he had done to her earlier...

He had some gall to for pulling that on her, yeah he may be a 'Man of the law', but he didn't have any right to just pin her down to the concrete and cuff her for no reason, right?

She saw him approaching them, he strutted in that typical predator's stride. A bead of sweat rolled down his sculpted chest that rose up and down as he breathed, his shoulders moved rhythmically as he strutted.

Put your shirt on already, damn it! Her mind yelled, trying her best to ward off the intruding thoughts. He's hot, she'll give him that.

"I humbly apologize for what had happened earlier today" said Chang, "...My name is Chang Lei Reed, and on the behalf of the Shanghai Police Department, we welcome you" he added as he put his shirt back on much to Tigress' relief (or was it disappointment?)

He observed the the Five warriors, he couldn't help but linger his sights over to Tigress, who was still glaring at him.

"If you would like to follow Officer Li, she will lead you to the office where your stuff is currently held" he instructed

"Right this way" Rae said as she beckoned them to follow her.

"Master Tigress" Chang called, making the striped Master stop in her Tracks "May I borrow a few minutes of your time so we can talk?"

"Why?" She asked dangerously, crossing her arms over her chest

"You are the leader of this unit, aren't you?" He asked in a leveled voice

"Yes, I am"

"Then I suppose we should talk, we are as a matter of fact, after the same killer"

Rae and the four masters could only watch expectantly.

"Alright" she finally answered, "We'll talk"

Chang could only nod "Right this way Master Tigress"

The tiger master looked towards her teammates "I'll catch up with you guys later" she said before following Chang.

Nothing much was said as Chang led Tigress into a room, it seemed a tad too dark for her liking but she went in anyway. She was put at rest when Chang had lit a lamp, now she could see things quite clearly. The room didn't seem much, a table, a file drawer and drapes adorning the windows. She saw him fish out a file out of the drawer and handed it to her.

"Here's the record of the killer. Every single slaughter he had done is listed in there"

Tigress eyed him dubiously before opening the file. She saw the names of the unfortunate souls that befell a very dark and grousome fate.

Bao nu (a Goat)- suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest. Arms and legs completely broken, mercilessly eviscerated

Shang Lao (a sheep)- Suffered a lacerated neck, both arms severed, mercilessly eviscerated

Lang Xu (A Dog)- Suffered a snapped neck, both eyes gauged, mercilessly eviscerated

And many more had followed. Tigress eyed the seemingly endless list of the dead, it made her sick to her stomach. A number of these victims were 'Mercilessly Eviscerated'

"How... How did he murdered so many?" She asked gravely "Do you have any leads?"

"Unfortunately, no. You have to understand Master Tigress that Shanghai is a huge city, there's a lot of hiding places, if not hundreds maybe thousands underground" Chang explained

"Well then, what do you do know about this killer? What are his motives? At least tell me you know his species" She ranted

"I'm afraid our knowledge about this killer is limited, what we do know is that he attacks during dark. We've already advised the citizens to stay indoors after dark" he snatched the file out of her paws and promptly put it back in the drawer.

"I suppose this is the part where we discuss our current situation, eh?" She inquired

"You supposed correctly" he said "Gather your team Master Tigress"

VVV

Peng wasn't in the best of moods. Just this afternoon he went home to his apartment only to find that his belongings had been cramped into the hallway, now his first assumption was that he was being robbed but as he got closer to the door he was more than surprised when he saw the very last person he wanted t see right now.

His ex-girlfriend, Ling

"What the hell are you doing here?" He demanded

"Oh, you didn't know?" She asked cynically, faking dismay "I'm moving in"

Peng's eye twitched for a moment "What do you mean you're moving in? And what's all my stuff doing in doing in the hall way?"

"Oh, and that's the catch. You are going to have to move out"

Move out? MOVE OUT!? How dare her? She had the gall to treat him this way right after she broke his heart into a million pieces, Chang and others were right, she is a bitch, a lesbian bitch, but a bitch nonetheless.

So there he was, wandering the now empty streets. Lonely, brokenhearted, and now homeless... Well not entirely homeless, Chang or Cynthia would probably take him in until he could find a place. He was lucky to have friends like them. Now he felt bad about earlier, he was mad at Ling, but he took it out on Chang. He knew he needed to apologize to The Lion when he comes back to station, and also to their guests.

He was so Engrossed in his Loathing that he almost didn't hear a horrified shriek despite the quiet evening.

"Help! Please! Somebody! "

It was close, without a second to lose he slithered as fast as he could. He rounded a corner of a street, the cries for help had lead him to an old apartment building that was quite familiar of. He didn't waste another second by barging into the doors.

"Hey! What's going on here!? " he asked in an authoritative air. Some residence we're crowding over a room, trying to get a glimpse of whatever the commotion inside, then from inside the room a pale looking goat came bursting out of the door, he looked like he just saw ghost. Also he was bit green around the face like he was about to throw up, he knew this guy; He's the land lord of this apartment building. With hesitation he approached him.

"Officer Peng Maverick" he introduced himself "What seems to be the problem here?"

The goat didn't answer immediately, instead he only let deep, strained breaths. Peng could see the fear in his eyes, he knew right at that moment that whatever's inside that room had really terrified this poor soul.

He decided that he couldn't get anywhere with this one and proceeded towards the door, the onlookers wisely made room for the snake, knowing the authority he had as police officer.

Before he went in, he addressed the crowd.

"Alright, if you would just back away from the door that would be really helpful, thank you"

To his pleasure, the crowd backed off and then he went in. He flickered his tongue in the air, he was surprised to pick up a scent that he was very used to ever since he started this job: Blood. A significant amount of it, it stung his olfactory system.

Eventually, he saw what looked like drops of blood on the floor. He followed that trail and as he followed it he noticed that the drops began to get bigger, turning to pools of blood instead of just drops, and eventually, the trail lead him to the bedroom where the scent was stronger and the blood, more thicker and fresher, the door was already slightly opened.

Although he would never admit this aloud, but he was scared. Yes, he had done this more than once, but he had his team with him and he was going to face whatever grousome scene was waiting for him inside this room.

With a sudden surge of courage, he snapped his tail onto the door, bursting it open and what he saw inside, had immediately made his blood run cold, and horrified him to the bone.

Oh my god! I am without a doubt the worst author in the world! Four months! Four freaking months without an update. I am really sorry for The long wait, I know most of you are really mad at me right now.

Pls, R&R if still want to.