The Art of Reunion

Chapter 3: Familiar Faces

Disclaimer: I do not own Skunk Fu or any of its characters. They belong to Cartoon Saloon and CAKE Entertainment. However, the story line and any OC that appears in this story belong to me.

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Note: This is a little something I wanted to do for Skunk on a little life-death experience. No, he is not going to die; it is just the experience he is having. Though not involved in the current story, I just wanted to do it.

Skunk closed his eyes when Gorilla brought down his foot to squish him. He can hear Baboon and the monkeys celebrating and his friends calling out his name. Then when he reopened them, he was in a different place, many various things were flying around, most of which he recognizes.

"W-where am I?" Skunk said as he looked around where he was, and then he quickly moved out of the way when a hat full of plums came near him, "Hey I remember that. That was when I was getting plums from the Hill of Moons for Panda." He then turned to see a larger version of a red leaf painted with a star, "And that was when the training I had for Panda about minds of warriors, or something like that."

Then he hit his forehead with his palm as if to remind himself what he needed to do, "Alright focus, Skunk," he said to himself, "You can dwell in the past later, right now figure out where you are."

He then sat Indian style, rubbing his chin with his hand, "Hmm, maybe I should recap on what happened, before I got here. I remember that I was in a battle with a ton of ninja monkeys, then a bunch of gorilla showed up and beat us, and then Gorilla grabbed me and dropped me on the ground with his foot over me."

Then he hit his hand after figuring it, "Ah-ha, I got it. Gorilla brought his foot down and I bit the dust," after he made his revelation, he started to scream and run around in circles, "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead!!!" He kept repeating himself over and over again, which he felt he did for five minutes then stopped, getting tired and out of breath, he fell straight on his back, "Man, even dead, I still get tired."

He just laid there for a while, doing nothing else thinking he was dead might as well just lay here, then a bright light shun above him, he closed his eyes and covered his face from the bright light then he felt something warm, around him.

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Despite being far away from the fight, he saw new people came out and started to fight against his comrades and losing. And what really frightened him was that Skunk was about to be squished by the foot of the giant enemy, unable to stay and watch anymore, he got up from the ground and was about to run to the battle. Even though he was scared he can't just watch people he cared about being hurt or worse.

But Tiger stopped when he saw a fast looking figure ran towards the battle where the valley animals and the monkeys are, he then turned to see another person running in the same direction, but not as fast as the first one. He just stood there watching them go.

"Who are they?" Tiger asked to himself, "And how come they seem very familiar?"

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Back at the battlefield, everyone just watched as Gorilla brought his foot down on Skunk, but didn't notice the fast looking blur. When Gorilla stomped the whole ground shake, followed by a shock wave, making a big cloud of dust around them.

Then the monkeys started to cheer on their first victory, "Yes! We finally won something," Baboon shouted out as he did his victory dance (A/N: If you want to know what the dance was, it was from the Art of Revenge.).

The valley animals were, to put it lightly, shocked to see what the monkeys did. Most of them were about to break into tears to see Skunk dead, and most angry and wanted to keep fighting for Skunk's sake.

The dust cloud cleared up, revealing Gorilla, but Skunk was no where to be seen. Gorilla was laughing evilly a when he squashed Skunk.

"What's the matter kid, no snappy comeback," Gorilla mocked Skunk as he took his foot away to see what he done, but not only his surprise but to everyone, there was nothing there. Everyone was surprise; this even caused the primates to stop their "victory parade".

"What?!" Gorilla shouted as he looked all over himself, looking for Skunk, "Where'd he go?!"

He looked from his back to his side, finding no one till he sees another dust cloud that led to the spot where Skunk was. Everyone turned to the big dust cloud that was six feet away from Gorilla. When the dust cloud cleared, it revealed a hooded person with a slim figure and the person was holding Skunk around her arms.

The valley animals sighed in relief to see Skunk okay, but the monkeys were a different story. Skunk still has his eyes closed, afraid to open them to see what his fate was. But, he gave up and started to open his eyes really slowly, when his eyes were wide open he sees a hooded person holding him in a cradle-like state.

The hooded woman looked down at Skunk to see his eyes are wide open, "You okay, sweetie?" she said in a soft and caring tone.

Skunk stammered, "A-Are you the grim reaper?" he said in a frightened tone thinking he really is dead.

The woman giggled and simply said, "No."

"Then, I'm fine." Skunk with a relieved look on his face.

"Good to hear." Then she began to dust Skunk's hair with one of her free paw, and then they felt and heard the ground shaking. They turned their attention to Gorilla, who was heading straight towards them.

Gorilla brought his hand down on them, Skunk closed his eyes again getting déjà vuall over again, but the hooded woman knelt down and did a very high jump over Gorilla, everyone just stared in awe since that jump just reached Frog's record of the Art of Jumping High(A/N: Here's an idea for an fanfic/episode.)

She did a triple front-flip over Gorilla and landed in front of the valley animals. The valley animals just looked at her as she placed Skunk on the ground and turned her back on the valley animals and face the primates, "Don't worry we'll take it from here," the woman said.

"We?" Rabbit questioned, and then they hear something cracking behind them. They turned to see another hooded person, but bigger then the other one. He was cracking both of his knuckles as if he was eager to fight.

The hooded man passed the valley animals and stopped on the side with the woman, he looked at the gorillas, "Hmm, someone has been drinking their milk," the hooded man commented about the gorillas.

"They are no laughing matter, they are very strong," Panda warned.

"Yeah, we can see that," the hooded man walked in front of the woman, and got into a stance which appeared to be Tiger-style, "Mind giving me a boost?" he asked the hooded woman.

Then the woman pulled out a fan out of her sleeve and held it across her chest, "Tell me when?"

The primates just stared at the two hooded strangers wondering who are they, but Baboon snapped out of it almost forgetting what they were doing. He turned to the other apes except Gorilla, "What are you guys doing?! Get them!"

The apes turned to Gorilla for orders, ignoring Baboon on what they had to do, since Gorilla was the leader of them not Baboon. Gorilla turned to them, "What are you waiting for, a 'pretty please'? Go after them!" And with that the six gorillas charged at the valley animals.

"Now!" the man shouted. Then the hooded women unfolded her fan and waved it, creating a strong wind blast sending the hooded man flying towards the gorillas. The hooded man gave a strong shoulder-tackle on one gorilla; it was so strong it knocked over the gorilla and was out cold.

"Look at that," Fox marveled at the hooded woman's wind blast, "It's so powerful."

"Yeah, even with ours combined wasn't strong as that." Duck said.

The hooded man stood up on top of the unconscious gorilla and looked around at the gorillas; they were just standing there shocked at the feat. But before they could do anything, the man jumped up in the air and punched one of the gorillas in the face knocking him down. And when the man landed he grabbed the knocked down gorilla by the leg and threw him into another.

"Whoa! He just knocked down two gorillas without breaking a sweat," Rabbit said amazed.

"He's really strong too," Skunk commented.

Then in a flash, the hooded woman ran fast like lighting and faced one gorilla. The gorilla continuously tired to smash her with his fist but was moving too fast for him. When he tried his self out, the hooded woman jumped and did a six-combo kick on him. The gorilla stumbled back after the hits, and then when the woman landed, she pulled out another fan out of her sleeve and blew a very powerful wind blast sending him back 20 feet.

The valley animals were amazed on how the two strangers were able to defeat the gorillas so easily, they couldn't have defeat one but the strangers just defeated six gorillas already without any trouble. While the monkeys were shocked to see the new arrivals made mince-meat out of his new allies. Gorilla was the only one left to face the two strangers.

"You may have defeated my boys, but now you have to deal the boss-man," Gorilla said to the strangers.

"Then come at us, if you think your so tough," the hooded man said as he and his companion got into their fighting stance.

Gorilla brought both of his huge hands and smashed the ground sending a powerful shockwave at them. The hooded man countered it by punching the ground creating a same shockwave as the other one. When they collided, the ground shot up.

Gorilla charged at the hooded people as the man charged to him as well. Gorilla tried to punch him but he grabbed it with one hand, holding it with no effort. He brought down his other hand but he grabbed it as well with same results.

"Who are you?" Gorilla asked; in a slightly frighten realizing that they were much stronger then him.

"Hmph, you're worst nightmare," the man said as he released his hold on Gorilla and charged and punched his stomach. Gorilla coughed a little after the impact, and then the hooded man lifted Gorilla of the ground and held him over his head. Then without warning the man threw Gorilla towards Baboon.

"WAAHH!" Baboon tired to run out of the way, but he was too late, he was crushed under the 500 pound gorilla, "Wasabi…" Baboon said before passing out.

The woman walked till she was next to her companion, the man turned to her, "Care to do the honors?"

"Gladly," The woman then ran towards the monkeys, the monkeys flinched in terror afraid what was going to happen. The woman brought out her fans and started to spin around really fast creating a very strong tornado looked similar to the Four-Winds Attack. When all the primates were sucked in the vortex, it expanded sending all of them back to the path of the mountains.

When the wind attack died down, the woman gracefully landed back down the ground, this time the man walked towards her and high-fived each other. The valley animals walked towards the two strangers that saved them to thank them for the help. Panda was the first to thank them.

"Thank you for what you've done, if you haven't showed up Dragon would've controlled the valley and destroy us along with it," Panda said with a bow.

"It was nothing to it" the man said, "Master Panda." Both the strangers bowed to him. Everyone was caught by surprise when the strangers knew Panda's name.

"How did you his name?" Skunk asked.

The strangers looked at each other before taking of their cloaks and tossed them aside to show who they are. The big one was a lion, he is slightly taller then Tiger, by a head. He had a big build with muscles from his torso. His fur was golden yellow and his mane was a brownish, orange color. The one next to him was a cheetah, she has a slim figure. She is about the same height as Tiger. Her fur is tan with round black spots.

Most of the valley animals eyes widened with both surprised and excited, while the rest looked confused, mainly Skunk and Raccoon. Panda closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then he opened them and smiled, "It's nice to see you again," he turned to the lion, "Leo," then turned to the cheetah, "Cheetah."

Then Rabbit and Fox ran to the two big cats, with excited faces. Fox ran to Cheetah, Cheetah knelt down to Fox and both gave a big hug. While Rabbit ran towards Leo, who knelt down like Cheetah, Rabbit was punching Leo's palm like a punching bag.

"Oh, Cheetah, I missed you," Fox said as she tightened her hug.

"I missed you too," Cheetah said as she released her hug and looked at Fox, "Look at you, you have grown so much."

Rabbit still was punching Leos palm, he chuckled, "You've gotten a little stronger, squirt."

Rabbit stopped punching Leo's palm and looked at him annoyed, "Stop calling me 'squirt'! I've grown a few inches."

Leo brought his paw and placed it on Rabbit's head, pressing his ears down, "Ears don't count squirt."

Rabbit brushed off Leo's paw, still having his annoyed look on his face, but couldn't help smiling at Leo.

"Umm, would someone please tell me what is going on? Who are these people? And how do you know them?" Skunk said half-shouted.

Everyone turned to the confused skunk and Panda was going to explain this , "You see Skunk, before Dragon became evil and you arrived at the valley, Leo and Cheetah once lived here in the valley."

"Really."

"Yeah, squirt. But Leo and Cheetah were also the best warriors in the valley," Rabbit said.

"They were also our role models." Fox added.

"At least you know why Rabbit keeps calling you 'squirt'," Raccoon said to Skunk.

Panda turned back to Leo and Cheetah, "So, what brings you two back to the valley, you left the valley without a word."

"Well, it would've been less heart breaking for everyone," Leo said, "But we just came to visit for a day, OW!" Leo yelled out rubbing the spot where Cheetah elbowed him hard, giving him 'the look', Leo hated the look, "I-I mean... we'll be here for the week."

"Well then if you're going to stay here, you can stay in your old d-" Panda was interrupted by Leo.

"No its alright, we can bunk outside," Leo said quickly, Cheetah just sighed quietly a little disappointed and upset.

"Well, alright but make yourself comfortable," Panda said as he left with most of the valley animals to rest after from the invasion leaving only Leo, Cheetah, Rabbit, Fox, Skunk, and Raccoon.

"Hey, Leo maybe you and Cheetah can tell us about your travels," Rabbit said, "And maybe you could, I don't know," Rabbit coughed and quickly said, "Teach me any new kung fu techinques."

"Yeah, me too!" Skunk said.

Leo chuckled, "Sure, it wouldn't hurt to toughen you guys up." Rabbit left with Leo to train with Skunk following. Skunk stopped and turned to Raccoon.

"Hey Raccoon, wanna come with?"

"Eh, no thanks, I just go with Panda."

"Eh, suit yourself," Skunk just said as he ran to catch up Rabbit and Leo. Raccoon left to the direction where Panda went, leaving Fox and Cheetah to talk mostly girl things. But in the distance Tiger was watching both Leo and Cheetah, getting reunited with friends, a part of him is glad that their back, but the other part was frightened that they have returned, he went back to his den and hope that they don't see him.

To be continued...

A/N: And that ends chapter 3. Chapter 4 is still a working progress, but will be done, in a week or so. This fic will probably be finish in chapter 6 or 7. That is all.