New World, New Life
Chapter 3: Stealthily Awesome
AN: And so... You guys aren't mad, right? Oh well, I can't stay mad that long at people either. *sigh* Now, you shall read...
Karlie's POV
The blackness soon went to brightness, finally. I was getting really scared. I'm very much afraid of the dark, and it freaks me out when I can't see, so that's why I usually sleep with my glasses on, but I was wearing my contacts when I was killed, so my glasses aren't with me.
Where are the others? Shouldn't they be here too? I hope I see them soon. Especially Daniel. I need to know if he's ok.
I started walking around as if the scene would change like in one of my favorite video games, Assassins Creed, but it didn't really work. I felt kind of stupid for a moment, but then I realized that in a matter of time, one of my biggest dreams would come true. I just had to wait.
I saw a couch randomly appear in front of me, and I jumped in surprise, but I calmed myself. I walked over and sat down, but I was so bored, so I got up and started singing along to the songs on my phone that I downloaded.
I have three of the same app that can download 100 songs each. Every time I run out, I just install the updated version. It's pretty cool, and it just makes me wonder why people buy mp3 players or ipods.
The song I was listening to was 'The Cup Song' from the most popular movie in my choir class at the moment, 'Pitch Perfect'. That movie is frickin hilarious. I could watch it for hours. I just found out the other day too though that they're gonna make a sequel to it. The same will happen with '21 Jump Street', and I was very excited, but now that I'm dead, I guess I can't see them. Which sucks.
Well, as I was singing, I thought I felt someone watching me, but I didn't have a bad feeling about it, so I slowly turned around.
What I saw...was amazing. It was Matt, Vivi, and Daniel. All smiling at me like we haven't seen each other in years.
I ran in their direction, and embraced them in the strongest hug I had within me.
"Karlie, you need to calm down. It's just us." Daniel told me with a cough as him and the other two were trying to break free to breathe. I let go after a bit.
"It's not just you. It's you." I gestured to him with both hands and we hugged again, but just us two this time. My arms around his neck, and his around my waist. I pulled back just enough to see his face, and I stared into his loving eyes. My own full of relief and fear. "Daniel, why would that lady kill us?" I rested my head on his chest. "And what was she planning?" I felt a tear go across my cheek.
"I'm scared to know."
Daniel picked me up bridal style, and we just layed down on that huge couch as we waited for something to happen. I fell asleep after watching my boyfriend and Matt try playing fanorona with left over Adventure Park tokens. I guess it doesn't matter much now anyways. I know my friends are with me, and that's all I need for the time being. I closed my eyes as I curled up into the corner of the seat…
"Karlie, wake up. C'mon, we need to make a plan for getting through." Vivi sounded excited, but I just wanted to sleep. If only I could, but I just had to get up, huh?
"Get through what, Viv?" I yawned and opened my eyes.
"The Valley of Peace of course. It is night time, but it looks like there's something going on down there, and it's not a party. Daniel and Matt went to check it out, and they haven't come back yet. They've been gone for a while now."
I sat upright, fully awake now, eyes wide open. We were in the Kung Fu Panda universe, but we were still human from what I could tell since it was nighttime, and that meant those two idiots could be in serious danger if they got caught.
"What? Vivi, we have to go look for them now. I can't lose Daniel, and I know that you can't lose Matt either." I got up and started walking towards the small yellow-orange lights that I figured came from the valley, and then I was jogging, and the closer I got, the faster I went until I was full on running as fast as I could just to see if I would be able to spot the boys.
Finally, as my friend caught up to me, I saw them, hiding in a pile of huge pots. I totally just facepalmed, thinking of how easy that could've been for me to come up with. I figured they got that from the movie.
Why do they have to do everything the hard way? It can get so annoying sometimes.
I motioned for Vivi to follow me as we tried to find a way to get to the guys without being caught. I saw that a hill was close to one of the buildings and it was just perfect enough for us to be able to climb, jump off, and land on the roof. We advanced with silent footsteps toward the boys, but I stood still when I caught sight of something crazy.
It was a group of drunk bandits, all wolves, and they had set fire to the bar they were in. Apparently, the bartender didn't let them have anymore beer, from what I heard them yelling out, but what I truly stopped for was the view of the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior,fighting them off.
Both sides looked tired, but I couldn't blame them. After all, dealing with drunk bandits at like midnight isn't a very fun thing to do. I remember having to do that back when we were in our old world, and I hated getting up from my bed, even though I was still awake, but it was really cool too to just win in a minute and go back home feeling so badass.
I put my attention back on the fight, and saw Tigress punch a wolf into the wall ten feet away from them. Then I saw Viper and Mantis use the iron similia against three of the bad guys. It was so awesome, but I couldn't see Po or Crane. Monkey wasn't visible either, but then, as I was about to look for Daniel and Matt, I saw Monkey surprise attack a wolf from behind a huge flower vase. And after that, Po descended from the air just to land on two of the wolves and knock them out, and finally I watched Crane take out the last one by flying into him while spinning like a torpedo just before he had a chance to get away from the scene.
I was amazed.
"That was one of the most magnificently awesome things I've ever seen!"
Oh my gosh, Daniel. Seriously? Did you really have to do that?
I face palmed. Daniel had jumped out from behind the pots, naturally of course, and he was completely obvious to see and hear now, but at least he started running. The only bad thing about that, was that after the five and Po got over their shock, they started chasing him through the village, and I couldn't let him get caught right now.
I ran as fast as I could along the rooftops until we got to the ironwood forest, but I told Vivi to stay where she was on the building. At that point, I began hopping from branch to branch on many trees. I sped up to a sprint after I dropped to the ground and finally got past Daniel. I leaped into a bush and waited for him to get near enough, and then I grabbed his shirt and dragged him into the plant with me.
"wmnydngkmrny?" I could not understand that and got a confused look, but of course I was covering his mouth with my hand. I let go and then shushed him.
"What?" I asked.
"What are you doing, Karlie? Also, how'd you know where Matt and I were?" I rolled my eyes.
"Well, first, I was just trying to make sure you weren't tackled down by Tigress. She was catching up really fast and was only like, fifty feet away. Good thing she couldn't see you with all the trees. Second, after that little scene in the village, it was pretty easy to spot you. I mean seriously, Daniel?"I sighed. "C'mon, let's go. I think they're gone, and I need to ask Vivi if she can give me that haircut I've been wanting. I think Matt's still in one of those pots though." We stood up from the bush, and saw the Five standing there with Matt and Vivi both being held off their feet by none other than Tigress. "Well shit. We're dead."
Tigress looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "I believe these two belong to you both." She dropped them and they fell to the ground. Daniel helped Matt up, and I did the same for Vivi.
Everyone heard a loud rustling noise as Po ran, out of breath, to us all. "Whoa, it's humans. This is totally awesome!" He put both fists in the air and pulled them back down. "I have so many questions for you guys, like, where are you from? How do you talk? What do you eat!?"
"Po." Tigress tried getting his attention.
"Are you from a different planet? Will you invade our land, or control our minds?" Matt picked up a small stone.
"Po." She said more sternly. Matt aimed at Po's head. Only us other three were watching him.
"Maybe they want us to help them take down their enemies from another place, and kick some bodaciously awesome alien bad guys' tails. Unless they don't have tails. Do you guys have tails?"
"P-"
"Ahawhaw ouch. Who did that?" Po place his paw on his head for a second, and Matt raised his hand.
"Dude, she's trying to get you to stop." He guestured to Tigress. "Now listen. Karlie here will tell you more about us than I will ever know. Her and Vivi are the smart ones." He pointed his thumb to us two girls, and Vivi blushed. "Daniel and I just do whatever. So, yeah. That's all I have to say." Po was shocked when Matt said that.
"Whoa. That was awesome. Wait, who's Karlie?" I raised my hand and took a step forward.
"I am. Now, may I talk to my friends for a second? Obviously, with permission." I looked to the six people in front of us, and tilted my head down a bit.
"No, you may not. The four of you are coming with us." Tigress answered very sternly.
"What! C'mon, Tigress. Really? Do we actually look like we're planning anything against you guys? Cuz, if I remember right, Daniel was just being kind of stupid for a second, and then he started running." I don't even know why I tried arguing with her. There wasn't anything too important that I wanted to talk about with the other three. Oh well, I think I might've just made a pretty strange first impression anyways, so I'm not gonna get much out of this right now.
"How do you know my name?" she questioned.
"Ugh. Dude, I'm tired, and I'm sure you guys are too, so that explanation will come later. Sorry, peoples."
"Well then, since you asked us for permission, I now ask that all of you follow us or Mantis will have to paralyze you until we get to the Jade Palace."
"Really? You guys are allowed to do that? Huh. I choose to be paralyzed." I said.
Daniel, Matt, and Vivi looked confused, "Wait, what? Why?" Vivi asked. I waived the question away with my hand.
"Read-" Mantis already hit the pressure points and I curled up on the ground.
Tigress' POV
"Is she like, your guys' leader kind of just like how Tigress is for us?" Mantis asked them.
They didn't even look at each other, but answered at the same time, "Yes she is."
I was gathering everything about them that I saw. Their features, how they talk and move, and the way they dress.
Appearance: not much fur, walk on two legs, actually have five fingers, ears on the side of the head, and they don't have tails. They look very similar to Monkey.
Body language: They all seem to be teenagers.
Clothing: Karlie is wearing a white shirt with the sleeves cut off low and black bottoms of some type. Vivi has the same attire, but her shirt is light purple while the bottoms are turquoise. The boys seem to have the same kind of pants as each other, dark navy blue, but Matt's have holes by the knees. Both of their shirts are terribly ripped and dirty, revealing the skin underneath.
I walked over to the girl, picked her up, and tossed her over my shoulder.
"I'll meet you at the barracks. All of you."
"Wait. Why are you going so far ahead of us like that?" Po asked.
"Po, an hour is all we have 'til this becomes permanent. Don't you remember?" I reminded him.
"Oh, yeah. Well, now I do."
"Mantis, you better be there in time." I turned around and started off at a jog, on two feet, towards my room.
AN: Ok, now I gave you two chapters, so I will hopefully have enough time to finish chapter 4 soon. Ok? Ok. Laters...