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Chapter 4: Dreadful Nightmares
As the sun rises, it shines through the window of a very annoyed male tiger, who covered his face with his blankets, wanting to stay asleep. His plan was flawless until someone jerked the covers off of him, causing him to fall off the bed. The tiger boy looked up and groaned, seeing it was his two amigos. Ed was holding the covers while Double D was standing afar.
"Any reason you guys woke me up?" Eddy asked with a growl.
"Because according to my calculations, it's about 6:00," The smart Ed explained.
"An hour before training?!" Eddy glared at Double D furiously.
"Unless you want to be on Shifu's bad side again, I suggest showing up early to show Shifu that you are at least trying."
"And I'm Ed," he randomly blurted out.
"Hmm... please a guy I don't like or sleep til' noon...I'm going with sleep til' noon," The big mouth Ed replied, snatching the covers away from the larger Ed. Double D sighed, knowing the stubborn Ed wouldn't budge from that spot unless it involved two things: money and his ego. Double D soon hatched up the right words to say to his friend.
"I suppose you're right. Sleep here til' noon, maybe even midnight, then you'd be proving Shifu right."
Eddy soon shot up in anger, "What?!"
"I suppose he was right after giving you a rank zero, but showing up early would prove him wrong and show him that you're a far better rank than zero. Maybe even better than the Dragon Warrior." Double D couldn't help but smirk as he counted down from his fingers: 5...4...3...2...1.
Eddy soon ran out of the room, pulling both of his friends down the hall.
"I'm in my happy place Double D!" Ed chortled out. Double D smiled as Eddy continued to drag them to the training hall.
In the training hall...
As the Eds walked down the steps which led to the entrance of the training hall, it was hollow of any activity. Eddy, with a bored expression, looked around and spotted the closet that held all the weapons. Eddy smirked and ran over to it, wanting to get at its contents. Double D noticed this and flew ahead in front of Eddy, cutting off his path from the cabinet. The spiky haired tiger came to a screeching halt.
"Eddy, we were forbidden to open this door. Is 'forbidden' not a word in your dictionary?" Double D advised, getting a glare from Eddy.
"Oh well...I guess we'll just have to-ED! TACKLE DOUBLE D!" Eddy commanded Ed, who followed the order without any back talk. Ed did a belly flop on Double D, and before he did, Double D let out a small whimper. A loud thud was heard after Ed landed on the weaker one. Eddy soon ran straight to closet and tried to pick the lock with one of his claws, but it broke in the process. The tiger's eyes widened from the shock in the nerves of his claw, causing Eddy to cringe in pain. He sucked on his claw to sooth the pain. As he was doing so, the short-tempered boy looked down and saw a kunai. He picked it up and grinned deviously with a plan brewing. Eddy shoved the kunai in the keyhole and wiggled it around in it til' it broke.
Eddy tossed the lock aside and opened the closet, smiling like a kid who just got a million presents from Santa Claus. Eddy picked up the kusarigama, examined it, and swung the scythe part around. Eddy smiled and soon started to play with the chain part like a jump rope, but the lasso accidentally knocked something from the top shelve. Eddy panicked, closing his eyes and trying to catch it. He opened one of his eyes to see what fell into his hands.
It looked like a treasure chest that had a lock with a dragon's eye as the keyhole. It was crimson red, and golden bronze along the edge. As the tiger inspected it, he saw a note at the bottom. He took it off, opened it, and read the contents:
Po, if your reading this, stop and put this chest back on the shelf or your punishment shall be the worst in history. If you forgotten what happened, then let me refresh your memory. The Mongolian Fist Demon is a powerful being that you shouldn't be tampering with. No one can stop it.
-Shifu
Eddy tossed the note aside, ignoring the warning on it. He grabbed the scythe part of the kusarigama and started to pick the lock. Eddy put his ear close to the lock so he could hear which way to pick. The stubborn tiger soon unlocked the chest and looked inside to see a pot that looked like it was pieced together with glue. Eddy looked at the jar in disbelief, then thought of what the demon would look like if it was broken.
Eddy's fantasy...
A giant tentacle demonic red blob, with a giant mouth in the center, was floating in the air and started to grab the villagers. The Furious Five and Po were trying to take it down, but they ended up being eaten.
"NOTHING CAN STOP IT!" An innocent bystander screamed in terror. As more tentacles fall from the sky, a flash of light slashed straight through it. The light crashed down to the earth and faded to show Eddy in a gold shogun armor.
"Who is that sexy armored tiger?" A female bystander questioned dreamily.
"It is I, Master Eddy!" He shouted, holding two dual kusarigamas. Eddy crouched down and jumped straight at the monster, destroying it in a flash of light. As the light faded, the monster's remains fell to the earth while Eddy floated to the earth. When he landed the villagers along with the Furious Five and Po cheered, "EDDY! EDDY! EDDY! EDDY!" Shifu walked over to Eddy.
"I see you are far better than the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior. Can you ever forgive my ignorance?" Shifu asked.
"Hmm...Fine, but only because you say your dumb." Eddy smirked, dusting off his chest.
Eddy snapped back to reality and looked at the jar containing the demon. Double D, still trapped under the larger of the group, poked his beak out.
"Eddy, whatever you're thinking, don't do it!" Double D choked out. Eddy turned around an looked down at Double D's beak, accidentally letting the jar slip and break on the ground, releasing a purple smog. When it cleared, a small blue creäture, with a red fire-ball tattoo on its right arm, emerged. Eddy smirked and started laughing at the small creäture.
'This is the demon they sealed in a jar? Oh man, you can just drown that thing in the inch of water!' Eddy thought while laughing. He collapsed to the ground while holding his stomach due to laughing so much. The demon growled at the tiger boy who was laughing at his size. He walked over to the boy's face and punched him square on his nose. Eddy groaned and stood up, clutching his nose in pain. He looked down at the demon who did so and kicked him on to the far side of the training hall.
"An unstoppable demon? More like unstoppable doofus," Eddy commented until he saw the demon getting up. He noticed the demon was a little bigger. "Back for more, huh? Ed, would you like to fight a demon?"
"My dreams have come true!" Ed shouted, getting off of Double D. Double D panted, trying to regain some air into his collapsed lungs. Ed ran over to the demon and jumped in the air. "PREPARE TO MEET YOU MAKER!" Ed belly-flopped on the demon, making another loud thud. Eddy, with a satisfied smile, walked over to Ed.
"No one can stop the amazing Ed's belly flop!" Eddy proclaimed, getting a smile from Ed. Double D walked over to them to see what was going on. Out of nowhere, there was a rumble heard from under the panda and a force under him pushed Ed across the training hall. The force was the demon, and looked like it was the size of Kevin's height.
"Eddy? Mind telling me what is that?" Double D asked ,calmly glaring at Eddy.
"Oh...This is the Mongolian Fist Demon. Mongolian Fist Demon, this is Double D," Eddy introduced them. The Demon responded by punching Double D into a wall. Eddy growled and kicked the demon, pushing him outside and going to Double D's aid. "Double D! Are you ok?" Eddy's face soon met the business end of Double D's foot. "Hey! What was that for?"
"Eddy, this has to be one of your dumbest blunders in the history of what you've done! I bet there was a note saying, 'Do not touch!' on what ever contained that fiend!" Double D yelled while shooting daggers at him.
"No there wasn't! There was one on the treasure chest that had the jar."
"EDDY! We need to get that demon back in the jar it was in!" Double D proclaimed.
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"Cause I broke it." Eddy held up the pieces of the jar.
"We should get the others! They need to know about this." Double D was about to run over to the door until Eddy grabbed him by his feet and threw him back.
"And say what? 'Hey guys! Hope you don't mind we just unleashed a demon that grows!'"
"What do you think we should do then?"
"We hide it in a cave and keep it there until we can kill it or send it back to its fifth dimension or whatever." Double D let out a sigh. This was the biggest trouble in the history of his past since the time Ed wanted to plan a scam or summon evil tim from his comic book as he put it.
"Fine. Let's check on it. Where did it go?"
"When you got knocked into the wall, I kicked it outside." He pointed to the door that was open. They rushed to it to see Ed standing in the courtyard with a smirk of happiness. "Hey Lumpy! What happened?" Eddy and Double D ran to him. The courtyard looked like the aftermath of a war.
"You guys should have seen it! Me and the demon were fighting an epic battle for good and evil! But then he activated his super growth powers! So I threw him far across the lands and into that forest," Ed explained, pointing to the bamboo forest.
"We have to make sure it doesn't get to the valley!" Double D shouted panicking.
"Ok. Me and Ed will hide it somewhere, but first..." Eddy suggested, going back inside and came back with the two Kusarigamas. "Ok, I put the jar pieces in the chest and I put that back on the shelf. Double D, make sure the others don't find out where we are."
"Eddy, you know I'm not a good liar!"
"Don't worry about it. If they ask you any questions, lie or run off." Eddy climbed on to Ed's back and pinched his heal into Ed's side like a horse. "Hyah!"
"Neigh!" Ed bellowed, running down the steps of the palace.
"Oh dear..." Double D muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Double D?" A voice from behind asked. Double D turned around in fear and saw Shifu and the others. "Where's Ed and Eddy?" Po asked, looking around at the courtyard. "And what happened here?"
"Oh...uh...Eddy and I had an early spare match. It got a little catastrophic," Double D lied, grinning.
"Geez, this looks like Ed and Eddy fighting instead of you," Mantis blurted out.
"Well, they had an early match. Eddy won hands down."
"Eddy? The same Eddy that couldn't get through the gauntlet of wooden warriors? And is this the same Ed who shattered diamonds by just smacking his head and hand into it?" Tigress asked with a hint of disbelief.
"Well, Eddy's more experienced than you think."
"So where are they?" Crane asked.
"Oh, they were embarrassed by this mess they made, so they went to the valley to get some cleaning supplies."
"Than maybe you'll take their place in today's sparing fights," Shifu replied.
"Oh geez, I don't know they'll surely need my help cleani-" Double D was interrupted by Shifu.
"Your first fight will be with Tigress."
Double D gulped when he saw Tigress cracking her knuckles. "Now wait! I'm sure they'll be-" Double D was interrupted once more by Shifu.
"Ready! Set! Go!" Tigress immediately pounced.
"HAVE MERCY!"
Meanwhile with Ed and Eddy...
As they looked around in the bamboo forest, Eddy was perched on top of Ed's head, looking for the Demon. Eddy jumped down from his perch and turned around to face Ed.
"Are you sure this is where you tossed the demon?" Eddy asked.
"Yep!" Ed answered.
"Can ya tell me how big that thing is now? Cause-" Eddy stopped when he bumped into something. When he looked up, he turned pale white in fear and backed up toward Ed. It was the demon and it was about the same size of a five story house.
"That's big, Eddy!" Ed blurted out.
"Gee, thanks for the update." Eddy threw the scythe part of the kusarigama at the demon, which it grabbed and pulled Eddy toward him. The demon laughed and tied Eddy up in the chains and used him as punching bag. The demon tossed Eddy aside and laughed at him.
"EDDY!" Ed screamed in worry, running to his friend's aid. Eddy was unconscious and bleeding from his right foot because of the kusarigama was impaled in it. The gentle dimwitted growled in anger, fury building up. He turned around toward the demon and growled in rage. He picked up the largest rock he could find and threw it straight into the sky. The demon looked at him in confusion and started to walk closer and closer to Ed, who had a grim smirk on his face. Ed soon pointed up to the sky; the demon looked up at the sky and saw the rock coming down at incredibly fast rate. "You can turn me immortal and kill me 'til times end! You can destroy my comics! You can even rip my organs out! But no one, and heed my words demon of the netherworld, no one hurts my friends nor my family!"
The rock crashed down into a fiery explosion on the demon. As the flames cleared, the demon's remains were scattered across the path. Its arm fell to Ed's feet, which he kicked into the fire. Ed turned around, picked up Eddy who was still unconscious, and ran to the palace.
'Eddy...Please stay alive,' Ed thought as he carried the limp tiger.
Meanwhile with Double D...
"I am very disappointed in you, Double D," Shifu remarked, looking down at Double D's beaten and lasseraterd body. His wings were broken and his legs were twisted.
"Can I please take a break now?" Double D choked out.
"Yes. Take him to the infirmary." Shifu ordered Po, Viper, and Crane as they carried Double D to the infirmary. Suddenly, the door burst open, revealing Ed carrying Eddy tied up. The others were surprised at this.
"GUYS! HELP EDDY!" Ed shouted with sadness in his voice.
"What happened?" Po asked, dropping Double D onto Crane's back.
"We were fighting a-and Eddy got knocked out! S-so I brought him here!" Ed's voice was breaking up on the last sentence.
"Quick! Get him to the infirmary!" Po proclaimed, leading Ed to the infirmary followed by Crane, Viper, and Double D who was still being carried.
In the infirmary...
Eddy was lying down on a medical bed, with his foot bandaged up. Double D was lying in a bed paralleled to Eddy's. He had on leg casts, wing cast, and a neck brace. Ed was crying outside the infirmary.
"IT'S ALL MY FAULT! I COULDN'T PROTECT EDDY!" Ed choked out. Viper slithered towards Ed and wanted to cheer him up.
"Don't be sad Ed. You did all you could," Viper assured him.
"But he's not waking up!" Ed shouted while crying.
"Hey why don't we make your friends presents so when they wake up, they'll wake up smiling." Ed wiped his nose on his sleeve and smiled.
"Ok snake lady."
"It's Viper, Ed." Viper replied in dryly, slithering off as Ed followed her.
Eddy's Dream...
As Eddy woke up he found himself in the same room from his last dream. Eddy looked around and saw the cribs had the two kids. Eddy thought he should make sure that the tigress in the crib was the tigress he knew. He walked over to the crib with the girl tigress and leaned over the bars of the crib to look at the tigress. His eyes went wide when a paw reached for his whiskers and yanked one out. Eddy cringed, grabbing his cheek in pain and looked down at the tigress. She giggled at Eddy glaring at her. Eddy noticed that there were some distinctive features that were similar to Tigress, but without proof Eddy thought she was just another character in the play called dreams.
Eddy picked up the baby cub by the scruff of her fur and started to examine her.
"You got to have a birthmark here somewhere." The Tiger muttered, pulling back her clothes to see if there was a birthmark on her. He soon found a fire shaped birthmark on the bottom of her right foot. Eddy gently put her down in the crib, and took a step back. He wondered if he should even worry about this, since it is a dream all this could be fabricated.
Eddy was startled by the sudden burst of crying coming from behind and saw that the other cub was crying. He walked over to the crib and leaned down to look at the cub. What he didn't expect was that the cub had three short hair spikes. The stubborn Ed looked up at his hair spikes, and thought they were the same a little. He heard footsteps and hid under the boy cub's crib. The door opened to show the mother tigress from his earlier dream. She walked over to the crib and picked up the crying cub.
"Shh mommy's here." She started to hum a lullaby that sound familiar to the Tiger Ed. The sound of it made him feel safe, secure and happy. He started to feel a warmth on his chest. He couldn't help but smile peacefully.
Double D's dream...
Double woke up coughing gasping for air as if he was in space. He sniffed the air, his eyes widen, in shock of the scent. Fire. He quickly got up, ran to the door, when he opened it, the hallway was engulfed in flames. He quickly took off, trying to fly out of the inflamed hallway. He dodged most of the flames in time and made it outside. He saw Tigress running with Eddy under her arm. She had tears in her eyes as she ran and looked back down at Eddy, who has a red slash on his chest, leaking blood.
Ed was fighting with Po and Mantis against Viper, Crane and Monkey, who had black eyes. DoubleD looked around wondering where Shifu was. He heard a pained scream coming from the hall of heroes. He quickly took off and flew as fast as his wings could carry him to the hall. When he got there he almost vomited at the sight in front of him. Shifu's body mutilated by an owl with grey feathers, a blue shirt like Eddy's and Tigress' along with steel talons stained with blood. She smiled devilishly and charged at Double D with hostile intent.
Double was frozen in fear to even fly away. He screamed scared out of his mind losing all sense of thought.
In the infirmary...
Double D woke up sweating and panting rapidly as if he saw his mortal fear. He looked around and saw that he was in the infirmary. He looked at his wings, which were bandaged up along with his ankles. He looked up and saw Eddy was in a bed as well.
"EDDY!" Double D called out to him. Eddy groaned waking up, glaring at Double D. His glare ceased when he saw Double D was beat up.
"Jeez Sockhead what happened?" Eddy asked getting up cringing from his wound.
"What happened to you? I thought you guys were going to catch that 'thing' you released." Double D replied.
The Tiger rubbed the back of his head looking down. "I don't know. I kind of got beat up by that 'thing' and blacked out. I ended up here."
"Then how did you get here?" The Crane Ed asked.
"I guess Ed ran away with carrying me."
"If that 'thing' is out there we need to find it."
Their conversation was interrupted by the door slamming open. The two Eds turned to see Ed accopanied by viper, with a smile of relief on their faces. Ed had a get well card in his hand, which he dropped in order to pull Eddy into a bone crushing hug.
"I'm so glad your ok Eddy!" Ed shouted into Eddy's ear.
"ED! LET GO! I CAN'T BREATHE!" Eddy choked out. Ed did as he was told, dropping Eddy onto the ground. Eddy gasped for air after his friend's display of affection. Eddy growled and just shook it off.
"Viper we need to talk to Ed in private if you mind?" Double D asked. Viper bowed knowing what he meant and slithered out. "Ed did you take care of the 'thing'?"
"Yeah the doctor said its not a thing its my wiener." Ed explained making them look at him weird.
"Ed, that's not what I meant. You know the demon with the fireball on his arm?"
When Double D asked that Ed's expression changed from happy go lucky kid to grim and dark emo. Ed was silent causing his friends to look at him with worry.
"The thing is no more. I took care of it." Ed replied dryly.
"Really? Ed that's awesome!" Eddy replied.
"Your not mad, your hurt?" Ed asked.'
"Heck no! As long as that thing is out of our lives we can just relax." Eddy replied giving Ed a pat on the back. Ed smiled and pulled his best friends into a bone crushing hug. Ed spun around, holding them and doing a happy dance.
"ED!" Eddy shouted.
"Hello!" Ed replied.
"ED!"
"Hello!"
"ED!"
"Hello!"
Eddy growled and punched Ed in the stomach causing him to release his grip on them. Eddy stood up angrily and was about to put Ed in a headlock until the sound of a door being open was heard. The Eds turned around to see who it was, it was Po and Tigress.
"Master Shifu has an announcement and he requested that you guys be there to hear it." Tigress explained.
"Uh...ok?" Eddy replied.
Hall of Heroes...
Master Shifu was standing in front of the reflecting pool, waiting for his students. His ears twitched at the sound of footsteps approaching. He soon turned to face the Furious Five, Po and the Eds standing in a line. Double D was hanging over Ed's shoulder.
"You wanted to see us master Shifu?" Double D asked.
"In light of recent events, I have decide to give the Eds each two training mentors." Shifu explained, "Eddy you will be paired with Tigress and Monkey, Double D you will be the pair with Crane and Mantis, as for Ed he'll be paired with Po and Viper." When Shifu finished, Eddy growled in fury. Of course he had to be paired with the most annoying jungle cat on this planet. He wanted to rip master Shifu in half. Tigress didn't take the news too lightly as well. She held in a growl and just tightened her fist. "Is there any problems with that?" Shifu asked. Eddy was about to spat something out until Tigress grabbed his mouth crushing it in her hands.
"There is no problem master." Tigress replied with a hint of anger on her words.
"You all should get some rest. Especially you Double D." Shifu replied glaring at Double D.
They soon walked out of the hall of heroes. Eddy was griping all the way to their rooms. He hated this. He hated all that he was doing for a little raccoon thing. But he had to say, it was better than his life at home.
Double D was lost in thought after that dream he had. Why did he have a premonition about his friends fighting each other? Who was that owl that mutilated Shifu? He knew this was just a random dream. All people have nightmares after being injured.
"Ed. Could you take me to my room?" Double D asked.
"Ok Double D." Ed replied forgetting to open the paper door and walked right through it. Double D was too tired to even bother with the door, all he wanted to do was sleep. Ed gently put Double D on his bed and pulled up the covers. "Goodnight Double D."
"Goodnight Ed." Double D waved back at Ed who went to his room. Double D sighed, for once he wished he could live in the serenity of Ed's world. He soon drifted off to sleep.
Here's Chapter 4 of Kung Fu Ed. I know that the Mongolion Fist Demon can't be destroyed. But this is Ed we are talking about, he literally picked up a house from it's hinges and slammed it on Double D. Sorry for the long wait.
