Hope this beginning doesn't confuse you that much, just push through it.
I would also like to apologize for the lateness of this chapter, life hit me kinda hard but should be back on track with the weekly updates and such.
Animation Universe 2005: There will be at some point, in a chapter or two but I wanted to get the plot moving for once, ha ha. About 5 chapters in and still might have people wondering why this is under 'mystery' instead of adventure.
Kung Fu Panda belongs to Dreamworks. My OC's belong to me and me alone!
Xun was sitting at a desk in her room, she was busy writing something in what looked like a book. She was concentrating on whatever it was she writing about, it seemed to be important. She was mumbling to herself as she wrote, making sure that every word was right. Then she stopped for a second and sat back in her chair, thinking of what she would write next.
While she was thinking a noise caught her attention, something that sounded like a door opening. Maybe her parents were back from shopping, it felt like they had just left but she might of lost track of time.
"Mom? Dad?" She called out, but there was no answer, only silence. She stood up from her desk and slowly made her way to the hallway and looked out. She didn't see anyone, or anything, in the living room. The room was still lit by sunlight, her parents wouldn't be back yet from shopping unless they forgot something She stayed near the wall and crept down the hall, her heart started racing as she was thinking back to the night that her parents and her were kidnapped.
Clank!
She nearly screamed when she heard a pot hit the floor over in the kitchen. She stood still for a moment as she heard talking coming from the kitchen, she couldn't tell what the person was saying. When the talking stopped she started creeping down the hallway again, trying her best not to make any noise. She had made it to the corner leading into the kitchen and stopped, the faucet had just turned on. Looking around the corner was harder then the thought, she could easily run if needed.
'Here goes nothing.' she thought to herself as she looked around the corner. He head smacked right into someone and she fell back screaming.
"Whoa hey, easy Xun." Xin said as she started kicking randomly from the floor. "It's me, Xin."
"Xin?" She looked up and gave a sigh of relief "Oh it's just you." He helped her up and she hit him on the arm, "That's for nearly scaring me to death."
"Hey, ow, please don't hit me there." Xin grabbed his arm and groaned in pain.
"Why what happened?" She noticed that he was bleeding, it looked like he had gotten stabbed again. "Oh my, Xin are you okay? Do you need to go to the doctors or maybe you need some bandages." She took off for the bathroom where they kept some supplies for emergencies like this.
Xin have happy to see that Xun was still her old self. He walked back into the kitchen and turned off the faucet as Xun came running back in. She had gotten some bandages, "What did you do?" She asked, she was worried.
"Nothing, just put too much strain on my cut, it opened back up." He set the pot on the stove and turned it on, getting the water to boil.
"Strain? What did Tigress make you do this time?" She actually sounded angry towards the feline master. Xin turned to her and he looked a bit shocked. Usually she was quiet and caring but it seemed like she was ready to bust Tigress' ass for hurting him.
"She didn't do anything," He told her, taking a seat at the table. He pulled a makeshift bandage off of his wound, it was a ripped piece of cloth, and looked at it. "That's not gonna heal right..." He mumbled to himself.
"Ew.." Xin said as she looked away form it, "Just put some of this on it before I get sick." She was handing him the bandages.
"I will in a minute, need some warm water to clean it first." He looked over at the pot that was on the stove.
"Well just cover it up until then." She didn't like the sight of blood or cuts, she had passed out for a bit after seeing her own when Zhi had stabbed her.
"Okay," Xin turned away from her and looked at the pot, "Sorry about scaring you. I didn't think anyone was home."
"It's okay, I'm just glad it was you." She told him.
"Yeah?"
"Of course, house is too quiet without you around. Well it was during your first week there, now mom and dad talk about you every now and then. They are proud of you, ya know that?" She told him. That made him feel a little better, at least his dad wasn't mad at him anymore. "So, you wanna tell me how you hurt yourself?"
"Do you really want to know?" He asked her.
"Better then sitting here in silence." She joked, they both chuckled just a bit.
"Okay well, I was walking through the markets..." He started to tell about how he saved a goose and some liquor.
"Ha ha, you must have had one to many mutt." The wolf said to me, laughing at how I was acting.
"Listen here, you-you bully." I poked the wolf in the chest, I needed to get his guard down, "I'm gone, gonna have to ask to leave." The two wolves just laughed at me and lowered their weapons. They must of forgotten about the friendly goose that was behind me.
"Oh yeah? Whatcha gonna do if we don't?" They started to laugh at me again, they were right where I wanted them. I smiled to myself and got a bit closer to him.
"This." I said, kicking the bigger one, I'm guessing their leader, in the balls.
"Ow!" He howled as he dropped his weapon and shielded his groin. He got down on his knees, cursing under his breath. I staggered back after the kick, keeping my balance and returned my foot to the ground the other wolf saw this and started to laugh at his boss, it was kinda funny in a way.
"Oh boss, he got you good." He said between laughs. I was looking back and forth between the two, the big one started to compose himself again. I would need to take out the smaller one before his boss got back up.
So I started to stagger my way over to him but he held his sword out towards me.
"Hey mutt, you better stay away from me. I'm not afraid to fuck you up." He threatened me, but I felt like pushing my luck. I staggered towards him and his sword, still keeping up my drunken act. His weapon was just like the others, a scimitar. It's curved end seemed to be bent a bit, it was misused most likely but it was dull on top.
"Ne meither wolf, imma fu-Whoa!" I was telling him before I pretended to trip in place. I was near the edge of his sword when I started to fall and I grabbed the top of his sword, sending it to the ground with me. The wolf didn't topple with me, I merely made him pros his sword, but that was enough to have the upper hand. I quickly swept my lag across the ground, catching his foot and it sent him to the ground with a thud.
I grabbed the fallen scimitar and a handful of dirt before standing back up. He was laying on his back, still trying to precess what had happened when I stomped my foot down on his chest. "Hey!" I shouted at him, throwing the dirt into his face. "Get out of here before I hurt you even more." I know it wasn't much of a threat, all I did was trip him and throw dirt in his face. Maybe if he saw that I had his sword then he would give up.
"It's not that easy..." I heard the big one say and I turned to see that he was standing now. "Cheap shots can only get you so far." The wolf drew out his sword too, ready to fight this out.
"Oh boy." I muttered to myself. I had no weapon training, Tigress wasn't a big fan of using them, so I was going to have to act on instinct and held the sword out in front of me. The wolf was a bit bigger then me, and would more than likely know how to use his weapon, but size wasn't everything. If Po uses his size to his advantage in battle, so would I.
The yelling in the street had started to die down, a lot of the shop keepers had abandoned their carts or were cowering under them The other wolf wasn't anywhere in sight, I wasn't sure where he was and I needed to remember him or I might get caught off guard.
"Make the first move mutt." The wolf said to me, but I wasn't moving or doing anything. I was scared just a bit, getting in over my head like usual. These guys aren't drunken bar fighters, they did this for a living. I just had to keep a straight head and everything would be fine.
"Rah!" He charged at me, sword swinging down on top of me. I lifted mine and blocked it, holding us in place as he tried to push me down to the ground. "You better just run home to your mommy, mutt." I was trying my best to keep him from pushing me to the ground, I was holding back his sword the best I could. I gritted my teeth, trying to put more strength into pushing him back, but he had a height advantage.
"Maybe, you should," I was trying my best to say something back at him, "Just stay down." And with that I kicked him in the balls again. He lost his balance and toppled over to his side. I almost fell over myself, him pushing down on me while I kicked him might not of been my smartest move but it worked. I kicked the weapon out of his hand and picked it up. "All you had to do was stay down."
Even though they were made fools of and disarmed they got to their feet and looked towards me. They were through being made fools of it seemed. That's when I realized the weapon in my hand seemed pointless, at the time, and I threw it to the side. I was better with my fists anyway, so I took my stance again.
The next thing I knew, they were charging towards me. The bigger one made it to me first and he went in for a punch but in that split second I realized something. How he was throwing it, it was how I did when I first showed Tigress, sloppy and uncoordinated. I swayed to the side and quickly got down to sweep my leg at him. His balance was immediately thrown off and he fell to the ground.
I got hit from his buddy though as I went to get up from my kick. He jumped on top of me and started swinging wildly, his hits batting me in the face. I was trying to get him him off of me but I couldn't get a good hit on him. One of the times he hit my hand away, it knocked into something. It felt like a bottle, the one that I had drank before I got into this fight. I grabbed it and swung at the wolf on top of me, the bottle shattered on his head and he fell to the ground next to me.
I picked myself up and looked at the two bandits that were on the ground, the one I hit with the bottle wasn't moving but I could see him breathing so that was good. The other one picked himself up and looked at me, "Who the fuck are you? You're not one of the furious five are you?"
"Nope." I proudly say, also a little confused that he didn't know who the furious five even contained. You would think that since the five are known throughout China that he would know a dog wasn't part of their group. "I am Xin, the drunken master!" I triumphantly shout, taking a small pose. "Now, get the fuck out of my village or Ima kick your ass some more." That did it. The big one picked his buddy up and started for the valley entrance.
"And there I was, having people applauding to me. It was an amazing feeling." Xin said to his sister after finishing his tale.
"So, when did you realize you were bleeding?" Xun asked.
"Oh, well. After the crowd dissipated and went back to their shopping, my adrenaline was wearing off and that's when I felt the pain in my arm again. That is when I saw the blood on the ground, but there wasn't much. Tore off some of my shirt and wrapped it up."
"And that goose that you stole from?"
"Stole? He watched the entire thing and was laughing his ass of after wards. He's a good guy, name is Chung. We shared a few drinks before I left for home."
"Oh really? He doesn't care if you're underage?" She was a bit curious.
"Oh he doesn't care. Said that me saving his business is enough for him to overlook that fact." Xin was carefully cleaning his wound as he spoke. The hot water stung for a second, but he needed to make sure it stayed clean. "Dammit, now I'm gonna need to get stitches again. Tigress is going to kill me." He joked.
"I don't think so." Xun got up and grabbed Xin's hand. "Let's go and see her right now." She started to drag him away from cleaning his wound.
"What? No I don't..." But his begging didn't help the fact that he was getting pulled out of his house by his younger sister.
Xin's mind wandered a little bit as they walked through the streets, back to when he was fighting the bandits. 'Weren't there three of them?' He asked himself but Xun suddenly jerking him snapped him out of this thought.
Meanwhile, over in an alleyway near where the fight had taken place; the third bandit was laying on the ground in pain with his sword broken in two. He couldn't remember what happened after chasing a merchant into the alleyway.
"Why are you here?" his eyes widened as he realized that he wasn't alone and started shaking in fear. He tried picking himself up and looking around to see a pair of feline eyes staring back at him form the darkness.
"What? We're just bandits..." the wolf tried pleading with the figure as he started crawling for the streets.
"That's it? No one hired you or anything?" The voice sounded a bit relived but kept a harsh voice.
"Hired? We aren't mercenaries or anything, we just wanted some food..." The bandit wasn't sure who or why he was talking and kept crawling to the street. "Why are you asking, who are you?" His curiosity got the better of him as he stopped crawling to turn around and look at the figure.
"Let's say I'm the 'debt collector'." That was the last the wolf saw before getting hit in the head again, knocking him out.
I just want everyone to know that spelling and grammar errors with Drunken Xin are suppose to be there. I'm sure you all know that, except for my spell check.
So, if any of you have looked at my profile recently, I have decided to try my hand at beta reading. Now now, one at a time please :P. Need any help just message me or whatever you do to talk to someone and I will try my best to help. :D
Boy oh boy was this hard for me, fight scenes... sorry if it seems jumbled and a big mess. I tried my best at writing it, worked on it for a bit when life wasn't hitting me. Short chapter is short but long chapter to make up will be a bit longer.