"Please say your joking Viper." Shifu pleaded. His seven year old son going after one of the most deadliest fighters in the world.

"I'm afarid not Master." Viper apologized. "

"Chapter 4: Harry Vs. Tai Lung" She read.

Though Harry had a long way to go before being a Master, he could hold his own against Shaolin Academy's top students. He created a generous amount of his own techniques which required Chi use. For instance, Chi Palms Rotation.

Shifu listened up. Cutiousd as to what types of techniques the child he had raised created.

A defensive maneuver in which he spins in a full circle releasing Chi from his entire body creating a dome shield of Chi capable of blocking most attacks.

"That's impossible." Tigress protested. "Chi is merely energy. It shouldn't be able to deflect."

"It could be magic that is helping fuel the technique." Remus suggested.

He also created an ultimate technique that created Chi lion faces around his fists that could let his fists cut through anything.

"Now that is certainly possible." Shifu smiled despite himself. His son could be a Chi Sage in the making.

He hadn't shown these techniques to his father or the Five yet of course, but he hoped one day he would.

"Tai Lung has escaped from the prison!" The messenger Baba had sent to Cho Ghom shouted as he landed on the ground frantically. "He's on his way for the Scroll!" The prison which held one and only one prisoner. Harry stared down from his window as the frantic bird spoke with his father and the Furious Five.

"Harry, its impolite to eavesdrop." Lily scolded her child.

"Technically it isn't eavesdropping if he merely heard someone shouting." Sirius pointed out.

Sirius's hair turned blue.

"My hair!" Sirius pouted.

"We must evacuate the Valley." Baba said to Tigress and the others. Harry had had enough with being treated like a child (though he technically was one) And opened his wardrobe to find the traveling cloak Baba had let him design. It was loose fitting and black in color. With red clouds covering it.

"Nice. I like it." Sirius approved.

"Oh no." Shifu denied what was about to happen. "Oh no, oh no, this is not good."

He donned his cloak and jumped down from his window as the lights in the Palace went off and they all went to bed. Except for Harry as it started to rain and he jumped over the palace walls. Running at a fast pace down the steps leading up to the palace. Hopefully he would be long gone by the time Baba found out he was gone.

After his evening meditation. Shifu decided to check up on his students. Normally, they would be busy with their private evening activities. Crane enjoyed oil painting and Viper enjoyed reading romantic novellas.

"What is it with women and dime store novels?" James asked.

Lily smacked the back of his head though she had an entire bookcase filled with those novellas.

Why he was not sure. Tigress usually went to sleep so he skipped her room. Mantis was practicing his katas as per usual, Po was...being Po. Monkey was practicing with his Bo staffs. What was missing? Then he stopped at his son's door. Surely not. He wouldn't be so foolish as to... He opened the door with a BANG and saw the window open, with his wardrobe empty. Shifu let out a cry of rage at his son's foolishness that lead the Five right to him.

"Harry is gone." Shifu said with heavy breathing through his nose to try to calm himself. "So is his battle cloak."

"Master, you don't think?" Tigress asked her and Harry's adoptive father. Surely her little brother was not that foolish as to challenge Tai Lung himself?

"We know our Master well enough to know what he's thinking at times." Mantis explained to Sirius who was about to ask.

"You are to find him. "Shifu ordered with such firmness that the Five knew he wasn't joking around. "And bring him home. Kicking and screaming if you must." He looked them over. They where all suddenly alert. "GO!." He ordered and the Five where vanished.

"When it comes to Harry's safety we don't fool around." Monkey explained in a serious tone.

Harry had traveled a great distance from the Valley already as the stars shone brightly in the night sky. He came upon a square patterned bridge

"Doesn't that make it hard to walk on?" James asked.

"Not if you have proper balance." Shifu explained.

Few came the way Harry was going often and this bridge was the reason why.

"So is this all Shifu sent to stop me?" A sneering voice asked from across the bridge. Harry looked up to see Tai Lung himself smirking in his direction standing on the opposite end of the bridge.

"Baba didn't send me." Harry snapped back at the traitor. Tai Lung growled at the use of the word "Baba." "I came on my own."

"Foolish child." Shifu scolded his son. He was going to be killed. He knew it. Or at least severely injured.

"An eight year old human thinks he can stop me?" The snow leopard said in amusement. "Your not worth the dirt between my toes you little weakling." He started across the bridge and was shocked as Harry ran at him. "Eight Trigrams Air Palms!" He brought his open palms back and forced Chi through them. He brought one forth, then the other. Causing Tai Lung to stop in his tracks as the boy's Chi strike him.

"Impossible." Tigress said in shock. Then again, no one understood Chi better than a Chi Sage. Perhaps Harry had the talent?

Who is this boy? He asked himself. Chi shouldn't be physically felt like that. And that stance. I've never seen it before. Nor read about it in Shifu's Thousand Scrolls of Kung Fu. Oh well, even if it is pointless, this will be interesting.

"Very well boy, I'll oblige your challenge." He got into a stance of his own Snow Leopard Kung Fu and they stared each other down.

The boy ran at him side stepping on the stepping squares and...poked him with a finger? He thought he felt something in his chest but brushed it off as he punched the boy hard in the face sending him flying backwards.

"Oi!" James shouted in defense of his son.

"It is a life or death battle Potter. Surely you understand that." Severus snapped.

Could it be? Shifu asked himself in his mind.

"Is that all my replacement has to offer? A finger poke?" Tai taunted at the younger boy.

"Replacement?" Harry spat out blood from his mouth.

Lily looked worried for her son.

"Don't you know? I Shifu wasn't just my Master. He was my father." Tai sneered at the look of shock on the stupid humans face. "And your just a replacement. To rectify his past mistake. Me."

"He's trying to psych him out." Po realized. "Make him slip up."

Harry growled. No. Baba does love me. I know it! He ran at the snow leopard. At the last minute he saw the leopard light up his fist preparing for a chi strike he had heard Baba talk about. Thinking fast as the leopard neared he shouted. "Rotation!" And spun in a three hundred sixty degree circle Tai Lung's eyes widened as he was blown back by a dome of Chi.

"Holy -!"

"No way!"

"What the-?" The Five sputtered out these intelligent responses and more.

Truly astounding. Shifu said as he leaned in closer.

What in the name of the gods? Tai Lung thought as he stood back up. .

"Woah, did you see that?" Monkey asked his fellow Masters as they all widened their eyes at Harry's dome technique.

"Apparently he's been at this longer than we thought." Tigress said in an impressed tone.

Shifu wondered just how long Harry had been practicing Kung Fu in secret.

"That was my Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation." Harry told Tai Lung with a hint of pride in his voice. "By emitting Chi from all over my body and spinning at a high velocity I can create a dome of defense capable of repelling most attacks."

It appears this will be more difficult than I thought. Tai Lung growled in his mind. Noting also how impressive it was that one so young created such a technique.

"He impressed Tai Lung. Even when I was young he wasn't easily impressed." Tigress said in awe.

Tai Lung ran at the human boy. He dodged left, right, ducked backwards as he jump kicked at his head and sweep kicked under the snow leopard's legs to the left just as Tai landed but avoided being sweeped as he handstand flipped backwards.

"He's holding his own with TAI LUNG?" Monkey asked in shock. Where did this talent come from? Then he remembered that he was the grandson of Emperor Xing.

How is this...child keeping up with me? Tai Lung thought as he growled in frustration. He took his eyes off of the boy for a split second and saw the child running at him. It was too late to avoid as he poked him multiple times in the chest, arms, and stomach.

"Poking?" Severus scoffed.

"He sends Chi from his fingertips through his enemies body." Shifu explained realizing what was happening. "This can not only damage one's Chi network, but also damage the enemy inside out."

"Nice." James said with a scary smile.

"What's with the poking?" Monkey asked in confusioin.

Tigress grimaced having been on the receiving end of a poke to her stomach. "Harry sends Chi through his finger tips into his opponents body." She explained. "This has the potential to not only block his enemies Chi network, but also damage their internal organs."

Tai Lung was experiencing the Chi shortage. The technique he used to paralyze his enemies wasn't as strong as it usually was.

"He beat the Mystic Palms technique." Shifu said in awe.

"This is bad." Crane said. "We have to help him NOW."

"NO." Tigress said firmly. "Let's see where this goes."

"Tigress." Shifu growled. "You where supposed to bring him back."

"He was already fighting when they arrived." Remus pointed out. Worried about his nephew's safety.

"I probably want to judge his skills." Tigress supplied.

"Nice flamey hand trick." Harry smirked. "Now let me show you mine." He stood with his fists at his sides. The wind picked up slightly as he broguht up a fist and then brought them to his hips. To everyone's amazement. Including Tai Lungs. Two lion shaped blazes of Chi appeared around his fists.

"Awesome." Po said in awe. The Wuxi Finger Hold failed in comparison to the awesomeness of this description.

"He's a Gryffindor. Definitely." James smiled.

"Neat huh?" Harry asked with a smrik. "Gentle Step, Twin Lion Fists."

"I thought his style was Gentle Fist?" Severus asked in confusion.

"Kung Fu is more than fist fighting Severus. It is also about foot work too." Shifu explained "Harry most likely created the Gentle Step to work with Gentle Fist."

"Its just Chi." Tai Lung snapped back. "Don't feel so surperior because you can manipulate it BOY. Plenty of Masters can manipulate Chi."

"He does have a ponit." Mantis pointed out.

Harry brought up a fist, and slammed it into a boulder nearby. It shattered into pieces. "You where saying?" He asked.

"Awesome." Po said again.

I can't let that touch me. The snow leopard thought as Harry ran at him. The human punched at him and he dodged it. He dodged attacks left and right as Harry tried to even tap him with both hands of his Lion Fist technique.

"What would happen if it did touch him?" Lily asked as she was cheering for her son inside.

"Hard to say, plenty of possibilities." Shifu told his son's birth mother.

I WON'T let him get the dragon scroll. Harry thought as his enemy dodged his strikes. No matter the cost. The rope that held the square bridge at the oppostie ends shook with their fight as Tai Lung jumped over him and ran to the opposite end. NO! He thoguht and jumped over the leopard to the ropes that held the bridge where Harry came to it.

"He's not going to!" Tigress protested. No. Not like this.

The leopard looked behind him. "NO! That scroll is mine!" He shouted in rage as he ran trying to stop the brat from destroying the posts. Too late. Harry sliced through both.

NO! Tigress thought in terror as the two warriors both fell into the cloudy ravine below. "NO!" She shouted as the bridge collapsed to the opposite side. No. She thought. Not Harry. Not my little brother.

"Is he?" Viper asked in sadness.

"He's gone." Tigress said as tears poured down her face. "Harry's gone. And I didn't do anything to save him."

"You didn't know what he was going to do." James said to comfort Tigress whose eyes where full of tears.

Shifu looked down sadly. At least his son died a hero.

"Look." Mantis said looking out into the raving on the opposite end of the bridge. Tigress looked up. The bridge was circling the rock it was connected to. Tigress narrowed her eyes. The bastard was still alive. They saw a blurred shape jump high into the air. IT was Tai Lung. And...Harry on his shoulder?

"Damn. What does it take to kill this guy?" Sirius snapped.

He landed with a thud. And slid Harry off of him down to the ground. The human boy was unconscious but breathing. He was still alive. The "Lion Fists" had died out.

"Its just Chi Exhaustion." Shifu said in a relieved tone.

"He tired himself out." The older leopard explained as the Five got into various stances preparing for battle. "Now. I have a little visit to pay." He growled and narrowed his eyes.

"I'll read." Mantis said and the book floated in front of him. "Chapter 5: The New Tai Lung?" He asked in confusion.

"Just read Mantis." Shifu said curiously wondering what the title meant.

To Be Continued...

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