Two Mountain Dews and a bag of Sun Chips later...
I do not own Kung Fu Panda, Mountain Dew, or Sun Chips... Only my OC's
"Dad?" I said. How could it be that he would be so corrupt.
"Oh so you know his name, he didn't think your mother would tell you the truth." The boar said to me laughing.
"You're lying, my mother said he left us when I was young!" I yelled at him, I was trying to control my anger.
"Oh you think I am lying, why not ask your 'Master' about the truth. He has known for a while now who was behind this." He told me. I turned to Master Shifu and looked at him. He wouldn't look at me in the eyes, he turned to the side and sighed.
"You knew?" I asked him, "Why didn't you tell me?" He turned back towards me and walked closer.
"I wanted to tell you but-" He started to say but I cut him off.
"But what? You think I wanted to hear this from the person who helped with all of that? Do you think that made me feel any better?" I asked him, on the verge of tears. He looked at me and cleared his throat.
"Fine if you want to hear it from me than I will tell you." He said and started to tell me about the conversation him and Tigress had last night.
Last night's conversation
"But there is something even greater that will be hard for young Kiryth to hear. Have you ever heard of someone named Keith Kelin?" He asked Tigress, she shook her head.
"He is an evil dictator that has taken over the city of Cas Ou, it is about a weeks journey from here. He is using the power of telekinesis to make the people of that city fear him and worship him as a god. And above all else, he is Kiryth's father." Shifu told her.
"Wait what? Kiryth said that his father left them when he was very young, how does Kiryth not know about this?" She asked him and he just shook his head.
"I am not aware of how he has not heard of this but I fear he may know soon enough. The boar that is at the jail is going to tell him all of this tomorrow and I am afraid that he might not be able to handle it." Shifu said. "Maybe I should tell him tomorrow before we go." Shifu asked himself. Shifu and her sat there for a couple of minutes wondering what to do. They heard foot steps outside the room and Tigress sprang up and pounced out the door. She had jumped Po as he walked by their room, she picked him up and brought him into the room, closing the door behind her.
"Oh um hi, this is exactly how it looks" Po said to them, swallowing hard. They just shook their heads at him.
"How much have you heard?" Shifu asked him.
"I am sorry for eavesdropping Master but I heard everything." Po said, looking down in shame. Shifu just turned away and started to talk again.
"Keith heard that his son was growing up here and was worried that he might become more powerful than him. So he sent out those two bandits to kidnap them both, lucky for us they only got his mother." Shifu told them. "I will hope for the best, I just hope he can handle the truth." Shifu said before sending his students off for bed.
I just stood there, I could not believe what I was hearing. Before I knew it I was running out the door and into the unforgiving winter storm that was going on outside. I hate the winter weather because it reminded me of so many things in my life. Until recently I use to enjoy the winter weather but now, it is hard for me to even look at it. Running through the snow is a lot colder than I was thinking, but than again you forget a lot of things when your running from the truth. The truth can hurt and scar you but even after you heal there is something for you to remember it by. It was only a couple of minutes ago when that truth struck me as hard as a sword cutting through diamond. That was five minutes ago and nothing has changed. My dad is still trying to kill me, he is probably torturing my mother, and I was not able to do anything to change it. I thought about just shedding my clothes and hiding in an alley way until I froze to death, it would save my father time by not having to do it himself. But something kept me going, I didn't know where I was running to but I just kept running. The storm was still as big as it was before we went to the jail house and showed no signs of slowing down. It was hard to make out the outlines of buildings and trees, everything was in a flurry of white. My vision didn't help much with that either, the only way I did not walk into things were because of the few lights that were hanging in the streets.
I stopped running for a minute to catch my breath and noticed that I had stopped right where my bedroom use to be. I was standing on the remains of my house, now a pile of burnt wood on the ground. I stood there for a couple of minutes, thinking of the good times I had living there. I had been my home since I could remember and it was hard for me to walk away. I started to realize that I had run out of the jailhouse without my coat and was now starting to regret it. I wondered if Shifu was worried about me, but I didn't care. I needed some time to think and with this storm I just needed some place to sleep. I put my hand into the pocket and felt my mothers coin bag she had given me that day and determined it had enough to buy me a room for the night. I went to the local inn and walked inside the front doors and was greeted by the warmth of it. It felt good to get out of the cold winter storm of the outside and for once it felt good to just be alone. The inn was not that big and it had the slight smell of liquor. There were some people in the corner table drinking there sorrows away on some alcohol and started making some noise. I think they were yelling at me for some reason but just shrugged them off. I walked up to the clerk and was greeted in a very friendly way.
"Hello and how are you this wonderful day?" The clerk at the desk asked me.
"Cold and empty, much like a room I would like to have." I said to her, handing her the money she for the room cost. She handed me the key and told me it was the third one on the right.
"Hello and how are you this wonderful day?" I heard her ask the next customer that was behind me as I left for my room. I got to it and unlocked the door, when I entered I was greeted by a cozy fire and a much needed bed. The beds at the Jade Palace were not what I was use to sleeping on and had started to make my back hurt. I got out of my wet clothes, hung them up to dry, and than hopped into bed. I grabbed my mothers necklace from my pocket and looked at it. So many questions were running through my mind but there was one that stood out the most.
"Why did you lie to me?" I asked her, even though she was not there. I pondered the question before drifting off to sleep for the night.
I was standing in an open field with the sun shining and the flowers growing. Looking around I noticed the many colors blooming on the flowers and the clear blue sky. I remembered this was just a couple weeks ago, my mothers birthday. We were having a picnic in the field just outside of the village, I went and sat down next to her. After we had eaten I gave her the necklace as her gift.
"Oh Kiryth I just love it." She said to me, picking me up and embracing me with a hug.
"Oh its nothing mom, I'm just glad your happy." I said returning the gesture. She started squeezing me really hard all of a sudden. "Uh mom, I.. I can't... breathe." I tried saying to her.
Than I woke up to my dimly lite room, the light from the fire was fading and it was starting to get cold out. I went to get up and realized that I could not move, the sheets on my bed were holding me down. I started to struggle to get up but had no luck, I looked around the room and was startled to notice a figure standing in the corner.
"Ah, you're awake. Good now we can start to talk." A female voice said to me. She started to pace around the room, keeping her full attention on me. "Now tell me, who are you?" She told me and I felt the bed sheets get tighter.
"My name is Kiryth and-" I started to say before she cut me off.
"You lie! Kiryth and my mother died long ago. Now tell me the truth?" She was getting angry and the bed sheets where starting to cut off my blood flow and my vision started to blur.
"I'm telling... you the tr-truth." I told her, I looked over at the necklace on the table and moved it over to her. She grabbed it and looked at it, she stared at it for a second and soon the sheets were not holding me down anymore. I got up and walked over to her and I could tell she was crying about something. "Are you my sister?" I said to her, she looked at me and just embraced me in a hug.
"I thought you guys died long ago." She was saying, her tears were making my shoulder wet but I wasn't worried about it. I repaid her the gesture and hugged back, I even started to cry a little bit. I had found the sister I had not know about until earlier today. We stood there for a couple of minutes before she let go and turned back toward the fire.
"I'm sorry but I only found out I had a sister today and so um, whats your name?" I asked her.
"It's Kathrine, but people just call me Kathy. I was named after mother." She said as she turned back around from the fire place and undid the coat and scarf she was using to cover her face. She looked just like my mother but younger.
"You look just like mother, I think." I told her, unsure of how to say that for I could not tell her features that well.
"Yeah, I remember being told that when I was younger, before you two went missing. Oh speaking of her where is she? I would love to see her again, it have been too long and..." She started saying.
"She's gone." I told her with disappointment in my voice, "Bandits from dad came and they kidnapped her but I escaped." I told her.
"I was too late, I knew I should have been faster. Okay Kiryth I have a story to tell you but first I want to know all that you know about your past?" She said to me, taking a seat at the table in the corner.
"Just call me Ki." I told her, "What is this story about because I was told a story earlier today and it didn't have a happy ending." I joked with her, but she didn't laugh. She had a very serious look on her face. I told her everything I learned about today, the day the bandits attacked me, and about my powers.
"It's about dad, I think he is going to try and kill us." She started to say in a whisper, "At first he just wanted back into his life but now he just wants us dead."
"I kind of figured that out, I talked to one of the bandits that kidnapped mother earlier today." I told her.
"Yes I know, I paid him a visit just before you got there." She told me and than I remembered the person that walked out right before I walked into the jailhouse earlier.
"Wait that was you? Why did you leave? How did you know where to find that bandit?" I started to ask her all of these questions and she didn't say anything. I got worried stopped talking about it, "Please, go on with your story." I said to her.
"Yes I will and don't worry, your questions will be answered. Now I will begin with the day our family was torn apart." She started to tell her story.
Kathrine's Story
"It all started after I had gotten separated from you guys, about ten years ago. It was after Tai Lung went on his rampage and when I returned home that day I found the house was destroyed and you guys were no where in sight. I was worried that you had gotten killed by him and started to cry. Right than this nice old man comforted me and told me there was someone who could help me and that he would take me to him. I had nowhere else to go so I followed him. It seemed like he had a lot of travelers with him, there were about ten or fifth-teen of us in total. We traveled for a couple of weeks and were only a days journey away when our caravan was jumped by some bandits. We had nothing to protect ourselves soon found ourselves surrounded. One of them grabbed me and the first thing I did was scream and yell telling him to let me go. He only laughed and than taunted me saying 'Oh yeah and what if I don't. What will you do?' I wasn't sure but I just started to stare at him, without blinking or breathing. The world just seemed to slow down and only me and him were moving, he soon found himself dropping me and than was flung back and into some bushes. He go back up and looked at me, horror in his eyes."
"'She's one of them!' Someone shouted."
"'We better run, she will kill us!' The bandits ran away screaming and panicking. I turned around and noticed that the people I had been traveling with were bowing to me. It was kind of weird and than that old man walked up to me. He told me that I had a special gift and that he wanted me to meet there leader, little did I know that that person was dad. We got to the city the next day and they took me to see their leader, our dad. When he brought me to him he knew that I was his daughter. We had a period in which things went well, for about 8 years. He trained me in Kung Fu and my telekinesis for most of my life. Then he noticed that my abilities were growing as powerful as his and I knew he was starting to fear me. One night I overheard him talking to someone about how he feared that I might become more powerful than him and over throw him. He wanted me and you two silenced. I felt betrayed knowing that the only person that was left in my life was out for my blood. I decided to leave that night in fear that it might be my last. I packed up everything I had and left through my window. It was a long and tiring journey, I had many obstacles in my way but the biggest were the people dad sent after me, to kill me. I had to learn how to fight to live and to do it fast."
"It was only about a week ago when I caught word that you two were still alive and proceeded to head out for the Valley of Peace the next day. I got here only a couple of weeks ago and after asking around town for a little bit I had learned where you two lived but when I showed up at the house, it was burnt to the ground. I felt defeated once more, knowing that dad might of gotten to you guys before I could of warned you about your impending doom. I decided to stay here, at this inn, for the night. The next morning I went back to the house to see if I could find any clues but I found a tigress sifting through the wreckage. She only found what seemed to be the necklace you have there and than headed back towards the big palace up the mountains. I followed her because she seemed to know something about you and I think she knew I was following her because she started to pickup her pace. I ended up losing her when I turned a corner and was met with a dead end and no one there. I knew something was up so I decided to stay here longer, maybe I would run into her again and get a couple of clues."
"Than the next day I decided to wander up to that palace to see if I could figure out some more clues as to where you were or what happened to you. I waited until night fall so I would be able to sneak up there a little easier and on my way up I ran into a messenger bird on his way to the same palace. I saw he had a message in his claws and decided it would be my best bet, so I looked at him and with some concentration I made him drop to the ground. I'm not the best at soft landings because I think I knocked him out. I grabbed the message and read it, it was to a Master Shifu addressing him that the bandit that attacked the town, the day I got there, had woken up and wanted an audience with him and his newest student. After reading that I took off for the jail house, knowing that the bandit knew dad and would have the answers I needed, but the door was locked up for the night. I went back to the inn and plotted out my plan for tomorrow, I didn't need anyone knowing who I was or what I was doing."
"When I woke up today I had everything I needed and when I went to leave the inn it was just a huge snowstorm outside. I bundled up and headed out the door towards the jailhouse. When I got there I made sure no-one was following me and slowly opened the door. The guard was reading something at the table and didn't notice that I had opened it. I flew the door open and bolted for the front of his desk, knowing he wouldn't see me. He got up yelling about how the door was stupid and stuff like that and after he closed it I knocked him out. I propped him back up at his desk and grabbed the keys to the cell. I could tell he was sent from dad the moment I looked at him, just something about him made him stand out. He was sleeping and I slowly opened the gate to his cell, not wanting to disrupt his slumber and walked closer to him. The next thing he knew was that he woke up hinging upside down like a cocoon made out of his sheets."
"'Hey whats the big idea.' He shouted, I walked closer to him and took off my hood. 'Who are- wait I know you. Your Keith's little girl, did you come to rescue me?'" I only shook me head and walked up closer to him."
"'Where is he?" I asked him, "Where is Kiryth and my mother?"
"What makes you think I will tell-" He started to say before I cut him off from oxygen for a couple of seconds before releasing some of the pressure of his cotton cocoon.
"I will only ask one more time. Where. Is. He!" I demanded from him, but I was getting no where.
"Oh your angry, just like your dad." He spat out at me, I tightened the cocoon even harder than before.
"Don't you dare refer to me as anything like my father. I am nothing like him." I told him, he only laughed in my face.
"What makes you think I will tell you where to find your family? I have nothing to lose and nothing to gain." He said before losing consciousness from hanging upside down too much. I stopped concentrating and he fell to the ground hitting his head and waking back up. I walked over to him and pulled out my dagger, holding it to his throat.
"I am only going to tell you one more time and the right answer will let you live another day." I stared my vengeance filled eyes into his. He didn't say anything. "Killing you myself will not be pleasant enough, ill have you do it yourself and with that I went to punch him in the face and he brought up his hand to catch my fist. I let him catch it and he threw me across the room, little did he know he had just sealed his fate because in the midst of that I dropped the dagger at his feet and as I got up he walked over to me, dagger in hand."
"Look who's got the upper hand now" He said to me. "Now before I kill you I think it would only be right to answer your last request. Your brother has been living up at the Jade Palace for a couple of days now, but you both will be reunited soon in the after life." He said before his own hand brought the knife up to his throat. "What the?" He said.
"I told you, that killing you myself wouldn't do justice." I told him getting up from the ground, " Now before you kill yourself I want to thank you for telling..." I was saying before I was cut off to the sound of the door to the jailhouse being opened. I quickly grabbed the dagger from him and ran out the door. Trowing the keys back to their place holders, I got out of there quickly so no one would notice me. To quickly in fact because I didn't even notice that it was you who was arriving right than."
"I immediately started for the Jade Palace, knowing that you would be there. When I got there I was greeted by the same tigress that had been scavenging the house the other day. I think I started off on the wrong foot because she was very mean to me. "Where is Kiryth?" I asked her, she looked at me puzzled by the question."
"Who are you?" She asked me. I was starting to get mad having my questions answered by more questions all day so I got a little too aggressive.
"I'm the one asking the question," I started to tell her, "But if you must know I am a friend of his." I lied to her, I didn't want anyone to know who I was exactly. She just stared at me for what seemed to be a long time.
"He isn't here right now, he left for the day on an errand." That is when I remembered that you were going to the jailhouse and that was probably you who had walked in as I left.
"That's right, he went to the jailhouse" I said to myself as I went to leave, but that Tigress jumped in front of me. I could tell I said something that I should not of.
"How do you know where he was going? Tell me who you really are or else!" She demanded from me. I was in no mood to fight but I wasn't going to leave without one. She got into a fighting stance and lunged at me. She connected a kick and it sent me flying towards the wall but stopped myself before slamming into it. I pushed off of the wall and went to return the kick but was greeted by a dodge and a punch going for my arm. I flipped around to dodge it and landed on my feet. I turned back toward her and she retook her stance. "You're not that bad, who taught you to fight?" She asked me"
"My father did, he is a great master. His name is Keith Kelin." When I said that name she looked at me as though she was seeing something else.
"Wait your father is Keith, so that makes you-"
"Kiryth's sister, yes." I finished her sentence before starting to attack her again. We were trading and dodging blows for a bit.
"I can't believe that he would send his own sister out here to kill his son." I heard her say.
"I'm not here to kill him." I said as I backed down from the fight, "I just want to see him." She was now backing down from the fight too. We bowed before walking closer to one another and she spoke again.
"He should be back soon if you would like to wait, but tell me one thing. Why has he never mentioned you?" She asked me. I really didn't have an answer, how could one forget his own sister.
"I'm not sure," I told her, "Maybe he forgot about me." I could tell my voice sounded defeated by those words. We stood there in silence for a couple of minutes before we heard the doors to the palace open and a small red panda ran inside.
"Is Kiryth here? He ran out of the jail house without his coat and I couldn't find him anywhere." He said to Tigress, completely ignoring me.
"I bet I know where he is." I told them before bolting for the door to leave. I ran out the door and started to run back towards the village and noticed the storm was starting to pick back up. I thought you might of gone back home, to where your house use to stand and I caught sight of you just leaving there, walking towards the inn to find some shelter for the night. I followed you in and after you got your room I walked up to the clerk.
"Hello and how are you this wonderful day?" She greeted me.
"I'm fine, hey what room did that dog just go to?" I asked her, slipping her some extra money. She looked around and told me before shooing me off. I waited for you to get into your room before sneaking in."
"I'm sorry for scaring you when you woke up. It's just that I have been betrayed so many times before and I needed to make sure you were who you claimed to be" She said, ending her story.
"I should be the one who's sorry, making you worry like that for so long. I don't really remember what happened that day with the village attack. All I remember was waking up in a new house and mother was there. She never mentioned you to me, but when Tai Lung attacked a second time I guess it makes sense why she was so worried about me." I told her, I decided to tell her what had happened in the last couple of days. She seemed to take it well and I could tell she was just happy for me to be okay.
"So you can't see any color?" She asked me.
"Nope" I told her, she had a sad look on her eyes.
"Okay I have an idea, I want you to close your eyes and picture mom." She told me and I did that.
"Do you see her?" She asked me, I nodded. "Okay now imagine that is me, since I look like her. Imagine me with brown fur. I have blue eyes and around one of my eyes is a dark circle of black fur, it kind of makes me look like I have a black eye." I giggled at that and she slapped me. "Don't laugh, okay I also have a strip of white fur going down my back, just like what you have. That is what I look like." It was nice being able to see what she looked like. When I opened my eyes it all went away and turned back to normal.
"Okay I'm beat, why don't we talk more about what to do in the morning." I told her as I got up and went back to my bed.
"Okay but um, I don't have a room. Mind if I stay here for the night?" She asked me.
"I don't care, as long as you don't snore." I said laughing, but she wasn't. "What?" I asked her.
"Well, I do snore, so I guess ill just be leaving now." She turned toward the door.
"No I didn't mean that I was kidding." She started to laugh and told me she was joking. We had a good laugh before getting into bed. I looked at my mothers necklace for a little bit, saying a prayer for her before drifting off to sleep.
Okay I hope you guys are enjoying it so far. Might have the next chapter up by Sunday until then Goodbye.