Hey Guys! Chapter 6 is here and this will be the last chapter for the moment. I'm taking a 1 month break so I can focus on my art and my other projects but don't worry I promise I'll be back for March.

Also I can't wait for tomorrow! I just can't believe KFP3 is a few hours away and since I work in the theaters, I can see it as many times as I want to (lucky me!)! This is another reason why I'm taking a break, so I can absorb all of what I saw and take notes on what I can use for this fanfic. One last thing before I go, there are two new characters here and after this chapter Po and the gang will go on missions and meet new characters. All of them will be base on art concepts from art books and characters that were cut out from the films.

So with that out of the way, let get started!

Chapter 6: Attack of the Lousily Assassins

The morning light arrived, lighting up the rooms with its warm rays of the sun. The windows shined the colors of yellow and orange. An old but wise master stood in the middle of the hallways,waiting. Shifu's ears twitch by the quietness as he stood patiently for his students to awake.

The sound of a loud bell ringed in the air and the rooms. In a snap, all the doors swoon opened and everyone stood, still and tall.

"Good morning Master" the five said with respect.

Seconds later another door opened and Po swiftly step out, almost tripping on his own feet, "Good morning Master" he said, giving a goofy grin.

He was hoping his master wouldn't notice, but he did as the red panda give Po a look.

"You're three seconds late Po" he said, "But it's an improvement so it will do."

"Phew" Po was relieved.

Everyone was ready for the day, but then they noticed someone was missing. Someone was not out with them. Master Shifu took noticed and thought to himself, he might as well speak with the peacock before he started his training.

"All of you go on ahead," he said " I'll talk to him. We will be training outside today."

His students nodded as they head out and down the all ways. Shifu walked by the door and used his staff to remove the pole and knocked on the door. He saw the silhouette of the lord behind the door as he sidled it open and was greeted by the master.

"Good morning Lord Shen" Shifu said, "Are you ready to begin your training for today?"

He could tell by reading Shen's face that he was not absorbed with the whole idea of training with his enemies. The peacock turned back to his room and sat on the ledge of his bed. He left the door open for the Master as his way for him to come in. Shifu understood already that the fallen lord wanted to talk. He walked in the room, carefully not to step on Shen's long red and white train.

"Something on your mind?" asked Master Shifu, waiting for the bird to speak.

Shen looked up, his face was blanked but on the inside he was filled with inpatient anger. He did not like any of these people, not even the one in front of him, but he somewhat respected the red panda. The master seemed astute than any other master the peacock met, maybe much more astute than his master.

"Why…" Shen started trying to put his sentence in a careful manner, "Why is it, he's so determined to fix something, that's not even his problem to begin with."

Shifu knew whom he was talking about. Holding his staff with one hand he explained the best way he can, "Po is different, he's not like any other student I have trained over the years. He's fights in the name of justice but he would always tries to reason to some."

"But why even bother with me? He knows what I did to him, so does he try so desperately to change me?"

"I'll be honest, I did not agree with his decision. But if he could see another side of you then maybe I too, could see it by teaching you kung fu."

Shen couldn't help but rolled his eyes at this, "And why would I need to train? I don't need to know kung fu. I was taught kai li fo."

Shifu nodded his head, knowing he was going to say that.

"I understand that you are skilled, but that's the problem."

The peacock did not like where this going and he narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"Lord Shen, you are a master in cai li fo and in weaponry, but you abuse that power to gain your own deeds. You have forgotten what the meaning of kung fu is; you have no idea what it is to be a master. As a student you must reconnect yourself…"

This cause the Shen to raise a brow, not really sure what the old red panda meant.

"And what would that do?" he asked.

Shifu smiled, "By reconnecting to kung fu and relearning the lessons, you will remove yourself from what you are now to a true master. And maybe you'll will find what you have been missing."

With that the master walked back outside waiting for Shen to follow him. The peacock sighed and followed him but he was lost to his own thoughts, thinking how he has to relearn everything. He never asked if he wanted to be a master or not. Kai li fo was the only style that he was good for, it was for self-defense since he thought himself weak to learn any other kung fu style. But what did the old master meant that he would find what he was missing. It's never a pacific riddle and he didn't want to linger on it.

Although, it does aggravate him every time someone talks with him, they always have to be psychological with their words.

"All right! Let's get this day started!" Po cheered, stretching his arms and legs.

It was a warm and beautiful summer day, perfect for kung fu fighting.

The whole courtyard was setup with tall wooden polls in the middle and the weapon racks were outside of the small area. Every master already picked their partner to be their opponent. Mantis hopped to one wooden pole to the next in incredible speed while Crane flew in the air, keeping up with his friend. Once he caught up Crane swooped down to attack. Mantis hopped back, dogging the attack. The green bug leaped up ready himself to do a kick, he saw Crane dodge his kick and he quickly landed on the surface of the wooden poll.

Down below Monkey and Tigress were training together, Monkey held his bamboo staff while Tigress held her stance holding out her claws out. In a quick second Tigress made the first move, she got on all fours and charged to Monkey, he then jumped to the side and use his staff to smack her claw punches away. Monkey threw his staff in the air, caught it with his tail and throws a flip kick to Tigress. But Tigress was able to block it with her arm and block a few punches after that.

Meanwhile Po and Viper were getting good in their training. Viper was showing her panda friend how to avoid jabs to the joint areas. With quick steps Po moved left to right avoiding Viper's snakes attacks. She slithered in fast speed, wiping her tail as she tried to hit one of Po's legs for him to trip. Po then grabbed her tail, which was a mistake because it gave Viper the advantage. She wrapped her body around his arm, slithered pass his head, and once her head touch the ground she use all her body strength and flipped Po on to his back. She let go of Po's arm and went to check to see he was hurt.

"Po are you all right?" she asked.

"Yeah," Po said getting up and rubbing his head, "Note to self, don't grab a snake's tail or I'll get flipped."

The kind snake giggled, "I can be full of surprise sometimes."

Po chuckled.

He then turned to see Master Shifu and Lord Shen coming up the stairs, with eyes light up he rushes over towards them.

"Hey Master Shifu, Lord Shen" Po said as he made a quick but kind bow to them.

The panda smiled excitedly to Shen. "Welcome to the Training Hall. So, you ready to get those muscles and blood pumping?" he asked pluming his fists in the air playfully.

Shen wasn't amused by Po's enthusiasm although he was glad to be out of the building; it felt really nice to be outside again.

"Okay so, I'm usually not the person to make ground rules, but those weapons are off limits" Po said pointing a near by rack, "for now at least."

Shen didn't like being told what to do; it was weird for him since it used to be him to make the orders. He only glowered at panda, "That's fine."

"Okay remember, no touchy."

"I get it" Shen snapped, "Now leave me be, while I train in peace."

Before Shen can found himself a spot to isolate himself from the others, Po stopped him on his tracks. "Whoa whoa, hold on," the panda said.

The peacock growled to himself with annoyance, "What now?"

"Before you do anything" explained the bear, "You have to show off your moves to us. Every new student has to performed their strength by going through some levels."

Shen raised a brow to this, "They do?"

Po was about to answer, but cut himself short when it wasn't mostly the truth, "Um…No not really, but that's what I did when I first came to the Jade Palace. I started training on level zero."

It was only a moment until Shen couldn't help but started laughing, "Haha, oh panda you have such awful taste of humor."

"He's not kidding that really happened," cried Crane while flying in the air.

Hearing that Shen and gave the panda a look, "You're got to be kidding me."

"Hey if was kidding I would be laughing" Po said with a fake chuckle but it died off seeing the peacock's face was still deadpanned.

"Here I'll be back" Po dashed away and into the building of the training hall. He came back outside carrying a heavy bag, but Shen looked closely and saw it was a punching dummy. The five also saw what was going on and decided to take a break and watch.

Po placed the adversary in front of him and Shen.

"This ought to be interest," Shifu thought to himself.

"This little guy was my very first opponent on level zero. I call him Panda jr since he didn't really had a name. I don't use him that often but we occasionally train with him," said Po as he moved to the side, "now show us what you got."

Shen only stared at the dummy in front of him as if it was a joke and turned his attention back to the panda. He thought of all of this as a joke, "You want me to participate in this excurse?"

"Yeah."

Shen wanted to give this chance but this was not he expected, to punch a stupid toy as training. "I will not allow myself to be stoop by this level, I mean what's the point in all of this. I'm already a skilled lord I don't need show how I'm better than any of you."

The masters tried not to glare at him while Po seem to shrugged off the comment.

"I know you're skilled and you could be better than us" he said.

"Then what is the point to this?" Shen demanded.

"The point is to help you out of that comfort zone and let it out" Po said in a way to help the peacock understand, "here I'll show ya."

Shen step out of the way for Po to face the adversary in front of him. The panda showed his heroic pose and stared down the dummy.

"All right Panda jr, it's you and me again. What you got this time huh? You got nothing cuz' I got it right here" Po said as he taunt the dummy, "Get ready to feel the thunder!"

"Oh boy" Tigress muttered to herself, thinking back on the day Po first entered the Training Hall. The other masters smiled or giggled, also remembering the time they met Po.

"I may look the same now but I got inner peace, you can't touch that! You never seen that before right? Or, or how about peacock-style, huh? I can move like a peacock. I got the skills of uh, swiftly wings of justice." Po's arm flared wildly like bird wings and made 'ka-ka' sounds of a bird.

Shen just eyed at this-this silliness! He didn't know if should laugh at the panda's stupidity or stare and somewhat gawk of how he was acting. This cannot be the same person, the same bear that took everything away from him. Plus hearing him make horrible birds calls, was almost insulting. This was far beyond of his comfort zone and his patients were becoming thin as Po kept threating the still and non-threating dummy. Finally he couldn't take it.

"Oh for God's sake move out of the way I'll do it!"

Po did move to the side of the dummy and watched what the peacock had in store. Shen closed his eyes and in one second he reopened them and did a spin attack, using his train to swiftly hit the adversary on the side. This caught Po off guard, as he and the dummy bag of sand went flying to the solid wall. It wasn't intentional but Shen couldn't hide the smirk forming on his face. With a grunt Po pushed the adversary off of him.

"PO!" The five cried as they rushed to aid.

"Po are okay?" asked Monkey.

"That…" Po stared as he looked up with a smile, "That was so awesome! I didn't even see that coming, you are strong!"

Shen honestly didn't expect that kind of response or a compliment of his abilities. But he took advantage of it and smirked once more showing his pride, it was about time someone showed him respect.

"Well yes, as I said before I am more skilled than you can image."

"Well done" said Shifu with a confident smile, "You have pass level 'zero'. Now we can move on to better options."

Po rushed back to Shen and his teacher while holding the adversary, "Oh man, I can't wait to show you more awesome stuff, I don't even know where to begin!"

Before anyone could answer, something very shiny and fast flew passed them almost missing it. The first hit the ground, second hit a wooden poll of the Training Hall building, and the last one hit right on the adversary. Po turned the dummy to the side to see a sharp throwing star right between the eyes.

"Panda jr NO!"

"We're under attack!" Tigress cried and everyone got in their stance ready to fight back.

Two more throwing stars flew at their direction and they all jumped out of the way while Shen backed away not want any a part of what is going on. The attackers soon revealed themselves, there were two of them and all wearing black to look like shadows. One jumped and landed on the ground and the other landed right on top of his right shoulder. The foe was large, obviously an elephant, his face was covered expect his eyes, horns and his trunk nose. He carried around him his swords and a small bag around his waist and gold rings on his horns. His friend was a monkey but much more smaller than Master Monkey. Their whole body was covered in black expect for the eyes and their long slim tail.

"Who are you?" demanded Master Shifu, "Answer me! "

The intruders did not say a word, only charged towards the masters. The five, Shifu and Po jumped away. Tigress was the first to attack. The elephant threw a punch and Tigress blocked it, only to be pushed back harshly from the strength of the attacker. Shifu helped her up and both got themselves to stance waiting for intruder's next move. The elephant pulled out his swords and charged at Shifu and Tigress. Both of them dip down and use a high kick to knock the weapons out the elephant's hands. Mantis hopped back and forth and landed a blow kick to the face, causing the elephant to grunt in pain. Viper slithered on to the intruder and wrap her body around his wrist to make him punch himself in the face. The elephant use his trunk and threw Viper in the sky, lucky Crane was there to catch her and both flew down to land an attack. Monkey grabbed his bamboo staff and blocked more throwing stars from the small monkey. The creature use its tail to pull the staff out of Monkey's hands. Monkey throws a punch and a kick but then he got kicked under his chin, falling backwards. The small monkey then turned their head, eyeing on the warlord.

Shen looked around for a weapon to protect himself and remembered the rack of weapons near by. He run towards the rack but was stopped by the small monkey. Po turned and saw the monkey, while his friends deal with the elephant he rushed over to help the peacock.

"Not so fast bubby" Po said, " you're going down!"

"I can fight my own fights panda" Shen said annoyed that the panda was trying to save him.

"Then let's work toget-" Po didn't finished his sentence as She run passed him about to attack the small creature. But the small monkey leaped in the air and landed on top of the rack and pulled out each sword, blade and staff to throw at the panda and peacock. Po and Shen dodged all of them. Po ran towards the small monkey while dodging the weapons, he tried to reach and grab its tale but only managed to grab the cloth covering its face. The monkey's face was pale and their fur was dark orange, they also had a unibrow. Po couldn't tell what gender it was.

"Hey give that back!" the monkey squeaked as it jumped on to Po's hand and chomped down with it's teeth. The panda yelp and shook his whole arm to get the monkey off of him.

"OW! Oh oho ho, Shen! Get it off! Get it off!" Po yelled the peacock for help.

The said peacock rolled his eyes. The panda can take on any warrior but he couldn't handle a small monkey, how pathetic.

"Oh quit your winning!" Shen said as he grabbed the monkey's tail with his feet and threw them to a tree. It's back hit the bark hard and cried in agony. Before it could get up Shen stomped on it, not letting get away. Po told the peacock not to hurt it as he picked it up.

"All right, now tell us who you are?" Po said looking eye to eye at the monkey.

"HEY!" Shen and Po turned to see the masters took down the elephant. He glared at them; "You put her down this instant!"

"Wait you're a girl?" Po said asking the monkey. She growled at him and jumped out of his hands, landing on his face to bite his nose.

"OW! AH! Shen get it off!" cried the young bear as falls to the ground.

Shen took a deep breath and sighed, face palming and shaking his head.

The two intruders were tied so they wouldn't get away from them. Both of their cloth masks were taken off so the masters could see their faces.

"Now let me ask this question again, who are you?" Shifu asked who was really not in the mood for this.

The elephant huffed with his trunk, "all right, we'll tell you our classified information. I am Zhēnbâo and this is Píqì."

The said monkey hissed at them showing off her bear sharp teeth as a threat.

"We are trained assassins and work for the emperor of China."

"Assassins?" Tigress whispered with alarm in her voice.

"Wait as in, the emperor of China?" Po asked.

"Correct" said Zhēnbâo.

"Yeah correct!" Píqì repeated with a grin like she was proud of her job.

Po was amazed; he never met anyone who worked with the emperor even if they were trying to kill him. Master Shifu and the five however, glanced at each other concern and alarm. Why would the emperor send assassins to their village? Even Shen was curious of where this was going.

"More like lousily assassins" Mantis said, "We took you guys down in a five minutes."

"Hey it's our first mission so get off our backs!" Píqì said with temper.

"We our sorry for fighting all of you but we wanted no inference with our mission" said Zhēnbâo.

"Perhaps it would be nice for you to explain what your mission is," said Shifu.

Zhēnbâo went on explaining.

"We have gotten wind on what was going on in Gongmen City. The emperor signed us to take down the warlord, Lord Shen. But when we got there, it seem the battle was already over. We asked citizens some questions and they told us he was staying in the Valley of Peace. Once we got the information our emperor told us to travel here and now here we are."

This made the peacock's blood run cold. He could feel the familiar fear crawling on his feathers. They were after him, and the emperor wanted him dead. He felt he should have seen this coming; everyone still wanted him dead for trying to take over China. Yet he couldn't help but feel some terror raising in his body.

"Wait a minute" Po turned pointing at Shen, "You're saying you're here to kill him?"

"Of course" Zhēnbâo said, "He tried to take over China, and that is a big threat to the people and the emperor himself. It's our job as assassins to find and put down threats for their own good."

"Yeah for their own good!" Píqì cheered.

"Do we have a say in this?" asked Crane. The masters knows if the emperor himself made an order, then they know to obey and follow since he is ruler of their land and knows what is right. But they still couldn't believe that their ruler would just send out assassins without even notifying them.

"No cuz' it's not your job to kill him!" the small monkey snapped.

"I'm sorry but you cannot interfere the orders of the emperor" Zhēnbâo said as he flex his strong arms to break the ropes and untied his friend.

"NO!"

Everyone turned to see Po stand in front of Shen, holding his hands in defense, "if you think I'm gonna stand here and let you do your job, then you're out of your mind!"

Zhēnbâo raised a brow, "Excuse me, but we told you can't interfere with our mission."

"Then I guess you'll have to get through to me!"

"What is he doing? These are the emperor's assassins, does he want to get himself killed?" Shen thought.

"Hey! You're not only disrespecting our orders but are also disrespecting the emperor's orders!" cried Píqì.

Po didn't dare make a move, "I don't care! Orders or not, I made a promise to someone that I was going to watch over him. He's my responsibility, not yours."

Shifu agreed with his student and decided to take over the situation before it gets out of hand.

"The Dragon Warrior has a point. You both have no right or permeation to come to our village and kill one of my students. You have disrespected us and attack us with no explanation."

"But-"

"The situation with Lord Shen was already discussed with me and the Kung Fu councils. You should have asked them for information but obviously none of you know how to do with your jobs."

The assassins were dumbstruck and they didn't say another word. Po still held his stance and the five glared at them. It was then they put their mask back.

"Fine. We understand."

"I will be writing to the emperor of the update and I will report your behavior," said Shifu.

"Understood, but he may not agreed your standers" Zhēnbâo then glared at Shen's direction, "He doesn't like people who are trying to take his thrown away. We'll be around…"

"Yeah! Out of sight but not out of mind!" Píqì stuck tongue out to them and she and the elephant leaped to the roofs and jumped to another direction, disappearing in the trees.

"Well…that was interesting," said Mantis.

"I don't know guys, there something really shady about those two" said Viper.

"Honestly, I don't think they really did earn permission from the emperor, I think they just came here once they got word of Shen's location" Crane thought out load, "and they did said this is their first mission."

"It's doesn't matter anymore" Tigress comment, "They're not coming back."

"Yeah and if they do, they'll feel my paws of fury. Wah-ta!" Po said as he throws his first in the air, "Let get back to training!"

"How about a break first, that battle of taking down an elephant took a lot out of me" Monkey complained while rubbing his sore chin.

The five walked back to the Student barracks, Shifu was about to join them but Po called to him.

"Wait Master Shifu" Po called and looked down to him, "thanks for having my back."

His teacher smiled kindly to his student, "Not to worry Po. Hopefully we won't have anymore surprises."

He watched his teacher walked away and he turned his head to the peacock who stood there. "Hey Lord Shen, wanna grab some dumplings?" asked Po but frown when Shen didn't say anything. He just stood there, looking at the ground.

A concern Po walked over to Shen to get a glimpse of his face, "Hey…are you okay?"

"Why did you do that?"

"Huh?"

"I didn't asked you to defend me," said Shen finally looking at the panda.

Po couldn't tell if Shen was ungrateful or simply confused from the way he was looking at him. He could only give his best reply, "C'mon, did you really think I was gonna let them kill you?"

"Yes honestly" was Shen's response.

That response caused Po to blinked in shock. "But why?"

"Don't play as the idiot panda, we all know I deserve to die for what I did. I should have died on that boat…"

Po then thought of something from a few days ago, "When you said you wanted to die, you didn't really mean that did you?"

Shen looked at the panda's face, this time studying his expression. He had the look of worry mixed with sadness, he never seen the panda made that look before.

"And what if I did?" said Shen in a bitter tone, "I mean there's nothing left for me to do." He believe this to be true, the only thing he was now was a student surrounded by the people who are the reminders of his failure.

"Wha'da talking about? There a lot of things for you besides taking over China." said Po with confidents.

"Oh really and what are they panda, hm?" Shen asked.

"Well I don't know yet, but-"

"See. That's the problem, you don't know." Shen snapped, "You don't know anything, so defending me was pointless and it proved nothing and still stands the fact I deserve to die."

"Don't say things like that!" Po said with a frown.

"And why not?"

"Because it's not true."

He placed a paw on Shen's shoulder and stared at the warlord with a determined expression. "Just because I don't know everything, doesn't mean you should give up on everything," and Po smiled a beaming smile, "Now no more 'dying talks'. How about we grab some dumplings and get back for training, does that sound good?"

Shen didn't like the panda was placing his hand on him but what irritated him more was his smile. It was a wonder to Shen as to why did this bear cares about him so much. The peacock sighed, "Don't you ever give up?"

Po just chuckled, "Heh heh, nope."

With that Po walked pass the peacock and picked up the adversary with a star impaled on its forehead.

"C'mon Panda jr, you need some patch work," Po said to the dummy.

While he was thinking about what Po said, Shen wanted to asked him about something but saw that the bear was already gone. He wanted to asked him about what he said to the assassins, his promise that he will watch over him. He wondered who could he had made that promise to. But in the back of his mind, was a small voice that told him he already knew the answer.

And that was Chapter 6, if you see any mistakes let me know and I'll go and fix it! So the assassins are from the art books of KFP, Zhēnbâo is base on a picture of a ninja elephant from the first film and Píqì is base on a character that was cut out from KFP2.

Zhēnbâo (zhen-bao) means elephant

Píqì (pi-chi) means temper

Oh and why did I name the adversary Panda jr...I don't know cuz why not, lol!