Chapter 6. The results of a mystery
Sorry these are short, but it keeps you intruiged.
Xiaxion sent the feather to the research labs to uncover who had stolen Tai Lung's body.
Days later, it turned out that it was the Jade Palace messanger. Xiaxion scowled crossly to herself and prepared for a long journey from Ney York to the Valley of Peace. Luckily, she had a lot of sick days to spend and she had hardly ever been sick in her life. So Xiaxion packed her backs one Saturday morning and flew on an airplane to China.
The plane took several detours on the way and arrived in China on Tuesday. The soundless atmosphere gave Xiaxion a headache. She was so used to noise from the bug city that the silence stunned her. She went to the Palace and banged on thegreat doors. The furious five were still alive, but without much vigor left in them. Viper had molted so many times that her skin was flaking all the time. Monkey could no longer jump as high as he used to. Mantis had long died, but had left great-grandchildren in his wake. Crane couldn't fly as high as he used to, nor could he react as quickly to incoming attacks. Tigress still had a firey spirit, but also carried a cane in her arsonel. And Po... Well, he was so old that he had lost weight dramatically. He was nearly bone thin now. Shifu was still alive... Barely.
Xiaxion forced open the doors. "Where's the messanger?" she growled. Tigress gazed at her in awe.
"Who are you?" Tigress asked.
"I am Xiaxion, daughter of Isabel Wu and Tai Lung." Xiaxion shouted proudly and gave the five a harsh glare. "Now, answer me: Where is the messanger?"
The five nervously pointed to inside the palace and Xiaxion strode in. The messanger was standing over the lifeless body of Tai Lung. "Master.." the bird whispered. "Please wake up!"
"Why you little traitor!" Xiaxion hissed crossly and stared at the bird.
"DON'T KILL ME!" the bird screeched in a flurry of feathers and embarrasment at being caught.
"I won't kill you. Just give me the body and no one gets hurt."
"Fat chat, bitch!" the messanger hissed and crouched protectively over Tai Lung's body.
"You're going to regret that." Xiaxion growled darkly and she felt a mysterious power rise in her. In a flash, Kunf fu moves played like a rocket-powered slide show through her mind. She threw a vicous roundhouse kick into his face and brought her paw onto his back so that his spine split with a powerful snap.
The messanger crumpled to the ground and Xiaxion reamerged from the palace dragging Tai Lung behind her.
The five stared at her before muttering among themselves. Atlast Mantis IV spoke. "You are the mythical one!" he buzzed.
"What?" Xiaxion growled. "I'm just a nurse from New York."
"New... York?" Viper asked.
Xiaxion relized that they had never been past the boundaries of China. "Never mind." she said. "Anyway, I'm not mythical."
Tigress stared at her. She had a sad and happy expression at the same time. Of course, Xiaxion was a black tiger, one of the very few of her kind, but still...
Tigress finally looked away and Po stared at Xiaxion. "There was a legend of a girl like you. She was an ancient Kung Fu master and she rested in a black tiger. Her name was Xiaxion, also. She saved the world from Shen's Great, great grandfather."
Xiaxion scoffed. "Yeah, whatever. I'm taking this body. Anyone want to help me burn it?"
The five stared at her with horror. "Burn?" Tigress asked. "We don't burn even our bitterest enemy! We bury them!"
Xiaxion acknowledged this. "Fine." she agreed. "We will bury the Bastard."