Author's Note: Sup guyz! New chapter, it's mostly all fighting. I'm really sick too so i'm gonna have tons of free time. Lucky you guyz!

I don't own Kung Fu Panda, I do own a 1992 Acura Legend.

Chapter VIII – Collapse

"Ambush!" Tigress yelled loudly at the sight of the freefalling wolves. The canines landed swiftly on all fours as Zayn and Tigress jumped out of the way and towards the other masters who were now in their fighting stances. There had been what three dozen wolves that now surrounded the masters as all of the spectators fled down the stairs from the scene, except Daxolus who hid behind a small pot with a bundle of lotus flowers planted in it. All the wolves had thick iron armor that included a chest plate, leggings and med helm. Some were wielding standard short swords while others were handling a hammers, studded maces, or spears. They all had dark grey fur, except one who stood in front of the rest with solid black fur, not wielding any sort of weapon and missing his helmet. He had brown eyes and an assortment of tattoos on his face that were unrecognizable from a distance. He cleared his throat before speaking in a polite tone with a smile.

"Hello, gentlemen…and ladies. I suppose you would like to know what I'm doing in your humble abode."

"You read my mind" Shifu stated coldly. The wolf's smile grew larger.

"Where are my manners? My name is Szen, leader of the Alpha Force of the Mogui." Zayn's ears shot up at the last word. It was the same word he had discovered on the tree in the forest. He had no idea what that symbol was, but all he knew was that this guy wasn't he for a game of checkers and tea. "Now that we've gotten the pleasantries outta the way, I'm here to do one of two things today."

"What would that be, Szen?" Po asked while narrowing his eyes to intimidate him, but it was a futile attempt.

"I'm glad you asked, Dragon Warrior. You see, my master was a colleague to the late Lord Shen. When he caught wind of this, he requested that we either kill or capture his killers." Tigress clenched her teeth and Po flexed a little. "However, I don't know which to choose. I'm trying to decide between flipping a coin…" he turned his head backwards to the other wolves, "…or put it to a vote…" Szen saw the furious looks of the Five and Po and his smile quickly faded and raised his eyebrows. "Oh don't worry, your vote counts too" he chuckled.

"Doesn't matter. You're going home disappointed tonight" Tigress threatened.

"Or not at all" Mantis added to her threat. Viper hissed and Crane prepared for an attack, but Zayn stayed silent during the entire conversation. Dax was now slowly pulling out another weapon-type invention from under his tunic from behind the lotus pot.

"Well, I guess we don't need to decide anymore" Szen smirked and cracked his knuckles. He then noticed the white tiger who remained firmly cocked back and ready to strike. "Ah, it is rare to see one striped feline, but two? While you may look special you're far from it." Zayn still remained motionless until he saw Dax peek up from the pot he was positioned behind and invisible to the unsuspecting wolves.

Dax held the device in his paw and held it up in the air so that Zayn could see it clearly. The lemur tried mouthing instructions to Zayn, but he was only able to read certain words. *This is a…will blind…cover eyes…I'm…before it hits…got it?* While a bit confused, Zayn still understood what the rodent's plans were. Dax was going throw that 'thing' into the crowd of enemies and it will blind them. Tigress noticed that Zayn was conversing with a brownish looking squirrel across the courtyard.

"Who is that?" she silently whispered to Zayn who acted like he ignored her. After a moment he whispered something out of the corner of his mouth.

"Close your eyes…when it hits." Tigress was slightly confused until she glanced over to where the lemur was and saw him fidgeting with a pipe looking contraption.

Dax was prepping the device while he looked over and gave him a nod to initiate the plan. He flipped one final switch on and planted a comical kiss on it and tossed it into the open. With a couple clanks of the metal on the ground, hit rested right near Szen foot, at which this point Zayn dropped to the ground and shielded his eyes with his arms. Just behind him, Tigress fell to the ground as well and copied Zayn's actions. Szen looked down at his feet and saw the device with widened eyes.

BOOM!


The bomb blew and all the wolves, Po, Crane, Monkey, Viper, Mantis and Shifu were blinded by an immensely bright flash.

Once he heard the crack of the explosion, Zayn looked up and saw all the canines rubbing their eyes furiously. Acting fast, he unsheathed his hidden knife by flicking his wrist back and dashed for closest wolf.

Tigress looked up and glanced to her right and saw that Zayn was no longer there. She looked forward and noticed him about to encounter a dazed wolf wielding a spear. Tigress bolted up and darted toward Szen, who was fumbling his feet.

Zayn charged the spear-holding wolf and sucker punched him with his prepped fist. The wolf flew back into three others, knocking them unconscious. He regained his energy and rushed to another wolf who was starting to get back his vision. Seeing the oncoming tiger barely, he picked up his mace and attempted to swing. It was caught before it even accelerated. Holding his opponent's arm he stabbed him in the chest with his blade rapidly. The soldier's grip on his weapon fell and the mace was caught by Zayn's spare paw. He then chucked the studded mace at another wolf who had regained his eyesight and was running toward the vicious feline. It smacked him square on the forehead, rendering him unconscious.


Tigress sprinted straight towards the Alpha leader at full force and drop kicked him in the chest which knocked him back about 20 yards. After literally getting the sight kicked back into him, Szen clenched his fists tightly and got into his fighting stance. "C'mon" he barked, and Tigress gladly obliged. She charged at him and prepared a windmill kick, but the canine saw it and shifted left. Her foot smashed the concrete, leaving a crater twice the size. Szen threw multiple punches which looked as if he was a professional fighter. The first four were expertly blocked but the last one connected with her bottom ribs. She was now wide open for an attack and Szen landed three more punched to her chest and tried to finish with an uppercut. But Tigress caught it and immediately remembered something from her match with Zayn.

Szen tried to pull her into a head butt, but she pulled harder into hit, causing the wolf to take all the damage. He shook his head and looked back at the tigress.

"I've already seen that one today" she smirked. Szen smiled evilly.


"Well, I bet you haven't seen this one!" He lunged at her.

The rest of the Five, Po, and Shifu got their sight back and saw the two tigers battling the wolf platoon.

"Help them!" Shifu ordered as they al jumped into the fight. One by one, the wolves fell to the feet of the masters who were excellently skilled.

Dax stood back watching the brawl go down. 'I gotta do something' he thought. His eyes bounced around, looking for anything to help the masters in


the fight. 'Why did I hafta to leave my stuff at the hotel?' He saw a crossbow on the weapons rack from the demo and a quiver with a dozen bolts in it. He looked left and right before making a quick dash to the weapons. Dax yanked them off the rack and ran to a small corner that housed a large ironwood tree. He quickly climbed up the tree and found a medium-sized branch that could support his weight. The rodent loaded a bolt onto the bow, slid his goggles over his eyes for better zoom and took aim through a space were leaves should have been. He acquired a wolf who was about to smash an unsuspecting Crane. Just before he made contact with the bird, an arrow whizzed by Crane's neck and hit the wolf in the neck, causing him to fall back and die. The avian spotted where the shot came from and saw a small lemur in the ironwood tree with a crossbow. Dax smiled and saluted shortly before he loaded another bolt. Crane nodded in thanks and flew off to another pack of wolves.

Po was on fire. He was taking down enemies by the second. He punched two wolves who tried to slice him open from behind before split kicking two more.

Zayn had been making a path of death behind him as he took down foe by foe, but reinforcements had been hopping the palace walls and replacing the fallen wolves.

Tigress landed two more kicks on Szen, one to the abdomen and one to the knee. While down, he was caught to the nose by a knee smash. His nose bled and Tigress prepared to finish the fight. She charged the Alpha leader and prepared to strike him down, but he had kicked up a sword from a fallen soldier and sliced Tigress' leg open.

"AAAHH!" she screamed in pain. Szen smirked evilly once more.

"My dear, as my old friend once said…" he then raised his sword and prepared to stab the feline, "you mess with the wolf, you get the fangs." Tigress closed her eyes and prepared for the blow…but it never came. She opened her eyes and saw the unbelievable.

Zayn was standing there, with a sword stuck through stomach, blood heavily flowing onto the ground. Tigress gasped at the sight, and Szen's smile faded. Zayn let out a small cry in pain as he wobbled around a little. Dax had noticed this and immediately felt his heart drop, but his mind was still thinking. And he thought about what he spoke to Zayn about at the noodle shop. He also remembered the tiger's hand and how he didn't feel the pain at all. An idea quickly shot into his head. He cupped his paws around his mouth and prepared to yell something.

"ZAYN!" The feline slowly turned and saw his friend perched in the tree. "GET MAD, ZAYN! GET ANGRY NOW!" Zayn hardly heard but saw what he was trying to tell him.

Zayn slowly began to flare up and his transformation began; fully solid black eyeballs, claws extended, dark energy surges surrounded his body, fur became spiked and his fangs grew another inch.

He yelled out a battle cry that was so loud it caused all other conflict around him to stop and stare at him in awe.

Zayn ripped the sword out of himself, causing blood to disperse. He turned and angrily growled at the wolf army.

A brave wolf tried to smash the dark tiger with his hammer, only to have the hammer caught by the head and crushed into a million pieces by a single paw. The wolf now cowered in fear before having his head decapitated by a swift claw. At the sight all the wolves ran towards him and tried to overpower his abilities. But all efforts were futile. Every canine there was now either beheaded, dismembered, ripped apart, or completely vegetablized. Zayn was now shifting his attention to the head wolf, Szen.

'The Dehaka…' the wolf whispered before he was struck by a blade throw by the dark cat himself. Just before Zayn struck Szen with his claw to finish the job, he heard voices yelling at him. They were saying 'STOP!' and "DON'T DO IT!' He looked up and saw that the voices belong to none other than Shifu and Dax. Zayn saw the horror on his friend's face and immediately backed off the wolf. He slowly started to reform back to his original form. When his vision was clear, he looked at all the masters who had stared at him with horror in their eyes. He began to speak.

"I…I-"he couldn't finish as he looked down at his wound from Szen's sword. He collapsed on the ground and was knocked out cold.