Shen stood, blades ready. There were at least five wolves surrounding him, he could easily take them all out, but strangely, they didn't start attacking, or even tried to fight him off, they just stood there, but Shen knew as soon as he would start to make a move, they would come at him.

"Well, well, look who's finally come," a voice spoke up. Shen looked from the corner of his eye, to see Lang coming from the shadows.

Shen turned his head to him, folding his wings into his sleeves. His anger slowly rose, "You expected someone else?" he sarcastically asked.

Lang snickered, "No, not really." He had his hammer ready.

Shen angrily glared at him, "You know, we could do this the easy way, where you give me the girl, and we don't fight," Shen honestly did not want to fight, because he still felt a bit weak.

Lang started beating his hammer against his hand, "Or we can do this my way where I don't give you the girl, and I make sure you never see the light of another day."

Shen soon got his blades ready again, and smiled, inside, he got a weird feeling, fighting off his once best friend would be hard for him, but if this is what he had to do, than so be it, "Very well then, but I can make sure that this is one fight you will not win."

Lang snapped his fingers, and as if on cue, the rest of the wolves moved in closer to him, growling, and getting ready for battle, "We'll just see about that."

Somewhere, in the moment of time from Lang's last words to when the wolves started to attack, Shen thought of everything that has happened, him first meeting the fox, meeting Oogway, learning of his true destiny, hearing her story, and now. Not much of a journey. Shen than thought of what was going on now, will he be able to survive this fight? Well, maybe, after all, it was only Lang, and a few wolves, piece of cake.

The first wolf to attack came from Shen's right, thanks to his peripheral vision, he saw it coming, and quickly launched on of his blades into his chest, knocking him back, but soon the other wolves were coming quickly at him. He quickly fanned up his tail, thanks to his tail feather design, it distracted them long enough for him to whip around, and launch several more blades. They all successfully hit, but than Lang's hammer whacked Shen on his left side, and he hit the ground, hard. Shen didn't even have time to examine his wound before Lang came at him again. He quickly got up, and dodged his attack, and went to get his blades. He grabbed the ones that he threw at the wolves, than quickly spun around to throw those at Lang.

Lang used his hammer to block the incoming blades, but one of them managed to hit him right in the center of his leg, right where the kneecap would be.

"AUOHHH," Lang cried out in pain. Shen saw this as the perfect opportunity to go find the vixen. He ran towards Lang, and jumped up onto his head to fly up to a nearby platform. He landed, but as soon as he did, his left wing started to burst with pain. He looked to see that Lang's hammer did a number on his wing (yet how he was able to fly up here was a mystery). It wasn't bleeding, but it looked like it did brake some bones. The area around where his hammer had hit started to turn blue. Shen held his other wing to it, hoping to ease the pain, but it only made it worse. He saw two more wolves coming at him, with his injured wing, it was now going to be harder for him to fight.

He got out his lance, and used it to puncture one of the wolves in the chest. The armor on him was strong, but thankfully for Shen, his lance's metal was stronger. He than swung his lance, with the wolf having the lance in his chest, knocking over the other wolf off the platform. Shen quickly removed the lance, only to see it the tip of it in blood.

"Well, at least it got through," She said, looking at the tip of his lance. He quickly looked down to see the other wolves gathering around where the two wolves fell, than taking their sights to Shen.

He quickly backed away, than jumped up to the higher levels. The wolves started to come back after him. Shen looked back down to see them climbing up, he threw some blades down to stop them, only few were successful, but that still didn't stop the few wolves that were hit. Shen continued to out-maneuver them, of course with his injured wing, he couldn't for long. But soon he saw something white near the top, probably where he fired his weapon at the panda, he didn't have to guess to know who that was. Using whatever energy he had left from the fighting he did, he quickly made way to where she was.

Meili kept herself turned from the battle going on down below, the last big fight she saw didn't turn out good in the end. But it wasn't only that, she just couldn't find it to even move, or even look away from the wooded floorboards she was staring out into space at.

"This is all my fault," she thought to herself, "if I hadn't helped Shen out, he wouldn't be in this mess, than again, he would also be dead."

She was than pulled from her thoughts when she heard something land up beside her. She didn't bother turning her head, just thinking it was another wolf coming up to guard her, but that thought went away as soon as she heard the sound of the wolves fighting off whatever had just appeared. Meili turned her head ever so slightly, only to catch a glimpse of beautiful white feathers dancing around. It was only than did she turn her head fully around to see Shen slashing one of the wolves' leg, and throwing him off the edge. She than smiled.

"You came," she said, almost softly. It felt like a total cliché to Meili, but honestly, what else could she say?

Shen smirked, "That was a total cliché you know, but yes, I did."

Meili moved about in her chains, and looked back to Shen, "Do you think you can get me out of here? Getting out of chains isn't really my forte."

Shen nodded, "Of course, but it's not going to be easy, and I don't know how long it will take me."

Meili than heard the sound of the wolves coming, she didn't care how long it would take Shen to bust her out of these chains, but to do it before they came to end the both of them.

"Well, still, I think you'd better hurry it up either way, or soon we're both going to be goners."

Shen eyed up to Meili, "Note taken."

Shen began to use his lance to try to cut through the chains, it was working, but not very effectively, if he kept going like this, they would both be dead before long.

Meili gasped, and Shen saw out from the corner of his eye, two wolves making their way towards him. Shen looked at the chains that were holding Meili, and than, a sudden idea came to mind.

Shen stared up to Meili, "Ready for plan B?" He asked her.

Meili stared at him, "What's plan B?" she questioned him. Shen looked back at the wolves, than back to her.

"Just keep still, don't move, and I promise, if you do just that, you may actually get through this alive."

Meili's eyes widened, "What?" she screamed, but Shen had already sprung into action.

He quickly fanned up his tail feathers, and swept them around to stop the wolves in their tracks. He threw his lance at one of them, cutting its arm. With his tail feathers still up, he swept them around, knocking the wolf off, and down below. He quickly turned back around to see the other wolf guarding over Meili, as if that would stop Shen from setting her free. He twirled his lance around the wolf, thinking that it would intimidate him to run, which it did, weirdly enough. With him out of the way, Shen twirled his lance again, and launched it at the chains. Thanks to the force of how it was thrown, it was enough to cut the main chain holding Meili down.

With the chains destroyed, Meili quickly got up, and looked to Shen with surprise, "That was the craziest think I've ever seen."

Shen scoffed, "Well, I wouldn't say that, we are not out of the fire yet, we still have to escape this place, and trust me, getting here for me was hard enough."

As if on cue, Lang jumped up right beside them both. Meili gasped, but quickly took her stance. Shen, however, put his wing in front of her, which really surprised her, Meili started to wonder if Shen was trying to protect her in some way, shape, or form. Shen got out one of his feather blades, and prepared himself for whatever was coming his way.

Lang snickered, and laughed evilly, "You are so sure that you're going to make it out of this alive, aren't you? You've died once Shen, don't think that just because you've got that fox here mean that you will escape it a second time."

Shen narrowed his eyes at him, "The same goes for you Lang, only this time, I'll make sure you stay dead."

Lang laughed again, this time more loudly. Shen exchanged glances with Meili, who had the same look on her face. They both started to wonder if Lang had lost his mind. But amongst the laughter, Lang suddenly said two words, that sent a chill up both of Shen, and Meili's spine.

"Take aim," Lang suddenly said sinisterly.

Both Shen, and Meili looked around, and much to their surprise, four cannons, started to surround them. Shen was in utter disbelief.

"I-Impossible," He said quietly.

"Shen, what are those?" Meili said, her voice starting to fill with horror.

Shen closed his eyes, and for a moment, memories started flooding back to him. Memories of him watching the wolves make the weapons for him, and firing several of them to destroy his home, and his most powerful cannon falling down on top of him, nearly killing him.

Shen dropped his blade to the ground. Meili gasped in surprise. "Shen!" she exclaimed.

Lang laughed, "HA! Where's your bravado now Shen? Finally given up? Now that you see that this is obliviously the final end for you. The final end of you both!"

Shen looked back up at Lang, "Yes, you are right, I am giving up." He said almost inaudible.

"No! Shen! You can't give up, not now!" Meili exclaimed, she couldn't believe that Shen was giving up so easily. Sure they had those weapons, but they could still win this fight. Shen looked like he'd given up, but Meili certainly wasn't giving up now.

Suddenly Shen flashed Meili a look, a look that only said "trust me." Meili slightly gasped at this, but she did trust Shen, and she would do whatever it took, to win this fight.

"HA! All right boys, let's finish this." Lang announced. All the cannons started to take their final aim. Meili kept looking at Shen, waiting for him to do something, before the weapons finally fired at them.

Than, before anything else could be done, Shen grabbed onto Meili's paw, and the two of them jumped off the platform, and ran to the exit.

"GET THEM!" Lang suddenly shouted.

The wolves started running after the two. Amongst the chaos perusing, Shen and Meili hid behind some barrels.

"Shen, what the heck are those things?" Meili whispered quietly.

Shen did not know how to put it, he wasn't skilled in comforting, but was trying to do the best he could, "Those, are the weapons I invented, and chances are, they are probably going to use them to kill us."

Meili breathed in deeply, "Well, yeah, I can see that, but how are we going the destroy them?"

Shen gulped, "That's the thing, they cannot."

A puzzled expression crossed Meili's face, "If they cannot be destroyed, than how are we going to survive?"

"I only said we cannot destroy them."

Meili's face began to lighten up, "So…you're saying?"

Shen nodded, "They can only destroy themselves."

Meili looked behind her, and caught a glimpse of the weapons. "So the plan is, to try and the weapons to destroy themselves, all with trying the evade the wolves, and certain death?"

Shen nodded, "Easy right?"

Meili sighed, "Let's find out."