The Jade Warrior
By Mutitoon90
Chapter Ten: Whose is this?
Chi went to bed early, knowing that she was trapped in the Jade Palace for a while until something happened.
"I need to found out what Tai Lung wants before it's too late." The fox said to herself before falling asleep.
"Vixen, what is wrong?" Oogway asked the fox, who was sitting under the Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom.
"I don't know." Vixen answered.
The old master sighed as he came to the fox.
"Some living beings do not speak and can be a great keeper of secrets."
Vixen looked at her mentor, who was leaving with a kind grin.
"What did he…?" The fox asked herself until she stopped herself and looked at the Peach Tree.
Chi woke up and saw it was morning.
"Chi!" Po yelled out.
"Po?" The vixen asked out loud.
Then, the panda appeared at the fox's doorway.
"We have to leave now!"
"What's wrong?" Chi asked, concerned about her friends.
"Tai Lung is attacking the Jade Palace!" Po answered quickly.
"What!?" The vixen exclaimed.
"Come on!" Po yelled, and Chi obeyed.
The two friends ran until they were outside.
"You're late."
The vixen looked and saw the red panda standing there with a disappointed look on his face.
"Shifu." Chi said, rolling her eyes out of annoyance.
Shifu started to lecture Chi.
"About now, Tai Lung would have…"
"Shifu! This is getting ridiculous! I agreed to stay in the Jade Palace, not do a Chinese fire drill!" Chi complained loudly.
The Kung fu Master was furious.
"How dare you!"
"How dare you!" Chi countered and stormed off.
Shifu was so furious at the vixen that he did not know what to do, but Po knew what to do.
Chi stormed around the Jade Palace until she found herself at a familiar place: The Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom.
"Could this be…?" Chi was about to ask herself, when she remembered the dream she had the night before.
"Chi!" Po yelled to the fox, turning the fox's attention to the panda.
"Yeah, Po?"
"Why did you…?"
"Blow up at Shifu." Chi finished.
"Yeah." Po confirmed.
"I just lost it." The fox said, hoping Po would believe her, but the panda was not convinced.
"Chi, what's wrong?"
"Tai Lung's too powerful, and I don't think that a drill would work."
"Oh!" Po said, seeing what Chi was saying.
Then, the fox wanted to say something to her friend, but she did not know what to say or do.
"Chi?" Po asked.
"What?" The vixen asked, returning to reality.
"What's wrong now?"
"I'm just thinking." Chi answered.
"About the Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom?" Po asked.
"Huh?"
"Yeah, I can't believe I've forgotten to show this to you." The giant panda exclaimed, trying to cheer Chi up.
"You showed me this." Chi said with a grin.
"I did?"
"Just making sure you're listening." The vixen replied.
Po laughed a bit before he spoke.
"This is where Oogway helped me with a problem."
"What kind?" Chi asked.
"My first day here wasn't the best." Po said.
"I've heard that."
"Well," Po continued, "he gave me some helpful advice."
"What was it?" Chi asked.
"'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that is why it's called the present.'"
"Good advice." Chi said as she unintentionally kicked a pebble towards the tree.
"Yeah." The panda grinned sadly.
Sensing Po's sadness, the fox was feeling guilty about not telling Po about her dreams, but she thought that Po might start thinking that she was strange.
"Hey, we better get back; Shifu might want us." The panda said, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Can I be alone for a moment?" Chi asked Po.
"I don't know…" Po said, unsure about the vixen's intentions.
"I just want to be alone with my thoughts." The fox said, sitting herself under the peach tree.
"Well, how about I think with you?"
"Oh boy." Chi thought before answering the panda.
"Okay."
"Thanks." Po said as he sat down next to the fox.
A silence fell between the friends, which caused them to be very uncomfortable until Chi spoke up.
"Can I tell you something?"
"Sure." Po answered, thinking it was a minor problem.
"First thing, you might think I'm…off a bit." Chi warned, hoping to make Po understand the situation.
"Okay." Po laughed, thinking it was a joke.
"Well, don't say that I didn't warn you." Chi sighed, seeing that Po assumed that she was joking around.
"I won't." The panda promised.
Chi was very uncertain how Po could take this, but she knew it's too late to back out.
"Remember the day we met?"
"Yeah, it was the day I finally got some help." Po replied with a smile.
"Yeah," Chi agreed, "Well that night, I had this dream about a fox cub."
"A fox cub?" The panda inquired the fox.
"Yeah." The vixen answered, "and every night since, I've had a dream about her."
"Did she have a name?" Po asked.
"Yeah," Chi said, "Her name is Vixen."
Po froze in his place.
"Vixen!"
"Yeah." Chi confirmed.
"You're kidding, right?"
"No, I'm not."
Po was shocked.
"As in Master Vixen." Tigress asked, bringing the friends' attention to her.
Chi was shocked at the tiger's sudden appearance.
"Tigress! How long…?"
"I want to know." Tigress demanded.
The two friends looked at each other.
"I think so." Chi answered.
"You think!?" Tigress growled at the fox.
"Yes." The fox said.
"I'm not in the mood for jokes." Tigress growled with deep fury.
"Then, it's good that I'm not joking." The vixen responded.
Tigress was about to attack Chi when Po intervened.
"Tigress! Calm down!"
Chi stepped back to the tree, stepping on something hard.
"Ow!"
"Chi?" The panda asked.
"I stepped on something." The fox admitted.
"What?" Tigress growled, still upset at Chi.
"I don't know, but it was hard, like a stone."
"Stone?" Po asked.
"Where?" Tigress asked.
"Over here." Chi pointed at the spot where her foot was.
Po dusted the area and saw a piece of jade.
"It's jade."
Tigress and Chi looked at each other in confusion and asked the panda.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
The three started digging the dirt and they found a jade container.
"What's that?" Chi asked.
"It looks familiar." Tigress said.
"Yeah." Po said, examining the container.
"Maybe Shifu knows." The fox pointed out.
"Good point." Po agreed.
In the Hall of Heroes, Shifu examined the jade container carefully.
"It's our container." The red panda announced.
"I could have told you that." Po whispered to Chi.
"We did." The vixen reminded the panda.
"You two know that I can hear you." Shifu smirked.
"Sorry." The friends said.
The two looked on as Shifu opened the container with little difficulty.
"Bet he didn't need help." Chi joked.
Po just rolled his eyes as Shifu started speaking.
"Let's see…"
The red panda was shocked.
"Master?" Tigress spoke at last, confused at her mentor's sudden shock.
"This cannot be!" Shifu exclaimed.
"What!?" Po, Chi, and Tigress asked in unison.
"This is in Vixen's writing!" The Master announced, still shocked.
The news stunned the three finders.
"What does it say?" Chi asked.
"It says, 'To Shifu, if you're reading this, I've died and the Dragon Warrior has been found. I was told by Oogway that the Jade Warrior is…'" The red panda said.
"What?!" Po asked.
The master continued.
"'…the Jade Warrior is not me.'"