Chapter 9: Meeting Their Reformed Enemy
A few minutes later, they reached the very top of Shen's palace and sees two gorillas guarding his throne, which happens to be empty.
"Where is this Lord Shen now?", asked Hiccup, "Because someone forgot to check that throne of his."
"He's gone somewhere", said Zhong.
Little do our heroes know that up on a ceiling there is a huge rope holding a net. Suddenly, a cut on the rope falls on our heroes, trapping them instantly. The gang looks up to see a bird with red and white tail feathers. It turns out to be Lord Shen, who turns to see Po, Tigress, and Tai Lung.
"Hello, dear friends", said Shen and cuts the net, allowing our heroes to get of it.
"Why did you use that rope to trap us?", asked Tigress.
"Just to surprise you", said Shen, "I promise I would not do that again. Who are these two creatures, by the way?"
"Oh, these two", said Tai Lung, "Let's just say they're not humans like us. They're, shall we say... vikings."
"Vikings?", asked Shen, "All my life, I have never heard of such things."
"Well, it's not like all of you animals don't know about our history", said Astrid, "but I digress."
"I'm Hiccup and this is Astrid", said Hiccup, "It's a pleasure to meet you, sir."
Lord Shen gives Hiccup a suspicion look, thinking that Hiccup has not addressed him as "My lord" or "Your Highness".
"Um, I mean, your bird feathered lordship", said Hiccup and bows respectfully and very nervously.
"You are very kind, young viking", said Shen and proceeds towards Astrid, "And you are a lovely looking viking."
He kisses Astrid's hand, causing her to blush.
"Oh", said Astrid, "You're a charming and cute little bird."
She hugs him and Shen strokes her hair.
"Shen", said Po, "We need to talk about something."
Po and Hiccup explains how the vikings met the kung fu warriors because of the letter and how they learn of the evil Hushia will unleash the deadly creature to enslave all of China.
"We need your help, Shen", said Po.
"I haven't any ships", said Shen.
"We don't need ships", said Hiccup.
"That what do you think we really need?", asked Shen.
Then, a roar came from the distance and Hiccup runs to the balcony to see Tuffnut and the others riding the dragons.
"I guess that answers your question", said Tai Lung.
Shen turns to Po and Tai Lung and smiles at them.
"All we need is my wolves to help us", said Shen.
"But those dragons can't carry them", said Hiccup, "We only need four of them."
They turn to Zhong and the other four wolves and decided to take him and the other three with them.
"Looks like we're going to have more company than we thought", said Tai Lung.
"This is great", said Astrid, "For the first time ever, we are capable enough to find Hushia and give that jaguar a lesson."
Hiccup smiles, now that both the kung fu warriors and the kung fu masters are teaming up with the greatest vikings in the history of both China and Berk.
Chapter 10 will continue the story. Stay tuned!