An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

The bath house was very plain designed on the inside. It was pretty much just a wooden little house with a big bath tub in the middle. For some reason the water seemed to be very hot already, but who cared about a reason why? I then used my sword to block the door, since I wouldn't want to get caught naked.

I raised my arm and sniffed, just to see how badly I needed a bath. From the smell of it, I needed it very badly. I'm not all nuts about being clean, but seriously: I couldn't stand the smell I radiated.

Soon I had taken off all my clothes and slid into the water and enjoyed the feel of water against my body, which I hadn't felt for quite a while.

I sighed in relief as I exited the bath house. It felt good to be clean for once. In case you're wondering, a bath was a baht, and nothing happened in there. It had been nice, and I must have spent half an hour in there. I felt very fresh and able to run a marathon… come to think of it, I don't know what a marathon is… it just sounds athletic.

I looked up at the sky and saw that clouds were forming in the mountains. Far away I was even able to hear the claps of thunder, and the wind was starting to blow with more power. My fur swirled around in the wind to the point of being uncomfortable. I proceeded to walk down the little staircase that led into the bath house. When I took my first step on the solid ground, I noticed that some of the fasteners on my vest weren't closed. Before I could even react, the wind made the last fasteners open by themselves.

I quickly tried to grab the silky fabric and stopped the vest from blowing like a flag in the wind. I got it under control and made sure to close all the fasteners this time.

I looked up and suddenly saw a young boy in front of me. The little sheep had a scared face as if he was afraid of me. I was about to say something, but suddenly he ran off. I couldn't help but wonder why he had reacted like that. Maybe it was because of my sword; maybe he hadn't seen Mei Ling and I arrive, and therefore he was surprised at the fact that I had a sword.

No – it was my tattoo! The wind had probably been powerful enough and that meant…! I had to get out of there now! The little boy was probably going to tell Shanqu and if he did…!

But I would have to tell Mei Ling… I would have to come up with some lie. Maybe I just had time enough for that… I hurried into the village to find Mei Ling. She was easy to find, since she was the only other feline around, and everyone else were sheep. I found her around the outskirts of town near a flower field.

"What are you doing?" I asked her, trying to sound calm. She was on her knees and seemed to be meddling with something.

"Not much," she muttered in response. I knelt down beside her to see what she was doing. To me it looked like she wasn't even doing anything at the moment. Then I noticed some flowers in her hands. I didn't know exactly what she was doing, but whatever it was, she seemed to do it right.

"What do you think?" she suddenly asked me out of nowhere.

"About the flowers?" I asked confused. "I guess they're… fine…"

I was a little unsure of what to reply, since I had a neutral opinion about it, and I didn't really care much for flowers.

"Do you think Crane would like them?" This second question took me even more by surprise. Why would she ask me that? Like it even mattered! But wait! Maybe she…

"Eh… I'm sure he would," I told her, trying to sound like I cared. I knew I didn't have much time, so… "Actually, you know what? I have to go."

"What? Why?" she asked me surprised.

"I just can't stay any longer," I lied. "I have to find the others."

"But what if they come here?" Mei Ling asked me, almost sounding desperate. "Can't you just…?"

"Sorry, but I… might see you later." And then I turned around and bumped right into a muscular chest.

"Eh… hi…" I said, trying to get out of trouble. Shanqu had an eyebrow raised and he certainly didn't look happy. I looked behind Shanqu and saw that there were a bunch of sheep behind him. They all seemed to be in their teens, and I guessed that they were his so-called students.

"Going somewhere… pirate?" Shanqu asked. I sighed and heard Mei Ling gasp in surprise behind me. It was probably the last thing she'd ever expect… okay, maybe not.

"Why yes I am," I told him. In one quick motion, I grabbed my sword and tried to hit Shanqu with it. Unfortunately, he had been faster than I expected. He had managed to stop my blade midair by catching it between his palms. Next thing I knew, I was hit by a punch in the face.

I fell backwards onto the ground. I grabbed my cheek to sustain the pain and I could feel how close Mei Ling was to me. She bowed down to help, but Shanqu stopped her.

"Stop!" he ordered her. "Girl, step away from that pirate…!"

Mei Ling had barely grabbed me by the shoulder to help me up before she quickly let go.

"That's really why," I informed her and rubbed my sore cheek. I got to my feet and jumped forwards and forced all my power into the slash I was about to hit Shanqu with. The grown-up wolf stepped aside with a swing and soon I was hit in the stomach by a kicking-technique I had never seen before and fell backwards onto the ground.

I immediately got up and started running. I know it's weak to just run away, but I was kind of desperate and didn't feel like I had a choice. I could hear noise behind me and I looked backwards to see Mei Ling watch me run away, while Shanqu's students had started chasing me.

Luckily the village was almost deserted around nighttime, so I didn't have anything or anyone who could possibly block my way. All I had to do was… run.

"Don't let him get away!" I heard one of the students yell. He sounded like a leader-type, but luckily it sounded like I was quite a step ahead. There wasn't far to the forest I had spent the previous night in, and if I could get in there, I would have an easy time hiding.

I finally got into the forest and I just kept on running, knowing I would have to find a good place to hide. The forest was almost completely dark, and my night vision immediately kicked in. I saw the forest around me in gray scale and chose a random path and hoped that it would lead me to safety.

At the end of the path I saw a sudden shadow, or at least I was just barely able to see it. The shadow seemed to be one of the students, but with my unclear gray scale night vision, it was hard to determinate. I stopped and was about to run in another direction when I saw a bunch of students stand in my way. They all had weapons and those were actually made out of metal, so I didn't really want to fight them.

Quickly I turned around, but that direction was blocked too. I turned around in circles, but I was completely surrounded. Finally I saw Shanqu stand and block the last direction.

The wolf took a step towards me and I took a battle pose, ready to fight. When the wolf stood around a half meter from me, I was truly scared due to the fact that I didn't know what he was going to do.

For a second he just stood there without doing anything. Suddenly I was hurled sideways by a massive kick in the head.

I fell to the ground and couched due to the pain from the impact. Suddenly Shanqu grabbed me by the throat and lifted me off the ground. He then pulled me in, so that his mouth was very close to my ear.

"We can do this the easy way, pirate," he said in a suggestive tone. "You can peacefully come with us to Chorh-Gom, or you can come to Chorh-Gom unconscious."

"Do… you seriously… think I'll give up to some old sheriff?" I managed to ask, but as soon as the words left my mouth, I was thrown into the air. Soon Shanqu punched upwards, sending me upwards, but then he changed direction, so that he used his fist to force me down.

"I take it you want to fight till the end," Shanqu said in a very harsh and doubting tone. The impact with the ground had been painful and I could barely breathe by now. Shanqu pulled me off the ground and then pushed me backwards, and I had barely regained balance. I was very tired and exhausted, but I didn't want to commit to this guy. So even though my body was hurting, I immediately charged with my sword, but Shanqu simply stepped aside and soon I was kicked in the back.

I landed on the ground, and I tried to get up again, but I failed and collapsed on the ground.

The feeling of having my legs dragged across a rocky floor. I opened my eyes and immediately noticed the darkness. I was inside some kind of cave from the looks of it. Suddenly I noticed that it looked like the rocky walls were carved out, so it looked like a fortress of some sort. I then realized that I was inside Chorh-Gom Prison. In case you don't know, it's like the best prison in Mongolia… wait, what? Was I in Mongolia? How did I get here so fast?

I then noticed the two guards who were holding me. They carried me forwards and they were both rhinos and they wore heavy-looking armor. They were also very muscular-looking, and I knew I wouldn't have a chance of escaping.

Suddenly they turned around a corner and stopped by a cell. Inside the cell, there was some kind of weird statue… it looked like a bird of some sort, and it was pretty big… Before I could study it more, the cell-door was opened and I was thrown into the cell.

"Hey!" I quickly got to my feet and grabbed the metallic bars that kept me prisoner. I tried to shake them, but they didn't even move a millimeter.

"That's right, pirate," one of the guards said with a snicker. "You just stay here!"

"Let me out of here!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, but the guards were soon gone. I then noticed how much my body was hurting from the fight I had had with Shanqu. I think just about every inch of my body was numb and in pain, even though the transport to this place probably had taken at least two days. But somehow, I was still in pain.

"Would you please be quiet? I'm trying to sleep!" I jumped in surprise and turned around and looked around the cell. It was completely empty, other than the weird statue.

I walked over behind the statue to look behind it, just in case it might be an insect of some sort, even though locking her up in here would be pointless, due to the fact that no insect would be too big to escape the spaces between the bars.

"I'm right here, you idiot," the voice spoke again. This time the voice was harder to hear, as if I had passed the voice's owner and stood behind her. I walked up in front of the weird statue and took a closer look at it. It seemed to be made of some golden metal and it had something that looked like crescent moons carved on the front. The head of the statue seemed to look somewhat like an owl, and then I noticed a weird hole just above the beak of the statue.

Suddenly a pair of yellow eyes appeared. I jumped a little in surprise and looked a little closer at the person behind the metallic cage – or at least her eyes. Her eyes were as mentioned yellow, but her irises had a more bluish color. I wasn't really able to see much more, since the cage around her made it impossible.

"Yes, here I am," she said in a very sarcastic way and rolled her eyes. "Okay, here's the deal: You stay in that side of the cell, and just stay away from me."

"Hah," I muttered, due to the fact that I didn't know what side of the cell she meant. "And who'd stop me if I just did as I wanted?"

I then poked the head-area of the cage a few times, just to annoy her. I then chuckled at it afterwards and walked over to sit down by one of the cell-walls.

"Who are you anyways?" I asked her. "And why are you in a too small birdcage?"

"I'm the strongest warrior of my generation," the prisoner of the golden cage said proudly.

"Really?" I asked in a sarcastic tone. "Then how come you're locked in like this, Miss Birdie?"

I heard a snicker from outside the cell, and turned my head to see two guards pass by. Obviously they had found my comment funny, and I couldn't help but smile a little to myself. I heard the other prisoner growl: "Shouldn't you get back to your duties?"

"It was my right to take over the place where I was trained as the new Grandmaster," the other prisoner explained when the guards were gone. She actually sounded like she was relieved from finally talking about it; like she hadn't talked to anyone for years. "But someone else didn't think the same and got me locked up in here."

"Hmmm… okay," I said, as if I cared. "So who locked you in here?"

"The current Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior," she almost growled from inside the cage. "They…"

"Those guys?" I asked surprised and looked over at her eyes. Was she locked in this cursed prison by the people who I had been with for days? "Hah, maybe a good thing I left after all!"

"You know them?" she asked suspiciously from inside the cage. I would understand why she wouldn't believe me, since I was in prison too. Come to think of it, there was a bounty on me. Wait, this meant that Shanqu got the bounty! How could they give the money to him? I was about to have a mental rant about it, but the other prisoner interrupted my thoughts. "Did they get you in here as well?"

"No," I replied and calmed myself down. "It was this Shanqu-guy who got me here."

"But what did you mean with the current Furious Five?" I asked after a few seconds of silence. Had there been other warriors to protect the Valley of Peace before those guys who did it now? Or was it their parents who had done it?

"The Furious Five have been in that… Valley for centuries, so there has been others, duh," she told me, as if I was stupid or something. "I was even part of the previous one."

"Oh really? So I guess you turned rogue," I said with a curious snicker and rubbed my chin. This conversation finally seemed to become interesting.

"Hmm… yes," she replied. "I was the best of us, even better than Shifu."

"You fought alongside Shifu in his younger days?" I asked surprised. Since Tigress wasn't around, and this other prisoner was locked in a cage, I saw my opportunity to have some fun. "You most be OLD!"

I know many women don't like being called old, and the reaction I got was just as good as desired. The other prisoner's cage started shaking and she squealed: "If I ever get out of here, I'll…"

"Hah, I'm looking forwards to it!" I laughed at her, which just seemed to make her angrier. I sighed in satisfaction and leaned back against the stony wall. "Either way, the Five aren't that hard to beat, so I doubt your title as the strongest…"

"I am," she growled. "Fenghuang is and will always be the strongest of the Furious Five there ever was!"

"Fenghuang…?" I repeated, almost tasting the word. "So that's your name?"

"And so what if it is?" Fenghuang asked me.

"So nothing," I said as provoking and challenging as possible. "It's just nice to know people's names."

"Then what is your name?" she asked me. I could tell that she was trying to sound charming and seductive, but that kind of stuff doesn't really work on me.

"Hai," I told her and walked over to her cage and gave it a few rapid dunks around her head, making the sound echo throughout the prison. "But names don't matter."

"So, Hai… Why did you get locked in here?" Fenghuang asked me in a more normal tone.

"Well, I came upon this guy who was some kind of sheriff of whatever," I told Fenghuang, leaning my back up against her cage all the while. "They saw my tattoo and… yeah, here I am."

"Your tattoo?" Fenghuang asked confused. I turned my head and got eye contact with her and chuckled.

"Yeah, like any other pirate," I said, still chuckling.

"Pirate?" Fenghuang muttered curiously, just like I had when I had first spoken her name.

"Yeah," I said again. "I'm not that impressive for a pirate… I don't even…" I reached behind my back to get my sword, but as you might already have guessed, it was gone. "… have a sword…"

"Hmm… how pathetic," Fenghuang chuckled at me.

"Hah, you should speak!" I said. "You're an OLD lady locked inside a cage. That's pathetic!"

Again Fenghuang just about freaked out at the fact that I called her old, which I found totally hilarious.

"Oh you little…!" Fenghuang growled at me. "When I get out of here, I'll make a carpet out of you!"

Okay, I know I just recently updated, but I'm so ****ing addicted to writing on this fic! I just can't stop and it's driving me insane! :(

Anyways, I hope you guys will like this one!