Chapter 10 lets go, Hi all hope you had a nice Christmas and enjoyed yourselfs
Now without further adue... Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Clues and more Clues
The Masters had slept through the day and night till the next morning, They had all been surprisingly tired from the whole Semutai event, so had all gotten to sleep easy enough... well all except Kian.
GONGGGG
The morning gong went off and everyone stood at their doors and said "Good morining Master"... but Kian was not at his door
"Master Crane wake up the fox" Shifu ordered annoyed that the fox hadn't come to his door
Crane slowly walked to Kians room and opened the door to find an empty bed with a note on
"Uh... Master Shifu Cosmos is gone"
"What" shouted Ishani shocked Kian had disappeared
"He left a note though" Crane said picking it up, Crane walked back into the hallway and read out the letter
If your reading this then I ain't returned yet,
I Couldn't sleep so I went to training hall and destroyed all the wooden warrior things... sorry bout that
Anyway I got bored after that and went to find out where the valley of Iron is and also I went to examine
the cannon wreckage for clues like a forge marking or something... If I am not back by, well I would say
fear the worst but I cant die as you know... so just be scared okay? Also watch your step in the kitchen,
Po was sleep eating and drooled everywhere.
So Sorry for going out
-Cosmos
"That damn Fox what is his problem, why can't he at least let us know before he goes out" Shifu said annoyed while his left ear twitched.
"And does Po actually sleep eat?" asked Pat
"Oh yeah the number of times food goes missing overnight" Mantis said looking at Po
"Sorry but my stomach has a mind of it's own" Po said sheepishly
"Well in any case let's eat and then we will inspect the damage to the training hall" Shifu said squeezing his nose
30 minutes later outside the training hall
"Well... Monkey, Mantis I bet 100 almond cookies everything is destroyed" Jan Jon said chuckling in his deep hearty voice
"Your on, I bet only the dummies are destroyed" Monkey said hopefully
While mantis retorted "I bet the whole building will fall when we open the door"
"well let's find out shall we" Shifu said hoping the hall wasn't trashed
Shifu opened the door to find training dummies everywhere... literally. Most were on the floor in parts but one was in the tortoise another 3 were in parts and on fire on the fire pit while another was jammed in the twisting logs and more stuck in the talon hoops and a couple stuck in the roof and on rafters.
"I honestly feel sorry for chen" Said Zeng from behind them
"Huh?" the eight younger members said while the five and Po were simply looking at the wrecked training hall.
"Uh one who is Chen and two why are you here... no offence or anything" Asked Gou,
"Oh chen is the palace carpenter, he makes the dummies which is quite hard work for a duck I must say, Anyway I have a message from The Iron Palace in the valley of Iron, there palace messenger just showed up and gave me the message."
"Which was?..." Asked Mao and Ja-ree in perfect sync.
"Oh right it's this" he handed the letter to Pat who was closest to him
"Ah'kay Folks it says
Dear masters of the Jade Place
My name is Master Kun-Lee and I have a friend of yours here who arrived in the dead of night asking if we knew which forge in our village would be able to make cannons, we pointed him the right direction but he request you come here to the Valley of Iron and Rendezvous with him to take out the assist in finding the factory.
Yours sincerely Master Kun-Lee.
"so he must have found something if he sent for us" Ishani said,
"Of course were going right master Shifu?" Asked Monkey
"Yes but only some of you, we don't know how many more people have cannons so some will need to stay and protect the valley with me", Shifu looked at each member as if analysing each one for the mission.
"Tigress, Crane and Mantis and Po you four will take Xiao, Jan Jon, Ishani, Mei Lang and Pat with you to the Valley of Iron the rest will stay here to defend the valley".
The nine warriors departed the next morning for the Valley of Iron
2 days later
"How did he get to the Valley of Iron in a single night when it's taking us two sodding days" Mantis asked for the 100th time annoyed about how long it was taking them
"Mantis can you please stop asking how fast he is, its getting so annoying now" Jan Jon commented
"I agree with Jan" Xiao chided in "Same here" both Ishani and Mei Lang said. In unison.
Just then Crane and Pat returned from their scouting flight and landed ahead of the group where Tigress was walking... being the unsocial one.
"CRANE, Please tell me were almost there... PLEASE" begged Mantis
"Uh actually we are mate" Said Pat "Yeah around nother hour of walking and we'll be there" Crane added
"Finally now I can give that Fox a piece of my mind for leaving without our permission" Tigress snarled
"Why do you give the guy a hard time, I mean he helped us with Fenghuang and he hasn't done anything bad" Crane asked confused why she still doesn't trust him
"He wears a mask, I don't trust those who wear a mask" Tigress simply stated with no emotion
"What about the midnight stranger, you 'trusted' him hahaha" Mantis laughed
Tigress blushed but because of her orange fur no one saw it "You would be wise to shut up before I take your head off BUG and that was diffrent" Tigress growled as she glared at him,
"The who now?" asked Pat "Oh I heard he's some legendary warrior who protected the valley ages ago but he made a reappearance when Kung Fu was banned then he and Tigress... which turned out to be Po then.. I'll shut up now" Said Xiao as he cowered behind Po who hadn't been paying attention for the last 2 hours... he was too busy dreaming of dumplings because they forgot to pack some for him.
"Huh what now who said my name?" Po asked confused as Tigress glared at him, "Whatttt, did I step on Mantis again" he said looking at his shoes
"No I'm right here Po" The bug said hopping on his shoulder
"How about we all keep walking and keep our mouths shut" Crane suggested and so they did until they entered the Valley of Iron
"wow I know it's called the Valley of Iron but wow" Ishani said in awe, everywhere you looked was something Iron, every Building was made of Iron in one way or another, The carts were metal, the rhino guards had iron armour... speaking of Guards
"Hey you lot state your Business" A rhino guard demanded as he walked up flanked by 2 more guards
"Hi there we are the Masters of the Jade Palace in the Valley of Peace and were here to find our friend who is currently with Master Kun-Lee in the Iron Palace" Tigress answered Formally before Po could say something that would get them arrested for sure
"Hmm, your story checks out" The guard said looking at a scroll he pulled from his belt "well continue" he said letting them pass
The nine masters then found themselves at the bottom of the hundred steps of the Iron Palace "Oh no fair they have one hundred steps we Have One THOUSAND" Po complained.
"You really hate those steps don't you" Mei Lang asked "If you fell down them as many times as I have you would too"
When they reached the top they found them selves looking at a structure that looked like two Jade Palace's on top of each other but with Iron roofs instead of Jade.
They approached the gate and as Tigress went to knock she turned to the group "Remember, be on your best behaviour and be polite... Po" "Whatttt.. I'm always on my best behaviour". Tigress knocked on the gate and soon enough the door opened to find Cosmos... but something was different his armour was no longer gold... but Iron
"Ah you must be the masters master Cosmos asked me to summon welcome to the Iron Palace" The Cosmos look a like said with a gentle but deep voice
"Wait if you don't mind me asking, Who are you and why are you wearing Cosmos' armour?"
"I will explain once Master Cosmos returns with my three students" The Figure said "But for now I am Grandmaster Kun-Lee of the Iron Temple" as he removed his helmet they saw that he was Fox... more specifically a red Fox who was the same height as Cosmos but older.. a lot older
Suddenly a loud WHOO HOO was heard "Ah that must be them now" said the old Fox, the nine Jade Palace masters turned to find a Gorilla, a king Cobra and a Red kite (English bird of prey) walking up towards them. but they then noticed something Cosmos wasn't there.
"Ey those must Cosmos' friends from the Jade Palace" The gorilla said in a deep, stern voice he wore grey pants and has black bushy fur and a helmet that had multiple iron horns on it, making the helmet have a spiky mo-hawk
"Well about time now he can leave" said the Cobra accidently spitting some venom, The Cobra was milky brown and white with a body that was atleast 10 foot long much bigger than master Viper
"Oh come on Zay, you can't mean that, that boy is so lovely how can you not like him" Said the female red kite in a loving and caring tone. she wore a red vest and red shorts.
"He's undisciplined, do the Jade Palace train all their warriors like that" he turned away from the red kite to come face to face with a very annoyed Nine Jade Palace warriors
"Might wanna think about what you say in front of our guest Zay-Kan or you might upset them, they also have the numbers and skill you take you down aswell" The old Fox said in a tone that matched Shifu's angry mood.
"Forgive me-" "You have spoken already serpent and for your information that kid is no Jade Palace student, he is simply helping us with something, also did he tell you he a Student with us?" Tigress spat out glaring at the snake. Zay-Kan was temped to slither behind the gorilla because of the tiger's glare.
"Well... um no he didn't tell us he was a student.. but I just kinda presumed he was" The snake said sheepishly while looking at the ground not wanting to meeting tiger's eyes.
"Anyway... So where is Cosmos, he said he found a clue or something" Po blurted out trying to change the topic and get rid of the tension,
"Oh he stopped by the forge to see their swords he'll be here in a minute, also I'm Leo, this is Zara and you already know his name" The Gorilla said
The warriors all exchanged greetings and Zay-Kan kept apologising to each one when Kian walked in with a huge bag of weapons on his back... now when I say huge imagine carry swords and axes in a bag that could hold a car in it.
"Cosmos how many weapons did you buy man" Po exclaimed
"The whole *grunt* Goddamn shop *grunt* Please feel free *wheezing* to help anytime" immediately Leo, Jan Jon and Xiao and Po walked forwards and helped him ease the bag over to the entrance. "Okay... *Cough I'm gonna get my other bag" "WHAT" the Jade palace shouted not knowing he had arrived with another bag of stuff in the night.
"Be right back" Kian walked into the Iron Palace training hall and returned with an equally big bag of stuff once again the two bears and ox and gorilla helped him pour out the contents which varied from spear heads to swords and cannon parts.
"Okay now I'm gonna ask one last time... how did you get here with all of that stuff" Mantis exclaimed in awe
"I bought a cart then I ran with it here then I sold it" Kian said casually "now.." Kian tipped the other bag out revealing swords, axes spears and other weapons... identical to the ones in the first bag.
"I bloody knew it" Kian shouted. "knew what?" asked Pat as the others were all looking at each other. "So I saw the blacksmith making weapons in his shop and I noticed the sword he was forging, I thought it looked like the ones I brought with me, so I asked him if he made that sword and he said no he brought them but the on he was working on was a simple repair job, so I asked him if he knows anything bout cannons, he told me he didn't know bout them, so I decided to buy one each of each weapon he had to confirm my suspicions" "Which is..." Tigress asked
"the weapons in the first bag are ones I salvaged from the battlefield and they are identical to the ones on the first bag which were all brought from some forger who sells them to the blacksmith, also this forger only uses one type of metal which no one else uses" "So..." Po continued "The guy uses something called ironwood which he burns like charcoal till the bark is gone so he can get at the iron c=veins inside the bark... the cannon parts I got... look at the metal used then at the weapons"
Master Kun-Lee spoke first "They seem to be the same" "EXACTLY... so we find the forger then if he makes the cannons we stop him but if he sells the metal to someone we follow that" Kian said excitedly. everyone was shocked... the Jade Palace lot because Kian had just given them a massive lead and the Iron Palace lot because they just found out the cannons were being remade "I got to admit you did good Cosmos" Tigress spoke at last still gobsmacked
"Good now goodnight" Kian said, everyone looked confused for a second before he fell on his face and went to sleep. Mantis hopped over to Kian and put his thingy through the eye slit and opened Kian's eye
"Wow this guy was really tired" Mantis said
"How can you tell" Xiao said sarcastically
"His eyes are really dilated" Mantis responded not noticing the Sarcasm
"Well Jade Palace masters who should follow your friend Cosmos here and get some rest after your long journey"
After some difficulty Xiao, Po and Jan Jon managed to get Kian to the top floor where the rooms were and then returned to their own rooms and everyone just fell asleep.
And that is chapter 10. 2,666 words longest so far... I'm knackered, hope you enjoyed and don't forget to review sorry ending is like really crappy
Chapter 11 up tomorrow :D
Mr Foxer signing off :)