Chin's gang came tumbling down the steep snowy mountain slopes, the clan of yaks right on their heels. Chin ran as fast as his little rat legs could carry him, half the time he was rolling down the slopes. Bai-Ling flew safely overhead, monitoring the whole scene. Bai-Ling swooped down towards the snow like she did when she was fishing, but instead of fish she grabbed a few handfuls of snow, which she balled up.
Bai-Ling tossed the snowballs at some of the yaks, it did little good but to distract them from Chin and his gang temporarily.
"Oh blast!" Bai-Ling exclaimed "I'll have to try something with more of a punch"
Looking down, Bai-Ling noticed Yang swinging his meteor hammer, the bronze weight at the end was just as big as a large snow ball. Wasting no time she swooped downward and grabbed the weight in her large clawed feet. This proved hard to do, for yang still gripped it by the rope and gave a sturdy tug. Bai-Ling was no match for Yang's strength and the weight was ripped from her feet and heading straight for yang.
Bong! The bronze weight hit Yang right on the head and bounced off. It took Yang a few seconds to recover, being a yak he was used to hitting his head against things. Luckily this gave Chin and his gang a good head start ahead of Yang, the member of the clan they feared the most.
Suddenly, opening up before the gang like the mouth of a dragon, was a huge ravine. It was hard to see for the two great cliffs on either side of it were almost completely horizontal. A beautiful waterfall poured into the ravine from the mountains and formed a river at the base. The river snaked around the great jagged rocks that lined the bottom like many sharp teeth.
Chin and his gang stopped just in time, nearly sliding over into the ravine. Their clawed toes hung just over the steep Cliffside. A single pebble tumbled downwards. They didn't hear it hit the bottom.
"Buggery and bothery!" Chin exclaimed, his single eye wide with terror.
"What now boss!" asked Da-Ming
"Errrrrrrrrrrr" Chin muttered as he scanned the ravine "There!" he shouted pointing towards a rickety old wooden bridge a little ways away from them.
"That bridge boss?" asked Da-Ming, his face creased with worry.
"No I meant the other bridge! The magical one we can't see!"
"Oh good, for a second I thought you meant that old rickety one"
Chin slapped Da-Ming upside the head.
Meanwhile Bai-Ling was doing her best to distract the yaks, keeping them just far enough from Chin's gang. She repeatedly swooped around in front of them, blurring their vision and catching their attention. Their weapons were no match for her as she swooped acrobatically in the air dodging blow after blow.
"Hehehehe this is fun" Bai-Ling said, a huge sharp toothed grin on her face.
No sooner had she said this when Yang's meteor hammer swung up from directly below her. Although she dodged the weight just in time, her wing became entangled in the rope midair. Bai-Ling crashed to the ground. She had just enough time to pick herself up when the yaks came charging at her.
Bai-Ling ran towards the ravine, in her fear she had temporarily forgotten how to fly. She made it to the edge of ravine just as Chin and the rest of the gang ran for the bridge. Bai-Ling stopped just on the edge and froze up. There's nothing worse than standing at least sixty feet above a rocky bed of sharp rocks and forgetting how to fly.
"C'mon you bloody stupid bat! This way!" shouted Chin.
Without thinking Bai-Ling ran blindly towards Chin and the rest of the gang. They charged across the old wooden bridge. As they ran the bridge swung and rattled dangerously. They were halfway across the bridge when Yang and his clan arrived on the other side. Wasting no time they too ran across the bridge, however the bridge could hardly contain the weight of the rats, and the addition of yaks made it worse.
Suddenly the ancient ropes snapped and the bridge swung forward, Chin and his gang clung to the wooden boards with their little rat hands, and Bai-Ling with her claws. The yaks however fell. Most fell into the river, but a few tumbled into the snow banks or onto some of the rocks. Luckily for them, however, that none of them died, but there were more than enough skinned knees and broken bones.
Yang clambered out of the river, his right horn had broken off.
"RAT! I WILL FIND YOU!" Yang hollered. His booming voice caused a small avalanche which fell unto the group of yaks, partially burying them.
Yang groaned.
"HAH!" exclaimed Chin as he made a snow ball and chucked it at Yang, which was a bit overkill, but Chin didn't care.
"I can't believe we escaped them!" said Cheng his eyes wide with shock.
"Yeah well, when you're traveling with the most intelligent (and most handsome) of bandits then you should expect the unexpected." Said Chin as he walked away.
The rest of the gang followed Chin down a couple slopes and off of the mountain.