Okay here it is, the final chapter. Now enough of this, onward to the story.
I do not own Kung Fu Panda, only my OC's
We had a stare down, our eyes were locked onto each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. He did by standing up and stepping down from his throne.
"There you are Ki, it has been a while." He said to me.
"Same with you, how long has it been? Fifth-teen years, hm." I answered him, he laughed.
"Yes it has, and look at you. Just like your father," He said to me.
"I am nothing like you," I snapped back, "And I am going to show you."
"Oh," He said, "Than what will happen to her?" He said pointing behind me. He snapped his fingers and a door opened at the other end of the room. Two guards, dressed in armor just like the ones that were outside, walked in carrying Kathy. It looked like she was unconscious and wasn't moving, she was bound and gagged. Keith walked over to her and slapped her in the face, causing her to wake up in a state of confusion. She looked over and saw me there, her eyes widened and she shook her head in disbelief. "She doesn't seem to enjoy the fact that you are here. Guards, drop her and leave us to talk" He said stepping closer to me. I glared at him, wondering what his next move was going to be.
"Where is mom, why did you kidnap her?" I asked him, hoping that question would finally be answered. He let out a laugh and looked back at me, I only glared at him.
"Oh, are you asking me? You should be asking the person who kidnapped her." He said, motioning towards Kathy. I wasn't sure what he meant by this.
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"Oh did she not tell you. How amusing that this assassin would go out of her way to not kill her target." He walked up to her and untied her gag.
"Why would she try to kill her own brother?" I looked at her, she only looked away from me and looked down at the ground.
"Wait, she said she was your sister?" He said, patting her on the head, "My my, you really did try and fool yourself with this one didn't you?" He said to her. He turned back towards me, "I guess I can explain everything before you both die." He said. "You see she is a trained assassin, she has killed innocents and criminal for her whole life. I hired her to go and kill you and your mother."
"Your lying!" I shouted at him, he only looked at me.
"Am I?" He questioned me. "Explain to me why she was so hostile towards you when you first met her? How she knew where you both were and your daily routines, hm?"
"Ki don't listen to him!" She shouted at me.
"You shut up, you had your chance to tell him." He looked back at me.
"She was just.."
"She was just what? Trying to get you kill that is what she was doing." I looked over at Kathy and she shook her head.
"That's not what I was doing." She said, tears filling her eyes.
"What about the bandits you hired to kidnap them both. For an assassin you weren't thinking straight with this target. So what were you thinking?" He said to her.
"I was just... I needed to find out more. You told me that they had something to do with me getting separated when I was young. At first I was blinded by my rage, but after thinking for a bit I soon realized that I could interrogate them and possibly find out more information." She wasn't looking at anyone, only the floor.
"Bullshit." I said to her, she looked up at me. "Don't make excuses for your actions." I was starting to get mad. "You are the reason why everything happened? Did you burn my house down too? Is that why you followed and attacked Tigress when she started asking to many questions?" It was all starting to make sense. How everything was linked to her, everything that has happened since the day I awoke in the palace, she has had something to do with it. She looked at me, tears falling down her face.
"That's not.."
"Not what?" I cut her off, "Not true? Than how do you explain all of that happening. You were the one that tried to kill me." I stepped closer to her.
"It is true, but not how you think it is." She told me.
"That makes no sense. Now you are just trying to save yourself." I told her, she could only stare at me.
"Ki, you know what else she did. She killed your mom, the bandits she hired killed her when she didn't pay them." He told me.
"She killed mom..." I said to myself.
"That's not true, Ki don't listen to him!" She yelled at me.
"Shut up!" Keith said, slapping her.
"Your the reason why mom is dead. Your the reason why I went colorblind, because of those goons you hired. All your fault." I was blocking everything out, except Kathy. I drew my dagger and walked up towards her. She turned towards me and we locked eyes, she only stared at me, her eyes were starting to tear up. 'She did all of this to me. This is all her fault.' I thought to myself. My hand was starting to shake as I held my dagger in my hand. I could hear my dad walk closer to me.
"Now take your revenge on the one who caused you and your mother so much pain." He told me as he turned Kathy so her back was to me. I lifted the dagger up above my head, holding it with both of my hands.
'I am doing this for you mom. This will bring us back together and keep us safe.' I told myself as I readied the dagger to strike her in the back. I looked at her neck, planning on where to strike exactly and I saw that she was still wearing my mothers necklace. Why is she still wearing that, what could it possibly mean to her. I was starting to have second thoughts about this decision and started arguing with myself.
'Strike now and kill her.'
'I can't, she is my sister.'
'No she isn't, didn't you hear what you dad said. She is some no name assassin who messed with someone bigger than her. Teach her a lesson she won't forget.'
'That is a lie and I know it, she's treated me like her brother ever since we met. She has talked to me and listened to me when I needed her to and I have done the same for her.'
'So, that was her job. She was waiting for you to show a sign of weakness and strike at you, but now it is your turn to do that.' It was hard fighting my own mind, trying not to give in to the anger and rage. I shut my eyes, trying to help sort all of this out.
"Kiryth, Kiryth..." I heard someone say. I opened my eyes and I was standing in my house. But something felt wrong about this.
"Yes?" I answered the voice, hoping to get an answer. I was spinning around in a circle, trying to pinpoint where the voice was coming from.
"Kiryth, where are you?" I called so me again.
"I'm right here, where are you?" I asked him, not figuring out where the voice was coming from. I heard something open up and I looked in the direction of the kitchen. She walked into the living room and she stood there.
"Mom? But I thought you were dead." I asked her, running over to her.
"Oh Ki, I have missed you so much." She ran over to me and we hugged. It was somehow different though, it didn't feel warming or nurturing. I just wasn't feeling anything from it. "Ki, I don't have long. I have to go."
"What do you mean? You can't leave me." I told her, I was starting to cry.
"I have to, I only came to say goodbye." She said, patting my head in hopes of cheering me up.
"I don't want you to leave."
"I have to, but I want you to do something for me. Kathrine needs to be forgiven, for everything she has done."
"But she has hurt us so much. How can I do that?"
"That is something you need to figure out for yourself. But I have to go..." She said, breaking away from the hug. She turned to leave the room but I grabbed onto her. She turned to look at me, I was trying to stop my crying for a couple of seconds to talk to her.
"I love you mom." I said to her. She smiled at me, her lovely smile that I would not see anymore.
"I love you too, son." That was the last thing she said to me.
I opened my eyes and I was back to where I was. Staring at Kathy, dagger in hand, I had some tears running down my cheeks.
'Even if she did that, even if this is all her fault. My mother getting kidnapped, my house burning down, my colorblindness but there is one thing.' I was saying to myself.
'Oh, and what is that?'
"I know my dad is trying to get me to do this, make me use my anger and rage to kill her. But it won't work. I know she is my sister because of one good reason." I said to my dad and my inner self. I slashed down with the dagger, cutting her free of her bonds. I quickly threw a kick at my dad and caught him off guard. I stood up and took my fighting stance, Kathy took hers next to me.
"Fool, I give you a chance to redeem yourself and this is how you thank me?" He yelled at us, his eyes turned from black to white. "Now I will just kill you myself" and with that I lost my grip on my dagger as he threw us to the wall. He was holding us up against it midair. He stepped closer, drawing his own sword and looking at both of us. "So it has come to this, you know I thought you both would have put up more of a fight than that. You should know you are dealing with the best." I knew this wouldn't end well, I was looking around trying to find something for us to use.
I looked over at Kathy and whispered, "Hey, you see my dagger behind him?"
"Oh I see where you are going with this." She whispered back, not taking her attention away from our father.
"You go for it, I will distract him." I whispered to her before looking back at my dad. "Keith, how about a last request?" I asked him. He looked at me, as though he knew we were planning something.
"You have my attention." He told me, I noticed the dagger slowly rise from the floor.
"Could you tell my why you waited so long before you came after me and mom?" I asked him, he hadn't noticed the dagger slowly getting closer to his back.
"Ah, a good question indeed. You see, for a while I had completely forgotten about you two. What reminded me was when I found out that there was an assassin In the town that could use telekinesis, it sparked my memory. When I first met, Kathrine, she reminded me so much of your mother. Her beauty, her figure, even her voice was all the same. I had heard many good things about her and found out she killed without questions. I told her some fake story about how you two were somehow involved with her getting separated from you when she was young and she was gone before I could even tell her how much I would pay her. I was hoping that she would kill you two without questions but she must have had another idea with you two." He told me, I could tell that he was telling the truth. He used and manipulated Kathy, just as he tried to do with my mere seconds ago. There was no word I could think of to describe how evil and demented he was, I was at a loss of words. "But now I want you to tell me something. Why do you think this low-life criminal is your sister?" He asked me. I looked at him and smiled.
"Because there is something she can do that I know means she is my sister." I told him, watching the dagger steady itself behind him.
"Oh, and what is that?" He asked, stepping closer to me.
"She can use telekinesis. I mean how stupid are you dad?" I told him. Just than he realized our plan but it was to late and the dagger pierced through his chest and he stood there.
"How-" He said before losing consciousness and he fell to the ground, releasing us from his grasp. We landed on the ground and she ran over to him, she pulled the dagger out of him and set it on the ground.
"What are you doing?" I asked her as she was looking him over.
"I'm just looking to see if we killed him." She said, looking at the wound that the dagger gave him. A small pool of blood was forming around him, the wound must of his something important. "He isn't dead, but he might not get up for a little bit. He is out cold." She said to me, walking back to me. "Good job, couldn't of asked for more help." She said, raising her hand to give me a high-five. I only stared at her, I was still mad at her for everything she had done. "What's wrong?" She looked at me. I reached my hand out and ripped the necklace off of her neck.
"You don't deserve this." I told her, holding it in my hand.
"Ki, you don't understand. He was lying about..."
"About what? Everything he said makes sense, you just can't admit it to me. How could you do that to your own sibling?" I asked her, unaware of the figure on the floor starting to move.
"I told you why, I was trying to get revenge on those who hurt me."
"Than why shouldn't I? You are the one who did everything to me, why not get my revenge?" I told her, she looked at me.
"You want revenge? Fine, take your best shot and see if I stop you." She said before I punched her in the face, causing her to fall to the ground. She stood back up, wiping some blood from her lips. "Is that all you got? I know that kitty back at the palace taught you better than that." I punched her again and she fell down. She lifted herself back up and stepped closer. I took a couple of more hit on her, she took everyone of them. She only stood there, taking it all in before I stopped and broke down.
"Why, why did you do this to me." I asked her, tears were falling from my eyes and raining down on the ground. She didn't answer, and I punched her again. "Answer me!" I shouted at her.
"I told you why, you just won't accept it. People do stupid things, things they wish they could take back" She said, putting her hand on my shoulder. She was right, I didn't want to accept the facts as they were. I was hoping there was something else for me to be mad at, something else for me to take my anger out on but there was not. I looked at her, her face was covered in cuts and bruises. Her smiled disappeared and she looked down at the floor. We looked down and I saw a dagger sticking our of her stomach.
"Ki..." She said before it pulled out of her and she fell to the ground with a thud. I saw the dagger floating there and my father standing a couple of feet away, holding his side where he was bleeding.
"Weakling, now it is your turn." He said, shooting the dagger at me. I barely dodged out of the way and I turned back towards it. I needed to find something to use or I would die. I looked back at my dad as he ran towards me. I saw him and his dagger fly towards me and I quickly brought my dagger over to me. I deflected his dagger and we got into a fist fight. The fight almost seemed to be even for a bit, our swords were having their own battle, deflecting each other from stabbing their targets. It was hard keeping that much concentration on both the fight and my dagger.
"Looks like you aren't as powerful as I have heard you are. Too much time away from your training?" I asked him.
"Of course not. I just wanted to have a good fight for once, besides if I wanted to end it," He started saying to me before tripping me onto the floor. He quickly jumped on top of me and held me there. "I would end it." I lost my concentration on my dagger and it fell to the ground, he quickly brought his sword over to him and held it over my throat. "Any last words?" He asked me. I didn't know what to do, I saw my life flash before my eyes. There wasn't much for me to remember before all of this happened. I remembered my mom, waking up in the palace, the first time Tigress beat me in a spar.
'The spar!' I thought to myself, 'He has me in the same hold she did, and I know how to get out of this.'
"My last words," I said, letting go of the necklace that was in my hand and moving it behind him. "You are just like my master." I told him, he only grunted.
"How so?" He asked me.
"You think you won just because I can't move."
"What does that.." He said before the necklace looped around his neck and started to choke him. I lifted him up off the ground and he started gagging. I picked up my dagger and walked up to him. "What... now? Do you" He tried choking out his words, "Do you kill... your own father" He said to me. I was finally able to get my revenge. I pulled the poison out of my pocket and opened it up.
"I can tell you are wondering what this it, and to tell you the truth I am not sure. I think it's Kathy's and I think its poison." His eyes widened. "You know her being an assassin it might be powerful." As I held it up to him, showing him it I noticed my wrist band, 'Forgiveness' it rang through my mind.
'You must forgive yourself for what you did and others for what they did too.' Master Oogway's words rang through my mind.
'Go on, kill him!'
'I can't, I need to learn how to forgive.'
'You want to forgive him? After everything he has done to you?' I stood there for a moment, having another argument with my inner self. I tossed the poison to the side and it spilled out onto the floor.
"What are... you doing?" He said, trying to get his breath.
"I am not going to kill you. It wouldn't do me any justice. Here is what we are going to do." I told him before I took my dagger and slashed his wrists. He cried out in pain and I released him from the necklace that was choking him. "Now you have two choices, kill me and die. Or find help and we all live." I told him.
"But why? Why aren't you getting your revenge?" He asked me. I took my wristband off and threw it at him.
"It's called forgiveness." I told him. I walked over to Kathy and picked her up in my arms and headed off for the front door.
"You can't leave. I won't let you, I will kill you!" He shouted at me. I turned around and looked at him in the eyes.
"Dad, I mean Keith. Can't you see that you lost? Just walk away now and accept defeat."
"I can't lose! Your suppose to kill me." He shouted at me.
"You don't get it. If there is anything I learned from all of this is that forgiving someone can be a powerful weapons itself. I won't lose myself to the power and kill you, I know your plan. I am just walking away, I hope you find help soon." I said to him before I left the building. I walked outside and the last thing I heard from him was a yell of defeat. As I walked though the town I felt Kathy move. She looked around and saw me carrying her.
"Ki? Is that you?" She said to me.
"Yes, and don't worry I am trying to find someone to take a look at your wound." I looked down and looked at her stained clothes.
"No I will be fine." She said to me, holding her wound. "Can you set me down for a second, I want to bandage it up." I set her down and she pulled some bandages out from her cloak. "I just saw mom a minute ago. It was like talking to a ghost, she came to say goodbye."
"Yeah, she did the same thing a couple of minutes ago, before I freed you." I said to her, "But, you carry bandages on you?" I asked her trying to change the subject, she chuckled a little.
"Yeah, I've been hurt before and I learned from it." She said, wrapping her wound up with the bandage." She stood up and grunted. "Ow that stings. I think I can walk, but we need to get out of the town as fast as possible. If they find out what we did and find us..."
"Don't worry, let's just worry about your injuries for now, okay?" I told her as we walked towards the edge of the city.
"Ki, I just want to say that I'm sorry. For everything I put you through." She told me.
"It's okay, I forgive you." I answered her. We were outside the city now and were camped under a tree with a small fire burning. "Besides if you didn't do anything I would probably just be back in the Valley of Peace having a stupid snowball fight." I said to her, looking up at the stars.
"I see. Well I am beat, good night."
"Good night." We soon fell asleep.
Two Days Later
As we stepped closer to the palace gates I knew that my journey was finally over. It had been a long and grueling time and I was glad that it was going to be over as soon as we got there soon. We stepped up to the gates and I opened them, walking in I didn't see anyone at first.
"I wonder where everyone is?" I asked Kathy, she stepped in and looked around.
"I think I hear something coming from the training room." She told me, heading off towards it. I followed her and as we got there we looked in and saw Tigress in the middle of a grueling exercise. I stepped in and cleared my throat. She looked over at me and she ran over to me, embracing me in a hug.
"Whoa, okay I didn't expect that from you." I told her, hugging her back.
"Okay I will leave you two alone but I'm going to go and lay down for a bit. Catch you guys later." Kathrine said, leaving the room and heading off to get some sleep.
The next thing I knew Tigress slapped me and I looked back at her. "Did I deserve that?" I asked her, rubbing the mark she made on my face.
"That was for making me worry about you for a week." She told me. Then she gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.
"And that was for..."
"Keeping your promise." She said before turning her back to me and folding her arms behind her like Master Shifu. "But more important matters are at hand, you have disappointed your master and you must now pay."
"Oh yeah, sorry, maybe running off wasn't my best decision." I told her.
"No not that." She told me.
"Then what is it I did?"
"You took our wine and for that you will do laps around the palace." She turned back towards me.
"Yes Master." I said, bowing to her. I proceeded to run off to begin my training at my new home and family.
Okay hope you all enjoyed it, I know I did. I know it was kinda anti-climatic but I'm not that good at fighting scenes. If anyone has any questions or comments please feel free to leave a review, PM me, or even E-Mail me and I would be happy to answer them. If I get enough I might do a small Authors Notes chapter after this one. Quick shout out to Thegunner18 for supporting me through the story. Until next time, good bye.