CHAPTER 11- REACHING THE CASTLE
Sorry, this this took forever. I had the whole story completed a long time ago, I am just not confident enough to post them, you know what I mean :P
Anyway, sorry for that. Here is it.
The sun had just rised. The warriors were ready to leave.
"Thanks a lot for helping us," Tigress said to the Grandma sheep.
"It was my pleasure." The sheep said. "Hope you'll defeat that evil rhino."
"Grandma Sheep, that medicine you gave me was awesome! I feel no pain in my belly." Po said smiling. "Thank you."
"No need to thank me. I was famous for my medicines when I was in city." The sheep said proudly. The six smiled.
"The Jade Palace's doors will always be open for you." Tigress promised.
"Best of luck to you." Ming gave thumbs up to her.
The Five and Po bowed, the sheep did the same. They left.
HONG-XING FORTRESS
Hiàn was outraged, "You fool! Those losers reached here! You couldn't stop them!" Hiàn grabbed Feng neck.
"Sir, I don't how they did this! I sent my greatest obstacles!" Feng begged.
"They're here to defeat me! But they can't! I will not let them reach me before the eclipse!"
"Don't worry sir, I'll handle."
"No, you have handled much." Hiàn said grabbing his neck. "I'll handle the rest." Hiàn said. "Come here!" Hiàn called out. A Gorilla came, that gorilla was the chief of his security.
"Yes, Master!"
"Send your most skilled fighters to stop those losers." Hiàn ordered. "And try to capture that Panda or Tigress; those two are the strongest ones in the group."
"Yes sir!" Gorilla said."I'll not disappoint you."
The Five can see Hiàn's palace clearly. "There it is. We have to reach there before afternoon, because that's when the eclipse occurs." Tigress said.
"Yes, we have less time." Po said.
"Po, we have less time, almost 6 hours, but don't take your guard off because our difficulties might be more dangerous now."
With that, hey continued their journey. They were on their way to the castle. Tigress heard something, her ears twitched.
"What happen, Tigress?" Po asked. Tigress raised a hand to make them stop talking.
"Someone's around us." Just then, 10 gorillas jumped and surrounded them. The Five and Po took their stance and pose in defense. "I hate Gorillas." She said, remembering the fight in Shen's fireworks factory, when a gorilla grabbed her, preventing her to stop Shen shooting Po with his canon.
"These gorillas look really strong!" Po yelled. The gorilla leader yelled, "Get them!" And the gorillas attacked. The gorillas were bigger in size then the warriors, so they were having trouble in fighting those primates. Even Po's iron belly wasn't working on them because their sized, Po was smaller than them. One gorilla pinned him to the ground and grabbed his both arms; while the second one started punching his face hard. He kept punching continuously until Po started coughing out blood. "Guys… help…" Po managed to say. Tigress then noticed Po getting punched; she quickly leaped and kicked the gorilla who was punching him. The second one jumped on her and tried to punch her, she stepped aside and swept his feet as he fell on his face. She then helped Po get up. "Thanks, Ti."
"It's okay, Po." She answered as they continued fighting. They kept fighting but those gorillas didn't back off. The six were now two tired to fight more, but the gorillas weren't. The gorillas pinned Monkey, Crane Viper and Mantis to the ground, while Po and Tigress were still trying to fight, both were out of energy and could give out anytime, especially Po; he wasn't able to fight anymore, he was injured on the face and was about to give up. "Man, can't fight anymore." A gorilla jumped on his back, Po fell on his belly, "Tigress, help me!" Tigress heard this, she quickly turned and saw this and quickly ran to help him; but unluckily, a gorilla grabbed her tight and prevented her to reach him.
"Let me go!" Tigress roared but that didn't worked.
"Aaargh!" Po groaned as the the gorilla that was on his back pushed a hankie on Po's nose (the hankie had a medicine that can make someone unconscious if it's smelled) Po passed out.
"No! Po! Open your eyes!" Tigress yelled. She tried really hard to break free, but wasn't able to. She finally got mad and kicked the gorilla at his tenders, finally braking free and ran toward Po. But unfortunately, the gorillas threw smoke bombs on the ground. Smoke everywhere. No one can see anything. When the smoke faded, there was no sign of the gorillas and Po. "PO? PO!" Tigress yelled very loudly. She fell to her knees, tears started coming out of her eyes.
The others came to her, Monkey put a hand on her shoulder, "Tigress, don't cry."
"They took him with them…" Tigress said, sadly. "I… couldn't save him. They will… kill him." Tigress hesitated at the last two words.
"Tigress, control yourself." Viper told. "They will not. We'll save him. I promise you'll see him alive." Tigress looked at her. "Just belief."
"Yes, Po is a Kung Fu Master; he can defend himself until we reach him." Mantis said.
"That's ok," Tigress successfully controlled her emotions. "But Po isn't with us right now. We have to save Po, as well as the Prince." They nodded.
"You think we can do this without him?" Monkey asked.
"Yes, we can!" Mantis said as he hopped on his shoulder.
"Ok. Let's do this. We'll save Po." Tigress said as they continued their journey.
Po slowly opened his eyes. His vision was not clear. When his vision cleared, he saw that he was in a big hall. Po tried to move his arms but couldn't. He looked up to see handcuffs on his wrists, same was with his legs. "WHAT'S ALL THIS?! WHO DID THIS TO ME?! LET ME GO!" Po roared with anger.
A gorilla came and smacked him on the head, "Keep your voice down down! You idiot!"
A clapping noise is heard. Po saw large figure, dressed in a cloak, he had a hood covering his face. "Well done, my men. This panda is one of the strongest members in that group."
"Who are you?! Let me go!" Po yelled.
"Well, why would I capture you if I wanted to let you go?"
"Who are you?!"
"You want to see?" the figure said and took off his hood and cloak; revealing that it was none other than Hiàn, he was dressed in a blue robe, also he had a golden cap on his horn.
"Sir, this is the Dragon Warrior. His name is Bo." The gorilla said.
"It's Po!" Po yelled.
"Well, you're the leader of those… Furious Five, aren't you?" Hiàn asked Po.
"No, that's not me. That's Tigress. And she'll be here soon with the four. " Po said.
"Let her come. I gave her a warning too, still she's coming to get me. What a fool." Hiàn said.
"Don't you dare say anything wrong about her!" Po scolded. Hiàn however, was not amused, but he laughed awkwardly.
"Looks like you're in love with her." Po was mad, but he knew this was right.
"We'll see. She can't defeat me without the help of Oogway, that crazy old turtle." Hiàn said.
"You're not fit to speak his name!" Po yelled.
"Yeah yeah." Hiàn said. "Increase the security! They shouldn't reach here!"
"Yes sir!" the gorilla said.
The Five kept moving bushes to bushes, without being spotted by the wolves, waiting for a chance to attack.
"Tigress, if we attacked the wolves, maybe we'll defeat them, but what if they alerted Hiàn? This will be trouble and what if he harmed Po or the prince?" Monkey asked.
"Hmm… what I know is that Hiàn will not hurt prince before the eclipse, but he can hurt Po." Tigress said. She thought for a while. "We must find a way to defeat these guards without them making any noise."
"When is my claw thingy going to work? I can acupressure them and paralyze them without them making any noise." Mantis suggested.
"Oh, good. But only you can do that Mantis, because we don't have… Claw thingies." Tigress said. "But remember what happen when you were practicing acupressure on Po? I don't want that to happen with these wolves." Tigress said in a threatening tone. Mantis grinned when he remembered the time he acupressure Po, Po kept yelling in pain.
"Don't worry; I clearly know wolves' acupressure points."
Mantis jumped out of the bush and with great speed, he pressured each wolf one-by-one, paralyzing them all without them making any noise. The Four came out of the bush.
"Nice work, Mantis."
The Five got inside the castle. They were hiding behind a pillar.
"There must be many guards inside, how are we going to deal with them?" Monkey asked.
"When is this going to work?" She said and showed her locket. Everyone sighed in relief.
"Oh, we totally forgot about that." Mantis said.
"Now just wait and watch." She said and winked. She threw opened the door. The guards took out their spears, ready to attack.
"Grab me." She whispered to her friends. They all grabbed her.
"INTRUDERS! GUARDS, ATTACK!" The guard yelled. The other guards attacked.
Tigress held the locket tightly in her fist, closed her eyes and whispered something. Everyone froze in their places.
"Cool!" The four said. She smiled. "Let's go."
"Soon, the eclipse will occur and then I will be totally invincible! Hahaha!" Hiàn laughed. The door burst opened. The Five had arrived!
"Guys!" Po yelled. Tigress growled when she saw Po's condition.
"How did they get in here?! Why didn't you warned me?!" Hiàn yelled at his gorillas.
"We didn't get warned as well." The gorilla said.
"Now what are you waiting for?! ATTACK!" Hiàn yelled. The gorillas attacked them. The Five quickly took their stances and attacked the gorillas. There weren't many gorillas there this time so they easily defeated them.
"Let. Po. Go." Tigress threatened in a deadly tone.
"Master Tigress… my old enemy. Last time, you managed to defeat me with your pathetic kung fu with the help that crazy old turtle named Oogway." Hiàn said.
"You are not fit to speak his name!"
"You and that panda, both are fool."
Tigress growled. The Five took their fighting stance and came face-to-face with Hiàn.
To Be Continued…
