I'm back again with a long chapter! Well, I'm sick. So I can't really do anything. I thought that I might aswell write another chapter. I'm on fire with this, and I love it!

So I hope you'll enjoy. I do this for you anyways. ;)

Chapter Nine: Not just Fairytales

Po grabbed Tigress' paw that was extended towards him and stood up. He dusted himself off and ran after her towards the scene of the crime. The grass in the forest was covered in dew and glistered. It was a beautiful sight, but sadly, it couldn't be admired. The air was still chill after the night's cold winds and absence of the sun, and one thing that Po hated, was running in the cold. It always made his throat dry.

He stepped out into a clearing to see Crane, Viper, Mantis and Monkey fightning a hoard of soldiers. They were mostly hawks, but also two or three eagles. The hawks were wearing armor of iron and their wings were covered in thin leather plating. The armor were colored with a purple and red theme and had patterns incarved in them. It must've been an elite force, seeing as regular soldiers never had carvings in their armor. The eagles armor was gold painted with same red symbols. A circle with a triangle in them.

Po reacted quickly as a hawk flew towards him, legs and claws headed his way for attack. Po grabbed the haws feet and spun around before releasing the hawk. The hawk however, saw this coming and tilted his wings to fly upwards into the air. Po put his arm up as the hawk dived down towards him again and let his arm get grabbed by the hawk. The claws dug into his skin and fur, causing a tingle of pain into his arm. Po dragged downwards, suprising the hawk and making it hit face first into the ground. Seeing the hawk being knocked out, he jumped over it and looked around. Viper was fightning a eagle and she was on the losing end. Monkey and Crane was teaming up on four hawks, but like Viper, they weren't succeeding. Mantis was knocked out on the ground and Tigress was handeling two Eagles at once. As Po watched with horror on his friends falling, he didn't notice the three hawks sneaking up on him from behind. The jumped on him and held him down. He struggled with all his strenght, but he couldn't get them off. He gave up and laid on the ground, his mind only thinking defeat as Viper was knocked out. He had failed his friends. He looked over to Monkey and Crane. They were being held down too. He sighed as he looked to Tigress, being hit in her head before she fell backwards into the ground, unconscious.

Sundara looked in Disbelief. Infront of her she saw a scene where the Five and the Dragon warrior was defeated, but she couldn't let this happen. She must set her bigger plan in motion. She looked to her side, to a cloaked figure.

"Go." she said, and the cloaked figure ran out into the clearing with lightning speed.

Just as Po was about to close his eyes, he felt the weight of the hawks on his back dissapear.

'What is this...?' He thought. He quickly stood up and got into a stance, ready to fight anyone who approached him. He looked around the clearing to see a cloaked figure fightning the bird soldiers.

'He.. He's the one from my dream!' He thought to himself as he stared in disbelief. It's moves were precise, trained and powerful. It was a strong opponent to face for anyone. Even Oogway.

It ran towards the Hawks standing over Crane and Monkey and jumped into the air. It flipped and extended it's arms and legs and tilted in air. On it's back, falling down, the arms came first and knocked out the first two hawks. It landed on it's paws as the legs came down, taking out the other hawks. The eagles had left Tigress' unconscious body and was flying towards the figure. It jumped up into the air and landed behind them before grabbing their wings and slamming them into the ground. There were six more hawks standing by who started to rush towards the figure, but as a practiced play, the figure hit each one in the head with his paws and a pile of them formed below. Po looked behind him to see the three hawks who had held him down on the ground themselfs, knocked out. He looked up again to see the figure eyeing a escaping Eagle, The eagle that Viper had fought, before he took a knife from a belt Po hadn't spotted untill now. The figure looked at the eagle before throwing the knife, making it land square on it's back. The escaping eagle was now falling down into the bamboo forest below.

'Wow... this guy's good.' He thought. But why had he saved them? He watched the figure as it turned around to face Po. His heart skipped a beat as it saw the glowing blue eyes burning through him, making his entire soul shiver. It walked up to Po with slow and steady steps. Even though it took mere seconds for the figure to approach Po, it felt like forever. All Po could think of was the soul piercing eyes that stared at him. But sooner rather than later, the figure was only a few inches away from him before it spoke in a young, yet dark voice.

"Come, let's help your friends."

Po could only nod slightly. He did not want to piss this guy off. The figure walked over to Tigress and lifted her up over his shoulders, letting her hang from them before picking up Mantis who layed only a few feet away. Po walked up to Crane and Monkey and picked up Monkey who were knocked out cold. Crane was looking at him.

"Give me a hand?" He asked and Po nodded and reached down with his paw, helping Crane up on his feet. Crane walked over to Viper and picked her up with his feet before placing her around his neck. He had to bend over slightly to not make her slide off. He then walked back to Po.

"Who's that guy? He fights like a demon." Crane whispered to Po while looking at the figure who was standing on the edge of the clearing, Tigress over his shoulder and Mantis in his paw. Po shook his head. "I don't know." He said before walking over to the waiting clearing. The figure gave the panda a quick look before asking.

"Where's the snake and the bird?" He asked. Po answered with a small "behind us." while fiddeling with his fingers. The figure nodded.

"Good."

Then he started walking into the forest with Po and Crane in tow, all carrying a member or wo of the Furious Five.

They stopped by another clearing, about a kilometer away. The clearing had a log and a small stone in it, providing places to sit.
The figure put Mantis on the grass beside the log and put Tugress beside him, letting her head rest on the log. Po followed suit with Monkey and crane walked over to the stone and put Viper curled up on it.

The Figure sat down in the grass and took off his hood to reveal a grey feline face. He had a white muzzle and a black nose. His head was more round in shape than any other Feline's Po had seen. He was covered in small black spots and had two thick black lines running from the corners of his nose to his eyes. His fur was black and spiky on his head, giving him a sort of Haircut and his right ear was decorated with a golden ring in it.

Po sat awkwardly down beside him and earned a weird look from the grey cat, but he decided t be brave and ignore it. Underneath the cloak, the cat seemed to have a white-ish sweater of some kind and black sweatpants. He decided to stop looking at the cat to take the awkwardness away and curiously wondered where Crane had gone.
"What's your name?" A dark voice sounded beside him, he looked at the cat who was staring at him intently, waiting for an response.

"Erm.. It's.. P-Po. Po Ping." Po said awkwardly, scratching his head slightly. The cat narrowed his eyes but accepted this answer before looking back into the forest.
"What's yours?" Po asked in return, the cat looked up at him again.

"I have many names, but you can call me Q'rahr." It said before once more looking into the forest. Po took this oppertunity to scan the creature further. It had large paws that had their claws extended. Po wondered why they weren't sheated. Did he not trust them? Why would he save them if he didn't trust that they were good people? Po shook the thought off and thought of another question.

"So... I haven't seen your.. err... Kind, around here. What animal are you?" Po asked. Q'rahr answered without looking away from the forest.
"I'm a Cheetah. We are not native to China, so it's a bit... expected... that you haven't seen my kind around." It answered. Po thought for a moment. He had heard about cheetahs from scrolls in the palace, but to see one living, that was a suprise.

"So.. What land are yu native to?" Po asked further. Q'rahr closed his eyes."

"I come from a land known as Africa. It has large and wide open plains next to unforgiving jungles. It's a beautiful land, but when I left, all it was... well, it was corrupted." Q'rahr said. Africa! Po only thought that Africa was a land in fairytales, not a real excisting place!

Po thought for a moment to see which question next he should take, when Tigress stirred awake. She groaned as she put a paw on her head, obviously sore from the blow she had received. Po was actually in awe, he had never seen anyone powerful enough to knock her out like that.

Tigress sat up and looked around and immidiently, her eyes landed on Q'rahr, and they widened.

"W-What the...?" She started saying but groaned again. It was clear she had a headache. Po jumped up to his feet and walked over to Tigress.
"Lay down. He is not a danger, In fact, he saved our sorry bottoms." He said as he put up his paws infront of him, motioning for Tigress to lay back down. But as stubborn as Tigress was, she didn't listen. She sat up and slid back, letting herself rest on the log.

"Just that he saved us does not make me trust him." She growled loud enough for Q'rahr to hear. Q'rahr's ears turned in their direction, saying that he had heard what Tigress had said, but he paid no mind to it.

Po backed off, slightly intimidated by Tigress' growl. He sat down in the grass again, beside Q'rahr. In that moment, Crane entered the scene, carrying wood.
"I thought it would be a good idea to make a fire." He said as he placed the wood in a pile in the middle of the clearing. Q'rahr nodded and stood up. He quickly produced a flint piece and a steel piece of his belt which he hit againts eachother, causing sparks to fly and land on the wood, making it catch fire. Po looked in awe at this cat. He made it look so easy.

Po yawned, the fightning only an hour ago had made him tired and the walk the night before added on his tiredness.

"Hey, Q'rahr, is it alright if I take a powernap?" He asked the cheetah who was sitting in a lotus position infront of the burning flamed.

"Help yourself out." He said and the panda quickly laid down in the grass. Po closed his eyes and dreamland was entering his mind.

"I'll get more firewood for the night." Crane said as he walked back into the woods. Q'rahr nodded and stared back into the fire. Tigress eyed Crane as he left and quickly let her eyes land on Q'rahr.

"So... Q'rahr... Why did you interupt us?" She asked, her tone filled with annoyance and curiosity. Q'rahr answered without looking up from the flames.

"You were getting your butts kicked into Russia." He said with amusement flickering in his eyes. Tigress' eyes narrowed.
"We would've done just fine if you hadn't in-"

"Really?" Q'rahr interupted as he looked at the tiger. His lips were tugged in a smile and his eyes was flashing cockyness.
"You, the monkey, the snake and the bug were all knocked out cold. The panda was being held down by three birds and the same goes to the skinny legged birdie." He said almost laughing. Tigress let out a low growl.

"We would've sti-"

"Face it, pretty girl. You would've been in a cell by now if it weren't for me." He interupted again. Oh, This guy had some guts!
Tigress growled louder this time and was about to kick the dude off into the hole he had crawled up from, but had to stop herself. Her head was aching too much. This.. Q'rahr would face heaven and hell when she was back in shape.

"Why don't you take a nap? You need it. I'll watch over you and your comrades." he said with a grin at comrades. Tigress snorted and crossed her arms.

"If you think for one moment that I'll let a stranger take care over me and my friends saftey, you better think twice." Tigress replied, clearly irritated. Q'rahr chuckled.

"Suit yourself, pretty girl." He said with a smirk. Oh, Tigress wanted to see him getting hurt so bad right now. No one called her 'Pretty Girl'.

"You better stop with the names or I'll rip open your stomach." She growled. Q'rahr chuckled again.

"Like you could do anything. You're out of order at the moment." He replied, his eyes staring into the fire.

Tigress snorted again. She knew she was 'Out of Order' and she hated it. She sighed. Might aswell wait for night to come.

New Charecter! Introducing to you, Q'rahr. (No, he wasn't my khajiit character in skyrim... okay he was. But he wasn't the same!)

Erm.. so yea.

I have drawn a picture of him if you want to see.

So, yea. Here it is: /01n4arz8alwg

No idea if the link will show or not. If it won't, contact me and I'll try to mail it or something.

Anyways, tell me what you think, and I'll see you next time 'round.

Cye!