Meanwhile, Shifu stood under the tree, watching the few remaining blossoms slowly fall off of it. Shifu gingerly caught a blossom falling in his direction.
"Just hold on for a little bit longer," Shifu said patting the tree.
"Talking to a tree. You need serious help."
Shifu quickly turned around. "Ke-Pa!"
He got into a fighting stance, but Ke-Pa raised one hand, telekinetically lifting Shifu.
"Finally, someone recognizes me." Ke-Pa threw Shifu to the ground and walked over to the tree. "So, tree, you really are dying."
Ke-Pa was cut off by the sound of Shifu blowing his horn. The Furious Five and I stopped where we were searching and went straight to the Jade Palace.
"Let's go, Bloom," Crane told me.
Flying faster than I ever had before, I flew back to the Jade Palace.
Ke-Pa raised one hand, taking the horn from Shifu and crushing it. Shifu got into a fighting stance again, but Ke-Pa lifted Shifu into the air. He floated up to the same level as Shifu and made his hand into a fist which began to choke him.
"Don't any of you know when to give up?" Ke-Pa asked, annoyed.
"Not really our thing," Po, who had finally arrived, said. "Now put my master down before you make me mad!"
"Oh, wouldn't want that to happen," Ke-Pa said sarcastically. He dropped Shifu and floated down.
I landed on the cliff of the peach tree. I had this sort of feeling that another dragon was there. There was this intense pain in my chest, which I suppose was the Dragon Flame warning me of the presence of an evil dragon. Then I saw an old pig by the peach tree. Ke-Pa!
"I think you and I got off on the wrong foot," Ke-Pa told Po. "Tell you what: take your best shot, and we'll call it even."
Po charged at Ke-Pa, letting out a battle cry.
"Po!" Shifu shouted. "Don't!"
"Po, stop!" I shouted.
But it was too late. Po kicked Ke-Pa, slamming him into the tree. Ke-Pa looked up at the tree with a grin on his face as he watched the last leaf fall off. Shifu, Po, and I gasped as the leaf fell.
Ke-Pa looked at Po. "Oopsie, now you've done it."
"Uh oh," Po said quietly.
The entire tree turned black, including the leaves surrounding it. Ke-Pa began laughing crazily and walking backwards very clumsily. He neared the edge of the cliff as red energy began to burst out of his face. When it did, Ke-Pa still continued to laugh insanely as he fell off the cliff.
We ran over to the cliff and looked over the edge. Nothing but mist. Suddenly, a red beam of light shot out of the mist into the sky. We braced ourselves until the light went away
Po backed up and smiled. "Wow, we beat him!"
I flinched as the pain in my chest grew stronger and stronger. I put my hand to my chest and winced. Shifu noticed and stared at me, eyes full of fear. If I was still being affected, that could only mean one thing.
Po began to sing to himself.
"Panda." Shifu said, still looking at me with wide eyes.
"I mean, yeah, technically he fell off a cliff, but, we still won!" Po said enthusiastically.
"Panda."
"Another big victory for the Dragon Warrior!"
Shifu looked at Po. "Po!" He looked over the cliff. "It isn't over."
Po stopped celebrating. We saw flashes of the red light within the mist. Just like in my vision. A large red hand grabbed the top of the cliff. A long, spiked shadow rose to the top of the hill. A large dragon came up behind us as we slowly turned around. Ke-Pa was in his true form. Po blew on his horn, making a weak sound.
"Behold the real Dragon Warrior!" Ke-Pa boomed, before blowing fire at us. Po, Shifu, and I barely dodged it.
"Now, this is more like it," Ke-Pa said.
He flew up into the air and disappeared. I would have followed him, but I couldn't see where he went and he was much too fast. We all slowly got up from the ground. Po noticed his tail was smoking.
"Ow, hot butt! Hot butt!" He began sliding across the ground and put the flames out. Po stopped and noticed Ke-Pa was nowhere to be seen. "Where'd he go?"
Shifu thought for a moment. His eyes widened. "The Jade Palace!"
"Where the demons are!" I exclaimed.
We looked at the Jade Palace and as if things couldn't get worse, the Furious Five gathered at the top of Jade Mountain.
"Who blew their horn?" Tigress asked.
"No blow here," Crane said.
"Wasn't me," Monkey replied.
"Not me," Mantis answered.
Crane looked around. "Where are Shifu and Po?"
"And where's Bloom?" Viper asked.
Po, Shifu, and I desperately tried to warn them via waving our arms and shouting, "Hey!" "Get out of there!" "Ke-Pa's coming!" "He's coming!"
Sadly, the Five couldn't hear us and were a bit confused.
Monkey waved at us good-naturedly. "Hi! Good to see you too!" He turned to the rest of the Five. "They're in a chipper mood."
Tigress began to listen closer to what we were saying: "Get out of there!" "He's coming!" Her eyes widened. "Ke-Pa is here!" she said.
But it was too late for them to run. Ke-Pa flew down to the palace and blew fire at the Furious Five.
"Jump!" Tigress shouted.
The five jumped off of Jade Mountain. Ke-Pa's fire breath caused a large explosion on the palace. It was so bright and full of impact that we fell over and had to shield our eyes. When the explosion cleared, we got up and saw that the Jade Palace was destroyed. All that was left was a burning crater.
