FINALLY! NEW chapter, EXAM are over!! Now I'm back, baby. Forgive my over-excitement. Hope you still keep on and looking forward for my stories. Now this part is where the Furious Five fight Tai Lung at the Thread of Hope.

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Kingdom Heart, Enter the Mystical Land of Wisdom

Chapter 11

Captured!

--The Thread of Hope--

Meanwhile, Tai Lung raced toward a rope bridge that stretched between two towering mountain peaks and over a body of water below. Halfway across, he paused. The Valley of Peace lay in the distance.

'At last I have reached my destination,' Tai Lung thought triumphantly.

Suddenly, a puff of dark smoke appeared in front of his eyes. Apparently, it was none but Zexion and Larxene! With their arms crossed, Larxene was the first to speak, "Tai Lung, the useless-Five are on their way to this bridge. We don't have time to fight with them so find another way into the valley." She commanded.

Although, Tai Lung ignored her instead as he stated firmly, "I play by my rules. I'll defeat them if it is the last thing I do." He said as he walked pass between the two.

Zexion humped, "So much for an animal brain." He mocked silently.

"I know!" Larxene admitted, smacked her forehead. "Hope this stupid leopard won't cause any troubles into our plan!" she murmured and looked back at Tai Lung again, and then she and her company both disappeared.

Just then, the Furious Five appeared on the other side of the bridge, just like Larxene and Zexion predicted.

Tai Lung roared in fury. Oh, how he could need some stretching before his battle.

Then he could hear a shout from Tigress, "Cut the bridge!" Tigress called out.

Te other slashed the ropes that held bridge to the mountain; first Viper, then Crane, Monkey and Mantis. Tai Lung had almost made it across when Tigress sliced the final rope. Then she leaped toward the snow leopard. Her claws extended.

The two feline warriors tumbled toward the middle of the rope bridge as it began to fall into the canyon below.

The other four members of the Furious Five grabbed the support ropes and held on tightly. Tai Lung growled at Tigress, more like teased at her. "Where's the Dragon Warrior?" he asked.

Tigress stepped closer. "How do you know you're not looking at her?" she shot back.

Tai Lung then burst out laughter, "You have forgot, I was there when you were a cub. Are you his favourite now?" he said with a sneer. "You think I'm a fool? I know you're not the Dragon Warrior. None of you are!" he added with a roar.

Soon, the Furious Five exchanged surprised looks. Did Tai Lung know about the panda? They wondered.

"That's right," Tai Lung went on confidently. "In my travels I heard about how he fell from the sky on a ball of fire. I also heard that he's a warrior unlike anything the world has ever seen."

This time the Furious Five exchanged confused looks.

"Po?" Monkey said tentatively. "Are you talking about Po?"

"So that's his name!" Tai Lung declared. "Po…Finally, I'll face a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"

At that, Tigress had had enough as she charged. Tai Lung reacted quickly, fighting back with a spectacular block and then a series of powerful strikes and kicks. Within minutes, a section of the bridge was wrapped around Tigress's neck.

"Go! Help Tigress!" Mantis told Viper and Crane. "Money and I can hold up the bridge!"

Viper slithered toward Tai Lung, while Crane helped to free Tigress from nearly fell off the bridge into the deep canyon. Viper wrapped herself around Tai Lung's arm, she used his own paw to punch the snow leopard again and again. "Let's how you like it!" she said, kept on punching.

Tai Lung fought back. He caught Viper in a hold and circled his paws around her throat. "Monkey!" she said in a choked voice. "Help me!"

Monkey was still helping Mantis hold up the rope bridge. "Go!" Mantis urged him. Eventually, Monkey handed him the rope and ran to help the green tree viper.

Just when Mantis caught all of the rope bridge all at once, he then realized he had made a HUGE mistake. "What was I thinking!!?" he cursed himself, as the weight of the members of the Five and Tai Lung were too much for a little praying mantis.

Monkey leaped into the action, swiftly kicking Tai Lung in the chest. Tigress came at Tai Lung again, but he sent her crashing through the slats of the bridge. In a flash Tai Lung was running toward them again on a single strand of rope.

"Mantis!!" Tigress yelled as a single.

Mantis reacted by whipping his end of the rope had, sending a section of rope shooting toward Tai Lung. As the rope swirled around Tai Lung, the Five spotted their chance.

"NOW!!" Tigress shouted.

The Five all let out a loud roar. Then, all together, they went after Tai Lung, pounding him with fierce kicks and punches. Monkey first gave him his best kicks on his Tai Lung, then Viper slithered through Monkey's arm and whipped Tai Lung's face. Crane then cut a spare rope and kicked the leopard in the mid-air and swirled him to tie him. Finally, Tigress delivered him her painful fist as pain as she could give, then she slashed the rope between them.

Tai Lung plummeted into the canyon below, dropping down…down…and then finally disappearing into the mist.

Mantis whipped his end of the rope, returning his friends safely to the mountain. The Furious Five looked at one another as they gasped for breath. They'd done t! They had stopped Tai Lung before he could near the Valley of Peace with his fearsome army!

Suddenly, something caught in Tigress's eyes as her eyes went wide. The other end of the rope bridge was now rapidly circling the far mountain peak. That meant….

"Tai Lung!" she cried.

With a crash, the snow leopard stood before them again! Tai Lung smirked at the Five, who were shuddering in fear, horrid and helpless.

"Shifu taught you well," he said ominously. He jabbed a finger at Monkey, instantly paralyzing him. "But he didn't teach him everything…" with those words and a few second, he had smacked, kicked, punched, whipped and defeated the Furious Five in no time!

After his small victory, a few from his army appeared and some Heartless and Nobodies revealed themselves as well. "Lock them! And make sure none of them escape!" he ordered.

They nodded, as when they tried to pick them up. Riku, in black cloak figure suddenly appeared in the middle. He grabbed Monkey, thinking he was wounded badly instead of the others. "Kill him!!!" Tai Lung roared.

Riku gave the leopard a glare and hung Monkey's arm over his shoulders, he waved his hands and a tornado of dust swirled around them. When the dust faded, they had vanished!! Just when the bandits were going to after their tracks, Tai Lung commanded.

"Leave them, at least I could send Shifu a message to welcome my return." Tai Lung snickered and slowly he burst into evil laughter.

--Jade Palace--

That evening Shifu, Sora, Donald, Goofy and Po walked through the palace courtyard. The panda was carrying a heavy backpack, he didn't mind at all as there was a happy spring in his step.

"You have done well, panda." Shifu complimented him. "And so as you three, Keyblader." Shifu added with smile and so as they returned it.

"Done well? Done well!?" Po repeated.

"Are you kidding? We've done AWESOME!" Sora finished for him.

Po nodded as he swung his belly around and knocked Shifu off balance. Shifu staggered backward, and then quickly regained his dignity with Sora's help. "The mark of a true hero," he reminded Po solemnly, "is humility."

A second later, he leaned closer to Po and Sora whispered in their ear, "But, yes, panda, porcupine, you two have done--" then he punched them playfully on the arm, "awesome." He finished.

Together they laughed. Just then, a figure appeared in a puff of dark smoke. Everyone was in their fighting stance, waited until the smoke faded. To their surprise, it was Monkey who was breathing hardly, and the one beside him and carried his arm over his shoulders. He laid Monkey on the ground gently.

"Master Monkey!" Po cried out in alarm. He threw down his backpack and rushed over. "Is he dead? No, his eyes are open. Is he sleeping?" he talked nervously as he bent over him, he could see that he was still breathing, but barely.

Sora stepped in front of Po and held up his Keyblade and so as Donald and Goofy were on their fighting position, as they recognized the clothe of this person was from Organization XIII! "Alright, what are you up to? And where are the others?" Sora demanded.

Before the person could speak, Sora then spotted his eyes were familiar to him somehow…he thought with a doubt, but he blurted out, "Riku?" he asked.

"HUH!!?" Donald and Goofy were shocked.

Riku found that he was discovered and a snap of his finger, he returned into his darkness again, without saying good-bye to his long lost friends. Sora wanted to approach him before he disappeared. He didn't do it, instead, he was wondering and worrying about him. Why didn't he reunite them? Why is he hiding? Is there something far beyond than the previous?

"Riku…" Sora echoed.

Donald and Goofy placed their hands on his shoulders and tried to cheer him. "Aww, come on, Sora. At least we know he's okay now." Goofy said, tried to be in cheerful tone.

"Yea, we have seen him already and we will see him again." Donald added, grinning.

Sora gave his friends a weak smile. But suddenly he backed to the reality as he looked back and saw Monkey was still on the same hold, Shifu was trying to release him from the paralysis hold. They rushed beside them and asked, "What happened?" he asked.

"I don't know. We'll have to wait until he's--" Po was stopped by a sudden punch from Monkey.

"HE'S TOO STRONG!!" Monkey yelled as he came to. He leaped to his feet and delivered a strong kung fu punch to Po's face. Slowly, he looked around, realizing where he was and figured what he had done to Po.

"Sorry, Po." He apologized, sincerely.

"Nah, it's totally fine, I think." Po assured as he caressed his nose.

"Monkey, what happened? Where are the others?" Shifu demanded.

At first, Monkey wanted to deny but he had to tell the truth. "We went to the Thread of Hope to challenge Tai Lung." He said.

"You what!?" Shifu shouted.

"The others were captured but somehow, someone rescued me and quickly sent back to here." he explained.

"We must help them!" Sora announced.

"Tai Lung has gathered his army and some new dark power within him." Monkey added.

"That's bad. He has become stronger already, but now with his new thread, it becomes much worse." Shifu grumbled.

"Master Shifu, please, let us rescues the others!" Po requested.

Shifu stared at Po, his eyes were full of confident and true. Sifu couldn't help but chuckle, "Guess I don't have a choice. Very well, then." He said.

"We'll come with you too." Sora said, "Beside, you're not alone, right?" he asked with a wink.

"Thanks, guys." Po thanked them again.

Shifu cleared his throat, "This is your final task; rescue the Furious Five and send them back to the Jade Palace before tai Lung came!" Shifu ordered.

"Yes, Master!" Po, Sora, Donald and Goofy halted and saluted to him with a respectful bow. And so, they went off, to save their friends before the evil threads came.

Where are the Furious Five? And wat kind of truth they will have to face? Will they make it on time? What danger lies ahead? Instead of me asking these questions to you, wait, looking forward and REVIEW. Peace out!

To be continued…