CHAPTER 13. CHASED ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS
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PO'S POV
The day was imperceptibly turning to the evening and the air was getting even more darker along with this nearly whole day lasted dark thunderstorm.
The storm was just getting even worse in the sky in every minute.
As my own home trip became increasingly difficult in every minute.
The pouring rain was getting both heavier and tighter, which greatly bothered my eyes, forcing me to wipe the water off from my eyes between of the five minutes.
My hooded cape wasn't helping to keep me dry at all. It had been severely damaged from previous battles with the wolves, and it was yet torn into shreds due to the claw-like branches of the other trees. In fact, the hooded cape was a useless rag.
The wind was getting so strong that it, along with the numerous lighting bolts that stroke with the violent and destructive force to the taller bamboo trees, easily snapping as well as the weak and strong bamboo trees down blocking the roads, greatly complicating my way back to Jade Palace.
Even some gentle rivers in the bamboo woods had turned into the flooding rogue rivers, over of which was nearly impossible to get.
And because of that, I had to return back to Jade Palace through of another way...
A cliffs of the mountains outside of the Valley of Peace.
I remember and know this mountain area full of high cliffs and the deep foggy chasms, because it used to be the same area where I and Furious Five happened to stop one pack of Lord Shen's wolves from stealing the metal stuff from the Artisan Village for Lord Shen's weapons of conquest several years ago.
Which was also the battle that pulled me and my fellow warriors into our war with Lord Shen through of the Gongmen City some time later after I got a vision of my now-dead mother saving my life from Shen's invaders in my birthplace long ago.
I did not dare to go back to that village for a need for the shelter from the rain, because the wolves were probably still after me and I did not wanted to lead them to the village, which people had already experienced the invasion of Lord Shen's wolves.
So I just kept heading back towards the Valley of Peace.
This was usually quite dangerous area, even for the experienced traveler and Kung Fu warrior, especially during of such of ominous weather like this.
The pouring rain made the cliffs to be quite slippery.
I was also near to fall over the cliff into the deep foggy chasm, because my leg slipped in the edge of the cliff and caused me to fall over.
The pouring rain had caused the edge of the cliff to become completely wet and covered by the running rain water... which also made the cliff very slippery.
I slid through the steep and with the rain water covered slopes of the cliff, unable to grab from anything and nothing was on my way to stop my uncontrollable sliding towards the edge of the cliff, which could have sent me to fall down to my death.
However, before I did even fall completely off from the cliff and to a certain death in the chasm, I barely had time to grab just in time from something, probably from the boulder attached to the edge or from the strong tree, to prevent myself from falling completely over the cliff and to the chasm.
Climbing back to the edge wasn't easy, because the upright stone walls beneath of the edge of the cliff, where I was hanging for my dear life, was also quite slippery due to the pouring rain water, which was also floating over the edge and landing on my face, making climbing even more difficult because I couldn't use my eyes to see to where I was placing my leg to get some support to jump to the cliff and from what I was holding with my paws and pulling me up to the cliff.
However, despite the slippery walls and to the face floating rain water, I eventually managed to climb onto and pull myself up back to the edge.
Another problem here was the strong storm winds, which with the fierce flurry kept nearly every time knocking me off from my feet over to the ground. Especially if I was walking upright in the higher places of this rocky area.
The winds also nearly knocked me off from the edges of the cliffs.
This dangerous problem then forced me to keep moving towards the Valley of Peace safely in the lower cliffs and path ways.
Third problem was, that the repeating and bright lighting caused some lighting bolts to strike to the cliff above of me, which caused the boulders, a fist-sized ones, medium sized ones which were enough to crush the heads, and the gigantic ones, if the lighting bold happened to split the entire cliff with its raw power, to fall down on me as a life-threatening rock slides.
One time when this happened, I managed barely escape from beneath of one such of, which took the pathway with it down to the foggy abyss.
And yet fourth problem, the foggy chasms.
The chasms were quite huge between of the cliffs and there was also a very wide space between of the cliffs, so it demanded from me everything I got from the strength of my legs, reflexes and my speed to jump over the chasm after chasm, depending on how long the jumps were, how far away were the edges of the cliffs from each other and in what different levels the cliffs were.
well, I barely made it over the chasms and narrowly landed to the edges of the cliffs after every long leap, if the cliffs were on the same level with each others.
And of course I didn't walk on the cliffs and path ways...
...but instead, I was running...
...and not just simply because, as I had to rush back to the Jade Palace, where everyone most certainly was at the moment wondering that where I was.
I was running for my dear life.
And as I ran, I did not dare to look behind of me nor even peek over of my shoulders, because I knew it would have only slowed me down, as I sensed that I was followed by the new one and fresh pack of the wolves, who were right on my tail!
Each one of these wolves of this pack were running down by all fours while chasing me along these cliffs, and running down on all fours made all of them even faster than me... and no wonder, because I was running for them with two legs, that were shorter than theirs and that I had to carry with them all my weight, while the wolves needed only to lean their own body weight forward to make them to run even faster on all fours.
If I was the same species with Tigress, it would be much easier to run faster with all fours and jump without the problems over the chasms.
Because the path ways of this rocky area were like kind of labyrinth, and I already knew these cliffs... maybe even better than these wolves, I tried my best to trick these wolves to get themselves lost on the cliffs by sneaking through the secret path ways, tunnels, barely spacious tight alleys and dangerously narrow path ways against the upright stone wall to another safer path ways.
And I also took the several and quick short cuts through the places, such of pit-like or in danger of collapse being chasms, crossing of which were nearly impossible and quite dangerous.
I managed at least couple times to sent the wolves into confusion and get them lost in the rocks, which bought me a bit more time to get away from them.
However, the wolves had their scouts to scout the nearby cliffs, which I failed to take a notice, and every time when one of the scouts managed to track me down with their quite excellent sense of smell or spot me going from far, they signaled to the others with the signal howling and the pack was soon right behind of me.
And not just Lord Shen's wolves.
Also Heilang and his own from my counter-attack recovered pack was right behind of me.
And the gorilla, whom I'd managed to beat a some hours ago and who was now covered by the multiple bruises I caused on him, had recovered from his humiliating defeat and was among the wolves and in the hot pursuit as well, more angrier than ever.
And because of his gigantic size and super strength, the gorilla easily kept up with the wolf pack's speed running with all fours as faster as they did.
And the gorilla also climbed through the cliffs and uneven upright stone walls, jumped easily over the wide and deep foggy chasms – of course from the spots in which it was impossible for me to jump them over – and jumped easily from the top cliff to another as it kept up after me.
And worst of all, they were slowly but steadily catching up to me.
I just kept running.
The previous fights with the wolves and the gorilla had already drained my strength nearly completely and all this running for my dear life was just draining it more.
I should have take some food and water from the kitchen before even leaving from the Jade palace to investigate this wolf activity.
I just kept running...
...running...
...running...
...running...
...running...
...and one more time, running, for my dear life through the pouring rain.
Eventually, after a final leap over the small side chasm, I ended up to land onto the edge of the wide and flat cliff-side, that was pushing out from at a steep angle standing mountain side with a wide view to the horizon, and the edge was located near of the top of this mountain and just above of the the gigantic and wide chasm covered with the clouds and fog.
The place itself was very near of the border of the Valley of Peace, so I finally had a moment to stop from running to catch some breath after so rapid running for my dear life through of these cliffs for hours.
Panting heavily due to all of that rapid running for my dear life, I closed my eyes and lowered my head down. I also leaned forward and placed my paws of my knees for support.
All what I felt was the physical strain all around of my body, my deep panting coming in and out of my throat and the pouring rain hitting against my back and head.
However, I found myself soon to be surrounded by a new huge and fresh wolf pack, which had been chasing me all this time... and this time the pack's size/number was at least over eight dozen.
There was so much wolves to fill with their numbers half of the cliff-side where I was standing with them, blocking with their numbers all the ways to escape and cornering me against to the mountain side.
They were all glaring at me with their viciously blood-red glowing eyes and grinning at me both widely and viciously, as they knew that they had trapped me here, and that I was too exhausted to fight them all.
I was at their mercy.
Suddenly, as the most of them settled in the battle positions, the ones in middle of the group were like moving out of the way of something coming from behind of them, leaving the cap between of the wolves.
Suddenly, the gorilla landed in between of the wolf packs with the such of brutal power and all of his weight, that it caused some small rocks and wet sticks, plus some water, near of the gorilla's landing spot to either jump briefly into the air or shake from the gorilla's landing force.
The gorilla looked at me, growling viciously, while holding his kanabo-mace in his arm.
Also, suddenly, Heilang and his wolves landed one by one out of nowhere to the gorilla's side and took the battle-ready positions after their landing...
...Heilang in front of the gorilla and his wolves.
"Aww, did the little panda, the Dragon Warrior himself, got himself trapped on this cliff-side like the rat?" Heilang said with the extremely mocking tone.
This caused all the wolves nearby to burst into the mocking laugh at this.
Becoming a laughing-stock wasn't uncommon for me. Except if I tried to make others to laugh with my good sense of humor.
I remember that long before my glory days as the Dragon Warrior, when I lived in my father's Noodle Shop, I was many times over being a main laughing-stock by the visiting villagers when I accidentally messed up in something back during of my work: such like accidentally burning my paw in the side of the hot cauldron and in pain messed my father's kitchen or slipping to the noodles lying on the ground while serving the visitors and getting their ordered meal on my head.
Well, I was at least so lucky that my goose father never shamed me but instead encouraged me and supported me – even though not for Kung Fu.
And as I told master Shifu a long ago, being a main laughing-stock by the others and being mentally humiliated in the front of the villagers like that was more, much more, hurtful and stressful than all of that being physically and mentally hurt and humiliated on my first days at the training in the Jade Palace.
To me, it was an honor to meet and to be trained as Dragon Warrior by the one, who understood my problems due to being as physically and spiritually burdened like me.
The wolves just kept mocking me, as I stared at them with the mentally unhurt spirit while I was panting due to my exhaustion of all of that running for the dear life plus previous fight against the packs and that gorilla.
Even the pouring rain, which watered My fur soaking wet, caused me to feel myself a bit heavier than useful.
Maybe it's also one to be blamed for my heavy feeling.
Heilang then stood up and walked a bit closer to me.
"What will you do now, Dragon Warrior? " Heilang mocked me.
"Face it, panda. We've won. You're surrounded. You have no way to escape from here and from our grasp now. You're all alone, not having the rest of the Furious Five on your side, meaning no help is coming for you. You're exhausted, you cannot stand against all of us at the same time nor for a long. We have more than you, we are stronger than you, we are better than you. You cannot even outrun us, you cannot outmatch us nor outsmart us with your so-called little "Dragon-Warrior" tricks." Heilang laughed mockingly.
Also the rest of the wolves joined top the laugh.
I just kept staring at them while still heavily panting.
"And those pathetic villagers calls you as a Dragon Warrior. Well, let me to tell you what you really are. You're not the Dragon Warrior. You're nothing more than just a pathetic, indescribable, childish, disgusting, filthy, lousy, lazy, clumsy and a big, fat panda." Heilang mocked as he came closer and closer...
...until he was close enough to poke me to my head with a finger of his right paw.
"Just quit to be Dragon Warrior, if you don't know how to be kind." Heilang mocked.
But before he managed to land his finger on my head, I lifted and pulled my arm towards him and grabbed from his finger with two of my fingers and pointed my pink up, without lifting myself in the upright position nor even looking at him, and revealing to the surprised one-eyed wolf that I had got him...
...INTO LEGENDARY FUXI-FINGER-HOLD!
The entire pack, even the gorilla, gasped loudly in unison in sudden surprise and deep shock after after I had done this.
Also Heilang looked at this hold in with the shocked eyes, until his eyes turned to me when I finally lifted my head up with the sly expression on my face as I stood upright.
"Wrong, as I've told you already a long time ago, I am the Dragon Warrior!" I said with the mighty tone.
"Plus, I'm not a big fat panda, Heilang. I'm THE big fat panda." I added.
Heilang looked at me with the shock and horror like he was about to go on his kneels and beg mercy from me in a front of me.
"The last guy who called me a big fat panda, got quite a punch from my pinky." I said, quite humorously but yet with the mighty-like tone as I remembered how I gained my very first victory over of my first enemy Tai-Lung back in my first days as Dragon Warrior with the same way.
"But because I am too kind..." I said with the grin, as I executed my good old panda styled technique called "belly gong" by pulling my stomach backwards before I eventually launched it forward and towards Heilang, sending the wolf boss to fly off his feet into the air... and causing him after his flight in arch across the air to directly land over of his own pack, knocking all seven wolves out at once
After I had with the cool way defeated Heilang and his pack with the one belly gong-technique, I turned to the rest of the pack.
I also at the same time received the memory of one master Shifu's very important lesson.
A REAL WARRIOR NEVER QUITS!
"Your leader is right. I might be alone, I might be outnumbered, I might be exhausted and because of that, maybe even unable to defeat all of you." I told to the wolves, who were a bit confused after I officially confirmed this in front of their overwhelming pack.
"But despite the that, I AM the Dragon Warrior. I am KUNG FU PANDA! I am kung fu Warrior! And a real warrior... never... QUUUUUUUUITS!" I let out the mighty bellow...
...as I summoned all my remaining strength together and leaped into the air and flew across the air towards the wolf back, as I took my staff from my back into my paw, split it into two pieces and turned them into the nunchucks.
And with the help of the powers of my Chi, I was even able to make my nunchucks loose heads to glow with the golden light like the heated metal, increasing my weapons with the extra energy of my Chi's power, much to the wolves astonishment,
The wolves were greatly surprised after I saw me suddenly attacking them.
I landed in middle of their pack, and I started to whack the wolves heads with the nunchakus loose ends while spinning them rapidly.
The badly surprised wolves tried to counter-attack to me, but I was already gained the upper paw over the pack.
I used my newly found incredible speed as I quickly dodged or blocked every attack the wolves laid on me and I performed the quick finishing counter-attacks against my every briefly against me standing opponent, before I quickly turned from the defeated one to another to-be-defeated one.
I blocked the wolves strikes with the swords with my nunchaku's chains, with which I also sometimes captured my opponents weapons before I performed the finishing move on my opponent.
During the fight, I knocked the plenty of swords and spears off from every wolf's paws by hitting them with my nunchucks loose ends to their fingers, which caused the wolves to yelp in pain and release their grip from the handle of their weapons.
I also did a lots of straight or hooked kicks to their faces and chests after blocking their attacks or disarming them, knocking several times three wolves down with the one kick.
I also performed several handwork skills with the nunchucks by spinning them rapidly from my paw to another around of by body and over of my shoulders as I launched my attacks against the wolves when they attempted to surround me and pull me down with the strength of numbers.
And thanks to my swift handwork with the nunchucks and the speed I successfully maintained while handling them, I managed to direct their loose ends directly to the attacking wolves' heads from side to another, knocking them one by one unconscious with the one quick and rather hard strike.
I also once spun myself around and lifted my right legs into a high swing to the level of the heads, taking down and out the three wolves with one kick to their heads, and after that I knelt down to dodge another three wolves swords and spear targeted to my head and spun myself around again, extending my left leg out and towards the wolves legs, tripping them off from their feet.
I was also at least for once about to be overpowered by the four wolves as they grabbed from me. I attempted to struggle myself free from their grasps, until their number grew from four to eight and later to one less dozen wolves, and they managed to get me to drop my nunchakus to the ground.
And with the greater number and combined raw power, they attempted forcefully to pin me on my knees to the ground and press my upper body forward into the bowing position, so that one of them, holding in his paws a huge ax in intention to behead me, could finish me off once and for all.
But, however, I managed to struggle myself free from some of their grasp, which was enough to me to retrieve my nunchucks, before the wolf with the ax and his execute intentions reached to me for the final blow.
With the nunchucks once again in my paws, I crossed my arms before I bounced up from the ground with the brutal force and spread my arms and nunchucks upwards, knocking four wolves off me and out, before I extended my arms to each side and started to spin both my nunchucks loose ends rapidly while barrel rolling myself around, aiming my nunchucks loose ends to the wolves heads, knocking them out and sending them unconscious to the ground around of.
Some wolves gathered together and attempted to corner me to the ledge of the cliff with the vast numbers and spears, probably with the intention to push me off the ledge of the cliff no doubt...
...which of course prompted me to do another cool way to both get out of the narrow situation and to outsmart them...
...by leaping with all my strength off the ground and fly to above of their heads!
"WA'HOOOOOOOO!" I let out from my mouth into the stormy sky, as the another bright flash of the lighting bolt behind of my back sent my shadow to fall upon the wolf pack in front - or more likely bellow - of me, as I proceed by landing on the wolves heads.
I kinda flew above of the pack of wolves heads, landing one by one onto the wolves heads before bouncing from them and landing onto the heads of the new ones to keep myself in the air - though I bet that my bounce-kick-mixture leg work, along with my weight, managed to knock them out and off their feet once I bounced from their heads.
With this way, I managed to deal off with four wolves.
And after dealing off those four wolves, I leaped towards the fifth wolf on my way and landed with both of my feet onto his head. Far more slender and lighter wolf couldn't last my entire weight no more than four-five seconds before my weight caused him to lean too sharply backwards and eventually lose his foothold and collapse over to the ground, knocked out.
Well, I needed those three-five seconds to bounce off from his head into the air, after which I leaned in my flight forwards that I was about to land onto the heads of the next two wolves. But this time I landed onto my forward extended paws above of the wolves heads, remaining in the upside down position above of the wolves heads for a second, before I gathered some strength into my arms, bent them downwards and eventually bounced off from the wolves head into the air again.
And after that, I made the couple somersaults in the air as I was about to land to the ground behind of the wolves backs... though on my landing spot was standing the small group of wolves, no more than six, who've been standing behind of the back the whole time.
And as I was about to land to my landing spot, I quickly performed the double-kick by extending my legs straight towards the wolves, landing the quick yet hard kicks onto their chests, sending the wolves to fly backwards and land roughly onto their comrades, sending all of them on their backs to the ground, knocked out.
Cool move, I thought.
And after I'd landed onto my feet to the ground, I was immediately attacked another small pack of wolves, no more than eleven, and they were joined by the remaining and still on their feet standing wolves of the pack, that had been a moment ago trying to corner me to the ledge and push me off the cliff and into the chasm.
Not including the group's wolves with the swords in their paws as they attacked, all the wolves attempted to attack me all together from every corner, as they all leaped off the ground and lunged towards me at the same time, with their paws and claws extended forward and fangs bared... and ready to kill.
Well, I got something for them... something cool and special, which they probably remember from our first encounter, if the wolves are the same who attacked to the village of Artisan Village a few years ago.
"FEET OF FURY!" I let out as I was about to perform my famous technique onto the wolves... once again.
I quickly spun myself around as I made myself to spin rapidly around on one of my leg, as I lifted my another leg up and performed the round of rapidly repeated straight kicks all around of my during of roll around, targeting my every kick to the faces and chests of the wolves that charged towards me in the round-shaped surrounding line, causing the wolves to yelp loudly in pain after each kick and send them to fly on their backs to the ground or land onto their from behind incoming comrades and sending them all down with one kick.
And after one round, with the wolves lying in the round-shaped line in my feet in the ground, I pressed with all strength my into the air lifted foot against the ground and bounced myself up into the air once again - just in time to avoid the next four wolves that were lunging in the arch through the air and attempting to dig/sink their claws and fangs into my hide. However, my timely performed bounce off from the ground and narrow avoidance of their claws and fangs left the wolves badly surprised, that they totally forgot that they were about to fly towards and collide against each other.
And with that, all four of them had knocked their heads together, knocking themselves out and causing them all to fall at the same time onto the ground.
After I'd managed to avoid them, I performed the backwards somersault in the air as I flew in arch backwards... though to the opposite direction from the ledge of the cliff... until I landed onto my feet to the middle of the cliff... and got myself surrounded by the wolves.
And within the seconds I found myself battling them again.
And during the fight, I performed the several belly gong techniques against the some wolves attacking from front and some butt slap techniques against the ones attacking from both of my flanks... of course, after I had either dodged or blocked their own attacks with my nunchucks or my arms... sending the several wolves to fly against of each others, knocking them down in the process.
I also threw my nunchucks to twirl rapidly in the air towards the wolf packs, either in the vertical or lateral positions.
Back in the Jade palace, I've trained myself by throwing these nunchucks twirling into air with the right throwing way so that after the twirling flight in the air they would come back to my paws. I used this technique to knock down the wolves even though I was standing a some distance away from them.
This technique proved to be totally awesome and quite useful, because I it managed to knock down more than less dozen wolves with one throw.
"GOLDEN LOTUS CLAP!" I let put as I turned to the engaging the pack of less than two dozen wolves, spread my paws and then slapped them together (this time, remembering to close my eyes just in time before I carried out the clap itself,) which caused to sent the golden shock wave towards the feet of the pack, knocking them out (even blinding at least half of them, I guess) and sending them to fly a some distance away from me.
In fact, I have no good memories about that technique, because it reminded me a lot how I fell to the treacherous tricks of that unspeakable fox, Junjie, but because this technique had the power to send the devastating shock waves, I decided to use it for once to wipe out some wolves out of my way.
But even though even this technique amazed some of the remaining wolves, it wasn't enough to make the remaining wolves to back off and they just kept coming.
From my eye corner while fighting, punching and kicking the wolves all around, I saw that the gorilla staring from aside the fight and growled angrily at my direction, as the big mountain of muscles witnessed that the wolves, despite their completely new-leveled, new to me strange style of martial arts, were defeated one by one by me.
And then, loudly roaring, the gorilla charged towards me.
Even though I was in the middle of nearly ten wolves, with which I had yet unfinished business while over two dozen wolves, who were still on their feet but had not yet engaged me to the fight, remained in their position with recovering Heilang and his wolves, the gorilla cared nothing about his own being mixed with me but raised his kanabo-club above of his own head in attempt to strike me with it.
I quickly dodged the weapon's strike by jumping away from the middle of the pack, and instead of me, the gorilla swung his club towards the pack and accidentally knocked all of them to aside and to the ground.
The gorilla wasn't even a bit shocked about his actions, but instead and immediately charged at me – and he was followed by all the remaining wolves - as I was jumping backwards to avoid his kanabo-strikes.
"BRANCH SLAP!" I let out as I landed behind of the nearby tree's branch and grabbed from its trunk...
...after which I bent the tree backwards into the acute angle position as the gorilla kept coming for me...
...and then I let go of the branch after the gorilla was close enough.
The branch punched my gigantic opponent with the hard and quite painful force straight to his face, causing him to release his grip from the handle of his kanabo-club, dropping it to the ground, and the gorilla was himself sent to fly on his back to the ground, roaring in pain.
And in the process, the gorilla landed onto his six wolf comrades, burying them beneath of his weight and knocking them out at the same time.
"Cool move and trick, huh?" I humorously asked from the gorilla, who was still lying on the ground.
The gorilla lied on the ground yet for a moment, until he slowly stood up on his feet, grunting in pain as he rubbed with his hand his faces and sore jaw.
I interpreted this as a sign that it was not over yet, so I took my own battle position and prepared myself for the re-match with this gorilla, even though my own strength was already in the low level...
... but I wasn't gonna give up without the fight.
Angrily growling, the gorilla eventually stood completely up and took his own battle-ready position, spreading his own hands and prepared to lunge at me.
Suddenly, the giant unexpectedly stood upright from his position with the surprised expression appearing on his faces... and yet he was looking over of Po.
Then, the sadistic grin suddenly appeared out of nowhere to his lips.
"Indeed, Panda. But let's see with what kind of "cool move and trick" you're gonna get through of this." The gorilla said with the strangely pleased tone.
And then, the giant stepped back, muttering an ominous laugh.
I took a quite confused look on my face as I watched how the giant just so simply backed off like that without the fight even.
And then...
All of the remaining wolves, including Heilang and his own pack – including majority of the wolves, whom I'd defeated and temporarily knocked out, until they regained their conscious and stood back up on their feet - turned their eyes over me, before they proceed to settle upon one of their knee and bow deeply down respectfully.
I was badly surprised and highly confused by this sudden act.
What these wolves and the gorilla were doing?
Why they do not engage but instead backed off without the fight?
Why they bow so respectful to his direction?
Well, at least I knew that they were not yet gonna leave me alone and let me to peacefully continue my home trip back to the Jade Palace, that was sure thing.
But bowing down at my direction with the respectful way was something new.
And I don't meant the way how they bowed down, even though it is not the same way how the Kung Fu warriors bow to each others or their masters.
Instead of lifting their arms up and placing one of their into the fist squeezed paw against the other paw left open and positioned into the upright position, the wolves kept their arms in their sides and remained in their own vertical positions, and they also bowed down by leaning their upper bodies slightly forwards.
And in Heilang's case, usually when I meet Heilang and his wolves, they have always reacted to my presence by attacking me in attempt to somehow and unfairly outmatch and out smart me and the Furious Five. But now they were all bowing along with Lord Shen's wolves to my direction.
And in the case of Lord Shen's wolves plus his gorilla army, they were hunting me down by their master's orders so that he could escape his foretold and long ago already realized fate in the paws of panda like me.
But I sensed something ominous, judged from the gorilla's evil-sounding laugh and that they were all staring over me before they bowed down.
I felt like...
...something or someone, probably standing in the high ranking level of their own martial arts, that was enough to be respected by these wolves, who was standing right behind of me... or more likely, above of me.
I slowly turned around to see who was standing behind of me.
After I had turned around, I saw no one standing behind of my back.
But when I dared to look to up...
It was then when I saw the reason to the wolves and Gorilla's strange action in front of me.
And, much to my horror, I spotted that on the top of flat-topped rock tower, that was standing in the next and was rising above of me and this cliff-side, was mightily and fiercely against the stormy sky standing eight mysterious-looking feline-like warriors.
SNOW-LEOPARDS!
To be continue...
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