As Enlai slept, his mind went back to that horrid night, the large alarm bells ringing in the pagodas located at each corner of the temple, guards screaming out orders to find the intruder, franticly searching, until finally a scream of agony was heard coming from the library, Enlai rushed to the source to see what had happened, knowing his father was on guard there that night. Upon ariving in the library, a crowd was seen near the crest in the middle of the floor, Enlai tried to push through to see but was stopped by Meng Li who greated him with a sorrowful look.
Enlai's uper body burst into motion as he sat up panting, tears began to form in his eyes from the images in his dreams, he rubbed them away before they could continue, and remembered who was responsable for what had happened. He looked over to Fei Yen who was still fast asleep, her tail twitching ever few seconds as a cats usually does when it sleeps, her face seemed happy and content, a pleasent dream running through her head, Enlai's mild rage toward Meng Li was replaced by envy for Fei Yen's current state of happiness. Fei Yen grunted a bit and shifted her arms and legs pulling them inward before they shook a bit from the cool air in the room, Enlai pushed himself over to his bag as quietly as he could, and went rummaging through it, until he pulled out a folded cloth packed together tight, he unfolded it to where it was large enough to cover a normal sized person. Fei Yen shivered again as Enlai stood up and hovered over her, placing the cloth over her to keep her warm, he slowly let himself back down on his bedding, Fei Yen's eyes began to open slowly as he did so, she noticed that she felt a bit more comfortable and realized the cloth covering her, "Why did?-" "You looked cold." Enlai replied before she could finish, she smiled warmly at him, "What about you?" she asked concerned for his own risk in the cold air, as they were in the same chilled room, "My fur is thick enough to keep me warm, I'm fine." he answered without looking at her, he rolled over to face away from the grey tigress causing her to frown a bit, knowing there was still tension between them for the whole incedent.
Outside of Mr. Dao's home, Cheng and Meng Li were standing in the light of a crescent moon overhead, staring at the small yet cozy house, "Are you certain this 'Enlai' will be a problem, he sounds like a sad excuse for a warrior to me if he's this torn about his father." Cheng asked the lynx, unsure as to whether he should even bother with what he had planned for him, "Best to get rid of a possible problem before it turns out to be one, not only that, the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior are in there with him." Cheng's eyes went a little wide upon hearing this, but his look of surprize was replaced with a smile full of malace, his sharp teeth shining in the light, his eyes began to glow red. "Well then, I can take them all out in one go now!" he held his paws out in front of him, a black mist began to enshroud the tips of his claws, working its way up to his wrists, "Rise my pet, rise up to serve your eternal master!" the ground began to push up in an arch, the sand pouring off of itself as the mound grew larger and larger. A blackened point stabbed through the earth, followed by another, and soon more began to spawn from the huge mound making two rows of five, growing shorter as they came out, Meng Li was awe stricken with the sight, watching this, whatever it was Cheng was creating, rise from bare ground.
The beast had finally risen completely, a black furred monster with claws longer that spears, and black shiny teeth packed together with nothing covering them, no muzzle or lips to keep them from being exposed, six yellow piercing eyes lined foward with a pair of red horns above each set, and a long scoirpion like tail at its end with a red glow at the tip of the stinger, "Go now, destroy the people inside that building, Serve your master my Behemoth!" Cheng screamed aloud to the mamoth sized beast, it answered with a roar that would level forests if too close, and charged at the small house.
Tigress had heard the roar and sprinted to the door, only to be greated by a sight most terrifying, the others ran out after her, and stopped dead in their tracks at what was now hurteling towards them, "What is that thing?" "We can't let it hit the house!" Po yelled out after Mantis had barely finished himself, Enlai ran back inside to his and Fei Yen's room and grabbed his bag, along with his weapons as he went back outside, he took a disk out of his bag and threw it as hard as he could at the demon, it flew through the air with a whizzing sound and connected with its intended target, and sliced through two of the creatures right eyes causing it to vear off in direction. It colapsed to the ground with a loud shreak of agony, it's tail flailing wildly slamming into the dirt, "Nice throw-" "Enough chit chat, put the thing down!" Fei Yen interupted Monkey as she Mei Ling and Tigress began to run towards it, "Agreed!" Enlai called out as he pointed his Ji in front of him in a charge, ready to stab into the monstrosity, followed by the rest of the masters.
Cheng and Meng Li stood off out of sight from the warriors to spectate their immenent failures to destroy the creature, "You're sure that thing will kill them off?" Meng Li asked the white fox who could barely contain his excitement to watch his creation feast on its ordered victims, "Behemoth has never been defeated, since the day I summoned him, he has fought countless battles, and never has he fallen, not permenately anyways." "Not permanately?" Cheng nodded at the lynx with enjoyment, "Even if he falls, I can simply extract his essence from a safe distance, and recreate him in an instant!" at the thought of the powers Cheng had over death itself, Meng Li drew a smile across his face, feeling he had made a great decision siding with the sorcerer fox.
"Watch the tail!" Crane warned the others as they all tried to get in a hit on the beast which had risen back to its feet and started attacking with everything it had, "Po, catch!" Enlai called out to him as he unsheathed his sword, and threw it to the panda, feeling as though kicks and punches would have little affect on the monster, The beast lunged its head at Mei Ling and snapped its jaws trying to eat her, she jumped back to avoid it by mear inches, and pounced on top of its head between the horns and started jabbing it in the eyes with her staff, "What's wrong, something in your eyes?" she taunted it laughingly as black mist began to pour out of its destroyed sockets. Po was slashing away at the things back right leg, until he noticed the point of the tail flying towards him, he backed up just in time for the point to stab into the ground near him before he swung at the mid section of it and cut clean through, the beast let out a deafening scream as its tail fell to the ground and disappeared in a boil of black smoke, as mist took place where the wound was. Enlai stood off to the side a bit messing around with something in his bag, "Guys, get it down on the ground, and open its mouth!" "Are you crazy? We want to stay AWAY from its mouth!" Fei Yen called back to him, giving him a look as though he were completely idiotic, "Just do it!" he answered as he threw his spear to Tigress who began using it to try and cripple the thing by stabbing it in the hind quarters. It finally fell with the injuries it had recieved all over its black body, and slammed into the earth shaking everything around it, "Hurry open its jaws!" Enlai commanded as he ran towards its head with something in both hands, Po and Tigress dropped the weapons and grabbed onto its teeth to pull them apart, after a bit of strain they forced a gap between its jaws a good five inches in length. Enlai took a small rod in his paw and put it to a wick sticking out of a cylinder in the other and threw it onto the beasts slightly exposed tongue, "Back off!" he yelled at everyone as he did the same, they all watched as nothing happened, the thing began to rise up again, recovering from its attack until the its head exploded in a destructive red and black cloud of fire, leaving its body to fall to the ground in a mass of black and crimson mist from its death as it festered into the ground slowly.
"Ancesters! what was that thing Enlai?" Mei Ling asked him, being the only one to be able to draw her attention from the fact they were now safe from harm, "A little thing my father tought me to make, a black powder and red phosphorous bomb." "That was AWESOME!" Po yelled out as loud as he could, "Wait, what's that?" Tigress pointed to a red transparent orb rising from the bubbling mess, Enlai's eyes went wide in realization, "No!" he grunted reaching into his bag and pulling out a gold object, he threw it at the orb making a direct hit, it froze in mid air giving him the chance to jump up to it and pull the object down along with the red light, "What is that thing?" Mei Ling asked as she starred at it, transfixed by its aluring glow, "A demon soul, my friend tought me about them, he gave me this talisman to dispell them if I ever encountered one... never thought I actually would, always thought he was crazy for it." "Guess he showed you, huh?" Mantis laughed at his own joke again while everyone else ignored him. Enlai drew a symbol in the dirt with one of his claws and stabbed the talisman into the middle of it with the soul still attatched, "Back to the underworld with you, demon!" the see through orb containing the soul cracked with a bright light and shattered into pieces, the symbol in the ground bursting into blue flames before disappearing, "There is no sanctuary for you." he said as he pulled the talisman up and placed it into his bag.
"He obliterated it." Meng Li said in disbeliefe, Cheng's eyes were glowing a bright red with anger, "My Behemoth..." the fox grabbed Meng Li by the throat and began to choke him, redirecting his rage, "HE DESTROYED MY BEAUTIFUL BEHEMOTH!" "Cheng... please... I can't..." "You said he'd be 'no problem' yet there he is, still alive after fighting my Behemoth, which by the way took me YEARS to find the right spells to summon so it would do my bidding, and you would DARE beg me to let you continue breathing?" Cheng threw the lynx against a tree they were hiding near, knocking what little air was left in his lungs out of him, "You had best be glad I need you to get the rest of the scrolls!" Meng Li began gasping for air, gripping at his chest in pain from his lungs refilling with oxygen as Cheng looked on at the group who had just annihilated his minion, "If I'm going to succeed in my efforts, I must make sure they are destroyed, no need for the old mans prophecy to come true." "But... then why did you hesitate killing them? you knew one was a black furred warrior." "Yes but from your discription he didn't seem threatening like his father, but now, I'm not so sure... I'm going to ponder on which of my pets to send next, Behemoth was only my first choice... You will find a way to get the scrolls faster than you have been, we still need the last two." Meng Li rose up from the trunk of the tree and bowed, "Yes master Cheng." the lynx then took off to find his carriage, as Cheng continued to look on at his new found enemies, "I'll see what I can conjure up back at my lair, count your lucky stars warrior, you won't have much longer to do so."
As they all walked back inside of the house to recover from their attack, Tigress sat down in the middle of the main room she had been sleeping in, she noticed Fei Yen being rather reluctant to look at anyone, avoiding eye contact when possible, "Fei Yen, what's wrong?" she asked her, Enlai stopped right behind the grey tigress to listen, as the others had paused a little ways from their rooms to do the same, "I..." she stopped and looked down at the floor, "Could I... just tell you tomorrow?" she questioned, seeming a bit worn from the fight, Tigress nodded and waved her away to tell her she would wait, Fei Yen bowed in appreciation and went back into her room with Enlai who closed the paper door behind him, "Enlai..." Fei Yen said catching him off guard, "That monster... I've seen it before, in the dreams Cheng forced into my head." she told him in a whisper, feeling she could trust him more than the others seeing as they had a common enemy in a way the others did not, Enlai sighed aloud, accepting in his mind that the man who had once attacked his home was still alive, "So that's how he did it." Fei Yen looked at him a bit confused, "Meng Li, he must have teamed up with Cheng, that's why he looked younger, that means they're near." "But, what about Tigress?" "I'm not going out there." he answered her, she jolted her head back a bit in surprize, "I'm going to do as Master Tigress says, in due time, their justice will be served by my hand, or Master Fong Hei's." he walked over to his bedding and practicly fell down without care, "Man I'm tired." Fei Yen laughed lightly at him, "Good night, Enlai." "Night." he replied as he rolled over with a sigh to return to slumber after their rude awakening.
*Okay, this may sound a bit weird, but I just thought I'd say it anyways, no problem with being who you are the way I see it, but if I could have one song play during the part where the Behemoth showed up, it would be ELO(Electric Light Orchestra)'s "Fire on High", look it up, it's a pretty cool instrumental*