A/N: O…M…G! No, I'm not dead, if you're wondering. I was just ill for like three months – three utterly depressing months – and I've been recovering ever since (not only in health but with the school work). But, anyway, I'm back and I'm here to stay. Here's the next chappie. Hope u like it!
Chapter 19 – The drug
"What…what are you trying to say? That I'm not human, that I'm an allusion? What?" Po's voice was getting louder with his increasing frustration.
"You are not in the book. That's all I know. That's all anyone knows." Eva told him.
"But don't worry Po." Gabs put a comforting hand on his shoulder, "This just means that you have total free will. In life, there is either fate – which are the events in your life that are fixed – and free-will – which are the times where you have complete control." Po smiled in relief.
"So what did Anna-Maria tell you?" This came from Tai Lung. Gabs turned around facing Tai Lung. Her lips curved in a triumphant side smile as she glanced at the others – their eyes oozing with curiosity. "You weren't evil in the first place Tai Lung, were you? You see…you were drugged, but you know that already don't you?" His lips slowly morphed into a smile as he looked down on the floor as if it were a pool of memorise. Eva looked at him in surprise, and in years, she finally saw the face of the man she loved again, not the face of the monster that almost killed her and left her children to fend for themselves. Her heart began to race and she had the sudden urge to embrace him. But he had suddenly pushed himself off from the wall he laid back on.
"I know that this gives me an excuse for my actions but I still feel responsible." He addressed everyone. "I have ever since whatever I was drugged with wore off. So, that is why I feel I must do this." He went on his knees and bowed towards the crowd.
"I, Tai Lung, descendant of the God of Death, and Master of the Leopard style and thousand scrolls of Kung Fu apologise with all my essence for the pain and hardship that I have given you all."
Tears roamed down his cheeks as images of his wrong doings flashed through his mind.
He punched Eva so hard that she crashed into the wall behind her and fell forward lifeless, an infant Lung held her limp body tightly…He punched master Shifu…He took Tai out of her Cradle…He performed the Wuxi finger on an angry infant Tigress…
He then felt warmth coat his skin. He glanced up to see his family embrace him. Their eyes were bordered with shining tears, their faces plastered with smiles. He embraces them back. But during this happy time he never thought he'd hear the words…
"I knew you weren't evil. Fat Charlie owes me ten bucks!" This, unsurprisingly, came from Gabs.
There was, for a moment an awkward silence, but then it was slaughtered by a roar of laughter.
"But, on a serious note there was something else that Anna-Maria told me, a warning." Everyone now had a serious expression. "She told me that the people who drugged Tai Lung will come back for him very soon, and that there will be a very intriguing series of events with an unexpected twist. And that we must be ready." Her head turned to Lung, Tigress, Tai-il, Crane and Mia. "Especially the Trio."