The Book of the Dragon Flute.
Daiyu sat in a shadowed corner at a lone table to the left of the Inn's stairs, in deep thought. She had to convince to the people around her that her mission wasn't just a fool's errand but a real deal. A deal that could set forth the very destruction of the Valley of Peace and bring its citizens to their knees, something all the bandits wanted. But how could she go about explaining this without being laughed at and shot down again?
Daiyu had tried once before to get the attention of the bandits to help her free Tai Lung but when she brought up the story of the Dragon Flute to help her in her operation they all shunned her away and laughed at the idea. It was only considered a fairy tale legend that was rumored out of the Jade Palace; No one had ever taken it seriously, which was what originally had led Daiyu to doing things her own way…
Daiyu's thought process hadn't progressed any further when she called on Jing for assistance. The wolf was literally at her beck and call the moment she summoned him. "What do you think I should do about this whole thing?"
"Give up?" Shrugged Jing. "Their never going to believe you that the Dragon Flute is real or that it can bring forth such power. So why not just give up? You free now anyways."
"Yes but they'll be searching for me…That hippo won't give up a moment's notice until I'm found. She's probably ranting to her master right now how it's all her- Daiyu's mood swiftly changed at the sudden thought that was now bubbling in through her head and Grinch like smile plagued her lips.
"Help me up!" Cried Daiyu to the wolf immediately as she tried to stand up on her chair, wincing in the process.
"But your leg… Eyes said to stay off it-
"Now! Please?"
Jing gave in and helped the leopard up.
"Everyone can I have your attention please?" Cried Daiyu from the top of the stool out towards the center of the Inn, gathering several people's attention much of which didn't care what she had to say.
"How many of you know Oogway is dead?"
This question caused several people to rise from their seats intrigued with shock or fury just at the mention of Oogway's name because many of them had misfortunes with Oogway before trying to over throw the Valley of Peace.
"Why do you bring that damn turtle's name in a place such as this? Unless not to be joked on? He insure me and brothers a harsh punishment of doing tongue-ups in Valley after he found us urinating all over the Wudang Mountain Temple Shrine. I got had dirt in my mouth for 7 days strait." Cried a gorilla bandit.
Daiyu tried to conceal her laughter… "Well you shouldn't have peed on his statue then...Hee."
"GRRRRRRR! Why do you bring his name here of all places? We don't anything to do with him."
Daiyu cleared her throat peacefully and continued. "You don't have to, he's dead. I prove this by proving the word of Madam Tranquil who never lies. She also told me that Oogway's wife isn't doing so hot either. Appears she's devastated that her mate left without her knowledge."
"What do what here Daiyu?" Crooked a crocodile in the background.
"To do what I always wanted to do: set free Tai Lung from Chor Gom Prison but sadly he's no longer with us…."The whole audience gasped in frightfully astonishment to how she knew this while Daiyu expression turned hard again. "But that doesn't mean we can't bring him back…"
The crowd's atonement deepened as Daiyu withdrew a leather parchment from her belt and flashed around to the witnesses. "This is a page from the very book that was designed on how use the Dragon Flute. This page alone accompanied by the Dragon Flute can resurrected anyone from the dead the user chooses. This is how we will bring back Tai Lung."
The crowd just laughed her seemingly mock act and were about to turn away when she redrew to one who had not laughed at her approach and simply tried get away to back the off the room. "Does this look real to you Huizhong ?"
The crowd returned their gaze to an aged crocodile that made his way back through the crowd. Huizhong was much smaller and scrawnier then most of the buffed crocodiles in the hideout, in truth he wasn't like any of the other the crocodiles at all. He was a special prisoner.
Huizhong had once been the librarian to the Jade Palace and was the most trusted friend Oogway could have ever asked for in hopes of an adviser, even deeper than that because Huizhong was one of the first friends Oogway had originally made when he came to China. Huizhong's loyalty was so far deep with Oogway that the tortoise had trusted him with secrets that were never to be shared outside the Library walls. One the secrets was the location of where the Dragon Flute Book hidden the in Palace.
A book that thought user of the Flute how command its power, all through music notes combine with written instructions as well. Only someone with the right know how could truly handle something as astounding as the Dragon Flute, it's book and even more, Showron, the ancient dragon that was bound by the flute's power to do the users bidding. There was a page in the book to set Showron free of flute's power if user had ever felt generous even enough to it but nobody ever had. Who would want to release extreme power? Plus there was the also slight idea that dragon might want to take revenge the on Earth after being bound to that stupid flute for so many years, but that was just story wasn't it?
Anyway Oogway after bestowed the duty to Huizhong of guarding the Palace's most secret treasure he obediently obeyed his charge until one night his curiosity got the better of him. Huizhong's just wanted one quick look through the book see what was so great about it and that was when the incident happened…He was caught mists of a young watching Daiyu who was up pass her bed time playing a game of Night Hide and Go Seek with Tai Lung and was seeking a place to hide. . Huizhong quickly closed the book upon the young cub's appearance and shooed her off to bed but before she question him about it. Huizhong simply said it was none of her business and try to scoot her out of the room when she asked another question out of the open: "Is its Oogway's business?" This left a crocodile in a predicament with mixed feels and an undecided conscience at the momement in time. When the young cub questioned him againg snapping him out out of a second gaze the crocodile broke down and decided to let her have one quick peek at the book but with that enventauly a grew interest in the young snow leopard and guilt hidden by that time comsumed Huizhong so much that he finally told Oogway about it leading to a light confrontation with Daiyu about it to forget what she had saw and return her attention to other activities. By the end of it all Huizhong felt so wound up with guilt for what he had done to Oogway, he left Jade Palace without giving further consideration on the ordeal and left Oogway heavyhearted. Ever since then he's been left feeling guilty and dismayed at himself for his own stupid action.
Years later after that Huizhong was captured one night by a team of bandits who were lead by a grown up Daiyu who wanted find out more about that mystical book that sweep away form her know-how all those years but Huizhong refused to tell her anything even several knifes at his throat so Daiyu took on other motives to make him talk. She ordered the bandits to take him to their hideout and do the Inn's endless gold counting until he talked then he was free to go. But he didn't so that how's he came to be here now.
"I asked you again Huizhong; does this page look real to you?" Asked Daiyu as the crocodile stood staring at the sheet with a long absent minded gaze. "Well?"
"It appears real but you'd need the book to tell if-
The crocodile stopped dead of his speech and started wide eyed and pointed astoundingly at Jing who some how was miraculously holding up a book with ripped an identical rip line to that of the torn page. "How you get that!?!"
Jing smile evilly as he closed the cover to the book which had an insignia of a dragon flute on it. "We have our ways. Got the new librarian into talking while her life and husband were at stake."
But the crocodile had already fainted hopelessly at another sight…Watching Daiyu fit her torn page up so easily against the line that sat within the book…This was this missing page to Dragon Flute's Manuel.
"Anyone else don't believe me?" Cooed Daiyu lightly with playful tone in her voice.
All the members of the crowd backed away from her with a fearfully gaze in their eyes.
"No, no, we believe you. It's just hard to come by that's all." Stammered a gorilla bandit.
"Good" Smiled Daiyu cunningly "Then you won't have problem listening to my objective as we plan to over take the Valley of Peace."
The crowd stood idle by with mixed emotions as Daiyu continued to deliver out her plan to them…