There was an inn right next to the beach. It wasn't fancy, in fact it was possibly one of the most rundown inns one could imagine. It was late at night and amidst the rough crowd of wolves and boars there sat a dirty, one eyed rat, trying to drink away his misery.

Chin had made several attempts to rescue his gang, each time he failed, miserably, and at one point came dangerously close to losing his other eye. It wasn't until he was almost beheaded with a fearsome looking glaive that he finally realized it was impossible, he couldn't get back into the fortress. Eventually Chin had hopped a ride back to shore with the dog in her boat, the Furious Five stayed, trying to find a way inside the fortress.

"There gone" Chin muttered just loud enough for the bartender to hear.

"You've been saying that for the last hour pal, just go on and get yourself a new gang"

"I can't, no one else is stupid enough to follow me, pass me another bottle will you?"

The bartender shrugged and handed Chin another bottle of rice wine. Chin immediately guzzled down half of it, covered his whiskers and beard in alcohol.

"Those idiots, bless them, were the only thing I've ever owned in my whole life"

"Really, what about your clothes?"

"I stole these, that doesn't count as owning really, hell this crossbow was made from stolen parts, but my gang, I owned that…them, I owned them, they were all idiots but damn it they were my idiots! And now they're gone! Locked away in some moldy old fortress or worse, and now I'm here all alone, just an ole one eyed rat, just another bandit, I used to be Chin! I had a gang that followed my every order! Of course they always messed things up, but they tried! They tried! And now they're gone!"

The boar nodded, if only to show that he was listening.

"Even the new guy! Bao or Xiao or something, they took him to! I don't even know why he followed me, poor bastard is stuck now! I don't have my gang! I'm not Chin the bandit I'm just Chin the sorry, drunk, one eyed rat who smells like rotting fish and shame"

The bartender nodded again, although he didn't realize shame had a smell, he figured it smelled something like urine.

"Without my gang I'm no one, I'm dead, I'm a corpse right now, you're talking to a corpse" said Chin unaware that the boar had left.

"You don't look to good"

Chin spun around to see a elderly tortoise standing behind him. Before Chin had a chance to talk the tortoise spoke.

"Tell me, what is wrong"

"I just lost my entire gang to some bloody fortress and I cant get them back, no matter how many times I've tried"

"That is a shame" said the tortoise nonchalantly

"You're telling me, no one else will is ever going to follow me, my gang were the only idiots stupid enough to do that, without them I'm just a dead rat, I'm a corpse"

At this the tortoise smiled

"I'm dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead" Chin muttered "I can't do things alone, look at these arms! I'm bloody skin and bones, hell I'm even small for a rat! How am I going to make it in this world now! Join someone else's gang? I don't bloody think so! I don't mean to sound melodramatic but my life is over!"

"I understand" said the Tortoise calmly "I can help you"

"…you can?" Chin asked suspiciously

"Yes, but first you need to come to terms with yourself"

"What do you mean by that?"

The Tortoise smiled again "You are not acting like yourself are you?"

"Of course not! I've just lost my whole bloody gang and have spent the last couple of hours fighting back tears with booze!"

"Ah, that is how you usually act isn't it?"

"What angry and screaming?"

The Tortoise chuckled "You act that way to cover something up"

"I don't like what you're saying old man"

"You are the runt of the litter yes?"

Chin looked around to make sure no one was listening "…yes"

"You've been bullied all your life?"

"…yeah, and?"

"Over the years you've acted this way to mask your small size and your fear"

"I don't know about you, but I have no fear! I'm someone to be frightened of!" Chin growled "…or atleast I used to be"

The Tortoise only smiled again "You fear everyone bigger than you, thinking that they will try to hurt you like so many have done in the past, that is why you acted so tough"

"I don't fear anyone bigger than me! In fact when I find someone bigger than me I kick them in the groin just so I can look them in the eyes before stabbing them repeatedly!"

"And over the years" the tortoise continued, seemingly ignorant of what Chin had said "You've only grown more and more bitter until the mask you wore became a part of you, but behind that mask is a small child"

"Hey shut up you reptilian blighter!"

"And right now that mask is broken, and the world can see your true colors"

"I said shut u-"

"This is not something you should worry about, this is something you should learn from"

"What?"

"Chin-"

"How do you know my name!"

"Chin, you must realize that you are small"

"How they hell will that help me get my gang back"

"You didn't let me finish" the Tortoise said with a smile "You must realize that you are small, and that that doesn't make a difference, over the years you've grown more and more skilled despite your misfortune, you must move out from underneath the shadows of your past, your bullies cannot get you now, they have forgotten about you, but you have new bullies and now the Chin of the present must do what the Chin of the past couldn't do"

"…Stand up for myself?"

The Tortoise smiled.

"But how will I get into that fortress? It's locked tight and guarded! They'll kill me before I even make it to the front gate!"

"You said you were dead"

"And?"

"What do the dead have to fear about being killed?"

"I… Hey that's right! I am dead! I am dead! Hahahaha! I'm dead! They cant hurt me! I've got nothing to lose!"

"Who are you talking to?"

Chin turned around, the boar was back where he had been before and was giving him a puzzled look.

"I was talking to this-" Chin looked around, the tortoise was gone "Crazy old turtle must have left" Chin muttered to himself as he got up off his chair.

"Hey! Are you going to pay for your drinks?"

Chin turned around slowly and the boar wished he hadn't said that.

"No, I'm dead, dead people don't pay for drinks" said Chin, a crazed grin on his face.

Before the boar could say anything Chin had ran out of the inn screaming that he was dead. Maybe the alcohol was finally taking affect or maybe Chin had lost his long fight with insanity.

"First order of business" said Chin to himself "Get more weapons" His crossbow, although impressive, wouldn't be enough.

Chin noticed a boar who happened to have a lot of weapons on his person. Chin, having spent part of his life as a smuggler, was able to indentify this boar as a weapons dealer.

"What do you have?" Chin asked

"Gah! Don't sneak up on me like that!" said the boar, clutching at his heart.

"I said what do you have?"

"Alright alright settle down" said the boar, opening up his jacket and revealing a showcase of impressive looking swords, knives, and other weapons.

"What are those" said Chin, pointing to two small swords.

"Those? They're called Butterfly swords" Chin grinned when he heard the name.

"I'll take them"

"Alright, that'll be, lets see, fifty for both, twenty five separately"

Chin became aware that he had no money on him, and for the briefest moment almost considered selling his beloved crossbow, but he quickly shook that thought from his head when he realized he had a large repeating crossbow.

"Tell you what" said Chin pointing his crossbow at the boar "You give me those swords, and I won't give you this"

"When examined the two butterfly swords, holding one in each hand, they were finely made swords, and very sharp, Chin smiled to himself. The next order of business was finding some back up, a temporary gang, and after his previous adventures, Chin had some ideas of possible candidates. Chin immediately grabbed some paper and began writing letters.

It took awhile, but eventually two figures made their way to the beach. One was a rabbit, and the other was a goat.

"Hello? Did you write me this letter?" the rabbit asked "About having the missing Rabbit scroll?"

"No, are you the one that wrote me the letter about a new boat?"

"No, I'm Wu Bang"

"Jing, nice to meet you, do you suppose the same person wrote both the letters?"

"I guess so, I hope this is where we're supposed to meet them"

"It is" said Chin stepping forward.

"You!" Both the goat and the rabbit said in unison

"Give me back the scroll you thief!"

"I want my boat back!"

"Shut up the two of you! My name is Chin, and right now I don't have my gang, you two, plus another, will be my temporary gang until I can rescue my old gang is that understood?"

"Why would I help you!" said Wu Bang

"Because if you don't, I'll kill you" the way Chin said that, and the way he looked at her, left no doubt in Wu Bang's mind that if she didn't comply Chin would, in fact, kill her. "That goes the same for you goat, I'm not having a very good night but that's going to change soon, and if you are not my ally then you are my enemy, and I feel bad for any of my enemies tonight understand?"

"er…yessir"

"You said there was another member of the gang? Where are they?"

"Follow me" said Chin as he walked over to a boat. "Hey! Hey dog!"

"Whussit?" said the dog sleepily, the same dog that had ferried Chin to the fortress.

"We're going to need your boat"

"Why? Do you have any idea what time it is? I'm trying to sleep"

"I need you to take me back to that island"

"What! Are you crazy I'm not going anywhere near that horrible place"
"Listen to me you mangy mutt, because I'm only going to tell you once, if you do not take me to that island I will come up there, tear off your head and do horrible, horrible things down your neck do you understand me?"

"…yessir"

"Good, you two get aboard, we have work to do"

It was morning by the time the boat reached the island, the Furious Five were still clustered behind the rocks, waiting for the bandits to run out of arrows. Then, suddenly, out of no where, Chin came running forward. Tigress managed to stop him.

"Where are you going! They'll kill you!"

"Shut up I'm dead!" Chin screamed as he shot past her, straight to the door.

Chin rammed his body against the wooden gate, but to no avail.

"You goat! I need your head!"

"Yessir" said the goat as she ran charged forward, ramming the gate. The door splintered just enough so that Chin could reach in and unlock it. The door swung open slowly.

The bandits readied themselves, bows and swords, spears and clubs. Suddenly they were met with a barrage of crossbow fire. The assorted bandits ran for cover, some crashing into each other. Chin came changing in firing his crossbow and slashing with his swords. Chin had taken the bandits by surprise! They weren't expecting a crazy one eyed crossbow wielding rat to come running in screaming that he was a corpse, then again no one really expects that.

The wolf from before tried to stop Chin, only to be tackled to the ground and beaten relentlessly.

"Who's the runt of the litter now Xing! Who's the runt of the litter now!" the wolf didn't know who Xing was, but he felt very sorry if he ever met Chin again.

And whilst Chin was beating the wolf the Furious Five, accompanied by Jing the goat and Wu Bang came charging in. just in time to pull Chin off of a very bruised wolf, Chin was still swinging his fists even while in the air and cursing.

"I'm a mama's boy am I! huh! Who's the mama's boy now Chang! Huh! Huh!"

"Chin's got issues" said Viper, none of the Furious Five had ever seen this side of Chin, his crazy sociopathic side, which must people hope they never have to see.

Chin wriggled his way out and ran towards some other bandits screaming and firing his crossbow. A vulture that had been knocked over by one of Chin's strikes reached for his own crossbow. Chin acted quickly. His crossbow was pointed directly at the vultures head. The vulture pasued for a moment, considering his options.

"I know what you're thinking" said Chin "Did he fire fifty bolts? Or only forty nine? Well to tell you the truth I kinda lost track myself, but seeing as this is a masterly crafted repeating crossbow with a composite bow, and could blow your head clean off, actually, it probably wouldn't be very clean, I imagine there'd be blood everywhere, but you've got to ask yourself 'Do I feel lucky?' well do you?"

The vulture, who wasn't feeling particularly lucky, dropped the crossbow and flew off.

Chin smiled to himself, and then he heard a familiar voice.

"Boss? Is that you?" Chin looked behind him, there was his gang, locked up in cages. A single tear ran down Chin's face, they were alive.

Quickly Chin hacked off the locks and opened the cages. He was immediately met with a huge from Bai-Ling, who had shot out of her cage so fast that she nearly knocked Chin over.

"Oh Chin! You came back for us!"

"Yeah yeah, don't get used to it, this is the last time I'm rescuing you idiots, you're all alright aren't you?"

Chin was answered by a chorus of yeses

"Good, I only came back because I couldn't find any other gang at the moment so consider yourselves lucky"

"Oh sir! You rescued me!"

"Yes yes now shut up Bai-Ling"

"you rescued me! Just like in my dreams"

"…what?"

"I oh…er… nevermind"

"…Alright then, c'mon you blaggards up and at'em! Help me teach these buggers how real bandits fight!"

There were courageous cries from Chin's gang as they gathered any weapon they could find a charged into the fight. In short order all the other bandits were defeated.

"Now" Chin thought to himself "Now here come the butterflies"