Chapter 25: Cliffhanger
Two months later
We cut to Zhong going outside of Mei Ling's home to go for an hour long walk. He sniffs the air and thought to himself, "Everything is all so calm and peaceful right now. Nothing could possibly go wrong." As the wolf starts to head on back to Mei Ling's home, he finds some kind of paper on the ground, folded up. He picks it up and when he opens it, he finds that his name is on it and the next print said: a long forgotten friend. He unfolds it to a letter printed in pure gold. He reads it out loud:
ZHONG,
I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE ALIVE. IT IS MY PLEASURE THAT YOU CAN COME AND MEET ME AT THE VERY TOP OF THE PALACE OF GONGMEN CITY. I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU THERE. OH, AND THE OTHER WOLVES TOLD ME ABOUT YOUR WIFE. WAS IT MEI LING? WELL, I THINK IT IS. ANYWAY, BRING HER WITH YOU TO GONGMEN CITY.
YOUR FRIEND AND REFORMED LORD OF GONGMEN CITY,
SHEN
"It cannot be", said Zhong and decides that he could keep the letter as a secret. He doesn't what would happen if he tells Mei Ling about it. So, he goes to Mei Ling's father's office before taking out a piece of paper and started writing on it. For nearly two minutes, he finishes it and when he goes to a boat and send it, he sees Mei Ling talking to her parents about her kung fu moves she learned. He then goes to another mountain cat and asks him to send the letter to Gongmen City. He agreeds and brings the letter in a bottle with him and on a boat a few miles from the village. Two days later, the boat reached Gongmen City and throws the letter into the water before he gets the ship back on track away from Gongmen City. Then, as the boat goes a few miles away from the city, we see the Soothsayer and she takes the bottle out of water. When she opens it, she becomes surprised and goes to a familiar person she used to serve. Yes. It is. It's Lord Shen now standing in the balcony of the palace and the peacock turns around to see the goat carrying the letter. "I have brought you this, my lord", said the Soothsayer and gives Shen the letter. Shen starts to read it and it saids:
SHEN,
I WILL BE THERE TO SEE YOU. IT BETTER BE IMPORTANT AND BETTER THAN THE LAST TIME YOU KILLED ME. I'M ALSO TAKING MY WIFE WITH ME AS WELL. WE'LL BE THERE SOON OR SOMEDAY.
ZHONG.
"Sooner than you think, dear friend", said Shen and we fade to black.
The End
There ends the second installment of the Beauty and the Wolf Trilogy. I'll start making the third and final entry of the series by late March 2012. Feel free to review if you like.