Hey you guys. This chapter is going to be short. I want you guys to feel this chapter... big time. Um… just listen I guess.

-Mind Journal-

-Nay Wan's POV-

Master is here. It's great to see him. Although not all of us are ecstatic. Shifu had a strange behavior the whole night we traveled with Master. Shifu only said a small greeting. We talked aimlessly all night. Even asked Master Xylin about Dai Lin's story. Dai Lin's story. Master only smiled and said, "Whatever you need to know, will come to you on its own time."

We went to another inn for the next few hours of the night that was left. I'm afraid to even dare visit Tigress' room. I just need to hold her, for her to hold me. I'm not asking for much. Just to be with the one I care most for. Stare into her fiery eyes and tell her all what's going on. I don't want to be tossing and turning again all night.

Because the real problem lies ahead.

Yes. I do know where we're going.

Where we're heading. No doubt about it. Does anyone else know? Maybe two others know. Millay of course, she leads us anyways. And another. One I regret so much for joining us on our journey. The one who was the favorite. The one who was the most hated.

Mr. Blue-eyed panther himself, Dai Lin. But I guess he gets to join in on our trip to stop world domination. I guess he deserves it. Anyone like me or Dai Lin deserves what we are going to get to do. We were the few of the lucky ones I guess you could say.

But Tigress. Am I bad for letting all of these people continue to walk? Should I tell them that this was our fight and not theirs? Me and Dai Lin probably couldn't be in a room together at all. But it was our fight. We should break off, and take the masters with us. A team of four. We could stop all this madness. And the army that takes another path.

But I couldn't risk Tigress' life.

Not anyone else's but mine and Dai Lin's. I know I hold back in class. I hold back and don't show what I can truly do. I know where I'm headed. Maybe I can drug their tea. Send them back to the palaces. Alert Dai Lin and go on our way. I know he knows where we're going.

If anything happened to Tigress, I would hate myself. For as long as I lived maybe. Not maybe, I know for as long as I live. I couldn't live in a world without her.

The war ahead of us will claim some of our lives. I can't let it be any other's than Dai Lin and I.

And I'm begging, to whatever's out there, to let the ones who deserve their life, to make it out alive. I don't mean to underestimate them all, but I know what awaits us. Not all of us were going to make it. I know it already. But I know Tigress would never let us take the battle ourselves. She would find a way to instantly stick to our sides. But if this thing between me and Tigress is a relationship, why can't it be dates and picnics instead of wars and death?

I ask my mother for her eyes. My father for his baited breath. I never knew what it was like to make him proud. Wherever they are, they probably know what lies ahead. I scream in my mind. But I know no one hears.

Where your breath freezes and falls to the ground instantly,

Where the dirt crumbles even five miles from his feet,

Where happiness was an anxious dream, now a myth,

Where the bruises, broken bones and grumbling bellies is the everyday tune,

Where that tune echoes through your ears so much, you've lost the soul to care,

And he waits. Sitting with a hatred that comes from hell itself.

I can already see the death in your eyes,

And what you call your sweet lullabies.

Your sick mind must come to an end,

But I'll find you on the very land's bend,

The pain and suffering will stop soon,

When I claim your head for my own, Master Dune.

Our battle. Not theirs. And I know that this tale has no happy-ending.