Volume Two: Eyes of Hate
Chapter XXIV
Clearing Chase
"DROWN THEM IN THE WATER!" the new jade slayer, a Tibetan red deer, known as the son of Master Le, commanded his jombies on the bridge. His porcupine pupil freed his quills at will toward Xing and Lord Shen.
Both buffalo and rhino jombies gashing their weapons at guards over the third carriage heaved under the vehicle, shrilling bandits' cries. While drawn with his chokuto sword, Xing deflected quills, which whizzed its glossy green arrows at him and the Dragon Warrior's student Shen. The group behind the two barged out, and the third carriage jerked its momentum at the side of the bridge, jarring the whole and bandits they screamed.
The carriage plunged in the stream, swallowing their foams of cries.
"TEAR THEM ALL APART!" both buffalo and rhino guard glinting their green eyes mimicked their lips from their master, rampaging their weapons at the horde of guards. Multiple quills launched, penetrating three rhinos. Wang hurled the emerald knife at the Masters, slicing the ground as most leaped and withdrawn; Xing bowled under the chains, and Shen ducked his whole body, his train folding next to him.
Above them, a swan with the gloss of emerald stone landed, furling her agile body, and flung dark green knives. Many warriors pivoted and diverted from the bird, whose cry sharpened her caw; one knife plunged on the rabbit's upper arm. With agony, while screaming as his brown fur transformed to a thick jade stone, the villager glared at Masters and the Nine, scurrying at Hong.
The Nine's Doctor stood her ground, her whole weight gaining against the villager's chest. "Somebody fetch me the key!" a rhino guard at the bridge hollered, but the buffalo Zhan spun duel axes at him and others. Tigress launched on the second platform and countered Wang, throwing agile and straight fists against him; the porcupine drew more of his bolts, aiming all three on her; Mantis clouted under his limbs, misfired the rest at the sky.
Xing launched his circular punches toward the swan's chest, his paws beaming with dawnlight and snow chi blends. Amy, the Swan Dancer, recoiled her straight talon, and the other hammered his head to her left, spinning the tiger on the ground. Shen thrashed his oak staff toward the swan, which she pivoted her stone emerald wings in each counter. The next, as Xing readied for his spinning kicks to lift, thunderous rumbles advanced within the alleyway —
A gorilla jombie heaved his whole bulky arms, hammering on Xing. The tiger flipped behind as Po jerked his colleague. "Nine, defend Kai and villagers!" the Nine's Leader commanded.
"Bao, defend! Bao, attack!" the Nine's Heaver rumbled fists against his chest, charging his all fours at the gorilla jombie who roared at him.
"There's another one! Whoa! It's—!"
Po had caught a menacing figure racing toward the panda, but something small and fast clobbered his cheek, and the other landing Xing's main foot, tumbling the tiger forward. "Mantis, I'm on your side!" Po glared.
"That wasn't me!" echoed Mantis on the roof, battering porcupine's limbs.
Both Po and Xing gave their quick glimpse at their eyes as if the rapid wings buzzed closer ahead of them. A praying insect glowed light gem eyes, and behind the bug emerged one viridescent leopard warrior with a crown jewel spread limbs apart, combining slow and steady flows of Tai Chi forms. The tiger's heart raced its rime flow.
Kasi! Xing gasped.
"Eat Mantis's head, Lily!" the jade slayer deer screeched, and the praying insect spun her wings. The bug hammered her sharp limbs on Po and Xing's heads, soaring on the second balcony, and tackled Mantis.
Tigress countered most of the Tibetan deer's hooks, uppercutting and swinging jade knives. Wang flared his glittering eyes at the feline, elbowing her chest; at first, Tigress merged her vigorous combos booting his inner leg and chest, somersaulting onward the flat tile. She braced her sharp paws against Wang's wrists, which wriggled in resistance against her strength after he heaved downward near her head. Growling, the deer clenched his grips, his arms undulating impulses of angry green glow.
Mantis and the praying insect Lily, clobbering elsewhere away from the porcupine and Tigress and Wang, spun on the curving tile. Lily, who smothered Mantis's throat, spat her tiny mouth, nearly biting his head. Mantis darted his sharp limb toward her chest, wavered his yellow chi; Lily, gaping her breath with a piece of rupturing glass, appeared her normal form of a yellow praying insect. She flattened her head on his throat.
"Not my head!" Mantis was frightened as they tumbled off the curving tile.
The porcupine jombie swiveled his bowstring, caught Tigress's neck as Wang dazzled his green eyes while undulating his chi. Unable to counter from spinning, as Tigress roared, the porcupine threw her in the air, and Wang cast the full spin of his jade knife at the feline, pounding her chest. Flown across one block with the wind that fluctuated in her ears, Tigress caught soft roars as her body wrapped with clouded furs roughly crashed on the tree.
Tai Lung collapsed on small vines of roots, shielding his sister's whole body from snapping branches. He inspected her after flakes of sticks scratched on him. "Don't mention it," the Great Dragon offered no pleasure, but Tigress never spoke to thanking his adoptive brother. "Come on," he beckoned his head.
Shen broke sideways with deflective counter attacks of his oak staff while the swan dancer Amy advanced her agility, sweeping her wings on each pole lunge. By the next surprise with such opportunity to strain the peacock, she clenched and disarmed his weapon and spun her double kick at him. The albino collapsed on the ground as his panda teacher interfered. Beside both warriors of panda and swan, as Shen swam his dizziness in a short duration, Xing deflected most of his paws on Kasi's swings. Her limbs empowered his strength against him, as her Tai Chi intensity was not meant for combat purposes but to ward off and control one subject's energy.
Top, left, middle—
Blocking and attacking simultaneously, Xing struck her high knee, and the other and side kicked toward her belly, reeling silver tides of chi. For a moment, as Shen hastily caught his oak staff behind him, the bridge crowded on against something mighty and fierce; Monkey and multiple members of the Nine and Masters remained their ground against more than four rhino jombies propelling through them. As other five rhino guards, including their correctional leader, plummeting in the water to unbolt the third cage's door, the buffalo Zhan behind jombies sprinted his heavy hooves toward the group. He spun his axes above him and roared, smashing the ground with a wave of emerald wind gushed their feet, launching plenty, crashing Kai at the structure of Furious Five posters.
Chen Xing wrestled his arms over Kasi's stone limbs resisting against his silver paws, nearly absorbing her chest. Instead, once the tiger fell for his distraction after glimpsing at the horde near the bridge launch away from the buffalo, Kasi headbutted his muzzle twice, staggering him back. Po maneuvered the swan's extended talon and wings swimming elsewhere. He swept his back fist under her ribcage and belly-gonged Amy, bowling her away.
"GUYS!" Po gasped and sought a few Masters and the Nine struggling on the brick floor. Tigress and Tai Lung quickly emerged at the corner of the path when a striped feline flipped and deflected quills. The Nine's Leader stroked his throbbing muzzle that dripped a single gore on his paw while staggering his balloon vision.
"Such a pity for not fighting back against me in the tournament, Xing!" the jade slayer Wang disapproved his old foe in disgust. He revolved chains over his wrist, clasping jade knives. "Rematch, now, or my soulmates crush bones with their stone feet in the Valley!"
Xing gave his soft grown within his throat, wiping off his gore under his muzzle using his sleeve. "Their souls of chi are mine in all of the territory! Maul the rest of the people!" Wang commanded, and his jombies exploded with fierce, opposing several subjects and masters. The Tibetan deer looked away and made his sprint, including the black panther jombie running all fours into the alleyway and through the south courtyard.
"WANG!" the Nine's Leader snarled, chasing the jade slayer.
Po hastened his short breath. "We're coming to you, bud—!"
His feline colleague vanished into different routes where Wang retreated, and beside the panda, the Swan Dancer sprang her talons and soared among the Valley. "Come on, Shen. Let's go help Xing and take down another Jade Slayer!"
Shen sighed sharply. "Not another sprinting journey."
Po glimpsed at the main road as the Furious Five and Tai Lung departed, hastening toward wherever Wang's jombies advanced. The Nine barricaded in front of the Noodle Restaurant from three rhino jombies forcing in. "Bring those jombies back to normal, guys! Protect many as you can!"
"Go on, Po!" Tigress grunted while the buffalo jombie hammered his large hoof against her head she blocked.
Shen was the first sprinting in the alleyway and spotted both green and dark yellow insects. Mantis gave his final glimpse on the other praying bug, who muttered while unconscious. Sorry, Lily. Placing the paralyzed Praying Lily on the wooden barrel, Mantis caught up to Shen beside him, sprinting into the alleyway. The insect spotted the Dragon Warrior behind the peacock. "Oh, I'm coming too!" Mantis hopped on Po's shoulder.
Shen dashed through the end of the horizontal crossroad and found the Nine's Serpent clench his whole tail on the Nine's lofty arm, pulling him away from the creek. The Dragon Warrior beside Shen was the first to ask. "What happened?"
"Bao, light! Bao, fly!" the Nine's Heaver grunted, pointing at the southern sky.
Fanshe slithered ahead of Po and Shen. "That gorilla jombie has flown away, Master Po," he pointed his tail, and the other on the streams crossing over. "Xing went down this path and has bounded across junk ships, chasing Wang!"
Po observed the long meadow hill-country of towering mountains. One green light bore a figure with antlers, soaring under the streak clouds. One orb crossing by the two emerged a porcupine jombie unleashing more than five arrows. There they are! Finally smirked, the Dragon Warrior palmed Bao's saturated shoulder. "Help the Nine and Masters shift jombies back to normal over there, you two. Bao, chi?"
"Bao, chi!" the gorilla simultaneously drummed his chest with bare fists, and he and his serpent brother gushed toward the opening.
"Such a complicated ape, isn't he, panda?" Shen pondered.
"He's unique, alright," the insect approved when swimming his head back to the meadow clearing. He detected another figure, possibly glistened with white and gray. "Look! Someone's flying!"
The panda and peacock rotated and saw what Mantis observed. Farther behind the new Jade Slayer, whose laugh guffawed across the streaming sky, thundering commands to his jombies, was the soaring body spreading black wings. The avian had a round hat.
Po grinned. "We're gonna need a ride!"
Unflustered enough to spread black wings while scanning at the creek meadows, Crane bent one roll and the next as the porcupine jombie freed three quills. The third one, as the avian turned upside down, whizzed under his back. Crane maneuvered away from the jombie. That was close! Just as he soared safely from getting close to the new Jade Slayer, not recognizing the deer, Crane found Tigress's nephew on the road toward the bamboo village, perched with small junk sails on a large stream.
The rope bridge crowded a few villagers strolling by. A green amulet shrilled toward the end, shifting a gorilla jombie, made travelers flee and scream. Crane dove on a strong wind that blew his head after the Nine's Leader on all fours raced near the bridge; the gorilla jombie heaved the end, snapping ropes apart.
"HEYA!"
Swinging his talon and the other, Crane clobbered the ape's chest and head, wobbling the living statue. Ropes snapped apart, collapsing ten wood pieces; Chen Xing sprang over the falling bridge, advancing at the jombie. The gorilla shrank to a big orb and flew across, crashing under fruit carriage, wrecking supporting platforms under houses.
Crane glimpsed at the meadow field behind as he heard fading shouts. "It's Po! I'll get — Xing!"
"I'm in pursuit! Get the Dragon Warrior, Master Crane!" he sprinted away and into the barn. Gaps and windows glared with sparkling emeralds, roaring gorilla's stomp. Crane launched his wings above next to the tree, leveling higher across the plains and river. The avian surveyed the terrain, breaking the wind waves that had flown him in front, slowing his pace. The two figures of albino peacock and black and white bear raced by the next platform from the other side of the broken bridge.
"Crane, get down here!" Mantis hollered.
He dove right on time, which the speed inclined down, shrieking his wings; Crane landed ahead of the group in between the path of the small village quarters. "Po! Xing is on the run, chasing jombies!"
"Carry me! We'll catch up to him!"
"Do you mind that you forgot about your student who can't flap wings on the ground?" Shen reminded his teacher, snapping.
"Right—!"
While only figured on time to realize that peafowls could fly, but not so much agile enough from starting on the ground to launch in the air, the barn where Chen Xing battled against the jombie gorilla collapsed to rubble, burst its emerald and fragmenting woods.
The group sought one amulet fly away, and their colleague behind the light down below roared, chasing on all fours to the next river bridge. Hastily searching for something useful to his student, glancing at one of the brick houses with strings that hanged dry clothes, Po found a hammock with patches lined in between two bulky bamboos. "Yes! I got an idea!"
Strapped an enormous net to aim, as the albino peacock mounted on, Po hauled back and pointed for the sky, aiming next to Crane soaring in circles.
"You're a psychotic panda for doing this!"
"It's best to fly with me and Crane, Shen. We're gaining on Xing!"
Po released his grasp, launching Shen out of the hammock. Hailed by the peacock's caw, Shen spread his firm wings and red train, soaring higher and higher than ever. The launch gave him a decent height, alright. Shen regarded the swan jombie carrying the deer above the streaming river. "Alright, Shen! I'll race you up there!" Po cheered below the peacock.
You are preposterous!
The peacock snapped after shaking his head, gliding at a hurtling speed as the southwest wind bore him. He was not decent at flying but had been used to soaring in Gongmen City from his parents' Tower of the Sacred Flame to reach farther distance; he gently fluttered his limbs by leveling his altitude greatly. Still, his weight, including his train, made Shen go down while stabilizing his elevation. "Imbecile! That flabby panda could have drowned me in the water!"
"But you can fly, Shen."
"Gods!" the peacock's back was crawling shivers. "How dare you are on my back?"
"I hopped on you from Crane so that I can have better eyes on you and jombie freaks down there!" he influenced Shen. The avian next to the albino, carrying the Dragon Warrior while flapping wings, guided forward, and the insect darted his eyes on the countryside, spotting jade amulets soar with their master. "Look! That deer is building more of them."
Shen scanned at the scenery of three, five, and eight new jombies (farmers) rampaging toward Chen Xing in the vineyard, riverbanks, and thick grass fields beside the creek. Wang's porcupine jombie kept his quills unleashing at not only the Nine's Leader but randomly struck plenty of villagers. In haste, one by one, Chen Xing countered various strikes, dodging round punches and kicks simultaneously; he pawed his snow chi at one, and another, and the next — all nine villagers shifted back to normal, bewildered.
The panda swung side by side. "Looks like our guy handled villagers! Nice work, Xing!"
"This might be my honest question to you three," Crane uttered the group, grunting while holding the weight of the panda's metric ton. "Does jade suppose to represent luck and immortality?"
"Good point! Why is the color green so luckless by making one such jealous to all hues?" Mantis confused.
"Less talk, more focus!" Po announced.
The group had flown close to the vineyard. Their tiger colleague glimpsed at the sky and eyed his panda companion, who waved his paw. "Xing! The Jade Slayer's heading toward the next meadow! Follow us!"
Three miles down to the southwest, the group arrived in Xiao Hao, one of the Valley of Peace districts, thrived with contributions on renting small junks and general stores, part of resting areas to occupy in rental apartment complexes. The small bayou village poured with rapid bits of emeralds, and three shamrock amulets randomly swarmed on a soil road; one wrecked into the front mull of cat junk ketch, let the stream slowly swallow in the ship's port.
One jombie above Xiao Hao circulated, breaking angles as the Swan Dancer Amy glared at the rim, screeching at the warriors. "Looks like they're attacking the village," Po pointed.
"I'll drop you to Xing, and I'll take care of the swan jombie!" Crane immediately dove close to the opening main road, which the mud mixed with dry and wet. Chen Xing made through the boundary in time while he bounded on the complex tiles and engaged the gorilla jombie above him. Xiao Hao citizens scattered in horror from the western field near the creek as one bovine in a patched gray vest on the junk ship shouted his crew. He and the rest jumped and swam toward the riverbank.
Shen landed ahead of the Dragon Warrior, letting the insect spring and hastily sprint. "I'll go high, and you stay low, Mantis!" Crane launched his wings forward.
Chen Xing performed chi sao blocks bridging the ape's lofty arm and the next, thrusting his chest. The gorilla jombie stood his ground, revolved his hands freely, and hammered the tiger's center block, made him skid his feet on the slippery mud. Xing ceased his slide as he continued leveling his wobbling limbs forward, which the blow flared in his forearms.
"Here I come!" the Dragon Warrior to the jombie's right advanced, and his beaming yellow chi spat on his muzzle, throwing the ape off balance. The next was a volley of green quills (more than five) glittered above, whizzing toward the tiger. Mantis diverged four in rapid flows, and Chen Xing dodged three; the third was kicked toward the wood board of the drinking bar, and the fourth was on the tiger's grasp, almost pierced his eye.
Shen swayed most of the antelope's bamboo stick, oscillated under his feet, and went for the peacock's head. Not wanting to harm the jade stone citizen, as the mysterious Jade Slayer unleashed his porcupine at will without hesitation, the albino deflected and booted the villager's chest. Next to them, behind the antelope, the panther with the crown jewel spiraled her limbs, swimming her Tai Chi flows. Both felines (one mortal and one greenstone) were tackled after they launched, snarling.
The Dragon Warrior diverted the ape's round kicks and straight blows, as the dry soil splattered with mud; punching in circles after deflection, Po cast his sunlight chi, each strike, the gorilla's stone chest fragmented with dawn splits. He pounded heel kicks on his knees, collapsing the jombie.
One paw grasping the ape's face moderately shifted his midnight blue fur, and his glassy scream becoming harsh. "Fist of blow!" Po uppercutted his jaw. The gorilla flipped and landed his belly on the mud, splashing.
"I got him, Shen!"
The insect leaped on the antelope's head, his antenna and pointy legs glittering a lemon chi. The next thing as the jombie deer screamed and went from his emerald stone to a brown fur, the avian's scream above them encroached, made Crane spin out of control in the air. Crashed landed on the dry soil near the mud, he widened at Amy pace her dive toward the avian, her talons clobbering his chest and long throat let Crane slide.
The eyes of the Jade Slayer from Amy twitched her head, one way and the other. The Swan Dancer mimicked the new Collector's voice, glaring at Crane. "You again, birdie? I don't even know who you are."
As Crane was smothering from the swan's grip, which tightened his throat, the avian's talon blazed his yellow chi on her chest, mauling the stone belly. Only disoriented from Amy, Mantis flung a brass cymbal and whacked her beak, tackling her from Crane.
"Kasi, it's me!" Chen Xing bridged every leopard's limb swing near his head, her feet spinning to his ribcages. Dodging heavy encounters as more than four quills rain down to his left, which landed one of the boatmen, the tiger caught her left leg and thrust Kasi back, advancing her. The black leopard jombie flushed her eyes with glitters of emerald veins, heaving fast blows.
Each block formed Chen Xing's palms embed his snow chi on her forearms. Slapping strike, slapping strike! While circulating palm hits on her chest, one and the other let Kasi snarl and clench the tiger's upper forearms, preventing his strength against her. Their feet skidded on thick mud while wrestling. The tiger tramped one and the other, almost advancing her to draw his snow chi, but beside them, a lofty bovine jombie with downward horns heaved his ax, swinging toward his wrists.
Chen Xing thrust her and himself away fast enough, maneuvered the bovine's ax, which slammed on splotches of mud. The bovine jombie oscillated his ax left and right, nearly slicing the tiger's legs as Xing crawled away on slippery mud. Shen flung his rope dart and squirmed bovine's left horn, tugging his head down.
Po rushed toward the jombie, his paw clasping the bull's muzzle. For a moment, Mantis was aiding Crane, including Shen supporting Chen Xing when the tiger glanced at the scenery, which the Swan Dancer Amy soared across the boundary, and Lady Kasi's body shrinking to an amulet followed her. Beyond there, laying one Tibetan deer glare his eyes at the tiger, was Wang, snickering.
"That treacherous beast spilled mud on the finest silk from my old city!" Shen snapped.
Chen Xing squinted at the meadow landscape as the panda and the avian reached for the albino and tiger, rushing across the stream and toward the plain, passing by the wreckage where the junk submerged, and most villagers, including boatmen in shelters, departed out. Each blink to examine the clouds, on Guilin mountain ridges, and beyond, jombies including their master, were nowhere in sight.
The tiger harshened his sigh. "Dammit. I lost Wang."
"That's the new name of the Jade Slayer?" Mantis demanded.
"Who's Wang?" Crane rasped his voice behind the tiger.
Chen Xing owed multiple answers to his colleagues by the time he gazed at the group briefly. "That will be the deer who loathes me the most," he panted his breath. "Wang, the Iron Antlers is my new problem, now. It's a long story."
The insect chirped his insect wings. "How can that guy act like Kai? I don't get it."
"Neither do I, Master Mantis. That's exactly what I am going after him, and believe me, I will find out why."
The Dragon Warrior moved closer to his tiger colleague. Xing palmed his own crown before grunting, which within began pitch with racing flares stinging his eyes. To him, he could not suppress his growl in frustration but to keep his temper in his head submerge.
"Are you alright, Xing?"
"Just got a headache. I'll live," Xing lowered his grunt, shaking his head. "This is so wrong. Why is Wang doing this to me?"
"I know there are answers to solve, Xing. But, first, we need you to focus where he's going," Po elucidated the tiger. Next, the panda inspected Xing's chokuto, which glinted with faint white. "Check the sword, buddy. Maybe it changes colors one time to find him?"
The Nine's Leader drew his sword, now the blade's reflection merging wild lights of pale. The three deliberated with astonishment, made Mantis widen his tiny mouth. "Whoa. How did you figure out, Po?"
"Back in Gongmen City, his sword changed the colors of the Mightiest Warriors. One was blue, the other turned green, the next became brown, the fourth was red, and Xing is the white one, which is—"
"There you are."
Chen Xing interrupted Po, letting the panda and all three glimpse at the tiger's chokuto. The straight katana, glinting with clangs and specks of snow dust, hued to a light emerald; the Nine's Leader motioned left and right, delivering the sword's detection of white and lime. He aimed where the color deepened.
Marvelous. Shen rolled his head with a stunning glance.
"See what I mean? I told you that you could find the Jade Slayer," Po guided his tiger colleague. "What's his name again?"
"Wang," Xing repeated.
"Good. We'll bring down Wang, the Jade Antlers, once and for all!" Po threw his punch in the air.
"First, we question him, and then we'll put an end to his chaos. Let's move."
For the last half an hour, which the afternoon sunlight cast a soft hue of tangerine, the four followed their tiger colleague through the vast of hills, cloaked in thick grass, crossing over multiple fens where Earthy scents wafted. There were no other signs of detecting Wang yet, but Crane kept a low profile above them while soaring near thin ridges, searching for one jade orb or more amidst the sky. Xing motioned his sword one way and the next, his weapon commencing to hue from snow to light emerald. The deeper the green, the better to follow.
Xing's chokuto whispered metal clangs as the sounds colored. Where is he? The tiger asked the sword. His weapon spoke to him before that the tiger ever encountered the voice of one and the only individual who was the wife of the Mightiest Warrior and the sister of the mad Prince of Darkness. Wugu called into Xing as he witnessed the monstrosity in giant wings, breathed with fire, scorched several districts in Gongmen City. After the dragon's collapse and Huoju's defeat, the Nine's Leader begged for her return ever since — day by day, week after week, months while wielding his chokuto.
A rumble from the sword's sheath stirred Xing's ears.
You're close, Chen Xing. Aim on the sword there.
Now emerged from a familiar voice of a bold female, Xing broke his tired grin, shutting his eyes. Wugu. . .
"Anything?" Po interrupted beside the tiger.
"Not yet, Po. We're still approaching."
The group continued their approach through the narrow creeks, through other fens forward. Only the way surveying mountains of thick trees perching elsewhere, the cloud of the sea broke parts. The sword pulsed vividly when Chen Xing swam his sword aim toward each tall peak. Where could Wang be on ridge mountains? He inspected sides of ridges, perched with village pagodas - in between were rope bridges lined one and the next. The group continued further.
Nearly plodded over fens from deep surfaces covered in moss and earthy soils, and throughout the river on rocky banks, the sword, reverberating clanging metals, pulsed bright azure.
Stop.
"Where?" Xing asked the sword. The chokuto throbbed Wugu's color.
Look up.
As the Nine's Leader did, slowly pointing where Wugu's voice had him, merely emerged two amulets swim into thin clouds, barging in a tiny hole on one of the bulk ridges. A peak mountain, shaping like a three-finger hoof, blanketed by mites of green trees, as the whole towered among other pinnacles. Chen Xing searched for Master Crane, who dove under the tangerine sky while the tiger sheathed his chokuto beside Shen and Po; the avian landed ahead of the three.
"Po. I've spotted jombies. They're heading over to that cavern."
"Finally. Now we know where to find Jade Antlers. Okay," Po sat down on rocks near the stream. "Phew! Let's rest here for a few minutes. We've been running and searching like there's no tomorrow."
Chen Xing strolled next to him, gazing at the small cave. "The enemy does not rest. If by recovering ourselves from tiredness now, we'll lose Wang."
"I got an idea. Us three can stay here and watch, while Crane and Mantis will send some of the Nine for—"
"There's no time, Po," the tiger eyed on his shoulder. "Us five will go forth alone."
He cast his head to his feet, causing deep sighs while the stream broke ripples freely. The tiger crouched and dipped his paw in cool water, giving a moment to spell out furthermore. "Last month, someone begged my grandmother to let me find Wang and bring him home."
"Who?" Shen asked.
Xing wobbled his saturated paw. "His father. Now that his son is the next Jade Slayer, he may or may not see Wang again. As I said, it's a long story. You all will know my concern to him and his class soon enough when this is over."
Po reached for the tiger's dry paw and stood up next to him and Shen. "What'll we do?"
Immediately, the four followed the tiger's glance upon the stream of white sheets breaking clouds away, unveiling one green amulet swimming in the cave. The Nine's Leader chuffed his throat.
"We go up."
Author's Note:
— I developed one character Wang with the same unique type as General Kai with his jade power. Aside from that, he's not Kai 2.0; the magic manages the scorn and ruthlessness — something to consider jade, on the opposite from being evil, that was meant to have luck and defeating evil. V3 will come up with ideas to figure the reversal.
— The next chapter is on the way around 12 p.m. Central!