"Not Harry, please not Harry." A woman was saying in a begging tone to a dark figure wearing a black cloak.

"Step aside, you silly girl." The dark figure shouted in a dark tone pointing his wand towards her.

"Not Harry, please not Harry, take me instead but not Harry." She said begging but in vain.

"AVADA KADAVRA." The Dark figure said and from his wand a bright green light, that hit her and collapsed to the ground.

Harry woke up out of sudden, breathing heavily, he looked around him, he was in his room in the Jade Palace.

"What a nightmare." He said to himself, and just in that moment he began to feel a great pain in his head like someone put heated iron on it. But despite of it he tried to get up and stand on his two legs, it took him two minutes to do it. And just in that moment he heard the gong and he quickly went out from his room but no one was out yet and he wasn't seeing very well at the distance then one of the doors opened and Master Tigress went out.

"It seems that you woke up much earlier then the others." She said and Harry bowed to her and said.

"Sorry master Tigress, if you heard any noise that woke you up, I didn't slept so well." Harry said with a respectful voice.

"I woke up much earlier as well; it wasn't so much you're fault." She said in a bit calm tone, making Harry a bit relieved.

"I will try to make sure it wouldn't happen again." He said.

"You forget to put you're glasses on." She said before adding. "Get them and prepare you're self. Today would be a bit harder."

"Yes master Tigress." He said and she left for the training grounds and after a minute Crane came.

"I hear what she said." He said.

"Yeah, she said that today would be a bit harder then usual, but how much harder master?" Harry asked.

"Well I'm afraid that today I will have more things to do and I will not manage to train you more as usual, and that means that today Tigress will be you're master." Crane after saying he noticed that his student turned absolutely shocked. He of course knew how they're relationship was and knew that when he was leaving on missions and she was taking care of him, Tigress would usually put him on hard training and when he was showing an un appropriate behavior she would give him a hard punishment.

"But, what about the others?" He asked stressed.

"Mantis is watching the bandits together with Po, Monkey and Viper are watching a gold transport and I have to go to deliver a message to master Chao, thing that will take me all day to deliver it and return. I'm sorry Harry." Crane said.

"This will not be a good day for me." Harry said.

"I will try to convince Tigress to give you a bit easy today." He said making him more relived.

"Thank you, Master." He said bowing to him.

"No problem." He said before starting to walk away. But before arriving at the end of the corridor.

"Master can I ask you something before leaving?" Harry asked.

"Sure, what is it?" Crane asked.

"Well I had a nightmare and….." He was interrupted by Crane.

"It wasn't one where you had no pants right?" He asked.

"No, it wasn't." He answered.

"Then what was about." Crane asked.

"I was in a room during the night, everything was dark, and in that room was also a woman begging to a dark figure who was wearing a black cloak, he was begging something like 'not Harry, please not Harry, take me instead but not Harry' like he wanted to kill me and then he said something and a bright green light hit her and she collapsed to the ground." He said to him thinking in fear about what he saw.

"Now this sounds like a truly horrible dream." He said a bit concerned about it.

"I, I know but everything seemed so, so real, like it really happened." Harry said.

"I'm not too much an expert, but I heard that sometimes a dream like this could be a vision or a lost memory from the distant past of a person, a memory that you don't remember because it was when you were very young but it had a very high impact in you're life." Crane said. Harry thinks for a second before an idea came in his mind.

"The death of my parents?" He said.

"Exactly, I had sometimes the idea that you're parents were actually murdered, they didn't died because of an accident." Crane said.

"Well it can be possible. I sometimes started to believe that as well." He said.

"If you need to meditate on this, tomorrow I will give you all time you need when I return, you can try to meditate together with master Shifu when he returns from Peking, he will arrive in the evening today." Crane said.

"Yes, thank you master." He said bowing.

"Let's go eat something now, after that you should go in the training grounds, you should not let Tigress wait too much." He said and both them went to the kitchen, after breakfast Crane took the message for master Chao and left while Harry went to the training grounds where Tigress was waiting for him. The first training exercise was lifting heavy boulders before he was putted to make pushups with his head upside down and sometime's with one wing.

"I…..don't…think…I will….manage." Harry said breathing heavily almost on the brink of collapse.

"Don't say that, if you don't believe in you're self you will not manage but if you will believe you will make it." She said. He continued and do another two push ups before collapsing exhausted with his tongue out from his beak.

"Very good, I expected that you will manage those two." She said before adding "Take a short break." That made him a bit relieved. After that Tigress took him behind the palace to show him a pile of wood high as three meters.

"You now need to take the wood from this pile and put it near that tree." She said showing a tree 9 meters away. "I will watch you."

"Yes master Tigress." He said and began to take one pile of 8 wood pieces and took them to the tree, he finished in three hours. This was the same hard as the other exercises.

"Good, now for the last part." Tigress said.

"What…last….part?" He asked.

"We go back to the training grounds." She said and walked till they reached the training ground. Harry didn't knew what is coming now, he didn't knew what will come next 'Please something easy, please something easy.' He pleaded in his mind.

"All right." She said turning towards him. "You must now." With every word he knew what will come. "Fly in the air, but not outside the training ground." That made him a bit doubtful and relived, he put him on hard exercises and now he will only have to fly around without problem.

"What are you waiting? Go up in the air." She ordered and Harry obeyed.

Once in the air Harry could feel the cool breeze thought his feathers and head, and could feel all the tiredness go away from it, it was a true relief, but then in that moment something passed quickly near his head, it was a training star, for a moment he didn't knew what was happening before his attention moved towards the direction of the training grounds, and saw several other obstacles are coming, he began to avoid them as much as he could before beginning to catch them and throw them back before landing and took a bow stuff, everything seemed calm before some targets resembling crocodiles went off and he began to pock them with the bow stuff till all of them went down. And from behind him Tigress appeared and said.

"Very well, it seems that you are prepared." She said.

"Prepared? For what?" Harry asked confused.

"For going in missions. Everything was a test." She said.

"The first two was to see you're resistance, strength and confidence. This one was to see you're skill and vigilance." She said before adding "And, you passed."

"Oh, I didn't know it's great, it's….."

"Don't let this went to you're head." She said sternly.

"Right, sorry." He said before asking. "Do I have to do something else?"

"Not for now. Go and take a respite, I will call you later." She said and he went inside, the rest of the day passed a bit easier, the rest of the exercises were mostly meditation and tai chi, together with target practices and warming exercises, with a few exceptions of lifting and push ups.

This went on until the others arrived in the evening, relatively the day passed with some success but the problem was that Harry didn't managed to do magic practices and had to do it during the night. He went in the Hall of the Warriors were Mantis was speaking with Tigress, Crane and Viper, he knew that it wasn't good and impolite to peek or to listen behind them but he knew that it could be important.

"Man, these wolf bandits were truly mean, no matter how hard I fight them they managed to steal the metal." Mantis said.

"I heard that as well, but why would they began to steal iron and cupper?" Crane asked.

"Yeah, I mean gold, silver, gems, jewels. All those are precious, but other metals like iron from which we make other goods like cauldrons. It is not usual." Viper said.

"They don't steal with no purpose, there must be something they made from it." Tigress said.

"The question is; what they are up to?" Viper said.

"Let's think about this tomorrow, I am exhausted from this day." Mantis said yawning.

"Yeah I agree, let's go to sleep." Crane said and three of them went to the barracks to they're rooms, only Tigress remained. Harry with a bit of uncertainty went inside.

"Harry, what are you doing at this hour?" She asked with a suspicious voice.

"I wanted only to ask if I could use the library to study before I go to sleep." He said, the female tiger still a bit suspicious took a parchment and said.

"Well I was thinking of giving you this scroll to study tomorrow, but if you want now, you can." She said giving the parchment before hearing a thunder coming from outside.

"Nothing unusual, you can study." She said before leaving and he began to read the scroll. Later that evening after most of the masters went to sleep Harry returned to the Hall of the Warriors with his bag full of magic, herbs and potion books, he lighted three candles at the table to began reading, outside the palace a powerful thunder storm began, the thunders could very well wake up the masters and must be very careful to don't be discovered.

He started with the charm and jinx books before going to the potion book. After reading the spell he tried them.

"All right, let's began." He whispered to himself and casted the first spell "Lumos." And the end of his wand began to shine brighter then a lantern.

'The spell ends if you say Nox.' He read in his mind and said "Nox." And the light from his wand vanished.

'Accio, summoning charm, point you're wand to an object or call its name and say 'Accio.' He placed the scroll from Tigress on the floor and went a few steps back from the table and said "Accio scroll." The scroll then flew really fast towards him and catches it before placing it back on the table.

'Auronia exume, throw off jinx, it will throw off an object or a leaving being, a few steps away, useful if you need to run away or defend you're self.' "Useful but I can't do it inside here. Or, on any of these objects."

'Depulso, throw off charm, similar to auronia exume.' He read before thinking a little and noticed a stone outside in the heavy rain.

"Ok then, let's try them outside, hope I will dry off when everyone will wake up or find a towel in one of the bathrooms." He said to himself, went outside in the rain and pointed his wand towards the stone.

"Auronia Exume." He said and a blue light came from his wand and threw back the stone, but only a few millimeters away.

"Well, this is mostly for defense, let's try the other." He said while moving his wing on his head to wash up the water.

"Depulso." And the stone was thrown off the cliff from the palace.

"This one is much stronger then the other." He said to himself before entering the palace with water pouring off from him.

"Now let's see the other ones." He said turning to the next page.

'Confundo, makes the victim to turn confuse and befouled.'

'Colovaria, makes a target to change colure.'

'Geminis, duplicates a target.' A thunder strikes making him to turn around but saw no one entering.

"Just a thunder." he said calming down before turning around and saw all the magic books flying around him, he was shocked he didn't knew what to do in that moment, while watching the wind began to blow in the circle of books making them to open before stopping at different pages. After a minute all the books began to go down slowly on the floor with the books opened at different pages, with a bit of uncertainty he began to look in the books and read the information's written in them. He began with the mythical creatures.

'The three headed dog, mostly found in Greece and Ireland, each head represents a different characteristic of it. The best known is Cerberus in ancient Greece who was said to be the guardian of the underworld. With its ferocity it is the best guardian when it comes in guarding something.' He read and looked at the picture

"It really looks scary and powerful." He said to himself before noticing a light that appeared out of no where and left a note witch he took it.

'Although, he looks threatening, his main weakness is that he always falls quickly asleep when he hears music.'

"Music? Even from the flute?" He asked himself remembering that during the winter festival in the day where he founded out that he was a wizard, aside from the books he also received a wooden made flute that he found under his bed. After thinking about that he then looked in the other book with the magic plants.

'The Devil's Sprawl, it grows in dark numb places where he is protected from the sunlight, being very sensitive it could be burn easily by the sun and by a fire. It could also be very dangerous, if it catches someone, the victim could be killed by strangling if it panics and isn't keeping its calm.'

"So if you relax and keep you're calm it will realist you. And it could be destroyed by the sun light or by fire. But if there is neither sun nor fire?" He said to himself before turning towards the spell and charm books.

'Incedio, fire charm, it could start a fire.' "Yes I know about this one." He said before a light appeared on the book and left another note.

'Aside from the easy version of the spell there are also other more powerful version of it; Incendio Duo and Incendio Tria."

"Wonder, how much powerful?" He asked himself before the pages from the book started to go back to the Lumos spell and another note appeared.

'Like Incendio, the Lumos spell also has other versions; Lumos Duo, Lumos Tria, Lumos Maxima and Lumos Solemn. The last one emits a light powerful like the sun.' After reading this he stopped for a moment to think about what happened, looking at the note on the book and thinking about the other notes and of the strange event that happened during this night.

"Something is surely going to happen in the later days." He said to himself before a yawn came out from his mouth.

"Aaaa, I should better go to sleep now, tomorrow I will try to meditate on this." He said and gathered all his books and wand and put them in the bag, he then left, he went to the barracks and to his room and putted the bag under his bed.

"If something is going to happen, I will gone need to use both magic and kung fu, and I should take my wand and some potions in the first mission." He said to himself and placed his head on the pillow and immediately falls asleep.