The two weeks of rest passed really quickly for Harry, he was now back in his full strength and restarted his Kung Fu training with his master, during those weeks he managed to exercise his magic skills and managed to do it without being discovered, if he heard someone approaching he would hide the book and wand under his pillow and take something else. It was really effective. He managed to master new spells and charms during those weeks, even received newer spell and charm books.

He even tried the different flavored sweets, they were really strange, especially the chocolate frogs that were spelled to behave like real ones, one of them escaped and had to go after it to not be spotted, luckily it went into a water pound and melted.

Everything went good for two weeks in which he managed to revise everything he learnt so far, everything went fine until now when a messenger came in and handed over a message for his master, there was only one person he knew he would write to him and make him stress; his own mother. Harry looked in his master's messages to her but never understood why his master was afraid of telling her what he was doing. He usually never asked questions of why he was inventing things like he was running the Jade Palace and describe it as an inn. He went at his door and knocked.

"Who's there?" He asked in a stressed voice.

"It's me master." Harry said and entered, he noticed his master holding the scroll tight in his hands.

"Is there something that bothers you?" He asked.

"No…not at all." He said stressed.

"Master, with all due respect I can see from a mile away that you are stress about something." Harry said. "If there is something I can help, just tell me." Crane looked at the young one with big eyes, he would ask him to leave but that would only make him more persistent and if he says a lie he would surely try to find if what he said was true, either way he will find out.

"It's my mother; she will come to visit me today." He said.

"And, let me guess it isn't a really happy event." Harry said thinking that he might not had a really good relationship with her.

"It's not that, I like that I will see her again and it isn't how you experienced with your relatives before I found you."

"Then, what is the problem?" Harry asked.

"Aah, when I was young she was extremely protective around me; she never let me play with other children or run, never allowed me around sharp objects and many other things, she tighter all the sharp corners with pillows and till I was six I had to wearer a full suite of armor. When I was eight I snick out from the house and discovered a Kung Fu class, which was very advance for me and she didn't liked the idea, I didn't knew how she found out but since that day she hated kung fu, and every time she saw me doing kung fu she was having severe heart palpitations. She made me promised to never do Kung Fu ever again or have anything to do with it."

"I see, but you are one of the best kung fu masters in China." Harry said.

"I know, but my mother has a weak heart, if she finds out that I am a kung fu master. That would kill her not to mention that I also have you as my student and I teach you kung fu." He said.

"But for how long will she visit?" Harry asked.

"Only for today." Crane said.

"Oh great but, wait a minute, how come that she doesn't know?" Harry asked.

"Because she is not DEAD, in all the letter I told her that I…..manage an inn, it is what she always wanted." He said.

"Yeah…. I know that as well." He said and his master watched at him with an unrelieved look before on his face asking.

"How did you know?" He asked.

"Well…..I…..read your letters when you gave them to give to the messenger. And…I also made copies of them, and I replaced the part about master Shifu as an underprivileged who cleans toilets, I wrote that he is your second in command." Harry said.

"For how long have you've done this?" Crane asked shocked.

"Since the first time you started to give me messages for your mother." Harry said. Crane started to get even more stressed, have his student wrote something else aside from the part about Shifu.

"Have you written something else aside from the part about Shifu?" He asked.

"No, just that part." He said.

"Good." He said.

"So what we will do?"He asked. Crane placed his right wing on his forehead.

"You will not do anything for now Harry, you did enough, I know your intentions were good but still there is only one way for her to not find out." He said.

"Which is?" He asked.

"I will have to quit Kung Fu." He said and his student was dump stuck.

"But master you can't do that."

"It's the only way? At the training field I will do it. I'm sorry." He said.

"But master I have always took you as my model." Harry said sad.

"I know and I'm sorry for that, but I'm afraid I have no other option." He said leaving the room. This was his worst day, he doesn't want to let his student down and doesn't want to quit but what else he could do. If he would have other options to choose in order to both not kill his mother or disappoint his student and the others he would choose without question. Harry watched him sad for what he will do and thought about what will happen.

"I think this will not end well." He said and he was right, training came, his master haven't done well, Shifu commented and he said things like all kung fu was dangerous and then flew away letting everyone behind, didn't knowing what was the matter with him.

"Crane!" Po called and went after him.

"What's wrong with him?" Monkey asked and Harry who was watching from the doors to the training room went to them.

"Ah…..I know." He said tracking the master's attention. He told them everything his master told him while in his room, but avoided to say what he had first written in his letters about Shifu, but even with that it didn't went very well for him.

"Let me get this straight; he told his mother, that he is working as an innkeeper and we work for him."Shifu said with a distressed tone.

"Yes." Harry said.

"And I am second in command?" He said.

"Yes, but still we have to help him; he is still a member of the Furious Five and was always helping; besides it's about his mother, if she finds out the truth her heart will surely blow out from her chest." He said hoping he will understand, but it didn't seem that much. The grand master took a deep breath before saying.

"The Jade Palace is built on complete honesty, I admit that I invented the challenge day to give Po a lesson and although this is against tradition I accept. But only for now." He said making the young one relief.

"Thank you master for your understanding." He said bowing in respect.

"Right, but while he is in town with his mother you will have to do your training." Shifu said.

"I know that master." He said.

"And for that Tigress will tell you what you will do." He said.

"Yes master I wi…..Tigress!?" He said shocked before feeling a giant paw on his right shoulder.

"Do you have something to say?" She asked.

"No….mistress." He said stuttering and thought what she will put him now.

"Good; 25 laps around the training grounds." She said.

"25!?" He asked shocked.

"Not enough 50 then, let's go." She ordered, Harry didn't having much to do but bow and already thinking about the tiredness.

"Yes mistress." They went to the training grounds and began to do 50 laps, Tigress watched him to make sure he does them correctly without slowing down, but when he was at the 20th lap they heard something coming from the Hall of the Warriors.

"What was that?" Harry asked confused.

"I don't know, stay and continue the laps. I will go." She said and ran towards the palace. Harry continued to do his laps but the last 10 he did them much slower; due to the exhaustion. In the meantime Crane was in the village talking with a female crane wearing a purple robe; he was of course trying to keep her busy with presenting the village.

"Here we have the tailor's shop they do really excellent work there."

"But when I am going to see your inn?" She asked making Crane to think of an answer.

"Oh….the inn….right…yo-you know it's just been cleaned….and I don't know when it's gone be done." He said stuttering.

"We are going there, right now."She said sternly making a few steps before beginning to fly.

"Wait, mom." He called and tried to make her stop but in vain. Even when they reached the top he couldn't stop her even with small excuses. Crane had covered his eyes preparing for the worst when she opened the door. She heard her gulping and Crane picked but saw Monkey and Po bowing to her.

"How'de boss." Monkey said.

"Right this way misses Crane." Po said and led her inside. Crane then followed but looked at the monkey with suspicion, but he made a face a assurance that nothing was wrong. Miss Crane was impressed about how everything was well kept and things like that.

"Wow this place is wonderful." She said amazed while everyone was bowing, but when she noticed a moving hat and from it came mantis trying to say something nice she got scared and hit him with her bag before hugging his son.

"Oh Crane, I'm so very proud of you. Of course I would be proud of you no matter what you did." She said, calmly and happy. "As long as it wasn't kung fu, but that it's ridiculous hahahaha. Because, you're so frail." She began flipping his wing and he looked at them.

"Not really that frail mom." He said.

"Oh, everybody is just how you describe them. Except I thought the tiger was a girl." She whispered but she heard her and made a long face. She then turned to red Panda.

"And you must be little Shi Fu, my son's most trusted assistant and second in command." She said, although he didn't liked how she pronounced his name he turned around and placed a forced smile on his face. Good thing that Crane told Po what harry wrote in his copies and not his first variant.

"Hello Shi Fu I am Crane's mommy." She said and Shifu placed a frown on his face and didn't said a word.

"He doesn't seem to talk much." She said to her son. Just in that moment they heard a younger male voice calling from a column.

"Hey guys." A young crane with round glasses came not noticing the female bird there. "I heard some noises recently and….." He then noticed who was in the room now staring at him. 'I shouldn't come in this moment.' He snapped in his mind.

"Oh….hi….sorry for the interruption…..I think….I will leave for the moment." He said stuttering.

"Not so fast, who is this boy?" She asked her son.

"Oh, he is….am…."

"Harry, the young master...yeah he was probably in his room…..reading." Monkey said placing his hand on the young Crane's shoulder.

"Yeah, Harry the young master." Crane said smiling, surprisingly it wasn't forced, and in a way he felt many times that he was something more than the present status.

"Wait if he is the young master and you the big one." His mother started to feel something on her chest.

"Yes, mom?" He asked stressed.

"Crane, why haven't you told me that I am granny?" She said taking the young crane in a very large and tight hug almost squishing him.

"Oh I can't believe I have a grandson." She said with a large smile before letting him go.

"Yeah about that he is actually…" Crane was interrupted.

"So where is she?" His mother asked.

"Where is who exactly?" He asked.

"Well, my daughter-in-law who else?"

"Well mom, he is actually….."

"Adopted, I'm not actually his son…..sadly." He said.

"Oh, I see." She said a bit disappointed.

"I'm sorry that I am not…" She took him back in her arms.

"But who cares? The fact that you are my son's child makes things magical. Besides I don't want my son to marry any kind of woman that could bring him or my grandchildren in danger. So although you are adopted makes absolutely no difference at all."

"Oh….good to know that." He said barely breathing and a bit annoyed.

"Oh you so much look like you father. So frail and so cute." She said making him to feel even more ember aced.

"Help." He whispered to his master.

"Ah….mom how about you leave him some space please? And he is more powerful then he looks." Crane said.

"Maybe but why haven you told me about him all this time?" She asked looking at him.

"Well….."

"He wanted to be a surprise." Po came. "Yeah, if he would have managed to visit you, but the business went so good that he hadn't had time to come and present him to you. So here it is now."

"Oh and I think I came right on a good time." She said.

"Yeah well…..wait what do you actually want to say?" Crane asked.

"I mean look at his feathers they are so messy." She said.

"That's the way they are." Harry said defensively. But she didn't seem to have heard. She then took his glasses to inspect them.

"And those glasses don't seem powerful enough for his eyes." She said.

"They are good the way they are." He said.

"Mom, he had those glasses from the early beginning, they are good the way they are." Crane said.

"Don't comment on what your mother knows the best son." She said before adding.

"And since I'm here I think I will go with him to the doctor to buy him more powerful glasses. It will be a great opportunity to spend time with my grandson." She said and took him by the wing.

"Come; let's get you some better glasses." He would want to protest to that, but his master (father) made him an implored look to don't.

"Yes…..grandmamma." He said stressed in his beck, before being dragged out by her.

"Well, at least she will have a great time with her 'grandson'." Mantis said.

"You better go after them. He will surely not like what will be next." Po said.

"That is what I intend to." Crane said and flew after her. She and Harry stopped at the optician to buy him some new glasses, despite his and Crane's objection he bought the most powerful she could find in the store, for her they were perfect for her frail grandson, but for Harry they were intolerable, he could barely see a thing through them, Crane had to take him by the wing.

"So are you all right with the new glasses." She asked and Harry made a nod of approval.

"Oh wonderful, everything for my frail son and grandson." She said smiling before going to a nearby shop.

"Sorry for this Harry." He said.

"No worries." He said distressed before slipping and falling to the ground, good that she wasn't there to see.

"Are you all right?"Crane asked worried.

"Gah, those glasses are horrible, I can barely see a thing with them." He said angry taking them off.

"Don't worry I will give your old pair back once she leaves." Good thing that he took them after his mother bought the new ones.

"At least you will not be considered the childe anymore." He said.

"Yeah; good for me. But still if she tries to feed you try to bear it." Crane said.

"Why you say that?" Harry asked.

"When she came she gave me regurgitated food like when I was a baby, despite the fact that I am no more in that status. It was really ember acing."

"That's grows I think I will not eat for the rest of the day." He said.

"Are you certain?"

"Definitely." Crane's mother returned really quickly with some whipped beans.

"Oh, how wonderful to see my two favorite boys safe and sound." She said.

"We know that mom." Crane said with a forced smile.

"Oh, Harry do you want some whipped beans?" She said smiling. Harry doesn't want to be rude but there is no way he will eat regurgitated food.

"Well, no thanks grandmamma. I'm not hungry." He said.

"Oh, well then, maybe later or tomorrow." She said.

"Yeah maybe….." Crane gulped at the last word. "Tomorrow?! What do you mean tomorrow?"

"I decided to stay over the night at your inn and leave tomorrow morning, wouldn't that be great." She said excited.

"Yeah great." Crane said not so happy.

"Well I think I will buy some things before returning." She left for a nearby store.

"This is really bad there are no beds at the Jade Palace except in master Shifu's room and I don't think he will like it." Harry said.

"I know I am totally doomed." Crane said placing both wings on his head in desperation.

"There is also another thing which might make matters worse." Harry said.

"Really what is it?"

"While I was making 50 laps along the training grounds I heard some noises that seemed to be a fight, I don't know against whom, for what purpose or if the attacker will return."

"Ah, the situation gets worst by every hour, you must find out as soon as possible who it was. In any case I can't risk my mother to see something to do with kung fu." Crane said.

"I will go to the Jade Palace to ask Shifu right now." He said extending his wings to fly.

"No, we need to return with my mother, if she sees that you disappeared she will not take it easy." Crane said.

"Yes Master."

They waited until she returned and went back to the Palace and yes, they told them that she will stay over the night in master Shifu's room which didn't went well for him and said that he will sleep in Crane's room because of that he has to sleep near master Shifu's room.

"Master Shifu I'm sorry for this situation." Harry called from the barrack's corridor.

"It couldn't have been more ember acing then now." He said.

"At least this is only for the night." Harry said.

"I can see that you are also ember aced as well." Shifu commented.

"She bought me a pair of too powerful glasses that I can barely see through them, she wanted to give me regurgitated food I said I am not hungry and some more, like in the days my master was young." He said.

"I recognize that a mother must protect her children, but not in an exaggerated manner. And since she sees you as her grandson you will have to accept this until she leaves." Master Shifu said.

"Right and Master, I heard there was a battle earlier, but against whom." Harry asked.

"It was the Lin Kuei, a group of nomadic wolfs, thieves and assassins train from birth in the art of stealth and combat. They don't give up easily." He said.

"Why were they here?" Harry asked.

"I don't know, but they will be back sooner or later." He said, Harry thought for a moment they might come for something.

"Master Shifu, they might want to get back the Shadow Crown, I read in the sacred scrolls that the Jade Palace took those crowns centuries ago and deposited them in the archives. Whoever wears one makes the wearer invisible, they were the Lin Kuei source of power; they might want to get them back. And maybe they will attack tonight" He said.

"Maybe and if that is so we must defend them." He said.

"Should I do something?" Harry asked.

"No we will handle ourselves, go to sleep, and thanks for reminding me about this." He said before going in 'his' room for the night. Harry went to his room nearby. He was thinking about the present situation, his master and his mother were in the Hall, and if they sleep they might be easy targets. He took the plank from under his bed where his magic books were and started to look in each one until she found a defensive spell.

"Let's do some defensive magic." He said to himself, he took the note and went to the room where the crowns were locked up before looking in it.

"Make a circle around the object you want to protect then place the wand and recite the spell." He read out loud, he drew a circle with chalk.

"Circum defendum." He said and a blue circle was formed around the box. He went out from the room to go to bed before hearing footsteps from Crane's mother. He went to hide behind a column and watched her moving.

"That pool really needs a fence around it." She said and moved to the direction of the archives. He didn't notice Harry who was holding his wand with the lumos spell active. He breathed relieved for a moment until she noticed something appearing on the note.

"Make sure you put salt on the circle for a better defense, otherwise powerful blows from beasts with claws will not be deflected. Now you are telling me." He said frustrated before taking a deep breath.

"All right, maybe there is time, maybe….."

"Water, my room." He heard her voice.

"All right that…" He stopped.

"Would you mind staying right there with the light for one moment?" A male voice came before hearing the clapping of a metallic object on something.

"Thank you ma'am, we will bring that water to your room right away."

"Well, see that you do." She said and left for her room.

"The Lin Kuei! I need to do something; if they got the crowns no one will see them." He said and thought what he could do.

"If they are invisible with the crowns I will make them visible." He went to his room. Crane then woke up and saw his mother.

"Mom, why are you up?" He questioned stressed.

"Don't worry that nice wolf is going to bring me some water." She said and walked to 'her room'.

"Oh nice wolf." He said before a hint went to his head and gulped. There could only be one thing.

"Did you guys hear something?" Po asked while running with Shifu.

"I think the Lin Kuei are back." Crane said before being thrown back. "Your right." A voice said and knocked Po and Shifu out. Crane's mother came out to ask for her water and saw Shifu that seems to do Kung Fu. She then saw her son lying on the floor.

"Crane, oh my heart." She said as he placed his wings on her to calm down.

"Ah, little Shifu is playing Kung Fu master again." Po said.

"Oh yeah, he sometimes do that to get out his extra power. And we should play along." Crane said, Po then heard some metal clunching and a hammer with spikes attached to a chain almost hit him, he then attacked the wolf that turned invisible.

"Ah, look…..I am…..pretending….to hit….the bad guy." He was then put to the ground.

"Now I pretend to be hitted." He was hit in the tenders and made low pain sounds. The fight began to be intense; some wolves were using chain hammers that were giving away the position. The Boss of the Lin Kuei ordered to don't use them.

"Who said that?" Miss Crane asked and Po came.

"Oh, it was me." He tried to laugh "Now we must show this….inn employees the error of they're ways." He was caught by someone and started to be knocked by the column before being thrown to another one. He was knocked unconscious. The other five came in, Crane said something immediately that Shifu was playing and the others were playing along as well.

"Wait, what?" Monkey asked before being knocked out and the others started to fight but one by one everyone had been knocked out leaving the cranes.

"So no one left but the birds." The male voice said.

"Son is this really happening?" She asked shocked.

"Yes." The wolf came and took her by the beak.

"Let go of her." Crane demanded.

"Or what, you can't fight what you can't see." He said putting her down, and she started to have heart palpitations which made Crane to move back

"But you can fight what you can see and can't move." They heard a younger voice and Harry came out and splashed some sticky juice over the wolves leaving them noticeable and having they're foots stick to the floor.

"What is this thing?!"

"Master, take the double hammer." Harry called and Crane did just that, he took the double headed hammer and hit them with high power destroying the Shadow Crowns making them visible.

"Chain Hammers." The wolf boss said and threw the hammers towards the two cranes, but the master caught two of them to the double headed hammer and started to rotate it like a propeller, took the wolves that had them and knocked out the rest that came to them, leaving their boss alone.

"Get out." He demanded but the wolf laugh.

"I just defeated the Dragon Warrior, why would you two think you could beat me."

"Because no one is putting with my family." Crane said and started to fight him and hit him hard with both his legs; his mother instead of being horrified she was amazed at how good he was fighting. The wolf took out his chain hammer to throw it at the birds but Crane took it and raveled it's possessor with the chain and lifted him up before throwing him away with the rest of the wolves. Both male cranes turned to the older female.

"Crane, you are a kung fu master and he is your student." She said shocked.

"I'm sorry I…I couldn't tell you…..I'm sorry…..I will never do kung fu again ever, ever I promise."He said stressed with both wings in a begging position.

"Non-sense you two were incredible. You saved my life." She said and both males looked at each other.

"So, you don't get a heart attack." Crane asked, his mother looked at his chest.

"What, this? This is pride." She said.

"But you said you never want me to do, kung fu." He said.

"Because I didn't know you will become so good, I thought you will get hurt. For so many years I thought you are weak and fragile. Can you ever forgive me?"

"Of course mom." He said and took her in his wings in a big hug. The next morning everyone was out to greet farewell to Crane's mother.

"Thank you all for making me feel so welcome." She said.

"Take care."

"Please to meet you"

"Come again"

"Goodbye Crane's mom." Po said hugging her.

"It was so kind to visit us, ma'am" Master Shifu said kissing her wing.

"Oh, thank you little Shifu." She said not out loud this time before turning to her son.

"Goodbye son, come visit me" She said.

"I will goodbye mom." He said hugging her.

"And bring your student as well he is really amazing."

"I know, he is the best student I ever had. Hard working, intelligent, brave and loyal."

"Don't hesitate in adopting him." She whispered, making Crane a bit ember aced, but he liked the idea. "He will be a great son for you and grandson for me and he will have you as father, all three win." She then turned to the young boy.

"It was a pleasure o meet you miss." Harry said smiling and she took him in her arms.

"Come and visit me one day."

"We will" he said he said a bit ember aced.

"Oh and don't look too much at the sun or read with lit out." She said.

"I will." He said before she releases him and left.

"Well, that could have been worst." Po said. Master Shifu then came to them and all three bowed.

"Master Shifu, I am sorry things went so out of control. If it's OK, I'd like to un quite the Furious Five." Crane said.

"Very well." He said.

"Let that be a lesson to you Crane, pfff, honesty is always the best policy."

"I heard once that images worth more than a thousand words; maybe if she witnessed you fighting she realized that you aren't frail and can take care of yourself. It might have been different if she wouldn't saw you in action." Harry said to him.

"Maybe. But wasn't it your brilliant idea to pretend the Jade Palace was an inn Po, Harry hadn't told me to be Crane's idea." Shifu said.

"Well, I don't know if it was a brilliant idea, cunning maybe but I don't know." Po said.

"Good you will have plenty of time to figure it out, while you two run up and down the stairs of the Jade Palace a hundred times as punishment." He said and both of them looked out.

"Definitely not a brilliant idea." Po said.

"Definitely, not." Crane said.

"Ah Master Shifu, who will train me then, this will take I think half a day." Harry said.

"I know, and because of that, Viper will be your master." He said.

"Oh, great." He said relieved, for a moment he thought he would have said Tigress.

"Together with Tigress. If something happens and Viper must go on a mission." He said. Harry was dump stuck he should have anticipated that.