A/N I know you are waiting for something to happen, but the truth of the matter is that I don't know what and when I want it to happen, but when I find out you will be the first to know. Alright enough of me blabbering time to read n' write errr write n' read… you know what I'm trying to tell you.
I opened my eyes I was in a room that was nothing but a white light, I had street clothes on.
"What… where… am I" I yelled.
"Oh, nowhere in particular" a voice that sounded like an old man's said back.
"What… who are you" I said.
"Many have known me as master, but you can just call me Oogway." Said the old man I thought he was behind of me.
I spun around, there was nothing there.
"Alright Oogway where am I and who are you" I said.
"I told you, I am Oogway and this is nowhere in particular" the voice said back.
"Show yourself" I said getting frustrated.
"Very well then" the old man said walking out of nowhere behind of me… the only problem was it wasn't a man it was a tortoise.
I looked at him as he calmly stood there holding his staff looking at me.
"Now then, what do you mean by 'nowhere in particular' I mean what does that mean." I said with a calm voice.
"I mean exactly what I said, but if you wish to have a better understanding of this place then come with me" he said walking off in the distance.
I followed him until he stopped and looked back at me he put his hand on what appeared to be a doorknob on a door in the middle of nowhere, it just appeared out of nowhere.
"Maybe you will recognize this place" he said opening the door, and gesturing me to go in.
I stepped through it, I was greeted with dry heat, there were some trees around some sand with patches of grass, I saw something that looked very familiar it was a house, a fairly small one it had one story.
I knew exactly where this place was.
"This is a dream isn't it, and this world it is all in my mind and those people inside they are no more than distant memories" I said sadly looking off at the city of Pretoria in the distance.
"Yes." He said looking at me.
I slowly walked up to the door and knocked on it.
"Hold on one minute" I heard a child's voice on the other side of it.
The door opened, I looked down and there before me was a little blonde haired boy.
"Well hi there Mr." the little boy said happily.
"Hi there buddy." I said kneeling down trying to hold back tears.
"My name is Nikolas, what's yours?" He said.
My heart was breaking.
"Nikolas" I said.
"Hey we have the same names." He said happily.
"You wouldn't happen to know what date it is would you" I said.
"Yeah it's June 5th 2058" he said.
I was now saddened beyond belief.
"Are your parents home?" I asked.
Another boy joined him at the door; the two looked a lot alike.
"Who is it Nikky" the other boy said.
"He's Nikolas." he said.
"That's not true you are Nikolas" the brother said.
He turned back to me.
"This is my brother Cameron, we're twins" he said.
"Are your parents home" I asked again.
"No just our older brother, Jacob" the twin said.
A teenager that looked about 19 came to the door he was playing with some sort of tablet. He carelessly pushed the two out of the door.
"Move out of the way you brats" he said, he was an American.
"Who are you" he asked looking at me.
I was instantly mad at him.
I just glared at him for a few seconds while he looked at me like there was something wrong with me.
"My name is Nikolas" I said with a mix of hatred and sadness.
I tried to punch him but as soon as my fist connected the whole world went black and I was left standing there with nothing but hatred.
I then heard the old Tortoise's voice again.
"You knew that place" he said.
"Yes, that was my parent's house 20 years ago and that was me 20 years ago, along with my brothers and one in particular that I hated" I said still trying to hold back my anger and tears.
"You have much anger towards him and you have a good reason, but not enough of a reason" he said standing behind of me.
"I DON'T… YOU DON'T… YOU DON'T KNOW THE HOLY HELL HE PUT ME THROUGH" I yelled as I turned to him.
He just kept his calm and sighed and closed his eyes
"You must learn to forget and forgive, and be at peace with yourself, because if you aren't you will fail your next task, which means more to you than you know." He said calmly.
This caught my attention "What task… WHAT TASK" I said taking a few steps towards him.
"You will know soon enough but for now you are unprepared, and if you fail to prepare-" I cut him off.
"You prepare to fail." I finished the quote.
"Right" he said smiling.
"What do I have to do" I said.
"For now all you can do is except the past and expect the worst but remain ever vigilant, in time the test will come, the answer will come naturally and I have faith you will pass." He said still holding his smile.
"What would you call excepting the past?" I said.
"You can call it anything you wish but I would just call it Inner Peace, now you need to wake up" he said as he appeared to be getting farther away.
"Wait what is the first sign!" I yelled as I ran towards him but the faster I would run the farther away he would get.
"Contact with others of your type, now wake up" he repeated.
"Wake up" he said again but now his voice sounded mixed with a woman's
"WAKE UP!"
I startled awake to the sound of a familiar voice yelling and shaking me.
I looked around I was still where they left me in Tigress' room I could now move.
I sat up, my head was spinning, and I was on the verge of crying.
"Well nice to see you" Mantis said jumping on my shoulder.
"You have crazy dreams" Crane said.
Everyone was in the room including Shifu.
"How long have I been asleep" I asked.
"About two days" Monkey said.
"We have been here with you the whole time too. You hada fever, we were worried and then you started flailing around and we had to wake you up." Viper said.
"You said some interesting stuff in your sleep, but for now you should probably drink some water" Shifu said.
I tried to get up but I was dizzy and disoriented and sat back down and eventually lay down.
"Maybe someone should bring it to him" Po said.
"Good idea, go get him some water" Shifu said.
And he obediently did so.
"As I was saying while you were asleep we you said a lot of interesting stuff, names, dates, places, you even mentioned Oogway." Shifu said looking at me.
"Yeah some crazy turtle guy" I said grabbing my head.
"He is not crazy he was my master, he was very… wise." Shifu said.
"Wait, he was real, you mean everything he told me was not just the result of the fever." I said looking at Shifu with disbelief.
"He was very real, he's gone now." Shifu said.
"What happened" I asked.
"He passed" Shifu said sadly.
"I'm sorry to hear that." I said.
"What exactly did he say to you?" Shifu said looking at me.
"Ok here it is" Po said running in the room and handing me the water.
I took a few sips of it.
"Aside from totally pissing me off, and making me want to cry, he told me I needed to get ready for the task that is rapidly approaching, and that I must do this through inner peace." I said.
"Well than we will start preparing you… when you feel better." Shifu said walking up to the bed.
"I don't even know what the hell I'm preparing for" I said.
"It must be something important for a dead person to come into your dream." Po said gaining hateful glances from everybody.
"Really" I said trying to keep the attention off of me.
Just then I heard a beep coming from my helmet, the built in Legion program on my helmet said…
"S.O.S beacon detected"
They looked around confused.
"Hand me my helmet" I said closing my eyes as my blood ran cold and I remembered what he said.
Tigress handed it to me.
I heard a voice crackle over the comm set.
"Hello is there anybody out there please respond, I repeat please respond." I heard someone say they sounded scared.
I put my helmet on.
"I read you" I said.
"Oh man am I glad to hear you" he said with hopefulness.
"The pleasure's all mine" I said.
"Where are you" he said.
"Your guess is good as mine; I simply went through the Scrin portal, made some new friends." I said calmly.
"Wait you have come in contact with life, GDI, Nod, Forgotten, Scrin, What?" he asked.
"Not any of those." I said.
"What then" he asked.
"From where I am laying I can see a Tiger, a Panda, a Red Panda, a Crane, a Praying Mantis, a Snake, and a Monkey." I said.
"What!? You mean you see all of these things in one place I thought they were extinct, and even if you could see them wouldn't they had already tried to kill you." He said surprised.
Their facial expressions changed to anger.
"Um, no actually they have taken really good care of me, I got sick and they have been here with me for the past two days, say hi guys" I said.
"Hi" they said in unison still looking at me with anger.
He began laughing "You really expect me to believe that you see all of these things and that they have been taking care of you, how many of you are there?" he said.
They were still looking at me with
"Don't laugh, I am sick, and it is a lot to take in, but they have taken extremely good care of me, and I'm very thankful, how many of you are there?" I asked.
He was still laughing.
"Four, we are all the same rank but we agreed I am the leader" he said.
I giggled "So tell me do you take orders from an Apostle because if you don't than we may have problems."
"Oh so you are Nod, well it looks like we don't have to fight, isn't that right boys, but I still don't believe you when you say animals are taking care of you." He said.
Tigress now grinded her teeth she reached over and snatched my helmet off about taking my head with it, she put it on.
"If we are animals then you are a hypocrite." She yelled into the helmet and then pulled it off and slammed it through the floor. She then left the room, leaving everybody's face pale.
Po slowly reached down and picked it up and handed it to me.
"Thanks" I whispered.
I slid it on.
"Who and what was that" he asked shocked.
"That was the Tiger and thanks to you my helmet just got slammed through the floor" I said.
"Look I'm sorry but I'll believe you more when we meet" he said nervously.
"I don't know where you are." I said.
"If you look into the sky we will shoot a flare up" he said.
"Oh alright but if I am in no shape to come and get you" I said
"We have a medic" he said.
"Ok I'll go look, can you guys help me up, and I will tell you when I'm ready" I said.
"Alright" he said.
They supported me as I tried to walk only to fall down once or twice and eventually they had to drag me the rest of the way out and stood me up.
It was night time.
"Ok I'm ready" I said.
"Here it is" he said.
We saw a ball of fire rise out of the forest.
"Wow" they said in unison.
"If it is ok with Shifu, Crane can you fly down there and lead them back here, I have to go get my armor back on." I said.
"Ok you are going to see a huge bird flying over here in a minute, so don't hurt him" I said over the comms.
"We will not harm him" he said back.
"Crane go" Shifu said.
Crane took off towards the fire ball.
"Can you help me back to my armor I must be suited up when they come" I said.
They took me back to my room and helped me get my armor on.
After we got my armor on I said "thank you there is something I must do now."
They all exchanged glances they knew exactly what I was going to do.
"If you are going to talk to Tigress than should we start digging now or bury you later." Mantis said.
"I have seen her mad before, but I have never seen her that mad" Monkey added
"I know but this is something I feel I need to do" I said.
"You don't understand it's not your problem, the problem is she does this way too often if you just leave her alone she will feel better-" Viper said but I cut her off.
"No you don't understand the problem is nobody ever took the time to make her feel better, ever cared enough to make her feel better, to tell her I'm sorry that happened or that should not have happened" I said taking off my belt with my sidearm on it and laying it down and dusting off my helmet and tucking it under my arm.
I noticed Shifu trying to hold back a smile and all the others looking at me with eyes the size of saucers.
"But that is all about to change" I added turning and stumbling out of the room.
"I bet 50 Yuan he isn't coming back" Monkey said.
"I'll take your bet" Viper said.
"And I'll bet Po 25 Yuan he isn't coming back unharmed" Mantis said.
"Fine I'll bet what about you Shifu" Po said.
"I don't gamble" he simply replied walking out of the room.
…
I continued to the training hall where I heard what sounded like things being smashed but I stopped outside of the door to knock but I just straightened up and walked into the training hall.
I didn't see anybody, just a bunch of destroyed dummies.
"Tigress" I called softly taking a few steps forward but my balance wasn't that good especially with all of my armor on.
I stopped about half way through the training hall when an Orange figure landed right in front of me with its arms crossed and its eyes closed.
"What" she said with an irritated voice as she slowly opened her eyes, they were like spotlights.
"I just wanted to apologize to you for what happened, they really had no right to say that, and I really want to make it up to you, somehow, someway." I said looking into her eyes.
We just stood there looking at each other.
"Um" she just mumbled.
"I just want to let you know I ah… I well… care." I said.
We were just standing there looking back at each other.
"I mean you deserve better, or at least I think you do." I continued hoping for a response.
"Nikolas" she said turning her back to me.
"I have been trying to show you a better side of me, and I know you have been trying to believe that I'm something that I'm not, but it's just not me, it's just not my personality, and if you were Po I probably would have thrown you down the stairs by now, and I think you know that, what you saw tonight was a genuine piece of me, and I think you know that too, so that leads me to my next question why do you insist on trying to open up to me, why don't you just run like the others?" she said turning back to me.
I pondered for a moment.
"That's what I thought" she said as she hung her head and began to walk away.
"I think, you thought wrong" I said.
She stopped and stood there frozen.
"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said, I care and you deserve better, so I am going to try to give you better, I mean your whole life has been like this, and there is nothing that should have to endure with that weight on their shoulders." I said slowly.
"If you do care and you do think I deserve better, then prove it." she said turning back to me and then putting her paw on her hip.
"Well I came didn't I" I said.
She gave me a sideways look.
Damn what do I have to do to get her to believe me?
"Ok what do you want me to do, if you ask me to do it, I'll try it" I said.
She thought for a moment, she didn't know what to say, so she just stuck to basics.
"Spar with me" she said.
I don't think I can but I have to, it means more to me than her apparently, I'll play.
"You'll probably win but I'll try."
"Good, the first one to be subdued loses" she said.
We got some distance between us.
She got in her fighting stance and this time I watched her very carefully I knew how fast and strong she was and I didn't have my helmet on if I wasn't careful she could knock me out.
We circled around.
She initiated her same attack trying to kick me but I ducked and kicked her legs out from under her almost hitting the ground myself, my balance was off.
She recovered very quickly and tried to pounce on me only to have me do a forward roll so she would miss.
She stood up straight and I did the same, we looked each other in the eyes and we just stood there like that… looking at each other, than she slowly began approaching me but I didn't notice I was hypnotized by here brilliant amber eyes, they lit up the night, she took advantage of this, I didn't realize what had happened until I was being crushed up against the wall.
"I give you win" I squeezed out.
She through me on the floor on my back and then jumped on me and grinned evilly.
"So tell me do I care" I asked smiling up at her.
"I do have to admit that was… good training, but I'm still not convinced, and don't think that anything has changed between me and you, I'm going back to normal." She said as her smile faded and she stood up and dusted herself off.
"Is that all this is to you, is training" I said I tried to stand but by the time I was upright my head began spinning and I was about to fall but something caught me, I looked and Tigress was holding me up, after she realized what she had done she blushed madly and just let me hit the floor as she turned away.
"What else am I supposed to call it, and like I said this doesn't change anything between you and me, I'm going back to my normal self and then you can decide if you really want to open up to me." She said walking away.
Sure it doesn't I thought as I stood up slowly.
The question began to haunt me, what doesn't this change I made her feel better, maybe she just don't see that though, why do I even care, Why am I trying to open up to her? The question bounced around in my head with no real explanation I just couldn't figure it out.
A/N sorry it's been so long but I wanted to take my time I am going to start updating more slow as I start bringing the plot together as opposed to just making it up as I go, and stop dragging this out. I think I got a plan, as the story progresses you are going to see a volcano building up pressure and eventually erupt. I would give you a hint of the volcano but you will know soon enough. The more you review my story the longer it will be but this story will eventually branch off into other stories but other than that I really don't see it going anywhere without a motivation (reviews), and yes I know there is very little Romance or adventure 'all you do is hang around the palace and show off for Tigress' it is coming, all I'm trying to do is establish a relationship between the soldiers and the Kung Fu masters, just keep reading and hopefully soon someone will anonymously review my story, you can do that you know.