Morning came. Enlai was the first to wake up. He lifted his head off the hard ground and looked around at his new friends confused. 'They're still asleep?' he thought to himself.
Enlai sighed. He punched Shen on the shoulder to make him wake up. ''Ow! What the heck, Enlai!?'' Shen growled as he lifted himself off the ground and onto his feet, rubbing his shoulder.
''It's almost Six in the morning. You guys slept in!'' Enlai hissed.
''No we didn't... we weren't suppose to get up till eight..'' Shen stared awkwardly at Enlai.
''Eh...no..? I always wake up at 5:30 am.'' Enlai explained.
''Says a lot...'' Shen muttered as he rubbed his sleepy eyes.
Enlai suddenly started climbing up onto a tall tree like a monkey and stepped onto the highest branch of the tree. He held onto a smaller branch above him and started yelling. ''Everybody get up! Come on! Rise and shine everyone! Time to continue our journey to Lord Bohai's town!''
Everyone burst their eyes open and jumped onto their feet, into their Kung Fu poses and looked around where the yelling was coming from.
''Hey! Up here!'' Enlai called out. Everyone sighed in relief.
''Dude! We still have two hours!'' Ming whined.
''Yeah well you know what they say, the early bird catches the worm.'' Enlai teased as he stuck his tongue out at Ming. Ming frowned at him as she folded her wings together to her chest.
''Oh, so only birds have to get up? Thanks you're the best!'' Mantis called out with a grin on his face as he settled himself back down on the ground to continue his sleep.
Enlai rolled his eyes and took a rock out from his pocket and aimed it at Mantis's head. He threw the rock right at Mantis's head and yelled proudly ''Yeah! Bulls-eye! That were some pure skills right there.''
Mantis jumped back on his feet, rubbing his head and narrowing his eyes in annoyance up at Enlai.
Enlai climbed back down off the tree and onto the ground. ''We should get going. Pack everything you guys cause in a short time we are leaving this forest!'' Enlai ordered as he trotted over to them.
Everyone sighed and rolled their eyes as they packed everything into one big bag Po brought and they gave it over to Po. Po put the bag over his shoulders.
''I think it would be best if you all follow me. I've lived here a long, long time so it shouldn't be too hard to find our way out.'' Enlai explained.
Everyone slowly nodded and followed Enlai. As Enlai walked, everyone noticed Enlai was stopping from time to time to look at the ground, trees and their surroundings to figure out in which direction they were going next.
''Oh! I know that tree. To the left everyone.'' Enlai ordered as he turned to the left and continued walking.
''How do you recognize that tree? Every tree here looks the same!'' Monkey asked fascinated.
''I'm a wolf, it's easier for me to recognize my surroundings. Plus, I've lived here almost all my life so I had some time to get to know the place well enough.'' Enlai explained.
Suddenly, Enlai stopped. Everyone stopped behind him. ''Why did we stop?'' Nuan asked.
''I have a feeling we are being watched...'' Enlai muttered as he slowly looked around with suspicion in his eyes.
Suddenly, everyone heard a slight yelp from behind them. Everyone turned around and noticed Liu was missing. ''G-guys? Where's Liu?'' Jia asked worried for her friend.
Suddenly they all heard another yelp that this time came from the other direction. They all turned around again and noticed Nuan was missing too.
They rest slowly kept walking, turning their heads back and forth to see if anyone else was still missing. Suddenly, a pack of wolves jumped out from behind the trees and surrounded them, making sure they don't go any further.
''Wolves! Enlai did you set us up!?'' Tigress asked as she got into her Kung Fu pose, ready to fight.
''No! I promise I didn't. How was I suppose to know about an ambush!?'' Enlai growled at Tigress as he too got in his Kung Fu pose.
Everyone that remained got into their Kung Fu poses, staring menacingly at the wolves surrounding them. One of the wolves, which looked like the lead wolf of the pack due to his rich-looking clothing, stepped in front of his pack. ''By order of Lord Bohai, Lord of our town, you all are coming with us.'' the lead wolf announced.
''We are not going anywhere, and what did you do with Liu and Nuan!?'' Jia asked as she aimed her bow and arrow at the lead wolf.
''Maybe you wanna try some Kung Fu moves?'' Po whispered in Jia's ear.
''You know this is really not the time for that.'' Jia whispered back as she continued aiming her bow and arrow at the lead wolf.
''Hey, now we can all be friends and do this the easy way...or we can all be enemies and do this the hard way.'' The lead wolf growled.
''Bring on the hard way!'' Jia spat.
''Very well.'' The lead wolf smirked. ''Attack wolves! Attack them!'' He ordered. The wolves growled at their opponents and charged right at them. Jia shot her first arrow at the lead wolf. The lead wolf dodged her attack and swiftly tackled her. Po yelled ''Sparrow kick!'' as he kicked the lead wolf off Jia before he could deal her any harm. ''Thanks Po. Maybe you could teach me that Sparrow kick some time.'' Jia thanked.
Po smiled at Jia and continued fighting. ''Viper, Puppet of Death!'' Po yelled as he pointed to one of the wolves.
Suddenly, all the wolves stopped fighting. ''Why did they stop?'' Jia asked confused.
A familiar looking fox appeared from the pack of wolves. ''Enough!'' the fox ordered.
''Cheng...'' Enlai growled.
''Enlai...'' the fox growled back.
''It's you! You're the thief of the staff!'' Po gasped.
''Right you are, Dragon Warrior.'' Cheng smirked.
''I hate that fox...'' Shen muttered frowning.
''If you do not want your friends, Nuan and Liu I believe their names are...get hurt... I suggest you stop fighting and come with me.'' Cheng threatened.
''Please don't hurt them!'' Jia pleaded.
''Oh I wont. Just come with me. Enlai, you were a fool for betraying Lord Bohai. He won't be too happy to see you.'' Cheng smirked.
''I wasn't a fool Cheng. I was wise to betray him. Bohai is evil and I'm good. I told you to do the same and-'' Enlai said, but got interrupted by Cheng.
''And I was smart to reject your offer.'' Cheng interrupted. ''Now come with me.'' Cheng ordered.
Enlai sighed and started following Cheng and the wolves. Everyone looked down at their feet, disappointed that they didn't win the fight and followed too. They didn't have any other choice if they didn't want any harm to happen to Liu and Nuan. Jia sighed and wondered, are Nuan and Liu both okay?
