The Dragon Warrior Blues

Session #8 Jamming With Viper

"Here. Nobody here. Always alone." The idol said to itself. It had done this for as long as could be remembered, speaking to itself and...

It's eye opened up and a small red beam flew out of it, it moved into the desert wastes it called home and created a huge explosion. It didn't know why it did it, only that at this time in the day its eye would open as if on command. It was also in this brief moment that it would catch a glimpse of its surroundings and would get lost in them, the desert would appear boring to the majority of people's minds but for the idol...it showed it freedom.

As per usual the idol's eye closed and it again would wait until tomorrow when it would look forward to it again.

It didn't know it was creating symbols on the earth, signals for something great.

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Miles Away

A green viper rested in the shade on a rock, she had been sitting here for days now waiting for a change in the winds. Her name was Viper and she could feel people's presence ever since she used to be a child.

Her eyes jolted open as she felt who she had been searching for.

"BEBOP! BEBOP!" She screeched happily, she started to slither in the direction of the bigger people she had heard so much about.

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On the 'Bebop'

Po was laid down on the floor staring straight up into the canopy, he felt his eyes close and the lull of sleep approaching him.

"Aliens! It has to be from aliens!" Yelled Tigress sarcastically towards Ping. Po groaned and put his paws over his ears, the goose and the tiger had been arguing for the past hour about the land carvings that had been made in the local land of Emon which is where they were currently...well more specifically a forest just near the area, it was a desert and Po refused to go into somewhere 'as hot as the sun' as the panda had so eloquently put it.

A reward of 8 million Wulong had been issued to find both the source of these land carvings and a local troublemaker known as 'Radical Viper', the only information known was that 'Viper' was hard to pin down which as Po so eloquently put earlier "So the only mysterious thing about this guy is that he's mysterious?"

"That's stupid Tigress! Didn't you hear what Yuuri Kellerman said!" Replied Ping. Kellerman was an expert on the paranormal, Po rolled his eyes whenever the guy's name was brought up, both because he was sick of hearing it and because the paranormal was a subject that made Po laugh.

Be it a secret cult or the paranormal Po had no interest so he had decided to get some shut eye, now he knew how Crane felt. He hardly saw the bird anymore because of how much Crane bummed around and slept.

Po picked a part in the conversation to say "I think I'm gonna pass on this one" Ping groaned irritably, "You're going to leave me alone with her!?" Po nodded his head nonchalantly and laid it back down on the floor. "What's the problem? She seems pretty gung ho about the entire thing."

Ping sat back and folded his arms like a spoiled child, "I'm not really the type to be led around by a woman...especially this one." Tigress rolled her eyes, "Y'know old man its easier to divide 8 million by two then by three."

She got up and stood over Po with a smirk, "I am surprised panda, a big tough guy like is afraid of a little punk and some 'magic'." Po closed his eyes and yawned, "Magic is boring and the thought of chasing Viper is more boring."

She laughed, "This guy is probably some nerd with a bald spot, catching him will be a breeze!" Ping raised an eyebrow "Is that right? And what would you know about this anyway? It might have been easier when you were young but that was a long time ago."

Tigress's fur instantly bristled and a vein appeared on her forehead, "What are you trying to say Ping!? That I'm starting to get old like you!?" Ping guffawed, "Well you can't tell a woman's age by looki-" Tigress cut him off by stamping on his foot mercilessly.

Ping cried out in pain, "And you can't tell what a woman will do by looking!" Growled Tigress, she removed her foot and walked casually away, "You have to be careful Ping" she said arrogantly. Ping clenched his fists tightly, "Same with a snake!"

Po laughed at the display and sat up, "Haha, you two make a lovely couple!" Tigress hopped out of the 'Bebop'. "Hurry up old man! I'm waiting!" Ping got up quickly and walked past Po muttering, "I'm only 35 for god's sake!"

"Remember to get me a souvenir from this one" Po asked cheekily, Ping turned around with a frown "Shut up panda." He hopped off of the 'Bebop' and moodily followed Tigress.

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Viper started to writhe about on the rock like she had been sporadically doing for the past 8 hours, she was bored and waiting for the 'Bebop' to roll on by so she could join them.

She stopped suddenly when she felt the presence of people unknown she quickly moved into a crevice so she could get a better vantage point on this group of strangers.

They came into view and Viper saw that they were clearly bounty hunters due to their militarized clothing and their hard weathered looks, they were four of them and they all looked set to kill anyone who got in their way. "Radical Viper! We know you're out here! Come out with your hands up!"

Viper slithered out and waved at them with her tail, "Hi there!" she said happily. The hunters removed their weapons and started to advance on Viper quickly, seeing that she was clearly a thirteen year old made them underestimate her.

They all got about three feet from her when the floor suddenly disappeared out from under them and they fell into a large trap hole. Viper didn't see them hit the ground but she heard several yelps and a small thump from the sound of them landing on each other.

She peeked into the hole and as she predicted they were all unconscious from the height of the fall. Viper started to laugh giddily, she had spent the past couple of hours waiting for someone to come by and fall into the hole and now it had finally happened!

Viper decided to move on from here and try and find the 'Bebop'.

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Tigress and Ping came back to the 'Bebop' within a couple of hours with tons of information. Po was laid on the floor with a book over his face and Crane was stood next to him asleep, Tigress never got how that bird could sleep standing up. Ping rolled his eyes when he saw the sleeping panda and Tigress heard him mutter the words "Lazy little whelp!" They sat down and compared notes.

Tigress had bought a map in a nearby town and they marked locations on it. "This is where those strange land markings originated from according to some old guy I talked to" Tigress said circling a large plot of land about 10 miles large.

Ping sighed, "That'll take us hours to comb that entire area...even if both Po and Crane helped us." Tigress draw a small line on the south-west corner on the circle she had plotted, "If it makes it easier this is the only part of this area that's accessible." Ping nodded, "That narrows things down a lot more."

"Apparently the locals say that the whole area is haunted by some idol of a god they pray to, they're very superstitious" Tigress finished distastefully. "Okay first thing, I'll investigate some more towns nearby, maybe they'll have some information that I can get out of them. After all many people have moved here to either catch a glimpse of the supernatural or just to cash in on it."

Ping nodded again, "While you're doing that I'll see what I can find out about this 'Radical Viper' character, maybe he has a connection to this thing. Even if not his bounty is still pretty high and I saw a lot of competition from other hunters." The two left with the best laid plans.

Crane soon walked close by and saw the panda sleeping quietly, the bird assumed that the lunkhead would have gone with the snooty tiger and the often angry goose. Crane shrugged to himself and went to find something to eat.

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Viper sighed to herself, she had been searching for 'Bebop' 'Bebop' for hours now and was no closer to finding hide nor hair of it. All she had managed to find was the dense forest that she was lost in.

She slithered on in the vain hope of finding anybody.

After another hour of this she quite literally bumped into her target, she looked up in a daze and saw the words 'Bebop' sloppily painted onto the side of a vast wagon. She felt her jaw drop slightly and the size of the thing and she was almost overwhelmed by it. She listened out to see whether she could hear any signs of life within it but all she could hear was very loud snoring.

She moved around to the source of it and found the doorway inside, it had a curtain over it so she simply moved underneath it. The inside was packed to the brim with nick nacks and junk that she assumed the crew had collected over their travels. While her eyes traveled over the stuff almost protruding from the walls her eyes fell onto a large sleeping panda on a nearby sofa.

His body looked well traveled in and muscular beneath the fur but his face had a softness to it, Viper imagined that his eyes would be just as soft and pleasant to look at. She slowly and quietly moved around to see if there was anybody else about, on a nearby table which was cluttered with paper a word or two stuck out to her. She always had trouble containing her curiosity so she slithered over and peeked at their newest bounty.

A shiver ran down the snake's spine as she saw her own name. "Bebop looking for local bounty head who caused land carvings? And they're looking for Viper too?" She said to herself perhaps to loudly, Po snorted in his sleep and Viper nearly leaped out of her skin. She placed the paper back down and decided to leave quickly, getting the scary looking panda to wake up in a bad mood wasn't her idea of a good time, nor did she think the potential injuries were worth any more curiosity.

She turned to leave and stopped instantly when she saw a tall crane looking down at her with the strangest expression on his face.

Crane's POV

Crane's mouth gaped in utter astonishment. The snake that lay in front of him was gorgeous, beautiful beyond words! The goggles she wore over her eyes and the tattoos that ran along her smooth green body made her look exotic and different, the small flowers on her head completed her look. He couldn't take his eyes off of her and he wished on all that was sacred to him that he could speak at that moment.

Viper's POV

Viper scratched her head with her tail, this bird was starting to creep her out a bit. "Are you OK mister?" She asked innocently. The bird shook his head and slapped himself in the fact with his wing, he knocked his hat onto the floor by accident and blushed at his mistake. She giggled to herself when he bent over to grab his hat and pulled it over his fiercely blushing face.

"So what's your name?" She asked softly, the bird opened his mouth and then shut it almost immediately. Viper tilted her head in confusion, "Don't you wanna tell me? I can keep a secret if you're embarrassed by it." He shook his head and pointed at his throat, Viper didn't understand. "Is it Liu Kang? What about Peng? Or Hun Dun? No, those are stupid names" She finished dismissively.

The panda started to stir so she quickly waved goodbye to the bird and left quickly not wanting to be captured by them.

Crane's POV

Crane watched the snake leave the 'Bebop' quickly, he sighed heavily and immediately started to miss the pretty snake.

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Tigress climbed up onto a rock and looked at her surroundings. There was nothing for miles, nothing but sand and more rocks. She pulled out a map, "Now let's see where the origin of those markings have been narrowed down to."

She had made some inquiries and managed to create a map from what they had told her, she had decided to get a better vantage point before checking the map. Looking at it now however revealed that the area was approximately 2 miles. Tigress growled and threw the map to the wind.

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SEARCH THIS ENTIRE AREA BY MYSELF!"

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Ping walked into the market and looked around for some shady, knowledgeable people to hustle. Just in his peripheral vision was a young otter sitting in a huge cloud of funny smelling smoke.

Ping walked over and snatched the joint out of his hand, he threw it on the ground and crushed it under-foot. The otter blinked dumbly as if not registering what the goose had done, it dawned on him however and he sat up slowly. "Hey! What the hell bro!?" Ping grabbed him by the scruff of his thin shirt and dragged him into the shadows out of the public eye.

"Tell me everything you know about 'Radical Viper'" Ping snarled, the otter crawled back. "Ok ok! He's supposed to be some 7-foot tall dude who used to be this kung fu legend."

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"Of course I know about Viper, they call him 'Radical Viper' A genius with a beautiful yet whimsical technique."

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"No! No! Viper's only three years old! She's a freak of nature who loves playing horrible pranks on people."

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"Irene told me all about Viper, he's supposed to be one of them drag queens, y'know? That come out at night."

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"A genius and troublemaker? You must mean 'Radical Viper', she's an alien, at least that's what I heard."

Ping sighed and leaned up against the wall, "Hey mister." the goose's eyes snapped open and looked at the little boy who had just answered him. He held up one of the boxes he was carrying, he was clearly selling something. "How about buying something since I gave you that info?"

Ping frowned, "Oh that's what it was?" He sighed again when looking at the kid's hurt face. "What are they?" He asked pointing to the box on the top, on the top was a picture of a small egg with a chick coming out of it. "You don't know? They're Pyokos, they're a delicacy here in this town." Ping crossed his arms when he realized the sad face was just a guilt trip to hear the kid's sales pitch.

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Viper decided to find the bounty for 'Bebop' so they would accept her. She found a quiet spot and attempted to use her mild ESP to find out where he could be, the snake admitted that it was a long shot but it was better then nothing. She felt around the area for any negative thoughts but was almost overwhelmed by them, obviously the result of being near a town full of criminals and scum.

However at the edge of her mind's eye she could feel a strange thought pattern.

"Here. Nobody here. Always alone." Viper shivered at its cold tone, "Huh? Who are you?" She could feel it trying to reply, "Wait, what did you say?" she thought back. "Who. You. Here. Always." It replied in a stuttering metallic tone. "My names Viper and I'm a drifter." There was a small pause before "Drifter?" The voice came back.

Viper nodded though it wouldn't be seen, "That's right, who are you anyway?"

"Name? I was designed for the destruction of my master's enemies, he did not require me to have a name thus I do not have one." Viper could almost feel some resentment in the statement, as if he had some negative feelings towards the master he referred to. "You're too stuffy." She replied cheerfully, "I know! Viper can give you one right now!" She thought for a second before coming up with. "How about Empew?"

Viper thought she had lost Empew for a second because he didn't reply, but then "Why? Why this particular name Viper?" Viper shrugged, "It just suits you Empew."

"My name is Viper Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV. I made it up you know, nice to meet you!"

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"Here" Ping said putting one of the Pyokos he had gotten down on the table in front of Po, "A souvenir like you requested" he finished sourly. Po picked it up and started to inspect it, "Are you supposed to eat this thing?" Inside the box Ping had been forced to buy were small brown objects, as Po had just demonstrated for them it was hard to determine their purpose. Crane was stood next to Po inspecting it to, though he wasn't as intensely fixed on it as a certain earlier intruder was still on his mind.

Tigress shrugged and leaned up against the wall, "Who knows, this place is weird." Ping sat down opposite Po, "Yeah that may be, but at least I got some information out of them." He pulled out the piece of paper he had used to jot down notes for the past couple of hours. "It turns out we need to go after Viper first as he might be more heavily connected to this then previously thought, he's a very heavy hitter apparently." Tigress adopted 'the dismissive frown', called such because she always used it to disregard the guy's ideas.

"That's great and all old man but you didn't even get a profile on this guy so we're back at square one." Crane opened his mouth suddenly and snatched the weird object out of Po's paw, he chewed a few times and swallowed. It went down fine apparently because he walked over to the box, opened it up and started to help himself. Po smirked, "At least Crane likes them." Tigress watched him eat them, "We still don't know what these things are."

Ping ignored the three of them, "If you'd let me finish grandma, yes I did actually." Po and Tigress listened with interest, Ping leaned forward dramatically. "'Radical Viper's profile: he's a seven foot ex basketball pro, hindu, guru, drag queen, alien!"

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"So, are you the one making all those big doodles in the ground" Viper asked bluntly. "Yes" Empew replied. "Why?"

"Long, long ago before the 'Great Disaster' Emon was a beautiful place where people lived in the hills and valleys, and by the lakes, rivers and seas. Back then, there were many ancient carvings like this, I used to look down upon them and ponder aloud their meanings which seemed to change every single time I looked upon them. So to keep those memories fresh in my mind I have tried to recreate them in as much detail as I can remember them."

"So you just created them because you were sad and you missed them?"

"Yes, I recreated them with a great power that was given to me by my master before he died and-" Viper cut Empew off, "Can Viper draw something too?" Suddenly the signal began to get weak and flashes of static appeared over the once clean link. "What's wrong?" asked Viper, before she got a reply he disappeared from her mind's eye and he had apparently disappeared from the area.

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Ping rubbed his temples in irritation at the lack of any new leads for finding Viper. He looked over at Tigress who was reading over their notes again just on the off chance that they missed something, Crane was trying to eat the box the Pyokos came in as he apparently now had a serious addiction to them. "Oh Po that reminds me." The panda drew his amused face away from watching Crane eating cardboard.

"Yeah?"

"Apparently the cops are looking for Viper too, its weird how they chose this particular target to go after when they usually just let us bounty hunter scum deal with them."

"Hey guys! Found your bounty head" came a soft voice from outside. Everyone's heads shot up immediately, "What the hell?" said Ping. "Bebop! Bebop! I know you can hear me in there" Everyone rushed outside where a small green viper wearing goggles with red lenses was sitting.

"Guess what? I know who's making those markings in the ground!" She said cheerfully, Po tapped Ping on the shoulder. "Ping, since when does information just get given to us this easily by a child?" Ping shook his bald head, "It doesn't."

Tigress jabbed her paw into the snake's face, "Who is this kid?" Po looked over at Crane who was wearing an odd expression, "Yo bird brain! What's the matter with you?" Crane ignored him. "Oh he was like that earlier for some reason" said Viper. Ping blanched, "You've been in my wagon!" She nodded with a huge grin on her face.

"I can take you to Empew if you want that reward."

"What's Empew?" Asked Tigress.

"A friend of Vipers"

"Wait wait hold on!" Interrupted Po, "Are you saying you know Viper." The snake nodded and removed her goggles, "Yeah, because Viper is Viper."

Tigress scowled at her, "Don't play games with us kid! Just take us to this Empew person." Viper frowned in thought, "Well...I don't see why not, but if I do then I want a favor in return."

Tigress nodded slowly "Yeah we...can talk about that later, about you've taken us where we need to go."

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They all moved into the 'Bebop' to talk about their plan, Viper told them everything she knew about Empew from this conversation.

"So a lone idol in the middle of nowhere decides to create carvings in the earth?" Said Ping out loud after Viper had finished telling them everything. Tigress rubbed her chin in thought, "This does sound pretty bizarre."

Ping placed a finger on a map, "It gets more bizarre, I've heard of this place that the kid described, its a dangerous place that is rumored to be haunted by an evil spirit. Now knowing what it is in retrospective it seems obvious why people wouldn't check there."

"Then the bounty isn't on a person, it's on an object" Tigress said.

Viper nodded, "Because the beams are being shot from Empew itself you'll have to go there and manually destroy it yourself." Ping snorted, "And how do we do that? You've seen what it can do to the very ground we walk on so I'd rather save myself then risk getting turned into another land drawing." Viper grabbed a pen and paper and drew a very crude drawing of what she could remember of Empew's image.

She circled a spot on the head of the idol and then turned the paper around so they could all see it. "You'll just have to break this point on the statue." Viper said while pointing with the pen.

Ping, Po and Tigress fell into silence. Viper smirked cockily, "Wait, is this too hard for you?" Ping shook his head, "I wouldn't call it hard so much as impossible for just three of us!"

Without saying anything Po stood up and walked towards the exit of the 'Bebop'. "Where are you going Po?" Asked the goose. Po turned around with a massive grin, "Now this is the kind of stuff I like doing, let's get to it then."

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Ping got the 'Bebop' moving to the location Viper had told them about, it turns out they were much closer then they originally thought so they would be there within ten minutes at full speed.

"Wait a minute, how do you know so much about us kid?" Asked Tigress suspiciously, "Have you been spying on us?" Viper smiled proudly "Viper knows everything, last week you were chasing down Piccoro, you got the one million reward but you went to a casino and lost it all." Po looked over at Tigress, "That's funny Tigress, you said you were ambushed by his guys on the way to police station and you lost the money."

Tigress chuckled nervously, "Why would I lie to you?" Po frowned, "Do you want the list of reasons or should I do it in a musical number?"

"And before that the police beat you to that bounty."

"Wow jeez! You really are 'Radical Viper', the one they talk about!" Admonished Tigress. Viper nodded and smiled again at her reputation, "Uh-huh, what have you heard about me?"

Po yawned and put his arms behind his head, "That you're a male seven foot ex basketball pro, hindu, guru, drag queen, alien."

Ping's voice came from the front, "We're here, at the point on the map that Viper marked for us."

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Po, Ping, Tigress and Viper walked towards the mountain where the idol was supposed to be. Before that however Ping and Po moved away from the ladies so they could go over the plan one more time.

"Ok Po here's your stuff" said Ping handing him an assortment of knives ans short swords.

When Po had nearly finished setting his gear up Ping spoke "Be careful not to lose or break any of this stuff, remember its expensive." Po chuckled, "Yeah right" He scoffed. When he had finished Po started to walk up towards the cave mouth leaving Ping alone.

Before he left Ping called out to Po, "Po!" The panda turned around, "Remember, you've only got one shot at this before he kills you more quickly then you'll have time to think. So don't screw up!" Po smirked at him, "One chance is all I need" he said cockily.

The goose turned around and walked back down to Tigress and Viper.

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"So you can give us the proof that this...'Empew' worked completely by itself, with no outside interference from some bounty heads?" Asked Tigress. Viper nodded, "Viper can prove it no problem, but remember that Viper wants a favor in return. If you do it then I won't take any of the reward." Viper obviously knew this was how to get to Tigress's good side and like clockwork the wulongs seemed to appear in her eyes.

"Oh! Well now aren't you a nice kid!"

Ping walked back down to them and ran his hand over his head when he reached them. "Tigress should go in as a decoy to cover Po" Viper said happily. Tigress's happiness washed away like a wave and was replaced by a scowl that could melt steel, "I'm not risking my neck to save that panda!" Ping pondered for a moment. "Actually that does make a bit of sense, that would give us more of a chance of a positive outcome if Po had a decoy." Tigress pointed at Ping angrily, "Don't start pulling that 'Art of War' crap on me!"

Ping frowned at her, "Let me put it this way, if you don't then your share of the reward goes to us and you can go it alone from now alone, have you got that kitten" he finished with a hiss. Tigress held his gaze for a second before conceding defeat and then literally following in Po's footsteps.

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Po started to whistle a tune to combat the silence in the air, when he reached the entrance he almost felt engulfed by its sheer size, Po couldn't see anything on the inside at all so he knew that this was going to be a pain. The panda tensed when he heard soft footsteps from behind him, he prepared himself, turned away and struck an intimidating pose.

Po relaxed when he saw Tigress staring at him with a raised eyebrow, "You look ridiculous panda" she said sourly. Po quickly figured out that Ping had sent her, but decided to mess around for a bit. "Ahhh Tigress, if you;re that worried about me then why don't you go in first draw its fire and while you're being killed I'll sneak in and quickly finish it off?"

Po fully expected Tigress to back off but to his surprise she walked past him and whispered "Okay then" into his ear. Before she walked in he grabbed her by the arm, "I was kidding, you don't have to help me I can do this by myself." Tigress chuckled, "Well then this'll go much faster with two of us then won't it panda?"

Po smiled at her softly.

Tigress felt her heart skip a little, she had never seen Po give a look so soft before. She didn't like it.

Wordlessly the two walked in to face 'Empew'

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In retrospect it was good that Tigress came along as Po couldn't see a thing as he predicted. To Tigress's amusement she spent the entire cave walk telling Po wrong directions so he walked into walls and tripped, after five minutes of this she got serious and helped Po to their destination.

"So those pretty amber eyes aren't just for show then Tigress?"

"...No."

They spent the rest of the walk in silence.

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Po's eyes slowly started to adjust to the dark...at least that's what he thought but it was in fact a glowing red aura that was illuminating the way. They both stopped.

"It that it?" Whispered Tigress, her voice echoed slightly off of the walls. Po nodded slowly, "I think so."

"Ok Tigress, you make some noise and distract it, I'll find the part Viper told us about and hit it." Tigress frowned, "And how are you going to do that? You can't see in here?"

Po shrugged "Whatever happens, happens."

Tigress gulped and proceeded froward. "Hey rocky! Uhhhh...you suck!" Po rolled his eyes at her lame attempt at smack talk. A spot in the darkness glowed brightly before what looked like a beam of light exploded out of the darkness. Tigress yelped and fell to the ground, she felt the heat coming off of it as it streaked above her.

In the instant the cave was engulfed with light Po saw their target, it looked a lot smaller then he was expecting but he also managed to glimpse a red glowing spot on the top of it. Po got his game face on and charged in.

Tigress saw the panda run past her so she got up and threw insults towards the idol to keep its fixation on her. "Awwww is the only friend you can get an eccentric snake kid! I feel sorry for you...idiot!" 'Empew' wordlessly fired at her again which she barely dodged.

Meanwhile Po climbed up onto it and withdrew a short sword from his hip. He raised it above his head, "Say goodnight rocky" he murmured. He plunged the sword into it and as correctly predicted by Viper it shut 'Empew' down.

Po jumped down off of it and walked over towards Tigress, he held a paw out to her which she took and lifted herself up. There was a moment of silence between the two of them before Tigress broke it, "Well that was anti-climatic."

Po nodded then started to walk out, Tigress followed him and two of them walked outside. "There's something I still don't get with this thing. What was with all the animal drawings and that other junk?" Po thought for a second before replying.

"That's easy. It was lonely so it drew some friends."

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"Ok wait here a second while I get my things, I left them nearby, you promised" Viper said happily. She quickly slithered off.

"Wait what?" asked Ping after her. When Tigress saw that Viper had gone she ran over to Ping quickly. "Let's go Ping c'mon quickly while she's gone!"

"Viper said something about a promise?" He replied in confusion.

Tigress shrugged "Some promises were made to be broken, in fact most of them are so let's go!"

Ping sighed, "Ok then."

The 'Bebop' started to move but before too long Ping noticed that something was wrong, "SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH THE STEERING!" He yelled in pure panic. Po, Tigress and Crane started to panic in the back.

Ping thought they would be alright if they hit something soon, any hopes he had diminished when he saw a ditch in front of them. "BRACE YOURSELF!" He yelled out.

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Po roughly pushed Ping off of him, "Just what did you promise the kid Tigress?!" He growled irritably. Viper's head poked into the now upside down 'Bebop' and grinned at them, "She promised Viper that Viper could become a real member of 'Bebop'!"

"When did I say that!" She replied irritably.

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Due to the term 'bounty' contextually meaning someone who is alive 'Big Shot' will not be paying out to the folks who caught that troublemaker who was causing those crop circles.

"AH DAMN IT!" Yelled Tigress, she threw the copy of 'Big Shot' she was reading across the 'Bebop' and folded her arms irritably, anyone caught in front of her would have melted under her burning gaze. She was sat on the ground with Crane next to her and Viper chasing her own tail nearby.

Ping was trying to fix the wheel that Viper had broken on their wagon and Po was leaning next to him. "Ping, do you know that there are three things that I absolutely despise?" Ping sighed because of their bounty result, "Really?" He replied sarcastically.

Po looked over at Crane, "Birds", then to Viper. "Kids", and then finally at Tigress, "And women with attitudes."

He pulled Ping out from under the 'Bebop' "So can you please tell me, WHY ALL THREE ARE NOW COMING WITH US!?" He yelled in the goose's face.

Viper slithered up onto Po's arm, "Viper loves noodles" Po raised an eyebrow, "What?" The snake suddenly pulled out his noodles and started to eat them. Po's jaw dropped, "You little brat!" He fumed, Viper squealed happily and ran away with Po quickly in pursuit.

Ping sighed again, "Once again we get no bounty, not a single wulong" He heard a crash and looked over at Po falling over the now livid Tigress, "Like mom always used to say, nothing good ever comes from being a bounty hunter."

As a fight between Po and Tigress started with Viper laughing and Crane watching in amusement Ping shook his head and went back to work on the 'Bebop'

See You Dragon Warrior

Teaser

Tigress purred. "No regrets about the woman who ran away, but, a small thorn still pricks the heart. Letting one flow along with time itself. Living all alone from that day to this, but to the sounds of waves that come and go, the migrating birds find their hearts drawn. Next session is Ganymede Elegy, Ping's gonna sing this one up with soul.

End Teaser

Now the whole crew is here! I hope you enjoyed this, I had to change a lot of the original story so it would fit contextually within this story's setting.

Please review it if you liked it. This story is really underwhelming is terms of the number of reviews it gets, I'm not demanding reviews but I want to know if people are enjoying the story, its hard to know if you're silent.