Hello everyone! I'm finally back! I know this took forever, please don't send the Jien Fong after me, DarthCraftus! *Falls on knees*... Eh... anyways, I hope you'll like it, and that the rest of you will as well. :D

Po gritted his teeth as he also rubbed one of his injuries underneath the bandage. He was in his bed trying to fall asleep. He knew he needed the rest – after all, he actually had to train tomorrow.

But those injuries from Jie's sword… they weren't helping… like at all. They hurt, even with all the medicine and bandages; how would he ever be able to sleep like this?!

Po gave up. The Dragon Warrior was used to fighting off dangerous criminals, but this was worse. Suddenly he got an idea: maybe it would help to get some food!

Letting the hunger defeat the wanting to sleep, the panda got up from his bed and walked towards his door. Sliding it aside, Po exited his room, but just as his foot hit the floor and a creaking noise escaped the planks, the others' doors rapidly opened.

Everyone had a battle stance on, but they loosened up when they saw that it was just their friend.

"Wow, guys, why are you all up?" Po asked surprised.

"Because you woke us up," Viper said, sounding annoyed yet relieved that it was just Po.

"Wait, where are you going, Po?" Tigress asked in a suspicious tone.

"Well, I was hungry, so I thought I'd go to the…"

"Go back to bed," Tigress said, somewhat demanding. "For your own safety."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that if those people come back to kill you again, we're all here to protect you," Tigress said.

"But I don't need protection," Po said, sounding a little stubborn. "I'm the Dragon Warrior…"

"… which is exactly why Jie is trying to kill you," Crane said in a very serious tone of voice.

"But guys… I'm hungry… If it has to be like this, can't some of you at least come with me to the kitchen?" Po begged, which just caused the Five to sigh. The panda's hunger and habits still managed to surprise them.

With a sigh from all of them, the Five decided to follow Po to the kitchen – even despite their injuries. Most of them had gotten away with few, but Crane had his wind injured to the point where he almost couldn't fly – therefore he chose to walk along with his friends.

"Those guys, do you think they'll come back tonight?" Po asked as they got outside and walked towards the dining hall. "I mean, you seemed so alerted when I left my room…"

"Why wouldn't they?" Crane asked, sounding better-knowing just as they entered the kitchen. "They already wounded us, so if they returned now, they'd have an easy time defeating us."

"You got that right birdy." Suddenly something hit Monkey and knocked him aside. The impact alone was enough to send him flying several meters away. Whatever had hit him, it was hard and spiky.

As he landed hard on the ground and after a few tries, he finally managed to push the pangolin off of himself. Just as he did, Tingguang tried to slash him with his sharp claws, but Monkey swiftly dodged.

The remaining five heroes were about to help him, but suddenly Crane was hit by the second pangolin twin. The very same moment, Tigress quickly jumped in front of Po and managed to catch one of Meili's Flame Wheels between her hands.

"Not bad, kitty… not bad at all," the beech marten smirked. "But not good enough!"

Suddenly she flipped onto her back. Tigress, who was still holding onto the wheel, was flung along and halfway around, Meili kicked Tigress in the stomach, sending the feline flying, but not that far.

Mantis and Viper were about to help Tigress as well, but suddenly a voice said: "Oi, Kamakiri-Kun!"

Even though the name had only been used once before, Mantis still reacted and turned to face Onibuto. The rhinoceros beetle was standing in a bend over position with his legs spread a little. It was the standard sumo fighting-stance, but to Po, Mantis and Viper, it just looked silly.

"Oi… rhinoceros-beetle-in-Japanese-Kun!" Mantis growled. "Get ready for round two!"

And with that Mantis jumped towards Onibuto. Just as he was about a centimeter or so from hitting him, Onibuto extended his right arm, which Mantis jumped right into. Hitting the beetle's hand, Mantis could have jumped into a wall and it wouldn't have hurt as much.

"Again we meet, Dragon Warrior," a familiar voice said and instinctively Po quickly got into a battle-stance. Out of the shadows came Jie – like a tiny, tiny ghost.

"Viper, go help the others," Po said in a serious tone.

"But…"

"I'll be fine," Po assured her as Jie walked closer. The mouse drew his sword from the sheath on his back, which made a barely unnoticeable sound as it escaped the sheath.

"Today you will fall," Jie said coldly and pointed his blade towards Po. Jie then moved it around in a sideways 8-motion as he approached his target.

"I still don't understand you, Jie," Po said as he started moving around Jie in a circle. "Why exactly do you want to kill me?"

"I already told you, panda," Jie said. "Because it'd fulfill me."

"But what will happen then?" Po asked, trying to buy himself some time. "Will you just go after another target?"

"Most likely."

"But why do you kill?"

"Why do people sing, dance and play games?" Jie asked in a sinister tone of voice, sending a chill down Po's spine, since he was already figuring it out.

"Eh… for fun…"

"Exactly," Jie snickered. "Enough talk, now destiny shall settle this."

Jie charged forwards and even though it was hard for Po to see him in the darkness, the panda still managed to dodge the mouse's first slashes. Fighting such a small opponent was still new to Po, and just as difficult.

Jie jumped towards Po making a front flip with his sword raised above his head, thus transforming himself into a wheel of death.

Po quickly stepped backwards out of range. Maybe it was just his imagination, but Po could actually feel how the sword almost hit his face. But the panda was just glad that it didn't.

Next thing, Jie jumped into the air, ready to slash again, but just as he brought his sword backwards to slash, Po took the chance and punched forwards. Jie was hit and as the sword fell out of his hand, the mouse flew a few meters backwards.

Po picked up the tiny, tiny sword. He was just barely able to hold it between his large fingers, and Po was impressed by the quality of it. When he had first seen Jie use it, it had appeared to be a similar to tooth stick in Po's opinion.

"Panda," Jie said in a threatening, almost frightening, dark tone of voice. "Hand. That. Sword. Back!"

Po could clearly tell that the sword meant a lot to Jie, but nonetheless, now the battle was at least even – now none of them possessed weapons (Po didn't have any intentions of using Jie's sword against him, since it was impossible for Po to wield it right).

But then Po made a big mistake; he threw the sword away – far away. None of them could see where it landed, since it was far out of range.

Jie clenched his fist tightly. Then with a surprisingly loud roar, the mouse attacked the panda again, this time going for a fighting style similar to Kung Fu.

Jie jumped towards Po with a kick, hitting the panda's chest. Just as Po had expected, it didn't really hurt him – like at all. As soon as Jie hit the ground, he immediately jumped up again to attack the same way, but instinctively Po just smacked Jie away.

The little mouse flew about ten meters away due to the strength Po had unintentionally put into the smack. Po waited for about ten seconds, then he realized that Jie didn't come back.

"I won…" Po whispered to himself, very surprised. He almost couldn't believe it. He looked over at the others; they seemed to have gotten the upper hand as well.

"Remember, this is not over!" Meili growled once she and her teammates retreated.

Po immediately started cheering, but the Five weren't as joyful – even with their injuries, they had managed to defeat the Jien Fong. This, to Tigress, could only mean that Jie's team had lost on purpose, just to raise their confidence.

"Guys, we did it!" But obviously Po didn't seem to quite think the same way. But he soon realized that something was wrong once he saw how his friends didn't quite look as joyous as he was. "Guys?"

"Po, you do realize that they were just toying with us, right?" Tigress asked sternly. This made Po's mood drop quite a bit, but Po wasn't quite convinced yet.

"But maybe they were tired from earlier," Po suggested. "Maybe…"

"Maybe they weren't," Mantis said. Even though he shared opinion with the others, he did seem satisfied with the outcome, since it meant that he had won over Onibuto. "Po, we barely got to touch them in the first battle."

"But…" Po stopped himself. Maybe his friends were right. It would seem logical after all. Po looked around at his friends. They didn't seem much more injured than they already were, so it was more obvious to Po that the Jien Fong had gone easy on them.

But was it part of their plan, Po couldn't help but wonder. Was their plan to tire them and then kill off Po when he stood back alone? And where was Master Shifu?