Author's note:
Sorry for not updating... i really had a lot of work to do and i had to go to perform to this festival. ... but here it is, hope you guys like it and review!
chpater 4- the last ones standing
It was a normal day for Po and Tigress, Tigress was feeding Po dumplings and listening to him, (Yeah don't worry not just soup) while Po was sitting on his bed talking about this and that.
"Really? What happened next?" Tigress asked while raising a dumpling to Po's mouth.
"Well that's where I came in. I came flipping and flying in and-"
"Tigress!" Master Shifu yelled throwing open the door to Po's room.
"Master Shifu!" Tigress gasped. "What is it?"
"The bulls are back!"
"What!?" Po said almost falling off his bed in attempt to stand up.
"Hey! Settle down you're a few months too early to be fighting in your condition!" Tigress scolded.
"But I need to give pay back to that bull, um what's his face… Va-Va-Vador! He's going to be there!"
"It's Vadic and you don't need to fight him, we can handle those guys."
"No I do! Because, because I got to return the favor! Yeah that's it, I'm being a kind spirit trying to return the favor for breaking my arms and legs."
"Yeah sure, look I don't have time to persuade you. I got to go, so please just stay in bed and go to sleep. Once you wake up it'll be over, probably," Tigress said rushing out the door along with Master Shifu.
"But I'm missing out on all the action…"
Meanwhile with Shifu and the five…
'We can do this,' Tigress thought as she stared at the bulls in front of her snarling.
"Hey where's the panda?" A familiar voice yelled.
Everyone turned to see who it was even thought they could all guess or in the bull's case, know who it is. The sea of bulls started spreading apart creating a clear path for their leader, Vadic.
"He's not here because of what you did to his arm and leg, Vadic," Tigress sneered.
"We decided we'll turn in the favor for Po," Monkey said punching a fist in the palm of his hand. Vadic just stared at them apathetically he didn't even react to Monkey's threat.
"Is that so?" Vadic said smirking. He already figured out what their strength was and made a plan to destroy it. "Come at me then!" Boy was he excited to utilize this plan.
Tigress was the first one to charge, she quickly grabbed the nearest bull flipping the bull over her and quickly turned to face the bull again. She pulled back her fist and launched it straight into the bull's stomach. The said bull gasped and was flinged towards Viper who already began her own individual match. Viper saw the incoming bull (let's just call him Bob) launched her way so she quickly strangled her own bull unconscious and threw the unconscious bull to who knows where. Viper expertly trapped Bob by wrapping herself around him, who was struggling out of her tight grip. Bob was actually putting up a good fight managing to keep Viper from squeezing the life out of him. Another bull though came charging pulling his sword back to slice Viper in two. Viper noticed this but she was still occupied with Bob leaving her a sitting duck to be snuffed but if she lets go Bob will use his strength to trap her down and the result will be the same. The charging bull was getting closer by the second-no millisecond but surprisingly she wasn't worried. Just as the bull began to take a swing he was thrown across somewhere and giving Viper the chance to lessen her grip on her opponent. Bob noticing the grip has dramatically decreased made a grab for her but was also thrown away, well more like kicked away. Apparently it was Monkey who did both assaults which saved Viper's life. Just as Monkey was about to be attacked by a bull with an axe, Mantis stealthily attacked the bull's pressure points causing him to be paralyzed and let go of his axe, giving Viper enough time to hold him down while Crane came stomping on him. This all happened in two seconds… and after that, that's when things get crazy. They're all fighting fast and effectively to end this quickly.
Vadic was watching it all how one of the five would beat the bulls senseless and when the numbers would become too overwhelming they would fling them to a team mate, the said team mate even with their own problems would somehow manage with the others help. This is their strength, they're teamwork. They have deep trust and reliability in each other. Except for Master Shifu he didn't need their help and could take on as many number bulls that were thrown at him making him a skilled independent fighter.
'All of them are able to work in sync making their teamwork a powerful weapon…' Vadic thought and then gave a savage grin. '…a weapon easy to disarm.'
'We're doing it!' Tigress thought as she did a combo move with Monkey. 'Po, you don't have to worry, we'll be able to beat them!'
That's when it all went wrong…
All of a sudden bulls came jumping out of nowhere with nets.
'What the…' were everyone's initial thoughts. The attacked has been such a shocked for Master Shifu and the five that they couldn't react in time. They were all thrown and tied down by nets because of the overwhelming number of bulls there were that not even Master Shifu can handle. Now because they can't defend themselves or each other...They lost…
'We screwed up,' Tigress thought, grimacing.
Now Vadic wasn't stupid, he already knew Po wasn't going to come, it was common sense that the guy would be not coming one way or another because of his broken leg and arm. Vadic didn't want this though he wanted to slaughter the panda and feel the triumph of defeating the dragon warrior so he decided he'll have to keep his friends hostages. The only problem was the five were skilled, his bulls were not so he would have to execute a good plan to capture them. That said plan was he would only bring a quarter of his army of bulls to the view of their opponents and the rest will hide out. Like a zombie apocalypse in movies how at random moments zombies would come blasting in like a tidal wave, the bulls came popping out of nowhere and mobbed them. All the bulls hiding out only had to wait for the signal Vadic would send to when it was okay to attack.
No matter how highly skilled the five may have been they couldn't have defended an attack where it was literally raining bulls unless they actually expected something like this would happen and be able to execute a plan to counter the attack.
Vadic smiled triumphantly towering over them while they were on the ground watching his every move.
"That was dirty," Viper sneered at Vadic barely keeping her anger intact trying to slip through the net.
"So what? It's called battle tactics." Vadic mocked.
Tigress was sitting there looking for a chance to escape and keeping calm, Monkey was thrashing around, Crane was feeling anxious inside but kept a composed face. Now what about Mantis? Well it's a bit hard to tell since he's tiny so let's all zoom in and focus on his face and posture. Okay, posture: normal, breathing: normal and face:nor- wait. His face is still a bit too tiny so let's zoom in even more…Face: constipated. Not that it matters since no one else can see if he's nervous or not. You could all easily guessed how Master Shifu is he was composed and tried to search with his eyes for some means of escaping.
"Hey, you uh,what was it… Shifu? Yeah Shifu send a message to the panda that if he doesn't come by sundown I'll snuff your friends lives,"Vadic said casually to Master Shifu, amused by their surprised expressions.
"Bastard!" Tigress yelled, "Just fight me instead, one on one."
"Why? Are you the dragon warrior? No you're not so shut up."
Tigress was seething with anger, she didn't like how he was looking down at her, it frustrated her and his attitude was something else.
"I need Zeng to send the message but I don't know where he is," Master Shifu replied. "Oh and it's MASTER Shifu."
"Does it look like I care? Anyway if you have no idea where your messenger is I'll just send in my bulls. Hey Bob, go to the Jade Palace, find the dragon warrior and tell the message. Wreck the place if you have to."
Bob was unconscious before but woke up during the trap plan so he was a bit annoyed that he was being picked to do a job after a sore battle. Reluctantly he went to the Jade palace dashing up the stairs. Being the cranky guy he was trashed the place and stole anything eye-catching.
"HEY DRAGON WARRIOR, WHERE ARE YOU!?" Bob yelled.
Po, believe it or not was asleep dreaming about him and you know who. After a couple shouts from the Bob he woke up. Po was a bit cranky now since he has been woken up from his beautiful slumber and went out of his room to see who was calling him. He walked out of the room with this single crutch and saw a bull in the palace. Was he mad? Well Guess what, he wasn't, he was downright hot stricken burning, furiously mad at the sight of a bull that's part of Vadic's gang in the KITCHEN eating Monkey's cookies. HE was going to steal those cook-ahem- I mean those were his friend's cookies and the enemy was EATING them. Not only that the enemy was in the kitchen which was practically Po's sanctuary.
Bob didn't even notice Po standing there watching him, after all that hollering Bob had decided to raid the kitchen for food and he accidently knocked a jar that fell from the top. To his luck, they were cookies, one of his favorite food but to his misfortune Po was standing there glaring at him…but he still hasn't notice until Po finally coughed.
"Ahem," Po coughed out.
Bob heard the sound but he decided not to look at who it was assuming it was some pipsqueak that could be easily clobbered. Po watched him and was getting annoyed at the attention he was receiving which was none.
"AHEMERGHIEM."
Now that freaked Bob out because the sound was just…just so obnoxious that it's almost impossible for you to NOT look. Bob turned around and look and behold it was Po the dragon warrior.
"Oh (munch) it's (smack) you," Bob said while snacking on the cookies still.
"Uh yeah it's me and what exactly are you doing here?"
"I have a message from Vadic."
That got Po's attention, the fact that the enemy was in the kitchen munching on cookies has been forgotten.
"If you don't show up before sundown he'll kill your friends," Bob said continuing on.
"W-What," Po said fearfully. Afraid of losing his friends he rushed towards the exit, even though his leg was still in pretty bad shape.
Bob watched him and was genuinely surprised Po actually went even with the condition he was in.
'That's stupid,' Bob thought. 'It's all about survival in this world, you should just look out for yourself.' Memories of how the Five fought sprang up in his mind and remember how he was at actually in awe at the moment. 'It's like they were dancing together…' Bob shook his head of the idea and continued to raid the palace while eating cookies.
Po ran as fast as one good leg can carry him. Thoughts of regret of he should have joined the battle earlier gave him grief.
'Aw, stop that Po, thinking about that won't solve anything,' Po thought. 'I got to save my friends.' And just like that he gain a powerful resolve to help keep him going.
Once he got there he couldn't believe the sight laid out before him. All of his friends were really banged up. It was a bloody mess, all of his friends bodies looked twisted up except for one (don't want to go into too much graphic detail). Thank goodness it was Tigress, she was the only one with her bones intact but she was still heavily damaged.
"Tigress!" Po shouted as he run/limped to Tigress.
"Po?" Tigress said, for a second there was relief in her eyes but then there was horror in it. "Po! What are you doing here! You're injured go back while you still can!"
"Are you kidding me? No way after I went through all the trouble to get here."
"Oh? So you're finally here," A new voice joined in. Po turned and had anger flaring up in his was watching the scene before her, and suddenly she couldn't control her anger anymore. She dug out her claws and started to free herself from the net, making sure Vadic didn't saw her or her plan would be ruined.
"Vadic… What did you do to my friends…?" Po seethed at Vadic's sadistic grin and glared at the weapon in his enemies' hand. It was the hammer and it doesn't take a genius to figure out what he used to damage his friends with.
"I think it looks pretty obvious but anyway I got bored waiting for you so I decided to pass the time by seeing how many bones I can break while waiting for you."
"You monster!"
"Well what did you expect from us? We're a band of raiders! We don't plan on playing nice. Oh and you know that snake, I got to say she was pretty hard to break because of how flexible she can be."
Po watched in horror at what came out of his mouth. There was just no way he'll stand and watch this or even turn around and forsake everything that has been said.
"Tigress…" Po began.
"Yeah?"
"Don't stop me."
"But!"
"Don't you understand?! Do you really expect me to stand back after what I heard and saw! No way am I going to watch this maniac have his way and if I don't fight him all of you are going to die. Only a pitiful coward would walk away from this!"
Tigress could only stare at Po, of course she could understand! But the state he was in is terrible and the odds were not in their favor!
'He's going to fight…He's going to risk his life…You don't want him to die…so what are you going to do,' Tigress's conscious bugged and Tigress only smiled back at the silly question her conscious had seriously asked her since it was pretty obvious. Shenages to break the net and go by his side.
"Po, did you really think you were going to get to be the center of attention?" Tigress said smirking at Po. Po looked at her and could only smile back gratefully.
"Just don't get in my way."
"I should be saying that."
well, here you go. Hipe you like it! Also please leave your reviews! I will try to update soon, still, i have to carry out a project... but oh well,
-Peace out:)
