Hope you like this conversation. This came probably 2 or 3 days late. But... don't know what to say. X) Just enjoy.

Chapter 2

Talking & Nightmare

We went through the High Rocks and through the Summit. Po began to roll into snow when he tripped off a rock while I slid down like snowboard (Not a word in this time of year). When we had to go to Gongmen City by boat, they told us that it was free since I helped them free the others from some bandits. During the night, the nightmare kept haunting me, but not like the same thing, it was different nightmares. During my traveling, I've been having nightmares. Sometimes, I had good dreams. Most were nightmares.

~Nightmare~

As I battled Storm in my thoughts or in my dream, he was hard as hell to defeat. I threw a grenade at the wall behind him, which he then disappeared before the grenade exploded.

"Is that all you got, Kenji?" he asked having red lightning sparkling, "Now, it's my turn."

I get ready for the attack as Storm summoned 8 lightning daggers that were floating in mid-air in semi-circle formation on Storm's command. Storm started to throw the daggers at me, but kept missing. At the last threw, I caught the dagger and looked at Storm.

"Now, is that all you got?" I growled.

"Not quite." He grinned.

Dodging those daggers was too easy, I thought. I looked back at the dagger quickly and realized it was explosive. I threw his explosive dagger back at Storm, but he already disappeared after the daggers exploded and I get out of the exploding ranges just in time. When in the air, I started to look around until I looked behind and saw Storm behind me, holding my shoulder.

"I got you now!" Storm said entering my spiritual body to give me nightmares.

I opened my eyes and saw that I was fine, not hurt or injured. I almost first thought it was just a dream because I was lying down when waking up, but then I realized I was still dreaming once after I felt a chill. I slowly get up until these bloody battles started to appear in front of me. So many deaths around me, San dying right in front of me because of Dan, Wing being possessed and killing innocent people in the Arena, and Dan dying in a payback. I held my head as I start to scream frantically.

"STOP IT!" I screamed.

But then a voice echoed through my head and it was worse as the other voice inside me.

"Foolish little brother. If you want to kill me, hate me, resent me, and this fateful night will scar you for the rest of your days!" It snarled.

I looked to my left and see Tigress, but wounded with a hole through her chest. I felt in despair, but in anger for Storm showing me these nightmares. With the rage inside me, I released amount of lightning energy and started to see evil everywhere ready to attack me. I ran and started ripping them to shreds just like Storm, having desire to kill. I went for the last and stabbed him through the chest. But when I blinked, I saw Tigress. I took out my hand and hold her. I paused in horror and see my hands covered in blood.

"STOP~!" I screamed as loud as I could.

~End of Nightmare~

I get up quickly and started to hyperventilate. I looked at my paws and I was fine: no blood, no gruesome organs… No nothing. I went at the back of the boat and stared at the smooth, quiet, water to calm down. As I sat down, I opened my hand and a blue spark flies by. I rubbed against my paw at the other paw and lightning began to glow blue. But then the lightning went out and my right paw begins to feel like it was being stab through. I tighten my wrist when this shape as a skull at the palm of my paw fading in and its eyes begin to glow red.

"Why do you resist my powers?" he asked.

"Shut up. I don't need your powers!" I growled clutching my fist.

"Kenji, Kenji, Kenji. Do you know how many times I had saved you with my powers? You can use my powers helping others... but too bad you don't want to use them because you don't trust me. So, I will leave you alone until I recover from my last battle with Dan. But be warned, if you die again, I will not save you again. So you better say goodbye to your precious kitten." He said as his voice starts to fade away as the skull fades away too.

'Leave her out of this!' I thought as he was reading my head, 'Get out of my head!'

I get up, picked a up a peck and throw at the water so hard that it sounded like something massive dropped and rocked the boat a little. I began to pant again as I let the anger fade away from me. I slowly calmed down and sat down while the water came back to calmness.

To be honest, I feel as if something else is crawling inside of me… It's not Storm, or anything else. It feels… demonic, and evil. It's as if something is going to awaken if I don't control myself… or perhaps if I die.

"Kenji?" a voice called out.

I turned around and it was Tigress, and boy, does she look tired.

"You look like you didn't have enough sleep." I asked, "Is everything all right?"

"I'm fine." She said, shaking her head, "May I join?"

"Sure." I smiled while scooting aside.

"So, what are you doing out here?" she asked as she sits down with me.

"As usual: Nightmares." I said, slowly looking down at the water, looking at my reflection.

"How long have you been having these nightmares?" she asked.

"Almost my entire life… Not that I know if my memory is corrected." I said, chuckled slightly.

"Do you think they'll ever stop…?" She asked as she pets my shoulder.

I went silent for the moment until I sighed and slowly sat back, looking up at the stars as I saw too that the Dawn of a new day was coming shortly.

"…I cannot say." I said as I shake my head.

She hummed a bit before lying on my shoulder and began to purr.

"I feel safe again." She smiled while closing her eyes.

"Me too…" I smiled back putting my arm around her and holding her close to me.

"What happened to your eye?" she asked when looking up at my eyes.

"Oh, this?" I asked touching my scar on my eye, "Well… During my traveling, I encountered with one of the Wu sisters and they gave me this. They supposedly cut my naked eye, but you know Shadow, like the one I told you about? He healed my eye but couldn't heal my scar. I was thinking they had cut me with some type of enchantment."

"That's awful, but very sweet of Shadow." She said as she stroked my scarred eye.

"I know." I said, closing one eye down to let her see the view.

She continued to examine my eye until we both felt the boat rocking slightly rough, and we exchanged looks.

"What was that?" I asked.

Until we heard grunts and groans from the other side of the boat, and we both sighed

"Po." She and I said in unison.

We both stood up, jumped on the roof and saw Po banging on his head on the mast, and he saw us together, staring down at him.

"Oh, uh, I'm just… training." He said just as he noticed us.

"The mast is not a good opponent for you, Po." I chuckled before I jumped off the roof and held out my paw, "Now, let's see how much the Dragon Warrior had trained for the last 2 months."

"Okay, so serious." He murmured, ready to punch my paw and in a moment, he groaned in pain, "I think I prefer the mast."

"I take that as you didn't train much, just eating noodles and other things." I guessed, "But if you're wondering 'how I can stand the pain' is because Tigress and I used punch iron wood trees, so now we feel nothing."

"That's severely cool." He said.

"Thanks. Now, again!" I said putting out my paw.

Po began to punch my paw constantly as Tigress watched with a smile.

"So uh, this punching ironwood trees, how long did you two have to do that?" Po asked.

"20 years." Tigress and I said in unison.

"Is there any, you know, faster way?" he asked, "Until you know, don't feel anything?"

"Nah, and besides…" I said twisting his arm and flapped him down on the boat, "I don't think hard style… is your type thing."

Tigress and I then knelt beside him with a little stare.

"So Po, why are you really out here?" I asked, slowly sitting beside him, "Tigress and I saw you with your dad… he seemed pretty upset of you leaving."

"I just found out that… my dad isn't really my dad." He said.

"Your dad…" Tigress said unsurely.

"…The goose?" I finished.

He nodded slowly as we processed

"Did that shock you? I mean, like surprised you?" I asked if he knew what I meant instead of literally 'Shocking.'

"Yeah." He sighed.

"And this bothers you?" Tigress asked.

"Are you kidding me? We're warriors, right? Nerves of Steel; Souls of platinum, like you two." He said, "So hard-core, you don't feel anything."

"I wasn't always like that, Po. We both weren't…" I said, slowly looking down

But then Tigress began to frown which I knew what she was thinking. So I took her hand for her to be comfortable.

"I was-" Tigress began.

"So, what are you guys talking about?" Mantis asked coming out of nowhere.

"Uh… Nothing." Po said quickly.

"Po's having daddy issues." Viper teased.

"Man, I'm so lucky. I don't have any problems with my dad." Mantis said, "Maybe because Mom ate his head before I was born. I don't know."

"Mantis, this isn't about you." Viper hissed, "Po is the one freaking out."

"Guys…?" I said looking at the sun beam of dawn rising higher as we turned a bit.

"I'm not freaking out." Po said.

"Guys." I repeated.

"I'm freaking… in." he said.

"Guys!" I shouted.

"What?" Po asked quickly by my sudden shout.

"We're here." Tigress said, "Gongmen City."

The sun was right behind of Gongmen City, which made it beautiful.

"Hold onto the boat. This is going to get rough." I said getting at the back boat.

I placed my both hands in the water, activated an ability to boost the boat to go faster. It only went like 60 miles per hour and kept going.

Again, don't know what to say. But I think this story is going to be a little bit of a twist when we get to the end.