CHAPTER 5: DEATH HUG

HAPPY NEW YEAR! SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT, I WAS AHEM, SICK. BUT NOW I'M BACK!

Chapter 5: Death hug

" Crane! CRANE! " Viper rushed out from the bar and searched for Crane, leaving 6 other masters to admire band's work.

She searched for him high and low, fast and slow. She knew that she had to talk to him earlier, since she found out what really happened. But she was too late...

She couldn't believed what he had sung to her. His hour of need? Like he had a crush on her...

After a 5 minutes of search, she had found him at nowhere else, then at sacred peach tree.

" Crane! " Crane turned around to face her. Viper gasped at his angry expression.

" Oh, the heart-break queen is here! How may i help you, your majesty?" Crane then bowed sarcastically

" Come on, Crane. Let me tell you something!"

" WHAT?! Now you care, but did you care about me before? You know that it was not my fault... "

" And it isn't..."

Crane didn't except that. She turned to him and he didn't believe what she had said.

" What? "

" Yes, Martin told me that it was his fault. He ordered Frano to find him if he got lost, and he had to attack you if his cover gets blown. Do you understand?"

Crane was speechless. Simply speechless.

" And now do you forgive me? " Viper knew that Crane will forgive her, but she was not sure. But she was sure after Crane hugged her

" I forgive you..." Viper was taken aback for a moment, but she relaxed.

" Thanks..."

Just then Martin arrived at the scene.

" Viper! Where- Ah, sorry. Did i interrupt something?" Crane and Viper instantly broke the hug and turned around, blushing, but Crane managed to blurt out something.

"N-No, you di- didn't interrupt something..."

" Okay then, but where- AAAH!"

Suddenly, martin got hit by a ninja star, the same ninja star that he threw at Fenghuang. This time, it hit his shoulder. By that time, the others showed up. Master Shifu was first to react, as she started barking orders.

" Crane! Go ahead and see who it was! Monkey, get us a-" But he was interrupted by Martin who had pulled out the ninja star from his shoulder.

" It's okay, i always wear some armor- hey that's my star! "

He instantly got attention from others.

" YOUR star? Who else has same stars in your team?" (Tigress)

"Nobody else has got... Fenghuag..." (Martin)

" WHAT? WHERE?" (Po)

Suddenly, Crane appeared.

" No one. He had vanished!" (Crane)

"SHE had..." (Martin)

"What? Wait, do you think..." (Crane)

"Yea. HEY FENGHUANG! I'LL GET YOU ONE DAY, BITCH!"

But suddenly Ivan showed up.

" Martin, we got a problem. More precisely, Xin has a problem"

Instantly, Martin's expression shifted, and he blurted:

"X-Xin?"

" Yea, we have to go. Now!"

Then Martin blurted a quick"Bye" and rushed out with Ivan.

BAMBOO FOREST, 2130 HOURS, SNOWY.

As Martin and Ivan ran trough the snowy forest, Ivan started his debrief.

" OK, i have an report of an potential attack that will occur on Xin's turf. It's most likely bandit organisations, but i don't know anything else, except he scrambled all his fighters to patrol his turf, leaving his headquarters unprotected."

" So he wants us to protect it, huh? That seems like god return of a favor..."

2 months ago, Xin and his organisation helped Martin in his quest against Fenghuang, and his solider's played a major role in defense when bandit invasion happened. Now, Martin was ready to return the favor. A big one.

As they arrived at Xin's HQ( a small fortress, greatly camouflaged ) they had to deal with two rhino guards.

"What do you want?" (Rhino guard)

"Yo, Xin sent me, remember?" (Martin)

"Ah, Martin! Good to see you. But times are not good... Okay, go in!" (Rhino guard)

As they got in, they slipped through many highly decorated rooms, until they had reached Xin's room. Once they had get in, they saw Xin sitting on his sofa, repeating "I'm dead, I'm dead".

Xin was a black male sheep in mid 40-s. But he always wears white clothes. ALWAYS.

"Xin, my friend! How are you?" (Martin)

" Not good... Not god... I have a big problem, but i'm gonna crack under the fucking pressure..." (Xin)

" Whoa, don't crack... Tell me what's bothering you?" (Martin)

" I had it all... The money, the power. Hell, i was master of one of the top five China's crime organisations. But i had lost it when royal army showed up, and my organisation's rehab broke up, but who cares? What is important, some gang arrow could splatter my head allover this wall!" (Xin)

"You see, when my "gang" gut back on it's feet, i had 2 neighboring gang families running their jobs. But no family wouldn't thrust other family to run big trading business, because the trade items were usually stolen items from other family's caravan robbing attacks. So i was put in neutral role, in which any family could kill me to blame the other one. But something terrible happened to Xao Zhun, a member of the Zhun family. Some bandits attacked him and he's now in a hospital. Now, the Hang family will use this chance to rub him out. And if any hit between families occurs on my turf, i get axe, arrow, sword, whatever..." (Xin)

"Okay,okay! Chill! What do you want us to do?" (Martin)

" Oh, you? Just pick up Xao,keep him alive and drop him on Zhun family's base." (Xin)

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