I've just become in a major Kung Fu Panda mood again hahaha, so I decided to finish this chapter up!
Pardon some errors that might be on here.
I didn't expect it to be so short but here it is~
Back at Chor-Gom Prison, high in the frozen mountain tops of Mongolia
In such a cold, subzero environment it's almost hard to tell when its day or night.
But tonight there will be a storm…
And Tai-Lung knew it.
He was prepared to bust out of the desolation of a jail that he had spent in. It only made him stronger physically enduring those twenty long years, being imprisoned and focused on one task and one task only.
Revenge!
Meanwhile outside Chor-Gom, Tai-Lung's forces of elite chi blockers were already marching towards the prison gate, as the time has come for their plan to free their leader was now!
About four earth and metal bending guards were keeping an open eye out as usual,
It became colder than usual as a blizzard was on its way,
Suddenly they spotted vague images of shadows from the torches light, they moved so quickly without a second breath they became bombarded by mysterious black geared figures! Before half the guards had a chance to attack the chi blockers immobilized them as quick as lighting and gagged their mouths not to scream.
As they opened the enormous metal door the resistance came flooding in taking down each guard that opposed them or tried to use their bending as an attack but failed as they fell to the ground without moving a limb one by one. However a couple of lookouts above managed to sound the alarm. The giant gong was rung and echoed inside the hollow cave prison.
Commander Vachir and stationed sentinels heard this but as the commander came to see what was going on his prison guards were being beaten senseless as each of them fell down being hoarded by chi blockers!
"Impossible!" cried the commander with Zeng joining in confused
"What's happening!?" he yelled, swallowing a nervous gulp the messenger looks up and is horrified when he sees the chi blockers coming from the top taking out the jail guards hoard by hoard,
"It's Tai-Lung's Lang Shadow Army. They're here to free him and infiltration MY prison!" the Commander furiously stated forming a tight fist in frustration,
"W-WHAT!?" shouted Zeng, now terrified,
"Humph! They won't get far" now dead serious as he ordered the rest of his stationed prison guards, "ARCHERS! READY YOURSELVES FOR AN ARIEL ATTACK! BENDERS STAND YOUR GROUND! THEY MUST NOT REACH TO TAI-LUNG BY ANY MEANS!" his command echoed through the prison as they did as they were ordered.
Commander Vachir then geared up for battle as he grabbed his large heavy metal sledge hammer, as a couple chi blockers managed to jump across a crowd of guards and ran full speed at the commander, with Zeng panicking and hid behind a nearby rock.
Vachir glared and with full hard force swung his mallet at the incoming blocker,
Two of the three easily maneuvered it, and aimed to chi block from behind the commanders back.
But Vachir was a fast thinker and even with his heavy body weight they underestimated his ability, before the tips of his finger could block his nerves, Vachir stomped his foot, trapping the chi blocker's wrist and with a heavy step from his heel formed a large boulder from behind him and lifted the chi blocker in the air. Its body collided with the stone ceiling knocking him out. As the other one was aiming at Zeng and he yelled frantically. Vachir saw this from the corner of his acute eye, and with a mighty grunt, he slammed his hammer to the ground forming a large crack that led to the running chi blocker hitting him as he sunk to the ground full of gravel and hard rock's unable to move having only his head and half his shoulders sticking out.
"Lets' go!" charged Vachir as he grabbed Zeng by his coat shirt dragging him to the working elevator up to the entrance. 'If they're coming in – then they won't get out!' he thought to himself
However what they did not know was while attacking the Commander and his defenses, it was simply a diversion. The leader of the elite secretly hid not too far nearby and headed straight for Tai-Lung's location.
Skillfully he managed to get past four other prison guards that were defending the door that lead to Tai-Lung. Effortlessly he knocked each one of them out and blocked their bending with just a few jabs in their arms, chest and thighs as the guards fell hard to the ground with a defeating groan.
Standing tall looking over the sprawled bodies, he then pulled the lever as the large door opened its many gears, and created a drawbridge that lead to his destination.
The chi blocker removed his mask revealing his appearance; square with a jaw-line that could chisel granite, low eyebrows with thin pale lips but he was tall and nimble with a bald scalp. His body was covered in black and camouflage gear and with a tattoo imprinted on his left cheek curving down his elongated neck. His name was Shao Ling, second in command of the Lang Shadow Army.
He casually walked over to the prisoner with his hands swinging on his side confidently.
Finally, he stood face to face with the chained fire bender, on his knees with his head down and contemplated for a moment
Shao then walked around Tai Lung's back, taking out an iron switchblade from his side pocket and pierced it inside picking the lock from the armor. When he heard a loud clank, the acupuncture needles in the armor removed themselves from Tai-Lung's back breathing out a puff of hot hair as he regains movement from his upper limbs. And looks up at his redeemer,
"So you've finally come, Shao Ling" speaking in a low yet smooth expression
The chi blocker came forward and gave a respective bow without saying anything.
Instead he gripped his switchblade and sliced the chains that were secured around Tai-Lung's wrists letting the large boulders that held them fall into the empty abyss. With ease Tai Lung then did himself the pleasure of finally releasing himself from that infernal contraption that held him down for the past twenty years, as the acupuncture needles flew off his back and the tortuous shell collapsed into pieces.
With his sensitive hearing, Commander Vachir twisted his full attention below him.
He heard something that was coming from Tai-Lung as he and Zeng were making their way up the entrance already halfway there. Zeng then neared the ledge and saw something that horrified the poor messenger,
"I-it's T-t-Tai-Lung... TAI-LUNG IS FREE!" He yelled in full panic
"Oh no! I must warn Shifu immediately!" yelled Zeng attempting to flee and dash out the entrance but the Commander grabs him by his collar preventing him from leaving,
"Listen you son of a motherless goose! You're not going anywhere and neither is he! Understand!?" the commander yelled in an aggravated tone
He just about had it with all the insanity going on and he and his men were willing to put a stop to it, even if it meant death to them.
"Let go of me!" he shrieked trying to struggle but it was useless, the commander was ending this, as he stood near the edge,
"LISTEM UP MEN! TAI-LUNG IS LOOSE BUT HE WILL NOT. LEAVE. THIS. PRISON! ALL FORCES ATTACK!" yelled Vachir loud and clear as the guards roared ready to take on anything.
Tai-Lung only grinned deviously at this letting out a deeply chuckled laugh, he was covered in the shadows and as he looked up his golden eyes glowed menacingly.
"So, they want to play a little game of tag, huh?" he cracked his neck and stretched his limbs preparing himself,
"Fine then. Shall we?" he clenched his fists tight, a powerful blue blaze ignited in his palms, as he turned his head to Shao, who firmly and silently nodded. The two proceeded to high jump skillfully, springing from wall to wall making their way up to the top entrance.
The guards were well aware of Tai-Lung approaching, and fast!
Quickly a team of the sentinels formed two large spear made of metal they had, and aimed it at the two incoming convicts,
"FIRE!" as the two large spears headed for its targets,
Tai-Lung was more than ready, he was determined. Shao managed to avoid getting hit but Tai-Lung let loose a fire bolt that redirected the spear into one of the other incoming spear, destroying it.
Soon after a hoard of arrows and sharp pieces of rocks were flung straight towards them.
He and Shao reach the empty elevator, swiftly as they hid under it as the volley of arrows fly down past them. The guards noticed them and cut the chain immediately as the elevator crashes back down to the bottomless pit.
It was momentarily quiet…
The guards didn't celebrate just yet, but as they looked at each other for a second, Tai-Lung swung up from the bottom of the elevator house, catching them by surprise, by kicking them both, losing their balance and fell.
Shao then grabs the chain and jumps over the edge and swings around, launching himself up to the next tier. Tai-Lung follows, landing on a bridge, while hundreds of guards came at him. As they tried to earth bend some offensive techniques, Shao quickly struck each of their nerves that disabled them, before Tai-Lung struck and pounded them hard without the use of his fire bending techniques just yet. He was waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike them at his full capacity.
Commander Vachir was witnessing this as Tai-Lung was inching closer and closer, still holding poor Zeng by the collar avoiding him to escape while Tai-lung was within his reach.
Skillfully he battled many guards, as if they were play toys, throwing them around and knocking each one of them down. It didn't take long as he finally reaches to the top.
Tai-Lung, Shao and the rest of his shadow army were standing by behind him, at the very top of the tier, where the Commander and the remainder of all his metal bending defense force awaited.
Tai-Lung and Vachir momentarily glared at one another, Vachir growled 'soon this will end…'
Zeng felt it in his bones that doom was upon them and swallowed hard, "We're dead. S-so very, very dead."
Vachir only laughed confidently at this, "Not yet we're not! NOW!"
A guard then shot a flaming arrow upwards and sets off charges to the ceiling that triggered an awaiting explosive.
Tai-Lung saw this with a raised brow, as out of the blue massive stalactites' came crashing down to the bridge and begins to crumble beneath the shadow army's feet.
"Humph, clever indeed general…" Tai-Lung thought aloud,
With speed by his side, Tai-Lung leaped across the crumbling debris with ease. However most of Tai-Lung's men had fallen through the cracks and fell along with the wreckage.
Shao and a reminder of ten elites made it through, as they attempted to jump towards the commander and his officers.
Tai-Lung hurdles across the raining debris towards the armed forces. He took a mighty leap and while in mid-air he ignited his powerful blue fire bending, charging it at his full strength still keeping his contact with the commander, but before he could order his men to attack,
Tai-Lung then flung a massive inferno,
"Tag. You're it!"
KA-THOOM!
The prison door blasts open and the guards go flying everywhere!
They hadn't realized how strong Tai-Lung's rage was, and keeping it stored for twenty years, bottled up only tripled it.
Zeng, the palace messenger, lands on the ground with scotch marks on his robes and black tar on his skin.
Among the unconscious and scalded bodies around him, he coughs out some smoke that was in his lungs and was startled when the commander's gold metal medallion falls in front of him. His eyes widened even more knowing that the commander had failed…
Before Zeng could fully react Tai-Lung's rough hand closes around his throat practically lifting up the small man, compared to Tai-Lung's large apparel.
Zeng, in spite of his slightly blurred vision caused by the explosion, he finally got a view of the madman in the mid-evenings light.
The fire-bender stood about six feet tall, his hair was long and dark, white streaks of hair were on his sideburns that grew to his thick neck. His skin was tanned and his muscular chest showed tattoos filled half his upper broad body and his shoulder blades running down his elbows. His attire was his mauve colored training pants, and a wide brown belt that covered his abdomen. Regardless of the weather's harsh snowstorm that was going on around them, Tai-Lung was unfazed.
The large explosive fire was still burning behind Tai-lung and his leftover men as they stood, unscathed, waiting for orders.
Tai-Lung glares at the shaking man for a moment, his expression softens just a bit to a deep sigh as smog of hot air comes out,
"So," he chuckles, "Shifu sent you, eh? I'm glad. I was beginning to think I had been forgotten." With a creepy tenderness, Tai-Lung smooth's the messenger's ruffled hair and leans closer to Zeng,
"Run back and give them this message…'the real Avatar is coming home.'
Zeng nodded in terror as Tai-Lung places the man to his feet on the snowy ground, and made a run for it and slightly tripped with a thud, he looked back at the horror seeing Tai-Lung stand tall.
It was just an unbelievable sight to behold, Zeng kept on running in the blizzard with horrified thoughts buzzing in his head,
"It can't be true…it can't! Tai-Lung! He really has escaped!"
You had one job Commander Vachir!
Like I've said before many times on here, this is going to be the similar plot line like DreamWorks – please don't sue me! I take ZERO credit for their amazing storyline and creativity!
Just a few changes here and there added for the sake of this silly idea of mine!
Hopefully soon i'll get the next chapter up soon...
until then take care and god bless you guys! xoxox