A/N: To make up for the last chapter being so late, I wrote this one as quickly as I could, hope you all enjoy it!

Quote of the chapter:

"You always need dark in order to show the light."

-Bob Ross

Chapter 14

Corrupted

Po sat in a meditative pose on the cold stone floor of his cell, his eyes closed and his muscles relaxed as he stayed calm and peaceful. He really wasn't thinking about anything in particular, instead he was focusing on his inner peace, right now he didn't feel anger or fear or sorrow, he only felt peace. He had been in this cell for nearly a week and was now, though it was difficult to properly judge how long he had really been in there due to the lack of sunlight, however he was now growing accustomed to the tight confines of the cell. Though it lacked many things that normal rooms would have, it wasn't as bad as it looked-. 'Aw who am I kidding, this cell is the least hospitable place in the world.' Po thought sarcastically. He was God knows where very far from home, away from his fathers and his girlfriend. He had thought a lot about Tigress lately, probably because of what he had talked about with Bao Ni the other day, he thought about how she was taking the situation and if she was fulfilling her promise to him and protecting the valley. He then thought of another person, the little white Tiger Cub who he had risked everything for, Hao Liang. 'That kid deserved to be saved, he deserves everything in this world, I just hope that Tigress will take care of him while I'm away...' Po thought as he stayed in his meditative pose.

"Guards! Master Akuma requests that you two help with the repairs of the powder room." Po heard a familiar voice talk to the Guards who were stationed at his cell. "Right now? He stationed us here to guard the prisoner." The guards asked Bao Ni. "Effective immediately, I can make sure the prisoner doesn't escape while you aid in the repairs." Bao Ni lied to the guards. This was the fourth time she had come to the Panda's cell this week, right from the start of knowing the Panda she had grown quite fond of him. Every time she managed to trick the guards, she would talk to Po about various things, his origin, his parents and from time to time Po would ask her questions about her past, though not to many as he knew how traumatic her past was. One of the guards replied "alright healer, but you had better watch him really carefully! We can't have another powder room blown up now can we?" Bao Ni nodded as she said "Yes Sir."

Once the guards were out of earshot, Bao Ni got close to the bars and said "works every time." "Bao Ni, you need to be careful if you come here too many times, they might suspect your intentions. You could be in grave danger." Po replied worriedly, not that he didn't like the Brown Bear's presence, but he feared that one of these times she would get caught. "Don't worry about me Po, I can handle myself." She replied to him. "I'm just worried for your well being Bao Ni, you have been a great friend and I would hate to see you get into trouble." Po responded feeling worried. "Po, I told you, it's my choice to come here to see you, if I get in trouble then I will accept the consequences."

The two talked for nearly 15 minutes until Bao Ni heard footsteps approaching and whispered "someone's coming, gotta go." Po just nodded and waved goodbye to his friend as she sneaked away from the cell and waved goodbye to him as well. As his friend left down the hallway far from his cell, he couldn't help but feel that something was wrong, Bao Ni seemed to be able to trick the guards too easily, this didn't settle well with the Panda and he felt a bit uneasy from the whole situation. Moments later the Guards who were watching Po before returned to their stations beside each side of Po's cell door.

Down the hallway with a female Brown Bear

Bao Ni was on her way out of the prison building reflecting on the things that she had talked about with Po at his cell. He had mostly talked about how he actually had two fathers, his adoptive father was apparently a goose who owned a noodle shop, while is birth father was a large Panda who cared for him dearly. Bao Ni loved hearing these kinds of stories, since she was abducted by Akuma at a young age, she hardly had any memory her parents. So it was nice to hear about how much Po's parents cared for him. As she walked down the hallway, she looked back in the direction of Po's cell and thought to herself 'it doesn't matter what if he doesn't have feelings for me, we can still be fri-'

"Bump"

Bao Ni's thoughts were interrupted as she bumped into something in front of her when she wasn't looking ahead. However when she looked up to apologize to whoever it was that she bumped into, she saw exactly who it was that she had accidentally walked into. It was Akuma.

"Going somewhere Healer?" Akuma said in an intimidating tone. Bao Ni stuttered as she tried to apologize to her master "S-Sorry Master Akuma! I was just running a diagnosis on the Panda to test his health." Bao Ni lied to her master as she got up from the ground. "Is that so? So how is the Panda's condition, Healer?" Akuma said getting very close to the female Brown Bear and making her feel uncomfortable. "U-Uh, he is doing f-fine master...He is recovering well from his injuries..." The female Brown Bear replied to her master feeling very nervous at the present moment. "Really? I don't suppose you have anything else to report do you Healer?" Akuma responded once again in an intimidating tone of voice. Bao Ni then noticed several armed guards approach from behind her and she anxiously replied "nothing Master Akuma." She began to walk back from her master to get away when she heard him say "what a shame then." As Akuma said this, the two guards from behind Bao Ni apprehended her and cuffed her arms behind her back. "What are you doing?! I've done nothing wrong!" Bao Ni panicked as she didn't understand why the guards were arresting her. "Exactly." Akuma said in a mocking tone to the shocked female Bear. "What!?" She exclaimed not understanding the evil Komodo Dragon's reasoning behind her arrest. "Just think of it this way my dear, at least you will be able to see the Panda once again."

Back at a cell inside the prison compound

Po sat on his floor meditating once again, he had been meditating ever since Bao Ni had left, he felt that he had been meditating for nearly 3 hours straight. He was feeling very relaxed and peaceful, right now he was thinking about Tigress, about how much he cared for her and how he hoped she was doing alright right now. Just then he heard the sound of footsteps and something dragging along the floor, he opened eyes and saw several 3 figures, two of which were strong Gorilla guards, the other was Akuma. He was less than thrilled to see the Komodo Dragon, but when he looked closer, he saw that the Gorilla guards were carrying someone by the arms. "Greetings Dragon Warrior, we brought you a gift." Akuma said in a mocking tone. "No..." Po said as he saw who it was that the Gorilla's were carrying.

They opened the door to Po's cell and threw a female Brown Bear into the cell. "Bao! Can you hear me!? What have they done to you!?" Po said as he picked up the female Bear's neck and looked into her closed eyes, he also saw that the female Bear had bruises all over her body and had a black eye. To his dismay she didn't respond, so he said again "Bao! Please talk to me! What did they do to you!?" Po started to panic as the female Bear hadn't responded to him. "Do now worry Dragon Warrior, I made sure to leave a little life in her for some last words." Akuma said with a sly smirk on his face. "You! I will destroy you!" Po said as he got to his feet and charged the Komodo Dragon in his anger, however he was held back by several Gorilla's who held his shoulders back. Po was so angry though that he still charged forward even with the pair of Guards holding him back, but when he got within a couple of inches from his opponent another two Gorillas pushed him back into the cell. Having finally restrained the Panda, Akuma walked into the cell and said "A shame really, she helped me a lot throughout the years." Akuma once again mocked the Panda. "Why!? She didn't do anything to you! She's innocent! Let her go!" Po angrily yelled at the reptilian. "Po..." "Bao!?" Po heard Bao say to him. "Bao! Talk to me!" The Gorilla guards had let go of Po and he got to the ground and once again held Bao by the bottom of her neck and looked into her eyes again. "Po..." She struggled to speak as she had been beaten nearly to death by Akuma's thugs. "I'm sorry Bao...I should have protected you! I should have-" Po said before he was interrupted by Bao Ni who put a finger over Po's mouth. "I-'Cough!'-told you that I would-'Cough!'-accept the consequences." She struggled to say as her lungs really hurt when she spoke. "But you shouldn't have to pay the price because of me!" Po argued with the Brown Bear. "No- 'Cough!'-I chose this Po, this was my decision." Bao Ni once again struggled as she reached out and held Po's paw. "But-" Po wanted to blame himself again before he was interrupted by the Gorilla guards who once again held Po back from the female Bear, he fought to get out of their hold but was unsuccessful as the strength of the combined guards was too great. Akuma then picked up Bao Ni from her neck and pulled out one of the Kunai throwing knives he had around his waist and held it up to the female Bear's back. "Stop! Why are you doing this!?" Po asked trying to reason with the reptilian. "I'm just showing you how darkness can consume anything if given the chance." Akuma said with a smirk as he brought the knife up to where it was just touching the female Bear's back. "No! Bao!" Po screamed as he desperately tried to get out of the grasp of the guards to go help the female Bear and then…

"SSHLUCK!"

"NOOOO!" Po yelled as he saw the knife stab through Bao's chest and blood dripped everywhere. Akuma then pulled out the knife and allowed the female Bear allowing her to fall to the ground immobile and bleeding from the puncture wound from her chest. "NO! BAO!" Po yelled as the Gorillas let him go and he ran over to the female Bear. He once again held her neck in his left arm while grabbing her left paw with his right paw. "No! This is my fault! I should have protected you!" Po said in vain to the motionless body of the female Brown Bear. "Cough!-Cough!-Po...I-'Cough!'-I'm going to be fine…-'Cough'-Just promise me Po -'Cough!'-That you will-'Cough!'-keep protecting the innocent." Bao Ni struggled to say as she coughed up blood through her lung that were quickly filling with blood. "But I couldn't even protect you! Stay with me Bao! Just don't die!" Po almost ordered the female Brown Bear as he began to go through the hand movements to heal her with his Chi. But he was stopped when Bao said "-'Cough!'-Don't Po, I will be in a better place now-'Cough'-I will see my parents again...I...Will..." The female Brown Bear said before her eyes closed and her head fell to the side of Po's arm. She was dead.

As Po just starred town at the now motionless corpse of the female Bear a tear left his face and fell onto the face of his deceased friend. He then rested her body on the floor gently and placed her arms over top of her waist to allow her to rest in peace. "A shame it is really, she was a very good servant." Akuma taunted Po. "You monstrous bastard!" Po said as he began to growl angrily almost sounding like an untamed feral animal. "I swear you will atone for this!" Po said as he got up and clenched his fists he wanted to pummel that Lizard to the ground at that moment, that sanctimonious bastard would get what he deserved soon enough. Before Po had a chance to lunge at Akuma, the Gorilla thugs restrained the powerful Panda restricting his movement. Akuma then got closer to Po as if taunt him even more, "You know Dragon Warrior I could keep trying to break your spirit, but I don't think that is necessary. No, I think I will use...Other means to corrupt your mind and heart..." Akuma said with an evil chuckle. He then took out some sort of vial from a pouch on his belt which had some sort of liquid in it, though Po couldn't tell what type of liquid it was because the Komodo Dragon quickly drank whatever it was. "Now Dragon Warrior, this may feel a bit weird. But if you feel like you're being...Possessed, then it will have had the right effect." Akuma said evilly laughing after the last part, then he approached the Panda and said "That last thing I'd like you to know before your mind becomes mine, is that this isn't personal."

Po began to try to get the Gorillas off of him but was unsuccessful, then Akuma opened his mouth with what looked to be saliva dripping from the top of the lizard's palate. Po was still trying as hard as he could to get out of the hold of all four large Gorillas but he couldn't get the strong animals off of his arms and before he knew it…

"psshh"

Po felt several fangs puncture his neck and he immediately felt excruciating pain in both his neck and it quickly spread to his head. This triggered a rush of adrenaline which increased Po's strength, Po then began to rage and violently shake the Gorilla thugs until the pain became so unbearable that he violently screamed "AARRGGHHHH!"

As he watched his thugs struggle to keep the Panda restrained Akuma heard the Panda roar and scream violently as if he was under an intense amount of pain, and he was.

Then everything got even more chaotic as Po suddenly threw off all four Gorilla thugs with an incredible amount of strength. Po didn't even go after the Komodo Dragon as he was in so much pain, he started to almost purposely hit his head and neck in a fit of rage that was now almost scaring Akuma. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD! ARRGGHH!" The panda almost roared as he almost tried to scratch his head right off in an effort to stop the brutal pain. Akuma then began to almost laugh as he said "I wouldn't try to fight it Dragon Warrior, you've just been injected by a powerful neurotoxin which I have infused with dark Chi. It will travel through your bloodstream and reach your brain shortly. But don't worry, it wont kill you, if you follow my orders... But should you defy me or act on your own, then lets just say that the pain will be...well, less than tolerable..." Akuma said as he laughed evilly. But then to his surprise he felt his neck get scooped up by two very strong hands which clutched his throat hard almost trying to strangle him. Po lifted the Komodo Dragon in the air by the neck and then pounded the reptilian against the wall of the cell, almost breaking the wall in the process. "GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!" The Panda yelled angrily at the Lizard. Po then raised his arm in preparation to punch the Komodo Dragon as hard as he could. Akuma just laughed and said "go ahead and do it Dragon Warrior! You don't have the guts!" Po then sent his fist flying in the direction of the Lizard, Akuma closed his eyes and waited to accept his fate and then…

"POW!"

Akuma opened his eyes and saw that the Panda was still holding on to his neck with one hand, but surprisingly, the Panda had not hit him. Po had instead punched the wall beside Akuma's head making a hole right through the wall. The Panda then looked like he was becoming calm again and released him to the ground and stepped back. When Akuma looked at the Panda it's eyes were closed but then it opened it's eyes and he was instantly satisfied. A dark red aura emitted from the Panda's eyes and it now had an emotionless face. Akuma hen said to the Panda "Kneel." The Panda then goton one knee and kneeled without any hesitation at all. The Akuma began to laugh as he yelled "IT WORKED! YES! IT WORKED! NOW THE DRAGON WARRIOR IS MINE TO CONTROL! AND ALL OF CHINA WILL BE MINE!"

A/N: Remember when I said I would add a bit more action into the chapters? Well I really wasn't kidding. Remember to send me your quotations for each chapter and include the person of whose quotation it is. I will post the most meaningful quotes at the top of each chapter and include your profile name as well. As always, favorite, follow and

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