Hey guys! Time for another chapter! If anybody is wondering where these characters in this story are coming from, most of them are coming from the Legends of Awesomeness TV show that used to be on. The grandmaster, Sage, and Kiro I had just made up for the sake of a fresh story line. Hope you all are enjoying it so far! Here's chapter four…
Po snapped his eyes open.
What was that?
Apparently, everyone else had heard the sound, too, because they all rushed outside of the palace to see what it was.
"So, I assume everyone else heard that?" Mantis asked.
"Hard to miss it, bro." Monkey replied.
They rushed down to the valley, dodging through the crowd of villagers that gathered the scene, and approached the site where smoke was spilling out.
"The jail…" Crane said to himself.
"Kiro." Tigress narrowed her eyes. "He must have broken out."
They went inside the partially destroyed prison and found Kiro's cell smashed open and the warden slowly getting up off of the ground.
"Did you see where Kiro went?" Viper asked the warden.
"No! A fat pig came in with a huge ox and they knocked me out! I assume they took him!" The warden replied.
"Dowdi and Temothai. That sounds like them. Why would they team up, though? And why would they want Kiro?" Po asked.
"Sounds like a kidnapping to me." Viper added.
"Oh well. Good riddance. At least he's out of our hair." Tigress said, turning to leave.
"Tigress! Remember what Kiro wrote? He wants us to remember him like he was! We have to save him! It's the right thing to do!" Po retorted.
"Po, face it. Kiro's a lost cause and there's nothing that we can do for him now. The side of him that we once knew is gone. We have a big day of training tomorrow, so let's just go back to sleep." Crane replied.
The Five turned and headed back to the Jade Palace.
I'm starting to see why Kiro left us. With friends like that, who needs enemies? I can't believe that their giving up on him! Well, I won't. Po thought.
"Do you have something that I can write with?" Po asked, turning back to the warden.
*Fifteen minutes later*
Po nailed a letter to the inside of the Jade Palace door, explaining that he wasn't going to give up on his friend and that he was going out to find him.
The panda lugged himself back down the massive number of stairs.
"Man…I…wish…that Kiro…was…here to…make a…firework cart…" Po huffed.
Once Po had made it to the bottom of the steps and rested on a nearby bench, he walked back to the jail and looked for clues.
After a while of finding nothing, Po began to get frustrated.
"Oh come on! There isn't ONE clue? Seriously? This is pointless!"
Po flopped down on the ground in exasperation, but noticed something next to him.
"Hello? What do we have here?"
Po studied the strange wagon marks closely.
Weird. The tracks are very light all the way up to the jail, but then get deeper like something heavy was loaded onto…
Po perked up and jumped in the air.
"GENIUS PO STRIKES AGAIN!" He yelled.
"Keep it down out there!" Someone yelled.
"Yeah! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Another shouted.
Po blushed with embarrassment and decided that if he followed the wagon trails, that it would lead him to Kiro.
He started on his way.
*With Kiro*
Feng's minions gathered around the unconscious Kiro, who was chained to two wooden beams in an X formation.
"Wake him up." Feng ordered.
One poked him with a metal pole.
"But Mom," Kiro mumbled, "I don't wanna go to school. The kids there are mean…"
The dragon smirked, amused at the tiger's remark.
The grandmaster nodded at another minion, and the worker poked Kiro with a searing hot metal rod.
"AAAAHHHH! HOT! HOT! VERY HOT! YAH! I'M AWAKE! YOW!" Kiro yelled.
"Enjoy your nap, tiger?" The grandmaster said.
"Oh, so you're the big boss, huh? What's the idea of dragging me here anyway? Right now, I could be—"
Kiro was cut off by the dragon, who stood in front of him.
"You could be rotting in a cell right now. Really, you had nothing better to do, did you? Besides, from what I had heard, you seemed pretty lonely once you had attacked your comrade. Turning your friends against you, making your girlfriend hate you…Oh! Speaking of which…"
Feng motioned to the slowly opening door.
Temothai and another minion pulled in an unconscious Song, who was chained to a platform just like Kiro's.
"SONG! I SWEAR, IF YOU'VE HURT HER, THAT'LL BE THE LAST THING THAT YOU'LL EVER DO!" Kiro threatened.
"I haven't hurt her…yet. If you don't cooperate with my demands, then she will be. I don't think that you would want that, now would you?" The dragon chuckled.
"Fine, what do you want?" Came the response.
"Good! First, my name is Grandmaster Feng. I control all of the criminals in all of China, including a very important and corrupt government official. The Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior have defeated three of my best students so far, being Tai Lung—"
"Wait, Tai Lung was your student? How?" Kiro cut in.
"Who do you think kept training him after Oogway turned him down? Tai Lung abandoned the Jade Palace for a while, like you, and sought out me for more training. Shen was my next warrior. Oh, he was a charming individual, but he couldn't change his fate. He only sealed it, and that's what lead to his downfall. Who do you think supplied him with the idea for a doomsday machine? How did he get his army? Me, of course. Finally, Sage. I'm sure that you saw his talent for kung-fu. Who do you think supplied him with his army?"
Kiro just hung there with his mouth open, not knowing what to say.
"Me. That's who. Now Kiro, after three failed attampts at taking all of China and demolishing the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior, I am ready to do this myself. Sage was the closest one to reaching my goal, but sadly, he failed…"
The dragon glared at Kiro with his fiery eyes.
"…thanks to you, the fat panda, and the Furious Five."
"That still doesn't explain why you brought me here." Kiro retorted.
"Ah, yes." Feng said, interlocking his claws. "I want you to join our side. I know how well you fight, and I think that you would be my greatest student."
"You're insane. You've gone completely nuts if you think that I'd join you." Kiro snarled.
"First off, where would you go? You're a wanted fugitive, Kiro Takimuro. Second, if you don't do as I command, then your girl Song over there goes for a swim in some magma." The dragon hissed.
"What do you mean?" Kiro said, thrashing to break free of his chains.
"We are underground! We have a nice big pit of lava that we found down here a while back. Choose wisely, Kiro, or else your friend here goes for a dip." The grandmaster jeered.
Kiro now had a choice: refuse the Feng's offer, which would in turn kill Song and more than likely, himself, or he could accept Feng's proposal and save Song.
I know what I have to do. Kiro thought.