Chapter 6: Shu Ai is Dead!
"Calm down, Tai Lung, and listen…" Shu had managed to get Tai Lung away from the Jade Palace. Both were walking where everyone usually frequents. They were close to the market. Shu was trying to get his friend into the light of reason instead of the darkness of anger.
"How can I calm down…! The old man… Didn't choose me…" Tai Lung was finding it hard to believe that he was not the Dragon Warrior. He felt angry, betrayed, and sorrow all at once.
"Tai Lung, listen… This wasn't your fault. It's a matter of circumstance…" Shu started.

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The exams at the orphanage were not done, but young Ping was. He was becoming like Shu: Confident and Smart. The child leopard looked out of the window of his classroom and unto the sky. It was late afternoon now and Shu hasn't returned yet.
"I wonder what Shu's up to… The ceremony sure is taking its time!" Ping though, swinging his legs back and forth underneath the desk. His tail played around the air.

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"Circumstance? What does bloody circumstance have to do with any of this?!" Tai Lung asked his friend angrily.
"I can only assume one as great and powerful such as you didn't reach that position so easily," Shu was trying to get to know Tai Lung's past in order to find a way to help his powerful friend. He really didn't want Tai Lung to fall to anger.
"Well… Training was all I remember… And Father telling me I was… That's it…!" Tai Lung's eyes seemed to have an idea.
"What's wrong?" Shu asked as both of them stopped. Passers-by and other individuals were eyeing them carefully. Shu himself sensed something wrong.

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Ping stood up from his place at the third row and moved quietly among his classmates who were still taking the exam. He moved towards the teacher's desk.
"Miss, may I go to the restroom?" Ping asked politely and quietly.
"Of course, Ping. Come back after you're done!" The teacher gave Ping the Blue Pass to the bathroom.
"Thank You!" Ping smiled at the teacher and bowed slightly before quietly leaving the classroom, smiling at his classmates who smiled back.

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Shu saw Tai Lung clench his paw into a fist.
"This is father's fault…! No, Shifu's fault!" Tai Lung was losing to anger at the betrayal. He no longer called Shifu 'Father'.
"Tai Lung… How is this the old man's…" Shu started, placing his paw on Tai Lung's shoulder only to have it angrily swatted away. Tai Lung looked at Shu with anger and betrayal in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, my friend… This is not your fault… This is Shifu's… All my life… He told me… He told me I was the one!" Tai Lung apologized to his friend and told him about his past.

"Ah, I understand, my friend," Shu came to the conclusion that old man Shifu trained Tai Lung hard to become the Dragon Warrior. He also assumed that the old man told Tai Lung that he was going to be the one.
Shu noticed that a lot of listeners were slowly gathering around them. Shu quickly signaled them with his left paw to stay away. They listened.

Shu however kept his eyes on his friend.
"Tai Lung… Don't make the wrong decision…" Shu did not want Tai Lung to follow the path of anger.
Shu got his reply, but it wasn't what he expected. Screams soon erupted from the crowd and they began to scatter.

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"Hm, hm-hmm, hhhmmmm… Taaa, tawataaa…" Ping was humming in the restroom. After he was done, he washed his paws and his face. As he was drying himself up, his ears twitched as he heard running.

Fei was just outside when a resident from the Valley, badly injured, limped in the orphanage.
"Help! Help over here!" Fei alerted the nurses and doctors of the orphanage. He also alerted a few children and faculty closest to them.
"These injuries are serious but he'll live. We'll need a vacant room with a bed for us to treat him," A more experienced doctor analyzed.
Ping peeked out of the bathroom before walking slowly to them.
"Wh…what's going on…?"Ping's child voice surprised those who didn't notice him.
"Tell us what happened!" Fei told the injured resident to tell them how he got his injuries. Fei wondered why this one would go all the way to the orphanage when the Valley had far nearer hospitals.

"T-Tai Lu-lung has gone mad…! Sh…SShu…" The man stuttered weakly. His first sentence got everyone in a shock. The mighty Tai Lung has gone mad? How can this be?

"Shu? What happened to brother?!" Shu asked the resident. Everyone else wondered as well of Shi Ai.

The answer caused everyone to become silent in great shock.

"Sh-Shu Ai… is… i-is… dead!"

"No… NO! It can't be…!" Shu's eyes were beginning to fill up with great tears. His brother, dead? The one who has loved and cared for him? The one who teaches him, the first one to teach him honor, the only one to constantly be there every night? Whenever he cried Shu was there right away. Whenever Ping bled Shu was there. Shu looked at the entrance to the Valley in disbelief and started to run towards the Valley in disbelief.

"Stop him!" Fei ordered. Some kids at first stopped him but he slipped away from them. He was stopped by a faculty member.

"Let me go… Let me go!" Shu struggled against the faculty holding him.

"BROTHER!!!!!!!"

[I'm not planning to really kill the main character of the story. No worries, it's part of the story in my head. :D]