GZ's Note:
Greeting's my fellow readers. I know it's been too long and have to finish my novel two days ago and can now stay focus of this story. I realized for having grammar mistakes and errors I have to resolve these words once. Later, I will enhance and able to fix the mistakes and will perhaps make it easier to read. So here's the next chapter where that all goes brief dark and then connection! Enjoy!
GrayZeppelin "GZ"
P.S.: I've seen the latest trailer of Kung Fu Panda 3 few weeks ago, and it's awesome and severely hardcore! My favorite part is where Li and Po's reunion with belly bumps! Laugh out loud! Anyway, what do you guys think of my story if you read it. Have a great day!
Chapter Six: Into the Shadow / Planning to Leave
The dark fumes has now submerged through the water. The shadow begins to float down softly as the sound of a small bubbles of water and under. Within a moment of underwater flows, the shadow dives and seeks all blue colors of life around the shadow; more diving in the water, the darker the color gets. The shadow can seek a small, wood debris everywhere. All the bubbles floats onto the side of the shadows cloud, and then there is a broken sail floating beneath the dark cloud and it moves away. On a longest dive on the dark below of the Harbor… there are many sunken battleships as the shadow has arrived there through all the dark bluish underwater color all around the clouds. The shadows hunts every ships using a fire spark as the light burns the bubbling water above the fire using for ability to detect any life inside the ships. Ropes go float all over, small cannons leave behind the ships including the fire with iron balls are surrounded in each severe damaged ships.
The shadows grows the clouds and seems calmly for a short time and sincerely force many broken woods by making itself aggravated. There are many long aquatic plants surrounding through the sunken ships each and including everywhere. The shadows quickly burns all the plants alive and sparks them all with more bubbles rising. It sweeps many ships whether that shadow uses a strong ability to pick up any heaviest items including boat sails and warships. The sun above, however, shines throughout the underwater like a crepuscular light. The shadow seeks the above water's light. It can seek many historical ships by touching any sunk boats where has been floated above the water. In every ships the shadow touches, a single reddish lights goes through inside of the dark fumes over it's body alike can able to summon a vision of scenes in a sinking warships carrying cannons and weapons on aboard everywhere that sunks all the way down beside the shadows. A moment on, the shadow has found a one, large, warship that has carried a massive fire dragon cannon. The War Ship sinks above the darkness shadow where it has see many tangled ropes been cut down, the sail levitates and pulls back down when the woods and heavy items of metal can drop down the largest ship quickly. The shadow moves away from the vision of a Warship sunk beside it, and then a brightest red lines over its vision has seek… a capsized ship in front of the darkness.
The shadow has now soaring below the upside down ship including many equip weapons down to the ground and also the sail waving next to the ship. The shadow figures one… summoning a spark in every War Ship's side and rises using a top to bottom to search any form of a body anywhere. Over a multiple sparks summoning throughout the underwater and searches a luck, the shadow has found a form, the dark grasps the War Ship's side and place away from the dead form where a body's form laid in with a massive fire cannon. The darkness shadow approaches softly while it grips the fire cannon, and slowly remove the weapon. Once the cannon has removed… the Peacock's form has crushed throughout the body and includes a crushed bones and a minor wounds everywhere with many cuts including a left black eye with a tearful flesh. The body of a Peacock is, however, all the bones throughout his body is crushed and broken, the lungs filled with water, and as what the shadow sparks the Peacock's life form, it knows that Lord Shen is dead.
You have accepted the fate of your own life… Son of Feng, the shadow speaks wickedly to itself to the dead peacock lies in front. Perhaps your parents has delivered you an exiled presence for many years without peace and happiness.
Multiple shadows sting Shen's feathers using a grasp.
Most of all, you have seek peace and… happiness in the end. This world does not see contentment and tranquility…
You only desire is to conquer China including the world and the people will bow before you and murder all kung fu masters… My desire, Son of Feng, is to seek my war and to show my possession power to everyone will be fear and see this world including China will burn.
Just then, the shadow's arms deliver a white flow through the stings and now enters Shen's body. Every flow repairs the peacock's bones like a crack and in the flesh flows pumping like a heart pound striking harder. Shen's eyes glows his original color and the shadow enters Shen's mind freely. Inside of Shen's vision once the shadow has entered, there are many lifetimes of his dark path including the childhood of a brightest friendships and his family living through the mountains here Shen's father was used to born and lived there before. Many blossom trees, peacock families, and children playing through the plain grasses below the summits. Before Shen was born, the two parents the father and his mother claimed Gongmen City peacefully where they were become the Royal Peacocks and ruled the city.
Shen's memory seeks his childhood wolf friend who had lost his family including home on the Wolves Village, and also the cub's mother where they both were hidden near Gongmen City in plain sights with two other wolf guards to protect them from Boars. The shadow can see the young prince hugging the wolf cub as Shen's friend was crying.
"I am so sorry about your mother, Wolfy," Young Prince Shen apologized to his childhood friend.
"I… have… nowhere else to go…" Wolf cub sobs when his voice hardens. "That big ugly Boar… the one who ruined everything... he took my mama away…"
For a moment after the shadow sees Shen's memories, he can see the young prince and the wolf cub play together outside of the Gongmen City near Tower of the Sacred Flame. And in through the such a great memories of young prince Shen and wolf cub, they are once said for their own friendships.
"I would like to thank you for me to stay home with you, Shen," the wolf cub speaks. "Even if we allow us to go anywhere where we should go to places we never gone before on that journey, we will always be best friends."
"For 'always be best friends' like that, Zhong," the young Shen speaks positively. "As long as we stay together like a family, you will always be my brother…"
Just then on a present day around dusk. Wolf Boss awakes from the bed in Tao Chin's apartment. He must have got a dream again where he confronts his childhood peacock friend Shen on his early age. His wounds around his chest that's covered with multiple bandages has been closed and nearly healed. He began to wonder Lord Shen's words back in the flashback, saying in through Wolf Boss's memory, As long as we stay together like a family, you will always be my brother, Wolf remembers Shen's childhood voice. He nearly cried once he realized that both between him and Shen were once great friends as a best part of friendships, but then Shen's parents were kept Wolf to adopt him and be part of Royal Peacock's family with Shen. They were actually… brothers.
The bunny opens the door and enters with Lin to go see Wolf Boss on the bed resting on the bed to check in with him in case he is okay.
"Ah," Tao the bunny excites gently, seeking Wolf Boss. "You must have been awake for a while, aren't you big guy?"
"I was…" Wolf Boss clears his mind. "I was just awaken in a moment ago. Where am I?"
"You are safe, my dear wolf," Tao pats Wolf's paw once the bunny climbs next to the bed. "You are in my place near Gongmen City. You were in pretty bad shape. The doctors of mine have to get off Shen's blades on your chest carefully during your eternal bleeding. I'm afraid your were nearly died from the surgery. You have lost a lot of blood."
"Where's Lord Shen," Wolf Boss reminds them both. Lin knew what happened to Shen from one of Tao's friend gave the bunny a news about the peacock been crushed into the large cannon from his fate. Wolf Boss clearly sees the bunny's eyes including Lin's too. "What happened?"
"After the battle, sir," Lin comes forward gently, speaking the truth. "While you were unconscious in a bedroom, the bunny and I have heard the news about… a former leader. The Dragon Warrior must have tried to help the peacock to convince, to change and let go of the darkest path in the past. Even then, Shen clearly refused… he's dead, sir."
"How," he shocks softly, trying not to go push too much from his closed wounds of his chest.
"The cannon has crushed down into him," Lin said truthfully. "The panda did not killed him, it was that fire drake cannon used that fate to kill him."
"Was that peacock your friend, sir," the bunny demands while he checks Wolf's wounds. Wolf Boss knew from his past that both Shen and Wolf Boss were great friends, especially as brothers for stayed together in a family. Wolf's eyes begin to tremble, and hard for his feelings to refuse holding a sadness.
"He…" Wolf Boss hardens… "He was my friend."
"I am very sorry to hear that, sir," Tao apologizes. "I know this one's very hard for you to know the news."
"Shen could have killed you," Lin speaks to Wolf Boss. "I do not know what was up to Lord Shen anyway. He literally don't care about us as wolves anymore."
"Okay," Tao opens the bandage as he looks over Wolf Boss's close wounds. "Your wounds are in a better shape now. But it will heal about five days, and possibly a little longer. I'm afraid your wounds will have to lay there on your chest forever. This is the only doctor's best close wound. And as for now, if you rise at anytime, you will feel a numbness, and still in severe pain from your chest. You'll have to stay lay low until you will begin to walk again someday after your pain is over."
"Thank you, mister," Wolf Boss nods slowly with a bit of smile. Just then, a goose comes to the door and reminds Tao by knocking on a door softly.
"Tao," the goose speaks. "Everyone in Gongmen City has invited to Master Thundering Rhino's funeral. It will be start around tonight at Kung Fu Council."
"Ok," Tao speaks once he jumps out of the bed gently after the goose leaves. The goose has already know about the two wolves earlier when Wolf Boss went back to sleep. "My daughter loved that Master," he tells them both after he turns to the wolves. "He was been dead for five days before the Furious Five's arrival. My colleagues, my wife, my daughter and I will head to Kung Fu Council to pay a respect for the great kung fu master. I'll begin to bring the lantern and some flowers and then perhaps I'll return back home to check your wounds again." Wolf Boss nods. The bunny leaves the room and goes upstairs to go see his wife and daughter in another room with the doctors.
Lin turns to his leader slowly once he remembers Wolf Boss's word "friend" to Lord Shen. He was my friend, Lin's mind reads Wolf Boss's words. Lin began through his thoughtful mind, asking himself, Why was Lord Shen and my leader become friends? Why Shen did really pierced Wolf Boss's chest for? I thought they were suppose to be pals.
"What's your name, son," Wolf Boss demands to the wolf. "I probably forgot some of our pack's name as well. You look… reminding me of recruiting the young wolves."
"My name is Lin, sir," Lin names himself. "I am the one who has been recruited in a pack with my twin brother and my old friend back in ten years ago."
"You remembered the recruitment," Wolf demands with a shock softly. Lin nods. "Wow… you have a better memory, son. I won't even remembered it in ten years ago. Tell me, what was… what was your story before the recruit?" Lin comes forward, sitting down next to Wolf Boss to have a conversation along to remember Lin's lifetime with his twin brother.
"I was born with my twin brother in a Wolves Village near the mountains," Lin tells a lifetime to his leader as Wolf Boss listens. "The place where we lived there was peace and prosperous. My brother Lee and I were in a great shape to be living with a family and cubs once there was a snow coming from the North. Lee and I were greeted to one of the greatest friends I have met in my entire lifetime once I was in a small school. For fifteen years after Lee and I were born, we were along with our childhood friend Chang on a school together to know some great artists of paintings, and I on that class was a better painter to draw the summits and plain grasses with peaceful lands of trees and cherry blossoms.
"I remember… on that day when there was a time when some Boar bandits will soon come again to have some… retaliation. On that horrific night, there was a fire coming from the forest near the village. We'd knew the Boars were coming and they were slaying many of my innocent people near the forests and also villages. There was ten of us hidden inside the school to remain out of their sight tried to kill us. We kept calm ourselves to pretend we lay dead under the broken woods once that big Boar carried an axe was coming. On a next few days, we had no food, no nothing. Just water on a lake to thirst ourselves until someone has come to rescue us.
"That wolf who came from the east, he guided us to the safety area with wolves army to live there for a while. Even though that Lee, Chang and I needed to have our own avenge for my family and friends. While we have joined you, sir, we would have journeyed through the dark forest and seize many Boar bandits for justice instead of building the cannons for Lord Shen. We needed to find that Boar leader, to put an end of this madness with a sickness lies inside of his mind. Without our plans to stop him… he will keep growing his own power of hatred towards any villages to slay the innocence in any such border."
"I'm very sorry what happened, Lin," Wolf Boss understands with an apology. "To be honest, The Wolves Village was a place where I was born long time ago."
"You were born there, sir," Lin asks widely while Wolf Boss nods.
"That village," He says as he remembers his home. "is where I used to live first before you were exist. The Wolves Village was a very pleasant place for many visitors to welcome. For rice, radishes, fruits, veggies and green teas are for great times to eat and many wolves deserve a very welcome to visitors who were been guided from far lands of China. There was… a first ambush as I remembered long time ago. The second one what you spoke about was according to your lifetime and your brother as well after the first you have not discovered my own point of view. Shen once told me that my land was under attack by Boars once he overheard his father's confrontation with the three legendary masters when I was in Gongmen City with my mother. After that ambush before my mother and I were going there, I may remember all the wolves' howl with a cry. I was a little cub when that happened.
"That Boar... the one who carried an axe... he was the one who took my mother away. I recognized him before. I believe in my old presence... there was a first ambush attack before you both were involved in a second time…"
"That seems we are equal to ourselves, sir," Lin reveals. Thinking that both twins including Lord Shen are also have a same story, but different as they are partially equal when Wolf Boss's lifetime went first from the attack, and then the twins for a second attack in years later. "For based on these attacks for a first one like your lifetime, and then mines for the second one with my brother and Chang."
"No highly doubts from your true words, Lin," Wolf Boss surprises gently. "I believe we are all connected…"
"Yes sir," Lin nods.
Just then, as they continue their conversations about their lifetimes for half an hour, Lin over thinks to himself that he needed to go home with his brother and Chang at Master Wolf's Palace where they will be train kung fu everyday.
"I wish I can see my brother and my great friend Chang right now," Lin chats to Wolf Boss. "But I just do not know where they are."
"When was the last time you saw Lee," Wolf Boss demands strongly. Lin usually told his leader about his twin brother including Chang earlier during their long life conversations.
"Last night," Lin answers honestly. "On the earliest hour in the morning during the last fight where I was leap forward to the harbor and swum across after Lee and I saw you being injured on Shen's boat. And that's why I lost my brother for awhile after I rescued you. Even though we as twins do not like losing each other like a separation. We both feared one day… that soon we will be isolated and never be seeing each other forever."
"You both will still be see each other again, Lin," Wolf Boss convince to Lin that the twins will return themselves in a meantime. "Your brother may be in Gongmen City, somewhere hiding in plain sight and he's not alone with Chang. There will be a small pack including them both will find us. But that… my right handed man should seek every buildings each from top to bottom."
"If the Kung Fu masters here finds us," Lin thinks. "Then they will send us to Gongmen Jail, or worst Chor-Ghom prison over there in a mist snowy mountains for a treason where some guy has been there for twenty years and escaped long time go as I heard rumors from the villagers back then."
"I'm sure they really hate us because we have worked Lord Shen for far too long," Wolf Boss adds. "and we have enough of that peacock's madness. I do not think they shall send us to that prison, Lin. They'll make sure they need answers from any wolves or us to explain everything what we have been through. But the point is, we are in a commitment of a crime for what we damaged everything in this city including a threat towards people with a sudden mistake in our lives."
"I know…" Lin realizes. Every wolves who worked with Shen commits a very large crime that can increase many heat for troubles and worst to Kung Fu masters and even the Emperor here in China will overhear rumor news. "Shen is the one who caused everything where we are all involved with him for years. I hope Master Wolf will pardon the masters soon if we go there, and the Emperor will maybe clear all the charges for many of us eventually."
"I wish that will happen someday," Wolf Boss believes. Next, the leader in a moment on later decides a plan to leave. "Lin, we may not be able to stay here in this apartment for few days. We'll have to leave Gongmen City and must be exiled to Master Wolf's Palace."
"But the doctor," Lin worries.
"I know," Wolf Boss gets aware. "But if he notifies Ox and Croc over there in Kung Fu Palace, then they will capture us and… I do not know they will do anything to us if we get caught. If we leave now, Lin, then we will be fugitives on a most wanted list from the Emperor if the Masters of Gongmen City will inform him. As now… we cannot get out unless your brother and other small pack of wolves will come by, must carry me and then leave Gongmen City at once…"
Wolf Boss seems wise a little. Lin and Wolf Boss does not know what will happen if they both get caught by Masters Storming Ox and Croc will seize them. There is a possible circumstance that Tao could reason to the Masters about the wolves' tragedy and needed to be beg for a pardon. Next, whether the Masters can clarify the crimes on the wolves to be pardoned for innocent or slightly be punished and send them all to the jail for a treason. The answer to that… is…
A mystery.