The Phantom of the Snow Leopard 2: The Return

Chapter 5: Finding The Second Sapphire

We see Tai Lung and the others continue to walk in the cave until nearly ten minutes later, after we see Ryshu spying on them so they could lead him to a room that has a second sapphire, they've come across an ancient old door covered with cobwebs and dust everywhere. Tigress then opens it and they've found another room filled with spikes and arrows covered with cobwebs as well. They also see a giant shadow above them much to Tai Lung's curiosity.

"Whoever that shadow belongs to...", whispered Tai Lung, "It could be a creature or some kind. We have to be careful, friends. It's apparently asleep."

"You go first getting to that sapphire, Tai Lung", said Leona quietly, "We'll be right here in case you need some help."

"But, be careful", said Tai Mao, "And when you see the ancient prophecy, tell us what it is. Understand?"

Tai Lung nods his head and walks a few steps quietly trying to avoid the cracks that seems to be on the bridge for quite a long time. Meanwhile, we see Ryshu entering the room and quickly hides behind a boulder without being seen by Tigress, who has a sense of hearing, but when she turned around, she did not see the treasure hunter. As Tai Lung continues to walk on the cracked bridge, he becomes distracted by the light of the second sapphire which also resembles a snow leopard and the snow leopard starts to have visions again this time about his mother putting him near the steps to the training room at the Jade Palace.

"Mama..." cooed baby Tai Lung.

"It's alright now, love", said Tai Lung's mother quietly, "You'll be safe here from now on. I promise you, my son. When you return as a good person and have been all grown up, you will stay with us forever until the end. Farewell, my son."

"Mama", shouted baby Tai Lung, "MAMA!"

Then, we cut back to Tai Lung as he walks towards the second sapphire on the stone wall. He sees the snow leopard resembling sapphire and quickly takes it out of the stone wall.

"So, you think you could outsmart me by giving me visions about my parents, are you?", said Tai Lung darkly, "I am the Phantom of the Opera and I will not be fooled that easily since I've attempted to get over those visions. How do you like that? AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

"We can hear you, Tai Lung!", said Tigress from the edge of the bridge.

"And be quiet!", said Leona, "The monster will sure to wake up quite soon!"

Suddenly, as Tai Lung begins to run back to the where the others are at, a monster appears and stops the snow leopard from reaching them. That creature happens to be a lizard-like dragon as it attempts to kill him.

"Tai Lung!", shouted Tigress and tries to save him, but Tai Mao holds her back.

"You'll be killed too!", said Tai Mao.

"He's my husband!", said Tigress, "There has to be something I can do!"

"Just let him handle it by himself!", said Tai Mao, "He knows what he's doing."

Tai Lung tries to fight the dragon but is quickly beaten to the ground and the second sapphire falls from his hand near the edge of the stone wall. As the dragon is about to kill the snow leopard, Tai Lung quickly dodges his tail and quickly grabs the second sapphire. As Tai Lung quickly charges towards the dragon, a beam of light came from the sapphire and hits it in the chest, spreading some blood in the process. Then, the dragon dies after Tai Lung lands on the ground safely. He looks at the sapphire, confused.

"How did it do that?", asked Tai Lung.

"He killed the dragon", said Leona, "But how?"

"It is said that only a snow leopard can use that sapphire to defeat the dragon", explained Tai Mao.

"I can't believe he did it", said Otar.

Then, Ryshu appears and knocks out Tigress before capturing Leona, but Otar knocks the treasure hunter out with his beak, causing him to growl in pain. It gives enough time for Tai Lung to run towards the others.

"Ryshu's here, isn't he?", asked Tai Lung.

"Yes", said Ryshu and and attempts to grab Tai Lung only to be held back by Tai Mao, "I knew I'd find all of you here! Now give me the sapphire!"

"Over our dead bodies!", said Leona.

Ryshu claws Tai Mao and grabs Tai Lung before he could claw him. The snow leopard, however, fights back and claws the treasure hunter in the face.

"Guys, run!", shouted Tai Lung and Tigress and the others ran as fast as they could while Tai Lung tries to hold Ryshu back. The fight continues and after a few scratches from Ryshu in the legs, Tai Lung ends the battle by punching him in the face, thus knocking him unconscious. Then, Tai Lung walks towards him and whispers something in his ear.

"Now, who's a freak?", whispered Tai Lung darkly and after he takes the other sapphire, he chuckles manically to himsel before he leaves. Ryshu slowly wakes up and glares at the Phantom.

"You'll pay for this!", sneered Ryshu and the panther roars so loudly it causes all of the stones to fall, but that didn't stop Tai Lung from running as fast as he could to get out of the cave. We see Tigress and the others outside to see Tai Lung running towards them, but he did not ran into them. The snow leopard takes out the first two sapphires to show the others.

"The two sapphires of Kudoha", said Leona, "Never and I mean, never have I seen a leopard so brave to take those two from such a legendary clan."

"One more to go", said Otar.

Tai Lung looks at the two sapphires before he and the others walked with each other. We cut back to the Jade Palace where we see Shifu meditating, trying to sense Tai Lung's movements on his journey with Tigress.

"Well done, Tai Lung", said Shifu, "Find the third sapphire and you will save the world from disaster and chaos."

Po and the others are hiding behind a door, watching Shifu, but did not notice that Shifu has heard their presence.

"Alright, students", said Shifu, "I know that you five are in here."

Then, Po and the others walked towards their kung fu master before Shifu can open his eyes.

"Sorry, master", said Po, "We were just trying to see what you were doing."

"Seems to me that Tai Lung is still doing fine", said Shifu, "He also made some new friends as well. One of them is strangely in love with him."

"But I thought that Tai Lung married Tigress", said Mantis.

"Of course he did", said Shifu, "But something in my mind tells me that there is another snow leopard, but with a much different face compared to his. I wonder who that snow leopard is?"

"We'll be sure to find out, master", said Viper, "Isn't there something we can do to see that nothing bad ever happens to him and Tigress?"

"There's no need to worry about that", said Shifu, "The only thing that we need to worry is that Tai Lung is on a new quest that will bring him to something important other than finding the three sapphires of Kudoha."

"What kind of quest is it, master?", asked Crane.

"The new quest Tai Lung's taking", explained Shifu, "is this: An attempt to find his family of the same race as he is."

Po and the others gasped in shock.

"Tai Lung...", said Monkey, "has a family?"

"How?", asked Crane, "How could Tai Lung have a family when you had him as his son?"

"I did not know who their parents were to begin with, sadly", said Shifu.

"Then, why did you tell us about this clan, the three sapphires, and this Kudoha guy?", asked Po curiously.

"To me, Po, they were the ancestors of Tai Lung", explained Shifu, "Which reminds me. Tai Lung is having a new power that will make him into a new legend."

Po and Crane looked at each other for a while and the bird spoke.

"You mean...", said Crane.

"Yes, Crane", said Shifu, "Tai Lung will sure to be reunited with his family and when he does... he will be the new leader of his ancestors."

"Wow", said Po, "Tai Lung. A new god. That's... cool! No wonder we were made for our ancestors!"

"Indeed, Po", said Shifu, "Let us hope that Tai Lung will sure to succeed in fulfilling that legend."

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