Creatures of darkness chapter 3
Pov Tigress.
They were holding a ceremony for the two lost at the edge of a lake.
They had lit two candles one was set in a boat with Crane's calligraphy set and the other was put in Po's favorite soup bowl along with his favorite soup ladle.
"I suppose that I should tell you all something I should've told you a long time ago." Said Mr. Ping.
They turned back to the cook.
"Po never told you what we really were did he?" he asked.
"No he didn't. What was he?" asked Shifu.
Mr. Ping chuckled. "He's a good boy. Always does what he's told."
He stood up and walked to the edge of the lake.
"What we were. We were assassins. Po was my son. He was my actual son." He said.
Then he began to change.
The feathers turned to fur.
The neck shortened.
The wings became claws.
The beak became a powerful maw.
The tail feathers became a rope like striped furry tail.
There stood a tiger of black and white.
"This is who I am. This is who we were." Said the cook.
Shifu walked toward him.
"Are you going to arrest me?" asked Mr. Ping.
Shifu stopped. "I would never dream of it."
"Good." He said.
Pov Po
Po woke with a screaming headache.
"Oooh my head." He said, clutching his temples. "I had the craziest dream."
He opened his eyes and looked around.
He was next to the wreckage of Shen's factory.
"Oh God what happened?" he asked himself.
He got up and looked at himself.
He didn't remember changing to his shadow form.
He looked around again and this time he noticed a spitting cobra about a hundred feet from him.
He ran to it, but was careful to keep his distance.
The cobra began to wake up.
"Po, is that you? Man I feel terrible." Said the snake.
"Crane, is that you?" asked Po, surprised.
"Yeah it's me. Who did you think I was? Man I had the weirdest dream last night." Said Crane.
"Aaaaah, I hate to tell you buddy, but it wasn't a dream." Said Po, speaking softly for some reason.
"What do you mean? It couldn't have been real. Besides I feel fine." That's when he looked down and realized that he didn't have any wings.
Crane began to yell and squirm.
"Crane, you need to calm down. Crane, listen to me. Just breathe." Said the tiger, patting him on the back.
Crane kept breathing heavily but eventually the black snake calmed down enough to speak.
"So, it was all real? We died? I'm a…..a…."
"A shadow lord yes. I know that sounds bad, but think about this. We have to get back to the valley as quickly as possible." Said Po.
"Why? What's the rush?" asked the cobra.
"Don't you remember? It was all real. They're probably mourning our deaths right now!" yelled Po.
Crane gasped.
He had completely forgotten.
"Let's go." Said Crane without hesitation.