We're back, and as you last read, Freddy had made a kill out of Amos Slade when he ironically entered Tod's dream in the universe of "The Fox And The Hound" and Vixey, Copper and Amos Slade unexpectedly got pulled into that dream of Tod's while they were asleep. What's ironic is, Amos Slade was one of the more deserving victims who failed to survive Freddy's onslaught, but such rankings of deserving or not deserving a grisly death make no difference to someone as fiendish as Freddy Krueger. Anyhow, now that he's done with the universe of "The Fox And The Hound", at least for the time being, anyway, Freddy's next stop is to be the Kung Fu Panda universe, and his latest of targets is no less than one Master Tigress. She is very hard to scare, if even possible, but can this and all of her talents and intelligence be enough to make it so that she survives her unexpected encounter with Freddy? Or will she be the newest of girls he sends to the grave? And will it be just her he tries to take the life of in this dream, for that matter? Know the answers by reading the chapter ahead of you!
THINGS TO NOTE:
This story takes place about two years after the events of Kung Fu Panda 2. Furthermore, I discount anything that's said to be part of the Kung Fu Panda franchise after that movie(and for good reason, especially since it's clearly just a bunch of hallucinations disguised as actual parts of the franchises/real entertainment)and, as a result, this is a post-series kind of KFP story.
I own none of the characters. They all belong to their respective franchises.
Freddy Krueger's Otherworldly Trips
Chapter 27-Tigress, Tigress, Bloody Night
At the Jade Palace, and in Peace Valley in general, it was a beautiful night. In more ways than one, as a matter of fact.
After all, besides how things were far more prosperous and safe in Peace Valley than they had been in a long time, there was also how, before they fully became that way, the Jade Palace had a new/returned member and Peace Valley a new protector.
For Tai Lung, as it turned out, had survived being defeated by Po, and his eyes had been opened as to what he'd become by that defeat. Laying low but doing everything he could to atone for his past wrongs and achieve redemption, he eventually managed to fully pull it off after a long time and series of events, deeds and happenstances(too many to list here).
Of course, for obvious reasons, he had to stay discreet while doing so and make sure that no one who knew about his ignoble past saw him, but he was successful in that as much as he was in redeeming himself, though neither was any easy task, also for obvious reasons.
Anyway, after he was certain he'd undone his previous misdeeds and the damage thereof, he presented himself both to Peace Valley and the Jade Palace, making it clear that he was willing to accept a second chance if it he would be granted that, and if not, he would simply be a lone warrior of a solitary hero. The inhabitants of Peace Valley, as well as the residents of Jade Palace, knew that the decision would have to be Shifu's, all things considered.
And Shifu could see the sincerity of Tai Lung's having cleaned up his act and turned things around, as well as that the adopted son he once knew was now back again. So he granted Tai Lung a second chance and allowed him to rejoin the Jade Palace. Once back in there, the first thing Tai Lung did was hug his old master and adopted father and vice versa, then the snow leopard shook Po's hand and thanked the panda for giving him a much-needed eye opening with what had happened in the aftermath of their battle.
A short while after this happened and Tai Lung had rejoined the place he once called home and now would call home again, things had become fully as they were now and Peace Valley was essentially a utopia. A bit of time after that, and we're brought to where we are now, the way that this of course was all before the current day, or actually, the current night, that we are focusing on. The beautiful night I spoke of before.
Everyone had gotten ready for bed and was just about to get into their respective rooms and beds therein, and really, everyone but Tigress, Tai Lung and Crane had done so by this point. Crane, however, was about to before either feline, but he suddenly noticed Tigress saying: "Tai Lung? Before you get to bed, there's something I'd like to tell you."
Tai Lung nodded and Tigress said: "Although beforehand I just tolerated your presence here and treated you with as much proper respect as I would anyone, now that it's been more than a bit since you rejoined here and lived with us…" Crane could tell where this was going, and, being as mature and respectful to his friends as he was, he simply slipped away from sight and went to bed unnoticed by either cat.
After that happened, it was when Tigress told Tai Lung: "…I want to tell you that you've grown on me and the past is, in every way, in the past now. Since we were both adopted by Shifu as cubs, I can accurately, at least technically so, anyway, say that it's good to have you as my elder brother, rather than my enemy."
Tai Lung nodded, and replied: "And, for those very same reasons and for how I've come to see beyond the fierce fighter as far as things go with you, I can safely say that I'm glad you're now my younger sister, and not my adversary." Tigress nodded and they hugged each other. Just after this was finished, they said: "Good night, foster sibling of mine." serenely to one another in unison, and subsequently went to the rooms where they slept at night.
Tai Lung was in his bed and asleep just a little bit before Tigress was, but after Tigress was sound asleep, which everyone had been before her, she found herself on the roof of some kind of martial arts dojo in a dark, chilled, slightly windy night. She said: "What the fuck? I'm on a martial arts dojo roof, of all fucking places? I thought I fell asleep in my bed just now!" A second after she said these words, though?
She was presented with various evil spirits like you'd expect to see in myths told in ancient China and they all chanted the very words they formed with their spiritual powers: "One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You! Three, Four, You Must Lock Your Door! Five, Six, Get Your Crucifix! Seven, Eight, Better Stay Up Late! Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again!"
"Holy shit. This can't be good." Tigress said, realizing that she was unquestionably in a lot of danger just now. "I don't know who the fuck this Freddy is, but from what I've seen, he's got to be someone evil and dangerous." Then she saw Freddy drop down in front of her on the roof she stood on, dressed in a samurai armor version of his signature clothes, with only his well known glove still remaining of what he was best known for wearing.
"More like someone satanic and deadly, bitch!" he laughed. "The Freddy who you've just fucking learned of is Freddy Krueger. ME! And I'm here to fucking kill you, Master Tigress, you feline cunt! Oh, hell yeah, I'm goddamn gonna make a fucking rug outta your ass!" "Not if I kick your fucking ass first, Krueger!" Tigress snarled. She posed to fight and Freddy said: "Ah, ever the fighter and warrior! I like that!" Freddy grinned.
He then turned his glove into a long samurai sword and formed another long samurai sword at Tigress's feet. He pointed to it, making Tigress look down, see the sword and pick it up, knowing what was going to happen, the way she was quite intelligent and all. Tigress got it into a proper position for use in battle, and Freddy did the same with his own sword, saying after he did so: "Let's do this, fleabag!"
"Yes, let's, crater face!" Tigress replied before, in the next instant, their swords were very swiftly and very strongly clashing and clanging against each other. Both combatants did quite a lot of impressive, skilled and/or sudden moves, with them getting a cut of some kind in upon one another almost as often as they blocked and/or dodged each other's strokes of sword. Mind you, since they were doing everything they could not to let their opponent gain the advantage, the hits scored by either always ended up in a non-vital spot and/or being done in a way that would only wound and not kill despite how both wanted to kill the other.
Needless to say, it was quite a long-ass fucking swordfight, but after a while of it, Freddy suddenly gained the upper hand when he caused the blade of his sword to slice the one that was on Tigress's clean in half, then he cut off the rest of it with a backwards swing of his sword. He a second later quipped: "You put up one hell of a good fight, stripes, but ultimately, things had to become SWORD-DEAD for you here! After all, this is my fucking element! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Following that, he tried to chop her in half, but Tigress jumped out of the way in time so that he only managed to cut off the tip of her tail. Even so, it hurt like hell, and although Tigress would not lose enough blood to die or pass out, she was bleeding more than a little bit, and let out in pain: "E-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! YOU MAIMED MY FUCKING TAIL, YOU BASTARD!" just after landing on the other side of her assailant.
Turning around after that, she saw Freddy do the same, and Freddy would then say: "And that's just the fucking start of this shit, bitch. Your tail will be the least of your problems after I've made catgut, or should I say tiger-gut, out of you!" He stabbed her through the right shoulder and pulled out his sword, causing Tigress to fall onto her side and roar out in agony. A second thereafter, Freddy turned that sword back into his glove, only with the blades replaced by four sai daggers.
Tigress, while she struggled with how much she was bleeding from her shoulder along with her tail now, looked up to see Freddy say to her: "Okay, orange, black, white and red all over. Try this on for SAIS." Then he slashed her vertically up the belly and down the back just as vertically, with Tigress's awful wounds making it so that attacks she could normally evade with ease were able to tag her dead on here.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!" Tigress screeched, and then an incredibly cruel and sadistic one-liner from Freddy came out as: "Got a gut feeling that ya really should've just backed off when you had the fucking chance, bitch?" He turned his glove back to normal and did a stomp on the roof which shattered it and sent both him and Tigress falling into the martial arts dojo itself.
After they landed, although Freddy on his feet and Tigress on her side, with the latter at once going: "UNNNNNNNNNF!" as she landed on that region, Freddy went out to her: "Okay, enough rooftop roughhousing! Now it's time to have ourselves a little internal conflict! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!" Suddenly, Freddy saw Tai Lung and Crane standing a few feet behind her, much to his surprise, and Tigress heard both of them speak one after another from behind her, much to her own surprise.
Tai Lung said: "Crane, this isn't the Jade Palace. Where are we? Weren't we just asleep in our bedrooms?" "Yeah, but I honestly don't know what the hell happened, nor where the hell we goddamn got taken to just now!" Crane replied. Suddenly, they saw the injured Tigress on the floor. "TIGRESS!" they cried out in unison. "Dear God!" Crane let out, and Tai Lung added on in: "Holy shit! What the fuck has been done to you?!"
"My injury-inflicting talents, that's what!" Freddy boomed, causing Crane and Tai Lung to look at him most instantaneously. "And she's going to receive more of them until she fucking dies, not to motherfucking mention that I intend to deal easily as much damage, pain and blood loss to the two of you newcomers! Wasn't expecting that you fuckers would show up in this here goddamn dream, but now I get to nastily kill off three kung fu warriors instead of one! Hot dog! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"NOT IN SIX TRILLION FUCKING EONS, KRUEGER!" Tigress exploded as she then pushed herself back up. "Krueger?" asked Tai Lung and Crane together, a bit confused just now. A second later, Tigress explained: "This guy apparently goes by the name of Freddy Krueger, since that's what he calls himself." "Got it." Tai Lung acknowledged. "Gotcha." Crane nodded. In the next instant, all three of them were posed to fight, and Tai Lung asked: "So, you think you can defeat all three of us at the same fucking time, asshole?"
"If so, let us prove you dead wrong!" Crane added on in. "OOOOOOH, won't this be one hell of a blast and a fucking hoot?" Freddy snickered. "Three against one, and I win with ease!" "Fuck that noise!" Tigress spat, ignoring the pain of her injuries and focusing on what had to be concentrated on right here and now. "Okay, motherfucker, let's dance!"
"You know," Freddy said, "a teenage girl very similar to you said something real similar to that back in my own universe. Taryn, I think her name was. Yeah, that's right. I KILLED OFF HER SORRY BITCH ASS, TOO!" But Tigress, Tai Lung and Crane all ran and flipped on the fuck forward towards Freddy and tackled him mercilessly as much as brutally, landing load after load of punches, elbows, kicks, open-handed hits, knees, bites, strangling attacks, holds, throws and, in the cases of Tai Lung and Tigress, claw slashing assaults.
Of course, the latter rarely used her claws in combat, but this was far too serious to allow for any such restrictions. After all, the three of them were fighting for their lives here, and against an opponent who they'd never encountered before, as well as one who was clearly quite a significant danger, as they could tell by this point. But while they seemed to have Freddy's number for a time, with Freddy going out: "EYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" it would not remain that way.
For, just after Tai Lung said: "We're doing it! We're beating this bastard!" and Tigress put in: "True, but don't pause even for so much as a fucking second! He still isn't fully defeated yet!" with Crane adding: "And only when he's thoroughly taken out can we stop fighting with the knowledge that this fucked-up son of a bitch is no more!" Freddy caused various martial arts weapons to fly off of the walls of the martial arts dojo and batter, cut and severely harm all three of his adversaries and intended victims.
"NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!" all three of them screeched and yowled in unison from the excruciating way it felt and how a lot of blood got spilled out of them from the horrific barrage, and in the next instant, Freddy knocked them off of him and onto the floor, right before standing back up. He told them: "You fight well, I'll give you that. But I fight like nothing else!"
He subsequently ran up to them and used two of his glove blades to cut Crane's wings off in a scissor-like fashion, and although he wasn't killed or mortally wounded, he was still hurt bad, and especially since it hurt like hell. "E-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Crane screamed. Freddy then said: "You'll also be put through pain like nothing else as I fucking send your sorry asses the fuck down to hell! First off, I'm clipping your wings, Crane!"
After that, he ran over to Tai Lung and slashed him down the back, then down the front and at last down the sides. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHHHHH!" Tai Lung cried out, and Freddy then stated: "I'm guessing, snow leopard shithead, that I was spot on in terms of motherfucking making the fucking cut just now!" Finally, he turned to Tigress, his original target in all this, a second before dashing over to her.
This was to be followed by how he ripped her sides open with his signature glove blades, first the right side and then the left, and after Tigress roared aloud in her excruciation, Freddy let loose: "Okay, bitch, now this shit fucking ends like it fucking started! With me and you! I'll kill you and have what I fucking use to goddamn do so be applied to your pals! First, I cause a little disruption in the rhythm of your heartbeat so that…"
Before Freddy could finish his sentence, though, and, I should add, before he could begin the action that would prove to be the end of Tigress, Tai Lung and Crane, all three of his intended victims woke up. They were all on the floor of Master Shifu's room, and saw that both he and everyone else who lived in the Jade Palace were in that room, looking right at them with a massive mixture of considerable concern and equally considerable confusion, as well as how they seemed to be a bit fatigued for some reason.
"Master Shifu? Po? Viper? Monkey? Mantis?" asked Tigress. Tai Lung then added on in: "Where did the five of you come from? Where did Freddy go? Why does this look like Shifu's room?" Suddenly, Tai Lung caught on, being as smart as he was, and said: "This IS Shifu's room, isn't it?" "Indeed, it is my room." Shifu replied. "But beyond that, what in God's name has happened to you three? Even in the most intense battles ever fought, I've never seen any of you with injuries this severe and grievous!"
"It's a very long story, Master." Crane replied, speaking for himself and his two cat comrades when he said this. "No surprise there, the way that we had to drag you guys out of bed when we heard you thrashing about and entered your rooms to see you bleeding horribly!" Po put across. "It was, in fact, only when we shook you a lot while taking you to this room that you got woken up from whatever obviously perilous nightmare you were having!" stated Monkey.
"Well, we thank you for saving our lives," Tigress said, speaking for herself, Tai Lung and Crane alike in uttering these words, "but, as much as I wish I could say otherwise, this shit isn't fucking over yet. We have a lot that we need to fill you in on here." "Yeah, I could kind of tell by the job that's been done on you." Viper commented. "Those wounds and injures are going to need treatment, by the way."
"How about this…I'll get the supplies needed to tend to their injuries, wounds and the like, and while I'm gone, you all learn from them what happened and explain it to me once I've gotten back?" Shifu suggested. "Sounds like a plan. A lot of means of treatment are going to be needed for this sort of bodily damage, anyway." Mantis said. The others just nodded. So Shifu a second later went for where he kept his medical supplies, tools, accessories and the like, and as it happened, Viper said: "Okay, you three. We need to hear everything that happened after you went to sleep and before we woke you up, with not one iota of anything left out."
Tigress, Tai Lung and Crane nodded, and also agreed with each other to take turns at each part of what they were going to inform their friends. But this is where we leave the KFP universe and go back on over to the original universe where Freddy's from, and specifically to his throne room in his original nightmare world kingdom of dreamland. Entering into the boiler room and throne room combination was one very livid, angry and enraged Freddy, said fury of course stemming from the fact that he'd not managed a single kill this time.
Freddy was fuming out: "FUCK THIS SHIT! FUCK THIS NOISE! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT! FUCK IT, FUCK IT, FUCK IT, FUCK IT, FUCK IT! CRAP, CRAP, CRAP! SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT! DAMN IT ALL TO FUCKING HELL! I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING CRAP! THREE POSSIBLE-ASS FUCKING KILLS TO MOTHERFUCKING MAKE, AND I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE SO MOTHERFUCKING MUCH AS ONE IN THE FUCKING END, ALL BECAUSE DAMN FORTUNE HAD TO FUCKING FAVOR THEM AND MAKE THEM AWAKEN TO LIVE IN THE END, AND WHEN I WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO SEEING ALL THREE OF THEM DEAD, TOO! FUCK YOU, FORTUNE! FUCK YOU, FATE! FUCK YOU, THOSE OF YOU WHO PLAYED A FUCKING PART IN WAKING UP MY THREE VICTIMS TO BE, AND FUCK YOU, ALL THREE OF THOSE WOULD BE VICTIMS OF MINE!"
He slammed himself the fuck back down into his fucking chair throne, but after he let his furious feelings abate enough so that he could think straight and focus on the continuation of his long line of trips for new targets, he stood back up and walked over to his orb, uttering after he picked it up off of its resting spot: "Orb, it's time for you to get to work again! I want you to show to me where I'm taking a trip to next!"
The orb was, as always, plenty obedient, and Freddy saw where his next stop was going to be. "Well, now, I'm on my way to the Frozen universe, it looks like. And it seems the one I'm going to be entering the dream of is literal beauty queen and cyromancer femme fatale Elsa! Cool! And especially when one considers, well, why not? It's a nice counterbalance to my being a guy who's also a monster partially created by fire! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
No sooner did he finish letting these words leave his mouth than did he see a portal that would lead him to where he now meant to go. He put the orb back in place and walked right on through that portal. Was Elsa going to get as lucky as Tigress, Tai Lung and Crane recently did and live to tell about how she had a near-death experience with a shameless monster like Freddy Krueger? Or were even her ice powers and intellectual talents not going to prove sufficient to save her from dying one hell of a horrible death, with or without Freddy trying to bring back the fear she worked so hard to rid herself of in order to add to his power and use said fear against her? Find out when you read the chapter which follows this one. Oh, and speaking of this one, I would like you to give it ratings and/or reviews, please!
END OF CHAPTER 27
I'm hoping, readers, that this was an enjoyable read for the lot of you. It's about time we had another chapter where Freddy fails to make a single kill, the way he's been making multiple ones in varying amounts as of late previously, as the last two chapters of this tale are a testament to. So Tigress survives her ordeal of a nightmare, and so do Tai Lung and Crane, although this is still far from over for them and everyone in the Jade Palace, and everyone in Peace Valley and the rest of KFP universe China, for that matter. Especially since, be it in this universe or any of the other ones he means to make that orb take him to, Freddy is far from finished with his new victim attacking spree. As you also learned at the end of this chapter, his subsequent visit will be to the Frozen universe, and specifically into Elsa's dream(to fulfill a request made a while back by one of the reviewers of this story, Villain84, to be precise). I'm doing it this way because the request in question had either Anna or Elsa from that movie as part of it(other characters from other franchises, too, but I chose the Frozen universe)and, besides how I like Elsa the best of all the Frozen characters, she would have the most of a fighting chance against Freddy due to her ice, cold, snow, freezing and the like powers. And so, that's the next of chapters that follows up on this one! Will Elsa be able to put Freddy on ice or at least prove cool enough to make it through her encounter with him alive? Or will Freddy send her right into the cold sleep of death in an even worse way than her parents were sent into that icy state of lifelessness? Know by how you read the next chapter, and please do rate and review this one!
