Episode Four: The Lord and Prince ( 17 - 20 )


Chapter XVII

Kong Bai Tournament

I. Preamble

Xing's PoV

Midday

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into the cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into the bottle, and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, and it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973)

Softness dry wind.

Summer drifts the peace.

The cheer lies on the tournament.

The massive tournament colors into gray bricks, filling with pride, and brand banners with markings of martial arts posters elsewhere. Cheering villagers and warriors from around of all China, vasts onto surrounding Kong Bai Stadium sides of every seat. What an amazing day. I have never seen how this stadium looked enormous like the one time my grandmother saw her favorite wrestler name Kwan the Unkillable, the ram what my grandmother once spoke to me, Lotus and Lao before, was an outstanding kung fu fighter.

This confetti swarmed like water flow through the ocean of dry wind; popped with fireworks in which many of children having fun with the infinite merriment of friendship towards other children to play shortly before the match. This arena is perfect. What confetti with fireworks summon with many dragons is what reminded me of Po's first time of being a new Dragon Warrior himself by Oogway's future, the past, and present.

The Righteous sweeps through the entrance as the percussionists roll any size drums as all seven students form their chi introduction. One as swimming dragon form kung fu, the other wings embarked above the wind, and most can use tai chi forms like make-in contact thing that I shall likely to apply knowledge from Master Sheep, or my new lion friend Shujaa.

By the next of our turn, the Nine shall use kung fu for honoring Oogway that he created martial arts before my great ancestor forged Wing Chun to herself. We all wear regular blue silk robe to plenty of us, then a navy trouser for Shou, and blue kilt armor waist for all three Niu, Bao, and Zhao. During our presentation, I prefer both the tiger and dragon form with multiple soft flows around my arms, then impacting straightforward. Lao could do flying abilities of Crane to honor as future kung fu master. Lotus spirals her body with blue silk vest with and silk sash she wields. Hong with her two Sai combinations, both reptiles Zhao form chi, and Fanshe with slithering subtlety, then all three Heavyweight students Bao, Niu, and Shou wielded their weapons with two axes, two butterfly swords, and one sword.

With the winds spoke from Lao's wings, everyone adores the kind of feathers what my brother was perfectly balanced his gliding air in which Master Crane did advise Lao to remain a focus of air like water instead of pushing harder. While most of us finished our introduction of honoring kung fu for Oogway by my grandmother's presentation, both Lotus and I combined our kung fu defensive and attacking forms, including chi sao.

At last, with such happy and joyful noises of a cry, the Furious Five and Dragon Warrior have arrived with a new welcome of introduction. The very best of Masters on all of China to protect Valley of Peace with an oath, and famous of Oogway's great grand students, created by both tortoise and Shifu themselves. The the tiger form of controlling arms sounded like impacted water, the balance with spread wings, speaking like air, the four hands and standing tail, "thingies," and deadliest speed reflex with shaky tail sounded like whispering reptiles.

Such amazement to see all six masters are here to bring "justice" towards the Righteous and us. This arena is the tournament, Po. Not to judge and stop anyone's play. We all knew that panda could do amusement, and always immature. But that is okay; we are all into naive to most of anyone who can act like childish some other time. Their introduction has brought us outstanding applause, and so to audiences everywhere.

"This was a bit smaller than I used to come over one time." Po pointed as the bear excited his predicting voice. "Now this stadium's much bigger!"

If I were on Po's younger age to see this stadium we are here by now, then I should have foreseen how smaller and reputation of Kwan the Unkillable that shall never forget on that fantastic day where Dragon Warrior was here when younger.

"Oh my Gosh!" Po's hyper arises while the Nine and I were urgently told ourselves about forms we will image to all audiences, the judges, masters, and Emperor Huangdi. "Guys! Kwan the Unkillable is here!"

What? Is the ram here? I gaze through the chairman temple beside on the middle of the terrace. These elder masters especially Shifu and my grandmother have visited a brown fur with two large ram horns. The ram waves to Dragon Warrior by far over the temple. "Masters of Gongmen are here!" Po points Niu's father, by that Ox's right side of Shifu and front of Kwan, is Master Croc. Most of the masters are the judges, and the others like Masters Bear and Chicken, sitting on Emperor Huangdi's side with Shifu and Ming. "Everyone's here!"

"Don't forget that Peng's here with Lian and their kids right next to your two dads and your whole panda family." Tigress points the front right of the terrace.

The front right side fills with hundreds of pandas cheering, while there is a small, form where a snow leopard family of Peng's sits there with someone along their two cubs. I could barely see Po's two dads with Mei Mei, and so to plenty of pandas like the twin brothers, I recognize them both. These banners on what could most everyone carries detail in Dragon Warrior, and Furious Five team, plenty of other terrains are Seventh Righteous teams, and lastly quite four grounds behind us are ours from the Prosper Valley, then Musician Village.

"Mei Ling!" Crane squeaks wildly with a waving hello to one of the right sides of the terrain.

I have read one of Crane's biography before from the history of Furious Five by Shifu. He was a janitor at Lee Da Kung Fu Academy where his job was to clean instead fitting in kung fu when some boss of Crane's was a lack worker of seeking him as greatness. Crane saw a female leopard which is a close friend, and one of Lee Da Kung Fu Academy's most celebrated student. While Crane did enter some advanced training area with deadliest weapons to avoid like a try hard, his old friend Mei Ling and the rest of Lee Da students were astounded of him that how Crane did accomplish to capture the red flag without realized with a confidant.

These people may have met the Furious Five before Mei Ling I never met her, but Crane mentioned to me he once spoke with my peacock brother Lao. The Emperor above the temple gestured his signal of palming above the air to serene everyone's cheer.

"Greetings, my fellow people of China!" Huangdi praises. "The time has come to prove all three classes of martial arts which shall face themselves to seek challenge! Featuring: Tai Chi martial artists, the Seventh Righteous! Mui Tan Huang's Wing Chun martial artists: Fellowship of the Nine! And Master Oogway's Kung Fu martial artists: Dragon Warrior and Furious Five!"

I knew everyone around the stadium cheers their joy as the beam light impacted their hearts, knowing how they see famous kung fu masters, and banners gripped on plenty of sides where villagers wrote Jade Palace, then Fellowship, names like I read: Go Dragon Warrior! Tigress Hardcore! Fellowship masters! Righteous Warriors!

"The coins will able to take turns!" Huangdi utters as the water bull summoned his red and green coin. Green for Righteous, and Gold for Jade Palace masters. Once the first coin whirls like a rustling leaf, the color of Tai Chi lands. The next medal goes the same as Jade Palace, the Blue beside the gold represents the Fellowship. That second coin rotates like a dry wind. We expect to hear what Emperor Huangdi above the Temple are waiting to see which gold or blue lands—

Blue.

It's the Nine's turn. Time to shove the Righteous! It's going to be a great Tournament battle!


II. Demonstration Forms

A beautiful form. Any form images an apparition of the creation of any martial artists are unbreakable, and meaning of life, peace, and stopping the war. Tai Chi? Energy flow, and supreme ultimate boxing. Wing Chun? Eternal Springtime. And Kung Fu? Achievement. My grandmother could read all the scrolls of philosophy in which I must learn hundreds of decorations from all the ancestors of Wing Chun masters and even Mui Tan Huang's ordinary life of beyond importance by becoming water as a character. There is one, and simple philosophy onto one of the scrolls I must discover from Master Ming's ancestor scrolls. There is a saying:

He who excels as a warrior does not appear formidable.

One who excels in fighting is never aroused in anger.

One who excels in defeating his enemy does not join issues.

One who excels in employing others humbles himself before them.

This is the virtue of non-contention and matching the sublimity of heaven.

Master Shifu has thousands of scrolls from Oogway's philosophy of kung fu. The Nine would love to read Oogway's manuscripts. Frankly, thousands of scriptures to read would take years to apply meaning and decipher instead the easiest way to answer. Any could be about peafowls and could be more of how heroic of masters were, and any would much likely to discover the importance of martial arts passed by ancestors, even the creator of kung fu Oogway himself.

The Nine and Furious Five are the most massive ring to the side as we all gaze to the Righteous students embarking their form of Tai Chi. Their arms and whole body were absolute softened as predictable without compromising. Water like waves, crumbled like a stroking quake and calmful as the soft rain. Their focus: Hybrid, defensive training, and creative energy. In every eight minutes of demonstration, one in three classes must show any form to take turns, and give an image of details to the audiences.

As our immediate turn from the Emperor, the Nine demonstrates the first form of Wing Chun. I shall likely embark the right path as my grandmother taught me millions of times for years to acknowledge movement, agility with striking and grappling with the most of trapping enemies. Sil Lim Tao. The vital role of the first form, the focus of strikes, the focus of close range. Our horse stance in between close of thighs is much better strength without losing balance when an opponent tries to oppose the horse stance. While any kicks toward it, the horse stance becomes impenetrable as ice.

Multiple straight punches like water, flowing bridges like the air guides the arm with impacting palms. My grandmother's voice remarkably reminds of my recall during the Nine's Sil Lim Tao demonstration. Remember, my dear Xing. Attacking and defending at the same time can confuse the enemy's advantage during close encounter combat situation. Your brother Lao could not use his wings to pound, however. He can only deflect arms, enabling kicks to oppose, and must balance his any two legs to remain on the course during horse stance.


III. Wing Chun vs. Tai Chi

Shou vs. Kasi

Yak pirate. Panther raajakumaaree (princess). Both substantial warriors of Wing Chun for Shou's Baat Jam Do, and Tai Chi for Kasi's serenity strength. Once the bull has entered the ring, Kasi could consider some rumor about Kai's return from ten annuals earlier. That, the audiences believe that most seek Shou's horns are not enormous than Maker's. Kasi's decorated fashions removed by the authority of Tournament's rule of not to wear anything accessories like rings, necklaces.

Both warriors bend themselves toward Huangdi above the Temple with masters and judges. Each warrior must do a highly influential role of respective bow after anyone will enter the ring. Next, four eyes the yak and panther see themselves as the referee's red flag detailed with a gold dragon, pointed one on each side. Kasi's bow, then Shou's bend. The red flag sweeps in the middle, and the match begins.

"Big Pirate. You're tall!" Kasi describes the young bull as her flowing chi water form summons. "Tai Chi; Kasi."

"Beautiful panther princess, ye be." Shou complements the princess, spreading his horse stance feet and guards up ahead of his chest. "Wing Chun; Shou."

Round One: No weapons added after the match embarks. Shou's strength of horse stance remains still as the yak used his guard of fook sao in the middle, while Kasi sweeps the arm using one of Tai Chi's demonstration of water impacting. Panther's arm contacts Shou's bridge; the bull counters her attack with combo defensive bong sao with knife palm near Kasi's throat. Kasi avoids the palm, however. She spun her kick like a sweeping mop as the yak immediately leaped above the ring.

The panther spreads her soft arms that she could extend, and her feet may balance while I could notice Kasi's awaiting attack by Shou's next move of enhancing. The Bull Pirate steps in to engage, and Kasi goes aware of Shou's engagement contact of bridge arms. I sight the pirate's easily basic blocks of fook sao, and so forth enabling Pak sao over panther's wrist with a rapid punch on the right hand. The score points for Shou.

Round Two: Kasi vertical punched through Shou's chest with her palm she could not use claws alike Tigress. Both yak and panther stayed balance as Shou focused Kasi's movement, and he summoned Jan fan kick to block her front kick. More than punches landed to their feet, Kasi sweeps the floor with a spin kick below. Shou nearly avoided that surprise attack; Kasi used some impacted strike onto Shou's throat, and side kicked onto yak's left leg. Score point for the princess.

Round Three: The match begins as there can be only one student who will win this beginning match. Shou returns battle stance while my yak pirate attends Kasi's shout of a chi throws her punches. Ironically, Shou practiced basic blocks and punches of bong sao that connected Kasi's strength of right paw, and lap sao through panther's left neck. The bull forcefully strengthens his vertical punches rapidly enough, and Kasi avoids Shou's fierce movement quickly enough. This panther princess glimpses all the opening area where my pirate bull could not defend; she strikes a kick to the right side of the lung, then advanced her position of chi water demonstration as countering Shou's big arm and impacted his chest with a soft palm like a rock.

Kasi the Raajakumaaree (Princess) wins.


Bao vs. Huong

A humongous gorilla. Innocent, and adorable massive mother bear. Both warriors have entered the ring after the first battle has finished. Their strength becomes predictable. Capable of Bao's impenetrable smash, and Huong's laceration athletic from her claws. The way I sight Bao's feeling, he sometimes becomes shy to greet someone, and maybe a quiet person instead of talking more.

On a night where I confronted both Shujaa and Kasi for dinner, the lion clarified about the mother bear's attractiveness by complementing anyone who's very special, and companionable. Her lifetime was emotional that Huong's big brother Master Bear desired to look after themselves after their family of theirs were isolated from the battle I never mentioned; a couple of bear armies slain by plenty of larger boars, and some gorilla clans destroyed plenty of properties of the small town.

"Attractive mate, Master Huong." Bao immediately bowed to bear. "Wing Chun; Bao."

"Too powerful strength I can sense in you, gorilla." Huong's voice lowers like a giant beast, toning like honey dripping under her throat. "Tai Chi; Huong."

Round One: The First session embarks with expecting stances. Bao's sharp decreases as the female bear sweep her large claws around her surroundings. The bear's powerful claw strikes at a flat left side, Bao concluded with a tan sao to the right of his palm as stroking to the face at simultaneously. Once the claws and paws battled with a higher impact like a screeching air, two feet palms kicked onto bear's chest. Next, Jan fan with a heel kick and force punch when that bear was turned to the back and pushed away.

Round Two: Both Bao and Huong clash their whole body like trees crashing into each other. Huong immediately combines her claws with water impact mark over rapid three hit vertical punches onto Bao's both cheeks. He avoids that trap opening, however, not too timid as not been used to his younger age, Bao smacks his chest through front cheek using circle punches through Huong's chest, and palms over her face like lightning speed.

Bao wins.


Kasi vs. Niu

Son of Master Ox, the addition of knowing Niu as Thundering Rhino's godson. There is so much more of my big Ox friend who used kung fu before from his father at Gongmen City with Croc, and Master Boar before. Once the young Ox entered the ring in front of Kasi, he ignored something that he might have recalled some memory where he fought and trained with Masters Ox and Croc. Distraction is not the answer. Although, Niu through our eight years of friendship, my grandmother and I controlled his temper, and advised him not to anger in front of the enemy. The anger management is the power of enemy's mind, and water is the key to calm, and serene discipline.

"You must be the son of a kung fu master." Kasi recognizes to Ox. Both warriors bow. "Master Storming Ox is a great warrior, and I am honored to meet you, Master Niu."

"Thank you, my lady." Niu appreciates to raajakumaaree, nodding softly in vertical. "I respect your kindness."

Panther balanced her footwork of standing as she extended her whole both arms to swing, and landed her feet upfront when her guard remains on her chest. "Tai Chi; Kasi."

Niu used a horse stance to himself. As he could thump his feet by three times to harden Niu's position, his guard of Pak sao summons. "Wing Chun; Niu."

Round One: Kasi embraces her paws. Niu forces his stance by moving forward when enabling horse stance. Engaging with fierce of paws attack versus arms bridging the attacker's next move, Kasi seeks Niu's opening area, and the Ox encountered the special surprise with only one of kune Lim tao forms. Niu enforced his strength of bong sao and landed his left leg on Kasi's right leg to trip her over, and then hundreds of straight vertical punches onto panther's chest.

Round Two: "Ready?" the antelope referee signaled the left side to Kasi.

"Ready," Kasi answered after floating her arms with a chi flow.

"Fight!"

Kasi vertical kicked onto Niu's jaw, and the Ox pounds the tip of her kick with large palm. The panther attacks with her brawl onto straight line up of bridging Niu's efficient block using one arm to prevent speed. The Ox hurled his other palm to the center point when other palms of tie sao connected at the same time, Niu rapidly hit all the central opening of Kasi's center point easier as I showed him a blocking with attack position to end hesitation problem. As double Jahn fan onto panther's leg through the chest and Kasi sparrow kicks onto the air, Niu's soft tenacity swings over her above the air to the ground, and resulting in a possible defeat of the enemy with a nearly knock out.

Son of Master Ox wins.

"Good job, Niu!" I cheer with my fist jerking forward.


Bao vs. Shi Dang

The heave gorilla immediately faces the impala student from Gongmen City. Cautious, and courage. Shi Dang's survival instinct became much clear of understanding what a prey must escape fear from a predator. Kasi once spoke about the time when Shi Dang's father who worked with peafowl nobles before at Gongmen, this deer was a huge fan of Lord Feng that he was the only peacock lord who always kept protecting the city from any threat.

Until when Shen was returned in years after peafowl nobles died from their sorrowful cause of never be seeing their son again, Shi Dang wanted to regain, and rebuild Tower of Sacred Flame with Masters of Gongmen including Boar for Lord Feng's oath to continue seeking history about peafowls history. I shall be likely to learn more about peafowls soon, probably at Gongmen City for sure.

"Wing Chun; Bao."

"Tai Chi; Shi Dang."

Round One: No matter the big and small they oppose each other after the start, Shi Dang avoids all the strong arms of Gorilla strength. Bao uses tok sao onto that deer's left wing, and Shi Dang adds a devastating, powerful front kick toward gorilla's side of the chest. One of water demonstration from Tai Chi, the deer ultimately steps onto gorilla's position with a tactical push of both palms impacted like a leaf wind.

Round Two: Bao sprints into all fours as Shi Dang intercepted the raw power of gorilla's charge. Bao did elbow strike to deer's chest and back knuckled onto Shi Dang's jaw. I could notice how any big size warriors are only strong ones to do higher strength than any regular size to smaller like Mantis by enabling speed attacks. Once Bao affecting the efficiency of bridging the box of swinging arms from the deer, the gorilla countered a tan sao and knife palmed to Shi Dang's whole chest.

Round Three: Bao grunted after summoning horse stance and two soft grips to near his waist, and Shi Dang remains peaceful of vertical palms as forming an energy flow to his hand throughout his body while breathing. The two battled at once again to contact on close range battle of bridging. As Bao could do one arm deflecting deer's two swinging arms, Shi Dang founds preventing purposes; Palming to Bao's left shoulder, and strikes the left lung with a blow, Bao charges, and Shi Dang rolls. Then gripping shortly to flip gorilla about a second, the deer finished Bao with all of kicking nearly to gorilla's face while we all seek our buddy struggled on the ring.

Oh dear, I thought. . . Shi Dang wins.


Niu vs. Shujaa

Swahili warrior, the great empathy and lionheart soul of a bravery student. There's no telling how this lion traveled all the way here on China from some other landscape called Africa. His beginning of the relationship to Shujaa's mate was when a lion was no longer fitted to his clan when revealed how Shujaa's nemesis of snakes and crocodiles were started ambush onto his homeland of green landscape with forest. With that ambushed, Shujaa thought of his father's disappointment of not being a worthy, and too weak to fit through every lion's strength to defend their lives from reptiles.

I shall frankly fix his cause of problematic of "not fitting" situation thing as Shujaa desired to create his king's proud by making sure love and bond of blood will always be unbroken by such kind of being part of the family forever as the connection to their hearts.

"You are too concerned about the eternal life you have, my new friend," Shujaa observed. Frankly, this lionheart may adore somewhat can fight onto larger warriors like Niu, and other big warriors of bears, the oxen, and perhaps birds like Lao. "A great swimmer, and defender of all people."

"Nice mane," Niu manifests his hoof, gesturing around his whole head as if the lion reflects. Good point! I agree sarcastically. We are not the only one who is curious gazing Shujaa's fluffy mane over his neck through whole back of his head. Both ox and lion bow.

"Wing Chun; Niu."

"Tai Chi; Shujaa."

Round One: The lion approaches Niu's counterbalance position as Shujaa uses paw attack instead claws. The ox observed some excellent boxing technique from the lion, and Shujaa lastly spins his heel like dancing on the water from tai chi form. Niu quickly arises from the fall before another surprise leaping heel landing from the lion. As Shujaa went hit by most of Niu's chi sao attacks combining tahn sao and lap sao, lion trips three times from one foot to the chest.

Round Two: A weapon battle. Emperor Huangdi desires Niu and Shujaa to combat their weapons to entertain most of the audiences. Niu wields the large ax, and Shujaa draws a huyadao sword. As the referee's flag swings, the match embarks with a swinging blade rapidly strike like a whispering wind. The ax curved into the wind as the sword swept horizontally. Niu swings vertically again, and Shujaa gashes the ax's stick as the lion immediately ended the battle with extraordinary defeat after the sword could stab Ox's side of the body.

The warrior from Africa wins.

"Nice horns," Shujaa venges sardonically.


Zhao vs. Shi Dang

Our most exceptional reptile student from Hu Tzu Village. Zhao was the one who salvaged Lao from drowning near the river at Shui Palace. He had a family of crocodiles before but then raised by the worst from the clans of crocodiles from a swamp area where Zhao became rotten, and former bandit in which he could not manage himself to go rude, and criminal ahead of innocent villagers after burned down all the homes of the village.

Zhao was resigned, and shall never again to return some Swamp Clan who they treated him at worst, tortured, and abused plenty of innocent villagers for years. It is not knowing how did his parents die. My grandmother, the Nine and I could not attend what Zhao remembered. He once said that his parents went isolated at the beginning, and never returned home before one of the Swamp Clan captured Zhao alive.

These two rounds are only going to use weapon battle. Zhao's spike ball on his tip of a tail. The spike is part of a weapon that I should know is that every crocodile do carry their ball of spikes onto their tails as I have seen Fung's gang back in Valley of Peace before.

"Ferocious crocodile. . . very deadly." Shi Dang described the reptile before bowing. "Tai Chi; Shi Dang."

"Oh dear. . . fancy horn." Zhao taunts after trembling ridiculously. "Wing Chun; Zhao."

Round One: Zhao surprised the deer. The crocodile's tail swept the floor, and Shi Dang nearly tripped over before the leap. Once the deer set two sai knives from the side of the ring, Zhao snatched the curved sword. Clinging to the sky, and crocodile avoids the sai slice on axis. Pounded metal to metal cuts, and most what Zhao eagerly sighted incoming Sai knife from the toss, and reptile swings it with a ball spike tail.

Round Two: After Shi Dang's first defeat, the deer charges in full force. Zhao secured his curved sword in the middle after the Sai uppercut and swinging to the left side as the reptile pulsed on the left. As Zhao controls the deer's push from the two sai swords, Shi Dang forced another way of booting Zhao's right leg and reinforces himself up as the deer again hurls both sai knives. Ricocheting as the two blades disperse, Zhao likely becomes conscious of that deer's survival instinct. For a short time, the audiences stagger like the fire grows humid.

The second round continues as Zhao accepts the brawl after tossing his curve sword to the right side of the ring. For a brief moment of concentration to their next move, as both warriors softly step on their close-range combat, Shi Dang starts the palm, and Zhao recoils his reptile hand onto the bridge as punching onto chest rapidly at the same time. The ferocious combined many of close encountered incoming boxing strike from the deer.

A simple strategy of "dispersing hand" is essential of combining defense and attack simultaneously. A key to both defense and offense goes into agility for the aware, and anti-surprise attack. Once the deer feinted to crocodile's bridges onto reptile's arms, Zhao garbled him by a flinching movement of the spinning tail, tumbling over Shi Dang's lose balance onto the floor, and Zhao skewed beside the deer, with a result of axis punches through deer's upper chest as a defeat.

Ferocious wins. Good. I thought nonchalantly. Outstanding, Zhao!


Hong vs. Nam

An enormous rhino and metal horn sketched with clouds. A fantastic green silk robe, and black undercoat. Decorated with clouded grass, and wind stripes. Nam, Earthing Rhino. This warrior looked honestly familiar to other rhinos like Flying Rhino, and Thundering Rhino at the most of what Nam compares them two. The rhinos are one of China's outstanding protectors and a great treated people who will defend and fight for honor, for China, and for family and friends.

Never heard of his birthplace Kong Su, but I once heard from Nam that he was trained kung fu by a late Thundering Rhino before tai chi. Despite each student's rank, the Nine's remedy is next because a bunny must fight the equal status to one of Seventh Righteous students who is a rhino. Hong shakes her body. She examines how enormous of that rhino in fact! She will get squashed! This conflict is going to be impressive of Rhino versus Bunny! She's too tiny!

"Are you Master Thundering Rhino's son, sir?" asked Hong, quivering. "You just look like him."

"Nope," Nam answered, sincerely. "I am his nephew."

A nephew. Relative kin to each part of brothers and sisters at their rhinoceros bloodline, Nam can be part of his father's side who had a brother in the same family tree, preceded by Flying Rhino, and other higher warriors before him and Thundering Rhino for sure. I frankly interest him.

"Wing Chun; Hong."

"Tai Chi; Nam."

Round One: Hong leaped without letting Nam expected to sight bunny who rapidly vanished like a roaring wind. She ironically booted rhino on all sides multiple times. Nam uses his arms over his hand. The rhino shoves Hong with a left hook; bunny continues kicking above the air as she used to leap above, and dive attack as every day from training.

Landing on the ring, Hong showed herself being brave on the front of the most massive warrior. As Nam immediately shove his strikes with a flow on round hits, Hong avoids on axis to the left, and she occasionally pounded through rhino's right leg with a sweep, and vertical punches onto Nam's jaw after Hong jumped to rhino's front chest.

Round Two: "Look, ma'am," Nam shakes his head. "I don't want to hurt you."

"I wouldn't emphasize it," Hong gestures her pointy finger side by side satirically.

What?! I puzzle when chuckling. Hong sprints through Nam's stance. Rhino evaded her surprise ambush because of Hong's agility as similar to Mantis's speed. As Nam entirely mobilizing himself to free easily, Hong snatches two of her sai knives, and he reacts to grab his cloud hammer quickly. As he seizes it shortly from the left ring, the hammer predicts a slam as deflecting multiple slash knives from Hong.

Horizontally from rhino's hammer as spinning it to Nam's body and glanced his metal horn to Hong's sai, rhino thrust his stick to push off bunny like a gust. Shocked with a full of surprise we are and so the audiences, Hong set her course to mobile herself with a tap of leaping. Nam does not have any choice. However, he sided his clouded hammer with a strike onto Hong and bunny collapsed to the ground with grunted pain.

A unanimous decision. Rhino won the battle as the senators, or masters I shall honestly call them easily were frankly sighted Hong's left shoulder injury and offered mercy to let Nam win the match. Emperor Huangdi agreed by that means. I knew Hong wouldn't expect to win a battle with any humongous warriors as rhino fought her! But still, that match honestly brings me a chill when sighted a small warrior who fought massive rhino master.

"My lady," Nam saw the bunny struggling. Rhino becomes reasonable as sincere. He offers Hong's help to raise her, and I let my bull pirate Shou to set Hong out of the ring. "I have seen how few brave bunnies like you are. Some of the ones sacrificed, and the other survived with sensed of trembling fear."

"My grandfather's grandfather was a Tai Chi master," Hong tells Nam before Shou embarks to guide her, grazing a tiny paw softly. "He engaged some of the bandits' clan who disrespected martial artists in the beginning, and they wrecked all bunny villages without mercy. My great-grandfather fought for his people, and salvaged most of the villagers before ruthless bandits killed him."

"I am sorry," the rhino regrets. Nam encourages to Hong with respect.

"But anyway," Hong contemplates before vacating the ring with Shou. "I fight for the Nine, I fight for my peafowl, and I fight for honor. You don't have to tell me twice. You did good, Nam."


Fanshe vs. Shujaa

The most venomous and morality of this cobra snake. Fanshe was intended to live in part of snake family as similar to elder Master Viper from the Wantan Village where he was born, along to his famous daughter Viper and his wife. Fanshe became much a threat when bonding some forces with untreated people of snakes, and gorillas. The snarl by being very venomous is considered highly dangerous by a bite. The worst of biting to inject any form could be the extreme case of imminent death with no help.

Fanshe hated that how he became anyone's threat to snarl bite, and for some evil clan of snakes and gorillas they perhaps offered a tantrum to their own and ordered to poison villagers without hesitation. By not "poisoning" the people, Fanshe went exiled and met with excellent grandmaster Viper above the residence of Wantan Village to learn kung fu, previously. As for years went by of complementing, and treating people to protect valley, Fanshe adores moving on to Valley of Prosper for a warm welcome as the cobra interests a new residence with us.

"You have ever seen any serpents who looked like me are the ones attacked your clan?" asked Fanshe when slithering to the ring.

"Eagerness, and deathly reptiles," Shujaa replied. "You are not the problem."

Fanshe and even Viper (if the Nine wins to battle Furious Five after Righteous) will only have to bow with their heads when having "no arms," but just a tail as a precise way for gripping to carry like a ribbon. Both a lion and cobra bows before the match embarks.

"Tai Chi; Shujaa."

"Wing Chun; Fanshe."

Round One: Fanshe slithered his reptile skin onto the pounded steps as the lion Shujaa approaches him with full force. This cobra as any of snakes can combat using their tails, however, as part of Wing Chun, or any martial arts as Kung Fu for Viper's subtlety can do what Fanshe had trained for years; speed, deathly attacks, and intense. Except for the part of dangerous venom in which Viper and Fanshe may not go for an instant kill, they are competitive as great serpent masters.

Under any circumstances that Shujaa brawls into water movement, Fanshe wriggles onto lion's leg, onto the belly as serpent crawls over Shujaa's arm, and trails with a twist as the cobra controls with pounding arms efficiently. As if the lion reckons, Fanshe draws away from him before low kicking onto the floor from the lion. Any time of Fanshe's sudden reflex mind during Shujaa's choreography of heel kicks landed to the ring like a crack of thunder, cobra lashed every angle of a leg, the whip onto belly, and center of a forehead like a clap!

Ouch! After Shujaa was hard landed, he nearly fainted to the floor.

"Are you alright, big lion?" serpent slithered in front, he broods softly by not making sure eying Shujaa very hurt during the Tournament.

"Splendid," answers Shujaa, gesturing a lift of right thumb. "I'm okay."

Round Two: The next rotund ignites like a spark. Shujaa predicts onto the left axis corner before Fanshe nearly whipping his tail to the right. As much as the lion goes into the fluidity of arms like water, both lion and cobra gaze onto their eyes with a next move to aware. The next brawl, turns into a defensive tail whip, as likely within each paw what Shujaa jabs, the cobra's tail also deflects as the sash clap. Any size opponent like Shujaa will probably gape into serpent's snarl. Obviously, Fanshe may never like to snarl on anyone resiliently.

As the lion frankly approaches to the next step towards the right, Fanshe advanced through Shujaa's left leg, and twiddles by managing the leg, and lion caught his attention before leaping to avoid Fanshe's competitive movement. I gaze Viper on the other side of the ring while the Masters of Jade Palace (Shifu's on the Temple with Ming and Emperor Huangdi) are observing the battle. This snake got interested in cobra. Ironically, both snakes are what to believe they adore what Fanshe and Viper ever visited elder serpent master from Wangu Village. As a large pounded from the ring as I could not see the fight, the battle was over.

Venomous of the Nine wins.

"How did Fanshe win, brother?" I inquire peacock to my left while Lao mostly noticed my hindrance. "Sorry, I got distracted."

"He smoothed his skin onto Shujaa's right arm and steered that lion's fist to end the battle with numerous jabs toward the cheek," Lao states.

At the moment that I stare back onto the ring, Fanshe checked on Shujaa to the floor. The lion lays there being conscious instead. However, I may see his defeat with a slight disappointment. If you have ever lost during the spar, you have to let that disappointment go. Even though losing is not a great way to turn your head downward, losing can have to discover why mistakes were there. Simple: Never give up. No mind. Always practice the error, and you will win with a possible of checkmate.

"I'm not your enemy." Fanshe supported the lion from struggle using cobra's tail to rise lion's leg. "The ones are most effective. There are plenty of snakes who are great people like Master Viper and her snake father. I was a snarl person who did bad things toward villagers, and decided that I cannot be part of being so cruel to poison innocents."

"I understand." Shujaa apprehends. "You have faced many circumstances of no other choices, my friend. You have a heart, honest, by light among you, and by any means, you are a serpent who is treated respectfully by your original master before your companions. We are now in a truce. Gratitude for good sparring."

"You're welcome," Fanshe smirks. "Don't forget that if you are having trouble with defensive strategies that you are too good of jabbing, my colleague Xing will oblige you to do well in combat."

"Will do," the lion nods after the agreement.


Nam vs. Zhao

"Have you ever seen a crocodile who always wears his cape to billow, and entertaining people before?" inquires Zhao, pondering at large rhino.

"Not every day," answers Earthing Rhino. "I've heard of him along the Street Fighters before."

If my ox colleague Niu should be in a ring against these two like a triple threat match, then this battle would have become the new Street Fighters! This round is precisely I adore to see the Street Fighters if Niu would have volunteered to fight against the two. Even though this match is only elimination, but the Nine's defender has eliminated. Sorry, Niu.

"Wing Chun; Zhao."

"Tai Chi; Nam."

Round One: "The croc is in!" shouted Zhao after bristled his approach toward rhino.

Oh, this is going to be good. Zhao counterbalances his Jan fan as Nam front kicked the crocodile squarely. Zhao pivoted Earthing Rhino by kune Lim tao to Nam's right arm and back knuckled combo to the cheek. Skidding likely to the angles on each side, Zhao moved as bridging lan sao on left arm swinging and attacking simultaneously to confuse rhino's advantage.

Efforting to reverse angle motion as everyone goes into a climax with a joyous breeze, I ponder myself that this battle reminds me of some Dragon Warrior's awesomeness moments when Po communed about all three young warriors Ox, Croc and Thundering Rhino who opposed each other for money back then. Yes! That is the one. While Zhao continues to spar Nam, my ox colleague Niu beside me from my right began to intensify as starlight.

"You should volunteer in a ring, buddy." I knuckle ox's shoulder. "I think that everyone would be desired to see something that they will never forget."

"Oh yeah?" Niu surprises hypothetically. "And what's that?"

As considering carefully, Zhao vertical punched Nam onto rhino's chest while I mostly thought about a possible event that Kong Bai Tournament would have to add something very amazed for everyone in China.

"This big event would have been official after the battle will finish." I reflected, experiencing a storm of musing. As the match begins at once, Zhao approached Nam with dynamic motion to the left angle. "If Emperor Huangdi may add something valuable for everyone seeks of famous warriors, then he should have added the match called 'The Street Fighters.' Would that be amazing to let you volunteer in the ring to oppose two warriors as a triple threat match? Your dad will love to see it, but I noticed that lion eliminated you."

"Of course!" Niu nods compliantly. "That would be so surprising!"

Mid-Round Two: As the weapon sings onto the breeze, the sword and hammer draw near. Zhao opposed Nam to the right axis as Earthing Rhino swung his clouded hammer to the right like a hurricane. Next, crocodile enforces through opposite vertical uppercut and rhino down forth his stick to the ground with a smash. Zhao avoids that shook from the clouded ram that rages the smoke with the impact, however. He swoops to the anticlockwise angle as the croc swings his metal tail onto the vanishing smoke, and then Nam immediately reacted his hammer. Forcing the croc with a push, and Zhao maneuvered to the left side.

Much as I could realize how Zhao is excellent on his choreographic of aggressive survivalist, and mostly sword against sword to apply a sense of reflexes during the battle.

Lao! Lao! Where are you?!

The howl of cry began to mobile my unforgettable voices I kept wailing. This memory wasn't the first time of deep recall during the scene of both Zhao and Nam are continually sparring against each other. The voices crawl into my ear, my wolf sister Lotus, then Hong.

Lao's drowning! He's over there!

That is how I've met my ally from the swamp who salvaged my brother from a crumbled river. As the wail voices stop, the battle of both Ferocious and Earthing Rhino has finished.

A sharp blade from Zhao's nearly aims Nam's neck as a total defeat.

Ferocious wins! My best friend's reptile savior.

"You did well." Nam influences after he accepts his defeat. He asked a simple question to my colleague crocodile. "Are you Master Croc's son?"

"I wish," Zhao covets. "I usually had my parents before, and I have no memory onto their eyes. Great sparring, Earthing Rhino."


Fei vs. Lao

The Bird of Prey master. And the Nine's smart, my best friend. Ever since I met a peacock since the beginning after the year of my parent's death, he was pure innocent that Lao needed a friend who deliberated a friendship to have a family among ourselves. For months after we played together, we fought together, we raised each other with my grandmother and his mother Lady Xia, and we stay bonding together as brothers. Despite having a close friendship that Lao I rescued him from the rain, I wanted to call my best friend like a brother. Brother-in-Arms by any means, but he will always be my brother.

His true bloodline does exist. One thing that I agonize to his Peafowl Noble family is that if Lao's father is Lord Shen from Gongmen City, then I will not presume the fact that he was responsible for raiding innocent Thriving Village of pandas. I just hope it is not true, uncle perhaps? Not a father? The only way to reveal Lao's true identity: Soothsayer may be the single goat which she (or he) shall clarify more.

Despite 'ranking' purposes, Lotus cannot challenge the higher rank as my sister is in a current double red sash. Fei is more like close to black sash as Lao mostly towards the edge of final class for this Tournament. As my peacock brother must defeat hawk, Lao will enable the introduction of blindfold demonstration as the only ultimate red/black sash to pass, after defeating Seventh Righteous.

"Do you consider yourself that your bloodline of Noble Peafowls is true, Master Peacock?" the hawk ponders.

I assume that Fei is not the only one. The Five and also Dragon Warrior communed about my brother since Jade Palace tour with the Nine. The way I see the panda gazing Lao by every time, Po may have likely known of facing his old enemy who raided pandas, and only what Shen's creational cannons did kill that peacock from the hate. Before the match shall begin, Lao honestly had to reply with his contemplated mind.

"I predict that you have a point," Lao answers. "Wing Chun; Lao."

"Tai Chi; Fei."

Fei's bamboo stick and Lao's dragon pole. Luk Dim Boon Kwun, meaning "six and a half point pole," this wooden pole is much fundamentally useful weapon form for martial arts of Wing Chun and Kung Fu. Only six different techniques in various directions like to apply long distance attack and only a half for dropping a pole.

Round One: Lao's stance goes stiffened as by strengthening his body. The bamboo and dragon pole swift into various feints like a lumber stroke. In between sides by side attacks, Lao summoned a kan gwan (covered pole) by moving and stir bamboo stick to knock it downwards and thrusts Fei's chest like a kick. Fei pulled back and returned his positioning of Lao's raiding pole. He deflected a dragon pole onto a decreased angle, and Lao immediately ducked the incoming sweep from Fei's advantage. As Lao forced his knee to return positioning, both Fei and my brother clockwise their poles with broken sticks.

This round continues to call. Fei summoned two sai knives behind weaponry as Lao considered rapidly by snatching both butterfly swords. Good choice, Lao, I thought. The battle sings by clinging blades screaming from the stadium. Lao pushed his knife to the left side after Fei's sai is nearly reached onto peacock's neck. Lao winces and thrusts butterfly knife by reaching Fei's beak, and most repeatedly in between sides over the ring with screaming blades impacted. As long as the battle remains them two sparring with knives screeching like rustled with a metal cutting through a scroll, Lao encountered Fei's left sai and slice to the right of hawk's upper chest.

Round Two: Gaping from Fei's amazement, his talons spread with sharper nails, and soars above the ring. The hawk maneuvers over both wooden poles from the edges, and Lao strides before getting rid of butterfly knives. Fei's wings embraced and soared with a strong gust wind targeting Lao's stance as my brother avoids the wind to the right side. Next, hawk lands hard, and both are engaging with no weapons during the mid-session.

Birds do not have punches; they only deflect as by just raiding kicks as the way most all masters and students see an easy target. Crane, however, may have taught Lao's engagement by balancing a large, green tortoise bowl, and deflect as many as attacker's arms as possible. During the feather to feather combat, Lao's fast idea of chi sao blocks will enhance the pounding wings with obstruction easily. Tan sao and hard Jan fan kick as Lao appeared without mind.

Fei sprints with aggressive swinging wings as Lao enabled one right ring battle as aptitude, part of natural ability way with repeating pak sao and tie sao from left to right incoming pounces. Fei nearly wastes his energy strikes. Lao grapples hawk's right arm with jip sao, and my brother spun his train below to lose balance. Fei quavered his talons to try rising from the leap. Lao ultimately feinted him as leaping above the air, and my brother nearly landed his right talon toward Fei's beak as—

Clever wins. A near clobber hit when Emperor calls out a winner. Way to go, Lao!

"You got yourself diligently, Master Fei." the peacock comments, surprisingly when Lao support Fei's wing as the hawk grunted while struggling. "Where are you from?"

"Senlin in the Northeast of China," Fei remarks during the time hawk began to mount himself from the floor. Lao supports Fei with both of their feathers as my brother attends one of Righteous's best bird of prey. "That village where I come from was exclusive that not many visitors will stop by, and have a pleasant day or a night to represent stocking exchange for fabrics. It was home, and honestly not going to lie about Senlin. A little small world with villagers servicing fabric like silks, and all kinds of to wear. Any size matters."

That is awesome! I add in my mind. I must let Mrs. Yan help Fei's silk stocking exchange at Senlin!

"And yours?" The hawk questioned him curiously. "You've probably come from Gongmen City before Prosper Valley. Right?"

My brother chuckles. I don't know about that. I only do perceive three peafowls lived Gongmen City long ago.

"Summit," Lao replies.


Leo vs. Xing

Lao's PoV

I know nothing much about foxes. But what I realize more importantly of bonding blood to my brother's side is my best friend, Xing. I thought many the tigers have long gone for many years, without seen from anywhere on all of China. His kind on Xing's fur is what I have found, a new friendship we embarked our glorious journey by letting our blood shall never be unbroken after we always call ourselves as brothers. Xing will still be my brother and my mentor along to his nana Ming.

This final event of Wing Chun vs. Tai Chi embraces the two of a most higher ranking black sash to apply their worth fighting. My feathers go excited as a snowflake, the percussionists rolled their drums like a heartbeat, and voices of cheering create a brawny, breeze as the audiences ponder and probably add to consideration of Fellowship. I cannot interlude to spar any of the Furious Five. Especially Crane. He's going to boot my wings. I shall not underestimate him. And I will not underestimate. . . Feminine Tigress.

"When I was a child," the fox clarifies. "I adore the storytelling of the tigers' bloodline who were once survivors of Qing Temple. Mui Tan Huang was an outstanding disciple ancestor, the creator of Wing Chun, and fought by Oogway's side. I accept you as a respective student-master, and honor for those who passed Wing Chun family tree for all the children of the Earth."

"My pleasure, Master Foxy," Xing smirked sarcastically.

Foxy? That makes a perceived moment. Why naming the fox Leo by calling him a great endearment "Foxy"? I chuckled for over a minute beside Lotus right next to me, realizing what a reason my brother did nickname Leo as Foxy like a devious.

"Tai Chi; Leo."

"Wing Chun; Xing."

Round One: My brother's gaze remained silent. His arms guard himself in a middle surrounding. The fox knowingly sighted Xing's horse stance as my brother goes to the right side, while Leo moves himself to the right; both of their eyes engage. As the path of circling the ring for over half-minute, the surprising impacts like waving soft collided into the raging fire.

Xing combined his technique speed of veracity Chi Sao as my brother established more than thirty, complicated blocks forming each bridge I shall need to study advance blocks after accomplishing black sash rank. As Xing marched through rapid bridges near the two sides of bong sao and tahn sao combined with both attacking and block simultaneously as leverage, Leo force kicked his left foot and Xing rose his knee by preventing fox's kick, and Jan fan the other leg with a capacity soft kick. The purpose of raising a knee rapidly from the incoming kick and must attack opponent's leg that can intensify opponent's first kick into losing balance control.

As Leo timed out for over a minute that my brother nearly broke fox's leg, Xing needed to careful himself that not to enable violent according to the Tournament's rule. If my brother temporarily broke Leo's leg as a major accidental and must have violated the Tournament's law, then Xing would have been disqualified worst. As that first round turns out, Leo is not exceptional as the referee continues to let Xing and fox fight at the next round.

Round Two: Leo's ability has remarkably similar to Master Shifu's leaping attack. Xing countered rapid air sparrow kicks from the fox. Apparently, Leo seemed inevitable. By flowing boots over the mid soar around the ring, Xing keeps his vision towards him as much focus on fox's rapid motion. A motion of leaping strikes against my brother's horse stance as Xing endures then avoided a fox like a leaf sweeping next to the left side of the ring.

Being feinted by Leo's adapting strikes, Xing skid before the incoming vertical kick nearly hits his right leg. Immediately when Xing returns to his stance, he uses a single arm throughout his experience by averting fox's round arms with one step Leo wildly revolves himself. Xing jostled him onto fox's back. Leo spun his heel kick to the left when my brother noticed a surprise attack, deflecting a whole leg with a single arm, then Xing maintained another single left punch that fox repulsed by him with a soft power push with a forming arms sweeping.

By the next course of Leo's awareness, he released a shout of a chi. With marching against the tiger movement, Xing repels as many as round arms with elbow strike with chin gon palm to fox's neck, tan sao and other blocks with simultaneous attack and blocking. Leo nearly wastes his energy as only one palm tried to raid Xing's surroundings, my brother feinted fox's arm, and he formed both of the most useful Wing Chun technique with sort of power. Xing draws his one-inch punch to the left chest and re-wilted him with a six-inch punch with a devastating strike. Ouch!

Leo nearly smothered from Xing's one-inch punch to a six-inch punch with a result of the defeat, once the fox landed to the ring with single arm supporting himself as his palm touched to his left chest. The referee calls this session out and notices a fox could not engage when struggling in a platform. This battle of fighting against the Righteous people has eliminated. This two of one-inch and six-inch punches are the most, and powerful charge of enabling a chi from a horse stance as that punch delivered by some energy from a ground that can end any size opponent. In other words, deadly, and useful.

As the audiences all over the stadium are cheering after the battle has ended, Xing helped Leo to rise from fox's struggle.

"Are you alright, Leo?" inquires Xing worriedly.

"I'm fine. . ." Leo replies with his aching voice, then returning normally. "That two single punches of yours are very lethal, and I felt that chi stroke from you. That was solid in our sparring, Xing."

"You've got some competitive skills, I'm not gonna lie on that one," Xing says realistically. No doubt that for sure I thought. Xing began clarifying as he continued raising one arm behind my brother's neck to help Leo rising. "Leo, on that first round, I nearly violated that rule not to injure students during the spar. Frankly, I noticed every enemy's movement of a wide open area in which I predict onto anyone's weaknesses. That was my analyzing, and all about the Nine's preference of Wing Chun strategy."

"You do have a point, kid." Leo considers while coughing. "The Righteous's preference is about energy among our bodies to prevent weaknesses. By becoming water, there are two, characteristics among that. First, hard water. Second, soft water. Hard water tried to flow through a close gap, it could not infiltrate easily is because of powerlessness. Soft water remained serenely while that liquid can fit through a close gap, it can flow peacefully as all what tranquility of intelligence impacts to all of the life forms."

"Yeah." Xing agrees with a nod. As I sauntered to the side of the ring with Hong, Fei and Shi Dang comes to support Leo while both my brother and fox are descending themselves out of the ring. "Tai Chi is very amazing to flow energy, buddy. To any of martial artists who teach Kung Fu, Wing Chun, Tai Chi and any of the competitive signs of peace to their students, it's all about water. By becoming 'soft' water the way you clarified, Leo, you will be a hardcore of total awesomeness."

"That's. . . very encouraging." Leo smirks. Both Shi Dang and Fei escort their ally as Hong, and I are sauntering away of the ring with Xing.

Xing, you just sound like that panda, you imbecile.

"What a fabulous sparring." I amaze with a pure, light among my mind as Hong bounds and lands my neck behind my neck. "You've just nearly decapitated a fox, brother."

"Oh, now you've got some jest, Lao," Xing knuckles my shoulder. "I feathered him with my palms. You see?"

He tricked me. There are no feathers on his claws! You liar!

"You idiot!" I reject, bursting our laughs together.