Episode Six: Light


Chapter XXVI

Volunteer

I. Tea Clouds

I caress the brown woods that was forged into the cabin for Lady Xia's solitude home with my left paw, distinguishing two voices of my brother and my adoptive peahen mother cautiously from these surfaces. Instead of myself not to hesitate my whole body went stiff, Tigress stays behind me, peering most of the shade blooms vibrantly. Not entirely sure when shall we heading back to Jade Palace for Fei's awakening as I remarkably stay along Xia for awhile. With a word from Kong as if the hawk will awake, then we will return.

I start crossing in brown corridor fibrous materials where two peafowl voices come within a door. An opened door by their voices of cherishing across my ears inevitably, a blue peahen in a pink robe, fondles my brother's long neck as Lady Xia seems vaguely quivers from her left wing while she lays her bed. My brother's pouring tea from his eyes, he nodded to Xia, whereas my heart nearly skipped. Why is Lao—?

"Hi, Xing," says Xia in a broken voice, beaming her grin towards me.

"Mom. You alright, my Lady?" I ask as my breast shrinks severely before sauntering myself next to her bed on a right side where a brown chair is there as I sit without agitation.

"Come and sit by me, my precious," she orders delicately. Her feather palm I sensed, is what I feel the same on the thin ice from Xia's bed. Why is my adoptive mom so nippy? I thought bewilderedly. "How was the Tournament, son?" Xia asks merrily.

"It was spectacular," I reply, contemplating all the awesomeness of a praising light at Kong Bai Stadium without a shade of darkness that corrupted most of the people's wounds. As I see the kindle light ahead of me, I recall the panda as Lao and I skirmished him on the ring. "Finally your son challenged the Dragon Warrior, and it was a cliffhanger like stunning clouds."

"Believing ourselves as the Nine improved our skills we nearly defeated Masters of Jade Palace," says Lao, flinching his neck downwards. "Hmph!"

"My Prince, were you hurt? What happened?" Xia inquires her son appallingly to Lao's narrowing eyes. Uh oh. I thought. Lady Xia merely detects some minor pain into any body of a warrior to a civilized person. Even the Nine's pain we fought through our years of training to apply in combat. For Xia's sightseeing in my brother's lung, her eyes are nearly white.

"Many fight injuries," I say, indicating her to my brightest sore around my arms that merely block every opponent's encounter. "You know combat skills by those warriors, competitive fighters as most of the Furious Five were extremely better by their strengths."

"I'm glad you both earned your reputation, my sons," Xia simpers, clutching my paw clemently. I adore her grin, I think delightedly. "Where is my lovely wolf daughter Lotus?" Xia asks.

"She is with the Nine at the Masters of Jade Palace, mom," I reply, telling Xia that her loving adoptive wolf daughter is living in the most glorious palace of kung fu masters. "Since after the Tournament had finished, we decided to take a trip to the Valley of Peace, and enjoy our stay for a while. Despite we have many bruises from most of the fights."

"My beak blesses to you two," Xia kisses my paw and Lao's feathers.

"Our Ox colleague Niu desires a thousand blessings to you, your Grace," I say. "He. . . deeply misses you, even more."

"What a lovely Ox," Xia giggles as she covers her beak with large feathers.

"Your Grace, I have a special visitor from the Jade Palace," I say, gesturing Tigress from behind the mahogany door. As my aunt approaches, I nod my brother to him as Lao remains too gentle to let our secrets prevail. I gently grip Tigress's paw; my aunt bends her both knees to me besides my chair I currently sit. "Master Tigress, this is Lady Xia. My adoptive peahen mother. Lady Xia, this is Master Tigress. She is greatly magnificent who became as kung fu instructor and leader of the Furious Five. Also to tell you, mom, she is my. . ."

I take a breathe softly as my throat shivers steadily, "auntie."

Lao snickers at once, billowing his cheek nearly as my brother contains shortly. Really? I pondered amusingly.

"It is an honor to meet you, your Grace," Tigress says, shaking her paw to my adoptive mother's right feathers.

"The honor is mine, Master Tigress," Lady Xia expresses, peering at Tigress's amber eyes closer. In Xia's eyes, she caresses my aunt's paw softly as my grandmother's sensible stroke. My adoptive mother foresees Tigress in her intellect thoroughly. Xia was not the only a first time when she reflected in the Nine's feelings and reflections as we ventured from our inception. "You are a beautiful kind and potential within you. How extraordinary! Just like Ming!" Xia astonishes radiantly.

"As much as Tigress and I are the relatives to our bloodline of the Qing Temple," I say, considering while inhaling properly. "It is likely a long story to notice how we met, and things sometimes go complicated."

"What my brother is trying to speak, mother," Lao begins, "they both found each other by Wing Chun instructor."

"I am so glad you two found each other," Xia grins. Chuckling within her lovely bill contentedly as she perfectly smiles more. Lotus would have seen our adoptive mother's smile, I deliberate. "May I have some green tea for me, Xing?" Xia asks.

"Sure," I nod. "Lao and I will serve you some."

Shortly as I head into the warmth, mahogany room with brightest veins of flowers where crawls over the surfaces, I boil plenty of waters in a large, gray metal saucepan as Lao gathers some green organic leaf powders on a top right platform near beside me. No doubt that Lady Xia adores her sip of green tea, which is healthier than what you drink from organically.

All green powders pour down into the boiling water after I crushed plenty of fresh leaves with spice crusher when Lao gave it to me. Frankly, this green tea is my first appetite since I was born, nothing that I ate to fill my empty stomach except a healthy drink. Same to as Lao's preference of tea, that strengthens his feathers and within his heart altogether. Why green tea? It soothes a tenderness and amazingly un-odd within your body.

"There's something I should tell you, brother," Lao conveys from his throat tearfully.

"Why were your eyes softly poured, Lao?" I inquire before I turn to his eyes poorly. "Is something wrong?"

Lao knew I am the first who saw his single tear from his eyes before Tigress convened. "You will not perceive that imply when my mother she once spoke to me, before you two arrived here shortly, Xing," says Lao, explicating after he inhaled clearly.

"What's wrong?" I demand, patting his arm feathers.

"You want to notice?" he asks, then I nod. "Before goose servants vacated Xia's room, they discovered another deadly disease as I could not contain my tears severely. While I nearly cried, Xia immediately asked to anywhere in her room. She implied, 'Where is my Prince?'"

What? I regard bewilderedly. I nearly suffocate my lung from my heart's twentieth thump I could not even breathe. My mother's voice shatters my crushing heart that she demanded her peacock son's whereabouts to him. An experience at the elder age is to keep yourself more alert before your demise. Not many elders can live through misery; the more you take care of yourself freely, more time you will glide across your happiness to freedom. Is this all real? Is Xia dying?

"She's losing her memory, Xing," Lao stifles his voice, sniffing terribly as he softly weeps from his tea of ocean. "The Nine do not know. Ming does not even perceive." I barely caress the mahogany table, piled with a basket of fruits, and fresh radishes in separately. Lao's heart devastates as I am in fear of Xia's last breath. My arms, I cannot even move because of the ways we hardly tried to cure Xia's sickness naturally. "I don't— I don't know what to do with my mother anymore," he shreds, holding his tears back painfully.

There is a way.

"Lao," I grip his right shoulder, "You need to do a Chi thing what Po taught us. It's the only way for you to heal Xia."

"But—" He begins.

"After many years as you, Lotus, Hong and I brought remedy medicines to prevent Xia's sickness naturally, was the best way to reduce her demise as we know it," I say.

"Brother—"

"Please, Lao," I urge him, seizing my brother's shoulder weakly. "You can heal her. My Chi has expired that I brought Lei Lei in peace from her wound."

Lao nearly holds the inhale in him. Just as his thoughts merely clouded to go blind without understanding correctly. Lao looks up to me and braves his shredding tea of ocean. "I can summon only small Chi within me, Xing. Not likely Po's full chi," he says.

"Then a small Chi will stop Xia's sickness," I suggest.


The cold wind crosses the yellow lanterns as I stand the Shui Palace Arena, pouring tea from the warrior's cry I sense within my forehead. It was all warm by its rain. The breezes are massaging my fur beneath my eyes that once guiding my turn to elsewhere. These winds softly push my legs as I saunter quietly without sneaking.

A white spark ignites the tea clouds above, something what a light ahead of me, a gray, glass stone trimmed with In Loving Memory letters and an image of a grinning bird. I weigh down the Arena, struggling my tremble arms I crawl in front of the gray glass stone. The rain bathes me deeply into the blue sky weep. Mom! Momma! I grasp the glass stone, realizing my time of gazing at her for one last time, is too late.

Too late. Too late to say goodbye to Xia. Too late to see in her eyes achingly. My adoptive mother must have passed away peacefully because she accepts to release all the misery from her sickness. By her promise, convince my brother that I will look after her son. With the Nine, we oath Xia's commitment to keeping Lao safe. The white spark above, bolts lastly into my shutting eyes.

I start to yet realize from my awakening in a living room I lay on a large bamboo couch for almost three hours of resting, it was all just unfortunate dream to embrace my courage. Courage within my pouring rain to see Xia's final breath I shall swear her promise. A jade tea light lightens the living room from a flat table beside me; it is highly recommended for the Nine to speak with Xia and then soothe literally on our struggling eyes from desperate.

"Xing, we have to go," a female voice came over, noticing Tigress she stands on a front, mahogany door. "Your goose servant has returned and shared some news. The Righteous hawk student has awakened for two hours, and he will be ready to speak within an hour from now with Emperor Huangdi."

"Give me a moment with Xia for me, Tigress," I say, rising from the bamboo couch without letting myself a rush. "Let me speak with her, one last time."

"I'll wait outside," Tigress says, nodding. "Lao has already blessed his mother."

I assume Kong has returned to Xia's Cabin for great news to share as I offered Niu and Lotus earlier to stay put with Li Shan and Mr. Ping on, then followed Master Mantis to listen any word of Fei's injuries and such notice of the Dragon Warrior's whereabouts. Gladly, my brother did his Chi to salvage Lady Xia. Hopefully, her time continues to last.

My paws embark warming enough as tender fire from the red lantern with The Nine emblem of water and paintings that confiscate with rope string above, indicating a young tiger, a white peacock, and a howling wolf cub beside the open window view of soul stars from Xia's left side. Nothing else to melt within my breast as I entered her room. In her warm bed, she lays, become a solitude stone. Xia's breath is softly moving as a great feather wave. Her breathing comforts my fur I felt within Xia's breeze. Much closer I sit down a brown chair and grasping softly to her right feathers; she hums as reckoning hardly by my paw I caressed her meltingly.

"I don't know if you can hear me," I begin, considering my roughest throat to her hardly on my words to speak. "Your son and I will venture back to Jade Palace to admit Emperor Huangdi and my new friend's details about—terrible war. One of the Masters of Jade Palace had been taken, by a ruthless warrior who he only aspires to skirmish against many people like us that we forged a greater good for martial arts."

Just then, flat steps come closer as I peer my right to the mahogany door. The Nine's Messenger Kong enters, nodding to me merely as the loyal goose touch his feathers togetherly. "I do not know how long we will be coming back," I say, "One certainty that the Nine and I will have some three quests in scattered groups we'll do as necessary to protect Huangdi from bandits, save the Dragon Warrior somewhere in all of China, and stop Huoju's army. Prince of Darkness's men is over there at Zei Dao to battle Haidao's pirates."

"Three quests in one condition of threat against China in a differential, sir, are dangerously suicide," Kong says, "In my knowledge of Huoju while you were a cub with Master Lao, is how capable of Ox-demon menacing against the Mightiest Warriors who tries to deliver justice against him."

"Well, the Mightiest Warriors cannot attack Huoju unless there are parts of weakness, and life story in him," I concern.

"Those are the first steps, then you deliver justice," he says from his good judgment. "Which of those three quests will you go for, Master Xing?" Kong demands delicately.

"Depends on what Emperor Huangdi will say to any warrior," I contemplate.

My movement becomes sturdy. Kong is more sage than most of the goose servants, even to approve with Ming as both are the similarity to their knowledge respectively. The candle slightly dimmers as my paw nearly grasps from Xia's feathers in her subconscious sleep. By her eyes close, I mindfully discern her inspiration on her robe near Xia's upper-chest that comforts entirely by the blue stars gleaming my adoptive mother.

She can sense in me. I reflect. "I wish I can talk to you more in your sweetest trance, mom," I say. "Only a millionth blessing is what I can grant you a heal within your heart." I lean my head forward to Xia's right feather, kissing her with my soft lips release a small flow of Chi that creates a warming fire into her veins. "I love you, mom. Wish our luck while you are in a trance of ocean you are swimming with dolphins, and we will return very soon."

Her beak grins ironically. I bet she pretends to drowse. I think smirkingly. Shortly, Kong and I escort ourselves out of Xia's cabin as both Tigress and Lao stands next to the stone rock near a cliff of the Prosper Valley view over the green mountains that shines by the souls of heaven stars. "Look after Lady Xia, and Shui Palace for me, Kong," I require him. "Make sure she can sip green tea, and eat some rice with radishes."

"Consider it done, Master Xing," Kong nods. "Do as you please to settle your great journey with Masters Lao and Tigress. Keep your friends close, Master Xing."

"I will, Kong," I say, patting his left shoulder. "Take care yourself, buddy."

Tigress, Lao and I go journey ourselves back to the Jade Palace, once we proceed through the river to sail after we sauntered within the woods from the Prosper Valley. As we set sail on the green vessel with pig boatman who we offer him some yuans to take us Valley of Peace, I glimpse above the souls that are glimmering a smile in their heaven, where the light shades of waxing gibbous moon touch my eyes by the brisk.

Has this nature been watching me every day? I ponder, asking harder. Gazing into these colorful souls with a mixture of gray and blue horizons from the dark side of the moon reminds me of my eyes closed where I laid on a soft waving grass near the woods on Xia's Cabin in a couple of years back. Lotus comforted her head on my upper chest that she went drowsed amiably, Lao rested himself with Lady Xia as both peafowls used to adore their sleep outside for the night to gaze an enormous gray waxing gibbous moon.

Good times.


II. Quests

Orange lanterns place its attach strings across the Jade Palace Arena above me. This place has surrounded by citizens of the Valley of Peace, Master Wolf's Snow Clan, Masters of Jade Palace and Seventh Righteous, sauntering over the Arena course as I seek Huangdi's guards with Shifu, and hawk student Fei. They stand next to the Emperor above the stairway in between both golden snarl dragons on the sides. Tigress, Lao and I stroll ourselves from the large, brown entrance doorway after we ventured from the pig's vessel.

Many people and children are on side temples, whereas villagers usually enjoyed the Dragon Warrior and Furious Five to entertain, and made people became awesomeness as a hardcore fan. You can imagine of the Five and Dragon Warrior combating a war machine Ox, that your heart beats more than a thrill of your intellect, like sunlight beamed in your head and see awesomeness heroes on the front.

Most of the people and warriors merely commune as their voice becomes a slight mute. Tigress, Lao and I reach the Nine and Furious Five (four actually) in front near these stairways that are lightly touched by orange lanterns around them. My aunt softly caresses my upper shoulder while she continues to unite with all four members of the Furious Five.

You await yourself in front of the Arena to prepare every word what the Emperor shall be ready to speak. As I see my grandmother on the stairway above with Shifu as they both grin towards me with a wave gesture, one of Huangdi's guards in golden silk robe who is likely a yak, positions next to the Emperor, attending his higher voice to call audiences as we hear him.

"Emperor Huangdi's conversation is ready," says yak guard, craning his whole neck to foresee every warrior's eyes while clearing his throat amiably. "Master Shifu and Seventh Righteous student Fei shall explain by authority of Emperor."

The red panda softly strolls in front with hawk student near a slight edge of the stairway, Shifu clears his throat comprehensively after the yak guard stepped aside. "We have great news to all of us here from the Seventh Righteous hawk student," Shifu announces, glancing over the Five and the Nine's visible eyes. "Fei has discovered a mountain on the upper northwest of China, where Huoju and his army are gathered there inside their largest, war camp called Yingxing Mountain."

People whispers around me from their anxious. Tigress gently closes her amber eyes as Lotus beside me grasp my whole left arm sympathetically. "Now," Shifu embarks. "To Fei's words, there are over thousands of Huoju members within each, bandit member from crocodiles to wolves." The red panda snatches a large, brown map by a yak guard beside him. Indicating all the ink background of a whole mountain with dots beside to the left, and red ink cross on the back behind the steep. "Somewhere near this cave Fei once found, there can be only one pathway to enter Yingxing Mountain, then capture the Dragon Warrior."

"At the Yinxing Mountain," Fei affirms. He roams himself onward in a true color of green silk by orange lanterns lightly touch to his entire brown feathers, "there are over fifty watchtowers I peered down below from the clouds I crossed. While I had soared away from that horrendous mountain when I landed to one of the nearby villages, an isolated, fearlessness rabbit near his town who risked his life to draw this type of enemy terrain filled with Huoju's army on what does their requirements they have.

"The rabbit who had sketched this terrain of the Yingxing Mountain," the hawk points the ink map, Fei motions it with his feathers to signify side-by-side of the Arena, "he reflected me most important that the rabbit must inform, and you all here to share. There are two Shen's cannons in each watchtower."

That's over a hundred Shen's dragon cannons. I anticipate hardly. My lamps become flowing as a pure coldness enters my shuddering body by Lotus's gracious warm inhale. The Furious Five inspires sharply. Nevertheless, they swell, looking in their jaws of horror. "On the entrance of Yingxing Mountain," the hawk says, pointing the front of a mountain on a brown map. "Fifty of those watchtowers are completely guarded. Those massive doors made with clouded metals and local units of archers they occupy there in front."

"Is that where Huoju is building an army?" I inquire to hawk cautiously, as Fei gave details about the mountain to imply our thoughts for war machine cannons and watchtowers fill with bandits before infiltrate.

"Honestly, Master Xing," Fei embarks, giving me an honest look from his cinnamon eyes, "there are more than ten thousand members inside that mountain. I only once counted all from outside as I guess the number around... less than a thousand."

"Is there a possible way to enter the mountain in front of the entrance, Fei?" Shifu asks, concerning towards hawk.

"Draw back on various towers," Fei advises, tilting forward to all the watchful eyes, "Expose their cannons and neutralize bandits. If you go on the exterior, Shen's cannons will point below, then annihilate you like there is no such mercy. What I suggest, is not to go in front of the entrance, but go to the sides of a steep to infiltrate the tower, then destroy what it stands."

"It's a bloodbath if you go near the entrance," the rhino in a white robe and green undercoat from the left beside Bao, clarifies to most of the warriors shortly when budging himself through front near the stairway, "then a whole terrain on the front if you go close there."

"Precisely, Nam." Fei agrees, nodding to rhino accurately.

These murmurs amidst regular voices by each warrior's mouth emerge accurately in all sides of the Arena. Lotus tantalizes her ocean eyes across the whole lanterns of orange fruit lights. A gray goose in a red robe flies below the souls of stars, descending behind the Jade Palace, and through the stairway, as the messenger lands close to Shifu and Ming.

The messenger delivers a small red scroll to Shifu's paw; my grandmother rotates delicately, Ming gazes the red panda in such hard aging by the quietness billow. Without a trudge I linger with my feet as I wanted to approach forward, Lotus seize my paw without hesitation. Nothing to assume whichever my wolf sister merely peers on my weary eyes as pressing into the floor unexpectedly, I too grasp her fingers that warm within our foliage hearts.

"Master Bear and his allies are volunteered to battle against Huoju's army," Shifu publicizes. The whole arena enters every people's mouths to fill their coldness gape.

"That's too dangerous," Monkey assures, ambling with a lighter step from his three palms instead of the fourth one from his arm.

"My colleague will notice about Huoju have for his army, and watchtowers defending the mountain, my child. Fei will cover Master Bear," Huangdi explicates vehemently, palming the air to conciliate Monkey in a friendly manner.

"May I speak, my Emperor?" Shou asks, peering my head to the left as the Nine's bull pirate assembles in front. "There is something I must inform you all here." Walking himself heavily as Shou goes to reveal himself within the Emperor's tenacious yellow eyes upfront, Huangdi sits on a stone chair while his snake-like eyes wide enough on Shou's true identity. By the bull pirate's ancestor as we all reveal by Shou, is our Grandmaster Oogway's brother of the Supreme Warlord from the Great War.

Not to complain about Shou's ancestor as of his revelation by female black bear from the calamitous clash at Kong Bai, the Nine and I assured to Shou respectfully as we, then all of China knew and encountered Kai before. "Your father and his pirates are battling against a local army of Huoju's men to conquer, son," Huangdi determines, gazing at the bull meticulously. "You admitted one of your messengers to divulge you, concerning your homeland of Zei Bao's attack?" the Emperor inquires.

"Yes, my Emperor," Shou articulates reverently, nodding. "Whatever my father refuses to recruit with the pirates at the island of Zei Dao from Southeast of China Sea by Huoju's battleship army, then there will be a leads to the battle on any cities from the east to ambush."

"Huoju and his army are going to war," I say, scrutinizing all the warriors from left to right and then Huangdi upfront. "As soon as the Ox-demon will have many of his members to skirmish throughout on China, there could be the deadliest threat and a huge problem."

"War has already begun, my child," Huangdi assures, glimpsing myself behind within his light eyes. "The ambush of Kong Bai Stadium after Zei Dao is the cause of Huoju's hands." The Emperor rises from his chair and embarks to word all over the Arena from the breeze. "In the name of my father after my grandfather's name by his reputation on the bloodline within my soul, I declare a state of conflict against Huoju and his army!"

Once I realized Huangdi's words on what his elder voice become so predictable as unshattered, I glimpse in his little smirk on Emperor's left cheek, higher voices cheer as the sun rises from each warrior's throat with rising fists. Not able to agitate on many contexts in all of China for Huoju's next phase, only one purpose is the war that can lead bandits into a village by village, and city by city by a slow approach.

The yak beside the Emperor, cranes his neck with small glasses close to large golden scroll, opening a whole description of priorities. "First local volunteers, top priority," the yak guard states while every people's voice begins to lower immediately. "Capture and salvage the Dragon Warrior inside Yingxing Mountain."

A certain quest to claim Po, and bring the Hero of China home to the Valley of Peace, is exceptionally lethal. The breeze as every warrior's mouth throughout the Jade Palace Arena, are silent as the freezing seed growth. Additionally, this unusual idea that any of the three dangerous quests can be courageous, depending on how you manage your mind to guide your head and toughen yourself through shattering Earth.

A brave, and most robust feminine voice summons a volunteer shout towards the front of a stairway. A sound where is not from one of the warriors behind me or on all sides. The feminine voice comes from the right.

My aunt volunteers.


The red panda wide his blue eyes severely as his light voice goes into shadow as quivering furs. He articulates his daughter's name across the Jade Palace Arena. "I will not stay, and let the Dragon Warrior die inside that mountain, my Emperor!" Tigress softly spills, bowing after she impacted her fists. "I request permission for volunteers to join with me and enter the mountain. With, or without me, I will venture there."

Is Tigress crazy?! I think. She's a total badass!

"Wait! I will join!" Crane unites aside behind Tigress.

"Me too!" Viper slithers throughout her entire reptile body onto Tigress's leg to right arm. "You won't be alone, sister!" Both of you two?! I consider again wildly.

"Well, my arm and Mantis's antenna broke off. We'll have to stay with Shifu and Emperor Huangdi," Monkey says, standing himself behind the three of Furious Five.

"We'll bring our brother back," says Viper, touching his cheek with her tail. "Save us some of your cookies later."

"Any volunteers?" the yak guard asks after he again clears his throat.

I gaze most of the warriors and the Nine eventually. Any volunteer will risk his or her life to do Emperor Huangdi's lethal quest. A thousand bandits outside of Yingxing Mountain, and more than ten thousand members of Huoju's men inside the subterranean? Pirates? What did we get? Bandits? Whatever it is, Dragon Warrior and Furious Five will take them down! You know what I mean? I reminded Po's act.

The lantern above Lotus merely shines in her ocean eyes, gently tightens her mouth and palming my chest as I caress her right fluffy cheek before peering my whole eyes on Emperor Huangdi's sun robe. "I volunteer," I step forward. "WHAT?!" Eight of the Nine shrieks by their wide-open eyes loudly.

"You're not joking, are you, Xing?" Lao insists, his ocean eyes go into broad daylight with pouring suns. "It's suicide!"

"Masters Tigress, Crane, and Viper are not going anywhere without me," I contribute the Nine and whole arena as I stand aside to three members of the Furious Five. "You need a chef and great companions who will watch your backs like I am."

"You look just like Master Tigress here, Xing," says Crane, contacting his feather on my back. "We are highly appreciated for you to rustle up your secret rice ingredients for us."

"ME!" Lotus delights with a higher tone, embracing my whole belly with her clenching paws. "No ONE is going on anywhere on that mountain without me!"

Geez, she's too typical by her cookie spirit! I think, snickering softly as I grasp her whole back body with my entire right arm. Lao clench his feathers and nearly explodes his cheek when he virtually holds his breath as a rose. I think Lao really dislikes our insanity guts. I consider. He's. . . incensed. Lao has sighed properly and pacify his temper in him. "I will venture!" My brother exclaims, walking ahead of me and Lotus.

"Prince Dōngjì?" Huangdi perplexes from his throat I hear when revolving back ourselves to the front of a stairway.

"My Emperor, with all due respect," says Lao, positioning next to me and Crane after he inclined to Huangdi with such reverence. "I will honor my associates to lead their battle, and retrieve the Dragon Warrior. With no leads I must discover, I will follow three of the Furious Five, including two of my closest companions on my own. If my grandparents from Gongmen City were here and listened to this conversation of three quests to tender, they would agree with their grandson's voice."

"Well said, Son of Divinity," praises Huangdi, clapping his hand at once, then glimpsing whole warriors' eyes over the Arena. "I acclaim this grandson of Lord Feng to exceed a company of the Dragon Warrior to venture on all of China!"

At again, people swarm their acclaim from one side to the other of whole Arena. Lighter voices crawl off from their throats to mouths onto the air, as I smirk and pat my brother's back that complements into him. "Dim, Sum, and I volunteer!" Three pandas including Mei Mei who she shortly spilled her mouth all over the breeze sets aside behind the three of Furious Five.

Three pandas?! I think shockingly. Po's right! Mei Mei's not joking. She is presumably crazy as almost as Lotus! The crowds and warriors slowly silent their cheers and shout after Lao's short speech and three of bravery pandas whom shall risk their souls to serve and rescue the People's Hero. One wolf as elder and stronger as unbeatable silver eyes in pale silk kimono with the black sash around his waist and navy trousers, he approaches from the right edge of the Arena.

"My Emperor," says Master Wolf, bowing. "Three of my wolf students will venture with the company to Yingxing Mountain." An elder wolf gestures to some wolves from his clan. Two archer wolves sauntering themselves in front as they carry red bows and arrows, and dark armors. The third wolf in a single right eye approaches with large maul hammer "This is Commander Zhong, and two lieutenants Lee and Lin who are military strategists and archer experts will risk their breasts to lean forward."

I recognize the one-eyed wolf before from Jade Palace he entered Lao's room with an elder goat in there. Why is Zhong here? I think. "Hey. Isn't this a guy who hammered Po's face before?" Crane murmurs to Tigress. I assume the Five and Dragon Warrior met one of the wild wolves who supposedly an employer of that imbecile peacock lord. If there is a reason of this one-eyed wolf has to join this quest with his archer wolves with us, then why is Commander Zhong here on Jade Palace? What is this wolf's purpose to speak on a front of the Emperor's golden eyes? I think straightforwardly.

"My Emperor, if I may," Zhong says, all three wolves bend their knees after one-eyed wolf bowed to Emperor Huangdi. "Since I was Lord Shen's right-handed wolf, I reflected myself as a wrongness path into the darkness where I was never going to the light. I implore you with respect, to accept my clemency with the wolves clan, that we are extremely ashamed for the innocent pandas at Thriving Village we opposed them, we stole numerous metals to any village in all of China, we intimidated villagers including their children, and collateral damaged Gongmen City, especially Kung Fu Council as Peafowl Noble's Sacred Flame Tower. My former master, as a friend I knew him, Shen was the one who ordered all the cause from his pandemonium.

"For my honor to accept my clemency, my Emperor," Zhong rise his face in front of Huangdi, "I will join three of the Furious Five, three of the Nine, and three pandas to save the Dragon Warrior, and will train Prince Dongji as his mentor to guide leadership as I was a former Wolf Boss, and knowledge of Lord Shen's cannons. I know how to dispose of mixtures of powder, and fireworks since I have ordered my dead wolves to guide their victory."

"Your clemency and uniting volunteers with your lieutenants, Commander Zhong, is granted," Huangdi announces. A mixture of shouts and objections around the breeze are possible regards to their opinions, and facts about wolves which they strongly intimidate every people on all the villages, and sometimes a city alike Gongmen. The Five hates wolves. I think, contemplating each of their eyes they merely narrow softly to entire wolves. There's no reason to use hate, but disliking for their opinion. For my judgment? I shall let these former wolf bandits have a second chance.

My aunt snatches Zhong's whole right arm like a hook, smothering the wolf with her left arm too tight. Two archer wolves withdraw, not to oppose because many wolves realize they have no strength to prevent the Five. Both Shifu and my grandmother yell at her. "You betray me with your wolves, I will scuff your right eye, and tear your heart apart," Tigress intimidates Zhong, becoming scorch I sense within her grimace.

"Master Tigress!" I say in a rising voice, grasping softly to her left shoulder when Tigress loose Zhong's throat, then thrusts him to the floor. Crane and I intervene her to give space of Zhong and archer wolves away from Tigress. One-eyed wolf struggles to his breathing; two archers supports Zhong with both arms around their necks. Shortly after the break-up, Zhong pants when glimpsing right into Tigress's flaring eyes, coughing gently.

"It is good to see you all again," says Zhong, panting and caressing his neck soothingly. "We will talk about this later, even my enormous mistakes that some of you can take some time to accept my forgiveness." Next, a substantial gorilla approaches forwardly to three wolves behind them. Within these wolves' eyes, grows wider than a horror of goosebumps on their cold furs after enormous gorilla ceased himself, narrowing them in the eyes vigilantly. "Um. . . He's big. Good gorilla?" Zhong terrifies, without an inch of him and two archers become a stone.

Bao chuckles silently by his right grin towards the wolves and left wink to me. Oh, he knows how to handle them. I think correctly, nodding at Bao. Anyone moves or even a slight distance close to Bao, his palms will crush their entire heads. He's undoubtedly not joking! Bao sometimes not to speak for a week, and he barely communes whenever Heaver of the Nine has to, even to his sign actions from his palms and tale around every weekend Bao does. "Twelve volunteers are willing to risk their hearts to claim Dragon Warrior and send the panda back home. Is there another volunteers to unite?" Yak guard reiterates to any volunteer for one last time.

"I am," a fearless voice draws nearby from the swarm of warriors behind Monkey with Mantis. A golden, snarling eyes of a snow leopard in green pants, yellow sash around his waist and navy blue vest, approaches forth to the middle side ahead of me. "I am Peng, Tai Lung's nephew! I volunteer with a company and three of the Furious Five! For the sake of rescuing the Dragon Warrior, I shall be the one to support as I am their good friend."

"Me!" Yet, another female, heroic voice summons from one of the crowds behind, nearing swiftly as an Asian golden cat with a black vest and blue clothing around her proceeds, and Crane. . . shrinks his feathers by the cold and red cheeks. "I am Mei Ling from Lee Da Kung Fu Academy, my Emperor! One of the Five must offer his assistance to save that awesomeness big panda brother."

Crane and this golden cat are together?

Mei Ling clutches Crane's wings around him as the bird squeaks with a cringe. Why is Crane shrinking his red cheek and softly grin on his large beak? I wonder how these two are, in fact, charming within their eyes and never endlessly motivate some close friendship from their commencement. A brown hawk lands next to these shivering wolves.

"I will go with you all," Fei says to us and the company, then revolving to Huangdi as he embarks loudly while all six Righteous students perplexed by their surprising voices. "I am the only one who saw that mountain, my Emperor. I must be the one who shall guide all fourteen volunteers to lead them there at Yingxing Mountain. By walking, will take seven days straight forward."

"Very well, Master Fei. That is all fifteen volunteers as the Company of Dragon Warrior," nodding Huangdi, then sitting down his throne chair. "Now for Zei Dao to support Pirate of the Nine." The Emperor open his right palm, pointing to Shou. "Top priority: Stop Huoju's men for skirmishing Haidao's pirates, then return to China."

Pondering myself as any warrior around the Arena can volunteer with the bull student that drops my colder blood flow in me. Too bad for me to venture the sea with Shou as I wanted to so badly. I see my great companion sauntering onward behind Shou, and pat the bull's right shoulder with a smile near the Ox's left ear.

"Brother. Since I realized you are so much important for training sword techniques for a pirate or not," Niu concerns, Shou raises his both ears when Niu is in front of him. "I combine you, with my honor to die with friends."

"SON!" Master Ox shouts, positioning near the left stairway with Master Croc as the reptile cross his arms and wide mouth.

"I will go," Zhao utters, strolling next to Shou and Niu as the Nine's Ferocious beams them two, and knuckling the bull's left arm. "You need a silent predator, like me."

"I object, my Emperor!" Master Ox condemns, with a red snare onto Huangdi's golden eyes with clenching fist he merely smashes the breeze.

"Your son is willing to battle his glory, my dear Master Ox," smirks Huangdi, peering at Master Ox's scarlet eyes with great power of high noble rank than him. "Niu's journey is what represents the meaning with a reflection of old, legendary Street Fighters you three once assembled before."

"I will fight, and honor my godfather Master Thundering Rhino since he helped you and Master Croc to conclude Wu Sisters at the volcano fortress," says Niu, glimpsing closely to his father's eyes and now Huangdi with masters above the stairway. "Without my colleagues to fight, my worth fighting will be meaningless to Master Thundering Rhino's death."

"The Croc is in!" Master Croc says thunderously, sprinting in all fours and assembles with Shou, Niu, and Zhao with waving palms touching across the air. "I will journey with three of the Nine, to glory and dwell with riches!" The reptile tightly grips his fist.

"Here we go again. . ." Master Ox groans, walking ahead of all three with his reptile colleague that Niu's father softly palms his forehead.

"That will be all five participants to head Zei Dao, and fifteen volunteers will lead their stroll to Yingxing Mountain to salvage Dragon Warrior," the Emperor declares, then again standing up from his throne, seeking to our eyes including mines. "In addition to Company of Dragon Warrior, Master Bear's army will arrive a small village of Cun for the next few days, on up north of China. From there, you will all confront him to listen to his battle plan."

Huangdi moves forward when he finishes peering into our eyes while he mainly focuses all the worthy warriors over Jade Palace Arena. "For those who do not volunteer, will unite aside with all masters to defend me on Jade Palace. I at this moment all volunteers to escort their mission to succeed, and be on a lookout for every Huoju's threat in all of China. Dismiss!"