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WARNING: Dark threads and violence through skirmish incoming!

My OC wolves Leo, and Chang returned from The Last Survivors!

Fixed an issue to replace this chapter! If you sighted sixth chapter to his latest chapter, my apologies, and you should refresh the page if it changes.

Not to be confused that two names like panda and OC gorilla Bao and both Leo (OCs fox and wolf) will be in a script.


Episode Seven: White Dragon


Chapter XXXIV

Oracle, Part Two

I. Valley

24 Hours Earlier

The gorilla inhaled the night's breeze, standing beside the Peach Tree as blossoms pressed his forehead lightly. He watched many lanterns across the borders of the Valley of Peace and Bao enjoyed watching stars blessing with pure whites and dazzling as the heart of the spiral clouds of spirit suns. The night was eternal to everyone's thoughts, beautifully described a new home, perhaps the Spirit Realm to occupy dead masters and loved people. Bao perceived to those kind people of the Valley miss their heroes Tigress, Viper, and Crane, especially the Dragon Warrior they griefed in his absence taken by the hands of the enemy.

The gorilla sensed how blossoms became pure unmistakable. Bao adored floating his palms on the ape's sides as the pink flowers flew under Bao's arms, and belly around him. Something that this gorilla could consider his kung fu grandmaster before Wing Chun master, Bao pondered on the master garden about Master Gorilla, who wielded an ax beside other legendary masters followed Oogway.

"Hey, Bao," the voice appeared behind the gorilla. Bao peered the golden snub-nosed monkey strolling in all four palms, and blossoms sink through the edge of the cliff. The bug Mantis ascended Monkey's upper shoulder as both legends of the Furious Five embarked. "You like hanging out by yourself alone here with Sacred Peach Tree, right?" the insect asked.

"Bao, tree," he grinned, staring pink blossoms and white suns. "Bao, stars."

"Yeah, I love stars. Someday we'll fly above across the sky," Monkey vindicated. "You like to take a walk with Monkey and Mantis?"

Bao pointed the Student Barracks. "Bao, walk," the gorilla replied shyly. "Bao, kitchen. Bao, cookies."

Green insect gasped with a wide open mouth. "You see! He's like sneaking in your pantry room, and browsed many drawers everywhere!" the green bug said, pointing Bao.

"Relax, Master Mantis," the female voice summoned. All three glimpsed to the beautiful bunny in ocean silk kimono sauntering behind Mantis and Monkey on the sloping rock near the tree. "Bao's just a character who tells you to smile, and go for the sun rising."

"Can you explain why Bao only speaks his name, and any word at once?" Monkey inquired, quite intriguing as the golden monk always heard giant gorilla talking to his name, and any terms on order reasonably.

"Bao can use his name and have one or more words to tell," Hong clarified. Bao flattened his palm to the rock; the bunny bounded to his hand and gorilla rose her. Hong continued. "For instance, while the Nine bears his voice, Bao can inform you to his name, and a word come, he wants to show you something. Examples like Bao, hungry, Bao needs to eat. Bao, spar, he desires to challenge. Bao, lantern, he can wield light to seek through the darkness, or guide us at night to guard Prosper Valley with the lantern."

"Has Bao ever spoke generally before him only his name and any word?" Mantis inquired into curiosity.

"It is intricate about Bao's backstory," Hong said, brushing Bao's fluffy cheek; the gorilla grinned as he comforted Hong's paw, making him smile. "Fǎnshè and Bao met each other since their inception to Master Viper's village. They were formerly bandits when Bao's uncle opposed Viper's father to prove who is the strongest of all. The gorilla bandit desired vengeance, as he implored both to scout across the village to wreck every bamboo building, every house, and sprinting through the roads.

"One day when Fǎnshè came to Prosper Valley for two years, he returned to Viper's village to search Bao. As my colleague arrived at the gorilla's camp at the rim of the border, he found Bao inside the cage, tortured, and untreated. Fǎnshè put up to end bandit gorilla's act of defiance to destroy Master Viper's temple and abusing his nephew.

"Fǎnshè and Bao fought the gorilla villain in the rainforest. Gangs surrendered when Viper's father arrived. As Bao went distracted while Fǎnshè lost his strength, his uncle snatched a massive tree beside the river bank, and whiplashed his nephew's head."

"Oh," Both masters cringed. Monkey palmed back of his head, brushing thoroughly. "That's horrible."

"Bao's uncle accepted his surrender, turned himself into Chorh-Gom Prison after his guilty of a crime abusing his brother's son," Hong continued; Bao put his palm to the rock, Hong again clarified she stood beside him. "Both Viper's father and Fǎnshè escorted Bao to the Prosper Valley, as my reptile colleague craved his best friend to occupy with him, and new friends. When Bao awoke from his unconscious, he only speaks his name, and word hurt. Before Ox's son and bull pirate from Southeast Sea arrived, the Nine have to guide Bao's voice by showing us, and tell more than two words to explain during his disabilities to talk. As the Nine orders him to do, he can help."

"So, Bao knows if we need something, then he can help or give you something?" Mantis asked explicitly.

"Yes." Hong nodded as the bunny replied.

"And by hearing his name and any word, we need to listen, and he will show us." Monkey inquired, understanding Bao's conditions.

"Exactly," Hong nodded again.

Four warriors started to commune a little, just as both members of the Furious Five frankly intricated to Bao's disability of speaking, in which his name for one introduction, and add one to three words to contemplate the ape's comprehension. The most natural part of having their tricks to use knowledge of signs is to peer his gestures and do the same as if you are expert to ape languages and the simple use: actions speak louder than words.

In one moment, they decided to saunter across the downslope hill, where all four currently in yards of Garden Masters near Sacred Peach Tree. Monkey had a thought when opening his mouth before inquiring, as he including Mantis preoccupied Bao's conditions. "Can I… uh… Monkey, walk with you?" the golden snub asked politely, eyes meeting to Bao's blue eyes.

"Bao, walk," the gorilla pointed the Barrack, gesturing his palm to his mouth. "Bao, hungry. Bao, cookies."

"Ok, big guy," Hong chortled. "Let's share cookies for just four of us in Monkey's pantry after we discuss Master Sheep."

"What about the cobra Fǎnshè?" Mantis pondered.

"He's in diet sustenance of vegetables and Dragon Warrior noodles," the bunny said. "Fǎnshè is not a power hunger of sweets. You know, my companion Lotus could kill whole cookies on the bowl or a jar without second thoughts to stop. She is a strange lady who does not end talking about cookies."

"Mantis and I comprehend why." Monkey grasped.

There was a sound of bell ringing horribly on their ears they caught. It was a vibrant song: morning for a single hit, twice or more and above, is considerably — "Is that a bell?" Hong asked, raising her ears as if Monkey and Mantis sprinted farther to one side at the small ridge near Jade Palace. Bao and Hong followed them; Mantis and Monkey glimpsed to a scene of the whole district of the Valley of Peace as you could see houses, apartments, roads including alleyways, and rivers glimmered with lanterns. Their eyes targeted to two fleets of black and red sails on the river to Eastside, where east located a thousand miles to Gongmen City. Two ships catapulted one fireball each with colors of red with orange sparkles, crashing one apartment with an explosion.

"The Valley is under attack!" Mantis snapped, pointing his thingies to the village.

"You two get to the Jade Palace Arena with Seventh Righteous and the Emperor," Monkey said in hasty, then sprinting to the downslope ridge. "We will defend the Valley and help villagers!"


Orange lanterns rumbled and wobbled above the restaurant. The elder panda heard a loud bang as he swept his broom to the floor while cleaning. Li placed his broom to the last table, strolling out to the circular entrance of Dragon Warrior Noodles and Tofu Restaurant as if he looked to villagers hearing and communing each other, facing the East on Li's left side. Just as he heard voices from the East, locals of people shrieked in horrid, sprinting as gooses and pigs screamed, and Li sighted one burst of fire imaged as the mushroom near to the bridge ahead. "Oh, no," Li shook apprehensive.

A collapsing roof poured debris in Mr. Ping's kitchen. The elder goose shouted terrifying. "Mr. Ping!" the elder panda rushed to the door, gray smokes swarmed out to the dash window. He shattered the door with his whole body as the goose and some sharp scream skirmished inside. Li detected the goose was struggling on the bamboo stairs; a black badger with a small dagger who strangled Mr. Ping's throat, the bandit swirled his head. "Get off him!" Li snarled.

Li snatched his back, throwing him with a single hand to the front door. The Badger twisted his body, facing the panda into clenching eyes with a war cry. Li caught the badger's dagger after the bandit swung his arm, the angry panda rose him, bashing to the concrete wall and striking the bandit's jaw with one, solid, hit.

"Look out! Fire arrows are coming down!" Commander wolf in white with red armor and gray cape warned thunderously. Shrieking breezes flew down from above. Li dove under the wooden table, raising it and deflecting flaming arrows. A single, pointy metal stopped penetrating the wooden table, nearly pierced Li's chin. The rain of arrows concluded its scream. Wolves howled across the intersection as Li contemplated and rolled off the floor filled with darted arrows. "Leo! Hyenas incoming at Eastside!"

"Two large vessels landed to the East! Get over there, and stop their incursion!" Leo commanded, pointing the Eastern border of the Valley. "Second squad! Send citizens to Tea Restaurant! Protect them at will!"

"Come on, Chang! Follow me!" the lieutenant in gray cloak and armor gestured the squad leader in black armor with rope waist and gauntlet beside him. They dashed to the Northside, ordering and escorting citizens within houses and alleyways to the front center of the Tea House entrance.

The red-armored wolf Leo raced to the East with local units aside. They sighted two black vessels landing their wooden bridge to the river bank; bandits of crocodile, boar, hyena, and jackals sprinted to the West after arrival, shouting in war screech as if carrying lethal blades, arrows, daggers, and many style swords. Villagers across the main street avoided, the sow Mrs. Chow in black silk robe ran across with rabbits and geese entering the Valley's alleyway from her gift shop. Once the wolves and bandits howled in a loud, piercing cry as they raced against each other, the ocean of warriors clashed like a wave.

Leo and his four wolf guards in the same outfit in a different color of dark red and midnight navy, stabbed and slashed three bandits from chests, cheeks and pinned to hyena's heart; snarling crocodile chortled his breath to no mercy when collapsed to the dirt. One wolf in midnight armor hammered Boar's jaw about the usual size of him, swinging the bandit across the bamboo construction to the left sidewalk.

Many screeched in a grimace, splattering blades with blood from cuts and slashes as the sea of warriors bellowed, crashing and crushing plenty of those who fell and stomped. Leo as he swung his red katana to hyena's belly, he commanded three archers above two-story apartment standing on large balconies, darting other bandit sharpshooters that held on the other side of the apartment about one block away. Leo heard an angry shout as the enormous Boar rose his spike ball while running. A large, bamboo armor intervened and banged his forehead with the black iron pan. DONG!

"Double Dad Defense!" goose and panda yelled, transforming their bamboo-machine armor they expanded two sharp wings behind Li's back. Li did wrap Mr. Ping in front of his belly before infiltrating the bloody skirmish and wear their hats (Li's rhino helmet). Li rushed ahead of the sea of wolves and bandits on the main street, swinging both pans onto every opponent's face and the back of their heads.

Mr. Ping on Li's belly deflected with small soup pan to his left wing and banged the hyena's nose with a small pot. Just as few bandits detected a giant panda in rhino bamboo armor opposed their scouts as if one of the Boars marched and pointing both fearless villagers attacking bandits along with wolf guards. The grimace brown Boar with spike ball gushed through the sea of the clash, raging and heading directly to Li and Mr. Ping as both fearless noodle cookers perceived him to their right after repeatedly banging hyena's head three times on the ground. Leo intervened and deflected the spike ball, and sliced brown Boar's upper chest to under left rib cage.

Crashed and remained sub-conscious with splattered blood on the dirt, both Li and Mr. Ping heard familiar shouts behind the bridge from the West. Monkey and Mantis thrust their palms and thingies across the white bridge, mopping hyenas and crocodiles through the stone road and tossed them all into the river below. "Monkey! Mantis!" Li and Mr. Ping cried out. Within a second after their call, a big, brown crocodile snarled sharply in thunderous he carried a single metallic ax from behind.

Rammed after Li deflected the shaft and all three crashed to the ground, their ears banged like the explosion muffled with ringing ears. Splash dirt and plasma splattered across the main street, filled with growling bandits and guard wolves scratching and slicing with slobbers of blood on their mouths. The goose pierced his cry as if Li's head wobbled with ringing ears inaudibly; wolf guards gushed to both sides away from the street, and fire arrows rained down from the sky.

Leo in the quickest act, he searched a sizeable wooden bamboo wall near two bravery villagers, housing Li and Mr. Ping as thirty fire arrows poured, and penetrated the bamboo barrier, like water smashed the roof. One flaming arrow slightly stroke Li's ear and Mr. Ping gaped in a shock. "Sir! Are you alright!" Leo demanded as he glimpsed only a panda. He checked Li as if Leo additionally looked Mr. Ping on the panda's belly, the wolf in red armor moved the barrier off to one side and grasped Li's paw to raise both. "You are okay, you two! Get out there and fight with me!"

"Fear the BUG!" the insect leaped within the swarming units as Mantis bounded across the main road.

"Who's in charge of wolf guards here?!" Monkey demanded when towering his tail next to Li and Mr. Ping, including the wolf in red armor while forming with kung fu balance.

"I am! Wolves and I are your allies of Emperor Huangdi!" Leo in red armor replied. He directed his paw to the east where incoming bandits stormed across the brown bridge. "Two ships are landing at the East and bringing reinforcements! Bandits on their vessels catapulting firebombs at the Valley!"

"We'll get there! You guard this village, and defend the villagers with your men!" Monkey commanded him, regardless of the rank of the Masters of Jade Palace, as Huangdi ordered all guards to follow every master's orders, even the Five. Monkey and Mantis turned to the panda and goose before dashing and entering the sea and swarm of wolves and bandits. "And be careful you two!"

Both masters of the Furious Five entered the sea of clash; deflecting and darting their kicks and punches as many within their way while wolves marched behind them, and combining abilities of arrows and daggers swinging through bandits. "Leo! Enemy forces are dashing up the stairs!" The wolf in gray armor warned loudly; both Li and Mr. Ping met their eyes directly to torches swarmed to the stairway, dashing upward rapidly and on ridges, bandits climbed within both sides in full force. "They are heading straight to Jade Palace!"


II. Rumble

"My Emperor! Enemy forces are coming at the stairway!" shouted the rhino in green armor, standing behind the gate of the Jade Palace arena. Wan from the aftermath of Chorh-Gom Prison returned, as the Emperor's scouts searched him a week earlier after the Company's dismissal.

The water buffalo in a yellow silk robe with the black dragon on his chest nodded and darted his hoof to one of the buffalo guards in brown armor. "Breach the gate, Lieutenant!" Huangdi ordered the guard. "Make sure your men and geese brace their feet to the floor!"

Wan sprinted back to the entrance; geese and Buffalo lieutenant shut the gate on one side after the rhino entered, and placing every defense barriers on knot rings, and two large bamboo logs connected to both doors and on the platform. Seventh Righteous of Fox, the she-bear, rhino, deer, lion, and she-panther lurched forward from Jade Palace, enabling Tai Chi stances while the Cobra Fanshe slithered beside the fox Leo.

Metals clanged from the gate as if metallic irons shifted like the hammer banging the door louder than person's fist thrusting the front door. Wan beside armed guards and the Righteous strolled to the defense barriers while wielding a maul. Reaching as the former Chorh-Gom correctional officer took a glimpse to his ears laying on the front gate, the sound crackled as if Wan knew the tone—

The rhino rose his eyes. "GET OUT OF THE BARRIER!" shouted Wan. The blast hawked its dark fireball, bursting the front gate with raging shade fires as Wan's body obliterated within the smoke.

Debris split apart, raining across the arena, many units and masters duck to the floor. Wolf archers on roofs pointed the gate where it stood, and you could see large, torn crater at the entrance. Bandits of Crocodile, boar, and hyena cried from stairs running at full speed, and archers release their red arrows on them. Ten enemies tripped to the crater; Twenty gangs followed, and half of their units climbed to both walls of the entrance; more than thirty rushed behind them, grimacing with tons of metal weapons they wielded. "There will be no peace," Huangdi said in the stern.

"Hold these cowards back! Break their advantage!" yelled Master Wolf in silver, silk robe, and gray outfit armor.

Ten bandits leaped to the platform from the crater. Six Righteous masters bounded near the hole, deflecting blades as lion Shujaa and panther princess Kasi sidestepped hyena's long sword. Arrows shrieked from above, penetrating bandits as if wolves obeyed and pierce targets to enemy weaknesses. One climbed to the left wall, had shot in his right eye. Three on the right barrier penetrated their necks, chests, and one on the upper left shoulder.

Shifu and Ming leaped behind Huangdi as both stroked their feet onto heads of hyena and crocodile. The red panda bounded many times he lurched his foot to every head of enemies and leaping across the field to a chi growl. The white tigress broke armpits with trapping, and vigorous thrust to her paws, straight punching through one bandit each on her sides.

The brown cobra Fǎnshè grimaced. He swept his tail incapacitating three joints of a grim-looking crocodile with a curving blade: to the belly, to the chest, and to the throat. The reptile Bandit has stifled, covering his throat, and Fǎnshè slashed him to the chest. The Cobra summoned his fangs with a snarl, propelling forward within the group of enemies surrounding the crater and entrance. He sank his sharp, venomous teeth to more than twenty bandits on their legs across the front rapidly, disabling the strengths they collapsed into unconsciousness.

The rhino Nam in green robe swirled his clouded hammer to three boars above, the deer Shi Dang curved his wooden pole on fierceness hyena, confusing him and he deflected mistakenly. The deer streak the platform to his surrounding while the fox Leo leaped and spiral kicked into giant boar wielding a metal ball with spikes. The grizzly bear Huong beside the deer trotted her stance. She sidetracked her double ax-sword to large pig's curving hook with a shout. The brown bear roared him and plummeted boar's upper shoulders.

A sharp yell cracked the wind above the arena. Both Hong and Bao bounded from stairs; the bunny dove her kick next Shifu in the air; the gorilla slammed his fists to many units they leaped to Bao's neck. He spun and rolled to the floor, crushing five bandits on the platform. "Do it, Bao! Smash!" Hong insisted boldly. The gorilla thunderously roared, bellowing every villain's ears as Bao jumped into the air while masters and guards withdrew back to the stairs. Bao shivered the platform, rumbling and forcing thirty bandits soared.

Wolf archers on roofs have darted; black arrows flung them across the arena on both sides coming from other sides of hillock rocks. How did bandit archers climb to the one hand of stair ridge? One water buffalo guard who hammered wicked brown boar's head with the black hammer shouted to Huangdi. "It's too many of them, my Emperor! We must fall back!"

"Go! Get inside the Palace!" Huangdi roared, raising his katana to Oogway's great care of Jade Palace. Most of masters and guard have noticed bonding bandits refused to surrender, neither conclude sprinting from the arena entrance. "Everyone retreat! Now!"

As many obeyed and followed behind Huangdi inclining the stairs, black arrows snarled as catapulting near Shifu's long ears. The rhino behind red panda swirled his clouded hammer, deflecting many high pitched arrows and one on Nam's horn he jerked it to one side. By spiraling and repeatedly without slowing pace, loud roars drew near, and Nam hardly peered dashing bandits of crocodile and three Boars. Once leaping above, Nam vortexed his hammer, swinging all four in the breeze, and they fell directly to swarming bandits.

Nam was the last infiltrating Jade Palace. Goose servants and wolf guards immediately shut massive doors; six buffalos embraced the front entry, Huangdi's men were compatible with strengths they could hold the door from adversaries try to infiltrate. What if hundreds of bandits thrust the front doorway with tons of robustness? Could this Jade Palace entrance be any guard it does to prevent access?

Bandits rushed with a sharp cry, banging the front door as Buffalo guards held it while Huangdi withdrew with water buffalos and wolves bonding with Master Wolf near the pool reflection. Shifu and Ming looked to themselves with Hong, Bao, and Fǎnshè, perceiving this front entrance would not hold much any longer. As many bangs stroke rapidly without a stiff force, a loud bump slightly pushed the gate.

The last thrust, unbolted with a sudden blow, leading Buffalo guards flew back with their painful yell, crashing them to the jade glass floor. Many eyes glimpsed to someone who stood more than eight feet with a robust gray body, green vest, and red pants, and crimson eyes were grimacing only one master, Shifu. No! The red panda stupefied.

"Here's Temutai! LORD OF THE MOON!" an angry, water buffalo grinned immorally, fisting his hoofs among the air. "And I shall have what is MINE!"


A female leopard watched the palace surrounded by raging bandits snarling the front entrance. "Oh, no!" Lian perceived the army not as they can conquer to have the village including Jade Palace, but killing against those who stood in their way. She looked on beautiful, innocent pandas at Training Hall courtyard watching the sky painted in black, and dark-red orange on the horizon, like many lands, burned to ash.

Lian bounded from barrack's roof. She shortly reached the Training Hall courtyard filled with geese and antelope guards. Lian searched the elder goat with the wooden cane as the Soothsayer watched young pandas and two snow leopard cubs watching the horrifying sky. "My lady," she admired the elder goat hurriedly and anxious, who she peered the heavens that grew darker than the forest. "Those bandits entered Jade Palace! I have to bring you and children inside Student Barrack, and goose servants will guard us!"

Two antelope guards in golden silk robe rapidly rushed the Soothsayer, not as pacing for the elder to sprint. Small and teenage pandas followed them into the woods, and through the entrance infiltrating the Student Barrack in moments; one snow leopard in a green vest and brown pant shrieked in horror, swimming his head everywhere as he grabbed his mother's paw. "Mom! Mom! Don't leave me!"

His mother crouched, caressing her son's cheek glossed with red tears pouring from snow leopard's chi eyes. "I'm not going to leave you, Po. I will be right outside with Zeng and Shifu's servants," Lian promised. "Stay with Diyu, Bao and Lei Lei with pandas and Soothsayer. Quickly now!"

Shortly, antelopes and she-panda in a pink vest and conical hat guided Soothsayer, two snow leopards and five pandas (two cubs and three teenagers) inside the corridor. They hurriedly infiltrated one room, filled with belongings of Dragon Warrior, proper bed sheet, pictures of Po with many fans, him and his two fathers perched next to the lantern, and panda mother with her cub beside the whole family.

Children hid and stood behind the bed as if the Soothsayer glimmered her eyes and faced happy panda pictures across the room. Both teenage pandas joined next to her, while both snow leopards joined beside cubs before antelope guards dashed. "Nanny?" an adolescent panda Bao with blue eyes and vest called the elder goat confusingly. "Why are those people being mean, and carrying torches?"

"They are bandits, my children. Let us not contemplate your worst fear from them," advised the Soothsayer, making sure not able to reply to Bao's anxious question that could terrify children. She matched a small fire, summoning a lamp beside her as she placed the lantern to the middle, gesturing many children and grabbing Lei Lei and Po's paws to perch beside her. "Let us gather around in circles with our hands, and pray to Spirit masters."


"THIS IS FOR YOU, PO!" Monkey shouted, trotting rapidly and bounding on roofs with a scream within his throat. He palmed boars and deflected darting blades, towering his tail like metal. Monkey dove across the dark alleyway as he peeked baskets of bananas perching next to the vegetables near the front door of Mrs. Chao's gift shop. He gathered it all with a single white cover as flipping many bananas in it, spinning the cap and carrying to his back.

Next, Monkey bounded above gift shop's roof, swinging the bag-like cover on to reptile crocodiles. He summoned and triggered both palms on twenty bananas (ten in each palm), bursting many fruits above the dust-fire breeze, Monkey hurled peels to every street while rotating and bounding many roofs; swarms of bandits randomly stumbled, and Monkey caught all banana fruits in his mouth, swallowing harder. "Still got it!" Monkey grinned.

"Fear the bug!" the insect roared. Mantis repeatedly sprung in a faster pace on the main deck of the black Ketch. Puncturing with his thingies to twenty bandit crews they swirled their hammers, curved swords, daggers, and mauls. With such a blink of the eye, you could not see a praying mantis on your eyes. You saw a green movable object thrusting every adversary's thorax shattered and hammered loudly. Mantis infiltrated the below deck as no other eyes caught the bug entering because of how small and arduous you must find. He thrust his leg hook at angry gorilla in orange armor with the red gauntlet, wrecking him off the port side. "ANTENNA POWER!"

The bug ignited the Chi on his antenna, reducing every object including body's speed. Reptile's ax nearly sliced the insect at one inch to his head; Mantis bounded and walloped every single bandit within their chests, as if most beverage barrels, napping nets, including metallic swords that littered across the bottom deck platform. The bug had left the second floor, he enraged his chi above the sail, soaring through fire ashes as Mantis manually closed his eyes.

As the insect remained a balance of the inner peace while flying, he sensed the catapult's rope snapped to his left from red junk ship. It was a fire drake vortex scorched with a yell, as the ape in gold armor next to the catapult was the one who cut the rope, and tossed the fireball directly to the bug. Mantis slowly opened his eyes, as the fire raged near you felt the presence of air with sturdy heat; he snatched the fire vortex! "For my brother!" Mantis snarled. The praying insect spun the enormous fireball, flinging straight into the heart of the red vessel; bandits bounded to both sides of port and starboard, shouting in dreadfulness as the sphere erupted the mad gorilla, and the entire ship shredding to pieces. KABOOM!

Shreds of black cloud formed into ashes with dazzling suns. The sea of the clash at the main street stopped waving; many faces glimpsed to the fire drake, as if the wolves quickly snapped, and executed all bandits ahead of them, and to the roofs, and to the sides. Li and Mr. Ping whiplashed the crocodile, who nearly chomped them both on their six, and swung down to the dirt.

Citizens howled from the North; wolves and both fearless noodle folks rose their ears. "It's the villagers! They're under attack at Tea Restaurant!" Leo in red armor shouted in full eyes. The high-rank commander searched the panda and goose on the side of the intersection street, as Li and Mr. Ping gasped in anxious. "You two! With me! And the rest of you, make sure don't let those bandits stand up against us!"

"YES, SIR!" many wolves obeyed.

The wolf in red armor sprinted across the northern road filled with mayhem and collateral damages, and fearless noodle folks followed him beside. The village shaded into the dark, scarlet with ashes like snows fell everywhere, glimmered into stars of fire. Running across houses and apartments, Li, Mr. Ping, and Leo fled across the third intersection to the right, as if wolves intervened, and bounded on roofs darting arrows through roads, dropping bandits to the dirt.

The boar bandit with blind right eye colored to gray swarmed from nowhere at the fifth block, near the riverbank. He grimaced into a snarl with a burst of blubber, swinging with Chinese dao as the boar almost swept Li's head after the elder panda dove his head downward; the goose shouted in a sharp cry, Leo repeatedly deflected big bandit's sword as if striking within close to their necks, and outside. The boar rolled down from Leo's knight swing combo, and he revolved his katana off to the dying tree.

Li tossed the iron pan onto Boar's head. Wobbling shortly, the wolf in red armor rose his right arm, shooting a single black blade to bandit's upper neck after aimed; the Boar growled into grimace snarl, as if the noodle folks acted when sprinting ahead of him, then Li bounded above and shattered the bandit's skull with iron plate.

"That will be sixty yens for dumplings I smelled it in your mouth!" snapped Mr. Ping, striking Boar's back with a small pan.

"That big boar could not kill you both when he's dead! HA!" Leo said surprisingly. "You two are the most insanity, and fearless people I have ever seen! Come on, let's go save your people!"


III. Inferno

"Temutai! Don't do this!" The red panda begged thunderously.

"LORD OF THE MOON DOES NOT SURRENDER!" the angry gray water buffalo shouted.

The ocean of guards, masters, students, and bandits splashed with brawls and kicks across the Hall of Heroes everywhere. With grunts, and spills of glass tearing to all sides, and crumpled mayhem and people opposed to weapons that Huangdi's Resistance go against incoming bandits from the front gate, where it was sealed, and shattered. The angry water buffalo swept his hoofs wildly, as if Shifu bounded red columns, and avoiding Temutai's raging power within him.

The red panda landed to the right hall while Buffalo guards pointed their guan daos ahead of Temutai if the Lord of Moon would get close to Emperor Huangdi. Shifu deflected Temutai's clenched hoofs to both sides and snatched his open palm with a strength of red panda's serene chi. "That Medallion could let you foresee visions if you wear it, and will not let you become invincible as by welding power-hunger as nothing to compare Huoju's supernatural ability! You will have dark emotions within your mind!" he warned.

"Rage is MY POWER!" Temutai snarled. The blue motion spawned behind Shifu as the angry Buffalo targeted his eyes to ocean eyes. He pictured an elder white tigress in a sapphire robe with black lines softly growled as showing fangs and claws. "Ooh! So blue and fluffy! And who is this cutie pie here—?"

Ming uppercutted Temutai's nose with her kick. She spun backward and landed beside Shifu while the angry buffalo wobbled through red columns severely. Temutai snapped his jaw and gaped directly to white tigress's eyes. "Lady?!" Temutai quivered his crimson eyes. "You got some fangs! And I NEVER LIKED YOU!"

The angry buffalo thrust his clench hoof, and the elder tigress elbowed Temutai's fist. Sensing his knuckles soft tendered, the insanity buffalo tensed in a fury, fisting both Shifu and Ming. Both masters diverged from the annoyed Temutai in outrage, crossing near Huangdi's guards near reflection pool as if the water buffalo in yellow robe pointed, and offered his men deflect Temutai's hoofs. The wrath of water buffalo with crimson eyes dragged his two fists, and stroke directly to guards; Huangdi lost the momentum of his stance, he jarred his feet onto the edge of reflection pool and swallowed under the sky blue hole.

Temutai deflected Shifu's bound kicks above him, palm striking the red panda's chest and Ming combined her fists of chi sao onto his left side, circling her punches rapidly in stolid at angry buffalo's ribcage. She swept her feet forward and to the right, trapping the Buffalo's stance as if Temutai perplexed when fisting near her head. Ming again circled her straight punches; the Buffalo sensed her iron fist while slightly tripped, and Ming ascended to his left horn, swinging elsewhere with her legs locked and dragging Temutai down to the jade glass floor.

Temutai shook before rising; Ming concluded him after bounded to his neck, and she circled many paws to Buffalo's nose and forehead like a punching bag. Over twenty-five punches, Ming's last, one-inch punch dizzied Temutai's head, cracking the floor back to his skull. The angry buffalo wobbled his vision into a blur, dazzling as depths of moonlight while meeting his eyes to Ming's ocean eyes. "She's my flower… And I'm your butterfly…" Temutai jiggled his head, peering stars across his head and fell to the jade glass platform.

The elder white tigress hummed when guards shouted near the reflection pool. "Get our Emperor off the water!" ordered tall Buffalo in metallic armor. Huangdi splashed his arms as if his long robe dragged him under, and many guards snatched his hoofs quickly. "Cover the Emperor!" Master Wolf howled. "Defend the Emperor!"

Wolves darted their arrows into swarming bandits infiltrating the front of Jade Palace. The Righteous pressed their advantage; the fox Leo bounded red columns and jumped directly to sprinting gangs; the rhino Nam vortexed his hammer, slamming the glass floor and waved its breeze onto them. The lion Shujaa and she-panther Kasi spiraled their kicks, and summoned their yellow sun on their paws, thrusting their chi to bandits ahead of the frontage Jade Palace.

Shifu and Ming slightly heard loud quack across the Hall of Heroes, arriving from the left hall. "Intruder! Bandits are going near Gardens!" the dark blue goose in golden robe informed loudly. "Lian sighted bandits incoming close to Student Barracks!"

Ming preoccupied, as if she swam her head quickly around the sea of people attacking, tearing monuments of masters, and shattering replica objects of history. "Bao, Hong, Fǎnshè!" the elder tigress called her students out. The gorilla smashed two crocodiles' chests; the bunny Hong thrust many palms within the sea of battle elsewhere; the cobra Fǎnshè sliced brown Boar's bastard sword, and catapulted him to the front; all three heard their master, and arrived. "Get to the Gardens, stop bandits climbing the ridge and advancing Student Barracks! GO!"

The dark blue goose soared above the battle, and three of the Nine followed him from leaving Jade Palace, heading down on the path road to Garden Masters. All four warned to their ears, as if local bandits of archers snarled, sprinting to the side of Jade Palace and positioned to bricks balcony. Bao turned his head while rushing; the crocodile with the black beard in dark armored and spike ball, gestured his hand while jackals pulled the arrows with flame tips on the strings. "BAO, FLAME ARROWS!"

"LOOSE!" echoed bandit.

Arrows catapulted across the sky, dripping above masters' heads. The Nine and Zeng covered behind huge stone of Master Thundering Rhino; arrows landed as feathers screeched angrily. A clinking sound approached from the right side of Gardens; Fǎnshè sighted a circular-like red target with three hooks behind it, grasping the grass on the ridge. The Cobra pointed his tail to climbing rigs. "Take out those appliances behind Bao's great-great-grandfather statue, and get in the woods before bandits appear!"

The bunny scurried into the woods behind Master Gorilla statue. One, brown gorilla struggled on the rig; Hong leaped and kicked the target mark behind the rig. The bandit fell as if the brown ape shouted in frighten. She spotted two rigs grasping the bent tree, and Hong tossed her sao blades over ropes. She heard bandits howled and sighted them rolling and crashing over ridges, branches, and solid rocks shattered their bones.

"LOOSE!" Hong heard a snarl echo loudly from Jade Palace. The rain of fire arrows screamed into the air, soaring and diving across the Garden. Mumble arrows screeched, and the Nine and Zeng took cover behind statues. They have heard sharp cry bandits sprinting behind Oogway statue and on the far left corner of Jade Palace."There is more near the Student Barrack! About ten more!" Zeng said louder after waves of fire arrows stopped.

"Move, Bao! Come on!" Fǎnshè said hurriedly. The Nine and Zeng reached the Student Barrack gate. Shifu's geese servants in green, blue, and yellow robes stood above the barriers. They wielded crossbows when one of the geese servants ordered to open the gate. As they did, archers triggered the arrows, impacting to every bandit's chest, neck, leg, and one on jackal's head.

Geese immediately closed the gate after the Nine and Zeng entered the courtyard. "GO!" she-goose in blue and yellow robe commanded all four. "WE'LL HOLD THEM OFF AS LONG AS WE CAN!"

Just as the Nine and Zeng entered the Student Barrack, Bao snatched the double ax across the weapon stash, as if plenty of geese seized their weapons. Leaving as all four headed to the back of the door, they bounded to the barrier and entered the woods, following the road path to Student Barracks as if Fǎnshè sighted fire torches across the forest. "There they are! Get over there and stop those gorillas climbing their rigs!"

Zeng soared through branches filled with dark green and blue as if many leaves dimmed and glimmered into the dark red from the fire. Bao, Fǎnshè, and Hong dashed to the downhill, and they embarked hearing warriors at the Student Barrack shouted close nearby. Pandiva clans, antelope guards, Yoo, and Lian, joined the battle as many deflected gorilla punches, and hammer palms.

"I don't know who you are!" the enormous panda grasped tightly to midnight ape's back, crushing his spine.

"GET OFF ME!" the gorilla in a navy blue armor snapped, wobbling harder as he could, but Yoo broke the ape's back with a sound of shatter glass. "OWW!"

"Way to go, big guy!" Lian complemented, spiraling her wooden pole above her and fluttered brown gorilla's left cheek in blue armor.


The barrack listened to shouts, and snarls of gorillas across all shoji windows, filled with orange fire from the woods. The elder goat spoke inaudibly as if the Soothsayer mollified children across the Dragon Warrior's room around the circle. The wooden floor on the corridor creaked. "Lei!" a teenage panda Bao murmured loudly. Mali soothed her breath to shut the lantern, as the wooden floor continued squeaking easily audible.

The bear in shadow form and dark gray kilt peered one shoji wall to the left, glaring in red and blue that combined her color into purple. Her steps became bulky than the bull's trot. She dazzled her eyes, sniffing wood, paper, and life forms nearby. Phantom swirled her ax blade to the door, tearing the paper she growled. Phantom sidestepped on many sides the bear hammered shojis, banging, and splitting with claws to guest rooms, and to Tigress's room, Mantis's, and Monkey's. She could listen to wobbling voices, murmur and tears beside.

Lei Lei patted her cheeks as she had perched beside teenage panda Bao, shaking their heads and arms while behind cover to Dragon Warrior's bed. Two of their snow leopard friends quivered their head; Po and Diyu shut their golden eyes. Soothsayer hugged panda children on her arms to her chest. The stomp stopped creaking the platform. "Where… Are… You?" the bear demanded in gruff, monstrous tone. "WHERE… ARE… YOU?" Phantom growled loudly. Lei Lei wobbled and covered her mouth hurriedly.

Phantom shredded Dragon Warrior's shoji door, piled of horrors across the corridor echoed within the Student Barrack. The bear tensely glimpsed to the elder goat protecting panda children behind the Dragon Warrior's bed; the goat gasped and peered a grumpy black bear snarling at her. "There you are," Phantom grinned wickedly.

Faster steps approached to the right corridor; a black sash snatched Phantom's ax in circles, a woman panda in a pink vest and sizeable conical hat bounded her kick to the bear. The Pandiva warrior side-swept the bear's left foot. Phantom collapsed and darted her feet to fearless she-panda. The bear rose swiftly, she inclined her hammer and afraid-less black, and white bear deflected it with her sash stick.

Both flail their weapons, slashing curtains of shoji walls. The bear angrily shouted when swung the hammer to the right; the Pandiva warrior dodged it as she rolled front. Phantom ignited her dark, purple shadows beyond her left claw, thrusting she-panda and vanquished sash stick. Lei Lei crawled after the panda on the platform collapsed. Struggling, breathing heavily, and squirming near the entrance of Dragon Warrior's front shoji door, the Pandiva warrior wobbled her throat and looked in the eyes of children's horror, including Lei Lei's eyes.

Lei Lei faced she-panda's rising eyes with a scream. Phantom yanked the ax-blade and hammered to she-panda's back. "MOM!" shrieked Lei Lei. For the first time, the teenage child watched her mother's last breath, then pandiva woman flattened her head. The black bear dragged her ax, wielding her favored weapon as if careless and stern looking warrior could slay innocents and children exclaimed.

Soothsayer rose her arms on sides. "NO! Do not slaughter these kids!" the elder goat wailed. The black bear glanced children's eyes. As if Phantom not interested little pandas and two courage snow leopards embracing them in petrified. The bear wielded her ax-blades, pointing the elder goat to her throat; Soothsayer shed her tears. "These beautiful souls do not deserve to die. Spare them." Mali wobbled; Phantom sheathed the hammer behind her back, she opened her claws, forming a snarl of the blaze with crimson and violet with velvet.


The Nine expunged climbing rigs through the edge of cliffs. Shortly as if bounding and darting their fists on to target-like woods behind those claws, horrors toned louder behind. "It's children! They're in trouble!" Fǎnshè absorbed hurriedly. The cobra slithered and leaped through branches by reaching the high hill where local pandas defend with Lian. Bao revolved and sighted Hong and Fǎnshè dashing to the rocks.

Flames ignited within Bao's way, lining up ahead of him as the ape shouted. "BAO, FIRE! BAO—!" A massive maul swept to his right cheek and knocked him cold. Fire swarmed as both Hong and Fǎnshè heard their brother howled before forests scorched with a burn.

"BAO!" Both screamed in wobble. The fire crawled slowly, and both hardly peered to the giant ape snatching their brother on his body behind, and the gorilla bounded to the cliff, vanishing their sight. Fǎnshè and Hong could not see who seized their gorilla brother once the fire raged and slowly in fierce.

"Bao! Where are you?!" Hong called sharply as she nearly entered the fire before Fǎnshè intervened.

"HONG, NO! Come away from there!" he caught Hong's body with his tail, wrapping her body around and bounded off the fire that surrounded them both. They reached on the side of the Student Barrack; Hong wobbled in a tense as the cobra held her with his whole body. "The fire's too hot! You can't get through!"

"Bao was there! We have to find him!"

"I will find him! Right now, kids are in danger, and they need help!" he snapped.

A gust within the barrack formed into a thunderous breeze. With the high wind rumbled every wall, roof, and door, both Fanshe and Hong met their eyes in perplexed, looking at the vast Palace evidently, filled with red spirals from platforms and stairway. Most stars rose at a slow pace, as if vortexes became invisible with blasts of the wind, shattering like tears shredding windows, pots, and papers below both warriors on the roof.

Fǎnshè loosened his reptile body around the bunny's chest, while both could hear children sobbing. Pandivas and Yoo ran to the door; antelopes stood still on the road to peer unconscious gorillas ahead of them, while both Hong infiltrated Student Barrack from the roof she headed to the entrance. Fǎnshè dashed his body to the woods, as the land poured with fire; this cobra used heat around him than the Nine.

Lian rushed inside the barrack, listening to children's shedding wail as if the leopard dashed through the corridor, anxiously. She stopped running after Pandivas including Yoo entered the hallway, glimpsing an immovable, dead panda mother and Lei Lei burst her tears, and then wailed. Ling shouted worriedly. "Po! Are you alright?!"

"Chénmò!" Yoo sobbed while Lian's son answered in terror; she-leopard entered Dragon Warrior's room as the enormous, and broken panda stepped forward, and felt his heart collapsing. Perceiving the dead panda mother sacrificed on the floor, and endured her suffering. Yoo and two Pandivas in sky blue and purple robe crouched beside Lei Lei, rotating their heads to the Shoji room and Lei Lei's red eyes while other three in red, yellow and blue robes entered Dragon Warrior's room.

Hong strolled in inaudibly, and hearing pandas howled in tears as the bunny looked Yoo grasping Lei Lei's dead mother, releasing redness water from his eyes and poured on Chénmò's heart. The rabbit peered and shook her heart on she-leopard grasping her sons Po and Diyu sobbing each other, as if Hong glimpsed across the wrecked corridor, and could not sight—

"Where is she? Where is Soothsayer?" demanded Hong in weak tone to distressed teenage panda. Lei Lei did not answer, sobbing and falling tears to the hall as Hong sunk her ears, sharing her grief she embraced Lei Lei regrettably.


"They are gone!" Leo announced. Sharing news with the wolves army across borders of the Valley of Peace.

Li and Mr. Ping panted, swirling slowly and steadily on elsewhere searching any signs of threat nearby beside flames. They circled across the Tea Restaurant, as by seeking Mrs. Chow, pandas, geese, and pigs escorted out from the front door safely. "Where are they?!" snapped goose, twirling his black pan. "They owe me noodles and my kitchen!"

"They are gone," calmed Li, concluding goose's pan. His eyes targeted the fires of the mountain ridge, and stairs flared angrily, and softly. Mr. Ping met his eyes to blazes above and glimpsed Jade Palace. They heard fast sprints across three blocks away, peering Monkey and Mantis running to the stairway.

In moments, Li and Mr. Ping followed Monkey and Mantis on the stairway. Arriving the arena as all met their eyes on floors and platforms piled with dead warriors and bandits. There were no signs of enemies nearby, nor shouts of war cry across ridges. All four again sprinted to the next stairway as bodies perched to each side, and more on the tip of the final step, perceiving ahead of the Jade Palace entrance was breached and shattered.

Monkey and Mantis cried out to their master, sprinting inside Hall of Heroes as injured warriors and dead bandits laid, while Li and Mr. Ping gasped and panted shortly; lurching forward as noodle folks sauntered and browsed their heads, paint monuments of masters tore apart on the bottom in each picture.

Li and Mr. Ping listened six students of Seventh Righteous sobbed on their top right corner near the third column, surrounding to who demised next to dead wolf archers when the fox Leo flattened the sheep's head to his knees while sitting. Their Tai Chi teacher, Master Meizen, had a single dark blade that tossed directly to her chest. The Fox shut Meizen's eyes with his paw.

"Shifu!" Li's head jerked to the left near the reflection pool beside Buffalo guards and Emperor Huangdi caressing his right arm. Monkey, who cried with Mantis, he reached Shifu as the red panda grasped his left shoulder and elder white tigress gasped and covered her right thigh. "Master Shifu, Master Ming! Are you two alright?!" demanded Mantis anxiously

"I am alright," the red panda replied in grunt and uneven tone, then wheezing as Ming caught him behind to help him stand. "Temutai and his men skirmished here after the arena outside.

"Where is he?" Monkey demanded as he and Mantis swam their heads everywhere.

"Temutai is gone," the elder white tigress answered with delicate. "He's got the Medallion, and vanished with his bandits…"

The water buffalo in yellow silk with the black dragon robe rose his feet from the floor, meeting his yellow eyes to many people upon the Hall of Heroes. The Emperor inhaled. "Phantom and her army have retreated! The Valley of Peace and Jade Palace are vulnerable to defend," Emperor Huangdi announced; many heads turned to him while Seventh Righteous contemplated the Emperor. "We must gather every man, woman, and child from here, the Prosper Valley, Musicians' Village, and Tánhuáng. We will have a long march to retreat, and head to the sanctuary city —" Huangdi glimpsed to the left. Shifu, Ming, Monkey, Mantis, Li and Mr. Ping listened as if the Emperor's speech is stern "— You have to warn your family and friends if they live anywhere across China where many threats will mop homes, villages, and towns. The army will return, and attack again if we cannot leave!"


Author's Note:

My apologies to any reader if you read and had offensive to see brutal violence on this chapter! I cannot change this rating that "T" is fitted for a purpose to see violence through adventures, and themes in between light and darkness! I would have to stay within the light if dark themes are too much to you, so inform me on Private Message.

Regardless of dark themes you experience, I desire to say thank you, followers. You favored this story as I love to continue my story going forward!

Please review this chapter! What do you like/dislike so far: Hong's explanation of Bao's story? The battles of the Valley of Peace and Jade Palace? And my OC villain Phantom killed the minor character (Lei Lei's mother)? Feel free to review!

GZ