There's not much as planned to send all the chapters, but I feel like posting this latest chapter to bring all the characters in the role. On the side note: the battle will be legendary, Tai Lung quoted!

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Episode Finale: Heaven and Hell (47 - 58)


Chapter XLVIII

Clash

The Battle of Gongmen, Act One

The Mist

The trees ahead of the rim of the North and Northwest of Gongmen City whispered. It sizzled and spat grayish mists, slowly moving toward the borders. As the fog drifted, you could barely not see the walls and dash guards around the watchtowers. It was getting closer. Closer. And deathly closer. Po and Tigress glanced at each other in confusion, as the rest of masters sharply stared at the fog approaching.

Multiple screams at the border startled few archers and the Resistance fighters. Noticing the fog squirmed into the houses and apartments, Po positioned his green yin-yang staff on both paws ahead of him, a gift from his grandmaster in the Spirit Realm after the accomplishment of saving every master from the Supreme Warlord. That was not going to expect the fog from Huoju's phase attack, as every warrior stood still, guarding up and without slipping their feet back.

The fog with an echo of falling snows crashed into many northern apartments without stopping the collision. Other frightening wails boomed as if the Masters of Jade Palace and the Nine peered the soldiers from the fog sprinting away. The Nine guarded their arms up; the Righteous formed their water-flow form; Jade Palace masters combined their kung fu characteristic stances.

The fog swarmed them all.


"Sir! There is a junk ship sailing at the Harbor!" Lin pointed his paw at the Harbor.

Three wolves and the young peacock prince at the Throne Room outside observed the sea at the Southeast of Gongmen City. The south, however, colored into shades of deep purple and blue, added white dancing sparks it stroked on clouds and struck hills. At the harbor, a black ship with three red mast sails cruised. There was only one Junk ship with simple black eyespot. "Prince Dongji, magnify the scope over there. Check the ship." The Emperor commanded.

Lao nodded. "Yes, my Emperor," the peacock complied, hustling his stroll to the eastern balcony. His left eye surveyed the glass of the golden scope you could not only watch the constellations but seeking out the breaking waves of the ocean including ship visitors. Zooming and peering at the ship, Lao magnified the red sail with a black eye. He thought of the vessel become the next Lord Shen's warship. But it was not his father's. The emblem in the center of the sail changed as the face of the gorilla's stern.

The peafowl's left orb caught a giant midnight gorilla in golden armor on the main deck, thronged with four times twenty-five soldiers grasping the red torches. In front of the deck, a creamy yellow, triple dragon cannon laid ahead and aimed behind the city. "My Emperor, the Great Gorilla, and his army are at the Harbor! They have Shen's cannons aiming at the city!" Lao warned.

"Signal the red banner, Lin!" The Emperor gestured the twin wolf. As Lin unlatched the flag of sunlight and chi water (meaning the sign of danger at the south) beside the peacock, the whole boundary of the south signaled its red torches and marched at the harbor. Local birds and swans soared.

Inside the mist, you only hear the shouts of birds flying behind the warriors at the south. Contemplating half of the war screams and the other in a sudden murmur like deathly surroundings, the Dragon Warrior and Furious Five slowly swam their heads. This awareness was not how they studied a few of Lord Shen's defensive areas while most of the Resistance focused their objectives. Their goal: knock as many bandits as possible. Giant growls and laugh hyenas advanced on further away in Po's front view, arrows flickered and launched. Rapid, muffle steps dashed within few blocks away, soldiers readied their blades and darts in front; Masters steadied their feet and arms.

Five—No, twenty-night arrows flew at them!

"DOWN!"

Rain arrows pierced through shields and the masters mostly deflected. "NIGHT ARROWS!" Bear hailed.

Archers from the roofs fired back with flame arrows wherever they aimed. Everyone could hear five bandits scream out. That was not enough! Two, six archers shot and fall on the sides of the balconies. As soon as night and fire arrows fired on one side to the other repeatedly, the Dragon Warrior spiraled his jade staff of yin-yang. Without hesitating, his friends behind them did the same as the Five, Shifu, the Nine, and Seventh Righteous palmed, spun their kicks and dodged multiple night arrows.

"WOAH, LOOK OUT!"

A screech fire rained behind Po. In a rapid avoid, most leaped forward to the pavement and ducked from the blast. Hundreds of debris splashed and rang a few of the warriors' ears. The bombing was no crimson. It was vibrant, dark red, swelling with crystal black smokes. "INCOMING!" the brown bear warned loudly. The other flame from the Harbor wrecked the two-story building with an extended balcony. Severe fog put a lot of heat into this phase one battle, leading every soldier confused into a lost contact when glimpsing their heads all around their surroundings.

He had to take action. The panda felt his feet rumble, him and Tigress stood back to back as if together in a team at once outnumbered, what could stop the Dragon Warrior if he unleashed his combat with the Furious Five? No one could! Just for the only reaction by the panda, he bore his staff, stabbing the pavement with a loud clunk of chi. The fog was ascending with Po's chi. The energy quaked through the fogginess and dissipated it in the air.

More than a five hundred bandits around the perimeters, alleyways and the northern road sneaked in sightseeing.

From the tip of the mountain, the Prince of Darkness grinned. The black and white bear has done it. He will not last. Huoju snapped cooly. His right hand snapped his hoof fingers.

Ridges and many hills around the edge of the city spat with red and white sparkles.


Rain of Fire

"DEFLECT THE FIRES AWAY FROM THE GROUND! FLY!"

All bird forces fanned their wings into the breeze. More than ten thousand of Eagle's men soared higher. Reaching into the sky in right time from the cannonballs falling, Master Eagle hurled it back where the shooting began from the rim. Most of them who diverted, the birds threw other fires into sudden firework explosions. The bandits of vultures and dark hawks from the clouds bent their wings and ambushed few swans and avians.

At the Bear's Quarter, a Wing Chun tigress broke the boar's arms as she blocked his other right limb, blowing double straight punches; Jerking the boar's hand, Ming slithered her lightening arrow-palm toward the bandit's throat, suffocating him to the ground. Beside her, a she-wolf with blue qipao and black pants baked her body to the left Lotus elbowed the deer's left limb, knifing and back elbowing his head she swept her left foot forward to fall the bandit's back. Climbing on the she-wolf's back, the bunny Hong sprung her feet and darted her small kicks onto ten bandits they nearly attacked the Righteous's panther student. Bounding with Shifu, Hong booted other five bandits' foreheads and spiraled her body like a butterfly.

A small thing blinded every gang's eyes as if when nearly attacking the Furious Five, the insect plunged his thingies into their knees, surrounding over fifty clan members. The cobra Fanshe angled his tail he interfered and jabbed two large boars at their chests. Viper beside him, the same advantage as these reptile creatures slithered and jerked most of them when grasping red sashes.

Yanking them, Viper and Fanshe crashed both boars and fell them into the pavement. "Nicely done, Fanshe!"

"Who's in charge leading the Nine?!" one of the geese in mid-air from the Holy Flame demanded.

The white tigress jerked the hyena's right hand and hammered her left knife palm underneath the bandit's jaw. "I am! What's the report?"

"Prince Dongji has detected one of your students riding on the boat with Great Gorilla gangs! He said the gorillas are threatening Bao!"

The cobra turned to a widened expression, making his throat harder to swallow. "Bao is on the ship?!" Fanshe shouted in shocking before slashing his tail at the fox's right cheek.

"Fanshe! Get Bao off the ship and send yourselves in the Undercity!" Master Ming ordered her cobra student; she unleashed her circle punches at the hyena's head.

Tightening the deer's belly, Viper catapulted herself as if the bandit spun his whole body like a spinning wheel. She slithered near the red panda master who clenched and thrust the hawk's right wing. "Master Shifu, may I go with Fanshe?"

"Do what you can!" Shifu acted out when heaving the brown hawk. "Crane, Mantis! Follow Viper and Fanshe towards the Harbor!"

Both slithering creatures advanced their rush at the southern roads. Crane soared and followed the reptiles; Mantis locked his thingies on the edge of the avian's conical hat in front. Entering the crowd of warbirds among the wind and sky, Crane rose his head and spotted three vultures lick their beaks wildly. The yellow and green eyes glared at the bird, and the bug was interfering through the rough air, receding any of clashes of the Resistance and bandits mauling their talons and thrusting their thick mouths toward each other.

"You like to see Wings of Thorax, Crane—?" Mantis asked loudly but the avian cut the bug's inquiring.

"Hang on!" Crane craned his whole neck and dove underneath the thronging warbirds. There were three vultures, now as all five flew behind him. Rolling into the ground battle while embracing the bird's hat, Mantis glimpsed at the three-story apartment complex that has the gaps of the balcony. Once both rapidly entered the openings and Crane bent his wings from extending, three birds crashed into one of the windows, and the other two struck through the little wooden column sides.

"Now what?" the avian asked from the insect's questioning Mantis liked to hear Crane out.

"Wings of Thorax! I leap and pummel my clawthees at these vultures!"

Astounding, the bird warrior observed thirty bats swarm like a tornado and arrow pointing at two of the Furious Five. He had no time to consider for spiraling his wings last time when Crane helped Zeng to soar Jade Palace from the vultures. "NOW!" Crane yelled.

Mantis sprung out of Crane's hat forward. The bats were rolling without separating nor retreating, noticing they could outnumber Crane and—Where did the bug go?! There was only a small insect where they had eyes on one of the Furious Five! One mistake look, their heads swam, and one from the tip of the tornado ahead gasped in horror.

The insect's antennae glittered into a sun. "Wings of THORAX!" Mantis shouted.

He slowed every movement all around him. The green insect's lips grinned and spread his little coat wings toward horrendous bats. In Crane's vision, many bats diverted and clobbered into the battlefield by Mantis; the avian soared underneath the ambush, and the bug grasped Crane's conical hat.

The bug's achievement: time. Time became his ability as when Mantis was in the cage for too many years (in normal person's height felt regular and slight of pace time) to him, he did have the ability to await the enemy's movement and reacted without defending themselves no more. Him too small and them whatever giant they are, Mantis could handle them all.

Size does not matter.

Slithering near the Harbor, Viper eluded her body she bent, crawled any enemy's belly and launched forward into the jarring road, piled with thousands of soldiers nearly stomping the pavement as if the warrior and bandit performed their battle stances without noticing two reptile snakes coming below them. Good thing both Viper and the cobra Fanshe did not stomp like a pancake! Just as they arrived near the bridge, the green snake crawled beside the brown cobra. "You like cold water, right, Fanshe?"

"Not in the winter days!" Fanshe grinned before bounding with Viper. "Cannonball!"

Both reptiles leaped and plunged into the midnight water.


The Great Gorilla's Ship

The red vessel hacked two more golden dragon cannons from the trio-artillery, forged with fire and many kinds of iron to put up to one of the deadliest weapons Huoju and formerly Shen created. The Gorilla soldiers, clenching their gongs and pulling strings, loosed their black arrows at will toward all the birds. Two gray swans near the port side were penetrated their hearts and plunged into the water in their froth screams.

The Great Gorilla, knowing the bandit who strongly desired eliminate not just the fortunes, but shatter Oogway monuments among the mountain bridge terrains, he chuckled. Showing a nasty look of his brown eyes burning to embers, grimacing at Eagle's army. In his heart, he honestly hated every warrior, for those who followed Oogway.

One giant gorilla near the front port slid to the right; three hawks dove in unbalance glide after they got shot and crashed on the main deck. Local bandits stomped, lashed, and walloped repeatedly and violently at the aces. One who moved to the right and wore his shiny armor he fought Master Viper, his hand locked on the tormented gorilla with blue eyes. "Look at this city, Bao. You think your friends will come and say, 'I'm coming to save you, Bao!', and believe they will arrive here?!" the gorilla snarled. His nails clenched onto Bao's upper neck behind him. "Damn your kung fu friends!"

Their eyes (except Bao's) peered the red sails and across the port. A triple cannon burst more red and white sparks ignite two black clouds of smoke into the hilly terrain, and the third wrecked through the bamboo construction. Luckily, on the further back of the harbor sides, five hurling machines flicked the long, giant poles and hurled huge stones. Four nearly splashed on the port and starboard sides. One: slammed on the front mast, collapsing to the depths.

Grimacing and screaming in slight horror, the Great Gorilla caught small ripples on both sides of the ship's light woods. He craned his whole neck to the right. The water was no longer waving in tiny droplets. There was someone on board. Someone who the Gorilla's left ear flicked from the ape archer he tripped to the edge and fell. In the middle, fast movements crawled onto his army's knees, thrashing its tails onto their faces and jerked all five bandits off to the water.

Two reptile snakes revealed themselves in serious faces. Viper and Fanshe billowed red sashes on their tails. One merely snarled his vicious teeth and the other hard to see her hiss, but attractive and deadly. The bandit gorilla with shiny, silvery armor glimpsed and his nephew grinned and groaned. "NO! NOT YOU AGAIN!" Bao's uncle harshly yelled.

"I'm coming to save you, Bao!" Fanshe exclaimed.

HE COPIED MY QUOTE! YOU MOTHER OF— Bao's uncle shocked before both reptiles rotated their sashes. The cobra's silk seized the ape archer's left hand, lifting and hammering him off the course as if the other bandits went out of the deck beneath the ship. Viper hurled herself right through the throng gorillas lifting their weapons they cried in angry.

Opposing from the other side, the cobra Fanshe locked his fangs beneath the gorilla shooter's right ankle, then his tail whipping his sash at the other shooter who swung the torch at him, and Fanshe surrounded both. Once tightening the apes' ankles, Fanshe battered them towards the port they flipped and plunged to the water. The cobra sensed the hate of murmur behind his neck. He knew the voice of his former boss, Fanshe's Gorilla Leader who opposed Viper's father, and Viper defeated him in triumph.

Bao's uncle aimed and held a dagger toward the tormented ape's throat. One sudden movement could lead his best friend dead. Not his time! "You should have stayed in jail," the cobra snarled, burning his cinnamon eyes straight at his adversary.

"You should have been loyal to me, Fanshe!" Bao's uncle clenched his yellow teeth. "Yes! I come and manifest my nephew what these savage masters become weak! His ambition will rebuild!" He gestured the whole city and sky swarming to an ember.

"You don't give Oogway's damnation about your nephew!" the cobra rejected, mind triggered with fire. "You nearly killed Bao! I bring him to the palace away from you, you murderous gorilla—!"

A flick of silvery blade plunged the gorilla bandit's right arm, releasing Bao in terrible agony. The cobra snatched his best friend's whole wrist and jerked him away when Viper opposed all the ape archers and sailors knocked in defeat. The Great Gorilla on the Captain's Deck pulled and raised his palms, admitting his surrender before the birds landed in front of the ship.

Fanshe hissed and launched towards Bao's uncle. Reacting in perfect time, the gorilla bandit heaved his right arm, deflected the Cobra's hurling attack from his shiny gauntlet shield. He clenched Fanshe's belly, smashing Fanshe to the central mast as the cobra struggled from him clobber his fist. Crushing him three times, the gorilla was no more punching. His wrist was clasping; Bao uppercutted his uncle's jaw. "BAO, KILL YOU!"

He could not take the hatred from his uncle anymore. Being tormented is the worst pain how you went from anyone forcing you, bullying you, caging— The word of cage made Bao savage. Bao guarded his bridge against his uncle's swinging fist, impacting the bandit's chest he pounded straight. He deflected and repeatedly attacked as if his uncle receded in unbalanced movement; the bandit's feet slipped and his back hit onto the other mast that destroyed by the hurling machine's stone.

His uncle's hands locked at Bao's neck. He hammered the bandit's arms down, advancing Bao slug his fists and swift arms from him opposing. Hitting the rib cages, knife-palming on the neck and circle-punching the chest to the jaw with a combination of open palm strikes. Bao stomped his kick, he his uncle's whole head, and yanked him at his right knee combo, resulting in a hard blow knockout! After a near knockout, Bao lifted his uncle, brought him down to the Main Deck.

Both reptiles on the Main Deck near the port watched Bao in a little horror after the cobra recovered from punching. As they looked, Bao's fists slammed onto his uncle all around his chest, and his face without stopping like a madman! "BAO, KILL YOU!"

Without noticing his surroundings while yelling at his uncle repeatedly, Bao was raising his heavy blow; a rapid flow ceased his punch, holding Bao's arms from attacking again Fanshe grasped his whole body at his gorilla brother. "BAO, KILL YOU! Bao, kill—!" he broke his rage voice Bao shut his eyes. He could not control himself as soon as the Nine's Heaver dropped his knees, realizing a word kill is like a murderer he hated becoming a bandit to follow his uncle's accomplishment. Not accomplishment, but in a terrible way. His eyes burnt red and stung his tears dripping on his furry cheeks, sobbing.

"It's over, big guy. I'm here." Fanshe grieved, no longer clenching his whole body but embracing Bao's arms.

The white swan across the middle mast observed the sky. "We need to move! Any flashes of fire above the sky will wreck this ship to pieces! Move, now!" the Swan commander announced three warriors.

Hushing the sobbing ape, Fanshe loosened his whole body grip from Bao's strength, slithering and tailing the gorilla's jaw he rose. "Come on, Bao. We sob inside the Undercity, okay? The battle's too dangerous for you to fight."

Viper joined next to the Cobra, sympathetically offering the gorilla to retreat this war boat she stroke her tail on Bao's salty left tear. "Let's go, big guy. Let's go check Xing in the Library room, yeah?" Bao, go home. Bao, Xing. Bao, hurt. The Nine's Heaver broke his grin. Before all three glimpsed away, a burnt snarl from the Main turned their heads at the aggravated bandit who nearly beaten to death by his nephew.

Bao's uncle rose his weak left knee who his face nearly bruised on cheeks, small cuts on temples. He pointed his dagger at them. "Here's Yuēhàn ní! He snapped.

A shrieking wind drove from the sky. It beamed at many faces including the back of the ape gorilla. The aces diverted away. Snatching the reptiles as if Viper and Fanshe almost gasped after the ape bandit shrieked without escaping, Bao bounded off the starboard side into the Harbor. The boom's red and white sprung and nearly burned Bao's back.


Xing's Awakening

The tiger's eyes popped open. "WUGU!" Xing gasped. He jolted his body upwards from the pavement he was resting.

The rabbit in front dashed and palmed the tiger's chest. "Easy, big guy! Easy!" she hushed him calmly; both feathers behind Xing's shoulders caressed. His adoptive peahen mother Lady Xia unified the villager's relaxation she suppressed his agitation. As the Nine's Leader did after warming his lungs in confusion from awakening, he immediately recognized the rabbit farmer. "You were knocked out, pretty bad."

Shaking his head at once his vision went to a gray blur, Xing cleared his view, easily peering the rabbit farmer who grinned. "Mika?" Xing noticed her, panting. "Where's—"

His head swam around the Artifact Room where Xing positioned few of his villagers including plenty of Tanhuang farmers as well. A giant yak in Xing's right side stood forth in determination. "Gidahn."

The sagacious yak hunkered his body, kneeling his left knee forward. "Are you alright, Master Xing?" Gidahn asked.

"Where is your family, Gidahn?" Xing hurriedly inquired after glancing the whole room repeatedly.

"My two sons are safe, my child. Before leading to this city, Tai and Mel left Tanhuang and went to my old village where they were born there."

Bless them both! Xing nodded. Recovering himself to calm his breathing as his fur beneath his neck soaked a little, the tiger immediately flashed his eyes he recalled. He looked back, sighting the katana sword, a Heaven blade made from the sky, perched in front of the elder goat who craned her eyes as she inspected it. "That sword. What in Oogway's blessing was that all about?" Xing demanded, his peahen mother brushed his ribcage Xia soothed her adoptive son's anxiety.

"My dear Xing. You have seen many visions of Heaven's Wrath." Soothsayer Mali surveyed him and the blade. "The katana sword you touched made its rarest element of Heaven Blade, the one bright star entered the horizon and nearly one hundred weapons molded, including Heaven's Wrath."

"I've seen it all," the tiger swore, his feet jolting up when you experienced a nightmare and rose your chest out of bed before. His mother joined next to him. "My ancestors, Qing Temple, then plenty of warriors grasped that katana before Wugu."

Most of the eyes looked at themselves in half perplexed, and few gasped. The Soothsayer's composure was still in prevention, reading Xing's visionary explanation she could notice every person's knowledge of the future. His clarification interested the elder goat. "Madam Soothsayer," Xing continued in his jiggle head. "That Ox warlord have done terrible things. Not just the way he destroyed my ancestor's palace! Huoju murdered—!"

He ceased his voice from his villagers' awe and children's frightening. Xing pulled and shut his eyes hard within a second for this thoughts to settle his knowing and choose his words carefully. Lady Xia grasped Xing's right paw and the other behind his left shoulder. The tiger breathed his nose. "Huoju hurt one of his family members and took the blame against the bull warlord named General Kai." He stated the Soothsayer straightforwardly, preventing agitation. "That Ox is a monster. I do not know what unknown master trained Huoju or his father did, becoming a heartless, wicked, cruelty student!"

The peahen's feathers stroked and motioned Xing's head towards Lady Xia's view. "You went to the past, Xing," she discerned worriedly. "Whatever you saw painful memories from the sword, you must not dwell in it for long. The only dangerous concern is the Prince of Darkness. He must be stopped at all cost."

Everyone including Xing knew the Ox he had become, the only warlord's responsible he awakened whole China from his return, which was only legends discovered the Great War after the Prince's ambush attack in Qing Temple, and for a couple of weeks earlier, the arrival of Prince of Darkness feared whole China. Xing's paw clasped the peahen's feathers sensitively. The tiger met the Soothsayer's honey-yellow eyes. "That sword. Before I woke up, Huoju's sister was there at the cliff in front of me, near her house," he explained Mali who sharply stared at Xing's glowing ocean eyes. "The Ladyship was staring at me, all the sudden, handing me her sword that belonged for those who wielded it before Wugu. She wanted me to have Heaven's Wrath."

The goat towered her cane. She rose herself Mali held on her stick and tapped the floor with a clonk. "Wugu summoned your presence," the Soothsayer stated with a warm smile. "She needed you so that you will carry her katana, to avenge your ancestors and Qing Temple."

"I don't understand." The tiger said, facing the pavement before replying. "It called me and let my eyes watch the whole glimpse of the disturbing memories from her blade."

The yak hummed; heads were turning at the older villager Gidahn he locked his eyes at the Soothsayer to Lady Xia. "I recalled my grandfather who heard one of his older colleagues contemplate the echoes of war and voices. His rare discovery of my grandfather's old friend who kept hearing the dead voices, or hallucinations, one of the legacy villagers near Gongmen who studied artifacts and physiology. The antelope said she recognized the songs before, saying that if you ever listened to war and voices in your head, the spirit called into someone."

Gidahn clasped his hooves in front of his belly. "So as if you have heard the Maker's, the cry, and warriors in moments ago, Xing, you are chosen," the yak added.

Chosen?! Xing rolled his head in perplexed. "Chosen for what?" Xing asked.

Mika leaped to the floor close to Xing from the yak she rose her head and met the tiger's. "To destroy that giant Ox dude, right? That sword is from the falling stars!" Mika pointed the katana. "Does that mean Xing can attack any wicked warriors?" she inquired the Soothsayer.

The tiger keenly looked at the vision of Kai who clenched the dirt and whipped the sword at the enormous Ox. "Huoju was slashed," Xing revealed; the bunny looked back. "I saw Kai lacerated him under his eye and between Huoju's nose."

"There you have it!" she chirped insanely. "Keep that sword with you, Xing! Last time, you sparred Gidahn's two sons with bamboo sticks at their backyard a while back, remember? You are better than Tai and Mel!" Mika clenched her gesture.

The brown deer in gray kimono shirt and green pants next to Gidahn's right united the conversation. "We the Tanhuang and Prosper Valley people watched their training. I say let the boy duel the Ox with the sword!"

Half of the villagers cried into Xing's reputation. Although, the wooden sword training idea was Xing's as if the tiger had a reflection memory of himself, who wielded a bamboo stick and slashed through branches and wooden dummies before meeting Gidahn's two sons. I'm not worthy of an expert swordsman. Tai, Mel, and I sparred ourselves in the backyard with Gidahn and Mika, part-time after helping them along Ming through lumber purposes. Both of Gidahn's sons were marvelous with staffs, and I was indeed better with a wooden pole.

Hearing out the joyous around the room, Xing ambled near the Soothsayer and bent his left knee. "Back from my temple, Soothsayer," he began, keenly eyed at the elder's honey eyes, "you told me something is special in me. Noticing what I can prevent dark magic, and you had glimpsed before you left. What was it like?"

The tiger needed answers, in honesty and shy from the goat's vision. Soothsayer reached out her hoof, wanting the Nine's Leader he clasped her paw elegantly. Soft screams and blades echoed among the roof after the whole Artifacts Room lowered the exciting. The tiger's eyes remembered the same look of the Soothsayer's expression, same stunning face mixed with worriedness and revelations in Shui Palace. "The future is impossible to see yours. You are not who you used to be, my child. Your soul paints like the energy," she admitted the truth, describing a soul of the birth of the star, flowing millions of jolts within his veins Mali observed.

Not who I used to be? What does she mean? "A new prophecy has prevailed. Something more what greatest enemies fear. I warned the Prince of Darkness, so as he tolerated to look keenly at his future." Soothsayer added.

Xing stretched his eyebrows upward. "Fear, my lady?" he tilted his head.

"Fear where the darkness senses—" she hesitated. Madan Soothsayer hated to search one word after seeking the fortune how to describe anyone's future, wherever their fate lies upon the prophecy. She saw many things, frightened ones including most of the children's eyes they thrived, especially Lord Shen's he awaited the future of "a warrior of black and white" that ended his tyranny, defeated in fact. The Soothsayer's cheek thinned her wrinkles. Inhaling her muse, the goat pulled her hoof from Xing's.

"Death."

That was her only answer she described the prophecy and the tiger's identity. Death. A wise cannot specify more what anyone's future prevails. Although not all the children and warriors like to seek their visions, even Lord Shen he hated the fortune before. For the tiger: his composure fell into a startlement.

The fight above the Undercity thundered its blades and shouts. Xing needed an answer, and asked what it was like in his soul: horrifying and pure, but he could no longer search for more clues in further. "I wish that I can speak more, madam. I must go." Xing said monotonously. Shortly, the tiger wrapped a black belt around his waist and knotted the sheath of the katana. The elder yak handed Xing's Mongolian red bow and crimson arrows with black feather fletchings, the gifts from Lotus's father, Wolf Boss.

After wrapping his quiver and bow behind him, Xing pressed his lips on peahen's cheek and wrapped both arms around her. "I love you, Mom," he answered from his mother's murmur. Xing looked behind to the farmers he cared for them both. "Master Gidahn, Mika, you guys know the drill."

Both nodded. "See you soon, big guy! Go kick that Ox warlord's butt!" the bunny Mika cheered.

"Beware your surroundings, Xing. Do not waste your life, and good luck." Gidahn advised.

I will. Xing smirked. "Madam Soothsayer," the tiger greeted his farewell nod, and Mali returned her bent and eyes closed.

He sprinted through sections of the hallways underneath the city. There was no other time to stay, as the primary focus was to attend his arrival and unite with his family he fought with the Nine together in one, Fellowship. Before leading through the exit near the Dragon's Mouth, his eyes popped and slid his feet into the pavement. "BAO!" the tiger cheered, watching the gorilla dash in the rocky tunnel along both brown cobra and green snake. "You came back!"

"Bao, Xing!" the gorilla wrapped his giant arms and crushed Xing's back.

The cobra slithered next to the tiger. "Viper and I got Bao out from his uncle's boat at the Harbor!" Fanshe clarified. "I'm going to stay here with him and Lady Xia, brother. What happened to you?"

"Sleepwalking, Fanshe," Xing jested.

"Uh huh," Fanshe scrunched his eyelids down in discern. Not a lie of course, but a good joke the cobra wanted to burst his chuckle after all. "That will be a good time for you to fight for glory, Xing! Take those gangs all down with Viper!"

"I will see you after this fight, Bao! I miss you, buddy!"

"Bao, kiss!" the ape guffawed before rushing through the corridors with Fanshe and disappearing within the halls.

"Very funny."

The tiger looked down beside his right knee. The green reptile's red lips broke on Viper's cheeks. Her heaven eyes dazzled. "Are you ready, Xing?" Viper inquired excitingly.

"Oh, yeah. I was born ready. TO WAR!"


The Great Gorilla remains a mystery of his fate, but I decided to pick only two warriors on the voting poll instead. You have to guess and farewell only one of them to see which dies first in the next chapter.

Temutai, or Wing Wu

Later on, you'll know how many chapters left where the first book of Mightiest Warriors ends! The fight is ON! Move on to the next, and thank you for reading and favoriting, my followers!