Since this day is bright enough to shine, today is my birthday, pandom! As for this happy update to publish, it's time to bring our favorite warlord in the game!
-GrayZeppelin
1-17-2019 (XXIV)
Episode Finale: Heaven and Hell (47 - 58)
Chapter LI
Five Armies
The Battle of Gongmen, Act Four
Gongmen City has welcomed the newest, and old-fashioned warlord to grasp every soul's chi: the Jade Slayer. Gasps entered into everyone's mouths they fed in spooky. The apotheosis green slammed to the sides, the ape figure with raging smaragdine eyes roared after fisting to the ground. "JOMBIES!" Monkey and Po shrieked.
Its flare of green glared at the feline's amber.
Remember me, Little Kitten? The ape's voice shared Kai's grim and bulky tone.
Tigress snarled at the warlord's minion. Her palm thrust forward into the rocky gorilla's heart as her absorbing chi entered his heart, gleaming its wave from the center to all and relieved the bandit. Knocking the ape into an unconscious, Tigress observed the sky it rained with hundreds of jade fires slamming in buildings, rivers, the sea, every Gongmen district. Her right eye was flaring from the dense of a single green star it towered and scanned.
There, lies on the rim of the northern mountains, was Oogway's brother.
"He's here!" Tigress stumbled her tight voice.
The panda hastily gestured. "OH, NO!" Po shrunk his pupils. Half of the city expected of General Kai's presence. The Masters of Jade Palace was ready to enhance their chi abilities against the warlord. Might be necessary to handle the bull beast, while the other closely conquered Gongmen City in challenging ways. More than a hundred jade fires catapulted across the sky, foams, and shrouds forming to stable green monuments.
More than ten porcupine jombies on random buildings released their spiky spines, arrows clinging and slicing on furs. The Five, Nine, and Righteous deflected and palmed the spikes upward. "WHOA! How many are there!" Viper swam her head wildly.
"They're GAZILLIONS of them!" Crane screamed, swinging his wings he dodged and bounded behind Po's back.
Monkey towered his hand to the pavement and booted his feet onto the wolf jombie's upper chest. The dong struck the monk's feet, making him sting. Monkey spiraled his bamboo stick, buffeted the wolf's neck. "That can't be too many of Kai's jombies if they can take over this city about a minute or less!" he snapped.
"Shut up, and keep fighting back!" Mantis spat on Monkey's left shoulder. The bug leaped on the tiger's shoulder and sprung himself forward to the bandit crowds, struggling and fighting back against more than twenty jombies butchering them.
The warlord's eyes popped his jade after hailing. More than a hundred jombies swept into the land of the prosperous city and battlegrounds. The other two hundred still soared on the dogfights among the sky Eagle's men defended from cannon fires. Even in the seas full of pirate and bandit ships encountering. Half of hawk and swan jombies soared among the clouds Kai controlled and flew them over to the boats. There were too many, not even the catapults and Shen's cannons could aim wherever the monsters led.
Haidao on the Captain's Deck encountered the green swan it screeched, side-sweeping his fighting stance and swinging his massive sword with a golden handle. Pirates guarded, faced, and thrust Huoju's crews, jolting to the sides as if the jombie vultures and hawks screamed above the red and black sails.
The Nine (Shou, Niu, and Zhao) and Gongmen Masters opposed half Huoju's pirates and half jombies surrounding them on the Main Deck. Underneath the sea, hundreds of gray dolphins with blesses of gold sun armors swam, soaring through the depths of angry waves crashing the vessels. Most of the fishes leaped, their tails swinging and striking bandits in between the gaps of both masts. Sighting the clear spaces, Master Ox rolled to the wooden floor. The avian jombie darted its long beak; the green vulture behind squeaked in the glass after shattering.
Master Croc hailed, his claw glimmering the waves of chi he whaled on the vulture's chest. The chi splattered thick jades to fine feathers of black, making this bandit (or a spirit warrior) returned his body regularly. The vulture gasped. "WHOA! Where's that beef warri—AHHH!" he swam his head wildly.
Croc swiftly rose his head. The bulky jade bear with shiny ax jabbed onto the vulture's upper torso. Master Croc avoided the ambush as if the other two enormous jombie bears (tall and bold) smirked, their eyes dazzling all the grass color the Collector chuckled.
The Prince of Darkness bent his nostrils, his hooves clenching the flaming sword handle. By the looks of this madness battle he observed, now this city became the agony and fear that not only him caused, but the other is now in the game of war. Birds were soaring against jombie aces — grounds from the north flooded with grasses. The sea of red and black ships catapulted fires, as green balls flew and maneuvering among the sails.
The jade swan ahead of the Prince of Darkness dove, wings bending forward. With a swirl reaction, Huoju hurriedly reached out the bird's neck, fingers crushing on the stone neck it softly shattered. The eyes glared at the Ox warlord.
We meet again at last for avenging my wife.
Kai. Huoju clenched his teeth.
Avenging your sister, are you? The only issue is how you will end this fight with mortals.
Curse them and you. Gladly you fled from your fate as I could have snapped your neck at my temple. You are not bold enough to kill me, Jade Slayer. Huoju cooed.
Not a terrible place to occupy my birdie friend's city. Still, not enjoyable to sit on the iron throne. You could sit there, while I take your daddy's throne.
General Kai in jade swan's soul harshly laughed. Huoju's hoof crushed the bird's head. The glass shredded to pieces. The Prince's neck pulled when rising on his head level before two of Wu Sisters and the black bear Phantom positioned next to him. Search that beast, and bring me his head. Wu Sisters will follow.
The Masters, Nine (Xing, Lotus, and Hong), and Righteous scurried on the uneven pavement paths. The stable structures cracked to little lines the cannons wrecked. As carefully as springing onto the right and another right toward the left alleyway, Tigress, and Xing snarled after landing, their feet spiraling as if the Dragon Warrior jumped and slammed his yin-yang staff. The road puffed with chi clouds Po fanned and cleared forward.
At a single block, from the second story summer red building, the porcupine archer released its spikes fanning at the panda; Po spun and guarded against rapid stings. "I HATE JOMBIES!" Mantis cried in outrage next to Po's conical hat. The bug snatched the mountain lion's left paw he spun and hurled at the jombie porcupine.
Monkey leaped against the jade gorilla it nearly slammed him. Swinging underneath the ape's neck toward the back, the monk enlightened his palm, the waves of chi spreading. "Now we got five armies! Huangdi's, Huoju's, Pirates, Rhinos, and Kai's!" Monkey figured before the ape shifted normally, both palms booting his skull to a knockout. "The Battle of the Five Armies!"
"Shut up, Monkey!" Mantis grimaced at him icily. The Five and Nine (Xing, Lotus, and Hong) vaulted over the roofs the bug grasped the tiger's back. The Righteous hurtled to the poor, hilly road they followed the warriors.
The Masters bounded across the sections of the valley. The Five cleansed every roof which crowded archers, and even— the jombie porcupines they pulled their strings and loosened greenish cutlasses. The Nine (Xing, Lotus, and Hong) sprinted into the thick summer apartment alleyway. Hong entered the bamboo window as the arrow flew in between her ears, and she slid on the red rug inside the kitchen.
Brown doors broke in by the kick. The boar, water deer with long tusks, and blue eyes tan mountain lion shrilled. As they advanced toward her, Hong jerked the edgy rug. Water deer and mountain lion slipped, the bunny bouncing on the cat's belly she maneuvered the boar's hammer. Deflecting to the hammer's sides, Hong pounded her feet on the boar's skull twice. She grasped the iron pan next to the sink, clobbering and hammering the lion's forehead. The water deer shrieked and rose her hoofs; Hong battered the bandit's muzzle.
"Whoa there, you lady with the iron pan! Can we talk—?" the boar stuttered, but the bunny released her fury yell.
Interfering the boar's knees, Hong clouted his ankles, the iron pan battering the bones and joints with shatters. As he agonized, the boar collapsed his back. The bunny sprung on his chest, the yellow teeth from the bandit hacked Hong's nostrils she drew the thick skillet and pressured her eyebrows. "Talk to the pan."
Hong hit the boar's forehead, the pan shattering the bones before the door behind her swiftly kicked opened. She pelted the iron pan at whoever went in first, as the clang nearly hit someone's whole head. The paw of white and black stripes snatched, the warrior's face revealing a stunning look in front of the bunny's eyes.
"Let's go, iron maiden." Xing grinned.
Farther away from a few blocks forward, Tigress steadied her tiger stances as her lips opened, then her honey eyes glaring. The cannon strolled more now toward her, its orbs glimmering with deathly scarlets. Its wings shaded gray metal, beak lightly silvered. Behind the barrel of the weapon, the bat with red monk vest squeaked you could confuse to hear what he bladdered. He ground the metal where the match began sparkling.
Racing in all fours, Tigress sprang her paws onto the panda's back. Her body revolved Tigress stretched her right foot, hammering the bird's crown the weapon flipped forward. Rising by the screeching, Tigress swiveled her head where the hail came from, and lightly gasped. A she-wolf Lotus spun her stunning body she booted her right foot directly at the middle of the barrel. A vicious pound, the cannon launched and crashed to the runners dashing from the steep paths and pavement intersection roads. The mouth spat its red and white sparkles of fire it reached the sky. Misfire, the ball soared among the defensive borders in the northwest.
Panting with cold air, Lotus pivoted her head to Tigress's honey eyes. "Nice work, Lotus," the Five's alpha nodded in half smirk she admired. Not one except Lotus ironically practiced with Tigress, a week before the Tournament she had watched Tigress kick a massive dummy object outside of the Training Hall. Lotus smiled back to her.
Behind the warriors after Xing and Hong catching up to the Five and Righteous, the river of crowding bandits scurried to the west, rocky path. Most frightening voices, as the jombies of leopards, hawks, including enormous yaks butchering on sides. On the tail of the rushing horde, Resistance fighters advanced, their sword weapons darting, and swinging. The right side broke free when turning where the Masters stood.
Masters Bear and Chicken, the Rhino Warden, one-eyed Wolf Boss, and both peafowls of red and blue trains guided the water buffalo Emperor to safety. Many eyes met the Masters. "Greetings, brother!" Lao addressed the tiger.
"Lao! You got some nerves!" Xing gestured admiringly. The water deer next to him nearly jammed Xing's throat. He elbowed the fist and arms yanking on his back Xing brought him down.
More than ten yak guards behind the Emperor barricaded both left and right sides. Po approached forward to search answers. "What was that boom back there? Did somebody shot the cannon?" Po questioned, half worried.
"Those obstreperous fools refuse to submit, panda," Lord Shen expressed, his guan dao grinding the bricks pavement among corsac fox's knees. Jabbing his pole to the bandit's forehead, Lord Shen gestured his hand on his heart in front of Po. "I manifested them the inner peace!"
"Wait! You did?!" he stunned, his jade eyes glimmering near the sunlight's beam.
"He has done it, Master Po," the Emperor apprised the Dragon Warrior. Nodding in composure, the tiger rose his neck from the throng bandits sprint behind. The Five intervened toward the top left and right paths as if the panda and peacock lord attacked behind Lao and Xing. Forming the line of sheets, Monkey jerked the silk he caught the bamboo stick and tossed the pole to the tiger.
Xing wielded the bamboo stick (tall around his height), and Lao guarded his heaven guan dao. Both straightened their back in defensive as they aimed their weapons toward the throng gangs rushing. The tiger's pole form endlessly swiveled ground and plunged every bandit's foot, including their hands, nearly slashing. Lao leveled his guan dao above his head, the ax from midnight boar preventing to hammer the peacock's head.
Xing's bamboo stick slammed the water deer's ankles, the other on Tibetan fox's right knee the tiger motioned his body. The mountain cat with aqua eyes revolved his metal chains, snatching the stick Xing readied the bamboo. The strings pulled, and the bamboo returned its strength the tiger heaved, lifting the screeching mountain cat into the air and hurled him at the throng bandits.
Wolf Boss repeatedly swung his hammer; Lord Shen pinned his guandao the albino towered and launched his talon toward jombie fox's neck. The stone hit back with a massive smack against Shen's claw, which flared the impact.
The albino trembled his poor talon. "What a severe!" Lord Shen grunted, his guandao pole plunging the fox's angry left eye.
"These jombies are not joking!" the Dragon Warrior announced solemnly, his staff pressuring against the jade buffalo's ax blades. "They keep attacking Huoju's bandits everywhere, trying to catch me, Tigress, and everyone here!"
Slicing the jombie chest as the ape continued roaring, Lord Shen heard the wolf beside him reaching his paw toward the gorilla's chest. The Qi from Wolf Boss's hand beamed, thrusting the jombie ape's forehead to the ground. "Pardon me," Lord Shen perplexed loudly. "Did I just apprehend that you mean some beast fancies what you have?"
"Lucky for us!" Shen heard his son sidetracking the heaven guandao next to the tiger. "My companions and I can discipline our Qi and cast those jade zombies away!"
Lord Shen swept his train when the mountain lion in the right alleyway raced on all fours toward him. The cougar in black vests flipped backward, uppercutting his left foot Shen deflected and booted the cat's right knee. The peacock's guandao banged the bandit's head. "Brilliant!" the albino commented in interest.
Combining the forms of swift punches and both feet dangling the gray fox's head to the sidewalk, Tigress pivoted her eyes on the roof of red summer building. A jombie porcupine mimicked the Collector's laugh, aiming its bow and quills at Xing's eyes. "Watch that porcupine!" Tigress yelled behind Xing.
Three jade quills launched from the top of red summer building; Xing deflected only two. The spines shattered the stick in half. The third struck on the back of the gray fox's neck. The jombie porcupine was lifting as if the insect screeched, releasing the chi among the antennae. Mantis slammed the porcupine to the roof.
The clangs pierced the pavement in the middle of throng bandits. The shine of green reflected the tiger's eyes Xing gasped inaudibly. The iron chains which connected on both grips of butterfly knives, a considerable force of the gray figure slammed the whole group of runners; clouds were swimming upward. In a dense of billowing smoke, smaragdine eyes ragingly widened, the muzzle snorting, the chains spinning over its bold wrists.
Revealing out of the dense clouds it dissipated, the beast chuckled. "There you are, panda," Kai smirked, revealing his long, greasy dark brown mane on shoulders. "Am I interrupting your party?" The Jade Slayer dressed a draped cape that matched his gray fur, same loincloth, thin gray puttees, and green belt without amulets. His eyes observed most of the warrior bodies met the sun of chi. Shen has the dim Qi he might or might not concentrate before from the panda master. Too early to determine, as generating chi could take years. Now, with the pandas you educate with the Dragon Warrior and Furious Five, you focus your chi in no time.
All but one only lightened their Qi. The warlord's eyes squinted at the concerned tiger standing without withdrawing, Xing's surroundings gleamed half of Po's and the other as the snow white. "Stand aside, Xing. He's mine." the tiger heard Po; the panda's pole prevented Xing thrusting forward. Instead, Xing stayed next to the Dragon Warrior. Various jombie mammal warriors circled over the warriors' surroundings.
"Ha! Marvelous fluffy kitten. Did we meet before inside the mountain?" the Jade Slayer lightly grinned his lips to the side dauntlessly. His tense eyes met Po's. "Your friend has this pure chi that no warrior ever blessed."
Xing stretched his eyebrows toward his forehead. "Bless you," he complimented the beast.
The gray bull's head jolted. He glazed at the tiger. "I didn't sneeze, but thank you, Master Wing?" Kai perplexed in appreciation, knowing the same tiger master the beast reminded the look of Xing's face as Master Wing (Xing's grandmother's ancestor). Has Kai only ever mention of her before the Great War, and exile in the Spirit Realm? The Collector pointed his jade knife at the panda in revolting. "We meet again at last. I am going to take your chi, and the chi of every panda in—"
"Come again?" the panda cut his threatening words.
Kai's exasperation burned his eyes. "In the—?" he added, both hooves clenching grips of the blades.
"Chitty—Chitty—chat—chat!"
"IN MY TROPHIES!" Kai spat at the panda hastily, leaping at Po the Collector readied his knives and gave a war cry.
The Dragon Warrior pivoted his jade staff against Kai's knives. The rest of jombies behind Po immediately opposed everyone. The Masters, Nine, Righteous, both peafowls, and Emperor's guards fought back; Xing palmed the crocodile jombie's fists it dangled its spike tail. Lao guarded and hurriedly spiraled his heaven guandao from the spike ball above Xing's forehead.
Each paw (hand) randomly thrust toward any jombie monsters they nearly reached the water buffalo, Emperor Huangdi. General Bear mauled the green eyes of gray Ox he surrounded the claw below its neck, choke-slamming him with a blow Qi to the fireworks bamboo stand. Master Chicken on Bear's back squealed, both black feathers summoning Qi daggers he hurled all eight flying jombies among the Emperor. Five hawks and three vultures crashed on stony hills and near both the Dragon Warrior and Jade Slayer.
The panda's staff swiveled the Collector's rapid knife encounters, plunging forward and repeatedly spinning the chains that linked both jade daggers. Both weapons diverted from Po's jade staff the panda deflected, the yin-yang briskly glaring with a yellow star. Po pushed the stick; the lightning Qi bolted the bull Kai guarded his weapons against the puff blast. Pushing himself back to a higher force, Kai gritted his teeth the Collector threw knives at him.
Lord Shen hastily climbed on the jade bear's back it wildly swiveled both claws when roaring. Hurling three feather knives at the jombie's face after standing on the stand's big tent, Lord Shen broke his grin; the green bear curled his keen leaves teeth wide open. Ripples of Qi vibrated behind the jombie, revealing its fur of dark brown and blue eyes, before blowing the bear bandit's back of the skull. Monkey slowly stretched his right thumb, lips pressing together with concern.
Contemplating the harsh screams to his left side, Lord Shen towered his head near the clearance alleyway, shaded by more than three-story buildings from the daylight. The bold gray boars heaved the bars on the pavement. Both dove in as the other screams Lord Shen inaudibly gasped.
People's scream thundered inside the Undercity's giant corridors.
The underground was now in immediate danger. The bandits figured the way through and where to enter this Undercity. Li Shan swiveled behind from Mr. Ping quaking in horror. "NOT MY CRATE!" The midnight gorilla bandit with fire emblem chest armor fisted two hands, roaring his sharp teeth. Mei Mei spun her wooden nunchucks, lashing the ape's jaw. After swiveling, the ape charged his two hands locking the Pandiva's neck onto the old, unstable structure.
Li Shan sprinted ahead of the strangler ape in a sharp cry. The elderly panda villager tackled him to the ground; the gorilla ragingly spat, rolling him and Li when wrestling. Their arms locked as the ape bandit grasped the cutlass dagger, the handle hammering where the blade clouted the panda's left torso. Wailing, Li threw his fist at the ape's muzzle. The gorilla's hand pressed Li's throat, shouting and threw him down near the doorway, his dagger jerking back.
Li's left torso spilled a little gore. The wound was small and stinging when pressuring in pain. The gorilla viciously pressed his red-yellow teeth and snorted, the right hand crushing the dagger that dripped with red. Roaring and fisting his torso, the gorilla widely squared his eyes. Something tap buffeted the ape's skull, letting the gorilla collapse. The pale figure shone from the ceiling Li diminished his pupils in fear.
Lord Shen stood by ahead. His beak grinned as you expect of him from the past, who captured—tormented—killed a few pandas (now pardoned by the Dragon Warrior). Most of the pandas in the room and every corridor gasped and stared at the albino in disbelief. How did he survive?! That's the bird who attacked the pandas!
The pandas wondered a second as this albino could enjoy killing them again.
Snarls and dashes approached the Lord of Gongmen from behind. Lord Shen oscillated his guandao toward two water deer fighters in silver and black uniforms with a torch emblem beside the torso. Left talon bashed the tall deer's tusks, the train sweeping the little buck's feet. The brown serow in red vests and fire tattoo above his forehead scurried, his hoof drawing the hook blade. Digging his right sleeve, Shen hurled his rope dart where the serow grasped the sword. The dart severed the wrist, the albino jerking the rope he took a stomp forward, as the rope dart circled the bandit.
"I'm invincible!" Shen proclaimed naughtily.
The hyena charged all fours behind the peacock lord. Shen's rope revolved and slammed the serow straight to the hyena who almost tackled the Lord of Gongmen. Multiple packs strewed, behind the peacock and in front of his burnt red eyes, the bandits surrounded him, while the pandas on sides fought and guarded in remain those paths. That was not the right time—
A loud growl rushed behind them, bandits. The clouded leopard blew the pavement with a hard impact: bashing the ankles, elbowing necks, fisting the boar's jaw. The midnight boar flew among the dashing bandits, crashing. Standing still, Shen heard the bandits in front scatter away, especially when voices frightened across the halls and ever path. "Need a hand here, Lord Shen?" Shifu's fortunate son grinned darkly.
"Yes. We assault the bandits together!" Shen gestured, his guandao flagging into the air in victorious he loved winning the battles (in his conquering plan formerly). Once the leopard and albino peacock rushed forward toward the north hall, a few mutants of jombies crashed underneath the structures of pavements. Small groups of pandas from defensive paths reached out their paws they encountered the crocodiles' spiketails, the hyenas repeatedly clenching their fangs near plenty of the black and white bears.
The shout was unmistakable to hear from down the corridors the peahen sidled behind the rocky structure across the history room. Xia knew this voice before. Was it the nostalgia scream she recognized? Her head craned she immediately went cold, her throat stiffening. Many fists and swords dangled. Her husband was there with the clouded leopard, swiveling his red and black train upon the water deer's hooves.
SHEN?! Lady Xia almost screamed, above the surface of undercity structures rumbled by hundreds of feet stomping threateningly.
The Collector hurled his jade swords without stopping to hammer above Po's head. There is only one this beast desired more than battling the Prince of Darkness. And Po and many realized the Maker of Widows go after before taking this whole country of China, bow before the Mighty, bow before Lord Kai. At every counter, Po dangled the staff to the sides of Kai's guard wrists the bull plunged his blades.
The panda immediately sprang upward when Kai dug and spiraled his blades ragingly. Po's feet clouted the bull's muzzle, releasing the breaking waves of Qi which the warlord hastily knelt with a sting—anyone's chi that passed by Oogway including Po's is Kai's worse nightmare. Glad to every warrior who grasped the importance of defensive strategies! Spinning the staff behind, Po reached his paw onto Kai's hoof finger.
Po's pinky finger clutched. "SKADOOSH!"
The panda knew this trick could not work on the beast, who became so-called "The Spirit Warrior," that immune from banishment to the Spirit Realm. Kai chuckled inwardly. "Ha! You embarrassed Oogway with that trick again?" the bull shook his head in villainous question.
Not necessarily, but why would the Dragon Warrior do that? "I'm distracting you, big guy!" Po grinned his pale teeth. Above the panda, Tigress released her fangs she stretched her right foot, striking the bull's face. Kai saw that coming; his right arm that guarded and the blade hit to a mighty blow, the chi stunned his whole body, the bull's knees hastily and heavily knelt. Quaking his head, Kai lately rose both eyes the wave of breaking wind soared toward him. The Dragon Warrior upper-cut his jaw, the Maker of Widows hurling across the sky the panda stretched both fists toward him and cried thunderously. Po flew as if his paws quivered when clenching the bull's rib cages, shocking the beast.
"RAIDEN OF THUNDER!" Po bellowed, releasing his fingers he heaved, both paws fisted General Kai's left rib cage. The Collector screeched before plunging into four of three-story buildings farther down to the south. Half of the jombies were hammering to the ground, birds crashing among the turfs, roofs, orbs before any to form at sea, plunged near red and black ships.
Landing in the middle of the pavement road, the Dragon Warrior spiraled his ears from Tigress's drone underneath her throat. "Po." Her pupils bobbed.
"Yes?"
"Duck!"
Both eyes of natural glimmered ahead of Tigress. Only one of the leopards have a gray left eye. The snow she-leopards leaped and fisted against Tigress and Po, their sharp fangs threatening as if going aggression to pick on someone else. Together in one piece, the Dragon Warrior and his moon guarded their arms by Wu Sister's powerful claws mauling, pushing these two worthy masters toward the wildest brawl of jombies, bandits, and warriors.
"TRAITOR!"
"You should have stayed dead!"
Both the Lord of Gongmen and the Great Dragon pummeled a few hyenas and yaks smashing the halls, which columns supported among the ground of Gongmen City. The columns were ornate, decorated most of the intricate lines and shapes of gold, so were the circular pavement. Once reaching in between Great Halls and Entrance corridors, Lord Shen sighted both gorillas guard their fists against the daggers nearly stabbing their eyes, the cobra hastily bending his tails against small bandits from the large routine doorway. From the inside of the entry, the bandits hammered the door, which ax blades whacked the barricade when the ape Bao yelped. "BAO, DOOR!"
"Hold fast, Bao! Help is on our way!" the cobra Fanshe insisted.
The boar inside the ruins hall swayed the old pillar — one strike, above the rocky ceiling which huge steps thump, softly cracked in random turns. Tai Lung hammered the boar's spine, and the other oscillated when the brown deer almost tackled the leopard. "CLEAR OUT!" Tai Lung roared at every villager when knocking the boar to the corridor stairs. For those who sat and sidled against the structures began to scurry, right through the pathways where Shen sidetracked and gave their space vacating.
One rocky pillar itself farther down to the East crumbled, as malicious bandits crushed. There was no time to hold back. The cracks above Tai Lung poured, the leopard springing off—
The brown yak snatched the leopard's neck behind. The bandit repeatedly smashed him as if the ragdoll went hurling, and Lord Shen ragingly sliced the yak's knees, making the bandit fall to the structure before Tai Lung elbowed his muzzle. The surface above collapsed; Lord Shen's talon grasped the leopard's paw and heaved him out. As both dashed away, the yak once crushed by debris.
The cracks ceased breaking its approach toward the peacock and leopard. Every path and this room were delicate to cut as if the whole Undercity Ruins made first before Gongmen City stood. Shen knew these pillars could collapse if anything strong to destroy, more columns would fall, and the hidden ruin could crush the entire shelters, ancient libraries, secret war rooms when the battle is inevitable.
The ax from the entrance door penetrated Bao's left palm the gorilla wailed. "BAO!" the cobra Fanshe hailed.
The panda twins Dim and Sum rushed next to them as they breached the door. Giving their only strengths could last depending on the pandas and what's behind the door, would blow with powerful forces. "Bao, hurt!" the gorilla cried, his palm pressuring the hand wound. The other gorilla Gang glimpsed the path he flared his dawning eyes at the pandas.
The door heaved forward, which both pandas' heads banged to the solid ground. Gang towered his feet; the ape commander's fists hammered his chest, releasing his sharp teeth when roaring at the hostiles. He entered the entrance after the brown bull went in first. The ape turbulently swayed his strong palms elsewhere. Knives, poles, and spears entered the ape's fur; without flinching or being stabbed, Gang pushed forward against the tide of bandits. Eying upon his right shoulder when his front body was plunging, the ape commander quietly spilled red gore, his lips moving instead of voicing. "I—love—you—son."
Bao read the ape commander's lips. Enduring, Gang, known as Shen's ape commander, his palms hammered the hemispheric columns. Both sides crumbled, starting to collapse as if the bandits scampered; most of the vicious men were too late when retreating. In Bao's eyes, the waste structures rained to the ape commander, compressing him while both panda twins bolted the door.
Both Shen and Tai Lung went on to the east hallway, the ceiling where Shen had entered. "Any pillars will collapse, and the whole surface will crush Undercity Ruins!"
"Wu Sisters are fighting," Tai Lung discerned, springing his feet he mounted on the thick hole's edge before roaring. Lord Shen motioned in between as if readying his wings to soar—
"Shen?"
The heaven voice indeed caught the albino's attention he remembered the tone from the past. He was once known to whoever was with him: not a trick, or someone echoing in his head. Shen took his breath in that his eyes gleamed ahead of him. The peahen, same as her mother's light color of the ocean, including blossom blending the feathers and dressed her long cobalt robe, and eyes meeting the heaven.
"Wife?" By that point, the albino missed the face of beauty he recalled every inch of Xia's face and her exquisite body as well. He was hers, and Xia was his. His mind swam with many questions Shen wanted to hear her lovely voice. His figure shown a sign of amity he sometimes showed the compassion toward the people, and always loved toward Xia as if his parents educated him when marrying a wife and vowing you belong to her before the end of days underneath the grass.
Xia's feathers and beak trembled. "I carried our son," she intoned brokenly, "away from you."
"Did you?" Shen asked, his feathers blanching as his back shivered to coldness.
"Was it all true?" she demanded in shattered. "Did you—slaughter the rest of innocent pandas?"
Eight words brought the albino back where Xia insisted her husband. The albino's heart began tearing in two as he had planned every way of doing terrible things to protect his blood, to protect his family. No more lies the albino hated being a good or a bad liar, because otherwise anyone who had cared one another, would figure the truth in a matter of time. The simple answer was challenging to explain Shen's painful circumstances he accomplished.
He held his eyes closed, refusing to pour one tear out of his dawning red eyes. "Not the monster I once was, Xia," he said firmly, in honest. "Not all of them."
She faced her husband what became the look of Shen stubborn, and ruthless. His feelings were vaporizing Xia watched him, how he had changed as someone convinced the former warlord. "Shen! Come on, buddy, I need you!" he heard the panda's anxious yell above him. The sky swept the dark black smokes, the sun beaming all white around Shen and his robe. The gleam blessed his feathers he sensed the heaven's touch. Has he forgiven, perhaps?
"I would want to stay," he wished desperately. "This city needs our son. Gongmen needs the Peafowl Nobles' son."
"You should go."
He had many things to speak his beloved wife, and so had Xia. Handing the hand on Xia's arm after her turning away, Shen opened both wings of his, surrounding his wife's back their chests attached like a spark. The dawn over Xia's body met the albino's, without Shen letting her free he tightly grasped the Nine's Lady, Xia's feathers returned the embrace. "I never let anyone hurt you, or our son. I will return, my beloved. I swear it for my mother's life."
Shen's vow tightly locked in chains before the peahen lady's eyes caught a soft blue glean approach them both, behind the albino. In a frozen movement, the white tigress master held on Bao's injury palm she bandaged, yet stunning with the concern of Lord Shen who would do anything with his wife in such mercy. Her soft lips curled when nodding.
Po and Tigress made their guarding movement. Both leopards spun their bodies in outrage and threateningly come forth Po knew the sisters' advantage. Avoiding many slashes, Po guarded his arms against Wan mauling her iron claws. Tigress lifted her jo phan kick she prevented Su Wu's knee-counter, the tiger's arms deflecting and plunging her fists on she-leopard's jaw. Skilled by her nephew and aunt, Tigress bent her body to the left Su Wu's left hook jolted. Tigress struck her palm underneath the alpha's neck, and the other hit on right side of Su's head.
Shaking in disadvantage, Su Wu summoned her fangs. Her paws sprang as Tigress readied her arms in front. Su Wu's leaping nearly tackled the Five's alpha; the Great Dragon interfered he deflected her iron claws. "Where is Wing?!" Su Wu raged. Without further answer Tai Lung hated to speak the loss, he continued avoiding and advancing towards Su Wu's claws.
"Tai Lung!" Po almost announced, but nearly pierced by Wan's claws.
Tigress spiraled her light body from the porcupine jombie releasing its arrows. One sliced in a small cut on Tigress's upper left shoulder; she ignored her pain when dodging, but overhearing the Great Dragon's presence. "Where the hell is my sister?!" Su demanded more. Tai Lung swiveled his body like water, his left foot brooming Su's ankles in a surprise attack.
Tai rushed on the pavement and forced his paws struggling on Su's wrists dangling, but refused to set free. "WHERE IS SHE?!" Su screeched in high pitch. Her eyes of fog and natural sun met the Great Dragon's lips pressing in his mouth. Instead, his head repeatedly shook.
The echoes of the blast triggered from the mountains. "TIGRESS!" the panda cried.
More than fifty cannons fired Po observed the fires aiming where the Emperor stood behind him, the Five, Nine, and Righteous warriors. The Dragon Warrior thrust Wan toward the gap of the alleyway to his right, his staff towering in front Po glimmered his chi. Tigress's paw stretched toward the sky; Tai Lung and Su Wu were bounding before Shifu's daughter summoned her chi. The winds cracked as if fifty flames of red and white sparks with dark shrouds screamed.
Tigress and Po empowered their chi; the yellow barrier dazzled in each thunderous boom Po yelled under his throat. His shield ripped on the outer edges; the next chi by someone's growl redeemed the panda and Tigress from more than twenty blasts tearing the glass of sun in pieces. It was a brilliant color of light, almost paled as Po's power, blended with light cheese and soft white.
The tiger's sentinel shield linked Po and Tigress's yin-yang chi. Xing, Lao, and Lotus were the only students of the Nine mastered this professional level of summoning the chi: heal and protective abilities, even bringing jombies back to normal. After on the fifty-fifth blast, the trio shields dimmed, thin shrouds swimming ahead of two tigers and the panda. The explosion winds crushed the sides of three blocks forward. The crater now pressed about three feet down.
For a moment, a low growl billowed the small black smoke. The eyes of scarlet and black bear revealed from the shadows, wielding the enormous, gloomy wushu ax — the bear in black dressed thin brown battle scale armor, black stripes and metal chains under her uniform. Sprinting across the vaporized smokes, the yak guard swam his war sword. Attacking the black bear she hammered her ax, the guard ground the pavement Phantom sprung her feet, and the war sword jabbed her heart.
The bear in black felt no pain, or the stab the tiger had witnessed Kai jabbing Huoju before. Phantom's chest paled light orange from the blade; the black bear yanked her ax and sliced the yak's upper right shoulder. Grimacing, Phantom booted the yak she jerked her weapon and moved her eyes at the Emperor and masters forming styles of martial arts.
"Phantom," Masters and the Emperor heard Lord Shen announce in a low growl, the albino spinning his guandao next to his son.
The black bear changed her eyes to violet. Behind Po and Xing, every warrior locked fingers around their necks, forcing Po's eyes toward Tigress. Only her, Xing, and Po remained their ground instead of smothering. "GUYS!" Po shrieked, all four of the Furious Five collapsed their knees into the pavements. Both peacocks' pupils shrunk small, their long throats crushing. Tai Lung and Su Wu hacked as if their throats forced, and their knees crashed against the pavement.
Drawing the katana sword, Xing bent both nostrils including eyes when snarling. The bear in black forced her feet stopping. Her claws gestured on sides Phantom prevented her local soldiers advancing, their eyes gleaning at the tiger's sword. Why aren't they moving? Confused Xing, as the black bear's eyes no longer coloring purple, the bats among the bandits swarming to a whirlpool. The black bear's eyes returned red, and the rest of warriors breathed hard from fading.
The katana Xing grasped, the blade had written its pale light, glimmering from the gray tsuba to the tip of the sword. "NO!" the bear in black startled, her head shaking and feet slowly backing away. Xing read the beginning of the words from top to bottom of his katana.
To battle against your greatest fear, the worthy awaits in your heart. Specter of the sinful warrior soars away from a spiritual blessing of Heaven's Wrath.
The bats swayed away with shrieking voices. The pavement underneath every warrior and bandit's feet shook.
The ground puffed its thunder as if the gray figure from far left launched into the air, hurling both jade knives at the three-story building of summer apartment. Both blades locked after penetrated, and chains jerked into the sky, Kai's hooves gleaning with bitter green the Jade Slayer cried fiercely. The chains linked one large apartment including the whole soil terrain, attaching Kai clenched both chains and yanked forward.
Bandits behind her were screeching and retreating in horror. Phantom reached her claw out before the soil and summer building crash the bear in black. The road, bandits, and more than ten buildings ripped by the impact Kai ground the summer apartment and land.
"Holy—!"
"Tenders!"
Tigress, Po, and Xing readied their stances; the tiger held his katana forward ahead of the stiff debris. A vigorous wind struck down into the smoke. The bull landed on the pavement he yanked both chains back, revolving over his wrists. Snatching the jade knives, Kai darted toward the horrendous group of Emperor's guards and masters gape at him. His black lips curled in determination, before feasting his eyes at the dawn that surrounded the people's Qi he ravenously hungered to eat, and enhance his powerful—
The vicious metal claw mauled Kai's upper right chest it clenched, his fur ripping the flesh he bawled sorely.
The claw that mauled Kai's fur jerked him in the debris smoke and out of sight.
Author's Note: Hope you catch the Hobbit reference! More chapters will come soon enough! I still have business to finish this book, and start another novel! Will see how this goes, and wish my birthday, everyone!
