400k of the Mightiest Warriors Series! Let's go! Without the notes could shrink the numbers, but might reach the goal! Here are the fun facts: I tribute the title Heaven and Hell after my old All Dogs Go to Heaven fic, and Black Sabbath song!

One more chapter before the end of the Mightiest Warriors, Book One! To be clear, our black and white bear friend is not going anywhere! At this time: For this epic tension, I manifest you the final stand between the living and the immorality!

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Cross your fingers because this finale will be a wild ride with a one-way ticket! Buckle up, and avenge the fallen!

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Episode Finale: Heaven and Hell (47 - 58)


Chapter LVII

Heaven and Hell

Huoju's Wrath, Act Finale

I. Blossom and Shadow

"PO!"

Xing's aunt had screamed to his left where the Five's alpha came.

The mad ox back slapped the panda. Huoju clenched the panda's feet — he revolved and slammed two peafowls, Peng, Shou, three wolves, and the tiger, and let Po drift toward Kai. The bovine briskly extended his hoof, a silky black shadow sparked Xing's forearm, disarming the katana — Huoju jerked the tiger as the other foot locked Xing's throat. Leaping down to Huoju with a ruthless roar, Tigress widened her pupils; the Prince of Darkness elbowed substantial clout toward feline's ribcage. At suddenly, his hand revolved, the shadows engulfing three and the five feet crater.

In the panda's horrifying eyes when pressuring the shard, the dark sphere stretched light gray and slowly fainted to a black. Po only watched an enormous figure clench the tiger who repeatedly slammed and kicked the mad ox's bold arm. In the sphere, the tiger's sclera was stained with light red. The lock on Xing's throat began to shatter.

Glancing back to the sphere, Po crawled his left arm and two feet. The sight within the shadow caught a painful view of the orange mount behind Huoju's head. And the flash of the sun glittered behind the engulfing shadow.

Yellow specks of circular dust waved. The darkness was no longer blackening — pink clouds and white gale devoured the gloomy sphere. The winds thrust the whole block, blossoms under the crater and the pavement billowing and swarming. The light within the globe shone, revealing all three figures of two tigers and one ox.

Huoju's hoof had pulled away; Xing coughed when hardly shut his eyes and floated.

Po covered his eyes as he felt too close to the sun, stinging him. One eye of his found one, red-orange feline who grasped her paw around the colossus bovine's neck Her finger and thumb pressed her other pointy index. The pinky that joined both fingers to her other hand had skadooshed.

"TIGRESS!"

Po wailed. He watched his best friend cry, and her mouth spread open, but could barely hear Tigress bellowing back. The light absorbed with the sharp sound of the beam, and the darkness thundered with ruby zigzags all over the sphere. The blend of rupture and glow boomed. Shortly, the orb had cracked opened and exploded.


II. The Realms

The universe settled the zen and nature, singing the loneliness and separation terrains.

You perch on the loneliness ground, crossing your legs as you close your eyes and focus the eternal peace — the afterlife. The masters and the people (the young, adult, and elder) freed from excruciating, death. The lands that have forgotten and abandoned floated elsewhere. The shone of deep yellow and light orange dazzled across the realm.

A green figure which sat, floating on the enormous root of the peach tree, was the kung fu creator. Master Oogway. "Inner Peace… Inner Peace…"

His lips curved to a definite look. Nature silently blew the blossoms above him. His home fitted the expanse of this Spirit Realm, but the other in Jade Palace will always be the original, despite wars and lonely journeys overcame to him. The white ripples around the solitary peach land attuned.

"Calm water," said Oogway, grinning.

The attunement changed to a strange inheritance. Small waves slammed and stretched onward.

The tortoise hummed confusingly. "Ruptured?"

The water engulfed as the cheese water from the sun pulled away from him. That was not the time to disturb our tortoise master. "Now what?" Oogway insisted, very calm to his healthy tone.

The waves retreated. The land revealed the green grass and living plants cultivating. To the tortoise's left, the floor shined to a half circle of yang with a black dot, a marble ground. The universe thundered twice, the last echoed than the first.

Behind him, the peaceful land sucked into the blackness. The soils and water Qi spiraled to a whirlpool, shredding and yielding to disturbance.

The cheese sky now colored to blood. The shadow plain grass from the hole raced ahead of Oogway. The half circle of yin with a white circle slammed the other half. The circle of yin and yang shattered to all sides. The lands of chi and darkness connected to one terrain of heaven and hell.

Demons swarmed out of the hole, and the spirit warriors behind Oogway stood the open grass field. Many warriors arrived around the outside of yang. They were for those from the Desolation of Qing Temple. Half wielded Heaven's Wrath, and many died by nature and killed from enemies. Oogway's companions from Qing Temple stood behind him. Liu Bong Shien. Mui Tan Huang. Two of the original Mightiest Warriors Lieutenant Zhanshi and Lord Li Han.

The Gongmen Counsel Master Thundering Rhino towered his heaven cloud hammer beside them. The light absorbed, the form of an orange tiger rolled through the yang she crashed. "Tigress?" Oogway startled.

The light shrank to its gray light, hurling the tiger next to Tigress. The tiger crashed the boundary; many of the spiritual warriors and people gasped.

Coughing severely, Xing massaged his redness throat. At once clearing his throat and rasping, the yellow and blood horizon crashed as he stunned in horror. "Oh — God!" He glanced at the spirit warriors. First was Thundering Rhino who pulled his left arm behind his back. Beside him, Lord Shen's parents stepped in — Lord Feng fell his beak wide open as his wife Lady Muqin covered hers. Behind them, the peafowls and many birds soared. To Rhino's left, the Soothsayer positioned the wooden cane in front of her.

The red light reflected and boomed the clouded disk, looming one, colossus four-armed Ox-demon warlord he crashed on the other side of yin. The demons snarled in surprise, as others the bat creature with purple bead necklace held his chin, his wings spreading and bent behind his back. Servants of the darkness wickedly cheered from the black hole, the head figure of Komodo dragon glared its yellow eyes at the scene.

Master Oogway clunked his marble staff twice. "Prince Huoju," the tortoise pressed the warlord who straightened his back after rising. "What summons you here?"

His presence was not precisely brought him here all the sudden. The bovine only glared with a deathly frown at the orange feline who brought Huoju, herself, and her tiger nephew. Tigress briefly glanced at Xing's lacerated scar in appalling.

The tiger stopped massaging his hardened throat. "You do have a strong grasp. You could have snapped my neck." Xing glared, panting to a severe breathing sensation. Fortunately, the snap almost killed him, but otherwise, the grasp was strong enough to choke, and fingers locked.

The mad ox gestured his palm toward his chest. She belonged to me. The Prince of Darkness emotionally tendered.

"What is the meaning of this, young child?" the bovine master next to Oogway demanded, focusing on one of the tigers they directly darted at the mad ox.

Neither he wanted to answer the legendary tai chi master or not; Xing solely focused on Huoju who acted innocent and the other like pointing fingers to blame. "You want me, Hoju. I am the one who let your sister plunge her heart, and end Wugu's misery. Her death was never my call." Xing confessed — half of the spirit warriors gasped as the tiger began to announce to all the Spirit Warriors. "Huoju almost destroyed Gongmen City with his dragon sister, burned and killed thousands!"

"Oh, Gods!" the old, peafowl Lord Feng appalled.

"The boy is right! The battle did happen by the hoof of the mad ox!" a heaven tenderness voice stepped into Tigress's right. It was the figure of the black and white bear who has the same eyes as the Dragon Warrior. Brown dress. Behind the panda farmer were more than a hundred pandas.

"Wugu doesn't need to live this way from you, being an abusive brother who you loved forced your sister to encourage her brother." Xing distressed.

"The witch stays with him, mortal-bastard," one of the vicious demons standing next to the bat creature glowered. "Huoju's loyal men will try to pluck your heart, with more than one hundred thousand — every shred will make you stay dead."

"HOW DARE YOU!" tai chi master Liu Bong Shien offended thunderously; Oogway's yin-yang pole held the bovine's belly to prevent another huge step.

"Whatever the consequences I must face: then I will challenge this life and death combat. You and I can finish this fight. Here in Spirit and Immorality Realms."

Dragonslayer. Prince Huoju was disgusted, clenching all of his fists.

"I am Xing Chen, the Dragon Warrior's colleague, and soon-to-be successor. I will avenge my ancestor's palace: Qing Temple, including for those who were killed by the Prince of Darkness."

The Prince bent his scar muzzle. Challenge accepted.


III. The Apocalypse

Prince of Darkness vs. The Fifth Mightiest Warrior and Alpha of the Furious Five

Po was felt woozy from Peng who surrounded the panda's left arm behind the leopard's neck. A second later, the warhorn blew from the northwest. It was a threatening, low, attuning song — after the horn, low rumbles of the march drummed the army's feet.

The Lord of Gongmen spiraled his guandao behind him. "Huoju's bandits!" Shen flared.

Far ahead of these abandoned hills, thousands of the Fire Clan members marched toward the edge of the city. Half of the army got furs and the other half engulfed with devouring hate and darkness. The living bandits stood with the immorality demons.

"Defend the land here at all cost!" Wolf Boss ordered all the pack of wolves. "We fight back, and protect our peacock prince!"

The wolves obeyed their alpha as they howled. Most of the wolves marched ahead at once General Kai revolved his chains. The mighty General sprang upon the air, launched his jade blade and spun it. The ground at the northwest cut off the boundary — the local units of bandits flung away. The links swayed a few, the grounds of the whole west shook, and the Collector dove back to the pavement.

"Tigress and Xing need to get out!" Lao frightened. Once slicing his heaven guandao to the sphere that clashed blossoms and shadows, the glass deflected the blade it refused to shatter. The blossoms sang its heavenly tone. The gale of darkness screamed against the melody. "Can Po get them out?!"

Observing the Dragon Warrior's weak paw, Peng caught sight of the dimming chi while sharing his pure light to heal the panda. "Po's energy is wasting! He cannot go get them back!" Peng feared.


Are you willing to die for your friends and every warrior to avenge them all against me?

"Someone is," Xing fired back at Huoju calmly.

The Prince slowly squared his red-orange eyes. A brutal comeback, Huoju admired this insane, mortal-bastard, dragon slayer. He stepped forward and landed his giant steps twice with a severe, threatening rumble.

A double cling behind the feline tigers introduced. "Face your worst fear, my children." the old Soothsayer advised.

The tiger glanced at his aunt. Tigress motioned her kung fu stance before Xing had last thought before joining in the challenging trial. "Was this Wushi finger hold part of your plan, Tigress?" Xing calmly asked his aunt.

Tigress returned her serene glance at Xing. "I did what I have to do to take us in the Spirit Realm, Xing," she appraised. "And this time: I am with you for as long as we survive. For Po, for the Five, Shifu, and everyone."

"Now, it's either us —" Xing spread his fighting stance to a chin stance of Wing Chun, then slowly guarding his fook sao arms in front of him, "— or him."

The Prince of Darkness met the eyes of challengers they squinted at him.

Then you will feel my wrath.

Huoju spread his four arms and stomped forward, roaring. Tigress began her first move at once; the Prince of Darkness advanced and pivoted his two arms toward his head. He thrust Tigress off — Xing swiveled his chin stance as he approached Huoju.

The mad ox let his arms alter his stiff batter. Xing countered Huoju's wild, round punches and almost quivered the tiger's guarding stance. The tiger's foot booted a jo phan kick to bovine's left knee, wobbling him back with a wince.

Xing circulated his punches against Huoju's chest. The mad ox prevented fast pummels he swept his two arms. His third arm clenched the tiger's left arm and caught the other — three hooves clobbered his front chest, ribcage, and head. Tigress made her double kick to the giant's side, blowing his knee and spine.

Huoju had struck and freed Xing, wobbling to the marble floor of yin-yang — he hastily rolled and rose back when Tigress advanced at him. Countering bold, intense strikes with swinging hooves twice, Tigress sprang to his side and contorted her left body, her left foot clobbering Huoju's muzzle. Bowling himself down against the marble floor, the Prince of Darkness spread his hoof and entranced a sheet of shadow, bolting the orange feline. The gloom engulfed Tigress she hit many sides.

The sheet sphere refused to break.

"TIGRESS!" her nephew cried, swiveling back where Huoju began to charge at him.

Xing revolved his body — Huoju slid his feet and watched the tiger hammer his right heel. The boot slammed bovine's forehead, letting his weight fall and his head smashed against the yang marble. The smash sprang Huoju's head back and fell toward the yin. The Prince elbowed to the left, weighing him to the side. The feline's steps paced and on top of him; Xing battered with circular punches onto Huoju's back.

Lifting his back, Huoju roared and let Xing flip forward. The tiger in the midst of spiraling his body, he landed and stretched his arm toward the Prince. Huoju was about to land the crit of vicious punches — Xing's fist clouted a one-inch punch to the center of bovine's heart. The blow made the giant grunted; Xing gave a six-inch punch, the pound forcing the sternum cracked loud.

Huoju's hooves seemed slipped onto the marble, growling while collided all hands to the floor. Tiny wings behind the tiger flapped and slashed his back. Wincing, Xing glared at the bat who tongued his thumb, dripped with the tiger's pureblood. "Juicy." The bat grinned, his teeth revealing the red velvet, and his bats cheered.

The mightiest warrior peacock next to Oogway squeaked his caw, waving his feathers toward the bat. "Seize the bat creature!" Lord Li Han commanded the birds.

The brutal gorilla's fists drummed his chest, bawling and sprinting behind Xing. The trial raged loud as the tiger elbowed the ape's fists. The gorilla did break off, so covering up his fists cowardly would prevent breaking his knuckles in critical condition. To the tiger's left, another brute gorilla signaled his double-edged ax, raising his weapon against Xing.

A yellow glimmer letter of Qi seared the gorilla, striking him back in a result of the trial's silence. The old tortoise grinned his lips at the tiger who glanced and returned his smirk, nodding. Oogway spun his yin-yang pole, positioning in kung fu stance. "Guard the trial battle," Oogway announced all the Spirit Warriors.

The mad Ox hammered his fist on the heart of the marble. OBLITERATE OOGWAY AND SPIRIT WARRIORS!

The crisis began to a full riot all around the trial battle. The minions of darkness behind the Prince soared with every blade style including menacing faces. Every being of the Spirit Warriors followed the kung fu creator they sprang. Above the trial, the light and darkness clashed. Pandas in each one of their bellies struck and passed one demon and the other. Birds, peacock, avians, owls, many glided into the enemies' tails. Bovines, Oxen, Bulls, and Yaks from the tribes, councils, villages, and palaces charged into the line of deathly giants.

"HEY!"

The pack of ruthless demon-bandits, living furs, stomped the plain grass behind the Soothsayer and two peafowls. Shouting at them is no such thing to offend the old, innocent, and high ranks. Witnessing the intimidation, Tigress perched her ears from Lord Shen's father shouting at them.

"How dare you call our presence in front of the Peafowl Nobles! Learn your manners and stand down!" Lord Feng spread his blue-green train in defense.

The feline's fists landed her surroundings. These smooth, reflection flows refused to break through — Tigress had to do something instead of getting trapped in the bubble!

A wolf bandit clenched his fist. "You think we fear of your visions, you old goat?!" the demon growled.

"I do not," Soothsayer grinned, her wooden cane landed the soil with a beam clink. "But I know yours." The yellow light of zigzag tore and approached to the cheese lake. Behind the demon-bandits, the waves rose and immersed, washing them off toward the peaceful lake it devoured, suppressed all four of their appalling screams. The old goat was no fighter, but never underestimate her power of the cleverness and tricky sagaciousness.


Xing's feet rapidly clobbered with succession hits and combination flows. Huoju kneed every combo and high kick he guarded both arms against the tiger's advancing moves — the Nine's Leader heel-kicked to bovine's side of the knee and landed the other, collapsing the beast in a wobbling knee position. The tiger's whole right foot empowered his chi and walloped the mad ox's chest.

Leaping back, the Prince safely landed the yin with white dot marble as he guarded his four arms in front. Having another combination skills you might not want to repeat, 'cause otherwise, the enemy would know your awesomeness strategy. Xing's palms deflected the colossus; Huoju sidestepped and rounded his fists.

Xing countered the bovine's fist and whaled his elbow toward bulky bicep. He deflected the other and knife-palmed the second bicep; Huoju staggered and retreated his hooves. As the bovine did amid the diversion, his whole body shouldered Xing into the air. The tip of the tiger's feet clenched, and Huoju threw him where the mad ox stood.

The Nine's Leader lurched when he hastily rose and observed the Prince of Darkness reaching down his fist like a superman flight, slamming the marble floor. The yin-yang floor did not affect the zig-zag cracks from the bash. The slam brought Xing to lift him; the mad ox heaved the tiger's center of his shredded robe as the other hoof empowering his glaring red velvet.

The red-orange feline in the shadow sphere thumped her fists against the glass. "XING!" Tigress exclaimed.

The Mad Ox uppercutted Xing and let the tiger throw across the surrounding realm of crimson red, Tigress hearing her nephew's scream as she watched him flip many times and straight down toward the irregular land.

While floating and falling, Xing flew into the dogfights of heaven and hell warriors clashing and tailing against each other. One of the bats surrounded a wing onto Xing's neck. Its fangs stretched and sunk into his upper shoulder. Piercing his cry, the tiger hardly yanked the bat; the rocky, floatable temple had crashed, breaking them both apart to a sudden crash with more than thirty pieces of the debris.


The sun began to settle at the edge of the West. The sun only lied on the hemisphere — could this vision ever be real according to Xing's sight from the black bear's void water?

The wolves among the tiles released their arrows at will, then nocked, pulled, repeat faster. The bolts flew and struck many of the front lines — the bandits flinched from many hits, and the demons in fur immuned from flying arrows. With more than twenty pace steps in each of the gray and gloom creatures, green blades sliced them in half and into the edgy province.

The black and white bear pressured his injured belly near the liver side. Somewhere within the alleyway behind Peng in the East, the bovine with red and blue eyes raced.

"DAD!"

The Ox master hailed his son and approached him. "SON!"

"Where's—NO!" Niu gaped, rush to the blossom and shadow sphere. "What happened to Xing and Tigress?!"

"They are in the Spirit Realm, fighting Huoju!" his peacock companion said, glancing back to the panda Lao balanced him from falling. "Can you get them out, Po?!"

The Dragon Warrior's paw pressed against the blossom and darkness webs he grunted. "Neither of you but me don't have the awesomeness power! I'll try to get them out!"

"Peng and I will hold the bandits off!" the pirate Shou pointed, eying on his peacock companion. "You stay here with the Dragon Warrior, mate!" Both of the new Mightiest Warriors raced off the thronging clash of the living and fur-immorality toward the west.

Both Shen and Lao remained beside Po, spinning their guandaos with a pure reflex as they prepared. Two oxen warriors towered their stances of Kung Fu and Wing Chun, despite the young ox Niu knew kung fu while his father has many skills than his son. The one-eyed wolf next to oxen clenched his maul and softly growled they observed the conflict.

"Tigress…"

The panda's belly burned his wound it stung him, clawed his paw against the glass that swarmed blossoms and dark webs. His eyes lid heavily on Tigress, floating and unconscious she could not hear the Dragon Warrior's agony and blood sweeping when pressuring the glass.


Your nephew is a wasteful being who stupidly volunteered to battle against me, just like his father.

The shadows over Tigress's personal space stopped spiraling. She yet prepared in all fours and roared at the four-armed beast. She leaped. Huoju snatched her whole body as he could cease wobbling her — Tigress rotated her spin to a clout strike toward the bovine's jaw. Jerking him away, Tigress slid her legs underneath him as she did to let the beast bowl forward at an instant, her feet vortexed to return her tiger style of kung fu.

The bovine shouted in ancient mandarin language. And Tigress roared back defensively. She sprung her legs forward and booted every strike into Huoju's guarding arms. The hits indeed registered her chi to disable the mad ox's crimson surroundings. To her fifth kick in her mid-air, she leaped again, the Prince of Darkness finally caught and sprained her right ankle.

Huoju heard Tigress's roaring cry. He twisted his body and freed the hurl. Tigress bellowed more; her back landed the blossom tree, the enormous root of the tree thundered its cracks. That was not supposed to happen her fate! Her ankle was submitted, and she could not prevent Huoju striking another.

Observing the Five's alpha crawling away of Yang floor, Huoju hummed in disappointment. You have my respect, Tigress. Without the dragon, the Phoenix, and the tortoise, you would have handled this conflict easier.

Huoju sauntered close to Tigress when she crawled and swiveled at the menacing four-armed beast. She advanced her better foot directly to bovine's leg and rib cage. Astoundingly to shame, the mad ox grasped, dragged her leg, and extended his hoof toward her throat.

Huoju's fingers locked Tigress's neck. Not another chokeslam or suppression lock! Xing was right about the bovine's grasp that could impossibly not to escape or break free from him. Her thoughts had swarmed up to seek memories of Po, the Furious Five, Shifu, then Tai Lung, Shen, Kai, and through most of her poignant times, both figures of yellow hooded robes placed a wrapping child with innocent eyes at the front door of Bao Gu Orphanage.

You consider I am your parents' murderer. I know what it is like you lost.

Tigress quite struggled to defect Huoju's immobile, strong arms she tried to lift and slam her heel at the joint. Another thwack weakened her strength — the mad ox's hoof softly clenched her throat. Her eyes began to draw a few zigzags of red veins touching her pupils threateningly. Love. I hope your mother drinks her tears in the ocean. Then your father rests underneath the grass. He suspended his fingers, letting Tigress feed her breath within the muzzle. My condolences to your mother and father. Death lies ahead of you, where your parents are.

I am not alone, you monster! Tigress thought, fighting her strength back. Nevertheless, her arms and feet began to suppress her toughness even worse than tremendous pain. His hoof seemed to smolder with ember veins, beginning to spark under Tigress's throat.

The burn did not take long to reveal Tigress still choking by Huoju's grasp. Neither of her body changed to sweep the ashes, but Huoju peered closer as the only thought how he could burn anyone. Then what else he witnessed, the feline's strips began to change.

The blaze met the tiger's stripes, painting and kissing the fire. Unsusceptible from the inferno!

Behind Tigress, the panda paw reached out of the surface. The white ripples close the bank spread. From above the yin-yang terrain, the old tortoise glided and chased the shadow figure billowing its trail. If there are only three that could join the feline, but only two from Po as the dragon and the tortoise as the kung fu creator spotted. But who is the Phoenix? Is someone close to Tigress?

A sudden physical to the heaven and hell realm had enlightened gray. It was a pulse Huoju sensed the soft rupture. The battle cries and swords ceased shrieking. For short seconds of awareness and deep dismay, the Prince of Darkness glanced where this singing pulse came from behind him. Oh, no. Huoju appalled.

Among the clash of the realms, Master Thundering Rhino floating next to Oogway, guarded his clouded hammer against brilliant and unexpected light presence kissing ahead of them. "Master Oogway, what is that?"

The tortoise could not say shortly until his lips began to smirk. "Another successor."


IV. Metal

Kai hurled his knife and struck one dark bovine who rushed with his battle ax. The jade plunged in the beast's heart, yanking him toward the air and slammed beside the Jade Slayer. He rotated his chains across both arms — the black arrows behind Kai whizzed in between the horns and beside his left ear. He ducked and spun in mid-air along with the links he balanced.

The Maker's left hoof stomped the uneven pavement, the ground forcing the demon archers fly they screeched. His hands seemed splayed as if the jade veins and spark illuminated, their dark souls absorbing with soft orange and lime green. All five colored amulets formed the look of two water deer and three boars, and the mighty General Kai crushed his hooves to it.

Many red arrows whizzed above the battlefield, the wolves howled and scurried on all fours among the roofs and the grayish terrain. The whiz made the bull sense this recall, the arrows which had rained down before Kai and his tortoise brother within the horrific battle land on the Great War days.

The mighty's face turned soft red. These bloody arrows will not land on my fur! Kai angered, lighting his jade eyes. When swiveling his head from the anguish growl while distraction, Kai countered the black bovine's double-ax pole. The weapon swirled Kai's jade knives the bovine demon twirled his to the side, then behind him and forward slam toward the Collector's head.

Kai blocked the double-ax strike. As they shouldered their blades defensively with a spar, the leopard's growl soared into the air. The roar whizzed close as more than ten bandit runners swam their heads above and saw a snow leopard with blue flames on both paws lunge down like a missile. Striking the local bandits off, Tai Lung brawled and sidestepped the boar's arms. Beside him, his nephew, Peng, jumped over Tai and darted three kicks to the water deer's chest.

"PO! TIGRESS!" the snake's cry slithered far down the northeastern road. A group of three of Furious Five, Monkey, Viper, and Mantis hared to the panda as they spotted both peafowls guarding the sphere and both oxen thrust their horns against three apes' curving swords.

The northwestern mountain hill spat several hacks of red and white sparkle balls. Five of the cannon projectiles whizzed and gyrated its angry sparks, directly aimed where the glass vortex of blossom and shadows.

"DOWN!" Ox tackled his son into the ramshackle interior they hit the dirt. As many near the sphere watched the dancing sparks bring down to the panda, the three of Furious Five flinched into the pavement they covered. An eerie force of the wind shut its angry cannons.

The reality battle indeed grew silent from the pulse, as well as the blossoms whispered and blessed the Dragon Warrior who no longer suffered — his injured belly stopped pouring his gore. The pink flowers behind Xing and Tigress swarmed out of the sphere, metamorphosing the cloudy flesh of gray form, a ghost-like living reptile it stretched and arched its neck, the face revealing the grimace. Its horns atop of the giant figure made straight curves.

Its eyes glowered while the blossoms engulfed gray-white neck and upper body.

The black bovine hammering Kai's jade knives gasped his croaky tone. "Bái lóng!" the demon startled.

The white dragon copied Xing's wide open eclipse snow eyes and screeched. The wind and gray pulse spread into the breeze — the demons swayed and cried their master. Many warriors within the rippling breeze blessed and passed onto the next. The black bovine shoved his opponent away and ran behind his soldiers, screaming. The force behind the flocks of demons had dissipated.

The ripple wind thrust and only reached far to the rugged mountains, the bandits skulking underneath the ridges as Shen's cannons had ripped, even for those who became fur-demons.

Being wondrous and startled, Kai turned where the wind had rushed as many wolves including both leopards, and the Nine's Pirate followed the Jade Slayer's gape.


The Prince of Darkness shoved Tigress near the bank of yellow lake. He paid no attention to her anymore — instead, his fear engulfed with cold ripples clenching his spine, throat, and widening eyes.

WHO ARE YOU?! The Mad Ox insisted his question at his newest nemesis who almost blinded Huoju and glowered at him.

"YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!" the mind of metal ironically introduced, copied Xing's defiant answer with whiz and roughly tone. Into the heart of the white dragon, the feline pressed and splayed paw fingers against his chest, manifesting the three-finger claw. "I AM THE SON OF THE tiger. MING'S GRANDSON. THE DRAGON WARRIOR'S NEXT SUCCESSOR. I AM WHAT YOU SAID, IS THE FIFTH MIGHTIEST WARRIOR!"

YOU ARE THE WHITE DRAGON! THE ONE WHO WILL —

"KICK YOUR ASS? THEN GET READY TO FEEL MY CHOP SUEY!" Xing crushed his fingers and popped his neck, bending the side and the other. "GET HER OUT OF HERE, PO!"

Turning where Tigress was, Huoju widened at the panda's paws dragging her into a small whirlpool to the dimension of Mortal Realm. The vortex shut its blossom mouth.

The white dragon jerked forward, its mouth roaring with a force of grayish billow wind, cleansing every dark form who were close to the mind of metal, especially for those who opposed the Spirit Warriors within the horizon clash of heaven and hell. The limbs thrust, a newfound speed of its snow serpentine scales soaring across the abandoned terrains, lengthy platforms, ancient temples, rocky fields.

FIGHT ME!

Huoju spread his thick four limbs and screeched. His legs bent to the yin marble, his whole body springing within the specks of warriors. The mind of metal made its curvy spin toward the Prince of Darkness. The tiger deepened his feline roar along with the dragon's screech, and Huoju billowed his swarming black clouds shifting bat-like wings.

Metal and shadow splashed, blinding the realms of life and death — many looked away as if the demons badly faded their screams, their souls becoming specks of gray dust.

The shadow had detrimental from the mind of metal's surrounding bless of heaven, casting any of the immorality spells and entering the serpentine away. Despite biting and clawing by both of their avatars, both Huoju and Xing clenched and soared within wild reach, into the asteroids, and farther beyond the realms, one land had stretched about a mountain length, towering with ancient pillars, each of the support made with metal sculptures from the top and the bottom.

The mind of metal raged its snow eclipse eyes, gyrating lengthy tail Xing spun while seizing the Prince's horns. Screaming with horrors, Huoju, within the slow-motion of his face squaring and mouth widening, clawed his hoofs helplessly. The white dragon roughly hurled the mad ox into the lengthy, abandoned, mountainous temple with over a hundred solid gray layers. The top of the tearful tiles seemed ancient and tendered. In front of the temple, the window crafted the head of the dragon with squinted eyes and a slithering tongue.

Huoju crashed into three pillars and clawed on the dirt pavement he seared his hooves trail. Beside him, a towering lifeless figure of the enormous demon with two horns downward lied on with other bones. The monster was gigantic about the size of three houses, had bat-armpits and giant claws, grasped with a whip.

To Huoju's right, far away, another land of giant, glassy, colorful towers with thousands of windows stood, so did other five hundred small complexes perching on sand and savannah.

Faded rumbles threatened ahead of the Prince of Darkness. The mind of metal's scaled snow claws grasped the supporting, its neck arching back as the tiger spread his limbs and roared. Copied Xing's motion, the white dragon hacked its white and gray flickering flames toward him.

Huoju yelped and ducked to his right. The flames trailed off and splashed more than ten pillars behind the mad ox. Rage and shouts surrounding the abandoned temple entered as if the demons and spirit warriors joined the conflict, swarming into ramshackle, holes, and pillars. Xing discerned that these demons could interfere and save their master — the spirit warriors interfered and kept pressuring on them.

The tiger shifted out of the mind's serpentine body amid Huoju's advancing jump and smash — Xing flipped, and his foot clouted the mad ox's forehead, hammering the four-armed bovine off guard.

"Down you go, Hoju!" Xing snarled.

Huoju's snout breathed out tensely, his six hooves charging like a spider crawl he screeched his sand, low tone. Advancing the tiger forward did not go as planned.

Huoju wildly aimed many punches toward Xing.

The tiger maneuvered and attacked in simultaneous reflexes. Xing elbowed one of the bovine's underarms, the bicep muscle breaking the bone.

Huoju, winching, he jerked to the side, grasping Xing's back. The tiger sidestepped as he rolled. Circulating punches behind the bovine, Xing could see his opponent back-elbow, dodging under the reaction attack. As the tiger palmed the forearm and thrust the other, he shifted both paws in between the bicep and forearm, breaking the right underarm.

Two of Huoju's underarms no longer usable to gain his lofty grasp advantage, however. His prime elbow clouted Xing's back — his two hooves locked into the tiger's body, lifting him with a sudden shrill Huoju cried. Determining the mad ox's grasp, Xing clutched his opponent's whole head, both of his feet freely jerking toward the dirt pavement, leading him and Huoju collapse.

The bovine was the one bowled first as his back knocked onto the pavement. The tiger hastily rose and reached against the beast's head, and his fists enabled bicycle punches to Huoju's muzzle. More than ten punches, Huoju reached under Xing's chest — the dark orange chi thrust him.

Hurtling the tiger off toward the lengthy platform, Huoju bent his body forward. You worthless tiger! He disgusted, quivering his head when dusting off the marks of the feline's counter. His hoof fisted the pavement, the shards from the zig-zag cracks formed with glassy dark blades.

"Take my hammer!" one of the spirit warriors called the tiger next to Xing. Thundering Rhino tossed his cloud hammer, and Xing quickly caught it while the shadowy blades whizzed. The Nine's Leader swirled the daggers, skidding the dirt pavement he leaped and thrust the hammer forward. The cloud vaporized the shadows that kept crossing the tiger; only one cut through the tip of Xing's left ear.

The Prince of Darkness hammered the pavement that spread more gloomy daggers, now more prominent than the size of a chef knife. Xing pivoted his arms — the cloud hammer seemed heavy how he could manage light and average weapons. He countered these whizzing knives, below him, to his left, and the other blade Xing ducked, rolling to the floor.

Huoju absorbed his hoof, the gloom water shifting to an executioner's sword. He sprang into the air and dove, aiming his giant shadow blade at his tiger opponent. Smirking at him from above, Xing reached out the cloud hammer, the wind and gray chi in front staggered the bovine, dissipating the giant sword; the blow cast the Prince of Darkness in mid-air, and Xing leaped against him, revolving the hammer at full gravitational spin.

The cloud hammer thwacked the bovine's cheek, the impact with gray and yellow chi fracturing mandible jaw. The mad ox flew and struck the old pillars. Farther back, the caisson structure shattered apart, soaring the Prince of Darkness off to the floatable gravity.

Xing tossed the cloud hammer to Master Thundering Rhino. "Thanks for the hammer, Master Rhino!"

The counsel master nodded. "Splendid strike, young master. Your welcome," Master Thundering Rhino grinned with a fixed tone.

"Come to me!" He reached out the mind of metal.

The white dragon glided over many columns it cleansed a few demon warriors, even Rhino's daring wolf opponent washed him away. The mind of metal advanced to Xing's back while the tiger sprinted on all fours toward the wreckage caisson structure.

Both the metal and tiger glided, tailing behind the Prince of Darkness.


Po caught and jerked Tigress out of the swarming blossoms and dark webs, the opening sphere emerging the clash of light and gray it repaired the glass. "Tigress!" the three of Furious Five gaped in horror, rushing behind the panda. Monkey and Viper heaved their feline sister to the side of the crater, as Mantis grasping Po away from the sphere.

"They're gonna regret that!" a brave shout interfered next to the Furious Five. A group of crocodile bandits crushed their fists they popped fingers. Fung and Gahri clenched their teeth. "Let's go tear those guys apart, gang!"

The crocodile gangs raced behind Fung and Gahri. The mighty croc Lidong crawled beside them. The reptiles truculently rampaged Huoju's bandits — the wolves did the same as many of the pack advanced into the flocks of the clash. Lidong seized both bovine warriors, smashing them both to themselves and hurled toward the sprinting gang of bandits at two blocks down.

Tai Lung and Peng bashed every quick's movements; the leopards skewed to the other, spinning their feet. The one-eyed wolf hared next to them, his maul clouting the deer's antlers and cheeks. Among the second-story tile behind them three, the bravo wolf Leo signaled his forward paw. "LOOSE!"

The wolf archers released the strings. The arrows rained on random bandits as the rest crashed into the grounds.

"Tigress!" Po shattered his tone, his paw pillowing Tigress's head he glanced. The other paw pressed on the feline's chest. His chi absorbed within her heart; most of the veins raced in between her neck and within the hemispheres. Awakening from the reaction, Tigress roared as her ankle returned its normal position with a snap. "Tigress, you're alright!"

Her vision ballooned and slowly blur, revealing the black and white figure pressuring his paw toward her heart. Revealing her strength, Tigress deepened her breath while trembling. "Po!" she hailed, her hand returning her chi into the panda's belly.

"DRAGON WARRIOR!"

A female's deep, rough shout swarmed down to the rampage land he and Tigress swiftly turned. No! That's not possible! Po feared when gasping. One of the demon warriors ground the uneven pavements, striding within the clash. The ax became gloomy and as the figure's battle scathe armor revealed the saturated reflection from breaking dusk.

The bear in black snarled, and her ferocious teeth and crimson eyes widening.

Phantom's bright eyes painted — violet eyes with constricted pupils illuminated he glared at the whole battle. Half of the wolves and the Resistance stumbled, smothering. Many of the demons plunged their backs as each of the pack's dying howl emerged. Her vision returned the fire, darting her claw at the blossom and shadow sphere. "Enough of this rampage! KILL THE BOY!" the black bear screamed.

As they obeyed, the whole fur and demon sprinted.

"GUYS! PROTECT XING!" Po ordered the Five and whoever stood close to the glass sphere.

"Po! Get your colleague's sword!" Master Ox darted his hoof toward the katana.

The Dragon Warrior picked up Xing's katana. The blade revealed Oogway's chi, which brought and absorbed the energy from the panda's ancestors. Most of the avians crashed down to every flying hawks and vultures, deflecting from the sphere. Wolf Boss hammered the small boar's temple; beside the wolf, the albino lord swirled and spread his train, hurling feather knives at the bandits.

Most of the bandits scurried as they snarled. One, small, green figure underneath the crowds launched at random directions, clouting every fur and demon's leg. "Fear the bug!"

The reptile's tail darted one bandit's face within each pivot of Viper's, her whole body hastily slithering and again her tail whipping the boar's nostril. Beside the snake, while Viper engulfed the bandit's belly, Master Storming Ox heaved forward; his whole head swiveled one side and the other, the horns deflecting blades and thrusting the throng of gangs. His son united along, and both oxen positioned their kung fu dragon styles.

Zhong next to the sphere guarded the vulture's beak. He rounded his war maul to the sides; the vulture swiveled to the opposite direction, the black bird's talon spinning at the wolf's muzzle. SLASH! The scratch was not deep enough to maul his would, however. Only the alpha's muzzle revealed the pale strawberry scratch.

Spreading his wings down and taunting with shrieking banter, the vulture clenched his beak. Wolf Boss crushed his popping fingers. "You messed with a wolf, you get —" he glimpsed down to the vulture's talons and wickedly smirked, " — mice."

Looking down, the vulture squealed; both of his talons had engulfed with more than twenty mice warriors in gold armor from the ruins and crawled, scurrying to his chest with high shrieks. Both wings dragged down by small ropes, jerking him back to the tearful pavement from flying. "No! Please!" the vulture harshly wailed.

Wolf Boss heaved and thrust his hammer forward, the hammer smashed to the bird's head, and the bandit fell. Many mice about hundreds of them marched, fearlessly engaged any bandit while one tan mouse in a small garment, whistled with warhorn. "CHARGE!"

More than four wolves tackled the gray bovine who almost hammered his war ax down to the alpha. The pack spread within the mob Wolf Boss glanced, were advancing and lashing their curved swords. Beyond the bloody clash, the black hawk among the sky bent his wings and dove with a war hack.

Strong wings and train spread, fanning beside the one-eyed wolf. "Pity," Lord Shen struck the pole toward the hawk's head.

Another shout advanced the albino and wolf. Three mountain lions began to approach as Shen and Wolf Boss seemed to grin; their strategies of tag team bonded beyond most of their training and fighting for battle. Their weapons readied, and one, roaring shout rained down to the felines like sheets.

Smashing the mountain lions with a powerful landing blow, Kai observed the black bear striding. Her eyes began to paint violet; the pupils were shrinking with a threatening glare she smothered for those who approached her or darting. The smothering vision did not register Kai — the bull revolved his chains and hurled both knives.

Phantom jerked her gloomy ax, deflecting to one side and the other reflecting Kai. The mighty general yanked the links while Phantom's weapon ravenously absorbed flame projectiles she swung. Most of the crowds spread out, knowing which could hit by jade knives with chains or the gloomy ax with flames. Kai revolved the links he deflected the fiery.

Phantom spiraled her ax, and General Kai did the same; the jade swords ground the pavement, the chains flipping five forwards. Around half of revolving from Kai crisscrossed.

The black bear readied her shaft — she hammered down to Kai's head. The bull crossed his blades and thrust the ax above Phantom - his right foot towered and launched his knife with a kick. Phantom dodged under and bowled toward the bovine. Kai withdrew his launching sword, freely rotating the links around both big arms while he took another step like a water flow. Phantom ground her ax; Kai flipped after springing behind her back.

Kai pivoted and backstabbed the bear — almost at an instant, guard, Phantom's ax pole prevented from backstabbing behind her neck. The chains began to wave with angry jade flows from the bull's hoof, disarming the ax it flew above her and crashed farther down to five feet ahead. The other chain engulfed the bear's arm, snatched and yanked her to face against Kai.

Phantom and Kai wrestled — their arms locking by which could deflect or attack momentarily. Kai straightened his back as he thrust both Phantom's clenching paws which stopped plunging or slashing. Her big forearm hammered both, disarming one of Kai's jade knives. As the bear maneuvered and caught the jade sword, Kai rapidly motioned his fighting stance as he took another thunderous step and slashed his other knife to her throat.

The jade knife Phantom disarmed, plunged Kai's side of the stomach.

Bellowing, the Collector felt the jade of the blade cutting through - He was not even immortal, knowing what this warlord could only last for many years despite being a spirit warrior, at least chi was his weakness, then his jade knife if cut himself or the enemy stabbed him with it.

The black bear pressed her tense lips when clenching teeth. "Many will never remember you," Phantom wandered. Her claw's shadowy sheet grasped Kai's blade and lifted him, hurling the bull within the pagoda temple. As Kai struck to the left column and into the main room, ceilings and curved-up tiles collapsed, the debris crushing him as he bellowed more.

Phantom continued striding forward. Neither of her armies approached to the sphere as she glanced four of Furious Five, Dragon Warrior, two peacocks, one-eyed wolf, and both oxen defended. The white dragon towered its arching neck. It only peered the battle and many demons, seeming to rumble the growl underneath its throat — the blossoms swarmed and brushed the dragon's chest. A few of her scouts and bandits fled and shoved away in cowardice.

Cowards. I will kill him myself! Phantom clenched her fists, strolling her pace.

"Keep the bear away from Xing! Stop her!" Po boomed.


I keep the metal bury from resurrection! How is that possible you have that magical mind of metal within you from your bloodline?!

"You should have sealed your greatest fear from that happening," Xing said, answering softly without raising his rebellious tone. "Even the darkness covers it; the light will find its way." Even though he could not think of his mysterious power, the mind of metal was in him all along. How long had Xing kept the white dragon without knowing it for years? He cannot think of it right now, although his avatar was the gift.

The uneven terrains bridged thin and bricks they bounded. A few of the platforms swept, dragged, and lifted away, even though gravity was nowhere else to land, but only most of the terrains have. The Prince of Darkness sprung and fled across the swarming grounds, and the tiger followed.

The mind of metal slithered over the vast of abandoned roads and jumpy debris the dragon stayed beside Xing. Below the soaring ways and tiles, both Xing and Huoju ran, the yellow mountains stood as the cheese water waving the pale ripples. Once reaching the curved-up roof, Huoju caught and swung the wooden cylinder it had attached from the supporting; he booted Xing, letting the tiger soar back, landing one of the wooden poles it held his foot. Many of the poles similar to Jade Palace Training Hall guided the tiger.

Huoju jumped into both and began springing his feet. Xing lifted his paw and darted his foot toward the bovine's torso. Dodging and revolving his hooves, Huoju rounded his fist before Xing remained his Crane-like balance.

As the bovine made his aggressive move while jumping to the other poles, the tiger high kicked his dominant foot. The boot clouted Huoju's jaw, darting him in the open. "Skadoosh!"

Huoju roared and freed his arms and feet when falling. Xing's eyes squared to eclipse snow eyes, minding the white dragon's visions it fixed and slithered at Huoju. The dragon's long, reptilian body wrenched the Prince he was spinning wildly in horror. The white dragon swiveled to the side, the tail coping Xing's springing kick. The rear whopped Huoju.

Flying away after nasty tail clout, the Prince of Darkness yawped, plunging into the depths of white ripples it let the cheese water engulf the bovine. The tiger dove out of the wooden poles; the mind of metal behind him soared onto Xing. His snow eclipse eyes surveyed Huoju who swam his head and slammed the ripples that mauled and wrenched his fur like thorn branches piercing while slithering. The lake dragged the bovine, but rush into Huoju's mouth, letting the Prince hack as he screamed, crawling on one of the floatable hulls.

Xing! She's coming!

Xing and white dragon remained floating. For a moment, he glanced to his right where the dragon warrior's faded cry called into him. Who's coming? Xing feared.


V. The Bear in Black

Defending the bubble did not go so predictable when the monster searched for its ravenous flavor: your fear. Many charged against the bear in black. One by one, Phantom skidded her maneuverability she drew her cutlass dagger.

A rhino guard with the spear approached; Phantom pricked the rhino's chest upward.

The wolf hurtled his feet against the bear. Phantom bowled her quick flip and plunged the top of the wolf's head, the bones with flesh cracked opened.

"FIRE!" Leo on the top of the second story summer temple commanded his archers. Many released the strings at will, tens of them — Phantom's left arm held to the side; the cloud of blackness diverted most of the arrows, and the shadows fired back at the wolves. The red arrow struck Leo's ribcage the commander howled and fell into the pavement.

"LEO!" Wolf Boss howled.

The wolves including Zhong ran on all fours, growling as they leaped onto the bear's back, beginning to surround her with more than five wolves. She was never going down, must be solemn to rescue Huoju or kill the tiger — Phantom released her high-pitched growl and rose; her shadows flung all the wolves they wailed behind her.

Sensing four paws advancing to the bear, Phantom glimpsed at the young leopard who stretched his hand back and struck. The bear elbowed beside her head from striking — Peng knife-kicked her foot; within exact three precise blows, Phantom shoved her arms with ember blockade shield to the leopard, falling him back.

Another with forest-pitch rained down to her behind. It was Monkey who screeched his high-pitch. His fists (two feet and two hands) landed the bear's shoulder. The blows did not stagger Phantom — her red velvet shield all over her fur deflected. Her lofty elbow walloped his left rib-cage. The force of the blow made Monkey pitch his cry and collapse to the pavement.

"MONKEY!"

"Go high, and I go low!"

Both Mantis and Viper started forward. The snake slithered with zigzag maneuvers as the black bear's foot almost stomped the reptile's head. At first, Viper's lengthy body trapped both of the legs, and the green insect in a slow-motion roar bashed Phantom's head. Knocking the giant was not challenging, but otherwise with a quick tag-team might solve the giants.

Did they think their opponent was easy to defeat? Phantom bowled to one side while Viper rapidly crawled to her belly, avoiding many crushes from dry dirt pavement. When rising with her claws, Phantom gasped; a fast, zip of green battered her fluffy cheeks.

"FEAR —!" the bug struck the left, "THE —!" he did the opposite blow —

"BUUU—!"

Phantom's violet eyes glared at the bug to her right. A small choke from his flew him off course; his sharp blow thwacked Viper's head. They crashed into the bamboo stand, shattered pots spread over them.

Ahead of the black bear, more than six crocodiles raced toward her. Above them, Peng stretched both arms and dove down as he roared. She caught both of his legs at an instant and hurled him straight toward the running crocodiles. They bowled to the dirt after Gahri and Fung skidded under the flying leopard. They sprinted on all fours; Phantom glared her violet eyes.

"CLOSE YOUR EYES!" Fung screamed, but Gahri beside his companion gulped and slid his face to the dirt.

Fung, shutting his eyes hard for good, swung his spiky pole like a blind man. His swinging attacks were nowhere else to strike, so fierce, wary, and startled. He could only hear one of his gangs, lofty shout, and giant blows. "Eeny, meeny—" Phantom's shadow washed Fung's grasp, the spiked pole dragging away.

"Miny."

Fung caught something unfamiliar to his right claw, plunged someone's chest. "Moe." Phantom snickered.

Fung opened and looked his cherry red at his cousin. The shadow dagger pierced into the giant crocodile's heart. "LIDONG!" Fung sobbed.

The shadows swept both Lidong and Fung into the crocodile bandits.

Phantom turned back. Both oxen to her left near the sphere charged. Her claw spat glassy gloom, blocked their sprint as their heads crashed to it. Both peacocks spread their red and blue trains after leaping. Phantom clenched Shen's guandao (not heaven blade, screaming as Shen did), wobbling the albino behind her while Lao thrust his heaven guandao.

She sidestepped, began swooping Shen's guandao. Lao repeatedly jabbed his toward both feet and rib cages. Many cuts revealed gray into the bear's shadow as Phantom grunted. Tigress and Po began their sprint. The bear swiveled under after Tigress kicked her shoulder. Phantom hammered the katana from Po who shifted first, but the shadows forced Lao's guandao to block Heaven's Wrath. She lifted the heaven blade (Lao's) and whacked the pole toward the peacock's chest.

Watching the peacock stagger back with a shrieking caw, Phantom dove her head; Tigress made another twisted feet combo — Po swung the Wrath to the right; the bear shouldered and avoided the metal's sing into the wind. Phantom pulsed Po's grasp, disarming the katana as she clenched his wrist.

Tigress, on the pavement behind the sphere, revealed her fangs. Phantom bent Po's wrist upward. "OW! OH, TENDERS!"

Phantom's bright violet met Tigress's honey eyes. "Your mother and father abandoned you," Phantom regretted the feline, shaking her head.

Gasping in discovery but highly doubtful, Tigress heard the panda's cry thundering. Phantom's claws shadowed the chains; it spat on Tigress and Po's bodies. The chains snared him and Tigress; both struggled to thrust the chains locking on them both, crushing.

A leopard paw, now rough how the sound was similar to Po who recalled, bellowed toward the black bear. Tai Lung with blue flames landed vicious blows, countering Phantom's lofty elbow blocks. The projectiles from the Great Dragon spread the ocean embers. He rounded most of his heavy blows, landing the bear's rib cages.

Several punches struck precisely — the ocean flames seemed untouched to the bear's thick, oily fur. Tai Lung's final draw of his two fingers jabbed her heart, the bluish wave of chi rippled elsewhere to her body.

She broke her grin, wobbling her head in disappointment. How could she not suppose to move? One of Tai Lung's masterwork skills meant to shut anyone's movement, despite freeze as you could only breath until Shifu's touchable points set your motions free. The bear in black hummed. "Shifu tore your heart apart."

Before Tai Lung snarled and about to step in, Lord Shen's son beside him heaved heaven guandao and charged. The black bear dragged her feet as if the dark webs engulfed her within the bubble — the blade from Lao's stopped plunging. "NO!"

Tigress and Po lying on the ground pressed the chains from crushing them both, screaming. Their chi striking the links slowed the space of them. "XING! SHE'S COMING!" Po screamed at the white dragon while Tai Lung jerked the chains off of him and Tigress.

The blossoms had darkened during the presence of the demon bear entering the dark webs beside unconscious Huoju. Phantom stroked his heart, and she moved toward Xing; her claw absorbed another dagger. Shen, on the outside of the bubble, muffled his scream, puncturing the glass.

For a moment, the sense of blossoms wafted within the bear's nostrils. Phantom made her final approach. Her foot stomped with a threatening rumble. She ignored all the muffled screams that when you are underwater. Her eyes hungering orange and black stripes fearfully would notice if Xing opened his very soon.

The bear in black withdrew her arm and hurled the dagger to the tiger's throat.

Xing's dragon paw grasped the claw's wrist to an immediate halt.

The tiger openly glared his eclipse eyes at her. His thumb, center, and pointer softly clenched — as from the bear's perspective, the grasp became iron and severe lock.

"LET ME GO!" Phantom barked, her other claw bashing Xing's arm.


Huoju crawled onto the lake's bank. The ripples behind the bovine stretched its twisted swarm. The Prince's ears flickered from the agony roar as he quivered his startled breath. He glanced up at the tiger and white dragon, who they squinted to their right. Let me go! NO, MY CLAW!

GET AWAY FROM HER!

Huoju dashed toward the bank, jumping against Xing and the Mind of Metal. As the back of his spine spread his black wings, Huoju tackled Xing, diving him far off and away. Screaming under his throat, the Prince of Darkness leaped him and the tiger to the Yin-Yang Trial.

Xing with eclipse eyes, at reality within the bubble, let his dragon claw crush Phantom's whole wrist. One crush — the bear's claw dissipated with flesh and open bone.

Exclaiming by the crush of her claw which was no more, Phantom wobbled back and met her back to the blossom surroundings, swarming her neck and body. The white dragon's tip of the gray scathe tail gleamed a star, whipped down to her. The bear in black had struck hard, falling into the sky, thus her agony wail.

The black bear fell behind the northern mountain. The rest of the bear's shadows began dissipating, parts of the chains that surrounded Tigress and Po, even the blockade forcing both oxen.


VI. Judgment

The Yin Yang Trial crashed its billowing cloud of charcoal grays. Their crash wandered many of the spirit and demon warriors. They ceased and flew back toward the yin-yang trial. Within the ashes, the cloud revealed the silhouette of the tiger struggling to rise, and the enormous ox crawling.

The smoke began to evaporate, now revealing both warriors tumble their strengths. Their fight was almost over. Their destiny depended on which one could win for life, and lose for death.

Xing, gasping and surveying his weak opponent, uncontrolled his wobbling legs. Exhaustion leveled the tiger worse, same to the Prince of Darkness as the bovine moaned in defeat.

The green-eyes bat monster in qipao and emblem of fire outstretched his wings. His paws spread, clenching back. "The son of Emperor Khan is unworthy. You disappoint me, Prince Huoju. If your father were here, he would birch you as a punishment. FIGHT BACK!"

"Is that how we will continue this fight until we both take our breaths away, Hoju?" Xing straightened his tone intrepidly. The tiger's left foot deadened as the other towered, remaining his stance he could stand still furthermore, panting. "This conflict isn't part of the essential martial arts. Half of it was, but the other half is such a bloodbath."

The bovine jerked his head up. Huoju hardly fixed at his opponent's white and stone eyes darting at him. "You have been stressful long enough," Xing went on with a certain touch. "I realized how they forced you to cleanse every presence of all the masters. You were going to slay the children in the Qing Temple Hall, but you hesitated and watched their innocent eyes. You let the children go after Master Liu Bong Shien called them. Whoever your master was or is, he mistreats you to make your father and his legacy proud."

Huoju shivered his head away. The whispers grew sharply behind him; many of the spirit warriors murmured, perceiving this child can sense the rare, inner feeling. Half of them, including the confident Mightiest Warriors, gazed to the tiger's revelation. "He taught you no such thing as love. He taught you no such thing as life, but only death. He only taught you how to slaughter innocence. Power. An evil spirit." The Prince of Darkness arose himself, beginning to rumble his enormous throat, fixating the tiger in an uneasy balance. Xing let his own feet freeze without falling back. Both had aware of their battle scars, then most of their damages. Their furs in random places sparked, pinching underneath the hairs. The tiger continued as his stone eyes widened, his lips starting to wobble. "Your teacher forced you to murder your sister. Then Wugu earlier before her death forced me to plunge my sword, straight into her heart."

The bovine's fist made a soft wobble, closing threateningly. How will this Prince ever surrender?! Don't make me do this. Xing feared, pressing both lips; the Mind of Metal above the tiger sharpened its exhaling nostril.

For. My. Wugu.


"Po—what's happening?"

Now the reality had shut every speck of ebony environments since the black bear flew away. The white dragon studied every person's eyes daring to approach, to bandits, far dangerous to go near the blossom and dark webs foam. The pink blossoms shrank, hundreds of them forming their bodies, manifesting both of the tiger and ox facing each other.

On the collapsed tiles, one jade hoof plowed, thus the Collector's rough roar. Spreading the fingers, Kai smashed many tiles as he crawled, rising to a walking dead stroll. He staggered his feet while the jade knife beside his stomach still stabbed — Kai thrust the sword away and reached out his hoof toward one of the dying rhinos.

"WANG!" a struggling rhino guard watched one of his own rasped and shifted to yellow light. The light beamed; Kai painfully motioned his arms over the orb, the light ripples plunged within him. The wound mended the pale scar within thick fur.

"No, Tigress…" Po snatched Tigress's wrist. To her, she would not dare to step another and dare to defend against the mighty general who tempered thunderously. "We can't fight him. No one can."

She wanted to defend for a long as Tigress could. Neither of her family, Po, and for those failing their strengths to rise.

"We'll be jombies together…"

"Together?" Po let his mouth spread wide.

Her amber eyes shut with a bob. "Together."

Kai visibly glanced at everyone's faces as many struggled to stand their ground, and fight back. Not everyone could challenge the warlord. He only respected one master who defeated Kai, the panda. This beast was not compulsive to grasp masters' chi, the only treasure he could take, the Ox warlord who murdered Wugu before Xing plunged the black dragon.

Swiveling at the glass bubble of blossoms and dark webs, General Kai squinted at the tiger's paw clench Huoju's right wrist.

The whole collateral city shared the Collector's stare. The tiger's pinky finger once lifted and clutched the hoof of the Prince of Darkness.


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