Author's Note: This will be my longest chapter ever. I can't believe of how much I wrote for this chapter. Looking back at the few chapters were short, so I thought why not write a much longer chapter? I did show some of Azel skills in a few previous chapters. Now, I know all of you have been wondering who Blake Eater is. This chapter took me a while to work on. There was a lot of ideas that I had for this chapter that took me time to work it out. I had to work these ideas out one at a time.

After watching The First Furious Five episode, I decided to mix things up for this chapter. But it also gave me the opportunity to make this chapter to be much longer than the other chapters I did for this story. I mean a literally long chapter. So you should have some snacks or something to drink when reading this chapter.

Now with that out of the way, it's time to know what's the connection is between Leo, Panther and Blake Eater because it's about time to find what happened between them!

So here is the next chapter, everyone! Enjoy!

The First Furious Five and The Nightstride

Five Years Ago...

It was a beautiful day today in Wuji City. People were getting to work. The weather was also warm. Not a single cloud can be seen in the sky. Stores and supermarkets were opening at seven o'clock and other retail stores, like GameStop, opens at ten o'clock. Panther opens her eyes as her alarm went off. She picks up the phone and it was seven-thirty right now. Panther lets out a yawn and got out of bed to open the shades to see the morning rays of the sun greeting her with warmth.

The teenager went over to her drawer to pick out some nice clean clothes to wear for today. She pulls out a casual dark green tank top and khaki shorts. Once she was done putting her pajamas away, the leader of Crimson Dawn steps out of her room and into the hallway. Her room was next to Leo's room.

Knowing Leo and Evelyn, they must be in the training room right now. Panther made her way to the common room to see Zack making some breakfast for everyone and saw Jill putting out the dishes on the table.

"Good morning, you two." Panther spoke up.

"Good morning, Panther and Crow." Jill greets them with a smile.

Panther turns her head to the right to see The Empath, Crow, standing next to her. "Oh, good morning, Crow."

"Good morning." Crow said to the three of them.

"What are you girls drinking today?" Zack looks over his shoulder.

"All three of us will just have some orange juice today for breakfast." Crow simply answers him.

"Alright then. Is Leo and Evelyn still at the training room down there?"

"Yes they are."

"Do the two of you mind getting them right now and tell them that breakfast is ready?"

"We don't mind, Jill." Panther replied to the leader.

The two teenagers left the common room to head to the training room where Leo and Evelyn are training right now. Those two were always up before the rest of the team. They finished their last case last night that took them two weeks. Phoenix and Robin came back around one o'clock in the morning. Evelyn and Leo left their report on the main computer before going to bed. Leo was already up by five o'clock in the morning before the daughter of Bruce was up by six that was an hour later.

The two teenage girls made it to the training room. They see Leo in his Phoenix uniform as Evelyn was in her Robin uniform. Both warriors were sparring with their respectful swords.

"Ha!" Evelyn shouted as she thrust her sword.

"Hmph!" Leo blocks her thrust.

They both grab their opponent's wrist and was locked into a stance. Evelyn tries a kick that Leo blocks with his leg and the teenager got him with a low sweep and palm strike to the chest combo. Leo skids a few feet away and rushes back to her to attack. Both warriors were attacking swiftly and defending. Leo and Evelyn were both panting.

"Not a bad spar, you two." Panther said as she and Crow walks up to their friends.

"Panther. Crow." Leo nodded his head to the two girls as he and Evelyn sheathes their swords.

"We came down to tell you two that breakfast is ready right now." Crow said.

"Thank you. Evelyn and I will get changed first before we eat breakfast." Leo replied.

"Sure." Panther smiled.

All four of them left the training hall so Leo and Panther can change into regular clothes. Leo steps into his room and started off his Phoenix uniform. The only clothing he had left on him was his black boxer shorts that left him half naked. He takes out a black under armour tank top and blue jeans.

It's been only a couple of months since he and Evelyn joined the Crimsons Dusks. The team discussed of having an anniversary party for Leo and Evelyn since a couple of months have passed. But the two warriors refused to celebrate their anniversary. After getting changed into his clean clothes, his stomach started growling. He doesn't want to keep them waiting long.

Leo steps out of his room to see Evelyn wearing a dark navy blue tank top and black jersey shorts. The four warriors left the hallway to head to the common room. Breakfast was good. Once breakfast was finished, Panther thanked Zack for the breakfast. Jill and Misty were playing air hocky as Sheila was reading the report that was left on the computer from Leo and Evelyn. Leo went back to his room for a good nap as Evelyn was on the roof. Crow decided to read a book as well.

Panther left after thanking Zack for the breakfast he made. She was on her way back to the Tao Palace by taking the bus. The teenager steps out of the bus. But she didn't notice a young teenage boy that bumps into her, and they both fell down on the ground.

"I'm sorry." the teenager apologizes to Panther.

"Don't worry about it." Panther stands up and offers a hand to him.

He grabs her hand and pulls her up to her feet. The teenage boy was wearing a red t-shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers. He has brown eyes and black hair. There was a small red crystal at the center of his forehead.

"Blake Eater?" Panther recognized him.

"Panther Adalinda?"

"Oh my god! I haven't seen you in a few years!"

"You look great!" Blake smiled. "I've heard about you, Leo and those other people who helped you fight against Ellie Collins that night a couple months ago."

"Thanks. I'm also the leader of Crimson Dawn here at the Tao Palace." Panther added.

"That's cool."

"What are you doing back here?"

"Well about that. My parents, my, brother, my sister and myself just moved here last week from New York."

"That's nice. What made your family to move here in Wuji City?"

"It's way too crowded up there in New York City. My dad is still a doctor, and my mom is still a nurse. They both got a job here at the hospital."

"How are your siblings doing?"

"My brother, Michael, is fourteen now and my young sister, Isabella, is twelve. They're both doing good, and I turned nineteen last yesterday. How is your sister doing?"

"Cassandra is doing great."

"That's nice."

"How come you have the same crystal on your forehead?" Panther asks him.

Blake's eyes went because surprised. "Crap." Blake said, taking out a black band and covers the crystal.

"Why did you-"

"I'm sorry." Blake apologizes to her. Then he ran away.

Panther was confused. She began to wonder what that was about. If they see each other again, she'll have to ask him why he ran away from her.

The afternoon came for the citizens of Wuji City. Panther was in her room getting to head out to the mall with some of her friends. The rest of her team members from Crimson Dawn was at the movies. She left her room and heads towards the entrance where Serena, Ava, Jack, Tori and Brock were waiting for her. Brock drove them to the mall. They were going to meet up with Isaac at the mall. Iris was going to them later on with Crow. Leo and Evelyn didn't join them and was patrolling different parts of Wuji City.

"So, Leo and Evelyn are not going to join us at the mall?" Brock asks Panther.

Panther shook her head in response. "No, they're both patrolling different parts of the city right now. But tomorrow night is mandatory night of fun. So, Sheila and Rick have some plans for the team tomorrow night."

"That's good to know." Brock smiled. "And how are things with Iris?"

"It's not bad. Iris is still being distant from the team, but she is opening up to us."

"And how about with Leo and Evelyn?"

"Leo, Evelyn and Iris really didn't like each other when Iris and Isaac showed up that night at Crimson Tower."

"I remember Sheila was telling me about that."

"After the first two months, Iris started to open up more to the team."

"I'm still surprised that Iris can literally transform into a dragon when they both came to the tower that night. But things changed in the third month?"

"Yep. It took me a few days to trust Link and Iris while it took Leo nearly three months."

"Oh boy. It would be nice if those three would just get along."

"If you want my opinion, it's like Master Lee is raising a Damian Wayne from the DC Animated Universe and Bruce is raising his daughter Evelyn." Ava spoke up.

"I think about that as well." Tori said.

"You think you might bump into Blake again today?" Jack asked Panther.

"I hope so. We only talked for a little bit when I asked him about the crystal on his forehead." Panther answered.

Brock was beginning to pull over in the parking lot of the mall.

Meanwhile, Leo was patrolling the city by the roofs of the buildings alone. He gotten used to patrolling alone back in Gothic City when he was dropped off at Stark Manor at ten years old because the Kung Fu Masters of Tao Palace will be busy constructing the prison for Zhao. Evelyn did research on Leo and found out he's an orphan that was adopted by Master Lee, who heard about Leo from the orphanage. The two quickly became friends.

Leo felt the afternoon wind blowing against his cape whenever he jumps off the roof to head over to the next room. There were some gaps that required using his grapple gun or jumping. Evelyn had started marking places for which area that requires jumping across, grapple gun or both at one point after they saved the world by Draco. He heard some yelling from a couple blocks away from he was.

Leo runs over to the alley and looks down to see a thug trying to attack a teenage boy.

"Hold still, you little piece of shit!" The thug shouted.

The teenager was avoiding the thug's punches with ease. He grabs the thug's arm and throws him into a pile of broken glass that tears the thug's face.

"Argh!" He shouted in pain.

"Looks like you became Scar, asshole." The teenager said with his arms crossed.

"I'll kill you before taking that crystal!" The thug shouted as he looks over his shoulder with blood running down his face.

"A crystal?" Leo thought. He saw the thug pulls out a pistol. "Blake! Oh no you don't!"

The teenage boy summons two swords. Both of the hilts were silver steel as the blade itself was black as night. The black band flew off the teenager's forehead to reveal a small red crystal on his forehead.

Bang!

In a quick movement, the teenager blocks the bullet with his sword and knocks the pistol out of the thug's hand while slicing the weapon in half. He fired a small red beam at the thug's feet. The thug became startled.

"Wh- what the he- hell?" The thug stammered. He started backing up and turns around to get punch across the face from Phoenix and got drop kicked through a window of a building by Robin.

"Phoenix and Robin?" The teenage tilts his head.

"Hm." Phoenix turns around to face the teenager.

"Thanks for helping out, but I didn't need help."

"Hey Blake!" A voice that all three of them recognized.

Phoenix and Robin turn around to see Zack stopping in front of them.

"What happened here, Leo?" Zack asks him.

Blake looks at Leo and Evelyn.

"I heard some yelling over several buildings down the block and I saw that thug trying to rob him."

"I see." Zack said, looking at the unconscious thug and the weapon sliced in half before looking back at Blake. "Come on, we should head to Crimson Tower to talk in private. I'll text Sheila that we're bringing someone over right now. I don't think we're going to do a mandatory fun night tomorrow night. I know Panther was looking forward to it tomorrow night."

"What the hell are you doing here?" Leo turns to the teenager. "And did you see Panther?"

"I just met her today." Blake answered.

"Why do you have you still have that crystal on your forehead?" Robin started to ask Blake.

"Come on, Leo and Evelyn. Don't start with the questions now. We should discuss this back at the tower like Zack said. Alright?" Rick approaches them with Crow.

Evelyn folded her arms and nodded.

"Fine." Leo takes out his grapple gun. "We'll see you back at the tower."

Blake looks back and forth at Leo and Evelyn before following Rick to his motorcycle. Crow watches her two friends tie up the thug and the three of them left the scene to head back to the building that Leo was at.

Blake was sitting down on the couch across from Sheila and Zack. Leo, Evelyn and Crow were standing from behind the couch. The door to the common room open when Leo turns his head to see his childhood friend enter the room with Iris. Iris was wearing a light pink tank top and gray shorts. Her blue eyes met Leo's jade eyes. She scratches her short blonde hair before looking at Sheila and Blake.

"Who's the new guy?" Iris asked.

"Everyone, this is-"

"Blake!" Logan smiled as he walks by the two girls.

"Logan, I didn't know you were going to be here." Blake stands up and the teenagers hugs each other and shake hands.

"Neither did me."

"Hold on. The two of you know each other?" Panther asks Logan.

"Yep. Do you know Blake too, Panther?"

"Panther and I just met today right outside Tao Palace." Blake informs him.

"We've known each for a few years. He and his family visit every summer."

"So, what brings you back here to Wuji City, Blake?"

All eyes were on Blake right now.

"It's because of this red crystal on my forehead." Blake answered.

"What happened?" Logan asked him.

"About a few years ago after my family and I went back to New York City when I was eleven, I was on my way back home one night when I saw a few men chasing Jasmine down the road. She hands me a small black box and told me to run before she was kidnapped. I didn't know what was going on, so I ran back home. I opened the black box to see what was in there and there was a small red crystal shard. When I touched it started to glow and went straight to my forehead before I was unconscious. The next thing I knew, I found myself in a warehouse the next day. I met up with Jasmine outside of the warehouse and tells me that this crystal shard is special. She learned that her aunt was going to draw energy from the crystal and uses it for her evil purposes. We went into hiding for a couple of days to figure out what to do. I discovered that the crystal allows me to summon two swords to help out. The crystal also fires a beam, and it also allows me to change day into night."

"What else can it do?" Crow asked him.

"That's all it can do. I faced Jasmine's aunt and defeated her, but she died after a misfire. My family and I discussed that we should move to avoid attracting unwanted attention after I had a run in with those goons."

"So that's why you left when I asked you about the crystal on your forehead today." Panther said.

"Yeah. I'm sorry about that. I'm gotten used to these powers after my master helped trained me. But when I heard there are a couple teams in Wuji City, I decided to move here to control my gifts."

"It's okay, dude. You can join Crimson Dusks." Logan suggested to Blake.

"Is that alright with you?" Blake asks Sheila.

"Yes. It's why we're all here to control our gifts." Sheila smiles. "To help be our best selves."

Logan couldn't help but chuckle, earning a confused look from Blake.

"Why are you chuckling?"

"Shelia said the same thing when Evelyn showed up then Leo. I think it was a month and a half ago."

"That's so true." Zack said, looking over at Leo and Evelyn.

"If you want to join the team, you're more than welcome to stay here so you can continue to control your gifts." Sheila stands up.

"Thank you." Blake thanked her and stood up to shake her hand.

"Logan, Iris, will you show Blake his room?"

"Sure."

Leo watches Logan and Iris leaving the room with Blake. He turns his attention on the leader of Crimson Dusks. "Do you really think that Blake should join the team, Sheila?"

"Yes. Blake doesn't want to attract unwanted attention to himself and his family. I do need Logan to go with Blake to tomorrow so he can let his family know he'll be staying with us." Sheila answered.

"Tch. You should at least test him first before we start accepting new members to this team." Evelyn said.

"Which is why we'll be doing one-on-one sparring for tomorrow's training."

"Fine." Leo said.

Sheila and Zack watch the four warriors left the common room.

Panther and the three members of Crimson Dusks enters Leo's bedroom. She watches his childhood friend walks over to his desk and pulls out his laptop. Before he can enter his PIN number on the laptop, Crow used her power to move the laptop away from him along with his iPhone and Evelyn's phone in the far corner of the room.

"You and Evelyn were going to start snooping around again, right?" Panther asks him with her hands placed on her hips.

"No." Leo said turning his chair to face Panther. "I wasn't planning to start snooping around. I was planning to check up on some new exercises."

"We know." Panther chuckled.

"You started to look for files about Crimson Dawn, especially me, on Shelia's laptop that night on the day I met you." Crow mentioned.

"They're right, you know." Sheila enters the room. "Because we'll all get to know Blake by just talking to him and hangout, so he be adjusted."

"Not to mention we might be doing karaoke for tomorrow night." Zack added from the door before he started teasing Leo. "Maybe you can sing a love song for the girls who's around your age like the three teenage girls who is standing in your room right now."

Leo's face turned red and was about to throw a nearby book before Sheila closed the door and caught the book with her hand.

"Zack was only teasing, Leo." Sheila tells him.

"He's lucky you were there to close the door."

"Did you intend to hit him with one of your batarangs or shuriken instead of the book?"

"Zack and Rick really should drop with those teasing jokes." Leo folded his arms.

"Well, you and I will talk about that later. Iris? Panther? I want you two to help me prepare for dinner tonight."

"Sure." Panther said.

Leo and Crow watched their three friends exits his room to prepare dinner. Crow turns to look at Leo. He was about to head back to his laptop and notices Crow staring at him. "What?"

"I can sense you don't like Blake, Leo."

"I never said I don't like him, Crow."

"I know. But you heard what Sheila said. We're all going to get to know him. Do you remember that night Sheila decided to take the team out for a fun night at the mall when you arrived here?"

"Yeah. I remember that night, Crow."

"She only did that to have us all be familiar with each other."

"And even though you say you're "distancing yourself" from all of us, you've been hanging out with us no matter how much distance you say." Crow said.

"She's right." Panther said with a smile on her face, causing the three of them to see her standing in the doorway. Her childhood friend didn't say a word. Panther knows she's right. Whenever training was over or coming back from a mission, they always hangout. Leo would still be training, but he ended up hanging out with them a few times.

"Hmph. I thought you were helping out in the kitchen."

"I was, but Sheila wants you to see if Rick arrived at the tower yet with the groceries."

"Fine." Leo stands up and walks out of the room with Crow and Evelyn following behind him.

After everyone had dinner, Leo heads to his room to see Evelyn standing outside his room. The daughter of Bruce follows inside his room and closed the door.

"So, what do you think of Blake so far, Evelyn?" Leo asked since they were alone.

"He's not bad from what the hell I saw this afternoon. Blake's skills aren't bad, but he's nowhere better than we are."

"What do you think about the crystal on his forehead?"

"It could come from an ancient civilization after I took one look at it when he was here several years ago. None of us ever heard of a crystal that can change day to night by the person who wields it." Evelyn said.

"This is the first time we heard about a crystal changing day to night and summoning two swords while firing a beam. We should see how he does for tomorrow's training."

"I agree. But I still think we should've tested Blake first before having him for joining the team. Faith is just an absence based on data. It invites disaster."

"That's something I also agree on. This is not the work of fate or destiny, I'll say that. I never trust that fucking crap. And what about this mysterious master of his?"

"The two of us will have to look into it for a few weeks so we know what we're dealing with."

"Who do you think Blake's sparring partner is going to be for tomorrow?"

"I think it's going to be Logan, Evelyn." Leo stated. "This is Logan's idea since he suggested the idea of joining Crimson Dusks to Blake this afternoon."

"If one of us does get paired up with Logan for tomorrow, we can just rough him up a little." Evelyn suggested.

"That's fine with me." Leo said with a smirk, folding his arms. "But if we don't get to spar Blake or Logan, then I think Carlos will spar him. He could give Blake a little hard time with his air powers. Speaking of Carlos, where was he? I didn't see him at dinner tonight."

"He went to the mall with Misty and Jill."

"Tch. I take it you're going to inform them about Blake when they get back?"

"Yes."

"Good."

"Do you want to practice on some sword techniques?"

Leo takes his phone out. "After the two of us make a couple calls in Gothic City."

Six Months Later...

It was evening in Wuji City. There was a giant flying island fortress high above the ocean. Leo, Panther, Zack, Crow, Iris and Blake were panting. Their enemy lays dead before them. Blake stood tall with blood dripping from the blade. The warriors were all banged up, covered in bruises.

"Is...y...bo-dy...th..."

Zack answers his earpiece. "Hey Rick. Can you hear me?

"Za...ck...Can...hear me?"

"You're breaking up, Rick." Zack said. "Say again?"

There was a beeping tone for a second.

"Can you hear me now?!"

"Loud and clear. But very loud, god damn it! Listen, we-"

"This whole place is about to explode if we don't get out of here soon!"

"Shit!" Zack cursed, his eyes widen in surprised. "How long do we have?"

"We only have ten minutes to get off before this whole place explodes. And we still got several civilians to evacuate!"

"We'll meet you back at the rendezvous point!"

"There's no time for you to get down here! The staircase is blocked off! We're going to find another way out!"

Zack looks back at the others. "We need to hustle people! This whole place is about to explode!"

"What about Rick and the others?!" Panther yelled.

"The staircase is blocked off and they're finding a new way to exit before this place explodes!"

"Damnit!" Leo cursed. "Are they still not done evacuating the captured people down there?"

"I don't think so." Zack said.

"Shit!" Blake cursed. "Is my family alright?"

"They got your parents and sister out before the staircase is blocked off."

"Thank you, Sheila."

"You're welcome. Hm. I'll make a huge hole in the wall so we can escape with the rest of the citizens."

"And the portal tubes are working?"

"They got them up and running again."

"But hurry up, will you?! The rockets and I are doing everything we can to keep this place from falling out of the sky!"

"We need to get back to the entrance." Panther said.

"I'll get us all back." Crow replied, lifting her hand and a light purple portal appeared.

They quickly head into the portal, and they were outside of the castle where the grey javelin ship was waiting with Cody.

"Let's move! We are leaving!" Cody shouted as they ran inside the ship.

"That's everyone." Zack said as Crow got on the ship.

"Mom! Dad! Help me! Please help me! Anybody!"

There was a new voice on the earpiece. It sounds like a little girl's voice.

"Mom! Dad! Anyone! I'm trapped inside the throne room!"

Zack's eyes widen in shock and quickly answered his ear com. "Don't worry! This is Zack. Just stay where you are. We're coming back for you."

"Zack, what's going on?" Rex runs up to him as he was followed by Leo, Panther, Crow and Blake.

"We just missed a little girl up there in the throne room." Zack quickly answered.

"What?!"

"How did she escape the prison cells?" Panther wondered.

"We'll worry about that later. Leo, Panther, Blake, I need the three of you to get back to the throne room to retrieve the girl and get back before this whole place explodes." Rex turns around to the three of them. "Crow doesn't have enough energy to make another portal so all three of you have to start running now and keep your communication on now!"

Leo, Panther and Blake quickly ran off the ramp outside. Blake's crystal started to glow, and he jumps in the air to fly above his friends. Panther wraps her arms around Leo's waist as he fired his grapple gun to the roof. The three of them made it inside the hall and rushes into the throne room. Blake spots a girl, who's about eight years old, was hiding behind the throne. Panther approaches the frighten little girl.

"Are you all right?" Panther smiles at her.

The little girl nodded her head, but she yelped after the whole room shook.

"Xiu, what was that shaking?!" Leo yelled into his earpiece.

"The island fortress is starting to explode! There was another bomb that just went off before the final battle! Get out of there now!"

The throne room started to rumble violently, causing the debris to block their way out.

"No!" Blake shouted.

"This isn't good." Panther said.

Leo quickly scanned the area until his eyes laid on the window. He looks at the throne and got an idea on how to escape the throne room quickly. "We're busting out here!"

"How?" Panther looks at her childhood friend.

"By throwing that throne out the window. Then we jump." Leo answered.

"What?!" Blake looks back at him.

Several parts of debris started falling around all around them.

"Blake protect the girl! Panther, help me with this! Quick!" Leo commanded. He and Panther rushes to the throne and pushes it backwards into the glass window. With the window shattered, the wind started blowing against them.

"What's the plan here?!" Blake shouted as he grabs the little girl just in time to avoid a chandelier.

"We jump!"

"I don't think that's a bad plan!" Panther looks at Leo. "Blake can carry the girl and I'll jump with you!"

Before anyone could say anything, the entire throne room started shaking violently so much that the floor cracked open. The little girl was thrown off by the violent shake that she ended up on the side of the throne room before the floor cracks open. She was hanging onto the ledge, but the ledge gave away and the little girl fell into the depts.

"No!" Blake yelled. He was about to get ready to dive in after the little girl, but Leo and Panther grabs his arms.

"It's too late!" Leo shouted.

"We have to jump now!" Panther yelled.

The two drags him away as Leo saw the explosions are coming towards them. Leo and Panther jumps out the window except for Blake. Leo saw Blake didn't jump with them halfway in the middle of his jump before grabbing his grappling gun and fires the hook into Blake's shoulder.

"Gah!" Blake shouted in pain as he was dragged out the window.

The wind blew hard, whistling as all three fell through the air. Then the floating fortress exploded. The three warriors didn't scream as they fell through the air. Panther saw the javelin flying towards them. The ship flies in front of them. Leo hands the grappling gun to Panther as the ramp was lowered. Panther didn't say anything as she looks at Leo before turning her attention back on the javelin. All three of them landed in the javelin just in time as the floating fortress explodes.

The three javelins landed at the beach away from Wuji City. Crimson Dawn, Crimson Dusks and Task Force 493 exits the ship where several Justice Eliete League Medical was waiting for them. Most of the groups were led into different tents. Leo, Panther, Blake, Crow, Sheila and Rex watched several medical personals attended to several of their teammates. They were watching them from the hill.

Rex turns his head around to see his brother, Cody, and Commander Jody walking towards them. The commander was wearing a white and blue commander uniform.

"Commander." Rex quickly stands up to turn around and face his commander.

"At ease, Captain Rex." The commander ordered him.

Rex nods his head.

"How did that little girl ended up escaping the prison cells and ended up in the throne room?" Panther wondered.

"Xiu has downloaded the footage from the castle. The footage reveals that the little girl escaped the cells from going into the walls before they noticed she escaped. It explains why they were fully alert and captured you all by surprise after you landed at the flying fortress." Jody explains.

"But thanks to that, almost the whole team were sent to the prison cells while we were brought to the throne room."

"It also gave the other teams to break free and defeat the soldiers before saving the civilians." Rex added.

"We tried restoring communication after the signal was lost before you entered the hall that led to the throne room. Luckily, Kevin was able to destroy the machine with Logan and Jasmine." Cody stated.

"But the others couldn't stop the bombs in time as the bombs went off during the battle. And that bomb was set an hour ago before going off before the other bombs went off." Jody said.

"At least we saved the civilians, Jasmine's aunt is now dead this time and the fortress is destroyed."

"Even that we saved the civilians, the little girl is dead." Jody replies calmly. "All three of you did what you could to save the little girl before she died."

"What about the little girl's parents?"

"I've been told they'll be arriving in fifteen minutes. I'll be waiting for them on the javelin, so we'll talk in private."

"Is it alright if the three of us join you, Commander Jody?" Panther asked her. "It's only right if we be there since Leo, Blake and I were the last people who saw the little girl."

Jody nods her head once and walks away to the javelin.

"We'll let the three of you talk about this alone." Cody said.

"See you three later." Rex said to his three friends before walking away with his brother.

Panther turns around and sit down next to her childhood friend. The three of them watch several medical personal attending to some of their teammates while others were helping out the Justice Elite League.

"So, did they find the body after the battle?" Blake spoke up.

"No." Leo answered and stands up with his arms crossed. "Misty and several others have checked the ruined fortress and could find no trace of the little girl's body after the flying fortress exploded."

Blake stands up to look at him. "Well, it's your fault."

"My fault?!"

"Yes, it's all you and Panther's fault! If the two of you didn't stop me, I could've saved that little girl!"

Panther stands up.

"Our fault?! I warned you not to use all your power in that final battle because you have a damn limit! You were lucky I aimed at your arm! Even if you did try to save the little girl, you won't have enough energy to get out of there!"

"What a great fucking plan that you came up with! You know, I can't believe that the commander agreed to your plan! I'm the only one that was against it!"

"Because your plan wasn't going to work, Blake." Panther yells at him. "We didn't know that the civilians were trapped underneath the castle itself after Xiu located them."

"And the only way to save them was getting through the front gate. But by the time we got there, we were already captured when we landed because the little girl escaped from her prison cell. Half of our team was sent to the prison cells while the rest of us were sent to the throne room. It gave Logan the opportunity to knock out the guards."

"But even before the plan was executed, our enemy already activated the first wave of bombs when the flying fortress rises into the air. Then a second wave of bombs were activated during our final battle with Jasmine's aunt!" Leo sneers at him. "They couldn't find the bombs on the scanner before it was too late! And our communicators were jammed!"

"Gr! It's still both of your damn fault! You could've used your grapple gun to save her!"

"There wasn't any time!" Leo snarls at him.

Blake started to walk away, but Panther quickly got in front of him.

"You're not going anywhere!"

"Stay out of my way!" Blake shouted as he punches her hard across the face.

"AH!" Panther yells in pain.

"Panther!" Leo gasps. He watches his childhood friend hit the ground. The young teenager's body shook with anger and lets out an angry yell before he tackles him into the ground. The two boys started rolling down the hill as Leo was punching Blake. Leo kicks him a couple feet away. The two boys got up to their feet and glare at one another.

"That's enough!" Logan shouted as he and Evelyn landed between their two friends. "Stop, Blake."

Blake wipes the blood off from his nose. "I quit." Blake snarls at them and walks away from them.

Evelyn walks over to Panther and pulls her up back on her feet.

"Are you all right, Panther?" Evelyn asks her.

"I'm fine." Panther groans, rubbing her face.

"Gr!" Leo moans in pain, grabbing his left shoulder.

"Leo!" Logan quickly approaches him.

"Don't worry about me." Leo looks at his shoulder. "I'll be fine. I take it you and Evelyn heard our conversation?"

"Yes, we have." Evelyn approaches behind him with Panther. "We all agreed to go with you and Panther's plan for the mission. Even if things didn't go according to the plan, the mission became a success."

"Hm." Leo nodded his head.

"I don't think I can convince Blake to come back after he punched Panther like that." Logan replied. "I'll have to tell Sheila about Blake quitting the team."

"And there's something else you should know too. The little girl's dead parents will be arriving soon and I told Jody we'll be there with her because we were the last three people to see the little girl before she died." Panther said.

"I'll go with you to meet the little girl's parents, after Blake quit the team just now." Evelyn crossed her arms.

"Fine." Leo said.

"Before they arrive, you should wrap those wounds of yours up." The daughter of Batman points out to him.

"I'll do it after we meet the parents. And I'm not going to let anyone touch my shoulders." Leo stated.

"Fine."

"Hm." Panther lowers her voice.

The four warriors said nothing as silence took over. There was nothing but the sound of gentle waves across from them. Five minutes has passed, and Leo received a text message from Commander Jody. The dead girl's parents have arrived earlier than expected. They left the beach to head to the javelin where Jody was standing outside of the ship.

Jody looks at Leo. "Where is The Nightstride?" She questions him. "Didn't you say he will be joining us, Phoenix?"

"The Nightstride left." Evelyn answered. "We'll tell you about it once we're inside the ship."

"Very well, Robin."

"I'll see you three later." Logan tells Panther by placing his hand on her shoulder. He watches Leo, Panther, Evelyn and Jody walks up the ramp and the ramp closed itself. The teenager walks away to find Sheila. He found Sheila speaking to Zack, Jack and Tori.

Sheila was wearing the same uniform that Koriand'r wore in the DCAMU. The only difference was a dark yellow gem.

"Hey you guys."

"Oh, Logan." Zack notices the ninja behind the Crimson Dusks leader.

Sheila turns around to look at her friend. "Logan? What is it?"

"Blake quit the team, Sheila." Logan answered.

"What?"

"When did Blake quit the team?"

"Blake quit the team several minutes ago."

"Why?"

"Blake believes the little girl's death was Leo and Panther's fault because they held him back."

"It wasn't Leo and Panther's fault. Those two did the right thing by stopping him. If Blake did go after the little girl, we would've lost two people tonight instead of one." Sheila replied.

"I hope he sees why Leo and Panther had to stop him from going after her." Logan said with a frown on his face.

"One day Blake will understand, Logan."

The ramp to the javelin lowers itself to the ground. Leo, Panther and Evelyn exit the ramp. The three warriors found an empty tent to sit under.

"Seems like the medical personal are still busy attending to the other teams." Panther said.

"They still are." Logan enters the tent with Crow and Iris. "How did it go in there?"

"The little girl's parents were very upset to hear that their only daughter passed away tonight. They'll be a holding memorial service in a few weeks." Panther explains to the two of them.

"Will the three of you be attending the memorial service?"

"Evelyn will be coming as Robin while I'm going as myself." Panther said.

"But what about you, Leo? Are you going to attend the funeral as well?" Crow looks at him.

"I'm not going to attend to the dead little girl's memorial service." Leo said with a serious look on his face.

"Why not?" Logan looks at him bewildered. "You have to be there to make an appearance. Besides, you don't need to make a big speech about it."

"I told you already I'm not going to the damn memorial service!" Leo snaps at him. "Panther and Evelyn will go to the memorial service. And you know why I'm not going to attend to the memorial service."

"Then can I go in your place since you're not attending?"

"Do what you want. I really don't care."

Logan nods his head and leaves the tent.

Crow and Panther watches Leo walks behind the curtains and closes it behind him. Serena walks in the tent. She had a bandage on her knuckles.

"How are you two holding up?" Serena asks them.

"We're fine. Just covered in a few bruises but nothing too serious." Panther smiled.

"The civilians are doing fine right now. They're being checked right now for any injuries from being inside the prison cells."

"Any life-threatening injuries?" Panther asked her.

"No. Just a couple cuts that requires a band aid."

"That's good to hear."

"Are we going to use the portal tubes to send these civilians back to Wuji City?"

"Yes. Cody got the portal tubes ready for Android, so Android will be ready to send these people back to the city." Serena walks over and sits down on an empty crate.

"I'm glad that we won this fight. I really don't want to imagine if the floating fortress exploded right above Wuji City." Panther shudders a little.

"If the fortress was above the city, Ju Fen would've easily set the place on ice." Crow said. "But she can't leave the city due to the curse."

"True."

"Where's Leo?"

"Gah!"

"Behind the curtains." Crow pointed out.

Panther walks up to the curtains. She took a peek inside to see Leo standing with his head down as he clenches his shoulder.

"You okay?" Panther asks him as she opens the curtain a little bit.

"I'll be fine." Leo looks over his shoulder. "Actually, I'll put some bandages on later when we get back to the tower. We shouldn't have a civilian walking into the tent."

"Good idea. Maybe we should head back to the tower." Iris suggested as Panther opens the curtains all the way.

"Fine." Leo nodded as he brought two fingers up to his communicator. "Rick."

"What is it, Leo?"

"I'm heading back to the tower with the girls. Do you have things covered?"

"Yeah. I have more than enough people out here to help. We're going to be busy for a few days, so get some rest, alright?"

"Yeah." Leo nodded his head.

Crow summons a light purple portal and they walk through the portal to find themselves in the common room of the Crimson Tower.

"I'll see you girls later in the morning." Leo says to the girls.

"Leo, maybe we should help you to put some bandages on." Panther said as she didn't take her eyes off his hand on his shoulder.

"I'll do it myself." Leo replied. "I'm still not going to let anyone to touch my shoulders." He turns around and exits the common room.

"He really did look like he needed help this time." Serena said.

Panther and Crow nodded their heads in unison.

"True." Iris folded her arms.

"I know Leo wants to fix himself, but he shouldn't do it on his own. He needs to let someone help him to get fixed and let them help him, even if he has pain in his shoulders." Panther walks over to the couch to sit down next to Crow and Serena.

"That's true." Evelyn nods her head. "Leo had never allowed anyone to touch his shoulders after what happened to him with that tiger."

"Maybe it's time that Leo should let someone help him and allow anyone to touch his shoulders." Crow suggested.

"Leo hasn't let anyone touch his shoulders before in the past five years. There are times in some missions where his shoulders were touched before. And he shouldn't be affected by this forever." Panther said.

"I still remember he wouldn't let anyone touch his shoulders after the test he had last year." Serena shudders.

Panther knew she was right. She didn't even need to tell Crow about that because the Empath saw it when she was healing Leo.

"I know Leo can be a dick sometimes, but he can be a kind and generous soul." Evelyn said, looking at the empath.

"Come on, girls." Serena stands up from the couch. "Let's go help Leo out."

Leo enters the medical bay as the girls were preparing to take their shower in their own rooms. He removes the shirt and takes the mask off. Before he could take the gauntlets off, the pain came back in his shoulders and his left arm.

"Gr." Leo growls softly as he clenches his shoulder. He inhales a sharp breath before exhaling. The teenager had received a lot of cuts and bruises from Jasmine's aunt. At least this time Blake killed her good this time. He began looking around for some bandages. The teenager spots the bandages on the counter and as soon as he took two steps, a pair of hands covers his eyes.

"Guess who?" A voice chuckled.

"Panther?"

"You're right." Panther smiled.

Leo turns around to see Panther standing behind him with Evelyn, Serena, Crow and Iris standing in the medical bay. "What are you five girls doing here in the medical bay? I thought some of you got your injuries checked out by the medical personnel."

"We did."

"Then why is Serena, Iris and you are here for, Crow?" Leo looks a little confused. Weren't some of them were going to take their shower right now? He looks at his five friends.

"We wanted to help you clean your injuries." The Empath answers him.

"Why?"

"Because we care about you." Panther said. "You've been working hard because after what Zhao did. And we don't want you to suffer like this. We all know you can't get over your fear of felines, but you should let us help you to heal. You can let your shoulders touch by anyone."

"I only allowed that after I passed the test last year."

"We know that. And knowing what you went through, we all want to help you because we care about you." Serena smiles warmly at him.

Leo looks at all of them. Ever since his fear of felines after what happened with Zhao, Leo didn't let anyone touch his shoulders after the incident. If anyone touches his shoulders, he would just be reminded how he felt the tiger's paws on his shoulders that night. And he really couldn't help that on some missions requires to have his shoulders touched to spy through a window or see if there were any nearby guards. But off missions, Leo would make sure that no one touches his shoulders no matter what. Not even a pat or a hug. Over the years, Leo was slowly struggling to let someone to touch his shoulders.

Maybe Leo wouldn't mind about someone touching his shoulders when he's not on a mission. He won't get over his fear of felines, that's for damn sure about it. That won't change. But it won't stop him from accepting his friend's help, no matter what threat they will face.

Crow couldn't help but smile a little at him. She didn't need to read his mind because the two of them are connected.

Leo nodded his head. "If the five of you girls want to help me out, then go ahead. I'll have to start accepting people to touch my shoulders for anything."

Panther smiled and slowly raised both of her hands and places them on his shoulders. He didn't react as he felt her hands on his shoulders.

"Heh." Serena chuckles happily.

Crow, Evelyn and Iris smiles at one another and looks at Leo.

"Alright, I should start putting some of the bandages on right now."

"Panther and I will join you, Leo." Evelyn said as she walks over to the counter to pick up the bandages for three of them.

Leo walks over to the far corner of the medical bay and closes the curtains to have some privacy. Panther and Evelyn walks to their own beds and closes the curtains several beds down on the opposite side of the room. He heard the curtains opening and looks over his shoulder to see Crow with a first aid kit in her hand.

Leo lets out a little moan as he felt the pain in his shoulder.

"Allow me." Crow said as her hand was covered in a black aura.

His mask and hooded cape were covered in the same black aura and was moved to the edge of the bed. Then his gauntlets were next.

"Thanks." Leo thanks her as he removes the orange tunic. He proceeded to remove his black armor upper body suit. There were some cuts on chest that was bleeding, and his shoulders were red and bleeding as well.

Crow could see some blood stains on the uniform and his upper body. She could see another roll of bandage near his uniform. The Empath watches him grabs a roll and started wrapping his shoulders.

"Ha." Leo hisses softly.

"Here, let me get that for you." Crow offered with her hand out. He hands her the roll and began to proceed to wrap his right shoulder first.

Leo's breathing became slow as he felt her hands touching his skin to wrap his right shoulder. It felt nice again, feeling that touch before the night Zhao betrayed them. The teenager won't admit that. His breathing was steady as she continues her work. After her work was complete for his right shoulder, Leo felt her fingers brushing against the back of his neck to start working on his left shoulder. He remained serious as she began working on the left shoulder.

The Empath took her time wrapping up his left shoulder. He couldn't help but watch her wrap up his left shoulder. That was all he can do but wait and watch until she was finished. A few minutes has passed by and Crow was finished tying it up the bandage.

"There you go. How does it feel?" Crow asks him.

"It feels nice. The bandages should stop the bleeding overnight."

"And what about your shoulders when I was wrapping them up with the bandages?"

"It felt... nice." Leo gives a small smile to the Empath. "I know you use a lot of your power in that fight tonight and it left you drained too."

"True. I only had enough energy to heal two of our team members and a portal tonight."

"I appreciate you and the others helping me tonight."

"Don't worry about it." Crow nods her head.

Leo started washing some of his cuts with a shorthand towel while Crow helps wash some of his blood stains off his back. He heard the curtain opening up and Crow looks over Leo's shoulder to see Serena standing behind them with a fresh set of clean clothes in her arms.

"Here you go, Leo." Serena sets the clean clothes on the bed.

"Thank you, Serena." Leo thanks her.

"You're welcome, Leo." Serena smiled as Iris opens the curtain a little to stand at her side.

"Serena and I will help remove your black boots off, Leo."

Leo nodded his head.

The Empath steps aside for the two teenage girls and watches them kneel down to start untying Leo's black boots.

"I feel like you're getting the royal treatment over here." Serena said as Leo kicks his boots off.

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Iris looks at her.

"Me too." Crow chuckled.

"Thanks. If you don't mind, I like to have some privacy right now." Leo said.

"Sure." Iris nodded.

He watches Serena, Crow and Iris walks away and closes the curtains so Leo can have some privacy. Leo removes the black body armor pants and was standing in his black boxers. There weren't that many cuts on his legs while a couple of them had red marks. The bleeding stops on his abdomen as he wipes the blood stains. He was clean now.

The teenager tosses the white cloth balls into a nearby garbage can and heard the three girls leaving the room. It was just him, Panther and Evelyn in the medical bay.

"Phoenix."

Leo raise a hand to his earpiece. "What is it, Sheila?"

"Leo, I need you and the five girls to come back immediately."

"Did you find something?"

"Yes. It's important that all of you come back right now."

"Alright then. I'll get the others and come back."

"Thank you."

Leo quickly puts his uniform back on and left the medical bay to run into Evelyn, who was already in her Robin uniform.

"Get to the common room. I'll get the others." Evelyn said.

"Right." Leo nodded his head.

The five girls entered the common room with Leo's back to them. He looks over his shoulder to see them walking up to him.

"What do you think they found?" Serena wondered.

"We won't know by just standing around and doing nothing." Evelyn said.

Crow summons a portal and they all walk through the portal and ended up right outside the camp. Leo saw Ava and Tori running to them with John and Jack behind them.

"Jack, what's going on?" Panther asks her.

"You won't believe this!" Jack exclaims.

"Come on! You need to see this!" Ava and Tori grabs Leo's wrists and started running to the beach with Jack and the others following their three friends.

Meanwhile Jill, Rick, Sheila, Misty, Zack and Rex were talking to one another.

"Come on, hurry!"

"Watch where you're going!"

The leader of Crimson Dusks turns around to see Ava, Tori, Leo and the others.

"There you are." Rick said.

"Sheila, what's going on?" Leo looks at her.

"Take a look." Sheila points behind her.

Leo walks by her and followed the direction to where she was pointing. Up in the night sky was a shining sphere of light. "When did that get here?"

"Jill spotted it several minutes ago." Rex answered. "We don't know what's inside the sphere."

"Hm." Evelyn folds her arms. "I'd say we should get there if there is a survivor in there."

"Then I'll go first." Leo said, walking away in front of them and into the water. The water reaches up to his waist.

The glowing sphere began to lower itself above the water where Leo is. Leo stops and gets into his tiger stance as the others were ready to fight for whatever is inside the sphere. It started to glow very brightly, and it caused everyone to shield their eyes. Leo felt someone landed in his arms. Then the light died down.

Everyone saw the sphere was gone.

"What was that about?" Ava wondered.

"I'm not sure." Rex replied. He slowly reaches his twin pistols.

"It can't be..."

The Empath can hear Leo's voice was in disbelief. She, Sheila and Rex cautiously approach Leo.

"Phoenix, what is it?" Sheila asks him. Phoenix didn't answer her. She started thinking that light must've done something to him. He could've been exposed to something. Sheila reaches out to Phoenix again. "Phoenix?"

When all three of them were near Phoenix, Phoenix turns around with a person in his arms. Panther gasps in shock of what she saw.

"What the hell?!"

"Whoa."

"Oh boy."

"This is... uh..."

"Rex, call it in." Phoenix ordered Rex before looking down.

Present Day

Somewhere high above of the Atlantic Ocean in the sky, there was a floating silver sphere fortress. There were many fans that circles around the sphere from top, middle and bottom. Half of the sphere was covered by several metal walls to protect the outside of the sphere. A tower was overlooking at the top of the sphere. The ceiling had many angels. Inside the dome was a few members of the Twilight Titans; Scarlet, Wang, Kaito and Isa. In the center of the room was a metal pole.

The pole began to move down into the floor. Each member looks up to the ceiling to see an impressive chair coming down. As the chair made it to the center of the floor, Pepper arose from his chair.

"Contact Azel and Risa, Leah." Pepper spoke.

A white hologram of a woman appears in front of him. Her hair was short. "I'm contacting them now." Leah steps to his side.

The computer screen appears at the far end of the room, and it was big. On the screen, Logan came into the living room buck naked. Before he approaches the kitchen, Logan saw his leader on the screen.

"You're naked, Logan." Leah said.

"Ah! Sorry!" he yelps in surprised and ran out of the room for a few moments and came back with white shorts on.

"Don't worry about it." Pepper sighed. "Now, where's Azel and Risa?"

"We're right here, after seeing Logan running from out of the common room naked." Risa replied as she enters the room with Azel.

"So why were you naked, Logan?"

"Logan and John was jumping through fiery hoops before his clothes got caught on fire." Risa answered to Pepper's question.

"I see." Pepper said. "Now that we got that out of the way, the two of you can begin to start your mission today. You two know you are going back to visit Leo and Panther to explain and update them on James's situation. Abra could still be there."

"That's fine with us, Pepper."

"While you two do that, I'll be heading to Tao Palace to speak to the Grand Mistress Suzu and Lee about our team." Pepper said. "Meanwhile, I want you four to help Leah to find out how this woman find us."

"You got it."

"Good. I'll see you all later." Pepper snaps his fingers, and a black portal appears in front of him and Pepper steps into the portal.

"We should get ready too." Azel said to Risa as the connection ended.

"Let's get some breakfast first before we head out." Risa walks over to the fridge to pull out a carton of eggs.

It only took her several minutes to make some scramble eggs, toast and bacon for breakfast this morning. Azel and Logan sets up the table. The three of them started eating breakfast.

"The scramble eggs are really good as always, Risa." Logan swallows a piece of his scramble eggs.

"Thank you, Logan." Risa took a drink of her orange juice.

After breakfast was finished, Azel was about to start washing the dishes, but Logan tells her that he'll wash the dishes. She thanked Logan for doing the dishes and the two girls left the kitchen to head to their guest room to change. The two women were wearing their original clothes when they first met Leo underneath their black cloaks. Azel was wearing a blue tank top and short jeans that showed her legs and white shoes. Risa was wearing a black shirt, white shorts and dark blue shoes.

Logan was reading a magazine when he looks up to see his two teammates enter the living room.

"You two are heading to the other world to see Leo and Panther?"

"Yes." Azel answered.

"Alright then. Tell them I said hi."

"We will." Risa said to him.

Azel snaps her fingers to summon a black portal and enters the black portal with Risa. Logan watches his two teammates enters the portal and the portal disappeared from his living room.

The people of Gongmen City were still asleep right now. Most of the patrols have their reports to the guards and went to their quarters to get some sleep. Today was another day for the people who woke up early. It's always quiet at this time. No one was out right now.

Panther started to wake and open her eyes. She sat up and lets out a yawn. On her iPhone, the time was 7:15 am right now.

Panther gets out of bed and puts on her usual clothes. She was wearing a black tank top with no sleeves with a red belt tied above her stomach, black pants and white shoes. After throwing her pajamas in a nearby basket, Panther opens her window to get some fresh air. There were several clouds today, so it was going to be partly cloudy for the day. Panther exits her room to check up on Leo who was sleeping in the next room.

Opening the door gently, she peeks inside to see her childhood friend sleeping. He growled softly in his sleep. Panther wasn't surprised at all since he had another nightmare. It pains her to see him suffering like this. She decided to let him sleep some more and heads over to the kitchen to start making breakfast.

When she got to the kitchen, Master Ox was in the kitchen, placing the porridge in several bowls.

"Good morning, Master Ox."

"Good morning, Panther." Ox looks over his shoulder to give her a smile. "Slept well last night?"

"I have."

"That's good to know."

"And what about you?"

"It was fine. Master Croc left early a couple hours ago to remove the debris from the beach." Ox said, moving towards the table with two bowls of porridge.

"Good." Panther took her seat at the table. "How much more work do we have left to rebuild the tower?"

"The tower will be finished earlier than expected and those helicopters will be finished by a week or two after the tower is rebuilt."

"That's good to know." Leo said from the doorway.

Panther turns around in her seat to see Leo.

"Good morning, Leo. Did you just get up?" Ox looks at him.

"I have, Master Ox. Is it true that the tower will be complete, and those helicopters will be finished?" Leo approaches the counter to grab his bowl of porridge and strides to the table and took his seat next to Panther."

"Yes. We all expected this might take a year, but we made excellent time on the schedule."

"Did any of those wolves and gorillas tried to keep any pieces of the helicopters that was destroyed during the battle of Gongmen City?" Leo questions him.

"Fortunately, they didn't steal the pieces. Even if they did, they wouldn't even know how to build a helicopter." Ox said.

"It takes time to create a helicopter. Not to mention you need the right materials to make it, plus the helicopters are much advance for anyone around here to know how to operate one." Leo replied.

"I wonder how long the prince was here, though." Ox wonder as he ate his porridge.

"Who knows."

"Anyway, are you two going to check up at the usual spots before training today?" Ox asks them.

"Yes, I'll be down at the beach with Jie while Leo, Kiba and Kuo checks up at the fireworks factory." Panther answered.

"Good." Ox smiled.

After the three warriors were done eating breakfast, Leo and Panther left the palace to head to Jie's place. They made it to Jie's house that was near the beach. Panther knocks on the door a couple times and Kiba opens the door.

"Good morning, Leo and Panther." Kiba greets them.

"Morning, Kiba."

"Come on in." The white wolf said.

He led his two friends into the living room where Jie was reading a scroll. His sister looks up from her scroll where she saw her brother coming into the living room with Leo and Panther.

"Good morning, Leo and Panther." she smiles at her.

"Good morning, Lieutenant Jie." Panther smiles back at her. "Slept well last night?"

"Yes I have, Panther. Are the three of you ready for today?" Jie asks them.

"We're ready, sister." Kiba said.

"That's good to hear. Around noon time, we'll meet up at Liling's restaurant for lunch." Jie replied.

"I think that's a good idea, Jie." Panther nodded.

"Great. We'll see the three of you later. Kuo should be coming here in a few minutes."

"See you." Panther said to Leo and Kiba.

The human and the white wolf watches Panther and Jie leave the living room, hearing the front door closed. Leo watched Kiba took a seat at the chair his sister was sitting at and looks at the scroll. He walks over to the chair across the white wolf and sits across from him.

Kiba looks up at Leo. "Did you sleep well last night, Leo?" The white wolf asks him.

"Yes." Leo answered.

"That's good to know. Kuo and I missed you at the bar last night. The three of us could've gotten drinks together."

"No thanks. I'd rather not get drunk."

"It's not like we were going to get drunk, Leo. We're just going to have two drinks and that's it. I heard you had some wine at the Autumn Festival, according to Viper."

"I was only drunk because of Scorpion did a flying side to me that I ended up crashing into a nearby house. With so much debris, my crash ended up making four bottles wine to fall. Each bottle ended up in my mouth and I ended up drinking the whole fucking thing. All four bottles were enough to get me drunk."

"Wow!"

"Then I fought Scorpion and defeated her, fell down the stairs a few times and ended up passing out at the Dragon Grotto."

"Amazing. You could still use kung fu when you're drunk. I'm impressed that you can do that at twenty years old. Maybe we could celebrate your twenty first birthday with a drink. What do you think?"

"Tch." Leo sneers at Kiba's last comment as the tone of his voice became a little dark. "Celebrating my birthday is a waste of time, Kiba. And it's pointless."

Kiba stares at the human a little confused. Before he could say something, the front door open that caused both men to turn their attention to the doorway to see the blue-eyed white wolf entering the living room.

"Morning you two. Ready to head over to the Fireworks Factory?" Kuo asks them.

"Er, uh... yeah. Good morning to you as well, Kuo." Kiba said returning his head back to Leo.

Kuo looks back and forth between his two friends. "What's going on? Did something happen right now?"

"Nothing happened, Kuo." Leo said quickly before Kiba has a chance to speak. "Kiba and I were waiting patiently for you so the three of us can leave and head to the fireworks factory."

"Oh. Thanks for waiting me, you two. Hey, is Panther and Jie here right now?"

"No. They both left for the beach a few minutes ago, Kuo. Why?"

"I wanted to return a couple of these scrolls that Jie let me borrow a couple years ago." The white wolf takes out a couple of scrolls.

"Are those my sister's notes?" Kiba walks over to him.

"Yes it is."

"Wow, I can't believe you saved these notes." Kiba smiled.

"What kind of notes are they, Kuo?" Leo approached the two wolves.

"Oh, these are notes to pass several exams here to be a police officer in Gongmen City." Kuo shows the human with a scroll of notes.

"Interesting." Leo looks at the notes.

"You know, Kuo, you can leave the notes here on the table and you and I will see Jie and Panther before we head to the factory. Leo, you can head on to the fireworks factory without us. We'll catch up to you later." Kiba said to the human.

"Fine." Leo sets the scroll on the table.

Kuo watched a little confused as Leo left the living room and looks back at Kiba. "Did something happen between you two?"

"No, nothing happened between me and Leo, Kuo." Kiba said to his best friend. "Come on, I'll tell you on the way over to the beach where Panther and my sister is right now."

"Ok." Kuo said a little unsurely. He follows Kiba out the back door.

The wolves left the house and was going to head to the beach where the two girls were but was surprised to see Panther waiting for them on the hill.

"Panther? I thought you and my sister were heading to the beach."

"I was going to the beach with Jie until I realized I left my phone back at your house. Then I overheard your conversation with Leo about having a birthday for him." Panther replied.

"That's what you were going to talk to me about on the way to the beach, Kiba?"

"Yes." Kiba replied. "But I don't understand why Leo wouldn't want to celebrate his birthday. It's not pointless or a waste of time."

"What the hell?"

"Panther, why would Leo say that? It's like he doesn't care about his own birthday." Kiba tilts his head a little.

"Hm." Panther lets out a sigh. "Well, me and everyone else believes that Leo never celebrated his birthday with his parents."

"You mean his real parents?"

"Yes. When Leo stayed with us a year later at the Tao Palace, he refused to celebrate his birthday. The masters find it odd for Leo to say it like that. Every child is excited for their birthday parties for friends and family to visit just to celebrate a birthday. But Leo never did celebrate his birthday every year. He saw some kids celebrating their birthdays with their real biological parents. No one still knows what month Leo was born in or even know how the hell did he end up in the field after the prince's attack. I was asked by the Grand Mistress to give her, Lee, Leo and Jody some privacy. Leo tells them he had a dream about three people. Two of them were loving and caring while the third person is evil. After Leo explained his dream, Suzu tells him not to worry about the dream. She sent him and me to play outside of the palace."

"But did they throw a birthday party for him?"

"No, not even at the orphanage too."

The two wolves became surprised to hear that.

"We try every year to have him celebrate his birthday, but he avoids it when his birthday comes every year. Leo will do everything he can to avoid his birthday."

"Damn. Does the Furious Five knows about this? Or even Shifu and Po?"

"They don't know about it yet, but I think they'll find out soon, especially Leo's girlfriend, Tigress."

"Is there anything we can do to help you?"

"I'll let you know when Leo's birthday is coming up."

"Thanks."

"We'll see you and Jie soon at Liling's restaurant." Kuo said to his best friend's sister.

The two wolves left Panther and heads inside the city.

They made it to the factory where a low-ranking police officer greeted the two wolves. Last time Leo was here, there were many piles of helicopters that was destroyed. But now, there is only a few more left to destroy.

"Hello Kiba and Kuo."

"Is Leo at one of his usual spots?"

"Yes sir."

"Good."

Kiba walks by the female wolf and found Leo staring at the same helicopter that he and Panther was in on their way to the tower.

"Why haven't you melted down this one first before doing the others?"

"It was Panther's idea to melt this helicopter last, Leo." Kiba answered, causing Leo to turn his head to the wolf.

"Why would she want to melt this one last?"

"We've encountered that some of them had live electric wires. Panther demonstrated how to be careful with live wires and use this helicopter as a demonstration to do it. She did an excellent job explaining the whole thing on how to destroy these things."

"Hmph." Leo folded his arms. He started to walk away from the destroyed helicopter and enters inside the factory.

The young man made it to the upper levels and enters the command room. It was a medium sized room. There were plans and instructions on how to destroy these helicopters. Ox and Croc had left the decision for Panther and Leo to decide who should be in charge of overseeing the helicopters of being destroyed since the humans have more experienced and knows what to do with them.

The two kung fu masters and Soothsayer can hear Leo and Panther arguing in Leo's room. Their argument ended as Leo agreed to Panther's deal, to which he really didn't like. Lieutenant Jie or Kiba will stick with Leo to keep an eye on the wolves and gorillas. The two siblings didn't mind sticking with Leo when either one of them is assigned at the fireworks factory the next day.

It was always hot in there because of the magma inside the factory. Leo watched from the balcony as Kiba was giving out orders to the lower police officers. The palace guards were there as well as they were in charge for each group. Almost every person inside had to step out of the factory to cool off because of the heat of the magma inside the fireworks factory. Leo can endure the heat much longer than the soldiers, guards and police officers.

The human still didn't trust the soldiers. Not one bit. Leo saw the same dark gray wolf he met when the wolf came up to apologize after what happened in Gongmen City. Leo had said nothing and brush by the wolf whenever he or the wolf walks by one another. He won't accept their apology after what they did.

Shen and his wolves have wiped out the Dragon Warrior's people a long time ago because the peacock overheard a prophecy that he will be defeated by a warrior of black and white. He returned to the city thirty years later for only several days until his death. The peacock was no more, along with the exiled prince, Sying.

Compared to Lord Shen, Sying had attacked every country by slaughtering so many innocent people that the Justice Elite League had several members in each country when Sying began his attack. Leo remembered how he and Panther met the exiled prince when they were teenagers. And after his last encounter with the prince, Leo wanted Ju Fen to train him when he was fourteen years old. Ju Fen wasn't interested in training him because he was still training under Master Lee and Mistress Aashi and his fear of felines. Not to mentioned he was being homeschooled and went out on missions.

Once Leo heard that the exiled prince was here in China of this world, he was angry what the Prince Sying did. But there was something else. His soldiers never showed up into this world and the exiled prince did show up here in this world. If Sying's soldiers did show up, then China would be in extreme danger. The people of this world don't even know what kind of weapons that Sying's soldiers have besides the helicopters.

There were other weapons his soldiers had; pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, grenades, tear gas and tactical knives. If a person like a water buffalo notices a pistol, they'll laugh it off and the soldier will pull the trigger to wound or kill the water buffalo. Gongmen City would've been at the mercy of Shen and Sying if they weren't stopped. Leo once thought that Shifu, Po and the Furious Five couldn't stand up against Sying and his soldiers with their weapons from their world while on their way to Gongmen City when they were riding the boat down the river. Thankfully, those soldiers and weapons never appeared here by the time they got to Gongmen City. It would take time for Leo and Panther to explain these dangerous weapons to the Warriors Of The Jade Palace and the Master's Council.

But there was something that crossed Leo's mind that he wouldn't dare to think about. The three personal bodyguards guards of Prince Sying. He hasn't seen those three people by the exiled prince's side when Leo heard about Sying from the Boss Wolf or when they were brought to the throne room in the tower. Those three hasn't been seen since Leo destroyed the hidden mountain base in five years. Maybe they perished along with their fallen comrades.

Leo growls softly as he saw the same wolf leaving the factory with several others. He spent the next couple of hours observing the soldiers from the upper floor. The human thought it would be best to leave the office and check up on Kiba and Kuo. After leaving the office, Leo made it to the lower floors and approaches a male ibex guard.

"Have you seen Lieutenant Kiba or Kuo?"

"I saw Kiba stepping out of the factory right now." The ibex pointed out where Kiba was going.

Leo exits the fireworks factory and saw Kiba standing outside of the entrance.

"Hm..." Kiba was looking ahead.

"Kiba, what are you doing out here?"

"Oh, Leo." Kiba turns his head around. "I'm only out here wondering about who these two people are I heard from the other officers."

"People?"

"Like you and Panther."

"Two humans are here?"

"Yes. They were wearing clothes like you right now. And they don't have any weapons on them too."

"Hm. Interesting to know that. I'd say we find these two people now to know who they are and why are they here." Leo folded his arms.

"That's a good idea. I'll round up Kuo and a few officers."

"Fine. I'll wait for you here." Leo replied.

Several minutes later, Leo, Kiba, Kuo and a few officers were walking through the city. When they were near the library, Leo noticed Risa and Azel standing near the staircase of the museum.

"I know those two women." Leo said to Kiba.

"You know them?"

"I've met them a couple of times." The human said to the wolf.

They approached the two women.

"Hello, Leo. It's been a while since I saw you last." Risa said.

"Yes. It has been a while, Risa."

"Who are you two?" Kuno asks the two young women.

"My name is Risa Smith, and this is Azel Granger." Risa introduces her and Azel to the wolves. "We are both members of Twilight Titans. And what is your name?"

"I'm Lieutenant Kiba and this is Lieutenant Kuo. We're Gongmen City Police."

"It's nice to meet you." Risa shakes his paw.

"Nice to meet you as well. What brings you and Azel here at Gongmen City today?"

"We're here to talk to Leo and Panther about James and give them an update to both of them on the situation of James." Risa said.

"Alright then." Leo said. "We should talk about this in private at the palace."

"I'll get my sister and meet you up at the palace, along with Ox, Croc and Soothsayer." Kiba said to Kuo.

Kuo and the humans were standing in the arena, waiting for Kiba, Jie, Panther, Ox and Croc. Soothsayer was already there in the arena when Leo and Kuo entered the palace with Azel and Risa. Several minutes of waiting has passed by and Kiba came back with his sister and the kung fu masters.

"Azel, it's nice to see you again." Panther shakes her hand.

"Thanks."

"And I'm Risa Smith, a member of Twilight Titans." Risa introduces herself.

"Nice to meet you." Panther smiled and shook her hand.

"What's going on now with James, Azel?" Leo folded his arms.

"Well, James is already out of the hospital right now and took the government's deal." Azel started to explain. "He'll start attending those therapy sessions when he gets those effects out of him soon. Bruce will be helping Dr. Molly to get rid of these effects."

"Dr. Molly?" Panther tilts her head.

"You should listen to this." Azel said.

Azel and Risa started explaining everything to them. It took the two young women to explain everything to them for forty-five minutes. After Azel and Risa explained everything, Panther was surprised.

"I can't believe Jay escaped prison." Panther looks down at the ground.

Leo lowers his head a bit and growled. "Damn that son of a bitch."

"Damn." Kuo looks at Croc.

Panther looks at the two masters, Soothsayer and the three wolves talking about the machine that can wipe a person's memory. They were relief that it didn't end up here.

"Where is James right now?"

"James is visiting The Tao Palace for a couple days to spend time with his parents and sister and will be going to Gothic City." Azel explains.

"And the others? Did the others forgive him after what he's done?" Leo looks at Azel.

"After thinking it over, they all forgave him. But we did mention about you, Saber, the cave, Akken and Abra. They were all surprised to hear that you and Saber teamed up once and gave her some pieces of meat. That did cause everyone to be surprised and wondering what the hell happen, so I told them that we found you in the cave when Abra appeared. Not to mention your fiery wings as well."

"Excuse me?" Leo raised an eyebrow.

Risa takes out her phone and shows a picture of Leo with his fiery wings.

"I even told them you're doing good as far as I know, Panther. But they were wondering why the two of you are here at Gongmen City and not in the Valley Of Peace." Azel said.

Leo and Panther took a glance to one another. "You could say there are reasons for us to be here in Gongmen City." Panther replied.

"What are the reasons then?"

"After I ended up here in Gongmen City, Soothsayer and the Master's Council found me at Liling's bar. I became friends with them and with Jie, Kiba and Kuo. We heard there were rumors that there was a human living in the Valley Of Peace. Master Rhino, Soothsayer and I were going to visit the Valley, but Lord Shen and the exiled Prince Sying suddenly appeared in Gongmen City."

"Shen killed Master Rhino with his weapon as Sying brought his creations of those metal creatures that can fly." Ox said.

"You mean helicopters." Leo corrected him.

"Oh."

"The Prince is here?" Azel gasped.

"Let us continue to explain what happened. I was surprised to hear that fucking bastard was here too. We've heard about Rhino's death and that Lord Shen teamed up with Sying." Leo lets out an angry growl. "I explained to Shifu, The Dragon Warrior and The Furious Five about Sying and we left the Valley Of Peace to head to Gongmen City. But I had several visions about my parents and the exiled prince at the musician's village and on the river. When we arrived at the city, we had to sneak by without being spotted and I saved Liling from that wolf who was threatening her. I've learned that Croc and Ox was in Gongmen Jail."

"I had to hide in the city for a few days at Liling's place. I learnt that Master Ox and Croc was being held in Gongmen City and I was planning to bust them out because Jie told me that Shen's wolves and gorillas were using the fireworks factory to finish up their weapons. By the time I got there, Leo and fought a little before he took off his cloak. I was happy to see him. We found Ox and Croc in their cell and told them we'll bring Shen and Sying down. Unfortunately, they didn't do anything and surrendered, believing kung fu is dead."

"The Boss Wolf spotted us and I killed two of his men before we started chasing him across the city. Leo and I caught to Po and the Boss Wolf before we were shot out of the sky by a RPG and Leo protected me from a chair that was coming towards me. We were all captured by the wolves and brought us up to the throne room where Shen and Sying were waiting for us. Viper started locking the pick while Po, Leo, Shen, Sying and the Soothsayer started talking to another. When Shen and Sying realized Mantis wasn't inside his cell, we all broke free. The Furious Five destroyed the weapon as Po, Leo, myself, Shen and Sying fought for several seconds. Leo became distracted for several seconds and Sying escaped with Shen to the fireworks factory. We had to escape as well because the tower was getting destroyed. The front door was cut off and we all had to escape from the top and landed in the city. Everyone of us had to head back to Gongmen City."

"So what happened after you got back?"

"Everyone, except myself, were wondering why Po and Leo didn't stop Shen and Sying. The Dragon Warrior didn't say anything and needed to get back to Shen. Tigress and Po fought while everyone watched. Po gave in and tells us he saw the peacock years ago when he was a baby. Once he said that, Tigress lunges and hugged Po, which caught us off guard. Liling arrived shortly after and the three of us entered the cell to clean Leo up. But after Leo was all bandaged up, it was his turn. He remembered that Sying attacked Leo's hometown that rainy night."

"Leo also revealed that Sying is a descendant from Xing, his ancestor." Croc added.

"Correct. Leo was planning to kill Sying, even if it cost him his life. Tigress wanted him to stay, but Leo wouldn't listen to her. The two of them started fighting. I couldn't watch my childhood friend if something happened to him, so I got hit him in the stomach with a palm strike and his sword. I did it because I know what Leo was going through. I told Po to watch him till we get back. Once we got to the factory, the Furious Five and myself started discussing on how to bring down the building. We decided to use the barrels of black powder to destroy the cannons and the helicopters. But once we rushed inside, Leo and Po were already in the factory."

Azel looks at Leo before looking back at Panther.

"We started fighting against the wolves. Tigress and I went on ahead to get Po and Leo, but Shen already got Po before Tigress can get to him in time and we were both captured. Leo couldn't protect himself as he got hit by their weapons, causing me and Tigress to break free and catch him, but he was shot out of the building and-"

"The citizens of Gongmen City can hear his roar throughout the city before the roar died down." Soothsayer finished.

"Then we were placed in chains, and they dragged us out of the factory and onto one of the ships."

"Meanwhile, I woke up in a cave with clean bandages. There were two tigers sitting at the entrance of the cave and left after I called out to them. Then a black panther appeared with a bowl of herbal medicine. I was wondering where I was, and she helped me to stand up on my feet. When I approached the entranced, there was a sea of below the mountain we're in and several mountains that was a few miles from where we were. The two of us had talk for a little while. After I got my strength back, I was ready to kill that motherfucking bastard who killed my parents."

"I didn't say anything when we were brought to the ship. I was chained up in front of the Five. We started to move, and I couldn't do anything but watch in anger as buildings was getting destroyed. Then Po appeared and was saying something that we can barely hear from where he was at. The Dragon Warrior made his way to the ship and couldn't dodge an RPG."

"That's when I grabbed with two hook chains before it exploded. After I landed near Po, he went on ahead to throw a nearby axe before overwhelmed by the wolves. Panther and the Furious Five were free and Panther joins me before were surrounded by wolves. We defeated them and rejoined the others. While our making our way, Ox and Croc joined us after Shifu persuade them. Each of us took down a ship or teamed up to make a pile at the entrance of the harbor. Once we in were range of Shen's cannon, Panther got in front of me before the ships were exploded."

"The blast sent us into the ocean of the harbor. Leo pulled me out of the water and gently laid me on the board. He pushed me away."

"Then I stood on a plank of wood. Two cannons were fired towards me and I destroyed them with nothing but my bare fists. I made no attempt to scream from the fire. I used my newfound strength to dodge, slicing them in half or sending them back while wrapping up cannonballs with barrels of gas and oil. And in doing so, my arms and legs were on fire. I threw the four cannon balls into the air with four barrels and slice them all. The explosion's force sent me flying to Sying's main helicopter and the helicopter was destroyed."

"Then what happened?" Azel wondered.

"Well, the gas and oil created a huge ring of fire, and no one could see what was going on inside. I've landed behind Sying and he was forced to draw his double edge sword. Then the real final battle began between me and him. I got him weakened enough after I twisted his foot. Then I killed him by revealing his throat in a bloody gaping hole. I avenged my parents. I had my revenge. Sying was no longer a threat."

"I got onto the raft and Leo slowly turns to me with blood running down his chin. He got rid of the flames on his arms and legs and the fiery ring was put out by two roars. We rejoined the others at the dock and watched the fireworks together."

"After the battle, we decided to stay for the day and help clear the debris. They went to make sure no one was harmed and Monkey and Crane went to get some groceries and supplies. Then I left with Shifu, The Dragon Warrior and The Furious Five back to the Valley Of Peace."

"Once they left, I stayed here in Gongmen Ciy help the Masters Council and Gongmen City police to destroy the helicopters. Shen and Sying's army have also helped out these past few months to repair the damage." Panther finished.

The two women were surprised that Sying was here and now he's dead. They had several questions to ask Leo and Panther.

"This mountain that you were on, Leo. Was it here in this world or our world?"

"I'm not sure. Last thing I remember was falling asleep on the way back to Gongmen City. I couldn't tell if back on our world or here."

"And what about the black panther?"

"The black panther is named Fumi. I met her a couple months ago. She helped me unlocked my memories and helped me defeat Jian, a Memory Warrior."

"Hm." Azel rubs her chin.

"Leo, when you and Sying fought one last time inside the fiery ring, you weren't completely-"

"No!" Leo quickly snapped at her.

Soothsayer, the two masters and the three officers were a little taken back from what Leo said just now to Risa. Panther had a look of concern on face as she looks at her childhood friend. She knew that Leo didn't want anyone to know, especially Shifu, Po, the rest of the Five and especially Tigress, to see that side of him.

"I see. After you killed the exile prince, what happened to his corpse?"

"The body was swept out to open sea by the current. It was never recovered." Panther answered.

"And good riddance too." Jie added.

"Hm. There's something I don't understand." Azel said.

"What is it that you don't understand?" Jie tilts her head to side a bit.

"We heard from a few citizens that you fought alongside the Grand Master and the warriors of the Jade Palace especially Master Tigress and you're in a relationship with her. I know that you're afraid of tigers, according to Logan. How did you get over your fear and how did you and Tigress ended up being in a relationship?" Risa asks him.

"I think I'll answer that question at another time." Leo folded his arms. "This isn't the time or place for me to answer that question."

"I understand." Risa nodded.

"Now is-" Leo was saying something.

"Look out!" Panther pointed at the sky.

There was several people falling in the air above them. Leo wasted no time to spread his fiery wings and flew off to catch Jie and Kiba's father along with another officer. He turns around to see Azel catching a ibex as Risa caught a wolf.

"Father!" Jie exclaims as Leo landed in front of them. "Are you okay, father?"

"And what happened?"

"We were attacked by a human." Kwon answered.

"Who was the human that attacked you?"

The doors to the courtyard were opened by a young man in his twenties. He was wearing a blank top, blue jeans and dark gray sneakers and his style was a black short mullet. There was a blood red shard at the center of his forehead. The man started walking towards them.

"Blake Eater!" Panther exclaims.

Leo didn't waste time as he fires a beam at Blake. Blake easily dodges the attack and kept walking towards them. But he didn't count on Azel and Risa attacking him from both sides. The young man received a strong punch from Azel to the face and a flying sidekick to his neck from Risa.

"Gr!" Blake grunted a bit.

Risa outstretches her right hand and a small pillar of white light appeared. The light transforms into a silver bo staff. There were white vines as a design to the weapon. Leo drew his weapon as Risa charges at Blake with her bo staff. Blake quickly jumps backwards and summons two swords. Both of the hilts were silver steel as the blade itself was black as night. He quickly turns around and blocks Leo's sword. Both warriors lands on the ground with both weapons locked to each other.

"Gr." Leo growled.

"Hm." Blake lets out a low sigh.

"Hold it right there!" a wolf police officer shouted, rushing inside with several police officers and palace guards.

"Give up, you're surrounded!" Jie ordered the man who attacked her father.

Blake didn't waste time by sheathing one of his swords to grab Leo by the neck and delivered both a headbutt and palm strike to his face and stomach. This gave Blake the opportunity to throw him towards the Soothsayer. Leo spread his wings in time to fly over Soothsayer. He spotted Blake above him. Blake didn't say anything as he quickly disappeared into the light of the sun.

"..." Leo landed safely on the ground and sheath his sword as he walks up towards the others.

"Leo, Risa, thanking you for saving my father, our other officers and one of Shen's former soldiers from that human." Kwon thanked them both.

"Don't worry about it." Risa smiled before looking back at Leo.

"So Leo, who- ah!" Azel exclaims in pain, grabbing her head.

"Azel?!" Risa turns around gasping. She grabs her friend as Azel fell forward, groaning in pain.

"Oh no!" Panther exclaims with a worry look.

"What's wrong with her? What did Blake just do?" Croc looks at Panther.

"Blake is beginning to steal her soul." Panther answered.

"How?"

"It's the crystal on his forehead. He must've gotten her when you two arrive here in Gongmen City." Leo replied.

"Master Ox, Leo and I must leave the city to stop Blake immediately before it's too late."

"Alright then." Ox nodded his head.

"And the three of us are going with you too." Jie said to her.

"That's fine with me." Panther said before Leo could say something. "We could use your help."

"Thank you."

"Let's get prepared now before we move out." Kuo suggested.

Everyone agreed to Kuo's suggestion. Ox picks up Azel and brought her inside the barracks. He placed her on Panther's bed gently as Panther was preparing. Leo was packing up some clothes, his iPhone and sword while Jie and Kwon was packing up some food in their bamboo backpacks. Leo finished packing his stuff and left his room. He enters Panther's room to see Risa looking down at her friend.

"Are you ready?" Leo asked her.

Risa looks over her shoulder. "Yes." She answered before looking back at Azel. "We'll get your soul back, Azel."

The two girls follow Leo out of the barracks where they were waiting for them.

"I will keep watch over Azel until you return, Risa."

"Thank you, Soothsayer." She thanked the goat.

They left the palace and walk into the city to get the harbor. Panther rented out a boat from a zebra. Kwon, Ox and Croc watched them load their stuff onto the boat. The boat was nice as it was brown, and the mass are completely white.

"I want you two to look out for each other." Kwon said to Jie and Kiba.

"We will, Father." Jie said to him.

"And listen to Leo and Panther."

"We always listen to them with no problem, Father." Kiba said.

"Good." Kwon smiled. He wraps his arms around his two children.

"Goodbye, Father. We'll see you later when Blake is stopped." Jie said as she and her brother, Kiba hugs their father.

Leo said nothing as he watches the chief hugs his two kids. He walks inside the cabin to double check on some stuff. The boat started to move and Ox and Croc waves goodbye to them as Chief Kwon salutes them.

"So Leo, what's the plan?" Jie asked him as the human steps out of the cabin.

"We're heading to a boat dock here at the end of the river." Leo pulls out a map and sets it on the floor. "Once we're there, we head to Chorh-Gom Prison in the snowy peaks of Tavan Bogd by using a portal from Risa."

"Why are we heading to Chorh-Gom Prison?" Kiba tilts his head a little confused.

"We made a deal with two prisoners." Panther answered. "They've given us some helpful information about where Blake is for the first time and Leo and I have been hunting Blake down. But we've lost the trail because of Saber."

"What kind of deal did you make with these two prisoners? And what's the connection between you three? Is that why the emperor didn't allow you to speak about this secret mission?" Kiba asks Leo and Panther.

Leo and Panther glances at each other before looking at Risa and the three wolves.

"You see..." Panther began to explain.

After Leo and Panther explained about their connections to Blake, it was already the late afternoon and Risa made some food for dinner. Her cooking was good. Once dinner was over and the dishes were washed, Panther, Risa Jie, Kiba and Kuo started having some conversations. Panther exchange her and Leo's cell phone number to Risa if she wants to hangout sometime after they get back to the human world. Risa liked the idea and gave her number to Panther. As they were riding the boat down the river, Risa had an idea to do a little singing for tonight. Kuo offered Leo to sing with them, but Leo refused the offer.

He was surprised that Panther showed them what an iPhone is and how to use it after Leo and the Furious Five left Gongmen City. They even listened to her music that was playing on her phone. Whenever Panther has a couple days off from training, she would meet up with Liling, Jie, Kiba and Kuo to hang out on the weekends. Panther had played her music at Liling's bar and the palace in private.

There were some songs that the three wolves like when they listened to it for the first time. Leo had said nothing when they started singing songs like She Wolf by Shakira, Wolves by Selena Gomez featuring Mashmello, It's My Life by Bon Jovi, If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickleback or Cake By The Ocean by DNCE. Panther made sure that the other two songs wouldn't play, especially that second song.

Leo had listened to his friends singing for twenty minutes. He didn't want to join them in case they have another attack from Blake. While he was thinking, Kiba taps on his shoulder.

"What is it, Kiba?" Leo asks him.

"We all need to discuss the sleeping arrangements for tonight." Kiba answered him.

Leo follows him to the deck where they were waiting.

"Now that Leo is here, we should discuss who should sleep in the cabin tonight." Kuo said.

"Well, the three men can sleep outside for tonight while the three of us can sleep inside." Risa suggested. "Or we can sleep together in the cabin. There's enough room for all of us."

"I think we should all sleep together." Kuo said.

"Alright. We'll all sleep in the cabin then." Jie said.

"I agree."

The rest of them agreed and entered inside the cabin. Jie was sleeping next to her brother as Risa was sleeping on the other of Jie while Kuo slept next to Kiba.

Leo was leaning back against the wall of the cabin. He looks down at Panther sleeping beside his legs. The young man wanted to stay up a little longer in case Enya comes out of nowhere. Leo started to scroll through his pictures. While he's doing that, Panther turns in sleep and her right arm was on his thighs that caused him to look down from his phone and saw his childhood friend's arm resting on his thighs.

Leo stretches his hand to move her arm and when he stretches his hand, Panther started to open her eyes as if on cue. She lifts her a head a bit to see Leo's hand a couple inches from her right arm.

"Leo... what are you doing with my arm on your... thighs?"

"You were moving in your sleep. I was going to remove your arm from my thighs before you woke up and saw this."

"Oh!" She lets out a small gasp in embarrassment and sits up. Her face became red. "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it." Leo said as he scoots over a bit to let her be more comfortable.

"Thanks." Panther sits up against the wall next to him. "How come you're not sleeping? Is it the nightmares again?"

"No." Leo shook his head. "I'm only staying up a little longer if we get attacked out here by Blake."

"I will admit he has taken us by surprise today." Panther admitted. "But we will save him and Azel's soul."

"Hm." Leo looks away from her. "If we can't find a way to convince Blake-"

"You really think it'll come to that?"

"It could lead to that if we can't find a way to convince him. Once we stop Blake, Azel's Soul will return to her."

"I hope we do save Azel's Soul and not kill Blake." Panther said.

"We'll see what happens."

Panther lets out a small yawn and rested her head on his shoulder. "How do you think the others are doing right now?"

"Tch. Doing their usual things when I'm not there. I haven't written to them since I arrived in Gongmen City because of Abra."

"I know. It will be nice to see them."

"Hm."

"Get some sleep, Leo. We're going to need our strength for tomorrow." Panther said to him before closing her eyes.

Leo looks at her before moving the cover a little to get some fresh air for the night. He was about to go to sleep until he saw Enya standing in the middle of the boat. The mercenary jumped into the darkness of the night before Leo could react.

"Damn you." Leo growls under his breath. He looks back at Panther. Leo could've woken her up, but she doesn't believe him because Enya was dead. The young man still believed that Enya has returned somehow. And he wasn't planning on stopping until he had answers on Enya. There was no way anyone could survive that.

After they left the boat when they reach the docks the next morning, everyone was standing in the woods where they'll travel to the prison by Risa's portal. Everyone exits the portal and started walking towards Chorh-Gom Prison which was one mile away. The humans had to cover their bodies with black cloaks because of the cold. They made it to the entrance where two rhino guards are standing at the front door.

The two guards allowed them inside. They were standing in a large room above the chasm where the prison cells are located. Panther knew it was time for their help. The door across from them opened.

Tigress opens up her amber eyes. She sat up to stretch her arms and legs after having a good night's sleep. Today was a special day because it's Shifu's anniversary for becoming a Kung Fu Master. Po was planning this for months. She wondered if Leo will return to attend to her adoptive father's anniversary to celebrate. It's been several weeks since they heard anything about Leo. The Dragon Warrior has been sleeping in Leo's room for a few days since they got the food back from that hunger incident. When she asked him that night, Po tells her he's going to make sure that Leo's room was nice, clean and organized when he gets back. That was nice of the Dragon Warrior.

The orange feline kung fu master got out of her bed and puts on her regular clothes for today. She exits her room and goes to the dining room where everyone was waiting for her.

"Good morning, Tigress." the green snake smiles at her.

"Good morning. Has anyone seen Master Shifu this morning?"

"He had an early breakfast this morning and he's meditating at the moon pool right now." Viper informs her.

"Which is good because I have to head down to the village to see if everything is set up." Po said.

"We'll help you out, Po." Monkey said to his friend. "After all, you did planned this one for months."

"Besides, it'll be nice to cut back and relax." Crane nodded.

"True, but when it comes down to Leo, he trains, meditate at his usual spots and spends his time in the library."

"Not to mention Leo knows two people called Enya and Kaira. He's mentioned those two names before in the past." Tigress pointed out.

"I wonder if Panther knows something about those two people." Po wonders.

"Viper and I will ask Leo or Panther the next time we see them because I'm worried about Leo." Tigress said with a worried look on her face. "There has been no message of where he is right now with Twilight Titans."

"We'll worry about that later when we see Leo again." Mantis tells her. "Speaking of which, we still don't have any news on Leo right now?"

"We still don't have any news on Leo right now." Viper said to the praying mantis.

"I hope Leo will come back." Monkey lowers his head.

"We all do, Monkey." Crane said to him.

"Alright everyone, let's head down to the village." Po smiled.

The Furious Five nodded and agreed to help the Dragon Warrior. All six warriors had their breakfast and left the kitchen to head down to the Valley Of Peace. Today is a beautiful day in the village right now. Po had given each member a task to see if there was anything that he overlooked. He headed to his father's restaurant and steps inside. There was a big cake covered in white cream frosting and pink petal flowers.

"Hey Dad."

"Hi Po." The goose walks out of the kitchen to hug his son.

"That cake looks awesome and delicious, Dad." Po looks at the cake.

"Oh thank you, son. Do you mind helping me bring the cake out to the front of the restaurant?"

"Sure, Dad." Po lifts the cake and puts it on the table where the food was.

Several hours later, Shifu and Po were walking around the village. They walk by a couple of villagers.

"Congratulations, Master Shifu!"

"Way to go, Master Shifu!"

Mrs. Yoon rushes over and gives the small red panda a hug. "We're all so proud of you."

"Thank you, Mrs. Yoon." Shifu said as he wanted her to let go of her hug. "You can let go now."

The old goat releases him, and Shifu and the Dragon Warrior resumes walking.

"Are you enjoying your one hundredth anniversary of being an awesome Kung Fu Master, Shifu?" Po asks him with a smile on his face.

"It's not one hundred, Po. And I don't know why everyone is making a big deal about this." Shifu answered.

"Because you're the greatest kung fu master of all time, Master Shifu."

"That's very kind of you, Po. But a simple bowl of rice is all I need to celebrate for today." Shifu replied to him. He comes around the corner to see his five students, The Furious Five, Mr. Ping and several villagers.

"Happy One Hundred Anniversary, Master Shifu!" Everyone cheered.

Po walks over to his master's side and watched Shifu starting to turn around and walk away from the festivities. He grabs him. "It's only a celebration affair. Also, here's your party hat, Shifu." Po places a small white and yellow cone on top of Shifu's head.

A pig and a goat place the senior red panda master in his chair and lifts him up in the air. Everyone started singing.

"I'm not over one hundred." Shifu was trying to tell them.

Crane stops singing in the middle of the song and walks closely to lean to Shifu. "Don't try to fight it, Master Shifu. The Dragon Warrior has been planning this for months."

"And not only that I planned your anniversary, but I also went into your address scrolls to contact your dearest and oldest friends." Po added as they approached the stage.

"What old friends?" Shifu asked with a worried look as he was set down on the stage across from Po. On the stage was a curtain door.

"Funny you should ask that because it's time to play the first party game!"

A small band started to play music.

"Name that mystery voice!" the crowd cheered.

"Master Shifu, you're about to hear three voices from your past. For absolutely no prizes whatsoever, name these three voices!" Po announced.

"Greetings Shifu, the years has gone by as a swift arrow." a female voice greeted him.

Shifu's eyes widen in surprise. "It can't be."

Po rings a small gong. "Oh, that's incorrect. Mystery voice number two, you're up next."

"What's up, Shifi? You still sleep with a night candle?" a male voice asked.

"No." Shifu said in disbelief. "What have you done, Po?"

Po rang the gong in front of his face, causing the small grandmaster to smack it out of his hands. "Ooh. You were close. Last one."

"Greetings, to a... I can't do this. It's ridicules that the three of us have to it."

Everyone watched the curtain door was thrown off the stage to show three people, an elephant who was wearing dark green clothes with a mask, a leghorn chicken who was wearing a green vest with a yellow belt and there was a snow leopard wearing a blue vest, white leg wraps, brown gloves, pants and a cuirass.

Po turns to face the crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Master Elephant, Master Rooster and Master Snow Leopard! Shifu's fellow members of the first Furious Five!"

Everyone started to applaud and cheer. Shifu did not, however, and raise a hand to his face. After the cheering had stopped, Crane spoke up.

"You know, technically, there were other previous Furious Fives before them, so how can they be the first Furious Five?"

Everyone in the village gave the avian a deadpan look to him. "Forget I said anything." Crane clears his throat. "The first Furious Five!"

The villagers started clapping and cheering again for a few seconds.

"Minus Fenghuang who turned all evil and all that stuff." Po added.

Tigress and her friends look at each other. They know how Fenghuang turned evil in the first place.

"Hello, old friends." Shifu spoke to the three people who stood before them.

Elephant, Rooster and Snow Leopard shifted their attention on the red senior panda.

"Nice hat."

Shifu threw his hat off his head.

Not one side said anything. There was only silence. They didn't take their eyes off one another.

"Huh. I thought there would be some hugging for them." Po wondered.

Tigress and her four friends approached them onto the stage. "We are honored to meet you." The five warriors bows in respect to them.

"Yeah. You guys are the reason we became kung fu masters." Mantis added.

"You're all very kind." Elephant smiled before turning back on Shifu.

Again, silence took over until Po comes over with a red handkerchief. "I brought a hanky in case anyone feels tears of joy coming along." he said.

Shifu's three teammates just gave him an annoyed look, making him to back away and join the others.

"Po, the First Five and I haven't spoken in many years."

"That was because you were always resentful of being the weak link of the team." Elephant pointed out.

"What?"

"No!" Monkey gasps in shocked.

"You were the Crane of the group?"

"I'm standing right here."

"I may have been young and inexperienced, but it was your ego that drove the wedge between our friendship." Shifu said.

"Ego?" Elephant sneered. "Why you little-"

Po could see things are about to get out of control. "Let's open some presents-"

Rooster pushes the Dragon Warrior to the side. "You always did have a chip on your shoulder, Shiffy. Which is we always give you a hard time." He grabs Shifu's face and pulls him forward before giving him a noogie. "Just like this. Huan Nugies!"

Po and the Furious Five gasps in shock along with the crowd. They watched Snow Leopard kicks the chair right out underneath Shifu and Rooster pins him down. All three members laugh mockingly.

The crowd started to feel uneasy and walks away from them.

"Great party, Po." A goat said before walking away.

The Furious Five looks back at the First Furious Five in anger.

"I don't fucking care who you are! No one disrespect our master and gets away from it!" Tigress growls in anger.

"Whoa, hang on!" Po stood in the middle of both teams to try to calm them down without any fighting. "Calm down, everyone! We have can have cake and punch."

Monkey pushes the Dragon Warrior out of the way. "Let's skip eating the cake and go straightforward to the punch!" Monkey shouted as he and his team got into their stances.

Elephant, Rooster and Snow Leopard got into their stances as well.

Shifu was about to stop them until Snow Leopard pushes him away a little too hard. Then he felt someone grabs his wrist and pulls back from the ledge of the stage.

"Hello, Fufi." A familiar voice said.

Shifu turns around to see Mei Ling, his girlfriend standing in front of him. "Mei Ling?!"

When both teams heard the name, they saw Mei Ling standing on the stage with them.

"Mei Ling is here?" Po hops onto the stage. "What the hell?"

"What are you doing here, Mei Ling?" Shifu asked her. "I thought you were serving your time in prison."

Before she could answer, there was an outrageous roar.

"Roar!" Leo roars from above and landed in between the two teams, startling them. He quickly grabs Rooster's shoulders and delivers two headbutts that was enough to knock him out and kicks him off the stage.

Elephant charges at him with his trunk, Leo jumps high enough to go above his head before blocking Snow Leopard's kick with his arm.

"Ha!" Elephant shouted as he attempts to punch Leo from behind.

Leo quickly pulls the leopard in front of him and Elephant hits her before Leo pushes her into him as Mei Ling, Shifu and his students jumps off the stage.

Snow Leopard lunges at him with her palm strikes and Elephant joins in with his punches. Leo was blocking their attacks with no problem. Snow Leopard dives at Leo into roll, but Leo jumps backwards to use it against her and slams her into the ground with right palm covered in light red energy for a palm strike.

Leo landed on the ground safely before rushing towards Elephant on the stage. He quickly rolls underneath the elephant's kick and delivers a barrage of punches that quickly diminish Elephant's blocks. The elephant couldn't block the human's punches. Leo performed a high jump backward kick to the elephant's jaw and landed in front of Elephant with both fists covered in the light red energy and delivers a double palm strike that releases the red energy on impact.

"Gah!" Elephant grunted and landed besides his two teammates off the stage. He sat up and looks at the human as the human draws the diamond sword.

"Leo!" Everyone exclaims in unison. They were happy and surprised as Po, Tigress and Monkey jumps on the stage to join their friend, but their friend hops off the stage and slowly walks to the three kung fu masters.

"You dare disrespect my master, then you disrespect me." Leo growls at Elephant with his sword pointed at him. "Continue to disrespect him, and I'll kick all of your fucking asses like I did right now. But if you ever say anything against my master back where I come from, then I'm going to make you regret it. Do all three of you understand me?" Leo threatens him.

Elephant nodded his head as Leo sheathes his weapon as Rooster opens his eyes and sat up, groaning while rubbing his face.

"Hm." Leo folded his arms as the three kung fu masters stand up. He turns around in time as Po gave him a bear hug.

"Oh my god, Leo, you're back!" Po exclaims in happiness.

Tigress watches the rest of Five joins in the hug of their friend.

"It's good to have you back again, Leo." Monkey smiled as they released their human friend.

"You had us all worried, man." Mantis said on Leo's shoulder.

"What happened to you these past few weeks?" Crane asked him.

"We missed you." Viper smiled.

"I'll tell you after all of us head back to the Jade Palace have this conversation in private." Leo said to the avian.

"Before we do that, we should bring Mei Ling back to Chorh-Gom Prison first." The Dragon Warrior said behind Shifu and Mei Ling.

"That sounds good." Mantis agreed.

"Apologies, Po, but that will not be necessary to do that." Leo said as Mei Ling stood by Shifu's side.

"What do you mean it's not necessary?" Viper asked confused.

"Like I said, we'll discuss this in private." The human answered her.

"Very well then, Leo." Shifu said to Leo as the senior panda nodded his head.

All of the kung fu masters and warriors headed back to the Jade Palace. Tigress was walking besides Viper with Mantis on her shoulder as her boyfriend was walking behind them with Mei Ling. She was glad that Leo is back safe and sound, but why is Mei Ling here? She looks over her shoulder to look at Leo. He looks back to normal.

Once they reach the palace, everyone enters the Hall Of Warriors. Monkey closed the door and rejoins his teammates. The first Furious Five stands across from while Leo stood near the column as Mei Ling stood by Shifu.

"What is wrong with you three kung fu masters?" Po asked the three kung fu masters. "This is Master Shifu we're talking about here. There's no one braver or better than him."

"Bah!" Master Elephant scoff at the Dragon Warrior. "Don't make me laugh, Dragon Warrior. If you claim that, then why is Shifu the only one to blemish on our record?"

"Pfth! As if Master Shifu would do that."

"No, Po. Master Elephant is right." Shifu said, causing the senior grandmaster to step forward and turns around to face his students. "It's true."

"So what happened? What made you split up in the first place years ago?" Leo asks his master.

"It was our last mission together years ago." Shifu began to explain. "We faced a demon called Xian who wielded a sword of terrible power. Fenghuang had cast a spell that shields us from the demon's might. After the fight was over, all that remains was his sword. All of us had reach for the sword, but when it fell into my hands, I panicked, and the sword was lost forever. It came to cost the trust and love of my comrades." Shifu finished as he turns halfway to look at his former comrades.

Po gasps in shocked as the Furious Five said nothing in response. Leo looks at the current Furious Five until his eye met Tigress's amber eyes looking back at him. He stares at her for a brief moment and looks away from her.

"If you allow me to explain-"

"Save your explaining. I know what happened." Elephant approaches him. "You panicked because the sword belongs to us. It would be a force of good in our hands."

"I'm not going to have the same conversation with you again. What's past is past."

"You're wrong again, tiny. We're going to get the sword because it turned up and before someone else." Rooster said.

"The sword has turned up? Impossible." Shifu said to him.

"Apparently, the sword was located at Mount Huo Shan which was spewed by a volcanic eruption." Snow Leopard added.

"Two imperial guards were sent to investigate, and they never returned. And there's more. Several guards have spotted someone near the volcano, but they couldn't make it out who it is or why."

"I was against the idea of including you. But when the panda invited us to this ridicules party of yours, Rooster and Snow Leopard insisted that fate has intervened." Elephant replied.

"You are still one of us, Shifu." Snow Leopard spoke. "Honor demands that we must give a chance so you can atone your last mistake."

"Plus you make those good tea sandwiches that we always like." Rooster added.

"Hang on. Does that the First Furious Five is going on another legendary mission?!" Po squeals in excitement. "That's awesome!"

Shifu had to move the panda's hands away from his head. "Unfortunately, your plan has a fatal flaw."

"An awesome fatal flaw!"

"Fenghuang is the only one who knows the shield spell and she's safely locked away in Chorh-Gom Prison, even as we speak."

Leo's eyes widen a bit and place his hand in his pocket which didn't go unnoticed by Tigress and Viper. Tigress can hear a voice coming from his pocket.

"Not anymore." Rooster said.

The doors to the palace opened, causing Po and the Furious Five to turn around to see the owl standing in the doorway.

"Hello everyone! Did you all missed me?" Fenghuang smirks at them.

Leo growls deeply a little angrily.

"Ha ha!" Fenghuang laughs as she starts to fly towards them.

"Shifu, look out!" Po shouted, getting into his stance.

"Stop!" Elephant shouted as the Fenghuang lands near the First Furious Five. "Fenghuang is here under our protection."

Everyone gasps in surprised.

"You must be mad to trust her!" Shifu exclaims.

"Oh, don't be scared, Shifu." Fenghuang approaches him and show the senior red panda a manacle on her right talon. "I've been tamed for now. This manacle keeps me from flying very far so I won't be too quick to bite."

Shifu gives her a deadpan look.

"Fenghuang's shielding spell will give us time to grab the sword. After our mission is complete, she wins her freedom."

"What?!" Po gasps.

"It's no worry. Villains like her will be powerless against the sword anyway." Rooster said confidently.

"Just think about this, everyone. With that sword, we know China's peace will be ensured for generations to come." Elephant said. "It's what we all want."

They didn't say anything.

"So, what do you say, Shifu?" Fenghuang asks him. "The whole gang is here."

All eyes were on Shifu. The senior red panda didn't say anything. Po's smiles with excitement.

"Thank you for your offer. But my answer is no." Shifu replies before walking away.

"Huh?" Po looks at his master confused.

"You coward! You panicked once and you're afraid you'll do it again!"

"Shifu, we can't do this without you. It will take all five of us to overcome the sword's power."

"The Emperor himself has sanctioned our mission. If you back out now, you will shame yourself and the Jade Palace forever." Snow Leopard replied. "Do you truly want to do that, Shifu?"

Shifu stopped walking when he heard that. He paused for a brief moment and spoke. "So be it."

Tigress eyes widen in shocked and surprised. Why would Shifu shame himself and the Jade Palace? This doesn't make any sense to her. She watches her adoptive father walk away from all of them.

"We should bring Fenghuang back to Chorh-Gom prison. Our mission is scrapped because of little britches here." Rooster said to his two teammates.

"No way." Po turns back to the First Five. "All three of you are wrong. Shifu is no coward."

"You keep telling yourself that, panda." Elephant sneers at him.

As all four of them walks by The Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five was about to leave, Leo stands in front of the four warriors. This caused Masters Elephant, Rooster, Snow Leopard and Fenghuang to stop walking.

"What do you want, human?" Rooster asks him. "Step aside."

"I'll be taking Fenghuang off your hands right now." Leo answered as it was a no big deal.

"Are you joking, human? That's not going to happen. Fenghuang is still under our protection." Elephant said to the human.

"Your protection?" Leo scoffs at him. He folded his arms over his chest. "You mean Fenghuang and Mei Ling is under Panther and my protection. I'm not joking about it and I'm pretty dead damn serious about it."

This caught everyone's attention.

"What do you mean Fenghuang and Mei Ling is under Panther and your protection?" Snow Leopard asks him. "On whose authority that gives you the right to do that?"

"The Emperor of China himself. I have the seal to prove it." Leo takes out a familiar green scroll.

"When did you get that seal?" Her eyes widen in shock.

"I received the seal two months ago after Mei Ling and Junjie went to prison. The Emperor sent Panther and me on a mission that she and I cannot talk about right now. Mei Ling and Fenghuang is helping us on this mission from day one, even as we speak. These two have been gathering information for both of us while they were at prison. However, if this mission becomes successful, then Mei Ling and Fenghuang will have their freedom back."

Po and the Furious Five looks at each other surprised at their human friend.

"I understand if you go against this scroll, it will be treason to the emperor himself. I'll be glad to tell the emperor that you three are interfering with this mission right now. He gave Panther and me his eternal undying blessing."

"Hm." Snow Leopard lets out a sigh and looks at Leo. "Very well. Fenghuang is all yours."

Leo said nothing as Fenghuang approached to stand by his side.

The three former members of the First Furious Five left the hall. Po watched the First Furious Five leaving and turns his attention to Leo, Mei Ling and Fenghuang. The Furious Five didn't say anything because they were shocked and surprised by their master's decision. Po walks over to Shifu to talk to his awesome kung fu master as Leo, Fenghuang and Mei Ling exits the Hall Of Heroes.

"Master Shifu, you can't let them get away from saying that stuff about you. Listen, you're not the Crane of your group, Master." Po said to his master to stop him from entering his room.

"That's beginning to get hurtful, Po." Crane said from the other side of the hall.

"Look, everyone can get scared every once in a while."

"I wasn't scared, Po!" Shifu yelled at him before he calms down. "I made my decision, Po."

"No! You can't just walk away from this, Master Shifu! What will everyone think about you?"

"They can think whatever they want to think about me." Shifu enters his room. "And so can you!"

Po stops him from closing the curtain door. "But what about Leo?"

"I will talk to him later about this mission the Emperor had given to Leo and Panther." Shifu answered and slams the curtain door.

The Dragon Warrior lets out a concerned sigh. He decided to go after the First Five.

Meanwhile, The Furious Five was standing outside of the Hall Of Heroes. All five of them were happy to see their human friend was back safe and sound. When Leo came back after their last encounter with the clone, they've all been wondering what kind of mission that Leo and Panther were sent on. Or why Leo hasn't sent them a message in these past few weeks. Tigress decided to go look for her boyfriend.

"Where are you going, Tigress?" Viper asks her friend.

"I'm going to find Leo." The orange feline said before rushing off to find Leo. She checks at her boyfriend's usual spots; the library, the Training Hall or the Peach Tree Hill. There was one spot left and it was the palace arena. While she walks down the steps to the palace arena, Tigress spots Leo, Mei Ling and Fenghuang entering the arena.

"Alright, you two, time to check in with the others." Leo said to the two women.

"What do you mean?" the owl turns to face him. "It's not like we can call them from here."

"I agree. We can't just call out in the distance because people will know about or secret mission. And we still can't go far because we're under you and Panther's protection right now."

"That is true, I'll give you two that." Leo said before reaching something in his pocket. "But we don't need to, thanks to my iPhone."

The orange feline jumps onto the blue roof of the building. This time, Tigress was not going to leave and she will listen to everything to what the three of them are going to talk about. She peeks over the roof and sees Leo taking out his iPhone.

Fenghuang and Mei Ling looks confused at the strange small flat device in his hand. They've never seen it before.

"What is that?" Mei Ling looks at the device with curiosity.

"This device will let us talk to Panther more quickly." Leo answered, before tapping the screen. "I believe you listened to everything that happened up to this point now, Panther?"

"Yes, we have." Panther's voice spoke through the speaker on the iPhone. "Not bad getting the latest information, Leo."

Mei Ling and Fenghuang became surprised when they heard Panther's voice. Tigress was also surprised by Panther's answer. Who else is helping them on this secret mission?

"Is that Panther? Is she trapped in that device?"

"No, Mei Ling. I'm still here with the others right now."

"What do you think about the situation right now, Panther?"

"I've already sent him with her at the volcano when Shifu's team mentioned the sword was located. I told those two do not engage if they see Blake or the sword and wait for us at the rendezvous point."

"No doubt The Nightstride will destroy the demon for us. That will be one less problem for us to deal with. You and I both know that Blake has her soul and we need to defeat him in order to free her soul from his grasp."

"That is true. Fenghuang, Mei Ling, will you give me and Leo some privacy?"

"And don't go too far." Leo said to them.

The feline watches the two women walking to the entrance and it was just Leo talking to Panther on the phone.

"What is it that you need to talk to me in private for, Panther?"

"What the hell happened when you reached the village before we knew this was Shifu's anniversary? Why the hell did you roar like that?"

"Both teams was about to fight because Elephant, Rooster and Snow Leopard were mocking Shifu. I wasn't going to let them get away with that. And do they really think fate intervened to recruit Shifu? It's not fucking fate or fucking destiny. Fate and destiny can just... argh!" Leo punched the ground hard in anger.

Panther didn't say anything on her end. She knew Leo hates destiny or fate. "Perhaps it was just a coincidence."

"Maybe." Leo growls softly. "But even if the sword does return, I still don't believe that the sword of Xi'an will be strong against Blake."

"That I agree with. I know Blake was trained under a mysterious master when I met him first at the age of eleven before you."

"Then a six months later after he joined us, all three of us had a very heated argument that caused him to leave us."

"True. But stealing someone's soul is new news to us because of Blake. We still don't know how the hell Blake can begin to steal someone's soul like that."

"If Blake steals her soul, she'll die."

"I know we'll stop him before it's too late. And Leo?"

"Yes?"

"Are you going to tell Shifu, The Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five about this when our mission is complete?"

"That's what I intend to do. I'm not going to keep this from them."

"And I know you won't talk to them about the hellish nightmares that's been torturing you for five years since the incident. That's what also gave you that even still hear that song in your nightmares before the night of the incident."

"I just hope that Shifu, The Dragon Warrior and The Furious Five does not find out about these hellish nightmares. They don't need to know about it and it's not their concern."

"Leo, they should know about your hellish nightmares. We all care about you no matter what. I don't want to see you getting hurt or worse."

"..." Leo didn't say a word.

"Do you still remember the promise you gave me? The one that you promised me you'll think about promising the two things that you and talked in private when you and the Furious Five were in Gongmen City?"

"I still remember the promise I made you back in Gongmen City, Panther. I have not forgotten about it."

"Alright. Please think about it. For Tigress, me and everyone who cares and loves you so much."

Leo nodded his head. He won't argue on that comment of what his childhood friend said. "Mei Ling, Fenghuang and I will meet up with you and the others back at the bamboo forest. Once we meet up with you, we'll catch up to the others to meet them at the rendezvous point at Mount Huo Shan. We'll stop Blake and save Azel."

"Alright then. Jie, Kuo and I shall wait for you until all three of you head over to the bamboo forest."

Leo hangs up the phone as the two women approaches him.

"Is everything alright?" Mei Ling asks the young man.

"Everything is fine, Mei Ling. Panther tells me that she sent Risa and Kiba to Mount Huo Shan. She sent them after we retrieved the location of the sword. All three of us are heading back to the bamboo forest right now to meet up with the other three."

"Alright then. We have to travel half the day in order to reach the volcano." Fenghuang commented.

"Let's stop wasting time and meet up with the others." Leo said to the two women. The three warriors started to leave the palace arena. None of the three warriors noticed Tigress was hiding and listening to their whole conversation.

The orange feline jumps off the roof and lands on the ground on all four of her paws. She had listened to their entire conversation this time.

"So this is why Leo didn't come back from The Emperor in those first two weeks and Panther was on a mission for two weeks to track down their friend Blake." Tigress thought. "That explains why Leo was angry when he came back to the Jade Palace. I can't believe that Blake nearly stole Azel's soul and that must be the reason why Leo and Panther have Mei Ling and Fenghuang under their protection in the first place."

There were other questions that came into her mind. What did Panther make Leo promise about something? And what title did Leo receive on the night of the incident? She was glad to hear that Leo was going to explain about this mission to her and the others after this mission is over. Shifu should know about this right away. Tigress turns around and heads back to the Jade Palace to talk to her adoptive father. The feline enters the hall and approaches her father's room. She knows that he wants to be left alone, but after what she heard, it became important.

"Master Shifu?" Tigress knocks on the door. "May I come in?"

There was no response from her adoptive father.

"Shifu?" Tigress knocks on the door again.

No response.

"Father?" she calls out to him. The feline hopes her father will answer this time. Third time's the charm.

And again, just like the first two times, her adoptive red father did not answer his daughter's call.

"I'm coming in." Tigress slides the door to enter his room.

The senior red panda was not in his room. Where did Shifu went? Tigress steps out of her adoptive father's room and spots Zeng sweeping the floor.

"Zeng, have you seen Master Shifu?" Tigress asked the goose.

"No, I haven't seen Shifu, Master Tigress. Maybe he went for a walk."

"Thank you, Zeng." Tigress thanked the goose.

The orange feline master left the hall. She decided to head to the training hall to work on her skills. While walking down the stairs, Tigress heard a sound from inside the Training Hall.

"Weak link! Noogies! Scorn!"

That sounded like Master Shifu. She got into a stance and walks slowly to the door. Tigress pushes the door open and caught one the Seven-Talon Rings with her paw. She saw her adoptive father glaring at a broken piece from the swinging club while the chain hung above his head.

"Ah!" Shifu gasps the moment his eyes notice Tigress. He straightened his robe and stood up straight as he places his hands behind his back as if nothing happened just now.

"Are you sorry that you didn't went with your old teammates?" The orange feline master asked Shifu.

"It's for the best, Tigress." Shifu answered. "None of them knows how dangerous the sword is. Luckily with Fenghuang under Leo and Panther's custody, it'll only be Elephant, Snow Leopard and Rooster going after the sword. Since it's just those three, they won't be able to overcome the sword's evil power without her and me."

"Uh, have anyone seen Leo and Po?" the avian asked as he pushed the door open.

"Oh no." Shifu's eyes widen as he already realizes where Po is heading to. "Po is going to convince the First Five to go after the sword. We all need to head to Mount Huo Shan right away."

"Ok, but Master, what about Leo?"

"I haven't seen him in a while. Have you check his usual spots, Crane?"

The avian nodded in response. "Yes I have, Shifu. Leo isn't at his usual spots. Viper already checked the student barracks and he's not in his room."

"Hm?" Shifu strokes his beard as he began wondering where the young man went. "Then where did Leo go?"

"Leo and Panther went with the others to stop Blake." Tigress spoken up.

"How do you know that, Tigress?"

"I was listening to their conversation because I wanted to talk to Leo. The reason why Leo didn't write in those two weeks is because The Emperor had given Leo and Panther a mission to stop Blake from stealing people's souls. And I believe that's why Mei Ling and Fenghuang is under their protection to help them out in the mission. Something also happened to them a few years ago that caused Blake to leave them. Leo was planning to tell us about this if their mission was successful."

"If that is the case, we must go and help them before Blake can steal their souls before it's too late." Shifu said to his two students. "I want you two to gather Viper, Mantis and Monkey. All of us are heading to Mount Huo Shan immediately." Shifu said to his two students.

"Yes, Master Shifu." Tigress and Crane bows to their master.

The two students quickly left the Training Hall to find their three friends. Luckily, all three members of the Furious Five was in the courtyard right now.

"Hey you two." Monkey greeted them.

"How did it go with Leo, Tigress?" Viper smiles at her.

"Leo and I didn't get a chance to talk, Viper." the feline replies to the green forest snake. "I just learned that Leo and Panther need to stop Blake from stealing people's souls and that was their mission given by The Emperor himself."

The three kung fu masters became surprised.

"Let's go help our friends." Viper smiled.

"Then let's go." Shifu said as his five students looks at their respectful master.

Panther, Jie and Kuo was waiting for Leo, Mei Ling, and Fenghuang to come back from the Valley Of Peace. They were listening to the whole thing on Panther's iPhone. Panther was on the rock looking up at the sky to pass the time as Jie was cleaning her sword as Kuo was sitting on a branch.

"I hope we haven't kept the three of you waiting long." Mei Ling replied as they approached the human girl and the two wolves of the Gongmen City Police.

"No, you haven't." Panther looks away from the sky to shift her head to Leo, Mei Ling and Fenghuang. "Are all of you ready to catch up to the others?"

"Yes." Mei Ling answered. "But I must admit that was a good idea to use Risa's portal to get to the bamboo forest a lot quickly than walking for four days."

"Well, we don't want to cause any alarm to the villagers if we all just appear in the center of town." Panther replied.

"I'm amazed that you were listening to the whole thing when we were at the village with that strange device you have." Mei Ling said.

"Well, the iPhone is helpful. Now that all three of you are back from the Valley of Peace, we need to meet up with Kiba and Risa at the rendezvous point."

"Fine." Leo nodded his head.

"Mei Ling, Fenghuang, the two of you will lead us Mount Huo Shan because you've been there before years ago with Shifu and the other members of the first Furious Five." Panther looks at Mei Ling and Fenghuang.

"And don't plan to double cross us, you two." Leo threatens the fox and the owl. "Because you will regret it."

Fenghuang rolls her eyes in annoyance and started leading the way.

"Are you ready?" Leo asked Panther.

"I'm ready to do this, Leo."

Leo nodded his head once and the two warriors left to catch up to the others.

It took them for about three hours to make it the rendezvous point. The land scape changes to a barren grey wasteland. There weren't any signs of life.

"The others should be... there!" Panther pointed at a hill.

They approached Risa and Kiba. There were two imperial guards unconscious, laying on the ground.

"It's the imperial guards that went missing." Jie took a knee to get a closer look.

"They're breathing okay right now." Kiba said. "And Blake didn't steal their souls yet."

"And what about the sword of Xi'an? Have you two found the ridge that I was talking about?"

Risa shook her head in response. "The ridge isn't there, including the sword."

"What?" Jie looks up at Risa.

"It's true." Kiba folded his arms. "By the time Risa and I arrived here by her black portal, there was a destroyed ridge. We found the two missing imperial soldiers unconscious near the place and took them over here. But there was no sign of Xi'an's sword in all that rubble."

"Are we close to the ridge?" Panther asked.

"We're only one mile out." Kiba answered.

"Alright then. We need to get moving now." Leo said.

"Hang on, Leo. What about the two imperial soldiers?" Mei Ling pointed at the two rhinos.

"We'll leave both soldiers here for now, Mei Ling." Leo replied. "Come on, everyone. Let's head to the sword's last known location."

Fenghuang resumes to lead them all. Several minutes later, they arrived their destination and there was no ridge. There was a gigantic pile of boulders where the ridge once stood.

"This is the place where we fought the demon Xi'an." Fenghuang recognized the place. "The sword should be here somewhere."

"I wouldn't worry about the sword, Fenghuang." Leo replied. "The demon and the sword are both destroyed after what we're looking at here right now."

"The sword is destroyed?!" A surprised voice yells behind them.

Leo recognizes the voice, and everyone turns around to see Po walking to them with the first Furious Five.

"Po, what are you doing here?" Mei Ling asks the Dragon Warrior.

"I'm here to get the sword after I convince the former First Furious Five." Po answered. "But what about you? How is the sword destroyed?"

"That's what we all want to know too, Leo." Shifu appeared with the current Furious Five.

"We know this has something to do with your friend Blake, Leo and Panther." Viper tells them.

"If the sword is destroyed, then that means the demon won't possess the person who is wielding the for too long."

"Oh!" Po gasps and a smile crept on his face. "You didn't panic all those years ago! You threw the sword away on purpose and you knew it would cost you your teammates."

The four members looks at each other. Now they understand why Shifu threw the sword away so many years ago.

"Let's talk about that later, Po." Shifu said to him.

"Because look!" Monkey pointed a finger.

Standing in the center of the large boulder was none other than Blake.

"Blake Eater." Leo snarled.

"The Nightstride." Panther growls softly.

The two humans took a couple steps forward in front of their friends.

Blake did not say a word. He stood with his arms folded. "It's been several years, hasn't it, Leo and Panther?"

"Blake, what happened to you?!" Panther called out to him.

"You know what happened several years ago." Blake sneers at her. "I left everyone after our last mission because of you two."

"You still have a grudge against us for that?" Leo asked him. He wasn't surprised at all.

"Yes. I would've saved that little girl if you two didn't hold me back."

"That wasn't-"

"Shut the fuck up!" Blake shouted in anger. With a wave of his arm, the sky became nighttime. Leo slowly reaches for his diamond sword. "After I left you two, I swore I'll fucking kill you two. I'm now strong enough to steal a person's soul and I've already began stealing that woman's soul when we met in that city. Once I'm finished with you two, then those people behind you will be next."

"That's not going to happen." Leo drew his weapon out. "Because I won't let you steal their souls."

"We'll see." Blake got into his stance. Then he fires a red beam towards them.

Leo counters back with his own beam.

Panther, Mei Ling, Risa, Fenghuang and the three officers stood behind Leo as the Furious Five, the Dragon Warrior and the First Furious Five jumps in different directions. Elephant uses his trunk to throw his two comrades at Blake. Blake easily dodges Snow Leopard's palm strike and Rooster's kick. Monkey came flying from above, thanks to Crane, to slam the Nightstride. Soon as Blake grabs Monkey's kick, he jumps in the air and did a forward roll that caught Crane and slam both masters into the ground. The avian quickly got up and sent several jabs that connected to Blake's blocks.

Viper slithers in a zigzag manner with a low sweep of her tail. Blake simply jumps over her tail and did a downward punch across the avian's face and knocking him into Viper.

The praying mantis sped in front of the human with a flying sidekick, but Blake blocks the kick and counters back with a fast-spinning palm strike that sent Mantis flying into Monkey's face.

"Ha!" Elephant came up from behind Blake and starts slamming him into the ground with his trunk. The elephant threw him across into Tigress and Snow Leopard's palm strike, followed by Shifu and Monkey's kick from behind.

Blake smirks as he performs a spinning tornado kick that kicks Tigress and Snow Leopard across the face with two elbow strikes behind to Shifu and Monkey's stomachs. He didn't stop there as he performs a backflip kick to the jaws that knocks the two women out and before slamming both of his fists into Shifu and Monkey's backs.

Elephant attempts to punch Blake, but Blake quickly spun around to push away the elephant's punch. He delivers five powerful punches to the stomach and picks him up with both hands before he jumps in the air and spins forward to throw his huge enemy. Snow Leopard, Rooster, Mantis, Shifu and Monkey could not avoid in time as they were slammed by Elephant's size while Tigress, Viper, Crane and Mei Ling dodges the slam.

A black portal appeared from above his head and Fenghuang came out of the portal and slams him with her manacle in the abodomen.

"Gr!" Blake growls angrily at the owl. He lets out a several punches after he broke through Fenghuang's defenses on the second punch. He kicks her squarely in the stomach that sent her flying a foot from him. Po jumps in to intervene Blake's attack and grabs both of his wrists.

While the Dragon Warrior keeps Blake busy, Kuo and Kiba grabs the owl and drags her back to the three humans.

"This manacle is holding me down." the owl looks up towards Leo and Panther. "You two humans must set me free to help you!"

Panther turns to her childhood friend to see Leo letting out a threatening growl. He looks at Panther.

"We can't trust her."

"Leo, we're going to let her actions speak for this battle. Both teams are doing everything they can to defeat Blake right now, but Blake is kicking their asses. He literally picked up Master Elephant and threw him into the others like a small pebble." Panther reasons him.

Leo looks at Fenghuang and back at his childhood friend. "Fine."

Po was able to dodge and block Blake's attacks until he got jabbed in the throat and was swept onto his feet. Blake was preparing to do an axe kick and to the Dragon Warrior's surprise, Fenghuang grabs Blake by the shoulders with her talons and started spinning fast and threw him against a boulder.

"Nyah!" Blake grunted.

"Hm." Fenghuang lands besides The Dragon Warrior.

"Fenghuang, who set you free?!" Po exclaims as he notices the manacle was not attached to her talon.

The owl motions her head behind her.

Po looks over to where three humans stood with the police officers. He notices the manacle was near Risa's feet.

"I'll tell you later, Po." Panther said to The Dragon Warrior.

The Dragon Warrior nods his head once and turns back to see Shifu, Mei Ling and Tigress fighting against Blake.

Blake growls in annoyance as Mei Ling and Shifu was much quicker to dodge his attacks. Tigress lets out a strong punch across the face at Blake as Viper quickly wraps her lower body around his arm and causes him to hit himself multiple times.

Crane grabs him by the shoulders and flew high into the air before spiraling downward to the ground with a loud slam that created a dust cloud.

Several of the warriors could see a figure in the dust cloud. The avian steps out of the dust cloud, but there was another figure behind him with two swords drawn into both hands.

"CRANE!" Viper yelled at the top of her lungs.

Clang!

The avian quickly turns around to see Jie, Kiba, Kuo and Risa with their weapons locked against Blake's two swords.

"Thanks for the save. That was a close one."

"Don't thank us yet! Check on the others!" Risa shouted. She kicks Blake in the chest before all four of them got into a fighting stance.

Blake sneers at her and jumps into the air to them. His sliced was blocked by Risa's bo staff and he was pushed to Jie and Kuo.

"Take this!" Jie shouted, slicing his stomach.

"Gah!"

"And this!" Kuo yelled as he cuts the human's arm.

"Gr!" Blake grunts in pain.

Kuo and Jie kept attacking Blake. The two wolves made a little effort to break through the Nightstride's defenses. Kiba and Risa fell through the air behind him with the black portal. He was smack in the head by Risa's staff and cut in the back from Kiba's sword and paw.

"Ngh!"

"Heh!" Kiba smirks lightly at the human.

Risa rushes in to send a flurry of jabs all over Blake as Mantis took the opportunity to paralyze Blake's leg.

"What?!" Blake yelled before receiving a heavy punch by Snow Leopard and Tigress that got him stunned for several seconds.

Po thrusts his paws out to fire the Thundering Wind Hammer to the stunned Nightstride.

Blake was sent flying a few feet away from them and rolls to a stop on the ground. He picks himself up from the ground to roll out of the way from Risa's stab.

As soon as Blake was back on his feet, Risa stabs him in his stomach with her bo staff. She started spinning her Bo staff very fast and hard all over him and once he was dazed, Risa smacks him across the face hard and slams the Nightstride into a boulder.

"Surrender, Blake." Leo and Panther walks up besides Risa.

"You lost this battle." Panther said.

"Not yet." Blake looks up at the three of them, giving the three of them a glare. The crystal started to shine brightly, forcing them to shield their eyes. Blake took the opportunity to sheath his two swords and started to float above all three warriors. "Star Storm Swift!" He shouted as his whole body was covered in a golden aura and spun forward rapidly to summon multiple stars. Outstretching his hands after the final spin, the stars quickly flew down below to cause several explosions.

Everyone was sent flying in different directions of the star shower from above in the night sky.

"Gr!" Leo growls as he attempts to slice the yellow star in two while Panther was blocking the stars or throwing them in the opposite direction.

"Heh heh." Blake chuckled.

"Damnit!" Leo cursed as he dodges a yellow star. He didn't notice one landed right behind him.

"Watch out!" Panther shouted as she tackles him into the ground before the star exploded.

The storm of stars has stopped falling from the sky. Several clouds of dust began to settle and reveals several of them were knocked out and not moving. Tigress started moaning and opens her amber eyes. She picks herself off from the ground, coughing and looking at her surroundings. The feline saw Monkey laying on the ground.

"Monkey!" she rushes to the golden snob monkey. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah..." Monkey groans rubbing his head.

"Tigress! Leo and Panther are over here!" Kuo calls to her. "They're trapped behind these boulders!"

Tigress got on all fours and followed the wolf over to where she saw Kiba and Jie trying to push a boulder out of the way from the debris. She helps the three wolves to push the boulder out of the way. As Tigress looks inside, she saw Panther laying on top of her childhood friend holding him to as Leo had his arms around her too when they embrace each other from the exploding stars. "Leo! Panther!" the orange feline exclaims in a worried tone.

Her boyfriend groans as he opens his eyes.

"What the hell... happened?" Leo wondered and saw Panther laying on top of him. "Panther?!" He slowly sat up with his arms still wrapped around her waist.

Panther slowly opens her eyes. "I'm glad I saved your ass from that exploding star behind you. Heh." She chuckles softly.

"Thanks for the save, Panther." Leo replied. "Tigress!"

Panther turns her head around to see a relieved Tigress with Kiba, Jie and Kuo standing behind them outside of the cave. "Thank goodness that the four of you are safe."

"Same to you, Panther." Tigress smiles her two friends. "How long are you going to sit on my boyfriend's lap?"

"What?!" Panther gasps. She looks down at herself to see she was sitting on her childhood friend's lap. Her face turned red. "Sorry." Panther apologizes as she got off of Leo's lap and crawls out of the debris.

Leo grabs his sword and crawls out of the debris to join them. He looks up to see Blake crossing his arms over his chest.

"Damn it." Jie cursed. "This guy is tough."

"But there's no way in hell he'll beat us." Kuo replied.

Tigress and Kiba nodded their heads at the same time.

"Jie, Kuo, Kiba." Leo said, causing the three wolves to look at him. "I need you to check up on the others to see if they're alright. Tigress, you're with me and Panther."

"Alright." The orange feline said to her boyfriend.

"Be careful you three." Jie said to the two humans and the tiger master before the three wolves went to check up on the others.

Leo looks at the two women and nodded his head before walking a few feet with them. He watches Blake floats back down to the ground several feet away from all three warriors.

"I must admit that I'm surprise that you counter my first attack with a beam." Blake said. "How long have you been a Meta Human or Inhuman?"

"Hmph. You'd be more surprised when you lose this battle." Leo replied to him. "That I promise you."

"Oh really? How long will you be able to resist tearing me throughout this whole fight? A minute or two? Fifteen minutes? Maybe in the next thirty seconds?"

"Only long enough to stop you." Leo snarls at him as he took two steps forward from Tigress and Panther. "And it won't happen again!"

"I won't lose this battle." Blake snarls at him, getting into a fighting stance as Leo, Panther and Tigress got into their fighting stances.

"Hiss!" Leo hisses at The Nightstride angrily.

The three humans launch simultaneously with their punches connected together. Tigress came in with a flying side kick that Blake blocks with both arms. She threw in some fast punches and did a low sweep kick that causes Blake to jump over to dodge the feline's kick. He landed a hard elbow strike behind her with a back kick for good measure. That kick caused Tigress to slam into her boyfriend and hits the ground.

Panther came rushing towards Blake with a palm strike and landed an excellent hit on his abdomen. She didn't stop there and performs a strong uppercut that connected to his jaw and slams both of her fists on top of his head.

Shaking his head, Blake drew his sword and lunges into a thrust to her. Panther jumps over and grabs his second sword to block from behind Blake's next attack. Blake started swinging his sword to attack as Panther continues to block. She got an opportunity to kick him in the stomach and did a strong drop kick that sent him flying across several feet.

"Ha!" Panther runs to him.

She flung herself towards him and resumes attacking him after she dodges several beams along the way. Blake threw a sharp stone when Panther landed near him that caught the warrior surprised.

"Gr!" Blake growls as he attacks her swiftly.

Panther started blocking his attacks by matching her speed with his speed. She ducks down to avoid his swipe, but Blake anticipates her dodge to grab her by the throat and slams her into a nearby boulder. He cuts her arm and leg.

"Gah!" Panther shouted in pain.

As the two warriors continued to duel, Tigress was lying on top of Leo. She sat up, rubbing her head.

Leo lets out a light moan from his lips. He rested his right arm to support him to lift his back halfway and felt someone sitting on his lap. He opens his eyes and sees Tigress sitting on his lap. Her face was very close to his. Before Tigress can say a word, they can hear Panther yelling.

"Panther!" Tigress quickly got off her boyfriend as Leo stands up.

Leo spreads his fiery wings and flies off to go after them. He saw Blake broke Panther's defenses and kicks her in the stomach against a pillar as he cuts her shoulder.

"Ngh!" Panther grits her teeth. She lets go of the sword and Blake took picks up his sword.

Leo's fiery wings disappear as he flew towards the two warriors. He fires an orange beam from his forehead to Blake's feet.

"What the hell?!" Blake shouted.

Leo tackles him several feet away from Panther. He used the momentum of his dive to kick Blake hard in the stomach and a very strong palm strike lunge that sent the Nightstride even further away.

Tigress caught up to Panther. She sees the human was covered in several cuts from the Nightstride. "Panther, are you alright?"

"Just some several cuts, but I'm fine." Panther answered her. Leo runs over to the two women.

"Great job on that dive, Leo." Tigress complemented on Leo's last attack.

"I don't think this battle is over yet." Leo said.

Blake lands several feet behind them. He was covered in bruises and was bleeding from his right arm.

"Damn it!" Tigress cursed. "Do you two have a plan to defeat Blake?"

"Yes." Panther answered and lowers her voice. "It's the crystal on his forehead. We need to distract Blake in order to knock it off his forehead to win this battle."

"Sounds like a plan." Tigress said.

"I agree." Risa agreed, appearing with Mei Ling as they landed near the three warriors.

"Tigress, I want you, Risa and Mei Ling to distract Blake as along as all three of you can do it. Panther and I will get crystal once he's distracted or stunned in the process." Leo informs the orange feline.

"That's good." Tigress smirks as she unsheathes her paws and the three women got into their stances.

Blake was panting as he wondered how the hell Leo do that. "How the hell did Leo do that? He wasn't shot out of a cannon like that. He's going to regret that." Blake thought before he snarls at them.

Risa threw a smoke bomb at their feet and the warriors disappeared. Blake raised his two weapons. He slowly started walking and was hit from behind. Blake turns around and blocks Risa's bo staff. The two warriors were locked with their weapons.

"Tch!" Blake sneers at Risa.

"Heh!" The Twilight Titan smirks at him.

Both warriors got out of their locked stances and resumes attacking. Blake tried cutting Risa, but she was blocking his attacks. The Twilight Titan spun around to avoid a jab and smacks him on the side of his ribcage before hitting his jaw a couple times and slams his head into the ground.

"Gr!" Blake growls as he rolls sideway fast from getting jabbed by the bo staff. As he got up, Mei Ling came in with a flying side kick to his shin as Tigress did a spinning back and elbow strike to the back, allowing Risa to smack him hard at the chest. Blake sheathes his swords and catches Risa's bo staff and performs a harsh knee strike to her stomach, follow by an uppercut to the jaw that knocks her out.

When he turns around to block Tigress's palm strike, she uses her other claw to scratch him.

"Ha!" Mei Ling shouted as she lunges in with a punch across the face.

"Gah!" Blake shouted in pain. Tigress and Mei Ling did a double palm strike that sent him flying across a few feet away from them. "Why you insolent bitches!" he growled. Before he can attack, Panther came flying from above and did several punches to him in the abdomen as Leo dives to him with both of his palms covered in a red aura.

There was a big explosion that Tigress and Mei Ling had to brace the wind. They lowered their arms to see a dust cloud. The dust cloud settled and revealed a big crater. Leo and Panther stood over Blake.

"You lost this fight, Blake." Leo panted. He walks near the Nightstride's head and kneels down to remove the crystal. But when his fingers touch the crystal, the crystal started to glow. Then his body was covered in a red light.

"Leo!" Panther exclaims, grabbing his arm. Her body started to glow as well like Leo.

They both started yelling in pain, catching the attention of Tigress and Mei Ling. Both warriors ran down to help the two humans. Leo fires a beam in their path, forcing both of them to skid to a halt. He shook his head as Blake's body began to turn into smoke and goes inside the red crystal. Both warriors stops yelling and glowing. Tigress and Mei Ling both watch the two humans collapse on the ground. Neither Leo or Panther moved. The night sky disappeared as daylight returns in the sky.

"Leo! Panther!" Tigress shouted worried as she resumes running to the two humans. She kneels down to lift Leo up. The feline started to observe his body.

"Tigress! Mei Ling!" Risa yelled as she was running down the hill. "What the hell happen to Leo and Panther? And where's Blake?"

"Leo was going to remove the crystal until his body was covered in a red light and started yelling in pain. Panther grabbed his arm and started yelling in pain too. Then Blake's body went inside the crystal and after that, Leo and Panther collapse on the ground." Tigress answers The Twilight Titan.

Risa takes a knee next to Tigress.

"I don't think they're dead." Risa observes both bodies. "Come on, you two. We need to rejoin the others and get to a safe place." Risa picks up Panther in her arms as Tigress started to carry her boyfriend while Mei Ling picks up Leo's diamond sword.

All three warriors started to leave the crater. Tigress looks down at Panther and Leo. "Leo. Panther." Tigress thought with a worried look on her face. "Please, come back to us."

Inside the crystal was a flat terrain. It was a barren waste land. Leo and Panther were laying side by side on the ground. Leo lets out a low growl and slowly opens his eyes. He sat up quickly and notice they were in a barren waste land. "What the hell happened?" Leo wondered.

"Leo?"

He turns his head to see Panther waking up. "Are you alright, Panther?"

"Yeah." Panther nods her head. She stands up to take a look at their surroundings. "Where the hell are we?"

"All three of us are inside the crystal right now, Leo and Panther." A voice said.

Leo stands up and turns around. Floating in the air several feet away from them with his legs crossed was Blake.

"We're inside the crystal?" Leo asked him.

"Yes, we are." The Nightstride replied. "Well, your two souls are in the crystal right now while I'm here as well physically.

"We see now." Leo snarls at him.

Panther got into her dragon stance. The two men summoned their weapons and got into their respectful fighting stances.

"Let's go!" All three of them shouted.

Leo and Blake both fire their beam simultaneously that created an explosion. The real battle is about to begin.

The three warriors continue to walk through the debris. They met up with the avian who spotted them from the air. Crane was covered in bruises, but he wasn't seriously injured. He tells them that the others were waiting for them at the borders of a small field. His eyes fell on Leo and Panther.

"What happened to Leo and Panther? Where's Blake?"

"We'll tell you when we all join up with the others, Crane." Tigress answered.

The avian nodded his head and lead the way for Tigress, Mei Ling and Risa to follow them. It took them half an hour to reach the field. When they got there, Viper was the first one to notice her friend returning with Risa, Mei Ling and the two humans in their arms. She alerts the others and quickly slithers towards them.

"Are you alright? What happened?" Viper asked them with a look of concern as Master Shifu runs up to the green snake's side.

"Leo was going to remove the crystal from Blake's forehead, but he was yelling in pain when touched it and so did Panther when she touched Leo. Blake's body went inside the crystal and Leo and Panther passed out after that. They haven't moved after Leo's attack." Tigress explains to the snake and her adoptive father.

"Let's set them down in the grass." Shifu said to them. He leads Tigress and Risa to an open spot near the small lake. The two women set Leo and Panther on the grass gently. He began to inspect their bodies. The two human bodies were covered in cuts and bruises with a little bit of blood.

"Hm." Shifu strokes his beard.

"Is there anything we can do to help at this point?" Tigress asks her master.

Before Shifu can respond to his adoptive daughter's question, Risa spoke.

"All we can do is wait now, Tigress. There's nothing else we can do at this point." Risa tells the feline master.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Fine." Tigress said.

"Mantis will check up on you three while we wait for Leo and Panther to wake up. Once they do, I know Leo will explain after this mission is complete." Shifu said.

Viper follows the three women where Manits finished checking up on the Dragon Warrior.

"How are you feeling, Po?" Risa sits down on the ground.

"I'm all right. Just covered in a couple bruises is all." Po answered. "But damn, that was an awesome battle!"

"I see you haven't changed the last time I met you, Po." Mei Ling said.

"Thanks. So anyway, why is Blake trying to kill Leo and Panther for?"

"Something must've happened several years ago." Viper replied as she watches Mantis fix up Risa. "Blake really hates Leo and Panther just to see them dead."

"But why?" Mantis wonders as he wrapped up her arm.

"Hm." Tigress tilts her head.

"Because of a mission." Risa spoke.

Tigress, Viper and Mantis looks at the Twilight Titan.

"A mission?" Tigress asked her.

"You're going to tell them?" Jie walks up behind her with her brother Kiba.

"Yes." The Twilight Titan replied as the wolves sat down. "I wasn't there when Leo and Panther swore to The Emperor to keep this whole mission a secret from everyone. Azel and I had no idea about this when we arrived in Gongmen City. That's when we were attacked by Blake."

"When did Leo and Panther tell you about the secret mission? Wouldn't that be treason if they tell anyone about this secret mission?" Viper asked.

"On the boat from Gongmen City before we spoke about the sleeping arrangements. We were surprised and shocked to hear about their mission five years ago. This secret mission would've been completed if the clone, Saber, didn't intervene." Risa folds her arms.

Tigress, Mantis and Viper didn't say anything as they looked at each other.

"I have a question about the sleeping arrangements. Did all the three guys slept together while you women slept together?" Mantis hops off Risa's shoulder and lands on Tigress's shoulder.

"There were enough room for all six of us to sleep in the cabin. My sister and I got the end of the wall, Kuo and Risa in the middle. That leaves Leo and Panther together sleeping near entrance in case The Nightstrider strikes back at us again. Those two were the last ones to sleep."

"Leo mentioned that this secret mission is personal to him and Panther. If they talk about the mission, they'll both be exiled." Viper said. "And Panther went to the Imperial City to ask the Emperor to give them more time."

"But that's not all Panther ask for The Emperor. She convinces him to not have Leo and herself to be exiled. They already had a plan all set after discussing it with Crimson Dusks, Crimson Dawn and Task Force 493 after the battle for what they discovered that night five years ago."

"Risa, what kind of mission caused Blake to leave the team five years ago? Why does the Nightstride wants to kill Leo and Panther? And how did all three of them met in the first place?" Tigress asks the Twilight Titan.

"You might as well get comfortable." The Twilight Titan replied. "It's going to be a long story to tell."

Inside the crystal was a barren wasteland. There were no signs of life anywhere. The only signs of life in this barren wasteland were Leo, Panther and Blake. Leo quickly flew out of the way to dodge the Nightstride's beam while Panther dives out of the way. This barren wasteland was all flat. Leo dives in from the sky and knocks one of Blake's swords out of his hand. Panther tries to grab the sword, but Blake lands between her and the sword and tries cutting her.

Panther quickly backs away to dodge the Nightstride's sword attacks. She leans backward to avoid a cut that was aimed at for her neck. The Nightstride took advantage of sweeping off her feet with a low sweep kick. But he didn't anticipate Panther to do a back flip by extending her hands to the ground to nullify any damage she would receive.

Leo came in through the air from behind The Nightstride and swing his sword. Their swords clash against one another the moment Blake spun from his low sweep kick. Neither one said a word to the other. Both eyes were locked in on each other.

Leo's palm was covered in a red aura and he quickly place his palm on Blake's chest before firing the energy. The Nightstride was sent flying a few feet away from him. Leo quickly appeared behind The Nightstride and delivered a backward spin kick to the air. He wasn't done yet and slams both of his fist to the upper back.

"Gah!" Blake grunts as he bounces off the ground.

"Ha!" Leo spreads his fiery wings and fires a red beam towards The Nightstride and it hits him.

"Ha!" Panther shouted as she strikes to cut him, but she missed as Blake quickly rolls out of the way and got back on his feet.

Blake deflected Panther's kick and grabs her throat before jumping into the air to slams her into Leo. Their heads collided with one another and all three of them fell back to the ground. Blake snarls in anger as his two former friend's lands on their feet. Both warriors were stunned, clenching their heads. He didn't waste time by going after Panther first.

Blake saw Leo notice him going after Panther and fires a beam. The beam missed its target and Blake fires a red beam to close to Leo. It created a cloud of smoke to cover him. Panther barely blocks his sword in time, but she couldn't block his punch to the stomach.

"Ha!" Blake shouted in anger. The sword was sent flying out of Panther's hands a few feet away from her. He landed a cut on her arm and punches her across the face. The young man sheaths his weapon quickly to catch Leo's kick and he started to slam him in the ground a couple times.

Leo tried to kick Blake, but he felt himself being lifted high into the air and Blake started spinning him around extremely and let go of his leg. He watches Leo crash into the ground with a smug look on his face.

"Hm." Blake smirks at his former friend down below him.

"Ha..." Leo moans a little bit. He got on all fours and shakes his head before standing up. The young man could see the diamond sword was several feet away from him.

"Tch." Blake sneers as he lowers himself several feet to float. "You really are one tough bastard to kill. But you've changed the last time I saw you two after the mission. I thought you would freeze in fear with a tiger in your presence."

"Heh." Leo snickers as he turns around to look up. "Thanks to the training I received after what Zhao did that night. I kept training harder every day what comes my way. I'm still determined to know what really happen to my real family. I won't rest to find out the truth."

"If you're still determined, then you just have to let me kill you right here and right now." Blake's points his sword at Leo.

"I'm not that stupid to agree to your idea, Nightstride."

"Either way, I'm still going to kill you and Panther for that night." Blake replied.

"Panther and I will not die just because of your carelessness. We warned you that you would die as well because you used up that energy to kill Jasmine's aunt in the final battle." Leo sneers at him. "Michael and Isabella-"

"Keep my brother and my sister names out of your god damn mouth, you fucking bastard! Do you hear me?!" Blake shouted angrily at him and he dives towards Leo.

Leo positioned himself as The Nightstride came down from above. He fired several quick beams. Blake dodges a couple of them and deflects them back with his two swords. The beams missed Leo as he dodges them. Clouds of smoke came after the beams exploded on the ground.

He kept his guard up. The moment he turns around, Blake came with a lunge to the abdomen. Leo jumps backwards to lean back and used both of his legs to spread Blake's arms out like a wedge. Leo didn't waste time to lean back up and caught both of Blake's wrists. He could see the anger in Blake's eyes.

Blake couldn't move his wrists freely to cut his former friend. He tried to kick Leo, but his kick was blocked by Leo's own kick and Leo did a strong headbutt against Blake. That only stunned him a moment and it was his turn to headbutt Leo. Leo lets out a grunt and he was only stun for a second.

"Gr!" Leo growls at him.

Blake snarls back at him before taking off into the air. Leo had to spread his fiery wings the moment he was picked up from the ground. The two warriors flew around and started to spin fast high into the air. Panther watched the two warriors flew high above her. She quickly rushes to Leo's sword to pick it up. The young woman had to deflect The Nightstride's swords away and had to begin dodging a meteor of beams falling down from the sky. Looking up, she saw the two warriors spinning around fast down to the ground. They both fired their beams at the same time. Both warriors got each other in the shoulder.

This let Leo to release Blake's wrists and lands near beside Panther and the Nighstride lands several feet away from them. She saw that Leo was bleeding from his shoulder after he receive that last attack from Blake. Panther looks at Blake. Blake outstretches both of his hands as his two swords came from behind Leo and Panther. Leo dodges them, but his childhood friend couldn't dodge it in time as she got cut on her arm and waste.

"Gyah!" she yelled out in pain.

"Are you all right, Panther?"

"It's just a scratch, Leo." Panther assures her childhood friend.

Leo nodded his head before looking back at Blake.

"This whole thing could've been avoided, you two." Blake said, pointing his sword at both of them. "If you only let me saved that little girl five years ago, none of this would've happen."

"Don't be an idiot, Blake." Panther said. "You're not thinking straight. The dark magic is clouding your mind. You need to break free from the magic's control over the crystal!"

"Shut the fuck up, you bitch!" Blake roared. He quickly disappeared and reappeared behind Leo and slashes Leo behind the back.

"Aaahh!" Leo shouted in pain before Blake kicks him hard behind his skull.

"Die!" Blake attempts to slash Panther.

But Leo was quick enough to shove his childhood friend out of the way as he slashes down his abdomen. Blake tossed Leo into the air like a rag doll and dives at Panther before slamming her into the ground threw her into Leo. He appeared above their heads. Then his whole body was covered in a red aura. He channels that energy into his two swords and sparks began to fly as he clashes his two swords together.

"Soul Screech Slash!" Blake shouted. He dives at the two warriors and slashes them all the way down to the ground.

All three warriors slams into the ground hard, creating a big screeching sound with a big explosion at the same time. The dust cloud began to settle to reveal three warriors laying on the ground. Blake was a few feet away from Leo and Panther. Their weapons landed besides them.

"Ah!" Panther hisses in pain. She slowly sat up, placing a hand on her stomach. There was blood coming from her stomach.

"Gah...! Gr!" Leo growls furiously in pain. He was laying down with his face in the ground. Panther helps Leo to roll on his back. There was a nasty gash on his abdomen that was bleeding covered in soot. His arm had a receive a cut as well. Not to mention the blood as well. The young man tried to get up.

Blake snarls in pain and annoyance. Some of his body was covered in soot and he was bleeding too just like Leo and Panther. Blood ran over his eye from his head. "Gah..." Blake snarls at him.

Leo picks up his diamond sword as he glares at him while getting back up. Panther picked herself up.

"Damn you both, sons of bitches!" Blake curses the two warriors. He quickly runs to them and picks up his two swords. "Go to hell!"

Panther dives forward for Leo's sword and blocks one of the Nightstride's swords.

"Gr!" Leo quickly caught the other sword with both hands.

"The two of you will die here together!" Blake shouted angrily.

"Then there's something you should know." Leo grunted, keeping the sword from moving.

"I don't want to hear anything you two have to say!"

"So you don't want to meet the little girl who survived five years ago?!" Leo and Panther both shouted together at the same time.

Blake's eyes widen in shock and surprised. How? How did that little girl survived? All three of them were there and witness the little girl fall underneath them. There was no way.

"Impossible!" Blake sneers at the both of them.

"It's true!" Leo shouted at him.

"Why the hell should I believe you two?!"

"Because some of us were there when you left that night!" Panther yells at him. "We took pictures that night so we can show you what really happened. But you blocked all of our phone numbers, you idiot!"

Blake looks back and forth at Leo and Panther. Then Blake soften his grip on the hilts before removing the blade calmly away from Panther.

"Hm." Leo release The Nightstride's sword and stand up.

Blake stabs both of his two swords into the ground and folded his arms. "If the little girl did survived, then I want to see the pictures for myself right now."

"Then let us out of here, Blake, so we can show you the pictures." Leo said.

"Fine. But how do I know you're not lying?"

"You're just going to have to trust us." Panther replied, offering her hand out.

Blake said nothing as he stares at her hand and looks at Leo with his arms folded. He looks back at Panther and grabs her hand as Leo places his hand on her shoulder.

Risa finished explaining about the whole reason why Blake left them that night five years ago. Kiba looks over his shoulder to see the rest of everyone's surprised and shocked reactions on their faces. Now they understand why Blake left them five years ago and why Leo and Panther didn't talk about this. He turns his head back just in time to see a small explosion came from Leo and Panther's bodies as a dust cloud covers their bodies. This caught everyone's attention and stands up.

The Dragon Warrior can see three silhouettes inside the dust cloud. The dust cloud settles down and reveals Leo and Panther facing Blake. No one dared say a word. There was only silence that took place. The police officers and the kung fu warriors and masters hoped that their plan work. But many of them were wondering how Leo and Panther will convince him and break free of the dark magic from the crystal.

If this plan doesn't work, it may come down to it. The three warriors opens their eyes to see their new surroundings. Leo notices the others were several feet away from the three of them. He turns his attention on Blake as The Nightstride's serious expression remains on him.

"Well?" Blake demanded.

"I have all the pictures right here, Blake." Panther replied. She takes out her white iPhone from her pocket.

"What is that thing?" Snow Leopard looks curious and interested.

"It's a device that humans used." Crane said to her. "They call it an iPhone."

Panther unlocks her screen to head over to her photos. She went to her album and pulls up the first picture before handing the iPhone to her former friend.

"Hm." Blake nodded his head. His eyes looks down at the first picture and his serious expression was gone. His jaw dropped of what he saw.

In the picture was Leo in his Phoenix uniform. The teenager was carrying the same girl, who everyone thought she died, in his arms. But that was not all. She was completely naked. Blake went through every single picture. There were a couple of videos and he decided to take a look at those videos later. Blake looks at Leo.

"Why the hell is she fucking naked?" Blake asked him. "How the fucking hell did she survived that?"

"We'll explain everything what happened after we found her like that." Panther answered.

Five Years Ago...

Panther and Rick approach the four warriors. Leo stood before his friends with the naked little girl in his arms. Everyone couldn't believe it. They were surprised. Panther takes out her phone and started to take some pictures of Leo and the little girl.

"Taking pictures?" Rick asks her.

"Yes. Because we'll need these in the future." Panther answered him.

"I just contacted Cody and Serena. They'll be here with a blanket and a towel to cover the little girl." Rex said.

"Good." Leo nodded his head.

"I'm glad I contacted you, Chifire." Misty said to Sheila.

"Thanks for the call, Aqua Girl." Sheila thanked her.

"When did that sphere of light came?" Crow asked Misty.

"A couple minutes after Misty came back up to the surface. It looked like a shooting star, I thought. But that "shooting star" was acting strange up there in the sky. That's when I called Chifire."

"After she called me, I called you and the others, Phoenix."

"Hm." Leo looks at the naked little girl. There was no sign of injury on the little girl. Her brown hair was perfect as well. Questions were already forming in his mind. He started to walk out of the calm water so the girl wouldn't get cold from staying in the water for far too long.

Iris and Tori turns their heads to see Cody running up to as Xiu flew close beside him and lands in front of the others.

Cody became surprised when she saw Leo holding the naked girl in his arms. "Why the hell is she naked?"

"We're not sure." Sheia replied.

"I'll dry her off and take her to the medical personal." Cody said and started to dry off the little girl in Leo's arms.

While Leo watched Cody dry the naked girl off with a towel, Iris looks at Rick.

"How are the citizens holding up right now, Hula?"

"All the citizens are still being checked with a Justice Elite League medical personal for any injuries right now from the prison cells. Some of them only have minor injuries."

"What about life threatening injuries?"

"None so far at the moment." Rick replied. "But if we did, then we would've sent them in downtown at the hospitals."

"Good."

"Does Jody knows that the little girl survived?" Crow asked.

"I left her a voicemail. I'm thinking she's helping out with the others right now."

"Good. Let's get her to a bed right now." Serena looks at the naked girl.

Leo nodded his head and allowed Blake to wrap up the little girl. Blake and Xiu led them back to the tent Leo and the girls were in. There was a bed located at the end of the tent. Leo sets her down on the bed. Cody turns to Rick.

"Rex and I will find Jody, Rick. I've already sent for a medical personnel."

"Alright."

Cody and Rex left the tent to find Commander Jody. Leo placed two fingers on her wrist. He felt a pulse. "She's alive."

"That's good, Phoenix." Panther says to him softly, placing a hand on his shoulder.

A few minutes has passed as they waited for one of the medical personal to show up. Rick and Sheila notice that Panther hasn't removed her hand from Leo's shoulder. They all know that Leo doesn't like anyone touching his shoulders. It's how Leo got his fear of felines. Rick and Sheila wants to talk the two of them and luckily, a medical personal dressed in a blue shirt, black skirt, a white coat and black shoes entered the tent.

Leo lifts his head and watch the doctor looks at the girl.

"How long has she been like this?" The doctor asked. When she lifts the sheets up, the doctor didn't react to see the little girl naked. "And why is she naked?"

"The girl has been like this for several minutes right now when we found her naked from a shining sphere." Misty answered.

"Alright then. I'll need all of you to exit the tent so I can examine the little girl."

"Fine. Let us know when you're finish examining her." Rick said as they all left the tent.

Rick, Sheila and the others walked away from the tent a few good feet away. When they were alone, Rick and Sheila turns around to face them.

"So how come you didn't remove your hand from Leo's shoulders, Panther?" Sheila asked her.

Before Panther can answer, Leo cuts her off. "I've started accepting people to touch my shoulders for good."

"You have?" Rick tilts his head a little.

"Yes. Given my fear of felines, I never let anyone touch my shoulders after the incident with Zhao. There will be a time that I'll have to accept people to touch my shoulder when we're on missions and not on missions." Leo said. "I'll have to get used it, even if it reminds me about the incident. I won't let that effect me."

"We know." Rick smiles at him. "You've been focused on any mission that comes our way."

"And we all care about you, Leo." Sheila places her hand on his shoulder. "No matter what kind of pain you go through in the future, know that we all care about you."

Leo simply nodded his head.

"But what about getting over your fear of felines?" Jody asked from behind Rick and Sheila, startling them both.

"No, Commander. I won't get over my fears of felines." Leo looks at her straight in the eye. "People would usually get over their own fears by now. But I haven't."

"Hm. You and I will talk about that later. I hear that you found the little girl unconscious and she's naked."

"Yes."

"I've already alerted the little girl's parents and they're on their way back right now."

"Good to know."

Jody notices the doctor walking up to them. "How is she?"

"The little girl is fine. She's awake right now. There doesn't seem to be any type of injury that she has."

"Anything unusual that we should know about?"

"Nothing."

"Thank you, Doctor."

Leo turns around to head over to the tent.

"Where are you going?"

"To ask the girl a couple of questions." Leo replies before pulling up his hood.

"Fine. After this, you and I are going to have a talk." Jody calls him before she left.

Panther ran after her childhood friend with Evelyn and all three of them enters the tent. The little girl's black eyes became surprised to the three warriors entering the tent. Her white sheet covers her exposed body. Panther gives out a comforting smile, causing the girl to relax. The girl smiles back at the leader of Crimson Dawn.

"H-hi."

"Hello." Panther greeted her as she approaches the bed and kneels halfway.

"I know you two. You're Panther, the leader of Crimson Dawn." the girl said. She moves her finger to point at Phoenix. "And you're Phoenix."

"That's right. Even Robin is here too."

Leo and Evelyn didn't say a word. But the two of them did nodded their heads to the little girl.

"So how are you feeling?"

"I'm... fine after... you know." The little girl lowers her head.

"We know and we thought you died after the floor crack underneath us to be opened."

The little girl lifts her head and nodded.

"Is it alright if we ask you a couple questions?"

"Yeah."

"Thank you. What happened when you fell?"

"I kept falling with the debris. Then I saw the fire below. I was really scared this was going to be the end of me. When I was close to the flames, something grabbed me from behind. I couldn't see who or what grabbed me before I was engulfed by the light. After that I woke up here naked and the doctor told me I was wet."

"Hm." Leo folded his arms. "I was the one who caught you in my arms after the fortress was destroyed. One of our teammates had to dry you off so you wouldn't catch a cold."

"Thank you."

"Is there anything else?"

"Yes. There was a voice whispering to me before that ball of light. I didn't know who the voice belong to."

"A voice?"

"Yeah. It sounded friendly. I heard a flapping sound like a bird. So you know what happens after that."

"Yeah."

"I'm glad that I was saved." The girl smiles at the three of them.

"So are we."

"But wait a second. Where's Nightstride? The one who trying to protect me from the debris? Is he here?"

"Nightstride left after we got back." Evelyn answered. The girl looks at Robin. "He went on a special mission by himself."

"Oh."

"Is there something that you wanted to tell him?"

"I wanted to thank him for trying to save me."

"If Phoenix, Robin or myself see Nightstride, we'll tell him." Panther tells her as Leo and Evelyn approaches the side of the bed.

"Thank you." The girl smiles, giving Panther a hug that surprised the teenager. Panther hugs her back.

Panther watches the little eight-year-old hugs Evelyn then Leo. Leo didn't hugs her back.

"This is a little unnecessary." Leo looks down at her. The girl looks up at him. "But it's good to see you're safe like everyone else." He pats her head.

"I forgot to ask you your name." Panther said as the little girl releases Leo. "What is your name?"

"My name is Gwen Miller."

"It's nice to meet you, Gwen."

"Nice to meet you too." Gwen shakes her hand.

"We should get going so you can have some rest, Gwen." Evelyn said.

"Is it alright if you stay with me a little longer until my parents come pick me up? Please?" Gwen looks at them with puppy eyes.

"Sure." Panther nodded.

"Yay!"

Panther grabs a nearby chair and sits down in it as Leo and Evelyn stood next to one another.

The Present...

"So that's what happened after you left us." Leo finished.

Blake stood there in shocked and surprised. The girl that the Nightstride thought she died is alive and well. And she wanted to thank him for trying to save her from death. "Gwen is alive."

"Yes." Leo nodded.

"I can't believe it. And what about that light who saved Gwen?"

"We're still not sure." Panther said.

"Oh." Blake fell down on his knees. "What have I done?" He hung his head.

Leo watches Panther kneels down in front of Blake.

"It's alright, Blake." Panther tells him.

"Leo. Panther. I apologize for what I did. If I only listened to back then, none of this would've happened."

"You don't have to worry about it." Leo smirks at him.

"We're just glad that we told you what really happened after Gwen was saved." Panther said as the two of them rose back onto their feet.

"I don't think we'll worry about the dark magic in the crystal now, right?" Leo asks him.

"No. You beaten me in that fight. I don't feel the control of the dark magic anymore."

"What about Azel's soul?"

"Her soul is still inside her body. There was a barrier that prevent me from stealing your friend's soul. The barrier destroyed the dark magic's control."

"Thank goodness." Risa said as they approached them.

Leo and Panther turns around to their friends.

"I should start explaining everything, Master Shifu." Leo said to the red panda.

"There's no need to explain everything about you and Blake before you explain what happened after the Nightstride left."

"What?"

"The three police officers and I explained everything to them when you were both unconscious." Risa said to them.

"Thank you." Leo thanks her and the two warriors shook hands. "And to you three as well, Jie, Kiba and, Kuo. The three of you should be proud."

"It's a good thing we came with you when Blake attacked us." Jie said. "Which is why we're not going to arrest Blake, Leo."

"Thank you."

"The reason for that is because he was under the control from the dark magic of the red crystal on his forehead."

"But that dark magic is gone now?"

"I believe so." Blake answered.

"Good. Since things are good between the three of us, Panther and I must return to the Imperial City to inform the Emperor that this mission is complete." Leo said.

"We'll do that tomorrow, Leo." Panther looks at her childhood friend. "There's one more thing we need to take care of first."

Leo looks at Mei Ling and Fenghuang. The two warriors were covered in bruises. Mei Ling's fur was a mess and the owl's feathers were ruffled a little. These two have provided Leo and Panther with information about Blake and where the Nightstride was last seen since Panther told him that Blake is here in China. Panther suggested of having additional help to provide information in case Blake has gotten stronger. The Emperor suggested to visit Mei Ling in prison.

Seeking help from a former thief is not what Leo had in mind at first. Leo and Panther visited Mei Ling at prison for information about any sightings on Blake. She tells them she heard a rumor of another human that was spotted. Fenghuang overheard their conversation, and the owl also confirms hearing of another rumor about a human that was seen in a nearby village. The two childhood friends left the prison to visit the village and discovers one of the villagers had seen another human called Blake.

This confirms Panther's suspicions, and the information was correct. Seeing how these two could help, Panther believes that Mei Ling and Fenghuang can help. They both returned to the Imperial Palace and explain about Blake to Emperor Han after saving him when The Nightstride try to attempt to steal the Emperor's soul. Han made them to keep this mission a secret and if they talk about it to someone, they will be exiled. Panther requested Han to have Mei Ling and Fenghuang to help find Blake, much to Leo's surprise. In exchange of providing information and helping them to find Blake, Mei Ling and Fenghunag will win their freedoms. The Emperor agreed to Panther's idea and gave them the scroll and his blessing to have Mei Ling and Fenghuang to be under their protection until this secret mission is complete. Han gave Leo and Panther to stop Blake in a couple of weeks.

Once they left the city, Leo didn't like Panther's idea that they should trust Fenghuang or making deals with villains. They both return to the prison to give Mei Ling and Fenghuang the deal. Panther informs the warden first before heading down to the prison cells to tell the prisoners about the deal until Leo had a harsh argument to his childhood friend about trusting Fenghuang's promise to help them out. Panther had to convince him that they need their help to track down Blake. Leo knew that she was right and apologized.

Both female prisoners accepted the deal. They will have to remain in prison to hear more rumors and information of where Blake will be next and will act as a double agent in case Mei Ling or Fenghuang goes with someone else. After a couple weeks have gone by, Leo and Panther found The Nightstride in a canyon. But to due to the interference of the clone Saber, The Nightstride was allowed to escape.

Knowing that they were close to the Valley Of Peace, Panther suggested they should split up for now and wait to hear anymore rumors or information about The Nightstride. Panther returns to the Imperial Palace and convinces Han not to exiled Leo and herself by explaining they already had a plan to stop Blake. Emperor Han agreed and allowed her and Leo to talk about the mission.

Leo looks back at Panther who nodded to him. He lets out a sigh and looks back at Mei Ling and Fenghuang. Their friends watch the two humans walks by them to approach Mei Ling and Fenghuang.

"Before you say anything, there's something I want to say first." Fenghuang said.

"Go ahead." Panther motioned her head.

"I had no interest of taking the sword for myself, so I was planning to destroy it. And I wasn't going to betray you by escaping when you set me free. I only wanted to help you to defeat The Nightstride because he was a strong opponent."

"Is that all you have to say, Fenghuang?"

"Yes."

"Mei Ling. Fenghuang." Leo said to them with his arms folded across his chest. "The two of you have done well for this mission by providing us information about The Nightstride. This mission is a success. You two have won your freedom."

"Thank you, Leo." Mei Ling bows her head.

"Just keep this in mind, Fenghuang." Leo looks at the owl. "I won't be seeking help or making deals to a villain like you next time. But there will be a time to team up for something like this in the future."

"I know because clearly you made your point." Fenghuang smirks before stretching out her wings and takes off on the air. "It's so good to be free again! It was great to have the old gang back together again, but next time, all bets are off!" She flies off into the distance.

Shifu turns to face his three comrades. "Well, it's been an honor fighting alongside by side with you three again, my friends." Shifu bows to them.

"It felt like old times." Rooster chuckled.

"Master Shifu."

The red panda turns around to face his student.

"I'm sorry doubted you. You wisest and greatest kung fu master of all time." Po apologizes and bows to him.

"Thank you, Po, and congratulations to you. You are now the youngest member of the original Furious Five."

"And do you know what that means?"

"Do I get cake? Or cool awesome lighting powers?" Po guessed.

Elephant spins the Dragon Warrior halfway before lifting the panda up and nugies Po.

"Huan Nugies!" Rooster announced.

Everyone laughed at Po, except for Master Shifu and Leo. Once Po was set down, Leo walks up to the three masters. "I apologize for getting a little rough for you three." Leo apologizes.

"We had it coming." Snow Leopard said before looking at Shifu. "And we also apologize for our behavior at your anniversary today, Shifu."

Shifu bows to the snow leopard.

"Now that this mission is a success, we should head back to the Valley Of Peace to have a private party at the Jade Palace." Po suggested.

"I think that's fine, Po." Mei Ling smiled.

"I agree." Shifu agreed to his student's suggestion.

Everyone entered through the palace arena and made it to the top of the staircase. They were trying to figure out who would cook the food and have the tables set up in the training courtyard since they're all a big group. Po, Snow Leopard and Mei Ling will be in charge of cooking the food while Monkey and Crane helps Elephant and Rooster to get the tables set up. Risa smiles to see Azel was awake, and she was waiting for them near the doors. Blake, Risa, Azel and the three wolves were given a tour of the palace by Viper, Mantis and Shifu.

Leo and Panther enters Leo's room. With his bag tossed to the top right corner of the room, Leo sits down on the bed next to his childhood friend.

"I'm glad that this mission is a success for us." Panther smiled.

"And since this mission is a success, we don't have to worry about Blake." Leo said before letting out a yawn.

"Sounds like you're tired."

"Only a little."

"Uh huh." Panther playfully rolled her eyes. She watches him to get up and walks to the door. "Where are you going, Leo?"

Leo stops and looks over his shoulder. "To train right now at the Training Hall."

"Oh come on, Leo." Panther groans. She really didn't want him to train right now because they finished their fight with Blake. Panther grabs his wrist and pulls him away from the door to get back on the bed. "You should get some rest before they call for dinner. And I know you stayed up a little late last night. I can hear you growling softly before you went to sleep for four hours."

Leo was about to argue and lets out another yawn that lasted for a few seconds.

"Well?" She smirks at him playfully.

Leo's face turned a little red. "Fine. I'll get some rest."

"Good."

"And what about you, Panther?"

"Maybe I'll hang around in your room for a while until they call for dinner."

"Fine." Leo shrugs his shoulders. Panther watches him remove his shirt and tosses it in a small laundry basket behind them.

"Heh." She lets out a small chuckle.

"What?" Leo gives her a little confused look on his face.

"I see you've been keeping your body nice and healthy for a long time since we were six. Not to mention strong and muscular."

"Thanks."

Then the door slides open to reveal Blake. "Hey you two."

"Hello Blake." Panther said.

"I've got to say that this place is great." Blake enters the room and closes the door behind him. "I see you're still carrying Zhao's sword after all this time."

"Good thing I still protect it and killed him with it."

"What?" Blake looks at him a little shocked. "You killed Zhao?"

"Yes. Somehow, he escaped his prison and ended up here."

"Whoa."

"Yeah. If you don't mind, I need to shut my eyes for a while before they call that dinner is ready." Leo said as he lays down in his bed.

"Is it alright if I hang out in here for a while?"

"Fine." Leo closes his eyes.

"But I have one question." Blake smiles slyly.

"And what's that?" Panther wondered.

"You're still sleeping with Crow?"

Leo's eyes snapped open and grabs a nearby scroll to throw it at Blake in the face.

"Heh heh." Blake chuckled as he leans to the right to dodge it.

"You know I only slept with Crow when she only had the nightmares, damnit."

"I know, I know." Blake chuckled.

Leo rolls his eyes in annoyance and lays back down on his bed as The Nightstride strolls over to open the window to get some air in the room and sits down on the floor.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot to ask you, Blake. Is Tigress helping out to set up the tables?"

"I think so. I haven't seen her when I joined the tour with the others." Blake shrugs his shoulders.

Without them knowing, the orange feline kung fu master was standing at the end of the hall. She wanted to spend some time with her boyfriend alone for a while, but maybe she could do that after dinner. It's been a while since Leo and herself had time alone together.

Dinner was called an hour later. The food was great and delicious. The two members of Twilight Titans had to explain to Elephant, Snow Leopard and Rooster about the iPhone when Crane mentioned it. The four of them understood how something small and rectangular could help humans out in many situations. Leo had to admit Panther was listening on their conversations while the speaker was on and turned it halfway down before he arrived in the village.

He also mentioned to the three warriors that he doesn't use his phone on missions or brings it out into the public. Panther shows them it can play music. When the music started playing, the three members of the original Furious Five became surprised. Risa assures them that no one is trapped inside the phone. The three warriors were beginning to get used to the music that was being played by the iPhone.

Then Azel takes out a black round device. This caught everyone's attention.

"What is that?" Mei Ling points at the device.

"This, everyone, is called a Bluetooth Speaker." Azel explains.

"What does that device do?" Tigress wondered.

"It could play music and do calls from our phones."

"How?" Monkey scratches the top of his head.

"I first go to "Settings"." Azel demonstrates. "Then I tap on "Bluetooth". Then I tap "Connect", wait for a few seconds..."

Then a couple of beeping sounds can be heard from the device, causing them all to be surprised.

"It'll do that every time."

"So how does the music play on that device? Wouldn't the music play on both devices at the same time?" Mei Ling asked.

"It will only play on this device right here. Here." Azel taps on the song Gotta Be Somebody by Nickleback.

The song started to play on the Bluetooth device. Blake could see that they were surprised.

"That's amazing." Viper slithers up to the device.

"Humans can use devices like this for a party or at work. It's really helpful for something like this." Azel replied.

"Amazing." Mantis said as he was impressed.

"Now let's dance!" Risa cheered.

Azel place the Bluetooth on the table as the music was playing. Leo didn't get up and joined them. He simply watched them with Panther and Blake. This was a rare sight to see kung fu masters dancing. Leo could see that Viper was having a great time dancing to the music with Crane. But he also heard Po and Monkey was trying to sing the song they were all listening to.

This went on for a couple of hours. Everyone became tired and started putting away the food, tables, washing and drying the dishes. The First Five said goodbye to everyone and left to head back to their homes. They won't be returning to the Imperial Palace because Leo and Panther will speak to Emperor Han tomorrow.

Then the sleeping arrangements were made. Mei Ling will sleep in Shifu's room. Blake, Kiba and Kuo will sleep next to Tigress's room. Jie will sleep with the two members of Twilight Titans and Panther will sleep with Leo. Shifu gave them all a day off from training for tomorrow.

Leo was in his room getting ready to take his bath. He grabs his towel boxers and pajama shorts to change into after he had his bath. But once he steps out of the room, Blake was standing outside his room.

"Is it alright if I join you at the bathhouse?" Blake asks him.

"Fine." Leo said.

The two young men left the barracks to head to the bathhouse. They made it inside the bathhouse which was next to the barracks. Blake grabs his own towel and follows Leo into one of the bigger rooms.

"Wow." Blake said amazed. "I've been told by Po there's a lot of hot springs in this bathhouse."

"That's correct."

"So, I take it that you bathe with the male warriors on some nights?"

"No, I don't." The raven-haired man answered him while setting his towel and clean clothes on a nearby stool. "I take my bath last after every one of them have their baths." Leo removes his clothes, and the only thing left was his boxers. "But I did take a bath with Po once after the ban on kung fu was lifted. I thought he took his bath before me."

"Huh." Blake started removing his own clothes.

The two men removed their boxers and enters the hot spring. Blake lets out a satisfying moan as he and Leo lower their bodies in the water. Leo leans back and spread his arms out on the edge. The temperature was just right. However, the doors to the hot spring opened and Leo didn't bother to turn his head and closed his eyes.

Po entered the room with Monkey, Crane, Mantis, Kiba and Kuo.

"Oh, Leo. Blake. I didn't know the two of you were in here." Po said as he, Monkey and the two wolves removes their clothes.

"The two of us just got in a couple minutes ago, Po." Blake answered.

"Alright if we join you two?" Kiba asks him.

"Go right ahead."

"Awesome." Po smiled as he and the rest of the men enters the hot spring.

"It's about time we get to bathe with you, Leo." Monkey said before going under the water.

"You guys never bathe with Leo before?" Kiba tilts his head.

"Nope, even as a group for the men when Leo arrived. Well, he did take a bath by himself, and we had to wait him to wash his injuries that he received from his battle against Zhao." Po said.

"What?" Blake gasps. "Wasn't he supposed to be in prison?"

"Yes. But somehow he escaped and ended up here." Crane answered. "We still don't know how."

"When we heard Tai Lung and Zhao teamed up, The Furious Five left to stop them both while Shifu trained me and Leo. We were surprised that Monkey defeated Leo in a sparring match after Leo showed up and he defeated me in training for those three days."

"I wasn't going to let you win that easily." Leo said. "You were new to kung fu at the time. And I was holding back for that one time only before we heard Tai Ling escaped prison."

"So what happened?" Kiba wondered.

"We were no match against Tai Ling and Zhao. Shifu had given Po the scroll before we started evacuating the Valley Of Peace. He stayed behind to deal with Tai Lung and Zhao. Leo tells us he'll be back." Crane replied.

"What they didn't know was I already planned to stay behind to fight against Zhao. Our fight ended up in the village and he found that the crystal was never destroyed before I killed Zhao and ended up unconscious."

"You mean you killed Zhao with...?" Blake bean to realize what Leo meant.

Leo nodded his head.

"Holy shit. Then what about your fear of felines?" Blake pointed out. He knew Leo was afraid of felines.

"I got over my fear."

"But how did you get over your fear?"

"I'll tell you later."

"So when you killed Zhao, you did the-"

"No, I haven't." Leo quickly shakes his head. "Which is good."

Po notices something in the human's eyes. He could see his eyes full of seriousness and... a little afraid with regret? That's something Leo never displayed of being afraid. The Dragon Warrior didn't imagine that. Shifu, Po and The Furious Five know that Leo doesn't make a joke and he was always serious. He saw Leo choking Hundun on Dragon Warrior Day and the human was angry about the Wonders and Wisdom Exchange. Leo had never shown fear but was surprised to see that James was alive and he was the Dragon Soldier.

"So, we got a couple questions that we want to ask you two about, Leo and Blake." Monkey asks the two human men.

"Sure." Blake answered.

"Does the human world have hot springs too?"

"Yes. We have hot springs all over the world. Some can be used for mix bathing or split them in half for men and women. There are some places that have giant pool parties out in broad daylight. Some machines can be used to move the water around to make it even more exciting for everyone."

"How?"

"See how we're in the water right now? There will be some pipes in the wall to pump the water a lot more faster for the people to enjoy."

"Interesting. I like to see that someday."

"It takes a lot of work to build something like that, Monkey."

Meanwhile, Tigress, Viper and Panther enters the bathhouse. The three women enters a nearby room for them to take their bath. There was a good amount of steam in the room. Panther removes her blue shirt and khaki shorts. She began to untie her white bra until she notices Viper starring at the human's bra.

"It's still surprising that you wear a bra, Panther." Viper said.

"It would be interesting to see Tigress to try one out." Panther said as she removes her white bra and panty.

"I don't know." Tigress said, as she started to unwrap her chest from the tan wraps. She looks at the bra. "It's just a little... too revealing in my case. I don't think I can imagine myself wearing one of those."

"Well, there are different bras that you can use without the string on the side."

"There is?" Viper tilted.

"Yes, there is. There are straps on to wear them easily without strings." Panther walks over the edge of the pool. "Even sport bras."

"Hm." Tigress murmur as the orange feline master finally removes her wraps and panties.

The door opens to see Jie, Risa and Azel entering the room. Risa lets out a whistle when she saw the pool. "Nice pool. You could fit several people in here."

"True." Jie agreed as she and the girls started to undress themselves.

"What were you talking before we came in here?" Risa looks at Panther.

"I was just talking about how interesting it would if Tigress tries out a bra." Panther answered.

"Panther!" Tigress turns around with her face blushing.

"That would be interesting." Azel chuckled.

"I don't think it would be bad, Tigress." Risa says to the orange feline. "I think you'll look cute in one."

"No thanks, Risa. I just don't feel comfortable wearing one."

"How could you say that without even having the chance to try one?" Risa asked her. "Just look at what I'm wearing." Tigress looks at blue bra panty that the Twilight Titan was wearing. Not only did the bra covers Risa's breasts, it exposes her sides and more of her back. "This is what we wear back in the human world. Human girls and women wear bikinis for the beaches and pool parties."

"They do?" Viper slithers into the water.

"Yes." Azel nodded.

"I can vouch for that." Panther smiled.

"I don't know..." Tigress rubs the back of her head a bit.

"I think you should try it, Tigress." Viper said.

"You think so?"

"Yes. You don't see many human bras around here and the thing that women see here is dudou. Plus, you're the only person I know that wears those wrappings around your chest. I don't think you'll get another chance like this again."

Tigress thought about it for a moment and nodded her head. Risa went over to pick up Panther's bra and hands it to the feline. The orange feline puts the bra on and puts back her color-tan panty on. "What do you think?"

All the women looks at Tigress. Some of them smiled as Jie lets out a friendly whistle. The orange feline has a strong body build who would resembles a human.

"Wow, you look nice, Tigress." Viper complemented her.

"Thanks." Tigress looking down at her body.

"Now all she needs is her own bikini." Azel smiled.

"Then she could show it off to Leo." Risa chuckled.

"You think Leo would like it?" Tigress wondered.

"I bet he'll love it. Jie, want to one try out too?"

"Sure." Jie nodded as Azel tosses her white bra to the white wolf. The women watches Jie puts on the bra. "I have to say it's not bad."

"So that's what human women wear on your world?" Tigress removes the bra.

"Yeah. I remember Leo telling me he showed you some pictures of me, himself and some of our other friends back on our world when I was helping you rebuild the palace."

"That was a while ago. I remember that." Viper said and watches her friends enter the pool. "Tigress, do you remember the four of us went down to the market to get Leo some clothes?"

"I remember that." Tigress smiled.

"Who was with you?" Jie asked as she was scrubbing her fur.

"It was Tigress, Po, Monkey and myself. This was happening after Leo defeated Zhao."

"How come Leo didn't went with you?"

"He had to recover from his injuries he received in that fight against Zhao. The villagers thanked him and Shifu allowed some kids to visit Leo." Viper said.

"That's nice of you to do that." Panther smiles at her two friends.

"And it was also great that you and Leo already came up with a plan to stop Blake." Tigress added.

"Thanks. I'm glad that we could stop Blake before anything worse happens." Panther said.

"What kind of master did Blake have?" Azel wondered.

"I'm not sure. Blake met his master but never saw the face. His master's body was covered in a black cloak and mask. This person did saved Blake a few times before."

"Whoa. How did you two came up with the plan to save Blake?"

"We came up with the plan after Blake left. All three teams had held a meeting to make a plan. Crow had already used her use powers to weaken the dark magic in the crystal on the night of the mission. Seeing how Leo and I were the last two people to talk to Blake, we all decided to leave Blake to Leo and me to convince the Nightstride to come back and tell him what really happened. But if he didn't, then Leo and I will have no choice but to kill Blake." Panther explained.

"I'm glad you didn't kill him." Azel said to her. "Because I might just kick his ass in a sparring match."

"We'll see." Panther chuckled as she slide into the water and began washing her body.

There was now a lot of soap bubbles in the water.

"Hm." Risa leans back with her arms spread out behind her. "It's nice to kick back and relax in the hot spring."

"Oh yeah." Jie said before submerging underneath the warm water.

"I'm glad that we have this room to ourselves right now." Azel said as she was finish washing her hair. "If we do mix bathing here in these hot springs, that would be embarrassing."

"Well, there are some places that allow mix bathing." Jie said. "But that reminds me about something I wanted to ask you about, Tigress."

"What is it, Jie?"

"I know that you and Leo are in a relationship since he's a human. Both of you are kung fu warriors."

"Yes, and...?"

"Have you two bathe together in one of the hot springs?"

Panther could see Tigress's face was blushing and watch the feline sink into the water where the warm water reaches up to her mouth. "I'll answer that."

"Oh, sure."

"While it's true that Leo and Tigress are in a relationship, all humans like the people here in this world wanted to have privacy, even if they're in a relationship. I don't think they want to overstep their boundaries."

"I see now. I'm sorry that I had to brought that question up."

"Don't worry about it." Tigress rose halfway up.

"The reason why I ask is that you're lucky to be in a relationship with a human who comes from a different world." The wolf said.

"I remember you staring at Leo without his shirt on. Panther stated.

"It's not my fault. He looks strong and amazing."

"Well, Leo did work hard on his body for a long time. He went through a lot of training and eating healthy food. Leo made sure to keep his body strong and muscular. I know most of the girls from Japan couldn't help but stare at Leo when he had his shirt off. I think the same thing happened when Misty, Jill and Crow had to stare at him. Even Tori and a few others too. But we all care about Leo no matter what."

"That's sweet." Risa smiled.

"Are the men going to take their bath yet?" Viper wondered.

"I heard them down at the end of the hall before we entered in here, so we don't have to worry about that." Azel said.

"That's good."

"So, what kind of training did Leo went through, Panther?" Jie looks at Panther.

Panther smiled at first, but she frowned what Leo went through that test of Ju Fen when he was fourteen years old. Since both Leo and Ju Fen agree that Leo must defeat Xiu to become Ju Fen's apprentice before Leo is defeated, there was one thing that Leo pointed out during the battle test; a time limit. A time limit that Leo knew they didn't agree to before both parties closed the deal. It went on for hours. Panther and Brock watched the test from the sidelines with several others.

Panther remembers how she saw her childhood friend stood over his opponent when he finally beat Xiu before he collapsed to the ground. Hearing those attacks hitting Leo all over wasn't good. She stepped in to stop the match before it gets worse, but Leo tells her to stay back at the sidelines as he's determined to finish the fight, despite the injuries during the battle test. While she continues to think, someone tapped her shoulder.

"Panther?"

Panther looks to her left to see Tigress staring at her. She turns her head forward to see the rest of the women staring at her.

"Are you okay?" Jie asked her.

"Yeah. I was just remembering about something Leo went through before the training." Panther said, looking down at her reflection in the water.

"What was it?"

Panther let outs a small sigh and looks at the ceiling. "A test." She replied. "Something I really hope Leo doesn't go through again."

Tigress and Viper look at each other a little confused. That sounded concerning to the two warriors. Why would Panther say that? What kind of test did Leo went through that would make Panther say something like that?

In the other room, the men continues to enjoy their time in the hot spring. Leo had to move to the other side of the hot spring since it was getting a little too crowded. He can hear the other men having some conversations while enjoying in the hot spring. Luckily, there was a lot of soap over here. Leo doesn't have anything against hot springs. A couple of his friends had read some manga and he overheard how the main character would be walked in on a misunderstanding or an embarrassing moment.

"Well, we should get ready to dry ourselves now." Monkey said, walking up to Leo. "You guys are going to the Imperial Palace tomorrow, right?"

"Yes. Panther and I didn't give the Emperor a specific time of when we're coming back."

"Alright then. The rest of us are going to turn in for tonight. You want to come with us back to the rooms?"

"No. I'll be staying for a few more minutes."

"Ok. See you tomorrow."

Leo nodded his head and closed his eyes as he heard the men walking out of the pool to dry themselves. The two wolves shook their fur, getting some of the other men wet. Leo didn't bother opening his eyes to see them all naked. He can hear them walking out of the room and the door closing. The young man opens his eyes to see he's the only one left in the hot spring. He wasn't expecting Po, Monkey, Crane, Mantis and the two officers to join him and Blake in the hot spring. After spending some alone time in the hot spring by himself, Leo gets out of the hot spring and started to dry himself.

Leo made it back to his room and started to meditate in silence.

"Hm."

He opens his eyes to see the White-Tailed Beast looking down at him from behind the doors.

"Not bad in your fight against The Nightstride, human." Kaira said.

"Thanks to you."

"Tch. Only because I don't have a choice but to help you since I'm trapped in here." Kaira lowers her head to him.

"Hmph. True. I don't like the idea of having you inside me as well, but..." He turns his head away from her.

The White-Tailed Beast tilts her head a little.

"...You're not bad and I've already accepted that we have to work together under certain circumstances." Leo looks back at her. "Foes like Hermonie and Draco will be tough to defeat in battle."

"But you defeated Hermonie by yourself while she has powerful magic and that sword of hers."

"How did you know that?"

"I saw and heard everything in our world before your battle with that giant water buffalo."

"I see. And you won't tell me how long, correct?"

"Yes."

Leo rolls his eyes. "And when were you going to go tell me this?"

"Right after you get your girlfriend pregnant." Kaira snickered.

Leo's face started to turn red. "Luckily, nothing happened between me and Tigress."

"Tch."

"But there is something I'm concerned about."

"And what would that be?"

"If Blake can look into a person's soul."

"Who knows. You have to ask him yourself."

"Hm." Leo folded his arms. "Maybe. There's something else I want to discuss. You still don't remember how you ended up inside in the first place?"

"No!" Kaira snapped at him. "I still don't know how I ended up inside you in the first place!"

Leo said nothing and growls at her.

The White-Tailed Beast watched him disappear from the room. "Once I get out of here, I'll be sure to kill you and Saber, human."

The young man opens his eyes to see he was back in his room. Leo heard a couple of footsteps behind him and turns around to see Panther and Blake. "What are you two doing in here?"

"We just wanted to hangout with you for a few minutes before we head to bed." Panther said.

"Plus, we haven't hung out since I left." Blake added.

"Fine." Leo nodded his head.

Panther sits down next to her childhood friend on the bed. "So Blake, how do you like the Jade Palace?"

"It's nice." He replied as he sits down in front of them. "So how did you get over your fear of felines, Leo?"

"I got over my fears after I killed Zhao." Leo simply answered. "After that, Tigress and I ended up in a relationship five days later."

Blake stares at him in disbelief. He was surprised to hear that Leo is in a relationship with Tigress, the leader of the Furious Five. His surprised look changed to happy. "I never thought you would date Tigress, Leo."

"Mhm."

"When you killed Zhao, you killed him with his own weapons or did you repeat what you did five years ago?"

"I stabbed Zhao through the heart before I killed with a firework. He did saw the crystal once before he died. But we still have no idea how he escaped or how did he ended up here."

"It's a good thing you killed him before Zhao can get the crystal." Panther looks at Leo.

"I'm still surprised that you still have Zhao's sword after I left."

"With Zhao gone, the sword and crystal will remain in my possession until we get back to our world."

"Is Master Shifu okay with you carrying this sword that once belonged to Zhao?"

"They don't know this sword is Zhao's weapon. I left that part out after I explained about my fear and Zhao to Po and the Furious Five." Leo crosses his arms over his chest.

"What?!" Blake gasped. "Why didn't you tell them that Zhao used to own that sword?"

"They don't need to know about it, Blake."

"But they do know about Sying and his helicopters." Panther pointed out.

"The Exiled Prince was here?" Blake looks at Panther. "How the fuck did that bastard ended up here from our world?"

"We still don't know." Panther shakes her head.

"Once we heard the news about Rhino's death and the alliance Shen made with Sying, all the warriors of the Jade Palace left for Gongmen City. We went through a lot and Po defeated Shen by finding his Inner Peace. And Sying..." Leo's face became dark. He slowly stands up.

Panther and Blake took a quick nervous glance to one another. They watched the young man quickly walks to the nearby wall and punches a hole in the wall.

"And...?" Blake slowly stands as Panther was already standing up before him. "... what happened to... Sying?"

"I fucking killed that fucking son of a bitch." Leo growls coldly. The tone in his voice had become dark and threatening. "I killed Sying the same way I did to Ellie Collins five years ago. I revealed to the others that my parents fought Sying that night. That's all I remember."

"Then does that mean they know you as The Bloodthirsty Monster?" Blake swallows hard.

"No. My entire body wasn't on fire as it was five years ago. It was only my arms and legs while a ring of fire covered everything." Leo retracts his fist from the hole in the wall. He felt his arm shake. "I killed him by tearing a hole in his neck." The tone in his voice and face returns to normal.

Blake didn't even dare to ask Leo if he was... devouring the flesh. The Nightstride saw it on the news while Panther and several others witness Leo's action in person that night.

"But Leo talked a little bit about his parents." Panther said, causing Blake to look at her. She had her eyes set on Leo.

"Whoa." Blake raised his eyebrows a bit in surprised. "You actually talked a little bit about your parents?"

"Yeah. Only from what I remember." Leo turns to them. "But I don't want the warriors of the Jade Palace to know about the incident five years that gave me the title of "Bloodthirsty Monster". Or how my entire body was on fire the first time. It's better not to tell them this way, including my nightmares."

Panther said nothing. She and several others knew Leo wouldn't talk about these nightmares to anyone, especially Tigress.

"And what about those helicopters back in the city?" Blake asked.

"They're being destroyed as the tower is being repaired. Nothing is being left behind when those machines are being molten into the lava. But we're saving Sying's personal helicopter along with the destroyed helicopter that Leo and I jumped out of." Panther replied.

This caught Leo's attention. "What do you mean?"

"I've been saving those two for a long time to see if there's any evidence or clues that could help us understand how the exiled prince got here with those helicopters. It doesn't make sense how those helicopters are intact or how no one even spotted one flying above in the skies of China or hearing a strange noise that they never heard of in their life." Panther pointed out.

"You do have a point." Leo nodded. How long was the prince being here on this world? "How did those two ended up here?"

"I'm not sure. Even with those two machines destroyed, I don't think there's any more electricity going through those wires."

"Hm. I'm glad that bastard is dead." Leo growled.

"I know, Leo. I know." Panther nodded.

Blake notice some of the scrolls on the shelf. "What's inside these scrolls?" The Nightstride asked him. He gets up to pull out several scrolls.

Leo didn't get a chance to stop him.

Blake unrolls the scrolls and started reading it. He stops midway and looks at Leo. "Secrets and Connections About Kaira"? Who the hell is Kaira, Leo?"

Panther looks at her childhood friend.

"Kaira is the White-Tailed Beast that's been living inside me." Leo answered. "I don't know how long she's been inside me for. This happened when I got back from first mission from the Emperor himself when Temutai attacked The Jade Palace. She's been planning to kill me when she has the opportunity to escape. But over the past several months, Kaira has been giving her powers to me to fight against powerful foes, like you for example."

"I see." Blake said as he looks back at the scroll. "That explains the fiery wings, the red aura on your hands and the beam from your forehead and... "air becomes suddenly hot"?"

"Something the Dragon Warrior noticed." Leo folded his arms and leans back against the wall. "This could explain why I didn't lose any hair, lose my skin, no scars or breathing problems five years ago."

"Damn."

"But Leo nearly died from Ke-Pa's attack and came back all healed up."

"Whoa." Blake gasped, looking at Leo.

"I know."

"Bruce still has you listed as "Unknown" right now."

"And I still don't know how did Kaira ended up inside me."

"This is going to be really interesting for you, Leo, to explain everything when we get back to the human world." Blake said.

"I know. Especially when I keep seeing Enya at night."

"Leo..." Panther groans as she rubs her temple. "Enya is dead. We all saw it happened."

"Panther, I know what I saw."

"Enya couldn't survive that fall. She's dead with those two." Panther replied.

"I know those two are dead, but Enya managed to survive somehow."

"Just drop it, Leo."

Leo lets out a disappointing sigh.

"How about we just talk about something else." Blake suggested. "Like how everyone misses us back on our world."

"True. I wonder how they're doing right now."

"Who knows." Blake shrugs his shoulders.

"It would be nice to see them all again." Panther smiled.

"Especially your boyfriend Carlos, right?" Blake asked. Panther's smile disappears and it was replaced by a frown. The Nightstride was a little confused as he saw Leo and Panther looking away. "Did something happen to Iris and Carlos?"

Panther looks at Blake. "I'll tell you what happened tomorrow."

"Um, sure." Blake scratches behind his head.

"So where are the others right now?" Panther asked him.

"I think they went to the kitchen to get a couple drinks. And I think I saw Azel and Risa enjoying the breeze at Peach Tree with Tigress."

"Actually, Azel and I were standing out here the whole time." Risa enters the room with Azel.

"How long were you two standing there?" Panther tilts her head.

"Just right where Blake entered your room and we heard your entire conversation." Risa answered as she takes a seat next to Panther.

"Azel, Risa, I don't want you to say a word about this to Shifu, Po, Tigress, the rest of the Furious Five and the others back on the human world." Leo said.

"Are you sure you don't want us to tell them?" Risa asks him. "It would be better if you tell Shifu and the six warriors here. And also the others back on the human world.

"Yes, Risa, I'm sure I don't want you to tell them. I have to do this on my own. Besides, we didn't know Logan was a member of your team while he is still on Crimson Dusks."

"Hm. Point taken. Fine."

"Thank you." Leo thanked and sits back down at his bed.

"But why can't we tell them about Enya or Kaira, Leo?" Azel wondered. "It only makes sense if we tell them about this."

"No." Leo shakes his head. "You don't know anything about Enya or Kaira. Enya is a top mercenary in the world and won't be taken down easily. With Kaira, I'm still searching for answers in that fucking library. I remember two angry roars and seeing the tip of a white tail from one of my memories. But if there is answers here in the library or back in the human world, then I need to do this alone without your help, even if it's too much for me to handle on my own."

Azel takes a nervous glance at Risa.

"Leo, are you su-"

"Yes." Leo quickly answered without hesitation. He could feel Panther's gaze on him.

"Fine." The Twilight Titan lets out a sigh.

Then Leo heard the trunk opening behind him. He looks over his shoulder to see Azel standing in front of the opened chest.

"Sorry Leo, I was wondering what's in here." Azel apologizes.

Panther stands up and walks over to the chest. Inside the chest was Leo's Black Spirit Uniform. She bent down to pick up the mask. "So, were you planning to patrol tonight in this uniform, Leo, or should I call you The Black Spirit?" Panther turns around to Leo with a scowl on her face.

"Look Panther, I only became The Black Spirit during a ban. And while Enya is out there somewhere, I had to be The Blac-"

"Enya is dead!" Panther snaps at him. "You, me and the others saw it!"

"I know what I saw." Leo glares at her before turning to the other three warriors. "The three of you can't say a word about me being The Black Spirit to Shifu and the Furious Five."

"What about The Dragon Warrior?" Azel asked him.

"Po knows I'm The Black Spirit, but he doesn't know anything about Enya."

Blake thought about it for a moment before he spoke. "I want to know what happened after I left before agreeing to this."

"Fine Blake. But we'll talk about this in private tomorrow." Leo nodded. "It's almost getting late."

"Goodnight, everyone." Azel said as she walks by Leo and Panther to leave the room with Blake and Risa.

Leo only nodded his head once to the three warriors before turning to Panther. Panther thrusts the mask into his hand before leaving the room. He wasn't planning to go and talk Panther. The raven-haired man knew what he saw. Leo fought Enya in separate different locations on a different night. Why can't Panther believe him?

Leo lets out a soft growl before placing the mask back in the chest and closed it. He opens the window and walks over to his bed. The young man knows he will kill Enya for good when they meet next time during the night. He still wonders on how the fucking hell did Enya survived. Leo made sure to lay on his side close to the edge of the bed so his childhood friend can have enough room.

All the spare beds were used for the others. Leo didn't mind sleeping with Panther. He wasn't planning to cross his boundaries and needs to do this in a professional manner. It wasn't a bother to him since he and Crow slept in the same bed because of the nightmares that was being caused by Crow's father several times because that was the only occasion. Leo never thought that his girlfriend and his childhood friend would sleep in the same bed while being in a relationship with Tigress.

They only did that because those two care about him. With that final thought, Leo closes his eyes and drifts off into the same hellish nightmare.

Panther came into the room several minutes later after Leo went to sleep. She glance at Leo sleeping on his side while being close to the edge. He left a lot of space for her to sleep in. It was kind of Leo to do that for her, but she didn't need all that space. Leo could roll off the bed. She made sure not to wake him up when she sits down on the bed.

Panther looks at him. She wish that Leo would stop bringing up Enya's name. That bitch was dead... with those two. The young woman wish those two were still alive, but they're gone. She wishes they knew about what was going on before the team found out too late. Maybe things would be different if those two were still alive.

Panther takes her phone out to go to her photos. She found the picture of Leo, Iris, Carlos and herself standing next each other while smiling in the picture. The young woman places her other hand and begins to rub Leo's arm gently. This picture was taken several days after Iris and Carlos joined the team.

Letting out a yawn, Panther sets her phone down and lays in bed with her childhood friend. Tomorrow was going to be very interesting and busy.

The Empath was reading a book on the couch. Crow took a sip of her tea. Evelyn was on her phone scrolling through some stuff. Rose was playing poker with Jill, Misty and Serena while Rick, Zack, John and Logan were close on finishing their match in Mario Party 3.

"Good game, girls." Rose said as the four girls finished up their poker game.

"You won't be lucky next time." Misty said to Rose.

"We'll see." Rose chuckled.

"I take it Rose won?" Sheila looks over her shoulder.

"Yes." Jill nodded.

"How about the boys?" Serena asked.

"We're almost done." Logan says to them over his shoulder.

"So who's winning?" Rose asked.

"I'm winning, Logan is in second and Zack and John are both tied for third." Rick answered.

"Perhaps we should record this if something happens." Rose suggested.

Everyone agreed and took their phones out to record this last turn. Sheila looks at the screen. The screen was showing the results once the mini game was over. Then the screen change to Rick's character, Mario, on Deep Bloober Sea. Her boyfriend presses a button on his controller. His controller rolled a ten and landed on a blue space and a hidden block appeared.

"Don't you dare!" John glares at the hidden block. When Rick's character jumped, it was hidden star. "Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Logan and Zack started laughing while Rick chuckled at John's outburst.

"John, this game is out to get you!" Logan laughed.

"I still have that Warp Block I can use on this last turn." Zack chuckled.

"I knew you were saving that for the last turn, dammit!"

"Alright, I'm going to roll now." Logan presses the button on his controller. His character rolled a seven. "Nice!"

"And your Yoshi just got the Power Star!" Rick pointed out.

"Alright, so where is it going to end up?" Serena wondered.

They watched a silver star with eyes and a black mustache lands five spaces from Rick's character.

"Not bad." Crow said.

"Let's see where I'll end up." Zack presses a button and then another button. His character, Luigi, warps to the same spot where Rick's character was.

"Oh my god." Jill continues watching.

Zack pressed his button again and he rolls a seven. "Awesome!" He smiled as he pressed the button again to get the star.

"Now where will it land?" Rick watches the screen.

Everyone watches The Millenium Star appears right next to the shark.

"Ok, I think this is doable." John said as he checks the map.

"Don't you still have the Mushroom to roll the dice twice?" Rick looks at John.

"Yeah. I just need to roll two sevens to tie up for third before we get the bonus stars." John answered.

"Just imagine you roll a thirteen. You'll literally be one space away from getting a star." Logan joked at John. "That will be funny if you end up with zero stars because that will be embarrassing."

"Don't even jinx it, Logan. I had a good couple of stars until I was screwed by Rick and Zack on the ninth turn." John glares at him a little.

"Well, you have the first dice to worry about before rolling again. Just keep that in mind." Rick said to John.

John taps the B button once to use his Mushroom. The red die started to roll above his character's head. He tap the button and watch his character, Peach, hit the die and got a seven. "Okay! This is good! I can't mess this up!"

"Do you want us to wish you luck on this last roll?"

"I just need all of you to not say a word. I got to channel my energy to get another seven on this turn." John said to them. "Because this is my normal form."

"Oh really?" Rick smirks at him.

"Yes, and with that seven I just rolled, this is now my second form. This is what it likes to go even further beyond!" John yelled as he pressed the button on his controller. Instead of a seven, it was six. That brings it up to thirteen. "Fuck! Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Sheila, Rose, Crow and Evelyn just chuckled as the rest of their friends bursted out laughing at John's last roll.

"Ha ha ha!" Zack laugh.

"Impressive roll you did!" Logan fell on his back laughing as he held his stomach.

"Why does this game hate me?!"

"Hang on, don't you have one last mini game before this is over?" Misty wipes a tear.

"Yeah, we do." Logan nods his head as he got up.

Once John's character got six coins, the four player mini games showed up on the screen. The Mini Game, Cheep Cheep Chase, was selected.

"I still have a chance to win this with the bonus stars at the end here." John growled as the screen changed to a dungeon.

They watched the four men pressing the button repeatedly fast to get away from the big fish. Logan's character was close to the end until his character and Rick's character got to the end while the other two were eaten. All four characters were fired out of a cannon and lands on four separate stars with Tumbler announcing the results.

"Let's see who's the winner." Rose continues filming on her iPhone.

After seeing which character has the most power stars and coins, it was time for the bonus stars. Everyone watched in anticipation as the three bonus stars were awarded to three players. John didn't bother watching the screen since he covered his ears and closed his eyes.

"Hey, it's time, John." Zack taps his shoulder.

John opens his eyes to turn see Zack with a sly smile on his face. He turns his attention back to the screen and watches all four characters going upwards in the night sky. All three characters fell from the platforms and Rick's character became the winner. Then the final results showed up on the screen.

"What the actual fucking hell?!" John shouted at the screen. Everyone started laughing when the results showed up. His character was dead last with zero power stars. "I didn't get at least one bonus star?!"

"No, you didn't!" Zack laughs as he fell on his side.

Logan was holding his stomach laughing. Rick had his eyes covered.

"Oh my god, that was the best moment!" Rose exclaims.

"Yeah, it was!" Misty nodded.

"So John, is your refrigerator still running?" Logan snickered.

"Shut the fuck up!" John shouted as he was laughing angrily.

"Then you better go catch it!"

Zack was laughing so hard that he was basically crying when Logan made that joke.

"Yeah, laugh it up! I might get you in another game! So, you better watch your back!" John pokes Logan in the chest.

"Oh, I should show this to Jack and Tori when I get back." Serena chuckled, ending the recording on her iPhone.

"You tried your best to win in this game." Sheila smiled.

"That's Mario Party for you. An excellent game that ruins friendships." Zack chuckles at John as he sat back up.

"But great game, you three." Rick said to his three players.

"Yeah." Logan nodded.

Sheila watches the four men do a fist bump.

"Well, I should get going. It's getting late." Zack looks at the time.

"Same here." Serena added.

"Alright." Sheila smiled.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow afternoon for the party, right?" Jill asked Logan.

"Oh yeah. This is going to be one hell of a party to have all three teams here at the tower tomorrow." Logan smiled. "Well, almost all three teams will be there. Azel and Risa hasn't return yet from their mission. The others should make it by one or two in the afternoon."

"That's good. See you tomorrow, you guys." Rick said.

Crow used her power to shut the console off and puts it away before leaving the room with Evelyn and Rose. The three of them said goodnight to the last people in the common room. The Empath made it to her room and said good night to her two teammates. Getting her black pajamas, she enters the bathroom and started removing her clothes until she was wearing nothing but her black bra and black panties. The red shard rest between her breasts.

She took the bra off along with her panties. Then Crow proceeded to turn on her shower and steps inside the bathtub. It was nice and warm as the water ran down her exposed naked body from her head down to her feet. Crow kneels down to pick up a bottle of shampoo and squeeze out the soft blue liquid into the palm of her hand. Once there was enough, Crow puts the bottle back and started shampooing her head. Then she started rubbing her body with a blue soap bar. While Crow was taking her shower, she started to think about Leo and Crow.

She was wondering how her two friends were doing in Gongmen City. Leo and Panther have each other's backs since they're the only two humans in that universe. The young man never seen the Kung Fu Panda movies before because it has a female tiger and a snow leopard. Leo has been training in kung fu since he was six. But when it comes to the DCAMU for example, they were in their costumes.

Normal people wouldn't tell the difference between Superman or Clark Kent. There was only a couple of normal people who knew the several heroes personally and kept those secrets from normal people. In this universe, there is a Batman that goes by the name of Bruce Stark, Bruce Wayne. And there is even a space station high above the earth for the Justice Elite League. The only difference is that Jump City has the Teen Titans and Wuji City has two teams; Crimson Dusks and Crimson Dawn. It would be interesting if the DC universe coexist in this universe. The young woman remembers Leo had a notebook that he was comparing this universe and DC's Universe when he watched Son Of Batman at Stark Manor when he was a kid.

Crow lowers her head and watches the water runs down her naked body with the crystal in between her breasts. After turning the water off, The Empath proceeds to dry herself off with the towel. She became completely dry as she stood there naked in the middle of the bathroom. Crow puts on her new bra and panties, followed by her pajamas.

It was going to be a warm night tonight. She settles down on her bed and pulls out her phone. In the picture was Leo, Panther and herself. The three of them were smiling in the picture while leaning back against a tree trunk right outside the tower. This photo was taken when they were seventeen years old. It would be good when her two friends return to the human world. Not to mention Lucrecia, Jody and a few of their friends found two files with some information. The Empath will receive the folder after Jody and Kevin comes back from Japan in no less than a week by now.

Crow, Sheila and Rick haven't told the team anything about the information and the pictures that was found in Japan. Sheila wanted to tell the team the good news, but Crow stops her. The Empath felt like that she and Evelyn has to be the ones to Leo about this because they grew close to one another these past five years. The leader of Crimson Dusks agreed to let Crow and Evelyn be the ones to tell the rest of the team about it after this week is done. But once the two of them reveal it, there shouldn't be a problem.

Leo never talks about his real family, after what he did five years ago before the incident. He avoids that subject no matter what. While growing up at the Tao Palace, Leo never called Lee "Father". He never calls Commander Jody "Mother" as well. Panther and several others could see Lee and Jody as parent figures to Leo. Leo fully believes that his friends is wrong about that and will never see Lee or Jody as a parent figure to him. They're not even related to him by blood. He always calls them by their first name. And he never celebrates his own birthday. Maybe Leo will celebrate his birthday sometime in the future. Panther thinks it may have something to about Leo's real biological parents, but she can't confirm that yet. They all hope that day will come. He doesn't need to be alone.

Crow lets out a small yawn. She was getting tired. The Empath turns to look at the empty space on her bed. It's where Leo usually be when she has a nightmare that was being caused by her father. He only slept with her as a professional and neither one of them overstep their boundaries.

The young teenager wanted to sleep on the floor when Crow started having nightmares, but she wanted him to sleep on the bed with her. Then Crow remembered that one night. One night in particular that took place three years ago that both of them wouldn't forget and the next day. The young woman threw her covers off before lying down in the bed. She hopes that her two friends, Leo and Panther, returns to this world and misses them. The Empath closes her eyes and drifts herself to sleep.

Evelyn got out of the bathroom after taking a nice cool bath. She walks over to her laptop to go over a few things that cause Leo and Panther to end up in the Kung Fu Panda universe. Pulling out several photos and a single video that was pulled from the damaged cameras, she watched Leo was sent flying by some unknown force. Several arrows was fired and one of them graze Leo's arm as dark clouds began to form. Leo was trapped underneath the flat screen tv with the black drawer until a male figure appears in front of him. The fight was short as Leo killed his attacker before he collapsed on the ground. Then a portal appeared, and the unconscious man was sucked into the portal.

That was all there is. They haven't received any new information on Leo and Panther's whereabouts for months until James informs them where they are. She'll be asking those two are a lot of questions when Leo and Panther return one day. She was fully aware that Leo has a fear of felines, especially tigers. Evelyn knew that Tigress is a tiger and the leader of the Furious Five by just looking it up online. Things must be getting pretty interesting if they learn about Leo's fear.

There were a few jokes made by Logan that Evelyn and Leo should hook up before the other girls take him. Leo has never been in a loving relationship before, except for Panther who went out with Carlos. Evelyn and Leo were the only two members of Crimson Dusks that didn't fully trust Iris and Carlos when the duo appeared at the tower five years ago. During a sparring match, Logan showed Leo a picture of Panther and Carlos going to a restaurant when Logan was sent to get some more water at the store. Panther and Carlos returns to the tower and tells the team that the two of them are in a loving relationship. Leo, Evelyn and Crow weren't present during the announcement because the three of them were meditating in Leo's room. Panther tells her three friends that she and Carlos are in a loving relationship. The Empath smiled to hear she was in a relationship. Evelyn just looked at her with a disappointing look on her face. Leo didn't like the idea that Panther is dating Carlos.

Seeing how the daughter of Bruce was also single, she did wonder if Leo would find a girlfriend someday. Evelyn was fully aware that she was on a list with several other girls who likes Leo a lot more than a friend. And Iris was on that list with them. A few of them would blush at that idea and deny that fact. Evelyn would just glare at the person who would say that. She and Leo would spend time together by patrolling the city at night and sparring with one another. Crow also joined them as well for patrols.

Evelyn was going back to her room when she saw Leo's door was open during a hot night. She took a peek inside to see Leo standing in the middle of room without his shirt on that revealed his upper strong body. The teenager knew Leo has been working on his body since he was introduced to kung fu. He caught her staring at him and his face turn red. She wouldn't forget that one morning of what she saw in Crow's room.

Looking at the time on the bottom right corner of the screen, it was getting a little late. Evelyn closes her laptop and lets out a tired yawn. It was going to be hot tonight here in California. The weather can get warm that requires the use of the air conditioner and the ceiling fan. She wasn't wearing her black shirt except her bra and white shorts. The young woman walks over to her bed before throwing the covers. Taking one last look out the window, Evelyn closes her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Author's Note: Man, oh man oh man! Looks like I went all out for this special chapter on mine! And it only took me a couple of months to work out this whole chapter. I wanted to see how far I can push myself to write a long chapter than my other chapters. I'm so glad that this special chapter is done! I don't think I missed a spelling grammar when I worked on this chapter. Looks like everything is fine and dandy.

With this much work I poured into for this chapter, it was a lot of work I had to do for this summer. Each section had to be looked over very carefully. Now onto the fights in this chapter, I only chose specific characters to attack first, followed by other characters. With so many characters helping Leo and Panther, it's why I only some characters to have a chance to fight against Blake. So I came to a decision to have them all fighting against The Nightstride instead of fighting The Demon's Spirit inside the sword.

And since Blake was only mentioned back in the other chapters, this was the perfect time to have him debut. I felt it was right not to have Leo explain to the warriors of the Jade Palace that he is Phoenix back in the human world.

That time will come later. When I was starting to work on this chapter, I thought it would be best to reveal a little bit of information about Panther and I think that worked out great, especially Blake Eater. It also makes sense to have Mei Ling to be free from serving her time in prison. Now that Leo, Panther and Blake are friends again, they still don't who or what saved Gwen. That's a story for another time.

Leo is still holding some secrets he hasn't tell the warriors of the Jade Palace yet.

Moving onto the bath scene with the men and women in the bathhouse, I never did thought what Tigress would think if she saw Panther's bra before or what she thinks about the bra in her own opinion. And since Leo and Panther are the only two humans in this world, seeing a bra in Ancient China is rare to see. Tigress is lucky to be in a relationship with Leo. But Jie did bring up an important question of what kind of training Leo went through, even the warriors of the Jade Palace was wondering about it too. This is also Leo's first time to bathe with the other men in the bathhouse.

Moving onto Kaira next, Blake, Azel and Risa is caught up about the White-Tailed Beast inside Leo. Leo still doesn't know how did she end up inside him in the first place. Kaira has been threatening to kill him when she escapes, but she helped him in dire situations. It comes to no surprise that Leo demanded Blake, Azel and Risa not to say a word about this conversation to the warriors of the Jade Palace and the others back in the human world.

Do you think Panther will believe Leo is telling the truth? Or is Enya really dead? Blake will have to listen what happened to Iris and Carlos before he makes a decision to agree to keep this a secret from the others. At least the Dragon Warrior knows Leo is the Black Spirit, but still doesn't know anything about Enya. There are dark secrets that Leo doesn't want Shifu, The Dragon Warrior and The Furious Five to know what he did five years ago that began the nightmares after he brutally killed Ellie Collins that night.

Now this universe has its own Batman, also known as Bruce Stark. I did mention his name once. I do have some plans to work that one out since you're wondering if DC coexist in this universe or not. You just have to wait on that.

I think that's all I have for this chapter. This Author's Note was pretty long too. So I hope you all enjoyed this long special chapter, everyone! I can't believe I wrote forty six thousand words in a single chapter! Don't forget to Follow, Favorite and leave a review for this chapter or you can send a private message if you have any questions!

Enjoy your day and I will see you all in the next chapter!