Chapter 1

Many years ago -

"Master! Master Shifu!" Running up the steps of the Jade Palace was a brightly faced, desert-yellow furred, coyote boy who would switch from running up the stairs to running along the rocks and tree branches that were on the side, doing many jumps and flips as he neared the Palace's entrance. Once he made it up, his bright expression slowly faded away as he saw that the front gate of the Jade Palace was broken apart as the sunning was starting to rise up in the distance. Dropping his bag that he was holding, the young, coyote cub dashed inside as fast as his little feet could take him, his tail fluttering behind, "Master Shifu! Master Oogway! Big brother Tai!" He called out each of the name of those who were closest to him until he finally arrived in the courtyard to see that, from the main hall, Tai Lung was being dragged out by some Rhino Guards within a full-body, acupuncture cuff. "Brother Tai…wait! Let him go!" The coyote ran, wanting to free his foster brother, not making the Rhino Guards like that one bit.

"Get out of the way." One of the Rhino Guards raised his fist, making the coyote cub stand back in hesitation. With the Rhino Guard throwing his fist out, it was stopped just as the quickly by the then, young, Red Panda, Master, Shifu. "You're already taking one of my boys away…I WILL refrain you from hurting my other one." With Shifu throwing the Rhino Guard's fist away, the Guard snorted in a scoffing way as him and another guard took Tai Lung and placed him into an escort carriage.

"M-Master, where are they taking Brother Tai?" The cub asked. Shifu's eyes were filled with sorrow as all he just merely did was walk over to the training hall with a worried, Master Oogway sitting from one of the balconies, looking onto the scene of the two.

- Present Day –

Out on the sea, a ship was sailing from a foreign land, with the boat itself bearing Western Sails. The captain of the ship, a Golden Retriever who was wearing a fabric, white shirt and fabric, green pants, along with red clothes hanging over his shoulders, aptly walked over to the navigator, a sheep, who was steering the ship. "How long is it until we reach the trading port in China?"

"Not long now sir. We should be coming upon it on the horizon, soon enough." The navigator responded.

"Perfect. The sooner we drop of the goods and the passengers, the sooner we can leave these waters."

"Captain, why so nervous?" As if bearing a jinx to what the navigator was saying, the sound of a cannon could be heard off in the distance. "Ngh! Get down!" The captain yelled, tackling down the navigator as a cannonball burst right through the decorative mantle on the back of the ship. "This is why I'm so nervous, young navigator." The captain looked up to see a more rugged looking ship approaching them, bearing the flag of a black color with familiar, white symbols on it. "Damn pirates." He growled out looking out at a bunch of hollering boars, jaguars, all manners of reptilians, and more were staring down the trade ship with weapons in hand.

Down in the galley, civilian passengers were beginning to freak as people were grouping all together and trying to hold down a place to hide, hoping the sailors could fight the pirates back. In one of the back rooms though, a lone figure was sleeping on its side with a coyote tail hanging over the hammock he was sleeping in. When the pirate ship barged against the trade ship, the figure fell out of the hammock with a light yelp, bearing his fangs in a little yawn. Up on deck, the sailors were trying their best to fend off the pirates, but it was proving no good against the pirates' ferocity, eventually taking over the ship and capturing most of the crew.

Forcing the captain of the trade ship and his sailors to kneel down in a straight, the pirate captain finally boards onto the ship. He was a rather haughty pig who had two nose piercings on his left nostril and was only wearing a red vest that barely fit him and stretchy, brown trousers. "Why can't you darn foreigners learn when it's not safe to sail these waters? Especially since you lot always carry loot we can never find here." The pirate snorted as he laughed.

"It is up to us to cement our economy by trading with this country! Even if it means we have to deal with lily-livered cowards such as you lot!" The trade captain barked out as the pirate captain immediately placed his cutlass up against the trade captain's neck. "Well, now you see your folly. From it seems like now, there is no one else who can protect this ship from us taking everything it has!" The pirate captain laughed out with snorts thrown out all over the place, making his men laugh too.

A sudden slam of a door caused to attract the attention of all of the people, pirate and sailors in all. Looking over to the entrance to the galleys, someone walked wearing blue training pants and a blue gi with white linings and one of the long sleeves ripped off from the left side, revealing the person's entire left arm to be wrapped up in medical bandages, some of which had some loose strands floating about from the passing, ocean breeze. The sun finally hit this figure revealing his dessert-yellow fur, his always twitching ears, and his bright, brown eyes. A coyote stood before the lot. He let out a huge yawn, showing his sharp canine fangs again, "Hey cap, we here yet? Hm?" His eyes immediately opened up from their drowsiness to see the pirates as the trade captain seemed utterly dumbfounded by this boy's behavior. Smirking, the pirate captain held his cutlass out to the coyote boy, "So, looks like you'll be first one we'll-" Without even having a chance to react, the coyote jumped off of the flat side of the pirate captain's sword and landed in a crouching position on the pirate captain's head, forcing his hat to push down on him, "Huh?! What the?!"

"No way! If pirates are here then that must mean home is close~!" The coyote replied out in a cheerful tone before kicking off of the pirate captain's head to land on the deck-side of the trade ship, leaving the pirate captain's crew members just as baffled as the trade captain and his sailors were. "I really can't believe it's been so many years." The coyote reminisced, forgetting that the ship was trying to be seized by pirates.

Getting back up to his feet, with rage-filled eyes, the pirate captain slashed his cutlass at the coyote, "Do you have any idea who you're talking to?!" Dodging to the side, the coyote kicked down on the pirate captain's head, making him babble out some pain-filled nonsense while wobbling backwards from the hit. Now drawing all of their weapons, the rest of the pirates went in to attack.

Leaping into the air, the boy landed in the middle of the pirates and started delivering punches and kicks all around, knocking the pirates back with each attack with speed and grace. One pirate tried to attack him from behind only for the coyote to the stop the blade by pinching his canine claws on the sides right before delivering a quick, side kick to blast the pirate into more of his pals. Taking the newly acquired sword in his hand, the coyote began to slash through the crowd, clanging the sharp edge with incoming swords and knocking back enemies with the flat side, either knocking them out or overboard. With one last strike, the coyote threw the sword into the mast right in front of the pirate captain's face, who was trying to escape during all of the commotion. "Stay." The coyote smirked.

The trade captain and his sailors were eventually freed as the tables were turned on the pirates, tying them up in return. Minutes later, the ship would arrive at a port stationed within China, as passengers were departing along with sailors bringing the tangled up pirates with them. "Hey boy, thanks again for the assistance. Without you coming in at the last second, we wouldn't have a reason to have finished our travel here." The trade captain gave his esteemed thanks.

"Hey, no problem. Really though. Those pirates, if they have any bounties on them, should net you guys a pretty hefty reward." The coyote responded.

"Are you sure you wouldn't want part of the reward for being the key figure in their capture?"

"Mmmm…no. You guys could use that extra money to fix your ship." The coyote turned around to smile at the trade.

"Heh, then please, at least tell me your name, young one." The captain requested.

"Haha, alright. My name is Shamo, Shamo Quan (using the Chinese style of saying the family name first)." The captain nodded with the information given, "Thank you very much, Mr. Quan. I hope you enjoy your visit here in China." The coyote boy shook his head, "Nope, not a visit. More like a…reunion."