Chapter 3: A New Adventure

A.N- For the wondering question to if I remembered you guys? Yes, I always remembered, just hope there are some of you guys left who won't mind reading what I have to write. Well anyways, I proudly introduce to you all this chapter!

Shen stood upon the decks of the Revenge, his new metal apparitions scraping against the floor gently as he looked outwards into the sea passing mountains out the window, each caked with snow under the black-gray sky.

He took a small breath of air and exhaled loudly, along with a light chuckle, " 'Defeater of the Dragon Warrior' Yes. That has a good ring to it. Or maybe... 'Conqueror of the Black and White?' What do you think?" Shen asked the wolf pilot beside him, who froze up when he was asked.

The pilot froze and didn't know what to say.

"Well? Come on now, spit it out!" Shen said, his patience growing thin.

The pilot stuttered anxiously, "I..I..I think that's an excellent title sir! Very most excellent!" He replied swiftly.

Shen walked his way past him towards the front deck, looking at him directly, "Good, for a second I'd thought you had gone deaf." He said in a monotone voice as he stepped in front of the pilot.

Relieved. The pilot let out a heavy sigh.

"Commander, front and center!" Shen screamed out.

"Yes, sir," A wolf said as he ran up to Shen's side, his battle armor clanging against him as he did so. He stopped right at Shen's side, "Lord Shen, Captain Lao reporting for duty. What are your wishes?" He asked as he bowed in respect.

"How far are we from Tar Ti Son? From this exact location?" Shen asked.

"About a day's journey, the rest of the fleet is converging on the sight they will be ready to capture the Dragon King at your orders when you arrive." Lao answered.

"Excellent, so I trust that you are readying those villagers in the cargo hold for the TetraWash?"

"I will do so now sir, do you want any special requests of the villagers? Should I send any of them up to see you?"

"Send up the Furious Five along with their Master. I want to have a chance to see their faces before they go through the TetraWash."

"Right away, my Lord." The wolf said as he bowed once more and sped off towards the cargo hold.

The vision rolled back countless numbers of times through Tigress' head as she slept on the cold, metal floor. A vision of Po being defeated at the Jade Palace and her home burning to the ground; of Po screaming and the sound of wood breaking upon his impact.

Tigress woke up with a fright, tears sprawling down her face. She looked around to find that she was still in the same dark prison, and that Po was nowhere to be found. She slumped down to the floor and looked at everyone, all of them trying to get a restful night's sleep. She started to cry to herself silently.

"Is something wrong Tigress?" Came a warming voice from beside Tigress.

She looked over to see Master Shifu mounted on the top of Oogway's staff in meditation.

"It's nothing Master, just a horrible nightmare."

"Was it about Po?"

She nodded sullenly as she looked back down at the floor.

"I had one too." Shifu admitted causing Tigress to look at him in surprise. "Though from your face it was about what has past, mine was something a bit more vivid, and it was about the future."

"You can see into the future Master?"

"When you achieve a spiritual, mental, and physical balance within yourself. Only then is one allowed to gaze into the window of the future. Even so the future is made by what's occurring now, so what we see could or could not happen."

"What did you see Master?" Tigress asked curiously.

"From what I saw...Po is alive and he is well, though the way he looks and feels is quite odd, almost like..."

Tigress' heart jumped at the sound of Po being alive, "He's alive?!"

"Yes, and from what it looks like, his journey is dark and unclear, his path unknown. That is all I can tell." Master Shifu said.

"But there has got to be more Master, we need to give these people some hope. I need some hope, that not all is lost, that Po will save all of us!"

"The answer you seek is not within me, but within you. I can only bend the fragment of time for a little while, you on the other hand are a Sand Tiger, you can manipulate and see through time at will if you just focus!"

She looked down once more, realizing her short moment of ineptness.

"We have company." Master Shifu said as Tigress looked towards the entrance.

The door winch spun open wildly releasing the door from it's locks. It swung open with a load creak, revealing Captain Lao and six other wolf soldiers as he stormed into hold, screaming and shouting loudly, waking everyone up.

"Alright everyone, stop loitering around and get up! We have something special for you guys today, something I think you all will enjoy. Let's go, up 'n at 'em. Move it!" He said a he stormed down the electric red energy bars that served as cell blocks. He reached the end, the cell which held the Furious Five, Master Shifu and also Ting.

"Alright you lowlifes, today you get spared from what everyone else gets to do. Because Lord Shen had requested an audience with you guys."

"I say! We are no lowlifes! "Crane said as he cradled his injured arm while standing up. The others shortly following.

"Watch your mouth bird, your really stretching your lifeline." Lao said as he went over to the input keypad and typed in a number, releasing the energized bars. "Alright get 'em boys" He said to his six guards as he and them took out their bamboo stun rods.

Without even time to react, the wolves stormed in and stunned all of the prisoners in the cell.

"Strange. I expected them to put up more of a fight than this. Alright each of you take a person and move out to the deck." Lao said as he picked up Ting and hoisted her over his shoulder. The rest quickly followed suit and followed him out of the cargo hold.

Lao looked at the awestruck villagers, "Be ready, I'll be back!" He said as the six men filed past him and out the door while he went out himself, shutting the door tightly and winding the winch.

Po's eyes flickered open to reveal a dark room, lit only by the fire that gleamed strongly from the fire place. Po sat up and winced in pain, noticing that his body had been clothed in bandages an acu-pins. Zao came into the room, and lit up with delight once he saw him.

"Oh! Your finally awake!" Zao said with joy as he suddenly turned around and shouted into the next room, "Elder! Elder! Come quick, he's awake!"

From the next room came the elder, walking as quick as he could with his staff. He noticed Po and quickly walked over to him, "Po! Glad to see your awake!" The elder said.

"How long have I been out for?" Po asked.

"For over five hours, almost thought you went into a coma, we did."

"Who was that shadow?"

"We all thought he was a myth, a legend spewed with old folklore," The elder said as he walked over to the fireplace and added spices to the food that hung suspended in a cauldron.

"A myth?"

"Yes, said to be contained inside the Scroll of a Thousand Swords..."

Po suddenly held his head in pain as memories started to form, back to the battle between him and Tenizar, "I'm starting to remember, but I'm...losing it!" He said.

"Ah! I forgot you had memory loss! We'll come back to that subject later; right now I've got to knock those marbles back into you!" The elder quickly said as he raised his staff over his head.

"Woah, woah! You almost knocked me in the head with a sword last time! Isn't there a less dangerous and...painful way to gain my memory back?"

The elder lowered his staff and pondered for a moment; he snapped up with excitement, "There is one place...the Kingdom of Antherdall hidden deep within the mountains, and is said to contain the Holy flower that can cure any ailment."

"That's great! So you think that it can restore my memory?"

"There's a chance, not a big one though." The elder said.

"Then let's head out, since you know the way!"

"Haha! I thought you'd never ask! It's been many a year since I've been out on an adventure! And I have just the right people to help. So our first destination is to Ying City. We'll leave at first light!"

"But father, your getting older, what makes you think you can pull off another adventure?!" Zao said.

"Pish, posh. These old bones still have some fight in 'em." The elder said.

"By the way, I didn't get the chance to ask your name." Po intervened

The elder chuckled, "Oh my! These old bones seemed to have forgotten there manner's! My name's Pica, pig sorcerer from the southern kingdom of Na." He said bowing.

"A sorcerer!? I thought all of them were destroyed during the Battle of Yitzen Valley?"

"There's still a lot of us around, we hide out within the outskirts of villages and cities! Now, time to get some stuff packed and shine some weapons." Pica said as he suddenly rushed off.

"A sorcerer?" Po said to Zao.

"Yep, this is the first time he has ever told anyone of his true belonging; must be because you are the Dragon Warrior." Zao said as he sped off to join his father in the next room over.

'Dragon Warrior? I must be him if they all keep referring to me as such.' Po thought to himself as Pica suddenly came back into the room, holding the bamboo sword from earlier and came up to him.

"Po, this is the Dragon Sage. Forged by the Dragon Master himself and given to the First Dragon Warrior after he first defended Tar Ti Son, 2,000 years ago. Considered one of the most powerful weapons of all time, and I have decided to give it to you."

"Did you say Tar Ti Son?" Po asked suddenly.

"Yes, I did." Pica answered.

"That's were the shadow said he was going!"

"Like I said earlier son, be patient and will talk more about this once we obtain your memory, no sense in trying to figure out something if you can't remember it. By the way, I want to...apologize for earlier. I sold you out and that wasn't right of me, and to make it up I will offer my services on whatever you need after Antherdall." He said as he handed the Dragon Sage to Po.

Po took up the sword, and placed it on the ground. He stood up and hugged the pig, "Thank you, without you I would never be able to get my memory back!" He said a she squeezed Pica.

"Gaaah! Can...you please try...not...to break me in half!" Pica screamed, causing Po to release him.

"Sorry!" Po said.

"It's alright, I understand your happiness!" Pica said smiling, "Now get your stuff ready, we leave very shortly. For first light is almost upon us."

A/N: Sorry for the delay, family problems. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I pray that it wasn't too crappy as I'm trying to keep this story as interesting as the first. I'll be back shortly with the next chapter so I'll talk to you all soon.