Finally me and Zhang had the village in our sight ˝Well make camp here for tonight and tomorrow you will go to the palace.˝ We made our camp and lit the fire, Zhang stated cooking some soup, I sat down by the fire looking at the helmet he gave me "Something bothering you lad?" I heard Zhang ask, it took me a while when I asked "How did you end up here Zhang?" he stopped pouring the soup in our cups and said "Money, I'm a mercenary and this guy has a lot of gold. Enough to by me and an army of sell-swords.". I decided not to ask too many questions, he is just a mercenary and the only thing he is thinking of is being paid. Even though he is a mercenary, he is a very good cook "This soup is amazing." . Every time I drank it was like I was tasting heaven.

After we finished our soup, Zhang went over the plan with me " I am to keep to my role until I find the sword, you will remain hidden and assist me when necessary. I get it Zhang I'm not dumb." We took the flames out and went to sleep, well I at least tried to go to sleep. Zhang's constant snoring was killing me, there was also the fact that I was afraid that I might fail. After a while staring into the stars I slowly fell asleep, there was peaceful silence, its this place it calms me.

This place made me think like I had no worries in the world, its no wonder they call it the Valley of Peace. Time to get some shut eye.

I stand in a file with my friends, neighbors and fellow soldiers, we all look at our commander " Today, men we will finally free our lands from the wretched ottoman empire which has held our lands for centuries. Our allies Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece are already pushing the Turks back to their land, so do you want to be remembered as the soldiers that just stood by as our fellow Slavs are being killed or do you want to be remembered as heroic liberators that ended one of the oldest empires." We all got our bayonets "Now with me men! Charge!". We left our cover and started running through the fields, guns blazing and legends being born. I stopped everything becomes too heavy, the scene disappears and the field is empty, I cant breathe.

My brother grabbed me covered with blood "Wake up! Wake up !"

I woke up covered with sweat and Zhang looming over me "Get yourself washed up, we are going to the village." he said before heading down the road "I will go ahead and you go as soon as you are ready, but don't take too long." after that the wolf disappeared into the forest. I got myself cleaned up "This is it." I said as I took the helmet and placed it on my head.

I sure hope this works.

As I walked towards the village, I kept checking on everything, making sure nothing goes wrong with my performance. The silence was broken with a scream "Help!" I heard someone scream in the distance. I ran towards the place from which the scream came from, after few short minutes I see the victim.

A small rabbit is being robbed by a group of wolves "Give us the money and we don't hurt you, its that simple." One of the wolves said, he sounded angry.

The rabbit kept saying he had none and kept begging them for mercy, I couldn't take it anymore so I decide to go in. I left my spear behind,because I had no idea how to fight with that.

The wolf garbed the rabbit and lifted him up from the ground, before he could do anything to the rabbit I interrupted him "If you want to keep that hand I suggest you put him down!" I shouted as I left my cover and walked towards them. "I suggest you mind your own business!" the wolf shouted "Unless you didn't notice there is three of us against you.". He dropped the rabbit and took out his sword, his friends took out theirs. "Takes three of you mutts to rob an unarmed rabbit." before I could continue taunting them one of the wolves charged at me sword in hand.

Luckily for me he was slow and I quickly dodged his attack and gave him and elbow to the face knocking him out cold. I took out my sword and the other two charged me, I kept blocking and dodging their hits. One of the wolves which was much bigger managed to kick me and send me flying back, the impact was so hard I dropped my sword.

"Not so tough now are ya." He laughed, I with some divine luck apparently landed near my spear, better that then nothing. The wolf came charging to finish the job with his sword up high leaving him defenseless, I grabbed my spear and lifted it. The wolf basically impaled himself on it. I got up to find that his friend had a crossbow and had an aim. 'you will pay for that you son of a- agh" Before he could finish a panda knocked him to the ground, that was him, he was at the palace that night. He looked at me and his eyes went wide with shock "Whoa! Oh my god this is so awesome!" he went shouting as he came closer "I can't believe it I missed to see you in action, I cant believe you are here." he sounded like an excited 10 year old.

Its show time. "Excuse me can you take me to the Jade palace." I said "I have an important message for Master Shifu that came from the Emperor himself.". He stopped talking about how awesome this is and said "Yeah, I will take you there right now, the guys are gonna love this.". First we waited for some guards to come and take the bandits to prison, the wolf was wounded he should consider himself lucky. "My name is Po, I'm the Dragon Warrior." panda trying to play it cool, he was doing a bad job "Nice to meet you Po." I said. We walked towards the village and the panda wouldn't shut up about how awesome this was and kept telling me about the stories he heard about the Imperial guards, he was like a child that meet his greatest hero.

When we entered the village, everyone was looking at us, it felt weird.

Then came the part I was fearing, the stairs. Whoever made these stairs has made an enemy for life "The five should be inside the training room." the panda said as we climbed up the stairs, I hate these stairs.

After finally reaching the courtyard I could hear this "five" training, "Come on." the panda said excitingly as he ran towards the training hall. I entered after him taking out the letter and I saw him the racoon or was he a panda.

He had a bandage on his arm and as soon as he saw me and the panda he told his students to stop what they were doing, the students immediately stopped and went to their masters side. "It is an honor to have you visit our palace." Shifu said "If I may ask what brings you here." I didn't reply and just gave him the letter.

"Hmm. I see." He said as he read through the letter "I can guarantee you that this wound will not affect my performances.". " That is unfortunately not for you to decide." I said, I should be given an award for this performance, especially now that she is here Master Tigress, that's what Po calls her.

I need ed to make sure they have no idea what I am after "May you all tell me what happened that night?" I sad "I wish to hear it from you personally."

"We were in the village during the festival" Shifu started " I decided to go up the palace early and that's when I saw it looking for something, never seen anything like it." the master continued "I thought he was an ordinary thief, that would run as soon as he sees me, but he stood his ground and after a short struggle he managed to wound me with a weapon that I have never seen before." He stopped talking and the tiger started "The blow knocked master Shifu out, and the only thing we saw was the thief running when he saw us, I immediately went after him but then he..." she suddenly stopped like she was embarrassed that she allowed me to escape "Tigress we will find him again." the snake said.

"I also heard something happened during the questioning." I said, as soon as I said that they all looked at me "How do you know about that?" Tigress said, think fast. "Never hide things from me." I replied as fast as I could "It is personal, he probably tried to make me mad so I can do something dumb. Luckily Po was there to help me calm down." Luckily he was there to help me out too. Shifu looked at the snake and said "Master Viper take our guest to one of our free chambers, he is most likely tired from his trip."

As I followed the snake I heard Po in the background telling them the same story the rabbit told him of how I fought Lin Kuei and his wolves on my own, he made it sound as if i was fighting fifty of them.

The snake led me to a medium sized chamber "If you need anything, please let us know." she said before she left.

I am in, I finished the easy part now comes the hard part of finding the sword. I closed the doors and lied down to think of my next moves.

I will see them soon, even If I have to burn this palace to the ground to find that sword.

New chapter finished I hope you enjoyed it, please tell me if you think I have to improve in some areas.

I will see you next time.