Chapter 1: The Day Before D-Day.

Hey guys! Like I said that was not the last of our heroes, this will be a continuation of 'A New Found Life'. If you haven't read it yet, I encourage you to do so. It might help you understand this story a bit better, though it won't be totally confusing if you don't.

I've decided to take on more hours at work so I have more on my plate, therefore, less time to write. So, please don't get discouraged that I'm not getting my chapters updated at a good rate, I am still doing song-fics and writing chapters for this story.

This is 'ANFL 2: The Generation of Change', a continuation of 'A New Found Life' so it will be starting two weeks after the last story ended. There are some things that have changed in those two weeks, one of our heroes has a small problem. And a new, possibly old, villain shall show himself. But all will be revealed soon enough…

It had been two weeks since Lord Khan's defeat at the 'Lion Eye' tomb and a few things had changed. The wedding of Po and Tigress had to be pushed back a week so that Po would be able to walk at his wedding. Tigress did end up having a severely strained back muscle, which required some resting time, much to the tiger's dismay. That week had passed faster than either had expected it would and that special day was tomorrow.

"Come on Po! We have to get some last minute partying to do!", said a hyper primate.

"Yeah! Who ever heard of a guy missing his own bachelor's party?", Mantis chimed in.

"Alright, alright I am coming!", said the panda getting up from the table. And at that moment Crane and Tigress walked into the dinning hall.

"Are we doing this or what?", Crane said as he stretched his wings and Tigress just shook her head.

"You too?", Tigress groaned and grabbed her forehead. "I thought you out of all people would stay back."

"You really think I would miss out on this? You changed, so why can't I?", questioned Crane, smirking the whole time.

"Never mind…just keep them out of trouble.", said Tigress, sitting down next to Viper at the table.

"Men will be men I suppose.", Viper said before taking a sip of her tea.

"Yeah I'm marrying one of them.", Tigress laughed a bit as she shook her head.

"Tomorrow.", Viper added to Tigress' thought.

"Tomorrow…", Tigress said trailing off at the end, a warm smile spreading across her face.

"You going to be ok hun?", Po came up from behind Tigress and caressed her shoulders a bit.

Tigress rubbed her cheek on his paw to reassure him, "Yeah I'll be fine, I am more worried about you. Try not to drink to much, we have a big day tomorrow." Tigress turned around in her seat to see him better, still holding his paw.

"Not a problem.", Po said, leaning down, kissing her to make sure what he said stuck. She returned the kiss, smiling as she broke the kiss moments after.

"Now go and have some fun, handsome.", Tigress purred.

"As you wish beautiful.", Po whispered and kissed the top of her head. As this would be their last time seeing each other until the wedding tomorrow.

"Come on lovebird.", Mantis was practically dragging Po now.

"Ok, lets go. Bye hun.", And with that Po, Mantis, Monkey, and Crane all walked out of the door.

"Your very lucky you know, you are probably going to have THE best husband around.", Viper said finishing her tea.

Tigress didn't speak, only nodded as she looked where Po had just walked out the door. Silently wishing he would walk back thought it.

The guys walked out the door and into the courtyard of the Jade Palace. They had one more person to pick up to take with them.

"I'll go get him.", Po stated solemnly.

"Ok, but be quick. You guys are too slow for me.", Mantis crossed his 'thingies'.

Po shook his head as he walked down the path that lead behind the barracks, to the peach tree that Oogway had given him a peach from. He still remembered that saying Oogway had told him, it stuck like super glue. 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That is why it's called the present.'. 'Tomorrow is definitely a mystery', the panda thought.

Simba was sitting at the tree twirling the ring he had made out of the 'Lion Eye' gem he had found at the tomb were they fought Khan. Simba planned on giving it to Nixa, but plans usually never work out. One day, Simba and Po came back from a mission and Simba saw her holding the hand of another man. His heart crumbled from that point, as one could see why. When he asked her she said that he was away too much on his missions. Simba was dumbfounded, isn't that what Kung-Fu masters do? He hadn't talked nor seen her since then, thinking it was for the better. Still… he was hurting and it would take a good friend to raise his spirits, and thankfully he had a very good friend.

"You coming man?", Po said coming down the path.

"Yeah, I could use a drink or two.", Simba said still eyeing the ring.

"Still thinking of her?", asked Po, sitting down next to him.

"Nah… I pretty much over that. Just admiring my handy work.", Simba said passing the ring to Po.

"You did a very nice job on this you know. An heirloom that your family will cherish for generations.", Po said trying to cheer the German Shepherd up.

"Yep, too bad I don't have anyone to give it to.", Simba sighed.

"Don't think like that. You'll find someone soon, your twenty-two years old.", Po said slightly nudging him.

"You want to know something?", Simba looked over to Po.

"Sure I am game."

"I thought I had already met who I wanted to spend my life with.", Simba looked back at the ground.

"Nixa?"

"No, someone else. We were the best of friends back in my home town and we dated for one year when we were both sixteen. We did everything together, and we were nearing that time in our lives were we knew what we wanted to do. I wanted to find a Kung-Fu master to train under, and she was surprisingly content with that. I guess she loved the fact someone could protect her, that was one of the reasons she was so attracted to me. She was an excellent seamstress, all of the girls in the village would wear her designs. We had our life together, all we were waiting on was to get old enough." Simba let out a sight, like he had been holding onto that for a while.

"Well what happened?", Po had a caring look on his face.

"Life happened.", Simba paused for a moment, then continued. " One day, while we were still dating, another village attacked us. I helped the men of my village defend against the attackers, but the attack wasn't long. Like they came for something in particular. Afterwards I ran to find out if she was ok, but there was no trace of her family or her. It's like she dropped off the face of the earth. For six months I looked for her, living off the land in the wilderness, for weeks at a time hoping she would still be alive. I never found a thing, and began to accept the fact she was never coming back. It was like she never even existed. Two months later, I decided to follow my dream of Kung-Fu. That's when I got kicked out, right on my eighteenth birthday, the day I wanted to marry my best friend, my love. Four years of traveling later, here I am.", Simba finished his story and the two sat in silence for a minute.

(A/N: I do believe I had stated in the first chapter of 'A New Found Life' (I will refer to it as ANFL now) that his years of traveling was around ten years. I decided this was too long a couple chapters into the story and changed it to four years. I am officially claiming it as four years now. If there is any questions on his timeline please ask. I promise keep things straight as possible. Remember ANFL was my first story ever.)

"I am sorry that I asked.", Po said quietly.

"Don't be, you're the first person I ever told. I feel like I can breathe again.", said Simba as a smile spread across his face.

"Well alright… Oh crap! We better get going, Mantis is probably ripping his antennas out right about now.", Po chuckle along with Simba.

Shifu sat meditating before the Pool of Sacred Tears. Lately he had be come more like his master, Oogway. Much more calm about things, ever since he gained Inner Peace and his students had came home safe from the incident with Khan. Since then, Shifu had been able to learn to meditate on the peach wood staff, Oogway had carried with him. You could almost say that he was at a perfect balance. Almost. Shifu believed that it was because his daughter was getting married tomorrow. Every father worried about the day he would have to give his daughter away. But most of that worry washed away when he remember who he was giving her away to, the panda. Po. That name had changed the way the five and himself had thought and acted. Never had a name been so powerful, but he still worried. While he meditated a soft wind blew in suddenly, peach petals hitting his face. Shifu smiled slightly, Oogway was here.

Oogway: It's been a while my friend.

"It has, to what do I owe the honor of your visit?", Shifu remained on his staff, eyes closed.

Oogway: A warning.

Shifu's ear twitched at his master's words. Had he heard right? "What kind of warning, Master?", asked Shifu, still calm.

Oogway: Two evils will join. One will rise and free the other, but freedom will be his downfall.

"So a jailbreak? Should I increase guards at the higher security prisons?", Shifu waited respectfully for an answer.

Oogway:*chuckles* You don't learn do you my friend? One often meets his destiny, on the road he takes to avoid it.

Shifu remember the time he tried to change his destiny, it didn't work out too well. "Right, so I will wait till the danger presents itself."

Oogway:*chuckles* Old enough to be wise, and yet so much still to learn. Just be prepared.

Shifu thought of what it meant, he decided that he would keep his students on their training schedules and even add in a harder move or two. He would also be keeping his eyes and ears open for anything that would be threatening.

Oogway: Oh, and give my congratulations to Master Tigress and the Dragon Warrior.

Tigress and Viper had been training for a while, they started after Po and them left for his bachelor party. Mantis and Monkey had came up with the idea. Tigress, at first, was totally against the idea, seeing she wanted nothing to go wrong with the wedding, but after some convincing Po had earned her approval. Tigress still didn't like the idea, but wanted Po to be happy.

As she trained, Tigress thought of the day tomorrow. The one thing that stuck in her head was the dress. Viper had capitalized on the idea to let her ideas flow, but at first Tigress hadn't wanted a dress. Shifu and Viper, with time, got her to approve of one of Viper's dress designs on two conditions. One, she could take it off immediately following the wedding for the party afterwards, Tigress had not wanted to be in that thing all night. Two, she could put small gems, of her choice, down the side of the dress. She choose none other than a deep jade green and a dark amber. Shifu and Viper had agreed to the terms and everyone was happy, more or less.

"You ready of tomorrow?", Viper asked striking a dummy.

"As ready as I'll ever be.", Tigress replied still working on a new move she had been trying to learn for week now.

"Your lucky.", Viper stated.

"I thought we established this already."

"Yeah, we did. I wanted to make sure you heard me. At least I wish someone looked at me."

Tigress just smiled, her friend not knowing that someone did have an interest in her. "What about our avian friend?"

Viper very clearly blushed, "Crane? He still sends those letters to Mei-Ling, I don't even know if he would choose me over her."

"You'll never know, until you try.", Tigress tried to quietly push her friend and comrade. Viper didn't speak but thought about Tigress' words in her head.

"I suppose every dog has his day… except for Simba that is, poor guy.", Viper said out loud.

Tigress's eyes when narrow at this statement, when she first herd of how Nixa cheated on Simba she was furious. How do you play a guys heart like that? Tigress had been angry enough with that woman for messing with her friends and fellow master. She shook the thought from her head as he didn't talk much about if anymore, and she had a wedding tomorrow. She couldn't have those kinds of thoughts, only good ones. The two continued their training for the night. Tigress was going to sleep in her old room so that she could get up early and prepare. Po would be sleeping in his old room at his dad's shop, along with all the guys including Simba's dad so they could get ready without distractions.

(A/N: Some of you will be like "There wasn't any blackjack or poker back in ancient China." And you would probably be right, since poker wasn't invented until early 1800's. Non the less, there was some form or gambling back then (Maybe Dice) But for the stories sake it was invented earlier.)

It was well into the night and Monkey and Mantis were on a roll with the shots and gambling. The more they drank, the more money they won gambling. I was quit obvious that they were enjoying their selves tonight. Crane stuck to small glasses of sake and playing blackjack with some other cranes he meet. They had also been in calligraphy and the three of them struck up a conversation. The other two had convinced Crane to try his hand at blackjack. Po was surprised, he never thought Crane as a gambler. Simba and Po sat down and played poker with a few other guys. It was a good time, they joked around with the other guys and enjoyed a drink every once and a while. For Simba and Po it was pretty steady going. Po and Simba were winning a far amount of money and actually getting really lucky, but then a thought popped into Po's head.

"So you never told me the name of this girl.", Po said looking at his cards, then looked at Simba.

"I didn't?", Simba checked his own cards, but not liking his hand so he folded them.

"Nope.", Po raised the bet.

"Her name is Nala, it means queen, and boy did she look like it.", Simba said as he watched the other guys either folded or called Po's bet.

"How so?", Po watched the flop.

(A/N: If anyone has questions on poker terms, I will answer them for you.)

"She had the perfect body, walked, talked, and deserved to be treated like a queen.", Simba watched as Po raised again and most of the remaining guys called his raise.

"So just her image made her a queen?", Po asked as the next card came.

"No, her personality was superb too. She helped anyone she could and always reminded me of manners. But when it was just us, she acted so much more open like I was her only friend. We always had so much fun together."

"That's a good friendship to have. Reminds me of me and Tigress, but I had to pry on her more to get her to open up and I was nice about it too.", said the panda as he callously watched the river card.

Simba thought of his precious moments he had with his best friend, Nala. But thoughts were waved away when Po won the hefty sized pot. Simba congratulated Po on the win, and the night went on like that. Eventually it was time to leave, Po and Simba being the only ones who came out on top of the gambling. Monkey and Mantis had spun away all their money on the roulette tables, ending up with nothing. Po had to carry Monkey and Mantis to his dad's shop because they had gotten so drunk. Simba and Crane were close behind talking about the people they had meet and how their night of gambling had gone. The night ended with Po looking at his action-figures in his old room, with the snores of his friends in the background.

And we have the first chapter of ANFL 2: The Generation of Change. What do you guys think about it? And don't be shy, I would really like know what you guys thought of it. Even if it is just a simple 'Good Job'. Also I am leaving it up to the readers for this : Mei-Ling, Viper, or neither, who should be with Crane? I'll keep a tally from the replays in the reviews and P.M.'s. Please review the chapter and Stay Frosty!