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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 16, 2011 23:44:15 GMT -5
A little bit after, one villager found the animal-and-human duo and gave them some extra spare rooms from his small home; but mostly due to the space, Mulan had to go with Tigress and Viper and share her room with them while Shang, Yao, Ling and Chein-Po stay with Po, Crane, Mantis, and Monkey in the other room. Soon enough, both of the opposite of gender had gotten their beauty sleep.
Meanwhile later, Lord Shen was at the bottom of his headquarters calling out for the snow leopard's name. "Where is he?! TAI! COME IN HERE!"
"Lung! It's Tai Lung!" Tai Lung corrected the peacock properly when he showed up. "And what do you want?"
Lord Shen tossed a flute at the gray-spotted feline's paw. "Play me the flute will you? I won't go to sleep without my tune."
"WHAT?! You called me off duty to hum you a lullaby? PLAY IT YOURSELF!" Tai Lung scolds, tossing the instrument back to Shen and turned away, but Shen blocked his way. "Either you'll play this or--"
"You'll WHAT?! I'm not afraid of you!" Tai Lung snarls. The two animals glared deathly at each other through their hardcore eyes, but the more they stared deeply, the more they realize that fighting with each other wasn't gonna get them anymore.
Lord Shen slam the flute back down onto Tai Lung's paw. "I'll find your weakness Tai Lung and when I do, you'll be sorry you disobey me!" He threaten him and moved out of his way. Once Tai Lung was returning back to his post, he couldn't look away at the flute in his paws. Why did Shen gave it back to him? And did he really meant what he say? But what did that matter? He got the flute back, not that he didn't really needed it for that whole night, but it would appeal to be a huge waste to throw it out.
Tai Lung was getting a bit tired and he wonder if the instrument's music would really put someone to sleep. Would it work? It was worth a shot. He would know what to do with it. "You there!" He called out to Mei from the cell. He slide the flute underneath the bars from the cell and watch as it landed in right of her. "Play me a tune! You...can play it can you?" He asks.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 16, 2011 23:55:36 GMT -5
"Me?" Mei asks in surprise as Tai Lung called to her and passed her a flute through the cell bars telling her to play him some sort of melodic tune with it for a reason she didn't even want to try to comprehend.
"Of course I can! But Why do you want me to play the flute to you? I mean no offense or anything but I never would've thought someone like you would have an ear for music." Mei added as she bent down to pick up the flute holding it it her hands.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 17, 2011 0:01:05 GMT -5
"I...umm...what do you care? I gave you an order. Now DO IT!" Tai Lung barked. If he gave Mei an assignment, it shouldn't be so hard to follow.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 17, 2011 0:14:49 GMT -5
Mei was taken aback a little by the snow leopard's tone. Did she imagine that he sounded a bit more sincere and unsure? She must've. This guy was one of her captors after all.
She glared at him before she put the flute to her lips which her fingers place delicately and correctly around the flute before she began to blow into it moving her fingers rythmicly to it causing a soft melodic sound to come from the flute as she played it.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 22, 2011 20:33:39 GMT -5
Tai Lung sighs. With his eyes delightfully looking at the human princess playing the music flute for him, he sighs. "You play beautifully!" He complimented her.
"Tai Lung, I hear music playing! Are you using my flut--" Lord Shen asks as he approach the scene, but was caught off by the sight he had spotted with the prisoners. What was Mei doing with his flute? And why on earth on Tai Lung watching? "SHEN!!" He cries. In a quick flash, the snow leopard snatch away the flute from Mei's hands, kneel down on his knees and held the flute up to the peacock in his open paws. "Forgive me my lord. The princess was--"
But Lord Shen had already figure out the clues on his own; one of the princesses try to smooth Tai Lung with beautiful music at peace. Shen sputter into laughter. "HAHAHA! You...you honestly made me believe that--HAHAHA!" But he couldn't complete his words fully with the laughs in between. Tai Lung had gone to feel threaten by this insult. "What are you laughing at peacock?!" He growls. Lord Shen cleared his throat to silent his laughter off. "Ahem! Sorry, but I can't help noticing you seem...rather....touched by one of these princesses." He chuckles.
"You mean..." Tai Lung almost asked. "Yes! You are...attached!" Lord Shen smirks. "So what if I am?" Tai Lung asks, pretending to be as heartless as he always is. But that question that left the words out of the snow leopard's mouth made the smirking look disappear off from the peacock. Lord Shen from a joking matter to a stern and serious deadly threat. He leap towards Tai Lung, pinning straight hard on the cell door with his foot tight around the feline's neck.
"May I remind you that it was YOU who cheated me out of my death and it was YOUR idea we held the princesses captured against their will?!" Lord Shen shouted. "RAWR!" Tai Lung roared, striking the peacock on the face with a right-handed punch, which got him out of the bird's grip. He rub his thick neck. The peacock's feet look rougher than it was when he had him grabbed. "Oh don't you DARE!!" Lord Shen warned him.
Tai Lung lower down his growls, then kneel down on knee with his head bow down. "Apologizes! What is my punishment?" He asks. But Shen didn't think all the way through to come up with a new punishment for Tai Lung. "No punishment!" He answers.
But the bird held his wing up when the feline's head shot up to his replyment. However, he was not done. "BUT...if you EVER think about making the slightest betrayal on me behind my back, you will face the consequences; your punishment will be the sentence of DEATH! Is that clear?"
Tai Lung worried he would get a fair warning from him, but he understood his orders. "Yes!"
"Good! Now hand me my flute!" He sternly asks him, gesturing his empty wing waiting to get his instrument back. Tai Lung gave him back his flute just like he order, by placing it onto the peacock's wing. And with that, Lord Shen left to return back to his headquarters without a word. Tai Lung had gone from gulity to worse for being caught dead like that. He got back up and had his fair share of apology to the female humans.
"I'm....I'm sorry." He said to him shamefully without turning his head to even make a little glance to the three. "I wasn't always this bad!" He confess.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 22, 2011 20:49:56 GMT -5
A sincere look of sympathy shown on all of the princesses faces, especially that of Mei, who had been watching the entire scene between Tai Lung and Lord Shen unfold.
If they had doubted that Tai Lung hadn't turned soft at all and was only acting to earn their trust they certainly didn't doubt it any longer though they couldn't exactly understand what or why the snow leopard had changed so suddenly.
Mei opened her mouth to speak up for Tai Lung against Lord Shen but was stopped by her sister Su who gave her a worried look that seemed to silently tell her sister that if she stood up for their snow leopard captor something terrible would happen to her causing Mei to immediately clam up.
After Lord Shen had left them, taking his flute with him, the three princesses couldn't help but gasp in surprise as Tai Lung revealed to them that he was once a good guy.
"How-Why-When-" Su started to stammer in question before being cut off by her sister Mei.
"You were a good guy you mean? What made you change?" She asks keeping her voice low.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 22, 2011 22:13:21 GMT -5
A small flow of darkness grip onto the snow leopard's heart, flashing back to the old memories of the day when he stood proudly inside of the Jade Palace, waiting for Master Oogway and Shifu's approval to be named the dragon warrior, but was only turn down at the end. He still recalled that same night when he was laying waste into the valley with his rage and coming back to claim was rightfully his before Oogway had him stopped with his nerve attack after he attacked his adopted father, Shifu.
The last thing he remember after waking up was being in prison; rotting in jail for 20 years was the most cruelest punishment he ever had to face; if he go back in time and ask why after his crime couldn't be of death, he would do so, but it was too late. And the last time he remember seeing Shifu was having his face-off battle with the red panda before he was defeated by Po. Tai Lung had wished now that he could let the princesses free and give Lord Shen a piece of his mind, but causing that would let him towards death if he did ever betray him like he was told so.
Tai Lung made a grip from his fists, carefully looking for the right words in his mind to think before he could answer Mei's question, but just even thinking it out hurt his head a little bit; with pain. "My baba!" He whispers. "I was convinced by him that the power to becoming the dragon warrior was my destiny, but his master refused me the title!" Realizing the bits and pieces of his past he had given out, Tai Lung chose to stop and he finally turn around. "I said too much! I'd release you from this prison cell if I could, but I can't! There's rules that must be obey!" He told them.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 22, 2011 22:33:34 GMT -5
"So you turned evil because you feel like you were wronged by your master and his master?" Su asks Tai Lung after he told them his explanation.
"So release us. Surely you are stronger than that snobby peacock." Ting Ting added when Tai Lung mentioned that he would release them but couldn't.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 22, 2011 22:46:37 GMT -5
Tai Lung didn't have time to nod to Su's question, but he also didn't reply to Ting-Ting's suggestion that night. Even if he could release them, it would against everything he and Shen had planned for and more. He would have to think out everything before the panda's arrival to them, and lord knows how long will that ever take? Soon maybe, if not when? If not why not now?
Meanwhile the next day, Po was preparing the next meal for the gang while Tigress was busy putting Shang into his training for the new shows she had teaching him! "Again!" She order as she watch him try his hardest. "Again!" She repeated. "Again!" She replied one last time. Shang was nearly done with his training, but there was one last test that needed to be done; fighting with Tigress, but she went easy on the human so he was not to be harmed.
Tigress smiled with pride. "Your training has paid off Master Shang!" She said, feeling very proud of him.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 22, 2011 23:10:08 GMT -5
Shang couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. It had taken some time and quite a bit of hard work to learn Tigress' moves but that was never a problem for him as several years of his life trying to impress his father made hard work and persistance as much a part of him as anything else.
Mulan smiled having watched them for awhile before walking over to Po. "Need any help?" She asks him.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 22, 2011 23:18:53 GMT -5
"Yeah thanks!" Po said to Mulan. It would be nice to have a second pair of hands to help around.
While Tigress and Shang were still underneath the works of their training, they were almost finish until the feline tiger heard not one, but two animals snickering and giggling from the bushes. Quietly, she stood still as her ears moved back and flicker. "Excuse me!" Tigress replies, excusing herself for a moment away from Shang and zip right into the chuckling animals that were hiding from the bushes. She had them pinned right up against a tree; it turn out to be Crane and Monkey.
"What are you doing here?! How long have you been hiding?!" Tigress bark seriously to the ape and the bird. "Tigress please!" Monkey begged. "SPARE US! We didn't do anything wrong!" Crane also begged, following along with what Monkey had just said. "Then tell me why!" She snarls. "We...we didn't mean to, we were just--" Crane try explaining, but Monkey stupidity had shouted "OH PLEASE DON'T KILL US TIGRESS! WE'RE SORRY!" He screeched.
Hearing enough of their begging for mercy, Tigress let them go. "If you tell ANYONE what you had just saw..."
"We won't! We PROMISE!" Crane says. "You SWEAR?" Tigress glares. "Yes! Not a word!" Monkey said too. "Cross our hearts and hope to die!" Crane says and by that, he crosses his heart with a feathery finger to prove it. "All right...you can go now!" "WHEW! Thank you Tigress!" Monkey thanked her and left with Crane following right after him.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 22, 2011 23:33:57 GMT -5
Mulan smiled before she began helping Po cook the meal for the group.
"What was that all about?" Shang asks Tigress noticing Monkey and Crane seeming to rush away quickly for some reason.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 22, 2011 23:46:21 GMT -5
Unknown to Crane, Monkey and Tigress, Mantis was on in watching the entire scene from start to finish from hiding at the top of the tree; the same one where it belong to the bush Crane and Monkey were using to spy on Tigress and Shang. He found it funny because no one out of all of them ever think about spying on Tigress in knowing what a rough and tough kitty she was. At times like this, Mantis was lucky he was small and why shouldn't he be? After all, he was a bug! He was not meant to be seen, not even at fast speed.
Mantis quickly hop off and zoom back to join the rest, but found himself to his surprise to find Cri-Kee and Mushu. "Hey! How's it going?" He greeted the cricket and pint-size small dragon.
"Don't know!" Tigress lies to Shang as she got back to him, shrugging her shoulders.
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Post by FaPingMulan on Aug 22, 2011 23:55:26 GMT -5
Shang nodded. He believed it as he sometimes felt that way about Ling, Yao, and Chein Po when they used to be up to something he didn't care enough to know about.
Mushu meanwhile was hiding in the tree not far above Mantis' hiding spot and noticing the look on the small creature's face from watching what was going on between Shang and Tigress below them it wasn't hard for him to guess that Mantis may be thinking the same thing as he was.
"You see it too don't you?" He whispered to him.
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Post by disneyfangirl on Aug 23, 2011 0:02:22 GMT -5
"YOU TOO? I knew something was going on!" Mantis says, keeping his tone down on low like Mushu's voice. "You don't think that maybe..." He asks. Was the dragon was on the same idea he was thinking of too?
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