I opened my eyes and looked around. Everything was like it was supposed to be, but there was still something different… something in the air. It wasn't a smell or anything, but more like the aura of something. I sighed and got to my feet. I had spent the entire afternoon meditating, and maybe I just actually missed Hai. Of course I remember how I had been very annoyed at him at first, but I came to realize that was just how he was – besides, he even admitted it himself. He had been gone for five months now, and even when he left the restaurant back in Shan City, he hadn't even said goodbye to us. All we knew was that someone had seen him go aboard a ship, which had sailed away.

I left my room and exited the barracks. Everything at Jade Palace had been rebuilt to look just like it had before the attack that one night, maybe except the barracks, which had gotten somewhat bigger than before. The entire place had been leveled with the ground, thanks to Zhu's soldiers, but with the help of Qiu's royal builders, who had also rebuilt the destroyed parts of the Mao palace, the place quickly got to look like its old self again. But it still felt like something was missing – Hai.

This might sound a little weird, but I would almost give anything to hear him call me 'Kitty' or something again. But I guess he was out on the sea and becoming like his father – a pirate.

I came to the outside areas of Jade Palace where I found Monkey and Po sparring. The moon and the stars were already high on the sky, though the sky was still somewhat red and orange to the west. When the two saw me, they immediately smiled and waved at me. I just waved back and sent them a little faint smile. Suddenly I heard some noise coming from the village below the palace. I looked at the others and they nodded, as they had seemingly also heard it (Po seemed to take a little longer noticing it). Soon we were joined by Crane, Viper and Mantis and the six of us hurried down the staircase – just like in the old days before we met Hai.

As soon as we arrived, we saw that it was a group of wolverines from Zhu's army, who had nothing else to do, but to make havoc everywhere they came – most likely just for fun.

I charged the first pack of wolverines as we got into the village. I blocked a punch from one of them as I kicked another in the chest, sending him flying backwards. I blocked a wooden club from another wolverine and then hit him in the chest with both my fists. Soon we all fought against the wolverines, using our great and powerful techniques, but suddenly we saw that many, many more wolverines came into the village. It was almost like they had all targeted the Valley of Peace because they knew that we were there.

They weren't nearly as many as the ones we had fought in the Millennium War – yes, that's what the Masters decided to call it; a fitting name considering that Hai was the Millennium Warrior.

Soon we were cornered by wolverines, and even though we did our best to fight them off, they just kept coming. I kicked another wolverine in the head as the wolverines got closer and closer.

"Now what?" Monkey asked as we backed up against a wall. There was still a few meters between us and the wall and just as far between us and the wolverines.

Suddenly something hit one of the wolverines in the head. He fell to the ground, obviously passed out. Everyone turned their heads to the left and saw a black silhouette coming down an alley with the red sky in the background. This unknown person suddenly brought up his hands behind his shoulders and when he brought them further upwards, he revealed two swords, and soon he got into the light and…

My heart skipped a beat when I recognized the light brown fur with the black spots and stripes, as well as the blue vest and the black pants – Hai.

One thing that surprised me was that he wielded a pair of wooden swords still; I would have thought that he had somehow obtained metallic swords while he was away, but obviously he hadn't.

"Hi guys, missed me?" he asked with a snicker as the wolverines backed a little away. They all seemed to recognize him, but they didn't really look too intimidated.

"Hai?" Po asked in a very surprised tone. "What are you doing here?"

He sent us all a smile. "Saving you, what else?"

This was one of the first times in these five months that I had been this excited. I wanted to hug him, but I simply smiled back at him and otherwise kept my cool, even though simply smiling was pretty hard for me at this moment.

"What about you, Ti?" he asked and looked at me. "Did you miss me?"

"… Maybe," I said, trying my best to not smile too widely. I was sure he knew that I had, but he said nothing and just kept smiling.

Hai then turned towards the wolverines. He slid the blades of his wooden swords together as if to sharpen them and then said: "What do you say we give them a warm goodbye?"

We all nodded and walked up so that we stood on a line; furthest to the left was Monkey, then Mantis and Viper, then Po, Hai, me and Crane. Hai brought up his left sword, so that it was resting on his shoulders behind his head and pointed the tip of the wooden blade of the one in his right hand towards the wolverines. Oh, how I had missed that battle-stance. The rest of us also took on our respective battle stances.

"Okay, let's do this with epicness!" Hai shouted in a… epic way and soon we all six charged into battle. I was sure that Hai knew that he was where he was supposed to be now – he was home.

Hi guys! Obviously I lied to you! This is how I end this story! The sequel is soon to come, and if you've decided to stay with me and at least check it out, thank you. I want to personally thank all the people who have read this fanfic and told me how much they liked it, because without you guys' feeback, I wouldn't be able to change the story status from in-progress to complete! And as a special bonus, I've decided to post some BTW (Behind the words) stuff for you. It's really random and most of you guys will skip it, but I'll post it anyways, just for the heck of it!

1) I originally took on the name Timbit the Lynx-Angel and Lynx-Angel on deviantART because Hai was intended to be an angel that had fallen from Heaven - which I obviously decided to not use... So if you've ever thought "Hmm... this guy created Hai, who is a lynx, but why Lynx-Angel?" this is your answer. I may have neclected the idea, but I liked the name.
The sequel though, will have a character who is based off of this.

2) I may or may not hold the record of using most characters in an entire fanfiction - whether you count the more than three-thousand, unpresented Kung Fu Masters from the Millennium War or not. If you do count them and say you know one, then I'd gladly hear about a fic that beats more than three-thousand characters! :)

3) This story was packed with tons of references right from chapter one. Many of the references are towards the Super Sentai fanchise, which you guys in the US know as Power Rangers (Bleh! -_-).

- Hai is a based off of myself, but he's also a reference Captain Marvelous of Pirate Sentai Gokaiger and Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean, hence refering to them with his somewhat reckless methods.

- Shanqu is a reference to Doggie Kruger from Special-Investigation Sentai Dekaranger, also known as Anubis Kruger from Power Rangers SPD (Who isn't as cool, just saying).

- The Aerial Aliance is a reference to Bird-Man Sentai Jetman, whose motif was birds: a hawk, a condor, an owl, a swan and a swallow.

- The Storm Clan is a reference to Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger A.K.A Power Rangers Ninja Storm, which when you think about it, makes sense.

- The moment where Hai, Po and the Furious Five jump out from the palace, is a reference to the moment in Kung Fu Panda 2 where Po also tells the Five that he loves them.

- Gongzhu and Wangzi are a reference to Go-on Gold and Silver from Engine Sentai Go-Onger, also known as Rangers Operator Gold and Silver from Power Rangers RPM (The two psycho-twins whom everyone loves, right? XD)

4) Seventy-five percent of the story and its characters were made up on the spot. That's simply how I roll and also shows how much of the story was planned from the beginning - Hai had to find the greast treasure in the world and that was it.

5) The greatest treasure was originally supposed to be wisdom and experience in this story, but I changed it at the last moment.

6) The Storm Clan was pretty much an excuse for putting Japanese elements into the story, since it's a country that I quite love for its Tokusatsu and culture.

7) The Wu-Sisters were intentionally left out of the story because I literally didn't know what I should have done with them if I included them.

8) Striking Rhino was inserted to just have a little comic relief and a newbie-like character who's all buttery and such... don't know whether it was a success or a fail.

9) The reason why Hai got to have a blue vest was mainly because I usually wear blue... but it's also because of the rainbow-system. I realized this while writing. Mainly what it is, is that Hai, Po and the Furious Five all can represent the rainbow together: Tigress wears red, Monkey has orange-ish fur, Viper has yellow scales, Mantis is all green, Hai wears a blue vest, Crane wears dark blue pants and Po's fur is black, which as a light is represented as violet or purple, and together the seven colors of the rainbow!

10) Hai was originally supposed to own his own ship, or at least steal one.

11) All the dead Masters were originally supposed to return and fight as ghosts, but there were two problems; 1, how would a ghost be able to fight with no physical body? And 2, I'd need some kind of weird explanation afterwards.

12) The many scrolls the Mao family owns were supposed to be like the Dragon Scroll, just with different functions. That's why they were described to be made of metallic material instead of paper as you most likely noticed while reading.

13) Hai was supposed to decapitate Zhu, but I changed that, since... well, I guess it's kind of obvious, right? Too graphic for me to write about... besides, it's still KFP, right?

14) I originally planned on making a Hai/Fenghuang pairing, but dropped the idea, since I couldn't really fit it within the story... that is, unless you guys want it?

- The reason for that was because Fenghuang is and always will be my favorite villain from Legends of Awesomeness. Let's face it, we all love her.

15) Speaking of Legends of Awesomeness, I wrote it based off of that one episode with Fenghuang and from info gotten from the Kung Fu Panda Wikia, as I've only watched that episode... that's why I tried to shy as much away from the canon characters from the series as possible.

- Hai actually share some unintended similarities with Song: they're both felines, they both steal and they're both good on the inside... somewhat.

16) I planned on making some Crane/Mei Ling stuff, but I didn't because I'm an idiot who forgot about her existence at the end of the fic... man I feel stupid.

17) Jissai was mainly added to make some fun of Tai LungxTigress, as that's not a pairing I'm a big fan of... but making fun of it in a friendly way (Tai Lung/Tigress fans, please don't kill me...)

18) The Shift Jade was a reference to the Shift Gem, Orb, whatever, from Legends of Awesomeness, since I thought the whole illusion thing was kind of 'nah', so I just had to make something cooler!

- The idea about changing Mantis into a sword was... crazy, and I have no idea about where it came from.

19) Hai's birthday is the thirteenth of November - the day the idea of Kung Fu Pirate came to me somehow.

- Hai is this far the most successful and complex character I have created... let's see if Chikasha can live up to that!

20) The dragon from chapter twenty-one was completely ignored by the readers, so I can't wait to see how they're going to react to the sequel if they choose to ignore such a huge spoiler-element... -_-

So I hope that you enjoyed this little bit of travia - if you actually read it - and might have a better understanding for the things I chose to do inside the fic and why. Maybe it was even somewhat intertaining to read as it gave some fun little info you wouldn't have known otherwise.

So again, thanks to you guys for following me throught this half year of literature and epicness! And I feel blessed to finally write these words on this story:

- The End.