Journey to the North

Chapter 1: Duty and order

Author's note: My sequel to Story of the white wolf. My first chapter. And school had started in Vietnam, and our schedule is VERY tight, so I'm sorry if the update took sooooooooooooooo long. Now, to the first chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own nothing from Kung Fu Panda.

The moon was high above, and the night was silent, peaceful. The breezing wind of summer blew through the trees. And far ahead, snowy mountains was visible. A figure was moving in the night, heading straight for the mountains. The white wolf traveled alone, he took no company of his old and newly met friends. He wanted no one to suffer from his own quest, from his own responsibility. This is his own fight, his choice, his burden to shoulder.

He was all alone. Alone in the night, heading straight for the Northern lands. Only the moon accompanied him. His strides, his silent movement, illuminated under the moon light. Wind breezed on his black cloak, blowing of his hood, revealing his face. He was young, proud, a young white wolf, a descendant from the North, last of his people, a fire wielder, learned from his time in the lion's lands of the South.( That's Africa) His body, was big as a tiger's, strong limbs, agile limbs. With him, was a black mamba named Za Shen, a life-long friend, bound with him during his time in the lion's lands. He learned Kung Fu, in his journey to China, taught by traveling monks that he rescued. He mastered it well, was what the monks thought. They were the ones that guided him to China. And on that journey, he met his soon-to-be love, Song, a clouded leopard. She was on her way to China after an unsuccessful attempt to turn the Ladies of the Shade from their ways of living. Alas, they fell in love, but their time wasn't long. Disaster came, from the very land Kann was born. Tarvon, a giant white bear warlord, had conquered the Hungs and all of the Northern tribes, and followed Kann to his newly found *home*. Kann fought against the bear's army, with the Furious Five, Po the Dragon Warrior, the imperial army and China's heroes he recruited on the way to the main battle field. He won, but received terrible news: Song was captured and brought to the Frozen lands of the North. And now, he went off alone, towards those dreadful lands he once called home, to rescue his love, and to put an end to the man behind this.

Kann moved swiftly in the night, all alone, carrying great duty, to put an end to his enemy, and, to rescue Song, the love of his life.

The morning gong rang loudly, waking the Five, and Za Shen. They had been doing this again for a while now, after the war was over. Za Shen had stayed behind, in request of his best friend Kann. Kann wanted him to live, truly live, while Kann headed for the North. Za Shen wasn't happy about that choice, but he let his friend go nontheless. Now he stayed with the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior. And, he was dating, first time ever, with none other than the graceful Viper. So far, they matched well. And everything was perfectly normal for all of the inhabitants of the Valley of Peace after the devastating war brought from the Northerners.

" I see you have accustomed yourself to our daily routines, Master Za Shen." Shifu said, clearly very satisfied of Za Shen being right on time.

" Well, it's not that hard." Replied Shen, hinted in his voice a bit of proud.

" Now, you'll have break fast, then move on to our daily training. I have some work I must attend to." Said Shifu, receiving bows from his old and new pupils.

The Five, Po and Za Shen headed for the kitchen. Po went right for his chief set, and quickly started to cook. Everyone was in their tables, talking. It was just like any other ordinary day in the Jade Palace, except there wasn't Kann around. Shen was sitting right next to Viper, the two had been dating since the war was over, and they were happy as ever. Since then, there was a new topic to *discuss* in the dining table. And most of the conversations were started by Monkey and Mantis.

" Seriously Monkey, this is getting old." Shen said, refering to Monkey's constant discusses with the rest of the Five about him and Viper.

" Why should I?" Monkey taunted, smiling.

" Come on guys. This isn't funny anymore." Said the sweet gentle voice of Viper.

" To you, not to us." Mantis replied, then the bug and the primate bursted out laughing.

" Alright guys, knock it off. Break fast's served!" Said Po, turning back with 7 boils of his signature noodles. He passed it professionally across the table, everyone else stopped their chattings and began to have break fast. Po looked around the room, watching each of his friends, seeing their satisfactions when they were eating his work just made him smile. Then he noticed Tigress, she wasn't eating like everyone else. She was deep in thought. Her amber eyes stared into the blank emptyness. Her eyes always captivated him. He never said it out loud, but he fell in love with those eyes long ago. First was the crush of a panda cub to his idol, and now was the love of a fellow comrade. And the reason, of his silence, was her own hard core nature, or so he thought. He was afraid of her denying him, so he kept his feelings hidden all these times. But one thing he didn't know, was her own feelings. True she hated him the first time he arrived, seemingly stealing her oppotunity of being the Dragon Warrior. But there was something about this panda, somehting that had pulled out her inner self. She had been changing since the day he came, and she had been thinking a lot since then too. Now, she was wondering, what was the strange feeling inside of her that had been surging whenever he was around. She had never shown it, just like him, she was being stuborn. Her nature, or half of her nature, was stuborn, hard core, or, so she thought. Shaking her thoughts aside, she looked up, right when Po was looking up. Their eyes met, and the two quickly shifted their gazes, hiding their blushing, unknown to the other. Then Tigress continued to eat. Po sat down as well and join the break fast.

" Hey, I was thinking, we should go to the Training Halls and help fixing the damaged parts." Said Shen.

" Well, I don't see why not." Replied Crane. No one seemed to protest to the idea.

" Well, a good pass time job then." Monkey said.

A panther walked in, carrying someone in his arms, into a dark chamber. He opened a door, walked in and put the person onto a small bed.

" I hope you're comfortable with your new room Miss Song." Said Balro, but was never acknowledged by Song. He stood up, went for the door. He stopped at the opened door.

" So sorry that it has to be this way." He said to the unconscious Song, then closed the door.

Author's note: alright, this took longer than I thought. Mainly because of my thick schedule. So there you go, the first chap of the sequel. Please review!