Heroes of Harmonyby HoneytongueChaptersPrologueChapter 1: On the Other SideChapter 2: Small Steps into a Strange WorldChapter 3: Cookies and CrownsPrologueAuthor's Note MLP:FiM and EG belong to Hasbro, the Hub and Lauren Faust Kung Fu Panda belongs to Dreamworks. Prologue Over two years had passed since Po, the Furious Five, and other Kung-Fu masters defeated the evilness of Lord Shen and his army. Since then, China lived under continuous peace and prosperity...or so it seemed. Until one day, when a goose came crashing into the Training Hall courtyard. "Wow, good thing we haven't started training yet." The Dragon Warrior remarked, as he and the others rushed towards the fallen waterfowl. "Quick, Mantis, go fetch Zeng!" Grandmaster Shifu told the praying mantis. "She seems to have been through a long rough flight." When they got closer, they could see how right Shifu was. There were holes in her yellow garment, missing grey feathers plucked from her body, and signs of bruises and scratches along the exposed areas. Tigress' eyes seemed to harden more than usual, as she examined this. "Looks like the work of Crow bandits." She growled. "Are you alright?" Viper asked the goose, who was trying to get up while panting heavily. "I'm..." the goose tried to reply between breaths. "I'm..I'm alright." She opened her eyes finally, revealing them to be pointing in different directions. "You don't exactly look alright." Crane pointed out. "Is...Is this...the...Jade...Palace?" the goose asked. "Yes it is." Shifu answered as he approached her. "And I am Master Shifu. Who might you be?" "Dezhi." the goose replied and handed Shifu a scroll that she was still clinging on tightly to her webbed feet. "From...Ma-...Mast...Master Lian." "Master Lian!" Shifu gasped as he opened the scroll up. "Master Lian?!" Po said enthusiastically. "The Master Lian?!" "Who is Master Lian?" Monkey asked in confusion. The others seemed to be just as confused as he was. "You guys don't know who Master Lian is?" Po asked in surprise. "Eldest of the two legendary Celestial Sisters?" Four shaking heads answered him. Before Po could tell them; Mantis, Zeng, and two other servant geese, carrying a stretcher-bearer, had just rushed into the courtyard. As they approached Dezhi to put her on the stretcher-bearer, Shifu turned his attention away from the scroll and towards Zeng. "Put her someplace cool and comfortable." he instructed the goose. "Give her plenty of water to drink, and have her injuries attended to." "Right away Master Shifu." Zeng replied and bowed. As the four geese departed from the Training Hall courtyard, Shifu returned to reading the scroll. Meanwhile, Po started explaining to the Five about who the Celestial Sisters were. Po, being the ultimate fan-boy of Kung Fu, seemed to know almost everything and everyone that was involved with it. At times, this even amazed the other masters, who had been doing Kung Fu longer than him. "The Celestial Sisters are the two co-ruling Kung Fu master siblings, of the legendary Land of Harmony. Different from each other as day and night, yet equal in their martial prowess. Like two powerful peas in a pod of Awesomeness! Said to have been rescued when they were young by Master Oogway himself, from the evil bondage of cruel kidnappers. From that moment on, they trained together, under Ooogway's teachings, and became a deadly dynamic duo of dread to all doers of no-good. They defeated the Demon of Mount Lung-Ma, subdued the Sapphire King of Suxi, and totally Kayoed the Queen of the Golden Jackal Clan. With the Celestial Sisters watching over them, from the Palace of Blooming Lotus, the people of the Land of Harmony have lived happily there-" "Until now." Shifu interrupted gravely, as he stopped reading the scroll and faced his students. "Until Now!" Po repeated Shifu's words dramatically. Suddenly realizing what he had said, he turned to Shifu in confusion. "Wait, what?" "There is a new threat to the Land of Harmony, one that the Celestial Sisters have been unable to remove. A young warlord and her bandit army have been using the surrounding forest mountains to cut it off from the rest of China." "Woah, that's gotta be one big army then." Po muttered. "That would strongly suggest how and why Dezhi got attacked by crow bandits." Tigress remarked. "They probably don't want any outside help being sent to stop them." "Which is exactly why Master Lian has asked us to come help stop this warlord." Shifu said. "Really?" Po asked excitedly. "Awesome! We are going right?" "Of course we are. I knew Master Lian from a long while back." Shifu replied as he rolled the scroll up. "We must gather what we need for three days travel." "Alright, Yeah! Let's go get...ummm...Who is it we're going to stop anyways?" "I'm not really sure Po." Shifu glanced at the Dragon Warrior. "The warlord's name is not Chinese in origin. All that Master Lian wrote were five characters: Sun-Shan Shi-Ma-Er." Chapter 1: On the Other SideSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.Chapter 2: Small Steps into a Strange World"Hey, are you two alright?" the white wolf called out to Twilight and Spike, as she and the grey wolf approached them. Somehow sensing that they weren't a threat, but still feeling unease, Twilight manged to reply back. "Uh, yes. We're fine." "Well that's good." the white she-wolf with purple spectacles said with some relief. She glanced over at the other she-wolf carrying the stringed instrument. "Li Qin thought she heard screaming over here." "I did hear screaming you mean." Li Qin remarked. "And I'm still surprised you didn't hear it Chang Xue." "Hey, I already said I was sleeping when it happened." Chang Xue pointed out. Li Qin rolled her eyes, then turned towards Twilight and Spike. "Was it one of you who screamed?" "Well, yeah it was me." Twilight admitted. "Sorry if I was disturbing you at all." "It's alright. You're not exactly the first one to disturb me while practicing my erhu." Li Qin looked at her stringed instrument, and then briefly at Chang Xue, before returning to Twilight. "Why were you screaming anyways?" she asked. Twilight quickly tried to come up with an excuse. "I was uhh...doing a special kind of therapy. It's suppose to help relieve stress." "Really?" Chang Xue spoke curiously. "Maybe I should give it a try." Just as she took a deep breath, Li Qin stopped her. "I'll be the one needing stress relief if you do." She growled with a warning. "It's hard enough finding peace and quiet back home whenever you play your dagu drum nearly all the time!" "At least you're now in the right place if you want peace and quiet." Chang Xue replied sweetly as she stretched out her arms to indicate the beautiful scenery. "Besides, you know I promised those three girls I'd help accompany them with their Lion Dance for the Autumn Moon Festival." "Autumn Moon Festival?" Spike said with confusion and interest. "Is that anything like Nightmare Moon Night?" "Nightmare Moon Night?" both wolves said at once as they looked towards Spike. "Oh, it's just a special event we have where we're from." Twilight intervened. "Everypony- I mean- everybody dresses up in costumes, while children are given candy, games are played, scary stories are told and stuff. I guess that's not anything like what you were talking about, is it?" "Not really." Chang Xue replied. "But that does sound like fun!" "So, you two are actually not from around here then?" Li Qin asked as she stared at Spike and Twilight. "Oh my gong you're right Li!" Chang Xue realized as she looked at her friend and then back at Twilight and Spike. "That explains why I've never seen you guys before." "Yeah, he-he, I guess that would." Twilight agreed nervously as she turned around and started walking along the path again. "Nice meeting you both, but we better be going now, so-" "Hold on!" Chang Xue said. "Why the rush? It's not every day we meet someone new in the Land of Harmony, and besides, you haven't even introduced yourselves yet." "Oh right! Of course, I forgot, umm...I'm Twilight Sparkle." "And I'm Spike!" the panda added in. "Those are some cool names." Chang Xue said. "But they don't sound very Chinese either. Mandarin or Cantonese." Li Qin noted. "Chinese?" Twilight repeated that new word. "Yeah you know? Chinese; as in China, as in the place where we are right now." Chang Xue said as she took off her spectacles, revealing two magenta eyes. When she noticed the strangers didn't seem to get it, she joked. "What rock did you two crawl out from?" "One that looks like a giant turtle?" Spike answered. Twilight gave him a quick glare. The two wolves suddenly grew wide expressions as they stared at the Tonkinese cat and her panda cub companion for what seemed like a long time. Only the rustling of leaves in the breeze, the distant sound of wind chimes and flowing water filled the void of empty silence. The silence finally ended when Chang Xue started to laugh uncontrollably, as she rolled against the ground on her back. "Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! 'One that looks like a'- Bah Ha He Ha! Oh-ho, oh my, I- I can't believe you actually said that!" "Yeah, me neither." Twilight muttered. "Oh grow up Chang." Li Qin said to her friend with annoyance and embarrassment. "It wasn't even that funny." "Yes it was- Ha Ha Ha!" Chang Xue said between fits of laughter. "The best I've heard in a long while." Wanting to change the subject, Twilight pointed towards the strange white building in the distance, as she asked the wolves. "So, does this path lead towards that castle over there?" "You mean the Palace of Blooming Lotus? No." Li Qin replied. "But it does lead to the Tower of Beating Wings if you want a better view of it." "No thanks. I just need to know how to get there from here." "Easy!" said Chang Xue, who had finally stopped laughing and began to clean her purple spectacles. "After you go outside the Moon Gate, turn right, and then follow the main road the rest of the way." "And where do I find the Moon Gate?" Twilight asked. "It's the big round entrance that you went through to get into Oogway Garden." Li Qin answered and pointed towards the direction on the path she and Chang Xue had come from. "If that is how you got in here anyways." "Umm, okay, thank you very much." Twilight said as she started walking, with Spike right beside her. "Nice day to be on all fours is it?" Chang Xue remarked. "What?" Twilight said as she turned around. She suddenly realized that both Spike and the wolves were standing on their hind legs. Feeling embarrassed, she replied back. "I... thought it would help me move twice as fast." "Makes perfect sense to me." Chang Xue said as she waved. "Take care of yourselves now." "You too." Spike called back, as he and Twilight walked out of sight from the wolves. Twilight struggled as she tried to stand up, and wobbled with each step. She soon learned to use her new tail to help gain balance. Turning towards Twilight, Spike finally decided to ask her something that had been on his mind. "Twilight, why didn't you tell them what we were actually doing here? They might have known something about the crown." Twilight sighed before she answered him. "I was going to, but then I thought, what if one of them had showed up in Equestria, claiming they came from a place called 'China' where non-pony animals walked on two legs and wore strange clothing like this, we would think they were crazy! Besides, you saw how they reacted when you mentioned the turtle rock." "Yeah..I guess you're right." Spike admitted. "But didn't those wolves look familiar to you?" "What do you mean?" Twilight asked. The last wolves she remembered meeting were Timber Wolves near the edge of the Everfree Forest. And they weren't anything like the two she just talked with, in more ways than one. Spike began scratching himself on the head. "Well, I can't help but feel like I've seen them before somewhere, or at least Chang Xue anyhow." "You mean back in Equestria!?" Twilight said with disbelief. "Are you sure?" "Not really," he admitted, "but she does remind me of a certain pony I've seen once or twice. Must be those glasses she's wearing." He glanced back over his shoulder, wondering if he could see the white she-wolf anywhere. "Must be- Wow!" Twilight lost her footing and fell flat on her face. Slowly she got up, but still found it hard to stand on her hind legs again. She grabbed a near by bamboo stalk for support. "Come on Spike. I do not want to be like this any longer than I have to." "Look on the bright side." Spike noted as he helped her. "You don't have those pesky wings to worry about anymore." Twilight glared at him for a few seconds before continuing along the path. Had she not been too busy trying to learn how to walk on two legs, or that she needed to find her crown within three days or be stuck here for another thirty moons, she actually would have found this garden really enjoyable. The combination of rocks, plants, architecture and water seemed to be in harmonious balance with each other, to compose a sense of beauty and peace. Every turn along the serpentine path she was following, seemed to open up to a new glimpse of a different scenery in the garden. She wondered if her friend Fluttershy would have found this place better than the private garden in Canterlot. Then Twilight started wishing she had all of her Ponyville friends with her now. She wondered if they would have turned into cats like her too, or perhaps into different kinds of animals? How could five more ponies really upset the balance of this strange new world anyways? Would their presence have actually made it harder for Twilight to get her crown back? Or was Princess Celestia, by sending Twilight on this mission alone, secretly trying to test her, just like when they had been teacher and student not so long ago? But if so, was it a test of Friendship, or a test of being Princess? Maybe it was both, or perhaps neither. As they walked across a bridge, Twilight took the opportunity to finally look at her reflection in the water. Her face and ears were dark brown like her paws and tail. The rest of her head and neck was coffee brown. Her almond shaped violet eyes were the only features familiar enough to indicate who she was looking at. She sighed heavily as Spike's reflection appeared right beside hers. "You okay Twilight?" he asked while placing a paw along Twilight's shoulder. "I mean, you're not going to start talking to your new self, are you?" "No." Twilight said reassuringly, but still feeling troubled. "I just wanted to see how I actually look like now, and... try to get use to it." Spike looked at Twilight, then at their reflections. "Well, if it helps at all, you seem to look good as a cat to me." "Thanks, same with you." she replied without so much as glance. "Also, we must be getting closer to the Moon Gate now." He pointed towards several buildings and a white wall. Looking up at the direction Spike was mentioning,Twilight let out another sigh and then faced the panda. "You know Spike, I am glad to hear that we'll be leaving this garden soon, but at the same time-" "You feel like you just wanna stay here." Spike said as he put down the sack he had been carrying and began to look inside it. "I know exactly what you mean. This place is amazingly beautiful! Not to mention delicious." "Yes it is- Delicious?" She watched as Spike pulled out two peaches from the sack, and proceeded to eat them both. "Where did you get those?" Between mouthfuls, Spike answered, "From that strange peach tree near the portal, with all of its fruit and blossoms still on it, remember? Why? Do you want some?" Putting one of the peaches in his mouth, he went over to reach into the bag again. "No. And do you think it's a good idea to be picking and eating fruit from a tree that you thought was 'strange'?" Twilight wasn't sure if there was perhaps something magical about this tree. She hadn't really noticed it herself at the time. And if it was, she wouldn't be able to do anything to help Spike, since she didn't have her horn. After eating the peach in his mouth, Spike pulled out another one, as he reassured Twilight. "Don't worry, I already tried five of them before you woke up. Nothing strange has happened yet so far...aside from everything else that is. Besides, we didn't exactly have breakfast before we left, and this new body isn't helping much either." He began munching away once more, with peach juice dripping down his mouth and paws. Before Twilight could give Spike a real good mouthful of something, she began to hear the distant sound of some kind of music playing. It went from a sad melodious tune, to a joyous jig. It was nothing like any music she had ever heard before. But it seemed to be almost singing as she kept on listening, and when it finally ended, she found herself weeping and smiling at the same. Turning to Spike, who had been weeping too but also eating and dancing as well, she asked. "Do you think that was Li Qin playing on her Erhu she mentioned?" "If it is," Spike noted, "She certainly is really good at it." "Yes," Twilight agreed. "I wonder if she'll do an encore soon." After throwing away the peach pits lying on the bridge, and wiping his paws, Spike slowly picked up the bag. "Probably a good time to go find that Moon Gate now before she does. Or we may find ourselves staying in this garden for another thirty moons after all." "You're right Spike," Twilight realized as she got up. "As beautiful as this place is, it's not our home. And our home remains in danger so long as my crown and Element of Harmony remains in this world." "To the Mooooooon- Gate!" Spike proclaimed as he and Twilight reached the other side of the bridge. Author's Note Who else felt that someone should have asked Twilight why she was screaming in that scene of EG? Chapter 3: Cookies and CrownsWhen Twilight finally found her way to the Moon Gate, it felt as if she had once again stepped through another portal into a different world. The tranquil and beautiful atmosphere of Oogway Garden was replaced by the bustling activity of many animal citizens going about their daily lives. Most of the population seemed to contain ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, goats and sheep. They all wore clothing and were walking around on two legs, though some were ridding on two-wheeled carts pulled by antelopes. Twilight and Spike kept close to each other while making their way along the main road. An occasional glance at the Tonkinese cat and panda cub would be made from some of the animals they passed by. Despite the many sounds all around her, Twilight was able to pick up a faint, yet familiar, voice coming from a nearby side street. "Oh, I'm-I'm so sorry-" The voice said with fear. "I didn't know!" "Fluttershy?" Twilight murmured. "Huh?" replied Spike. Twilight motioned him to be silent and follow her, as she went towards the side street, trying to locate the voice. "I-I just found it, and thought I should give it to her. I didn't know 'You' had dropped it!" They turned around an alleyway corner, and saw two figures at the end of it. One was an elephant wearing a light yellow robe with cyan trimming, and a pink sash. She was trying to hide herself behind a pink parasol. The other appeared to be some type of big cat wearing a black cape and a red and golden hood. "Well I did," said the hooded figure, whose back was towards Twilight's view, as she pointed at the elephant. "And I would've had it if You and your big nose hadn't scooped it up on me! You really shouldn't take things that don't belong to you." Not making any eye contact, the elephant muttered softly. "It, it doesn't really belong to you either." "Excuse Me?!!" The big cat snarled as she lunged closer to the elephant, pressing her against the wall, while brandishing a katar. The elephant squeaked with terror at the sight of the bladed weapon only inches away from her throat. "N-nothing!" She quickly replied while slowly sliding down to the ground. "That's what I thought!" the figure remarked. Twilight's reaction instantly changed from shock to pure rage. The pupils in her eyes turned to thin slits, while her ears folded back and her whiskers pointed forwards. Spike also looked ready to do something. "You're such a pathetic pachyderm." the figure continued. "It's no wonder your only friends are a bunch of parent-less children." Finally hearing enough, Twilight emerged from around the corner, and stood in the middle of the alleyway entrance. Her shadow seemed to be towering over the two larger animals. "How DARE you speak to her that way!" she yowled at the hooded figure. The figure stopped and turned around towards Twilight. "What did you say?!" She growled lowly as she unsheathed the claws in her free hand. Twilight began to walk towards the big cat as she growled back. "I said; 'How dare you speak to her that way'." As the two cats got closer, Twilight could see more of the figure's frontal view. The reverse side of her cape was the same wavy red and golden pattern of her hood, resembling flames as she moved, and was held together by a jade brooch. She wore a sleeveless sky magenta shirt, with black trimming, and a flaming half-red-half-yellow sun. A studded black leather belt was wrapped around her waist, and a matching pair of wrist guards on her striped orange-tawny and rust-red arms. Her pants were bright orange, the lower part of her legs wrapped in light yellow cloth, and she had sandals similar to Twilight's. Beneath the big cat's hood, her mint-green eyes reflected the morning sunlight, and large white teeth barred while growling. Twilight growled louder, as they kept slowly advancing towards each other. When the space between them was only a couple steps away, they finally stopped and stared at each other, for what seemed to last for eternity. Then the big cat stopped growling and gave a smug grin, as she flicked her tail at Twilight's nose. "You obviously don't know who I am, do you?" The big cat asked while putting her katar away and pulling her hood back, revealing her face to have both features of a lioness and a tigress. "No." Twilight rubbed her nose and replied. "And I could care less." The ligress chuckled at this remark and bent down so her face met Twilight's. "Well, you really should." she purred in amusement, then proceeded to get up and walk past Twilight. "I can talk to anyone, anyway I want." Taking notice of a duck and a pig watching nearby, the ligress quickly moved right in front of them, and gave a threatening snarl. The pig and duck ran away screaming in panic as they tried to find a place to hide. When the on-lookers had disappeared, the ligress returned her attention on Twilight, giving the same smug expression from earlier. "Because everyone here knows, that I can do anything I want, to anyone... who gets in my way." she growled those last five words slowly. Twilight did not so much as flinch at this. "I've dealt with worse things than you." "Really?" the ligress asked with mocking interest. "That's big talk for a wittle putty tat." Suddenly a crow came flying down into the alley. It landed right beside the ligress, holding a scroll in one of its clawed feet. "This better be important." the ligress said with annoyance for being interrupted. The crow handed the scroll to her and replied. "Ma'am, if it wasn't, I wouldn't be here." The ligress opened the scroll's seal with one of her claws, then proceeded to read it. This didn't last too long, as she quickly rolled it back up and returned it to the crow. There seemed to be a hint of urgency coming from her. "Tell them I'm on my way!" She instructed. "And have all available re-enforcements sent over." "Yes Ma'am." croaked the crow as it took off. The ligress watched as the black bird disappeared from view, then turned towards Twilight once again. "Consider yourself lucky that I have more pressing matters to deal with. But I Will be back looking for you to finish our little chat. So if I were you, I'd take this rare opportunity to leave as far away from this place as possible. I hear it's lovely in Mongolia this time of year." She grinned slyly after saying that last part. With a sudden burst of speed and acrobatic skill, she leaped and climbed her way up towards the rooftop of a building facing the alley entrance. "So until then, zaijian." she said while giving a wave-salute like gesture. Before Twilight could figure out where she had seen that gesture before, the ligress was gone. A long silence filled the alley as she kept staring at the spot where the big cat had last been. The sound of movement from behind broke her trance, as she watched the elephant getting up. "I can't believe you just did that!" she spoke with a mixture of shock and awe. Twilight shrugged and replied. "I couldn't just stand there and watch!' "Oh! Well, no- I mean- it's just that..." the elephant said as she began fidgeting with her parasol. Then she stopped, looked directly at Twilight and said sincerely. "No one's Ever stood up to Sunset Shimmer like That before." "Sunset Shimmer?!" Twilight gasped in surprise, as she repeated the name and instinctively looked over her shoulder. Her mind was now suddenly putting all the pieces together. The gesture, those colours, her voice, it all made sense now! Sunset Shimmer was the whole reason Twilight was here in the first place. The former student of Princess Celestia had used the portal to return to Equestria from this world, and stolen Twilight's crown! Except, in Equestria, Sunset Shimmer had been a unicorn, while in this world she was now a... "You've heard of her?" the elephant asked. "Sort of." Twilight admitted. "I don't think I've ever seen you around here before." said the elephant as she briefly looked down at her feet. Realizing neither one knew each others' name yet, Twilight meowed cheerfully. "I'm Twilight Sparkle by the way." The elephant, whom Twilight had mentally referred to her as Elephant Fluttershy, glanced at Twilight for a moment before replying very softly. "I'm...I'm Feiwuni." Twilight pricked her ears up as she moved a bit closer. "Sorry, what was that?" "I'm Feiwuni." Said the elephant in that very soft tone again. "Didn't really quite get that." Twilight meowed as she moved closer again. "It's Feiwuni!" the elephant squeaked while using the pink parasol to hide her face. Twilight took a few steps back to give Feiwuni some space. "You know, this is probably gonna sound crazy, but you remind me of someone I know." The parasol came down slightly. Feiwuni looked at Twilight, then towards the alley entrance, where Spike had just appeared from his hiding place. Her expression instantly changed from timid to ecstatic. "Oh My Goodness!" she squealed with glee as she rushed towards Spike. "Aaaaah!" Twilight screamed, just barely getting out of the way from the one-elephant stampede. Spike quickly began to back up when Feiwuni stopped right in front of him. "Who's This little guy?" She asked while kneeling down to have a closer look at the panda cub. Twilight emerged from between two baskets and replied back. "That's Spike. He's...Uh..My little panda." A sudden gasp of delight came from the elephant. "You mean, you adopted him?!" She asked while turning around to face Twilight. "I guess you could say that." Twilight answered sheepishly. "Oh, that is so amazing!" Feiwuni focused her attention back on Spike, beaming a large smile on her face, while petting him with her trunk. "I have never seen a baby panda this close before. He's Soooooo Cute." "Well, well." Spike said smugly, in the same way he had done when Fluttershy had first met him. "Talk about deja vu." "Oooh, and he talks too!" Feiwuni rummaged her trunk inside a bag she had been carrying, and pulled out a saucer-sized cookie. "Would you like an almond cookie?" Spike's eyes appeared to bulge out while he stared at the cookie and licked his lips. "Yeeessss, Pleeeeeeeease." "Such nice manners." Feiwuni cooed sweetly and gave the cookie to him. "Here you go." "Wow. It's, it's a really Big cookie." Spike gazed at it for a moment, before eating it noisily. "Umm! Num-Nom-Num!" Feiwuni sighed as she spoke to Twilight. "You must feel really lucky to have him." "Oh yeah." Twilight purred in agreement. "I don't know what I'd do without him." Twilight realized that now was the perfect moment to get some answers from Feiwuni. "Sunset Shimmer had mentioned earlier you had something that she claimed was hers. Something really important. It wasn't a crown by any chance was it?" Feiwuni had been only half-listening to Twilight, while she was petting Spike and giving him more cookies. When the crown was mentioned, she stopped what she was doing entirely, and turned to Twilight in pure amazement. "How did You know that?" "Uh, lucky guess, hehe." Twilight quickly replied and then asked anxiously. "Do you still have it?" "Bu." was all that Feiwuni replied as she shook her head. Taking that as a 'no', Twilight felt disappointed at first. However, she pressed on. "But you do know what happened to it?" "Shi." A nodding head came from the elephant this time. "Earlier this morning, I was outside Oogway Garden's Moon Gate giving out volunteer fliers for Yinghuo Orphanage, like I do every Wednesday. But, like almost every other Wednesday, no one took any of my fliers. That of course made me upset and disappointed, since the orphanage really needs more volunteers, and I always couldn't seem to get anyone's attention. I went to sit down behind one of the two stone Guardian lions, and started to cry, when something hard and metallic hit me on the head. After saying 'Ow' and rubbing my head, I looked around to see a strange little golden crown, with a purple star-shaped jewel, lying nearby. Picking it up with my trunk, I had a closer look at it. I don't know where it came from, but I knew it looked very important. So I went over to see Master Lian, and gave it to her for safe keeping." "Master Lian?" Twilight repeated the name. "Is she like the ruler around here?" "She's the Land of Harmony's senior Kung Fu master," Feiwuni answered. "Along with her sister, Master Ming-Yue, if that's what you mean." "Where can I find her?" Twilight asked. "At the Palace of Blooming Lotus." the elephant replied as she got up. "Well that's good to know," Spike remarked, while rubbing cookie crumbs off his face. "We were just heading there anyways." "Thanks." Twilight said to Feiwuni, as she and Spike started heading down the side-street. "You're welcome.' Feiwuni called back to them. "Oh, Wait!" Twilight and Spike stopped and looked back at Feiwuni. "Yes?" They both asked at the same time. "Umm," Feiwuni began, as she twirled her parasol nervously. "If it's alright with you- I mean- when you're done seeing Master Lian that is...Would you like to have lunch with me later? Unless of course, you have other plans, which is also fine, " "I'm sure we can arrange that." Twilight mewed cheerfully. "Oh, really? Yay!" Feiwuni started clapping her large round flat forelegs together, just like how a pony would have done. "I wanted to thank you for what you did back there. Does lunch at Jade Hare noodle-shop sound good to you?" "Okay." Twilight replied, then started to head towards the main road. Then she realized she didn't know where Jade Hare noodle-shop was. So she stopped, and turned back to ask Feiwuni the directions. Before she could ask, Feiwuni started giving them to her. "It's the last building on your right, towards the Palace, before you reach the bridge. It will also be the building with the most decorations for the Autumn Moon Festival. You can't miss it." "Thanks." Twilight said. Just then, the distant sound of a bell could be heard. "Oh my goodness! I forgot," Feiwuni gasped in realization. "I'm late! The children are probably starting to worry about me or something." Spike and Twilight moved aside to allow Feiwuni to pass through. "See you around the Hour of the Horse." she added before she went down the main road in the direction Twilight and Spike had come from. The two of them watched as the crowd immediately began to part away, for the on-coming elephant with the yellow robe and pink parasol. "Excuse me! Sorry! Thank you! Pardon me! Sorry!" Feiwuni kept saying, until she finally turned along a side street, and was out of sight. "Well that certainly was interesting." Twilight noted, as she and Spike proceeded to continue their journey towards the Palace of Blooming Lotus. Author's Note So, we finally have our newest chapter up. Yes, Sunset Shimmer is basically a Liger in this world [*braces for in-coming 'Napaleon Dynamite' reference jokes*], and Fluttershy is an elephant [bet no one saw that coming, but makes sense when you think about it]. Hopefully Chapter 4 won't take as long to make, and of course I still have yet to make a chapter with the P.O.V of Po and the other KFP characters.
PrologueAuthor's Note MLP:FiM and EG belong to Hasbro, the Hub and Lauren Faust Kung Fu Panda belongs to Dreamworks. Prologue Over two years had passed since Po, the Furious Five, and other Kung-Fu masters defeated the evilness of Lord Shen and his army. Since then, China lived under continuous peace and prosperity...or so it seemed. Until one day, when a goose came crashing into the Training Hall courtyard. "Wow, good thing we haven't started training yet." The Dragon Warrior remarked, as he and the others rushed towards the fallen waterfowl. "Quick, Mantis, go fetch Zeng!" Grandmaster Shifu told the praying mantis. "She seems to have been through a long rough flight." When they got closer, they could see how right Shifu was. There were holes in her yellow garment, missing grey feathers plucked from her body, and signs of bruises and scratches along the exposed areas. Tigress' eyes seemed to harden more than usual, as she examined this. "Looks like the work of Crow bandits." She growled. "Are you alright?" Viper asked the goose, who was trying to get up while panting heavily. "I'm..." the goose tried to reply between breaths. "I'm..I'm alright." She opened her eyes finally, revealing them to be pointing in different directions. "You don't exactly look alright." Crane pointed out. "Is...Is this...the...Jade...Palace?" the goose asked. "Yes it is." Shifu answered as he approached her. "And I am Master Shifu. Who might you be?" "Dezhi." the goose replied and handed Shifu a scroll that she was still clinging on tightly to her webbed feet. "From...Ma-...Mast...Master Lian." "Master Lian!" Shifu gasped as he opened the scroll up. "Master Lian?!" Po said enthusiastically. "The Master Lian?!" "Who is Master Lian?" Monkey asked in confusion. The others seemed to be just as confused as he was. "You guys don't know who Master Lian is?" Po asked in surprise. "Eldest of the two legendary Celestial Sisters?" Four shaking heads answered him. Before Po could tell them; Mantis, Zeng, and two other servant geese, carrying a stretcher-bearer, had just rushed into the courtyard. As they approached Dezhi to put her on the stretcher-bearer, Shifu turned his attention away from the scroll and towards Zeng. "Put her someplace cool and comfortable." he instructed the goose. "Give her plenty of water to drink, and have her injuries attended to." "Right away Master Shifu." Zeng replied and bowed. As the four geese departed from the Training Hall courtyard, Shifu returned to reading the scroll. Meanwhile, Po started explaining to the Five about who the Celestial Sisters were. Po, being the ultimate fan-boy of Kung Fu, seemed to know almost everything and everyone that was involved with it. At times, this even amazed the other masters, who had been doing Kung Fu longer than him. "The Celestial Sisters are the two co-ruling Kung Fu master siblings, of the legendary Land of Harmony. Different from each other as day and night, yet equal in their martial prowess. Like two powerful peas in a pod of Awesomeness! Said to have been rescued when they were young by Master Oogway himself, from the evil bondage of cruel kidnappers. From that moment on, they trained together, under Ooogway's teachings, and became a deadly dynamic duo of dread to all doers of no-good. They defeated the Demon of Mount Lung-Ma, subdued the Sapphire King of Suxi, and totally Kayoed the Queen of the Golden Jackal Clan. With the Celestial Sisters watching over them, from the Palace of Blooming Lotus, the people of the Land of Harmony have lived happily there-" "Until now." Shifu interrupted gravely, as he stopped reading the scroll and faced his students. "Until Now!" Po repeated Shifu's words dramatically. Suddenly realizing what he had said, he turned to Shifu in confusion. "Wait, what?" "There is a new threat to the Land of Harmony, one that the Celestial Sisters have been unable to remove. A young warlord and her bandit army have been using the surrounding forest mountains to cut it off from the rest of China." "Woah, that's gotta be one big army then." Po muttered. "That would strongly suggest how and why Dezhi got attacked by crow bandits." Tigress remarked. "They probably don't want any outside help being sent to stop them." "Which is exactly why Master Lian has asked us to come help stop this warlord." Shifu said. "Really?" Po asked excitedly. "Awesome! We are going right?" "Of course we are. I knew Master Lian from a long while back." Shifu replied as he rolled the scroll up. "We must gather what we need for three days travel." "Alright, Yeah! Let's go get...ummm...Who is it we're going to stop anyways?" "I'm not really sure Po." Shifu glanced at the Dragon Warrior. "The warlord's name is not Chinese in origin. All that Master Lian wrote were five characters: Sun-Shan Shi-Ma-Er."
Chapter 1: On the Other SideSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Chapter 2: Small Steps into a Strange World"Hey, are you two alright?" the white wolf called out to Twilight and Spike, as she and the grey wolf approached them. Somehow sensing that they weren't a threat, but still feeling unease, Twilight manged to reply back. "Uh, yes. We're fine." "Well that's good." the white she-wolf with purple spectacles said with some relief. She glanced over at the other she-wolf carrying the stringed instrument. "Li Qin thought she heard screaming over here." "I did hear screaming you mean." Li Qin remarked. "And I'm still surprised you didn't hear it Chang Xue." "Hey, I already said I was sleeping when it happened." Chang Xue pointed out. Li Qin rolled her eyes, then turned towards Twilight and Spike. "Was it one of you who screamed?" "Well, yeah it was me." Twilight admitted. "Sorry if I was disturbing you at all." "It's alright. You're not exactly the first one to disturb me while practicing my erhu." Li Qin looked at her stringed instrument, and then briefly at Chang Xue, before returning to Twilight. "Why were you screaming anyways?" she asked. Twilight quickly tried to come up with an excuse. "I was uhh...doing a special kind of therapy. It's suppose to help relieve stress." "Really?" Chang Xue spoke curiously. "Maybe I should give it a try." Just as she took a deep breath, Li Qin stopped her. "I'll be the one needing stress relief if you do." She growled with a warning. "It's hard enough finding peace and quiet back home whenever you play your dagu drum nearly all the time!" "At least you're now in the right place if you want peace and quiet." Chang Xue replied sweetly as she stretched out her arms to indicate the beautiful scenery. "Besides, you know I promised those three girls I'd help accompany them with their Lion Dance for the Autumn Moon Festival." "Autumn Moon Festival?" Spike said with confusion and interest. "Is that anything like Nightmare Moon Night?" "Nightmare Moon Night?" both wolves said at once as they looked towards Spike. "Oh, it's just a special event we have where we're from." Twilight intervened. "Everypony- I mean- everybody dresses up in costumes, while children are given candy, games are played, scary stories are told and stuff. I guess that's not anything like what you were talking about, is it?" "Not really." Chang Xue replied. "But that does sound like fun!" "So, you two are actually not from around here then?" Li Qin asked as she stared at Spike and Twilight. "Oh my gong you're right Li!" Chang Xue realized as she looked at her friend and then back at Twilight and Spike. "That explains why I've never seen you guys before." "Yeah, he-he, I guess that would." Twilight agreed nervously as she turned around and started walking along the path again. "Nice meeting you both, but we better be going now, so-" "Hold on!" Chang Xue said. "Why the rush? It's not every day we meet someone new in the Land of Harmony, and besides, you haven't even introduced yourselves yet." "Oh right! Of course, I forgot, umm...I'm Twilight Sparkle." "And I'm Spike!" the panda added in. "Those are some cool names." Chang Xue said. "But they don't sound very Chinese either. Mandarin or Cantonese." Li Qin noted. "Chinese?" Twilight repeated that new word. "Yeah you know? Chinese; as in China, as in the place where we are right now." Chang Xue said as she took off her spectacles, revealing two magenta eyes. When she noticed the strangers didn't seem to get it, she joked. "What rock did you two crawl out from?" "One that looks like a giant turtle?" Spike answered. Twilight gave him a quick glare. The two wolves suddenly grew wide expressions as they stared at the Tonkinese cat and her panda cub companion for what seemed like a long time. Only the rustling of leaves in the breeze, the distant sound of wind chimes and flowing water filled the void of empty silence. The silence finally ended when Chang Xue started to laugh uncontrollably, as she rolled against the ground on her back. "Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! 'One that looks like a'- Bah Ha He Ha! Oh-ho, oh my, I- I can't believe you actually said that!" "Yeah, me neither." Twilight muttered. "Oh grow up Chang." Li Qin said to her friend with annoyance and embarrassment. "It wasn't even that funny." "Yes it was- Ha Ha Ha!" Chang Xue said between fits of laughter. "The best I've heard in a long while." Wanting to change the subject, Twilight pointed towards the strange white building in the distance, as she asked the wolves. "So, does this path lead towards that castle over there?" "You mean the Palace of Blooming Lotus? No." Li Qin replied. "But it does lead to the Tower of Beating Wings if you want a better view of it." "No thanks. I just need to know how to get there from here." "Easy!" said Chang Xue, who had finally stopped laughing and began to clean her purple spectacles. "After you go outside the Moon Gate, turn right, and then follow the main road the rest of the way." "And where do I find the Moon Gate?" Twilight asked. "It's the big round entrance that you went through to get into Oogway Garden." Li Qin answered and pointed towards the direction on the path she and Chang Xue had come from. "If that is how you got in here anyways." "Umm, okay, thank you very much." Twilight said as she started walking, with Spike right beside her. "Nice day to be on all fours is it?" Chang Xue remarked. "What?" Twilight said as she turned around. She suddenly realized that both Spike and the wolves were standing on their hind legs. Feeling embarrassed, she replied back. "I... thought it would help me move twice as fast." "Makes perfect sense to me." Chang Xue said as she waved. "Take care of yourselves now." "You too." Spike called back, as he and Twilight walked out of sight from the wolves. Twilight struggled as she tried to stand up, and wobbled with each step. She soon learned to use her new tail to help gain balance. Turning towards Twilight, Spike finally decided to ask her something that had been on his mind. "Twilight, why didn't you tell them what we were actually doing here? They might have known something about the crown." Twilight sighed before she answered him. "I was going to, but then I thought, what if one of them had showed up in Equestria, claiming they came from a place called 'China' where non-pony animals walked on two legs and wore strange clothing like this, we would think they were crazy! Besides, you saw how they reacted when you mentioned the turtle rock." "Yeah..I guess you're right." Spike admitted. "But didn't those wolves look familiar to you?" "What do you mean?" Twilight asked. The last wolves she remembered meeting were Timber Wolves near the edge of the Everfree Forest. And they weren't anything like the two she just talked with, in more ways than one. Spike began scratching himself on the head. "Well, I can't help but feel like I've seen them before somewhere, or at least Chang Xue anyhow." "You mean back in Equestria!?" Twilight said with disbelief. "Are you sure?" "Not really," he admitted, "but she does remind me of a certain pony I've seen once or twice. Must be those glasses she's wearing." He glanced back over his shoulder, wondering if he could see the white she-wolf anywhere. "Must be- Wow!" Twilight lost her footing and fell flat on her face. Slowly she got up, but still found it hard to stand on her hind legs again. She grabbed a near by bamboo stalk for support. "Come on Spike. I do not want to be like this any longer than I have to." "Look on the bright side." Spike noted as he helped her. "You don't have those pesky wings to worry about anymore." Twilight glared at him for a few seconds before continuing along the path. Had she not been too busy trying to learn how to walk on two legs, or that she needed to find her crown within three days or be stuck here for another thirty moons, she actually would have found this garden really enjoyable. The combination of rocks, plants, architecture and water seemed to be in harmonious balance with each other, to compose a sense of beauty and peace. Every turn along the serpentine path she was following, seemed to open up to a new glimpse of a different scenery in the garden. She wondered if her friend Fluttershy would have found this place better than the private garden in Canterlot. Then Twilight started wishing she had all of her Ponyville friends with her now. She wondered if they would have turned into cats like her too, or perhaps into different kinds of animals? How could five more ponies really upset the balance of this strange new world anyways? Would their presence have actually made it harder for Twilight to get her crown back? Or was Princess Celestia, by sending Twilight on this mission alone, secretly trying to test her, just like when they had been teacher and student not so long ago? But if so, was it a test of Friendship, or a test of being Princess? Maybe it was both, or perhaps neither. As they walked across a bridge, Twilight took the opportunity to finally look at her reflection in the water. Her face and ears were dark brown like her paws and tail. The rest of her head and neck was coffee brown. Her almond shaped violet eyes were the only features familiar enough to indicate who she was looking at. She sighed heavily as Spike's reflection appeared right beside hers. "You okay Twilight?" he asked while placing a paw along Twilight's shoulder. "I mean, you're not going to start talking to your new self, are you?" "No." Twilight said reassuringly, but still feeling troubled. "I just wanted to see how I actually look like now, and... try to get use to it." Spike looked at Twilight, then at their reflections. "Well, if it helps at all, you seem to look good as a cat to me." "Thanks, same with you." she replied without so much as glance. "Also, we must be getting closer to the Moon Gate now." He pointed towards several buildings and a white wall. Looking up at the direction Spike was mentioning,Twilight let out another sigh and then faced the panda. "You know Spike, I am glad to hear that we'll be leaving this garden soon, but at the same time-" "You feel like you just wanna stay here." Spike said as he put down the sack he had been carrying and began to look inside it. "I know exactly what you mean. This place is amazingly beautiful! Not to mention delicious." "Yes it is- Delicious?" She watched as Spike pulled out two peaches from the sack, and proceeded to eat them both. "Where did you get those?" Between mouthfuls, Spike answered, "From that strange peach tree near the portal, with all of its fruit and blossoms still on it, remember? Why? Do you want some?" Putting one of the peaches in his mouth, he went over to reach into the bag again. "No. And do you think it's a good idea to be picking and eating fruit from a tree that you thought was 'strange'?" Twilight wasn't sure if there was perhaps something magical about this tree. She hadn't really noticed it herself at the time. And if it was, she wouldn't be able to do anything to help Spike, since she didn't have her horn. After eating the peach in his mouth, Spike pulled out another one, as he reassured Twilight. "Don't worry, I already tried five of them before you woke up. Nothing strange has happened yet so far...aside from everything else that is. Besides, we didn't exactly have breakfast before we left, and this new body isn't helping much either." He began munching away once more, with peach juice dripping down his mouth and paws. Before Twilight could give Spike a real good mouthful of something, she began to hear the distant sound of some kind of music playing. It went from a sad melodious tune, to a joyous jig. It was nothing like any music she had ever heard before. But it seemed to be almost singing as she kept on listening, and when it finally ended, she found herself weeping and smiling at the same. Turning to Spike, who had been weeping too but also eating and dancing as well, she asked. "Do you think that was Li Qin playing on her Erhu she mentioned?" "If it is," Spike noted, "She certainly is really good at it." "Yes," Twilight agreed. "I wonder if she'll do an encore soon." After throwing away the peach pits lying on the bridge, and wiping his paws, Spike slowly picked up the bag. "Probably a good time to go find that Moon Gate now before she does. Or we may find ourselves staying in this garden for another thirty moons after all." "You're right Spike," Twilight realized as she got up. "As beautiful as this place is, it's not our home. And our home remains in danger so long as my crown and Element of Harmony remains in this world." "To the Mooooooon- Gate!" Spike proclaimed as he and Twilight reached the other side of the bridge. Author's Note Who else felt that someone should have asked Twilight why she was screaming in that scene of EG?
Chapter 3: Cookies and CrownsWhen Twilight finally found her way to the Moon Gate, it felt as if she had once again stepped through another portal into a different world. The tranquil and beautiful atmosphere of Oogway Garden was replaced by the bustling activity of many animal citizens going about their daily lives. Most of the population seemed to contain ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, goats and sheep. They all wore clothing and were walking around on two legs, though some were ridding on two-wheeled carts pulled by antelopes. Twilight and Spike kept close to each other while making their way along the main road. An occasional glance at the Tonkinese cat and panda cub would be made from some of the animals they passed by. Despite the many sounds all around her, Twilight was able to pick up a faint, yet familiar, voice coming from a nearby side street. "Oh, I'm-I'm so sorry-" The voice said with fear. "I didn't know!" "Fluttershy?" Twilight murmured. "Huh?" replied Spike. Twilight motioned him to be silent and follow her, as she went towards the side street, trying to locate the voice. "I-I just found it, and thought I should give it to her. I didn't know 'You' had dropped it!" They turned around an alleyway corner, and saw two figures at the end of it. One was an elephant wearing a light yellow robe with cyan trimming, and a pink sash. She was trying to hide herself behind a pink parasol. The other appeared to be some type of big cat wearing a black cape and a red and golden hood. "Well I did," said the hooded figure, whose back was towards Twilight's view, as she pointed at the elephant. "And I would've had it if You and your big nose hadn't scooped it up on me! You really shouldn't take things that don't belong to you." Not making any eye contact, the elephant muttered softly. "It, it doesn't really belong to you either." "Excuse Me?!!" The big cat snarled as she lunged closer to the elephant, pressing her against the wall, while brandishing a katar. The elephant squeaked with terror at the sight of the bladed weapon only inches away from her throat. "N-nothing!" She quickly replied while slowly sliding down to the ground. "That's what I thought!" the figure remarked. Twilight's reaction instantly changed from shock to pure rage. The pupils in her eyes turned to thin slits, while her ears folded back and her whiskers pointed forwards. Spike also looked ready to do something. "You're such a pathetic pachyderm." the figure continued. "It's no wonder your only friends are a bunch of parent-less children." Finally hearing enough, Twilight emerged from around the corner, and stood in the middle of the alleyway entrance. Her shadow seemed to be towering over the two larger animals. "How DARE you speak to her that way!" she yowled at the hooded figure. The figure stopped and turned around towards Twilight. "What did you say?!" She growled lowly as she unsheathed the claws in her free hand. Twilight began to walk towards the big cat as she growled back. "I said; 'How dare you speak to her that way'." As the two cats got closer, Twilight could see more of the figure's frontal view. The reverse side of her cape was the same wavy red and golden pattern of her hood, resembling flames as she moved, and was held together by a jade brooch. She wore a sleeveless sky magenta shirt, with black trimming, and a flaming half-red-half-yellow sun. A studded black leather belt was wrapped around her waist, and a matching pair of wrist guards on her striped orange-tawny and rust-red arms. Her pants were bright orange, the lower part of her legs wrapped in light yellow cloth, and she had sandals similar to Twilight's. Beneath the big cat's hood, her mint-green eyes reflected the morning sunlight, and large white teeth barred while growling. Twilight growled louder, as they kept slowly advancing towards each other. When the space between them was only a couple steps away, they finally stopped and stared at each other, for what seemed to last for eternity. Then the big cat stopped growling and gave a smug grin, as she flicked her tail at Twilight's nose. "You obviously don't know who I am, do you?" The big cat asked while putting her katar away and pulling her hood back, revealing her face to have both features of a lioness and a tigress. "No." Twilight rubbed her nose and replied. "And I could care less." The ligress chuckled at this remark and bent down so her face met Twilight's. "Well, you really should." she purred in amusement, then proceeded to get up and walk past Twilight. "I can talk to anyone, anyway I want." Taking notice of a duck and a pig watching nearby, the ligress quickly moved right in front of them, and gave a threatening snarl. The pig and duck ran away screaming in panic as they tried to find a place to hide. When the on-lookers had disappeared, the ligress returned her attention on Twilight, giving the same smug expression from earlier. "Because everyone here knows, that I can do anything I want, to anyone... who gets in my way." she growled those last five words slowly. Twilight did not so much as flinch at this. "I've dealt with worse things than you." "Really?" the ligress asked with mocking interest. "That's big talk for a wittle putty tat." Suddenly a crow came flying down into the alley. It landed right beside the ligress, holding a scroll in one of its clawed feet. "This better be important." the ligress said with annoyance for being interrupted. The crow handed the scroll to her and replied. "Ma'am, if it wasn't, I wouldn't be here." The ligress opened the scroll's seal with one of her claws, then proceeded to read it. This didn't last too long, as she quickly rolled it back up and returned it to the crow. There seemed to be a hint of urgency coming from her. "Tell them I'm on my way!" She instructed. "And have all available re-enforcements sent over." "Yes Ma'am." croaked the crow as it took off. The ligress watched as the black bird disappeared from view, then turned towards Twilight once again. "Consider yourself lucky that I have more pressing matters to deal with. But I Will be back looking for you to finish our little chat. So if I were you, I'd take this rare opportunity to leave as far away from this place as possible. I hear it's lovely in Mongolia this time of year." She grinned slyly after saying that last part. With a sudden burst of speed and acrobatic skill, she leaped and climbed her way up towards the rooftop of a building facing the alley entrance. "So until then, zaijian." she said while giving a wave-salute like gesture. Before Twilight could figure out where she had seen that gesture before, the ligress was gone. A long silence filled the alley as she kept staring at the spot where the big cat had last been. The sound of movement from behind broke her trance, as she watched the elephant getting up. "I can't believe you just did that!" she spoke with a mixture of shock and awe. Twilight shrugged and replied. "I couldn't just stand there and watch!' "Oh! Well, no- I mean- it's just that..." the elephant said as she began fidgeting with her parasol. Then she stopped, looked directly at Twilight and said sincerely. "No one's Ever stood up to Sunset Shimmer like That before." "Sunset Shimmer?!" Twilight gasped in surprise, as she repeated the name and instinctively looked over her shoulder. Her mind was now suddenly putting all the pieces together. The gesture, those colours, her voice, it all made sense now! Sunset Shimmer was the whole reason Twilight was here in the first place. The former student of Princess Celestia had used the portal to return to Equestria from this world, and stolen Twilight's crown! Except, in Equestria, Sunset Shimmer had been a unicorn, while in this world she was now a... "You've heard of her?" the elephant asked. "Sort of." Twilight admitted. "I don't think I've ever seen you around here before." said the elephant as she briefly looked down at her feet. Realizing neither one knew each others' name yet, Twilight meowed cheerfully. "I'm Twilight Sparkle by the way." The elephant, whom Twilight had mentally referred to her as Elephant Fluttershy, glanced at Twilight for a moment before replying very softly. "I'm...I'm Feiwuni." Twilight pricked her ears up as she moved a bit closer. "Sorry, what was that?" "I'm Feiwuni." Said the elephant in that very soft tone again. "Didn't really quite get that." Twilight meowed as she moved closer again. "It's Feiwuni!" the elephant squeaked while using the pink parasol to hide her face. Twilight took a few steps back to give Feiwuni some space. "You know, this is probably gonna sound crazy, but you remind me of someone I know." The parasol came down slightly. Feiwuni looked at Twilight, then towards the alley entrance, where Spike had just appeared from his hiding place. Her expression instantly changed from timid to ecstatic. "Oh My Goodness!" she squealed with glee as she rushed towards Spike. "Aaaaah!" Twilight screamed, just barely getting out of the way from the one-elephant stampede. Spike quickly began to back up when Feiwuni stopped right in front of him. "Who's This little guy?" She asked while kneeling down to have a closer look at the panda cub. Twilight emerged from between two baskets and replied back. "That's Spike. He's...Uh..My little panda." A sudden gasp of delight came from the elephant. "You mean, you adopted him?!" She asked while turning around to face Twilight. "I guess you could say that." Twilight answered sheepishly. "Oh, that is so amazing!" Feiwuni focused her attention back on Spike, beaming a large smile on her face, while petting him with her trunk. "I have never seen a baby panda this close before. He's Soooooo Cute." "Well, well." Spike said smugly, in the same way he had done when Fluttershy had first met him. "Talk about deja vu." "Oooh, and he talks too!" Feiwuni rummaged her trunk inside a bag she had been carrying, and pulled out a saucer-sized cookie. "Would you like an almond cookie?" Spike's eyes appeared to bulge out while he stared at the cookie and licked his lips. "Yeeessss, Pleeeeeeeease." "Such nice manners." Feiwuni cooed sweetly and gave the cookie to him. "Here you go." "Wow. It's, it's a really Big cookie." Spike gazed at it for a moment, before eating it noisily. "Umm! Num-Nom-Num!" Feiwuni sighed as she spoke to Twilight. "You must feel really lucky to have him." "Oh yeah." Twilight purred in agreement. "I don't know what I'd do without him." Twilight realized that now was the perfect moment to get some answers from Feiwuni. "Sunset Shimmer had mentioned earlier you had something that she claimed was hers. Something really important. It wasn't a crown by any chance was it?" Feiwuni had been only half-listening to Twilight, while she was petting Spike and giving him more cookies. When the crown was mentioned, she stopped what she was doing entirely, and turned to Twilight in pure amazement. "How did You know that?" "Uh, lucky guess, hehe." Twilight quickly replied and then asked anxiously. "Do you still have it?" "Bu." was all that Feiwuni replied as she shook her head. Taking that as a 'no', Twilight felt disappointed at first. However, she pressed on. "But you do know what happened to it?" "Shi." A nodding head came from the elephant this time. "Earlier this morning, I was outside Oogway Garden's Moon Gate giving out volunteer fliers for Yinghuo Orphanage, like I do every Wednesday. But, like almost every other Wednesday, no one took any of my fliers. That of course made me upset and disappointed, since the orphanage really needs more volunteers, and I always couldn't seem to get anyone's attention. I went to sit down behind one of the two stone Guardian lions, and started to cry, when something hard and metallic hit me on the head. After saying 'Ow' and rubbing my head, I looked around to see a strange little golden crown, with a purple star-shaped jewel, lying nearby. Picking it up with my trunk, I had a closer look at it. I don't know where it came from, but I knew it looked very important. So I went over to see Master Lian, and gave it to her for safe keeping." "Master Lian?" Twilight repeated the name. "Is she like the ruler around here?" "She's the Land of Harmony's senior Kung Fu master," Feiwuni answered. "Along with her sister, Master Ming-Yue, if that's what you mean." "Where can I find her?" Twilight asked. "At the Palace of Blooming Lotus." the elephant replied as she got up. "Well that's good to know," Spike remarked, while rubbing cookie crumbs off his face. "We were just heading there anyways." "Thanks." Twilight said to Feiwuni, as she and Spike started heading down the side-street. "You're welcome.' Feiwuni called back to them. "Oh, Wait!" Twilight and Spike stopped and looked back at Feiwuni. "Yes?" They both asked at the same time. "Umm," Feiwuni began, as she twirled her parasol nervously. "If it's alright with you- I mean- when you're done seeing Master Lian that is...Would you like to have lunch with me later? Unless of course, you have other plans, which is also fine, " "I'm sure we can arrange that." Twilight mewed cheerfully. "Oh, really? Yay!" Feiwuni started clapping her large round flat forelegs together, just like how a pony would have done. "I wanted to thank you for what you did back there. Does lunch at Jade Hare noodle-shop sound good to you?" "Okay." Twilight replied, then started to head towards the main road. Then she realized she didn't know where Jade Hare noodle-shop was. So she stopped, and turned back to ask Feiwuni the directions. Before she could ask, Feiwuni started giving them to her. "It's the last building on your right, towards the Palace, before you reach the bridge. It will also be the building with the most decorations for the Autumn Moon Festival. You can't miss it." "Thanks." Twilight said. Just then, the distant sound of a bell could be heard. "Oh my goodness! I forgot," Feiwuni gasped in realization. "I'm late! The children are probably starting to worry about me or something." Spike and Twilight moved aside to allow Feiwuni to pass through. "See you around the Hour of the Horse." she added before she went down the main road in the direction Twilight and Spike had come from. The two of them watched as the crowd immediately began to part away, for the on-coming elephant with the yellow robe and pink parasol. "Excuse me! Sorry! Thank you! Pardon me! Sorry!" Feiwuni kept saying, until she finally turned along a side street, and was out of sight. "Well that certainly was interesting." Twilight noted, as she and Spike proceeded to continue their journey towards the Palace of Blooming Lotus. Author's Note So, we finally have our newest chapter up. Yes, Sunset Shimmer is basically a Liger in this world [*braces for in-coming 'Napaleon Dynamite' reference jokes*], and Fluttershy is an elephant [bet no one saw that coming, but makes sense when you think about it]. Hopefully Chapter 4 won't take as long to make, and of course I still have yet to make a chapter with the P.O.V of Po and the other KFP characters.
