*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

I was climbing one of the mountains near the village of the jade palace. Why? You might ask, because there was a group of bandits that had set up camp near the top, and Shifu had asked me specifically to go up there…alone…don’t ask me why I had to do it alone, the freezing cold wind wasn’t helping matters either.

“Bloody hell!” I exclaimed as another gust of wind not only threatened to rip me off the mountain, but also freeze me to death. One of my grappling claws came loose from its crevice and I swung around on one arm for a few moments before driving the grappling into the rock face and resuming my slow climb up the mountain “It’s colder than Wroclaw up here!*”

“I know, right?” I heard a voice say to the left of me, I stopped and looked over to see a wolf bandit poking his head out of a hatch made out of the rock face. I responded by kicking him in the jaw and knocking him out before clambering over and crawling through the hatch before pulling it shut behind me. I dumped the unconscious wolf in a barrel before activating my mask of stealth and walking in a crouched position. I might be invisible and muted, but one can’t be too careful. I soon reached what I presumed to be the main room and I quickly ducked behind a barrel when I saw all of the bandits gathered in front not only The Shadowed One, but three female Snow Leopards; The Wu Sisters: Su, Wing and Wan. I mentally groaned, why those three? Of all the criminal Kung Fu fighters in the whole of Furry-China, why did it have to be the three that attack by tying themselves together at the tail and then spinning fast enough to sustain flight?...ah screw it, I don’t have time to hide behind barrels all day.

“Hey!” I shouted, standing up and deactivating my mask of stealth, I got out my sword and pointed it at the Wu sisters “bring it, bitches!” the Bandits and the Shadowed One quickly made an escape as the Wu sisters growled before jumping in the air, tying their tails together and spinning at a high speed as they shot towards me. I brought my sword to bare and only just managed to block their attack as they spun against the blade, sparks shot off the contact point and the edge of my sword as well as the claws of the Wu sisters began to glow. I thought for a moment before beginning to slowly change the angle of my blade until I heard a metallic crack and one of the Wu sisters cried out in pain as they broke formation and landed on the ground.

“You broke my claws!” Su Wu, the leader of the triplets, exclaimed, looking at her broken claws in shock.

“The beauty of Protosteel, my dear” I said, running my finger up the blade, I stopped and frowned when I felt a small chip about halfway up the blade “you bitches chipped my sword! Do you have any idea how hard it is to re-sharpen a Protosteel blade?” Su Wu smirked.

“Look, kid” she said “I can tell you’re still young. So I’ll cut you a deal, you let us escape, and we won’t kill you”

“I’ll have you know…” I went to say, but was interrupted by my phone going off, I brought it out to see Autumn calling, I gave the Wu sisters an apologetic smile  “sorry, fiancé’s calling” Su Wu scoffed and rolled her eyes before leaning against a wooden pillar and gesturing for me to carry on.

“Vuur Koning” Autumn said “you better get your arse hear right now”

“I’m a little busy” I said, pacing around “What is it?”

“Thel’s pregnant” Autumn said, I stopped dead in my tracks.

“My daughter-in-law is pregnant?” I clarified.

“Yes” Autumn said.

“…Shiiiit…” I said slowly, Su Wu got the hint, raised an eyebrow and looked me up and down

“You must be older than you look” Su said.

“Two things” I said “one, I’m 22 and two, my son is adopted”

“Who’re you talking to?” Autumn asked.

“A criminal Kung Fu master” I said, nonchalantly “I’ll call you back” I then hung up the phone and noticed the Wu sisters making their way towards a window, Su Wu was the last one through and stopped just as she was about to jump.

“Hey, kid!” she called “Don’t go throwing your life away chasing after us, you’re too young to be going after bad girls like us”

“I’ve done more in 4 years than most people do in their whole life” I said, putting my sword away. Su’s expression then changed from a confident smirk to a kind smile.

“Give your son my congratulations” and with that, she jumped out of the window and disappeared into the mountain mists. I raised an eyebrow before walking to each support column, placing timed explosives as I went. When I was satisfied with my work I walked to the opposite end of the room to the window, I waited until the timer on my H.U.D. read 3 seconds before pulling out my skyboard and running for the window. I jumped out and activated the skyboard just as the explosives detonated, the board magnetically attached to my boots and I kept pace with the rubble as it tumbled down the mountain. I could see the Wu sisters standing on an outcropping and turned towards them.

“Sianara, motherfuckers!” I shouted, before stretching my arm out and striking the pressure point for Su Wu’s facial nerve, causing her whole face to contort in to an absolutely ridiculous expression.

“DOOWEEEE!?” she exclaimed, as her whole body locked up and she fell over like a statue. I burst out laughing before continuing down the mountain.

*POV 3rd person*

Tai Lung came to with a groan, when he looked around he could see most of the bandits, Rahkshi and Dark Hunter littered around. He tried to get up, only to find an unconscious Kraata-Kal on top of him.

“Get...urgh…off!” he said with a growl, before shoving the heavy, mutated Rahkshi off of him and causing the Dark Hunter to stir “you need to go on a diet”

“It’s a mechanical suit” Kraata-Kal said, getting up and stretching his metal wings “I’m literally just the brain” to prove the point he let his true self stick out of his mouth like a tongue and waggled around whilst crossing the eyes of his suit and making a funny sound. Tai Lung rolled his eyes.

“I swear The Shadowed One stuck me with you just so you could annoy me” the snow leopard said.

“He has a habit of doing that” Kraata-Kal said, letting his Kraata retract back inside.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

I soon made it to the outskirts of the village where I saw Autumn waiting outside a Dragon Dropship with her arms crossed.

“You took your time” Autumn said.

“Kung Fu fighting criminals can do that” I said “they even chipped my bloody sword” I got out my sword and Autumn gave a low whistle.

“That must of taken some doing” she said, I nodded and put my sword away “alright, I’ll accept you excuse, but I’m still gonna ‘punish’ you later on for being late” she winked before kissing me on the cheek and walking inside the Dragon, I stood there in stunned shock before shaking my head to clear my thoughts and following her inside. The hatch shut behind me and the ship took off before making its way back towards out ship, we weren’t leaving the planet yet, me and Autumn just needed to address a matter.

We soon arrived at the Jörmungandr and I stepped out to find Garnet waiting with Thel, the former looked really nervous.

“H-hey, Dad” he said.

“Hi” I said “how long till the baby’s due?”

“it’s still early days” Thel said “so about 8 or so months”

“Well” I said “that makes thing easier”

“What do you mean?” Garnet asked.

“When we find my planet” I said “you’ll be staying with my parents, my Mum used to be a nurse, so she’ll know what to do when the time comes. Does Ruby know?” Garnet shook his head.

“I was going to go tell her” he said “I think she’s in her room, but I wouldn’t…” whatever he was about to say was cut off as I teleported into our quarters I walked towards Ruby’s room and froze when I opened the door. She was lying on her bed, with her head between the legs of a Ceffyl Dŵr female. They both went white as a sheet when they saw me and I quickly shut the door before walking away, I heard her door open behind me.

“D-Dad?” Ruby asked “Are you okay?”

“I just walked in on my adoptive daughter having sex” I said “I don’t have a problem with who you’re with or anything like that, it’s just I would rather not have ‘that’ image in my head” Ruby looked surprised.

“You’re not angry or upset that I’m into mares!?” she asked.

“Why the fuck would I be!?” I asked “I’m not some homophobic arsehole, and if I was, I would deal with it because I want you to be happy” Ruby gave a huge sigh of relief.

“Thank the gods!” she exclaimed.

“Go get her” I said “there’s something that I need to tell you, and if she’s gonna be with you, then she’ll want to know as well” Ruby walked towards her room before stopping.

“This could take a while” she said “Sea Breeze is quite sensitive, especially with ‘this’ sort of thing”

“Take your time” I said “I’ll be in the living room” I then walked off and I heard the door shut behind me.

*POV 3rd Person*

Thel walked back into her room, where she found Sea Breeze sitting on the bed, looking shamefaced.

“Sea Breeze?” Thel asked, walking over and muzzling the sea blue-maned Kelpie.

“It’s probably best if I just go” Sea Breeze said, sounding close to tears

“Hey, don’t worry” Ruby said “I’ve spoken to my dad and he doesn’t have a problem” Sea Breeze looked into Ruby’s eyes, a hopeful expression on her face.

“Really!?” the Ceffyl Dŵr asked, her eyes shimmering.

“Yes” Ruby said, nuzzling her “I promise, once my family get to know you, they’ll treat you like a part of the family. Come on, my Dad wants to tell us something”

*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

Ruby walked into the living sooner than I expected, along with the Ceffyl Dŵr female, who was looking really nervous.

“What did you want to speak to us about?” Ruby asked.

“Thel’s pregnant” I said.

“What!?” Ruby exclaimed.

“Who’s Thel?” Sea Breeze asked.

“My sister-in-law” Ruby said, starting to beam from ear to ear “which means I’m gonna be an aunt” she then made a ‘squee’ sound whilst gushing.

“So” I said, turning to Sea Breeze “do you preferred to be called Sea Breeze, or something else?”

“Breezy is fine, sir” She said nervously.

“Call me Vuur Koning” I said “I don’t like being called sir, it makes me feel old”

“Yes, sir…I mean, Vuur Koning” Breezy said, nervously correcting herself.

“And relax” I said, smiling kindly “I’m not going to bite your head off" Next Chapter: Chapter 17 Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 34 Minutes