Chapter 1: Fear of The Future

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Narrator- Long ago in Ancient China, the peacocks ruled over Gongmen City. They had brought prosperity and joy to the city for they had invented fireworks.

The citizens in the story gathered near the palace and fireworks were fired into the sky and lit up in a remarkable array of magnificent colors causing the crowd to cheer. Meanwhile, an albino male peacock stands in a room experimenting with fireworks at a table in front of him.

Narrator- But their son, Lord Shen, saw darker power in the fireworks...

The experiment suddenly explodes in front of Shen and he stares in awe.

Narrator- ...What had brought color and joy could also bring darkness and destruction....Shen's parents consulted a soothsayer and her assistant...

The two peacocks stood in front of their throne as an elderly goat and a beautiful albino fox walked up to them. The soothsayer placed a bowl on the floor that contained some items and threw another ingredient into it causing the room to light up. An apparition of Shen grasps the attention of everyone in the room until it becomes consumed by the symbol of the yin and yang with tails around it's borders and a few sparks appearing at the center of it.

Narrator- ...They foretold that if Shen continued down this dark path, he would be defeated by a warrior of black and white and a three tailed trickster with the help of the one who wields lightning.

Lord Shen is standing behind the pillar, watching the premonition and hearing what the two have foretold. He quickly runs out of the building to seek his wolf army.

Narrator- But what he did next, only sealed it.

The vixen has made it outside and eavesdrops on Shen and becomes panicked. She sprints off to warn the pandas who were tending to their crops but Shen attacks her. The vixen dies by Shen's hands and he looks down in remorse before he rushes off to slaughter the pandas with his army. After the deed was done, Shen rushed back to the palace and burst through the doors with a victorious look on his face, but it diminished when saw the look of horror on his parents' faces. They were horrified that their own son would go as far as not only slaughtering a village of pandas...but to murder his love.

Narrator- Shen returned home full of pride, but in their faces, he saw only horror....He was banished from the city forever. But Shen swore revenge.

Shen's father waves his wings in anger and is banshing Shen and his army. Shen yelled back, swearing vengeance before he left.

Narrator- Sometime afterwards, Shen made a bargain with a mysterious person to kill the Lightning Guardian..

Shen is in the middle of a forest with wolves who were posing as bodyguards. Someone in a cloak and hood is standing before him and reaching out their hand. Shen grabs the person's hand and shakes it as if a deal has been struck. The scene quickly shifts to a burning house and screams could be heard coming from inside. The person in the cloak is standing on a nearby hill watching and maniacally laughing.

Narrator- Someday, Shen will return and all of China will bow at his feet.

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