Love of the Dragon Warrior

MIA

If only things could really last like that. 

It's certainly been very pleasant exploring romantic moments and events of action and fun! Catching up on times gone by and times that would be. Nothing could please an author more than to present their readers with a pleasant atmosphere to lose themselves in and feel happy and content. Of course, those who have chosen to read this story and have gotten this far would no doubt be aware that the summary included a love interest of Po's stooping to murder to claim his love. And naturally at this point in the story, 36 chapters in, most are probably wondering where the murder and intrigue is? While I am more than willing to dive into a story that starts off with a bang, (something I actually might consider for the future as an experiment), I'm also an old-fashioned story teller, so I like to take things very slowly. I'm sure by now though most have been speculating on who the murderer is. I have an idea of who the most popular candidate is, and I'm genuinely curious to see who can correctly guess the murderer before the story is over. I'm not going to say anything, but I'm also not subtle, so my wonderful readers might probably guess anyway. We'll see how I do.

The reason it's taken this long to get to the murder is because quite honestly, nothing shocking really happened aside from the thievery incident. For the first two weeks that all the potential love interests arrived at the Jade Palace, nothing major happened aside from of course two people being sent home and being a bunch of angry toddlers over it. After that, everything else that followed went down pretty smoothly for the most part. However, from this point in the story and out, nothing else too much happens either. The thievery incident was still taken pretty seriously and obviously needed to be investigated, but aside from Song getting an ominous note in her room telling her she'd come crawling back to her old ways (wonder who sent that), and Po leaving the ring with Lu-Shi for safe keeping, nothing else too massive happened. 

Okay, almost. There was a little incident in the training hall just two hours or so after Po and Song had watched the sunrise: 

Po dodged one of the arrows being fired at him in the training hall as he desperately ran for cover. Master Shifu had once again suggested that Po come and participate in the training regime he had planned for the Five which had Po secretly convinced that his master was determined to torture him as much as possible while he was there. (Mostly because the training days Shifu convinced him to join were always significantly harder than the other training days the Five described). The type of training they were in today was in the style of an ambush training. The masters had to avoid a hail of arrows, booby traps set up around the training hall, weighted nets, and pop-up swords. (Which Po was quite frankly not too happy to deal with). The girls, as per usual, were sitting on the sidelines enjoying the show and rooting for Po and occasionally for the Furious Five if they did something impressive. The goal of the game was to find a golden key and use it to turn of the training hall's defenses (specially made by Shifu), but the key was well hidden around the training hall, so the masters were taking a while to find it, though they worked well together to ensure no body got hurt during their exercise. 

At some point while leaping through the air to avoid the barrage of traps, Monkey noticed a tiny glint in the one side of the wall and excitedly pointed it out to his friends. "There, on the top right!" he called out.