Strength In Unity

Chapter 12: What I've Done

He could feel wind,

It was weak.

But still around him. The wolf boss slowly turned his head to the right, looking over at the door that sat slightly creaked open, allowing small gusts of breeze blow inside the room. He'd been placed in a room and locked in for the last few minutes after regaining enough strength to give the dragon warrior a little taste of how he felt about the panda's "interference". Po meanwhile lay back on a palace bench trying to keep from hurting his bruises even further. After an hour, the panda stood up and headed over to Kirscher's door and opened up the little window in the doorway.

"What panda?" Kirscher growled annoyed with the bear's very presence. Po huffed a sigh and coughed.

"You've had you're time to be angry, I need you to talk now Kirscher."

The wolf boss leaned his head back as he stood and growled as he closed his one eye.

"Why, what difference does it make, we we're about to try to save everyone-

"What you were about to do was NOT going to save everyone!" The bear suddenly snapped, his patience a thing of the past. Kirscher only hung his head and rested against the large door.

"Panda, this is what works in this situation."

"Clearly NOT!"

"What are you getting at?" The lack of understanding the wolf carried seemed to aggravate the bear further.

"I'm a perfect example of why genocide isn't the answer Kirscher!"

The wolf looked at him with a confused face, eyebrow raised and slight worry even on his damaged side. He wasn't used to outbursts since he'd been "killed" by his master. He looked up at Po who stood somewhat taken back at his own words. The panda shook his head as he saw the wolf drop his head and shrug his shoulders.

"What is wrong bear, you are upset." He asked bluntly and dull as his stellar personality came back to life. Po's mind tracked through the visual memories he carried as he was during the night of Shen's raid on his family village, the fire, the screams all around in and amongst the smoke. Shaking his head the bear tried to take his mind off the painful memory and deny his current emotions.

"I'm not upset, why what makes you think I'm-"

Kirscher watched Po's eyes, seeing desperation, worry and fear grow farther and farther intense.

"You are stuck on the night of...our arrival inside your cub hood village." He asked, the bear slowly and restraining as well nodded. It was something that in the time of their alliance together had driven back the darkness of the bear's past. He looked onto the wolf he spoke to now as he who'd tried to kill him so many years ago.

"I was there, you were as well, you're mother-"

"My Mother-" Po stopped himself as he interrupted the wolf.

The wolf's eye narrowed before refocusing on the panda calmly. "Yes, what do you have to know so badly Po? What do you need from me?" Kirscher asked, wanting nothing more then to be as far away from the topic at paw as possible. Po could feel the discomfort radiating off the canine, a part of him not wanting to go forward with their conversation.

The bear's throat gulped, his eyes focused on the floor as he touched the tips of his fingers together.

"Did...did you see my mother last before she.." The wolf boss rubbed his paw over his face for a second, his eye drifting toward the floor.

"I did, we'd chased her coming at us from up the hill, I knew it was where she'd stashed you." Po's eyes shot open.

"What! You knew I was there?" The wolf rolled his eye, "You don't seem to grasp the sense of smell of the average wolf, not to mention we'd seen you in her arms so where else would you've been, I focused Shen on you're mother as she'd wished." The wolf saying all this calmly but with a hesitance in his clear respect for the history of events.