Hopefully the year of the snake will be good to me
So for everyone: I wish you a happy and successful new Year 2013!

Kung Fu Panda: The Long Night - Chapter XVIKung Fu Panda: The Long Night - Chapter XVI by ~Rabenkopf
“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Stephen King
Kung Fu Panda
The Long Night
Chapter XVI: Tenshu
“I will regret it, when I don’t move!” the fat panda says while struggling with Temujin and the handcuffs.
“It is useless.” the Player says and rips open the Urn, before directing it at him……”Uhhh….” what?
What is this? A cold feeling spreads around the hill…darkness pours itself out of the Urn…What is this!!?
The Darkness leaves the Urn and flies at the panda. This one is shocked, when the Darkness hits and begins to engulf him&he

Crossing the Rubicon - Chapter VIICrossing the Rubicon - Chapter VII by ~Rabenkopf
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
Gerald Jampolsky
Crossing the Rubicon
Episode IV: Reunion
7. Chapter: Inner Peace
“…and they said that Chui Mie is alive.” Ichi explains the situation. “He should be somewhere in the west of China; in a province called Red Grass…” Yi continues before getting interrupted by Ichi: “No, Red Plains.” The other flea looks at his Twin. “No, Red Grass.”, he growls.
“No Red Plains.”, Yi counters and t

Crossing the Rubicon - Chapter VICrossing the Rubicon - Chapter VI by ~Rabenkopf
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.“
Charles Caleb Colton
Crossing the Rubicon
Episode III: Warlord
6. Chapter: At the Walls!
Weeks have passed, things have changed, the war has come.
Everything started with the Fortress Sandai: it fell within one day of siege. No barbarian army has ever achieved that so fast. Further Fortresses and Outposts fell within the next days and weeks; no one resisted longer than a day and no one here could explain this fact.
But the decision fell one week ago: The Baboon Lord gathered an army of loyal soldiers, mercenaries and criminals, who

Crossing the Rubicon - Chapter VCrossing the Rubicon - Chapter V by ~Rabenkopf
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
Helen Keller
Crossing the Rubicon
Episode III: Warlord
5. Chapter: In the Eye
The city was called Iei, the Fortress Maiei. Both were built close to a river, the River of the Red Sand, called like that because it flows down from the Red Sand Mountains, close to the Deserts in the West. The city was not small, but not big as well, although it was the biggest city here far in the west of the Empire and that’s why the Capital of Red Sand Province. Westwards of this Province only the desert lied and the Empire ended.
Thanks to the river, which ex