Lihua struck at snake after snake, each one trying to bite but never having the chance to. She even saw camel warriors running here and there, all armed with long pointed staffs. When one such warrior confronted her, she was able to outmaneuver the long-legged creature and steal its weapon.
Lihua was feeling quite tired after only five minutes of fighting. Struggling to climb a rooftop, she rested at the top. Her rest was short lived, with a snake hissing behind her. Swinging her staff around her back, she knocked it off the roof. Running to the roof’s apex to see better, she saw the snakes and camels rounding up the villagers, leaving everything surprisingly in tact.
She noticed some of her friends were being held captive by some camels, lept off the roof and landed between them and their prisoners. “Run! I’ll hold them off. Get to the north gate.” Before anyone could inquire, two camels had fallen and the three animals ran.
They ran wordlessly through the street, and Lihua joined them soon afterwards. “Come on!” The four surged into the entrance, but an explosion threw them in multiple directions. Perhaps the violence had caused the fireworks shop to explode. The three friends fell into the street, and were surrounded by snakes and camels almost instantly. Lihua was tossed into a basket with overturned and left her hidden. As her vision faded, Lihua saw her friends being carried off.

The city was empty. Hardly anything was touched, but all the habitants were gone. Tigress and Po walked slowly through the quiet streets, feeling the eeriness flow like a wind about them. They paused and grew tense upon hearing laughter, and saw that around a corner came the head cobra they’d seen in the dessert, flanked by two camels carrying poles.
“I told you to leave. I warned you that you would die. I won’t tell you again.”
Tigress eyes narrowed. The cobra meant it. The venom would come. But there was only one snake and two camels. A quick glance at Po, who was giving her the same facial message, confirmed it. There was no backing down now.
Their plans were interrupted when a staff sliced through the air and smacked the cobra in the face. “Ah! Who did that?” The cobra asked angrily. Another staff collided with the camel to the cobra’s right, dropping it, then the other camel fell. The cobra was about to say something when it too fell on its face, knocked out.
Po and Tigress looked up to see above the downed trio, standing on a laundry line, was Lihua, holding a staff as a balancing rod. “Sheep!” Po called. Lihua leapt and landed on the cobra’s limp body.
“We don’t have time.” Lihua said, “the snakes and camels are making their way to the Jade Palace. I don’t know where they took the Gongmen city residents.”
Tigress processed this information more quickly and ran past Lihua. “Let’s go Po.” Po followed.
“Wait!” Lihua called, the other two masters turning. “I’m coming with you!”
The two looked at each other.
“Um, sheep—” Po started to say.
“My name is Lihua.” The sheep interrupted.
“Oh,” Po said, “Lihua. We don’t want you to get hurt, maybe you could just—”
A blow to Po’s hand made him stop. “Ow!” Another blow to his foot made him hop. “Hey!” A blow to the back of the head dropped him. “Uh.” Po said, rubbing the back of his head. He rose. “Where’d you learn that?”
“Storming Ox taught me. I needed to know how to defend my shop against bandits.” Lihua explained. Po looked at Tigress, who gave him a nod.
Po looked at Lihua. “Ok, let’s go.” Lihua hopped onto Po’s back and the trio left the city.