furious. He demanded to have this wall destroyed. He settled a date. On 27
th
March the wall would be knocked
down.
Fu found out about the emperor’s plan and told Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao was horrified. He checked his
calendar back at home. It was only 27
th
January. He had to think of a way to stop the emperor in 2 months, but
he knew that the emperor was quite cruel and feared that he would change the date to an earlier date. He had to
think fast. He called his friends together. They had already been told the news. “We have to think of a way to
stop the emperor. We need to think long and hard about this. This is serious. It’s going to take teamwork. We
need to put our heads together. You all know how long it took us to build the wall so we don’t want to see all
our hard work destroyed.”
The weeks passed. But still they couldn’t think of a way to stop the emperor. Until one day Le Le had an
idea. “The emperor is probably going to be using bamboo cranes with wrecking balls. Right?” The others
nodded in agreement. “Well, if we sneak into the emperor’s palace and find the cranes we could destroy them
and maybe just maybe poison the emperor for coming up with such an evil plan”. “That’s it”, Xiao Xiao
exclaimed. “My venom is poisonous. We are definitely 100 percent poisoning the emperor for trying to ruin our
hard work”.
So over the next two nights they snuck into the palace dodging past the guards and figuring out the entire
map of the palace. But on the second night, Fu was caught and was brought to the emperor. The emperor smiled
when he saw Fu. Fu was disgusted by him. He saw snakeskin on the emperor’s coat and wondered if this might
be Xiao Xiao’s parents.
“
Why are you knocking down the wall?” Fu enquired. “Because nobody is coming to my monument”, the
emperor said with a sour grin. “And I am earning no money from it. And I spent so much money building it”.
Fu and the emperor came to an agreement. The emperor let Fu go if he promised not to come back. Fu
promised, so the emperor set him free. By then the friends had a pretty good idea of where the cranes were as
well as the map of the inside of the palace. They started drawing a map and on 17
th
March the map was finished.
On 26
th
March, Xiao Xiao and his friends where ready. They sat around in Xiao Xiao’s house and played
mahjong. Finally the night came, Xiao Xiao and his friends set off. When they got to the palace it was deadly
silent. The guards where probably waiting to jump out at them. When they got to the place where the cranes
where supposed to be, there was not a single crane there. Instead, there sat the big fat emperor fast asleep.
The friends decided to split up and search in different directions. Fu didn’t come because he kept his
promise to the emperor. Le Le found the wrecking balls and with one karate chop with his strong panda paws he
smashed them. Meanwhile Ming Ming found the cranes and burnt them to ashes with his dragon’s fire.
With the job done, they all rushed to the exit. But the guards stopped them and locked them in the dungeon.
Now they couldn’t escape. But luckily the wall of the dungeon was made of mud and Ke Ke dug every one out.
They all run to the great wall.
The emperor wasn’t defeated. He had more cranes. Ming Ming and Le Le ran at them. Le Le smashed all
the wrecking balls while Ming Ming burnt the cranes. Most of the men on the cranes died but not the emperor.
Then Xiao Xiao remembered. His venom. He slithered back to his cave. The venom was in a jar. He held it in
his mouth. Ming Ming saw him and grabbed the jar. He sprayed the venom all over the emperor.
Nobody knew the emperor had a brother and he became the new emperor and he was greedy just like the
old emperor. He wanted money too. Suddenly Fu appeared. Fu remembered he was once really good at Karate.
He killed all the guards. He was like Yoda. Now it was just down to the new emperor. Fu managed to defeat
him too. Since the new emperor was fat too he died of exhaustion.
But there was one more brother so he now became the emperor. He was fit and strong and nobody was up
for fighting now. Then Le Le had an idea. “Why don’t we give the new emperor a dumpling restaurant on the
great wall and be the emperor at the same time. Thanks to Le Le that was the agreement. Everybody in China
lived peacefully again. Xiao Xiao’s parents came back too. They said they were locked in cages. To Xiao Xiao
this didn’t matter. What mattered was that they were home.
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