ALONE. His entire life, 12-year-old Fu has yearned to be alone. Raised in a secret warrior monk temple with four fellow orphans, he never has any solitude. There is Malao-Monkey, Seh-Snake, Hok-Crane, and Long-Dragon. Fu-Tiger can't relate to any of them. Even though he calls each one brother (and one surprise sister), Fu doesn't think of them as actual siblings. The only thing they have in common is that each has already mastered a different style of animal kung fu that reflects both their personality and body type. When their temple home is suddenly destroyed, Fu begins to reconsider his definition of family. The attackers are an army led by Fu's vengeful, 16-year-old former temple brother, Ying-Eagle. Every adult warrior monk is slain, including the Grandmaster who raised Fu, and Ying torches an entire library of ancient texts except for four scrolls that he covets which contain a lifetime's worth of Dragon-style kung fu knowledge. Grandmaster's final order before he dies is for Fu and his four surviving siblings to scatter into the four winds and uncover the secrets of their pasts, for it is the only way they can stop Ying, to whom all are somehow connected. The five separate, and Fu soon learns what it means to be truly alone. Wounded and lost in the forest, he struggles to make sense of everything until he hears a tiger roar in pain. Then instinct takes over¿.