His vision was a little fuzzy, but the pain truly kept him from focusing. It felt as if he had been stabbed in the back multiple times before being beat over the head with a golf club. He reached for his throbbing head and groaned slightly which seemed to alert something in the room. He could make out four bodies through his blurred vision. He seemed to be lying on some sort of flat lawn chair; the uncomfortable weave on his sore back made that very apparent to him. The room was humid, but the gentle flow of cool air made it seem as if the walls were paper thin.

As his vision adjusted even more he could see the five bodies in front of him take form. He immediately took note of the massive body difference between each of the figures. One of them was as big as a bear while another looked as skinny as a pole. He even noticed figure that seemed to be sitting on the bear figure's shoulder that was roughly the size of his hand.

He rubbed his eyes and tried to focus more intently on these strange figures. Once his sight had fully cleared, his body froze. The figures were not people but mere animals glaring directly at him. The aggregation of animals seemed almost unbelievable. There was a tiger, a panda, a snake, a monkey, a large bird of some sort, and a bug all focusing their attention on him. His instincts kicked in and he stilled his body, his initial thought being that they would not attack him if he did not put up a fight. His eyes began to dart between each creature as they all just raised their brow in confusion at him. His eyes widened. He had never seen an animal raise their brow. Heck, he'd never seen an animal look so comfortable standing on their hind legs. That's when he began to notice that they were not normal animals. there was something about them that made them seem almost amiable. Regardless, the animals having affable demeanors did not sway him from his current panic attack.

Silence overcame the room, and even the soft blow of wind could not diffuse the gauche predicament. Eyes began to flicker around the room before they all seemed to rest on the panda.

A gentle clearing of the throat was made before a voice filled the room. This voice did not come from the man laying on the lawn chair either.

"So… What's up?" The panda spoke with deep, male voice.

"Way to be formal Po," the bird rolled his eyes at the panda as he spoke with a higher pitched masculine tone.

"At least I'm trying," the panda retorted.

"Enough you two!" The snake interrupted, her motherly voice cutting through the bickering. "This isn't getting us anywhere!"

"S-stop doing that!" The man finally spoke, the sudden outburst making everybody jump.

"Doing what?" The panda or Po replied.

"Talking! Y-you're not s-supposed to be able to d-do that!"

The man's outburst just increased the amount confusion within the room..

"Excuse me?" The bug questioned.

The man began to turn his body in an attempt to climb off the reclined chair while shouting, "I want to leave! I want to get out of here! Let me leave!"

"Oh, no you don't!" The tiger shot an arm out in his direction and forced him back into the chair. "You aren't going anywhere until you give us answers!"

Her forceful action and domineering female voice caused him to freeze up again and rapidly nod his head in compliance.

"Tigress!" The snake shouted at the tiger while attempting to pry her arm from his body. "You're scaring him! Let him be!"

The tiger retracted her arm and growled. The situation began to grow more and more uncomfortable by the second. Another clearing of the throat was heard before the snake began to speak.

"I'm sorry about all this. let's start from the beginning. I'm Viper, this is Tigress, Mantis, that's Crane, that's Monkey, and this is Po." She pointed to each member in the room respectively. The names were all stereotypical except Po. He seemed to be the only one with an out of place name.

"Ok…" He muttered as his eyes darted everywhere trying to avoid eye contact with any of them. "I-I'm Aden."

"Aden? That's a pretty interesting name. Don't know anybody with it around here," Mantis added.

"Um… Thank you?" He was still flustered, but his speech was beginning to return.

"What are you, and how did you get here?" Tigress .

"I'm a human, and I don't know," He returned quickly, fear painting his tone.

They all glanced at each other with curious looks.

"I think I'm going to be sick," Aden added as his body began to curl up into a fetal position.

"I'm surprised you only feel a little sick after the epic fall you had!" Po chimed in.

Aden's head rose slowly after hearing this. He glared at the creature who asked such a bizarre question with a look of pure bewilderment. The panda rubbed his paws together and glanced around the room to 4 sets of wide eyes and a set of disapproving ones.

"Something I said?" He eventually questioned.

"What fall?" Aden questioned the panda with such directness and confidence it was as if he forgot he was speaking to an anthropomorphic creature.

"Uh… Yeah, don't you remember?"

"Of course he doesn't remember you idiot!" Mantis interjected as he plastered a tiny claw to his forehead. "We found him unconscious!"

"How could somebody be unconscious while they fall from the sky?" Po retorted.

"They sky?!" Adan shouted, startling the group. "What the hell is going on?!"

"Calm down," Viper quickly soothed. "Just tell us what you remember, and we'll do our best to help you."

"I don't remember anything," Aden spoke up. "I just remember going to… work, and then I woke up here."

"Where do you work?" Viper chimed in.

"I wouldn't bet on anywhere around here," Aden responded. "This place doesn't look anything like Madison."

They all looked at each other with quizzical looks before Po spoke up. "I don't think there's a Madison anywhere in China."

Aden's body flung up in an instant and shouted with a barreling voice that could knock over buildings, "China!?"

Everyone took a step back at his outburst except Tigress, who donned a protective look. His body fought through the pain as he tried to sit up completely.

"No! Don't get up!" Viper alerted. "You're body is still healing!"

"Stop moving," Tigress finally spoke in a matter of fact tone, as she took a step forward before shooting her right arm directly at his chest with the intention of shoving him back into his laying position. Aden's instincts immediately intervened as his left arm shot up blocking her paw from making contact. He immediately regretted his decision as the pain in the blocking arm began to set in. He felt like it was going to fall right off.

Nobody seemed to notice him grimace from the pain, though. They were all too wide eyed at the action itself. Tigress hadn't even budged after her arm had been stopped mid punch.

"How… How did you move so fast?!" Monkey was the first to ask.

But before he could answer, Tigress used her other arm to push him back onto the flat chair and make his hand release her. He let out a disgruntled yell as his back made contact, while an unpleasant glare rested upon her face.

"That was awesome!" Po nearly jumped he was so excited. "You totally just stopped the Master Tigress! Do you know how cool that is?! Oh-ho-HO you have got to show me your moves!"

"Do you know Kung Fu?" Mantis prodded.

"No…" He was able to squeak out through the pain in his arm and back.

"You mean that you just blocked Tigress without any Kung Fu training?" Po questioned while he covered his cheeks with his hands excitedly. "You should do Kung Fu with us!"

"Po!" Tigress burst out. "He got lucky, and Master Shifu doesn't even know that he's here."

"Tigress, lighten up," Mantis interjected.

"Po wasn't serious," Viper agreed with Mantis. "And, he hasn't done anything that would deem him a threat."

"Yeah," Po coughed slightly. "I was totally kidding..."

Tigress just growled and stormed out of the room, thrusting the sliding door closed on the way out.

"She's right though," Crane voiced. "Master Shifu hasn't even been alerted that we brought him into the Jade Palace, and I don't think he is going to take this lightly."

Po let out an exasperated sigh, and questioned Aden further. "Are you a fighter at all?"

"No," He replied, plainly.

"Does that mean you wouldn't be able to block another punch if somebody threw one at you?"

"What do you mea- OW!"

A fuzzy fist was thrust at his shoulder, making impact with a solid smack sound. This wasn't a joking punch you would give your best friend either. The panda may look like his punches would feel like pillows, but those pillows are full of rocks.

"Po!" Viper shouted, exasperatedly. "What are you doing?!"

"I was just testing if he would stop my punch!" Po defensively returned

"While he's still healing?!"

Aden had his unharmed arm grasping his shoulder as he writhed back and forth muttering, "son of a bitch!" under his breath. He hunched himself over so he was in the fetal position again and lay down on his side. The constant bickering between the group and the pain in his entire body, but mostly his arm, was too much and he finally snapped.

"Leave me alone!" He finally released. The bickering instantly ceased.

Aden was had began to shiver as he was overcome with fear, confusion, sadness, and anger. He had nowhere to go, he didn't know anybody, and this probably wasn't even the same universe as his. These 'people' didn't seem like they wanted to hurt him, but he couldn't take the stress anymore.

"I just want to be left alone," he added.

"Ok, we'll give you some privacy," Viper concluded as she slithered out of the room with the rest of the group behind her.

"Sorry," was the final word uttered from Po as he exited last.

His shivering began to slow as his emotions settled. He let time pass by and eventually his body fell into a restless sleep.


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