Kungfu Panda: Furious Fists
by: WhiteGloves
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this title except new characters and the story!
My first Kungfu Panda fanfic! Enjoy!
Tigress eyed several empty broken bottles in front of her. Each were all standing in thin bamboo sticks in positions of eight on her left and right side that blocks her way to the center where a huge gong was hanging by a tree.
Po and the others watched her from one side and the panda alone looks really fidgety.
"She's not going to do this, is she?" he muttered from the corner of his lips to Monkey.
"You bet she is." Monkey muttered back with his eyes transfixed at Tigress.
"She has to kick the gong ten times and then go back and forth to her position, marking the ground with her claws every time without letting the bottles fall, let alone be touched. That's a feat, that is." Crane nodded his head as he too, watched Tigress.
"That's gotta be awesomeness and I mean awesomeness if she did that!" Po said in awe, "And she's really going to do it even though its insanity?"
"I wonder who challenged her to do this 'insanity' stuff, too." Mantis said back and the Furious Four look at Po pointedly who looked sideways at them.
"Oh come on, I was only kidding with her!" he said defensively.
"Ah, but this is Tigress we are talking about," Viper said quietly, "She's never said 'no' to any challenged before."
Po looked at Tigress with deepest respect as she stood there eyeing the sharp broken bottles.
They silently watched her, as she felt her environment. She felt the air run through her, and then suddenly, her eyes flashed dangerously.
The next scene was indescribable- or probably- really indescribable as Tigress windswept movements caught the air. The Furious Four and Po watched in amazement as their heads went from left to right so many times as the gong resounded again and again with ear splitting 'dong's'. She went back and forth through the maze-type bottle arrangements with astonishing speed, clawed the ground with markings of how many times she has returned, and kicked the gong with metal like feet again and again. It was incredible.
And finally, she clawed the tenth mark, with her tail swishing behind her elegantly, and with the tenth 'dong' finishing with her in the background.
Everyone shouted in amazement and ran toward her while clapping.
"Whoa!"
"Amazing!"
"You nailed that one, Tigress!"
"Simply astounding!"
Monkey and Crane tapped Tigress on the back while Viper slithered on her legs and Mantis jumped on her shoulder. Tigress smiled at them but her eyes found Po who remained standing apart from her.
She gave him a knowing smile with one of her eyebrows raised.
Po looked at her for a moment, and then exclaimed in his usual fanatic voice,
"Oh that was sooo freaking hardcore, Tigress! How could you do that? So being cool and awesomeness altogether! Aww you had me at the kick! You had me at the focus and speed- you had me at everything! You are so in it! Very in it! Give me four!"
He raised his right paw, with a grin on his face, indicating to be tapped. Tigress shook her head and tapped the four-fingered-paw.
"Awesomeness!" Po continued to whisper as Tigress went pass her, his eyes round and shining.
The Five and the Dragon Warrior stepped out of the hill to get back to the Jade Palace still talking among themselves.
"Did you eat any of those special medicines that made you so hyperactive?" Po asked Tigress who rolled her eyes.
"Don't insult my ability," she muttered. "and my being picky to food."
"She's been training harder, Po," Crane explained lightly, "I mean- for many years with Master Shifu."
"Yeah, but her hyper-activeness can't be explained by pure training, can it?"
"Yeah, like your motivation when it comes to eating my cookies." Monkey pointed out.
"Yeah- they're different things!" Po insisted. "I'm motivated by food- so she's gotta be motivated by food too, right?"
"And you give me special medicines, huh?" Tigress rolled her eyes again.
"There's more to it than food, I tell you," Mantis said to the group. Viper looked at Tigress in wonder.
"She just plain loves Kung Fu."
Po opened his mouth to answer, but then decided not to say anything. He stared at the Furious Five as they walked along the path and felt himself smile.
"Awesome." he said to himself.
*.*.*.*
They have just reached the Palace quarters when they heard the emergency bells from downtown.
"Bandits?" Po excitedly said as they turned toward the entrance.
"Always sound so happy." Tigress noted as the others ran toward the town in the best way they know- jumping, running and flying.
"Coz league of justice's coming to town!" Po answered back and they were off.
The downtown ruckus was caused by some hairy wolves wrecking havoc on the small town. One wolf had been turning all tables into a small restaurant, five were grabbing citizens by the neck and strangling them, and the others were turning some wagons upside down and stepping on the merchandise.
"This is an annoying town!" grumbled the leader who looked the meanest among the wolves, "And they said this place is dangerous because of the fury five and that Dragon slayer crackpot! Where are they now eh?" he stepped on an old bunny's head and was about to kick it-
"Hey, aren't you messing with the wrong town?"
The wolves all looked up together and saw the strangest combination of an animal group: a tiger, a monkey, a bird, a snake, an insect, and least of all, a big fat panda.
The wolves gaped at them, but then a small pig child shouted-
"The Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five!"
The wolf leader looked at Tigress at once and grinned with menace.
"So you're the Dragon Warrior."
Tigress did not react but Po did.
"It's not her." he said in a matter-of-fact voice.
"Huh? Who is then?" the wolf leader asked with a frown.
"Me~!" Po grinned and pointed at himself proudly.
All the wolves hooted with glee. Tigress raised an eyebrow, Monkey raised two eyebrows, Viper and Mantis both blinked, while Crane sighed.
"You?" hissed the wolf leader in disbelief, "but you're a panda."
Po flexed his arms and neck with a frown on his face.
"Yeah, I am. Bring it on." he said.
Chaos followed after that. Po marched forward with his belly bouncing off some of the wolves away, his quick fists pounding on every enemy he made contact with. Tigress was busy keeping off the other wolves that were attacking her simultaneously. Viper slithered on the floor, whipping and lashing her tails if necessary. Crane was attacking from the above, taking three or four wolves with him above the sky and dropping them at tenth height. Monkey kicked and jumped at those trying to bite him, using his fist to send the enemies flying away to the roof tops while Mantis kept up pace with him.
They had their own fights, but all the same, they were looking after each other's back.
"Tigress! Elevate!" Po called suddenly that made Tigress jump at him, grabbed him by the shoulder and kicked him in the back, sending him above where he flew away and dropped at the wolves that were attacking some of the citizens.
"I knew it," someone said from behind the Tiger. "You're Tigress."
Tigress looked behind her and saw the leader of the pack. Without further ado, she grabbed him and circled him in the air, where Crane helped her and took the wolf by the shoulder and threw him away.
At seeing their leader down, the other wolves turned tails and fled from every corner.
"Yeah- that's right! Leave! Don't ever come back!" Po shouted enthusiastically as he returned from the right side, "If I see you again I'll send you my entire paw kiss!"
"Paw kiss?" Viper raised her eyes at Po who blinked, and then pointed at his paws and kiss it. The people around clapped in happiness and gratitude for their heroes as they gathered around them while others pick up the mess on the floor.
"What's the matter, Tigress?" Mantis asked as he jumped on her shoulder, "You hurt?"
For Tigress was looking at the direction where Crane had thrown the leader away with a frown on her face.
"He seemed to recognize me, that wolf." she said quietly.
"Who wouldn't recognize you?" Po said before anyone could answer, "I would recognize you even if you weren't disguising yourself as a tiger."
The five looked at him with that disbelief stare they always give him. Po blinked.
"Charming." Tigress said, but she smiled as she walked pass him.
"What are you saying?" Monkey hissed on Po as they started walking away.
"I was just telling her the truth," Po shrugged with his two fingers raised, "Big fan!"
"Who has eaten special medicines now," Crane said smugly, "you're the one hyperactive."
"I'm on a diet." Po said defensively. "But my stomach disagrees."
They all laughed heartily as they went back up to the Jade Palace again with all their worries forgotten.
*.*.*.*
Somewhere deep in the jungle, the hapless leader of the wolf pack that attacked the lower town awhile ago emerged from the bushes looking beat up. He looked from left to right as he half walked-half limped toward a very strange place. After a few more minutes he finally reached his destination deep in the forest where the light of the sun hardly touch the ground. He stopped in front of a stone formation and called in his husky voice-
"Kuma!"
His voice echoed on the stone walls. The wolf breathed hard, and then tried again, "Kuma!"
Strong paws dropped from the ground. The wolf looked up and saw a big, brown, sabre-toothed emerged from the darkness of the trees. His body were built sturdily, and there was a strong force in the way he walked that makes anyone fear him. His long fangs that dangle on his mouth were nerve-racking, but most especially his one left- patched eye, and the right colour gold eye.
"You returned so quickly, weak and alone." the sabre-toothed rumbled with his deep voice as he stared unblinkingly at the wolf, "We have just returned from China… and you bring me bad news?"
"Well," started the wolf with a gulp, "Remember we heard about that heroes from the Jade Palace and the Dragon Warrior?"
The sabre-toothed merely blinked.
"You're right, Tigress is still there. But she's not the Dragon Warrior."
"She isn't?"
"No, as a matter of fact it's a fluffy-hairy-plush panda…and kinda cuddly…"
The sabre-toothed looked mad for a moment, but then he controlled himself and touched his eye patch. The wolf gulped as he saw something scary from the sabre-tooth's expression.
"It doesn't matter. It's not the Dragon Warrior I am after yet… that Tigress… I will destroy her."
-TBC-
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