Chapter 1: Twist and Turn
So this is a pilot story for an idea that I have so I would like you guys to tell me if you guys would like to see more of this story. The story will be as the title suggests and… the summary points it out pretty well. I know there have been some stories that show the gang in school; well mine is going to pretty similar to that. Just with… ahem… a twist.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kung Fu Panda, only my ideas and OC's.
Po was having that dream again where he was really good at Kung Fu and got to fight with the best and bravest masters. The Furious Five! Oh, how he dreamt of how his life could be with them. He defeated hoards of enemies with his favorite heroes beside him and befriend his favorite hero, Tigress. He always dreamed that he and Tigress would hang out and be the best of friends. But, before long his wonderful dreams became so rudely interrupted by his one and only father.
"Po!" the old goose hollered up into his room. "Get up, or you will be late for school!"
Po grumbled as he awoke from his slumber, he peered out from underneath his sheets. "Okay dad, I'm up!" he yelled back and got out of bed.
He got dressed and played with his action figures for a bit till he got odd looks from the neighbor from across the street. He politely apologized then took a look at himself in the mirror. He looked exactly like a sixteen-year-old Po would look like, a few inches shorter that his older counterpart and a lot less filled out, but still had his panda sized shape. Po checked his backpack for the homework he had to do the night before and went down to greet his father.
"Morning dad!" Po said with a cheery smile.
"Ah- good morning, Po!" Mr. Ping returned the smile with one of his own. "I heard thumping from upstairs are you okay?"
"Yeah, I was just playing with my action figures." Po said with a smile as he took the bowl of dumplings from his father to eat for breakfast.
"A boy your age should be chasing girls, not playing with action figures." Mr. Ping said as he chopped up turnips. "I want grandkids before I'm too old!"
"Daaaaad!" Po sighed.
"Okay, okay. Did you get your work done?" His father asked.
"You know me dad." Po said popping the last dumpling in his mouth and heading to the door.
"Oh, alright. Have a nice day at school!" Mr. Ping said to his son as he walked away.
"Bye dad, see you after school." Po waved back then turned to the road before him. As he walked he said hi to neighbors and people he had know since he was a kid. As the son of a famous noodle maker, he was pretty well known around the community.
Soon Po made it to the school and crossed under the Iron Gate that stretched across the front of the courtyard to the school. It was the high school in the Valley of Peace and was home to all kinds of life. Po was in the early part of his junior year. He then went to his first class of the day and got ready to take notes. Po was by no means smart, but he wasn't stupid either. He always pulled a B grade average, but he was the shy type and didn't have any friends. As Po wrote something one the piece of paper someone walked by and knocked his stuff on the floor. As Po got down on the ground to pick it back up he saw who had knocked it down, it was Tai-Lung.
Tai-Lung was a senior and had been picking on Po for the past five years. He always found something new to torture Po on a daily basis. He was mainly the reason why Po tried to skip school sometimes it got that bad.
"You dropped something fatty." Tai-Lung and his friends chuckled as they sat down waiting for the teacher. Po didn't say anything for he knew it would involve him getting hurt.
Time flew by quick and soon lunchtime was upon them, Po got his lunch from the cafeteria and went to sit at his normal table in the corner of the lunchroom. No one else sat with him, but he was use to it. No one really bothered him, except of Tai-Lung, and he didn't bother anyone else; he liked it that way. Though, from time to time Po did wish he had some friends or at lest a best friend he could talk to.
Po was getting into his lunch then he got an unwanted visit from Tai-Lung.
"Hey, tubby!" the snow leopard shouted and his friends stood behind him.
"Hey Tai-Lung…" Po grumbled.
"Why aren't you sitting with your friends… oh that's right. No one wants to be your friend!" Tai-Lung gave a terrifying laugh.
"Go away." Po said hoping the leopard would leave, but this just made him squint his eyes in anger.
AT THE JADE PALACE…
"Hi-yah." The students of the Jade Palace yelled as they practiced strikes on dummies.
The Five were in the hall training, it was almost lunchtime for them and was expecting Shifu to come and let them go on a break. Most of the Five were sixteen years of age, except for Monkey and Mantis who were fifteen at the time. Tigress had not fully sealed her heart or become truly 'hardcore' as Po would come to say. She didn't really hang out with her comrades that much and trained most of her free time away. Her body and mind ached for a best friend, but she couldn't let just anyone fill the position. That is why one of the Five hadn't already befriended her in such ways.
"Students!"
"Master!" The Five drop what they are doing and snap into attention in front of their master.
"I have come to interrupt your training for a very important reason." The red panda stated.
"Are there bandits attacking the village?" Tigress took a defensive step forward.
"No Tigress, I am here with good news." Shifu gave her a warm fatherly smile. Because Shifu never raised Tai-Lung, he never lost a part of him. This allowed him to give all his love to Tigress who he still had adopted her from the orphanage and became his first student under Oogway's watchful eyes. Shifu promised her that she would one day become the Dragon Warrior. Tigress noticed Shifu trying to be her father, but for some reason she felt like all he wanted her to do was to train for the Dragon Warrior title.
"What is it Master?" Viper asked from the line of students.
"I have realized you all have been training in the art of kung fu for most of your lives and I am willing to give back a little." Shifu continued.
"What exactly are you talking about Master?" Monkey questioned.
"I have taken the liberty to enroll you all into the Valley of Peace's High School. All the kids of your age are in their junior year, so you will join them." Shifu said with a smile while getting mixed reactions in the process.
"What?" Crane looked dumbfounded.
"Yes! This is going to be great!" Viper sprung up into the air.
"Now I have to do real work?" Mantis whined.
"So we won't have to do our kung fu exercises?" Monkey said hoping to for some free time.
"Wait, why?" Tigress could hardly believe what she was hearing.
"You must have some public experience and I figured a school with people your own age would do just that. You can't be stuck up here in the palace all your life, besides Oogway agrees with my decision." Shifu told his students.
Eventually they all agreed with the idea, but one was still uneasy with it. Tigress. She wasn't comfortable with being around a large group of people especially when her image mattered a great deal with her.
"Because you will all have a long day tomorrow, you may relax for the rest of the day." Shifu began to walk away from the group then Viper asked a simple question.
"Are we going to just walk in there tomorrow and have to figure out everything out ourselves?" Viper asked a little concerned.
"Actually no, I spoke with the principle of the school today. He said he would have someone at the front gates tomorrow morning. You will be to stick with him for the rest of the day so he can so you around.
"Do you know his name, can you tell us?" Mantis hopped up onto Monkey's shoulder as the primate shook his head also wanting to know his name.
After a moment of pause as his students looked at him with wonder, Shifu decide to tell them. "The principle said it would be a panda that goes by the name of Po. He is also in his junior year."
Tigress silently stood back behind her comrades as she listened to them talking about this person who would be helping them around the school the next day. "So Po is his name." she said under her breath as she began walking to the kitchen to get some lunch.
BACK WITH PO…
"No one tells me what to do, panda!" Tai-Lung roared and jumped at Po.
"No! Wait! That's not how I meant it!" Po cowered in fear, waiting for punches to come but they never did.
"Now that is quiet enough, Tai-Lung." The principal had seen all of this and had stepped in taking a hold of Tai-Lung's arm. "I don't know how many times I've told you to leave Po alone."
"But he was…" Tai-Lung started.
"No butts are involved here, now go to my office we have some things to talk about." The principal pointed in the direction Tai-Lung was to go in.
"Yes, Sir." Tai-Lung said and sulked off.
"No there is no reason to still be standing here, go back to your lunch." Mr. Ming said to Tai-Lung's friends and waves them off.
"Thanks Mr. Ming." Po said bowing to the principle. Mr. Ming was a six-foot tall cheetah that wore a white collar with a red tie. He had been the principle for most of Po's school career and knew the panda very well."
"Po are you sure your okay? I mean if you are having problems with him, we can take care of that." Mr. Ming said trying to help Po.
"No! I mean… it's fine. He doesn't cause that much trouble." Po lied, but he knew what Tai-Lung would do if he told Mr. Ming the stuff the leopard had done to him.
The principal eyed Po for a moment, but then decided to talk to Tai-Lung about it later and instead talk to Po about what he had come to find him for.
"Po, I actually came over here to talk to you about something."
"What is it Sir?"
"Do you know who Master Shifu is?" the cheetah asked with a smile.
"Do I! He is the Grandmaster at the Jade Palace and Master of the Furious Five!" Po was getting excited.
"Okay, okay." Mr. Ming chuckled. "That's good, because I talked with him earlier today and he had a great idea."
"He is probably going to send them on an epic mission!" Po said as he racked his mind with awesome sounding ideas.
"It might not be that epic of a mission, but it is a mission none the less. He told me of his idea to have the Furious Five to go to school for a year." Mr. Ming stated.
Po racked his mind for a second, and then his eyes went wide realizing what it meant. "Wait, so that means… they are coming here!"
"That's right, but Shifu didn't want to just drop off his students, he wanted someone to show them around and be their friend."
"So…" Po urged Mr. Ming on.
"I chose you. You will help them around and show them where they have to go." Mr. Ming said with a smile.
"Wow! This is just so… Thank you Mr. Ming!" Po jumped up and hugged the cheetah.
"It's no problem, your dad had talked to me about how he hadn't seen you with any friends and I knew you have had a hard time so I thought this would be perfect for you."
"Well, when do they come?"
"Tomorrow, you are to meet them at the front gates a half an hour before classes start so you can help them find their first class."
"Okay I'll be there!" Po took a step back to grab his tray, now he was too excited to eat, though he was nervous about getting up that early, he was definitely not used to that.
The rest of Po's day went rather fast and flawless, no Tai-Lung. After school was out, Po ran home as fast as he could and back to his dad. Po yelled as he ran into his dad's noddle shop.
"Dad! Dad! Dad!" Po said as he searched for his dad.
"W-what is the matter Po? Is something wrong?" Asked a worried Mr. Ping from behind a shipment of vegetables.
"No, nothing is wrong!" Po replied with a huge smile on his face.
"Then what is going on?"
"The Furious Five are coming to my school, and I get to show them around!" Po jumped excitedly.
"That sounds great, Po! Now go wash up, time for your chores." Mr. Ping said. Po followed his dad's orders and started with his chores but never stopped talking about what was going to happen tomorrow. Mr. Ping smiled. He hadn't seen Po this excited about something before… ever.
JADE PALACE…
Tigress was doing what she does best, training. No one else was in the training hall, just her. Shifu soon walked in and saw her training, he couldn't understand why she wasn't with the others who had gone down to the village.
"Tigress?"
The feline, who was in mid punch, suddenly stopped what she was doing and turned to where the voice came from. "Yes Master?"
"Why aren't you with the others in the village?'
"I noticed my form was sloppy today during training and I figured this was the perfect time to work on it." Tigress replied.
"It seemed fine to me." Master Shifu said.
"It was something minor." Tigress shrugged.
Master Shifu thought for a second then nodded. "Continue on then."
Tigress bowed and added a 'master' in there and returned to beating up the wooden dummies in front of her. Shifu watched for a moment then began to walk away. He couldn't help but think as he walked. 'I hope you find a friend.'
Again, this was just a pilot on how you just liked this idea. I know Shifu is a little out of character, but… whats the fun in that if you can't TWIST things around. (Lol I'm so funny) All in all, I do want to know what you guys think about it so please let me know using that review box below this message.
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