Friendship Journal
by: Terrell James
Chapter 1: Musaki
Well, this isn't the first time I can write down my feelings on paper before and I decided to just express it in the only way I know how. This is Xing-Fu Musaki Ko-Kanji Bushido-Akio Meng Cheng Xi-Wang and I just wanted to take this time to just reflect on what I've been through for the past 13 years of my life so far.
After my parents were killed by Tai Lung when I was 3, I just felt like my whole world was crashed down and I've been living in loneliness for so long that I isolated myself from getting a chance at getting adopted or even looking for a family. I guess the tragedy has gotten me in almost 10 years of depression because I didn't know how to get over it.
As I got older, I was well into kung-fu because my dad introduced me to it when I was 2 and I got re-interested it in again when I was like five and when I heard that the Furious Five were kung-fu masters and I knew that this would be my ultimate goal...to be a kung-fu master. I look up to them so much, but I mostly look up to Crane, Mantis and Monkey because they're really awesome and their moves are no doubt inspiring to me. It makes me want to look up to them even more.
My biggest crush out of the two females is Viper because she's tough, but a sweetheart too. She's kinda like the mother that I lost years ago...well since I came here. As fir Tigress, she's not my favorite because she's just too emotionless and too strong. I still don't get why everyone has a crush on her...including Po. What's attractive about her anyway?
I've been living happily in the Jade Palace since I was 13 and for the first time in my life, it felt like everything was going really well for me. Po is like the big brother I never had...considering the fact that I didn't have one before I was born. He can be a little bit weird, but he's the kind of person I can go to him if I need someone to talk to and he's always there for me.
Shifu...he's like a second father to me, but he's not a replacement to my dad. I sort of look at him as one and he makes me feel like I'm special and that I am good enough to do anything I set my mind into. Though we do have our differences, I do still think of him as my dad.
Since I've been adopted, some pretty cool things have been happening in my life for the past 3 years; I met my twin brother, Zeke; made some new friends outside of the orphanage, found out that I had relatives; went on a solo mission to rescue my best friend Arizona and other things. If someone had asked me years ago that this was possible before I was adopted, I would've just continued sulking in my depression and still wouldn't be adopted.
I'm half Chinese and half Japanese as well and I have mystical powers and other types of stuff and I pretty much got it on my dad's side, but I'm normal on my mom's side too. It's weird, but awesome regardless. With my kung-fu, I feel like I can accomplish pretty much anything and I've got the kung-fu masters to thank. They owe me my life and I don't see them as master, I see them as family.