Po awoke in his room set at the end of the hall across from Tigress', he yawned loudly as he got up, and walked over to his sliding paper door to open it, as he did so, he noticed it was still a bit dark, tha hall tinted a dark blue from the light shining off of the moon outside. Po quirked his brow, and held a large claw to his chin in thought, he smiled in a bit off excitement, and began to sneak passed the rooms of the Furious Five, tiptoeing his way passed, making sure not to make too much noise, the floorboards squeeking every few steps from his weight. He finally reached the end of the hall, and looked back to see if he had woke any of the others up, no sign of movement, nor any sounds of feet, claws, or scales scraping across the floor, all to be heard was the occasional light snor emiting from Mantis' room, "Phew." Po said lightly in reliefe, as he began to walk out of the dorm hall, and into the open air of the courtyard.
As Po reached the other side of the palace gate, and closed it quuietly, he turned to look down at the Valley of Peace, until his eyes caught site of the stairs leading up to where he was, "Glad I'm going down." he said to himself as he set his foot on the first step to descend. He continued walking down for a good five mitutes before he stopped to take a quik break, he looked up at the sky as he rested, small clouds were strung across the sky, painted a bright pink and orange mix from the rising sun until what part of the overview right above him turned to a dark blue shade from the passing night, Po couldn't help but smile at the sight, ready for the new day, filled with training with his best friends, and then a nice hot meal afterwords, but before any of that, he had another plan for the day. He looked down at the town nesteled inin the middle of the valley, staring straight at his adopted fathers house, and resturant, he began walking again down the steps until he lost his footing on the steap path, and began to fall the rest of the way down, letting out loud yelps of slight pain from each bouncing land on the steps.
Finally landing at the bottom of the steps, Po pulled himself up, and stretched a bit, putting his large black paws on his lower back and pushing forward on it while leaning back until a loud pop sounded from the preassure being put on his spine, he looked around at the town which had a few of its inhabitants walking about now in the morning light, each being waving and greeting him as he began to walk by them smiling in joyfrom the respect they paid him ever since he had beaten Tai Lung a few years ago. He had reached his fathers house as the townsfolk had all began to wake, he looked aroung the arch like entrance to the house to see if his father was awake, like always, he was working in the kitchen already making a large helping of his famous secret ingrediant soup. Po walked up to the counter top that served as an order and pick up location in the resturant, his father, Mr. Ping not looking away from the work in front of him, "Yes, what can I get you?" he said as he noticed a shadow forming on the back wall he was facing as the sun beat down on Po, he couldn't help but smile and laugh a bit at the fact his father didn't realize his own son was the one at the bar, "How about a hug from my dad?" Po replied to the question, his fathers head shot up in suprize, he turned around with a wide smile on his face, "Po!" he yelled out with glee as he ran up to his son, arms apart for a hug, Po accepted the hug as he wrapped one arm around his dad as he bent over the counter top, "What are you doing here, shouldn't you be at the palace gettign ready for training?" Mr. Ping had asked his son, letting go of him still smiling, "I thought I'd come visit you." he replied as he went to the door leading to the kitchen, "But Po, you visit me every day after training, why so early?" his father questioned a bit confused about the morning visitation, "Don't know, I just felt... compelled, that and some morning soup wouldn't hurt either." he said laughing, his father joining in with a chuckle, as he dipped the ladle into the pot of soup, before pouring it into a bowl, "Well, you always did love my secret ingrediant soup." Mr. Ping said as he handed the bowl to his son.
Po had just lifted the bowl to his lips to beging slupring up the noodle filled soup when someone had come running into the dining room of the small resturant in a panic, "Dragon warrior!" the man screamed as he cought sight of the panda, Po lowered the bowl as he heard his title called out by a male pig running an out of breath, "Dragon warrior, a band of thieves are attacking a couple near the bridge!" Po handed the bowl back to his father and took off in a sprint, "I'll see you later dad!" he called out as he rounded the entrance to the hounse, "Be carefull son!" Mr. Ping called out to him hoping he had heard before he heard the sound of wood crashing nearby, "Ow, where'd that come from!" Po yelled out from around the corner of the building.
Upon reacheing the bridge, Po notice a strange group of armed thugs running away, each of them had brown and black fur, all had similar looking weapons except one who was carrying a spear like one which had a second curved blade protruding from the side, close to the spear head, tide onto the pole tightly with rope, but what cought his full attention was one of the men carrying a female tiger slung over his shoulder, though unlike Tigress, her fur was grey with black stripes, Po's face went from action seeking optimism to shock at the sight, "Put me down!" the girl screamed as she bounced on the thiefs shoulder, bound with rope, and iron cuffs on her wrists. Po ran towards the group ready to fight as they began to cross the bridge, "Light it!" one of them called out to another who was standing next to a long fuse leading to the middle of the crossing, before it entered into a barrel of powder used for fireworks which was surounded by ten others similar to itself each with another fuse being fed to them by the first barrel, the thief lit it, and bolted joining his brothers in crime, the fuse winding up the arch of the bridge before entering the barrel and blowing up the first powder keg, then leading to all the rest, leaving the wooden crossing to be completely destroyed blocking Po from giving chase, "No!" he screamed as he watched the group get away on the other side of the strong river, "Maybe I could jump... no, to far." he said to himself as he looked at the burning gap in the bridge, a good thirty feet of it missing and blazing with flames from the explosions.
Po couldn't believe they were going to get away with the girl, but more he couldn't believe that there was nothing he could do at the moment to begin giving chase, the poor girl was all he could think about at the moment, the angry yet scared look in her eyes, Po tried to work out some way to go after them, but could think of nothing short of going back to the palace, and getting the five to help, but if he were to do that, the thieves would be long gone by the time they returned. "Agh, I don't believe this!" he yelled out as he flopped down hating himself for his failure, he inhailed through his nose, getting ready to exhail through his mouth until a scent cought his attention, a sweet smell, like a sugary treat of some sort, he continued to smell it until he follwed it to a smashed cart, he looked closely, and noticed a black furry tail coming from beneeth the broken boards of the cart, he ghasped in shock as he ran over and lifted up some of the splintered wooden planks covering the hopefully only injured being. Po lifted the final board covering the creature, to reviel a completely black furred male being, what the man was he couldn't guess, he had never seen such a creature before, all black, save for the fur on the back of his neck which was a dark brown, and his face which was a mix of black, and dark grey, curved black ears pointing downward, and long claws coming from his paws, the man was dressed in a green vest, with white trimming, and clasps curving to the right of the mans chest, with loose pants matching the color of the clasps on his shirt. Po stood with a mixture of awe, and confusion to the mans apearance, until he finally was able to snap himself out of the trance to check for signs of life, "Oh God, are you alright?" he asked as lowered his head to listen for a heartbeat, the man began to cough uncontrollably before faintly whispering something, as his eyes stayed closed, "Fei... Yen..." he said as his head fell down from exhaustion, "Hang on, I'm gonna help you!" Po said as he lifted the man into his arms before running in the direction of the palace, seeing the aid of this man the best possible thing to do as he could not chase the group of bandits.