Okay I'm honestly dizzy with seeing the new Legend of Korra episodes; I swear Korra reminds me so much of Tigress! I just see that chick and BAM instant human incarnation of Tigress, she's physically strong and bold!
Well idk about you, but combining Avatar ideas from Nickelodeon and DreamWork's Kung Fu Panda I couldn't help myself :3
I mean c'mon! My imagination is so fun to me! xD
Oh well, hope you guys like it {or at least a little bit} :3
Thanks! Enjoy!
I do not own any kung fu panda characters AT ALL, nor do i take credit for "benders" thats the creaters idea – I only combined the idea of element benders and DreamWork's kung fu panda
In this story all the Kung Fu Panda characters are all humanized…so yes I have made you all cry internally
Earth that grows
Water that falls
Fire that burns
And Air that breathes
Long ago, four sacred animals discovered the ability to control the elements of nature's power and its natural order
The composed Water Buffalo was granted to control water, its streams, rivers and the sea herself, earth's vital life-source.
The mighty Ox was given the power to bend the earth at his will
The feisty Fox was given the most dangerous element, fire yet with his cunningness and quickness he mastered it no problem
And last the playful yet wise Owl was given the last element, Air.
Combined with the mastery art of Kung Fu, the masters decided to make a pact and agreed to only use their skills for good and justice. To teach those who also wielded the elements to honor their abilities and only bend for good and fight if needed.
But legend tells of a legendary warrior, the Avatar Warrior, whose skills were told that he could control all four elements. Such power was only given to one of a noble and good heart, whose desires are for to help and protect the balance of harmony.
Some say he took form of a great griffon, but most folklore tell it to be a mighty mythological creature, others claim it to be a ferocious dragon to have been the first Avatar Warrior, but no one truly knows who the first avatar was.
Though scrolls tell that he traveled the land, as he searched for the secret of inner peace – surely the people foretold his powers and Kung Fu skills where truly almighty! Stories of his kindness and bravery as he aided those in need of his help and spread his wise teachings to those who sought his wisdom
When those who sought to destroy him or take him as their prisoner, it matter not how many foes he faced, they were no match for his supremacy and high Kung Fu skills
For never before had the avatar been so feared and so loved, all great masters of each gifted elements bowed in respect for such a powerful master. For he was …!
"PO!" A loud, familiar voice suddenly called his name again and again as it grew louder
"Po! Get up you lazy son of mine!"
He gasped with his eyes wide open as he rolled off his makeshift bed toppling over, again, making a loud thud with his heavy body against the aged wooden floor board.
"Po! Let's go! You're late for work!" a hackling voice yelled from the first floor
Groaning as he held his head in slight pain after his usual fall from a crazy dream,
"Man that was the most awesomenest dream ever!" Po thought out loud to himself while picking himself up,
Looking over his bedroom wall, the corner was filled with a montage of posters of the Furious Five, his all time favorite bending team of warriores, walking over to his window-still gazing in a daze, remembering his dream. Becoming a mighty warrior fighting alongside the Furious Five, loved by all of China and respected as a true master, like the Avatar Warrior himself!
Po however was just a typical earth bending lad, raised as a peaceful villager but with big dreams from the Valley of Peace. Brought up by a loving noodle shop owner, Mr. Ping who took him in as an abandoned baby boy
While continuing to picture himself as powerful as the Great Avatar Warrior, it was then interrupted by his father's voice again
"Po, what are you doing up there!" Mr. Ping asked already impatient about his "employee's" tardiness
"Ah, uh-nothing! Coming!" he answered his dad, slightly flustered
Po got dressed into his usual attire of his dark green and gold buttoned uniform (anyone who is a bender usually wears the color of their element), stitched pants, traditional footwear and his hair was normally fashioned in a low bun with his messy jet black bangs sticking out on top his forehead.
He finished getting dressed and rushed downstairs so quickly to reach his father, he tripped on his own two feet and clumsily fell down the wooden short steps, grunting in aloud. finally making it to the first floor of his father's restaurant
"Ugh! Sorry, dad" he apologized looking up to his dad as he was sprawled on the floor in slight pain from the fall
"Sorry doesn't make the noodles, my son! Chop-chop! We mustn't laze around while there are hungry, paying customers waiting for their noodles out there!"
"Uh, right, of course" Po hesitantly answered lifting himself up and dusting off the dirt and lint that attached to his clothes. He began collecting large vegetable beets setting them next to his father's cutting board and started handing out the already prepared and salted steaming bowl of noodles to early noon customers waiting impatiently in line
Mr. Ping was a loving and strict single father indeed. A short old man, his usual attire was the restaurant uniform and his aged gray hair was in a small thin ponytail. In fact, Mr. Ping wasn't a bender at all actually, being a busy business man whose love for noodles and his son were too great for anybody to understand but his heart was always in the right place
While the busy noodle family was working, Mr. Ping took a brief moment to chat with his son
"So Po, what were you doing up there making all that noise?" Mr. Ping asked while cutting up the beats
Slightly distracted Po answered "Oh nothing-nothing, just had a crazy dream is all" while handing out the hot bowl of noodles to his first customer as she handed him 3 gold coins for the bowl
"About what, Po?" he asked
"Uh, Huh?"
"What were you dreaming about?" looking up at his son waiting for his answer
Now anxious, Po was a bit hesitant telling his dad of his amazing dream about his personal fantasy about being a cool warrior having mad Kung Fu skills beating up every bad guy in sight. But seeing how his dad wouldn't understand his love of Kung Fu, he told him a small, teeny-tiny white lie instead
"Oh, I was uh…I was dreaming about uh…um…noodles" Po mentally slapped himself for even mentioning the word
"Noodles. You were really dreaming about noodles?" Mr. Ping was now interested
"Well, yeah of course, what else would I be dreaming about? Heh-heh" answered still sticking to his not so brilliant answer
"Oh! Happy day! My son finally having the noodle dream! You don't know how long I've been waiting for this moment! This is a sign Po!" a happy noodle owner was fidgeting excitedly as he looked around the kitchen finding something and handing it to Po
It was a small apron with a faded noodle bowl and a small hat with a noodle bowl made of yarn and chopsticks fashioned on the side. Po always thought it was such a silly hat, but now that his dad placed it on his head and fastened the apron around his round body, he felt even sillier but showed he didn't mind one bit.
"Uh, A sign of what?"
"You are almost entrusted of my secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup! Then you will fulfill your destiny and take over the restaurant! Just as I took it from my father who overtook it from his father who won it in a game of Ma-Jong ", lecturing his son while waving his wooden spoon around excitedly
"Ah, c'mon dad it was only a dream" Po said trying to shake off its 'importance' his dad was giving it unnecessarily
"No son, it was THE dream, we are noodle folk, broth runs through our veins!" Mr. Ping said with such enthusiasm as he salted the steaming noodles and gave it to a very pleasing customer whose mouth drooled at the sight
"Well you don't have to take it to an extreme level. But dad, you know wasn't there something else you loved doing? Something besides making noodles" Po asked
"Oh Po, I do admit I was a bit of a dreamer like yourself when I was younger, but we all have our place in this world…mine is here, and yours is-"
"I know, is here." Po said with a small smile already giving up on his little spat with his noodle obsessive father
"No. It's at tables 2, 5, 7, and 12, 'Service with a smile'!" Mr. Ping said stretching Po's corner mouth to make a wide smile and left him alone to deliver the table's orders
As Po was about to leave the kitchen, he briefly looked high up at the large mountain where Jade Palace was settled surrounded by misty clouds
The Jade Palace was a sacred place and home of the 'amazingly awesome' team of Kung Fu benders, 'The Furious Five', the great Master Shifu, and the current Avatar, Master Oogway.
Po life -long dream was to become a great and skilled warrior or even to meet his heroes and visit the palace for at least a day, or even five minutes to would make him the happiest man alive! Just the thought of meeting his favorite masters made him giddy with excitement, like a child who couldn't wait to visit the latest toy shop.
But he knew his place. He was nobody special, just a regular earth bending, son of a noodle shop owner whose destiny was to run the small restaurant after his father. He solemnly was thinking about it while passing out noodle orders.
Suddenly a group of men dressed in silk green and gold decoded robes, most likely they were from the palace, started posting up bright yellow flyers
Noticing this Po gasped settling his last orders on the table of a hungry couple and quickly jogged to the flyer that was placed just outside the restaurant, reading:
"Today, the Jade Palace will be holding an exclusive tournament as Master Oogway will be choosing the next Avatar Warrior from the Furious Five members. The event will be held at the palace arena match ground: Noon sharp – Don't Miss it!"
The flyer showed shadowed figures of the five great masters posing in their respected Kung Fu fighting styles
Po began shaking in excitement
"No way! Master Oogway is choosing the next Avatar Warrior, TODAY!" unable to contain such exciting news he began his fan boy spasm episodes as he ran back inside and yelled
"Everyone! Everyone! Go! Get to the Jade Palace! One of the Five is going to get chosen to become the next Avatar!" Po yelled
All the customers were looking at him with glee and nodded their heads to each other and began chatting about it as some began leaving small tips and left the restaurant with hast heading to the Palace
"We've been waiting a thousand years for this just take your bowl! C'mon! This is the greatest day in Kung Fu history, don't worry about it just go! Go now!" Po unable to contain the excitement as he was just about to head out of the restaurant until
"Po! Where are you going!"
Po's face dropped as he stopped in his tracks and turned towards his father
His father stopped him before he ran into a full sprint up to the palace along with everyone else
"To the…Jade palace" he said inching slightly out the entrence, gesturing his eyes wanting to leave so badly but he knew his dad was going to make him do something first
"But you're forgetting your noodle cart! No doubt the whole valley will be there, and you'll sell noodles to all of them!" Mr. Ping said with a big smile on his face and gazed a wishful look on his son
"Selling noodles?" Po asked with a very unsatisfying face but kept smiling anyway seeing his dad looking so … like his dad as he nodded happily
"B-but dad, you know I was kinda thinking that maybe I-"
"yeah?" He nodded and smiled while interrupting his son
"I was kind of thinkin' maybe I can -"
"Uh-huh?"
Po couldn't do it. Just looking into his eyes…
'agh!' Po thought
"…could also sell the bean buns. They're-they're about to go bad" he breathed slowly lying once again to not disappoint his eager noodle loving parent
From wonderment to even more happiness as Mr. Ping's smile grew
"That's my boy! I told you that dream was a sign!" as he went to go fetch the batch of almost rotten buns
Po just stood next to the cart, faked laughed at his dad's comment and looked down at the cart, disappointed
"Yeah, ha-ha, glad I had it."
I'll be honest guys, nothing out of the ordinary here
I will be basically retelling the original script from the first Kung Fu Panda movie but will replace some stuff so that their Kung Fu will be combined with bending and such :P
Thanks guys! Stay tuned! ;D
Gabzgirl xoxox