A/N: First, I'd like to thank all of those who gave me the encouragement to write this story. :) I hope I live up to all of your expectations!
Okay, so this is my version of KFP3. I will try and keep this as cannon as possible, while still putting my own spin on it. I hope you'll find it worthwhile, and that you'll enjoy it. :)
Note, I'm not counting Secrets of the Furious Five or Legends of Awesomeness to be a cannon (I'm taking Tigress' story for truth, however, Po does not know any of it). Also, I want to apologize for the shortness and slowness of this. The first few chapters might be a bit boring (Sorry!) but they're introductory chapters - whaddya gonna do? :P
And for this prologue, the italics are what's happening (or "what's on the screen") while the normal text is what's being narrated. (I imagined Tigress/Angelina Jolie's voice, but that wouldn't make too much sense - so imagine whatever you wish! :P)
Again, sorry for the shortness, but it'll all be worth it! Promise. :P Okay, now go ahead and read it!
Disclaimer: If I owned KFP, I'd be actually getting this into the real KFP3, not writing a ff about it...
Prologue
The beautiful scenery of China is scene. Beautiful shots of mountains, valleys, and forests.
The wisest of wise once said, "One often meets their destiny on the road he takes it avoid it." It is true, but it also refers to one's past. One often meets their past directly on the road he takes to run from it.
*Black*
And for three people in this story, this could be no truer.
Before Tai-Lung was incarcerated, he fell in love.
Tai Lung and a beautiful female snow leopard are in a warmly lit room. He caresses her face, and she closes her eyes as a tear falls down her face. He walks away.
As he left, he promised his love to return once he was the Dragon Warrior.
She stretches out her hand in his direction, then falls to her knees and weeps.
He never returned.
She looks down at her stomach, placing her hands over it.
And worst of all, he left her carrying a now illegitimate child.
She is in a room, standing alone as numerous snow leopards yell at her. She is pushed out of the hut, falling face first into the snow.
Her village was furious, and they kicked her out for such a shameful act. She was now alone.
Now in a simple hut, she leans down and kisses a young snow leopard cub, who then coos and smiles. She scoops up the cub and holds her tight as the little cub hugs her back.
However, she birthed a beautiful baby girl, who became her reason to live. She loved her daughter more than life itself. But it was short lived.
Tears fall from the now eight-year-old girl's eyes as she holds her mother's hand. Her mother lays on a bed mat, unmoving. The girl puts her mother's hands to her face and cries harder.
For soon she fell ill and could not recover.
The girl sits on her porch in the pouring rain, glaring at nothing in particular as angered tears run down her eyes.
The daughter was all alone, with no one to care for her. She became bitter at the world, cursing it for leaving her an orphan. She sat there for days, until one day, she was found.
The shadow of a larger animal steps in front of her. He beckons her to come with his hand, and eventually she does.
He renamed her Tai Wei, meaning great power.
*Black*
And before this, there was another orphan.
A goat opens a large door from the inside and looks down on the porch to seeing a crying baby. She picks up the child and removes the cloth from her face to reveal a tiger. Then she take the child inside.
Found on the doorstep of an orphanage, she never knew where she came from or who she was.
Shadows of the young tiger breaking the walls, cracking the floors with each step, and ripping fabric.
She just knew she was strong.
Everyone was terrified of her strength, locking her in a room in order to protect the children of the orphanage; or perhaps, it was for their own fear.
She sits in the corner as the door shuts with a loud clang, hugging her knees tighter as the room gets darker.
But one day…
"She's escaped!"
She ran as fast as she could and as far away as possible. But she had nowhere to go.
She walks back to her room herself, going back to her corner and hugging her knees.
No one wanted her.
A little older now, she fights in the Training Hall, kicking a dummy hard after perfectly doing the foot work. She looks over at the red panda with a smile on her face. However, it falls as he corrects her stance with his staff, then walks away dejectedly.
No one loved her.
*Black*
And before even this, there was a child, who watched as his mother ran away.
Baby Po sits in a radish bin as he watches his mother run away with tears in her eyes, then gets Shen and his minions to follow her.
He lived his life unknowing of his past – unknowing that his past still existed and wanted him back.
A large panda sits in a high in a fort in a tree. He turns around and says, "My son is alive?" He looks at the small village below him.
*Black*
But now, no more running. The past has caught up.