Master Shifu stood in the hall the five, and the Dragon Warrior slept in, the paper doors all closed as they slept, a bit of sunlight peering through the windows, and the paper on the side which masters Tigress, Viper, and Mantis occupied. Shifu waited, ready to greet them all for the new day, the gong went off, and the five instantly emerged from thier seperate rooms, closing the doors behind them, "Good morning master!" they all said in unisen, as they awaited for instructions, Shifu's ears went down in a bit of anger, "Panda!" he yelled trying to get the large warriors attention, he began walking towards the panda's room situated across from Tigress' at the end of the hall, "Panda!" he yelled again louder this time, but still there was no answer.
Shifu slung the door to Po's room open, "Panda, you-!" he began to yell again, only to find the room was empty, save for the posessions the panda kept there, Tigress' eyes went a little wide with suprize, as Shifu turned around to look at them all, thier heads pointing out to try and see, and retracting back to thier previous stances as thier master looked at them, trying to avoid a lecture about being too curious. "Where is he?" Shifu said sharply at the five, Tigress was the first to answer him with nothing more than a raised eyebrow, an agaped mouth, and a slowly shaking head signifying she had no idea, Shifu looked at the others who gave little more than a shrug at the question, he sighed and turned his head trying to think of where Po might be, "Dismissed." he said without looking at them, they bowed and proceeded to walk out of the hall, and into the courtyard of the palace.
The furious five stood in the courtyard conversing about thier comrade, confused as to where he might be, "Maybe he's in the training hall?" Viper said trying to be helpfull, Tigress shook her head, "No, I don't hear any exhailed yells of combat." she answered lightly, "Maybe he's making us breakfast?" Crane questioned pointing a wing at the kitchen, as Mantis jumped up into the tip of the birds straw hat, "Well if that's the case, we might wanna get there before he decides to eat it for us as well." He laughed the words out, slowly stopping his chuckling as he noticed the others giving him a hard stare.
"Guys!" they all heard a voice coming from the stairs leading up to the palace, they turned around to see Po running up to them panting heavily holding his chest trying to catch his breath, "Po, where have you been?" Monkey asked as the panda reached them nearly falling over from exhaustion, "S-Stairs!...Ugh!" he let out as he fell over in front of them, Crane and Tigress saw something laying at the top of the stairs as Po fell, a black mass with a long tail to match the color, "Po?... What is that?" Tigress asked him as he still lay on his stomache, begging for air, "I Found him... after a... gang beat him up!" He answered inhailing deeply every few words, Tigress reacted instantly, "Viper, go get master Shifu, Crane, Monkey, go check on him." she ordered as she pointed to each indevidual before ending her commands by pointing at the creature near the steps, "Right!" they all called out as they ran off to fufill the orders. Po finally caught his breath, and stood up again, "I-I tried to stop the guys that did it, but they ran off, and I couldn't just leave him there unconcious!" he tried to reason as Tigress gave him a serious look, she gave a slight smile before putting a paw on his shoulder, "You did what was best." she said as she began to walk towards the steps, Mantis jumped up on Po's shoulder as he stood in the middle of the courtyard still breathing a little heavily, "Po, what exactly IS he?" the insect asked as he pointed over in the other's direction, Po gave him a confused look "I have no idea." he answered shaking his head quikly before Shifu came out following Viper to see thier unexpected guest.
As they reached him he began to regain his consiousness, bringing a giant paw up to his head grunting in pain, "Ugh, w-where am I?" he asked opening his light brown eyes which looked almost a dull diluded orange in the morning sunlight, "The Jade Palace, are you alright?" Tigress answered, then questioned him, his eyes widened at the sight of Tigress, "You- no, your fur's orange." he said trying to raise his head to look around, they all looked at the man with confused expressions, "My fur?" she asked him, not understanding what he ment. The man lifted himself up, his thick black fur swaying as he did so, "I thought you were-" he stopped himself and looked around in a panic, "Oh no, where is she?" he yelled out as he franticly looked around for whomever it was he was seeking before falling over from dizziness, the bump on his head still affecting him, Crane and Monkey went over to help him up, "Where is who?" Crane asked as Monky help the man to his feet, holding him up by the fore arm, his long black claws protruding from his massive paws hanging down the length of Monkey's chest, "Fei yen..." the man said as Monkey helped him back over the the others, "She's... a friend I was with, those thieves must have taken her when they attacked me." he answered them as he put his free paw against his head trying to ease the pain, Tigress was growing suspicious, "But why did you mistake me for her?" she asked in a serious tone, her eyes glaring at him, as he breathed deeply, "She's a tiger, but her fur is grey with black stripes." he complied with yet another question, "all I saw when I looked at you were the stripes, forgive me, my eyes were blurred from dizziness." he said ashamed of his continuing moment of weakness, Shifu began giving orders to everyone as Po and Mantis decided to join the group, "Tigress, take him to the main hall so we may tend to his wounds, he has my permission to enter." he said as Monkey handed him over to Tigress who would have an easier time carrying him due to her size, "Yes master." she said as she began to walk the man towards the hall entrance with Monkey and Viper behind in tow, "Po, I want to know everything that happened." he said to the panda who was still in a bit of shock over the entire thing, "Oh, yes master!" he answered abruptly realizing he was being spoken to.
As Tigress lead him to the hall, he began to regain his focus and soon was able to stand up almost straight, "Again, I appologize for the mistaken identity miss." he said as he began walking with little help, he never lifted his head though out of shame, "It's alright, you said you couldn't see straight." she replied back with a slight smile, as she continued to try and help him walk, "But, would you mind telling me what you are exactly?" she asked him her eyes trying to see his, only to see the side of his face, still looking away, she grunted a bit out of agrivation of him trying to be as enigmatic as he could, she along with all the others were curious as to what species he was, having never seen anything like him before, "I'm a... a binturong." he answered back lightly trying not to speak too loudly, clearly still a little unsure about the people aiding him.