A/N, Hey thank you for the reviews, yeah I apologize for my poor capitalization mistakes and spelling. A bad habit I am trying to remove from my future chapters. Well let's continue the story.
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The warm sun rose over the mountains that surrounded the valley, sending its beams of giding light flying in all directions and places over the village. Its bright intensity crawling thrugh the windows of the homes and buisnesses alike. Giving into the following gong that sounded as the sun rose, the citizens of the village slumped out of their warm and comefortable beds and faced another day at work and with family. Hu Shim woke up mostly before her parents, ussually because of her secret desire to head to the stairs of the jade palace and beat the other children there for the daily lesson to get a good seat. Dragging herelf out from the warm covers, she slipped into her daily robes and then creaked open her door. Glancing down the hallway to the guestroom, she checked to see that the coast was clear before tiptoeing down to the room at the very end of the hall. Sliently twisting the knob to the side she opened the door to see if her savior was awake yet. She walked in, finding him still asleep, still in his robes from the night before as if her had merely fallen asleep right as he'd landed on the bed. He had a slight snore with every intake of breath as he laid on his side facing her, his eyes closed relaxingly, his left paw slung over his belly, fingers touching the top of the blanket while his other lay straight out toward her with fingers slightly curled torward him. Looking at him now he appeared so harmless, his thick fluffy tail twitching ever so slightly every other minute.
Deciding that her rescuer needed a proper wake up call, she climbed the front of the bed slowly, being careful to allow the bed to dip when she added her weight to it. Once she found herself completely balanced, she bent down and sprang into the air, preparing for her suprise landing. The snoozing raccoon was never very good at being suprised, so when the young rabbit jumped off the mattress, that alone had woken him. He then opened his eyes to see a white rabbit with dark spots falling toward him at a fast rate. He had only one defense to jump to at that point, scream.
"AAAAHHH!!!" flew from his mouth as the bunny landed upon his chest and sent them both bouncing off the bed and landing upon the hardwood floor. Incredibly dizzy, Sincato shook his head slowly as the rabbit picked herself up and dusted herself off. He gazed in her direction to find her with a large smile on her face.
"Good morning!" The raccoon grimaced a smile as he cracked his neck to the left,
"Is that how you wake up everyone in your house?" He asked rubbing his now bruised chest. She shook her head and laughed.
"Haha nope, just you, you looked too comfortable and its morning now! Everyone should be awake!" He smirked at this, the young rabbit's energy reminded him of his own son's crazy morning antics he would pull on Sincato each day.
"For your information I could have been just well off with my eyes closed for another hour or two thank you very much." He replied to Hu, who walked behind him and stroked his black and gray tail.
"Your tail's just like Master Shifu's, cept he's got red rings on them and his is white."
"Ah, Shifu, hm I suppose you've got a point there kiddo." He said and fluffed the tip of his bushy tail across the child's face. She batted it away playfully and then dragged him to the kitchen where they found her parents preparing breakfast.
Hu's father noticed the raccoon and the rabbit entering and gave a wave of greeting before turning back to the hot pan as he cooked one of Hu's favorite breakfasts, cinnamon pancakes.
"Good morning Sincato, I don't suppose you'd be up for a little breakfast before we make our depart for the palace?" Sincato didn't pass up the oppertunity, he'd always felt it was rude to merely leave without sharing time with those who provided him with shelter and food. Taking a seat he was served two pancakes topped with rasberry jam. Licking his lips he nodded in appreciation of his meal before digging in. They ate in silence and then waited till everyone was finished before all getting out of the house and departing for their daily activities. The mother rabbit offered to take Hu and Sincato to the palace as the rabbit father headed for work in his shop. They headed through the valley in the morning sunlight and soon found themselves at the bottem of the palace steps. Sincato looked up to the very top and sighed, he hated steps, first of all he wasn't ALL muscle so he tended to get winded fast and with the sun beating down on the black robes he worse, this would be a long trip. Thankfully though the mother and daughter rabbit were patient about getting there, well the mother was, Hu, not so much as she headed up faster than the other two so she could find a close seat to her teacher Po.
After about almost forty minutes, they reached the top of the stairs to the palace. Hu headed off to her class in the courtyard The mother hugged her daughter goodbye for the day and then took Sincato's paw in her hand.
"I just wanted to say thenk you again for helping my daughter, if theres anything esle we can do to repay you-" Sincato held up a black paw to the mother's insisting.
"No madame, youve done more than enough for myself, I thank you for your great hospitality." He bowed slightly to her, she nodded back and smiled to him as she turned to leave. He watched her decend down the steps and then turned and headed into the palace gates. Opening the large doors, he entered a majestic room, large pillars covered with coiling dragons. Along the walls lay many famous weapons, including the broken staff of master Oogway that lay strung back together on a display in front of his portrait. Sincato wandered down the middle of the decorated room until he accidentally bumped into another person without looking. Getting knocked back astep he looked forward and saw a goose dressed in formal golden robes with a gold hat to match dusting himself off. He looked back at him for a moment silghtly uncomfortable with the raccoon's presence.
"Ahem, um who are you." The goose inquired as he faced a hooded black clad creature who donned a matching black cloth over his muzzle up to his eyes which were also shrouded in blackness. By all standards, the goose could saw he was standing face to face with a bandit, but dared not ask exactly that about the stranger. The raccoon looked at the goose for a moment, he could see the suspicion building in the duck's eyes.
" My name is Sincato, I'm here to see the Dragon Warrior." He said flatly, for an unknown reason his patience seemed to be growing slightly thin with the goose.
"Oh..well heh he's teaching a class right now...is this something immediate he...should know...about?" The goose asked with a small tremble in his voice. Sincato brought a paw to his face pinching the bridge of his nose.
"*sigh* I will wait." The goose nodded and turned away and headed out the doors, most likely to inform his master of Sincato's presence in the hall or warriors. Soon enough he was graced by another stranger who entered the hall. An aged red panda in red robes entered the hall infront of him an walked toward the raccoon.
"Please remove your cover visitor." He said eyeing the black robed stranger. He could understand Zheng's nervousness about this character, he seemed rather dark. Sin pulled back his hood allowing both his black covered triangle ears to spring back up into position, unveiling his natural black mask upon his green eyes. Shifu gestured toard his mouth, reffering to the mouth cloth as well. The raccoon huffed an agitated sigh before pulling down his face piece as well.
"I'm going to make an assumption and say that you must be Master Shifu, correct?" The red panda merely nodded, still keeping his eyes on him.
"My messanger tells me that you wish to see the dragon warrior, your name is Sincato if I'm not mistaken."
"Yes, and yes it is." He responded, the red panda's eyes shifted up to the right, as if trying to recall something from the deep recessions of his mind.
"Your name, its strikingly famiilar for some reason. Any possible reason I would remember you maybe?" Sin merely stood before the teacher of kung fu silent, his expression going blank and slightly cold.
"That is actually for me to disscuss with the dragon warrior in private. "
"You should be aware, I do not approve of those entering this palace, seeking out one of my most reformed students and then shutting me out of the picture. If it is master Po you seek, he will be here soon but in the meantime I wish for you to explain your purpose here." He said in a matter of factly way, his stern glare at the new visitor to the palace growing by the minute. Turning his head to stare at one of the pillars to the left of him for a moment, Sin then looked at the underside of his right paw and began to trace lines on it before he spoke again.
"If you must know why you may remember me, send for the scrolls of the hyranda village, you'll find your answer soon enough when my name is mentioned." Shifu snapped his fingers and out of nowhere appeared the golden clad goose with a rather poor landing.
"Zheng, I'm sending you to Hyranda village for scrolls on this man by the name of Sincato. Leave as soon as you can!" He said and waved him off to begin his journey before turning back to the dark one.
"I will have me answers soon enough stranger, know that there are no secrets with anyone who enters this palace so if you have something to hide, you came to the wrong place.". With that, the kung fu master of the furvious five turned and left the raccoon in the hall of warriors to continue his wait for the dragon warrior. After only a few more minutes the doors creacked open again and Sincato was finally graced with the presence of a...panda? Sincato watched him enter. He had heard tales that this chosen one was unlike anything that had been expected, so in a sense he had been prepared for this actually.
Po walked into the hall of warriors, seeing a short creature dressed in black, with grey fur and a natural black mask upon his green eyes. Even though the figure wasn't presenting himself in an intimidating stance, Po still found himself with a slight chill entering his body as he approached. He came up to the figure as it bowed before him.
"Greetings Dragon Warrior, I had hoped this day would come." He said to the panda. Po Looked down at him and smiled
"Hello there, I can't say honestly that I know you really." He said somewhat hesitantly, unsure if he would offend the guest very easily. The raccoon waved it away with a paw,
"for the moment, its is probobly better that you don't. You will know everything in good time I assure you. For now, I think its appropriate that we get to know eachother, would you mind showing me a little bit around we talk?" The dragon warrior smiled in agreement, he'd been wanting to go and visit his father and get out of the palace for a it. There were times he just needed to take a break from his achieved status in life and go and blend in with the comunity, except when you are the only panda in the village, that tends to get a bit difficult. He led the black robed one down to the stairs of the palace as they headed into the village.
Halfway through, Sincato felt it was a good time to try and break the ice a little bit. He paused and looked back up at the stairs he'd come down.
"I'm not the only one who dislikes the journey back up these am I?" He asked in a humorous fashion. Po looked at him and chuckled.
"Haha of course not, imagine falling down them while getting punched and kicked. That only makes it funner haha!." He and the raccoon shared a laugh as they came down the last of the stone steps of the palace. They made their way down into the village and arrived at Po's father's noodle restraunt. Sincato followed close behind the bear as they navigated to a table. Many villagers were mostly comfortable with the dragon warrior's visits mainly because he was alot like them as he was growing up, they still saw him as the same old Po but never failed to respect his accomplishments as the dragon warrior. Really, in a sense alot of villagers had hoped that the dragon warrior would be able to relate to them so they could feel more comfortable coming to the dragon warrior with their troubles. They both sat down and before Sincato could lift up his hand for a menu, Po beat him to it, placing a large black paw over his quite smaller thinner one.
"Tell me what kind of soup you'd like and I can tell you if its made here." The raccoon stared in question for a moment before the dragon warrior went on. "If you knew about me, I don't suppose you knew what I was before I became...well this." He said, gesturing to himself with both paws. Sincato stared curiously as the bear began to explain his beginning.
"Before I became the dragon warrior, I was a noodle chef here, with my father. Everyday I worked in a kitchen that was just, a little undersized for me anyway, big enough for my dad though, he had lots of space." The raccoon continued to stare until a brown robed goose came up and wrapped his wings around Po's belly.
"Oh son, you come to see me again, and you bring friends as well, how nice!" The goose said, not paying any attention to the now look of dear confusion upon the ringtail's face. Po smiled down at his father before returning his view to the raccoon.
"Ah heh yeah um Dad this is Sincato, Sincato this is my dad, mr. Ping." Shaking his head to bat away the thousands of questions flying through his mind, he absently shook the wing of Po's father. The bird smiled and then asked what they would like for a meal. Po inquired that Sincato should try one of they new diced vegatable noodle soups his father just began making. Sincato agreed and they both sat for a minute as the bird left them, Sin taking all this in that he had just witnessed the best he could. The goose soon returned with hot bowls of soup for both of them to dig in and enjoy. After slurping down the last noodle of the truly amazing soup that he had injested, Sincato desired to know more of this Dragon warrior. So many rumors had been put up for him and he sat in ponderance of what were true and which mere ledgend. But before being able to throw another question, the bear beat him to it with the milliondollar one. Having waited till a few of the remaining villagers had cleared out from the restraunt, Po closed the front doors and asked his father for a few moments of privacy with his guest to talk. The goose smiled in understanding before going into the the upstairs and relaxing for a while.
"So, Sincato, you asked for my help...I'm curious as to how I can really be of service?" The bear said with a questionable expression on his face. Sincato played with the table for a moment before having to meet eyes with the dragon warrior. The ringtailed one hadn't truly wanted to answer the question, he knew if he was going to get anywhere by coming here, it would have to come out sooner or later. This would prove to be one of the harder conversations he'd had in a long time.
"Well, Master Po, I... I need you to set me on a new life so to speak." The panda looked at him, clearerly interested as he continued. "See I'm, well for a while now, I've been holding something inside myself that needs to be deminished from my soul and I have never really found a way to rid myself of this...darkness I carry. I come here to you, asking of you to please...bring me peace. I have heard the tales of what you've done for this valley, I see it with my own eyes. You are the only one I can believe will actually help me. Others have "tried to help me" but their methods are useless and only dragged me further down the path I did not want to go down. I cannot go any further the way I am going, I've lost so very much so I sit before you today asking, please...save me." The raccoon said with a deep and heavy sigh as his eyes fell to the table. Slight tears forming at the corners of his eyes, building and silently drawing down his black mask to his grey cheeks. What Po witnessed before him was a creature in internal suffering, whatever had caused this in Sincato was something very powerful and deep in his heart. The panda looked deeply into the similar green eyes of the raccoon with a look of concern and concentration upon his face. He had always been an upbeat person, one who found certain things hard to take seriuos, but the creature who sat before him had traveled a great distance to see him, believed in him and only him, out of everyone in China, this person saw him as the one who could help him and had beared his soul to him. Po sat for a minute in choosing his words carefully before responding to the ringtailed one.
"Sincato, I am not a miracle worker, nor am I going to tell you that what you ask of me will be easy. You traveling all this way tells me though that you are truly desiring to change yourself, that you believe in this, and as I was taught, if you are to succeed at something, you must first believe. What I will tell you is as long as you tell me everything that must be put on the table for this to work, then I will do everything in my grasp to put you on a new ground in your life however I can and that you will find peace one way or another through this." The bear said, laying a large paw back on the hand of the raccoon. Taking his other big hand, he gently brushed off the tears of the masked one's face. Sincato took several deep ragged breaths as he tried to compose himself again and looked up to the dragon warrior.
"Th Thankyou, Master Po. Thank you so very much." He said before breaking down again and laying both his paw upon the panda's and resting his head on them as the tears flowed once more. Po took one paw and softly ran it over the black robed raccoon's neck and back repeatedly.
"It'll be okay Sincato, you'll be okay." He said comfortingly. above from a higher rooftop, a set of orange fire like eyes and ears had caught all of this. Leaving before her presence was noticed, Tigress headed for the palace. She had no idea of what to make of this visitor. She knew nothing about him, and that was the problem, she saw Po instinctivly at the creature's aid. It was a natural reflex for the bear she'd noticed, wether it was villager or fallen enemy, the bear had a large heart, she just prayed to herself it was not going to hurt him. Zheng would be back with reports on this visitor. they would soon find out what exactly he was up to if anything or if his sincerity was not merly smoke and mirrors.
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A/N, HA! and update! well knew it would take a while to get this together but finally it is off to a true start. I beg of you readers tell me how you feel this is progressing and what you find problems with and what you enjoy! Thank you for reading and agian I will have an update in a little while! Take care and have a nice week. BYE!