Chapter 3 'Revelations'
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"Here we are." Po walked down a hallway and standing in front of two doorways, one for the girl's locker room and one for the guys. Crane and Tigress stood behind Po.
"These are the locker rooms, they will lead you to the gym. And just so you guys know the teacher's name is Mr. Morison." Po informed. Tigress nodded to him and walked into the girl's locker room while Po and Crane entered the Boy's side.
Crane followed Po to his locker and took the one next to Po's. After Crane placed his bag in the locker he turned to look around and found most of the guys on the opposite side of the room.
"Hey Po? Why are we on this side and everyone else is over there?" the bird was watching the others rough housing, he was un-amused and turned back to Po shaking his head.
"That's part of the reason, the other reason is-" Po was cutoff when Tai-Lung walked in.
"Ha! Can't run from me now fatso!" said a pissed of snow leopard as he walked towards the panda. Tai-Lung started to throw a punch when Crane reached out and clamped onto his fist, pinning it to the ground.
"Damned, birdbrain, why can't you and your friends stay out of my way!" Tai-Lung growled loudly trying all the while to give Crane a menacing stare.
Crane looked at Po, mouthing the word 'birdbrain' to the panda like asking a question. Po just shrugged and shook his head. Crane then turned his attention back to the struggling leopard beneath his foot.
"Let's leave this feud in this locker room and head into the gym; you can settle you differences with the panda in there." Crane eyed the feline until he nodded in agreement. Crane then let Tai-Lung up from the floor. Tai-Lung just growled and walked back to the other side.
"Come on Po, let's go." Crane said and Po nodded.
Coming into the gym they found Tigress already sitting on a bench ready for P. E. to start.
"Did your locker room turn out to be as fun as ours was?" Crane joked as he and Po took a seat next to her.
"No, it was full of cheap perfume and cheesy gossip." Tigress grumbled. "Yours was fun?"
"Oh yeah, we have a water slide and hot girls giving out free massages." Po said laughing at his own joke. Tigress just growled lightly and rolled her eyes at the panda.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen! Line up!" The P.E. teacher, a brown beaver with a whistle hanging around his neck and a clip board in his paw, yelled loudly to the chatty group of students.
Acting on instinct, Tigress and Crane snapped quickly into line stood up straight and said, "Yes Master!" Both bowing in respect to the teacher. After a few seconds of silence, Tigress decided to look up and found the whole class looking at them including at Po.
Then from back behind the group someone yelled loudly, "Freaks!" causing the whole class to uproar into laughter. Tigress' cheeks flushed red due to embarrassment, but her orange fur did well to conceal it. Crane, however, was not as lucky. Tigress' gaze continued around the room at all the laughing faces, until Po blocked her view. She soon realized that he was standing alongside her and Crane as the class laughed around them. His caring grin whipping away her embarrassment, she nodded in approval.
"Alright everyone, calm down." The teacher yelled and blowing his whistle. "Since the new students want to be funny, they can be the first to start our game today." The beaver then threw a padded stick at Tigress and Crane.
"These are Pugil Sticks, and are used in training for hand-to-hand combat. (This is real! Don't believe me? Look it up, and I'm sure you'll be as surprised as I was.) Today they will be used to knock each other off this balance beam." He then began passing out red and blue jerseys. Crane and Po got blue and Tigress received red. "Now then split up into your team and gather around the ring."
"Crane. Tigress. Take your spots on the beam." Mr. Morison said after everyone was surrounding the ring.
Tigress climbed up onto the beam holding the stick in front of her. Crane did the same only flying to his position.
"The objective is to knock the other person off; if you lose you stick but are still on the beam resort to grappling. No kicks or punches are allowed. Is this clear?" The beaver looked at both the tiger and the crane. Both nodded.
"Begin!" Mr. Morison shouted.
Tigress wasted no time racing across the beam at Crane who dodged her attack by falling of the beam and using his talons to swing himself underneath the beam and up around to the other side of Tigress. Crane took a swing at her feet as he came up. She avoided his attack by jumping, doing a backflip, and landing several feet back on the beam with perfect balance. Twirling his Pugil stick in front of him, Crane began to advance on Tigress' position with, what looked like an impenetrable shield. Tigress was running out of room on the beam so she stuck her stick into Crane's windmill causing it to stop abruptly
Po watched on in his own little world as if Crane and Tigress were fighting for him, and giving him his own little presentation. Two of his heroes were fighting right in front of him and it was almost too awesome. Then imagine Po's surprise when Crane disarmed Tigress.
"Come on Tigress! You can do it, you too Crane!" Po could be heard shouting for each of them. Right now, Po couldn't decide who to root for.
Crane grinned at the tiger knowing he had the better chances since he still had his stick. Tigress didn't even flinch and waited for her next move. Crane finally made his move trying to swipe her off her feet again, but Tigress was ready. She reached down blocking the stick and with one fluid motion ripped the stick out of Crane's grip, spun around and hit Crane off the beam. The cheers could be heard coming from the red team and groans coming from the blue team. Po on the other hand was cheering for them both.
"Great job, you guys!" Po came running up to the both of them. "That was super awesome!"
"I was still sloppy on my form." Tigress said a little distressed.
"What?! I thought that was pretty good!" Po said trying to cheer her up.
"Master Shifu wouldn't have been as level-headed as you. I would have been running the obstacle course a number of times for losing my stick."
"Ah, don't sweat it Tigress… People down here don't care much about your form; it's how you get things done." Po reassured her.
Tigress didn't say much else as she acknowledged Po's compliment, but still felt as if she messed up. Po could still see she was being hard on herself.
The rest of the class went by smoothly, Po even winning a point for his team with a lucky fumble causing the other guy to trip and fall off the beam. Po, of course, was ecstatic. Po and Crane's team ended up taking the win for the day.
After cleaning up and meeting up again in the hallway Po began to lead both to their last class of the day.
"Tigress, your history class is the last door on your right, and Crane…" Po paused for a moment to look at Crane's schedule. "Looks like you have a science class next, which will be in the chemistry lab downstairs in the northeast corner."
After sending them on their way, Po then headed to his favorite class of the day, cooking class. As Po walked into the room he was surprised to find Mantis, Monkey, and Viper in the same room. All the tables had four seats so Po went and sat with the rest of them.
"Hey guys how is your day going?" Po asked as he sat down.
"Great! This place is awesome! How come Shifu never let us come here before?" Monkey said looking for answers from his friends.
"I don't know but this is going to be a fun year." Viper agreed with Monkey.
"And what makes it better is that we are now in a class… dedicated to food. I think I'm going to die of pleasure." Mantis said faking his death, causing the others to laugh.
"You guys have a group yet?" Po said hoping they didn't.
"No, we get groups?" Viper said as all three looked at Po.
"Yeah, four to a group, you guys want to be in mine?" Po asked sheepishly.
"Sure, but how many do you already have in yours?" Monkey replied worried that there wouldn't be enough room for all of them in Po's group.
"O-only me, no one wanted to be in my group." Po said sadly looking at his book in front of him.
"Well, then of course we will be in your group! As long as we make great food!" Mantis jumped up onto Po's shoulder.
"Po is great at making food; after all, his dad is the best noodle maker in town." Mr. Ming said stepping in behind Po.
"Principle Ming? What are you doing here?" Po asked the cheetah.
"Mrs. Dao is sick, and needed someone to cover for her. I told her I would teach the cooking class as long as it took to get her back on her feet. Plus, it looks like you and your friends solved my first dilemma on your own."
Mr. Ming then proceeded to walk to the front of the room and start the day's lesson on open shell pies. After a short lesson Mr. Ming got the kids into the work stations and the recipes required each group to split the work load. Monkey and Po worked on the pie shell, while Mantis and Viper worked on the filling. Soon and conversation started up between both Monkey and Po.
"Soo… Monkey…" Po started his question.
"Yeah?"
"Does Tigress always belittle herself even after she does something awesome?"
"That sounds like her, but it isn't exactly her fault."
"What do you mean?" Po stopped what he was doing and looked at Monkey confused.
"Master Shifu believes she is the Dragon Warrior and has been training her for the title since she was five. Tigress sometimes has the mentality if it isn't perfect it's wrong, and if it's perfect then there is something else to work on. She has gone several days without sleep just to work on a new technique."
"Wow, dedicated. Still, she doesn't need to beat herself up over everything. If she is anything like she was in gym today, I can't begin to believe what she is like actually fighting."
"No joke, her ferociousness can be a bit scary at times, but when your back is against a wall in a fight you come to rely on it."
"I think it's cool! I mean to have that kind of fire in her heart for something, I just find that incredibly stunning especially when you combine that with the epic-ness of Kung-Fu."
Monkey thought about what Po had just said for a second. This panda practically worshiped the ground the Five walked on. Could he be saying these things because he just wanted to be close? Or was he actually speaking the truth of his thoughts? Monkey figured Po wasn't that kind of person to talk advantage of someone and did his best to cheer anyone up.
"You should tell her that…" Monkey said looking over to Po.
"Tell her what?"
"That you find her style and personality stunning… usually when she is out, she gets called a monster and unfeeling. Her style and personality scare people. I think it would be really good for her to hear something other than putdowns coming from someone other than the other five, Shifu, or palace workers.
Po thought about it for a moment. 'She gets rejected by the others too? Could she have lived life like me?' he thought to himself until Monkey broke his concentration.
"Sometimes I wish someone could get close enough to her to help her out. But every time one of us tries to get close she pushes us away. Viper says she is scared to lose Tigress behind a stone wall."
Po nodded slowly, "I'll tell her, let her know she isn't as despised as she thinks."
"Thanks Po, everyone in Jade Palace would really like that. "
"Let's get this pie together, I'm starving." Po said after his stomach growled. Monkey, Viper, and Mantis all just laughed.
And that would be the end of chapter 3! Po and Tigress will be having a talk next chapter, what will be said? I guess you'll just have to come back for more! Simba593 Over and Out!
