Kung Fu Panda

Lucky Snow ~ Chapter 3

I sat down on the floor next to mat as a bed, I unhooked my bag from around my neck, slipping it out of my kimono and laid the bag on the floor, it was a light brown bag with a Japanese mark on it, I opened my bag and took out my black and white notebook, along with my black and white pencil, the pencil had a feather of Lady Feng on the end of it Oh I wonder how Feng is doing Feng was like my mother growing up, she always took care of me and treated me like I was her daughter, but I pushed the memories away and flipped my notebook to the last previous page, I shut my eye and began to think.

Shen was bewildered by the old tortoises comment Not dead? How on earth can I be not dead? I got crushed by a massive cannon for China's sake!

"Master Oogway, you must be mistaken! Why am I here if I'm not dead?"

"Shen, you are not dead, I can reassure you that" he paused "Did you not think of how you came to be here?" Shen was surprised at this question, Shen just wanted to know if he was alive or not, but he had to answer the grand master if he wanted answers

"No" he replied, but then started to think It was the Panda, I tried to kill all of them, but instead gave that Panda inner peace and he defeated me- Shen knew that he had caused all of his problems, he dropped his head, shut his eyes and sighed

"You have not heard that 'One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it'?" Shen looked up at the grand master, he could understand at what he was saying... sadly, but all that was in the past, so how is he not dead?

"No... No I haven't" he paused "But I understand what you are saying Master" the old tortoise seemed to smile at him with kindness, an emotion Shen hasn't seen for years

"You are not dead Shen" he held out his staff and pointed it at Shen "For I am reviving you" Shen jumped back in confusion

"B-But why?" Shen nearly shouted out of shock

"You need to find inner peace before you can travel to the heavens, you have not let life reach your heart and soul" Shen felt a light petal touch his wing, he looked down and saw a peach blossom petal, suddenly more floated around him, Shen looked back up at Grand Master Oogway "But you cannot fail this time Shen, if you die this time, that's it, I cannot give you any more than a second chance" Shen was so shocked but so happy at the same time

"A second chance is all that I need! Thank you!" he said to him, he could see that the tortoise was fading into a burst of Peach Blossom Petals, as he was, but then he realised that he had done so much wrong doings before he came here, how could he deserve another life? "Grand Master Oogway! This must be a mistake, an accident!" he could barely hear Oogway but he heard an echo of the grand masters words before everything faded into a white, light pink

"There are no accidents..."

I saw that image again, and I opened my eyes quickly There! Quick! My paw moved so quickly that you could barely keep track, I drew the image that had flickered across my mind like a candle, I had had several dreams about this pattern, it was like a Japanese folding fan, but with feathers instead of the special paper, the fan was white and the end was red with a white circle in it, I had seen the pattern so many times in my dreams and tried to draw it down so that I could try to make sense of it, once my paw had finished moving, I stopped and looked at my drawing, it was like my other pictures, I turned the pages back to compare but they were all the same, just different positions and folds, I turned to the very first page and saw my note from Lady Feng

'You can use a book to keep your drawings in now' she had signed it with her signature at the bottom, she had given me this book before I had left for The Jade Palace, I had drawn several trees and sceneries of places that I had travelled through, I flicked back some pages and remembered small memories of when I was there, only a little bit, like eating a peach while trying to draw a peach tree, trying to get the petals just right, I knocked myself back into reality and closed my note book, I stood up and wondered if there was a bathroom in this place so that I could freshen up, in Japan Lady Feng was reasonably wealthy, not a lot but enough for us not to worry about being kicked out of our home, so she had a bathroom installed, where fresh water comes from our local spring into our home, but I doubted that it would be here since this is an old valley, Oh well... just have to ask a girl later... I still can't believe I'm here! I tried to hide my excitement, since Crane was only next door and the walls were paper thin... literally.

After 20 minutes I walked out of my room and stopped Wait, where am I going? I'm meant to be going to dinner with the others but I barely know my way around this place! I thought for a second Maybe I could ask Crane? I walked down swiftly to Cranes room, I hesitated but knocked on his door, he answered and opened the door

"Oh hi Yuki, need some help or something?" he asked

"Uh no, but you said that it's dinner soon... and I kinda still don't know where the dining hall is" I explained but he just smile

"Oh yeah, don't worry I'll show you where it is" he stepped out of his room and shut the door behind him "It's this way" he opened his wing and walked towards the door at the end of the corridor, I followed quickly and caught up to his pace

"So what do you do here Mast- er I mean Crane?" I asked, stopping before I said Master again "I mean, Training wise?"

"Well, my training style is Fujian White Crane" he said to me

"Fujian White Crane?" That's his style? I wonder what mine is "That sounds interesting" I smiled "What's it like?"

"Well, kind of hard to explain but I'll show you tomorrow in training" we walked down the corridor and I listened attentively to Cranes words

"So what type of crane are you Crane? Like Sandhill Crane or a White naped Crane?" I had a common knowledge of different breeds an full of facts about some of them, like the crane is part of the Gruidae family

"I'm a red crowned crane" he answered Oh there's that thing about red crowned cranes in Japan... oh yeah that was it

"Did you know, in Japan, red crowned cranes are said to live for a 1,000 years?" Oh that was a really stupid fact...

"Really? Well I'll let you know in 9,978 years" he joked err 1,000 take away 9,978, well 100 take away 78? 22?

"So your 22?" I asked, he nodded

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"I'm sort of good at math, anything else I'm rubbish at, but I'm good with numbers" I explained And drawing, but if I say that then he might want to see some pictures...

"Oh really?" he said, I nodded

"Then what's the square root of 144?" Seriously?

"12" I answered, the square root of 144 is always twelve "3 to the power of 3 times 3 to the power of 12" he was a bit confused

"What? I don't know that"

"3 to the power of 15" I answered "I teach you math, you teach me Kung fu" I joked, and Crane laughed along