Chapter 4: starting to grow and first words
Authors note: Well it's finally 2010 hurray!!! but I still miss 2009 because it was such a good year for me but oh well. Any way here is chapter 4. It's set further on as Maya starts to grow but she is still a baby though.
A few months after that bizarre day that Po and Crane had that fight,Maya was starting to grow a little every week. She started to crawl around the palace which was very difficult for Po and the others to find her which made Shifu quite annoyed but he knew they would find her eventually.
One day Po was in the kitchen making a noodle soup while he talked to Maya telling her how to make noodles "And this is how you pour the water in the noodles" Po explained to the baby fox who was colouring a picture. "So are you still drawing with them colours Crane gave you ?" Po asked. "OK you can't talk yet but you will soon. Hey how about we practise now ?" Po said taking the colours away from her. "Say noodles" he said.
Just as Po said that Crane, Viper and Shifu came into the room smiling at Po who was trying to get the girl to talk. "Say noodles. Say noodles. Say noodles you silent baby." Po said starting to get impatient. "Po you have to be more patient than that to get her talk you know" Crane explained "how would you know I thought you were single" Po said smirking "well I am but I have had my past experiences with kids" Crane explained "when have you ?" Viper asked curiously "em when I was still living with my parents my aunty and uncle had a little boy and they got me to baby sit for them" Crane told them.
"Any way Po I came here to tell you that we are training now so leave Maya with me and go to the training room with Crane and Viper" Shifu explained. Once in the training room Po got to work. Shifu left Maya at the side but still kept an eye on her to make sure she didn't get up to any mischief.
"Noodles !" Maya said and started to laugh, the furious five and Po all stopped training and stared at her even Shifu looked at her "what did she say ?" asked Mantis "Noodles, noodles !" Shouted Maya. "Is it just me or did I here her speak ?" Viper asked "it wasn't just you Viper we all heard it" Shifu explained as he smiled she has just said her first word.
1 week later...
after her first word Maya had spoken many words fluently she was able to say all of the furious fives names off by heart "say Monkey" Monkey said to her "Monkeey" Maya replied "No not Monkeey, Monkey" Monkey said for the fifteenth time "OK Monkey give it up she's close enough as she is ever going to get" Po explained. "Say Tigress" Tigress said with not so much enthusiasm as the others did. "Tigresssss" Maya said as she yawned in the process "OK little girl time for bed" Shifu said to Maya carrying her to her room "good night Maya" Po said while Tigress gave him a dirty look "Why are you so jealous of her ?" Po asked rudely "why would I be jealous of that brat ?!" Tigress answered back nastily "just because you can't get attention all the time Tigress" Viper told her. "Well maybe that kid is ruining our lives no wonder her parents didn't want her !" Tigress spat "she isn't though actually Tigress there is more to life than kung fu in the real world. We all have to care for each other but I guess in your world it's all about you" Viper said as she left the room and the others nodded in agreement and walked away with Viper.
Authors note: Shocking Tigress gets yelled at by Viper. Anyway for the next chapter Shifu,Po and the furious five (Tigress not included) will start to help Maya to learn kung fu. Please review. Thank you.