Zeke's first day of training. Let'sm how that works out and before that, Musaki's early morning yoga routine.


Chapter 7: First Day of Training

Early sunrise came forth as Musaki walks out to the Valley of Peace to do some serious yoga positions. He stands on one foot while the other leg lifts in the air and raises his hands as well. After that, he sets his leg down and does some kung-fu positions to it. He starts breathing in and exhaling all the stress away and then, raises his hands apart and lifts his ankle towards his leg while closing his eyes.

Several seconds in and he takes a big breath and starts exhaling deeply. He opens his eyes and sees the sky turns purple and blue. He then sits down, crosses both his legs, closed his eyes and starts thinking peaceful thoughts in his mind, like he's gonna get through another day of rigorous training. WIth Zeke in the mix, he's hoping that he will bond more with him and get to know him more, if he's planning on listening.

As the sun starts coming up on the horizon, he can feel the sunshine on his face and let out a contended sigh that today's gonna be a good day. After four minutes, he opens his eyes, stands up and lets out a smile and said, "Good morning to the world."

Musaki walked back to the bunkhouse only to find Shifu standing in front of the doors with his arms folded. He can sense that he's busted for something. He said, "Morning, master."

"Doing some yoga, young Musaki?" asked Shifu, sternly.

"Yes, master."

"That's good to hear. But you're a little late."

"One who does yoga is not late for the rest of the day. I'm sure everyone else is early."

Shifu chuckled and said, "Who told you something like that?"

"You."

He looked a little puzzled and chuckled in embarassment and said, "Of course. I was actually coming around to wake everyone else."

"I'm guessing I'll meet you in the training hall then."

"You may go."

With that, Musaki walked off to the training hall to wait for the others while Shifu walked towards the training hall waiting for the students to wake up and for the morning gong to sound. When the morning gong sounded, all the students looked at Shifu's shadow and quickly went out the rooms and said, "Good morning, master!"

As soon as he sees Crane, Mantis, Viper, Monkey and Tigress all awake, they see Po stumbling out of the door and falling down on the floor....again and Po chuckled nervously and said, "Morning, master."

Shifu sighed heavily and said, "The things I do for training...."

"Sorry again."

"Po, we've seen you stumble a lot of times every morning to face all of us." Crane said.

"Oh, come on. It was only one time." Po said.

"300 times!" they all exclaimed.

"And a half." Mantis retorted.

"Whatever! It doesn't matter! When was the last time I've fallen down that's over the top?"

"Gee, I don't know. There were numerous times that it's been over the top, I forgot to mention it!" Monkey exclaimed.

"Students! Let us train!" Shifu snapped.

"Yes, master!" they all said.

Then, he suspects something. He looks around and sees seven of the trainers and one is already waiting on the training hall and he said, "We're missing one. Where's Zeke?"

"Zeke's still sleeping? Wow, I bet that nightmare really put him to sleep." Po said.

"How'd you figure?"

"I heard him scream last night. What was he screaming about, I don't know."

"I heard him scream too. Think there's something wrong?" asked Viper.

"Meet me in the training hall. I'll wake up Zeke." Shifu said.

Everyone nodded and went on their way, leaving Shifu to walk around and look for Zeke's room. When he walked into his room, he sees him still sleeping. He went near him and gently squeezed his head to wake him up. When Zeke's head turned towards Shifu, he opened his blurry brown eyes and when it got cleared, he saw Shifu's face in front of him, which scared him. He jumped up and fell down on the bed.

"You okay, Zeke?" asked Shifu.

Zeke popped out and asked, "Why'd you do that?!"

"First day of training."

"Are you kidding? It's early."

"Never too early for training. You said you taught kung fu all by yourself?"

"Yeah, I did."

"Well, it's time we'd put it to the test then."

"Sure thing."

Zeke got up and puts on his necklace and started to walk out the door, but Shifu stopped him for a quick second and brought in his flute and bashed him on the head.

"Owww! What was that for?!"

"Raising your voice at me when I woke you up."

Zeke chuckled nervously and said, "Sorry. When I looked at you, I thought that--"

He paused for a sec and Shifu started looking at him weird-like, because he reminds that face of his foster father and said, "Never mind. Forget I even mention it, okay?"

"Let's head to the training hall."

When they finally got to the training hall, they saw Po, Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Monkey, Viper and Musaki waiting for them. Shifu told them, "Sorry it took so long. Had to wake up Zeke here. I've been informed that he's a self-taught kung fu apprentice from a young age, so he's gonna prove it to us."

"I didn't know you could actually do something like that." Tigress said.

"Well, I didn't have anyone teaching kung-fu, so I thought I would teach it all by myself."

"Let's see him step up." said Monkey.

As soon as they got to the front, Viper was the first to strike him down. Zeke was ready for a challenge that he's bound to take. Viper asked, "Are you ready?"

"Of course."

Then, she quickly strikes him with her tail and Zeke misses it by an inch by going up, down, back and forth and around it goes. She steps up and uses her tail to take him down, but Zeke did a backflip/spin around trick and nearly nicked her by an inch, which she misses. She went all around him, but nothing could stop him from his kung-fu methods. Flipping, kicking and stroking her with every source of combat.

Most of the others were impressed, but Musaki was the one that's most impressed. His jaw dropped in total shock when he saw Zeke doing his kung-fu skills and using it on the training hall. Viper was surprised at Zeke for his hidden moves.

"How'd you do that?!" asked Viper.

"Like I said, self-taught."

"Most impressive."

As the day went on, Zeke was unstoppable at every ove he makes. Monkey was the second to go and he started using his staff for combat and Zeke uses the stick and focuses on his attacks. Both staffs were clacking like crazy and both of them leap themselves up in the air and Monkey swung on the tree and flies towards Zeke, but he was no match for him. He did an air backflip and took a swing at him. He leaped back to the ground with his feet and Zeke did the same as well. Suddenly, Monkey gave him a thumbs-up for his kung fu skills.

Then, it was Tigress' turn for her skills to collide with Zeke's skills. They both go at each other and she uses her moves to get at him, but nothing could stop Zeke from getting beat at his own game, so he copied some of her moves and used it at her. He thrashes her down with his kicks and swings at her and runs in the air above her and went the other side. Zeke made a mischievous smile at her and when she looks at him, he uses his 'come here' finger to get her and she runs as quick as she can, but he's behind her now. When she turns around, he waves at her and then, grabs both her arms and flipped her on the ground. When Tigress got up, she looked at Zeke and said, "You proved me wrong."

Mantis, Po, Shifu and Crane were next up to spar Zeke and Mantis used his techniques to get him, but Zeke already beat him to it. He uses his spin around/backflip moves towards him and flickers him. Then, he flips over to him and knocks him down. Mantis comes up to Zeke and said, "Pretty good, kid."

Crane was next to come forth towards Zeke and flies in the air and strikes him down, but Zeke misses by an inch and only leaped up the air and kicked him twice. Zeke uses a backflip/twist around move to miss his strike and landed him on the ground. Crane flew back down and told him, "You say you're a self-taught kung fu apprentice. Now I believe it."

Po and Shifu were next to go forth. Po starts using his moves that he used on Tai Lung with different types of combats. Zeke got down on the ground, goes around and shoves Po's foot down in order to make him trip. Then, gets up and Po starts running in and uses his belly to send him flying, but Zeke grabs on to the tree branch and went airborne on him and head-butted him on his back.

Po was definitely surprised to see him do a crazy trick like that. He looked at Zeke and exclaimed, "Awesomeness to the next level! If anyone says you're not a self-trainer, they'll have to answer to me so they can feel the thunder!"

Shifu was the next to go. They both stared at each other and started sparring with each other. Zeke tried everything he could do to get him, but he was proven too quick for him. When Zeke sees Shifu behind him, he uses his backflip moves to get him and also, he's a little quicker than Shifu. Zeke jumps up in the air several times and when he got higher, He quickly went down with his corkscrew movement and he aims for Shifu and kicks him in the stomach.

He fell down on the ground and then, gets up again and Zeke gets back on the ground and Shifu kicks him down, but ducks down and misses and kicks Shifu down pretty hard. He lays there, sees if there's any blood on him, and there wasn't any. When he got up, he was pretty impressed with his astounding movements and said, "I now believe it. You're a self-taught kung fu student. When you train with me, consider yourself a full student."

Zeke pants heavily and said, "Thanks, master."

As Shifu got back with the others, he said, "And now, let's see you spar with Musaki."

Zeke looks at Musaki and said, "Bring it, Musaki!"

Musaki chuckles and said, "You know I cannot resist a challenge like this!"


Oh snap! Musaki and Zeke spar with each other! This is gonna be good!