And everyone's waiting for Liu Shang for the party!

Chapter 10: Waiting for Liu

As the day goes by, everyone was heading to the huge temple across the Valley to celebrate Liu Shang's 15th birthday and Okinawa, Musaki, Taji, Zeke, Shao, Arizona and the rest of his friends and relatives, including the Furious Five, Oak Sung and Po went over to celebrate the occasion and Tigress asked, "I don't see how we're not dressed up for this event."

"It's a birthday party, not one of those high-strung elegant parties." Zeke corrected.

"The invitation says come as you are, so we're coming in our own normal attire." Taji stated.

Most of the Five agreed with the fact that they don't have to dress up for this occasion and Monkey said, "I can honestly say that this is one dress code I like to follow where we don't have to dress up."

As soon as the masters looked at the huge temple, they were super surprised by the size of it and it was like 12 times higher than the Jade Palace, except less thousand steps upwards and Mantis said, "This is the huge temple?"

"Yep. It's where my grandfather invites every single resident there for meetings, gatherings, parties, anniversaries, funerals...anything you think of, it's in this temple." Musaki answered.

"How high are the steps?" asked Po.

Musaki knew that Po and stairs are not best friends and he said to the Dragon Warrior, "They're not that high, I promise you."

"I hope not." Po answered.

Just then, they followed the rest of the residents up the steps to the temple and they met up with Taji and his friends and greeted them as they came in and when Taji sees Okinawa and Musaki come by, he said, "It's the panda brothers. What up, guys?"

"We're here to have a good time and celebrate Liu's birthday." Musaki answered.

"You only turn 15 once." Okinawa elaborated.

And Taji's parents were amazed when they saw the Furious Five and the Dragon Warrior attend there and the mother was starstruck and she said, "The Jade Palace masters? I had no idea they'd come to our Valley to celebrate our adopted son's birthday."

"Adopted son?" asked Tigress, raising an eyebrow.

"Liu Shang." Musaki answered.

The father chuckled and bowed to all of them and he said, "We are very honored that you would come over."

The masters bowed back to them as they made their way inside of the temple and the masters were astonished by the looks of it and it was unlike anything they've ever seen before and the Five lets out a collective, "Wow..."

"Now this is awesome." Po said, breathless.

"Pretty impressive. Looks like grandfather Oak took good care of this temple." Okinawa added.

"Wait, you know about this temple?" asked Tigress.

Okinawa turned to Tigress and replied, "Yep, I've been here most of my childhood and not much as changed since then, but I can tell that Oak's been doing good in keeping it going."

Oak nods his head and he responded, "Just me and a few good friends around the Valley."

Crane went towards the roof of the temple and keeps an eye open for Liu Shang in case he comes over or sees him walk by as sort of a lookout on the roof. Meanwhile, Tigress started to see why everyone is around this huge temple and compares it to the Jade Palace, yet it looks nothing like it. Zeke looked at the tiger master and asked, "Impressive, huh?"

"I don't understand. How has Oak Sung managed to use this for any events?" asked Tigress.

"Whenever he has a huge gathering or a huge event's coming over to our valley, my grandfather puts it all in this temple and what he does it put it together with a couple of his friends and it is not your ordinary temple. He refers to it as the Jade Palace of the mixed Chinese/Japanese heritage. In retrospect, everyone is always welcome and Oak is very welcoming." Zeke answered.

After Tigress got her answer, the ways of the Bushido-Akio's completely surprised her and Po told her, "Let's not question what Musaki's relatives do and just focus on having fun."

"Yeah, as far as I can tell, you need it the most." Logan added.

"And then some." Kiba added.

Tigress is trying her best to lighten up, but is still unsure where to start and only when Po put it in his own way made it a little easier on her and soon enough, Crane swoops out of the roof and said, "Liu Shang's coming! And he's bringing in a panther girl!"

Let's get this party started!