We wrap this up with an awesome New Year's chapter!
Chapter 10: Celebrating New Years
6 days after Christmas, everyone went outside the Jade Palace and went to the stadium where everyone is gonna celebrate New Years'. To Zeke's surprise, it's the first time that he's celebrating New Years with Musaki and it was something totally unexpected and that he is gonna celebrate this occasion with his brother. As they went in, Musaki looked at Zeke and noticed that he seemed surprised.
"What's on your mind?" asked Musaki.
Zeke said nothing, but let out a smile as a response. Musaki chuckled and asked, "What does that mean?"
"This is the first time I've ever celebrated New Years with you guys." Zeke said.
"Well, what do you expect?"
"Nothing much."
"It gets better, dude. Just trust me on this one."
"Sure thing."
Po looked at both of them and asked, "What's all the hubbub, guys?"
"We're just talking." Musaki replied.
"I see. First time celebrating New Years, right Zeke?"
"Yep."
"It's gonna be pretty awesome. You celebrated Christmas with us and you're now celebrating New Years. We all celebrate it every year and it always end up awesome."
"Sure thing."
Ichi, Kaguya, Fu, Ren, Sudoku, Shanghai, Miko, Ty, Sonic, Joey, Seth, Brian, Mookie and Jo went along for it and they followed Musaki and Zeke. Brian said, "This new year is gonna be great."
"I think it's gonna be greater." Ren said.
"How do you mean?" asked Kaguya.
"Well, it's gonna be a much cooler new year than the past year."
"I hope the new year brings me something good." Zeke said.
"What makes you say that?" asked Seth.
"I've been living in loneliness for almost a couple of months until I saw Musaki for the first time and realized that I have a long-lost brother, whom I've grown closer to. And I hope I get a chance to keep up with the times I lost with Musaki."
Musaki chuckled and said, "There's no place I'd rather be than here with you."
Mantis hopped in and said, "Don't mean to interrupt, but we've got a celebration to head to. Let's party up!"
"We'll be there."
As Mantis keeps hopping back, everyone looked at each other and decided to enter in the stadium and almost 2,000 people went in and it was completely huge. Zeke gasped in awe and said, "Wow. This is where we'll celebrate."
"Yep. And by tonight, nobody's gonna be sleepy." Musaki said.
"Fu." Ichi said.
Fu scoffed and said, "I can too stay up late. Tonight is no exception."
"Okay. We'll stay up together."
Shifu chuckled and said, "You can stay up as late as you wish."
"Works for me."
"Same here." Fu said.
"Don't expect a kiss from someone we don't know." Sudoku said.
"Why bother?" asked Miko.
As the celebration started, there was music playing all around and everyone started dancing and Musaki and Zeke's dancing/kung-fu skills definitely brought the crowd much attention. There were loud cheers and applause coming from around the stadium as they kept dancing, forming a huge crowd. As soon as they were finished, big cheers came flowing around them.
Musaki and Zeke looked at each other and Zeke was surprised about this scenario. He looks at Musaki and said, "This is unexpected."
"Might as well get used to it. It's not that bad though. Kinda awesome, if you know what I mean." said Musaki.
After that, Musaki and Zeke walked off to find the others, in which they were simply fond of their moves. Po looked amped up with the two of them and said, "You guys, that was awesome! I can tell that you guys were mixing dance and kung-fu moves together."
"Looks like your training really took off to a new level." Shifu said.
"It paid off." Zeke said.
"If I were to do some samba..." Po said.
Shifu groaned and said, "I've seen your samba. And after that, I wish I never had saw it again...at all."
"You guys were on fire tonight!" exclaimed Shanghai.
"Absolutely cool!" Seth said.
"Thanks, guys." Musaki said.
"I've never seen anything like this, in like...ever!" Ichi exclaimed.
"Neither have I." Fu said.
"Me too!" Kaguya said.
"Same here. Maybe you guys should show us those moves." Ren said.
"You guys did amazing." Jo said.
"Appreciate it." Zeke said.
Later on, Ichi, Musaki, Zeke, Fu, Ren and Kaguya went in the stage and start singing a song together.
Zeke: Guess you really did it this time
Left yourself and you're open
Musaki: Lost your balance on a tight rope
Lost your mind trying to get it back
Both: Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days
Always a bigger thing to crawl into
Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything
And everybody believed you
Fu and Kaguya: It's all right
Just wait and see your string of lights are still bright to me
Oh, who you are is not what you've been
You're still an innocent
You're still an innocent
Ren: It's some things you can't speak of
But tonight you leave it all again
Ichi: You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now
If only you were seeing what you know now then
Both: Wasn't it easy in your firefly catching days
Everything out of reach
Someone bigger brought down to you
Wasn't it beautiful
Running wild til' you ran out of speed
Before the monsters caught up to you
Together: It's alright
Just wait and see your string of lights are still bright to me
Oh
Who you are is not who you've been
You're still an innocent
It's okay
Life is a tough crowd
32 is still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You're still an innocent
Musaki and Ichi: Time turns flames to embers
You'll have new Septembers
Everyone of us has messed up too
Zeke, Ren, Fu and Kaguya: Life changes like the weather
I hope you remember
Today is never too late to
Together: Be brand new
Ohhhhhh
Chorus
It's alright
Just wait and see your string of lights are still bright to me
Oh
Who you are is not who you've been
You're still an innocent
You're still an innocent
It's okay
Life is a tough crowd
32 is still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You're still an innocent
Musaki: Lost your balance on a tight rope
Ohhh
Zeke and Musaki: It's never too late to get back
There was a thunderous amount of applause coming from the audience and Musaki looked at them and looked at his friends and turned back to the crowd and said, "Thank you. Happy New Year!"
As soon as they came out of the stage, they saw everyone standing in awe. They were blown away by their combined voices. Shifu was the first to speak up and say, "That is excellent."
"One of the best ones I've heard so far." Crane said.
"I have to agree." Sudoku said.
"I was blown away from this performance. Just awesome." Seth said.
It was close to midnight and Zeke looks at the sky and figures that the coming year will bring nothing but good for him. Musaki looked at Zeke and asked, "What are you thinking now?"
"I'm thinking that the new year will be the best year ever." Zeke answered.
Musaki smiled and said, "Me too."
Everyone in the entire stadium starts to count down as a new year will reign. Everyone shouted out, "10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...Happy New Year!"
The confetti and fireworks pop out and everyone's starting to embrace this entire new year and for Musaki and Zeke, it'll be a time that no one will ever forget.
THE END
Was that awesome or what? The song was 'Innocent' from Taylor Swift! Thanks for taking time to read and review this! KFP fan 4 life! Who's looking forward to 'Kung Fu Panda 2'? I know I am! Animation Universe 2005, saying peace out!