'The Reason' By: Hoobastank
Requester: Shen's General
Characters: Crane and Mei-Ling
I am sorry I haven't been updating my stories; I have been really busy with schoolwork lately. One of thing I had been working on was a speech for well… speech class. And I delivered it without a problem so as special thanks about not being asked where I'm at, I decided to take a break from the work and make a song-fic. This song-fic fallows after 'If You Only Knew' (more or less), which is chapter five I believe.
About damn time right?
As always (Start) is the signal to start the song if you want to fallow along.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kung Fu Panda. Nor do I own any songs or lyrics by Hoobastank. I can only wish to own such greatness, besides if I owned KFP Po and Tigress would have a little baby boy named Luke.
About eight months after Crane sang to Mei-Ling and the two confessed their love; the two were ready to take their relationship to the next level. Crane had proposed. Of course Mei-Ling had happily accepted the offer making Po and the rest of the five happy. They were going to experience yet another wedding, Tigress and Po had been married two months earlier.
Two weeks before the wedding was to take place the two lovebirds had run off for some time to have by themselves.
They traveled a day to a town neither of them had known existed. Crane and Mei-Ling spent a romantic night together. They first went to a shadow puppet show, then to a small dinner near a river with lightening bugs floating around, and lastly they sat on the roof of their hotel, gazing at the stars, as they had done many times before with each other.
"Can you believe we have made it this far?" Mei-Ling whispered looking at the stars shine in the night.
"I know, seems like we have came a long way." Crane sighed watching his breath turn to steam.
"Yeah, I never thought I would be getting married." Mei-Ling snuggled in closer to Crane.
Crane wrapped his wing around her as she moved closer. It's true he himself had never thought that he would ever get married, especially to his long lost friend, the one who had pushed him in the first place.
"Yeah, feels funny doesn't it?" Crane asked.
"Yeah, but a good funny." Mei-Ling giggled.
"Agreed."
"Do me a favor, Crane."
"What's that?"
"Don't ever leave me."
"I don't think I ever could."
They finished the night in each other's grip that night, not know everything was going to get much harder for them.
A week had gone by, Crane and Mei-Ling returned to the Jade Palace to be greeted with a very unhappy red panda. But life goes on. The two warriors just laughed inside their heads, knowing that as long as they are together they can take on the world.
"Po, man, I missed your cooking." Crane said with a mouth full of noodles.
"That's good, at least one of you likes them." Po teased sitting down next to Tigress.
"Shut-up Po everyone loves your noodles and you know it." Tigress playfully said.
"Hopefully the little one likes them too." Mei-Ling said pointing at Tigress's stomach, which had already began to grow.
"If he is anything like his father he will." Tigress chuckled.
"How do you know it is a he?" Crane asked.
"Motherly Instincts." was all Tigress had to say, "Enough about Po and I, we all want to hear about you and Mei-Ling."
Cranes cheeks blushed a bit, and so did Mei-Ling's.
"What about us?" Crane asked, trying to rub away his blush.
"For starters, how was your little get-a-way?" asked Tigress.
"Let's just say it was relaxing, and a good start." Mei-Ling jumped in to save her red-faced fiancé.
"Oh really…" Tigress asked, with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes really, anything else?" Crane spit out.
"Yeah, you nervous for your wedding?" Po chimed in.
"A little, but not as much as I am going to love it." Crane looked at Mei-Ling.
"Yeah, I'm not too nervous, just excited." She moved closer to Crane and kissed him on the cheek, causing Crane to blush. Then Shifu busted through the door.
"We have an alarm in the valley! Go defend your home!" Shifu barked, and looked on as his students jumped up and ran towards the valley.
When they got there some bandits were ransacking a few stores. The warriors engaged the criminals. Mei-Ling took down some of them with a couple quick combo punches. Po and Tigress were quick to make a rhino fall to his knees in pain. They looked up to see Crane fighting with a large wolf with a war hammer. Crane was quick to dodge the attacks but was quickly losing grown. Then tragedy struck.
As Crane dived and tried to swing around the bandit, the bandit swung his hammer. The hammer collided with Crane sending him to the ground. Mei-Ling's eyes went into shock, and Tigress took down the bandit with several swipes of her paws.
Crane lay motionless on the ground as Mei-Ling stepped closer to him.
"Crane…?" Mei-Ling spoke, tears pressing against her eyes. Still he lay on the ground… motionless. Po and Tigress looked on with fear in their eyes.
"Crane please…" Mei-Ling put her paw on his shoulder, but nothing happened. Tears flooded out of her eyes unable to control herself she fell onto him bawling into his feathers.
Tigress came over and slowly pulled her to her feet. Mei-Ling grabbed onto Tigress and bawled into her fur.
"Po… pick Crane up." Po agreed and picked him up, all the while looking down at his limp friend.
(Start)
They began to walk back to the palace with Tigress and the still broken Mei-Ling, and Po behind them.
Mei-Ling heard Cranes voice echo through her head, she didn't know whether to be happy or sad. The one she loved was still gone.
I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
Crane began to stir in Po's arms, surprising the panda.
I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with every day
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
That's why I need you to hear
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
And the reason is you
Mei-Ling saw this and ran to her love resting in Po's arms. And tears of joy began to wash away the tears of sadness.
I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you
Po sat Crane down and stepped back, allowing Mei-Ling to talk to Crane. Mei-Ling just held onto him crying. Happy that he was alive and in her arms.
"W-what… happened?" Crane whispered.
"I t-thought I lost y-you.", Mei-Ling said through her sobs.
"I t-told you I wasn't ever going to leave you." Crane said softly, obviously sore.
Mei-Ling just pulled him into a kiss happy to have her reason to be alive, with her.
SO? Short, sweet, and to the point, just how I like 'em. How did you like it Shen's General? What you wanted or should have been more? Once, again I am sorry that I haven't been posting anything lately, Just schoolwork. Review, request and Stay Frosty!