A hit and a bow stuff came and he barred it before trying himself a hit with his own bow against his own opponent and was barred as well. If there was one thing the young wizard got used and started to enjoy at the Jade Palace since he became a young student of master Crane turned adoptive father was the training routine he was doing every day, either with him or with another master. And this day was just the same as the others.
"Hit!" Crane called and his student tried to land a blow and was barred by the senior fighter, before he tried to land a hit himself on the young one and was barred quickly, going then quickly to the left he tried to land another blow which nearly hit him but however the stuff only hit another stuff. His master barred the blow again.
"Nice one you almost have it." Crane said with a smile before the young crane tried another hit but that also didn't worked the blow was barred by the elder crane with his wing.
"And what was that for?"
"Never let compliments distract one during combat." Harry said to him.
"Glad you remember that." He said before taking with speed the bow staff from him. "Still, small break for now."
"Yes father." Harry said letting down the guard for now.
"I have to ask you did you had other visions in your sleep?" Crane asked his adopted son, ever since he told him his secret when they were at Mei Ling 5 weeks ago he started to get an interest in what was happening to him. By all accounts the strange visions he was having sometimes now were sometimes appearing either during breaks but mostly they happen during the night when he was having his 'other classes'. But those things however were manifesting in the form of migraines and headaches which for him were starting to be annoying by all accounts and the others were starting to notice the migraines.
"They didn't bother me that much, well by what I can tell last night with the exception of headaches, which they really started to get more and more annoying." He said.
"Can't blame you for that, Mantis once said he could try some acupuncture to solve this for the moment."
"I don't know if they could do much. As for the 'visions' I don't know if they even are visions or I am just dreaming everything, especially about that strange thing that haunts that castle." He said to his master in a way with frustration that he was having them. "In a way I started to try to ignore them recently."
"I don't think it is a good idea to ignore them especially when you are having them often."
"It is amazing that you even believe when I tell you about them, in a sense I thought that you will stop believing when I tell you about them especially when it comes to the magical lessons." Harry said.
"Well to be honest I might have stopped. However it is hard not to believe what you are telling me especially after seeing for myself the magic that brings you the books about different spells and potions alongside the notes about them and some ingredients." Crane said and it was true that he was once about to no more believe what he was telling him until when he was in his room several magical lights appeared and left behind a new spell book and some notes about each of them alongside 3 potion ingredients for a potion that could change colour. This had destroyed all doubts but raised the question how and why they appear.
"I will never understand how they appear at all to be honest." Harry said.
"You are not the only one. However I really would like to see for myself what you see in your dreams about this school of magic. By all accounts if those lights that leave behind notes, books, potions and ingredients appear. It means your visions have a purpose and that isn't only for you to have fantasy dreams." Crane commented before Harry thought for a moment and in a way a shiver got on his spine thinking of one person whom everything could be linked to.
"Father do you think this could be because of Lord Voldemort?" Harry asked and Crane only nodded.
"Well, it could be a possibility now, by all accounts nothing comes out of nowhere without a reason. And thinking about him from when we met him the first time it is no doubt that he could be involved, by all accounts the name he chose to have could mean only darkness." Crane said.
"It really isn't comfortable that he could still be around, and also what could be done in this case." Harry said thoughtful with worry.
"The only thing that could be done is only to be prepared for when he comes back again. In all cases an evil wizard surely wouldn't give up easily." Crane explained holding him by his shoulders.
"It really would be hard, especially that we don't know anything about him, not to mention the fact that if he needed another body to sustain himself, it means he is powerless now and surely in hiding. But he could try another idea to regain his powers especially after the philosopher's stone is destroyed and a shard is hidden. Question is what other method he would use." Harry said trying to use logic.
"He would use everything that contains dark magic to gain a new body. The thing that could be done is only to prevent him from doing so." Crane explained.
"Preventing him from gaining a new body would maybe delay him returning to do what he had done when he was all powerful. The big trouble would be stopping him once and for all."
"Indeed." Crane said tossing his stuff back and Harry caught it. "However till then we shall prepare ourselves for everything. By the way tomorrow most of us will have to leave in different missions, so tomorrow you might have to stay with Po as your instructor." He said preparing himself for another session.
"Aaa father, I don't want to comment anything but to be honest I really don't know what to say about Po been my instructor tomorrow. I don't have anything against him, but you know his goofy acts that he had done." Harry said not knowing what to say.
"I know, but compare to Tigress it will be a day off for you, not to mention that I will have to leave in 4 hours for my task my mission been outside the Valley and she will be your instructor at least for last third of the day." Crane said and Harry already having his wings hurting from push ups and lifting.
"What about master Viper?"
"She will teach you for 2 hours before Tigress." He explained.
"Then I will be glad Po will be tomorrow." Harry said with a stressed smile.
"Let's do our exercises for the moment now." Crane said while both prepared themselves for the combat. Both had started again and did their exercises till at around 2 when Crane had to leave after that Viper came to do her own exercises. The exercises she was doing consisted mostly on fast strike. Giving powerful blows as and trying to be as flexible and fast as a snake. Striking in places where the adversary would expect the less and wouldn't notice. All in all it was harder to do it for a bird, but he tried his best to do it the best he could of course Master Viper was between the most lenient of the masters, the session with her were between the most lenient due to her good nature and attitude. By all accounts even master Tigress has a soft spot for children, however been the master of the Tiger style of Kung Fu which was very demanding both physically and mentally she had to be also very demanding when teaching someone. One aspect he used on the young Crane was the fact that she was always putting him to do exercises of endurance to see how great his punch is. And those were the exercises she put him to do alongside getting 2 full buckets of water from the well on foot all done till sunset today. And when he was finished he immediately collapsed on his bed in his room.
"Urgh usual as always." He said in a trembling voice out of exhaustion.
"For your answer you can never go soft in a battle and also I guess that Po might not put you to do much." Tigress said from the door to his room.
"He probably will. By the way, I also heard you will a mission tomorrow, what is the mission about?" Harry asked.
"It is secret but if you are interested. There is a smuggler network to the south and I have to put a stop to it with Viper and Master Wolf."
"I guess they smuggle drugs that brought the attention of the masters and the authorities."
"You guessed." She said closing the door and the young crane immediately drifted off to sleep not waking up till the next day at sunrise. And as expected almost all the masters had left leaving only Po who as expected tried to relax himself and in a sense Harry didn't minded that much, in fact he started in that day to read some of the books and notes he received recently, and tried to do some of the spells that he had received after doing some potions in the first part of the day.
"Those kinds of days are rare for me here but at least to make the best of them." Harry said to himself while doing another spell of levitation and another one, to make a drinking cup from a non sentient animal which disappeared in an instant with a light, (when it came to transfiguration spells to make object out of living things subjects were also appearing for him, but then disappear after doing the spell correctly).
"Wonder what Po will do all this time if something doesn't happen?" He said to himself before hearing some footsteps and immediately hid everything around only for the big Panda to come to him.
"Harry how are you." He asked with a smile.
"A fine master Po what brings you here?" He asked with a smile.
"Well I was lying around till I thought about your small problem with the headaches and so I decided to look into the library and came across a parchment that could help you."
"Oh, that is wonderful but maybe it isn't that much of a problem really." Harry said of course he knew that sometimes he wouldn't read everything that was written in the scrolls, and he mostly feared that whatever he found, he didn't read all the instructions in the scroll and what he could do if not done properly.
"None sense you have them for several days."
"But they don't come out in problematic events." He said but everything fell on deaf ears.
"Oh come, let's try it at least." He said taking him by the wing to the library where the scrolls where he found a 'remedy' was written however he knew that the remedy was actually a technique similar to the paralysis move, but this one was a move that if applied to the head it could hypnotise one to do what the caster wanted. Luckily it didn't had the danger of the effect been permanent, but it needed to be done again on the head for the victim to snap out or in the worst cases scenarios it needed the victim to fall asleep out of exhaustion or it needed 2 days to pass in order to effect to go.
"Well here it is." Po said presenting the technique to the young crane.
"Ah, master Po do you think this is a good idea?" Harry asked.
"Don't worry nothing bad will happen. I only need to know when you headaches come back to bother you." He said with a smile.
"I didn't had any problem for a long time now actually." Harry said before he felt his scar hurting but he didn't want to tell Po about it.
"Is there a problem."
"No, nothing." He said before feeling his head hurting much more seeing another attack and another petrified person before opening his eyes.
"What happened?" Po asked.
"Nothing I am fine." Harry said but of course due to how bad he felt the headache he wasn't believed.
"Well that tells everything." Po said taking him by the right shoulder applying the technique on the head which was in essence point finger hitting first followed by the little one then the ringed finger with the big thump hitting at the same time then the middle one, all making a blue spark when hitting. Harry opened his eyes no more feeling the pain but he knew that if Po will give him a command he will do it without managing to do anything else.
"So are you feeling better?" Po asked with a smile.
"S-sure I feeling fine." He said with a smile.
"Wonderful this is what I wanted to hear."
"So what should I do now?" Harry asked.
"Well if you ask me you could do anything you can for example write some notes or copy something from the sacred scrolls to have it for yourself." Po said to him with a smile and the young crane almost got eyes as if hypnotised.
"Copy from scrolls."
"Yeah you can do that, if you are done you can come to me afterwards. I will be at my dad's noodle shop. I shall come back later." He said pointing outside with a smile leaving the young hypnotised crane behind who immediately turned to the table with one thing in mind to 'copy the scrolls'. The rest of the day passed without much trouble in the Jade Palace there was an incident in the village with some bandits but aside from that other incidents were not reported. However due to the incident Po had forgot to check on the young Jade Palace student who remained awake throughout the night till morning.
Outside the main palace gate however Master Shifu had returned from his visit at Master Chao and immediately was joined by Masters Tigress and Viper who just came back.
"Master Shifu it is great that you came back." Tigress said bowing to her master and adoptive father alongside with Viper.
"The meeting with Master Chao went very fast without many problems. I hope however that your mission went well against the smugglers." He asked.
"They wanted to enter with a big supply of opium but everything was dealt without much trouble. The transport was burned." Tigress said.
"Perfect at least the citizens of the province will not be poisoned by this plant." Shifu said while opening the gate and noticed several scrolls opened on the ground like a carpet the originals near recently made copies from the desk to the gate there were a total of at least 35 pairs.
"What in the name of heavens is this?" Shifu asked shocked while all looked around and noticed the young crane working on the 36th scroll just finishing it.
"By heavens what Po put him to do?" Tigress asked going to him. "Harry how about you stop." She started before noticing his eyes been absentminded before Shifu came.
"Hmm, finger mind control technique." Shifu said grabbing the beak and using the technique in reverse for him to collapse on the ground and also to wake up.
"Urgh, urgh. Wha-what happened?" He asked himself before noticing the not so friendly face of the tiger master something he would really be frighten off.
"You tell us." She said pointing at the scrolls that lay on the floor of the Hall of the warriors.
"Ahh well I..." He started not knowing how to explain the situation and not wanting Po to get into trouble.
"Let us guess Po used the Finger Mind Control Technique?" Shifu asked before looking at one of the scrolls.
"Well he...tried to...solve my...headaches problem." He said with a stressed voice. "He didn't want to do something bad."
"Well we do admit that the headaches you start to have are a bit of a concern but you don't use a technique like this one. And I guess after he used it he told you possibly the first thing he saw on the desk." Shifu said.
"Yes sir."
"Impressively however, you did quite well in copying several scrolls of Kung Fu no doubt from top to bottom you wrote them exactly as it was written." Tigress said looking over one of the copied scrolls.
"Ah thank you mistress." The boy said.
"However there is one aspect to be known." She said showing the drawings that were just a few lines. "Don't take art and drawing as a past time activity."
"Understood."
"And yet I guess that you are quite tired after doing so much and probably not sleeping all night long." Viper said.
"What no, I am fine really." He said trying to look full of energy but he was completely exhausted giving out a yawn before collapsing to the ground falling asleep.
"Medical break today for you to sleep, I will tell Crane when he returns of this small endeavour." Tigress said taking him leading him back to the barracks.
Later that day the hall had been cleaned up and the scrolls were back in their places or more better to say were placed in the underground archives, while the copies were let in the library after small adjustments to the drawings. Po didn't however escape a scolding from master Shifu and Tigress despite them agreeing with the fact that they had some copies instead of the originals however it will probably take some months till Po will be Harry's master again. The rest of the day went very smooth without other interruptions when Crane arrived he was of course inform of the small fiasco, he didn't accepted what happened since it was kind of bringing back the memories of when Po use the Fluttering Finger Mindslip, he got his memories back of course but he also remembered how it was when he misused it a lot.
When Harry woke up from his sleep it was already noon but he was informed that he got the rest of the day off due to Po's mishap. However when he went to the panda master he told him that he wasn't mad at him at all since he knew that everything was with a good intention while what happened afterword was only a mistake which didn't resulted in any disaster. This information did put the Panda at ease with what happened, but he swore to be extra careful next time and also told him that Crane had returned ad was waiting for him outside in the courtyard.
"You know Harry sometimes you are too forgiving." Crane said to him with a smile.
"Is it a bad thing?"
"Not at all, it is quality everyone should have. Especially that this only be considered as a minor mistake." He said getting to a table where he placed a small porcelain cup which contained a plant.
"I managed to get a possible medicine for the headaches that you have around the scar. I know those might be magical but it is worth a try."
"What is containing?"
"It's a special mixture, which contains a special alga and some other plants which could be of help if you inhale. Of course another cure would have been opium which I don't intend to use."
"Opium is drug from what I heard, and a powerful one, which is forbidden to use." Harry said.
"It is indeed however it is also used as a medicine sometimes but it is too risk and too powerful. Those mixtures will have to do for now if it can do something." Crane said while Harry took a deep inhale, by all accounts the smell of mint was very powerful not to mention that of spice.
"Oh, it is very powerful."
"That is the reason why I took it to try it. Although I do admit that since those headaches are actually abnormal it might not do much." Crane said before his son though what they could do in this case and somehow a possible idea came.
"You know, I though a bit about the possibility of seeing what I see in all my dreams and visions and maybe we can try to go one day to Gongmeng City to meet up with the Soothsayer, she surely isn't a witch but maybe we can give it a try." Harry explained.
"You thought this before or after Po used that method to help you?" Crane asked.
"I thought of this now after I remember the discussion we had the day before yesterday. I know it might not do much or even if it will show something at all but it is worth a try. Especially if the one responsible is still the one we met in Gongment City when he tried to take it over." Harry explained.
"Well even I do admit that I don't know if she will be able to do much in this regard of seeing what are seeing in the visions and dreams, sure. But it doesn't mean we can't give it a try." Crane said to him with a smile.
"The chances are barely 50-50 however." Harry said not sure about this.
"50-50 maybe, however like with a new move in kung fu or with anything for this matter, not giving a try is much worst then something been a failure. Master Shifu once told us, if we are confined to only what we know, we will never exceed ourselves." Crane explained.
"Or in this case, never found an answer."
"Exactly, so when we will have a possibility to go to Gongment City, we shall give it a try. Hopefully it will solve all the dilemmas we have now." Crane said to his son holding his shoulder.
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Author's note: Sorry for the LONG wait. But like I said the juice of inspiration has different tastes and this time I was able to do one for Kung Fu Panda. It will take however a long time till I will manage another chapter but at least something to be made for you to not believe I left it. Yet.