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Po yawned a bit, as he placed his paws behind his neck. "Well, here we are. We're off once again, heasing towards adventure, looking for new buds to possibly hang out with. This is gonna be great, don't you guys agree that this will be great?"

"It's TOTALLY gonna be great!" Fung cheered. "Do you think this gonna be great, Tigress?"

She smiled. "It will certainly be very interesting."

"Close enough!"

Fenghuang yawned. "*Yawn* I can't wait to see you all get to fighting already. I have been bored for quite a long time outside of training Po. I actually waited for a time like this. Too bad I'm only observing until it's absolutely necessary. IfI can't kick some ass, at least I can watch others do it."

"Fenghuang...I would surely appreciate it if you would mind your tongue." Shifu said.

The owl bent down to him and began poking his chest with a sharp feather, harmlessly. "*Poke* Midget. I am a grown woman. *Poke* I can say whatever the hell I want, *Poke* whenever I want. *Poke* Unless you think you can actually DO something about it.*Poke*"He slapped her wing aeway.

"Stop poking me!"

"Oh. Is that making you uncomfortable?"

"Yes!"

"I see...*Poke*"

"Cut that out!"

They began bickering in the background as everyone else just kept looking forward out of slight embarrassment. Tigress was right to be surprised at this, she didn't think that anyone could get under Shifu's skin in a matter of seconds. Their history must have really been something for them to be fighting like this. Fung and Zeng were just surprised that they haven't come to blows yet. Po and Mr. Ping...were just looking at the list of recruits, not minding the bickering behind them.

"Okay, so the very first person on this list is Monkey. I wonder what kind of person he is." Po asked, scratching his head in wonder. "The only tough thing about meeting new people is that we don't know much about the people that we are going to meet. We don't know how to act, what to say, or what to do..."

"How about being yourself, Po? That should always be the way to meet someone for the first time. That way you don't have anything to hide. Isn't that preferrable?"

"Hey...you're right! I shouldn't worry about it too much, I should just do my thing!"

"That's my boy!" Mr. Ping patted his arm as he turns to Zeng. "So you're a Palace Servant, huh?"

"I have been for 15 years." He nodded. "Though it seems that Master Oogway wants me to be a part of this journey just as much as he wants Shifu to be. I just...don't know what he was thinking. Then again, no one can ever correctly guess what he's thinking. He's a living enigma. And then some."

"Hm. Well now that you're traveling along with us, you're part of a team. We geese have to stick together through all odds!" He wrapped a wing aroung Zeng. "Count us as geese buddies from now on, my friend!" he said jovially. Zeng seemed quite surprised by his friendly nature, being used to being more servant than friend. Then again, this was a goose that willingly made himself look silly in front of the whole Valley alongside his son. They were both pretty jolly from everyone else's viewpoint. From he and Po's viewpoint, they're merely being themselves.

"There doesnt seem to be any immediate danger around us right now. So let's hope it stays like that." Shifu said.

"Noooooooo!" Fenghuang pouted. "This is super damn boring! I want some kind of action sooner or later! I don't mind the travels, but I want something to actually happen while we're doing this! I wanna see Po kick some ass already!" She stomped a bit.

Shifu shook his head. "You haven't matured much, have you?"

"Just like how you haven't grown an inch taller from when you were a kid.

A tick mark appeared on his head. "I am a red panda. Red panda's are not usually very tall or big."

"You're a special case, though."

"Grr..."

Fung was just snickering from in front of them, their banter was no different than teens arguing with one another. And he had a feeling it wouldn't end for quite some time. These two have a lot of energy to constantly snark at one another non-stop. Fenghuang has more ammo in her snarkiness because she was not afraid to get vulgar. It was quite an amusing time for him, even though Tigress wasn't very into it and Po was cheerfully indifferent about it. Mr. Ping and Zeng were in their own little zone of geesehood, so they didn't notice much of the bickering either.

They were all choosing to pass it off as a normal circumstance. That's probably the safest way, overall.

Po looked upward a bit and his eyes grew wide. "Hey guys, we finally reached a village!Check it out!" Po pointed forward, and everyone else looked forward as well. "It's named 'Jong Sung Village'...huh. What a weird name."

Fenghuang opened one eye at the name. "Jong Sung...? Where have I heard that name before...?" She asked quietly to herself. She was sure she heard those two words before, she just had no idea who's name it was. Maybe going around this village for a little while will refresh her memory. It didn't seem that Shifu knew anything either, due to the confused look in his eyes. It was a strange name, and they knew it was strange for a reason.

"Oh, finally at a village?" Mr. Ping asked, as he had Fung pull along the cart. "I wonder if there will be any potential customers willing to eat some noodles...?"

"That'll be something to look forward to for sure!" Po agrees. "Well there's no point in just sitting here, let's go in and take a look see."

Everyone agrees to this, and they walk right through the entrance. There wasn't anything suspicious about the entrance, so they passed by that easily. What they weren't expecting was the unsavory state the village was in. It didn't seem like it was doing very well. The villagers didn't look very happy. A bit depresseed, but it's not that heavy a depression. It was enough to cause a bit of discomfort for the younger group members. Po and Tigress found this very sad. Fung found this...far too familiar. He wouldn't say why even if somebody asked. The only person who knew about this inner feeling was Master Croc.

Fung unconsciously moved forward. It surprised the others a bit, but they followed him anyway. He was slowly looking side to side every once in a while, examining the state of said buildings and people. Some people were looking pretty sad when sitting in a poorly cared for building, others were not doing too well with separate businesses, and kids were probably the most sad-looking of all. They are unhappy that their parents are unhappy. They may br slowly losing the ability to properly take care of them.

Unhappy children means a very unhappy Po. Mr. Ping had a similiar mindset.

"This village is in very poor shape...how could this be happening?" Shifu asked quietly. "This couldn't have been recent. All of this looks like it lasted for a long time. How can that be?"

"Somebody doesn't care much for the village, I can bet that much." Fenghuang suggested. "Hm. Well Panda, I believe we've reached your first head-on task. Find out what or who is causing all of this, and try to resolve this while finding and recruiting this 'Monkey'. Me and Shifu will stay out of your way and gather info while lending a hand."

"You're willing to help people?" Shifu asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"I helped the Panda, didn't I? Don't press me." She said, which brought another tick mark to his head.

"Okay, how about a different question. You don't call him 'Cub' anymore. Why is that?"

"Try walking into a crowd and call him(Points to Po) a cub. EVERYONE is gonna think you're a lier."

Po and Fung chuckled a bit at this, and then moved onward. Tigress and Mr. Ping followed behind, while Zeng stayed behind with Shifu and Fenghuang. The latter turned and moved in the other direction, causing the others to follow. "Fenghuang, where are we going?"

"The students are at work, Shifu. I'm not doing anything, so I'm gonna find something to do. Maybe I'll go for a quick flight. Yeah, I'll soar around for a bit and enjoy the breeze. You two bozos can sit around on the ground for all I care. See ya later today." She flapped her wings and took for the skies.

"Fenghuang!" Shifu shouted, but she was already gone. He rubbed his forehead in irritation. "Ha...the nerve of that woman..."

Back with the other four, with Po leading the way, they were going down one path to try and gain answers from the people. But by the way they're cautiously backing away from the three larger members(Po, Tigress and Fung) as if they're afraid. Tigress certainly didn't like that treatment, but she had a feeling that they had a reason for their fears. You can't have fear without a certain source. So what was the source of their fear.

"These people should smile more." Po said. "Then the village wouldn't be as gloomy as it feels like now. I don't really like the fact that everyone feels and looks depressed."

"Yeah I know." Fung nods.

"I understand how you two feel, but what can we do?" Tigress folded her arms. "We can't soove a proplem if we don't know what it is."

"GET BACK HEEERRRREEEEEE!" The loud shout echoed through the village, which caused all the villagers to gasp and take cover.

"Wonder what got into them...?" Mr. Ping asked.

All of a sudden, a blur appeared from the side of the building and ran towards them in a frenzy. It didn't look like the person knew where he was going, because he bumped right into Po. Luckily, due to the panda's soft belly, he was unharmed and just fell to the ground while rubbing his head. "Geez...what did I bump into? It feels as if I crashed into a pillow and-" He looked up and was surprised to see Po standing before him. "What the..."

"Oh! Is your name Monkey by any chance?!" Po asked excitedly.

"Um...yeah...? Why?"

"HAHA! AWESOME! WE FOUND HIM!" The panda cheered jovially once again, fists thrusted in the air and jumping up and down. After ten times he stopped while breathing heavily.

"Po! Calm down buddy. Deep breaths." Fung said, patting his friends back with Mr. Ping helping, as he tried to regain his breath.

While they were doing that, Tigress turned to Monkey herself. "Monkey. You need to come with us."

"Why should I? Are you three gonna try and arrest me too?" He said defensively. Though she was more attentive to the latter half ofthe question.

"Arrest...? What did you do?"

"There he is!" All of them turned to see a platoon of rhinos looking very pissed...and covered in feathers. "We finally found you, ape!"

"Oh boy...they caught up to me." Monkey flinched, as he stood up and looked ready to retreat. Buy he stopped when Po placed his arm in front of him, gaining his surprise.

"Hold on...what did he do?"

"That punk has been pranking the authorities for years! Every time we try to keep order, he ruins it with his immature antics! He's become a menace to this community!" One of the rhinos yelled. "He's been causing chaos for a long time, and we're here to bring him to justice!"

"That's not true and you know it!" Monkey shouted and quickly turned to Po. "Listen to me dude, I'm not the bad guy here!. You have to believe me when I say that what I'm doing is not for selfish and childish reasons! Even if they are kinda funny...but still! They're not good guys, and the one they serve DEFINITELY isn't a good guy!"

Po took another couple of moments to gaze at Monkey quietly, he then adjusted his straw hat and turned to the rhinos. "Fellas...since when has pranking become a crime? Especially a crime worthy of arrest?"

The lead rhino huffed. "This has nothing to do with you. Hand over Monkey, now."

Po kept looking dead at the rhinos, not moving an inch from Monkey's side. "We need him. He's coming with us, not you. Why should he get arrested for pranks, anyway?! They're supposed to be funny! I don't think you guys can take a joke..."

"Refusing the request of a patroller...very well. All five of you are under arrest, then."

"WHAT?! You can't do that!" Fung shouted in protest.

"Can, and will."

"More like you can try, and fail." Tigress said emotionlessly. This prompted a shocked look from both Mr. Ping and Monkey. What was she thinking? "I have to agree with Po. As childish and immature as it is, pranks are hardly worth any involvement from guards unless it results in serious consequences. Monkey does not seem like a person who would use pranks to harm people." She crossed her arms. "And you all don't seem to be managing the billage very well, because it looks like it's going downhill. Are you all really guards?"

"That's none of your business. Now if you can't hand over Monkey, we're taking you all in. Defending a criminal was a mistake."

"I told you. He's coming with us, not you." Po repeated.

"Yeah! You won't get the Monkey, because Monkey is someone we need!" Fung chanted. "...wait. Won't get the Monkey, because we need Monkey...does that make sense? I mean, we NEED Monkey because he's the someone we need? I mean...um..." Fung just unnecesssrily confused himself. Cue him throwing his helmet to the ground. "Darn it!"

"Enough of this! Get them!"

The rhinos charged them. Po tilted his straw hat and rushed forward alongside Tigress and Fung.

Po was taking the lead rhino on. He made a large swing with his mace, he ducked the swing and easily knocked the mace out of his hands. Grunting angrily, he made several attempts to strike Po with his fists. He dodged every single one, even brushing aside a couple as if it meant nothing to him at all. He then caught the very last punch with one paw, struck him multiple times in the chest with his other paw, and used a final paw strike to knock him a couple feet away, unconscious.

Tigress was having an easier time than he was. Every time the guard in front of her tried to hit her, she would casually block with one paw. It didn't matter what he tried. Numerous punches were easily negated, kicks were gently pushed away, and tackling only got him sent into the dirt. After many numerous tries in attacking the feline, he finally grew irritated and went for a full on charge, kicking up dirt as he hurtled towards her, horn first. Which was a huge mistake on his part, as she caught him by the horn. She lifted him up a bit and sent him flying with a punch to the chest, resulting in him crashing into a wall. All she did was huff.

Fung had his arms folded as he faced down a guard of his own. "Try to hit me. Come on. Try to hit me, bro." The rhino glared and aimed to strike him with a mallet, though he was struck in the face by the croc's tail. "Come on, bro." I said try to hit me." Shaking his head, the rhino tried again, only for Fung to tail-slap him about ten more times before he groaned and fell to the ground, unconscious. Fung pouted. "Yeah...you couldn't hit me. Sorry about that, bro."

Monkey stood by in shock, while Mr. Ping stood by in awe. The guards took a while to wake up, and when they did they immediately ran away from the three warriors. When the dust settled, most of the villagers came out of hiding, shocked at what they had just done. They stood up to them. No one has done that before...except Monkey. Which is why he was so shocked. "You guys stood up for me...? You're not even completely sure you could trust me..."

"We do trust you." Po smiled.

"We're giving you a chance, Monkey. We've come for you for a reason. What you do will decide whether we were right to do so or not." Tigress said.

Monkey tilted his head while also scratching it. "Is that so...? Well then, why did you guys come for me?"

Mr. Ping waddled in front of him, concealing his wings with his sleeves. "Well Monkey, how about this. We'll tell you exactly why we came for you. In exchange, you can tell us what has happened that has caused this village to go downhill. It seems that not much money has been put into anything in this town. Does this village have a leader? If so, why hasn't he or she done taken better care of it and their citizens?"

Monkey took a look at all four of them, realizing that they were all willing to hear his side of things instead of listening to the so-called 'authority' of this village. Po and Mr. Ping seemed to be a bit excited yet gently concerned. Tigress and Fung looked fairly neutral about it, though they looked hopeful as well. After a moment of consideration, he finally concedes. "Alright then. A trade in information. I can dig that. Are there any more of you guys?"

"We have our teachers and messenger. And if you're hungry, me and my Dad can cook something up for everyone. It'll be easy!"

"Hm. Alright. Where's your dad?"

"Whaddya talking about? He's right here." Po huffed Mr. Ping, who nodded happily. Monkey paused to look at both of them. He switched between looking at the both of them, before pointing at the latter.

"But...but he's a goose."

"Yeah?" They both nodded with a smile.

"And...you're a panda."

"...Ahuh?" They both nodded again, still smiling.

The primate was horribly confused, then he shrugged. "Eh, whatever. I don't judge people when it comes to family." He then turned around and lead the way. "Let's get going. I want to show you guys my house."

"Alright. Do you have any family members at your house?"

"...No..."

"Huh? Why not?" Fung asked, unfolding his arms.

They kept following the primate, who went silent after hearing that question. He sighed. "Actually...that involves the current circumstances of this place. This village...my home...it's in bad shape and I played a pretty big part in it.."

"Your family has something to do with the state of this place...? What happened?"

Monkey went silent for a moment, placing a hand on his forehead. "Me and brother screwed up, that's what happened...I'll tell you when we get to my house..."

There goes this chapter. The next shall be a look into the past of Monkey. What will be the details of his backstory...? It'll be out in a while.

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