Chapter 6 – Sonic's First Day Part 2
In the attempt to make Sonic quit on his first day as the Dragon Warrior, Espio leads him to the one place to ensure that: The Training Arena.
The place itself was located inside the Jade Tower, just a few stories below. He opens the wooden doors as he and Sonic went through. Instead of wearing his usually white shirt and blue jeans, it was replaced with a white Chinese vest with dark blue pants but for some reason, he still kept his red sneakers. Sonic was still resting his sore finger for Espio's hold earlier.
As the chameleon master steps out to the side, Sonic looks up and was quickly expressed with an awed look on his face.
Right in front of him were his heroes: The Furious Five.
Right now, they are in the miss of their training as they performing death-defying Kung Fu moves.
Tails flew around and landed on a large steel shell. Once he landed, he deflected the on-coming arrows with the help of his kicks, blocks and his twin-tails. They don't call "Tails" just for his two tails and his ability to fly. Deciding to make it a challenge, Amy joins her comrade on the shell and battles it out while trying to keep balance.
In another part of the room, Chip flies into an army of wooden dummy. With the help of his tiny wings, he weaves through the dummies with a series of punches and kicks while blocking at the same time.
Kate was located on the Fire Field platform that shoots out flames, unexpected but thanks to her quick reflexes, she manages to dodge the flames with ease.
In the air with the help of his gliding skill, Knuckles was having no trouble going through the wooden rings with sharp talons sticking out the side while performing a series of Kung Fu moves.
Lastly, after finishing her battle with Tails, Amy is gracefully dodging on a set of swinging spikes as they come her way while trying to keep balance on spinning logs. Another one comes up behind her but, both quick and strong, Amy whips out her Piko Piko Hammer and smashes it into pieces. A number of shards went everywhere...although one of them hits Sonic in the face! The hedgehog takes the impact and takes a couple steps back to suffer the pain.
"OUCH! That's gotta hurt," Sonic whined, using his hand to cover his face where bruise started to show.
Espio looks out to the room, putting a smile on his face. It was time for the Dragon Warrior to train and the first part of the plan to get rid of him.
"Let's begin," Espio announced. Sonic forgot all about his injury and turn his eyes toward the mechanisms lying in front of him.
"Waitwaitwait...What?" Sonic's legs were now turned into jelly. His eyes were now big as his stomach. He looks out to what he sees is the most dangerous deadly training course he has ever seen... and Master Espio wants him start training. On that? He's kidding, right?
The unsure hedgehog looks back to the chameleon who was confident that his new student can achieve this with no problem.
"Now?" he asked the teacher.
Espio looks to him. "Yes...now, hedgehog. Unless you think the Great Eggman was wrong, and you are not the Dragon Warrior."
"WHAT? And miss a chance to train with the best? Yeah, like I'm going to ditch this opportunity," Sonic quickly bragged but reverted back to his doubtful expression. "But umm ...I'm not sure if I can do all of those moves."
Shaking his head, the purple chameleon walks away from the hedgehog who follows him in pursuit. "Well, we'll never know if we don't try, right?" Espio wonders.
Sonic continue to look at the course and then back to Espio. Maybe there was another to train but safer and easy to try. "Yeah, I know that but maybe we can find a level that I can try out?" Sonic suggested.
"And what level would that be?" Espio wonders, turning his head slightly to the right to see the hedgehog.
"Well, ya know... I'm not really a master," Sonic admits but only in his dream. "But maybe we can start at the beginning like Level Zero. How's that sound?" Espio stops walks as he lets out a chuckles.
"There are no such thing as Level Zero, hedgehog," he clarified to Sonic. Rather than train on the most difficult course, Sonic manages to spot something on his left. It appears to be a friendly-looking panda dummy.
"Hey! Maybe I can start with this little guy? He doesn't seem too tough," Sonic said, running over to the dummy. Espio raised his eyebrow at this and walks over.
"That?! We use that thing for training young children. And also for propping the door open when it's hot in the summer," he explain to the hedgehog, folding his arms over. "But if you insist..."
Pleased to find to train with rather than the course, Sonic was ready for action. But before he can duke it out on the dummy, he noticed his heroes, the Furious Five, approaching him. They all wanted to see the Dragon Warrior practise. Their appearances causes Sonic to gasp since this was his first time seeing em up close for first time rather than what happen this morning. They all stared at him with curious expression.
"Wow! The Furious Five! Oh man, you guys are SO awesome and looks SO much bigger than your stuffed toys,..." he pointed out to his favourite heroes but then he points to the smallest one of the Five. "...except for you, Chip. You're pretty much the same."
Chip, who has his arms cross over, just glares at him. He doesn't whether he should be appreciated or offended. Mostly, the second one after what happen today.
"Go ahead, hedgehog," Sonic looks back at Espio. "Show us what you can do."
Wait a minute? Espio wants Sonic to train. Now. In front of his heroes? Right now, a part of him REALLY wants to showcase his skills... if he has any. But a part of him really wants to do this without anyone watching, especially in front of the Five. Because if he somehow messes it up, he would bring shame to them, to Espio, to Eggman, to Station Square, to the ENTIRE WORLD for being pretty much the worst Kung Fu student ever.
The hedgehog first looks at Espio. Then, to the Furious Five. And then, back to Espio.
"Wait, um...are they going to watch or should I wait until they get back to work or something?" he asked the master.
Espio was getting pretty annoyed that Sonic is not cooperating. "Hit it."
"Alright, but I gotta warn ya. I just ate before...so my Kung Fu skills might not be good as...later on...if you know what I mean," Sonic mentioned, adding a chuckle at the end.
"Just hit it," Espio demanded the hedgehog who getting more peeve off.
Sonic then looks a bit surprised at the Master's patience. Looks like he can't stall for any longer. He then turn to face the dummy, preparing himself.
"Alright. Whatcha got? You think you got it? Well, you got nothing cause I got it right here," he then points to the Furious Five. "You picking on my friends?" Espio and the Five all stared at Sonic with a puzzled look on their face. Sonic begin to move his feet in a fast pace. "C'mon! Step up. Get to feel the thunder. I'm comin' at him with the crazy feet. Whatcha gonna do about my crazy feet? I'm a blur. I'm a blur. You never had seen hedgehog style... Oh wait, you have seen hedgehog 'cause you've seen Amy a lot of times but NOT when you goes against m-"
And that is when Espio is up to his limit.
"Will you HIT IT!"
Sonic stops his crazy feet. Ok, no more fooling around. Time to get serious. "Alright, alright. I'll do it." Sonic then leans forwards and taps the toy, very lightly. He then looks back at the master, who just smiles at him.
"Why don't you try again?" He calmly asked. "A little harder this time."
Sonic puts on his cocky smile and hits it again but this time a lot harder. The impact he made caused the dummy to knocked all the way back. Putting on a smug look, Sonic looks back to the Kung Fu warriors.
"Well, how's tha—
But he was cut short when the dummy came back and hit Sonic hard in the face. This impact sends him flying into... the middle of the training course. The Furious Five were about to help him but Espio holds up his hands, stopping them in their tracks.
On the course, Sonic tries his best to dodge the set of swinging spikes while balancing on the spinning logs at the same time. After dodging the first five swinging spikes, he manage to gain his ground and his balance when two of the turning spikes stop moving.
He then has now regain balance when the turning spikes stops moving. Sonic was relieved at first but he was stuck in a painful split. He didn't have to try and get out his sticky situation when one of the wooden spikes was heading towards the blue hedgehog. Sonic didn't have time to duck when the spikes hits him and sends the poor hedgehog flying into the steel shell where it rattles him around. Espio then looks with a please look on his face.
"This'll be easier than I thought," he whispers to his students. The students don't know whether they should agreed with him because they have no idea what he was talking about.
After a few rattles, Sonic then spills out of the turtle. "I'm feeling a little nauseous..." he mumbles. He was so dizzy from inside the turtle that he stumbles into an army of wooden dummies. They all begin to hit him in several places. The Five wince at the pain that Sonic is getting while Espio continues to grin at this progress. The wooden dummies continued to whack Sonic in different parts of his body. This keeps up until one dummy whacks him full in the groin. Sonic lets out a painful yelp. As soon dummies stops moving, everything becomes very still. Sonic then falls to his knees, holding his groin.
"Ohhh... my tenders," he wails a bit in pain, struggling to get back onto his feet. At least the dummies were halted for a moment so he can a breather. He then takes one step forward and places his hand on one of the wooden dummies arm for support ... which immediately starts the whole chain reaction all over again. When he got out at last, Sonic sighed in relief. Just when it was all over, he looks down to find out that he is not out of the danger zone.
Because he is standing on the Fire Field platform.
"Uh-oh."
Espio and the Furious Five all wince and look away as the fire burning and Sonic screaming was heard in the distinct. When that was over, they all see a barbecued Sonic, crawling on his knees with his clothes all burnt.
"So..., how did...I do..., master?" The exhausted hedgehog asked. Espio just chuckles as he steps forward a bit.
"There is now a Level Zero," he said as he fan out a small flame with the use of his hand on Sonic's head. Hope this was enough to make the hedgehog give up.
Author's Notes: Hey. I'm SO sorry that I didn't get a chance to upload the next chapter. The reason that I decided to abandoned this story and forget FanFiction for the rest of my life.
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No am I NOT! I'm kidding. Hehehe. I'm guessing most of you would gathering pitchforks and torches and prepared to hunt me down because of what I said before didn't I? Sorry, didn't mean to peeve most of you off. Actullay, the real reason that I didn't upload last night is because it was my cousin's birthday and I didn't get back until midnight and I have to wake up early to go to my course. But don't worry, right now, I am finishing up the next chapter as of right now and getting a start on the next one. After the next one, the usual update will be uploaded on the Sunday night at 8:30pm from now on.
The one I was suppose to upload last night will be uploaded tonight at 8:00pm and the last re-updated chapter will be 31/01 at 8:00pm.
By the way, I can't wait to get started updating on the next chapter which has Sonic talking to a few of the Five and Master Eggman.
Nothing happen at the moment. School will be starting tomorrow for my little sister. And since she is starting high school, she has got a Mac Book which will be very helpful for class. As long she does her school work and not goofing off.
So stay tuned, review and comment!
Until we meet again,
TheDragonLord2912
I do not own any Kung Fu Panda or Sonic related characters. They are property of Dreamworks and Sega. Other character who appeared in this FanFic belong to me.