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Sorry for the wait had school work to do and had less time to write
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Chapter 3: an offer and village visit
Tyler's POV
I woke up early in the morning, I expected to wake up in my nice soft bed back as a human but all it took was a look at the room I was sleeping in and a look at my hand to prove me otherwise. I gave a big sigh and uncoiled my body, got off my bed and stretched and boy did that felt good. I head to the mirror again to see my dragon face, I grabbed a cloth and cleaned my horns and messed with my whiskers to make myself look more presentable. I then slide open the paper wall and stepped outside to see shifu at the end of the hallway as if he was waiting for something.
He noticed me and raised an eyebrow at me,all of a sudden I hear a loud GONG come from outside that made me jump and then I jump again when the 5 masters all burst out at once and said with utmost respect "good morning master!" Then they look to me and get surprised looks except for Tigress she still gave me a glare "alright students, have breakfast and then you are free to do as you wish" he looked to me "dragon I would like to speak to you in private after breakfast" I just nod not sure how I should address the furious five head to what I presume to be the kitchen and dining room I didn't know what else to do other than to follow them, my hands and feet make clicking noises as I walked I'm surprised that I went from walking on 2 legs to 4 and I'm walking just fine.
I smelled something good coming from the kitchen and looked in to see Viper making breakfast while everyone else was waiting. The atmosphere when I entered the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife. I then just walk over and sit myself next to Crane while trying to avoid eye contact with the 5 masters, I could just feel Tigress glaring daggers at me. "Gotta say kid didn't expect you to be up so early" Mantis said sounding impressed "yeah did you see master Shifu, he actually looked surprised" Monkey agreed. I just blush not sure how to respond to that and nervously rub my arm.
Viper was finished making what I recognized as dumplings what kind I'm not sure but meat was out of the question given this is a world of animals and that I think that would be...illegal. Either way she gave us all a serving of a few dumplings except for Tigress who was eating...what I think is tofu cubes never had them but I heard they tasted like nothing. Viper came to me and gave me my serving "here you go sweetie" she said with a smile, I gave a small smile back but faded when I heard Tigress growl "uhh Tigress" Crane said with concern in his voice "can you please not scare our guess your not helping him get adjusted to this place"
Tigress growled again but didn't say anything, I just helped myself to a few of the dumplings and man they tasted good "hey Viper these taste really good" i say with a smile. Viper smiled back "why thank you I do enjoy cooking" i give a concerned look and gestured with my head to Tigress "that's just how she is kid don't worry about it" Mantis whispered to me, I just nod in response wondering if i should find a way to convince Tigress to try other foods without getting myself killed in the process.
We finished eating as Shifu came by "all right everyone as it is sunday go do as you wish, dragon I would like to speak with you in private" he said with that commanding voice of his. Knowing about his short amount of patience I just nod and stay in my chair while the Furious Five head to the training hall.
Shifu heads to the table and sits across from me "Dragon, after talking with my master I have an offer for you" I tilt my head confused "you can stay here to have a roof over your head and train in kung fu with me and the Furious Five however know this it will not be easy your knuckles will bleed,your bones will break, you will sweat like you never sweated before make your choice now!" I had to blink for a sec of what he was offering me train to become a master given how I wasn't athletic at all in my world that made me concerned and the fact i'm in a body of a chinese dragon doesn't help at all. But this could be my chance, not only to find out why I'm here but to prove that I'm not a bad person...or dragon as my current species claim to be. So I look Shifu dead in the eyes put my front claws together and bow my head "yes master Shifu I would like to train" I say with complete seriousness. "Very good also what did you say your name was?" I look at him confused "uh its Tyler why?" He then froze with a scared look on his face when I said my name.
I tried to get him to respond by waving my claw in his face but nothing "uh Master shifu?" i say with a worried look and then he snapped out of whatever he was in "uh nothing its nothing!" he said with a raised voice, I wanted to ask more but kept my mouth shut so I don't trigger what seems to be PTSD any further. "Follow me dragon" he said and gestures to follow him and I do. I enter the training hall for the second time since being here and see that it is empty except for Tigress who is training like her life was depending on it I look closer to see her glance at me for a split second and shadder a wooden warrior and a piece of it came flying toward me, it would have hit me if i didn't move my snake like body out of the way in time.
'She did that on purpose didn't she' man she really doesn't like me for some reason
Later
Master Shifu showed me around the entire jade palace from the barracks to the bathroom and we were going to make our final stop. We came to a cliff with a beautiful peach tree that just glowed with life and had some amazing looking peaches just ready to be picked. When i got near the tree i felt a wave of peace wash over me like water from a waterfall and it felt amazing. "This dragon, is the peach tree of heavenly wisdom one of Oogway's favorite spots" I just nod and I have to admit the view from here looks amazing,you can see for miles up here and the morning sun in the sky looked really pretty. Shifu turned to me "you are free to do as you please for the rest of the day I recommend you take a tour of the village, but cause anything and there will be dire consequences do you understand?" he said that in such a way that sent a chill down my spine, I just nod and bowed like I saw the five do and went back to the jade palace to do just that.
As I walked I ran into Crane who was about to head out the door "hey Crane" i greeted, he was kinda surprised but turned to me"huh oh hey uh Tyler was it?" i nod "i was about to head to the village, want to come?" he gestured his wing out the door, i smiled and nodded and noticed he didn't flinch at all instead he smiled back then we both head out the door to the village...but first we had to go down the stairs of hell.
A thousand steps later
Luckily it's easier to go down stairs than up them but that didn't mean that it was exhausting, however Crane didn't look that bad in fact it looked like the walk down didn't do anything guess after training here for so long he was used to it by now.
We make it down to the village and once again i found myself with hundreds of eyes on me i caught a few trying to grab sharp objects probably to try to run me out of town again but when they saw Crane walking next to me they stop and look at us confused then they look from their weapons then back to us multiple times as if they didn't know what to do.
I'm glad that they respect the five enough that they wouldn't cause a scene right in front of one of them. We head to a few shops mainly getting stuff for Crane and the other 4 we got things for them as well I wondered why Crane was getting some paintbrushes and some black ink but then i remembered that doing calligraphy was one of Crane's hobbies, we got some ribbons for Viper for ribbon dancing, some more tofu cubes for Tigress i still don't know why she eats those,for Mantis and Monkey for some reason hot peppers for reasons i have no idea about but have a feeling what their going to with them. Finally shifu said that he doesn't need anything, we walk back to the palace and we pass a jewelry store and see a gold choker necklace with an empty slot for a gem to fit inside, I look at it for a few seconds before turning to Crane about to ask if we can buy it but I hold back, not wanting to ask Crane to buy it for me as I didn't want to make things harder for him even though how nice he was being so far.
We are heading back to the jade palace and once again all eyes were on me, at one point a little bunny got interested in me and tried to come closer but his mom grabbed his arm and pulled him away. Wonder why there is so much hate on dragons. I thought people/animals would like seeing them as they are sometimes worshiped...at least i think so, I don't know that much on chinese culture.
After we went up the stairs of hell we enter the jade palace to be greeted by the smell of lunch being made, Crane left to do something while I carried the tofu and peppers to the kitchen I enter to see Viper cooking more dumplings and what looked like soup "hey Viper" I placed the stuff on the counter as she turned to me "oh, hi Tyler" she looked at the stuff in the bags and as she saw the peppers she only rolled her eyes probably because she seen this happened before. I think for a bit and start helping her make lunch, I mean to thank her for being nice, as I'm about to wrap the next batch of dumplings I look at the peppers and give a mischievous smirk I chop the peppers using a knife made sure to get the seeds and everything and wrap them with the filling in the dumplings. I use a separate pot to cook them in so I don't mix them up with others and prepare the "special" dumplings for Monkey and Mantis.
We finish a few minutes before the other 4 members come and take their seats. I help Viper set the food down tofu cubes for Tigress, soup and dumplings for Crane, Viper, and Myself, and for Monkey and Mantis some soup and the "special" dumplings. Monkey looks over at the bag and frowns "hey Crane where are the peppers me and Mantis ordered" then both Monkey and Mantis eat one of my dumplings and go silent, then their faces go red "HOT!" they both shouted and they run around the room the other 3 look confused and they turn to me I just give an innocent smile as the 2 run around before downing a whole glass of water before they say with a both relieved and annoyed voice "found them" before they start laughing then Monkey comes and shakes my hand "that was a good one Ty" I just laugh along with them.
All I could say was it was a fun and eventful day
Once again sorry for the late chapter hope it was worth it leave reviews about this and I once again see you next time and remember to stay connected
