Pick your Destiny
I still don't own Kung Fu Panda
Please read and review it really does help.
About a two days later, while sitting at a camp fire Dai he realized he couldn't just abandon his friends especially Tigress. Dai sighed and kicked out the fire and headed back towards the Valley of Peace. He got about halfway back when he ran into an enemy scouting party.
Crouching in the shadows Dai watched them for awhile and slowly moved further forward he stepped on a twig and stopped. "What was that?" one of the soldiers said turning towards Dai.
"It was probably nothing." one of the others said. But the other kept moving towards Dai who silently drew his Kunai Dagger. "Come on just a little closer." he thought to himself gripping his dagger tightly. Eventually the other two moved off. "Perfect." Dai thought. He waited until the soldier had his back to him then emerged from the shadows.
He crept up on the soldier and grabbed him from behind, stabbed him in the neck, the soldier struggled for a moment then stopped. Dai lowered the soldier's body quietly to the ground and went after the others.
As Dai got close to them a throwing star embedded itself in a tree. "We know you're out there." The soldier said throwing another star. But Dai wasn't actually over there he was in fact crouching on a thick tree branch right above the Soldiers.
Dai watched them for a little longer then drew his swords and jumped down landing silently behind one of them he killed the soldier with a quick blow to the head. The other spun around and Dai tackled him to the ground and plunged his swords into the soldier's chest.
Dai examined the bodies and found some throwing stars, he took them and hurried in the direction of the valley, he paused for a moment on the mountain overlooking the valley the sun had just started rising. It was an amazing view but he didn't have time to admire it.
He ran flat out back to the Palace and straight to the Barracks only stopping at Tigress's room. "Tigress?" He said softly. She flung the door open at the sound of his voice. "Hi." he said. "Hi!" Tigress said throwing a punch at him. "You leave here like that and all you can say is." "Hi" she said continuing to throw punches at him.
Dai managed to dodge most of them but one finally connected to his face. Dai fell over backwards holding his nose, blood seeping through his fingers. "Okay, I deserved that." Dai said standing up and still holding his nose. "Yeah you did." Tigress said aiming a kick at Dai's chest. "Whoa, hey!" "Tigress calm down." Dai said dodging the kick.
At the other end of the hallway Lao and Feng watched Tigress attacking Dai. "You think we should help?" Lao asked. "No, I'm enjoying this too much." Feng said as Dai slammed against the wall.
"ENOUGH!" Dai roared heal kicking Tigress back, drawing his swords and swinging them at Tigress, missing her by inches, He saw the look of terror on Tigress's face. "Tigress!" I'm so sorry." he said dropping his swords and rushing over. "Are you okay?" Dai said putting his hands on her shoulders. "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever Dai was going to say next was cut off as Tigress hugged him.
Feng cleared his throat loudly making both Tigress and Dai jump and break apart. "How long have you two been standing there?" Dai asked. "Since Tigress started attacking you." Feng said.
Both Dai and Tigress blushed and walked away. Dai headed to the Hall of Hero's while Tigress went to the training hall to continue training. Dai walked through the Hall of Hero's until he reached the pool at the end looking at the reflection he could see the Dragon Scroll above him.
He could also see his own reflection. He traced the faded scar by his right eye he'd received it when his parents had been killed. Dai heard something behind him and spun around to see Master Shifu. "Master Shifu!" Dai said. Startled he nearly fell back into the pool.
"Are you willing to accept your destiny?" Master Shifu asked. "As willing as I'm gonna to get." Dai said looking up at the Dragon Scroll. "I ran into a scouting party while I was out there." Dai said. "They're searching for the valley, when the scouts fail to return they'll know they've found it." Master Shifu limped past Dai and picked up a staff and started spinning it in his hands.
Like magic pedals from the peach tree appeared. Dai watched as they moved the scroll out of its position and it fell. Acting fast, Dai leaped up and snatched it out of the air. He grabbed into the wall, and then jumped back down near Master Shifu holding out the Dragon Scroll.
"Well done." He said. Dai opened the scroll he wasn't really sure what to expect, but it wasn't what he saw. His reflection. "I don't get it." he said. It's blank." "What?" Master Shifu said. "It's blank, here look." Dai said turning the Scroll so Master Shifu could see it.
Master Shifu stared at the blank scroll. "I don't understand." he said taking the scroll from Dai. "So now what?" Dai asked. "I don't know." Master Shifu said handing the scroll back to Dai and He went back to the barracks with the scroll.
Somehow word got out that the Dragon warrior had been selected and there was a party down in the village and Dai wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to celebrate. He went to Tigress's room. "Tigress?" he said knocking, the door opened. "There's a party down in the village, I was wondering if you'd like to go." "Sure." Tigress said "I'd love to."
Dai and Tigress left the palace and went down to the village. As soon as they entered the village people started to shout out. "Dragon Warrior!" "Dragon Warrior!" Dai smiled there were banners hanging across the street with Dragon's on them, in the distance he could hear music playing.
He and Tigress pushed through the crowd towards it.
The violins gave Dai an idea. "You wanna dance?" he asked Tigress. Tigress answered him by moving on to the dance floor and starting to dance with a mixture of martial arts and dancing. Dai watched her for a moment then joined her. He whispered something into her ear.
They stood apart from each other and bowed, then circled each other arm's out stretched palm's facing upwards. They spun hitting each other's forearm's Tigress Kicked at Dai who ducked below it and kicked back at Tigress. They progressed into a series of martial arts moves and dancing.
By the time the song ended they were both standing there panting. Tigress went to sit down and Dai went and got drinks. "Don't get any ideas it's just Tea." he said setting the glass in front of Tigress, they sat there listening to the music.
I know Tigress and Dai's relationship is rushed this is my first attempt at a story with a genuine relationship and i'm not sure how fast it should go. PM me if you can help it'd be appreciated.
If anyone cares the song playing while Dai and Tigress are dancing is "Awake and Alive" by Skillet I'm just too lazy to put the lyrics in and the type of dance is The Brazilian Capoeira Dance or something very similar.