As the sun rose, Master Shifu watched it, sitting alone on a rock. The Furious Five were gone and he didn't know what had happened to Po. He looked up however with hope when he heard noises coming from the rest of the Jade Palace. First, he checked the Training Hall, but when he didn't find Po there, he made his way to the storage room-where the sounds were coming the most.
"What? I eat when I'm upset. Okay?" Po defended himself as he saw the small wolf stare at the damage to the room. Po apparently went to great lengths to eat.
"Oh, no need to explain. I just thought you might be Monkey. He hides his almond cookies on the top shelf," Master Shifu purposefully told him, leaving the room, and hiding behind the door.
There was loud noise, and when he came around, he found Po at the top shelf, doing a full split, and munching cookies. "Don't tell Monkey," Po said.
"Look at you," the white wolf gasped.
"Yeah, I know. I disgust you," Po sighed.
"No, no. I mean, how did you get up there?" Master Shifu asked.
"I don't know-I just-I don't know, I was just getting a cookie," he replied.
"And yet you are ten feet off the ground and have done a perfect split," Master Shifu protested.
"No, this. This is just an accident," he yelped in pain as the boards beneath him collapsed and he fell to the floor.
"There are no accidents," Master Shifu smiled, picking up a rolling cookie, "Come with me."
Later, the two were trekking up the mountain, Po panting with a big bag on his back. Master Shifu had finally figured out how.
"I know you're trying to be all mystical and kung fuey, but could you at least tell me where we're going?" the black and white wolf panted. Finally, Po reached a pool, where the white wolf was sitting by, eyes closed. "You brought me all the way out here for a bath?" Po groaned.
"Wolf, we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears," Master Shifu didn't open his eyes.
"The pool of?" Po gasped.
"This is where Oogway unraveled the mysteries of harmony and focus. This is the birthplace of kung fu," Master Shifu told him, and indeed, the pool and land was shaped in the yin-yang symbol of peace. Master Shifu sent him a memory of Master Oogway, flipping and punching along the top of the dot in the yin-yang symbol. He, himself, leapt up there too with a spinning jump. "Do you want to learn kun fu?" he asked.
"Yeah," Po gasped.
"The I am your master," he replied.
"Okay," Po agreed.
"Don't cry," Master Shifu curtly said, noticing Po's snuffle.
"Okay," he repeated.
Together in a field of grass, Po on the ground and Master Shifu on a rock, the white wolf instructed Po.
"When you focus on kung fu, when you concentrate, you suck, "Po's face fell, "But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the five. I now see that the way to get through to you is with this." He revealed a bowl of dumplings.
"Aw great, cause I'm hungry," Po licked his lips and cane forth.
"Good, when you have been trained, you may eat," Master Shifu laughed, popping a dumpling in his mouth, "Let's begin."
He then put Po through doing sit ups on a branch while Shifu held the dumplings. The branch broke, and Po caught the bowl, but it broke all the way and he fell, letting Shifu catch the bowl.
Master Shifu gave Po a bowl of food, but immediately attacked with a combat pole and broke the bowl before Po could eat the contents.
Next, they played a game where Master Shifu bounced a dumpling back and forth and Po tried to catch it. He was unsuccessful.
Po also did push ups over a bed of coals while trying to lick a bowl of food. He didn't get it.
Together, they balanced bowls of food as they stood atop cliffs.
At night, Po tried to steal a bowl of soup, but Master Shifu managed to beat him and caught the bowl instead. Po kicked the pole Master Shifu stood on and had beat him with, but it only smacked him on the head as it flipped.
On the cliffs, amongst the fireflies, they performed basic moves of kung fu.
They also did one finger pushups.
Po fought using his reflexes against Master Shifu with a combat pole.
He also excelled at hand-to-hand combat.
Alone on the cliff, he could do advanced kung fu battle moves.
He was nearly ready.
"After you wolf," Master Shifu sat at a rock table with dumplings.
"Just like that? No sit-ups? No-no-no-no-no ten-mile hike?" Po asked.
"I vowed to train you and you have been trained. You are free to eat," Master Shifu told him, suppressing laughter, but Po sat down cautiously. "Enjoy," he added.
Just as Po was about to put one in his mouth, Master Shifu whisked past and snatched it, chewing it.
"Hey!" Po snapped.
"I said you are free to eat. Have a dumpling," the small white wolf invited, but as Po took one, he kicked it up and ate it.
"Hey!" Po said again.
"You are free to eat," Master Shifu reemphasized.
"Am I?" Po shot back.
"Are you?" Master Shifu returned, flipping his chopsticks fancily.
Po slammed the bowl so all the dumplings flew in the air, but Master Shifu leapt up and caught and ate all but one. Po lunged for it with his jaws open, only for the small wolf to grab it. They began a battle with chopsticks which ended in Master Shifu overturning the bowls with only one hiding the dumpling. Switching them all around, he was surprised when Po found the right one. Po successfully managed to kick the dumpling away and up into the air, just when Master Shifu threw a chopstick to nail it to a tree. The white wolf leapt over Po, but Po caught his bad leg with his chopsticks and brought him to the ground. They did a series of flipping each other, before Po knocked Master Shifu away and lunged for it, mouth open. Master Shifu shut it with a chopstick and kicked it away. As Po chased it, Master Shifu got his combat pole he had hid and they battled for it for a while, but Po stepped on the end, flipped over, and caught the dumpling. Master Shifu smiled as Po looked at him as if for permission. He nodded and held out a paw in a gesture of go ahead, but Po threw it into his paw.
"I'm not hungry," Po smiled. Smiling back, Master Shifu threw the dumpling off to the side. "Master," Po said, bowing to the white wolf as he bowed to Po.