"Po! Focus!"
Po was fighting Crane on the jade turtle. Po was doing better than his first time fighting him, but he looked distracted the whole time.
Months went by since Po adopted Hélándòu. The cub has been trying to walk lately, which is why Po has been off his game. Po wanted to be there for his son's first steps, but it's practically impossible when he needs to train and a servant has to take care of him. He wanted to take care of a cub, yet is having no time to be with him.
Po was kicked off of the turtle abruptly. Crane landed in first of his and helped him up.
"Po, are you ok?" Crane asked. "You barely laid a paw on me."
"I know." Po said knowingly. "But Hélándòu is close to walking at any time. So, I hoped that was able to..."
Po stopped and looked at Shifu, who was looking back with an unamused look. The could've meant plenty of things. That he was mad at Po for wanting to stop training early, he was clearly still mad that Po had a snow leopard cub, he could think of 'better' reasons to want to leave early, who knew? All Po knows is that he's not amused.
"Po, do you want to see your son?" Shifu asked in a dangerously calm voice.
Po nodded slowly and nervously.
"Well, if you don't do this exercise right, you can spend the rest of your life with him at your noodle shop without even thinking of coming back." Shifu said was a scowl.
Po looked at Shifu with wide eyes, along with anyone else who was listening.
"Now try again!" Shifu said. "Don't stop until you get it right!"
-Po's room-
"Calm down, little one!" The goose servant said.
The servant was trying to calm Hélándòu's crying down for an hour and a half, but nothing was working. He wasn't hungery, wet, or gasy, so he figure out what was wrong with the cub.
He heard the door open and looked to see a sheep servant with a wise look on his face.
"I will take the child from here." He said. "You can go now."
The goose looked at the other in confusion, but left with out question.
Hélándòu stopped crying and looked at the sheep as he looked back with a wise smile. Green mist surrounded the servant, then dissappeared just as quickly to reveal the ghostly figure of Oogway.
Hélándòu giggled as Oogway picked him up. Oogway has been doing this for the months that the cub was there. While as a ghost, Oogway have been looking over not just the Valley of peace, but over a certain family decendent from a snow leopard who he discovered Kung Fu with. Hélándòu happened to have been part of that family before his mother gave him to Po.
"I remember how I met your great-great-great-grandfather fondly, little Hélándòu..."
-Flashback-
Zéi laughed as he ran off with another sack of gold pieces he stole from a nearby village and Rhino guards chased him them until they were tired.
"Dammit Zéi!" the leader yelled to him. "We'll get you one day!"
The snow leopard in black clothing hffed in triumph.
"That'll be the day!" He said as he disappeared into the moonlight.
He was now on his way to his way to his secret hiding place in the mountains where he hid 'his' treasures. He always felt like a king in these mountains, he was a snow leopard after all.
After going up a high mountain that hid to his place, Zéi was was surprised to see a large, middle-aged turtle on top of a boulder, making strange movements that looked almost like dancing. Through he was amazed by this moving, Zéi was angry to find that someone was here other than him.
He jumped onto the boulder, hoping to kick the stranger off. But the turtle stepped out of the way so Zéi would land.
"Who are you?" Zéi asked in a threatening tone.
"I am called Oogway." The turtle said with a knowing voice and a kind,unfazed smile. "I come from the Valley of peace to-"
"I don't care where you came from!" Zéi yelled taking out a dagger. "Drop any of my gold you took and get out!"
Oogway switched to a confused look.
"Do you mean the gold hiding in the cave on the cliff of this mountain?" He asked.
"Yes!" the impatient snow leopard said.
Oogway chuckled at Zéi.
"I must tell you, Zéi, that I have no interest in your things." He said. "Especially when those things doesn't along to you."
Zéi wasn't surprised that he knew these things about him. He was very well-known whereever he went.
"You're lying!" Zéi shouted as he charged at Oogway with the dagger.
Oogway slowly stepped to the side, making Zéi miss. He tried again, but it had the same result. Everytime he tried again, Oogway dodged his moves. Oogway desided to stop this. The next time Zéi charged, Oogway dodges again, but this time, he pushed his hand to Zéi's back, pushing him into another, much larger boulder. Zéi fell to the ground with a thud.
"It seems I am not wanted here." Oogway said then turned around to leave.
On his back, Zéi was just laying there with an angry look. He couldn't believe he was beat by a turtle. The minute he could fell his legs again, he's going to-
Zéi heard rocks crackling and looked up to see the boulder he hit was falling. Zéi paniked. He couldn't move, so he could do was wait to be crushed.
He closed his eyes tight, waiting for the worst. But all that he felt and heard happen was someone picking him up and moving and the boulder hiting the ground.
"Are you alright?"
Zéi opened his eyes and was shocked to see that Oogway saved him.
"Y-You saved me..." He said.
Oogway nodded.
"But why?" Zéi asked.
"Your life should not end with you on the wrong path." That was what Oogway said.
"What the right path then?" Zéi asked.
Oogway touched a few points on his body, and Zéi hopped to his feet easily.
"You can start by coming with me." Oogway said.
Zéi smiled at his savior. He didn't have to think twice about that. He bowed on his knees to the wise turtle.
"Thank you, Master Oogway..."
-End Flashback-
"The months passed," Oogway continued to Hélándòu. "Zéi and I trained together in the new style we named Kung Fu and trained others as well. He even went back to the towns he robbed from and gave the money back."
Hélándòu smiled around the bottle he was feeding out of. Oogway smiled too, then frowned when he remember when Zéi had to leave.
"I also remember..."
-Flashback-
Oogway frowned when he saw Zéi walking out of the doors of the Jade Palace.
"Zéi, where are you going?"
Zéi sighed.
"I can't stay here, Master." He said without turning. "I'm still wanted for robberies all over China. I don't want to cause any trouble to the Valley of Peace."
Oogway nodded.
"Is this your path?"
"...Yes, I'm sorry master."
"I am not your master, I am your friend..."
Zéi got teary-eyed at that and ran to Oogway, hugging the turtle. Oogway hugged back with a smile and let go to let Zéi leave. As Zéi left, he left with the little money he had for himself, not wanted to ask for more from his friend.
-End Flashback-
"He lived as a poor farmer under the name of Zuòwù. He died a natural death, unlike me. I promise to look over his family if anything happened to him, and I kept that promise to this day."
Hélándòu giggled at the turtle. Oogway smiled and turned back into a sheep servant. On cue, Po walked in.
"Uh, wasn't there a goose in here?"
The sheep smiled.
"He was struggling with Hélándòu's crying, do I decided to take his place."
Hélándòu reached for the ground. The sheep put Hélándòu on the ground.
"Hey! Don't do that, he-"
Po stopped when he saw the snow cub standing up and wobbling over to him.
"-can walk?"
Hélándòu walked into Po's leg and hugged it to prevent falling. He looked up at his father with a smile. Po smiled goofly and excitedly as he picked up Hélándòu.
"You can walk now!" Po said as Hélándòu laughed.
He ran out to go show Mr. Ping. But ran he ran back to thank the sheep servant, he was gone. Po was confused, but brushed it off and ran out again.
(I wanted to give Hélándòu's family a little backstory to add Oogway into the story every once and a while.)