Chapter 1: A Lost Panda
A.N- Hello once again everyone, for those of you who still not know of me; allow me to introduce myself, my name is David265. Allow me to first open with this: I don't own Kung Fu Panda or any of it's known counterparts or characters; I do however own my characters and the scenario in which to put said characters in. I hope you all enjoyed the last story, which I recommend reading before reading this, because here we are with the long awaited sequel to my critically acclaimed (*hahahaha, I wish!*) Kung Fu Panda story. Well enough of my rambles let's get this sequel started! Enjoy!
The walls of the Jade Palace crumbled and cracked everywhere from the extreme heat; the fire was blazing everywhere, even in the kitchen where Po was left unconscious.
Po's eyes fluttered open and he sat up as a flaming piece of wood crashed were his head once was. He turned around in confusion and then looked about him.
"Wh-where am I?" Po asked himself as he stood up; the wound in his stomach causing him to stumble against the wooden counter.
"Wherever I am; I guess that I have to get out of here before this place collapses," Po thought to himself as he slowly limped his way out of the kitchen and down the flame infested hallways towards the entrance.
Suddenly the walls shook; causing charred wood beams to block Po's path to the main entrance.
"I'm trapped!" Po said as he frantically for a chance to escape. He then noticed a weak structure in the wall beside him and he raised his foot and kicked it open; he fought to get inside, holding his wound all of the way; once he did he quickly made his way out of the other side. He was now in the barracks area; the only place that was not aflame yet.
"This is the weirdest place ever! Maybe one of these rooms has a clue to where I am, and who I am for the matter." Po thought to himself as he entered his room quickly.
In his room there were paintings of him everywhere; there was even some memorabilia of Tigress and his friends.
Po looked at his black and white fur and then looked back at one of the pictures.
"Is that...me?" Po questioned as he approached the painting, but he didn't make it very far as a giant wooden beam crashed through the room's walls; setting it ablaze.
Po watched as the pictures of him and his friends were suddenly blackened and reduced to ashy remains. He looked for a moment and then quickly made his way out of the room, to see that the entire barracks had fire licking it's walls.
"Here we go again," Po said as he quickly made his way out of the collapsing barracks and into another hallway.
"You are going to die!" A voice said out of the wind, causing Po to move faster.
"Your friends shall be first...and then you shall be next!" The voice said again as Poneared a door.
"Wh...what are you? Do you happen to know who I am?" Po asked as he moved forwards, stumbling.
The voice did not answer; the walls continued to crumble around Po, blocking the entrances to the other rooms. He made it to the door and opened it; the training room had fallen in, leaving an opening up at the top out of reach.
"Ok, wrong room." Po said as he turned around to leave. Then, suddenly, a violent shake caused a three large wood beams to block the entrance.
"Hahaha! Don't expect to escape panda!" The voice said again.
Po's wound started to bleed; he looked up at the entrance and sighed, "Well, looks like the only way out is up," Po said as he sprinted forward and jumped against the wall; he flew through the air and grabbed onto the training chain and started to spin around the room.
"Woah! How am I able to do this?" Po said to himself in surprised as he gave himself a forceful push and let go of the training chain causing him to spiral up and out of the opening, into the raining sky.
"Hahaha! I did it!" Po said as he suddenly realized he was flying through the air, "uh oh, AGGGGHHHH!" He screamed as he impacted the thousand stairs and began bouncing down towards the flaming village.
Shen couldn't stop cheering; he was prancing around the Revenge's decks in delight, "I...I finally defeated the Dragon Warrior! Hahaha!" He chanted in a sing song way.
"Don't think it's over yet," A voice said as a shadow suddenly appeared on the decks of the Revenge.
"What! What do you mean by that?" Shen said as he slowly pulled out a handle from within his cloak.
"What makes you so great that you take that tone with me!" The shadow said as it approached Shen.
"Who are you and what are you doing on my ship!" Shen demanded.
"Do you not remember? I was the one who took your broken body and rebuilt it, piece by piece, The shadow said as he continued to advance.
Shen, who was now irritated, pulled out the handle and pressed a small wooden button on the handle, causing a black metal blade to come from it.
"You better step back and learn your place; we don't want to do anything rash," Shen said, extending the blade towards the shadow.
The shadow raised it's dark hand, causing Shen's skin to deteriorate; exposing his brain and bones, leaving his metal plating stuck to his bones underneath his tunic.
Shen dropped on his knees, gasping for air, as he stretched his bone wing in anger towards the shadow.
"I have control of your life; don't think that it can't be easily taken away the same way as it was given," The shadow said as he released his grip, causing Shen's skin to return.
Shen gasped for air and began to cough, bringing his wing up to his neck.
"What were you planing to do with the prisoners?" The shadow asked.
"I was going to put them in my new contraption called the X-factor," Shen answered as he stood up and plopped himself back into his command chair.
"No, that is not what you will do!" The shadow said.
"What gives you the right to-" Shen started but was interrupted as the shadow began to raise it's dark hand again.
"Understood, what do you wish?" Shen asked, recovering from his last blunder.
"You are to use your prisoners, not as contestants, but as competitors in what you will call the Death Games; so that panda will have no choice but to fight them all when he arrives," The shadow said.
"But I've told you; I've defeated the Dragon Warrior; I watched the Jade Palace burn along with his remains!" Shen protested.
"You are mistaken; the Dragon Warrior just managed to survive, but he has lost his memory; he won't have a clue of who he's fighting," The shadow said.
"But how will he know where to go? You just said that he has lost his memory," Shen said.
"I have already taken care of that; you just worry about how you are going to subject your prisoners under your control," The shadow said.
"I already have that covered. Made it just in case I wanted to capture one of the Valley's protectors," Shen said as he pointed to the screen behind him, showing the Furious Five and the villagers sitting in a depressed lump, some were crying.
"Well good. I will now leave the rest to you, but I will be back to check in on you; don't fail me, or you will face the consequences," The shadow said as he disappeared, causing Shen to scream out in anger.
"How dare he come in and ruin my plans!" Shen screamed, outraged.
"Sir, maybe we should do what that shadow asked," One of the wolves said to Shen.
"Shen turned his head over violently towards the wolf and the picked up his handle off of the floor and placed it on the wolf's chest, "No one...tells me what to do!" Shen said as he pressed the wooden button causing the blade to go through the wolf and out of the back of the chair.
He pulled out his sword and concealed it under his cloak once more as he pointed at the dead wolf, "Throw this body out, and get me a new navigator...NOW!" Shen screamed, causing the wolves to scramble across the Revenge's deck.
Tigress sat in the corner of the holding cell; her arms bringing her knees closer to her face; she was looking out into space.
The rest of the Five, along with Ting and Song; looked at Tigress with dismay, sorrow etched over their faces.
"Viper...maybe you should talk to her," Mantis said as he nudged the snake.
"I agree; I believe we all need some cheering up after our loss," Shifu said as he pointed over to Tigress.
"Alright Master," Viper said as she slithered over to Tigress, "Hey, what's going on Tigress?" She asked.
"Go away," Tigress said sternly, not even bothering to look at the snake.
"Come on, you can talk to me. I understand your pain," Viper said as she touched Tigress with the end of her tail, trying to comfort her.
"How can you possibly know how I feel right now! Were you born with psychic powers or something!" Tigress shouted out, causing everyone's attention to be drawn towards her.
Viper felt hurt by the comment but continued to talk, "Tigress, you know that I lost my brother a few years ago; that was the hardest thing I ever had to deal with," She said.
"Oh I'm sorry, were your parents killed by a tyrannical monster? Were you dropped off near an orphanage, seeing your mother drop and die off in the distance? Did you happen to fall in love with someone to only watch him be killed and feel helpless?" Tigress said, her voice starting to choke.
"I...I'm sorry Tigress. I didn't know." Viper said.
"No...I'm sorry; I didn't mean to take that tone with you. You didn't know," Tigress said as she buried her head in her arms and began to cry. Tigress, the strongest and the most at peace mentally, was crying.
"Aww, Tigress; there is no need to cry," Viper said as she rapped herself around Tigress' body, hugging her.
"I miss him so much!" Tigress cried out, her sobs almost filled the holding cell.
"I know Tigress; we all miss him," Viper said.
Po landed hard on his back at the bottom of the staircase. He groaned as he stood up and looked at what was in front of him. The village was aflame; banners from the celebration writhed from the pain as they curled up and turned to ash. Some buildings were destroyed while the rest continued to burn.
Thunder and lightning crashed together as the rain fell upon the charred earth; Po wandered through the streets, confused.
"Who am I? What am I?" Po thought to himself as he strolled through the sidewalks until he came to an object that was on the ground. He picked it up and noticed that it was a painting depicting a small panda and a goose on it, each making the other laugh.
"Hmm...what could have happen to these two? Maybe they know more about me," Po said as he strolled around the village looking aimlessly for the two.
Suddenly a little pig ran up to Po screaming in terror, "Dragon Warrior please help! My father has been crushed underneath a wall!" The pig cried.
Po looked around him and then back at the pig and pointed to himself, "Are you talking to me?" Po asked.
'Yes! Please, he's going to die if you don't help him!" The little pig said as he pulled Po through the streets and over to where his father lay trapped underneath a wall.
"Son...your back!" The father said weakly.
"Yes father, and I've brought help!" The pig said as he pointed to Po.
"Please Dragon Warrior...save me!" The father pleaded as the flames grew closer.
"I don't know why you guys keep referring to me as this Dragon Warrior fellow, but sure I can help," Po said as he strolled over and took up a good grip on the wall; he heaved it off of the pig, letting him crawl out and get up.
"Thank you Dragon Warrior! You saved my life!" The father exulted in gratitude.
"Why do you keep calling me that! Who is this Dragon Warrior?" Po asked.
"Wow; Shen must have ripped you a new one with that blast," The little one said as the father bumped him sternly on the arm.
"Zao! That is not who we treat the panda who saved our lives!" The father screamed.
"So that's what I am...a panda!" Po though to himself happily, his species figured.
"Come with us Dragon Warrior; we have a little enclosure not to far from here. We kept it in fear of a day like this. We will tell you all that you wish to know," The father said as he Zao and Po walked off into the distance towards their enclosure.
A.N- Well, it's great to be back. Now we have the sequel which I hope that you will enjoy and I'm sorry this chapter was kind of dull; it's only the opening chapter. (Have to start somewhere) Anyways, please leave your thoughts on this chapter, while I take an Advil, my head is killing me.