And here's how Sage's 'new' attitude surprises Shifu and the others...a little.
Chapter 27: Try to Give it a Chance
The next morning, Sage walks up to the Jade Palace by himself to see Luna and things have been going pretty good between the two of them for a while now and Sage has been completely open about his life and that he's cool with being Luna now more than ever and he walked to the front steps and knocked on the door, anxiously waiting for Luna to answer. Seconds later, he sees Master Shifu standing there and Shifu's expression was completely disturbed when he saw Sage standing there.
Sage could definitely tell that look from anywhere and he said, "Good morning to you too."
"What do you want, Sage? I'm not gonna waste my time with your attitude problem." Shifu said, crossing his arms.
"You ain't gonna get any trouble from me, dude. I came here to see Luna. Is she around?" asked Sage, calmly.
"She's here. And do not address me as 'dude'. It's 'Master'. How many times do we have to go over this?" asked Shifu, very annoyed.
"Sorry, dude." Sage replied.
It started to aggravate Shifu a lot more, but luckily...in comes Luna coming in and she was happy to see Sage come in and surprised too and she said, "Sage! What a surprise!"
"Hey, Luna." Sage replied, smiling.
That surprised Shifu to witness this happening and Luna said, "It's okay, Shifu. I'll take it from here."
Shifu was still confused and shocked to see this happening and assumed that there might've been something that he has no idea about, but decided it was best to just leave it alone and be on his way as he walked away and Sage turned to Luna and said, "How goes?"
"Good. So...what brings you by?" asked Luna.
"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about something." Sage answered.
"Let's talk on the steps." Luna said, leading towards the steps of the palace.
By the time they sat down on the steps, Luna was very interested in what's on Sage's mind and Sage said, "I've been thinking a lot about what you said and I'm still not used to change at all because you and I are the total opposites; I'm a brute who's completely stubborn and not willing to change for anything and just like to fight and you're calm, level-headed and really compassionate. Even putting up with my crap all the time. Not many people would do that."
"Well...I deal with Ryo most of the time and some of the stuff is really unusual and pretty funny too. You're no different." Luna added.
Sage nodded his head at that and agreed with it a little and scratched the back of his mohawk and he said, "When you asked me why me and my dad always fight...a lot of things went through my mind. I guess one part of me didn't really have that kind of guidance and never really cared for guidance because no one would tell me what to do and my freedom has no limits. But I guess I'm the reason for it because I refused to give him a chance to be my dad."
"Why wouldn't you?" asked Luna.
"Like I said, I'm a lone wolf and I like to keep it that way. But I've been alone so many times before that it kinda sucks. I've grown used to it a little too much and..."
Sage paused himself for a minute he's trying not to let the tears fall, but his lip quivering kinda gave it away and Luna could tell that this is getting deeper than that and Sage continued, "...I've never had someone sees the best of me before because I'm always used to being the worst of myself. Then you came around and...never gave up on me."
"You got a true friend and I do see the best in you, Sage. You just have to believe in yourself and try to change a little bit." Luna added.
Sage sighed heavily and turned to Luna for a second and he said, "I'm not gonna make any promises...but I'll try."
Luna nodded her head at that comment and she said, "That's good enough for me."
Sage chuckled softly and he stood up and said, "Thanks."
Stay tuned for more and see what happens after!