Well I noticed this story isn't very exciting (heh) it is after all the same monologue as DreamWork's first Kung Fu Panda flick, all I'm doing is changing some aspects of it :P
But regardless I still want to keep going on with it! It's enjoyable for me and the reviews for it help of course, but it shouldn't be my main reason …(secretly goes to a corner and whimpers) not like I look forward to any ; -; *sniff*
Hahaha, well with all that aside lets continue shall we? : )
Meanwhile, far away in the snowy mountains of Mongolia…
Zeng, the palace messenger, chosen to write and take an important message personally, where Tai-Lung is predicted to escape
High up on the cold mountain top lied the fearsome Chor-Ghon Prison, the professional earth bending guards saw an incoming figure coming towards the prison
Poor Zeng tired from the journey makes it up the entrance doors, clutching a scroll – but at an instant the guards picked up their arms in defense at the intruder,
"Halt! None shall pass! Leave now!" one out of about five guards yelled at the unexpected visitor keeping their bending stance at the ready,
Zeng gasped at this and immediately stated his business,
"Ah! Wait, wait! I bring a message, from Master Shifu!"
The guards relaxed, slightly, eyeing the shaky messenger and let him through cautiously, the enormous entrance doors opened up. Minutes later the main warden, Commander Vachir meets up with a now frightened Zeng reading the scroll.
The Commander, vested with the responsibility for keeping Tai-Lung in lockdown. A strong bender, Vachir is a giant and brawny man, his skin was worn and pale, and his physique was solid, as it seemed to tolerate the harsh weather conditions in the high mountain area. He wore steel armor over a heavy coat, metal gear, leather boots, and a steel helmet with a gold emblem in the middle, to show his high rank as a Commander.
Looking through the scroll he was not amused, what he read out enrages him,
"WHAT! 'Double the guards? Extra precaution? Your prison may not be adequate?'" yelling the Commander slams the scroll shut and glares down at the quaking messenger, with guards closely behind Zeng having not so happy faces themselves, being equally outraged (and quite offended)
"Tch! You doubt my prison's security?" the Commander asked with a solid tone with his arms crossed
"A-Absolutely not! Sh-shifu does, heh, I'm just his messenger (gulp), sir." He replied fully intimidated
"I'll give you a message to your Master Shifu," he claimed, proceeding to lead Zeng along the bridge across from within the prison, "Escape from Chor-Ghon Prison, is impossible!" he exclaimed
Zeng finally took notice of his surroundings around the vast prison, to him it looked more like an indoor cave with bottomless gorges and the only source of light came from the heat of the many torches that the guards held.
"You see, messenger man, my earth benders are the best of the best. They are heavily trained guards whose sole purpose is to guard a fiend, and one only. We take our job very, very seriously" He slowly said, giving Zeng a death glare as he shakes his head in agreement
The Commander suddenly slaps Zeng on the back, startling him
Only laughing at what a joke the message that was brought to him was, "Impressive, isn't it?" he asked reguarding how tightly secured and prestige his prison was
Unable to keep his body from trembling Zeng answers the commander's question,
"Oh yes, it's very impressive. It's-it's very impressive!" with a flustered expression
Commander Vachir then leads the small emissary man deeper into the prison, while gloating on about the security and how he runs the place better than Shifu's paranoid prospects,
"One way in, one way out, one thousand guards and one prisoner."
Although Zeng was relieved about the heavily secured prison, he was still very frightened about the main aspect of this prison's purpose to guard,
"Yes, except that prisoner is Tai-Lung…" he whimpered slightly
The main warden and Zeng step into an elevator, descending in the darkness towards the very bottom of the prison, Commander Vachir leads Zeng towards a set of heavily-armored doors, which open at the warden's orders on after the other
"Oh my…" Zeng mutters
The final door falls forward, creating a bridge towards a circular stone isle, in the middle of a bigger abyss. However a figure is in the middle of the isle, a figure shrouded in darkness and chained…
"Behold, Tai-Lung" he announced melodramatically
Zeng's eyes widen at the realization that he was only a few feet away from a dangerous madman, "I'll um…I'm just going to wait right here."
The Commander laughs at this,
"It's nothing to worry about. It's perfectly safe." He states, pushing Zeng off the elevator towards the bridge, as they walked the Commander yells to his guards,
"Men! Crossbows! At the ready!" in sentinel towers, the guards aim enormous crossbows on the lone prisoner as the duo approach,
"Cr-crossbows?" Zeng exclaimed
"Relax, lad. It's all part of our security measures, perhaps another feature you should tell your master about" he ruffed
The prisoner, Tai-Lung, once a mighty Kung Fu warrior, is now pinned and weighed down on his knees with rusted and heavy chains attached to boulders hanging over the sides of the stone isle clasped tightly around his wrists. Restrained by a special stone glazed tortoise shell on his back, thick inch acupuncture needles sticking out to pinpoint specific nerves to penetrate him from using any muscles to activate his fire bending or any Kung Fu actions,
Commander Vachir approaches the brute with no fear and in fact mocks him,
"Hey, tough guy, did you hear? Oogway's finally chosen someone to become the next heir as the Avatar and it was not you!"
Zeng saw this and became horrified, "What are you doing? Don't get him mad!" scared that even the slightest inch near the chained man will cause him to erupt
The Commander laughs
"Ha! You still don't trust us to keep this villain locked up? I've got him completely immobilized." He alleged in a self-aggrandizing way, and by proving this he kicks Tai-Lung's dropped face with great force, as his head only swings back to the position it was in
Zeng leaps back with a gasp at the sudden action, but Tai-Lung makes no movement what so ever, but regardless Zeng's nerves had enough for one trip to the scary prison
"A-Alright! I-I've seen enough! I will tell Master Shifu he has nothing to worry about" Zeng said
The Commander was pleased to hear this, "Tch, no he doesn't!" smugly chuckling
"Yes, yes I'll tell him! Can we please go now?" he pleaded, slightly hyperventilating, as the Commander nodded as they headed towards back to the elevator
Unknowingly aware that Tai-Lung's prison break plan was only surfacing
His army of chi blockers and rebellious benders were waiting quietly in the snowy mountains outside of Chor-Ghon prison, taking down each guard that was stationed out in the area carefully not to alert the prison, inching closer and closer to the jail to release their glorious leader, Tai Lung
It was only a matter of time.
Back at the Jade Palace
The crowd continues to cheer tirelessly for their new Avatar as the palace workers finally bring Po to the top of the stairs and inside the main building.
Dropping the poor fellow to the ground and quickly closing the doors shut, leaving Po by himself on the floor
"Uff! Hey guys! Wait a second! There's a been a mistake!" he pleaded wearily to no one while getting up
That was until he slowly turned around and realizes where he was at
His expresson widened in pure amazement "No way! I'm in the Sacred Hall of Warriors!"
The now giddy earth bender was looking aimlessly at every nook and corner as he saw the Jade Palace's lovely adorned hall, filled with a variety of ancient artifacts of armor and weapons belonging to different esteemed warriors,
He zoomed and passed and admired every artifact, naming each item at the top of his head, having one of his biggest fanatic episodes ever!
"Whoa! Master Rong's Golden Steel Armor! And with authentic battle damage!"
"(Gasp) The Sword of Heroes! Said to be so sharp you can cut yourself just by looking at it- ah!"
"Wow! The Invisible Trident of Destiny! I'm actually seeing it up close!"
Po joyfully continues to examine many other Kung Fu artifacts and suddenly spots a glowing urn,
"(Gasping) Wooooow! The Legendary Urn of Whispering Warrriors! Said to contain the souls of the entire Tenshu Army!" he comes closer to the urn observing every inch of it until he heard a smooth voice echo,
"Have you finished sight-seeing?"
Po gasped at this and started talking back to the urn (hoping it would speak back)
"(Gasping – he did a lot of this) You can talk! Oh wow this is so cool! And well, now that you mentioned it, how do you get five hundre-" but before he finished asking Po heard a cough from behind and saw someone from the corner of his eye
It was Master Shifu
"Master Shifu!" he said startled and accidentally knocks over the urn, shattering to pieces as a ghostly wail comes out from it.
Po, mortified, looks up at the air bending master,
"I-Uh...someone…broke that" Po innocently stated
Master Shifu, unamused, stares at him dully in the silence with his hands propped behind his back
"I'll fix it though. Do you have some glue-?" the pedestal where the urn was displayed then topples on Po's head shouting briefly in pain
"Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ohh, splinter…" Shifu continued to stare at him, wondering how a clumsy boy could possibly be the next Avatar Warrior,
"So, you're the next legendary Avatar, hmm?" he gawked sarcastically at the confused boy
"Uhm, I uh, I guess so?" Po replied timidly not sure whether to accept that sort of title or not
"Wrong!" Shifu yelled alarming Po, "You are not the next Avatar and you will never be until Master Oogway himself passes on and you, a clumsy boy like you couldn't possibly bend your element to even defend yourself against a mere child!" Shifu exclaimed trying to discourage the so called "heir" to be the next Avatar Warrior as he suddenly chuckles coldly,
"Let's be reasonable now," he began to say while approaching Po, "Do you honestly believe it will be that easy? To be named the next Avatar and suddenly you'll be able to handle the limitless power of all four elements?"
"Uh no, I just-" Po was about to speak, but Shifu continued with his lecture
"One must first master the highest level of Kung Fu and that is clearly impossible if that one is someone like you…"
Po didn't understand what he meant and asked "Someone like me?" fiddling with his fingers together
"Yes. Look at you!" Shifu emphasizes his point by poking at Po with his flute, "This fat butt! Those flabby arms!"
"Ow! Those are sensitive…" he said while rubbing the area Shifu poked at shamefully,
"And this ridiculous looking belly!" jabbing Po's inflated stomach
"Uff! Hey now…"
"And utter disregard … for personal hygiene." Shifu said finishing there
Po was now fed up with the inults, "Now wait a minute. That's a little uncalled for-" inching near Master Shifu pointing a finger at him and his other hand rested on his belly
"Don't stand so close, I can smell your breath." As Shifu's face scrunched up at the boys dental odor and inching away from him
"Look, Master Oogway said that I was the-" suddenly, Shifu grabs Po's outstretched finger and lifts his pinky
Po gasps in horror, "The Wuxi Finger Hold! Not the Wuxi Finger Hold!" Po whimpered as he got to his knees pleading not to use the mysteriously ancient technique on him
Shifu was slightly impressed how the boy even knew this
"Ohh, you know this hold?" he slyly asked
"Developed by Master Wuxi in the third dynasty, yes!" Po said all slurred
"Ah, so then you must know what happens when I flex my pinky…" Shifu motioned his finger teasingly causing the poor boy to panic a bit
"N-no, no, no!" Po gasped
"And you know the hardest part of this? The hardest part…is cleaning up afterwards" Shifu chuckled deviously with his hold on the large boy's finger
"Okay! Okay, take it easy!" Po begged
"Now listen closely, boy. Master Oogway may have picked you to become his next heir as the Avatar, but when I'm through with you, I promise: You're going to wish he hadn't! Are we clear?" Shifu replied making Po even more shaky and flustered
"Yes, yes. We're clear! We're clear! We are crystal clear." Po winced
"Good," Shifu chuckled, "I can't wait to get started" eyeing the boy in his weakness
Oh yes, this is going to be very interesting indeed