The Tournament Begins….
Oogway stood silently over the staircase that lead down to the Battle Arena and watched as the last few remaining custodians finish up their up job of sweeping the cinema floor before the spectators came in…
Oogway gave a sad sigh in the mists of watching the clean up crew and turned made his way back to Palace entrance for formal dress for the tournament…
Oogway had been forever thinking about the time of his death since time of he saw the tree branch's faded wick…It's not was not that the return of Tai Lung didn't bother him…It was just that the fact of death crowded him even more…
"All right there sire?" asked an English pig attendant as she pulled down the hem of a yellow cloak over Oogway's shell…
The old tortoise snapped back to reality at the sound of this question… "Oh…Yes…Quite all right…"
The pig then came around filed Oogway's claws… "Seemed to of lost your self for awhile you was..." said the servant as she filed out a grain of sand from one the crevices of Oogway's finger tips… "What was that about?"
Oogway sighed heavily… "Just deep in though…I guess…I tend to do that every once and while…"
The pig attendant was now filing out the other hand… "Yes… Well not my place to say really but try not to do it out there, my lease…You fell asleep last time at the Traveling Opera House remember?"
Oogway attention was drawn away from the pig by a set of fire works going off and the sound of excited people bubbling into the arena below, making him realized it was time to leave…
"Yes I know…" said Oogway cheerfully as he scratched the back of his shell with a manicure claw and went to retrieve his staff from another nearby servant…
The old tortoise's effect made the pig maid faint drastically as Oogway left the building…
As Oogway climbed down the steps from the Palace to the Arena, he was greeted by several goose servants bowing on the stairs and Shifu at the foot of steps…
'Why must these servants bow every where I go...It can honestly be annoying…I never expected to be treated as king for discovering Kung Fu…I just did it to protect the defenseless from the strong…'Though the tortoise as he descended down the stairs…
"It's a historic day…Isn't Master Oogway?" asked Shifu asked the old Master when he reached the foot of the stairs…
"Yes… And one I'd feared I would not live to see…Are your students ready?" Asked the old tortoise softly…
Shifu stood on honorably… "Yes Master Oogway…"
There was a brief pause between Oogway and Shifu before the decided to speak again… "Now notice old friend…Whom ever I choose will not only bring peace to the Valley but also to you…"
Oogway gently pointed at Shifu as he walked away to the grand stand of the cinema…
With Master Oogway now out the Jade Palace, the royal gong ringer saw as his duty to start the festivities…
"Let The Tournament Begin!"