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Disclaimer: I do not own Kung Fu Panda, It is only owned by Dreamworks. I do however own my characters.
Ch. 3 Meeting the Masters/ Shun's arrival
As Po and Viper guided the young panther, Hawk, and the serpent snake to the Training hall. A lot of thoughts when through Sora's head. Getting nervous, he could feel his palms getting sweaty. Rubbing his hands together, he pondered if they even wanted to live with him.
Noticing her new panther friend's tensity, Meili poked Sora with her tail to acquire his attention. Sora Turned his head towards her and she whispered, "Don't worry, I'm right here beside you," she said to him for support.
Those kind words made Sora felt a little bit better, now knowing he had someone he could trust. With a nod he mouthed the words 'thank you' and they continued on to the training hall. After a few minutes, the small group were outside the Training Hall doors. Po insisted on opening the doors for them all. After he opened the doors, uncovered something that astonished the preteens. The doors revealed a phenomenal sight of the Training hall.
All four members of the Furious Five were inside, training in their usual stationed training course. Tigress was on the Seven Swinging Clubs of Instant Oblivion course, avoiding the spiked clubs. Mantis was in the Spinning warrior course, Monkey was honing his skills on The Seven Talon Rings, and Crane was on the Jade tortoise, strengthening his balance while deflecting incoming arrows.
The four masters then heard they're fellow comrades and a few others enter the room. They jumped off they're stations and headed towards them. Once they came up, Master Tigress noticed the three preteens beside them. But the one that caught her attention the most was the black panther, Sora. Both felines eyed each other awkwardly.
"Hey Po, who'd you bring with you this time, another fan?" Monkey estimated. Po made a face at his brother-like primate and crossed his arms childishly. He blew a raspberry and said, "No, these guys were actually looking to train here for a while,"
Mantis hopped up on top of Monkey's shoulder and observed all three. "Don't they seem kinda too young to train here Po?" Mantis questioned.
"Nah, Shifu said their legit to stay and train here with us. Tigress, what do you think?" The panda asked his feline comrade friend. As he faced her he noticed that she didn't even seem to hear him, but continued to what Po thought was a 'Starring contest' adding with serious snarling faces in addition.
"Tigress?" Viper called, attempting to catch her attention. Finally catching her friends, she turned away from the black panther preteen and looked at them, but in seconds turned back to him.
"What?" He finally spoke. "Never seen a black panther before, or do you have some odd crush on me or something?" Sora spoke out of line.
"Real funny. So you want to training in the Jade palace huh?" Tigress questioned. Sora shrugged his shoulders of her question. "What authorized you to be here?"
"I'm just looking for a place to stay. Meili and Rai are the ones looking to train here, I'm just looking for a place to call home. Got a problem with that, stripes?" Sora said and insulted the master of tiger style. Tigress let out a miniature small growl in her throat of the panthers slur.
"Why you little..." Tigress was going to say but stopped of the presence of Shifu entering the room, ordered her to stop. Master Shifu walked in between the two to subtract the tension between them.
"That's enough, both of you." Shifu ordered. Tigress then moved back beside Crane, Monkey, and Mantis. Shifu then stud in front of his students. Viper and Po went to join the.
"Ahem, now as you already heard these three will be staying with us for a long while. During they're stay they'll be training here as well. I request that you take them under your wing and be they're guardian. Show them what's right, and what's wrong here and in the valley, so treat them well. Will you do that?" Shifu requested.
"Yes Master Shifu," the group answered with a bow. Viper then eyed Meili and then smiled. Meili returned a favor and knew she would be the right on to train her. Rai eyeballed Master Crane, and he smiled with a small nod. Then it came to the panther and the tigress. Both predators eyed each other very unfavorably. Both knew they weren't going to get along anytime soon, not for a while anyway.
"Good." Shifu finished. Zeng entered through the training hall doors in a hurry. He rushed in front of Shifu and landed flat on the ground in front of him.
"Calm down, what is it?" Shifu asked the panting goose. Finally after a moment Zeng finally finished catching his breath.
Master Shifu, you have another visitor." He said then fell back down. At the doors revealed a snow leopard, wearing a black vest, white pants, and white wrappings on both his arms. He also had clear yellow eyes that could be seem through miles in a dark night. The leopard then walked towards the Grand master and other Masters and bow respectfully and started talking to them.
While they were talking, the preteen had a discuss of their own.
"Who is that guy?" Sora asked his new friends. Meili turned her head to Sora and said, "I don't know, but he was on the same boat me and Rai was on. There were others on, but I think they were planning on living in village. He kept his distance from everyone on board. I'd tried confronting but he flat-out ignored me." She said.
" Yeah, guy seems like real jerk. He must think he's so cool and all. I heard he knows a thing or two about martial arts Street Fighting, came from South China too, People that there," Rai added. Hearing the information about him, he noticed that Master Shifu was walking out the front door near them.
"We're meeting in the kitchen. Meet us there," he said after walking out the doors along with the Five and Po. The teens were the last out but before they could leave, they eyed the leopard who eyed with the most emotionless eyes ever. Sora feel that the leopard had his glare on him as he walked out.
"What is his problem?" Meili pondered out loud. Sora and Rai couldn't understand either. So they decided to follow the other to the kitchen room.
Jade Palace: Kitchen
In the Jade palace kitchen everyone was sitting around the table while Po was cooking the food. Sitting a the head of the table, Shifu set his sights on the panther, snake, hawk, and leopard.
"Okay, would you please introduce yourselves a little more. I'd liked to understand anything from new students for future proposes," Shifu asked with everyone listening.
"What do you want us to say?" Meili questioned.
"Anything like; what you hate, your future dreams, hobbies, and habits. Stuff like that," Shifu answered.
"How about you introduce yourself first, it would help?" Rai said.
"Okay then. My name is Shifu, I'm the Grand Master of the Jade Palace. I have already fulfilled my dream. My hobbies, uh not too comfortable of revealing just yet. Habits, I don't have any. Like's, Kung Fu. I dislike disobedience. " Shifu answered. Sora's left ear twitched in frustration.
"Sorry Old-Timer , but you didn't really tell us anything interesting." Sora said. Yet again Tigress shot another glare at Sora that went unnoticed.
"When I know you all better I'm tell you more. Now, why not one of you go?" Shifu offered.
"I'll go, My name is Meili Mingzhu. My dream is to become a Kung Fu Master and protect the people and friends I care about. My hobbies are that I love to scroll around and adventure. My habits, I have a bit of a temper and I fear failure of any kind. Things I don't like, are people who hurt others for pleasure, and them picking on those who can't or isn't strong enough to fight back. I do however like my friend, especially my new ones Sora and Rai." She shared happily.
"Hmm, that's nice. Alright, your next." Shifu said looking at the hawk.
"Okay. The name's Rai, Rai Changpu. My dream is sorta the same as Meili's, I wanna protect others too. My hobbies are learning about Kung Fu, reading, painting, and flying. Habits, I hate getting sick so I proffer to stay away from people who looks or seem sick. I don't really hate anything, except for bandits of course. What I like, I love to fly and I one day I'll be fastest in the sky." Rai shared.
"Sora?" Shifu questioned.
"Yeah, yeah, my name's Sora Gao. I don't really remember anything. I suffer in a serious case of amnesia, my past is a mystery. But I hoped to uncover and remember them all one day. I have no parents, not that I remember, they're either dead or gone somewhere. My habits, I have OCD. I like to keep things organized and absolutely perfect. Another one of my habits is I hate to sit still for too long. What I like, I like a lot of things. What I hate, not much. My current dream, is to become something better, something greater than a Master or Grand Master. I want to be stronger than them all so people would acknowledge me and cheer my name, ya'know." Sora shared with determination in his voice.
"That sounds great Sora, let's share our dream." Meili asked, wanting to combine her's with Sora's. "Uh okay." the panther accepted awkwardly scratching the back of his head with a smile.
"Alright, now for you O'dark one, what are yours?" Monkey asked the teen leopard. The leopard opened he eyes and saw all eyes was on him. Not liking the attention he turned his eyes away and had his elbows on the table weighting his head with his hand casually.
"My name is Shun Lei. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What have is not a dream, but an ambition, and I will make it a reality. I'm going to hone my skills and avenge my clan, and eliminate a 'certain someone'. But first, I'm in need of a teacher, a Master to help me enhance my capabilities. I can tell you what else I don't like; the glare the panther's giving me." Shun stated.
Everyone then had they're eyes on Sora, who was definitely glaring at Shun. Shun then revealed a sneer on his face to tease the black panther.
"Hmmp, what's wrong, do I make you upset or something?" Shun taunted. Sora lets out a low growl but then stopped.
"I don't why, but something about you kinda pisses me off." Sora answered. "Sorry to hear, and I don't care. Loser." Shun ended turning his eyes away.
'Asshole,' Sora insulted in his thoughts.
"That's enough, both of you. Both of your petty quarreling is not needed here." Shifu said. "Whatever," Sora said turning away crossing his arms. Shun does the same by looking away. Shifu let out a soft sigh and with the Five.
"Tomorrow morning we'll discuss about which Master will be assigned to the four of you." Shifu announced the preteens.
"You. I want you to be my master in training." Shun declared looking at Shifu. Hearing his sudden request, Shifu stroke his beard pondering what he demanded.
'What? Totally not cool to ask, you jerk.' Rai thought crossing his wings.
'Why should you get special treatment?' Meili thought.
"I'll think about it." Shifu answered.
"Okay, dinner is ready. Get it while it's good and hot." Po announced passing the bowls of noodles out the others. Everyone got their share of food and Po sat down next to Tigress. After everyone finished eating and Sora and Shun exchanging glares, everyone agreed that it was time to turn in. They then proceeded to the barracks. But, before Sora could find his room, Shun purposely bumped his shoulder.
He then said, "Make sure you stay out of my way, loser," then walked into his room across from Sora's. "Same goes for you, jerk," Sora said in a hushed tone. He then entered his room and got into his bed to take a well deserved rest for the next day.
That's it for this chapter, I hope you liked it. So how are you guys liking Sora so far? And what do you think of Shun, a jerk right? Feeling a huge rivaler between the two huh. More people will be showing up so stick around for more. Here's something interesting, name two of your favorite rivals from anything like a show or something in the comments. Until next time, later guys and gales. Spirit over and out. ^_^