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Ch. 5 Learning a new Skill
In 6:30 in the morning the black panther was sleeping slothfully in his bed. Sora was enjoying his sleep as he was dreaming about food falling from the sky. Sora gurgled as he fantasized of eating a bowl of Mr. Ping's noodles. The dream soon ended as a loud banging sound echoed in his mind of someone calling him. Sora mumbled trying to ignore the booming sound.
After standing several minutes waiting outside of the door and had enough, Tigress opened the door and saw Sora still sleeping in his bed with the covers hanging half off him.
"Sora, time to wake up." She ordered her student. Sora opened one of his eye's tiredly and said, "Can I have a few more minutes, thank you very much." Tigress wasn't thrilled will Sora's insolence. So, she walked up to him, grabbed his arm and pulled him out of bed. Sora hit them ground falling out of the bed feeling completely conscious.
"Ow-what's the big idea?!" Sora exclaimed rubbing his head.
"Meet me in the Training Hall, you have ten minutes. I suggest you hurry, unless you want run the thousand steps ten times." Tigress added then walked away. Not liking the idea of running up and down the endless steps, Sora putted on his usual attire and rushed to the training room.
In there, Tigress was waiting for her panther student alongside Po, who was hopping around excitedly. "Po, calm down. This training is for Sora, not for you to make a fool out of yourself," said Tigress.
"I know Ti, but can't wait to help Sora with his training. I'm so excited." Po said cheery. Tigress rolled her eyes and sighed at her friends overexcited-ness. Moments later Sora entered the room with haste and stopped in front of her panting heavily.
"Hm, with a minute to spare. You got lucky. Since Shun has two teachers, and Master Shifu is tired of Po's constant asking, alongside me Po will be your permanent teacher as well." Tigress announced.
"Cool, with both of you as my teachers I'll definitely get stronger!" Sora cheered.
"That's good to hear, Sora." Tigress said and then reached in her back pocket and pulled out a folded up paper. She then turn towards Po and held it out to him.
"I have a matter to attend to, here's a list on what training sessions I want Sora to do today while I'm gone. And please, don't teach him any of your silly obnoxious tricks. I don't want you becoming a bad influence on MY student, Po." Tigress instructed. She handed the list to the panda.
"I'll be back as soon as the training is over. Sora, train hard, and ignore Po's stupid puns. Po, I'm counting on you." Tigress said.
"Don't worry Tigress, I got this one. Just do your little business and we'll be here training." Po assured. Tigress nodded and walked out of the Training hall and down the Jade Palace steps. Po then examined the list.
"Yikes, Tigress wants you to do a lot of stuff. Just between you and me, how about we just do some of these." Po suggested.
"Yeah, I'm okay with that." Sora answered. A few training sessions later, Po was teaching Sora numerous of kung fu moves. Next Sora was doing basic exercises. While doing sit-ups, Sora couldn't help be think about Shun's attack from the other day.
Flashback
"Kasai Sutairu: Kasai no Bakudan!" Shun exclaimed, exhaling a large ball of fire at Tigress on the day of the Bell Test.
Back to the Present
With that in his mind, Sora didn't like feeling inferior to Shun. Admitting that the fire technique that Shun made was impressive, Sora was more determined to become better than him. The black panther finished his drill exercises and walked back to Po.
"Finished already? Great, let's move on to the next one." Po said pulling out the list. "Actually Po, I want to learn something...different."
"Different?" Po questioned. "Yes. Have you witness Shun's fire technique yesterday?" Sora asked. Po thought back at the past day and has witness the move used against Tigress.
"Oh yeah, that was cool move. I wish I can do something like that, I probably can, I just never tried it. I mean come one I've mastered The Golden Lotus Clap, The Thundering Wind Hammer, and a lot of other moves." Po bragged.
"Can you teach me one of those moves. One that can rival Shun's technique?" Sora asked with a hopeful tone.
"Eh well, there is The Mongolian Fireball move that is sorta similar to Shun's ability. But that moves takes a lot out of the user. Okay, I'll see what I can find for you if you promise to won't say anything to Shifu, deal?" Po said.
"Deal." Sora agreed. "Good, I'll be back, you stay here. I'm going to find a scroll for you." Po ran off out of the Training room. Sora sighed and walked to the steps and sat down on the stairs that lead to a different. He then lowered his head to his lap and embraced his legs, awaiting for Po to return.
"Sora?" a soft feminine voice spoke up. Sora quickly raised his head of the unexpected voice and sees Meili in front of him. "What are you doing here, where's Master Tigress and Master Po?"
"Uh, Master Tigress went down to the village to take care of something and Po is uh, looking for something. He said he'll be back in a sec." Sora answered.
"Oh, well I finished my training with Master Viper for today. Mind if I stay here with you Sora?" Meili asked politely.
"I guess, yeah." Sora said. She then slithered up beside him. "So what have Po been teaching you Sora?" Meili questioned.
"Uh, just the basic moves of Kung fu. Tigress said I'm a little sloppy but I'm getting better." Sora stated. "That's really good, I am too." She said back. After that there was an awkward silence between the black panther and green viper serpent. Soon Po came back with a scroll in his paw. He stood in front Sora and held it out to him.
"I got a scroll you might be interested in. I certainly was. It was a gift from a new friend of mine from Japan he sent. His name is Yijiro." Po explained handing the scroll to the panther.
"He's from Japan?" Sora said.
"Yeah, and guess what, Tigress has a weird crush on him. And he's a Giant Prawn. He's my friend now and all, I just don't see what she sees in him. Anyway, get a look-see on the scroll." Po said.
Sora opened the scroll and it was written in Japanese. Surprisingly to Sora, he could read it perfectly. Inside the title of the technique was called: Ta Kuron Gijutsu. It had instructions on how to use it and everything.
"Multi-Clone Technique." Sora said out loud. "Yeah, this is perfect. With this move, and my new knowledge of basic Kung fu, I'll have Shun on the ropes. I gotta try this, come on guys let's try this outside." Sora suggested. Sora, Meili, and Po then headed out of the Training room and closed the door.
They were unaware that a certain snow leopard overheard everything. 'Hmmp, in your dreams panther. You think your on par with me, guess again. That silly multi clone technique has nothing against me. Still...' Shun thought.
Jade Palace: Courtyard
After several tries and fails, Sora was marvelously improving on using the move. The fails were instead of living ready for action shadow clones, they appeared dead-looking and lifeless Illusions.
"Try again Sora, you're getting there. Just try one more time. Just focus your inner Chi, become one with yourself and let out the energy into a clone." Po explained. Sora try it again, he placed his hands together to attempt to focused his Chi. Suddenly a familiar deep voice whispered in his head. After that Sora felt a small impulse upon himself.
He opened his eyes, and there it was three realistic mirror images of Sora facing him. The doppelgangers then saluted to him. Sora was astonished to see three identical versions of himself.
"Hello Boss!" The doppelgangers proclaimed. Po wanted to jump for joy but was too amazed of the sight.
"Whoa, that is beyond awesome. Not only did you make a clone of yourself, you made three. And they're not evil. Epic bonus points for Sora." Po cheered.
"Another training session complete. Shun is totally going to have his own foot in his mouth, once he witness my new move. Also, I feel like I can make even more clones." Sora said.
Sora then turned to his clones. "I look forward in fighting beside you guys. Until the next summoning." Original Sora said. All three of the doppelgangers gave the nice-guy pose then disappeared into a puff of smoke. Sora felt like is energy was returning to him as an effect of the technique.
"That's it for now. All there is now is to wait for Tigress. I sure hope Master Shifu and her don't mind you knowing this." Po announced. As if on cue, Tigress entered through the Jade Palace doors with a bag within her grasp. She then made way towards them. She then faced Po and Sora.
"*Sigh* So how did it go Po. Did my student learn anything." She questioned. "Totally, we went through all the exercises on your list. And I taught Sora one of the Japanese scrolls Yijiro gave me. That is you don't mind." Po said poking his fingers together. Tigress let out a heavy sigh and closed her eyes.
"I expected you do something like that, which is why I left him in your care while I was out. For once you did something I wanted you do." Tigress explained. With that said, Po lit up a confused expression.
"So what your saying is you pretty much used reverse-psychology on me." Po stated. Tigress simply nodded her head and said, "Yes, I did."
"Well played Tigress, well played." Po bantered in a low tone. Meili covered her mouth with her tail to cover her snickering of the moment. "I should have done that a long time ago." Tigress stated.
She then turned to face Sora. "Sora, follow me to the barracks, there's some I have for you." Tigress said then began walking off with Sora close behind. After a few minutes of walking, Sora and Tigress was finally in front of her room.
"So, what do you have for me?" Sora asked.
Tigress dug into the bag and pulled out clothes. "These will be your training clothes for now on. Think of them as...an early reward." She said handing them to Sora. Sora examined the clothes. It was a long sleeve orange vest similar to her's but orange, black pants, and orange training wristbands.
"This is so cool, thanks." Sora said. Tigress nodded at the thanks. "Knowing Po he told you something. What did he tell you while I was gone?" Tigress questioned with a hint of frustration in her voice.
"He said something about you having a strange crush on a Japanese prawn named Yijiro." Sora answered, but then soon realized that he may have lessen a few years old Po's life.
"Did he, well excuse me I have a panda shaped scratching-post I have to demolish." She said walking out of the Barracks in a hurry.
"Oops," Was all Sora could let out.
That's it for this chapter, I hope you liked it. Please leave a review, it would be very much appreciated. Also, I'm about to set up a poll about a certain relationship which will tie into the next chapter, so check that out after this. Until the next chapter, later! :D