The Way Back
Chapter 1- Life Among Them
An explosion was heard throughout the palace, it was followed by someone loudly cursing.
"DAMN IT!" roared Po while running around in a panic with his hand on fire, he put it out quickly using a nearby bucket full of water which he had put there for just such an occasion.
Po then began to get rid of the remaining flames in his room, when he had finished he sat back down with a sigh.
The weary panda opened a draw and pulled a quill out, he dabbed it in some nearby ink.
He grabbed his notepad on the desk which had miraculously survived and began to write, "Another failure, all I have to show for that hard two hours work is a strong smell of smoke and some burns, oh well I guess that's what I get for mixing sulfur and saltpeter together over charcoal".
Po paused and dabbed more ink onto the quill, "It's been two years to the day since I started writing to you Tigress and I'm not getting any closer, yeah I know it's surprising how much I've learned about alchemy since I've been here, it's taken a while and lot of reading, this must show you how determined I am to get back to you, you know how much I hate reading, well I'd better get back to it, I love you Tigress".
Po folded the letter and put it in the box that he had put the other hundreds of letters in, he yawned, stood up and stretched before walking over to the mirror in his room to examine the damage done by his experiment.
He gazed at himself, Po hadn't changed much in those two years, he had bags under his eyes from many late nights and he had less of a gut due to his continued training, due to there being no Master Shifu in this reality Po's training was being continued by Mantis, Monkey and Viper who due to living a lot longer knew a lot more techniques for Po to learn.
Viper had shown him all of the scrolls that she and the others could find about trying to make The Sacred Blood Stone but all of them had been fruitless.
Po remembered the day he met what remained of the Furious Five, it was his second day in the future.
Po walked up the Thousand Stairs hesitantly, he was nervous about what he would find, after all the Crane from the future had told him that everyone else in the team save Mantis had turned evil.
He reached the top of the stairs and noticed two rhinos guarding the entrance to the Hall of Heroes, when they saw Po they quickly panicked and saluted.
Po ignored them, opened the door and made his way into the Hall.
The Hall didn't look that much different he observed, the Sword of Heroes was missing from it's stand but apart from that none of the other artifacts were missing.
Po heard a slight movement and then dodged an incoming Shuriken, when he got up he turned to face his attacker.
"Viper?" he said confusedly, said snake was staring at him in shock until she suddenly tackled him to the ground.
"Po! Where have you been, it's been three days since we last saw you, did you manage to catch Crane?".
Po noticed that while she was happy to see him she seemed sad at the prospect of him finding Crane, when he remembered the older Crane master and how he'd been treated by these people he became angry.
"Why would you care Viper? All you've try to do is kill him", Po roughly pushed Viper off of him.
Viper landed gracefully, she looked at Po with a frown "But you're the one th-", she gasped in realization.
"Who are you?" she got into a fighting stance.
Po sighed, he had wished to avoid meeting any of the five, he just wanted to find a way to get back to Tigress.
He started to explain what had happened, as he got to the part about Crane's death Viper started to cry.
"Why are you crying? I thought that you wanted him dead" Po asked softly.
Viper shook her head "No I was just following The Dragon Warrior's orders, I've loved him for years, I was hoping Crane would eventually come to his senses and we could be together".
Po carried on with the story, when he had finished Viper looked at him for a moment before looking shamefully away from him.
"You must think we're evil" she said sorrowfully.
Po remained quiet for a second "No I don't think you're evil, but I also don't think that you're completely innocent either, you could've stopped him anytime that you wanted but you literally let him get away with murder for years".
Viper started to slither away but Po stopped her, "But it's not too late, as someone great once said, "It doesn't matter what happened in the past, it matters what you choose to be from this moment on".
Viper looked up at Po who was smiling warmly at him "And I'm going to help you all".
Viper hugged him..as well as a snake could hug a panda, "Thank you Dragon Warrior".
Po pulled out of the hug "Don't mention it although you can do one thing for me".
"What is it?" she asked.
Po walked away "Don't call me the Dragon Warrior my name is Po".
Po snapped out of his day dream when he heard someone frantically open his door, Monkey poked his head round the door, "You okay Po?", Po turned to answer him, "Yeah I'm fine, another failed attempt" he said dejectedly.
"Don't worry Po, you'll get there eventually" Monkey said sympathetically, ever since Po had arrived the five...the three had been doing everything in their power to stay on Po's good side, mostly out of fear but Po suspected that Viper and Monkey were doing it out of guilt, for letting the other Po commit those acts.
Po nodded "Yeah I guess, well it's late so we'd better get some sleep for tomorrow", Monkey nodded and closed Po's door.
What's that?, two people who love each other stranded on different worlds.
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