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Li was pacing back and forth.

Mr. Ping was watching him pace back and forth.

"We don't even know where they went," he said in exasperation, staring back up at the setting sky. "They could be anywhere! Or worse..."

"Don't think like that," Mr. Ping scolded.

"I don't know why, but I have a feeling that Po took him to the Spirit Realm again," Tigress spoke up as she joined the two fathers outside the Jade Palace.

Li's eyes bulged at the thought. He'd been so worried the first time that Po had sent himself to the Spirit Realm, and the fact that he might be there now didn't make him any less worried. What if they couldn't save him this time? There was no symbol on the ground to suggest that he needed their help, or that he was even...Li tried to shove the thought out of his mind, but he couldn't help it.

"He's probably making sure that Kai will never come back again," Tigress tried to comfort the panda. Lei Lei sat in her arms, the action figure of herself in hand, as always. Tigress couldn't help but hug the precious little cub closer in an attempt to calm her own nerves; she really didn't have any idea where Po might have taken Kai. The two of them had simply disappeared as though they were never there in the first place, and the thought left her just as unsettled as Li.

"I believe Tigress is right," another voice put in. The group looked down to see Master Shifu approaching, his staff in hand. "All this time, I've been experiencing terrible headaches on and off. They finally stopped."

"What does that mean?" Li questioned curiously. He himself had a headache from worrying about his son so much. It was nice to know that Shifu was also worried, but why were his headaches any different?

"Before all of this happened," Shifu began to explain, "I experienced a terrible headache like the ones that stopped only moments ago. I assumed that Master Oogway was trying to tell me something important." He glanced over to the statue that, luckily, Kai hadn't bothered to destroy again. They were extremely lucky that Kai hadn't decided to wreck the Jade Palace again, either.

Li and Mr. Ping listened, hanging onto every word that the red panda was telling them. Shifu suddenly felt something warm and soft wrap around his legs, and he looked down to see Bao staring up at him with a hopeful expression. Hope that his best friend wasn't gone for good.

"Po's gonna come back, right?" he asked Shifu in a tiny voice that mimicked the worry of the Dragon Warrior's fathers. Crane and Mantis watched sorrowfully as the cub tried his very best not to cry. Bao had played an important role in helping them get back on their feet, and they didn't want to see the panda cub so upset.

"I have a hunch," a new voice decided to chime in.

Li and Mr. Ping's eyes grew wide as they looked behind Shifu to see someone—someone that they hadn't expected to see at all, or not for a very long time. Bao gasped and Crane and Mantis nearly fell over at the sight before them. Tigress didn't know what to think.

Shifu frowned at their shocked expressions, wondering who the voice belonged to. He knew it from somewhere, but...that wasn't...

"Ooh, another green baby," Lei Lei giggled in excitement, reaching her arms out.

"...Green baby?" Shifu's eyes grew just as wide in turn and he spun around in shock, only to come face-to-face with...

"Master Oogway!" he exclaimed, eyes big as saucers. "You—you're here..." he said weakly, but immediately bowing with the others following his lead.

"Shifu," the tortoise greeted with a smile. "It has been quite awhile, my old friend."

"It has. And you turned one of my students into a dragon," Shifu said, unsure of what to think. Oogway chuckled at this.

"He merely became one with his dragon counterpart."

Shifu still didn't know what to think. There was his master, standing right in front of him as though he had never disappeared into a plethora of petals that fateful night under the Peach Tree of Wisdom. But at last, he allowed a slow smile to spread across his shocked expression, doing his best not to leave his mouth hanging open. So Oogway did have the power to return to the Mortal Realm, even though he had told Po that he'd never tried.

Well, now he had. Shifu scolded himself for doubting that his master would ever return. He had decided to come in the flesh, instead of the form of pounding headaches which Shifu was grateful for.

The group glanced behind Oogway, searching for someone who clearly wasn't there.

"Where's...?" Mr. Ping started, his heart about to break. If the legendary master had come back without his son, that could only mean bad news, right?

Oogway continued to smile. "The Dragon Warrior lives," he said in a calming tone, "and I believe it is time for him to wake up." The tortoise brought out the staff that Li had handed to Po before he had gone to face Kai. Li bowed in respect and Oogway placed the staff into his hands.

Li and Mr. Ping glanced at each other, soon realizing what Oogway meant by his statement after they had been given Po's staff. They turned and instantly left, racing as fast as they could back to the noodle shop with the Five and other pandas following close behind.

Shifu soon found himself standing alone with his master, much like they had on the night he left, besides the fact that Bao was still with them. He had so much to say, yet so little time. "Master, I—"

Oogway held up a hand. "There will be another time, Shifu. Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift. Cherish this gift." He glanced down and winked at Bao still wrapped around the red panda's legs, and the cub's eyes widened as Oogway spoke wise words to him.

"I always knew you would believe," the wind whispered. "Now you must believe once again for The Dragon Warrior."