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A fresh smile appeared on Po's face when he was with Shifu in the Hall of Warriors again. The Hall looked like always, as if nothing had happened during the past few months at all. Of course except for one detail.

The red panda left the wooden staff in Master Oogway's shrine. Thank you... he thought, smiling discreetly at the painting hanging calmly on the wall. There were indeed many things to thank the Old Master for.

"Why is it still here?" Po asked, seeing the green candles burning around the Dragon Scroll. His heart swelled with pride.

His words drew Shifu's attention to the newest shrine located nearby. "I don't know. Maybe it was Master Rat's idea to keep your shrine?"

Po reached out his hand to take the Scroll, but Shifu stopped him.

"Wait! I want to do this." the red panda offered. It was so true; giving Po the Dragon Scroll had been his greatest dream not so long ago. He blew out the candles and handed the artifact to the Dragon Warrior.

"Thank you." Po said smiling and holding the Scroll together with Shifu. "You still haven't told me that you missed me." he remarked when they made their way towards the door, passing the Grand Master's shrine.

"Because I didn't." the red panda answered, smiling mischievously and leaving the surprised panda a few steps behind.

"What?! Oh no, we're not playing like that!" Po grabbed Shifu's wrist and pulled him into a hug before giving him a passionate kiss that made him feel dizzy.

"Maybe a little... a bit..." the red panda answered between the kisses. "OK, I thought I would do anything just to see your smile again!"

Po pondered on Shifu's words carefully. "Hmm.. I've already heard it somewhere before.."

"Really? Where?"

"I don't know.. maybe in some other story..."

They were about to leave the Hall when Po remembered another thing. "We haven't told the Five yet.."

Shifu smiled mysteriously. "Don't worry, they will understand. Even if they won't like you right away, they will surely accept you someday."

The End

(A.N.) Ooff, so finally this is the end, my dear Readers. Thank you for all your visits, views, reviews, favs and follows.

Special thanks to: pandamaster97720, Fluffy52, Babycakes22, Pandafan91, silverstar223. I appreciate your attention!

And I also apologize for my mistakes. I had a lot of fun writing this story and I hope that you had fun reading it. I didn't expect to repeat that small success of Blushing like an Idiot. I'll be missing this story. Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll write anything again...

What was your favourite chapter? The best scene? The funniest mistake? Your favourite OC? Aww, I've gotten attached to my OCs, so if you're curious, I can tell you how they were created.

Master Ming and Misumi - the original model for these characters was the fictional sweet panda girl Po talks about in the 5th chapter of Blushing like an idiot. I just couldn't forget her. I'm a synesthete; Misumi's name is blue and red to me so her dress was. I don't need to explain now why the others' robes were dark yellow, green, violet etc...

Li Mei and Master Tai Lung - they are like twins, don't you think? Li Mei was necessary to accent the liberal way of life in the Hideout. Besides, Misumi would be very lonely without her :( When I was thinking up Master Heng's students, I saw a girl and two boys: an older, more mature one and his younger, more easy-going friend, this is why there's also Master Chen. (I hope that someone will put an end to their drinking contests!) I used Tai Lung's name because I was too lazy to look for a new name and I'm rather bad at it as you've surely noticed... In the other hand, this name really fits him and I could write an important pofu moment thanks to this name. I never described fully Tai's appearance. It's because I see him as a taller, green-eyed, more serious version of Po, but I didn't want anybody to suspect that he was Po's biological brother. He wasn't. I intended to kill him in the 14th chapter, but I couldn't do that to Shifu. I also pondered on his crush on his own master. Well, I abandoned this idea, I didn't want to put his master in a difficult situation.

Heron - ah, my poor white heron. I don't know why, but since I saw the first KFP movie I wondered why there was a crane and no heron. Originally, she was... Lord Shan's wife and I had many ideas for this character. For example - a fight between her and Viper during the battle in the mountains. She was to die by committing suicide with Shan's war fan after her husband's death. Or to be killed by a huge thunderbolt when she was escaping the battle. Eventually she became a servant hopelessly in love with her despotic master. Why? Because a peacock such as Lord Shan would never marry a heron. If he had done it, this story would be very black/white and I didn't want to make bad-bad guys and good-good guys. It wouldn't be the story I wanted to write. Heron wasn't entirely bad, although she would have sent Po to his death, she really wanted to return to the Panda Village right after her realising that Shan had used her. Personally, I think that she was the most tragic character in this story. No one really liked her (except for Crane and the pandas she had to deceive), no one really loved her, she had been deluded, used and killed by someone she had really loved. Forever to be considered a traitor.

Lord Shan - I fu*king love this guy. A nutcase, a sociopath, a devilishly beautiful and graceful bird. Really, I love peacocks. I had a crush on him, writing the scenes with this character. You may think that I created him because I was too lazy to imagine an entirely new main villain, but it's not true. Since I saw Lord Shen I couldn't stop wondering how Shen would look like if he were an ordinary peacock. Shan's personality isn't mindless copying too. I intentionally gave him Shen's typical behaviours and even lines very similar to those Shen had spoken in KFP2, because I wanted to accent his strong bond with his 'brother', Shan was so attached to his cousin that he even behaved like him not being aware of it. They had really trusted and loved each other. It was Shen who taught him how to fight and they shared the passion for war inventions. Shan's name is of course similar to Shen's, but it also means 'mountain' and his camp was located in the mountains.

Qiu - a less self-thinking boss than his brother. This is a very strange character. No matter what he did to Po, I couldn't force myself to hate him. I had a really hard time writing his last conversation with Deshi, because I had to kill him. I had to, because if he had decided to stop fighting Po, the battle and the story would have ended completely different. No war, no fun. Kinda weird. Qiu loved his freedom the most and he was capable of killing his own nephew to keep it, but he preferred to die than to be imprisoned. Also, he couldn't have been too similar to his brother, it was Deshi's job. Did I do the right thing killing him? I leave it to your judgment.

Deshi - I see that it's your favourite OC in this story. I personally love his name. Originally, he was only one of the soldiers, no connections with the Boss Wolves, but his behaviour was very similar to the Boss's. I made a teenager out of him, because it was necessary to save him from prison and he couldn't have been saved had he committed crimes on the pandas during the genocide. Deshi knew that his father had made many mistakes and bad things, but he considered him a very good father. He wanted to believe that his parent hadn't been completely evil and this is why he believed Po, when he told him that his father had acted like a hero. I created Deshi for a few reasons- without him, Po would surely have died in the cell. Besides I'm fascinated by villains who turn into good characters. Deshi hurt Po so much the first night at Shan's hideout because as an orphan he didn't see any choice but to become one of the soldiers of the pack. He really tried to, fortunately, he didn't qualify.

Master Zhu -a very strong, charismatic woman, the most important teacher at the academy after her master. Always dressed in green. She was created only to give some face to the teachers, but now I see huge potential in this OC...

The new masters:

Jaguar (the same story like Crane and Heron- there's a tiger master, and the leopard, but jaguars are awesome too!) Sheep, Rat, Cobra (taken from Chinese zodiac), Eagle (from the Amber Palace - eagles and ambers are symbols of my country). Boar (because everyone loves Master Boar from Gongmen Prison ;)

Po's parents:
Actually, they are not OCs and I'm not sure if I should write here about them, but since we know very little about Po's Mother and Po's Father, I had to give them some past, personality and names, so I'll write about the characters I created in the story.

Master Heng - What we know about the Dad- he's still alive, probably loves his son, he can fight, he seems to be some big fish in the pandas' new village and if he's some kind of a leader to them, he's probably a responsible, mentally strong person. I gave him this name because I was looking for a short, strong name beginning with H. I'm not sure why. Sorry if some of his behaviours look strange to you, it's because I have no idea what it is like to have a father, especially a loving one. I didn't have any idea for this character, but slowly he evolved into a person I could really love. (yeah, a hopeless crush) He was another character I wanted to kill in the 14th chapter, but I couldn't hurt Po like that. Maybe it's very unprofessional, but since when do I write professionally?

Ru - We know nothing about Po's Mother besides the fact that she loved her son enough to sacrifice herself for him. Ru was not a warrior. She wasn't also some amazing housewife, therefore, her mother-in-law didn't respect her very much. But Ru surely loved her family the most. Po inherited her clumsiness and ability to do and say funny things, because his father was the one who gave him his kung fu talent and appearance.

The mentioned OCs:

Master Lao - Master Heng's teacher and mentor. Oogway knew well what he was doing choosing a giant panda as the Dragon Warrior. ;) In the beginning, I didn't plan to mention his name, but while writing this story I was also reading Tao Te Ching. I couldn't find a better name for Heng's master.

The Innkeeper - the name of her restaurant is not a coincidence... Everyone talks about this person using the "she" word, because I'm a woman too.