Hi there. Glad you took an interest in this story. I hope you enjoy it. I'm still kinda a novice at writing, but I'm going to put a lot of effort into making this a fun read. Without further delay let's get started.

Chapter 1: A Strange World

Death. It's…a void. I can't see anything. I can't hear anything. I can't feel anything. All I have are my thoughts. Is this what it's like? Just emptiness? I'm welling to bet that this is hell. Suddenly I saw a twinkle. The tiniest white light far out in the darkness. I felt myself being drawn to it. It grew brighter and it looked like it was coming at me. The closer the light got I could make out what it looks like.

"What in the?" My voice echoed.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was a tiger in the form of light. It had sapphire eyes the glowed at bright as it's form. I tried to get away, but it felt like I was going nowhere. The tiger pounced at me and suddenly it burst into a stream of energy. I could feel it flowing into me. Suddenly it was back to darkness. However, I heard a voice. A heavenly voice that whispered to me.

"Bai Hu has chosen you to live again in his image."

I barely heard it as everything fell silent again.

Elsewhere 3rd person.

An old tortoise is meditating next to a peach tree. He looked very at peace with the world as he balanced on his staff with his tail. As the wind blew through his face he slowly opened his eyes and looked out to the horizon. In the sky he say a small flash of white light,

"Most unusual. What has the universe brought us?" He asked himself.

Elsewhere with William

I groaned as I began to wake up. My head was pounding, and my entire body was sore as all hell. I rubbed a hand on my fore and-…. wait a damn minute.

"What the hell?" I said as I felt that my face was different. Like waaaay different. "Why does my entire face feel fuzzy?" I then felt the top of my head. "Why are my ears on top of my head instead of the side of my head?"

I opened my eye and found myself in the middle of a forest. I looked around and saw that was completely alone.

"Where the hell am I-…..oh god." I had taken my hand away from my face and saw that it changed somehow. My hand was now a paw. I had white fur with black strips all over my arm. I looked at my other arm and saw that it was the same. "Ok ok I'm going to close my eyes." I closed my eyes. "And when I open them my arms will not be fur- and they're still furry….. WHY ARE THEY FURRY?!" I shouted. I looked down at my feet and saw that they were paws too.

Okay this absolutely insane. One minute I am jogging somewhere in Florida and the next minute BOOM! I get hit by a damn truck! Of course, I wouldn't have gotten hit if I didn't decide to rush in and save a little girl from getting ran over. She had wondered into the street chasing after a ball. If I knew all of this was going to happened I wouldn't have done what I did. Ugh what am I saying? What kind of guy would I be if I just stood there and watch a kid die while I could've done something to prevent it? Anyway, now I'm here in the middle of nowhere with furry arm and a furry face and-

"OH GOD I HAVE A TAIL!" I shouted.

So yeah, I wasn't taking any of this well at all. I mean would anyone normal take this lightly?

"This must be my punishment isn't it?" I asked myself. "Ugh well I'm not going to get any answers standing around here."

I stood up and looked around. I picked the most suitable direction to go in and started walking. I walked for about five minutes when I came upon a small pond. How convenient cause I was thirsty. I walked over to the pond and kneed down. It looked clean, so I assumed it was safe to drink. I gathered some water in my hands uh I mean paws and drank from them. It was refreshing. I then looked down and saw my reflection. My heart skipped a beat and I was speechless as I gazed into my own reflection.

"Holy shit!" Ok I wasn't that speechless.

I was a White Tiger with sapphire blue eyes. What the hell man I look like I belong in a cartoon. This has got to be a dream because last I checked humans don't die and get resurrected as an anthromorphic animal by some sort of cosmic deity. I splashed some water on my face because It was kind of hot. Must be spring or summer where I am now. I got up and continued my walk.

I walked through the forest for a little while longer than last time and came onto a dirt road. I didn't know which way to go but eventually decided to go left. I didn't know where I'd end up, but it'll be better than the middle of the woods. As I walked I noticed some of the trees were bamboo. Don't see those around Florida so it's safe to say I'm not in Florida anymore. I kept walking until I arrived at what looked like a small village. It looked kind of poor and run down. At first, I thought I would find humans here, but what I found shocked the hell out of me. Animals walking on two legs like people and talking. There were of mixture of small pigs, bunnies, goats, and geese. I noticed some of them stared at me as I walked by. My best guess it's because I was a Tiger and the fact that I was towering over them. I soon got over the fact that these animals were acting like normal people due to the fact that I was an animal myself. I decided it would be best to ask someone where I was. I walked up to a bunny who had his back turned as he was busy tending to his cart.

"Um excuse me?" I asked him. He yelped as I took him by surprise.

"Ah don't hurt me!" He said as he cowered.

"No no no I'm not gonna hurt you. I just want to know where I am." I said trying to calm him down.

He seemed to regain himself and looked me up and down. He was still a little shaky.

"Well stranger you're in Nong Village" He informed me.

That wasn't really the type of answer I was looking for, but at least I have a name for the place I was standing in.

"Ok where is this Village located?" I asked him

"Why? So your gang can come back and steal from us too?" He asked accusing me.

"Huh?" I asked clearly confused at what he was talking about.

"We barely have enough food as it is so why don't you just move on?" He yelled at me while pointing a finger.

I noticed his yelling was bringing attention from the other villagers.

"Woah woah woah I'm not here to cause trouble. I'm just lost I promise" I said trying to calm him down.

"If you don't want to cause trouble then ju-"He was interrupted when him and I both heard screaming from a distance. "Oh no they're back!"

I watched as he ran into his house and I looked to see the rest of the villagers doing the same. I saw a few of them running from around a corner clearly fleeing from something. Against my better judgement I decided to go and check it out.

I peaked behind the corner and there was trouble alright. The village was being raided. There was five of them and they looked like coyotes. They wore clothes a bandit out of a video game would wear. They were knocking things over and breaking into houses. I was absolutely disgusted with what I was seeing.

"Alright you little runts. You know the drill everything you have belongs to us now." I heard one of them say. He was slightly bigger than the rest, so I assumed he was the leader.

Ugh scum like this has always disgusted me. I hate it when people with power use it to make it worse for those who don't, but should I even get involved? Yeah, I have trained for about 7 years as an MMA fighter and fighting thugs isn't exactly new to me. Ah screw it. Something's gotta be done right? I stepped from around the corner and stood in the middle of the dirt road. The thugs seemed to not notice me, so I had to make my presence known.

"HEY!" I yelled to them instantly getting their attention. "How's about you mutts mess with someone your own size!?"

That sounded intimidating right?

"Well look at this boys. I can't say I've seen a tiger with that kinda fur before." The leader said.

"It's nice and shiny. I bet we'd make some good yuan selling his fur." Another one said.

Sell my fur? Are they seriously planning on skinning me?

"Forget these little weaklings. Let's take this guy instead." The leader said as his lackeys joined him.

Well no turning back now. I'm in for a fight whether I like it or not. Maybe I can win. In real life a coyote would logically be no match for a tiger. Seeing as I'm clearly standing taller than all of them save maybe the big one. Still I'm not sure if logic will help me much in this situation. Oh well time to focus on what's in front of me. I got in a southpaw karate stance. I've always used a mixture of karate and taekwondo in my matches. Also, just a touch of capoeira. This shouldn't be too hard. They were all barehanded. Bare pawed? Ugh they didn't have any weapons! Probably didn't think the people here would put up much of a fight.

"Looks like he wants to fight fellas. Let get em!" The leader said before he and his minions rushed me.

And it's on. When the first one got close enough I roundhouse kicked him in the body. That sent him crashing into a nearby wooden cart and I was shocked at the power I delivered. Either these guys were weak or I'm considerably stronger in this world. No time to figure that out though as two more closed in and they were about to swing. I put up my guard to block the incoming attack. Their fists connected with my arms. The impact made me stumble a bit, but I held my ground. Now it was my turn. I dipped to my left and to avoid a few strikes and countered with a left cross to one of the coyote's face. That hurt him as he staggered back giving me enough room to fight his friend. He seemed a little distracted by the fact that I was able to knock his friend back. I took that opening to clinch his head and kneed him in the stomach. I could tell that hurt a lot because I heard him whimper like a dog in pain. I still had a good grip on his head with my clinch and I decided to deliver a few more harder knees to the body. I finished him by giving him a flying knee to his head. He was out cold after that.

"Two down three more to go." I said to myself.

The one I hit with a cross moments before seemed to recover. I didn't give him a chance to attack again as I delivered a smooth spinning back kick to his head. One of my favorite moves. Proud to say this kick earned me a few good victories in MMA. After that kick he was down and out.

"Two more come on William!" I said pumping myself up.

These guys aren't putting up as much of a fight as I originally thought. When the next coyote was within ranged I lunged forward and gave him a hard-left superman punch. That wasn't enough to take him down, but it gave me an opening for the right hook I delivered. He was down for the count. Um if anyone was counting that is. The last one was the leader. He looked tough, but I wasn't gonna let that scare me. I ran at him and went for a double leg takedown. I got him up and slammed him hard on the ground. I didn't stop there. I transitioned rather quickly to full mount and began to pound him into the dirt. He couldn't do much as I punched him over and over again. I saw that he was about to retaliate by punching me with his left fist. I timed it perfectly and I grabbed his arm. In smooth fashion I put him in an armbar. I locked it in and ever so slowly I cranked his arm more and more. At this point in a match someone would've tapped out, however this was no match, and I didn't care if he was going to tap or not. I wanted to make this hurt as much as possible. I added more pressure to the hold and eventually I heard a snap followed by a pained yell. Yup I broke his arm sure enough. I let go and rolled back onto my feet.

The battle was over, and I saw that most of the thugs were still out cold. Their leader however was still on the ground screaming in pain. Hmph the bastard deserved it for wrecking this village. I looked around and saw some of the villagers were watching from their windows. No doubt they saw the whole thing. I looked at my hands. Ugh I mean paws and saw that there was a little of the coyote's blood on them. It was quite noticeable considering I have white fur.

"Reminds me of the good ole days." I said to myself.

"You bastard!" I heard the bandit leader yell at me. "I'll get you for this I promise I-" I interrupted him by kicking him in the face knocking him out.

"Shut up." I said standing over him.

I gotta admit. This is the most badass I've felt in a long time. I noticed some villagers were exiting their homes to see the aftermath. Soon it seemed like the entire village was in the area. They all had an amazed look on their face.

"You saved us." A small pig said as he stepped towards me.

"You defeated the coyote gang." I heard someone else say.

The coyote gang? That's what they called themselves? Not very creative at all. I saw the villagers gathering towards me.

"Its no problem everyone. Someone had to do something" I said trying to sound modest.

"Hoorah for the rogue warrior!" I heard someone yell out.

Soon the entire village cheered. It's been a while since someone cheered for me for knocking someone out. I couldn't hide my smile. This felt good. I used to fight for money and uh…other reasons, but this is a nice change of pace. I saw the bunny that accused me of wanting to rob him walk up to me. He bowed to me.

"Please forgive me for my rudeness towards you earlier. I thought you were another thug coming to rob our home." He said with sincerity.

"It's fine I understand. This place must get raided a lot huh?" I asked him.

"Indeed, this gang had been taking from us for months. We'd ask for help from the imperials, but they never get here in time." He explained

Imperials? Wait a second, I heard one of the coyotes say yuan. I thought about and came to a possible conclusion, but there's only one way to be sure.

"If you don't mind me asking. What country am I standing in right now?" I asked him. I noticed my question confused him a bit.

"Um you're in China." He answered.

My eyes widened to his answer. I was in China. Ancient China by the looks of it. I was pretty sure I was still dreaming, but my fight with those thugs felt real enough. This was all happening. I died, and something sent me to another world. Why is this happening? Where do I go from here? And why aren't these people speaking Chinese? So many questions and not a single answer.

"Are you ok friend?" I heard the bunny ask me. I must've spaced out.

"Um I'm fine just thinking about something." I said regaining my senses.

I looked around at the unconscious bodies of the bandits and wondered what to do with them.

"So, what are you going to do with these guys?" I asked him.

"Well if you can be so kind to tie them up we can send a message to an imperial camp not to far from here and they'll take them to prison." He answered.

"Sounds good to me" I said as I spotted some rope.

I had finished tying up the bandits and put them in what counts as a jailhouse for this village. One of the villagers had already left to deliver a message to the imperials. I asked him if I could help him get there but he assured me that it was safe to travel. I took his word for it.

"Now that those bandits are gone its safe for us to travel to other villages to trade goods." The bunny said standing next to me.

"Other villages?" I asked him.

"Why yes there are many villages to travel to, but the one we used to go to the most is the Valley of Peace." He explained

"Valley of Peace?" I asked.

"Your really not from around here are you?" He asked me.

"You could say I'm far from home." I told him.

"Well I assure you the Valley of Peace is the place to be" He said.

I thought about what he said. If what he's saying is true, then the Valley of Peace is my best bet to survive in this world. Honestly where else am I gonna go?

"Could you tell me which way I should go to get there?" I asked him

"Of course. Follow this path and you'll find signs that will lead you to where you need to go." He said.

"Thank you. Well I best be on my way then" I said starting in the direction he told me to go.

"Wait warrior." I heard him say behind me.

"Yes?" I asked looking back at him.

"What is your name?" He asked me.

I smiled. "William"

"William. A strange name, but I like it." He said with his own smile.

I nodded. "Well see you around." I said as I continued walking waving farewell.

"Farewell young warrior and I wish you well on your travels" He said waving at me.

I saw other villagers waving goodbye and I waved back as I walked. It feels good to help those who need it. And I'm glad I brought peace to them. Heh I haven't been here a day and I've already done some good. I thought maybe this place wouldn't be so bad after all.

After about fifteen minutes of walking I came across signs. I looked at the sign and saw that they were all written in Chinese. However, that's not the reason why I had a dumb look on my face. The strange thing was that I understood it. I never studied Chinese a day in my life and I can clearly understand these signs. Was I given a handicap or something? I'll figure this out later. I saw that one sign said Valley of Peace and I started in the direction it was pointing. Strangely walking around with no shoes felt natural. Maybe it was because I'm an animal. I looked myself over just to make sure I wasn't just imagining myself as a white tiger.

"This is going to take some getting used to." I said to myself.

At the Jade Palace

Master Shifu was meditating under the dragon statue with a few scented candles lit. His meditation was interrupted when Zeng burst through the doors.

"Master Shifu!" He yelled.

Shifu let out an annoyed sigh. "What is it Zeng? I was in the middle of meditating."

"The situation in Nong village has been resolved." Zeng said.

"So, have the imperials finally dealt with the coyote bandits? And I was about to send the five to deal with it themselves." Shifu said still sitting in a lotus position.

"It wasn't the imperials. The villagers said a rouge warrior defeated them." Zeng explained.

"A rouge warrior?" Shifu said opening his eyes as this news did sound a bit interesting.

"Well that just wonderful news." A voice said behind Shifu, but he knew who it was.

"Master Oogway?" Shifu asked and he immediately stood up and respectfully bowed.

Oogawy gave a light chuckle. "It is always good to hear of someone who is brave enough to help those in need."

"Master do you know of this warrior?" Shifu asked.

"Hmm no I don't. However, I felt his presence when he arrived, and I sense that we will be meeting him sooner than you think." Oogway said with a smile.

Back with William

I had been walking for a few hours and my feet…..uh paws were killing me. The sun was starting to go down and I had to be nearing the valley soon as I felt I traveled a long way. Soon enough I had arrived at my destination. I was standing on a hill overlooking the Valley of Peace. It was truly a site to behold. It was surrounded by mountains and I could see a palace on top of one. That bunny was right. This is the place to be. It still looked like I had ways to go before I got there so I continued on.

After about another thirty minutes of walking I had arrived at the gates. I walked through and saw that the place was more lively than the village I was in before. It had the same type of animals as the last village. Bunnies and pigs must be common around here. I noticed some of them stopped and looked at me as I walked by. It's possible that they haven't seen a white tiger before. Even where I'm from white tigers are almost never seen in the wild so this makes sense. Well about as much sense as any of this makes.

The Valley of Peace was huge. I've been walking for ten minutes and I don't think I've covered the whole village. I noticed it was starting to get dark. Maybe I could find an inn or something. Wait no money. How could have forgotten that I'm broke. I wish I died with my wallet in my pocket. That's a sentence I'd never thought I'd have to say. Well looks like I'd have to settle for sleeping outside tonight. After an exhausting day I think I'd sleep anywhere right now. Luckily for me the night air wasn't cold. I found an alley that looked decent enough. There were two barrels and I sat between them. Conveniently there was a cloth on one of the barrels. No one seemed to be using it, so I helped myself. I covered myself with it and got as comfortable as I could against the stone wall. Not what I would call a good night's sleep, but I'll take what I can get right now. I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning

I woke up expecting to find myself in a hospital bed or something. I however was still in the same alley I fell asleep in. I raised my hand to find that it was still a paw.

"Yup. Still a tiger." I said to myself.

I looked around and it was morning. I stood up and stretched and my joints popped from sleeping in an uncomfortable position all night. At that moment I heard a loud gong. That's gotta be the closest thing to an alarm clock around here. I took the cloth I covered myself in and threw around my head. There was no reason to hide myself, but I'd like to have it just in case I need it for sleep again. I walked from the alley and saw some villagers starting their morning. Must be a busy place.

"Now how do I eat with no money?" I asked myself.

I started to think, but my thoughts were interrupted by screaming coming from behind me. I turned to see villagers running away from something.

"Damnit it's too early in the morning." I complained.

I rushed to where the commotion was coming from and saw that the valley was under attack. More bandits. Bandits must be a real problem around here. These guys weren't coyotes. They were boars and they had weapons. Six of them in total. They all wielded axes and wore pretty much what you'd expect a bandit to wear. This wasn't like before. It's a bigger risk if I pick a fight with these guys. However, I didn't get the chance to decide when one of them saw me and rushed at me with his axe raised. Well shit no choice now.

Out of pure instinct I grabbed the arm of the boar before his axe could hit me. My reflexes weren't that quick, but this guy was slow. With my right hand gripping his arm I gave him a hard-left elbow that made him stumble back and drop his axe. I finished him off with a right hook and a left cross to his face. He was out cold. This caught the attention of the rest of the bandits and they all came at me. In dramatic fashion I threw off the cloth that was around my head. I've secretly always wanted to do that, but back to the task at hand. These guys are slow, so I must rely on speed. I didn't wait for an attack and charged at them. I gave the first bandit a flying kick to the face and that was enough to send him stumbling back into one of his friends. While they were both off balance I took that chance to land a spinning back kick to both of them. They were both out cold.

"Damn I'm good." I said to myself

Before the next one could attack I tripped him by sweeping his leg. Not much I could do to him while without interference from the other ones, so I shifted my focus on the next two. They both attacked at the same time, but I got out of harms way by back stepping. Before they could attack again I gave one a front kick to the body, but all it did was push him back. However, I had enough room to deal with his friend. I gave him a quick 5 punch combination. Three to the body and two to the head. I finished him off with a right uppercut and he was down. Two more to go. I turned around to see the one I tripped moments before was getting up. Before he could turn around I ran up and gripped him around his stomach. I then got him up and over with a german suplex. He must have landed on his head because he was out cold. Now for the last one. The last bandit came at me with his axe raised. I was ready for it and I caught his arm. I got the under hook with my other arm and I hipped tossed the bandit to the ground. While he was down I sat on his head and put his left arm in a kimura lock. I cranked his arm until it snapped. I let go of his arm and got up. He was still yelling in pain, so I stomped on his skull to knock him out.

"Sleep it off." I said.

That battle took more effort than last time, but I was still victorious. I'm glad I know how to fight otherwise I'd be dead right now. Well I mean I should actually be dead right now, but you know what I mean. The other villagers started to gather in the area and I was expecting another round of praise. However, I felt my ears twitch when I heard loud stomping. It was getting louder with each step. I whipped around and suddenly I saw a stone house get demolished as something destroyed it.

"Get to safety!" I told the villagers behind me and they ran away.

I then turned around to see a large figure walking through the dust. The figure soon revealed himself to be a large boar. He stood at least a foot and a half taller than me and was noticeably bigger than the bandits I faced moments before. He had wraps around his wrists and was wearing a torn vest that looked too small for him. His pants were brown and was wrapping in a cloth. He was a brute and muscle bound.

"Well this is just fantastic." I said sarcastically to myself.

"I AM BOAR AND I HAVE RETURNED!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.

Oh snap Boar?! Well William is in for it now. Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter. William's got a long journey ahead of him….ya know….if Boar doesn't kill him that is. See ya next time.