Lotus Blade
A/N- This is my first Kung Fu Panda fan fic and the first one on Fan . I haven't seen it yet but I want to badly. This is just something I came up with since I like Po already from it. Enjoy
Ch 1
Po sighed as he cleaned the dishes.
It was late, past midnight.
He was working the midnight shift.
It was boring.
He was focusing on a meditation exercise Master Shifu had taught him during training.
He sighed. Only some of his village remembered him as the great Dragon Warrior.
Others had already forgotten.
"At least the village is safe from disaster.
Besides Shifu and the Furious Five remember.
I never thought I'd be going from Dragon Warrior back to Po the noodle apprentice and delivery boy." He thought as he saw a bag with dumplings and chow mein in it.
"Po take these to Master Tigress, okay?" the chef ordered.
"Okay dude." Po replied to him.
"Don't mess up like before or I'll take your mistake out of your wages." The chef told him.
Po nodded as he took the bag as the chef was slicing chicken and vegetables for a stir fry somebody had ordered.
Po was nervous as he knocked on the door of Master Tigress's house.
He watched as the door slid open.
"Hey Tigress did you order dumplings and an order of chow mein?" he told her.
"Yeah. You know what Monkey and Shifu are like after training.
How're you after…. What happened?" she answered.
"… Okay I guess.
It's like being the Dragon Warrior never happened and I went back to being a loser." He answered.
There was a hint of sadness in the kung fu obessed panda's eyes.
"You wanna come in?" Tigress said.
"I guess. The chef wouldn't care if I didn't come back." Po answered walking through the door.
Shifu and Monkey were fighting each other with true passion.
"Guys food's here!" Tigress yelled.
They stopped breathing heavily after the intense training.
"Hey guys.
It looks like you guys were having fun." Po told them sadly.
Shifu smiled. He knew it had been rough for his Dragon student to readjust to normal life now Tai Lun was taken care of.
He like Po was feeling the strain of the community.
"Not good. They forgot about the Dragon Warrior.
Do you know how that feels?" he replied.
"Po it's not the fame that makes the Dragon Warrior or the legends they tell, it's the heart and principle of the warrior.
You have a lot of heart and even though they have forgotten, you still are the Dragon Warrior to us.
Sit, join us." Shifu told him.
"Sure." Po answered as he sat down.
"Hey! Shifu!" Monkey said annoyed.
"What?" Shifu answered.
"Don't use karate to eat all the dumplings." Monkey replied taking a fighting stance.
Tigress rolled her eyes as she watched the three of them eat using karate moves and fighting using chop sticks.
Po got nervous as the last dumpling was in the bowl.
Shifu was about to get it when Tigress leapt up and took it.
"Aw man!" Po said smiling.
Shifu and Monkey laughed hysterically at that.
It reminded him of training Po.
Later around 1 am Po returned to the noodle restaurant when he heard small crying come from a dumpster.
" What on Earth is that?
Better check it out." He thought approaching the dumpster carefully.
Inside was a baby panda wrapped in a red blanket with a letter attached to the blanket.
She had brown eyes and looked up at Po happily.
She was reaching out for him with her tiny arms.
Her expression seemed to lift his spirits a little.
He then read the letter.
Dear Person.
I cannot care for this child because our family is too large and my husband doesn't want another mouth to feed.
So I'm giving her to you.
I know you'll take great care of my Lotus.
Yours sincerely
Loti.
Po felt sorry for the baby. He then remembered something that Shifu said eariler about the Dragon Warrior having heart and prinicple.
"Hey! This could be the Dragon Warrior's new mission!" he thought lifting the baby out of the dumpster and walking off to his house.
"It's okay. You're not gonna be thrown out like garbage.
I know how that feels.
I'll care for ya." he said to it softly.
He then entered his house and searched through his closet and found a crib and blankets.
"Here you go.
You like it?" Po told it.
The baby gurgled happily to him.
He felt good like after helping the village.
"You're gonna need a name.
I know!
Lotus.
How about that?" Po told her.
The baby made happy noises at that as if agreeing with him.
He then climbed into bed after that.
"Good night Lotus." he said softly as he drifted off to sweet dreams...
But Shifu seemed worried about something new from the Dragon Scroll, something he had to tell Po about...