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Dragon Warrior

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Dragon Warrior

I do not own Kung Fu Panda


-A few days later, just outside the Valley-

After a few days of playing with the staff weapons, and nearly blowing himself up, Dai had managed to figure them out, they now hung from his right hip as he walked down the road towards a bar. Dai walked up to the entrance, pausing before he entered and walked up to the counter taking a seat at the bar.

"A bottle of Sake please." He said sitting at the bar.

"Aren't you a bit young to be in here?" The bartender asked eyeing Dai.

"Just give it to me," Dai said placing some coins on the bar, placing a hand on his new staffs.

Luckily, it was pretty empty, there weren't any other people in the bar.

"Whatever you say." The Bartender said placing a bottle of Sake on the bar in front of Dai.

"You can leave the bottle," Dai said to the bartender.

"Rough day?" He asked.

"You have no idea," Dai said taking a drink.

About halfway through the bottle, Dai saw a hooded figure enter the bar; he lowered the hood revealing Tai Lung's Apprentice, how had he escaped from prison?

Dai turned around, hoping the tiger hadn't seen him and went back to his drink. To his horror, the tiger sat right next to him on his right.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" The Apprentice asked looking at Dai.

"I don't think so," Dai said taking another drink.

"No, I'm pretty sure I've seen you somewhere," The Apprentice said looking at Dai more closely

Dai rested a hand on his staffs just in case the apprentice tried anything.

"Hey, where'd you get those staffs?" The Apprentice asked seeing the staffs on Dai's hip.

"Um…" Dai said trying to come up with a good explanation.

"You stole those weapons," The Apprentice stated. "They belong to me,"

Dai stood up, drawing his Kunai, slicing the Apprentice across the chest, and heel kicked him back into a table, destroying the table.

"Looks like you and I are gonna have a scuffle!" The Apprentice said standing back up, pulled out his emergency dagger.

Dai smirked, pulling the staffs from his hip, sparking them to life making them hum with energy as he spun them around.

"Hey, how'd you figure out how to do that?" The apprentice said sounding unnerved.

"What's wrong? I thought you wanted to fight," Dai said taking a fighting stance.

"I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here, you mind tossing me my staffs," The Apprentice said.

Dai yelled and charged forward, swinging the staffs at his head, he dodged it, but only just.

"I'm gonna make you pay for hurting Tigress," Dai snarled swinging the weapon at the Apprentice.

"Tigress," The name echoed in Kiro's head like a long forgotten name, and he paused, images flashing through his mind from when he was younger.

"Did you say Tigress?" He asked.

Dai took advantage of Kiro's distraction and slammed the ends of the staff into Kiro's chest, knocking him back, driving the breath out of him.

"What do you care? You tried to kill her!" Dai growled hitting the apprentice on the shoulder with the staff, spin kicking him, under the chin again, knocking him to the floor.

Kiro kicked at Dai with both feet, hitting the staff, and stood back up.

"You may know how to activate those staffs, but you still don't know how to use them properly," Kiro said.

Dai growled in response and combined the weapons into one larger staff.

"Did you forget, I'm a Weapons Master," He said slamming the staff into the floor, shocking Kiro, making him fall, panting, to his knees.

Dai ran at Kiro swinging the staff, hitting him in the head knocking him over backward to the floor.

Dai swung the staff down at Kiro, but he caught it on his arm and shoved Dai back, Kiro got to his feet and attacked Dai with everything he had, punching and kicking at the other tiger, forcing him back against the counter, the staff pinned between them.

Dai grabbed the bottle he'd been drinking from and smashed it on Kiro's head and kicked him in the gut making him stagger backward holding the side of his head.

"That was a low blow," Kiro said.

Dai stood up, rubbing his neck where the staff had burned him.

"File a complaint," Dai said hoarsely, picking the staff up once more, sparking it.

Kiro audibly groaned. "You don't know when to give up do you?" He asked.

"Nope," Dai said, getting ready to attack Kiro again.

Dai surged forward, swinging the staff at Kiro, Kiro caught it on his forearm and smirked.

"You may be a weapons Master, but I trained with those staffs my entire life!" He said, grabbing the staff, pulling it out of Dai's grip, spinning it around swinging it at Dai like a baseball bat.

Dai ducked under it and head butted Kiro in the gut, knocking the breath out of him, Kiro lost his grip on the staff and Dai picked it up once more and stood over Kiro, ready to deal the final, fatal blow

"Wait! I thought you were supposed to be the good guy, and good guys don't kill unarmed people!" Kiro said as Dai raised the staff to deliver the final blow.

"You're right..." Dai said, pausing, lowering the staff weapon.

Kiro smiled and relaxed thinking Dai was going to take him back to prison.

"Okay, I give up, you can take me back to jail," He said.

"...But I never said I was the good guy," Dai said raising the staff back up, Kiro's smile disappeared.

"Wait no, I surrendered!" He cried, putting his arms up.

Dai yelled brought the weapon down on Kiro's head with a crunch.

He looked down at the now, hopefully, dead apprentice and dropped the staff to the floor and left the bar running back towards the Valley of Peace if Tai Lung's apprentice had tracked him to that bar, Tai-Lung himself was probably at the village by now wrecking havoc.

Dai ran at full speed for two days and reached the Village and ran back up to the Palace and to the Hall of Heroes and saw The Dragon Scroll still in its place, next he went to the Barracks. To his relief everything looked fine, he breathed a sigh of relief as he entered the barracks as he went past Tigress's room he thought he heard sobbing and paused and quietly opened the door.

He saw her sitting on her bed, she was indeed sobbing, or trying very hard not too, but Dai could see the tears threatening to spill over.

"Tigress?" He asked softly.

Tigress whipped her head up towards the door at the sound of his voice and saw Dai standing in the doorway, looking tired.

"Hi," he said.

"Hi!?" Tigress said getting up, marching over to him and punching him in the face knocking him to the floor. "You run away we need you the most, and you have the nerve to come back here, and all you can say is, Hi?!" She yelled fists clenched, tears spilling over.

"I'm sorry," Dai said holding his bleeding nose. "I don't want to be the Dragon Warrior, it's too big of a responsibility, but; I shouldn't have run away like I did."

That didn't seem to help Tigress much who was still frowning at him. "Listen," Dai said standing up, grabbing her shoulders and pulling her into a hug. "I'm not going to leave again."

Tigress stood there in shock as Dai hugged her.

"Promise?" Tigress asked as Dai let go of her. "I promise," Dai said. "I'm not going anywhere, at least not anytime soon."

"Come on, Master Shifu is gonna want to know your back," Tigress said dragging him out of the Barracks.

"Master Shifu!" Tigress said entering the Hall of Heroes with Dai.

"What is it Tigress?" he asked.

"Dai's back." She said.

"So, you've decided to return." Master Shifu said not turning around.

"Yeah," Dai said looking at Tigress.

"Are you ready to accept your destiny?" Master Shifu asked.

"I'm about as ready as I'm gonna get," Dai said.

Master Shifu turned around, holding out the Dragon Scroll for him, Dai noticed Tigress visibly tense up as he took it, then leave the Hall of Heroes.

Dai slowly opened the scroll, and frowned, confused.

"It's blank," He said gazing at his own reflection.

"What?!" Master Shifu asked shocked.

"Here, look," Dai said showing the Master.

"It's blank!" Master Shifu said.

"So, what do we do now?" Dai asked rolling the scroll up again.

"I do not know," Master Shifu said.

"While you figure that out, I'm gonna find Tigress," Dai said leaving the Hall of Heroes.

Dai searched around the Palace grounds, he wanted to talk to Tigress, but he was having trouble finding her, none of the staff had seen her either, it was starting to worry him. Finally, he was about to give up when he walked past the kitchen and saw Tigress sitting at the table and decided to join her.

"There you are, I've been looking everywhere for you, are you okay?" He asked sitting across from the other tiger, she answered him by growling.

"What's wrong?" Dai asked.

Tigress growled loudly and jumped out of her seat.

"YOU! You're what's wrong!" She yelled pointing at him.

"Me?! What did I do?!" Dai said reeling back afraid she might try to hit him…again.

"I trained for years to be Dragon Warrior! And you show up here randomly, and take that chance away!" Tigress yelled knocking the bowl of dumplings off the table.

"I'm sorry," Dai said calmly. "I didn't want to steal your moment; if you want the Dragon Scroll, here," Dai said pushing it across the table towards her.

"What?" Tigress said surprised. "But Shifu chose you."

"I know, but take it, you deserve it more than I do. Besides, it's blank anyway," Dai said getting up to leave.

"Blank!?" Tigress asked shocked, opening the scroll.

"It's blank!" She said in shock looking at her reflection.

"I know, a lot of good it does," Dai said leaving the kitchen, deciding to be by himself.

"Wait up!" Dai paused at the exit and turned to see Tigress running towards him. "It wasn't fair for me to yell at you like that, I'm sorry." Tigress apologized.

"It's okay," Dai said. "I don't blame you."

"Anyway, I was gonna practice some Tai-Chi; you want to come with me?" Dai asked.

"Yes, I would," Tigress answered.

"Great!" Dai said.

Dai took Tigress to the Dragon Grotto near the Palace

"This is incredible! I can't believe I've never been down here before," Tigress said, looking around.

"I found it last night while I was walking around," Dai said. "I figured it'd be a nice place to relax, maybe practice some Tai-Chi."

The two practiced some Tai-Chi moves for awhile until Dai decided to try something, seeing the water droplets falling from the ceiling of the cave.

"Okay, sit here," Dai said to Tigress, pointing.

"Why?" Tigress asked crossing her arms over her chest.

"Just, trust me," Dai said.

Dai swung his sword and sliced the water droplet in half, another fell from the ceiling, and hit Dai on the top of the head, the next one he hit, and the one after that.

"That was amazing!" Tigress said

If she hadn't seen if for herself, she wouldn't have believed it

"Thanks," Dai said putting his sword away.

"How long did it take you to learn that?" Tigress asked.

"A few years," Dai answered. "Admittedly, it's much easier to slice something like an arrow, or a dumpling, or a bean bun. I was really just showing off."

"I caught an arrow in my hand once," Tigress said.

"Really?" Dai asked. "That's a pretty impressive feat," Dai commented.

"Master Shifu didn't seem to think so," Tigress said.

Dai and Tigress spent the next few hours in the Dragon Grotto practicing Tai-Chi and Kung-Fu, Dai even gave Tigress lessons in using a sword.

The pair left the Dragon Grotto and walked back to the Palace to find the sun setting behind the mountains.

"I guess we were there longer than I thought," Dai said looking at the setting sun.

"I'm going to take a shower," Tigress said walking off the shower.

Dai headed off to his room and changed into some cleaner clothing

-A few hours later-

"Can't sleep either huh?" Dai asked looking up from the book he was reading to see Tigress standing in the doorway to his room.

"China's most wanted and deadly criminal is on his way to the Valley to seek his revenge against us," Tigress said. "So, no I can't sleep."

"Can't say I blame you," Dai said setting the book aside.

"What are you reading?" Tigress asked.

"The Art of War," Dai answered. "It's basically a book on how to wage war." He explained.

Dai and Tigress spent the rest of the night talking, until they fell asleep next to each other on Dai's bed.

-The Next Morning-

"Dai, Tigress what do you think you're doing!?" Master Shifu's voice thundered waking both tigers, making Dai roll of the bed, onto the floor.

"Nothing happened, I swear!" Dai said maybe a little too quickly.

Master Shifu frowned at the white tiger, his ear twitching.

"It's my fault, Master, Dai and me were up talking until late last night," Tigress admitted. "I fell asleep in his room by accident."

Master Shifu looked back and forth at the two tigers.

"Dai, follow me," He said after a few moments.

Dai followed Master Shifu out into the hallway.

"Do you have feelings for my Daughter?" Master Shifu asked bluntly.

"Wow, straight to the point," Dai said nervously, scratching his head.

Dai wasn't sure how to answer the question, sure he liked her

"Well, I like her, I think she's a great fighter, but..."

"Oh screw it," He thought

"Yes, I do," He said "Listen, I would have been all too happy to stay in that bar, drinking Sake, but I decided to come back, not because I'm the Dragon Warrior, or because it's my destiny, I came back, for Tigress," Dai said. "I didn't want to see her get hurt because I screwed up."

Dai had no idea Tigress was listening to his conversation with Master Shifu.


Don't freak out, Kiro's not actually dead, he's just knocked out and is gonna wake up with one heck of a headache, but we won't be seeing him anymore in this story.

Dai is chosen as The Dragon Warrior and flees the Valley of Peace, only to run into Tai-Lung's apprentice once again, after defeating him he returns to the Valley afraid of the wrath Tai-Lung will bring.

Chapter one
Chapter two
Chapter three
Chapter four
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