Kung Fu Panda

Title: The Dark Panda (Haitus) by chachingmel123

Synopsis:

The world before the original Furious Five even existed was a very mysterious place. The newly formed Panda Village gave birth to a new born. The only problem is...he acts nothing like a Panda. The child can't stand the lazy life style of the village and dreams to bring the world to its knees.

Genre - Crime

Rated: K+

Words: 39k+

Status: Hiatus

Spoilers:

Chapter 1

A child is naturally selfish the moment they are born, so it's up to the parents or guardians to teach them what being helpful means.

Very few parents tell their children how dark human nature can be. As a result, the child can either find out on their own or stay blissful ignorant even in their adult years.

Unfortunately, Pearce Edwyn was never exposed to such a thing until he was at death door.

It started with an encounter with an old classmate of his, he never talked to her, but she had come to him suddenly one day, asking for money with tears in her eyes.

Women are terrifying that way, primarily when they use the world perception of them to their advantage.

So, having always been taught that a man should take care of a woman, he gave her some money out of the kindness of his own heart, expecting her to settle some bill's and that would be it.

But she came back.

This time it was some excuse of her mother being, but she couldn't pay the expenses.

Again, out of the kindness of his own heart, he gave her the money to help, little did he know that it would set him on a cold and narrow path.

She kept on coming to him for money, and he kept on giving, it got to the point that he was struggling to pay his bills so for the first time in his life, he borrowed money, but she took that money as well.

His parents never taught him how to say no to a woman.

Realising he couldn't pay, the debt collectors came and repossessed his house leaving him homeless, but like a fool, he was confident that he would get back on his feet, that he would strike another deal that will allow him to get all his assets back.

And that's when he saw her — his old classmate who got him into the mess in the first place.

What was even more shocking was that she was kissing the man, who took everything away from him, he heard them laughing about what they had done to him.

She called him a fool and used the money she scammed from him to buy clothes and jewellery, everything she said was a lie, she had no problem, in her life, in fact, she was well off herself, making million from scamming men who were too kind for their good.

In that span of ten minutes, he had was exposed to a much darker side of Humanity, and he was jealous.

How can such people exist and be living the high life, instead of going to jail?

He worked at an ordinary office job following the law, bowing his head down to those of higher authority and what did he get in return?

Nothing.

Why did the grass look so much greener from where they were standing despite both of them being terrible people?

Had his parents lied to him about life?

And as he pondered this, he was unfortunately spotted.

Before he knew what was happening a gun went off, and his vision went black.

When he came to, he had to stare at a cartoonish looking Panda that was singing to him in an unknown language, which he later recognised as Chinese.

His limb functions were gone, and he could only speak in gibberish, the next thing he knew, the cartoonish looking panda was poking her chest into his face, and he was overcome with the sudden urge to suck who knows what.

So, without feeling shame, he sucked from a cartoonish panda bear, milk entered his body.

He later found it, that he had died and became a cartoonish looking, little panda bear as well.

He had been named Yi Jing, the son of Tian Hai and Sun Na, everybody pretty much looked the same, being a child, he wore a brown vest and grey pants.

The village he was in, was called Panda Village, it had only been active for 30 years ago, so the structures built to call itself a village was still fresh and had yet to sub come to the passage of time.

And as he learnt the world language, he realised how boring his new life was.

If he wasn't rolling, he was stuffed with dumpling's, and cartoonish pandas were jigging their fat in front of everybody face's and having dumbing eating contests with their mouth's fully exposed, every day.

Was he going to die from being overweight?

Was this, his purpose for a new life?

Surely there was a reason why he had been reborn into this world, then dying of a heart attack.

Determined to keep fit, he ran around the village every day and did press up and Sit-up's, essential exercise, despite the look's he got from the village Panda's and his own parent's, who couldn't understand why he didn't want to be fat and lazy like them, he was determined not to die at a young age from obesity.

At night he dreamed of the world beyond the village.

What was the world like and was everybody a Panda?

Was this a Panda-based world?

Year's flow by and became 14, the village had its first ever outside visit — an injured turtle named, Oogway.

"Oh my god!" One Panda said, as the turtle collapsed and blood flowed out of his shell.

"Somebody call the Elders for some immediate healing!" Another panda said as Yi looked at the chaos below with interest.

He slowly crept down the stairs as a group of Panda's carried the injured turtle inside the village, a bunch of old looking Panda's came out, Yi made sure to keep a respectful distance away from them as they gathered.

He then blinked as the Elder Panda's performed some weird hand movement, and their palms began to glow, a steady stream of glowing light gently beamed out of their palms and towards the heavily injured turtle and before his very eyes, the injured Turtle began to heal and regain consciousness, looking just as shocked as he was by the scene.

It was then that Yi realised, somebody was drawing this scene not that far away from him, telling him just how unique this scene was.

In no time at all, the Turtle was cured and gave his thanks to the Panda's, Yi had so many questions, but knew not to voice them out right now, so he voiced them out the following day, visiting one of the Elder's homes.

"What we used was Chi" Elder Ozawa said.

"Chi?" Yi said, "As in spirit energy?" amazed that Chi had a physical form, he was no stranger to Chinese martial arts mumble jumbo.

"Using our chi, we can heal anything and become one with nature. The greater our control, the great our power will be" The Elder Ozawa said.

"Can you teach it to me?" Yi said it sounded cool.

"No," the Elder Panda said, making him frown. "Although your physique is great, you are much too young to learn it."

"Oh, come on," Yi said, "Do you think anybody else here has the patient's to learn the Art, amongst the current generation?"

And the Elder saw that what he said was true, who in the village except this young Panda would be willing to learn Chi? It would make sense that he passed it on, to prevent if for from dying with them.

But still.

He couldn't help but feel that if he taught Chi to this person, it would lead to tragedy.

"My decision still stands, Yi." The Elder said, should he be worried that the youth did not get angry but instead replied in a calm voice.

"Fine" Yi said, getting up and walking to the door before saying. "But I want you to remember, that you had your chance to pass the knowledge of Chi to a Panda and you didn't. I hope the Panda's won't one day need it." before walking out.

Yi had long since stopped trying to be a good person; it was getting him nowhere so, it was time to do something terrible.

Just because this Elder wouldn't teach him, didn't mean the others wouldn't, it was amazing what a little bit of alcohol could do to a person.

He approached Elder Hirai, and the Panda sang like a bird.

With alcohol in his system blinding the Panda to any sense of danger, the Panda showed him how to do it, of course, Yu couldn't do it right off the bat, but with the information, he got from the Panda he had more than enough pointers to know what to work on and fix.

He left that night knowing the Panda wouldn't remember anything the following morning.

He also got information about the world around the village from the Panda; he found out that he was apparently in China of all place that housed this world's version of Dojo's, Temples, where people train to get stronger and perform impossible feats with different techniques.

The message was clear.

In their world, only the strong and cruel rule.

Just like the world, he came from.

But in this life, he would be on ther other side.

Yi refused to be reduced to a pitiful state and be taken advantage of again; he refused to wait for a knight and shining armour to make all his problem's go away.

So, he practised the technique in secret.

And soon the Turtle left which came as a relief to him.

Something about that guy unsettled him; maybe it was because of that 'I've achieved the ultimate enlightenment' vibe, that he could feel from steps away, so he avoided the Turtle like the plague, the Turtle would only cause problems for him later on if he knew, he existed.

Who wouldn't forget the only skinny Panda on the planet?

He also made sure that the Turtle never saw his face or back, before beginning his training.

In his little room, he had privacy, but he didn't need a security alarm, the weight of a Panda was all he needed to hear, to alert him of somebody approaching his door.

It took him a whole week to channel his Chi and emit it; the Elder Panda's would be shocked if they discovered how fast he mastered the technique, although it was hard taking a plant, without looking suspicious.

It turned out the Panda Elders were indeed very old, a week later they all started dropping off like flies, within two months the last Elder Panda died, seemly taking the secret of Chi with them, nobody knew that Yi had become a Chi user.

With the Chi healing technique under his belt, he wasn't satisfied.

He knew he could do much more with his Chi; he knew he could put his body to work and obtain the ultimate strength.

He needed to find a Temple to learn more techniques and become stronger, so strong that he could rule the world, crushing everybody in his path.

But even he knew that learning the world's techniques was impossible for somebody of his lifespan, he would be dead before he got through half of it.

That meant he had to achieve Immortality.

Something that was thought to be impossible can be possible in this world, all he had to do was find the right scroll and see if there was a penalty for it.

Chi was life energy so if he used it carelessly, he had a very high chance of dying, he had to obtain more control over it, and that means leaving the Village.

"Father, Mother. I'm leaving this Village." He suddenly said, one day at dinner.

He had waited a good five years after the last Elders died and now he felt like he had reached the age of adulthood.

"What?" His father said, did he hear wrong?

"Mother, father," Yi said. "There is nothing here for me. I'm not like the other Pandas. I don't want to eat and sleep all day till the day I die. I want to see the world."

"But the world is a dangerous place, son." His mother said, "There is a lot of dangers out there. What about if you get hurt? Stay in the village where it's safe."

"Mother, I am not a child anymore," Yi said, surprising both of them. "I am a fully-grown man who doesn't even know if there are other Panda Villages out there. I don't even know who is out there. My whole life has been behind these protective walls. My fellow Panda's may be fine with it, but I am not. I am leaving, wither you give me your blessing or not. I will not stay trapped here because I was told to do."

"…." Both his parents looked pretty shocked at his declaration, but when they thought about it, they always knew their child was extraordinary, the fact he wasn't fat and lazy like the rest of them was proof enough, but very few Pandas ever ventured out of the village.

"Alright," His father said, surprising both of them.

"Dear!" His mother said.

"Let face it," His father said, "In our heart's we both know that he would leave us someday. He isn't a child anymore but a man who can make his own decisions. Let him explore the world."

"...fine," His mother said, before turning to him and saying."But if you get hurt, come back immediately."

"Yes, Father," Yi said.

The next morning, Yi stood at the barrier separating the village from the outside world, he wore winter clothes and carried an old Japanese styled carrier bag containing all his supplies and clothes.

He gave both his parents a goodbye hug.

"Bye, son," His father said.

"Bye, father," He said, hugging him before hugging his Mother. "Bye mother,"

His mother was tearing up as he turned around and took his first step outside the village, behind him, his parents waved goodbye, and when he was out of hearing range, his mother leaned and said.

"So how long do you think, he'll last?"

"I'll give him a week, top's," His father said.

Neither of them realised this would be the last time they saw their son.

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