EXT. JADE PALACE - EVENING
Night dissolves to dawn. Shifu, Kenji and Darius sits under the peach tree. They stirs, hearing KUNG FU NOISES from the training hall. They go to investigate.
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INT. TRAINING HALL - DAWN
Shifu, Kenji and Darius looks inside -- it's empty. The NOISES continue from somewhere else -- the bunkhouse.
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INT. KITCHEN - DAWN
As Shifu, Kenji and Darius turns the corner, he sees Po's shadow as he performs some amazing Kung Fu. Entering the kitchen, Shifu, Kenji and Darius finds Po is stuffing his face with food. Seeing Shifu, he stops mid-munch.
In silence they eye each other. Shifu, Kenji and Darius surveys the room -- broken lock, smashed doors, unhinged cabinets. Po belches.
PO
(Mouth full)
"What? I eat when I'm upset, okay?"
Shifu gets a glimmer in his eye. He has an idea.
SHIFU
"Oh, no need to explain. I just thought you might be Monkey – he hides his almond cookies on the top shelf."
Shifu, Kenji and Darius calmly exits and hides just outside the doorway, waiting to see if his hunch is correct.
KLUMP! KLONK! THUNK! Shifu peeks back inside and finds Po perched atop the high shelves jamming more cookies into his mouth. Po notices Shifu walking back in.
PO
(Mouth full)
"Don't tell Monkey."
He glances back down at Shifu, Kenji and Darius, whose disbelief turns to a wise smile.
SHIFU
"Look at you."
PO
"Yeah, I know. I disgust you."
KENJI
"No, no, I mean... how the heck did you get up there?"
PO
"I don't know. I guess I-- I don't know. I was getting a cookie..."
He looks at the cookie and then can't help but eat it.
SHIFU
"And yet you are ten feet off the ground and have done a perfect split."
PO
"No, this... this is just an accident."
He and Po stare at each other for a beat. Then... WHOOMP! Po slips and crashes to the kitchen floor. A cookie rolls over to Shifu. He picks it up.
SHIFU
"There are no accidents. Come with me even you two."
DARIUS
"Uhm... Where we going?"
EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAWN
Shifu leads Po, Kenji and Darius through the mountains.
PO
"I know you're trying to be all mystical and kung fu-y, but could you at least tell me where we're going?"
Shifu just continues walking.
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EXT. MOUNTAINS - LATER
Shifu, Kenji and Darius is sitting beneath a tree. Winded and wheezing, Po slowly works his way up the hill. Po sets his gear down and looks around. Shifu breathes in the morning mist as Po approaches.
PO
"You dragged me all the way out here for a bath?!"
Po begins to pat his armpits with water.
SHIFU
"Panda, we do not wash our pits in The Pool of Sacred Tears."
Po quickly stops. Kenji and Darius were stunned. Realizing.
PO
(In awe)
"The pool of..."
SHIFU
"This is where Oogway unravelled the mysteries of harmony and focus. This is the birthplace of Kung Fu."
The camera cranes up to reveal they are standing on rock shapes that resemble a yin yang symbol. As the camera pulls further out, it pulls back through a vision of Oogway doing Kung Fu moves.
FLASH FRAME -- Shifu leaps atop one of the rocks and looks down at Po, Kenji and Darius
SHIFU (CONT'D)
"Do you want to learn Kung Fu?"
PO
(awestruck)
"Yeah..."
SHIFU
"Then I am your master!"
PO
"Okay!"
Tears of joy well up in Po's eyes.
SHIFU
"Don't cry."
PO
"Okay."
Po sniffs the tears back and smiles.
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!
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