EXT. JADE PALACE - DAWN
At the top of the stairs, Shifu looks upon the Valley, awaiting his fate. With a gust of wind, Tai Lung appears before him.
TAI LUNG
"I have come home, Master."
SHIFU
"This is no longer your home. And I am no longer your master."
TAI LUNG
"Yes. You have a new favorite. So where is this...Po? Did I scare him off?"
SHIFU
"This battle is between you and me."
TAI LUNG
"So. That is how it's going to be?"
SHIFU
"That is how it must be."
They fight. At last. Tai Lung punches Shifu clean through the doors of the Jade Palace. Tai Lung enters.
TAI LUNG
"I rotted in jail for twenty years because of your weakness!"
SHIFU
"Obeying your master is not weakness!"
TAI LUNG
"You knew I was the Dragon Warrior! You always knew..."
Dissolve to FLASHBACK.
A young Tai Lung looks expectant. Oogway shakes his head.
TAI LUNG (V.O.) (CONT'D)
"But when Oogway said otherwise, what did you do? What did you do?!"
Tai Lung looks to Shifu who averts his eyes and the past dissolves into the present.
TAI LUNG (CONT'D)
"NOTHING!"
Shifu takes a Kung Fu stance.
SHIFU
"You were not meant to be the Dragon Warrior! That was not my fault!"
TAI LUNG
"NOT YOUR FAULT?!"
Enraged, Tai Lung knocks over the Kung Fu artifacts and throws them at Shifu.
TAI LUNG (CONT'D)
"WHO FILLED MY HEAD WITH DREAMS?! WHO DROVE ME TO TRAIN UNTIL MY BONES CRACKED?! WHO DENIED ME MY DESTINY?!"
Shifu dodges each attack.
SHIFU
"It was never my decision to make!"
Tai Lung pulls Oogway's staff from the shrine.
TAI LUNG
"It is now."
They fight. Tai Lung pins Shifu down with the staff.
TAI LUNG (CONT'D)
"Give me the scroll!"
SHIFU
"I would rather die."
They struggle for a beat until finally, the staff splinters into a hundred pieces. Shifu looks back at the pieces and a flutter of peach tree petals fly by. Caught off guard, Shifu gets kicked by Tai Lung into a column.
Shifu climbs the column to the rafters. Tai Lung follows and sends them both crashing through the roof.
Lightning flash. Grappling in mid-air, Tai Lung gets his hands around Shifu's throat as they crash back through the roof.
They kick apart. Shifu crashes to the floor and lands hard. Tai Lung bounces off the wall and throws a lantern to the floor. Flames go everywhere. Tai Lung's arms are aflame as he charges at Shifu.
TAI LUNG
"All I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud you are, Shifu! Tell me! TELL ME!"
THOOM! A fiery punch sends Shifu skidding across the floor and crashing against the reflecting pool. The flames extinguish and Tai Lung extends his claws.
SHIFU
(weakly)
"I have always been proud of you. From the first moment, I've been proud of you. And it was my pride that blinded me. I loved you too much to see what you were becoming. What I was turning you into. I'm... sorry."
Tai Lung stops in his tracks. Shifu waits. Tai Lung's expression goes cold. He grabs Shifu by the throat.
TAI LUNG
"I don't want your apology. I want my scroll!"
He holds Shifu up to the ceiling. Looking up, Tai Lung bristles when he sees the scroll is missing.
TAI LUNG (CONT'D)
"WHAT? WHERE IS IT?!"
Tai Lung slams Shifu to the floor.
SHIFU
(weakly)
"Dragon Warrior has taken scroll halfway across China by now. You will never see that scroll, Tai Lung. Never. Never..."
Tai Lung is furious. He roars, ready to strike Shifu. Suddenly...
PO (O.S.)
"Hey!"
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!
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