Kung Fu Panda: Crane x Snow Leopard OC

S2: Present Tense.

The Valley of Peace was covered in a thick blanket of white snow as children were thawing snowball fights, music was being played by a small band that consisted three villagers and lanterns were all set over the streets.

At Mr. Ping's noodle shop, Po, Shifu, Daiyu, the Five and several other out-of-towners were there to prepare for the Winter Festival preparations for tonight.

"Okay, everybody! Hehe. We're gonna have many, many, many people here for the Winter Festival feast. Lots of out-of-towners this year, like Xiao Niao, Li Tang and Difan Lui." Mr. Ping announced.

"Yay!" Xiao Niao, a young water buffalo, cheered as she clapped with her hooves.

"Welcome. Now, since we're inviting the kung fu masters here, there are going to be a lot of mouths to feed. So I'd like to thank the Furious Five for volunteering to help." Shifu spoke, to which Tigress and Daiyu got confused.

"I didn't volunteer." Tigress said.

"Neither did I." Daiyu nodded.

"Both of you weren't there when Shifu passed around the sign-up sheet. So I wrote your names in. And even if you, Daiyu, were there, you wouldn't be able to write down your name anyway. You're welcome!" Po smiled as he walked off, leaving Tigress and Daiyu a little more confused and even pissed off.

Daiyu didn't mind it at all, but if only she had been informed that Shifu would pass around a sign-up sheet, she would've gladly volunteered, but none of the others had really told her.

"Well, we got a lot of work to do, so let's all get to it." Po said as everyone else was set off to work.

"Great! Now, Po if you could-..."

"I'm on it, Dad!" Po assured Mr. Ping, not letting Mr. Ping finish as he rushed inside the shop and went into his room.

"Hey, uh. Daiyu, aren't you, I don't know, nervous?" Mantis suddenly asked her.

"Nervous? For what?" Daiyu asked back.

"You know, Master Komodo. He'll surely be here for the Winter Festival and along with his students. They'll just give you a hard time and you won't be able to actually enjoy the feast." Mantis explained.

"Oh, he won't come. Every year, he'd host it in the Valley of Void and he wouldn't dare to travel hundreds of miles for anyone, let alone to a celebration that won't be held at his place. He thinks he's too good to travel for others." Daiyu chuckled.

"Are you sure about that?" Crane asked concerned. "I mean, it's not a shame to ask Shifu just to be sure."

"I'm fairly confident in it." Daiyu nodded.

Crane nodded, glad to know that Daiyu wasn't feeling upset because of the idea of Komodo most likely coming unannounced to the feast and making a scene the moment he'd see her.

She told him about times when Komodo would hit and punch her way harder during training sessions on purpose and about all the emotional abuse she underwent during her darkest hours. Those were the times Crane wished he could go there and give Komodo a piece of his mind for hurting his best friend, wishing he could smash Komodo's head deep into the ground, suffocate him and make him suffer.

"Alright. If you'll do the plates and the seatings, I'll do the decorations with Mantis." Daiyu compromised.

"No problem." Crane nodded.

"Sounds good." Mantis nodded as they all got started.

As Mantis was helping out Daiyu, Mr. Ping called for Tigress and Xiao Niao to give them a task.