The Countdown

Revelation

I wanted to thank you guys for giving me name ideas for this next chapter. I really appreciate the help. For Po's real name, I went with something that kind of crossed together rudegirl7 and wildkratticusfever's idea. For Po's mom, I went with the name wildkratticusfever suggested. I want to thank you guys for commenting on my book and being supportive. I really appreciate it. You guys gave me really good ideas and really helped to make this book. Thank you again!

Po managed to get to the training hall just as his friends arrived to begin training. He huffed into the training arena, telling everyone to wait a moment before he caught his breath. (Which didn't take very long since by now he was used to running for a long time). Monkey snickered as he walked over to them.

"Run right from the noodle shop again?" he asked jokingly.

"Kind of," Po admitted. "I ran to my room and then I came here. I had to drop off something dad found."

"I'm sure everyone one is interested to hear of your discoveries, Po," Master Shifu said in slight irritation. "But we have training to get to and I don't want to waste a minute."

"Right. I'm coming."

The masters all entered the training hall where they were greeted once more by the redish flames of the advanced hall. Master Shifu stood in front of them and said, "We'll begin today's training with a simple warm-up: help your teammates move through the training hall blindfolded."

Po froze in panic and fainted onto the floor.

"Po, get up!"

Monkey and Tigress helped him get to his feet, listening to him muttering about how he was going to die.

"You'll be fine," Monkey assured him. "Just pay close attention to what we're saying."

Po swallowed nervously. "Okay," he whimpered.

"Since you seem so excited, panda, you can go first," Shifu announced.

Before Po could even protest, Tigress pushed him forward where he was immediately blindfolded by Shifu.

"Hey! I can't see!" the panda protested nervously. "How do you expect me to not get sliced in half?!"

"Do you trust your team?"

"Well, yeah! We always help each other."

"Do you trust me?"

Po swallowed nervously. "Will I get assigned extra chores if I say not all the time?" he replied.

Monkey held back a laugh as Shifu resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "No," he promised. "But I don't quite appreciate you insinuating that I'd try to kill you."

Po stumbled around with his arms in front of him, trying to move around and get used to not seeing anything.

"Don't step dow-" Tigress went to say, but Po placed his foot on the open air and went sailing into the training area and landed flat on his face.

"I didn't say to start," Shifu told him sternly.

Po groaned and stood up. "Okay, where am I?" he asked, feeling in front of him. "Can I take this blindfold off for a second?"

"No!" Shifu yelled.

Hearing his master's voice, Po walked towards the platform where he bumped into it and then climbed back up. "Okay, I'm good!" he exclaimed, getting in position and turning towards one of the walls. "You guys let me know when to begin!"