Love of the Dragon Warrior

Tin-Can Telephone

Po considered Master Leopard's story to be a bit sad, though he was stoked to hear about what life was like back when Shifu was in his prime. It was definitely pretty weird that the old Furious Five sounded like his own team, but perhaps that was the case in every group of friends. He hadn't had much friends, he had to admit, over the years, but the few he had always seemed to come in that same pattern: there was always one friend who was hilarious and loved to crack jokes while the other friend was always a stick-in-the-mud who didn't feel like goofing off at the moment.

Definitely Tigress and Monkey, Po thought as he thought about the Furious Five. And my old friends Luke and Bei were like that...and I guess for Leopard, that meant Master Elephant and Fenghuang. I guess she did have a sense of humor, now that I'm thinking about it.

Po had started to head back over to the barracks, unsure of where all the girls were at this moment. Madame Zhou had probably ducked off somewhere and the others were most likely getting stuff ready for their talk. Though whatever exactly this required he didn't know and it didn't answer the question of everyone's location.

As he passed the gate of the Jade Palace, one of the guards, a burly Ussuri black bear, got his attention and said, "Destiny wanted us to tell you that she'll be upstairs in the barracks for your talk. But she has trouble with looking at you, so she wants you to sit in the room on the end right so that you can talk."

"Oh, okay. Thanks for the heads up!" Po told him. He walked back to the barracks and sat down in his room for the next half hour before his talk with Destiny. He sat on the floor this time to keep himself from falling asleep and did a few imaginary battles with his action figures before soon heading upstairs to talk to his third guest. He walked all the way down the hallway, as instructed, and passed by a door with a giant shadow behind it before going into the room at the end of the hall directly next to it.

"Hi, Destiny," he greeted cheerily.

Destiny started laughing nervously. She scooted over to the far corner of her room and grabbed something Po couldn't make out. She then went back to her original spot and heavily breathed for a moment before clearing her throat. "I have a fun game we can play," she stammered nervously.

Po jumped a little at the sound of her voice, though since this was the first time she had ever spoken, this wasn't much of a surprise. Her voice was very nice, like someone playing an oboe.

"I'm, uh, having trouble with acting completely cool...clearly...and I'm sorry I'm kinda' embarrassing...but uh...I thought maybe I can ask you 60 questions and that should be okay for an hour?"

"Oh, yeah that's cool," Po told her as he sat on the floor as well. "I'm just glad to hear you talking to me."

Destiny laughed nervously again, a little louder this time and a bit crazier. She soon calmed down and cleared her throat. "Okay, um...I'm gonna' start. Question 1: Do you know your biological parents or where you were born?"

"I know a little from our battle in Gongmen City," Po immediately answered. "Not a lot since my parents are dead, but I figured, based off of my memories, that I was born in the Millnyan Village just outside of the city."

Destiny paused and her hand started moving back and forth on the floor. It took Po a second to realize that she was writing his answers down.

Ohhhhhhhhh, she was grabbing an ink board! Po exclaimed mentally. This'll definitely be an interesting conversation. I wonder if she'll let me do a 60 question thing too! It sounds like a fun way to break the ice!

Destiny finished writing and immediately looked back at her scroll. "Um...question 2," she said. "What's your favorite color?"

"Magenta. It reminds me a lot of the sunrise."