Kung Fu Panda: Crane x Snow Leopard OC

S3: Leopard on the Loose

Used wrist bandages were scattered across Daiyu's bedroom floor. Daiyu sat on her bed as she wrapped a new bandage around her wrists and she's the scoffers to get the fitting size

She has been sober for over 3 years and thought she'd celebrate it by buying herself a small snack and take a hike. The only reason she still keeps the med kit in her room and keeps wearing the wrist bands was because she has never told her about her history of self harm and thought that it wouldn't even matter that much. Perhaps it was because she feared their judgement and that she's be shunned away again

Although that was ridiculous to think that if her friends, that thought was still deeply craved into her mind

Walking out of the barracks, Daiyu made her way to the training yard, where Po, Mantis and Viper were just hanging around. Just bored out of their minds while Monkey, Crane and Tigress were somewhere else

"What are y'all doing here?" Daiyu asked

"Nothing much. There's no training today and we're just so incredibly bored" Po groaned as he laid on the ground staring at the sky

"And the others are getting bored out of their skulls someplace else" Mantis added as Po sighed

"We wanted to go to the market, but now we don't have the motivation anymore"

"Well, we could just take a stroll down the village and just see for ourselves" Viper suggested as the others reluctantly agreed and headed down to the village

Down there, most people were at the market, but it wasn't like it was really that crowded. There only a very few people actively buying something, more like looking around

However, there was a pig guy wearing a cloak with a hood hanging up posters on the trees and decided to take a quick look. Po took the poster from the wall and the poster read

"Come and see the annual kung fu matches throughout all provinces! Today only, the Valley of Peace!"

With a drawing of two black silhouettes fighting each other and a metallic black symbol of a palace

"I guess it's another group of kung fu masters earning money by performing kung fu fights and bets throughout all of China. Not worth our money" Daiyu shrugged as she attempted to walk back to the palace, but Po quickly grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her back

"Maybe we can just take a quick look and see for ourselves" he replied

"Po, don't you remember the last time we went to a kung fu match?" Mantis then asked as Po stammered, before answering

"That was something completely different! And maybe this will actually be awesome!"

"I'm not so sure if that" Viper doubted as Po used his puppy eyes again

"Please!"

The three of them shared some glances, before giving in

"Well, at least it's not Kwan" Mantis sighed as they all went to the location where the match would be held, which was close the edge of the valley

And along their trip, Monkey, Tigress and Crane also came back and spotted them in the bamboo forest. Joining them, they walked together and made small talk

"And you really think this ought to be more spectacular than our previous visit to a match? I still remember the horrific flashbacks of Bai Li's laughter" Crane gulped as Daiyu giggled and patted his back, to which Crane gave her a frown and sarcastic smirk

"Ha, ha! You still enjoy that, huh?"

Slightly teasing her

"So, we're just going to look around and if most of us don't want to be there, then none of us won't go there. Deal?" Tigress asked Po, making a deal to still keep it all fair, because they've been with him reluctantly too many times