Three days later...
By morning, the sun had climbed higher in the sky, and the temperature had grown scorching.
But in the spacious training courtyard inside the Jade Palace gates, the Furious Five's Swift Mantis, Viper, Crane, Monkey, and Tigress, along with the panda Po, were all hard at work practicing their respective martial arts.
"Ha!"
"Hiya!"
"Yah~!!"
In fact, the Furious Five had already finished their morning exercises. They were all sitting in a row along the edge of the raised platform overlooking the courtyard, watching a certain chubby panda with comical movements as he shouted and practiced a strange-looking style of fist.
"..."
"Hey, Viper, what kind of boxing style is he practicing? Why does it seem so familiar?"
After watching Po practice for a while with the others, Crane found the panda's movements increasingly familiar, yet he couldn't remember where he'd seen them before. Puzzled, he turned to Viper, who was lying on the ground, and asked her.
"I don't know either..."
"But I do know why Master Annie insisted he practice those 'rolling flips' first. You can see it for yourselves. No matter what kind of moves he tries or how he shifts around, he just keeps rolling this way and that..."
"Master Annie really is amazing. I bet she foresaw this, so she made Po practice rolling flips for a full three days before teaching him this strange set of moves just now."
Viper didn't know what kind of boxing style Po was practicing either. When the Furious Five arrived at the training courtyard, Master Annie had already taught Po the moves and gone back to eat breakfast, even though it was rather late for breakfast by then.
"Hahaha!"
"Viper, I hadn't noticed until you said that. Now I can see he really does look