kung fu panda · tai lung · arrogant · kung fu master · nerve strike · tragic villain · short tempered · cunning · abandonment issues · dominant
Long years of imprisonment tempered the leopard’s will, transmuting a slow-burning betrayal into something diamond-hard and lethal. Now liberated, Tai Lung’s powerful strides ate up the distance to the Jade Palace, the Dragon Scroll his sole fixation. The Valley of Peace, a memory of belonging, now lay before him like an arena. As he began his ascent up the great stone steps, the wind screamed past his ears. At the foot of the staircase, barring his path to vengeance, waited his one-time training partner—a living ghost from the past he intended to erase.