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This is another short story! Maybe about 2-3 chapters long :)

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Beneath the Fabrics
By CookieM2012

Chapter One...

"Scars prove that what tried to kill you failed."

The adrenaline seeped through her body as she flew across the Training Hall. Dashing this way and that, her paws violently colliding with the swinging clubs that once hung over head at a great height. She remembered being a small child, trying the course for the first time, and she could barely touch the clubs that swooshed past her head, giving that breeze that she grew used to crawling along her neck. Now, a strong, built, young woman, Tigress could smash anything that was in her way...

"Tigress! What are you doing here? You should be resting!" She cringed slightly. Maybe anything... but Crane when he sounded that concerned. "Shifu's orders... to us all."

Her eyes rolled. "I know, but I've been resting for the past two days," She felt something coming behind her, and she swiftly turned and smashed a swinging club into pieces. She added, while jumping off the station, and reaching for the paw wraps sitting on the table beside Crane."Gotta keep my game up."

As soon as the fabric was beneath her finger tips, Crane's wing covered her paw lightly. "You," he said with emphasis. "Of all people Tigress, needs to rest and heal. Whether you like it or not. What if Shifu comes through the door? What will he say?" Her mind tried to think what he would say, but to no avail would it be anything as concerned as the avian would put it in the space of ten seconds. "Come on, wrap those paws up, and lets get you something to eat. Po made his noodles again for lunch." That made her ears flicker, and Crane knew he had her there. Tigress, like the rest of them, couldn't resist Po's noodles. Before he came to the Palace, all she ever ate was tofu cubes, and sometimes they would be accompanied with a sliced pepper or two on the side. "Come on, before Shifu finds out where we are."

"Alright." She began to follow him, until her eyes turned to the swinging clubs again. "After another swing or two."

"Tigress..." He didn't have a chance to physically react, and restrain her like he had intended, because she leapt from his reach, and landed on the twisting dragon bodies, her tail changing the level of difficulty as she went past it. She jump this was and that, kicking and pushing each club that came her way, letting the same adrenaline run through her as the chain clanked and rang through the air. Crane watched with folded wings and a worried look on his face, his eyes following her every move, cringing a bit every time her fist collided with the clubs. He continued this until he heard the door opening. "Tigress!" He hissed. She didn't respond, and continued to fight. Concentrate, she kept telling herself. "Tigress!" He ran and turned off the twisting bodies beneath the feline's feet, which she was ready for as she dodged a lower swinging club. "Someone's coming!" She heard him this time, freezing instantly.

"Who?" She asked, but then Crane's wings started flailing in panic, and before she had time to ask what he was doing, a club, hanging low enough to her waist level, for her to swipe with her leg, slammed into her side, and next thing she knew, she was thrown across the room, smacking into the opposite wall. Sticking to the surface like she was glued to it for a split second, she slowly slid off, until she peeled off, and met the ground in a split second, landing on her back first, before rolling over onto her stomach.

"Tigress!" Crane flew over to her, as Po came running in.

"What's going on?" He asked, before he saw Tigress, holding her upper half by the elbows, as she checked her surroundings. She glared at Po, but then shut her eyes when her vision went out of focus.

"Po! Don't scare Crane like that! I thought it was something important!" She snapped as he jogged over. He knelt by her as Crane scanned to see what damage was done, but she slapped them both away. "Push off!" They got up and stepped away slowly, arms raised. "I'm fuh..." She shook her head quickly. "I'm fine. I'm not injured... honestly-" That was when she tried to get up, and something wet, and sticky, slid down her skin... there's only one place where that could be coming from... no.

"Tigress?" Her eyes slowly shifted to Po, who had his paws on her shoulders, looking at her eyes, as if to be a medical expert, and study them. "You don't look so good... come on," her elbows were stiffening with the uncomfortable feeling, and he lifted her up from the said body parts. "We'll get you to your room and call the healer-"

"No... I'm fuh..." She began leaned forwards, until she lost her balance, and suddenly collapsed in Po's arms. Black spots began to speck in and out of her vision, and that feeling of something wet and sticky, and now a little warm, began seeping through her shirt, and as she began to black out, all she could remember seeing was Crane, in a blurred form, rushing out of the room, as Po picked her up, and chase after him. Her arm jumped about as it swung limply out of the pandas hold. But what made her heart race, was Po's concerned expression as he kept looking down at her as he ran.

Her stomach felt extremely tight when she opened her eyes. Judging by the white, thin, plaster walls, she was in the medical wing. Silence rained as she felt the sun seep through the the window, directly on her paw. She looked down to see the light on her paw, but noticed she wasn't wearing her usual tunic. Instead, she had a white, plain, cotton shirt on. It was a little bit heavier than her usual attire, but it gave more warmth... "Tigress?" She turned towards the door quickly. The face of Viper, slowly slid through the gap of the door. The serpent inhaled deeply with relief at the sight of the feline, and slithered over quickly as Po and the others came through as well. "How are you feeling sweetie?" She asked, as the others began asking their own questions;

"You feeling hungry?"

"What happened? You scared Crane and Po half to death when you collapsed!"

"She sure did! Don't do that again Tigress!

"Want an extra pillow?"

"Feeling dizzy?"

Tigress' eyes moved around to each of her friend, but when they were being fired at her, she shook her head to get rid of the echos in her head, but only answered to Viper's question. "...fine." She tired to sit up, but Viper stopped her, saying something along the lines of not opening the wound, which made Tigress paused. "Viper I'm fine- wound...? Scared Crane and Po? Collapsed?" Viper nodded as she felt her paws set on her stomach, where she felt something thicker beneath the cotton. "Was... was I attacked?"

"By your own stupidity, if you think of it that way." They turned to Shifu, standing amongst them in silence previously, almost let off like he wasn't ever there in the first place. "I'm not surprised that you don't remember what happened." Tigress looked at him when she turned her head once her head touched the pillow, and Viper slowly turned to him. "Viper, if you please?" The serpent bowed, and backed away, though her eyes never got rid of the look of relief that was dwelling in them. Po and the others looked at one another as Shifu stepped forth, and then stayed put once he was by Tigress' bed side. "Now... so you don't remember anything?" He asked in a tone that made her feel unsure; unsure whether the truth was the right answer or not. "Not even where you were at the time?"

The training hall was the first thing that went into her head, but then came the sinking feeling of the possibility of Crane and Po telling Shifu what happened... or he forced it out of them. "I was-"

"Disobeying an order." The elder Master interrupted.

"But I-"

"Wanted to keep your strength up." He said with a sigh. "As much as I appreciate, I don't want you to get hurt," her ears flicked a bit. "That goes for all my students." Of course, she thought. "You know better than to train on a fresh wound. Your health comes first for now. Especially one that will leave a scar..." Shifu took a chance to breathe as he held the staff tightly. "Haven't your other scars make you think of this?"

"...Others?" Tigress' felt her heart tense. The others weren't meant to hear that! Shifu also turned, and Po, Crane, Mantis, and Monkey were staring right back at him. "Po took a step towards them both, but when Shifu's ears flattened a bit across his head, he stopped swiftly. "What... others?"

"That is not something, for me to say." He turned to Tigress, raising her brow as Po looked up at her worriedly. "That's something for Tigress to talk about."

He began to walk away, she waited until he got to the door to stop him. "Your forgetting that there are old scars that still need to be healed." There was no point in being subtle about it, now the others heard Shifu, who turned his head to her slowly, eyes widening a bit. She wasn't sure whether it meant he was clueless on what she said, or he knew what she was talking about, but she turned her head to the wall, staring at the plain walls and then said softly; "The very ones you left on me." Po and the others didn't move a muscle, while they turned their eyes on the Master, who stared at her coldly... until his eyes softened, along with his face... and then his physical hold as he took his silent leave.

Leaving them all to stare into the opaque.

To be continued...

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