Quite a beautiful sight as I am typing this chapter. On a cabin at Lake Eerie, currently at Cedar Point staying at a cottage, but a nice view of the lake. Currently 2am, family sleeping and I am typing Kung Fu Panda Fan fiction... best vacation ever? Sorry for late chapter, hope this makes up for it. Weekly updates should be back on schedule now.

Xin was standing at the top of the huge staircase that lead to the Jade Palace. It was early in the morning, well early to him. There was a cool breeze as he watched the figures slowly descend down the stairs. The sun was about to rise, a sign that a new day was about to begin, as well as his new life. He took a moment to think about what had happened since him and Xun were in that fight with Zhi.

"Zhi..." Xin shivered as he said the dead pig's name. It was still a new feeling to him that he had ended someones life, even if it was someone who was about to kill him. He tried to shack the thought out of his mind, not wanting to deal with it right now. It had already been a week since that whole incident but he would still have nightmares about it. Most were just him at the bar, watching his family get killed in front of him; he was powerless to do anything but would wake up right before he got killed himself. Others involved random parts of their fight, him lighting Zhi on fire and watching him burn or him getting stabbed in the arm again.

He looked over at the bandage around his arm. It had been a quick week for Xin and his sister, mostly since they stayed bed ridden for a good portion of it. Xin only had the one major arm injury and quickly recovered, Tigress took it easy on him during this time, saying she was getting him ready for real training. Though he thinks that pushups or pullups with a major arm injury is real training, she says he can live with the pain.

Xun, on the other hand, had it a little more rough than him. After a few days she was able to move around a bit, as the pain slowly subsided in her chest. Shifu kept a close eye on her, they came to be good friends during that week. They would play mahjong at times, she had let Shifu win on occasion. She started talking normally and soon it didn't hurt to breathe as much. She had just gotten picked up by their parents to go back home, he was watching them go down the stairs. He would be more than glad to make sure she got home safely but Tigress would get mad at him for not being at training today. She felt it was time he started the 'real' training, a week was more than enough time for his arm injury to heal.

He turned around to the Jade Palace, his family behind him, and started towards the giant structure. This would be his home for quite some time. He felt rejuvenated and ready for anything as he thought that. Something in him changed a bit after the fight with Zhi but he couldn't quite say what it was. Xun was safe, he was finally doing something with his life and if Tigress doesn't kill him then his life could be called perfect. Perfect being the key word, since Tigress had cut him off from drinking during his time recovering. He would occasionally visit his parents, when they couldn't come and see Xun, to give them updates on her health. It was also the only time he could get away from Tigress long enough to get a couple of drinks, from his parents when they weren't looking.

Gong!

"Oh shit..." Xin muttered under his breath. He quickly took off for the student dormitories. He had planned on being back there, after seeing his parents pick up Xun, and be standing in front of his bedroom door at the sound of the gong. But it seems his plan wasn't going as planned.

"XIN!" He heard a very angry Tigress yell in the distance.

'It isn't going to be a perfect life, is it?' He thought to himself as he ran for the building.

"Hmm." Tigress thought to herself as Xin was standing in front of her. They just ate lunch and were currently in the training room. He could hear the others training over on the various obstacles as Tigress slowly walked in front of him. He couldn't be more bored then he was right now, it was hard to keep his eyes from closing while he waited.

Tigress wasn't sure what to do for their next piece of training, sure she could throw him onto the obstacle course but if he ended up hurting his arm anymore he could possibly break it. That would end his training for a while, and even learning Kung Fu all together, and she didn't want that.

"Just go run up and down the stairs until I come and get you." She said, finally breaking her silence.

"Yes master." He said, bowing in respect. She walked off, through the training room doors, and he just stood there for a moment. He wasn't sure what her problem was; here they were on his first day of training but he was still doing beginner stuff.

"I have never seen Tigress like that." A voice suddenly said next to Xin. It startled him for a moment and he turned to see Po standing next to him, looking towards the door Tigress just walked through.

"Ya don't say." Xin said as he turned and looked towards the doorway too. "Maybe I'm to big of a challenge for her and she need some help." That got a laugh out of a couple of the other masters that were training.

"Ha, Tigress asking for help. That's a good one." He heard Monkey say from somewhere behind him.

"Only thing she needs help with is her temper." Mantis chimed in.

"Don't talk about Tigress like that," Viper told the rude masters, "Just think of the position she is in. She finally has a student and starting their training is the hardest part. Remember when Shifu first started teaching us?"

"Yeah, okay." Monkey answered her, remembering how slow the training seemed to begin with.

"Yeah. It took him a couple of days to even start training me," Po told Xin, "At least she isn't making you fight all of us on your first day." That made everyone laugh.

During the past week Xin had heard the story of how Po began his training and everything Shifu put him through to try and get him to leave. It was an interesting story to hear; a Master like Shifu acting like a child to get what he wanted. It made him laugh just a bit thinking about it.

"Well, see you all at lunch." He left them to their training as he headed for the stairs.

"This is stupid." Xin said to himself as he was running down the staircase. The sun was high in the sky as it's heat started to burn Xin. He was sweating as he ran up the huge stairs, each step harder then the step before it. He was panting and out of breath as he slowly made his way towards the top. "Hate... hate... hate..." He muttered after each step. He would occasionally swear when he would step on a rock or miss a step and fall but he slowly got to the top of the stairs.

"One down," He said when he made it back to the top; counting how many times he had made it up there, "And who knows how many more to go." He took a second to sit down on the top step, taking a quick look around to make sure that Tigress wouldn't see him slacking. The sun was still beating down on him as he wiped some sweat off of his forehead. "I could sure go for a nice cold drink right about now." He said aloud, laying on his back and closing his eyes for a moment.

"What was that?" Tigress said, suddenly appearing next to him. He jumped up and quickly turned towards her.

"I meant uh," He thought for a second, still stunned to see her there all of a sudden, "Drink of water. I meant to say the I could go for a nice cold drink of water." He quickly told her, she just shook her head. "Anyway, what do you want?"

"What do you want, what?" She replied, wanting him to show some respect.

"What do you want, master." He told her, taking a short bow. He was still getting use to showing respect to her, or to the others for that matter. It wasn't that he didn't respect them but that he just thought it was unnecessary

"That is better," She didn't care if he meant it or not, "I wasn't sure how to keep training you with the method we had first started using."

"You mean my Drunken Style?" Xin asked. Xun had come up with the name for his fighting style during their week there.

"Don't call it that," Tigress told him, "It is a disgrace to Kung Fu. I'm still not sure why I promoted it during your first stay. Now that you are staying here, you will not be allowed to learn 'Drunken Style' while you are my student." She told him.

"What?" Xin shouted at her, questioning why.

"You heard me. It, that 'drunken stance as you call it. It makes you look like an idiot and just thinking that I taught you how to use it effectively in combat makes me sick." She explained to him.

"Whatever but now I definitely need a drink of 'water'." He said, air quotes around the word water.

"None of that either. You are here to learn and be a student, alcohol is not permitted here."

"Okay, that is too far. First you stop me during my recovery but all together?"

"Yep," She responded, crossing her arms, "And don't question your master, it's disrespectful."

"Oh I will question whoever I want." He told her. "If it isn't permitted, then why did you even get me drunk in the first place?" When he asked that she looked a tad uneasy with that question. She looked around before looking back to answer the question.

"Okay, about that, it was Shifu's idea," She started saying, "Well, both of our ideas. He let me do it that once and that will be the only time, Also, don't tell the others. They don't know I did that and they started asking questions after you stole the rest and told Po that ridiculous story."

"So you're asking me to help you? After everything you just told me, you want me to do something for you?" He was kinda stunned but he might have her right where he wanted her. "Okay but only if you still let me drink."

"Absolutely not." she quickly responded.

"Well that might not work." He told her. "Hey where are the others? I gotta tell them something." He tried walking past her but she reached out and grabbed him by the shirt.

"You wouldn't dare..." She growled at him.

"Oh, wouldn't I?" He mocked her.

"You will do it because I said so," She told him once more.

"Is that the only reason? Sorry but I might just say something during dinner. Tonight."

"I didn't want to go this far but think of your sister." Tigress told him. That stopped him from moving for a second. "You are suppose to be changing your life here but you are going back to some of your old habits." Xin let the words sink in for a moment but the sun shining down on him wasn't helping that at all.

"Let's just go," Xin said, shrugging Tigress off of him, "What are we doing for training then?" He wanted to change the subject as soon as he could and Tigress could tell.

"I will be teaching you what I know best, Tiger Stance." She told him as she started for the training room.

"Yeah, let's get out of this sun." Xin said as he followed his master.

Quick opening for the new edition but expect longer chapters. Trying to stay at 3k to 5k words and this one falls a tad short. Hope to see you all next week. Read and Review, until next time. Good-Bye.