This story just came in my brain this morning while listening to this song. Originally, it was supposed to be here by Christmas Day...but something in me told me to post it today...knowing that it's only 2 weeks left until Christmas...so this is a Christmas gift for the Ti/Po fans.
Say Something
by: Terrell James
Po was sitting in his room in the dark, completely heartbroken over the breakup between him and Master Tigress...but he didn't blame himself for it. Throughout the time he's been Dragon Warrior and especially after the events that occurred in Gongmen City, he had developed feelings for the tiger master and he thought that he would do anything to break her out of the barriers around her heart, but her warrior pride refused to let him get through to him and in the process, she broke up with him because he's just a big, fat, stupid panda who couldn't get a girl even if he tried.
So many attempts to let her know that he's gonna be there for her and to comfort her whenever she was sad all seem like they were failures despite a few successful attempts. But this one really struck him to the core earlier that evening...
Hours earlier
Po was heading towards Tigress' room to express his feelings to her and he was just nervous beyond nervous to see what the reaction would be, but he's hoping that she'll accept him and that she might feel the same way and when he finally managed to go to her door, he saw her opening the door and he faced her in the eyes and said, "Tigress. Hey, I'm glad you here."
"Why?" asked Tigress.
Po was a little nervous to say something, but he took a few deep breaths and told her, "There's something I want to tell you."
"What is it, Po?" asked Tigress.
"I have some very strong feelings for you." Po replied.
Tigress was frozen and a little surprised to hear those words come out of Po's mouth and she thought that it was a joke, but the look on his face confirmed that he meant it and with that, Po expressed every single thing about her that he loved; her smile, her beauty and everything he has always liked about her and when he was through saying what he wanted to say, he ended with just three simple words.
"I love you, Tigress."
Po was hopeful that she felt the same way about him and as Tigress looked at him, she backed away from him and that caused a bit of confusion on Po and he asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't love you back, Po."
Those words completely shot at Po like a ice pick shattering his heart into a million pieces and he asked, "What?"
"I don't love you, Po. I never have loved you and I never will love you. I'm a hardcore warrior and I don't need someone like you in my life. The fact that you possess those feelings for me is just a stupid joke. When will you get the fact that I am unlovable? All the times you comforted me, been there for me...those were all for nothing! I am a monster and monster doesn't need any love! Especially from a big, fat panda like you that couldn't even get a girl if you tried!" Tigress exclaimed, harshly.
Po couldn't believe that she would say that to his face and he said, "But Tigress..."
"BUT NOTHING, PO! I don't love you! I'm choosing my warrior pride over you! You just get the hell out of my life, you good-for-nothing Dragon Warrior!" Tigress roared, then slammed the door on his face.
Po just stood there in front of the door, totally crushed that the person he admired his whole life and the one that he's been a good friend to just said some nasty, cruel words to him even after he admitted his feelings for her and it got rejected. He closed his eyes, balled his fists and lets the tears flow out of his eyes and walks back to his room...in total silence and just cried.
He looks at a picture of him and Tigress together and each time he looks at that smile on her face, it reverted back to all the cruel worlds she said to him and he just felt so angry and bitter towards her that it brought him a point where he just had to let all those feelings out and to let Tigress know that he'll always respect her, but can't put up with someone who keeps poking at his weight and who he is as a person by paper.
Meanwhile
Tigress felt guilty for spitting out all those insults that she made to Po and she felt partially stupid that she lets her warrior pride did all the talking because she felt the same way about Po, but was afraid that he might reject her and want nothing to do with her. She mentally beat herself up for pushing him away and by saying that she wanted him out of her life and all the stuff he did for her meant nothing.
"Why did I say those things to him? Why did I listen to my stupid pride?" Tigress whispered to herself.
She then looks at a picture of her and Po together and she just remembered how happy she was with him and if only she had one chance to take back all the things she said and drop her warrior pride and tell him that she does love him back.
"I have to set things right." Tigress said.
She got up and left her room and headed straight for Po's room and she wanted to knock on his door, but something in her stopped, thinking that he'll never forgive her for what she did to him and that it'll be too late. But she knows that it's Po; the last thing he would ever do is hurt someone else's feelings back and would always forgive so easily.
She mustered enough courage to knock on his door and stood there for 10 agonizing seconds to hear a response from him, but there was none. She knocked again and said, "Po? Po, I want to talk to you. I'm sorry for all the things that I have said to you. I didn't mean it. I was just scared that you would change me, but I was wrong."
There was no response and she entered in the room and what met her eyes was shocking to her; everything in the room was empty. Clothes, sheets, personal belongings...everything was gone. This was something she was deeply afraid of and all of her fears just came in front of her; Po already left.
She noticed something on the top of his bed...a note that he had written and when she opened it, it was gut-wrenching to read what Po had written.
Tigress, I'm sorry that I had ever expressed my feelings for you in the first place. That is my ultimate regret that I had made and maybe I'm not the best-looking guy you'd expect, but at least I have a big heart. It just felt like I had wasted my time to break you out of those four walls you put up around your heart. I tried to get to you, help you and everything I did in my power to help you and I get nothing in return. Nothing but cruel, heartless, disgusting words from you. If this is still about my unintentional accident about being the Dragon Warrior, I'm really sorry. But I guess I'll never be forgiven by that then. It's okay though, I don't blame you. I blame myself for being so stupid to the fact that I had ever had feelings for you. As you said, who would ever love a big, fat, clumsy, disgusting panda who would ever get a girl if I tried? You can have any handsome looking better guys than me and just erase me out of the picture...forever.
So I'm leaving the Jade Palace forever and I'm not coming back. You can have the title of the Dragon Warrior for all I care. I'm giving up on you...just how you wanted it to be. I wish you all the best.
Po
P.S.: There is a poem behind this letter that I had written. Don't bother looking for me. It's just for the best.
It completely tore Tigress apart that her cruel words made a ginormous impact on Po and that it caused him to give up on him and she just went from guilty to downright regretful over it and she thought that he'd break her heart...but instead, she broke his heart out of nothing.
She looks up at the poem that Po written and it tells him about that situation that occurred that evening.
Say something
I'm giving up on you
I'll be the one
if you want me to
Anywhere I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I am feeling so small
It was over my head
I know nothing at all
And I will stumble and fall
I'm still learning to love
just starting to crawl
Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
Anywhere I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I will swallow my pride
You're the one that I love
And I'm saying goodbye
Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
And anywhere I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
Say something...
After she had read the poem, tears were falling down her face and she just couldn't believe that the one person that sees her as a friend and even more than that was out of her life for good and those words began to come back to haunt her.
'I don't love you! I'm choosing my warrior pride over you! Just get the hell out of my life, you good-for-nothing Dragon Warrior!'
She broke down and cried as harder than she ever had in her life and released everything she held in her 20 years and laid across Po's bed and it was stained with her tears.
"This is all my fault. If only I would've accepted his love back." Tigress sobbed.
She laid her head on Po's bed and the scent of Po was the only thing that was there for her and spent the entire night laying on his bed and just whispered, "I love you too, Po. And I'm so sorry."
But no amount of forgiveness or sorrow could bring Po back because he was gone.
Outside of the Valley of Peace, Po took one last look at the Jade Palace with tears in his eyes and whispered, "Goodbye, Tigress."
That was 'Say Something' from A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera. If you haven't heard this song...search them on YouTube. Happy early Christmas!