The weather was calm, sun shined down into the Valley of Peace. It was a normal day in the Jade Palace for Po and the Furious Five. It had nearly been a year since Po had defeated Shen. All appeared well in China.

Today, Po was training his young students out in the court yard. Tigress was sitting nearby on the roof, feeling the warmth of the sun on her face. Her eyes were closed as she felt the world around her. She breathed in deeply, feeling the warm breeze and the sun on her fur.

Tigress wondered when was the last time she had felt at peace like this. She knew she was suppose to be meditating but she couldn't resist just sitting there and feeling the world go by around her. Ever since Po had defeated Shen, Tigress had seemed to be in a much better mood than before. She wondered why.

Perhaps it was because there was finally peace in China. There was no one like Shen they had to worry about anymore. Only a few bandits and pirates every now and then, but nothing as big as Shen was. Tigress hated him with all her heart for the cruel things he had done, especially for what he had done to Po.

Po had explained to her and the others what Shen had did to his people and how he had managed to find Inner peace.

Shen had destroyed his life when he was just an infant, separating him from his family and destroying his village and than, years later Shen had nearly killed Po with his weapon. Tigress hated Shen for all that and more. Part of her wondered what would have happened if she had gotten to Po in time or had been able to convince him to stay behind in the jail.

Who was she kidding? Nothing would have made him stay behind.

Part of her wondered how he had been able to find Inner peace. Po had explained to them that all he had to do was something Shen could never and never learned to do, simply just let go of the past.

Tigress opened her eyes. That was the past, she told herself. She didn't need to think about what happened before all that. All that mattered was that Po had survived the first shot and had been able to defeat Shen. Tigress closed her eyes again, remembering Master Oogway's words of wisdom. She couldn't keep dwelling on the past, wondering what could have been, nor could she think about what will be. All that mattered now was what happening now, that is why it is called the present.

Every once in a while Tigress would be pulled out of her thoughts by the noises down below. She would occasionally glance down to watch Po train his students. She watched as his students began to spar one another. Suddenly one of the shouted out,

"Hey! Look what I found!" he said, holding up a large familiar box. Tigress cocked her head and watched as the bunny took out a handful of yellow dominoes.

"Hey what are those?" another student asked, interested in the small yellow pieces.

"Oh, that's the game Tigress used to play when she was a cub." Po explained.

"Cool! I wanna play!" one student said.

"Me too!" said another. Soon it was clear that everyone wanted to play.

"Okay, okay. We'll play, but remember, it suppose to be a game of patience." Po said, but already his students began lining up the yellow pieces. Tigress watched with interest as one of Po's students knocked down a piece, causing all the pieces to fall down. Tigress wondered when it was the last time she had played this game.

Po watched as his students began knocking down the pieces. He tried to explain to them the importance of patience when a chill ran up his spine. Moments later he heard a soft thud behind him. He turned around and saw that Tigress had suddenly appeared behind him.

He knew she had been sitting on the roof earlier, part of him kinda wondered what she had doing up there instead of training like the others. Po smiled and was about to say hello to her when one of his students noticed her presence.

"Master Tigress!" one of Po's students cried out, getting the attention of the others. Tigress smiled slightly as the students surrounded her. She looked over that the fallen dominos, then past the open gate of the court yard. Suddenly a thought occurred to her.

"May I?" Tigress asked, holding her hand out in front of one of the students who was holding a handful of dominos.

"You're gonna play? Sweet!" he exclaimed before handing Tigress the pieces. Tigress smiled before walking up to the fallen dominos.

"Watch the master," Po said as he and his students stood a few feet away, waiting for her to begin. Tigress smiled slightly before quickly scooping up the fallen dominos.

"Hey, what ya guys doing?" Mantis asked, who was sitting on Monkey's shoulder as they walked up to them.

"We're watching Master Tigress play!" one of the bunnies said excitedly.

"Tigress? Playing? This we gotta see." Mantis said. Moments later Tigress leaped up into the air, gracefully placing dominos on the ground, while Po and his students watched in awe. Tigress picked up more dominos and quickly putting them into place and soon Viper and Crane showed up and began to watch as well. Tigress put more pieces into place while quickly glancing up at her friends before quietly whispering, "This is for those who wait," smirking slightly as she did.

"What is she doing?" Viper asked as Tigress quickly began to place dominos on top of each other. The others shrugged in response.

"Maybe it's a new technique!" suggested one of Po's students. Tigress ignored their conversation as she carefully put the pieces in place. She jumped over the dominos, placing the yellow dominos perfectly into place, only millimeters from the stacked dominoes. After a few minutes, her creation began to take shape.

"Is that what I think it is?" Crane asked as Tigress swiftly began stacking dominoes into a tall familiar structure before creating the circular frame of her creation.

"How is she doing that?" exclaimed Mantis as he and the others watched in complete awe.

"Oh my gosh! Can she be any awesomer?" Po exclaimed as his students awed in amazement. Tigress ignored all their comments as she got into the flow of the game, carefully and swiftly putting more dominos into place before jumping to scoop up more dominoes. Within a half hour, Tigress had completed her creation.

"How…did you do that?" Po asked in amazement, "Is that even possible?" Tigress smirked slightly at her friend's amazement. There she stood, completing one side of the Yin Yang symbol and around her, within the symbol of peace was the Valley of Peace itself, carefully constructed with stacked dominos. She had put nearly every detail she could using the yellow dominoes.

"Look! She even put all the bridges!"

"Look! It's the Jade Palace!" one of Po's students exclaimed, pointing excitedly at tall structure almost in the center.

"Yeah, stairs and all," Po commented with a smile, he could even see that she had somehow created the cliff that housed the Sacred Peace Tree of Heavenly Wisdom. Even the cave where Shifu had learned to find Inner Peace. "Okay, how did you do that?" Po asked, somewhat baffled.

"Patience." Tigress answered calmly. "To be honest, this is my first attempt of creating the Valley." she said, which was followed by a 'whoa' of awe from the students.

"Master Tigress is amazing!" a female student said. Tigress smiled slightly. She took pride in her creation.

"You haven't seen anything yet." Tigress said with a smirk. Everyone watched as Tigress was about to knock down the first piece, suddenly her expression changed. Her ears twitched, she looked up, ignoring the other's confused expressions. Her ears twitched again, almost as if she sensed there was someone nearby.

She could hear the familiar almost inaudible sound of wood straining.

Suddenly Tigress leaped up into the air just as two thin black streaks flew through the air, landing with a dull 'thud', digging into the stone ground where Tigress had been standing moments before, promptly knocking over the domino Tigress had intended to knock down before. They could all see what it was, a pair of black arrows sticking out of the ground.

It only took moments for Po and the rest of the five to assess the situation. Someone had tried to kill Tigress.

Suddenly without warning, a dark blur jumped out of the shadows and straight at Tigress, who was still in mid-air. She reacted quickly, blocking an attack with her arms before kicking the hooded attacker in the chest, sending him flying towards the ground. The others watched as the hooded attacker spun around in mid-air before gracefully landing on all fours, meters away from them.

"Someone is attacking Master Tigress!" one of Po's students exclaimed before six more hooded figures appeared in front of them. Po and the others quickly reacted, placing themselves in between the students and the six.

"Stay back, this does not concern you five." the tallest seemed to warn them as Tigress began to fight the hooded attacker, a bow was slung across his back. The one who had spoken appeared to be the leader of the group, in his hand he held a hammer.

"Well that's our friend over there," Crane said.

"And if you mess with her, you mess with us." Po said as he and the others got into fighting stances.

"Very well," the leader said before they all look out there weapons.

Tigress swiftly dodged her attacker's blows as her friends began to battle the hooded enemies. She kicked her attacker in the chest, knocking him to the ground. She grabbed him around his neck and pinned him to the wall.

"Who are you and what do you want with me?" Tigress demanded as her attacker's hood fell back. To her surprise, her attacker was an orange tiger like her.

"Wow…I can't believe how much you've changed…" he said, grabbing her wrists with his paws, "Then again, you probably don't even remember who I am." he said. Now that he mentioned it, his brown eyes did seem familiar to Tigress.

"Who are you." Tigress demanded him again. Instead of answering her, the tiger, who appeared to be a few years older than her, stared at her with those brown eyes of his. They somehow made him appear younger than he looked, at the same time it was clear that he had seen a lot in his life. Tigress noticed a few scars on his face. His eyes narrowed, as if he were trying to figure something out.

"Answer me!" Tigress growled, frustrated at his silence.

"Tell me it's not true, Tigress." He said in an almost pleading voice. His brown eyes seemed to fill with sadness and pain. Tigress stared at him, confused. What was he talking about? She thought as he tighten his grip on her wrist.

"Please tell me it's not true." he said again.

"Tell you what?" Tigress demanded, frustrated. The tiger seemed to stare past her at the clashing warriors. His expression showed no emotion, but she could see it in his eyes. He seemed as if he were conflicting over something. Finally after what seemed like hours, he looked back at her, staring her straight into her ember eyes.

"That you're…a murderer…"