Author's note:

Hey! So this another story I have been thinking about! Hope you like it!

ENJOY!

Chapter 1

Monday.

Po was standing restlessly against the wall of the Palace.

"Po, that's not an appropriate welcoming position, you have to stand nice and tall" The queen told him, or as Po called her… mom.

Po improved his posture and glanced back at her, she gave him an approving nod in his direction and then turned her eyes to the door again.

They were both waiting for someone, someone who could protect him from danger… he didn't quite understood if there was any actual risk, but he couldn't question the queen… much less if the queen was his mom.

He knew the reason why her mom thought it would be better and safer to get someone to protect him plus teach him a few techniques for self-defense.

As Po stood there thinking, growing bored of waiting, like he has been doing for about 15 minutes. He was thinking that whoever came through the door was going to face a really mad queen for making her wait.

The door made a creak sound as someone was opening it from the outside. That someone was having an argument with the guard standing outside, as you could hear voices shouting. One of them was being strong and firm and commanding, the other one was low and nervous, that other one was the guard.

Po chuckled. The voices stopped and apparently the guard finally let the person come in. Or maybe the person did it anyway.

The figure stepped inside the Palace, or castle, because it wasn't really a Palace. But you couldn't quite see who it was because of the shadows covering the figure.

As the figure stepped into the light and into the presence of the queen, she bowed down politely, not into her knees, which surprised Po.

The light revealed a tiger. If Po didn't know better he would have thought that it was a boy, but he quickly identify the feline as Master Tigress. He didn't know much about her, but he had heard stories about how she had defeated tons of villains and how she was really hardcore… in other words, how she was Awesome!

Po was standing next to the queen, who was sitting on her throne. Tigress was facing both of them, her eyes met Po's for a second, then went back to the queen's.

"Hello your majesty" She greeted, her voice was firm, just like with the guard, but this time she was being more polite.

The queen raised her eyebrow.

"Are you the person who is going to serve my son, the prince?" The queen asked, inspecting the sight before her, never before had she heard of a woman doing a man's profession. Apparently Tigress seemed to be getting this a lot, so she just nodded.

"Yes, I am. Now if you excuse me, what exactly am I facing?" Tigress asked, in Po's opinion, she sounded like a professional, like if she had been with royalty tons of time, which she might have probably done.

"Well, I am not sure myself. The matter is that I was told by an anonymous source that someone is planning on assassinating the prince on the night of the ball, this Sunday. Up until now, we don't know who or what is the reason for that" The queen explained. Tigress didn't even flinched or show any form of emotion. She just nodded.

"Very well. Don't worry Your Majesty, I will make sure nothing happens to him" She said. The queen nodded satisfied and stood up and went to attend other business. Leaving the panda and the tiger alone.

Tigress looked at him, the motioned him to follow her. The queen had ordered her to first get his son in a suit and do some modifications, or at least know how he is going to look so she is able to identify who he is.

As they were walking down the hall, which was pretty big, Po just kept staring at her. Tigress noticed this on the corner of her eyes. She sighed and started to speak.

"So what type of prince are you?" Po looked at her curiously, not knowing what she meant.

"What do you mean by that?" They kept on walking.

"Are you the rich snotty kind of prince, or are you the 'pretend-to-be-nice' kind?" She asked, as if it were a simple question. Po didn't know how to answer that.

"Well, I am nice and kind, and I´d like to think that I'm not just pretending" He answered. Tigress looked at him and then return her eyes to the path.

"Yeah, right"

"You don't believe me, huh?" Po said, smirking. Tigress nodded.

"Fine, if you are all that, what do you know to do?" Tigress asked, turning towards him, but still marching down the long hall.

"I… well, the servants do most of the jobs" Tigress gave him an 'I-knew-it' look.

"But… I know how to cook…" She raised an eyebrow, "And once in a while I help them clean with the broom" Po said, clearly proud of his actions.

"I guess you are a new kind of prince then"

"Why?" He asked,

"Most of the royalty I met don't even know how to hold a broom" Po chuckled, then turned his attention back at her. He noticed that he hadn't seen her smiled yet, even though she had a pretty good sarcastic sense of humor.

"How come you don't smile?" Tigress turned to look at him.

"I'm a warrior, I don't smile… besides, why should I?" They were reaching their destination, which was a room where a goat was working on Po's tux.

"I bet you do smile… I just have to get you to do it" Po said, Tigress scoffed and entered the room.

The goat seemed to know what she was doing there, because she immediately grabbed Po by his arms and dragged him to a little room, small enough to be confused as a closet. Tigress stood there, crossing her arms. Seconds later, Po came out wearing his tux.

Po looked at Tigress and started blushing.

"Umm, aren't you supposed to be in another room or something?" He asked shyly. Tigress shook her head.

"Seriously? No. I'm going to add some modifications" She explained. Po smiled at her. Tigress looked at his face and couldn't help but to smirk.

"HA! So you do smile!" He shouted. Tigress chuckled at his childish expression.

"And you laugh!?" Tigress shook her head, and approached him with her smile.

She started looking around the suit. After looking at it for a couple of minutes, and making Po uncomfortable, she went to the goat and whispered something. The goat nodded. Then asked Po to go back to the little room to change. Po obeyed her.

After changing, he headed outside, where Tigress was waiting for him.

"So what did you told the lady?" Po said.

"I just told her to leave more space on your arms, you are going to need it when I teach you some moves" Tigress explained. Po looked at her stunned.

"AWESOME!" He shouted, throwing his fists to the air.

They both had reached the door, where Tigress had come in. She turned to look at him with a small smile.

"Ok, I have to leave now… sorry I was late, tomorrow I will come in time and I will start teaching you some techniques, ok?"

Po nodded excitedly.

"Yeah!"

Tigress chuckled and opened the door and started exiting. But before she got on her fours and headed to the Jade Palace, she turn one last time to look at Po.

He was smiling at her. She smiled as well, hiding a blush coming from her cheeks, then she did a jump and landed on the ceiling, and from there, she got on her fours and started to dash her way to the palace.

Po stood there, still satisfied to see her smile. He had to admit, her smile was one of the most beautiful ones he had ever seen. He was thinking about her, staring dreamily into space. That was until her mom came.

"Son, how was Master Tigress, I heard she is very…. Strict and hardcore, and" She got cut off by Po.

"She was awesome, and the most beautiful girl I have ever seen" He said… once he realized what he had just told his mom, who was taken back by this, he quickly added blushing,

"I mean, she was cool…. I'm going to eat something now… see you!" He quickly ran off and headed to the kitchen. Leaving a confused queen behind.

Man that was close. Po thought.

Well, this is the beginning, I hope you guys like it! Just saying, Po doesn't have a dad, only a mother, who is the queen, you will learn more about the queen in future chapters.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it and review! I will be updating soon!

-Peace out :)