I open my eyes for about the hundredth time after I fail to fall asleep. All around me is pitch black. I just lay here motionless, listening to everyone moving around in their sleep. The rest of the Five are pretty quiet, they don't move around in their sleep like he does. I just lay here thinking about him. There I go again, somehow my mind always seems to travel back to him. He's all I can think about. For the last week now, all I have on my mind is him. I wake up thinking about him, while I train I think about him, during meals I think about him and oh yes, you guessed it, while I sleep I think about him. And then I wake up again, the day being the same as the day before. I feel across to my lamp and turn it on. Slowly, I sit up on my bed and reach for my diary. Opening to the latest entry, I begin reading.
Dear diary I have been thinking about him again. I can't seem to get him off my mind. For the past week, all I can think about is him. Every time I'm in the same room as him, I get all shy. I have never felt anything like this before. I have heard of it happening to others, but I always told myself that men were a waste of time, that my training was always my first priority. But he just makes that belief seem wrong.
I close the diary and put it back in my desk drawer. Feeling tired, I lie back down on my bed. Slowly, my eyes begin to close and I begin drifting off to sleep. As I have come to expect lately, my dream is bound to have him in it.
Dream Sequence
All of a sudden I'm at the Thread of Hope with the rest of the Furious Five. Looking across the first bridge, I see Tai Lung skid to a halt. Then, without a second thought he charges across the bridge. Realizing we won't be able to stop him in hand to hand on the edge of this cliff, I yell to the others 'Cut it". The five all cut one rope each as I watch Tai Lung. But by that time, Tai Lung had already made it halfway across the bridge. He leaps up towards me and just before he has a chance to land, I leap up and kick him backwards. The rest of the Five quickly grab the ropes that they cut to hold it up while I hold off Tai Lung. Tai Lung grabs the bridge and spins around it once before landing on the wooden planks while I just land straight onto the bridge keeping myself in fighting stance in case he attacks first. Tai Lung, however, just casually stands there talking, trying to get me to lower my guard or to attack first. "Where is the dragon warrior?" "How do you know you're not looking at her" "I know you're not the dragon warrior" as he looks at me, then looking past me and toward the five "none of you" " I heard how he fell out of the air on a ball of fire. That he's a warrior unlike anything the world has ever seen" Without realizing, Monkey reveals Po's name to Tai Lung. "So that is his name, Po" "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary" I knew Tai Lung's intentions with Po, he was going to kill him, and as long as I was alive, I wasn't going to let him try. Growling, I lunge forward to try and defeat Tai Lung as quick as possible. After he blocks some of my punches and I block his, I manage to grab him by the neck with my feet and throw him over the side of the bridge. Just as quickly, Tai Lung grabs hold of the rope and swings himself up into the sky. As he is coming back down, just as I see him ready to attack, the sun gets in my eyes, so I flip the bridge over to avoid his attack. He lands on the bridge and, after breaking through some of the boards, we begin another fight with me kicking him while holding onto the bridge and him blocking and punching at me. He eventually manages to grab hold of my ankle and pull me off the bridge. Just before he can let go, I reach around and grab hold of his arm pulling myself back to the bridge. Now, both Tai Lung and I are holding unto the underside of the bridge exchanging kicks. Again, he manages to gain the advantage and kicks me up through some of the wooden planks. Jumping up through the hole, he kicks me backwards breaking most of the planks. Before I can get ready for his next attack, he flips the bridge over a few times, which wraps around my throat and chokes me. As I'm trying to get free, Viper slithers in front of Tai Lung and flicks him in the face, making him let go of the ropes choking me. After the ropes unravel from around my neck, I fall down before I can grab the bridge. Just as I fall into the mist, I feel Crane grab my arm and fly back up out of the mist. I look over to Tai Lung just in time to see Monkey kick him backwards. Tai Lung gets back up and begins running towards Monkey and Viper. "Mantis" Understanding what I want him to do, he shakes the remaining bridge ropes and, while Monkey and Viper both knew to jump up, knocks Tai Lung backwards. "Now" Crane drops me onto the bridge and everyone(minus Mantis) charges towards Tai Lung. Just as he manages to stand back straight up, Monkey swings up from the hope and kicks him backwards. He stands back up again only to be hit backwards by Viper. Then, Crane flies in, kicks Tai Lung up into the air and wraps him up with a rope. To finish off, I jump up onto Crane's back and jump toward Tai Lung hitting him with an open palm strike before landing on the rope and cutting it. After grabbing onto the rope, Mantis pulls all of us back onto the cliff edge. Just before we turn to leave, I look back at the bridge holding Tai Lung up to see it swinging around the pillar. The rope swings forward and just after it gets out of the mist, Tai Lung has disappeared. Just as quickly, Tai Lung lands behind us. "Shifu taught you well" He quickly strikes Monkey with nerve attack. "But he didn't teach you everything" Before we even had a chance to defend ourselves, Tai Lung had us all paralysed. Tai Lung walks over to me, stands me up near the edge. I didn't have to look behind me to know what he was planning on doing. Just as he is about to push me over the edge, I see a hand pull Tai Lung backwards. Tai Lung flips over my rescuer. And I see who it is...Po. He looks back at me and smiles, then turns back to face Tai Lung. Tai Lung charges at Po and Po brings his arm forward into Tai Lung, Tai Lung flies far back and hits a tree. Shifu comes out next to me and pulls me away from the edge, then unparalysed me and the rest of the Five. "Tigress, you stay and help Po if he needs it. The rest of you, we are going back to the Jade Palace" I looked away for a few seconds and they were gone. "Ok. That was weird" I think out loud. I look over to Po and he had Tai Lung in the Wuxi Finger Hold. "Skadoosh" A huge gold energy ripple moves past me. I look away, then I look back to see only Po. Tai Lung is nowhere to be seen. Po walks over to me. "Thank you for saving me Po" Po doesn't say anything, he just slowly moves closer to me. He moves closer so his body is pressed up against mine. I look up into his eyes and see he is already looking into mine. I see him slowly bring his lips forward to meet mine. I close my eyes just as we're about to kiss. Just before we kiss, I open my eyes to find that I'm back in my room. "It was just a dream" I hear footsteps coming near the Sleeping Halls and i quickly get up and get dressed for my usual day.