"Your Parents never loved you, but let me heal you" Shen said as he lit the canon.
"PO! NOOOOOOO!" Tigress screamed and her world went black.
Tigress sprang up from bed in a dead sweat,panting like crazy. She realized it was just a nightmare. Viper burst into her room, thinking Tigress was being attacked. "Freez-Tigress are you okay?" Viper asked as she slithered up to her best friend.
"Viper i'm fine, just a silly nightmare." Tigress said
"Are you sure Tigress? We can talk about it you know. you can tell me anything" Viper replied
"It's nothing viper, really i'm fine. I was just having a nightmare about us losing Po to Shen's cannon."
"Tigress, that's okay, I think we were all worried about losing him. Crane told me that he had a nightmare about that incident and quite frankly, we all have." Viper replied.
"Its just I don't know why I am having the nightmares, he came back and defeated Shen, Ughhhhh!" Tigress said as she laid back down. "Well hopefully they go away, Po will be back today to the palace after all. Well anyway, goodnight Tigress" Viper finished as she slithered out of the room and closed the door behind her.
"Well hopefully seeing the panda will make my nightmares go away" Tigress thought as she settled back into her bed and drifted back to sleep. Tigress woke up about 4 hours later, it seemed to be around nine. Since the five were still on their break, it seemed like everyone else was still sleeping in. Tigress got up and heard a noise coming from the kitchen, thinking it was bandits or an intruder, she quietly crept to the kitchen.
Once Tigress walked in and saw Po making breakfast, she got out of her defensive stance and into a more welcoming one. Po turned and saw Tigress walked in. "Morning Tigress" "Morning Po" Tigress replied, happy to see Po. Po grabbed a bowl of dumplings and bean buns and placed them on the table. Po and Tigress ate their breakfast in silence, Tigress would occasionally sneak glances at Po. During such time, Po and Tigress both reached for a dumpling and their paws touched. Both realized it and pulled their paws back "Sorry" they managed to say in unison. Tigress didn't realize it, but she was blushing, thankfully her red fur his it pretty well. Po grabbed the bowl and offered her a dumpling, she took it and then po grabbed his. Tigress and Po sat in a uncomfortable silence till the other furious five joined them.
The furious five walked in and took their seats, Po got up and served everybody their noodle soup. "Good to have you back buddy" Mantis said as he sipped his soup."Yeah it's good to have you back Po "Viper chimed in as she finished her soup. "Well guys, it's good to be back" Po replied as he started the dishes. "So, do you guys have any plans today?"
"Me and Mantis are going down the village for some almond cookies" Monkey replied as he handed Po his soup bowl and left the kitchen with Mantis on his shoulder leaving Po, Tigress, Viper and Crane in the kitchen.
"I'm going down to buy some more ink" Crane said as he handed Po his bowl.
"Mind if I come with you Crane? I was needing to by a new ribbon" Viper Interrupted
" Sure thing Viper" Crane replied as they started to head out. Once Viper and Crane were gone, Tigress and Po were left in the kitchen. "Got any plans for today Po?" Tigress asked.
"I actually don't have anything planned, for today, I think I'm going to meditate, what about you?" Po responded.
Tigress was surprised that po would want to meditate on his day off and that shifu wasn't telling him to do so.
"Uh, I didn't have anything planned" Tigress said, then an idea popped into her head.
"Hey Po"
"Yes Tigress?"
"I was wondering if would mind if I joined you, meditation does sound nice"
Po was surprised that she asked him that, usually the only time they hung out was when they spared and trained. But he welcomed the gesture.
"Sure tigress, maybe you could even give me a couple tips." Po joked and tigress let out a little chuckle. Tigress and Po left the kitchen and headed to the Jade Palace the meditate.
Tigress got into her stance and Po got into his. For an hour not a word was said between the two warriors. Tigress and Po were across from each other and tigress was enjoying it, just the two of them. She opened her eyes and just stared at Po, and her mind started to wander.
Tigress had almost lost her friend to shen, she actually thought she did when Po was hit by the cannon. Her mind then flashed to when Po swam to her side when shen blasted the ships out of the harbor. She remembered that po swam up to her and grabbed her paw, a feeling she didn't forget. Then she thought to when she helped Po out fo the water and he hugged her.
Of course tigress tensed up, but she liked it nonetheless. She hoped Po liked it as much as she did.
Tigress brought her attention back to Panda across from her, surprised at how much Po had Matured since they met, and how much po had stayed the same.
Tigress looked at Po, he was clearly concentrating, his eyes were closed, and an idea popped into her head, she scooted closer, but not to close. She was able to hear his clam breathing. Tigress's tail was swishing and flicking behind her and that caught the attention of Viper, who was coming back to the palace after shopping with Crane.
"Man, those two look cute together" Viper said to herself as she headed to her room to place her ribbons.
Tigress closed her eyes just as Po opened his, he was surprised how close Tigress was. He didn't mind of course but was surprised nonetheless. He noticed that her tail was swaying and that Tigress was smiling. He wondered what she was thinking about. Po realized what time it was, they had spent 4 hours meditating and it was almost lunch time.
"Hey Tigress? Tigress?" Po stated
"Yes Po?" Tigress replied with a smile all but gone.
"It's lunch time, I was gonna go make some food"
"Ok Po, can you come get me when lunch is ready? I'm going to mediate for a while longer"
"Sure thing Tigress" Po said as he got up. However Po wasn't watching his footing and he tripped, landing right onto Tigress.
Po landed right on top of her and Surprisingly, tigress wasn't mad. Tigress noticed how close they were, mere inches apart. Tigress also noticed how soft his fur was.
Po and Tigress were so close, for a quick second, Po and Tigress looked into each other's eyes. "Wow, Po really does have nice eyes" Tigress was about to say something but Po beat her to it.
"Tigress i'm so sorry! Are you okay?" Po yelled as he jumped and made sure she was okay.
"Po i'm okay, I understand, you tripped." Tigress said,
"Phew" Po exclaimed, "Well I'm going to go make lunch now, I'll let you know when it's ready." Po called out as he headed down the palace steps to the barracks to make lunch.
Once Po was gone, Tigress was about to meditate again, but was interrupted by Viper.
"Hello Tigress"
"Hello Viper"
"So, how's meditation going?"
"Oh it's going ok" Tigress replied
"Oh I bet it was, considering Po was on top of you" Viper banted
"Viper! That is very inappropriate of what you are thinking! Po tripped and fell on me, it was no big deal." Tigress replied, Blushing like crazy, her fur hiding it well.
"Uh huh, Sureeeee" Viper replied with a smile on her face before continuing
"When me and Crane Returned to the Palace, I saw you and Po on top of each other and it was cuteeeee"
"Viper, Seriously, it was nothing, first of all,Po doesn't like me like that. Second of all, Po tripped and fell on me and it was an accident, Third of all he apologized and he is making me lunch" Tigress said, almost in a growl.
"Doesn't like you like that? Of course he does Tigress, remember what Oogway said? There are no Accidents." Tigress knew that Viper maybe had a point of Po liking her like that and that Viper was probably right. However, it was ironic that Tigress saw Po walking towards her.
"Hey Tigress, oh hello Viper," Po replied
"Hi Po" Viper chimed in
"Oh hey Tigress, Lunch is ready, Viper? Would you like to join us?"
"No thanks Po, I'm not hungry, but you and Tigress go on ahead" Viper said, Winking at Tigress.
Viper watched as both Tigress and Po made their way to the barracks to have lunch, it was so cute.
Tigress and Po had lunch together, both were quite as they ate, but both of them just enjoying the silence. While Po was eating, Tigress was thinking. She was thinking about how much their friendship had changed, from her almost hating Po, to her and Po becoming friends. To the little moment that had occurred back at the Jade Palace. Tigress was having some thoughts and she needed to think.