A/N: Sorry for the wait, guys. I know that a lot of you love this story… But as some of you also know, then I have had a case of writer's block. I got over it, but then things have happened at home. My father once again ended up in the hospital, and I have been pretty down about that. But here I am.

I do not own Kung Fu Panda.

Widen Your Golden Heart, Answers

"So," Viper began as she sat down beside her friend. "How are you?"

Tigress glared at her. "The same as when you asked me half an hour ago."

The snake then sighed. "I know how you are feeling, Tigress, but…"

"It's been three days, Viper!" the tiger exclaimed from her bed. "And I am fine. Just a bit tired…"

Viper bit her lip, and Tigress noticed it. "What?"

"Nothing."

"Viper, I have known you for over ten years. I know when you are lying."

"I am just worried," the snake said. "You are sick, and Enlai is gone…"

Tigress tilted her head. "He has been gone for a while now, Viper. It's not like it's big news."

"But you are still sick…"

"I will soon leave the bed. Even Master Shifu knows that. We just need the Dragon Palace to answer, and then everything will be fine," Tigress promised.

But Viper was still nervous. Yesterday, Tigress had fainted again while being in bed, but now she seemingly had forgotten that. The tiger had only talked about being tired, and must be thinking that she had just fallen asleep.

Viper was not sure if she should tell her the truth. All of it. But Master Shifu had not changed his mind about how much knowledge Tigress should have about her sickness.

Now they just had to wait.


Master Shifu felt how his heart started to beat faster when he saw the goose in the distance. Finally. An answer. Those last days had felt awful long as Tigress' fate still was unsure.

Zeng had promised to fly as fast as he could and now he was returning home. "Master Shifu," he called as he landed. The goose held out the scroll and Shifu quickly took it.

"Thank you," he said shortly, already opening the scroll to read what they had written.

The red panda walked towards the palace while reading; he did not want to waste time. If Tigress need some special herbs, then he wanted to bring her them as fast as possible. Whatever she needed…

But suddenly he stopped moving. His jaw fell down as he continued staring at the paper. Again and again he read the sentence, but got the same meaning each time.

In some minutes he just stood there, not being able to move. Not even when Po called his name, he reacted. He was just like a statue.

"Master Shifu?!" the panda called again, and got the attention of his other friends. They gathered around Shifu, waiting to hear what the letter was saying.

Finally, the Grandmaster looked up.


"Viper?" Crane said softly as he entered the room.

The snake smiled when she saw him. "Hey," she said and then turned to look at Tigress. "She just fell asleep," she told Crane.

But then she heard some weird noises coming from him, as if he was trying to start a sentence but changed his mind.

She looked up to meet his eyes. "What's wrong?"

"Uhm…" Crane nervously moved his feet. "We received the message."

The snake's eyes widened. "You did? What did it say?"

"Eh… The others will tell you. They are waiting in the kitchen."

"What's…?" Viper now knew that something was wrong; Crane was not usually behaving like this. Something was wrong. And when it was about the letter…

It had to be about Tigress.

"I'll stay here," Crane promised, taking a step closer to the sleeping Tigress.

Viper nodded and then made her way towards the kitchen. "I hate when people won't tell the bad news," she muttered to herself. And it was true.

She just wanted to hear it right now. Not having to wait while horror images filled her mind.

Finally, she entered the kitchen. Mantis was sitting on Monkey's head and Po was staring at the air as if he had seen a ghost. Master Shifu was not there.

"What's going on?" she asked them. "Crane said that you have gotten the answer…"

"They don't know about the cure," Monkey finally muttered.

Viper dropped her jaw. "What?" she asked with a tiny voice.

"Mei-Hua just suddenly disappeared and when she came back, she was well again. She never told them what had happened," Mantis explained.

"No cure?" Viper asked.

"There is a cure. But Mei-Hua was the only one we can ask about it. And she is dead," Monkey said.

The realization hit her hard. "We can't find the cure," she whispered and the boys lowered their heads. "But Tigress… We have to do something!"

"I said that too!" Po exclaimed.

"And again; what can we do?" Monkey said, sharing their despair.

Viper looked around as if she was searching for a solution. "Where is Master Shifu?" she then asked.

"Meditating. I guess he doesn't know how to handle it," Mantis said. "Does anyone know how to handle it?!"

"Tigress…" Viper said quietly. "Who is going to tell her?"

"I don't think Master Shifu thinks that is a good idea," Monkey said, while Mantis nodded on the top of his head.

"You can't just not tell her," Viper exclaimed. "She'll notice that something is severely wrong with her."

Mantis tilted his head. "So you are going to tell her?"

"Yes! No… I don't think I can," she finally revealed. "But Tigress…"

"She can't just die," Po finished for her.

"Maybe… Maybe it's not the same sickness," Viper tried.

Monkey shook his head. "With exactly the same symptoms?"

Viper opened her mouth, but no words came out. Instead, tears stared to form and roll down her face. Tigress… Her sister… She could not just die.

Po saw this and decided to comfort her. "It's Tigress! She has survived anything that has faced her yet! Mei-Hua survived… Maybe Tigress can too!" When they all just stared at him, he continued, "We have to think positive…"

Viper looked at him, but then dropped her glance to the ground. "I'll go back to Tigress," she said quietly and turned around.

Po left the corner he was standing in as he decided to follow her. "I'll come with you," he said and she nodded as an answer.

As they walked, he asked her, "Do you think…?"

"I don't know, Po."

"But…"

"I don't know," Viper said again. In the back of her mind, a throbbing pain was haunting her as she tried to push away the fact that her friend, her sister, might die. Losing Tigress to a strange master had hurt her. But losing her to death was worse. Much worse.

"We have to do something," she said sternly. "Look through all the scrolls, try and contact the Elders again… There must be something! Mei-Hua must have told someone about how she got rid of the disease."

"Who?" Po asked, getting her idea.

Viper tried to shrug. "I don't know. But she must have told someone. A friend?"

"Nah… I don't think she was the type who had friends. If she didn't even tell her own masters…"

"What about parents?" Viper asked him.

Po looked confused. "Did she have parents? Tigress has grandparents?!"

"I don't know. I don't think so…" Viper's face suddenly brightened up as she realized something. "The diary. If she wrote it down there."

Po started to smile too; maybe they now knew how to save Tigress. "Then where's the diary?"

Viper tried to remember but found that she could not. Enlai had told her about how she had given it to Tigress, but the female tiger never spoke of it. Where could it be?

Her only idea was that Tigress must have hidden it. They had to ask the tiger!

As they now where at the tiger's room, Viper opened the door with her tail. Crane looked up when they entered, and Tigress did too. She had woken up and had been talking with her bird friend until Po and Viper came.

"Hey," she said slowly. She was sitting up, at least, with pillows supporting her back. Her eyes were tired, but her face was not showing it.

"Hi," Viper said while Po held up a hand to greet her. "How did you sleep?" It felt like she was lying; a thing that she did not like.

"Fine," Tigress answered shortly. "What's wrong?"

Crane sent the snake a warning glance, but the Viper just said, "Nothing. What should be?"

Tigress only raised an eyebrow, telling her friends that she knew they were hiding something from her. She could sense it.

"Do you have your mother's diary?" Po just suddenly said.

The tiger widened her eyes in shock. "What?!"

"The diary…"

"Wha-? Who told you?!" Tigress snarled, not liking that they knew one of her secrets. But before they could even answer, she had figured it out. "Enlai," she breathed out.

Viper quickly said, "It is not like that."

"He had no right to say it. And why do you ask about it anyway?" the tiger hissed.

"We need to read it," Viper told her, meeting her eyes.

Tigress glared back at her, not blinking a single time. "No," she then said.

"But…"

"I said 'no'. The book belongs to me, and if I say you can't read it, then you can't," Tigress told them sternly. "It's mine."

Po took a step forward. "Please, Tigress. We just need to-"

"No."

"But-"

"No!"

Viper's face hardened. "We need to read it, Tigress. We won't really read the things that we should not know."

"You don't know what she has written in there. And believe me; it's none of your business," Tigress told them.

Crane had now taken a step back, looking from Viper to Tigress. He did not know what was going on, but one thing was sure; this was going to end badly.

And why was it that Po and Viper wanted to read Tigress' mother's diary?

"What is it that you need to know?" the tiger then asked them.

"Something Mei-Hua might have written about the sickness long time ago," Viper explained. "And we really need to read it."

But Tigress sensed something in her friend's tone of speaking. "What is it about the sickness? I thought the Elders would give you the answers you needed."

Viper's heart started to ache when she heard what Tigress said. What could they tell the tiger? That they did not get any answers? That she would die without they could do anything?

"We just need some more information," she said shortly. Tigress looked at her, obviously suspicious, but Viper lowered her glance to avoid her eyes.

"No," Tigress finally said again. "What the diary says it private. You will not get to read it."

"Come on. We just want to help you, Tigress," Po tried but the tiger shook her head.

"No, Po," she said softly, making it clear that the conversation now was over. The tiger then laid back and her bed, closing her eyes as a new headache visited her.

Viper sighed deeply, and looked at Crane, silently asking him if he would stay here. He nodded and soon Viper and Po left the room.

"Goodnight, Tigress," Po said, before closing the door.

As soon as they were outside again, the panda asked her friend, "What now?"

"We should tell Master Shifu," Viper said. "Maybe he will be able to convince Tigress."

"Are you kidding me? He'll personally search through her room if that is what it takes!" Po exclaimed. They both knew that their master would do anything to save Tigress' life; even to go against her.

Viper smiled softly, knowing that the panda was right. "Then let's go find him."


Master Shifu did not say a word while meditating. His mind was not trying to come up with ideas.

His whole brain had stopped when he had gotten the answer.

Or more exactly; when he did not get the answer.

How were they going to find the cure now?

And why was it that the Elders did not know?! A part of him blamed them for the whole situation, but he also knew that he was being unfair by doing that.

They did not cause the sickness.

But what did? Maybe… Maybe Tigress should try and talk with the dragons. Maybe those creatures knew something about this whole thing. But…

He remembered what she had done to talk with them the last time. Throwing herself of a cliff… Now when she was getting weaker… He could not risk that.

Then what could he do?

"Master Shifu?"

The red panda turned around to see Viper and Po standing in the entrance of the cave. "What is it?" he asked them, his voice sounding tired. It suddenly hit him that their news might be about Tigress. Had she gotten worse? Or was it might good news?

Viper cleared her throat. "We think we might have found a way to get more information about the cure."

Shifu's ears rose again. "How?!"

"Mei-Hua's diary. She might have written about it in there. And Enlai gave the diary to Tigress."

Shifu's face brightened up. His students were right. Maybe they now had found a way! Maybe they could now save Tigress' life! His daughter…

"But Tigress won't show us it," Viper then told him.

His ears dropped again. "What?" he asked them.

Po shrugged. "She says it's too personal."

Foolish, stubborn girl. Shifu jumped off his staff to land easily on the ground. "Let me talk to her," he said to them.

Viper and Po shared a little smile before they all turned back to the palace.


The lynx forcefully hit the wall, and the tiger kept him pined there. "Please!" the lynx begged, but the grip only got stronger.

"What did you say?!" the tiger snarled, and when he received no answer, he yelled, "I heard you say her name!"

"I was just kidding!" the poor lynx whimpered. "I never meant it! Look at me! How should I ever be able to hurt the mighty Master Tigress?"

Enlai growled at himself; once again he had been overreacting. This lynx obviously knew nothing. And, by one single glance at him, he could tell that he was no threat.

He then let go of him, and the stranger fell to the ground with a whimper. "Hey! Hey, listen up! I heard some rumors… About you and what you are looking for."

"So?" Enlai asked, feeling the tiredness taking over. Being angry all the time was actually hard… How did Tigress do that?

"I think I know someone," the lynx said, rubbing his sore arms, "that has the knowledge you need."

Enlai's eyes widened. "Who?"


A/N: I know, I know. Secrets everywhere! But we have to keep it excited, don't we? Sorry for the wait! I would have posted this earlier since my writers block disappeared. But my dad has spent the last days in the hospital, so I could not really pull myself together and write, but now he is back and well!

So here I am! Plus; I'll give you a surprise with a whole new story! It'll be up soon!