Later that night, everyone returned to their rooms for a good night rest after the tiring events that happened today….WELL…. All except for a certain Monkey and a Mantis, those two had a little mission to attend to. Both Monkey and Mantis tip toed to the kitchen to begin their mission, they rushed inside and peeked into the hallway.
" coast is clear, come on!" Mantis urged and hopped onto the top shelf.
" Mantis are you sure this is a good idea? If Shifu catches us we're both goners!" Monkey whispered. Mantis grabbed all the bread they had and quickly dumped in the trash bin.
" it's the only way Shifu will let Po and Viper get some more groceries!" he snapped as he tossed monkey's almond jar, but before it could hit the ground Monkey caught it throwing his whole body to the ground, he sighed in relief and glared at the insect.
" dump anything you want, but hands off my cookies." Monkey snapped, Mantis rolled his eyes and reached into the cabinets, as he dumped out some more bread, eggs, potatoes and anything else he could find. Monkey simply sat on the corner keeping a look out incase someone walked in on them. Finally Mantis jumped down and nodded in satisfaction.
" well that's settled, come on Banana peeler take your cookies and let's go to bed, I'm beat." he muttered hopping on the primates shoulders.
" think Shifu would let them?" he asked, Mantis chuckled.
" knowing Po's appetite he wont have a choice." he smirked.
" good point."
A few hours passed, and sun began to rise, Master Shifu looked up at the sky and figured he still had a couple of hours before the gong rang, he slowly stood up from his meditation form and made his way to the kitchen for some hot tea. Once he stepped into his destination he reached over to the first cabinet only to find it empty.
" strange I was sure I had a new pack of tea…." he murmured and quickly checked the other, nothing was there. Shifu's eye began to twitch and began searching everywhere only to find that each and every cabinet was empty.
" what happened here!" he groaned, he couldn't exactly accuse the panda, even though he had a harsh appetite he was sure that the panda couldn't gargle down ALL the food. He couldn't assume bandits attacked the palace at night, he would have heard them and immediately alert his students. He sighed, looks like some one needed to go shopping for groceries today. He looked up at the sun and saw it was almost to its destination, he quietly walked over the barracks where his students lay sleeping. As soon as he reached the middle of the hall way the gong rang and the furious Five (including Po for once.) step out of there bedrooms for roll call.
" Good morning Master." they greeted, Master Shifu's eyes widened as he saw Po standing wide awake in front of his room.
" Good morning Students…. And Po glad to see you woke up in time…. For once." he chuckled, Po rolled his eyes.
" jeez, cut me some slack man, it hasn't been that long." he muttered in his defense. Shifu chuckled and cleared his throat.
" now before we begin training, I must ask." he turned to Po and smirked at him.
" Dragon Warrior, would you be so kind to do some morning grocery shopping?" he asked with a grin, Po shrugged and nodded.
" sure why not. Gives me a chance to say hi to my dad.'' he smiled, Shifu nodded then turned to Viper.
" Viper would you mind going with him? It seems that my Favorite tea has disappeared and I trust you know where to find it?" he asked, Tigress saw from the corner of her eye, Monkey giving Mantis a high five, she bit her lip holding in a growl, also with her great hearing, she head Crane mutter offensive things under her breath, she rolled her eyes, Then turned her attention back to The snake and the panda who were Blushing a bit as they remembered what happened yesterday. Mantis noticed their gaze and began to snicker, Po and Viper growled
" Shut it Mantis!" Monkey burst out in laughter.
" I smell a new couple here." he snickered, Po and Viper's blush became insanely red.
" were not a couple!" they said in unison. Then looked at each other.
" stop copying me!" they said again, then groaned.
" me! YOU!" they said in unison, they both sighed and remained quiet for a while…. Then
" Noodles are delicious!" they said to see if they were to repeat again, unfortunately they did.
" ugh stop that!"
" NO YOU!"
" GAH!" they muttered in unison, causing Monkey and Mantis to burst out in laughter.
" MONKEY SHUT U-" Both warriors were silenced when a certain Tiger and Crane covered their mouths.
" shut up already." Tigress muttered trying to sound calm, Crane nodded still having his wing on the snake's mouth.
" yea it's getting annoying." he muttered, Both Po and Viper were beginning to get suffocated, not being able to breath, they both muttered something under their Paw/wing. Tigress eyed Po in confusion, as did Crane.
" huh?" Po pointed to Tigress Paw telling her to release him, while Viper nodded in agreement. Tigress and Crane arched an eyebrow not sure what they wanted, they looked at each other still in confusion, suddenly they both felt Po and Viper beginning to fall, fainting not being able to breath, Tigress's eyes widened and quickly caught the large panda before he collapsed on the floor, but due to his weight he brought her down to the floor falling on her lap. Crane reached out catching the snake with his wings holding her up, he felt the heat run up to his cheeks as he saw in the position he had her in, he gently began tapping on her cheeks trying to wake her up, Monkey and Mantis snickered at the scene. While both Crane and Tigress blushed a deep red as they held onto their crushes… Mantis of course, was the one to break the silence.
" nice going you two, now we gotta wait another few minutes before we could eat." he grumbled holding on to his stomach hearing it growl. Before Crane and Tigress can retort, they heard both the panda and the snake gasping out for air.
" air! Sweet delicious air!" Po gasped inhaling as much oxygen as his lungs can take. Viper coughed out loud trying to breath herself, Crane and Tigress blushed a deep scarlet as they helped them up to their feet.
" sorry Po, I couldn't understand." Tigress apologized.
" Forgive me as well Viper, it wont happen again." Crane muttered turning away from the snake so she wont see that slight Pink on his cheeks. Master Shifu cleared his throat catching everyone's attention.
" *ahem* as I was saying, Po, Viper You are dismissed to the valley. The rest of you, off to training, Dismissed." the warriors bowed in respect.
" yes Master." Shifu walked away over to the sacred peach tree of heavenly wisdom to do his usual meditation. Po and the furious began walking down the hallway in silence until Mantis's stomach growled again.
" man I'm starving, how long will it take for you to be back big guy?" Mantis asked, rubbing his tummy, Po grinned.
" we'll be back In a flash buddy, then I could whoop you guys up some noodles." he smirked, Mantis began to drool.
" oh man, don't mention them to me right now, those sweet, tasty, delicious, hot noodles." he drooled already picturing himself eating a nice hot of bowl of Po's delicious soup.
" Mantis your's drooling all over my shoulder!" Monkey whined, wiping away the saliva. The insect shook his head snapping back to reality.
" huh- oh my bad man. I'm just sooooo hungry!" he groaned, hearing his stomach growl, Po chuckled and turned to look at Viper.
" well I guess we should get going Viper, Before Mantis eats his own head." he chuckled, Viper smiled and nodded in agreement.
" alright, and maybe we can both eat while were down there." Viper added, with a friendly smile, Tigress and Crane snapped their eyes wide open, and tried to hold in a growl, while Mantis nudged Monkey on the shoulder and winked.
" psst, I think she just asked him out." he whispered in the primate's ear, Monkey put a hand on his mouth trying to hold in laugh, Tigress glared at the two, then turned to look at Crane, the bird gave a sharp nod and turned his attention back to the snake and the panda who were now on their way to the palace gates. Tigress cleared her throat and stepped forward.
" well I will be training in the clearing if anyone needs me." she announced, then looked at Crane tilting her head a little telling him to follow her.
" yea, you wanna spar? I want rematch from yesterday's match." Crane grinned, Tigress gave a sharp nod as they both walked out of the bunkhouse and went straight to the clearing. Mantis turned to look at Monkey.
" yup, those two are definitely jealous." he snickered.
" well that's going to be a problem" Monkey added with a grin. Mantis shrugged.
" oh well, this will be interesting." he snickered.
" agreed."
At the clearing with Tigress and Crane.
Tigress and Crane slowly walked over to the clearing where they had to perform their stunts when the Dragon warrior was to be chosen, there they saw the panda and the snake slowly walking over to the gate to make their way to the valley. They both sighed and made their way back to the kitchen, determined to figure out what exactly made all their food suddenly disappear. Once at near the hallway to the kitchen, they heard some laughter and a certain conversation led by a so call primate and a Mantis.
" oh man, I can't believe it actually worked!" They heard Mantis snicker. Both Crane and Tigress glanced at each other and listened closer.
" yea good thinking on dumping the tea Mantis." Monkey agreed.
" I'm just to slick like that, hey pass me a cookie." Mantis chuckled.
" I'm only sharing cause your stomach is driving me crazy!" Monkey groaned.
Outside the kitchen, Crane and Tigress watched as Monkey and Mantis stuff their faces with almond cookies. The feline growled in annoyance, as Crane tried so hard not to beat the living crap out of them.
" so they were behind all of this?" Crane asked with a hint of anger in his voice.
" it would seem so." Tigress snarled through her teeth.
" so what are we gonna do?" Crane asked fighting the urge to jump on the insect and primate.
" race down to the valley and keep an eye on Po and Viper." she answered already making her way back to the palace gates.
" what about Master Shifu? If he knows were missing who knows what kind of punishment he'll give us." Crane muttered, shivering a little as he thought about a furious red panda, snapping at them. Tigress rolled her eyes.
" stop being a wimp. Besides when Shifu is meditating he doesn't like to be disturbed." she stated.
" hmmm… you got a point there."
" then let us go." Tigress replied crouching down to all four legs as she raced down the palace stairs. Crane flew beside her both urgently trying to catch up to the snake and panda.
At the grocery store.
Po and Viper were both grabbing everything they needed, eggs, bread, milk, fruit, vegetables, and everything else they thought was needed back at the palace, neither of them spoke so much, apparently morning's event made things a little awkward for them. But Po of course, could never stand silence and began to start a conversation.
" so uh… how do you think the food went missing last night?" the snake thought for a minute but nothing came to her mind.
" I'm not sure, I mean it couldn't have been bandits. Master Shifu would've woken us up… and I'm pretty sure it couldn't have been you in your sleep, we would have heard you." she giggled a little, Po blushed In embarrassment.
" hey!" he whined.
" just kidding. But no I seriously don't know how it could've gone missing." she replied. Po chuckled and simply nodded. He still felt kinda of awkward about the whole "accident" yesterday. But he didn't want his friendship with Viper to become a total disaster.
" hey uh listen Viper." he began, the snake looked up at him with wondered eyes.
" yes?"
" look um… about yesterday… well um, why don't we just ya'know, set it aside and pretend like that never happened? Cause I mean… I don't want this to come between our friendship ya'know… so uh." he cut himself off, feeling a little embarrassed on bringing up the subject, but to his surprise Viper smiled.
" you know, I like that Idea. So this never happened between us, alright brother?" she smiled sweetly.
" sure thing." Po smiled, then took hold of his bags.
" alright! Let's head on Back to the palace" Po cheered, the snake chuckled and slithered next to him making their way out the store.
Somewhere along the valley.
Tigress and Crane were both calmly walking down the Valley looking for Po and Viper, they passed every store in the valley but couldn't seem to catch a sight of the panda or the snake.
" How can we not find the ONLY large panda in the valley?" muttered Crane. Tigress rolled her eyes.
" there somewhere in the valley, besides we haven't checked every-"
" The Dragon Warrior!" she heard someone call out from distance. Crane chuckled.
" guess that answers that question." he chuckled, Tigress nodded in agreement.
" so are we going to stand here or go and help them out of the crazy fan club?" Crane chuckled a bit, Tigress rolled her eyes, but hey, she did want to have Po by her side didn't she.
" I suppose we could go give them a hand." she muttered, walking towards the crowd that surrounded Po and Viper. They reached the crowd in a few seconds, and can see Po and Viper trying to kindly shove away from them.
" aha, hey guys, we need to get going, Master Shifu is probably waiting for us." Po mumbled trying to get his crazy fans to understand.
" You guys are so awesome!" yelled a little pig, completely ignoring his statements.
" yea you guys always kick butt with those cool moves!" yelled another. Po chuckled a long with Viper.
" that's very sweet of you boys, but we do have to get going." Viper commented. Po nodded in agreement, but when they tried to pass their crazy fans again, the bag of potatoes that Po was carrying got caught on an elder pig's belt causing to rip, making them all fall on the ground.
" oh crap." muttered Po. Viper didn't notice that the potatoes fell on the ground and when she tried to shove past the crowd she trip on one of them, but Po reacted fast and caught her before she can hit the ground. At that moment Tigress and Crane shoved past the crowd, and their eyes widened as they saw the scene of Viper in Po's arms, a small growl escaped Tigress lips causing Crane to shiver a little in fear, but he too, was extremely furious at this.
" *Ahem* Dragon warrior, Viper?" Tigress called them out, trying to keep her snarls in her mouth. Po immediately released Viper who was now standing Straight, kind of nervous of what just happened. The crowd seemed to notice Tigress and Crane's irritated expressions, and bowed to them, leaving them alone.
" uh hey, guys…" Po mumbled, twirling his fingers around a little shaky, Viper blushed a deep red as she stared at Crane, feeling a little embarrassed.
" Po, Viper. What were you guys doing?" Crane asked a little angry, but tried to calm his temper down.
" well we were getting groceries, but Po's bag ripped when we were trying to escape our crazy fans, and umm…. I tripped on one of them, Po was helping me up and-." Viper mumbled fast trying to explain.
" Viper! Calm yourself, we get it." Tigress interrupted, holding out her paw to silence her.
" right, sorry." she apologized slightly blushing again. Po arched an eyebrow as a thought came to his mind.
" Hey, wait just a minute, Aren't you two suppose to be Training? Master Shifu only sent Viper, and me to come and retrieve some groceries… what are you two doing here?" he asked in confusion, Viper thought about that for a minute and showed the same expression. Tigress and Crane looked at each other, as if telling one another 'say something!' Crane was the one to try to make up a story.
" uh well… you see we-" Tigress grabbed his beak making him shut up.
" we were ordered to come and give you guys a hand, Master Shifu thought you two would need some help because the kitchen was empty. He figured you two would have to hold a lot." Tigress responded, Crane sighed in relief and nodded in agreement trying to yank his beak away, Tigress smirked and gave it a small squeeze before letting go.
" and he also said, that we've been working pretty hard lately, so he said it was fine if we take a looooong breakfast. Right Tigress?" the feline knew where he was getting at and grinned widely, not only will they be hanging out with the ones they like, But Monkey and Mantis are going to learn their lesson. Viper and Po glanced at each other and shrugged.
" alright, thank for the help, well Po and I were heading for the noodle shop since we haven't eaten anything." Viper smiled, and slithered next to Crane. Tigress smiled and stood beside the panda as they began to pick up the potatoes together.
" yea besides, we also need another bag for these." Po mumbled, holding an armful of them. Then stop at dead tracks.
" Wait! What about Monkey and Mantis? I need to make them something to eat, you know how the little guy gets when he's hungry." he shivered at the thought of an impatient bug. Tigress looked over at Crane and thought for a minute, then a light bulb hit her.
" Oh they went out to eat, Mantis was complaining to much and Monkey got fed up so they went for food. Don't worry about them I'm sure those two are perfectly 'FULl'" she grinned. Po looked a little confused, and Viper arched an eyebrow, it wasn't like Monkey or Mantis to go their own way when it came to food, but oh well there's a first time for everything.
" er, okay? So let's go then?" Viper smiled, and led the way slithering next to Crane, who blushed beginning to get a little shy around her.
Up at the Jade Palace.
" Man where are they! I'm starving!" Mantis complained, pacing back and forth. Monkey rolled his eyes.
" relax Mantis they'll be here soon."
" you said that about an Hour ago!" Mantis complained. Monkey chuckled.
" dude it's only been 15 minutes."
" not on my watch!"
" then fix it." Mantis growled.
" Don't tell me what to fix Primate!"
" watch it little guy." Monkey threatened.
" little? Who are you calling Little!" Mantis snapped snapping his…. Thingies together.
" didn't you Master patience? little guy?" Monkey teased, Mantis growled, but slumped his shoulders.
" I'm just sooooo hungry! What's taking them so long!"
" well you did dump the whole kitchen out." Monkey pointed out. Mantis sighed.
" whatever, I just hope they come soon. I'm going weak! I need some noodles!" he complained rubbing his belly. Monkey rolled his eyes.
Down at Mr. Ping's noodle shop.
" hey dad." Po called out, the goose peeked out from the kitchen and smiled as he saw his son a long with the five.
" PO!" he smiled happily and woddled over to him embracing him in a fatherly hug.
" hehe, hey dad."
" its so good to see you my boy, Oh and you came here with your friends. Good evening warriors." the goose bowed, the three smiled before Tigress spoke up.
" no need for formalities Mr. Ping, we just came for a visit." Tigress smiled, and heard Po's tummy growl. She giggled a little before adding. " and for some breakfast." she smiled, the goose took notice at her actions towards her son, and how Po kept looking at her with those dreamy eyes.
" Oh so are you four on a double date?" he asked, causing all four warriors to blush.
" wha- Dad No! it's not like that."
" but then why are you staring at-"
" Whoookay, Dad… were just gonna go put these up at the back so they wont get messed up while we eat okay." the panda mumbled desperate to get his comrades away from his father before he jumped into anymore conclusions. They placed the groceries by the potato stack in the back and walked over to the farthest table. Po and Viper sat across from each other and Tigress and Crane took their seats next to them. Tigress scooted closer to Po, causing him to blush, while Crane did the same with Viper, only his wings were close enough to touch her scaly skin, the snake blushed a deep red and looked down at her tail to hide her bashfulness. Suddenly Mr. Ping came over to them with four bowls of noodles.
" ah here we are, four bowls of noodles, for the happy couples!" he announced, everyone in the restaurant turned back to face the warriors, with wide eyes and jaws hanging down almost at their feet. The warriors, let out an insane blush and sunk in their seats completely embarrassed.
' this is going to be a looooooong breakfast.' they all thought in unison.
A/N: special thanks to Crystal Persian ^.^ for helping me with this chapter c: your awesome! ^. anyways, i hope you guys like this chappie, we know it took a while to finish it but here it is! :D hope you guys like it! ((: