And here's where Tigress' jealousy over Max's skills deepens even further.


Chapter 4: Mini-Training Day

By the next day, Arizona and Samurai were taking Max along the Jade Palace and they were hoping to get some training done for Max, but on a more limited scale and as they got to the steps, they see Master Shifu standing there and they said, "Morning, Master Shifu."

"Morning, gentlemen." Shifu said, bowing to them.

"You sure you can't stay, Sam?" asked Max.

Samurai chuckled softly and replied, "Wish I could, Maxie...but I have to go back to work. Luckily, Mr. Ping's letting me have a half-afternoon off on my lunch break. Maybe I can come then."

"Yes!" Max said, excitedly.

With that, Samurai and Max gave each other a fist-bump hug before they left and as Arizona and Max walked indoors, Max waved 'bye' to Sam and Sam waved back at him as he walked down the steps...although he can't help but worry for the cub because with Tigress around, who knows what will happen between these two.

'I hope Tigress isn't gonna do anything to cause harm to Max.' Samurai thought.

Meanwhile, the masters made their way to the Training Hall and as they went inside, Arizona and Monkey were picked as trainers for the day and they were assigned to train Max and then on the following days, Po will take his duty to not only train Max, but to keep an eye on him. While Arizona and Monkey got ready, Tigress was watching from the sidelines and she was still reeling from what Max said about Po yesterday.

"All right, Max. Just follow what me and Arizona do." Monkey said, taking a bo staff.

Arizona gives Max the bo staff so he can keep up with what the training session is for and soon enough, they started sparring with the usage of the stick and both of them clashed together while breaking out some good moves and when Max was watching, he started to get more awestruck by the minute and hopes that he can do it ten times as better.

After only 6 minutes, it was then Max's turn to come in and Monkey started things off slow so Max will know what to do. Monkey gave Max a few pointers in sparring with a stick and as Max kept learning, he was ready to test it out, but most of them ended with accidently slipping the sticks off his hand, getting the moves wrong or accidentally hitting Monkey in the head.

Tigress saw these mishaps and figured that Max will never measure up to his training and just lets out a big smirk...until Max quickly blocks the staff where Monkey starts hitting and before long, Max got the hang of it like a pro as he started sparring with Monkey with a bo staff and with Arizona in the midst of it, Max completely owns the match.

As both Monkey and Arizona continued on sparring with the staff, Max was able to hold his own with his wolf brother and Master Monkey and he was not holding back as he did some spins, flips and even a lot of Tiger Style movements and made it totally 'Maximized' and took them down in a matter of seconds.

When it was all over, every master in this room was deeply shocked and amazed by how much skill this kid is holding and most of them were in disbelief that a nine year old white tiger cub could actually pull it off like that.

"How was it?" asked Max.

Monkey's jaw was dropped and Arizona was completely blown away by every move he does and all Monkey could do was stutter and stammer because it made him speechless and Arizona said, "You were awesome, Max."

Nobody was even more shocked...and appalled more than Tigress because she never expected a cub to do the impossible or complicated moves and not even she can pull that off and she does kung-fu easily well. Po felt amazed for Max and he said, "I think this kid's gonna dominate kung-fu in the future."

Po comes in and gives out his congratulations to Max and they high-fived each other and said, "It's gonna be awesome being your trainer all week!"

"I know! How cool is that?!" Max shouted.

Tigress couldn't take anymore of this and she just left the Training Hall in a huff and all the while, envy transformed into pure black envy and said, "We'll see who's the better warrior. Just you wait."


You may be wondering why Tigress is always so mean and spiteful towards Max. All I can tell you is that she sees him as a threat. That's all. Stick around!