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The next morning came and Po awoke to chattering. With sleep still heavy on his eyelids he tried to listen to what was being said.

"We need to get going, we're losing valuable time," a feminine voice said. "Wake him up," the voice said again.

Po then saw his simian friend approach him, "Oh, good," the primate said, "you're awake—come on let's go, Tigress is in a bad mood because we all woke up late."

"How late?" Po asked.

"A few hours, we best not keep her waiting, so let's go," Monkey said

"OK," the two friends went over to the stressed feline.

When Tigress saw them, she eagerly jumped, "Let's get going, we have to climb the frozen mountains today and I'm not expecting it to be simple. No lunch stops either, we eat while we run." Tigress added.

"What!" Po cried but was cut off.

"We have no choice, we are a few hours behind schedule and can't afford to make stops," Tigress said solemnly.

"OK" Po said in a pouty tone.

"Good, let's go," Tigress said and then left with the group.

Back in the Valley of Peace, Zeng was arriving at the Jade Palace to bring Shifu his mail but was bewildered to find that the red panda was not there. Zeng continued to search around the Palace for him, but had no luck, "where are you Shifu?" Zeng said and then found a note posted on the doors of the hall of warriors that read,

I've left on a journey and will not return for some time.

-Shifu

Zeng then decided to slip his mail under the doors so that Shifu would get it when he returned.

*Pant*, *pant*, "Why, oh why?" The panda cried out as he ran with the Furious Five.

They had been running nonstop for around an hour and Po was thoroughly exhausted and desperately needed a drink of water. Po's vision had begun to go blurry and he began to feel dizzy. His running then slowed and he thought, 'Water…' and then before he knew it, he blacked out.

Tigress noticed that the heavy footsteps had ceased, and turned around to see why. After she turned around she saw that Po was lying on the ground and stopped what she was doing and ran back to help him. As she did this, she told the other members of the Furious Five to keep running. Tigress then turned her attention back to Po, "Po—Po!" She yelled in a worried tone.

Po then awoke and weakly said, "W-water," while pointing at the river.

Tigress immediately went into her bag and pulled out her tea glass then brought it to the river and filled it up. After she had filled it she brought it back to him, which he drank all in one gulp.

"Ah, thank you, Tigress," Po said gratefully.

She then helped him to his feet and said in a concerned tone, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I was just a little dehydrated." Po said.

"Dehydration is dangerous, Po," she scolded, "If you feel thirsty then stop and take a drink, don't wait for us to stop," she said with her hand on his shoulder.

"Alright, sounds good, let's get back on the journey!" Po said enthusiastically.

Tigress then gave a small, but friendly smile and said "Good idea." As they began to run to catch up with the rest of the group, Tigress wondered to herself, 'I don't know how Po does it but he can put a lot of stress into a person, but also take a lot of it away.'

After a while of running, the river began to get louder, which Po didn't think was possible, and the warriors soon realized why—they were at the base of the frozen mountains and of a giant waterfall which fell into the Zhou River.

The warriors gazed up in awe at the massive blockade, and its fang-white tops which stabbed the clouds. The Pinnacles of the giant mountains looked like a broken shard of glass. The Mountains also spat out water from a valley near the top and breathed bitterness and hatred unto the warriors. The mountains were dressed in green trees gently swaying from the wind. The sight was definitely enthralling, but at the same time, intimidating.

Tigress was the only member of the Group, not captivated by the mountains—for she knew just how arduous it would be to get over it. "Do not let beauty entice you," Tigress said to the Five and Po.

"How are we supposed to do this? Do we just climb it?" Viper asked.

"We climb until we reach the snow line, then we can begin our descent down the other side," Tigress answered.

"Might as well get started," Po said.

"Yes," Tigress responded and then began to run up the mountain with her comrades.

Shifu Awoke in what appeared to be a cage, "Where am I?" He asked, but got no response. When he tried to stand, like a bolt of lightning, pain shot through his body and he fell to the ground. He was in bad shape, his hip nearly broken again, and a sizable bruise on his cheek. He contorted his face as he clutched at his hip, desperately trying to stop the pain. He didn't even attempt to escape, he just lay there, waiting for death to come, he sighed, "So this is how I die."

"No," a familiar voice answered, and then walked into Shifu's range of view. It was Baonu, "You must stay alive while you are with us." Baonu said, "You look like you've ventured to hell and back, I'll have a guard bring you some medicinal tea for your hip."

The lynx was right, Shifu looked awful, dirt covered his robe and matted his fur. His face had a sizable bruise on the right cheek not to mention his body looked fatigued from lack of food.

"Why—what is this all about?" Shifu asked.

"Don't act like you don't know!" Baonu snapped. "You were disrespectful to an acquaintance of mine and now they're indignant."

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Shifu remarked.

"Oh, but you do, Shifu." Baonu said, "You are well aware of what you did so it's useless to deny it."

"How could I deny what I don't know, just tell me what I did?"

"You're an ignorant one, you know that. Well I'm sorry but, I can't tell you what you've done wrong, I don't even know."

"That is ridiculous, how do you know that your acquaintance isn't lying?"

"My acquaintance would never lie!" Baonu snapped. "Now just tell me what you did and we can go from there."

"I can't tell you because I don't know what I did," Shifu said firmly.

Baonu then became enraged and knocked over a table that was between him and Shifu, he got very close to Shifu's cage, "I've had enough of your false innocence, I want an answer, now!"

When he saw that Shifu's expression remained unchanged he regained his composure, "Fine—don't tell me, I'll let my acquaintance deal with you and it won't be pretty, that I promise. With that he left a confused Shifu to ponder on the situation. Shifu overheard Baonu commanding his men. "Move him into a cell!" Baonu commanded.

"Yes, sir," the men replied and then Shifu heard them walking toward him. They lifted his cage up and carried it into the hallway and into a cell. Once they were in the cell the guards unlocked Shifu's cage, threw him out of it, then proceeded out of the cell, locking it behind them.

Shifu felt the familiar pain shoot through his hip. He attempted to stand but only fell. Relinquished, he scanned his surroundings. He saw that the walls were made out of stone, an iron barred door and from what he could see through the door, a lit torch on the wall. Shifu also saw that in his room, there were two wooden benches and two small barred windows on the wall opposite of the door and near the ceiling. Sunlight poured in from the windows and he could also feel a breeze entering through the barred openings. 'Well I'm above ground' Shifu thought. He crawled onto one of the benches—the textured cell floor eating at his fingertips—look out one of the windows. The light of the Sun blinded him at first but when his eyes adjusted and he could see, his jaw dropped.

A/N:Sorry for the short chapter, but this was just small part I wanted to add before I started the next chapter. Thank you all who have reviewed this story, I enjoy reading them.