Episode 2: Brothers for Life ( 6 - 11 )

Chapter VII

In the Evening

I. Wood and Fire

Ocean of stars gleamed luminously.

Twilight strolled in the dark blue horizon.

And breeze of night whispered.

Nightfall prevailed in the aloft sky. The Prosper Valley enlightened candles in many cultural houses and apartments. Most of the villagers strolled with loved ones on a prosperous road they encouraged themselves. Every weekend to this valley, many villagers spent their families and friends at home, or most go saunter. But for this week, few of the villagers walked in encouragement through alleyways and bent their mouths through ears. The people comforted their preference to this valley, and home is where their hearts entered to such bond.

The Nine had been long-term training at Shui Palace's courtyard. Most heard a rumor about Emperor Huangdi's arrival at Jade Palace earlier around daylight. The Nine might have sensed the Emperor close enough, and perhaps most of the Nine conjectured themselves about the elder water buffalo's arrival and not notice when will he come. Eight of the Nine discussed on a dining table, guzzling their dumplings with rice plates they tasted white rice with soy flavor chewing within their mouths and swallowed with green tea. Lao joined aside with Ming at a nearby stream across the courtyard, as peacock desired to remain the focus of his vision that continued bothering him reasonably. Instead of being worried immediately, both Ming and Lao inhaled in peaceful, bearable songs of water across the river that pacified their minds of ideal meditation.

The Nine's leader in a gray robe with blue linings on neck and edge of sleeves, swallowed the soy rice as if guzzling his wooden mug of jade tea that freshened his throat with hot. "So far, no troubles have yet to come," the white tiger uttered, meeting most of the Nine's eyes around the circular dining table. "And we deserve to have more training at my grandmother's courtyard."

The bull pirate in long, navy kimono sipped the rice with his spoon beside the Ox and Crocodile together in front of Xing's onward.

"You did the right thing on a sword training, today, Xing," the bull pirate said, grasping the large bug before drinking. "Luckily, your brother Lao practiced so hard he attacked many precision hits with his daggers. Savvy?"

"You did well on our Chi Sao sparring, Shou," Xing delighted Shou to the bull's stone blue eyes.

Chi Sao is a challenging battle using arms attach and form a circle as one must move to the opposite as the other must control movement simultaneously. "Your punches were quite rough. I've sensed it," he described Shou's troubling strikes. "Even though you are getting used to gentle, you have hoofs with three fingers each, and your blocks are active. I recommend you must do five forms, and practice a large freestanding dummy to enhance Chi Sao blocks."

"Agreed," Shou concurred while nodding to the leader, sipping a hot tea he swallowed hot in his throat. The bull sighed in vibrant with a smirk.

The Nine guzzled rice on their plate. Possibly attend their brothers and sisters for rumors at some point, and the other commune their days and especially their practices.

"Seems this day went longer I expected to," Niu considered while eating his rice. He gazed a gorilla beside him. "Bao, what have you been doing with Fǎnshè after the practice?"

"Bao and I were housekeeping Lao's mother today," the Cobra informed. Bao and Fǎnshè watched over Lao's mom for better yet being seeing an elder peahen. One of every student takes turns in each week to housekeep Lao's mother at home above a hillside woods that is similar to Jade Palace. "Xia adores my appreciation when I continued listening to her conversation. She saw some familiar gorilla who looked like Bao since her earliest days she apprised me before I left. She called him a crazy grandpa, and we slept with her like we are in heaven for commitment."

The gorilla clasped his hands. "Bao, Xia. Bao, pillow. Bao, tubby. Bao..." The gorilla billowed his cheeks, turning cherry on his sides. "Date. HA!" The gorilla burst his laughing breath across the dining room. The eight of Nine perceived a new witticism; Few giggled and almost chuckled as all grabbed their plates as Bao flattened his giant palm to the table, wobbling the sculptures, dishes, and cups like the Earth rumbled.

"Lao's gonna kill you if he found out, Bao," Xing deliberated as amusing; he returned his rice plate on the table. "At least my brother cannot handle your humorous jokes after all if he was here."

"Aye," Shou accepted, guzzling rice on his large plate using chopsticks.

"As soon as we able to make plans when Emperor Huangdi arrives soon," the Crocodile pondered next to Cobra and Gorilla, then asked Xing, "who will come with him, and what is our demonstration to impress?"

"His followers and politicians maybe, Zhao," the Tiger thought carefully. "If that's the case if Emperor escorts along to them, then we may have to introduce ourselves in each of us. As I can recall our demonstration process, we'll go forth to each of us about lowest to the highest rank."

"And now I must be first, right?" Shou asked the leader honestly.

"Aye," Xing nodded. "I wonder if the Emperor will notice about you being a pirate and so forth your historical records along. But don't worry, buddy. Nana will convince Emperor that you are a clean and legible student you have lived here for six years. Savvy?"

"Savvy," Shou confirmed.

"Have you two are communing about your brother's vision," the young Ox in a gray robe with black linings inquired. Niu and the rest of the Nine coveted themselves about their brother humbled. "I mean we don't know about his disturbance that keeps bugging him for a reason."

"Lao seems going investigating," Xing clarified, seeking Lao and his grandmother outside beside a stream. "He might have been hurtful inside of him, and he cannot show his feelings outside."

The rabbit bounded on the table, and Hong agonized strongly with plates vibrated at once. "Has Lao been hurt, sweetie?" Hong worried, she drew her sai, enlivening her eyes with dark lids around. "Nobody ever starts crossing my boyfriend again. If anyone starts bullying him, they'll have to go through me first!"

"Such bravery," Xing dimpled Hong. "I can see you two are close right now, Hong."

"How close?" Hong asked, confusing.

"You and Lao," the tiger pointed her and Lao outside.

The Nine noticed about Lao and Hong. Such cuteness relationship for peacock and a stunner bunny. Hong bent her head toward outside, swirling her eyes her heart pulsed forward. Her eyes melted apart as if the rabbit sensed the peacock's breath she thought of herself collapsing her long ears, and spooning the peafowl within the bedroom, covering and humbling in their sleep.

Hong cracked her gasp. "Wait, I-" Hong begged swiftly to the Nine.

"You both are fine," Xing calmed Hong. "We understand this relationship between you two. Lao is such the only kind he desires someone who's unique in the world, and all he does is he seems very confident like you are. You both deserve a triumph."

"Then I'll flirt with my peacock to the end, honey," Hong flirted while beaming to many blue eyes of the Nine. "He's my better judgment."

"And I can ask you two, simple questions for you, Hong," Xing pointed to the bunny. "For just to be clear as we including you will keep our words down."

"Go on," Hong listened.

"You think Lao is your true love, Hong?" Xing asked Hong lightly.

"Yes," she answers to the Nine.

"You would marry my brother, can you?"

And Hong had done the answers. The Nine overheard their lovely sister that both Hong and Lao became common, and Hong considered marriage to Lao that Xing and the Nine's thought. Xing imagined a wedding across the Fighting Square that poured with blossoms and white snows from the gray horizon Confusion of kids that glimpsed the grasp of feathers with furs as both stood in front of themselves with Marriage Swore phrase, then young Ox Niu beside them carried a pea-bun cub with black beak and long bunny ears.

The Nine's leader laughed hysterically, considering both Lao and Hong's future of their children. Lao will not be able to have kids in which is odd.

Lao and Ming listened to the Nine's excited voices as both do not realize what the meaning of humorous jokes was. But instead, they continued meditating.

"You are crazy, Hong!" Xing beamed while laughing. "Lao should have heard what you said!"

"At least that's such adorable," Fǎnshè chuckled next to Zhao and Lotus the Wolf but reasoning a real love for their brother and sister.

"Aye," Shou affirmed, giggling. "It has."

Just then, the Nine calms their hysterical as most of them go to their room after their belief discerned both Lao and Hong's future of feather fur children. Somehow, most could not handle their laughs because of Hong's solemn madly in love to peacock. Hong has been together with Xing, Lao, and Lotus for almost thirteen years of friendship, and for the most of her life that a bunny desires get to know Lao because of being curious and compassionate.

Niu stayed along to Hong, Xing, and Lotus in a dining room as they crave the discussion about Lao's troubles that their peacock hid his feeling that could not show in front of the Nine. At that moment, Lotus in nightgown kimono considered.

"Has Lao been okay, Xing?" the feminine Wolf concerned.

"I can shortly clarify the meaning of our brother been humbled secretly for the last six months," the white tiger replied. Xing caressed his finished mug above the edges he revolved with his finger. "He might have foreseen something he entirely forgets. Likewise, there's such similar to Nana's and my origin that we both felt some threaten."

"And Lao?" Lotus wondered by asking her closest friend she knows him for ages. She pointed the peacock beside the elder white tigress. "His meditation continuously let our brother investigate some vision."

"He's getting there," Xing responded to Lotus. "Lao needs more time of his meditation with my grandmother."

"Does his mother know about her son, Xing?" the Ox inquired, leaning his back straight and clasp his hoofs onto the dining table.

Xing shook his head, not knowing about the queen's awareness. "I don't think so, Niu. Lady Xia hasn't noticed about her son honestly." Xing clarified to all three on front. The leader sought throughout the blue eyes, contemplating their brother. "I'll just keep that in mind that this current week for Bao's turn must be aware Xia for Lao's struggle."

"How bad is it?" Lotus questioned worriedly. "Some… forest and wolf growl?"

Xing knew the Nine overhear last night's conversation as if the peacock visioned the disturbance of either nightmare issues or memory he recalled before. The Nine's Leader turned his head toward the outside of the Fighting Square, and near the entire water river where his grandmother and companion perched on the grass. "That's what I'm worried about," Xing agonized. The white tiger wondered about his brother's grave flashback that continued haunting the peacock. Xing discerned that he felt his nightmare before like Lao. The leader of the Nine apprehended how terrible his memory went that he sought his dead parents killed on fire by a monster and his grandmother Ming salvaged her grandson from evil beneath the trees. Both Lao and Xing have different nightmare flashbacks, but the same principles of tormented.

Lao joined aside to the Nine's master near a streamside where Zhao the crocodile strongly desired there for a swim. The Ferocious of the Nine in his arrival was where he saved Lao from drowning that Zhao did not want to be part of such meaningless, and he desired to care for all people instead. Lao sat there to Ming across the plain grass that stood near to his chest, and both were in eternal peace for over an hour. Both sensed the warm air, focusing inner peace through their minds, heeding a stream they listen when both are in solitude.

The Clever imaged a disturbance while being impacted by a migraine. The blast curved his neck, and visions scratched his feathers he flinched his head during his conscious of inner peace with eyes shut.

A crack of woods inside a large manor shattered slowly. The young peachick trembled under a laboratory's counter he crouched there. The peahen mother in pink robes Xia screamed her throat and snatched her son from someone's lab after the inferno spread rapidly like a river pouring from the ceiling. Lao and his mother sought their neighbors inside a living room. Their neighbors were a swan family. They were frightened by somewhat a terror had come to Lao's homeland Summit Village. The birds asked themselves about the attack, and what had caused by whom. Young Lao could not catch their frightening words. Instead, he saw a small, allured swan terrified she hugged her black swan mother and touched their necks.

A husband of Xia yelled from behind Lao carried by his mother, ordering to leave with him. Xia refused to her husband. Lao confused the meaning of his parents' argument, and a flash of a collapsed woods made a spouse screamed. Xia dashed her way out on a large corridor that was shredded, burning to flames. She continued carrying her son, racing across the large hallway that many cabinets perched on before, and a swan family followed them. Lao mumbled his cry, he gazed an attractive young bird been guided by a swan parent as the inferno flame wreathed them all, and a collapsed ceiling blazed their way.

Xia and young Lao shattered through the collapsed window that cracked apart, and across their way out of a collapsed mansion and sprinted through a coldness of snow storm in woods. Both overheard a terror of birds screamed their wail everywhere including a broken night sky, and Lao sought a red fire from Summit Village. The young peacock wondered to himself. Why are they running from the spouse? Where is his father? Who was that husband of her mother? And who was that swan Lao never noticed a creature with parents?

Lao faced forward with her mother. The woods grew dark, and snow raged them both with blizzards touching their silks and feathers. A silhouette wolf spawned beside the gap logs in front who growled at them, and Lao turned away with a brilliant flash.

Lao flinched his body and neck loudly, panting and Ming detected his gifted student ahead of her. Lao rose from meditation, as he disliked a vision of unknown that caused him slight anger. Nightmare or memory? He could not say. The young albino turned away from quiet waters, panting and clenching his feathers as his orbs glimmered with narrow eyes he thrust a crocodile dummy across the Fighting Square. Eight of the Nine rose their ears from the broken model; all sprung their feet off the dining and bedrooms as their brother vexed with his throat burning.

Ming knew Lao's past is in trouble, and she felt a lost and humiliated before. She enabled her vision of goodness in peacock student. Ming discerned Lao needed help, and then eight of the Nine are too as they are close to peacock. Lao strolled through a short path to large mahogany entrance door as eight of the Nine peered him leaving, and the albino kicked the door. Ming gestured her paw to eight of her students, ordering them to stay, and Lao on the outside of the Prosper Valley concluded his saunter at the middle road.

Plenty of the Prosper Valley villagers walked their path with loved ones on both sides. They glimpsed the peacock with sort of confusion and murmuring their voices. What was going on? Why is Lao mad? Is he alright? The peacock calmed his headache and eradicated anger by relaxing himself to close his own azure eyes while standing. Eight of the Nine peeked their brother while Ming approached the young albino close enough from the front gate. Xing, Lotus, and Hong ascended a giant wall of a roof, Niu, Shou, and Zhao stood close to the door, and both Bao and Fǎnshè reached a right wall beside a door.

The gate opened; however, Shou, Niu, and Zhao watched Ming and Lao in a middle of path road. The elder tigress used to serene her students that she felt Lao's clenched strength close to his feathers, and how he was humiliated and angered after a peacock saw a vision of disturbance.

"Lao?" the elder tigress called him dearly, ambling behind the peacock.

To Lao's point, the old voice pacified his feeling and firmly controlled his anger. He desired any elder to comfort within, which is one of his great habit for him to speak reliably.

"Are you alright?" Ming asked fondly; she palmed her paws to Lao's both shoulders. She craved her peacock son she raised him including Lao's mother Ming looked after her peafowl. The elder tigress realized everything he was in the struggle after Lao sought his vision, and became distressed.

The albino shut his orbs as he craned his long neck down to the dirt. "Never been better, master," Lao humiliated.

"What happened, my dear?" Ming brooded. Lao went affected by a strong sense of affection and powerful leadership of elder. The peacock comforted the adoration of her. "You saw the disturbance while we made inner peace. Is there something you need to tell me, son?"

Lao knew he desired to have support from the Nine including his master. For the past six months, the vision has called to peacock and being endured secretly in each nightfall during his sleep with the Nine. He might not have wanted to speak to any of his brothers and two sisters of the Nine that he faced a vision of muddle shortly. Lao began to admit, as he rose his head like the water pushed his weight.

"I have to confess about my loneliness in training, Master Ming," Lao illuminated to Ming scarcely. "You and the Nine will not decipher my impacted vision I saw during my sleep and meditation."

"What did you see, Lao?" She wanted to notice a peacock's troubling view, brushing the peacock's back.

"I saw a fire," he detailed one of his vision Lao saw. "Some shattered walls and ceiling in a massive house. Then villagers horrified their wail. This image goes unpredictable, and nonsense. But there's only one I saw. A swan. That creature was the one who I might know first before your grandson and the rest of the Nine. A random flash I considered, was a lack of foolishness. My unknown genesis I think of that nightmare is what a fire killed a swan, and in which case, I murdered a creature accidentally. I didn't want to share this with the Nine because I've felt humiliated myself and must continue meditating to reveal how I became a killer."

"Lao," Ming issued her student's explanation. She attended Lao as being realized about his vision, but she disagreed with what peacock considered himself as substandard and despair. "I need for you to attend this one." Ming conversed her favorite student by beginning to acknowledge a society for Lao's accomplishment wonders. "You see what you have been through with the Nine, and they noticed who you are as a friend to them. Your friends anticipate you as a great friend, very bright you have become, and honored in front of them at the moment that you listened to their stories.

"You're not a murderer," Ming contradicted as pawing to Lao's back. "Being humiliated to yourself wasn't part of this nature. The vision you might think is not what you see the nightmare, Lao. It is a memory." The elder tigress reasons Lao's troubling vision that represents his mind that will bring his remembrance back. Lao sustains Ming's clarification for the peacock to support as he gazes her frequently. "The memory you seek first will prevail, and secondly, the inner peace I'd learn from your great Master Oogway can flow through your peace of mind to reveal your 'unpredictable' memory. Let me notify you of this, the Dragon Warrior from my old friend told me his student found peace ten years ago, and he sought his birth parents of what a panda meant to become. He was the one who your grandmaster chose him, for a five hundred year prophecy fulfilled, that Oogway foresaw his bull brother who went evil, and that panda defeated Kai as an accomplishment.

"The Nine do know about your troubles. And we can help you meditate, be happier along with your brothers and sisters, be entertaining to Shou's last days of the pirate, and spend your timing with my grandson and your best friend, Lotus. By any such greatness in you, Lao, the Nine do not see you as a threat, and killer."

Ming's paw fondled to peacock's cheek. Lao comforts her caress.

"You will know this memory you seek can prevail, Lao," Ming convinced peafowl. Lao urgently agrees to his master he trusts her more than anyone. "Be like water."

Be like water that is a strong sense of priority to every martial arts in China. Be very specific to any being's struggled situation for problems you must solve. To be communing to anyone you love most is like any work for jobs or family relationships has been going through circumstances and they want to consider what is the cause of someone's problems and take care of bosses important project, or people you close with desires to speak about their issues.

Lao took his walk for a night after he listened to Ming importantly, and she ordered to one of the Nine must look after a peacock in case he considered not able to be alone all night instead. Be like water, an elder's voice repeatedly echoed through Lao's intelligence. In through this sauntering road he used to know every land, he recognized many of his villagers long enough since him, and his peahen mother arrived at Ming's Shuǐ Palace. The villagers conceded to him as well, and many esteemed him because of what Lao's mother is a queen, and the peafowl is a prince. Lao only referred to himself as the villager and average person instead of greediness, nor a noble peafowl like any lords.

A pink sow in green flower and gold robes pressed her eyebrows upward. She peered Lao. "Are you alright, Lao?" the sow worried.

A neighbor pig who occupied Ming's Palace for a weekend, she is the master of clothing who sewed silk robes to Lao and Xing for them to honor Master Ming as students. A clothing maker who can sew garments for anyone wearing small to large sizes of their clothing correctly.

She met Lao before since his first day of school along Xing and Lotus. A female pig was a teacher of crops for farming and even painting. All three Lao, Xing and Lotus desired pictures of backgrounds and farming carrots and potatoes next to her farm near another side of streams. By that interest during her retirement from working her farm, she is also a clothing maker to size anyone that matters on all China.

"I'm well, Mrs. Yan," Lao replied as if he strolled continuously. Mrs. Yan managed any of her former art students that she adored serening Lao by perching near the river and meditate with the peacock. "Just had a long day."

Lao needed his timing to walk to bypass anger and humiliated management. He was tired of young peacock did not want to be part of certifiable and mean in front of his friends and villagers instead. The peacock enjoyed a solitude to listen to a gentle breeze that communed to his heart and wondered who is communing to peacock for a purpose. And by that, her master in Lao's mind is that he guessed Oogway in his opinion.

For a long walk after ten minutes, he detected tip-toe steps from behind. Lao sensed a small chuckle at once he chose a next path to the left of the full road; he thought his wolf best friend Lotus was actually behind him at all times. The peacock revolved his head behind; the rabbit in ocean robe fell into the dirt by one pile rock about the size of the lamp.

"Ha!" the bunny chortled after she tripped. "I knew you listened to my treading steps!"

"This was all a setup," Lao jested to Hong. The bunny stood. "And your plan to spend your nights by walking, talking, and grooving ourselves through the village to entertain bunnies."

"Does that grooving can treat Lotus and much of your brother Xing," Hong asked jealousy. She mopped plenty of dirt off of her robe.

"You're quite envious," Lao mentioned to the bunny. "I don't see how many bunnies can melt through such feathers among the bird people I saw them during my meditation."

"But that rabbit like me who opposed the panda since a winter festival," she told the peacock about one of her family relatives. She stood ahead of the peacock and craned her neck above. "My old cousin is still a commune in his old village near Valley of Peace."

"About this 'walking, talking, and grooving' we are going for," Lao considered, pressing his feathers in large sleeves. "I can believe you have enough words to describe my soul to you."

"Is this about love, Lao?" the bunny asked with high tone, curious.

Love?! He gasped inaudibly. "Lotus and I are close, and she will always be my sister," Lao defended with his orbs glanced toward her. "You are just a madly in love for a whole thirteen years since you came here."

"You wouldn't be mindful yourself about your mother," Hong wondered, clasping her paws behind her back as both sauntered across the street. "Hasn't Lady Xia taught you how to treat a lady?"

"Naturally," the peacock answered.

"Then I'll just join aside through your spine," Hong leaped behind Lao's robe from behind. Hong preferred hanging onto Lao's neck beside his shoulder to ride on.

"What are you doing?" Lao demanded confusingly.

"Your mother urged you to treat any lady," Hong discussed as the bunny embraced and cuddled with her cheek behind Lao's neck. "And I like to be processed by you. You be walking," the bunny pointed forward and added, "then I shall start talking and grooving with you."

Lao and Hong sought a forest in a near path of streamside. The peacock gazed a vast landscape of forest steep mountain just similar to Jade Palace and Valley of Peace. On Hong's idea is by letting Lao glide above the sky after he leaped at the edge to soar along with Hong to entertain her including Lao.

"You're mad," Lao shook his head.

"That's your excuse, lovely," Hong snapped his neck gently. "Mush!"


II. The Discovery

Tigress and Po strolled inside Sacred Hall of Warriors room with Master Shifu. Both female tiger and panda have just arrived there shortly after they walked themselves through the stairway to Jade Palace. Every warrior's rarest items of most excellent weapons and armors, placed in each corridor beyond paintings of hero warriors who wielded. The pool gleamed and waved slightly. Shifu clasped his hands of his thoughts about his adoptive daughter's genesis before came along to Furious Five and so forth the panda.

He recalled a discussion to his sister-in-arms with Oogway long ago in a Training Hall respectively. The debate that the student-master Ming had an urgent message from Tiger Village that there was a possible threat from an unknown clan who desired to kill someone who is very special. In a particular unreasonable situation, Shifu could not notice about the attack; he might have considered that Ming had a family of her kin who was in danger, and perhaps Tigress's family was one of troubled kin by a threat.

"I do have a sister-in-arms before you arrived at Bao Gu Orphanage," Shifu embarked to Tigress, seeking soft waves of pool water below. "We were assembled to ourselves after I once met her in the beginning. Oogway found his student's ancestor who survived a tragedy of Qing Temple where most warriors of martial arts created before the creation of Kung Fu, were killed by an old enemy's son. Luckily, Master Ming is a distinctive hero of one of Qing Temple survivors by in which case; she has been trained Wing Chun for years she had passed from her ancestor survivors. And now, she teaches to her nine individual students, one of them is her grandson.

"Ming was used to having her son before during our peaceful and struggled days back then. She once spoke that Ming had a sister of her kin, both of their same bloodline followed by their ancestors. Perhaps according to Ming's unforgettable ancestors she studied, the creator of Wing Chun is a survivor and passed her every bloodline to share martial art experiences as an important, and valuable. The maker of Wing Chun's name is Mui Tan Huang, Ming's fifteenth grandmother.

"I may wonder to believe Ming's sister was in the deep inconvenience of a threat after I raised Tai Lung for twenty years at my youngest age. After despaired life sent Tai Lung to Chor-Gom Prison, Ming emphatically apologized to me for my adoptive son became evil, and she had to converse Oogway and me to return home after her son including a sibling was in danger in Tiger Village, and even her family as well to protect."

The red panda turned softly. Shifu had to clarify more about Ming including a sister he never noticed about her. At first, the master admitted another explanation about Tigress's family. Po contemplated as he watched Shifu's paw reaching to Tigress while female tiger drops her knee to be close personally. Her hand gently gripped Shifu's side, once her adoptive father conceded.

"The revelation I remember my sister's absence," Shifu admitted when considering. "Ming's sibling vacated from a threat and dispersed with her husband. The last message I received from my sister, once wrote about her sister with husband have both sprinted themselves in hidden woods, and Ming revealed she had a niece from them, and must…" Po focused Shifu's thoughts. He wants to listen more and just till then, Shifu immediately reveals. "... niece's parents must drop their daughter at Bao Gu Orphanage."

WHAT?! Po rose his green eyes.

"Tigress," Shifu peered his daughter's eyes thriving. He including Tigress hoped for years that if her parents will return soon. The red panda solidified his words. "After waited years to listen to any rumors about your parents, we may consider that your mother and father was missing and never coming back. Ming will be the only one who shall converse to her interpretation of her sister."

Tigress sensed her chest colder than the grasp of Po's hug. Her throat dragged back as she slightly opened her lips. The revelation impacted Shifu's daughter. The amber eyes poured across her lids; Tigress pulled her small tears, and Po flattened his paw against her back. Not such as humiliated, the panda cared more to Tigress in such spiritual by being much closer to her and the rest of Furious Five like a family he loves most.

"There is one who desires to meet you," Shifu apprised his adoptive daughter.

"Who, master?" Tigress asked.

"Your mother's sister," Shifu detailed his foster daughter. "Your aunt may surprise to see you one day, and soon urges for me to greet Furious Five and Dragon Warrior for that to introduce Fellowship of the Nine, her students what I mean." The red panda's paw clasped his daughter's he continued. "By then tomorrow, we shall all ride on Emperor's sailboat to reach your aunt's Palace in the Prosper Valley from the west."

By a next hour, Tigress perched behind her back of a Sacred Peach Tree as she considers about her aunt that a female tiger never knew and including parents. She grasped her knees Tigress desired solitude, as she and Shifu questioned their thoughts for many years where there any Tiger villagers occupying across China.

The blossom soared above Tigress's forehead. The tree felt the same way as Tigress's solitude. She pondered that her grandmaster Oogway about a female tiger so unique within her spirit and so forth Ming and her grandson Xing. Many warriors and students have emotions by that time when spending their loved ones he or she cares about more for siblings and friendships. Has Tigress noticed about a Peach Tree being alone alike her? Tigress thought about her grandmaster Oogway. She recalled him as her and old tortoise perched near the cliff of Peach Tree, knowing as her thoughts were such broke and considered her adoptive father shameful with a mistake Tigress summoned four from different houses. Was it the scroll that changed four of the Five becoming masters? Maybe the manuscript replaced accidentally?

The voice of elder tortoise healed Tigress's thoughts and her flesh of heart she sensed her grandmaster. She missed him much dearly, and even Shifu who has been close to turtle alike Kai thrived with his brother Oogway together since five hundred years.

Po strolled nearby. Tigress sensed the panda as if the Five's leader used many senses of friendly approach and enemies with clench fist and eyes thrive and narrow. The panda considered she must not be along in the dark forever. By that, Tigress can slightly handle loneliness and even when she's not alone by bandits, she can eliminate instead of killing them.

"Shall I join you, Tigress?" Po inquired to Tigress politely when he arrived at Peach Tree standing aside to her.

She glimpsed the night sky continuously. Tigress discerned the ocean view among the realm of the horizon that smiled with pale stars. She heard Po's words after all instead. Po realized she accepted a request by doing so; Tigress needed someone to be in touch instead of being alone in the dark.

"I never know you have your aunt," Po said. He added more. "None of us know that."

"Us?" she repeated by asking softly like a solemn.

"The Five know," Po explained as he sat beside her, perching behind a Peach Tree. "I had to tell them about you."

The panda elbowed the log. A single fruit landed over Po's giant claw. His idea was to give a share to Tigress. She predicted Po and grabbed the fruit. They both imaged green trees over steep mountains everywhere. The night sky glances a brief, moonlight that enlightens both Tigress and Po sat behind Peach Tree. Both can sense a gentle, regular air with warmer weather, seeking lanterns laying on each village houses down below. Multiple homes, greatness villagers.

Tigress recalled a thought from Shifu.

Ming was used having her son before during our peaceful and struggled days back then, and she once spoke that Ming had a sister of her kin, both of their same bloodline followed by their ancestors.

By she listened to her thoughts to Shifu carefully, she revealed Ming's son before grandson.

Master Ming is a distinctive warrior of one of Qing Temple survivors by in which case. She has been trained Wing Chun for years she had passed from her ancestor survivors. And now, she teaches to her nine different students, one of them is her grandson.

Continuous thoughts from Tigress, she had a cousin. She opened her smile peacefully inside instead showing outside personally. Po continued communing as Tigress forgot some conversation. Po visualized Ox's son in his mind; he wanted to see Thundering Rhino's godson from the discussion back in Ping's restaurant earlier.

"I was like, 'WOW! Thundering Rhino is your son's godfather!', and-" Po peered Tigress she glimpsed to blossom leaves billowing next to her. "Tigress, you listening?"

"I have a nephew…" Tigress uttered softly.

Nephew? Po thought in musing.

"You do?" Po rose his jade eyes to her's.

"If you listened Shifu close enough," Tigress elucidated while exhibiting Shifu's thoughts about her family kin, "my aunt has her nine students of hers from that class, and one of them is her grandson…I had a cousin before, Shifu said that Ming used to have a son before that I never met him. My mother I never noticed an image, she does have her sister before, and I could not imagine a white tiger had a son. My cousin, I mean. Whatever else had happened to him, then I should need to meet my aunt about her son.

"Ming's grandson? I may wonder my cousin had been married to someone who was my sister-in-law, gave birth to tiger cub, and that might be a reason their son had a family before. If that happened when Ming's son and my sister-in-law died, then I feel regret for my nephew's family including my aunt's son as well. I wish I can see my cousin's son. That may be a case I still have a family of my own, to my bloodline. Somehow, I felt been solitary after all these years, realized and questioned myself including Shifu. Am I the only tiger left in China? I believe not. I have so many questions to ask about my family and my cousin as well. So far, I think my kin is no longer alone, and I shall reunite my aunt…"

"We will go there tomorrow, Tigress," Po clasped Tigress's paw. "The Five will honor the class, and we will greet your nephew."

Just then, an unexpected voice summoned beside Tigress behind a tree. "You see!" The bug spawned beside Peach Tree, "I knew you guys are in together!"

"Yeah," Crane agreed after soaring, "last time you both hugged since Gongmen City after Shen's defeat."

"We start wedding," Monkey quipped as he stood in front of Tigress and Po, clasping both paws of black and white bear and tiger together. "You may kiss your bride, Po."

"Monkey!" Viper hissed ahead of Monkey.

"I… object," Monkey efforted, once massaging his neck.

"So," Mantis pondered them two, leaping Monkey's shoulder, "what were you guys talking about?"

"It's nothing, really," Tigress lied shortly. But a snake slithers close enough to Po and her.

"We know what you mean," Viper realized honestly. "A family thing."

"You know, Tigress," Monkey considered; he stood in front of her. "I never know who my father was after I'd known my mother a while back. Even then, I still have many questions about my dad, and somehow I do not have any idea where he may be at for a reason. But we all know your parents won't come back, and that was the saddest thing to be, and even we have heard about Po's parents as well back then, and his father returns. But now, your family returns, and we will meet your kind."

"You see," Po pointed, giving a reason that most of the Furious Five may have a family of their own, but never gone. "Just like what Shifu said back there."

"Hardcore do understand," Crane sauntered in front, then scanned Po. "And your noodles are getting cold, turns out."

"It's almost a bedtime," Po believed and then Crane's words reminded of panda's food being cold as soon as his mind has went blown. "Hey! My noodles!"

"I killed it, Po," Mantis attempted after landing on panda's shoulder.

Dragon Warrior glimmered his eyes, meeting Mantis's orbs in surprising. "How?" the panda questioned confusingly. Po wonders how the heck did an insect ate Po's noodles through insect's small, empty stomach.

"My mouth just went bigger than yours," the insect acquainted Po by jesting. "I activated 'antenna power!', and all the sudden I killed it with my hunger!"

"Now that's the hardcore," Po laughed as Tigress began rising from the large root she sat while all strolled into the forest to Student Barrack. "Come on, guys, we eat, sleep, and skadoosh! Go to Master Ming's palace!"


Tigress is no longer a solitude tiger who we all desperately love to see her parents. Maybe someday in the future to discover her family like Po's revelation in KFP 3 as his dad reunited him? Dreamworks has to do the same for Tigress. Would you agree that we the pandoms desire to see Tigress's parents? One of her family members? A mother, perhaps?

At least, the vision I crave for the Mightiest Warriors series, I like for Tigress no longer being one, and the only tiger in all of China. Pandas came in the third movie, so Tigers are next in the future for Tigress and heaven sake! Big shoutout: We want tigers! We want tigers!

Anyone?