Tai Lung awoke from his rest; His eyes begun to adapt to the environment of Mei Ling bed room. still worn-out from the absence of rest due to the stab in his hands, finally his eyes facilitated to the light only to observe a mounting cat standing in front of him, It had to be Mei Ling of course, and she had been smiling, Not showing any emotion in his face Tai Lung just gave her a blank stare, She dropped the "friendly" smile and returned the look. After a few seconds of ether one blinking Mei Ling finally spoke up in an upstart, top-of-the-morning-to-yea voice.

"Morning, Tai ." Mei Ling said with a smile returning to her face, Tai Lung did not know whether to be worried or scared, he figured that he had best choose he next few words wisely.

"Good morning, Crazy." Tai Lung said accidentally attaching the crazy to the rear of his sentence, Tai Lung thought for sure he would get another beating, but Mei Ling just smiled as if he had said nothing.

"Great, Now that we have nicknames for one another, I think well get along fine." Mei Ling said before changing her tone to a serious one "I have some ground rules that I expect you to follow while you stay in my present, One, Nobody like a peeping tom, try to look at me naked and I will cut your eye balls out, Two I never want you to talk to the wolf child named Fang, And Finally Mei Ling moved up to the pinned leopard, "If you even talk about escaping I will kill you on the spot." Mei Ling finished laying her ground rule and began to move over to her dresser, opening the wardrobe, Mei Ling took out a pair of green pants and a sleeveless green zhongshan zhuang, she began undressing, right in plain sight of Tai Lung, who to no surprise wanted to keep his eyes.

"You can look now." Mei Ling said as Tai Lung opened his eyes to see the mounting cat, he thought she was beautiful in the weird tom boyish since, a little young for him but that never really stopped him. Mei Ling walked over to Tai Lung, with the key the Grand Master entrusted her with she began to unlock the shackles that kept Tai Lung pinned to her ceiling and wall, after the last lock clicked open Tai Lung fell to the ground, landing on his he began to make a mad dash to the door, unfortunately for him his feet were shacked more than any part of his body, He fell straight to the ground after only moving about four inches. Mei Ling laughed at the leopards attempt at freedom.

"Ha Ha" Mei Ling laughed as she helped the leopard to his feet, moving themselves out of Mei Lings room, they saw Crane making his way out of his guest room, He was shocked at what he saw, But before he was able to speak up Mei Ling explained.

"His not going anywhere." Mei Ling said as she pushed Tai Lung causing him to lose his balance, Tai Lung hit the floor yet again causing Mei Ling to chuckle some more. The leopard began to muter some swear word s under his breath, ignoring the fowl language Mei Ling turned to Crane.

"Where's Viper?" Mei Ling asked not seeing the snake at his side, which was weird seeing how she had not left his side since they arrived. The bird explained.

"She's still sleeping, I had figure that she would want to rest before we get the day started." Crane said smiling as Mei Ling helped Tai Lung to his feet.

"Let's go find Fang and get something to eat." Mei Ling said to Crane pulling Tai Lung by a loose chain, dragging him on the ground to the kitchen.

Mei Ling moved into the kitchen placing Tai Lung on a chair at the table Crane sat right next to him once Mei Ling saw that they were comfortable or at least Crane was she turned her attention to the sink. Pots and pans were scattered everywhere, the newer students always left it up to her to do the dishes. Mei Ling, not one to complain had no doing the children's work; she would just work them twice as hard when she took over. After washing the said dishes Mai Ling whipped up a pot of rice congee, while Mai Ling was making said food, Crane looked at Tai Lung who sat in the chair next to him. He just sat there eyes looking forward at Mei Lings back, Crane then thought of something funny, reaching for his wing he plucked out a feather and as if he had gotten a kick to the shin; he let out a small yelp of pain. Grapping the feather in his Crane reached other to the leopard and began to tickle his noose; this caused Tai Lung to get a little irritated, he moved his head hoping the bird would stop but he did, not Tai Lung finally decided to speak to the bird.

"Stop it." Tai Lung said the irritation in his voice began to show as he let out a low growl when the bird continued. Why should I stop? Crane thought as he continued his torture, I mean this guy did kick my ass down at the bridge… before he could finish his thought Tai Lung's head lunged at the feather, getting it into his mouth he began to chew, by this time Crane was checking to see it he had lost a wing, Tai Lung finished up with the feather and spat it out onto the ground before returning his gaze back to Mai Ling, Who was still preparing their breakfast. Just then Viper walked into the room, she had sleepy Fang with her.

"Good Morning, Viper." Mei Ling said waving at the snake, Viper who knew Mai Ling well enough to say morning but not enough to put up a good in front of that morning simply responded.
"Morning." Viper said before slithering other to Crane, who for some reason to her looked as if he had seen a ghost. Viper slithered up his leg before finding that she was looking into his eyes.

"You have a good night?" Crane asked.

"Yeah." Viper said in a normal voice before she leaned her head in to whisper in his ear, "It was a hell of a night." . Crane smiled before he helped Viper to her own seat. "It kind of suck when I woke up and you weren't there though.".

"Ready." Mei Ling said placing the food down of the table, finding five different bowls she poured the rice congee, Fang helped himself to his own chair, Mei Ling finished pouring the food and slide the bowl to the hungry guest. All but Tai Lung began to gobble up the rice, who seeing how he was completely immobilized was unable to move let alone eat. Tai Lung began to say some inaudible grunt, Mei Ling cat ears picked up the groaning, but was unable to make in out.

"What did you say?" Mei Ling asked as she leaned over to Tai Lung to hear well. Tai Lung grunted yet again, unfortunately for him Mai Ling was unable to hear him still.

"Speak up." Mei Ling said still looking at the leopard, "I can't hear you."

"I can't move I need someone to feed me." Tai Lung said loudly enough for everyone to hear. Mei Ling smiled as she picked up his soup spoon, dipping the spoon into the hot goo, she moved her hand up to Tai Lungs mouth, all the others watched this humiliating process as Mai Ling spoon fed Tai Lung. During of which nether said a single word. Fang finished up with his meal before speaking to Mai Ling.

"Don't you have to get ready to train Ling?" The small wolf child asked as Mai Ling turned her head to respond.
"Oh yeah your right." Mei Ling said as she stopped feeding Tai Lung, she gathered up all the bowls before finally grapping Tai Lung. She had some fun things planed for him….

A/N: This is the beginning from when Mai Ling prospective of Tai Lung will begin to change, There will be more serious dialogue among the two in the next chapter, Where Mei Ling has a class to teach, and Tai Lung is the student teacher. P.S I have decided to give this story a happy ending as far as Mei Ling goes, the reason be is because the way I was original going to do the reason Mei Ling hated(which I will spoil at the end) was simply do dark to be believable, In other words it's not believable, and why the emphasis on CraneXViper, you will find that out later on. Shifu will talk with Leiconus, and something will happen to Fang.