A/N: And I am back again! With a chapter! That I wrote! But I don't own Kung Fu Panda, just so you know.

Well, thanks to everybody who have reviewed! Please continue that and I will continue writing.

I have something to show you. Here is how the Furious Five's names changes in the Danish version of Kung Fu Panda: Tigress= Tiger (not the biggest change, but it does not pronounced like in English), Viper= Hugorm (now the changes starts) Monkey= Abe, Mantis=Knæler and Crane=Trane. Well, not you know a little Danish.

Behind The Golden Eyes, Monster

Tigress walked through the halls, her paw holding two letters. Both ready to be sent to the Jade Palace.

It was over three months since she had left with Mei-Hua. She had experienced much in those months. She had met the others masters. There were ten and they were now teaching her along with Mei-Hua. Though, the tiger master was the one who spent most time with her.

She had finally learned to find her way in the palace, but she still preferred to have Lu Chu around her. The mountain was nearly always by her side. Not that it annoyed Tigress; they had, like Lu Chu had said, become good friends.

The maid was more girly than Tigress, like Viper. But Lu Chu didn't have the soul of a warrior. She was not exactly a coward, but she was always fearing getting into trouble. Tigress liked her because she had a gently heart. Though, she had nearly lost her temper when the mountain cat had insisted that she should wear a dress.

Tigress didn't wear dresses. End of story. After the tiger had given her maid a lecture about how warriors dressed, Lu Chu had given up the subject.

Piao was also becoming closer to her. He was some sort of entertaining for her. It was just his being that could seem comic. One of the things that could make Tigress smile secretly, was when he was flirting with Lu Chu.

He was some years older than the maid and Tigress, and was nearly trying to make every girl he saw to fall in love with him. Luckily (both for Tigress and himself) he knew that Tigress was way out of his reach, so he didn't make a sound that could sound like flirting to her.

But Lu Chu wasn't interested. Not at all. "I am not that type of girl." That was Lu Chu's own words after escaping from Piao. Tigress knew that the antelope was harmless; he just wanted to charm the girls. But Lu Chu often saw everything as dangerous. Including boys.

Tigress hadn't talk with Lu Chu about the subject, since the maid had asked if she had ever had a boyfriend. Tigress had given her a glare that told that she had crossed the line and since none of them had ever said the word 'boyfriend'.

All that had become Tigress' world. Her old life in the Jade Palace was now a weak memory that she slowly started to forget. Sometimes when she was lying in her bed at night, the guilt came. Then she would curl into a ball and trying to avoid the blaming glances of her old friends that were staring at her in her mind. But when she woke up again the next morning, she would have forgotten it all, because Master Mei-Hua had a new training to her. Or she was going on a trip to the town. Or… There was always something that could steal the attention from her guilt of leaving her friends behind.

But now Tigress had taken a decision. One of the letters was to Master Shifu; explaining why she had chosen not to come back palace, but staying at her new master. She wasn't sure of how he was going to take it, but she just couldn't leave. Living in the Dragon-City had become her life. And know she just couldn't change that.

The other letter had been difficult to write. It was to her friends, the same letter that she had wrote when she had left the palace. The letter that she hadn't given them. But now she had written more, telling them of why she was going to stay at Master Mei-Hua. There were many apologies. She had tried to make them understand, to make them forgive her. She had ended the letter with an invitation to come and visit her as soon as possible.

Tigress has written with her friends many times since she had arrived. She had told them about her new friends, the palace and about the busy life in the city. But she had become more… absent. Her letters had become shorter, only some answers to their questions. Actually, she had written back to them in the last three weeks. She just didn't know what to write.

But now she had to do it. She didn't want to be a coward. Tigress knew that she had improved her kung fu while she has been under Mei-Hua's teaching. Tigress tried her best to be like her master. She did actually look like her; not only the fact that they were the only tigers in the palace, but also that she had changed her clothes so it was similar with Mei-Hua's. Black was just as fine as red.

Being in the Dragon Palace (Tigress had quickly found out that nearly everything was named 'Dragon'), was different then the life in the Jade Palace. Of course there was training, difficult training after Tigress' opinion, but she liked it. For the first time in her life Tigress tried to be in a school. Well, it wasn't exactly a school, but she got education at least one time at week. Master Sheep took the job as a teacher, but maybe he was regretting it now.

Tigress wasn't good at sitting still in long time. She was used to punch and kick things, not listening to an old sheep while taking notes. But Master Mei-Hua insisted that she should learn the history about the city. True enough, it was an exciting history with dragons and queens, but the training was still Tigress favorite thing to do.

But there was one thing that Tigress was missing. The missions. The last one she had been to was when she had helping defeating Shen. After she had gotten Master Mei-Hua as her master, it had only been training. The only thing that she should protect was the Dragon-City. But the city happens to be an extremely safe place. The only thing that could happen was when they made their revenge.

Not that it helped Tigress. Every time that they had made one more unwelcomed visit to the city, the masters first discovered it when the damage was done. They were never been seen, the only thing left could be burned buildings or what else they could destroy.

"Tigress?"

The feline was forced out of her thoughts by the familiar voice. By her instincts, she bowed. "Master Mei-Hua."

"Master Lynx is looking for you. He wants to start your training now."

Tigress glanced at the letters in her paws. She sighed soundless. She could always send them later. "Yes, Master. But aren't you supposed to teach me today?"

"I have some duties in the city that I need to take care of. I will only be gone for some hours." Mei-Hua told her student. The older tiger started to leave, but turned around when Tigress called.

"Master, can you please do me a favor? I need to send those and…" The student showed her the letters.

"Of course. I guess that they are to the Jade Palace. I hope that you remembered to greet them from me."

Mei-Hua knew that Tigress had decided to stay, so it wasn't a big mystery what the letters were about. Tigress nodded, handing her the messages.

"Then I'll see you later, Tigress. You better hurry unless you want troubles with Master Lynx." Tigress bowed and disappeared the way she had come from. Mei-Hua followed her with her eyes, before walking the opposite way.

As she walked, she carefully opened the letters. Her golden eyes moved as they read. When she was finished, she entered the strategy room. Maps were hanging anywhere on the wall, along with different notes.

The tiger walked to the table where she started to carefully closing the letter to Master Shifu again. When she was done, no one could see that it had been opened. Mei-Hua smiled satisfied.

Then she turned to the other letter. The letter to Tigress' friends. She read it one more time, but still didn't change her mind. She calmly picked up the letter and without hesitating, she throw it in the fireplace. She watched as the fire destroyed the message.


"Good morning, Master." The five students said in unison. Without thinking about it, they all turned their heads toward the closed door that leaded to Tigress' room. But they all knew that Tigress wasn't there and she wouldn't come out and greet their masters.

Even though it was over three months since she had left them, they all still hoped that the door would open to reveal her. But, of course, it didn't.

"You will start the day in the trainings hall. I'll meet you there." Master Shifu announced, before turning their back to them, walking towards the courtyard.

The students watched him leave. They slowly followed in a distance so he couldn't hear them.

"Well, he isn't really helping the mood." Mantis exclaimed. "Not that he ever has been the biggest sunshine, but now he just seems… sad. It's depressing!"

"Who can blame him? It's not like we are smiling either." Monkey commented, while glancing darkly at the others. Sure enough, it had been hard to laugh while Tigress wasn't there.

They all knew that they had to stop thinking about it. When she had been gone for so long, they should have stopped missing her. But everybody, except Po, had been living with her in over ten years. The fact that she wasn't there anymore was just hard to accept.

"I just hope that she is okay." Viper sighed, referring to Tigress.

Po tried to comfort her. "Don't worry, Viper. She is just busy, like she wrote in the message. She is probably fighting so any awesome enemies that she doesn't have time to answer our letters."

"Or maybe Master Mei-Hua doesn't give her a break from training. What? We don't know how she is as a master. Maybe she is even stricter than Master Shifu!"

"Scratch that theory, Mantis. I doubt that someone can win over Master Shifu in strictness." Monkey told his friend.

"Maybe the messenger is just slowly. Who knows if we get her letter today?" Crane smiled weakly.

Po stared at them all. "Come on, guys. Tigress would be mad if she saw us like this. We are kung fu warriors, not kung fu whiners. We can't let the sadness win, just because Tigress is on a vacation! She will soon be back and everything will be normal again! Right, guys?"

"Sure, Po."

The panda was stunned by the masters' tone; it sounded like they had given up!

"Aw, come on! That's not the spirit! Listen, we're going to rule the trainings hall so much, that when Tigress will come back, she will see how awesome we are and forget everything about that tiger master. And then we will be the Furious Five again! Uhm… The Furious Five plus the Dragon Warrior!" He was now standing in front of them, not letting them pass without their agreement.

"I actually think that he is right, guys." Monkey face was like he had just seen a wonder. "Who could have thought that Po could be right?"

"Yeah! Hey… Wait a minute! Did you just…"

Po was cut off by Viper. "Leave it guys. But Monkey has a point."

Mantis chuckled. "The first or the last part?"

Viper hissed at him, making him to stay silent. "I mean that we have to do as Po said. If Tigress is too busy to write or visit us, then we will have to wait. And while she is gone, we will have to behave like we did before. That it's what she wants us to do."

"To keep training? Viper, we are already training as hard as we can! And it's not all of us that can be like Tigress."

"I know, Mantis. But Tigress leaved to be better at kung fu. What if she thinks that this dragon-place can teach her more and decides to stay?"

"But didn't Master Shifu, you know, adopt her when she was little?" Po asked.

"On a way, Po, but that doesn't means that she is forced to stay at the Jade Palace or that Master Shifu must be her master. A student always has a choice about that."

"So if I, I don't know, met another master that was like totally awesome, I could choose him as my master?" Po tried to imagine it.

"If the master agreed to it, then yes. Of course Master Shifu could refuse, but you actually have the power to leave him and the Jade Palace."

"Like Tigress did?" Po burst out, but regretted it when the others send him glances. His insecure smile slowly disappeared.

"Tigress didn't leave like that. Master Shifu allowed her to go, so she didn't do anything wrong. But I understand what you meant, Po." Viper finished in a softer tone.

They now reached their traveling goal and opened the door to the training hall. The swinging clubs were not moving, painfully reminding them of the tiger that should have been busy with destroying them now.

But before they could start their training, they heard the sound of a calling voice.

"Warriors of the Jade Palace." A goose was about to land behind them.

Viper smiled when she recognized the messenger. "It's nice to see you, Zhu." Everyone started to get excited; Zhu was always the one who delivered the letters from Tigress.

"Have you seen Master Shifu? I have a letter to him."

"He is probably meditating near the sacred peach tree." Monkey told the goose.

When Zhu saw their faces, he felt a little guilty when he had to disappoint them. "I am sorry, but Master Tigress only sent one letter and it's for Master Shifu."

"Oh… Just follow us, Zhu. We will lead you to Master Shifu." Viper said with a fake smile on her face. Why hadn't Tigress send a letter to them? Why didn't she answer them anymore?

The students shared glances, before slowly walking towards their master.


Mei-Hua watched the tiger in front of her. He couldn't be more than some years older than Tigress, but his eyes were serious. The tiger bowed, before glancing up at the masters again.

"Honored masters. Your highness. Enlai is my name. I have been travelling far to serve you."

"Then why do I have the feeling that you not are here to be my servant?" Mei-Hua asked Enlai warmly.

He looked at the three masters. "True enough, your highness, I do not have the skills for a servant. But I do have a talent."

The tiger took out a figure of his bag. It was a little dragon, perfectly made out of tree. Mei-Hua studied it closely, before handing it to her masters.

"I must say that I am impressed. But I am not sure if making tree-figures is enough to make you worthy enough to stay."

"I know the forest better than my own stripes. I know were the plants grows and where it is best to collect them."

Master Bear leaned closer to Mei-Hua. "I have heard that Master Fox is in lack of herbs to his experiments. He could use some help with collecting them. It's not like he is so young anymore." He whispered.

Mei-Hua nodded slightly, eyes not leaving the tiger. Master Fox was the oldest master at the Dragon-Palace. He was very wise and had invented several medicines and what else he could make out of herbs.

"The garden of the Dragon-Palace could use a new gardener. But tell me, Enlai, could you be interested?" She asked him.

"I am grateful, your highness. I am willing to take your offer."

"A tiger as a gardener? I hadn't seen that coming." Master leopard exclaimed.

Mei-Hua smiled calmly. "Are you able to fight, Enlai?"

"Only when it's absolutely necessary. But I promise you, honored masters, that I will protect what you give me the responsibility for."

"How many money do you requires?" Master Bear asked Enlai. Of course the palace had money, but it was a good thing to be sure about the costs.

"Only food and a shelter." The tiger answered quickly.

A smile spread on Mei-Hua's face. "I think that we have gotten a new gardener." She turned to the servants that were waiting by the door. "Could you please lead Enlai to his new home?"

The servants nodded and started to walk. Enlai bowed, before following them. His eyes shined satisfied; he had succeeded his mission.


Tigress finally relaxed. This was just how she wanted it. Just being alone could be like heaven sometimes. She breathed deeply.

She was about to lose her hope. It was now three weeks since her letters had been sent, and her friends hadn't answered yet. Master Shifu had, telling her that he understood her choice, but that she always was welcomed at the Jade Palace.

But Viper, Mantis, Crane, Monkey and Po. She hadn't heard a word from them. Tigress felt guilty; she had told them that she would come back, but yet after nearly four months, she was still here. It was now fall.

Of course they were mad at her. She had lied to them! She had behaved like a bad friend! But every time she thought about leaving the Dragon-Palace, something held her back. Like it was impossible. Just the thought seemed unbelievable.

A knock on the door disturbed her meditation. Tigress opened her eyes and sighed. So much for peace and quiet.

"Master Tigress?"

"You can come in, Lu Chu."

The mountain cat stepped in, bowing slightly. "I am sorry, Master Tigress, but…"

"Tigress." Lu Chu looked confused at the tiger.

Sighing, Tigress repeated it. "You can call me Tigress, Lu Chu." She had already lost her old friends; she didn't want to lose her new. Maybe it was better that she tried to be a little sweeter this time.

Tigress tried to smile, but it didn't really work. She was just bad at lying, and right now she wasn't in her happy mood.

"Yes, ma… Tigress. I am sorry to tell you it, but there was no new letters for you."

The tiger closed her eyes for a second. Why was this so hard? Should she stop waiting for them to write and do it self? No, it wouldn't help. She had told them everything they needed to hear in the last letter. She couldn't say more.

"I should say from Master Mei-Hua that she wants to talk with you."

"Thank you, Lu Chu. I'll be there in a minute."

The mountain cat bowed. "Yes, Master Tigress." She walked out of the room leaving Tigress alone.

The tiger lowered her head in defeat. So much for not calling her 'Master'.


Fall could be pretty sometimes. With all the colors and that. Someone actually liked fall. Piao was not one of those. Fall meant rain. The antelope didn't like rain. He didn't like to be wet. He didn't like fall!

As on a cue, it started to thunder.

"Just perfect." Piao sighed, knowing that he was probably the only one outside in this rain. But he had delivered some important information to one of the masters, and that required that he had to go outside to get to the different parts of the palace.

But as he walked through the garden, his eyes spotted something that shouldn't be there. He looked at the little house was the tools that were used to fix the garden were stored. There were also some herbs hanging to dry in there. But that was not so important. The thing that he worried about was that there was light in the window.

Someone must have forgotten to blow it out. What if it started a fire? Sighing again, Piao walked towards the little house. Why was it always him that had to do everything?

But only after taking to steps inside, something heavy forced him to the ground.

"Ouch! Let go of me! Please, for my unborn children's sake! I cannot stand pain!"

"Who is it that dare approaching the queen's precious herbs? A thief maybe?" The attacker barked, pulling the antelope's horns.

"Piao is the name. Servant by the mercy of the highness. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! I am telling the masters!" The antelope nearly yelled. Suddenly the force disappeared. He quickly stood up, glancing at his attacker.

"What? Is it only a gardener? Her highness spoke of you. But if I was her I would make you leave as soon as possible." The antelope sneered, trying to gain some of his lost dignity.

The tiger smiled amused. "Maybe you would do that. But here in the garden it is me that determines and I have promised to protect the queen's garden with my life. Do you understand? And I am thinking about being a very old man with thirty-two grandchildren, so goodbye, Mr. Piao."

He took a step forward, causing the antelope to fall backwards. Piao quickly got up, glaring daggers at the tiger. Then he leaved before he could get any more troubles.

Enlai watched him flew and smiled entertained. That was fun. No one should think that he was weak. Maybe his new life as gardener in the palace couldn't be that bad. He found his knife and started to create a new figure out of a piece of tree.


"No, Piao. Don't tell more! You are making me scared! I would have died of fright if it had been me!" Lu Chu exclaimed, her green eyes big.

"If I hadn't had my good knife with me then I wouldn't be here now." The antelope said, holding up his little knife. Too bad for him that he had forgotten all about it while he actually was attacked.

Suddenly a door opened, when Tigress walked into the room. She was done talking with Mei-Hua now; it had just been something about her training. "What had happened, Lu Chu?" She asked when she saw her friend scared face.

"It's Piao! He was attacked, nearly killed by a monster!"

"A monster?" Tigress didn't believe it at all, but she was curious about the monster-thing.

"Yes, in the garden! I will not go down there alone anymore!"

"It is all true, Master Tigress. If it hadn't been for my…"

"We all know about your good knife, Piao. But tell me about this 'monster'. Do think that it would still be there?"

The antelope rubbed his neck. "Well, it didn't seem like a creature that would run of."

"Thanks, Piao. I'll see you later." Tigress started to leave.

Lu Chu ran in front of her. "You are not thinking about going down there, do you, Master Tigress? If it's a monster and…"

"I will tell you what I am going to do, Lu Chu. I will show this 'monster' where he belongs and then I will make him stay there."

Tigress felt the excitement filling her body. This was almost like a mission. The mountain cat and the antelope just stared after her, knowing that they couldn't stop her when she was in this mood.


A/N: And I'll leave it there. Don't worry, I will tell about they in later chapters, also about the city's history. And of course you will hear more about Enlai.

Oh… Are you confused about the burning-letter-thing? You will understand it later, when I have posted more chapters…