Author´s note:
Ok, so here´s chapter 7. Ok, so I know that he is supposed to beat his Bad-Self by sundown, but I´m not going to be really specific about that, so just keep that in mind. Most importantly I hope you all like it and review.
Enjoy!
Tigress was so mad, no, she was beyond mad, she keep repeating in her mind the things that just happened. Something just didn´t feel right. It wasn´t that Po had just have her the harshest insult of her life, but Po has never acted that way. But once again, she was too mad to see the reasoning behind it. She went to an empty spot in the forest, where it was silent, and there was no one there. She saw a peach tree, she went to it and bent down, she couldn´t stay strong anymore, she was too weak, she had reach her breaking point. She started to cry. Tears kept falling to her cheeks. She couldn´t help it, she was letting everything out. She couldn´t care less about what people would think, her reputation, or Po. She didn´t wanted to see him ever again. He stomped on her heart, then pick up the remained pieces, drop them and jumped on them, and then walked away. And as she started remembering what he told her "no one loves you or ever will, and I don´t love you. You are those people who are meant to be alone, people think you are a monster and no matter what you do, they always will." She started to cry even more, trying to forget everything.
With Good Po…
He kept trying to break the door, or to be able to get out.
"Oww" he yelled.
He felt someone slap him. Then something make sense, ´Oh oh, either I just slap myself, or my bad-self made Tigress upset and she slapped me". Then he knew that when he got out, if he did, he was going to face a really mad Tigress.
He started looking around for anything that might be helpful. He just found the paper he took to write the love notes. He found the blanket of the mirror, and of course the necklace that caused all this. He went to the door and started to look for a hole or anything that would help him break it. ´I can defeat major threats to China, but I can´t get out of a closet! ´ He yelled at himself. But then he found a crack near the handle. Yes! He started punching near it. Bit by bit a crack started appearing, and then it expanded, until it was one crack away from completely breaking. Po´s knuckles were really hurt, and, as the door, were one step away from breaking. But po didn´t care about that, he cared about Tigress, and why was she upset. He knew it involved him, or his bad-self. He felt guilty, he also felt mad at himself. He took all of his emotions to help him break the door in that last punch.
Crack The door finally broke. Po was yelling because of excitement. He took the necklace and put it in his pocket. He took the mirror with him and then headed out of the closet. He started heading to the special spot. He noticed the scarlet lotus flowers weren´t there anymore. He thought ´It seems that my plan work, Tigress followed them". He remembered where the spot was, and he was noticing, that the lotus flowers were gone, he hoped it was Tigress who took them and not Bad-po and that he ruined his plan. When he got there, he was shocked, the lotus flowers, were spread out in the table he bought. But that wasn´t the thing that shocked him, but that bad Po was smiling while eating the dinner that he prepared for Tigress. Ok, He is smiling, that cannot be good, he must have done something really bad to Tigress, or said…" He left the mirror hidden near the rock he also hid the flowers, and went to Bad-Po. He wanted to know what he said to Tigress before fighting him, so he could fix it.
He sneak up from behind and grabbed Bad po from the shoulders, then held him against the tree. Bad Po could have easily blocked that, but he wasn´t in the mood to fight back. Besides as long as the Good-Po does not has the mirror, there´s no danger. Good-Po told him "Ok, Now tell me what did you do or say to Tigress?!" Bad-Po did not took him seriously, he just laughed. "I´m being dead serious! If you don´t answer me I will…" he was interrupted "what? If you punch me or kick me it will hurt you too"
"That´s right, so if I hit myself, you will also be in pain…. Now tell me" Good Po looked at him with a face that it scared the Bad Po. He had no choice but to tell him.
"Fine, but there is nothing you can do now, she doesn´t want to see you anymore, and she specifically told me to not talk to her ever again" Bad-Po said, as if remembering, he started smiling. But this was not Good Po´s reaction, he was scared, he was afraid that what his other self did had no solution, and that Bad-Po was right, there was nothing he could do about it.
He held Bad-Po tighter and soon, he started telling him what he did, at the end, Bad-Po had a satisfactory grin on his face, but Good-Po was heartbroken, he could never say that to her… It was all a big lie!
Bad-Po saw this as a chance to free himself, he freed himself. Good-Po snapped back to reality, and saw that he was free. He went to get the mirror before the other noticed it. As he ran, the Bad-Po saw the mirror, they were both running towards it. Good-Po got there first, Bad-Po closed his eyes and got in his fighting stance. Good-Po tried to get him to look in the mirror but failed, but then he had an idea. He punched himself in the stomach making himself to fall into the floor, so Bad-Po did it too. But when Bad-Po looked up to punch him, Good-Po put the mirror, so Bad-Po looked into the mirror but he also broke it seconds after it. But it only took one look to get them back to one.
"NOoooo!"Bad-Po yelled as he was being sucked into the shattered pieces.
There was only one Po now. He let out a sigh of relief that he was back at normal, and that the mirror was broken, so that wouldn´t happen ever again.
But there was something else he needed to do before everything was normal. He needed to find Tigress. He was sure she wasn´t in the jade Palace, but he didn´t know what other place she could be. He started to walk around the forest. He stopped, and listened, do I hear someone….crying? He was wondering who would be alone in the forest at this time. So he started to listen closely and walk to where the sounds where coming from. When he got there, he saw someone in their knees, crying. He couldn´t really see who it was because it was a little bit dark. Somehow, fireflies started coming, as if that were their signal to come illuminate the night. The fireflies were shining enough for him to see who it was. Tigress. He was saddened by what he was seeing, all the times she was being hardcore, facing it by herself, and now, he was seeing the little girl inside her, the vulnerable Tigress.
He came closer. Tigress heard somebody there. She stood up and stopped crying, cleaning her face. She turned around, only to find the person who made her feel that way, the person who she didn´t wanted to see, the one that broke her heart, that called her a monster, the one that played with her feelings, but mostly the one that showed her what love feels like and what a broken heart feels like too.
She looked at him, and wasn´t able to face him, she turned her head around and said coldly "What do you want now? Haven´t you done enough?" she felt like crying, like running up to him and hugging him and realizing that this was all a bad nightmare, but it wasn´t.
Po came closer. She backed away. "Don´t come any closer". She whispered loud enough for him to hear. He said "Tigress, I´m sorry. I didn´t meant anything I said, let me explain…" He got interrupted by Tigress. "No! You think I will just forgive you, well, it´s not that easy. You broke my heart, and you just expect me to open it again and tell you that everything is ok?!" she yelled "well, it´s not. So just do me a favor, and get out of my life, don´t talk to me again, you caused enough damage already" She finished screaming. She walked off, leaving a shocked Po behind. Po watched her go, not sure about what he should do. Before she was disappeared, she turned around, looking down and told him " You know, I thought you were different, that someone actually loved me" she let out a tear, and then looked up "I guess I was wrong." She turned and disappeared.
Po was heartbroken to hear that. He wanted to tell her how she was wrong, how he loved her. But he couldn´t do that, she was not listening, she was in pain. ´Maybe I can talk to her about this tomorrow, and she will be a little bit calmer about this, hopefully´. He put his hand in his pocket, and felt the necklace, he sigh with sadness and started to head back to the Jade Palace, it was really late, and if he didn´t showed up, his other friends might start to worry about him. He got there, and they were all already sleeping, he stood in front of Tigress´s door. He smiled but then he became sad. He entered his room, and laid down, thinking about what was he going to do, and what would be of his relationship with Tigress.
Ok, so here´s the almost last chapter. Hope you all like it, the next chapter is going to be the last one, I´m 99.9% sure about that. And you are going to see what happens to them. Well, review, and I will update really soon!
