The Valley Market Place…

Tai Lung and Tigress reached Mea's clothing supply store just as rather beautifully dressed female sheep exited. The sheep looked absolutely stunning, and called a friendly goodbye before skipping off down the street.

"Geez Tai Lung," Tigress said her cheeks turning slightly pink, "I don't know if this place is really for me. I've seen some of the dresses your wife sells and I think they're way too fancy for me."

Just then, a tall slim and rather busty female snow leopard shot her through the curtains of the entry way snapping, "Who said that!" Her frown quickly changed to a wide grin as she laid eyes on her mate and jumped out to tightly embrace the male snow leopard pressing her lips against his own.

Their show of affection caused Tigress's cheeks to blush that much brighter and nearly jumped when she felt something pulling on her tail. Looking down, she smile when she saw Lilly standing next to her. "It really grosses me out too whenever they kiss Auntie Tigress."

Auntie Tigress? Tigress still had trouble grasping the idea of Tai Lung being her older brother. Though they were not related by blood, their relationship with Master Shifu made them as close as siblings as possible, thus Lilly had become Tigress's niece.

"Sorry honey," Mea said pushing herself away from Tai Lung, "but I always get worried whenever your father goes off on a mission."

"Oh please," Tai Lung said with a bit of laughter in his voice, "haven't you heard, they're calling me the Mighty Tai Lung."

Both Tigress and Lilly lowered their head pinching the bridge of their noise. "Oh brother," they said in unison.

Mea giggled at the sight, but her tone soon became more serious as she spoke up, "So Tigress, what brings you here. My mate hasn't caused any problems has he?"

"No, nothing like that," Tigress said, her amber eyes darting from side to side, "you know in fact, I'm going to be going."

"Not so fast," Tai Lung said taking hold of her tail. "In truth honey, I thought Tigress here could purchase one of you nice gown for her date with Po."

Mea brought her hands up to the sides of her face, releasing a joyful shrill and took hold of Tigress's shoulder quickly leading her inside. "Oh I have just the dress for you, and believe me you are going to love it," she paused to glance over her shoulder addressing Tai Lung, "honey be a dear and help Lilly with her school work. This may take awhile."

"Really there's no big deal," Tigress complained attempting to escape from the snow leopard's grip, "I think the silver one back the barracks will do just fine…and beside I don't have the money to pay…"

"Oh nonsense," Mea said, "what type of friend would I be if I made you pay."

Mea led Tigress to the far end of the clothing shop and quickly pulled out a stunning full body length gown. "Here we are, I had this one tailor made for you. I know you'll turn heads when you walk by."

As Tigress held the dress up while gazing into a mirror, she had to admit it was a rather stunning, made out of the softest red silk with a leaf pattern similar to her training vest from the left shoulder strap all the way around ending at the base. The lower half of the dress was open along the sides to give her legs free range of motion. She found herself giggling wondering what it be like to go out on mission dressed like that. However there were some features of the gown that she felt bothered with. For one thing the low collar and how it was held with one strap about the left shoulder there by leaving the right side top half of her breast exposed. "I don't know," Tigress muttered, turning to face Mea, "Don't you think it's a bit revealing? What would Po say?"

"Now look here Tigress," Mea said calmly placing her hands about Tigress's shoulders. "I may not know a lot about you and Po, but what I do know is that he loves you for what you have inside, not outside. This festival is meant to be one of enjoyment and merriment, and as one of this valley greatest protector, I can think of no better time to let loose and enjoy the moment for all it's worth."

A smile crept across Tigress face and held the dress closer to her as thought of dancing alongside Po formed in the back of her mind. "Thanks Mea. I owe you one."

"Just make sure you enjoy yourself," she said, then her eyes widen, "oh I would like if you and Po would stick around after the dance as my Lilly will be doing a little dance of her own."

"Of course Mea, I'll be there right up front." Tigress gazed through the window noticing the level of the sun. "Oh my, it's getting late, I'll need to go and finish getting ready. See you there later."

With that, she rushed off rolling the dress up around her arm to keep from tripping over it.

Back at the Student Barracks…

It took no time at all for Tigress to get back to Jade Palace though still had a bit to before she met up with Po. Making her way back to her room, she calmly took her training clothes off and slipped into her new dress, once then she reached behind her back to undo the clasp of her wrapping allow her breasts to slowly push out against the silk clothe. A slightly shudder came over her as the cool smooth surface brushed along her nipples. Tigress then wrapped a gold strip of clothe around her waist to tighten the dress about her body, this only served to show off more of her stunning figure. Reaching under her bed, Tigress found a pair of fancy sandals that had a raised heel adding a few inches to her height. It would be nice to finally gaze into Po at eye leave for a change. Lastly, Tigress applied a faint layer of light red make to the rim of her eyes and lips. Once finished she gazed into the mirror and nearly gasped as the image that stared backed at her was a completely different tiger. She found her cheeks turning bright red at the fact that she seem to enjoy the beauty she beheld.

Looking over to the window she saw that the sun was close to setting. If they were to reach the valley in time for the opening gala, she would have to leave now. Taking one last look at herself she took a deep breath to steady herself. "Alright Tigress, let's do this."

Po and the others stood by the arch way leading to the valley. The remaining members of the five were dressed in their finest training clothes. Tai Lung though wore his dark purple slacks and brown iron bolted belt. Po on the other hand, was dressed a pair of black slack, gold belt, with a red open vest with a symbol of a dragon on the back.

"What's keeping Tigress?" Crane muttered, "I figure she'd be here by now."

"Whoa," Monkey cried out.

Po turned around to see Tigress coming toward them, and his eyes nearly popped out at the sight of her in her new dress.

Crane stood rigid his mouth dropping for a moment until Tai Lung brushed him along the side. "Hey there, that's my sister you're staring at."

"Sorry."

Tigress came to stand before Po, she stood eye level with the panda and she smile before twirling around causing the hem of the dress to rise up a little in the breeze. "So Po, how do I look?"

"You look beautiful," Po said taking her hand and gently kissed it causing Tigress to purr, "but then again you always do," he then turned to his friends and said in a cheerful voice, "so then shall we get going?"

The others nodded and calmly went down the steps for the valley, Po and Tigress took the lead hand in hand, both with smile on their face, and with Tigress purring all the way.