The Lion Family

It was very dark at night. Tigress waited until she could hear everyone snoring. She silently snuck out of bed and headed to Po's room. "And what are you doing up in the middle of the night?" asked Marcus coming out of nowhere.

"You know, that is really becoming irritating," Tigress whispered.

"Oh trust me. It's like voices of pain with you, you don't even hear it anymore." The angel smiled. Tigress rolled her eyes as she continued to Po's room. She went in and saw Po looking at the ceiling.

"You know, maybe it's just me, but I think you just don't want to go to sleep." said Tigress sitting down on the floor. Po just remained like he was but spoke.

"What makes you think that?" he asked as he gave room for Tigress to sit down on the bed.

"I don't know," Tigress said in all sincerity, "I just think that you are, for what ever reason, scared to sleep. Like there's going to be something that you fear seeing in your dreams." Po frowned when he heard that word.

"Dreams," he echoed, "I don't usually dream anymore. I used to but Life just crushes your dreams some times."

"But what about all the times you daydream out loud?" asked Tigress.

"Oh that? That's just to annoy you," Po smiled as Tigress lightly punched him in the arm.

"Can I ask you a personal question?" Tigress asked in nervousness.

"I can't promise that I'll answer it." Po replied. Tigress nodded.

"Do... Do you think I'm good?" Po looked at her strangely.

"Do you mean good as in pretty or good as in best at anything because the answer to both is yes," asked Po. Tigress smiled

"The reason I ask is that I just don't know what to do anymore. Kung Fu was my life and connection to a better world, but since Lion came my passion has changed."

"And I guess it doesn't help that I'm kinda changing, huh?" Po added.

"Yes, you're changing so much. The next thing you'll be telling me is that you're a tiger." Tigress exclaimed. Po laughed quietly. He gave Tigress a bear hug.

"Yes I do think you are good, and don't worry, I will never change that much." Po said as he released her, "Now, you need to go back to bed. Good night."

"Good night," Tigress replied. As she was walking down the hall, Marcus couldn't help but laugh. "What are you laughing at?" whispered Tigress.

"The irony of it all," he said as he quietly disappeared.

"We are so dead," Po said.

"We are not dead," remarked Lion.

"Yet!" Retorted Tai-gee. Lion, Po, Tai-gee, Zeng, Zan, and Nelon were down in Zeng's room. Lion rolled his eyes.

"Look, I know that I should have told you guys about Platon's weapon earlier but there was too much happening. Listen, we rendezvous with Mei-ling and Saber, the other master swordsmen, today." Lion explained.

"I think we get that, but what I do not get is what we are going to do with Tigress. We can't just ignore her abilities like they are just freak accidents." the little Zan said. Po sighed.

"Even though he's little, he does make a persuading point. We can't just wish this away." Po pointed out.

"What about the Council? They have the final say in it, right?" Asked Tai-gee.

"They DID. I went up to see if I could revoke the energy in Tigress. They said it can't be removed because it was already placed inside of her. It wasn't given by us so were stuck." Lion finished. Then Monkey came in.

"Sorry to intrude but some guests are here, and they said that they know you guys." He said. Po got up rising from his chair.

"Let the Lion family reunite." He announced. They got to the gates to see two cats greeting the Furious Five and Shifu. One was a mountain cat and her name was Mei-ling. The other was a tiger, about Po's height, and only had a black pants on and his name was Saber. Both of them had swords at their sides. Crane recognized Mei-ling first.

"It is so good to see you again, old friend." Mei-ling said excitedly as she nearly hugged him to death.

"This is the Mei-ling you practiced with at the Academy before you came here?" Asked Shifu. Crane nodded.

"It's good to see you, too." Said Crane as Mei-ling released her. Saber rolled his eyes and bowed.

"It is a great honor to meet you all. Now, where is Lion?" He asked looking around.

"Over here, stone cat," said Lion as he and the guys came up to the group. Saber winced at the nickname.

"Would you stop calling me that." He said.

"Would you stop being so serious." Retorted Lion. Saber just sighed while Mei-ling came up hugging the others. Po noticed something on her hand.

"uh Mei-ling? Since when did you get married?" he asked. The whole room seemed to now notice the silver ring on her finger. Mei-ling started to get embarrassed while Saber breathed and smiled.

"We were going to have to tell them eventually," told Saber, "Everyone meet my wife, Mei-ling," from there, the chaos happened in this order. Po's eyes widen, Tai-gee's jaw dropped, Lion spun around and stumbled like he was punched, Nelon fainted, and Zeng and Zan started talking gibberish. About two minutes after this, Po spoke.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Slowdown, stop, rewind, freeze, play. You guys are married?"

"Why is that so hard to believe?" Asked Tigress.

"The joyful, giggle-happy, emotional Mei-ling got married to the stone cold, rarely smiling, serious Saber? That just blows my mind!" Tai-gee exclaimed. Saber shook his head.

"We can discuss our life later," Saber said getting back on topic, "Right now we have a more serious matter."

"I agree. So what brings you guys here?" asked Po.

"I asked them to come here so that we would have a chance at fighting this battle. We need all the Lion Warriors to defeat this menace, including the others." Lion replied. Po looked worried.

"Don't worry about it White Blood. We'll be able to finish this in no time." Mei-ling chimed but Po was still worried.

"Hey I just remembered. Why do you guys call him White Blood?" asked Crane. The others looked at each other nervously.

"Look at the time! I got to go to my father's shop, bye!" Po said quickly as he bolted down the mountain. Lion sighed.

"That doesn't answer my question," replied Crane softly. Lion looked at all the people in the room with a somber face. He headed to the training hall while the rest followed. When he got there, the others came in worried.

"Lion, are you alright? What's wrong?" asked Tigress. Lion looked at her as he sat on the ground.

"In order for you guys to be apart of this...Lion family, you're going to have to know all about Po." He looked at Tai-gee.

"I agree," he said. Lion looked at Nelon.

"Me too," he said. Lion looked at Zan.

"What is done in the dark must come to the light." he said wisely. Lion finally looked to Zeng.

"If they know they will get hurt," he said pausing as he thought for a while, "but if they don't know they will die." Everyone gasped in the room. Lion nodded.

"Sit down and listen carefully as I tell you the story of Po."

I'm writing this and I'm getting suspenseful!