A/N: I know, I'm a cruel person for leaving y'all with a cliffhanger.

Enjoy this resolution!

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Kai couldn't breathe.

He tried. He gasped for air but all he inhaled was dust. He couldn't see….Every time he tried opening his eyes, they burned.

"Kai!"

The sound swam in his ears.

"KAI!" he forced his eyes open. Hovering over him with wide eyes was his mother. "You need to get up."

He bolted into a sitting position, chest heaving though all he could taste was dust. She pulled back so he could get his bearings.

"Wha-what happened?"

"No time. We need to get moving." She helped him slowly to his feet, paw resting firmly on his shoulder until he was steady on his feet. As he steadied himself, he saw someone laying in the street behind her.

"Kai!" Yu came jogging around the corner. "What happened? Po….he's just laying there in the street!"

Kai frowned at Tigress, "You pushed me out of the way?"

Ti sighed heavily, casting a quick glance behind her. "Kai, I will get Po. You need to get out of here."

Kai nodded, albeit hesitantly. In the now-fading cloud of dust, he heard the movement and snarls of wolves.

"Kai, come on." Yu yanked on his arm, and with a nod, the two jogged into the woods.

Watching him leave, Tigress felt a stone sink deep into her chest.

It had happened so quickly that even she didn't know what exactly had transpired. All she knew was that, when they came down to the village, they had been aiming the cannon at Kai. She reacted instinctively, launching herself into the young tiger and knocking him out of the way.

And then the explosion.

It was probably heard for miles, which is why they needed to get moving.

"Po!" She slid to her knees, hovering over him. "Po, come on. We need to move."

He stirred, just barely, blinking slowly. "Ti-"

"Come on!"

She took his paw and, in one swift movement, brought him to a standing position. He hung on her, not quite able to walk. Together, they managed to stagger into the bamboo thicket.

"Spread out! Find them!"

The snarls and excited yips of wolves hastened her steps, but Po was heavy. On a normal day, she might be able to manage, but the best she could do on ten years of near-starvation was slowly drag him along.

"Ti-" Po was awake, but still struggling. "You should leave me-"

"Absolutely not." She growled low.

The only way out she saw was to face them head on. And with them scattered in the woods looking for her, well…..there were worse ideas.

The only problem was that Po wasn't going to be fighting anytime soon. She needed to find somewhere to hide him.

"Why, hello there."

Too late. She dropped Po and managed to get into a fighting stance before the wolf could lunge at her. A swift roundhouse kick sent him flying back into a tree.

She waited, muscles ready, sensing the air. Three more were close by. She glanced at the panda, who was slowly starting to move, and got another terrible idea. After only a moment of thought, she launched herself into the trees, leaving the panda on the ground.

"This way!" Someone called through the trees.

She crouched on her branch twenty feet in the air, waiting as the wolves descended on their easy prey.

Bang.

She dropped to the ground and finished the three off easily, knocking them unconscious.

"Did you just use me as bait?" Po was slowly getting moving, but he was obviously in some kind of pain.

"Yes, I did. Can you walk?"

"I think so?" He struggled to his feet and then halted, steadying himself.

There was a raindrop on his muzzle, then his head.

"There's the rain." Tigress sighed in relief. Rain meant their tracks were covered, for a short time. "Come on, let's find someplace to camp out until this passes."

"We could go back to the gorge."

"Absolutely not."

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"Cuddles?"

The voice was small, quiet, filled with the innocence of a child mixed with the sadness of loss. She stared at him with wide, expectant eyes.

"Hey Lei Lei." He forced a small smile, just the corner of his mouth arching up.

"What are you doing?" She looked curiously at his outstretched paw, at the raindrops that moved uselessly through his fingers. They didn't even make it to the flower he had been focused on.

"Nothing. Nothing at all."

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He bolted awake, breathing heavy. The ground swayed for a moment around him. Some kind of orange light flickered but he couldn't make out a definite shape.

"Glad to see you're awake."

He focused on her voice, letting it guide him back to wherever they currently were. He was warm, probably because of the fire. It seemed they were in some kind of abandoned house.

He sat up slowly, or tried to, but the room spun and he was forced back down onto the bed.

"I wouldn't try to move too much if I were you." Tigress had positioned herself on guard in the doorway, watching the rain as it poured outside.

He lowered his head back down and instantly felt better.

"You passed out on the way here. Practically had to carry you." Her mouth twitched up in an approximation of a smile.

"Sorry."

"Don't be. I'm just glad you're okay." Tigress sighed and thought for a moment, mouth opening and closing but with no words coming out.

"I actually did it." Po's eyebrows scrunched together. He had actually redirected the cannonball, something he never thought he'd be able to do again.

"Did what?"

"Inner peace."

She sat up slowly, interest piqued, watching him with a frown on her face. "Po?"

"I couldn't do it before." He sighed, eyes staring a hole through the ceiling. Tears threatened the backs of his eyes. "Ever since my dad, I-" His voice cracked and he trailed off. She watched him fight back tears, almost horrified at what he was implying.

Tigress stood from her position at the door and moved over to the small bed she had placed him on, returning to a chair she had placed by his side earlier.

Hesitantly, she reached forward and took his large paw in both of hers. This interaction, although foreign to her, seemed to soothe him.

"You should sleep, Po." She told him softly, watching his eyelids grow heavy once more. "We'll need to get moving once the rain clears."

"Ti?'

"Hmm?"

"Will you stay with me?" His voice seemed so small and quiet as he began drifting off.

"Always."

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It was warm, but not because of the fire.

It was like the sun, like how he felt sitting under the peach tree on a spring afternoon. He didn't want to open his eyes at all, but the absence of a familiar presence that had been by his side caused him to stir.

When he did wake, he wasn't in the abandoned house. Instead, he was on the ground, staring up at a golden sky. There was a breeze, and as it ruffled his fur, it brought a sweet scent of something he couldn't place.

He slowly sat up, not wanting to overdo any action until he was sure that his throbbing headache was gone. But, surprisingly, he felt fine. In fact, he felt pretty damn good.

Po had been placed under a tree near a small pond, a perfectly tranquil place that threatened to lull him back into a doze.

The Spirit Realm.

It had been so long since he had been that he had almost forgotten what it felt like, the tranquil calm and natural healing. Already, he felt better than he had in the last decade.

"Ah, you are awake."

Po knew that voice. He turned, a small grin on his face.

"Hello Oogway."