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Tigress was lying on her bed unable to sleep, her mind too occupied with solving the riddles both Oogway and Baihu put in her head and it didn't help that one of them was death and the other was sleeping soundly in a room across from hers.
Now she and everyone else would have to put up with that annoying tiger and his lessons for an entire week.
The smallest bit of optimism, she had left, was hope, that after all of this was over, she might get a second chance for her revenge.
Some time the door on the other side of the hallway had opened and quiet steps followed soon after.
What was he up to this time? Tigress thought as she got up.
She silently followed the white tiger outside hidden in shadows.
Baihu just stood in the middle of the training ground looking at the moon.
Suddenly he launched himself at least 20 feet in the air. He did a few flips followed by some cracks from his joints, he then landed into a perfect handstand. He just balanced there for a few seconds, before quickly moving his legs lo the right, while also lifting his left hand to his side. When Baihu regained his balance he began lowering closer to the ground stopping just before his head would touch the ground and then pushing against the earth to get back into his original position.
Tigress has never seen any exercise like this, sure one finger push ups were pretty normal, but this was a whole different level.
One Baihu reached the count of twenty on each of his hands, he jumped back to his feet and began running in the direction of the gate.
Tigress thought about following him further, but Shifu has forbid them to leave the Jade Palace at night, unless danger would come.
She just returned to her room and this time drifted deep into sleep.
-Six hours later-
The whole gang including Master Shifu was waiting for Master Baihu at the training grounds. The tiger still has not returned.
"Tigress, how long is it since you saw him running away?" The red panda asked.
"I am not sure Master, it was still night when..."
She was interrupted by Baihu sprinting to them quickly and it seemed as if he didn't even break a sweat.
He stopped and gave them a small bow.
"I am sorry for the delay in your training, I caused, I just needed my body to regain its full strength."
"Never mind, my students and I have a very good patience."
Baihu smiled.
"Okay, who does want to go first?"
"Master, what do you mean?" Viper asked.
"In order to improve your style, I need to see it in action, so I will need each of you to challenge me. Who's first?"
The second he asked Pos hand shot in the air.
"Okay, step forward, Dragon Warrior."
"AWESOME!"
In a few seconds both of them stood facing against each other in the arena, Po using his usual fighting stance and Baihu standing with his arms folded as relaxed as ever.
The panda struck first with a punch aimed at the right cheek of the tiger, but in the blink of an eye Baihu caught his fist.
Your strength might be good but you are too slow... thought as he threw Po over his shoulder.
Po landed with all of his weight on the ground but his belly bounced him right back up his foot almost colliding with Baihus head.
Hmm...interesting.
The rest of the fight was pretty uneventful. The tiger either dodged or blocked anything Po threw at him, not attacking once, until he came to a conclusion, that he had seen enough.
"I've never seen this kind of fighting style, it's as if your attacks are only accidents, but they are also very precise. Also you use your weight as your advantage, and concentrate mostly on defence, the only weakness I can find in it is the lack of speed, but we can work on that."
And like that everyone of them fought Baihu for his judgment.
Monkey quick and unpredictable, but also unfocused.
Mantis hard to see and fast, but lacking strength.
Crane balanced and calm, but predictable.
Viper hard to hit, but easily grabbed.
It's important to say, that not even one of them could score a hit on Baihu.
Then came Tigress' turn.
"But, we've already fought." She protested.
"Yes, but that was in a dimly lit area and on a slippy surface." He opposed.
She sighed and got ready. For the first minute it looked as all of the other matches until the white tiger caught her hand when she attempted to strike him with a chop to the neck.
Something in Tigress' memory clicked and out of the black came a feeling she forgot. Out of instinct she went for a punch with her free hand claws out, and to Baihus surprise it connected.
He let her go as a few drops of blood fell from his cheek. It was the first time someone was able to hit him in over a hundred years.
But that's when everyone noticed Tigress falling to the ground her face covered in tears.
Sorry for not updating for so long, but my teachers went crazy and last few weeks were filled with many surprise and often unfair tests, but thanks for reading.
