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Everyone living in the Jade Palace including Zeng was looking for Tigress after she didn't show up at the training.
Shifu was far beyond scared now, he was terrified. It's been nine hours since she disappeared.
What if something happened to her?
Was she lost?
Was she hurt?
Was she kidnapped?
Okay maybe not the last one, but these thoughts were uncontrollably swirling in his head and it seemed that they wouldn't stop anytime soon.
That's when it happened. Shifu was walking around the Peace Valley asking random animals, when he saw her enter the town.
Tigress was slowly dragging Baihu with his arm over her shoulder, it was unbelievable how difficult that was. His weight could even rival Pos. It was like pulling a heavy rock and because his blue shirt was destroyed beyond repair, his blood was seeping into Tigress' dress.
They almost look as if they just left a bloody battlefield.
Shifu rushed to them shoving bystanders to make a way for himself.
"What happened to you!?"
"I'm okay, but we need to get him inside, he lost a lot of blood!"
Without any more questions they quickly brought him into Mr. Pings shop, since it would take too much time to get him upstairs.
Mr. Ping protested at first, but when he saw deep wounds in the white tigers back he led them straight to Pos room.
When the doctor arrived Baihu was just barely breathing. Shifu ordered all of them to leave while he stayed with the old master.
After an hour of constant stitching and cauterization even he felt a little sick, but it was finally over. Before she got paid and left, the doctor put Baihus arm in a cast and with Shifus help changed the bloodied bedding.
It was actually pretty impressive that the white tiger managed to survive.
Tigress told the red panda about the broken bridge, the explosion and how she couldn't remember the details. He had a hard time believing her when she talked about what happened in the chasm.
Shifu managed to bring Baihu back to the Jade Palece on a large wooden board with the help from a few volunteers. They put him back to the room he previously occupied.
-Sometime later-
It has been two days already and Baihu was still unconscious and Tigress was getting really nervous. She just couldn't stop blaming herself, maybe if she listened to his warning, they wouldn't fall from that bridge.
Though there was still one thing which was bothering her. How on Earth did she survive the whole ordeal just with a few bruises while Baihu had his back hurt so badly. It just didn't make any sense.
She was passing around the room of the injured tiger, when she heard some crashing sound from the inside with an audible "Damn it" following.
She opened the door and saw the white tiger sprawled on the floor.
"Master Baihu, are you alright?"
He slowly turned his head to face her."Oh, hi Tigress. Can I help you?"
"Can you help me?! You have a broken arm, you are lying on the ground and if I am correct your foot is dislocated again. Can you think of anything you could help me with?" Tigress asked as she helped him back on the bed.
"I could… tell you a nice bedtime story… since it's already evening?"
She gave him 'that was a bad joke' look in response.
"Ok, maybe not."
"So… What were you trying to do?"
"I just wanted to reach my travelling bag to get to the water flask."
"Why didn't you ask for help if you were thirsty?"
"I didn't want to be a bother and I'm sure that I would crawl to it eventually." Baihu said with a kind smile.
Tigress groaned and handed him the bottle.
"Thank you." He said as he took a large swig from it.
"I guess we are even now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you know… you saved me and I saved you."
"Master Tigress, you didn't owe me anything, it's only natural to bring help to those who need it."
"Then why didn't you help us with training?"
He took a deep sigh.
"I just wanted to protect you by leaving."
"How does that make any sense?"
Okay this was getting dangerous he didn't want to put any more weight on her mind than there already was. Then he got an idea.
"You know what? I will answer any three questions IF you fix my leg for a second time."
Her face took a quick turn from angry to disgusted and scared.
Baihu thought that he won, but then she took his ankle in her hands and began quickly twisting it.
Tigress felt very close to vomiting, but she wanted some answers.
Baihu was just surprised, he didn't expect this outcome, he thought she would just run away. It left a good impression on him.
Once again no pain was shown on his face even when his leg snapped back into place.
"How do you do that?" she asked once she saw his calm expression.
"What do you mean?"
"Doesn't it hurt?"
"Off course it hurts, but what am I supposed to do? Cry? Scream?" he asked calmly.
"That's what normal people do."
"When you reach my age you will learn that pain is just a part of your life. You truly become strong when you can accept the pain but don't get controlled by it."
"You sound like Oogway."
"Yeah, I used to get that a lot. So what is your final question?"
"Wait, did those count?" She blurted out before realizing her mistake.
"Yes they did, now leave, if you please I would like to sleep for a little longer." Baihu said with a smirk as he closed his eyes.
"You can't just…" Tigress started but was interrupted by loud snoring which was faked too badly to be taken seriously.
In the end it looked as if he has beaten her again, but then she remembered something and a great idea appeared in her head.
"How about this you will tell me what I want to know and I will tell you, what you want to know."
He turned to face her.
"Which would be…?"
"Message from Master Oogway addressed to you."
"Nice try, but we both know that Oogway is dead."
"And what if I told you that I met him in the Spirit Realm?"
"Very unlikely, you would have to be a ghost in order for that to work."
"Well then, I guess you will never know what your poor deceased Master had to say to you." Tigress said as she started to walk away.
"Wait, I'm listening."
Baihu felt more defeated than ever in his long life.
