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Well, here is the next chapter! I hope all of you like it and review!
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Chapter 4
Thursday
Tigress was walking to the castle, wondering how it was going to be. If they were just going to pretend the kiss didn´t happen, or if Po was going to tell her that he just wanted to be friends with her, or maybe not even that. Or if the queen knew about it and now she was going to tell her that her mission was done and she was going to call for some other Master.
The responsible, warrior part of her was feeling regretful, it wasn´t the best decision to give him a kiss, not even if it was on the cheek. Po was a prince, he was royalty, she shouldn´t even touch him.
But then there was the other part of her, the one that still believed that there was something between them, something bigger than friendship. The part of her that loved to see his smile and the one that send tingles all over her body when he was looking at her. And that was the part that gave him the kiss.
She finally got to the castle, the guard that she always argued was standing there. Once she got closed enough, she shoot him a glare, he immediately opened the door and let her through. Both, the guard and her, didn´t actually got along, first of all, the guard never let her go inside the castle, even if he knew who she was, or what she was doing. And man, did he liked to argue.
She went inside, and saw that Po was anxiously pacing back and forth, waiting for her. She smiled, either he was eager to see her, or he was going to yell at her for the kiss, at which she frowned and hoped that was not it.
She coughed, instantly she got his attention. He smiled at her,
Phew, at least he is not mad at me. She thought.
"Hey" He greeted with that warm grin of his.
"Hey" She greeted back. She really wanted to know about what he thought of the kiss, maybe she was overthinking it, but she was dying to know.
"So…. About the… uh kiss, yesterday, I" She started to stuttered, she really was not good at talking about intimate things. Po noticed that she was nervous about it, after all, she never stutters.
"Don´t worry about it, I kind of… like it" He said, rubbing the back of his neck, his cheeks now getting heated up and red. Tigress smiled, sending her worries away. But now she didn´t know how to respond.
Play it cool Tigress, do not freak him out by showing how happy you are, Play. It. Cool.
"Great! Let´s get started in your training" She said, then started to walk to the hall, which was now called the training hall.
Wow, Tigress. Real smooth. She scowled at herself sarcastically.
Po wasn´t sure if he actually expected that from Tigress, or maybe another kiss, or… well, it didn´t matter, that was that. Besides, Tigress was still the Master Tigress, and just getting a kiss from her was a huge deal.
They continued, Po was certainly improving in his forms; That now Tigress was now teaching him advanced forms she had learned when she was getting better at Kung Fu. And he was getting pretty good at it.
"Cool, so this moves are for paralyzing enemies!?" Po asked, watching his hands curiously, never had he guessed he had the power to do that.
"Yes, but it will take you a while to learn that, because you have no one to test it on" She said. Po then looked at her with an evil grin of his face.
"Oh no, you are not testing it on me" She said, backing away from him.
"Try and stop me" He said playfully, charging towards her. Tigress started to dodge his kicks and punches, while laughing. And Po was holding his ground really good.
"Huh, your training has really paid off" She said, still blocking, this was not like the first time, she had to give her everything, or else, Po would beat her.
"Well, I had an amazing teacher" Po replied, he was getting tired, but he wasn´t giving up.
Just as he was going to land a punch on an opening near Tigress´s waist, the lights of the castle went off. Tigress and Po stopped sparring.
"What the?" Tigress muttered, suddenly, she heard a scream come from another part of the castle.
She turned around,
"That was my mom!" Po shouted, Tigress nodded, Po couldn´t see her or anything around her, but Tigress was trained to use her other senses, listening, touching and even smelling.
She grabbed Po´s paw, it wasn´t safe to leave him there, so she had to take him with him to make sure he was safe. She started to run, towards where the scream came from, she memorized the map of the castle, there was only one door to come in and exit, the rest, only the family knew of them, because they were secret.
So she thought that if whoever it was, was kidnapping the queen, they had to go through there. She ran towards the door, and waited, her paw still intertwined with Po´s. Po didn´t really knew why she was doing it, but he wasn´t uncomfortable, so he didn´t have any reasons to protest.
Tigress heard some footsteps approaching, she let go of Po´s paw, but never losing sense of where he was standing.
She measured the time it would take that person to reach them.
3…
2…
1…
She launched. She spun her legs around, wiping all those who were standing (except Po) off the floor. But she was able to identify who was the queen, so she caught her.
She then set her to her feet, with one paw she grabbed her arm, then with the other, she grabbed Po´s. Then she dragged both of them outside, where the garden was.
Tigress stopped when she reached the middle, she let go of the queen and Po. It was dark outside now, still, not darker than the castle, since outside they still had the moon reflecting it´s shine.
She got on her fighting stance. She perked her ears, trying to refine her senses, not only was she now risking her life, but also the queen´s (not that she cared much about her) and Po´s (Which she really did).
One arrow came shooting at her, but she stopped it midair and caught with her paws. She then threw it in the air and kicked it the direction where it was coming. Soon enough, someone fell of the roof, just to confirm she had actually aimed correctly.
Tigress was looking at the dead man before her. It was a wolf. She then noticed he was not alone. Not only do wolves travel in pack, but she was also able to smell others around her.
3 more arrows came flying to her direction. Po was watching wide-eyed at Tigress. He couldn´t even understand how she could do all that.
Tigress did a back-flip and send all the arrows flying back where they came from. Seconds after, 3 more wolves laid on the grass. Tigress wasn´t the type to kill, and she was sure that she didn´t really kill them, maybe only one of them, the rest had only fallen unconscious.
The queen was also watching the feline, but she did not liked the way her son was staring at the master. But she had to admit, it was certainly impressive what Master Tigress was able to do.
Tigress had now the knowledge that there were 7 wolves total, she had knocked out 4 of them so far with arrows.
She then jumped and disappeared in the darkness of the night, Po was trying to see where she had gone, but it was impossible. He started hearing grunts and groans coming from one direction, then he saw a flash of orange. He smiled.
Ok, 2 more to go.
She put her nose in the air, and took a deep breath. She looked around and found the location of the other wolf.
This time, she would sneak up…. From in front. She rushed, and started punching, not even giving a chance to the wolf to realize what was happening. Soon enough, she beat him up.
There was one wolf standing, she took an arrow and send it flying his way, knocking him out. She glanced to see if Po and the queen were fine, they were. She sighed in relief.
She led the queen back to the castle and managed to get the lights back on. Then she went to the storage room and got some ropes.
Po was still standing outside, too shock to move. Tigress came outside to join him and started to tie up the wolves. She smiled when she noticed that Po was staring at her.
"What, is there anything wrong?"
"That… was… AWESOME!" He shouted, Tigress laughed. She took one wolf and tied him up, then she went over to another and did the same, and she went on and on.
Po was now behind Tigress, telling her how awesome she was at the battle and describing her moves in a much more exaggerated way, then she got in front of her and made her look at him while he was giving his explanation, making Tigress let go of the enemy she was currently going to tie.
Tigress was chuckling, and feeling touched that Po appreciated her efforts to protecting him and his mom. But then his expression changed, his smile fade away as he was looking at someone creeping out behind Tigress.
"HIYAH!"He said, throwing a punch across from her shoulder and punching the barely-standing wolf in the jaw. The hit making the wolf to black out completely. Tigress was impressed by this, Po had managed to use his technique against someone else.
However, as Po did it, he also pushed Tigress backwards, she could have caught herself, but she didn´t expected it to come from Po, so she had let her guard down. She threw her hand at the air, trying to grab something to keep her from falling, however, that was Po´s arm.
And since Po didn´t expected that either, he fell down along with her. Po was now on top of Tigress, who had long forgot about tying up the wolves around her.
Both of them were looking at each other, gazing at their eyes. Red coming from their cheeks. They started to lean closer to each other, closing their eyes and Po starting to wrap his arms around Tigress.
THUD
The door then flew opened, making them both part their contact. The both looked to see who was standing by the doorway, but find it odd that no one was actually there. Tigress then coughed, and motioned Po to stand up, not wanting to give people the wrong impression because of the position they were in.
Still, she was wondering how the kiss would have felt like, and so was Po. They both stood up, Po started to head inside the castle, muttering a good-bye to her. Tigress did the same and finished tying up the enemies. Then she started to head back, she knew it was going to take a while, since she was going to have to stop at the jail to drop them off. But she was happy to do so, mostly because they gave her a chance to almost, almost kiss Po. But then she started to scowl at herself, this wasn´t supposed to happen, this was just a mission, a mission that was proving to be harder than she thought it would be.
However, against Tigress´s and Po´s wishes, the queen was wondering what was taking them so long, so she peeked out the door and she did saw what was going on, and was not pleased by it.
It seems my son is not going to obey my orders…. I think I will just have to make the feline the one to back off. And I know just how.
DUN DUN DUN! Well, I forgot to say this, but also thanks to Tigergirl713 and kurtchancechace because they gave me ideas for the attackers and for the queen! Anyway, leave your reviews and hoped you liked it! Oh and in 3 days I will publish my holiday story!
-Peace out :)