Everyone cheers for the new student in the middle on the open floor. Po and Tigress on the other hand were opened mouthed. Po was surprised to see a tiger that had the same name and the same eyes of the bunny in the village. Tigress was surprised to see a tiger period.
Shifu and Mingyu walked up to Po and Jasmine. "Po, would you mind if you take Jasmine to the hall of warriors?"
"Yes Master Shifu. Come along…Jasmine." Po escorts Jasmine up the rest of the stairs.
Tigress had her fist clenched when she saw Po escorting the tiger girl. 'I can't believe that tiger girl chose Po over me. Either it's because he's the dragon warrior or that she thinks he's cute.'
When Po and Jasmine walked in the doors of the hall of warriors, the doors instantly shut. Jasmine shook her head and then looked around.
"Wow. The Sacred Hall of Warriors. I've heard stories of warriors that placed their trophies here." She began to look around. Po follows her looking at her suspiciously. "Oh, there it is." She walks to an old staff. "The Staff of Respect. Master told me, well banged me, that he used this same staff to train to remain balance in the jade palace. He spoke with this staff and he used it in his Kung Fu style." She looks up to Po and then puts her hands on her hips. "I know you have more than a thousand questions in your mind right now so don't hold them in and let them all out."
"Do you have any powers? Does Mingyu ever talk? Is Jasmine your real name? Did you go to the village today? If you were, were you disguised as a bunny? If you were, how did you get disguised? And can you prove it?"
"Yes, only through the bangs of his staff, yes, yes, I have to admit it but yes, and…" She pulls out the necklace that she wore as a bunny. "This is how I changed into a bunny. This necklace is made of shift stones." She transformed into the bunny Po saw. "And now you can see the proof." She transformed back into a tiger. "I bet by now, you think I'm creepy."
"No *scoffs* well… a little." Jasmine looked down. "But not in the creepy as you think. You may be a tiger on the outside, but I think you are still that kind and sweet girl I meet at the noodle shop on the inside."
Jasmine smiles at him. "Thanks Po."
They smiled at each other but then that moment when they heard a loud bang of a staff. Po and Jasmine look to see Shifu and Mingyu.
"Master!" They said in unison.
"Are we interrupting anything?" Shifu crossed his arms.
"What?" "No" "Um you've got it wrong" "She's not my type." Jasmine looked at Po on that comment.
"Well never mind. Jasmine, you will be staying here in the Jade Palace for a month to train with the dragon warrior and the furious five."
"And I look forward to do that Master Shifu."
"Training will start in a few hours but now it's time to say your good-bye to Master Mingyu. Come along, Po." Shifu walks away.
Po looks at Mingyu. "By the way, I'm a big fan of you."
Shifu looks back. "Po!" Po walks away with Shifu.
Mingyu stares at Jasmine. He bangs his staff. 'You've been in the village?'
"I couldn't resist, Master. There were so many villagers and so many new things. I had to check it out."
'Either way. Don't forget to remain balance by meditating and training.'
Jasmine bows to her Master. "Yes Master." Mingyu then transported into dust. Jasmine had a tear in her eye. When she wiped it, she saw that she wasn't alone. She turns around the see the furious five. "Oh. You must be the furious five." She bows. "It's an honor to meet you all. I am Jasmine of the Diamond palace."
"I am Master Tigress. And this Master Monkey, Master Crane, Master Viper, Master Mantis. It's an honor to meet the secret student of Master Mingyu."
Mantis steps up to her. "How long have you've been living in the Diamond Palace?"
"All my life actually. This morning was actually the first time I've ever stepped out of the palace."
"Wow so this must be a big experience. Seeing living creatures except Mingyu for the first time."
"Actually I have seen others your size, maybe smaller. They're about this small and have eight legs."
"Spiders. I hate those things."
"So do I. That's why I launched them over the wall around the Diamond palace." Mantis back up a little. "No worries I won't do that to you because you live here."
Tigress walks up to her. "So why are you here in the Jade Palace?"
"To test my skills with others. If I can last a month in the Valley of Peace, where there are lots of people, tons of bandits and I can defend myself, I will be able to travel the world just like him instead of staying in the diamond palace for the rest of my life."
Shifu and Po walk in the room. "I see you've met the furious five."
"They're very nice."
"Po will show you to your room now."
Jasmine closed her eyes and then a bag appeared in her hands. "I'm ready." She walks with Po to the bedrooms.
Shifu walks to the furious five. "As you were told, Jasmine is staying here to see if she can handle her life here. I need you five to show respect to her while she lets the villagers and the bandits judge her." The five masters bow to theirs.
Po opens the extra bedroom. "Well, here it is."
Jasmine walks in. "It's so plain and not made of stones." Jasmine smiles. "It's perfect."
"So umm… Jasmine. I did ask you not long ago if you wanted me to show you around. So… you want me to show around?"
"Of course Po. I would love that. Just let me get dressed."
"You mean that's not what you wear originally?"
"Po, I wear this because I was a secret student. But back at the Diamond palace, I didn't need to hide myself back at the palace. I don't really wear black."
Po began to exit the room. "Okay, so I'll see you at the front doors in a few minutes?"
"It's a date."
Po eyes widened. "What did you say?"
"It's a date. I'll see you in a few minutes." She closes the door.
Po was happy that this was happening. The moment he left the barracks, he began to dance and scatting. He did that as he went to the front doors. Tigress was meditating and then she heard him scatting.
"Po! Could you keep it down?"
"Oh, sorry Ti. I'm just so excited about my date today."
"Po, remember what happened last time you liked a girl?" Tigress got up and looked at him. "I don't want you to have that kind of thing happening to you again."
"Ti, you don't have to worry about Jasmine. She's not gonna betray me like Lu-Shi did. She's a perfectly balanced Kung Fu Master."
Tigress looks down then back to him. "Well if she is giving you a hard time, you know where to find me."
"Ti, don't get jealous like you did before." Tigress punches his shoulder. "Ouch! Okay maybe you aren't jealous."
"I'm not jealous; I just don't want to see…" Tigress covered her mouth before she could say anything else.
"Don't wanna see what?"
"I don't wanna see… another girl tricking us again."
"Ti, she won't trick us. I promise." He puts his paw on her shoulder. "Everything is going to be okay. She's only staying here for about a month. I want her to get use to the place just in case bandits come and she can get to where we need her."
"Alright Po, but remember this. There are a lot of things out there to trick you so be careful…" Po smiles at that. "…Because you are so gullible."
"And Tigress is back."
The rest of the five went to them. "Hey guys, what are you talking about?"
"Po here has a date with Jasmine. At least that's what he told me."
"She did say it was a date."
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Everyone looks at Jasmine and she was in a gold robe. Kinda like Shifu's but gold and has silver flowers in the design.
Po walks up to her. "Wow. You look amazing."
"Thank you Po. Shall we go to the village?"
"Of course. Let's go."
The two students ran out of the palace and down the stairs to the village.
Tigress saw this. "Um Po I wouldn't run down the stairs! Remember what happened last time?" Then Po began to tumble down the steps. Tigress shook her head and walks away. Tigress then takes a deep breath and sighs.
"I saw that." Viper slithers next to her. "You're worried about Po."
"I just don't want him to be heartbroken like last time."
"Are you sure that's what that is or are you jealous of Jasmine?"
"I'm not jealous of Jasmine! I'm just… *sigh* jealous of Jasmine. She's prettier, kind and sweet yet stronger and better skilled of Kung Fu than I'll ever be."
"And she's attracting to Po."
"What? I'm not jealous because of that." Viper didn't believe that comment. "Look, as long as she doesn't hurt Po the way that princess did, I think we might get along."
Po and Jasmine were walking through the village seeing everything.
"And here is the apple kart where we get the freshest apples in the village." Po picks up an apple and gives the apple cart duck a coin. "Here try this."
Jasmine eats it and smiles. "It's delicious." She was about to eat another bite when she heard screams.
Po and Jasmine ran to the screams and saw a few croc bandits. "It's Fung and his croc gang." He looks at jasmine and she was a little nervous. "You can do it Jasmine."
Jasmine smiles and nods. They got into fight position.
"You guys get the panda while I'll handle the tiger chick."
"Is my fur fuzzing out again?"
Po looks at her. "No, he's just flirting with you. Fung meet Jasmine, Jasmine meet Fung."
"Please to beat you."
Fung was confused. "Don't you mean meet you?"
"No…I don't…" Jasmine attacked. Fung sung his ax around but Jasmine dodged them. Jasmine grabs the ax and kicks him in face.
Fung fell to ground and stared at her. "Wow you're stronger than I thought."
"You have no idea." Jasmine looks at Po and he was almost done.
Po did a few more punches and then looked around. Then everyone felt big thumps. Po and Jasmine saw that the thumps were coming from a huge croc. "Lidong."
"Hello Dragon Warrior. Who's the tiger chick?"
"Don't call me that! It makes me like a fur is standing up." Jasmine grabs a staff and starts to hit the croc. He dodges her and grabs the staff. He breaks the staff in half.
"Ha! You got any more ideas?"
Jasmine looks around to see a rope near Po. "Po! The rope!"
Po grabs the rope and throws the other end at Jasmine. They began to wrap around Lidong with them swing around him. Po and Jasmine began to laugh as they tie him down. "Oh yeah!"
"Whoo! Over! Under!" Po and Jasmine cross. Po goes over while Jasmine rolls under Po's rope twice. "Po! Hold a loop in your rope!" Po did so and Jasmine wrapped her rope around his. She pushes her rope through another. "Okay now pull the loops." They pull the loops and Lidong fell to the ground.
Po and Jasmine jump off of Lidong "Is everyone okay?"
The crowd surrounded them as they cheered. "Jasmine, you're amazing." "You kicked their butts." Po and Jasmine smiled at them then each other.
"What was that move called?"
"I call it the laces but I doubt it will be famous." (LOL it's how you tie your shoe laces)
"Um Po?" They look at Mr. Ping walking toward them. "Can I talk to you for a moment?"
"Sure thing, I'll be right back, Jasmine." Po passes by Jasmine.
Jasmine looks at Po as he walks. Then the furious five and Shifu came out of nowhere. They saw Lidong and the others were already on the ground.
Shifu looks at Jasmine. "You defeated the bandits?"
"With the help of the Dragon Warrior. You guys just missed my first ever battle and it felt great. I've always wanted to fight real bandits. Not like that dummy at the Diamond Palace."
Then Po came back rubbing his head. "Hey guys…ouch."
Jasmine had a confused face. "What happened to you?"
"My dad hit me in the head with a rice bowler." Jasmine had a confused look on her face. "He thinks I shouldn't hang out with you that much."
"What? Why? You hang out with Tigress."
"Well… Ti's a little different."
Shifu stood up. "Well enough talking. It's time to train."
Then the eight warriors start to head for the jade palace. Tigress walks slowly and watches Jasmine walks next to Po. 'The Tiger is getting on my nerves.'
When everyone made it to the training hall, Jasmine raised her eyebrow. "This is your training course? No offence but it looks more like level 5 than level 10."
Shifu looks at Jasmine. "Okay, Jasmine, let's see what you can do."
"Well like I said it's a little easy so I hope you don't mind, but can the furious five be my sparring partner in each obstacle?"
"If you insist." Shifu snapped his fingers and the furious five got into positions. "Let us begin."
Jasmine then jumps in the seven swinging clubs of Instant Oblivion. Tigress and Jasmine began to spar with each other. Jasmine dodges Tigress' every one of her moves and studied the way Tigress fought. Jasmine then kicked Tigress under the arm, knocked her off the serpent logs and destroyed a swinging club. Jasmine hopped on the Jade Tortoise of Wisdom and blocks the spikes that was aimed at her. Crane landed on the tortoise and sparred with Jasmine. Like she did with Tigress, Jasmine studied the way Crane fought. She swept his leg and Crane fell off the Tortoise. Po and Shifu was impressed of what Jasmine can do. Jasmine jumped up to the Seven-Talon Rings. Monkey was ready to fight her. Jasmine swung on the rings and then grabbed Monkey's tail. Monkey instantly let's go and falls. Jasmine swings him to the side where Po was and he caught Monkey. Jasmine made it to the Gauntlet of the Wooden Warriors where Mantis waits for her. Jasmine fights the wooden warriors for a while then fought Mantis. Jasmine hits a wooden warrior which hit Mantis on his blind spot on the right. Mantis makes it to the others who watched the rest. The final course was with Viper on the Field of Fiery Death. Jasmine was as nimble as a noodle as she dodges the flames. Viper tries her best to defeat her but Jasmine was too quick. Jasmine did a frontal attack on her and she slides to the others. Jasmine jumps in front of Shifu and bows.
"Wow, you are a level 10 in Kung Fu." Shifu was impressed.
"Level 10? More like level 11! 12 at least." Po pats Jasmine on the back. "It must be amazing to do that kind of Kung Fu."
"Not exactly. I had 7 hours of training, 7 hours of meditating/studies, 2 hours of whatever and 8 hours of sleep. Did I mention that there is no day off?"
"Wow, that's big. Not even I would be able to do that. How do you survive through lunch?" Jasmine made a confused face. "You have no idea what lunch is, don't you?" Jasmine shook her head no. "Wow, I'm glad you came to the Jade Palace. There is so much for you to learn. We can start at the village."
Shifu shook his head. "Po, I doubt that Jasmine would like to spend her time here to be at the village outside the palace." Jasmine gasps and smiles. "She would rather be here to…"
"I would love to learn!" Everyone looks at Jasmine all surprised. "I've been a prisoner in a palace all my life and I want to know how to live than survive."
"But what about your training and meditation?"
"I'll still do it, but only on your guys' hours. I need to fit in so that way I don't scare anyone."
"Great!" Po looks at Shifu. "Shifu, is training done?"
Shifu looks at the others still recovering for the spare. "Okay, but Jasmine, you still need your 8 hours of sleep and Po, don't goof off and show Jasmine the wrong things."
The two masters bowed. "Yes, Master Shifu." They both ran out the door. The other masters limped after them.
It was almost time for lights out and Jasmine looks for Zeng. Tigress notices and follows her. Jasmine finds Zeng in the hall of warriors wiping an armor suit clean.
"Zeng, can I ask you a favor?"
"Of course Master Jasmine."
"Wow I've never been called that before. Anyways, Zeng I need you to deliver a message." Jasmine holds out a message.
"I don't know where the Diamond Palace is." Tigress listens closely to their conversation.
"The only palace I want this message to be sent to is the royal palace of the emperor." Zeng gasped and so did Tigress but silent. "I need this message to go to Donghai."
"The Tiger prince next in line to the thrown?"
"Yes. He needs to know about this. Please give it to him. I'll do your stuff while you're gone."
"Okay, I'll do it." Zeng grabs the message and flies to the royal the palace. Jasmine watches Zeng fly into the night then she heads for bed.
Tigress got out of her hiding place and watches Jasmine running to the student barracks. 'I can't believe that she lied to us and told us she never left the diamond palace. And worst because she's using Po to gain freedom. I have to find out more about this tiger and why she is here in the first place.'
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