6 am
Jasmine woke up and looks around to see if anyone else is awake. She hurries to the hall of warriors and does all Zeng's chores. She gets out cloths, brooms, dusters and began to clean. After that, she headed for the training hall and began to clean that. She cleaned the entire Jade palace in a minor of 30 minutes. Then she heads for the kitchen to cook for the others. A few minutes later, the other warriors were starting to wake up with the smells in the air. They all got up and headed for the kitchen. Everyone peaked through the door to find Jasmine almost done with cooking. Then she saw the others.
"Oh good morning, everyone. Did you guys have a goodnight sleep?"
"Yes? I didn't know you could cook." Shifu and the others began to sit at the table.
"Well you never asked. Cooking is one of my chores back at the Diamond Palace. I cook and I clean while Mingyu does the shopping. It's one of my 2 hours of whatever or one of my 7 hours of meditating/studying." She gets the food and balances them on her head. "It's my life as an only student. I have to keep everything organized and Mingyu has to keep me balanced. I never liked it. Order up." She sets down bowls.
Po tasted his food. "This is really good. What kind of noodles is this?"
"It's called stir-fried Noodles with green tea. A perfect dish to get started on a perfect day."
Monkey loved them. "You're a really good cook. Hey Po, it seems that you have a competition."
"Po, I knew that you worked at the noodle shop, but I didn't know you could cook."
"Yeah, my dad owns that place. Maybe when we get down to the village, I can introduce to you to him."
"That would be nice."
Jasmine looks at Tigress. She wasn't eating. "Is something wrong Tigress?"
"What is this?"
"Oh, well since I know you're not a big fan of noodles, I made you sweet & sour punch Tofu. Mingyu use to like that food."
Tigress tried it. Everyone watched her. "I taste the sweet." She squints a little. "There's the sour." Then her chair backed up with her rubbing her head. "And there is the punch." Tigress smiled a bit. "I like it."
"Thank you."
Once they were done with breakfast, everyone headed for the training hall. Jasmine toned it down a bit this time. She did warm ups and simple spars with the five and then before they knew it, training was done.
Po walks up to Jasmine. "Wow it feels like time is going faster."
"I guess."
Tigress walks up to them. "Um Po… can I have a word with Jasmine?"
"What you have to say, you can say it in front of me, right Jasmine?"
Before Jasmine could say anything, Tigress whispers something in her ear. Jasmine widened her eyes. "Wait outside Po; I'll meet you there in a minute."
"Okay, don't hurt each other." Po walks out the door.
Jasmine looked at Tigress. "How did you know about the message? Were you spying on me?"
"You're the first tiger I've ever seen and I'm not really sure if I should even trust you."
"Tigress, you don't trust anyone. You don't even trust the mail man and he's been coming here for thirty years."
"Planning something for thirty years. That's another thing, how do you know so much about us? Mingyu has been gone for about twenty-five years."
"Twenty-six actually. I know you because I'm been balanced most of my life that I feel I am one with the universe. Mingyu taught me how to judge everyone. That and I can look straight through your mind." Tigress backs up a bit. "I'm just kidding." Then she looks at Tigress again. "No I'm not. I know all your memories and…" she stops and looks at Tigress very closely.
Tigress got confused. "What is it?"
Jasmine shook her head. "Meet me at the pool of sacred tears tonight. I think you might wanna see this." She then walks away leaving Tigress more confused than ever.
Po and Jasmine were walking in the village. Po notices that Jasmine wasn't feeling good.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just stunned that's all."
"Was it something that Ti said? That girl always gets jealous when I'm around women." Jasmine snapped out of it, crosses her arms and stared at Po with an 'I don't believe you' look on her face. "I'm serious. I think she likes me. She fought my ex-fiancé, rescued me when I almost fell into the fire, she also hated it when the ladies of the shade came to visit us. Well it was right for her to be suspicious that time, but something else is going on with her."
"Yeah I have noticed that she is a little overprotective over you." Jasmine snickers a little. "The things girls can do in order to get a guy's attention."
"I know. So what do you wanna do first? Meet my dad, have some fun in the meadows, or go to the pool of sacred?"
"How about in that order?"
"Okay, that sounds cool."
They entered the Noodle shop. They didn't notice, but a certain Tiger was following them. Jasmine shows Mr. Ping how to make her stir-fried noodles with green tea. Mr. Ping tasted the noodles and he smiled widely.
"These are really good noodles. Are thinking of staying here in the Valley of Peace?"
"It depends on some things."
Po walks to her side. "She has to survive a month here in order to be free. If she can't handle it, she has to be sent back to the Diamond Palace."
"Oh dear, that's terrible. I hope you make it through, Jasmine."
"You and me both." Jasmine looks down a little.
Po pats her back then stares at Mr. Ping. "Well dad, we're on our way to the meadow. We'll see you later." Po grabs Jasmine and pulls her out of the kitchen.
"Okay, nice meeting you Jasmine!"
"You too Mr. Ping!" Po and Jasmine has left the shop. Tigress was still following them.
When Po and Jasmine arrived at the meadow, the sun was hot yet the wind was cool. It was a perfect day to fly kites. Po gets out two kites for them. Jasmine grabs the one with the silver flower. Po is left with the one that looks like a bird.
"Okay, so how do I do this?"
"The wind will lift your kite in the air." Po lifts the kite in the air. "But first you have to run in order for it to catch the wind. Get ready." Jasmine was ready to run. "Now!" Po throws the kite in the air and Jasmine ran for it.
The kite was high in the air. "Yeah! I'm doing it!" Then Po followed her with his kite in the air. The wind became stronger and lifted both them and their kites in the air. "Whoa! This is fun!" Jasmine climbs to her kite and hung from her kite stem. She helped Po get to his and they began to hang glide through the air. Tigress did the best that she could to follow them but eventually gave up and went to the village. Then she saw them land right in front of a music group. "That was fun Po."
"Yeah it was." Then he saw the music group. "By chance, do you dance?"
"Well… sort of but…" Po then walks to the musicians. Then he grabs Jasmine's paw and leads her to the clear space.
"Um Po I can't…"
"Come on Jazz, you can do this."
Jasmine looks at Po. "What did you call me?"
"Oh sorry, I gave you a nick name. Does it offend you?"
"No I'm okay with it."
"Then let's dance. Hit it!" The music began to play. Po grabbed two pairs of fans and gave a pair to Jasmine. He began to dance and Jasmine used one of her fans to cover her snicker. Po grabs her arm and dips her. "Come on Jazz, no covering just da…"
Before he could finish, Jasmine got up and dipped him. "Just go with the flow, Po." Po then had a sly smile.
They began to dance to the music and everyone all over the village. Came to watch them dance. Po and Jasmine spin the fans in their hands as they danced with each other. Po spun her and dip her. Everyone sways to the music as they watch the two warriors dance to the music. Tigress was the only one watching with anger and suspicion in her eyes. A rose was tossed in and Jasmine caught it in her mouth as they continue to dance. As the song ends Po dipped her and the crowd cheers for them.
"You are so cool."
"And you are so awesome." They stare at each other until Jasmine gets up from the dip. "Um… I guess the kitchen and Kung Fu are not your only talents. You are a very fine dancer. I haven't danced like that since..." She almost said it until she saw other watching her. "…well never mind. I think we should head back for training." Jasmine began to walk away.
Po looked down and walk a distance from Jasmine. He kept muttering to himself while hitting himself in the face. 'Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why would I try to make a move like that? Stupid, that what I am.'
Tigress saw this and decides to walk with him. "Po?"
"Ah! Oh, Ti. You scared me. You have got to tune down the sneak attacks or else you'll give heart attacks."
Tigress chuckles a bit. "Sorry, I saw your moment with Jasmine."
Po stopped right where he was. "Ti, you're not jealous again, are you?"
"No, I'm just… *sigh* it's something I saw last night. Jasmine is hiding something; something big and I don't like."
"You say that about every girl I liked."
"And was I right? Song used you to steal something and Lu Shi used you to try to get you to step down as the Dragon Warrior. The women that are into you are gold diggers."
"Jasmine is not a gold digger. She's better at Kung Fu, Stronger and more balanced than I'll ever be. And she's cute."
"You know, Po. Other than the Magenta eyes, and the different style she is wearing, we look exactly alike."
Po looks at Tigress then to Jasmine. "Eh I don't see it." Tigress rolled her eyes. Look, Ti, if you don't trust her, then maybe you should get to know her. You two can spare during tonight's training." Tigress sighs and nods. "Awesome. Come on, we don't wasn't to be late for training." Po and Tigress head for the Jade Palace.
Once training has start, Tigress and Jasmine sparred outside.
Jasmine ducked from Tigress' kick. "So why are you doing this? No offence, but I thought you hate me."
"Po said if I got to know you, I might be able to trust you." Tigress did a few punches.
Jasmine dodges them and flips over Tigress. "Are doing this to gain trust in me or to gain Po's trust?"
Tigress pauses. "Well… it's a little complicated. I don't trust girls around Po."
Jasmine snickered. "I might not know so much about everyone, but I do know when somebody's jealous."
"I'm not jealous."
"Calm down Tigress. I get jealous a lot at the diamond palace."
"Really? How?"
Jasmine looks down. "There are two creatures living in that palace and only one of them walks in and out of it while the other one stays to train and learn."
"Oh… but what about the prince?"
Jasmine looks at Tigress. "Just like you Tigress, I want to see if I can trust you just like you want to see that you can trust me."
"Speaking of seeing, what did you want to show me?"
Jasmine looks at the training hall door then back at Tigress. "Come, we need to go to the pool of sacred tears."
"We have to continue to train."
"Ti, Ti, Ti, there are things you should know about me; like I always walk out on training. If Mingyu can stand it, then so can Shifu. If he can't, then he's not a balanced master." Jasmine walks out of the outside the training session and soon Tigress joined her.
Jasmine and Tigress arrived at the pool of sacred tears.
"So what is it that you wanted to show me?"
"It's actually what I want to see. When I looked through your memories, I saw something more than just a warrior from the orphanage, I looked through deeper and saw… well, you have to see it in order to believe it." She puts her palms together then separated them to reveal a silver bowl, and a sack of power. "You see, I can remember so little of my old memories. I want to test it out with you. I saw that you have a similar past as mine." Tigress widens her eyes. "Oh no, I'm not saying that we're sisters or anything, I'm just gonna test it out a little." She puts the power in bowl. "Tigress, I hope you can forgive one day for this."
"It's okay, I'm sort of curious myself."
"Oh no, it's not for that."
"Then for what, Jasmine? Ouch!" Jasmine pulled out a little hair from Tigress.
"For that." Tigress pulls out one of Jasmine's hairs. "Ow, hey."
"Sorry, I just had to."
Then Jasmine shook her head and then placed Tigress' hair in the bowl. Then she gets a cup of water from the pool of sacred tears and dips her paw in it. She then flickers her hand and the bowl begins to glow. She didn't notice but the hair that Tigress plucked out fell in the bowl. Then the bowl started to flicker magenta and scarlet.
"What's going on?" Tigress backs up a little.
Jasmine back up too. "I don't know."
Then mist came out of the bowl and began to shift. It showed a little village of tigers. Then two tigers were formed by the mist. They were running to each other. "Mulan!" "Shang!" The male tiger swings the female tiger in the air while they were both laughing. The male had scarlet eyes while the female had Magenta eyes.
"How am I seeing this? Only you were supposed to see this. Are you seeing this?" Tigress only nod.
Then the scene changed when the two tigers got married. "You may now kiss the bride." The two tigers kissed. Then the scene changes when Mulan and Shang were holding two little tiger cubs.
Tigress stares at Jasmine for a moment then back at the mist.
Then another tiger came in. "General Shang! Fa Mulan! We have a big battle and they're threatening for you guys to join!" Mulan and Shang look at their little cubs and a tear fell out of Mulan's eye. The scene changes when Mulan and Shang were walking through bamboo forest with the two cubs in their arms and saw a bunny pass by. They kissed one of their babies and laid the baby in the bushes next to the bunny.
"What?" Jasmine couldn't believe what she is seeing.
Then the scene changes when it was a rainy night. Mulan and Shang were in front of the Baogu orphanage they set the other baby on the door step and walked away crying.
Tigress had a tear in her eye while she was watching this.
Then two separate visions came when a bunny was coming close to the bushes and when the house keeper of the orphanage came to the door. The bunny turned out to be Mingyu and when he looks at the cub, he saw magenta eyes and the little cub meowed. The house keeper opens the door to find a scarlet eyed tiger cub and she meowed. The mist starts to fade.
The two girls wiped away their tears.
Tigress was the first one to speak. "I can't believe this. All this time, I thought they put me there because I was a monster. Now I can see that they left me there for my protection." Jasmine was still stunned. "Jasmine? Are you okay?"
"All my life… I thought I was alone… don't you see Tigress?"
"That some of your fur went into the pot?"
"That and… my parents are the legendary Mulan and Shang, the saviors of China."
"Don't you mean our parents?"
"That's another thing Tigress. If this is all true, and we ended up where we last remembered, that means…" They looked at each other straight in the eyes.
They smiled and said together… "We're sisters."
Jasmine was now excited. "I can't believe that this is happening. Should we tell the others?"
"No. They separated us for a reason. I know that the Huns have been destroyed and we're highly trained warriors, but we're not taking any chances. I live in the valley of peace and you live with Mingyu. Everything that we know and love will be gone. No one can know about this."
"No one must know about what?"
The girls saw that Shifu had found them. "Master Shifu!"
"Why did you girls ditch training?"
Jasmine walked forward. "It's my fault Master Shifu. I asked her to come here to show her something."
"Well I hope it was worth it because you two are going to train the entire day tomorrow."
The girls smiled at each other. "I think it was worth it." Tigress walks past by them. Jasmine caught up with her.
Shifu had a confused face on him then began to walk with them.
Zeng finally made it to the royal palace. He falls down to the front gates where guards pointed their spears at him.
"No wait! I have a message from the jade palace!" Then the guards let him in the palace. Zeng saw a rhino emperor along with a tiger prince.
"Now you see son, this is why you must take my place as emperor in a few days. Since my original son is gone, and you are second oldest, you are next in line due to Lu Kang is still too young."
"But in order to do that, I must marry, father. And I haven't made a decision yet. I don't wanna marry that princess from that tiger village. She's mean and nasty. She's not fit to be my wife or the empress."
"You don't have a choice Donghai. You have to marry the princess and she is the only tiger princess in China." Donghai was about to say something when he saw Zeng watching them. "Are you Zeng from the jade palace?" Zeng nods. "Well come here. I'm sorry you had to hear all this. Is there something that you guys need."
Zeng holds out a message. "A message for Prince Donghai." Donghai walks to Zeng and picks it up.
Dear Dong,
I'm living in the Jade Palace right now as we speak. I will be staying there for about a month unless Mingyu decides to take me back. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that I broke your heart seven years ago. If you are happily married, I understand. I just wish to see you for one last time before I have to leave civilization for the rest of my life. Please send me a message and tell me how you are living. I miss you.
Love Jasmine of the Diamond Palace.
Donghai was happy that he knew that Jasmine was outside of Diamond Palace. "Dad, make sure Zeng is comfortable. He has a long trip ahead of him tomorrow." Donghai headed for his room with the message in his paws.
And there you have it guy's chapter three! Me and my anonymous friend hope you liked it, and if you could drop a review telling us what you thought of it, that would be awesome, thanks.
