Well this will be the last chapter, and contrary to the last chapter, this one will be much shorter. And this will be in third person cuz Tigress, y'know...

The woods were calm and quiet for a moment. The skies were blue and clear, but the silence was broken by a young girls frantic yells.

"Tigress please I can't lose you too! Hold on, please hold on!" Lagadema cried watching the life slip from her newfound sister's body.

"Oh so sorry to take her from you, but…, turn around, let me see your face." The demon said, noticing that this may be the person who killed his brother.

Lagadema didn't turn around; she only kept still, kneeling over Tigress's body. Then her eyes trailed to the dagger.

"I said turn around."

"No," she growled.

This angered Bem even more, so he walked over and grabbed Lagadema by the scruff and spun her around. All of the sudden he felt a sharp pain in his stomach, the rhino looked down to see his own dagger plunged into his belly.

He looked back at Lagadema squirming in his grasp, "You shouldn't have done that," he threw Lagadema aside and grabbed a hold of the dagger. He gritted his teeth and pulled. The dagger slid out with relative ease, but not without a horrible gurgling sound as the blood came gushing out.

Lagadema stood up growling loudly, "And if you're wondering, yes I did kill your brother."

Without saying another word Bem lunged at her ignoring the pain in his stomach. He threw punch after punch and kick after kick.

Lagadema was angry, but unlike most warriors this improved her skill, quickened her reactions, and made her in every aspect, stronger.

She masterfully dodged each and every strike. As soon as the rhino's leg moved the slightest bit, Lagadema picked up on this and readied herself for a counter.

The demons powerful leg came up and impacted Lagadema's side, but with a different result from last time. Lagadema latched onto his leg and copying what Tigress did to that fox perfectly, she spun around and swept the rhinos other leg out from under him. Bem hit the ground with a loud thud and his weight shook the ground.

Lagadema flipped backwards to catch her breath. The rhino jumped up and snorted, "You are a strong little kitty aren't you?"

"Yes, and I know something only your brother knew… that is before I ended his life." Lagadema spat back, smirking slightly as she saw his ear twitch at her comment.

"And what might that be?" he said running for Lagadema.

He went to tackle her, but Lagadema dodged under his arms, moved slightly to the side, and quickly came up with a knee to his stomach. She got the satisfaction of feeling the breath escape the demons lungs. It was an extreme advantage for Lagadema to be smaller and quicker on her feet than the Grey Demon.

She stood behind him as he was picking himself off the ground yet again. "Bem is not your name. Your name is Eetwidomayloh, he who greets with fire. A name awarded to the bravest of warriors in the Mataikay tribe. An elite and secretive group of rhinos known for one thing and one thing only, the killing of all feline species they get near to."

"Very good, but I can't let you live with that information, you know that. And I'll enjoy ripping you into tiny pieces." He said, but he knew that somehow, out of the hundreds he has fought before her, Lagadema was the most powerful warrior he has ever faced.

The demon snorted once again and charged with his head down low aiming his horn right at Lagadema.

…..

Light surrounded me and I found myself standing before my mother and father in a grassy plain.

"Mother! Father!" I yelled running for them, choking back tears.

"Hello Tigress, we are very happy, and also sad that we can see you." My father said.

I went to embrace my lost parents in a hug, but as I reached them I went straight through them both and fell to the ground.

"Tigress we love you so much. We just want you to know that." Mother sighed, and smiled, "You can't hug us because you're not dead yet. Tigress you're still alive."

"What? No he killed me like he killed you, with his dagger." I said standing up and walking to my parents. Standing close to them I could see that they were slightly transparent.

"Tigress we love you, but we don't want you to let him kill you just to be with us." Dad said.

"But I didn't,"

"Tigress," my mother spoke softly, "We have watched you blossom into the beautiful, powerful warrior you are, and we all know you could have defeated him, and that you still can."

…

Lagadema rolled to the side dodging the demons attack. The rhino stopped and quickly turned to the side, chasing after her. The leopard sprang up and as the rhino got close she planted a foot into his face and used it as a sort of spring board. She flew in the air, straight into the sun, as Tigress taught her. Lagadema spun around an on her decent she raised a leg straight up and brought it down impacting the rhinos head and making him slam to the ground.

But the demon spun from the ground, sweeping Lagadema's legs out from under her. He quickly followed up by getting on top of her and pinning her to the ground.

"Now I will kill you, but I'm going to let you suffer first."

He picked up Lagadema and rammed her through a tree, then held her up in the air and pinned her against another. He punched her in the head before slamming her to the ground.

As soon as she hit she tried to get up, but was met with a large foot to her stomach, I can't take much more of this, Lagadema thought.

"All you cats are the same, thinking that you're the best." Eetwidomayloh said picking her up again.

Lagadema chopped his arm making him release her, and spun around bringing her leg up in a backwards roundhouse. Her kick made contact with his horn and had enough power to actually snap it off. After her foot came back down she back flipped away from an unleash of anger that was sure to come.

The rhino just stood there glaring at Lagadema before calmly bending down and picking up his broken horn.

Eerily he started to laugh, "I'm going to plunge this straight through your heart." He slowly started to walk over to her.

Lagadema bounced on her toes back and forth ready for his attack. "All I hear is words, and that's like the third time you've said that. When are you gonna back it up?"

"Oh don't worry my dear, it will come soon." He said then lunged at her, roaring at the top of his lungs.

Lagadema tried to dodge, but this time his kick was precise and strong. It hit Lagadema making a loud crack come from several of her ribs and sent her flying through the air.

"AHHH!" Lagadema roared, before landing next to Tigress. Ignoring the pain, she propped herself over Tigress once again.

"Tigress, soon we will be together again..." Lagadema whispered, letting a tear fall from her eyes. "I'm sorry I couldn't be the warrior that you wanted me to be."

Then she heard the one thing she knew that spelled the end for her, the footsteps of a large rhino behind her.

"Ok now it's time to join your friend, oh and I almost forgot, your mother and father," Eetwidomayloh said raising his severed horn into the air.

"Indeed," Lagadema said slyly.

Then something caught his eye, some sort of red glow coming from where the leopard was kneeling, and it was getting larger, and larger.

Here I come Tigress…

…..

"Tigress it is time for you to leave now, and we want you to know that we will always love you. And that one day we will get to hug each other again, but I pray you have a long and happy life first," my father said.

I started to cry again, "I don't want to leave you! Most of my life we have been separate and now we are finally together!"

"Tigress," Then all the sudden the ground shook violently, throwing me to my feet. "You see, the battle is still raging, you are alive, and that's the way it should be. And we are not together, mentally yes, but physically no, and I'm sorry that you have grown up without us, I should have tried harder to defend us…" my father said with a tear falling from his eye and rolling down his face.

Then suddenly they started to fade away, and they both hugged each other and turned away from me with sadness in their faces.

"Mother! Father! Please no! I just want to be with you!" I cried sinking to my knees. "Why? Why does this have to happen to me?" Then the light turned to darkness once again.

….

I gasped as I took a deep breath. The first thing that hit me was the extreme pain in my chest, the next was a pressure on my stomach like someone was laying on me. I open my eyes to see a young leopards head resting on my stomach, with arms burnt and furless up to her elbows. She was looking at me, smiling. Off to my left I saw the charred remains of a large rhino, she did it!

"Lagadema you did it, you def-." then it struck me… her golden eyes were lifeless and unmoving.

"Lagadema no, no, no, please no." I said sitting up to hold her head in my lap. I felt tears well up in my eyes once more. I couldn't believe that just lost the person that I have been the closest to, the one person I loved like family since I was with my parents.

How could I have let this happen?

She was gone because of me, because I was selfish and I just wanted to be with my parents. Now she gets to be with hers, but she had her whole life ahead of her. She could have been the best warrior the world had ever seen.

I got up still crying, scooped Lagadema up in my arms, and walked over to the tree where Po and everybody else were bound around, and remarkably they were still asleep, the demon must have used some kind of sleeping remedy. So I gently set Lagadema down and started to untie my comrades.

Once they were untied I heard rustling back behind me. I whirled around, the tears slowed to a stop, and I smiled.

Behind me were two hundred plus soldiers in and amongst the trees. They all were wearing black shirts and red slacks, and on their shirt was a special little badge.

A water buffalo stepped out and by the expression on his face, he wasn't too happy.

"You, cat, did you do this to our master?"

Cat huh? "I'd like to say I did, but I have to give credit to a thirteen year old girl. A girl that could have beaten each and every one of you with a paw tied behind her back. But she can't now; she gave her life to kill your precious master."

His eye twitched slightly, "I see a gash on your chest, did Eetwidomayloh do that?" he asked.

"Oh yeah just a scratch, what are you doing here?" I asked cracking my knuckles and neck.

"Our base isn't too far from here, and we came here when we heard a mighty roar, then a huge blast. So that cut means you attacked our master, and your punishment will be immediate death." He spat, and I saw the soldiers behind him advance in my direction. But he raised his arm and said, "No, I've got her." he reached behind his back, and grabbed a rather large double sided ax.

I started to chuckle, now I was glad that Shifu, Po, and the rest of the five excluding Crane, were knocked out. I get all these people to myself.

"Alright, we'll see, I don't have much to live for anymore, but we will see."

With that I launched myself at the buffalo. He brought his ax up and as I got into range he brought it down. I moved slightly to the left and let it impact the ground. Not letting him pull it out of the ground I kicked the handle out of him hands.

Then I seized him by the throat and slammed him into a nearby tree, out of the corner of my eye I saw his soldiers grab their weapons.

As he was trying to escape my grasp with no avail, I leaned in beside his head and whispered into his ear, "You know your master said that he was going to kill me too… Let's see what you got."

I reared back and punched him in the face a couple of times before stepping back, pulling him towards me, twisting, and flipping the large ox over my hip. Now the rest of the army descended upon me.

I decided to try something new, as the soldiers came towards me I started to concentrate, let the inferno rise in me. But I knew that there was no time to fully execute the move before they reached me. So instead of just waving my arms around uselessly, I opened my eyes and in a style like cranes, I deflected incoming spears and swords, all the while building the fire in my paws.

I knew that if I wanted to I could take out the whole army right here, right now at the cost of my own life. But I also knew that's not what my parents wanted. So once I had a significant amount of Chi in my paws I stopped them in front of me. And to my surprise, no body tried to attack me, they only stood back with their mouths gaping open.

For a moment my mouth was hanging open also, but then I closed it and smiled. This time in my paws there was a glowing red ball of flame.

I closed my eyes once more and inhaled deeply. Then I roared long and loud. My roar was a mixture of sadness and anger, it was also an escape for all of my pent up emotions over the past years.

I stepped forward and let go of the fire in my paws. The blast decimated everyone and everything in front of me, but there were still pockets of soldiers around. So even though I was extremely tired after the Strike of the Inferno, I sprinted over to engage a group.

As soon as I got close I jumped up, and hooked kicked a snow leopard in the chest, after impact and still in the air I spun around and roundhouse kicked an ox in the head sending him flying limply to the ground.

I landed on all fours and rose slowly, and growling loudly. I looked over and I could see Shifu and the others starting to stir, I really didn't want them to help so I needed to hurry up.

I ran around like a headless chicken, taking out soldiers left end right. Within five minutes of me noticing their movements Shifu, Po and the remaining five were standing up and groggily looking around.

By the time they were standing I had already taken out all of the remaining soldiers.

I walked over to my groggy cohorts, and gave them a fake smile, "Your awake, took you long enough."

"Tigress, but how did…" Shifu said, before his eyes strayed over to Lagadema's body. "By the look of her arms she gave her life to protect ours… That is the mark of a true warrior." He continued, and then he noticed how tired I was. "Sit down, and tell us what has happened."

I nodded and sat down and told them everything. I told them how fast Lagadema was learning, and I mentioned the unusual color of her Strike. I told them on how strong our bond had grown in the short amount of time we knew each other. The battle was hard to describe considering I was partially KIA for most of it, but as I got to the part where I was talking to my parents in heaven…I felt tears well up in my eyes once more. I thought Shifu was going to scold me but he simply put his hand on my shoulder and that gave me enough strength to continue.

After my story, Shifu told me how fast the Grey Demon was, and how they were no match. I looked around and could easily see the wounds of battle. Po had cuts on his face and chest, while Monkey's cheek was still swollen up and shone bright red through his brown fur. Viper, Mantis, and Shifu had it off rather easy with only minor scrapes.

"But enough of that, we need to get back to the Palace, Tigress... I think it is only fit for you to carry Lagadema. She will be given a proper funeral once we arrive."

…..

After three days of walking we arrived at the gates of the palace. We wasted no time in finding a final resting place for the person who I considered my sister. We picked the perfect place, directly underneath the Sacred Peach Tree.

We dug her grave and laid her down into it. We stood over her and gave our final goodbyes.

"She was the most powerful warrior and the best friend I had ever known. Lagadema, I will see you again someday," I said tossing in a couple of flowers. I felt sad, but I didn't cry, because I knew that she was happy again with her parents.

After everyone was finished we filled in her grave, and I looked at Lagadema for the last time.

In the coming week we had a special alter, made for Lagadema in the Hall of Warriors. It included a painting of a young leopard holding a red ball of flame in her paws. Along down the side of the side of the painting there were the words, 永远在我们心中- Forever in our hearts.

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Sorry for throwing you for a loop with the whole, Tigress is gone, wait now Tigress is alive and Lagadema's gone thing, but I thought it would be good for the story. But I hope you liked it and thanks for reading.