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Chapter 6

"He's doing pretty well isn't he?"

Crane followed Viper's gaze and saw Felix in the middle of a crowd of students, practicing his stances and katas.

"Well he's had who knows how much past experience…Tigress can vouch for that…" Crane said, whispering the last part as Tigress herself walked by.

Viper followed Tigress with her eyes and when she was out of ear-shot began whispering to Crane. "Have you noticed that ever since the day Felix came back she's been harder than ever on him?"

Crane held up a wing to silence her as he saw a young lynx girl of no older than 12 approached Felix and tugged on his pants to get his attention. Viper fell silent and watched.

The girl was fiddling with the hem of her shirt nervously and seeming like she was asking Felix slightly, a small innocent blush on her cheeks. Felix smiled at what ever the girl asked and nodded. The girl crouched low in one of the basic stances and looked up at Felix expectantly. Felix walked behind her, took her wrists in his hands and helped correct her stance. The girl blushed heavily as Felix practically hugged her as he helped fix her posture.

"Aw…that's sweet…" Viper cooed as she and Crane watched the scene take place. She turned her head when she started to hear soft giggling to the side. Several children were hiding behind one of the palace arena's golden dragon statues, also watching Felix and the girl. "Hey! Shouldn't you kids get back to training?!" Viper called, making the children jump and run off.

Unfortunately, Viper's call had caught Tigress' ear and she turned towards the shout and say Felix and the girl, still together. "Felix! Lynx!" Felix, Lynx, Crane, and Viper all winced at Tigress' shout and looked up to see Tigress walking over to the two. Felix quickly released Lynx and they both stood up straight and bowed to the master. Tigress walked up to Felix. "Felix you are not noted as one of the temples masters or assistants…you're not to be teaching other students!"

"But, Tigress, I was only-"

Tigress cut Felix off. "That's 'Master' to you and no 'but's! I don't want you're self-taught style interfering with the hard-working students here!"

Lynx spoke up in a meek voice. "But Master Tigress, it was I who asked Felix to-"

"No excuses!" Tigress snarled. Lynx looked like she was about to cry. "If you need help you will asked one of the masters, is that under-" Felix held an arm out in front of Lynx, as if protecting her from Tigress' rage. Tigress' eyes snapped up and she glared at Felix, as if daring him to defy her.

Felix stared back at Tigress, his expression unreadable. Then, after a moment, he bowed low to Tigress. "My apologies for the trouble…I will take my leave now…" With that, Felix turned and walked off to the training hall.

Viper and Crane watched as Felix pushed the doors of the training hall open and walked in.

Majority of dinner was silent that night. Viper and Crane had told
Monkey and Mantis about what they had witness that day.

Viper looked at the empty seat next to her. "Felix's skipping dinner again tonight…he hasn't been eating dinner for a while now…I hope he's ok…"

"Felix can take care of himself." Tigress said stiffly, placing her tofu in her mouth.

"Like you would know…you don't even talk to him anymore…" Mantis muttered.

Tigress shot a glare at him and Viper quickly placed a bowl over him. "Don't mind him…" Viper said, smiling sheepishly. "He's taken one of Monkey's cookie's again…you know what sugar does to him…makes him say crazy things…you know…"

"Hmph…" Tigress went back to eating.

"So…anything new with anyone…?" Monkey asked, trying to get some sort of conversation going.

"I haven't been sleeping too well lately…I think I'm just too stiff before I go to bed." Viper said, glad for something to talk about.

"You should ask Felix to give you a massage when he comes back in." Crane piped up. "I swear…even if he couldn't do Kung Fu, that guy's got plenty of other talents…"

"You think he could help?" Viper asked. "I mean…" Viper looked at herself for emphasis.

"Positive…" Crane said with a nod. "He's already helped me and Monkey, he's really good. Really helps release some built up tension."

"Maybe we should have Tigress ask him for a massage…she could lose some stress…" Mantis said from under the bowl.

Monkey knocked the bowl off of the table with Mantis still in it with his tail and they all smiled sheepishly at Tigress as she slammed her chopsticks onto the table.

"I think I'm going to go for a walk…" Tigress muttered, getting up from her seat.

"Good idea!" Viper said, getting off her seat too. "I'll go with-"

"Alone…" Tigress cut in and left the room.

The others stared after her.

"You might as well give up trying…she's been saying the same thing for the past week…" Mantis said.

"Oh shut up!" The other three cried out.

Tigress sighed, and walked out of the building and to the training room. But instead of walking through the door, she climbed up along the side of the wall and entered in a small opening in the roof, dropping down onto the rafters and looking down. Just as she knew he would be, Felix was down in the training hall, training. This time he was sparring with the wooden warriors. Splintered remains of several warriors already littered the ground around him as Felix struck the middle of the warrior's middle and it shattered. Felix slumped over and panted heavily, leaning over with his hands on his knees.

Tigress sighed again and sat down on the rafters, leaning against the wall, watching Felix sweep up the remains of the 'fallen warriors'. It wasn't after a while did Tigress realize something strange. Every now and then, when ever Felix would pick up a piece of the warriors, he'd wince in pain. With a closer look, Tigress noticed his hands were bandaged and slowly becoming red. Tigress gasped softly as Felix finally gave up and unwrapped the bandages. His hands were rubbed raw and were bleeding. From all the extensive training he'd been doing, Tigress wouldn't have been surprised, but to actually take it that far…

How long has he been pushing himself this far? Tigress had been watching Felix for as long as he's been doing this, but she had never noticed him these injuries. And even so, how long has he been continually training despite those injuries? The only question she knew the answer to was why he was doing it. She knew because it was the same exact reason she pushed herself.

Tigress felt a huge pang in her heart. He wanted to keep his mind off the things that bothered her…he wanted to keep his mind off of her. She truly did love him, there was no denying it, but she felt that she couldn't bear to go through what she had felt with Tai Lung. She had to keep pushing him away…