He opened his eyes and looked around. The light was dim, only a few lanterns lit the hospital lobby to keep the darkness at bay. Only a few people were sitting in the chairs most were empty since it was late at night and almost everyone had gone home. Po clutched the side of his head and groaned, suffering from the aftereffects of the battle. He decided to grab a scroll with the day's news from a nearby basket to take his mind off the pain. Po opened the scroll and began to skim through it looking for anything good in the newspaper when his eyes caught something, it was a picture of the Zao Brothers with the word WANTED in bold letters. He looked below it and read the first few sentences.

"Zao Brothers assassins wanted for crimes against the people. If seen report sighting to your local law enforcement immediately. Thank you!" He glanced back at the picture and recognized who they were. Po suddenly got up. The picture was a reminder of what happened earlier in the day so he went to the front desk worried about his friend lover.

"Hey, I want to know if I can see a friend of mine here in the hospital.

The young red fox glanced at him, looking up from the scroll she was reading.

"Oh sure, what's the name?"

"Tigress"

"Ah, the kung fu lady, they moved her to room 17 just down the hall.

"Okay, thanks!"

Po speed walked down the hallway stopping abruptly at room 17 to peek in. He saw an orange tiger with her back to the door catching some Zs on a large cot. Promptly tiptoeing next to her, he took note of the gauze wrapped around her chest and ran his thumb down the back of her ear.

"Hi Po."

"Aaaaahh, Tigress hey...uhm...sorry. I thought you were asleep."

"It's fine. I was just thinking, I can't sleep anyways." He sensed how drained she was.

"Thinking? About what?"

"Those two panthers. They attacked us for no reason."

Po remembered the scroll he still had in his and and quickly showed it to Tigress who's eyes widened as she read.

"Assassins! Po you know what this means?"

"They wanted to kill me?"

"No! They were hired to kill you!"

"Ohhh thats so awesome" She glared at him

"Po this is serious, someone wants you dead."

"But who and why would someone want to kill me? The bodaciously awesome Dragon Warrior!" She sighed, he was so stupid sometimes.

"Po you do realize you stopped Shen practically singlehandedly. You're the only thing that stands between evil and China, besides the Five and me of course."

"Wow, when you put it that way it actually makes sense."

"Speaking of killing, did you get rid of the assassins?"

"Ummm, well, yes and no."

"Po!"

"Okay well you see I kind of stabbed one in the throat and the other I just left there by a tree...unconscious. Is that bad?"

"Oh jeez, of all the stupid things you've done this is by far the-"

"I only left him there because you were half dead!"

"He's probably going to come back and get his friends to come murder us all!" Noticing the hurt look on his face she pulled him into a gentle kiss and scooched over to make room for him. "I'm sorry Po and thanks...but seriously, people will do crazy things for revenge." He climbed onto the cot and Tigress snuggled next to him.

"Master Shifu will probably know what to do, I'll ask him when we get back to the Palace tomorrow."

"You mean you haven't told him yet?!"

"Yeah I fell asleep in the lobby after I brought you here hehe." She sighed and looked at him with an 'are you serious face'.

"Only you would do something like that Po." She chuckled softly and Po wrapped his welcoming arms around her. The pain in his head was sharp but knowing Tigress was okay had given him peace of mind. The two dozed off after a few minutes.

Jiāng Tōng Gorge

Kenji sat in his tent and was talking to a well-built white tiger, his second in command, when Shi walked in.

"Come here to collect the rest of your reward?"

"Wei is dead, we couldn't kill him"

Kenji swiftly got up from his chair and grabbed the young panther by his cloak raising him a few inches off the floor.

"What did you say?" He looked at Shi with a frigid calm.

"We couldn't k-"

Without warning Kenji slammed the panther into the ground and began to slug him ruthlessly. Shi tried to resist but the two guards inside the tent had come over and were holding him down. It hadn't even been a minute before Shi wasn't even recognizable anymore or even alive, his face looked like it had been mauled. Infuriated that he had lost his money and that the assassins failure had created a big complication, he just stood there breathing heavily in anger. The tent was silent. No one dared say a word as to avoid provoking him.

"This little setback means nothing. If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself. Li!"

The white tiger Li Xiang stood at attention

"I want you to prepare the men to move out...were heading to the Valley of Peace."

Thanks for reading and if anyone wants me to use a little less detail to make the story less boring or put more details in and describe things more I can do that. Suggestions and positive or negative feedback are welcome here. Also please review if you can, it helps me improve the story and I'm looking to write more stories in the future so reviews here can help me later on. Oh an one more thing, apologies if I do not update the story constantly I have to worry about high school.