Prepare for Love and War!

Tigress sat on the side of the front of the palace looking at the village below her. She had her head held up by her hand as she sighed bored. Po, Mei, and Lee had gone away for their war meeting. Then Miwa came beside her and sat next to her with her hand in holding up her head too. Leo had gone too to the meeting. They both sighed bored. They looked at each other and laughed. "So...my niece," Tigress started.

"Yes, my aunty?" Miwa answered back.

"Is it true that you like Leo?" Tigress asked bluntly. Miwa blushed immensely.

"Yeah, but please don't tell him," Miwa said worried.

"It's okay. My lips are sealed," Tigress said.

"So do you like Po?" Miwa asked back.

"As a friend, yes," Tigress said trying to avoid the next question.

"Do you like him as something more?" Miwa pressed on.

"You ask a lot of questions."

"I asked the same amount of questions you asked."

"No I didn't."

"Yes, you did."

"No."

"Hey! Stop avoiding the question."

"What was the question?"

"Aunty Tigress," Miwa said tried of her evasiveness, "If you hate the panda, just say so."

"I don't hate him! Why does everyone think that?" Tigress asked.

"Because he's told Tigra and Qiang about his life there and you haven't been exactly kind to him sometimes," Miwa revealed. Tigress hung her head.

"Well...Yeah, I guess I was very abusive to him," she said rubbing the back of her head, "I just couldn't believe that he was the Dragon Warrior, the very thing I worked for all my life. But, as I grew around Po, he did deserve to be the Dragon Warrior." Tigress chuckled a little, "Even if he made a lot of mistakes."

"So you like him more than a friend?"

"Yes...I Mean! Um...," She groaned while her niece laughed.

"Don't worry, I won't tell," Miwa promised, "But that brings up another thing that I'm trying to figure out."

"What's that?"

"What are we going to do with out them? It's practically boring around here," Miwa sighed. "When did they say they would come back?"

"An hour from now," Tigress huffed. Miwa huffed too. Then Qiang came out to see them.

"It's good to see you two are getting to know each other," The old tiger smiled. Miwa hugged him.

"Hey, Grandpa," Miwa greeted.

"If you two have some spare time, I could use some help with throwing some old stuff away," Qiang said. Miwa sighed.

"Might as well," Tigress said, "There's nothing else to do." So the three tigers went into Qiang's room there was a whole closet of dusty armor and old papers. They started moving the stuff. Soon they came across an old painting. "Hey, is this us?" Qiang looked over her side and chuckled.

"Yes, you were just 6 months when we had you. Your brother was one at the time," Qiang said. The wedded couple were smiling in the painting while Tiger played with his feet and Tigress smiling seeming to laugh. "Your mother threatened the painter to paint if he didn't hurry up. That's why we could hold the smile."

"What do you see in her?" Miwa asked innocently.

"Well, even if you see a vicious person, I see a kind, beautiful, smart woman," Qiang said. He didn't know that Tigra was right behind her. Miwa and Tigress tried to get him to turn around. When he did, he jumped and smiled sheepishly. But Tigra surprised him by hugging him.

"That is the most...nice, kindest thing you've ever said about me you old bag," She smiled. Qiang breathed a sigh of relief. Then a strange idea came into Tigress's mind.

"Mother, can you come with me to get some information? I think I'll need your 'kind nature' to help me," Tigress asked.

The duck was thrown across the bar and hit his head at the wall. "I'm telling you! I don't know anything about Wong-Hu!" The duck exclaimed. Tigra picked him up and extracted her claws. She held them close to his face.

"Do you seriously want to be torn to shreds today? I just got these things sharpened," Tigra said seriously. She and Tigress were in the worst part of town in a bar looking for what they could get about Wong-Hu. Tigra was doing the talking.

"Okay! Okay! Okay! All I know is that they were looking to attack the village at the bottom of Mount Shang where they camp out! That's all I know! Please don't hurt me anymore!" The duck begged.

"How do know this?" Tigress asked.

"Wong-Hu's mens come in here from time to time. Earlier today they were bragging to me that they would attack the village three days from now! But they said that they would pound me to dirt if I told anyone," The duck said. Tigra dropped him and he scampered away. Tigress looked around to see all the men they beat still on the ground moaning and groaning.

"I think we're done here," Tigra said walking calmly out. Tigress smirked. She admired her mother's character. "Now we have to tell the others about this."

"Great," Po muttered, "That won't be good. We're going to have to move the troops faster now." The three were now back from the meeting.

"Or we could just go there," Tigress suggested.

"No. You can't go," Po said. Tigress was a little hurt, "I'm sorry, Tigress, but I was sent to bring you here safely and end Wong-Hu's reign. I can't do that if you're fighting him."

"Po, I'm a Kung Fu fighter. I can handle a couple of villains. I'll be fine," Tigress said.

"Absolutely not, I wouldn't be able to live with...myself if you were hurt," Po said. Then he whispered, "That and Tigra would probably skin me alive."

"And so what is my training for? Even Leo going into this," Tigress exclaimed.

"Come on, Po," Mei said coming in, "Don't you think you're being a little overprotective?"

"No. What if Wong-Hu convinces her to become one of them?" Po asked.

"Po, you're caring a little too much. This is Wong-Hu. we need to stop him and we'll need everyone to do it," Lee suggested. Po groaned.

"Fine," Po said. Then Lee and Mei left the two to talk it out, "I don't like this."

"Why?" Tigress asked angry, "You don't think I'm as strong as you?"

"I DONT WANT TO LOSE YOU!" Po shouted holding Tigress tight. Tigress was shocked. "I can't lose you, okay? This isn't just another bad guy. This is war. I don't want you to get hurt. I...I...I love you too much for that to happen," Po whispered.

"Wwwwhat did you say?" Tigress stuttered looking into his eyes.

"I...I said that I...I..." He never finished as he kissed Tigress. Tigress's eyes fluttered shut as she wrapped her arms around the big panda. She purred happily through kiss. As they released, Tigress smiled.

"I love you, too," Tigress said.

"Aw man," Leo muttered. Both them jumped out other each other's arms. Miwa just came in too.

"What are you doing here, Leo?" Tigress asked embarrassed.

"Watching myself lose a bet," Leo murmured as he handed Miwa some money. He walked towards them. "The worse part is that I don't have anything anymore to blackmail you with," Leo explained.

"Leo, you could just ask me to chase you," Tigress offered.

"Well, there's always the back up. Miwa, staff please," Leo asked. Miwa handed him a bo-staff. Leo took it and bashed Tigress with it and ran off.

"LEO!" Tigress said angrily chasing the rat. Po sighed as Miwa giggled.

to be continued.