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Chapter 3- Planning and Escaping
Tigress woke up with a start. She sat up from where she was at and gasp. She looked around her surroundings and realized that she was in her room and it was probably night by the darkness in her room. She was about to get up from her bed but her highly sensitive ears picked up the sound of footsteps coming from the entrance from the barracks so she quickly laid down and pretend to fall asleep. Even though she couldn't see she could still hear, and she heard the door of her room opening and someone peaking their heads in. She stayed motionless as a few seconds ticked by before her door closed. Then the figures in the hall spoke.
"Is she still asleep?" Tigress guessed that it was Crane speaking.
"Yes." Master Shifu spoke. There was a moment of silence before Viper spoke.
"Well, what are we going to do with her? Obviously she's going to keep on trying to get out of the palace to find this Po person." Master Shifu stayed silent for a moment before he spoke.
"I don't know. What do you do to your daughter that has gone mad?" Then Mantis spoke.
"What you do? You send her to the nice people in white and send her to the wacko place." Mantis said and Tigress guessed that he was doing a circular motion with his pincers near his temple. Suddenly she heard a whack and also guessed that Viper smacked Mantis behind the head.
"Mantis! Don't disrespect Tigress like that!" Viper hissed, making Tigress feel grateful for Viper.
"Well she's going insane! She came up with this Po person, she attacked Master Shifu and she also attacked us! I don't know about you but I'm guessing those are the signs that she's going mental." At that the master's stayed silent for a while.
"Well then what's going to happen?" Monkey finally spoke. Tigress heard Shifu sigh.
"Well, I guess we can send her too Master Huian (Huian meaning kind peace.) She trains in the mountain an she uses the art's of peaceful clarity. There Tigress can relax and use her time to get her mind set straight while Master Huian watches over her." Master Shifu said.
"Tigress using the art's of peaceful clarity? She's more a women of action, not taking her time to stop and smell the roses and think of tree's." Monkey said while Tigress scowled.
Master Huian was a sheep that takes in students that get to caught up in Kung Fu and helps them with their mind. She's a kind sheep and her training was sitting around for hours and meditate while taking a break from Kung Fu. She was more into nature than Kung Fu and often makes her students garden and farm. Tigress was already itching from the thought of not doing Kung Fu and she twitches a bit, causing her bed to slightly creak. The talking outside stopped for a moment, listening to any sound that was gonna happen in her room but Tigress stays still. The conversation continues.
"You really think sending her there would help her? Who knows if she even wants to go!" Crane said.
"Yes, Me, Monkey, and Mantis would escort her there while you and Viper stay here. I'll leave her there and order her to stay and train with Master Huian," He pauses before continuing on, this time in a slightly sadder tone, "She will probably never forgive me for tricking her but I have no other idea on what to do. I'll send a message to Master Huian and tell her that Tigress will be coming." And with that all of the Master's went to their room's to go to sleep.
Tigress stayed awake for a few hours, thinking. She will be send to the mountains and she will be supervised 24/7. She was an idiot for thinking that this journey will be easy, I mean, thinking that just walking through the gates telling them that she was going to find someone that she barely remembers and no one else knows! She was an idiot! Tigress mentally slapped herself. She was running out of time, in no time Master Shifu will send her to Master Huian and she will be stuck there. If she was gonna go and find Po, she will have to sneak out. Tigress lay awake for the rest of the night, planning her future mission.
The Next Morning.
As the morning rays began to creep out from behind the mountains, the gong rang out throughout the valley. The members of the Furious Five stepped out of their room's and bowed down to Master Shifu. Every master shot Tigress worried looks but Tigress ignored them as they went to the kitchen to have breakfast. The kitchen had an uncomfortable silence hanging in the air as they slowly ate but Tigress was to busy thinking, she was so in deep thought that she barely heard Master Shifu calling her name.
"Tigress!" Shifu yelled as Tigress snapped out of thought. She bowed to Master Shifu and apologize for not listening. He took no notice.
"Tigress, I want you to go meditate for today instead of training. Viper will accompany you in meditating." Tigress bowed to him and went with Viper to the peach tree to meditate. Viper kept a close eye on her as Tigress walked towards the peach tree. Tigress was acting her usual self on the outside but on the inside she was slightly freaking out.
'Great. Master Shifu is already having me under surveillance, making this twice as hard as I last thought. But I cannot lose hope yet. Po is counting on me and I will not fail him!'
For the rest of her meditating she thought of ways to make her plan succeed, while in deep thought she felt Viper's watchful glances and and acted like her usual, hardcore self. By the start of lunch Tigress was already laying her plans to action... with a few bumps in the road.
Master Shifu was determined to not let Tigress to be by herself anywhere. When she would excuse herself to go to the facilities Viper followed claiming to go check her makeup. When she would go to the village, Monkey will go with her to buy more almond cookies even though he already had about three satchels full. Crane would accompanied her to the garden where they both sat in silence as Tigress read and Crane would do calligraphy, and Mantis usually hid somewhere to keep a watch full gaze on her, even though she knew that he was spying on her. For the next two days it was the same. She would pretend that everything was normal and the others still kept a watch full gaze on her, until Zeng came back.
Tigress was really lucky that it was Mantis turn to watch her and that she decided to meditate, because Mantis always fell asleep in the first few minutes of meditating. Both masters were under the peach tree, with Mantis snoring loudly and Tigress just watching the valley, until she heard the sound of flapping wings in the distance. Her ears perked up and traced the sound of the flapping wings in the distance and she estimated that the flapping bird will soon arrive at The Hall of Warriors. Silently, without waking Mantis, She crept towards The Hall of Warriors. Upon arriving there she heard Master Shifu and Zeng talking.
"Has Master Huian sent a message back yet?" Shifu said hurriedly to Zeng as Tigress listened in from outside the slightly agape door's. She heard some rustling as Zeng handed Shifu a scroll. Shifu sighed in relief.
"Master Huian said that she'll take Tigress in and she'll be placed under protection," Tigress eyes widened as she heard the next part, "We'll be leaving soon to drop of Tigress at the mountains." Then she heard Zeng speak.
"Ummm, Master Shifu? Do you really think that Tigress will be happy about this?" Tigress waited for Master Shifu's response.
"No. She wont. But she has to go in sake of her sanity." Master Shifu said as he ended the conversation. Tigress silently jogged back to the Peach tree, relieved to see Mantis still she sat down Mantis woke up with saliva hanging from his mouth.
"Huh? What? Oh um... Yeah that was really good meditating!" Mantis said as he failed to notice the saliva hanging from his mouth. Tigress rolled her eyes as she got up.
"Mantis. You have saliva hanging from your mouth." She said as Mantis hurriedly wiped his mouth. As they walked to the Kitchen Tigress contemplated on the actions of her plan.
It's time to take action.
That night, in the Kitchen Barracks.
"Students," Master Shifu called as The Furious Five ate dinner that night, "I have some news. Master Huian is having trouble in her school and she has requested for our help. Tomorrow morning, Me, Tigress, Monkey, and Mantis will be heading off to help her. Crane and Viper will stay behind to watch over the valley. Understood?" Master Shifu said as all eyes slid to Tigress. She looked like her usual self and nodded with the other students. As Master Shifu left, an uneasy silence fell upon the students as they finished their dinner. Every so often the masters glanced at Tigress but Tigress ignored their looks and continued to eat her tofu.
Finally, All of the students went to their rooms and went to go to sleep. Tigress waited for a while before she thought she was the last one awake, before raising a floorboard and getting a satchel from there. Before she could open it however, she heard a soft knock on her door and heard Viper's voice rang through air, "Tigress? Are you awake?" Tigress quickly hid the satchel under her bed before opening the door to see her snake friend.
"What do you want?" Tigress said as she winced at the sound of her icy voice. Viper continued, "Tigress, I just wanted to see how you were doing." Tigress looked at her with an emotionless gaze. "I'm fine. What makes you think that I wouldn't be fine?" Viper began to look uncertain. "Well, it's been a few days since you attacked us and I just wanted to check how you were doi-" She didn't get to finish as Tigress cut her. "I'm fine Viper. Why wouldn't I be? Now if you excuse me, I need to get some rest before our journey tomorrow. Good night." Tigress said as she closed the paper door on Viper's face.
Viper stared at the door for a minute before sighing and turning away. But, before she turned away, she looked back at the door and silently said, "Good night, Tigress." As she got into her room.
Back into Tigress room, Tigress silently sat down on her bed and waited for the rest of the Master's to fall asleep.
One by one, She heard Mantis's snoring, Monkey murmuring slightly in his sleep, Crane's ruffling of the wings die down, and finally, Viper's light snoring. Tigress got up and quickly checking once again to see if everyone is truly asleep. She nodded in satisfaction and quickly got ready.
She took off her red vest and replaced it with a black long sleeve shirt that hanged slightly loose on her sleeves. If she was gonna sneak out of the Jade Palace, she cant have her orange fur standing out on the dark. She also quickly slipped on a black mask that covered all of her face except her golden orange eyes. She grabbed her satchel that was full of dried up fruit and other food's, and also some tools that she think she will use on the journey.
Quietly, she opened the door to her room and silently walked out to the hallway. She made no sound as she left the students barracks and climbed to the top of the Jade Palace tallest building. For a moment, she look back at the students barracks before jumping off the building and falling to the Valley of Peace. She twisted in mid-air before landing a bit sloppily on top a roof. She gasped a bit before getting back into balance. She cast a last glance at the Jade Palace before taking a running start. She was heading for the Thread of Hope and after that... anywhere. She still needed to find more clues to where Po is and she knew it was foolish to go looking for someone without almost no clues, but if Master Shifu was planning to force her to stay in the mountains underneath 24/7 watch, that was her cue to leave.
She ran past homes of villagers and past shops, she was determine to get to the Thread of Hope before dawn broke out... but... She just needed to do one thing before she left The Valley of Peace. She took a hard left and went through a couple more houses before she reached her destination.
She stood in front of noodle shop and was not surprise to see that the kitchen was lit. She entered the shop and saw that the kitchen was lit and she heard soft crying coming from in there. As she entered she once again saw that Mr. Ping was sitting in the corner, tears leaking out of the corner of his eyes.
"Mr. Ping." Tigress said to announce her presence. Mr. Ping jumped a little and looked over to Tigress direction, his eyes widened as he grabbed the biggest knife on the counter top and pointed it at Tigress."Who are you? Are you the one who took my Po? Speak up!" Mr. Ping said as dangerously waved the knife.
Tigress was taken back a bit before she realized she was still wearing the black cloth mask. She quickly took it off while saying, "Mr. Ping, it's me!"
Mr. Ping quickly realized it was one of the Furious Five and quickly put the knife back on the table."I'm so sorry Master Tigress. I getting more jumpy ever since Po left." He said as he bowed down to Tigress as she did the same.
"It's all right Mr. Ping, I was actually coming to tell you that I'm heading of to find Po right now." Mr. Ping looked at her with pure happiness.
"You found my son?""No, but I'm heading of to find him. Once I find him and make sure he's safe, I'll bring him back to the Valley of Peace." Tigress said as Mr. Ping smiled faltered a bit but stayed.
"Thank you Master Tigress for looking for my son. I'm forever in your debt." He said as he bowed down low to Tigress. Tigress smiled as she bowed back to him. "I promise you that I will find him." Tigress said as she turned away and ran out of the shop. Mr. Ping continued to stare at her with tears falling down his face.
"Don't worry Po," Mr. Ping spoke aloud to no one in particular as he stared at the sky, "Master Tigress promised she will find you, and by the gods she will." With that he went inside the shop and blew of the candle that bathe the kitchen in a warm orange glow.
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