Hey Fanfic freaks! Sorry for the late update but black Friday shopping was tiring! I just wanna say this, was my last chapter not that good? I only got a few reviews, so I really want to know what I could of done better. And also this is the second to last chapter before the ending! Yays! I'm almost finish with my first chapter story! Now take it away Po! Po: crAzY jAkY will never, ever, ever own Kung Fu Panda. She probably never will and can only dream... *Stops as crAzY jAkY begins to cry hysterically* Er... To the story!

Chapter 8- The Forgotten Village.

As the form of the mysterious figure began to look clearer, Tigress suspicions was correct.

"What are you doing here? How did you know that I was here?" Tigress asked repeatedly as The Soothsayer descend on her.

"You ask to much questions for someone who's has a sword through her paws and foot." The Soothsayer said as she began examining the sword that went through her limbs. She clapped her hoofs together as Tigress quieted down.

"Okay, the wounds do not look that serious, but it will hurt when I will pull the sword out of your limbs and your wounds will begin bleeding very thoroughly. Are you ready?" The Soothsayer asked as Tigress nodded. The Soothsayer grabbed the hilt of the blade with both hoofs, and pulled. The blade was difficult to pull out at first, but then with a few more struggles, she was able to pull the blade out of Tigress limbs. She felt no pain in both paws as the sword got free but there was a slightly throbbing in her foot. As she looked at her wounds, blood began to pour through her hands and feet very rapidly. The Soothsayer grabbed her paws and began wrapping them with a gauze bandage quickly as Tigress contemplated her actions. The Soothsayer seemed to sense her distressing thoughts.

"Something on your mind?" She said as she began to work on Tigress bleeding foot. Tigress knew that The Soothsayer already had the answer to that question but answered anyway.

"Why cant I find Po?" She said as she closed her eyes and sent her head to fall downwards to her chest in defeat, "I'm trying my hardest to find him and whenever I get close to finding him, he manages to slip away." Tigress slammed her fist to the ground in frustration. The Soothsayer hit her behind the head with her cane that Tigress did not notice before. "Don't be an idiot and open your wounds or be stupider to hit your wounds on the ground that hard."Tigress still paid no mind to the hit or harsh words.

"Dear gods, I'm giving up everything to find him. My master, the Five, my dignity, my sanity, and for what? To go on a wild goose chase to find this guy that nobody remembers? Of all the battles and mysteries that I faced in my entire life, this is one of the hardest I ever been through. I'm starting to think that I AM going insane. I'm contemplating on giving up right now." Tigress said as The Soothsayer hit her, very hard, at the back of her head with her cane. Tigress even winced and rubbed the spot on her head where she could feel a bump starting to form.

"Is this really the Master Tigress that everyone talks about? The one that is always determined to rescue the innocent. The one that looked fear straight in the eye and managed to kick his butt. Maybe the Tigress that everyone keeps on talking about is a fraud." The Soothsayer simply said with a disgusted scowl as she treated the rest of Tigress wounds. Tigress looked at the Soothsayer with a confused look as she continued to gently rub the spot on her head where the bump has formed. Why was the she acting like this? The Soothsayer was not acting like her usual mysterious self. There was something with the way she was speaking to her that made her feel unnerving.

But Tigress then realized what she was doing. The Soothsayer seemed to read her mind as she continued:

"Well, Master Tigress? Are you just gonna give up and forget that all of this ever happened and just go home to be forced to train in the mountains with no Kung Fu what so ever? Or are you gonna get up, brush yourself off, and continue to look for your lost and helpless friend, like the REAL Master Tigress would ?" The Soothsayer said as she finished dressing he wounds and looked at Tigress directly in the eye with a glint of confidence in her eyes. Tigress smirked as she stood up and clenched her paws that did not hurt.

"I'm going to keep on going to look for Po. Even IF I risk losing my sanity. I don't care what the other Masters think or what they will do. Its my decision and its also my friend. He would of done the same for me." Tigress has returned to her usual confident self.

But then her confident stance slumped as she realized something.

"But, there's a problem," Tigress said as she slumped down to the ground and shook her head in annoyence, "I don't have any leads on to where Po is." Tigress put her face to her paws as she thought of what to do, until the Soothsayer cleared her throat.

"Do I really have to explain everything to you?" At that Tigress nodded a bit, The Soothsayer let out a irritable sigh as she rubbed her temples as though Tigress was giving her a headache, but then her eyes softened as she looked back at Tigress.

"Tigress, you must go to where his future changed. Where his journey started, only then, you will find your answers." The Soothsayer said as gave her head a little bow before getting up, turning and walking away, leaving Tigress to think over The Soothsayers words.

"Is it me, or does she remind me a lot of Oogway?" Tigress thought as she shook her head in amusement. She went back to thinking about what the Soothsayer said, about to go where his future changed. What did that mean?

Tigress eyes then widened as she let out a small gasp when she realized to where she was supposed to go. She quickly grabbed her satchel and took of running as as she got her third, and possibly, final clue to where Po was.

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In a forest where bamboo trees stood tall and clustered, all was quiet except for the muffled sounds a tigers paws running through the forest. Her breaths were labored as she kept on running, dodging bamboo trees that blocked her way every so often. Her eyes searched around the unfamiliar place as she tried to find on what she was looking for. The bamboo forest was dark and eerily quiet and no sunlight could of broken through of the dense trees. That was how Tigress immediately stopped as she saw a faint light to her right as her paws came to a sudden stop. She began to slowly walk to where the faint stream of light could of broken through and parted the bamboo to see the other side.

She gasped slightly as she gawked at what she was seeing.

A village stood before her as the sky above it was gray and heavily clouded. Houses stood against the overgrown grass as a few clearings beyond them look like their was once a planting field on them.

But it was a sad sight to see, the village once looked it could of housed many families and villagers where they could of once lived happily. But, the village was deserted. Houses stood broken down and burnt as many fields of weeds and overgrown grass grew to them. Pieces of forgotten clothing stilled hang in lines and discarded furniture was littered. Many of the houses looked as though they were burnt up a long time ago. Tigress walked to the deserted village as she tried to hear any sound of any living being.

She looked inside one house that wasn't burnt and saw that the inside was a mess, but she still went in. She gazed at the broken furniture and dishes and stopped at one particular spot in the entrance of what looked like a closet. A dark spot was still there and it looked dark red. Tigress tried not to think of what the worse of the dark spot is as she tentatively reached out and grabbed the door handle, She drew in a quick breath as she opened the door. Something fell on Tigress as she was taken by surprised and fell with the object too. As she landed on the floor she gazed up at the thing that fell on top of her as she let out a blood curdling scream.

She was gazing up at a skull of a dead animal that died a long time ago, she hastily took off the skeleton that was on top of her as she stumbled to get up. She drew in quick breaths as she gazed at the skeleton at her feet. While looking over it she was horrified to find out that it was a panda skeleton, and her mind instantly thought of Po. But as she continued to look at it she realized that it was a child skeleton. She drew in shaky gasp as she saw that the clothing is still on the skeleton and that embedded on the skeletons rib cage was a sword that killed the child. Tigress looked in the closet and saw that there was another skeleton of a baby panda, and Tigress clamped a paw over her mouth as she saw that the baby panda had a sword through its skull and that whoever killed it was cruel enough to attach the skeleton to the closet wall. She ran out of the house hut and got to her knees just in time to throw up whatever was left in her stomach as the images of the skeletons continued to plague her mind.

As she finished throwing up she stood up in shaky feet as she gazed around the village. It was truly a sad sight to see but she wasn't here for that.

"Po?" Tigress yelled, "Po! Are you in here? If you are, please reply back!" Tigress stopped yelling as she strained to hear anything. There was no sound.

Tigress started to get angry."PO! Come on out before I found you and punch the living breath out of you!" Tigress growled as she continued to hear anything. There was still nothing.

"He's gotta be here! The Soothsayer wouldn't lie to me!" Tigress thought as she began searching all over the village. The day went by as Tigress continued her search throughout the whole village. She came across lost souls of the massacred pandas that lived in the village, their clothing still on the skeleton. Every time she saw one she saw one, she sent a quick prayer to the heavens. By the time it looked as though it was night (it was hard to tell by the cloud coverage) Tigress has searched through the whole village without a single trace of Po anywhere.

She came to the last house that had a forest behind it and fell to her knees. Her hopes were dwindling and her energy was running out. She breathed in and out as she slammed her fist to the ground in anger as she yelled out:

"Soothsayer! You told me that if I came here I would find something about Po! I've been here all day and I have found nothing! Please! Somebody please help me!" Tigress quieted down as silence enveloped her. She closed her eyes as her breathing became was shaky. She was afraid to open her eyes and see that Po was still not there and that she was nowhere near to finding him. Tigress huffed up a breath of air as she slowly opened her eyes.

What she saw shocked her to the very core.

Instead of seeing the cloud covered ghost village, she saw a village that was alive and bustling with joy. The sky seem to match the mood of the village and the overgrown grass was now trimmed and cut, the houses were now standing perfectly and all of them gleamed in the sunlight. Rice farms could be seen as far as the eye can see but that wasn't what Tigress was surprised to see.

What shocked her was that Pandas were all over the village.

Men panda's were bustling on the rice farms as the women cleaned houses and took care of children as they ran around and played tag. Tigress slowly stood up as she looked around the village. How did all of this happen?

Tigress broke out of her thoughts as a female panda carrying a bundle of clothes past right through her. It was as though the panda just passed through a fog.

"Hello?" Tigress said as she tried to get the attention of some pandas. Nobody paid her any mind, as though she wasn't there.

"Am I dreaming?" Tigress thought as she continued to look through the village. Everybody looked happy as they continued to go on their daily business, not a single worry was in the air. Tigress then saw a female and male panda waving towards something behind her. She turned around and saw that there was a baby panda on the house doorsteps. Her breath got caught in her throat as she saw that the baby had jade green eyes.

Jade green eyes.

The baby looked around the village as though he too was mesmerized by the village. He went down the last couple of steps (and fell a bit on the last one) and landed on the soft green grass. He giggled as he grabbed hold to his plush panda toy and took another look around the village. Then he stopped when he saw something in Tigress direction. Tigress was confused at first and looked behind her to see if anything was behind her but there was nothing. She looked back at the baby and saw that the baby was looking at her.

The baby crawled towards where Tigress was standing and stopped at her feet. She bent down low until she was at eye level to the baby. Golden yellow eyes met jade green ones.

"...Po?" Tigress whispered at the baby as he continued to look at her. He looked as though he was studying her and gave a huge smile as he grabbed her pant leg and gave a gentle tug as Tigress eyes widened.

"Po!" She gave a small yelp as she gave the baby panda a hug. The baby was a bit shocked at first but then gave a playful giggle as he wrapped his own arms around Tigress. She was extremely grateful and confused that she was able to touch Po as she stroke his head.

"Po. Thank the gods, Po. Your here!" Tigress said as she pulled out of the hug, Po began to smile as he pulled her pant leg and began crawling away. Tigress smiled a bit as she followed him to get a better view of the village. Po looked out at the village as Tigress sat down next to him and watched with him. But she gave a sad sigh as she thought about what happened to his people, how they were brutally murdered and leaving Po an orphan.

She glanced at baby Po that was looking at her concernedly.

"Even as a child you know when your friends are in trouble." Tigress said to Po with a slight smirk, but dropped immediately as she remembered her current situation.

She looked at Po straight in the eye as she told him, "Po, where are you? I'm looking for you everywhere but I don't think I can do it anymore," Po gave her a sad look as he put a paw on her knee, as though he was trying to give her any comfort. Tigress just gave him a small smile as they continued to look at the scene before them. Minutes pass by as both tiger and panda continued to watch the village in action. It was peaceful and nice, almost trance like as they sat there.

Suddenly, a piercing scream rang through the village.

Tigress and the rest of the pandas stopped what they were doing and looked at the front of the village where the scream rang through. Tigress was shocked when suddenly a swarm of wolves came bounding across of the village and attacked any panda in sight as some ran for their lives and others stayed and fought the wolves. Flaming arrows shot through the air as some landed on houses, which quickly set blaze, as others landed on unfortunate pandas. Wolves stormed into houses with swords and mallets as they killed pandas while they fought back to save their beloved village.

Tigress quickly looked at Po as he sat in the middle of the destruction, clutching the plush toy for dear life. Her blood went cold as she saw the familiar form of a white peacock stood in the destruction with a evil smirk on his face as he sent a pack of wolves to attack Po. The wolves were close to Po when suddenly his father appeared in front of him with a mallet and swung at the wolves, managing to swing them away.

"Take our son and go!" Po's father said as his mother picked him up and ran to the woods where other pandas where fleeing to. Tigress stood there as she watched Po's father defended himself against the incoming wolves.

Tigress then realized in horror that Shen went into the forest after the pandas that escaped. She quickly ran into the dense forest as she tried to hear any sound of Po's cries. Instead she heard the angry screech coming from Shen and quickly saw that he was pursuing Po's mother.

As Tigress got closer to them, she realized in horror that Po's mother was on the floor, dead, as Shen stood over her with an evil glint in his eyes. Tigress quickly looked around for Po, but he was nowhere to be seen.

"Po! Where are you?" Tigress yelled as no sounds of Po was heard. She glanced back at Shen as fires erupted around them and his evil laugh continued to echo in her head as she closed her eyes and let out a ferocious roar.

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