Chapter 8

Revenge

Tigress came back from a long days training. Her tears of pain were frozen on her cheeks. She was so gratefully angered by Master Shifu; who didn't even let her warm up for the smallest amount of time, after getting out of that ice cold lake. It was dark now, as she covered herself up in a tiny sheet she only had to sleep. Of course, she was trained well with discipline, but this... this was just too much for somebody like her to handle. She slowly laid down, as she rapidly got goose bumps from her body touching the cold wooden ground. She shivered, as she tightly wrapped the tiny sheet around her. Her fingers and toes felt almost like they were frozen, and she desperately wanted to suck on them to make them warmer, but she didn't for she would look like a child. She grunted from the coldness, but she dealt with it, for there was nothing she could do about it.

Once she became a tiny bit warm, she opened her eyes, soon trailing her eyes back to that dent in the ceiling. She smiled sorely. She could recall all the memories coming back to her... eventually leading to Tai Lung, once again. She had to forget about him, even when he is her true love. She was miserable now: all her life she had nothing to do but Kung Fu. Her world circled around it, just as her mother's and father's did. And of course, she had to walk in their steps. She thought for a long, long time, just as she did every night. And now, every night she thinks of Tai Lung, how he started to treat her just a little while ago, but then Master Shifu had to stop him from staying, and ban him. What a horror, having to leave him. Day after day, Tigress silently cried each night, wishing Tai Lung back.. just for a moment. Just for once... she squinted. Maybe he doesn't have tocome back? Thinking, she sat up. He doesn't have to come to me... no... I can come to him.

Tap tap tap.. Tigress heard at her doors. She slowly got up, cracking her knuckles, wondering who that could be. She then gasped. Tai Lung? She smiled greatly, as she ran to her door. She slid it open. Upon seeing the panda, she lowered her shoulders. She shivered as the coldness came back. "Ah.. I was just walking by... and I knew you were a little cold from earlier today.. and you have nothing to cover yourself up... so do you wanna borrow my blanket?" Po asked. He was no longer as shy as he once was before, when he often went to her room to just talk.

Tigress blinked, wondering why he would ask such a thing. "If you insist."

A childish grin grew on Po's face. "Okay!" He withdrew a white blanket from behind him. It was folded neatly. "Here you go."

Tigress gave him a soft smile. "Thank you, Po, you are very generous. Is this not your only blanket?"

The panda seemed to just stare at her for a few seconds. He then blinked and shook his head from thought. "Oh, umm... no, I think I can last the night. No worries." He smiled.

Tigress giggled slowly, but friendly. They stared at each other for a long while. Po thought it was the best moment in his life. Tigress thought it was the most awkward moment in her life. She nodded, and slid the door shut. She then walked back to her resting place, and covered herself up with now two blankets, or sheets.. for they were extremely thin. The second blanket really helped. She smiled. Po. What a great friend. She quickly fell asleep, as she purred from the warmth.

Tai Lung sat on his front lawn, looking around slowly as he has been doing for over an hour now. He was searching for a wolf named Skyler, who looked to take much revenge on him, surprisingly enough not Master Shifu. Probably because Shifu was too powerful for the wolf. Supposedly enough, Tai Lung was not surprised, for he also could be defeated by his own master.

He crossed his legs on the chair he was lightly planted on. He closed his eyes, as he thought about his past: about Master Shifu and that bastard Master Oogway... He sighed. Tai Lung... don't do this.. Tai Lung bit his tongue. Master Oogway made a good decision. Tai Lung isan evil being, whether he says he is or not. Tai Lung grunted at the fact that he took revenge on the town and tried to force the dragon scroll out of its place. Therefore he was cast into a deeply guarded prison made just for him. How foolish of him to even think of having a sudden outbreak in one simple thought. Luckily he broke out of the prison, and went back to the village to take back his rightful dragon scroll, only to get defeated by a panda. Ahem, a fat panda named Po. What a disgrace. He had to learn to respect him, though, just as he tried to do 4 years ago.

Tai Lung then thought of the fox, Song. She was a great looking person, a large poofy red and white tail, thin, and very athletic. She wore a golden cloth over her waist, and a black dress over her chest. She showed some skin. Her arms, legs, and a bit of cleavage. It seemed weird how Tai Lung wasn't falling for her, supposedly because he knew Tigress was much better looking. But he couldn't blame Song; she was very good looking, even sexy.

He sighed, getting up. He decided to go to her, to at least protect her from Sky, who basically beat her up for a bit. He slowly walked over to her house, and quietly opened the door, not caring to knock, knowing that if he did, it would wake her. He walked in, noticing everything in the house was pitch black, of course. She was probably sleeping. He made his way to her room, finding she was laying comfortably in her wooden bed. She made it herself, for she had no father or mother to help her on anything. She grew up in an orphanage far from the town she was now in, lost and confused. She usually spent all day outside, pitched on top of a mountain. On that mountain; on a boulder, she called her only friend, staring at the mountains. Tai Lung remembered her saying the mountains were so beautiful, and how she wanted to go there just one more time... but now she has work to do. He recalled, she worked at a wood shop, making chairs and beds everyday. She has no time to glance at the view. Not even every once and a while. She gets paid much off of her job, and that's how she got this big two story house right next to Tai Lung's.

He watched her chest slowly drift up and down, for she was sleeping peacefully, possibly dreaming of him. He walked over to sit in a chair next to her bed. He sat there for the longest time, staring around her house. He then heard a creak. He softly sighed. It was Sky, he knew it. He swiftly walked out of the room, and looked in the hall ways, just as he did in the Jade Palace when he was about to abduct Master Shifu. How he regretted it all. He slowly walked the halls. The creaking stopped. Tai Lung closed his eyes, as he clenched his fists. You will not hurt Song again, you beast.He whispered to himself, opening his eyes. He started to hear pounding in the room next to him. It sounded like running. Tai Lung sprinted over to the room, prepared to fight off Sky. He saw nothing, even though it was pitch black. Maybe it's... rain. He considered, as he started to walk back to Song's room.

BAM! He was then kicked hard in the chest by a foot. It was the wolf, he knew it. He was thrown onto a piece of soft, cushoned furniture, thank god. The moon shone bright through the window in this room, so he could see Sky slowly walking towards him. He tensed up, and got off the sofa he was shot on. He planted his feet in battle stance, looking at his feet, then correcting them. He hasn't been in battle for a long time, therefore he's not good at Kung Fu as he was.

"Snow leopard. Get on your knees before you are killed."

"I will not. You want revenge, I'll give it to you. Just as long as you stay away from this village, and away from my friends."

The wolf looked down. "I can't promise that." Sky smiled, showing his snow white, pointed teeth. He then pounced on Tai Lung in a blink of an eye, and immediately started to strangle him with his sharp claws. His knee was on Tai Lung's upper stomach, which of course, is the most exposed spot to the air way. Tai Lung couldn't do a thing, for he was pinned down, and struggling.. so much.. for air. The wolf stared Tai Lung down, and grinned with a deathly smile. Possibly the last smile he would ever see. The leopard took Sky's arms and tried to force them off of him, but he couldn't, for the wolf was much too strong... he was stronger than Tai Lung himself! He was losing air by the second. There was nothing he could do! "Dispite your muscles, you are nothing! Atleast try to fight back!" Sky tightened his grip on the leopard, getting impatient. "Fight me!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. Tai Lung coughed up air, until there was nothing left to cough up. He couldn't breathe in, therefore he couldn't breathe out. He was dying. Tai Lung put his paws on Sky's arms and once again tried to shake him off before he was killed, but it was no use. It's over, and Tai Lung's life was about to end in a few seconds.... now....

Haa! Something flew in and hit Sky's cheek, making him fly off of Tai Lung and break through a wall. It was Song. She came! "Tai Lung!" She fell to her knees and held his right paw with both of her hands. "Tai Lung, speak, I bid you!" She tried to hold in the tears that were now roling down her cheeks.

"I..." He breathed out hard, sobbing for air, watching the fox stare at him with her beautiful green eyes.

"No! This is not going to happen again!" Sky screamed, and in a split second, he flew back through the hole in the wall he made, and withdrew his sword. Song stood up and gasped, quickly bending her knees head over heels backwards, as Sky jumped over her, missing his target. That's right. I'm doing the matrix... asain style. Song couldn't help to think.

AAAAH! He turned around, and cast his wide sword quickly across her neck, only to be deflected. She held the sword's dim edges, and tipped it slightly so that it fell from the wolves hand. He was shocked. Song was apparently a good sword handler, none the less; fighter. Why did she hide it from Tai Lung, however, he didn't know. Tai Lung slowly gained his conciousness back, still laying on the ground.

She quickly bent over, and picked Sky's Katana up. "Lets fight, buddy." She whispered under her breath, as her tail waved. Sky clenched his fists tightly, and stormed after her, throwing fists and soon kicking her furiously in the stomach. Song managed to dodge some with the dim edges of his sword, but soon got kicked powerfully in the stomach. She doubled over in pain, falling to the ground.

Sky snickered, as he picked up his sword that the fox now dropped. "You're useless." He held the sword with two hands, and stabbed into the ground she was laid onto, but she swiftly rolled over, and kicked the sword off to the side.

Getting up, Song panted, as blood dripped from her mouth. She wiped it off. "I said..." She breathed hard, as she staggered into place. "Lets... fight." She got into a position Tai Lung didn't notice was apart of Kung Fu. It seemed the two beings fighting were not members of Kung Fu, but of something else...

They suddenly burst into action, as Song swat Sky's hand off of her chest, kicking him above his right hip. He growled, and pounced on her just as he did on Tai Lung, and held her by the neck. "No..." Tai Lung softly murmured. He was on the ground, and couldn't move because he was half dead from suffication. Song was pinned to the ground: being held tightly by the wolf, just as the snow leopard once was. She then did something Tai Lung could not get through his mind moments afterward: she shook him off. She actually had enough strength to throw him off of her! Well, push him off of her. He rolled across the ground, quickly changing his stance while rolling, and pounded his hands into the floor, making him fly up onto the ceiling. He turned his body around, kicked off a long supporting log on the ceiling with his right foot, and dove for Song.

Song clenched her fists, as she once more got into stance. She tensed up, preparing for a massive blow. She then predicted where he will hit, and made a hard spot in that position. In mid air, Sky changed rapidly from a dive to a ball, catching the fox off-guard. He hit her hard with his massive arms when he unfolded, and she broke into the wooden ground, making a hole. Sky smiled as he quickly glanced at Tai Lung, who looked dead to him: his eyes were closed, and he wasn't panting. Sky then jumped into the hole in a blink of an eye, dropping his green wrist band right in front of Tai Lung. Minutes passed, and Tai Lung held back tears as he started to hear screams, coming from his friend, Song. He wanted to pick up his head and look into the dark hole, but he didn't want to hint that he was still alive. He laid there, breathing hard, holding the floor with his sharp claws, tense.

After moments of cries, it went silent. Sky slowly made his way back out of the hole formed in the ground, carrying Song with his right hand. She was either dead... or knocked out. Tai Lung prayed that she was knocked out, for-

Rrring! Sky withdrew his sword from a crack that it fell into, in the ground. He placed Song against a wall of the house. He walked up to her, and kissed her on the lips, holding his sword at his side. No... no... no... no... Tai Lung thought, as he knew what was going to happen. Sky would-

Ssslllit! Tai Lung heard a gasp from Song, then all was silent. He held his breath. He held his position. He held his tears. He knew what Sky did. He just killed Song.. Tai Lung could hear foot steps walking twords him. Sky kicked him, then chuckled. "Dead." He turned around, and looked up to the ceiling. "Now off to the palace." Tai Lung heard Sky jumping, landing on the roof, and sprinting off in the beat of a humming bird.

Tai Lung opened his eyes, and gasped for air. He let go of his tears, letting them fall down his stained cheeks. "Song..." He got up furiously, and ran over to her. He looked at the sword: precisely in between her ribs. It went straight through her, as it pinned her to the wall. Her eyes were closed. "Song!" He tried to hug her, but couldn't, for there was a sword planted between them. He looked down at the sword... touched her cold body, and withdrew blood. He lost his breath at the sight, backing away, wide-eyed. He breathed out in fragments of air, for depression was now taking over his body. He fell to his knees, as his vision went blurry at the sight of his now dead friend. Collapsing, he clawed his face, as his tears stained the wooden ground. He couldn't contain himself... as he was kicking at nothing, while bunched up into a ball. Sky had his revenge.... his horrid, deathly revenge.