And the envy turns for the worse.

Chapter 14: Envious Spark

At the Jade Palace, most of the students were completely aware of Tigress' intense mood and wondered what was going on with her, but Po and Monkey were the only ones that did know something's going on and it had something to do with Max not being around the palace often and Takami said, "Okay...something tells me the vibe is getting a lot tense here."

"You think it's tense? I almost wiped my face with Ryo's underwear yesterday." Kiba added, still grossed out.

Ryo lets out a very cocky smirk directly at Kiba and said, "That's what you get for putting water on my bed. Thanks to you, I had to sleep with my underwear...in Skyler's room! Do you know how many times I've been kicked by her when she's asleep?"

"I'm pretty sure it's countless times I heard you scream like a girl." Kiba added.

Ryo growled at Kiba for that comment and he glared at him and wanted nothing more than to punch him straight to the face and Takami broke this up immediately and said, "Can you guys put this off right now?"

"Takami's right. Your immature, childish behavior will not get anywhere." Shifu added, with a hint of warning.

"Okay, I seriously don't understand what's up with Tigress. I mean, she's been more intense when she's training and sparring with me and she always gets angry even when I say 'hi' to her." Takami added.

"Maybe she has a bad mood." Kiba added.

Everyone glared at Kiba for that assumption and Crane said, "She always has a bad mood."

Shifu lets out a deep sigh and wondered what all of this could mean and even he couldn't understand why she's getting way more intense lately and he said, "Can someone explain the reason why she's even more furious?"

"It might have something to do with Max." Po spat out.

Layla was the most shocked to hear that come out of Po and said, "Max? Why him?"

"Did you notice that Max doesn't come to the Jade Palace like he always does lately?" asked Viper.

All of them were completely surprised by how much Max wasn't around much at the Palace and they all agreed by that factor since Max usually spends his time at the MMA training class and Ligress said, "I'm guessing that this was the reason why Tigress has been so tense."

"That's kinda impossible. I mean, Max and Tigress may be rivals, but I don't think that's the whole case." Mantis added.

"Tigress and Max are rivals?" asked Ligress, confusedly.

Takami could tell that Ligress wanted to know the full story behind this and he lets out a sigh and said, "In many ways. It sounds kinda weird, but Tigress can't stand to be in the same room or environment Max is standing there."

All of a sudden, Tigress burst through the door with a very angry and furious-enraged expression on her face as she's walking past them and she could tell that they were staring at her and she stopped, tensed up, turned around and asked, "What are all of you looking at?! If you got something to say, say it!"

Ligress was the first one to say something and asked, "So...what's with you and Max?"

Tigress got visibly upset that she brought it up and shouted, "Don't you DARE mention that little monster here again! Understood?!"

Then, that answer was confirmed that it was about Max and Kiba seemed really disturbed to hear that she's angry at Max and thought that he'd keep his mouth shut about it and Viper asked, "If I may interject...what's your problem with Max now?"

"None of your business, you nosy snake." Tigress replied, with a cold tone.

Viper dropped her jaw after Tigress called her a nosy snake and that was a cold move and she hissed at her and asked, "What did you just call me?!"

"You heard me! Don't bring up Max ever again! He's nothing but a troublemaker!" Tigress shouted.

Shifu got right in front of her with a very furious look and said, "I'm not gonna have you disrespect Max again!"

"He just makes me so angry! Something you don't even understand!" Tigress roared.

"Can you help us understand?! Yelling at us isn't gonna help matters." Layla added.

Tigress took a deep sigh, but still kept her anger coming in and she said, "I saw Max training with that Jason fellow at the MMA facility."

"Oh, you mean J? He's an awesome trainer." Kiba added, happily.

Tigress felt offended when Kiba referred to Jason as an awesome trainer and snarled at him as a response and Kiba kept his mouth shut afterwards and Shifu couldn't see what's the issue from that and said, "And this bothers you why?"

"Why should Max train with this stranger when he should've been training with me?! At the Jade Palace?!" Tigress shouted.

Po had to play mediator towards the whole situation and he said, "I thought that you never wanted Max around the Jade Palace."

"That was before he took that offering at the MMA training class." Tigress replied.

"Didn't you also say that you're sick of him being around some of us here that he'd be better off staying home?" asked Po.

"If you keep reminding everything that I said, I will thrash you down like yesterday's trash!" Tigress spat out.

Po wasn't gonna back down for anything, even though that threat could be possible and something clicked in him that the reason why Tigress continued to rant about Max was her way of saying that she can't deal with Max not being around the Jade Palace as much as he used to before and asked, "You miss Max being around, do you?"

That triggered a shock on Tigress that he'd make an assumption that she misses Max and turns to him and replied, "What would make you think that I miss him?"

"You're jealous of Jason and Max training together, aren't you?" asked Po.

Stay tuned to see how crazy it will get!

Voice of Crane: Amir Talai

Voice of Mantis: Max Koch

Voice of Ligress: Tara Strong