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Quote of the Chapter

"It always seems impossible, until it's done."

-Nelson Mandela

Chapter 16

Unfriendly Fire

"Po!?"

Tigress said in absolute shock after seeing the Giant Panda land ahead of her. She couldn't believe it, after nearly two weeks of the Panda's absence, he was standing right in front of her. However it was evident from just looking at him that something was wrong, he didn't wear his green tunic which he had before he had been captured, and he also had white bandages wrapped around the right side of his chest which were slightly stained in blood. He also would not open his eyes, and had a very stern and serious look on his face and his white fur was quite dirty. 'Something's wrong...He isn't acting normal, I'd better stay on guard...' Tigress thought as she became more aware of her surroundings. She began to cautiously walk closer towards the Panda, using her senses to scan the area for anything that could be wrong. However, the Panda did not move from his spot and only kept his head looking in the direction of the female Tiger, but not opening his eyes. Tigress was now extremely worried, the Panda wasn't reacting to her moving closer, he was only standing firm in his spot with his eyes closed and his head following her as she moved closer.

When Tigress got within 10 feet from the Panda, she called to him again "Po?" However, this time when she called to him, the Panda reacted.

"ARRGGHH!"

"GET-IT OUT-OF MY-HEAD!"

The Panda yelled in agony as he began to rage and began to hit and scratch the back of his head violently. As the Panda raged and jerked violently, Tigress watched in horror, he seemed to be in incredible pain somehow, she took a step back as he was now becoming very dangerous and seemed to be attacking something from within himself. But the Panda just kept trying to hit the back of his head, for some reason as he turned and moved violently. He then fell to the ground on his Paws and knees but clutched the back of his head while he breathed heavily. Tigress couldn't bear to watch, so she ran up the Panda, got down and desperately asked "Po!? Are you alright!?"

"GET...AWAY!"

The Panda struggled to say as his tone sounded like he was fighting something internally. He still knelt on the ground using one of his paws for support, the other paw was clutching the back of his head.

"I do believe the Dragon Warrior is quite 'alright'."

Said another voice from closely behind the Panda.

"ARRGGHHH!"

Po yelled in pain once again as he rose from the ground and began to jerk violently once again. Tigress looked up at the origin of the voice and then jumped back from her spot. "Akuma! You evil bastard! What have you done with him!?" Tigress angrily snapped noticing who it was as she got into a fighting stance. Akuma laughed mockingly as he said "oh I'm sorry my dear, I apologize if I may have broken my promise to not harm the Panda. But he proved to be quite difficult to convince, so I gave him a little shall we say 'persuasion'." Akuma taunted the female Tiger. Tigress angrily growled at this and got ready to attack the Komodo Dragon. "I swear I will kill you!" Tigress angrily yelled at the reptilian. Akuma just chuckled as he said "we'll see about that 'little kitten'..."

Jut then, the rest of the Furious arrived "Tigress! We came as quickly as we could!" Viper exclaimed as they gathered beside the Tiger Master. Tigress however did not acknowledge the four and just starred at the Panda who was still panicking and raging. The other four gasped in horror as they all noticed what was happening in front of them. The Panda was now on the ground again and he began to punch the ground very hard out of pain and suffering. "Now Dragon Warrior, how about you show these so called 'Masters' what it means to be truly powerful! Remember when each one of them wronged you in the past? Now is your time for revenge!" Akuma ordered the Panda in a loud and assertive voice.

"I...WONT...I..."

The Panda struggled as he began to scratch his head again in pain.

"Po! Snap out of it! Hes just trying to use you!" Tigress yelled towards the Panda to try to get his attention. She was almost on the verge of tears seeing the Panda suffer this badly, he didn't appear to have any injuries to his head, however she presumed that whatever was inflicting pain upon Po had to do with Akuma.

"You will Dargon Warrior! And once you take down these 'self righteous cons' then we will bring order to all of China!" Akuma ordered once again also insulting the Masters.

"I...WON-ARRRGGGHHHH"

The Panda yelled before he began to feel excruciating pain coming from his neck and the back of his head. The Panda then rose from the ground again and stood straight, he then unsheathed his large claws and opened his eyes. To everyone's horror, when they watched the Panda open his eyes, they saw what looked to be some sort of dark red aura emitting from the Panda's eyes. The Panda then got into a fighting stance and began to snarl violently, he also exposed his teeth and fangs. The Five had been trained to resist fear, however this sight made each one of them crawl in their skin. Then Tigress tried to communicate with the Panda "Po?" She said in a nervous tone fearing how the Panda might respond.

Something clicked inside the Panda's head and the red aura emitting from his eyes disappeared momentarily. His real eyes were then revealed, Tigress' eyes widened at this and she called to the Panda again "Po?" Po had a sad but confused looking expression on his face as he starred right into the female Tiger's eyes. Hearing no response from the Panda, Tigress called again "Po?" However, this time the Panda seemed to ignore the female Tiger, and the dark red aura in his eyes reignited. The Panda then charged at the Five at tremendous speed and let out a loud roar.

The Five reacted quickly and all jumped back in different directions to avoid the powerful Bear. "Woah big guy! Were on your side! Remember!?" Mantis tried to snap his friend out of his trance but instantly regretted this as the Panda then came charging at him with the intent of squishing the insect. Po was almost in a type of berserker rage as he charged at the Insect at incredible force and launched his paw at the ground where the Praying Mantis. Though the Insect dodged the strike with his speed, the Panda struck the ground so hard it created a powerful shock wave which sent the Insect flying in the pulse of the wave. "Po! Snap out of it! We're your friends!" Viper called to the Panda as she tried to get behind him. However it was no use, as Po turned around to face the female snake he looked even more dangerous than before and started walking over to the snake in an intimidating way. Then Monkey sneaked up on the Panda from behind while he was distracted with Viper and jumped on top of Po's head. "Po! Buddy! You have to resist it!" The Simian said desperately to try to break the Panda's trance. Po however did not stop, instead he reached behind him and grabbed Monkey by his arms and flung him off onto the ground hard and cracking the ground. This nearly knocked the wind out of Monkey, but before he could have any time to breathe, Po stepped up to the incapacitated primate and launched his arm at Monkey throwing a powerful punch. However, just before the Punch hit, Po's arm was redirected and it hit the ground next to Monkey, Viper had taken the opportunity and had coiled herself around Po's arm which restricted his movement in his left arm. "Po! Brother! Please listen to us!" Viper said as she wrapped her body around Po's shoulder and then used the Panda's arm to punch himself in the face, however the Panda reacted to this and before he struck himself he used an immense amount of strength to resist hitting himself. Viper then attempted to wrap herself around Po's other arm, however Po grabbed her off of his shoulder and held her tight by the neck almost suffocating the snake. But before Viper passed out, Po looked up and saw a bladed straw hat heading towards him fast, so he dropped Viper and dodged the blade which ricocheted off the ground and a wall and returned to Crane who caught the blade while flying in the air directly above the Panda. Po just growled as he starred down crane from on the ground, he then took some of the bricks that had been cracked and broken and threw them at the bird. Just before the rocks had been thrown, Crane was about to use his signature attack "Wings Of Justi-Woah!" He then maneuvered to avoid the stones that were thrown his way, however, he didn't realize that the rocks were just a distraction. And in the blink of an eye, the Panda used a massive amount of strength and jumped nearly 40 feet into the air and caught Crane's leg. This not only weighed the bird down a lot, but it also put a great strain on his wings as they now had to carry nearly 400 lbs of muscle. Crane struggled and began flapping his wings even more to stay in the air. Po while holding onto Crane's skinny leg was attempting to punch the bird with his other hand and nearly hit Crane twice. After a couple of seconds of a massive struggle by the bird, Crane's wings gave into muscle fatigue and the two fell from the sky.

"Tigress! Catch them!" Viper shouted as the two fell from the sky, Tigress ran on all fours to catch the two who were falling very quickly now. She then jumped up and held her arms open to catch the massive Panda who still held onto the bird by the leg and she managed to intercept their fall. However, both Crane and Po still hit the ground hard. Crane passed out from the fall, however Po was even more enraged and he punched the ground in anger and got up. The dark red aura eminating from his eyes was still present and his claws were still unsheathed as he got into an offensive stance. "Po! Please listen to me! You have to fight it! You don't do this! You're a good person!" Tigress said emotionally who had also recovered from the fall. Tears now came from her eyes as she looked at her Panda, she knew he was under some sort of influence, however it still broke her heart to see him in this condition. Po seemed to stop his berserker rage for a second upon hearing the Tiger's voice, the red aura in his eyes almost vanished and he seemed to have calmed down.

"Ti-Tigress?"

The Panda said as he starred at the female Tiger in confusion. This amazed Tigress and she quickly replied "Po!?"

But her happiness was short lived as the Panda began to feel great pain once again from the back of his head, and he began to rage and go berserk again. The red aura in his eyes was present again and he charged at Tigress on all fours roaring loudly and scraping the ground as he used his claws to go even faster. Tigress got ready in her defensive stance, she hadn't wanted it to come to this, however she had no other choice, she had to face the Panda before he seriously hurt someone or worse, killed someone. Po then reached the Tiger and launched powerful punch after punch, each jab had enough strength to break a bone or cause a serious injury, however Tigress used her excellent reflexes to dodge and block the powerful jabs and retreat back. And though she wasn't being hit by any of the punches, she wasn't able to generate any offense as the Panda kept up the onslaught of strikes and then began to hit even harder than before. Within a couple of seconds of continuous punches, every punch that Tigress blocked began to actually hurt, Tigress had trained for years to feel no pain however the Panda was punching so hard that even that wasn't enough to withstand his immense power.

Viper and Monkey who had both gotten back up and caught their breath rushed over to assist the female Tiger who was now struggling to withstand the power of the raging Giant Panda. They arrived just in time and distracted Po from behind, with Viper wrapping her body around Po's left foot to restrict his movement while Monkey began to distract the Panda by blinding him using his hands to cover the Bear's eyes and turning his head and shoulders around. Po however had much experience fighting while blinded and he simply kept on barraging the Tiger Master using his senses to determine where she was. He was hardly even slowed down by the two masters as he just kept up his onslaught on Tigress as she began to buckle under the power of the Panda's hits. But just before Tigress' defense was broken, something hit Po hard from behind and the Panda's offensive rush was stopped. Monkey and Viper were still distracting the Panda though each one of them jumped off of him and developed a new plan of attack. Regrouping together, Tigress, Viper and Monkey all charged Po from different directions, figuring that it would catch the Panda off guard being attacked on three fronts. However their plan did not have the desired effect, because when the three got close to Po, he stomped on the ground so hard that it nearly caused a shock wave and sent dust and debris from the rocks flying everywhere making a large dust cloud and concealing the Panda from view. With each of the masters having lost the ability to see in the large cloud of dust, they all began to use their other senses to detect where the Panda was, but it was no use as they couldn't smell or hear anything else as the dust cloud had also made it difficult to use those senses, now they had only their instinct. "Damn! Where'd he go!?" Monkey shouted almost angrily as the dust was annoying him. But hearing no response from his teammates, he called out again "guys? Where is everyo-" But before the Simian could finish, his voice faded and a 'Woosh!' sound followed, almost like something had moved very swiftly and quietly. "Monkey!? What happened!?" Viper called to her friend not knowing what had happened to him. However, just a split second after she called to the Primate another 'Woosh!' sound was heard, and all the sudden Viper was not heard anymore.

Tigress knew that the others had been taken by the Panda, so she maintained a defensive stance and decided to stay silent until the dust cleared so she would stand a better chance against the Panda. So she patiently waited for several minutes while still staying on guard for the dust to clear, and after about two minutes the dust did clear, however there was no sign of Po. But when Tigress looked carefully, she saw her friends lying on the floor of the arena unconscious, but before she could go over to help her friends, she heard something make a stepping sound behind her. Tigress turned around quickly and caught a glimpse of the Panda, he was getting ready to knock her down, he sent his arms down towards her faster than she could react. But just before they made contact, Po was hit from behind by something again, this time whatever it was hit him in the left rotator cuff and it hurt quite a bit. Po roared from this, as whatever it was, kept hitting him in different spots on his back, he tried to swat whatever it was off and shook his back muscles to try to shake off whatever it was. However the continuous attacks kept up, and Po got so frustrated that he jumped up and landed on his back hard. At this, a loud cry of pain was heard as when Po's back hit the ground, he almost crushed the praying Mantis who had been attacking his back. Po then got up off of the insect and the injured Insect said in sarcasm "Sometimes-I wish-I-was a cockroach-instead..." (Cause Cockroaches are very hard to crush)

Po then looked down at the insect and growled angrily, he then raised his right foot, as to squash the Insect once and for all. He was just about to send his foot down and crush the insect but just as he was about to finish Mantis off, he heard an emotional female voice cry out "STOP!"

Tigress was now very emotional as she saw the Panda about to crush the insect, tears now fell from her eyes as she couldn't believe what the once peaceful and easygoing Panda was about to do. "Stop Po! You don't kill! Please...Please just stop!" She said emotionally. But then she heard another voice call to her from behind her "Mamma!" Hao Liang had returned and was now running towards Tigress. "HAO! STAY BACK!" Tigress yelled at her son as she didn't want him to get involved in the dangerous fight. Hao just stopped where he was and looked ahead of his Mother, and when he noticed Po he shouted "PO!?"

The Panda seemed to react to the White Tiger Cub's voice, however not in a way that anyone would have expected. The Panda seemed to blink several times and then became less hostile and began to calm down. Hao then noticed the condition that Po was in and he saw the red aura emitting from the Panda's eyes and all the bandages, the sight scared him, however the Cub decided to be brave and said "Po!? What happened to you?" Hao said this and began to approach the Panda. "Hao! Don't! Stay back!" Said Tigress as she pulled the Cub back.

But then, the Panda spoke "w-where am I? T-Tigress? Hao?" The Panda had once again lost the red aura in his eyes and returned to a calmer state, he was now staring at the two felines in confusion. But upon hearing Po's voice, Hao responded "Po! you're alright!" Hao then tried to loosen himself from his Mother's grasp. But Tigress did not let go of him, she just held him close and looked at the Panda carefully, she did notice that the Panda had stopped his chaotic rage. She called to him again "Po?"

However before Po could respond, another voice interrupted "I believe that the Dragon Warrior has some important business to attend to Master Tigress! So I'm afraid that your time is up now!" Akuma angrily said as he unsheathed one of his Kunai throwing knives and aimed to launch it at the female Tiger. Akuma then threw the blade and then everything seemed to slow down, Tigress wanted to dodge the blade however, the blade was headed straight for the Cub, so upon instinct she shielded the Cub from the knife. She then prepared to be hit by the thrown knife and then...

"Splat!"

Tigress heard the knife embed into something, but she didn't feel any pain in her back, and she didn't feel any blood dripping down her back. But a split second after she heard this noise, she heard something cough very hard and then it began making sounds like it was choking. When she turned around, Tigress noticed Po was standing right in front of both her and Hao almost shielding them, but then Po's legs seemed to get weak and the Panda fell to the ground on his side. But what terrified Tigress the most was when the Panda fell over, she noticed that the throwing knife that had been thrown at her was lodged inside the left side of Po's chest. (Where the heart and lungs are in mammals)

"NOOOOO!"

Tigress screamed in horror as she saw the blade embedded into the Panda Bear's chest, she immediately got up and rushed to the Panda's side. He was now coughing very hard and soon he began to cough up blood as his lungs began to fill up with fluid since they had been punctured by the knife. Tigress began to panic and got to the Panda's side within a second. "PO!? SAY SOMETHING!" She said lifting the Panda's neck, trying desperately to get him to give her a sign. The Panda then began to cough uncontrollably and started breathing much faster as his body was failing quickly. "PO! PLEASE! YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, JUST STAY WITH ME!" Tigress said as tears streamed from her eyes and she looked down at the seriously wounded Panda.

Hao who had been watching everything happen, just stood where he was in shock, he had never seen anything like this before, and for some reason his body just wouldn't move in bewilderment of the situation.

Akuma, although his Kunai had hit a target was not satisfied, rather the opposite, he raged and yelled "NOOOOOO! WHY! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?" To anyone who didn't know the Lizard's intentions, they would be confused, I mean, shouldn't Akuma be happy that he killed the Dragon Warrior? They were opponents. But Akuma's true intentions were to use the Dragon Warrior to help him conquer the entire country of China, but now with the Dragon Warrior having sacrificed himself to save Tigress, that plan would be much more difficult to accomplish.

Though Po wasn't dead yet, he was dying, and quickly. He was still coughing and choking on blood and if he was breathing, it wasn't a normal breathing rate. Tigress still held him by the back of his neck and cried as she said in a very sad tone "Please Po...Don't leave me again..." As her teardrops dropped on the Panda's chest, the Panda opened his eyes to where he was nearly squinting and said with all the strength he had left "You-'Cough!'-'Cough!'-Have beautiful-'Cough!'-Eyes..." The Panda said while staring right into Tigress' tear filled amber eyes and raising his hand to wipe off the tears from her eyes, however when his hand nearly reached her eyes, he fainted and his arms and head fell. "No...No...NOOOOOOOO!" Tigress screamed in grief as she watched the Panda faint out of blood loss and his lungs filling up with blood.

Now acting upon instinct, Tigress joined her paws by opposite ends and made the hand movements in preparation to use her Chi to save the dying Panda. And within a second, bright golden Chi energy radiated from Tigress' right hand as she aimed her Chi at the wound in the Panda's chest, after fixing the wound in Po's chest, the throwing knife came right out as the tissues and bones in Po's chest had regenerated. Then Tigress moved her hand and focused her Chi on the neurotoxin that had still been present in Po's brain, and magically, the power of the Chi energy simply dissolved the toxin and it disappeared from the Panda's head. Then Tigress broke out of her instintual trance and cried desperately "please! Wake up!"

For several seconds, nothing happened and eventually Tigress collapsed on to Po's as she had been exhausted by how much Chi she had used to try to heal the Panda. But when her forehead touched the Panda's, she felt Po's head move as well and in a split second his lips touched hers and he wrapped his arms around her body, bringing her right on top of him. She then did the same thing and wrapped her arms around him and embraced him in a kiss that lasted nearly a full minute with neither one of them willing to stop soon. However they broke apart nearly a minute and a half later for air, but when they did, each looked into the other's eyes and Po said "I love you..." Tigress smiled joyfully as she replied "I know." (Another Star Wars cliché)

But their moment was cut short as the Komodo Dragon who had been watching the entire scene then angrily yelled "I hope you two are happy! Because it will be the last time you ever feel happiness! Or for that matter, feel anything!" Akuma then signaled with his left hand, and within seconds, what seemed like an army of thugs and mercenaries of which being Gorillas, Boars, Rhinos and Crocodiles filled into the tournament arena, surrounding the unconscious bodies of the other Furious Five as well as Hao, Po and Tigress. Akuma then continued "Now this is personal! Prepare to be destroyed 'Masters'!" The Komodo Dragon said in an angry tone.

Po's strength had been nearly depleted from both his fight with the five but also from having been injured and healed quickly. But he used what strength he had left and stood up, getting in front of Tigress and Hao, protecting the two as he said "I won't let that happen Akuma."

A/N: Wow! What an action packed chapter! It took me a while o imagine all of the fight moves and to describe them with words! But I'm glad I managed to get this Chapter done! Send me your quotes that you want me to feature at the beginning of the Chapters and as always, Favorite, Follow, and most of all

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