It was like he was in prison again, except maybe not as depressing.
Shifu had sent four of the five away to deal with some disturbances in a nearby village-Which in Tai Lung's opinion they should have dealt with themselves their disturbancewas probably two farmers fighting over land anyway- and had gone off somewhere himself.
And guess who was forced to watch (guard) him?
If you guessed Tigress you catch on fast. Shifu had likely intended for this to be some type of bonding exercise,or at least an opportunity to make nice with each other which didn't seem to be happening.
For the past hour (or maybe it was two) he had been confined to his room, it wasn't like he couldn't leave quite the contrary it was self-inflicted, but leaving would mean dealing with resentful glares, the two didn't talk it was just silence and glares followed by more silence and Tigress, like many other things she did, took her duty of watching him very seriously and followed him practically ever where in the palace, except his bedroom and the bathroom(he had attempted staying,not hiding,in there briefly but boredom had driven him out ) and even in his room he had the funny feeling she was lurking somewhere close by just waiting for him to come out.
Something Tai Lung no intentions of doing anytime soon, they both knew she had something to say and the snow leopard just wished she'd get it over with instead of holding off, he of all animals knew pent up anger lead to unsavory consequences, but until that happened Tai Lung was happy to busy himself with his trunk that was full interesting items from his childhood.
A bag full of chocolate he had gotten at a fair,which he quickly threw across the room when he realized exactly how old it was, several trinkets including a silver plated scroll that acted as a mirror, hmm he'd have to show Shifu that one, rubber balls and marbles that where in mint condition, had he ever even played with those? Probably not. After rifling through the mounds of seemingly unused toys he reached the bottom where a medium sized brown box lay.
Curiously he lifted it, turning it over carefully and listening rattling coming from inside finally he yanked the top off and peered into the dark container and was surprised to see a puzzle well at least the pieces of one, probably a birthday gift that he stuffed into the trunk and forgotten.
Well he nothing to do and with Tigress still out and about and most likely still steaming, it seemed like nice way to pass time.
The first pieces where the hardest but in a little while Tai Lung developed a method of sorts flipping each one of the pieces color side up then working on building a frame and slowly moving inwards, a fun thing to do was after every ten pieces to try to guess what the puzzle was then quickly change your opinion during the placement of the next ten.
Finally the picture became clear it was a landscape of the village with two Pallas cats in the foreground who wore funny hats and carried a large basket of apples between them.
After spending some time examining the finished puzzle he opted against putting it back and instead decided to glue and hang it on his wall next to the mirror, yes that was exactly what he would do.
As soon as Shifu came back and lessened the awkwardness...
A/N. Maybe on day Tai lung will get on her good side but not today!
Anyway I'm really sorry for the late update I've gone and lost the book I kept all the chapters in and i have to start again, sigh ah oh well it happens. Review? And make sure to read my new oneshot Lychee nut! :)