And this is how the Bushido-Akio's help out for the preparations of the Jade Palace holiday event.
Chapter 9: Volunteering at the Jade Palace
Throughout the day, Musaki, Phoenix, Arizona, Kango and Tsunami assisted in every which way possible to set up the event; from decorating, clean-up and ice sculpturing the dragon while Po, Cody, Summer, Sierra, and Luna helped with the cooking and as Tigress was working Sage and Yow-Ni hard to the bone, she was still shocked by how much assistance she's receiving from Musaki and his clan. On one hand, she felt kinda guilty for letting them work when they could be out celebrating the holidays and let her handle all of it...but at the same time, it kinda takes a few burdens off her back to know that the rest of them could handle setting it up.
Sage comes in with mounds of plates and bowls on his paw and he asked, "And where do you want this?"
"Just put them on the kitchen. Do not break them...otherwise I will break your face." Tigress replied, adding the last part with a growl.
Sage growls back at her as he placed them delicately on the table and he panted heavily and wiped the sweat off of his brow and asked, "Is that all now? I feel like I've been working my ass off for two freaking hours."
"Do not use such language in my prescence." Tigress said.
Then, Yow-Ni comes in with 12 boxes of chopsticks and puts them down on the table, further from the plates and after he sets them down, Yow-Ni said, "My body isn't used to hard work."
"Perhaps because you've never worked a day in your life. Your dad put me in charge of you two...so get used to it." Tigress answered, with a smirk on her face.
"Is there anything else? My bones feel like noodles." Sage said, dreading more work.
That word spurred Po's interest as soon as he, Cody, Tsunami, Sierra, Summer and Luna entered the kitchen and Po said, "Did someone say noodles?"
"Hey, Tigress." Luna said, smiling.
"Hey, Ti...mind if we use the kitchen? We've got all the delivered boxes of food." Po stated.
Tigress nodded in approval and and told Sage and Yow-Ni to follow her and the two wolves were not so happy with it as they followed her and everyone prepped in the kitchen and with a major surprise...Samurai comes in and said, "Is there room for one noodle maker here?"
"Always room, Sammy." Po said, smiling.
As Tigress brought in Sage and Yow-Ni back to the palace, she was stunned to see another half of the Bushido-Akio clan come in to help and it was like she couldn't wrap her mind around how much of the Bushido-Akio's are willing to assist and Mako saw Tigress walk by and he said, "Hello, Tigress."
"Mako...what are you doing here? You shouldn't have to do this." Tigress said.
"We didn't have to. We wanted to." Mako added.
Soon enough, Reiko brought in K.C., Panko and Banzai to her and she said, "Whip these boys to work."
"Are you serious?" Banzai said, in disbelief.
Tigress had no problem with handling the rest of them and she started thinking to herself, 'Maybe this will be a good idea. Still, they didn't have to come here and help us.'
As the evening progresses, everything seemed to be in tip-top shape and as the family were ready to leave, Master Shifu came by to them and said, "If I had known you'd all pitch in, we probably would never have gotten ready this quick."
"Well...let's just say we love to volunteer and help others. That's the Bushido-Akio family tradition; amongst all others." Mako stated.
Master Shifu smiled at that and said, "All in all, thank you for your assistance."
Mako respectfully bowed back and replied, "It's our pleasure. We might even have to come back tomorrow if you like."
Tigress wanted to decline, but Po immediately beat her to it and said, "Sure. That would be awesome if you guys kept volunteering."
"All right then. See you all tomorrow." Mako said, with a smile.
The rest of the kids felt totally satisified that they were willing to devote their time to assist in the Jade Palace to help out their event and while most of the masters were fine with that, Tigress felt guilty and a little bit upset that they took the time to volunteer without even asking and Po could sense that in an instant and he said, "Hey, it's all good, Ti."
"But why us? They didn't even ask if they wanted to help us. We could've had it done in 3 days." Tigress added.
"They didn't have to ask. Knowing them, they were more than willing to help us out. I think it made the whole process go smooth. And besides...we're ahead of schedule." Po stated.
Tigress froze for a second after Po received the list of all the tasks they were gonna do and half of those were already completed early and they still have 7 more to go and she was in shock over that and Po walked back inside, leaving Tigress in a state of realization that it was all knocked down in 4 hours.
'They really did it.' Tigress thought.
Tigress couldn't really believe the Bushido-Akio's actually pitched in. I wanted to make her think that maybe they didn't need their help and that her and Po would be better off handling it on their own, but the Bushido-Akio's selfless acts did the talking. Stay tuned for more!