Secrets

Chapter 11 – Drunken Tigress

"So...on a lighter note," Gabs looked around and spotted Shifu who was tapping his foot and looking at her as if she were a five-year-old, "Shifu, where dya keep da vodka?" she shouted with her arms held open wide. Shifu immediately stopped tapping his foot and folded his arms over his chest,

"Master Gabs," he said sincerely, " I reassure you that I quit that habit many moons ago,"

"Under the bed then," she said indifferently. Shifu was getting nervous for this was completely true. Tigress, with her arms folded, lowered her head shaking it from left to right. Before disappearing behind the corner, Gabs mouthed the words 'I can read your mind' to Shifu. No-one else except Shifu, Viper and Crane saw this. Viper and crane exchanged a look. Crannie, Lili, CJ and Tai were chatting in the background. Shifu suddenly looked at Tigress and thankfully for him, Tigress did not see Gabs' little 'speech'.

"Gabs, I went through six months of tight training to get Shifu of the vodka. Believe me he's..." Tigress now opened her mouth in horror while looking Gabs who to everyone's fascination, had already returned with her arms ful of different types of alcohol of which the majority were vodka, "...NOT QUIT!" Tigress roared.

"Nice collection Shifu," Gabs stated, impressed, while looking at the label of an unopened bottle of white wine, "Twenty years! I'm impressed. I must say, you have good taste Shifu."

" I spent six months of hell for nothing!" Tigress yelled.

"Lighten up coz!" Gabs said while putting an opened bottle of whisky down her throat, forcing her to drink every last sip of what was left, "What's so great about Tigress is that she gets drunk on just a few sips of alcohol!"

When Master Gabs took the now empty bottle of whisky out of Tigress' mouth, she looked curiously at the dazed Tigress that looked around with her eyes half closed. When she laid her eyes on Crane, her eye lids flung open.

"Um...Tigress...why are you looking at me like that?" Crane asked worryingly. In no time at all, Tigress managed to do an impressive double back flip into the air and landed, sitting on Cranes shoulders. She pointed up into the air and shouted in a western accent,

"Fly, birdy fly!"

"Tigress, get off my back!" Crane shouted angrily, trying desperately to shake Tigress off his back but it was no use.

"Now how do you work this thing?" Tigress mumbled to herself while grabbing Crane's wings and moving them up and down briskly, causing their bodies to be lifted up into the air, quite a few meters above ground level, "I'm as light as a feather!"

"Not to me you're not!" Crane argued while trying to regain control of his wings. Tigress immediately stopped flapping Crane's wings and put her hands on her hips. She looked sternly at him and asked in a drunken manner,

"Are you calling me fat," it was only after wounds that they realised that Crane's wings weren't flapping at all. They exchanged a look and fell to the ground, flat on their faces.

"That was fun!" Tigress shouted while punching her fist into the air. Everybody else giggled, all except Crane of course, who was rubbing the side of his beak.

"What have you created!" Mantis joked to Master Gabs. Master Gabs let out an evil laughter which filled the whole room. Tigress and Crane finally got to their feat.

"Did I ever tell you the time I spray painted Shifu's tail pink? I don't know why but I..." Tigress suddenly felt very weak and started to see double. She found it hard to maintain her balance,

"...Viper...I didn't know you had a twin sister."

The room suddenly went quiet. The others exchanged a look and then noticed that the bottom part of Tigress' training shirt was soaking wet.

"Um...Tigress..." Viper began worryingly, "Why is your shirt wet?"

Tigress then lifted the hand that was on her stomach and saw a mixture of red, black green and white liquids laying motionless on her hand.

"Blood," Master Eva whispered, disorientated and unable to move a muscle, "My poor baby is...bleeding."

The others looked at Tigress in horror.

They soon heard footsteps in the distance and a tall, middle-aged, well built male tiger entered the premises with an incredibly large back-pack on his shoulders. The male tiger wore black trousers and a dark green shirt with a golden lightning bolt design. He immediately saw Tigress and screamed in horror, "Tigress!"

He dropped his luggage and ran to her, just managing to catch her before she collapsed. Her multi-coloured blood began to leak from her mouth. The male tiger patted her cheek while whispering, "Stay with me Tigress, stay with me. I love you. Don't leave me now," the poor guy almost broke into tears. He shouted to the others, "Get me Doctor Mantis, NOW!"

"Lili already went to get him," Tai immediately said, her jaw was shaking. She was staring at her mother.

He looked back at Tigress with tears in his eyes.

Tigress saw all her friends and family crowd around her. She smiled weekly.

"We're here for you," She could just barely hear the love of her life say while holding her paw. Her sight went fizzy and she fell unconscious.

A/N: sorry I wasn't able to update sooner cuz of a slight tech problem AKA...*!VIRUS!*

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