Master Shifu yelled, "Get the doctor and someone take her to the infirmary NOW!" He was right, it had happened again.
Without a thought Crane left to get the doctor, he flew down the hall (literally). Those that remained looked on worriedly at the unconscious Tigress.
Po wasted no time, he went and picked her up to take her to the infirmary. Everyone was right behind Po as he ran. Po was looking down at Tigress. He studied her features and was not paying attention... he tripped forwards. Everyone gasped as Po and Tigress fell to the floor, but Po thought quickly he turned so he hit the floor and Tigress landed on top of him. Po got up immediately and said "Oops." Everyone looked at him sternly and so he turned around and kept running, but he looked forward this time. When they arrived he set her gently in the bed. Then it was silent. Po broke the silence, "I hope she is going to be ok."
Master Shifu started to remember the other time this had happened. Master Shifu decided to tell the others, "Students, she will be fine. It has happened before." They were all confused now.
Monkey asked, "When did it happen before?"
Master Shifu answered, "When she was thirteen years old..."
Viper said, "Master please tell us."
Master Shifu looked over at Tigress and began to tell the tale, "Well it was a summer night and I was meditating by the peach tree when I heard a loud scream..."
Po interrupted, "Wait you heard a scream all the way from the Peach Tree?"
Master Shifu rolled his eyes, "Po I can here you training from the Peach Tree."
Po's eyes got wide, "COOL!"
"Master please get back to the story," Mantis stated impatiently.
Shifu went on, "When I heard the scream I knew it was Tigress and I ran to her room as fast as I could. But when I got there it was silent." The other warriors were leaning in now, hanging on Shifu's every word, and longing to hear the rest. Shifu continued, "I knocked, but there was no answer so I opened the door and stepped in to see her on the bed; but something was wrong so I shook her, and like today, nothing. I started to panic so I ran to get Master Oogway. When he came in and saw her he only said one thing, and it still confuses me to this day. He said, 'She will be fine. And she will be part of The One.' I was utterly confused, and still am."
Po spoke first, "The One? Who's The One?"
Shifu responded, "I do not know."
Mantis whined, "The story please."
Master Shifu responded, "Patience Mantis, patience. Oogway's response to the situation did little to calm my fears, so I got a doctor. The doctor said she had a fever and wouldn't wake up for a long time. That week was the longest week of my life. Then one day she woke up and told me what she was screaming about…it was a nightmare.
Viper was shocked, "A nightmare caused all of this? ...why was she out cold?"
Master Shifu didn't know either, "I'm not sure, but I know it was not pleasant for her." He looked back at Tigress, still motionless in her bed.
Po asked, "Master, what was the nightmare?"
Master Shifu looked lost in thought. He finally answered, "Well, she dreamed of a villain with an army destroying a village and taking hold of a key to an old relic which granted the bearer ultimate power. I will spare you the details, but it was awful; in the end of this dream she said she saw a little girl tiger and a bigger tiger."
Everyone was silent except for Po, "Well I'm glad it didn't come true!" Po looked at Shifu's face, "It didn't come true did it?"
Master Shifu decided to tell the truth, "Yes it did. At least the parts about the villain getting the key and the invasion did. The part about the two Tigers did not."
The warriors didn't know how to respond to this new information. Viper thought of how the dream played out, "That must have been horrible to see... An invasion, the killing of the innocent, and then the villain, probably with a wicked smile on his face!"
Viper's comment was topped by Monkey, "What if it was a vision and not just a nightmare?"
Everyone pondered this for awhile in a silent atmosphere. Finally, Crane rushed in with the doctor close behind.
"Thank you for coming," Master Shifu said. Immediately he began to explain the situation to the doctor.
The doctor asked the other warriors to wait outside so he could examine the patient, Shifu remained. The doctor began his check up while he continued to listen to Master Shifu. Outside, the warriors waited impatiently. Viper paced the floor..or slithered the floor, Po chewed his fingernails, Monckey was tring to stay calmbut was failing misbobly, Mantis was trying to eavesdrop through the paper thin door panels,and Crain preened his feathers a nervous habit of his. They were nerves. Finally the door opened and Master Shifu and the doctor stepped out, closing the door behind them.
The doctor was bombarded with questions.
Crain asked "What's wrong?"
Viper asked "Will she live?"
Po asked "Is it contagious? …Ooh if it makes me see the future maybe I want to catch it! …Cool" Po was staring off into space imagining seeing a visions of course his ideas were something funny or dumb or something just plain stupid.
The doctor spoke to the waiting warriors who where forced to wait outside, "She will be fine."
Master Shifu asked, "When will she wake up?"
The doctor chuckled but ignored there questions and turned to Master Shifu and said, "She has quite a reflex there Master Shifu."
Shifu caught on and chuckled, but the others did not catch on.
Po asked in a confused manner, "What...what happened?"
The doctor chuckled knowingly and stated, "Let's just say I will have a bruise for quite some time." He smiled, said good bye and left.
After a few seconds it clicked for one student. Po being Po, yelled, "Oh SHE'S AWAKE!"
They all rushed in to see Tigress sitting up in the infirmary where she had been transported. She had a thoughtful look in her eyes mixed with fear. She looked up to see her friends and her Master.
Master Shifu was the first to say, "Tigress, are you ok?"
Tigress just nodded which was followed by a remark from Mantis, "Good to see you're not dead!"
This comment was followed by a glare from Tigress.
Master Shifu asked in a concerned voice, "What happened?"
Tigress's face fell immediately. Tigress looked down at the floor as she started to tell what happened, "It was horrible Master. ...The same villain, but he was in a camp, making plans…waiting for something...he came to the palace with a key... then I saw to two Tigers and now I know the older one is me and I don't know the younger one. I couldn't see her face very well... He came toward us and I felt I had to protect this little girl... He came closer and all I saw were his hands held high… They were glowing and he had something around his neck... His hands came down and that's all I saw." Everyone looked worried. If it came true like her last dream, what would happen?
Crane broke the silence, "We should leave you to rest."
Tigress looked drained. Po added, "Yeah, I'm going to make dinner. I will bring you some Tigress." Tigress was vey grateful for Po's kindness; ever since Gongmen City he had been nicer to her and she had been nicer to him.
Tigress refused, "I will not be waited on. I will go eat with the rest of you."
Master Shifu stepped in immediately, "No, you must rest."
Tigress replied, "Master I am fine I can handle it now. I'm not a little girl anymore, I am stronger." With that she got out of bed. Although everyone could see she was weak, she stood tall and strong. With great effort she walked past all of them to the kitchen.
Po said the thing everyone was thinking, "She's back!"
Out in the Forest a little outside of the valley a figure was hunched over many papers. The figure ranted, "It is almost time. When the two meet, we will wait only a little longer, then we will go and I WILL BECOME ALL POWERFULL!"