Well...here's the answer for how the masters are doing with Nate.
Chapter 18: Tables Turning
When Musaki and Arizona walked to the training hall, they saw that Nate was given a huge array of physical training with the Five and the young lion became physically and mentally exhausted by taking in all of them and when he got taken down by Tigress, he figured that there was no stopping her with the moves she used on him.
One look at Nate and he saw that his mane was frazzled up, his fur was messy and every piece of his bones began to crack really heavily. Nate groaned in deep pain and he tried to stand up, but his body gave out and just laid there. Tigress wasn't gonna have it and she got into his face and said, "Get up!"
Nate lets out a couple of whimpers and said, "But I'm tired!"
Shifu went up to Nate and he said, "Well, this is just the beginning for you, Nathaniel."
Nate was too weak to talk back to him and he just lets out a very painful moan and told him, "I thought you masters were supposed to go easy on me."
Monkey walks over to Nate and he could tell that he was trying to get out of this so easily and he said, "After the way you treated Tigress and Shifu? You're not getting out of this one."
Just then, Po comes in and tells him, "Besides, we're just getting started."
That shocked Nate the most when he was informed that they're not done with him yet and he said, "Can't you just give me a break here?"
Shifu grabbed ahold of Nate's finger and planned to use the Wuxi-finger hold on him, which made Nate feel completely scared and fearful because he remembered the time he used to do it when he was an out-of-control cub and the grandmaster told him, "Don't think that we're going easy on you. This is for all the times I've had to tolerate your disrespectfulness and your laziness."
"But I'm a lion. That's what we do at times...we do nothing and sleep 30 hours a day." Nate pleaded.
Shifu gripped Nate's finger harder and that made Nate whimper in fear and he said, "That's what we call laziness."
"Let go of me! I'll do anything you want!" Nate shouted desperately.
Tigress then went up to him and said, "You promise to do anything we say and not to question our abilities and what we do around here?"
"Promise!"
Musaki quickly chimed in and said, "And can you apologize to Lazarus for all the times you've bullied him?"
"Yes! Just tell Shifu to let go of my finger!" Nate shrieked.
Shifu then lets it go and Nate stands up on all fours and he lets out an exhausted sigh and he said, "I've never worked this hard in my life."
Tigress looks at him and said, "Well...now you know what it feels like. Now go around the thousand steps again."
"But..."
Tigress gave him one of her famous death glares and that obviously frightened Nate to see her like that and Nate quickly said, "All right, all right! I'll do it!"
As Nate sets to walk out, Musaki stops him for a second and he tells him, "I'm not finished with you yet, Nate."
"What are you talking about?" asked Nate.
Musaki walks over to him and gets under his legs and hits his head over Nate's lionhood, provoking him to squeak and fall down on his back, groaning in pain while holding onto his nuts backwards. Musaki took a deep breath and said, "That's for me, Arizona, Shifu and Tigress."
Po was awestruck with how he did this and he asked, "Whoa, Lil' Saki..."
"I felt as if he deserved it." Musaki added.
Shifu couldn't agree more with what Musaki put out and he said, "Rightfully so. But how'd you figure that that area was the one you kicked?"
Musaki figured this was gonna be a little bit crazy to answer, but he said, "Lions have their guy parts born backwards like any other big cats like leopards, tigers and cheetahs."
Most of them were a little surprised and really shocked that Musaki could actually know about this kind of anatomy and Mantis asked, "How'd you figure that out?"
"Just a hunch. I'm kind of a weird genius like that." Musaki said, laughing.
Later that day
Nate ran up and down the thousand steps throughout the rest of the afternoon and as the summer camp went on, the young teen lion saw this as torture and somewhat embarassing to do so because he was so tired and sweaty from all of that running and even worse...Shifu was supervising him at the top of the steps and by the 490th time, Nate began panting heavily and wanted to stop and he went towards Shifu and asked, "Can I stop now?"
Nate desperately needed a break and he laid down flat on his side and Shifu told him, "You're done with running the thousand steps."
Nate sighed in relief as he was about to get his rest...but Shifu had other plans.
"Right after...you carry this pound of weight on your back."
Shifu brings in some weights to put around Nate's back and the young lion started whining about this and he said, "Not fair! I thought you were gonna take it easy on me!"
Shifu could see Nate's reaction as if a four year old would make that reaction and he said, "Suck it up, Nathaniel. I should've had you do this a long time ago and think of it as your punishment...7 years in the making. Now...go up and down the steps 500 times."
The fact that Nate had to go up and down the steps 500 times was considered exhausting enough, but to do it with weights around his back made him whine and cry about it more, but he had no other choice but to do so and as he was able to do this task, Nate whispered to himself, "Why does this always happen to me?"
Later on that day...
Nate reached his 500th time on the steps and as he got to the top, Shifu untied the weights around his back and immediately collapsed on the ground, feeling hot, sweaty and exhausted and Shifu chuckled softly and said, "Consider this as a lesson to be learned...the hard way."
Nate didn't really care about finding a shady spot to rest in. He'd prefer laying in the hot sun after doing a task like that and as Shifu walks away, Nate lets out a big painful moan and said, "This freakin' sucks."
What did you guys think? Funny for ya? Well...here's the final chapter!