20th June, 5:49 am

Tigress knew that she didn't have much time left anymore. In eleven minutes, the morning gong will sound and her fellow residences at the Jade palace will awaken to start another busy day full of training, helping the young and old and crime stopping. Today would be just like any other day to them. Although it was more than just another day of the year to Tigress.

Tigress felt the tears begin to fill her eye lids and they threatened to spill. She hated her father for giving her up like that, and worse, to a bunch of people as part of some gamble he had clearly lost. Did she mean that little to him? Was she that bad as a child? All these questions filled her mind, and what annoyed Tigress the most is that she would proberly, never know the answer to them.

The tiger took a deep breath, and held back her tears. She is Tigress, the kung fu master that is soo hardcore, she has no emotion. Of course this clearly wasn't true, but she knew that if someone was to see her cry then they would proberly try to comfort her and she didn't want that. Mainly because she didn't want others' sympathy.

Tigress looked out across the valley, a few pigs and the odd goose were begining to walk around now. Some who lived in the valley woke up even earlier than the morning gong-like Tigress for example-and they usually went to the different stores to wait intill opening time. Tigress felt herself frown when she saw a family of pigs outside Mr Ping's. There was a mother, a father and a child that was no older than one, who were all smiling and laughing. The father pig held the child on his shoulder and the piglet giggled as their father ran.

Tigress wished her childhood could of been like that. She knew her past could have been much worse, but it was still pretty bad.

Closing her eyes once more, she knew that time was nearly up for this memory.

26 years ago

20th June, 2:47 am

The leopard and the rhino ran through the rolling fields, the grass rippling beneath their feet as they passed. The leopard that went by the name of Hui; still held the child that was wrapped in a million blankets. Although she didn't really care to be careful with the cub. Resulting with the tiger being grazed by the odd weed that was sproating from the field.

Chun bounced around in the stranger's arms, nearly falling to the far-away ground. She had no idea where she was going, or where these animals were taking her, but she doubted it would be somewhere she would like. "Daddy!" Chun continued to cry, hoping that her father would return for her. But he never would, and even at that age, Chun knew it.

"Shut up!" the rhino growled at her. Chun shrinked beneath the blankets a little.

"Where are you taking me?" she asked, her voice small and wavering.

Hui looked down at her creepily, her eyes gleaming in the moonlight, "You'll see, little one." Hui looked up to the rhino next to her with a mischievous grin, "He will definately like this one, won't he Cong?"

The rhino that Chun guessed was named Cong nodded, "Indeed,"

They pair continued through the fields in silence. Only stopping for a few moments about once every hour for a breather before taking off again. However. For Chun. It felt like they had been travelling for days. After around two hours, Chun began to get a horrible sense of dread at the thought that her father wouldn't be coming back for her. These thoughts were confirmed at around three and a half hours into the journey.

Eventually, the pair stopped at the start of a dirt path, which had a long flowing river running besides it. Chun craned her neck out of Hui's arms and stared at the river, it looked pretty deep and it sparkled in the small light of the sun that had began it's rise from behind the horizon.

The pair walked across the dirt path for about five mintues, when they came face to face with a large boar. The boar had small, beady eyes and was very large. He wore a scarlet robe that had a golden belt. Behind him were many tigers, leopards, rabbits and so many more animals it was hard to identify them all. The boar walked up to the pair with a bored expression.

"Okay then... what have you got for me this time?" he sighed, clearly annoyed and unbelieving that they had anything good to show him.

Hui's wicked smile returned, "You are going to like this one, Fu. She is the daughter of Baojia-"

The boar's face turned to thunder, "This is the daughter of WHO?" he yelled. Causing everyone, including Hui and Cong, to shy away from him.

"Uhhh Baojia..." Cong repeated for Hui, his voice shaking with panic. You would think that it would be the boar who would be scared of the rhino, not the other way around.

The boar's face darkened even further, "He is a traiter to us, you two know that! Just kill the child and get rid of any evidence. I don't want to see his face again, or the face of his daughter!" He demanded. Hui hesitated. She may not have any care for the child, but even she hated the prospect of killing an infant.

The boar noticed this, and in a fit of rage, slit her throat with a sword he had been holding. Chun screamed as blood splattered onto her forehead and she went crashing down with the leopard. How could the boar be so quick to kill? How could he kill one of his followers like this?

Blood covered the blankets that were wrapped around the child and she squirmed to get away from it. However, she was closer to the river than she though and once she managed to slip out of the blankets she fell in. Water filled her small lungs, and that is when the world went black...

Today

20th June, 6:00 am

The sound of the morning gong rattled Tigress' ears and her eyes shot open. She was blinded by the sun for a moment but when her eyes adjusted to the light, she jumped when she saw who was infront of her.

Shifu stared down at his student with understanding and empathy in his eyes. "Are you okay, Tigress?" he asked calmly. Tigress nodded quickly, her heart still beating against her rib cage. "Sorry master, you scared me."

Shifu nodded, "Remembering that day?" Tigress nodded again.

Shifu propped up his staff and balanced on it besides her, "Listen Tigress, I know how much that memory haunts you but it's time to forget. That is in the past and it can't hurt you now, if you don't let it anyways." Shifu smiled at his student.

Tigress didn't respond, but he knew that she had heard what he had said.

Shifu sighed, "C'mon Tigress, you have a long day ahead of you." He hobbled off his staff and began to walk away. Tigress jumped to her feet and turned towards the valley once more. What Shifu had said had been right, and she was ready to let go of the past. But so many questions rattled her mind still, and she knew that they would proberly never be put to rest.

Glancing at the sun one final time, she turned back around, and followed her master towards the Jade Palace.

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