Waiting was awful. Tigress stood, listening to the clear voice of the announcer, ringing out through the little black holes in the corners of the hallway (that never seemed to end), holes covered in a dark mesh, blaring out 'how long until the games begin'.

"Look at them. Bet you they still don't know the whole truth." Nynso quietly noted, as he watched outside a small hole, just enough to spot a queue of spectators for 'the fight of the century'. They all looked so happy about it; there was no way they could realise how much was at stake here.

"Please can all warriors report to their tube." At the end of the hallway (which finally didn't seem so far away), a tube appeared 'magically' from the ground.

Tigress didn't believe in magic.

"I-I..." Stuttering. Nervousness. A new experience for the hardened warrior, which she didn't enjoy.

"Look. You've got a good chance of winning this."

"Ki-killing?"

"You don't have to. Outlive them."

"A-a..."

"Hm?"

"M... make sure, no matter my condition, dead or alive, that Po survives. I don't care how, but make sure he is alive. And... please don't let him lose his light. H-he's my best friend... He can't lose that. P-please."

"I'll do all I can. I promise. But if you die for him, I will bring you back and I will slap you so hard... well, let's just hope it doesn't come to that..." Trying to cheer the, for once, mildly terrified warrior, Nynso grinned, before turning serious and quietly murmuring, "Pass me your scarf, quickly." Tigress followed his orders, a blank expression on her face so as to conceal her emotions from making her seem weak. Getting out a small, fanged tooth from his pocket then bringing out his own claw, he scratched 'Master Tigress' onto the tooth, before wrapping the rebellion-scarf around the tooth an a special pattern which made the 'Master Tigress' easily visible, as he put it, like a bracelet, around her wrist, just high enough so not to get in the way of fighting, but obvious to see. Giving a kung-fu bow, Nynso said in a loud and clear voice: "Good luck, Master Tigress."

Her voice having gone unnaturally high, almost breaking but not quite, she breathed out a brief "Thank you." before turning and walking, head held high, to the tube. Once inside, the transparent, glass doors shut around her. Time for the arena. Nynso gave her one last wave, as she the floor inside the tube suddenly began ascending.

Up, up, up.

Tigress looked around her. She was finally here. All that - was it a week, Tigress lost track of time - time ago, when she had no idea... And now she was here in the arena. She was one of the first to arrive in the arena, but nobody moved - they had been informed that if they did, they would come to a very untimely end.

Counting as the Masters arrived, it suddenly dawned upon Tigress it wasn't just the Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five - all the current masters of Kung Fu who were alive were here. Obviously, not including Shifu, and Mei-Ling, who everyone assumed was a Master of sorts by now. Some were in better shape than others, and Tigress knew she had a distinct advantage over many... but she couldn't bear the thought of killing.

Focus, Tigress! 54 seconds left, observe the Arena, where to go next?

In one direction, there was snowy mountains which seemed dangerous, but also offfered the advantage of height. Another terrain was rocky, full of rocks to hide behind - but also flat, offering not much of an advantage, and there was no water source. The third area Tigress saw seemed quite a good, normal forest at first... but look behind, and there was a gigantic volcano that could easily swamp the whole arena. A brief look behind her - 27 seconds - showed a very tropicalised jungle, probably full of maneating creatures, but also food, and the most likely to have water and shelter, if she played it safe.

19 seconds.

There was a decently sized backpack not too far from her, and not too close in to where the 'bloodbath' would be. Tigress also saw a bow, but decided against it - it was slap-bang in the center of all the weaponry.

7 seconds.

Plan: Run, grab rucksack, run into jungle, work from there.

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The overhead voice was barely heard by Tigress as she, along with everyone else, stepped of their plates. It was the same as only fully-formed thought she had, however:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, let the Kung Fu Games begin!"

A/N: DAMN RIGHT THE GAMES STARTED YAY! So happy it finally started, really really happy, and ZOMG HAVE YOU SEEN THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE? AMAZING! So very very happy after watching it with my fellow HG fans, we all came out super-excited, won't spoil it BUT IT'S AMAZING! And, competition over, because we have two correct 'Kunku's species' winners: Phoenix King and im Richtofen kool 115! Either leave a review with a description of your OC (can they be Kung Fu masters or evil villians, please? Apart from that you have control) as either a review or a PM. PLEASE REVIEW! Okay, thank you all so much, I love review a lot by the way (FFCrazy15 if you happen to read this, I think you're a fantastic author and it would make my week if you left a review, even if it said 'Hey saddo you want me to review? I'll kick you with Kung Fu!'.) Okay, thank you all my lovely reviewers, you are amazingly amazingly amazing people and I want to give you all big (virtual) hugs... ANYONE WHO REVIEWS GETS MONKEY'S ALMOND COOKIES AS A SPONSOR GIFT FROM ME! PLEASE REVIEW, THANK YOU AND BYEEEEEE!