And Max gets a chance to actually train with Tigress...let's see how that goes.

Chapter 12: Second Chance

By the next morning, Max, Samurai, Phoenix and Arizona made their way to the Jade Palace and Max is hoping that he can try again and do his part to start fresh with Tigress and to show that all is really forgiven and although Max is confident that he'll go along with it, Samurai and Phoenix are a little reluctant about going through this, fearing that it'll all go down south. Phoenix looked at Max and asked, "You sure you wanna go through this?"

"I'm positive. I mean...she just needed time to think it over and maybe she'll be better today. I mean, it'll all blow over." Max replied.

"How can you be sure about that?" asked Samurai.

"Well...you never really know and you're never really sure. You just have to go with your gut instincts." Max answered.

Arizona was slightly impressed with Max's answer and he said, "Spoken like a wise future warrior."

"No, more like a little buddist." Phoenix stated.

Max sighed and shook his head at those two choices and he looked at both of them and said, "Let's just focus on this."

By the time they had made it up the steps, they saw Master Shifu standing there and they weren't sure if they were surprised or if something has happened with Tigress and Phoenix said, "Morning, Shifu."

"Good morning, boys. What brings you all here?" asked Shifu.

"Well, Max wanted to talk to Tigress and see how she's doing and maybe train with her for a while." Arizona replied.

That response started to surprise Shifu because normally, that would never be allowed because of Tigress' fury and complete impatience with him and would be better suited with someone like Po or some of the Five or the Hazards to train him instead...so to hear that Max wants to train with Tigress was just something he could never fully expect to hear from Max. Shifu cleared his throat and asked, "Are you quite certain?"

"Yes, sir." Max replied.

Shifu was still overwhelmed with shock that Max has made that request and he said, "I'll see what I can do."

Before long, Shifu lead them to the training hall and by the time he opened the door, he could see the rest of the students hard at work, training their hearts out and as they were training, they noticed Max standing there and all of them greeted him...except for Tigress, who didn't seem to pay him any mind at all and Shifu said, "Students, Max is gonna train with Tigress today."

All of their reactions provoked shock and disbelief that he's willing to train with Tigress for the day and no one was more shocked than Tigress herself and she didn't expect that to happen, plus with what she almost did to him still looming in her mind, it was definitely gonna be a difficult day for her. Some of them protested this, but Shifu told them, "Max has already made up his mind. Let's just see how it goes for today."

Max walks towards a very anxious Tigress and he's willing to put all of the issues to the side and just focus on training and Tigress was super reluctant to go along with it, but didn't say anything and just went with it and all the others could do is just stand and watch...in case things get a little too out of control between the two of them.

Minutes went by and the training has begun and Max has been following every single order Tigress has done and with one sprring match, it was to see how much Max has gotten and in Tigress' eyes, he has gotten better...far more better than she had expected or anticipated. She's gotten a little impressed with his progression and one-by-one, he's gotten a lot better.

Most of the others couldn't help but feel relieved that there's no single amount of arguments between the two and Po was a little confident that this will keep going and he said, "I gotta say, this isn't half bad."

"Keep your fingers crossed." Phoenix added.

Finally, the two went in together for a little sparring match and Tigress has sparred with Max to see how he's gotten and both of them sparred with each other and it's like their skilled are very evenly matched without any margins or errors whatsoever and Max has gotten to the advanced level, which concerned Tigress because no one except for her is very advanced in kung-fu skills.

But there was no time for thinking as she went forward to sparring Max, Max slid underneath her legs and sparred her to the ultimate limit and soon enough, Max did a backflip/punch kick towards Tigress and landed to the wall and she laid there for a quick second. Max panted heavily at this and he walked towards her and took out his hand and asked, "Need a hand?"

The fact that Max even lent her a hand after a loss didn't sit so well with Tigress and she took that very personally and she immediately got herself up and she got very angry at Max and that was something that everyone is fearing right now and Max gulps hard and said, "Don't tell me...you want to beat me up again, don't you?"

Then, that question came closer to her mind and she had had it and lapsed back to her normal furious self and she said, "What do you think?! When I get my hands on you, I swear I am so gonna ki..."

Then, she paused herself and reverted back to what had happened a few months ago when she last confronted him that ended up in half bloodshed and she feared that she was gonna lose it again and she's already lost some respect from the villagers already and she looked at the others and they were completely concerned for both tigers and Tigress dropped her shoulders and grunts in frustration and said, "We're done here."

"Was it something I did?" asked Max.

"No, it wasn't something you did." Tigress said, gritting her teeth.

"Are you scared me of me?" asked Max, a little concerned.

"That's enough, Max." Tigress said, boiling up.

Max felt like she's hiding something and wants to know what's wrong with her and why the sudden change and he said, "Listen, if it's about what happened a few months ago, I forgive you for that. But for the past month, we haven't even seen each other and I'm trying to see why aren't you coming to my house."

"Max...please stop." Tigress said, getting tensed up.

"Tigress, I'm not gonna stop until we really resolve this issue. Just why are you so afraid of me?!" Max asked.

"I said that's enough!" Tigress screamed.

And then...she did the unthinkable...she clawed him straight to the face and that caused Max to yowl in pain and after that, Tigress saw drips of blood coming out of his face and parts of his nose and when Max faced her, that's when the terror sinks in that she clawed him straight to the face and it was like she relapsed back to her angry habits again and she couldn't believe what she had done.

She backed away once again and just left the Training Hall in fear and shame and after that, nobody even said a word while Max walked over to them and stood on Arizona's side and Samurai said, "I knew that wasn't gonna last."

Lapsing back into Tigress' fury...and lost her temper in the process again. Sounds like Samurai and Phoenix will get to the bottom of this! Stick around!

Voice of Samurai: Josh Peck

Voice of Arizona: Nick Roye

Voice of Phoenix: Nolan North