Samurai and Phoenix wants answers from Tigress as to why she acted like that towards him, even when she promised herself not to...and they got a lot more answers than they had bargained for.

Chapter 15: Confronting the Issue

Meanwhile, Tigress made her way to the Peach Tree to try to make sense out of this whole thing, but she found herself face-to-face with Shifu, Phoenix and Samurai and the three of them looked very steamed and Tigress couldn't see what was going on and she asked, "May I help you?"

"Just one question; why did you claw Max?" asked Phoenix, folding his arms.

Suddenly, it was like something has pulled out of nowhere that they know what she had done to Max right in front of them and she tried to put aside those guilty feelings she had and remained as stone-faced as possible and she said, "He was asking for it."

That shocked Samurai to hear that straight from Tigress' mouth as if she's blaming him for what just happened back there and asked, "How was he asking for it?!"

"It's his fault! I shouldn't have lost to him!" Tigress shouted.

"Are you serious?" Phoenix asked, in disbelief.

"Dead serious! Besides, he deserved it after I lost to him!" Tigress exclaimed, with her arms crossed.

Shifu's eyes twitched after hearing that she's blaming Max for her outburst today and he was deeply appalled by that accusation and he said, "What did he do to deserve it, Tigress? It was your actions that caused Max to have his face clawed!"

"I'm not taking the blame here! I'm the victim of his presence!" Tigress shouted.

Samurai got really heated by this and he could not understand why Max was victimizing Tigress all for winning a sparring session and he asked, "How are you the victim?!"

"Just...just by being himself! I don't see why you're taking his side, anyway!" Tigress spat out.

"We're not taking sides here. We just want to know why are you so angry at Max and why you clawed him! That wasn't right and you know that wasn't right!" Phoenix exclaimed.

"Hhow are you to tell me what's right or not?" Tigress asked, getting in Phoenix's face.

"That's quite enough!" Shifu shouted, intervening between the two of them.

Shifu was at his wit's end about arguing about Max and he turned to Tigress and said, "It doesn't matter who's side they're on. Tigress, your behavior in front of Max was unacceptable and I believe you owe him an apology! And don't back down from what you did! When will you learn to take responsibility for your actions?!"

"It's your fault, Shifu!" Tigress spat out.

"My-my fault?! How is this my fault?!" Shifu asked, flabbergasted.

"You made me like this! You turned me into a hardcore, cold-hearted monster that always gets angry over everything! All my life, I've wanted to make you proud of me and I never received that from you and because of you, I am like this! Everything I learned...I learned from you! I always believed that this is how a master should be!" Tigress shouted.

"And I've made that mistake! I'll admit that, but don't put this on me!" Shifu shouted back.

"Then, don't put the blame on me for what I did to Max! I wish that little brat was dead!" Tigress screamed.

Hearing that sent a huge amount of shockwaves towards Samurai and Phoenix once they heard the words that came out of her mouth that she wished death on Max and that really sent Samurai a little over the edge and that was something he did not take lightly and said, "Take...that...back."

"Never." Tigress growled.

"TAKE IT BACK RIGHT NOW! YOU WENT TOO DAMN FAR!" Samurai shouted, with tears coming out of his eyes.

"Sam...Sam...chill, man." Phoenix said, calming him down.

Samurai was still angry with Tigress with that death wish placed on Max and he glared at her for a second and said, "You can't say things about my tiger brother like that. Do you not recall what you almost did to him a few months ago?!"

Shifu thought it was best to handle this situation and he turned to Samurai and Phoenix and asked, "Do you mind if we handle this by ourselves?"

"Of course. Come on, Sam. Let's go find Max." Phoenix said.

As soon as they left, Shifu turned to Tigress for a second and he asked, "What has gotten into you?! A warrior cannot act like this...especially on this current conduct!"

"I just wanted everything to go back to where it was before...before Max even came into our lives!" Tigress shouted.

"Tigress, we can't expect everything to go back to the way it was. Things change and how you react to those changes determine if you can adapt and from what I see, you're not accepting it and you're acting like a spoiled child!" Shifu shouted.

"I am not a child!" Tigress roared.

"I would've expected that childish behavior from the Dragon Warrior, but not from you." Shifu stated.

"You know, instead of having so much hatred and jealousy towards Max, you ought to be respectful to him because he is a young cub! And swallow each and every ounce of warrior pride in you and apologize to Max!" Shifu shouted.

"Why should I even apologize?! He should be the one apologizing for ruining our lives!" Tigress shouted.

Shifu felt like he was getting nowhere with this and with a hint of frustration, he lets out an excruciating sigh and said, "That's it. I'm done. If you wanna wallow around your selfish pride, go right ahead! But don't expect me to watch because those with pride...will have their downfall."

As soon as Shifu left, Tigress couldn't help but wodner what that actually meant, but she shook it off and just headed straight to the training hall to take her frustrations out on the training equipment.

Man...you can tell the tension brewed between all four of them and it was dramatic on the realest level. Stay tuned for more!