Chapter-6

Here you go. New chapter updated.

Taking out a few guards from their way, Tigress and Po made it out of the Chor Gom Prison. They kept running, until they reached the Bamboo forest. Po started panting. "P-Panda… asthma. Whew!" He said between his heavy breaths. Tigress stared at him blankly. "What? This is not my fault! This runs in my family." She sighed.

"Po, you know what you've done? You just made me break out of the prison! And now those guards aren't gonna give up until they find us." Tigress commented, as Po finally caught his breath.

"Well, at least you're free from those four walls." Po commented. Tigress stared at him blankly.

"Yeah, that's right. But we can't stay out of those guards' sight forever. They'll soon find us, and then we both will be put into prison." She replied disconcertedly. "And that Boar, he also got freed. We still have to capture Fenghuang!"

"Don't worry, we will get both." Po said, receiving another glare from the feline. It looked like he was not serious at all. "You know it's-"

"Shh!" Tigress put a finger on his lips. She heard some footsteps. "I think they're coming, hurry up! Hide yourself!" Tigress said, as she jumped and climbed up on a bamboo. Po looked around, finding a place to hide. He jumped into a bush, as the guards passed by.

"Search everywhere! Those two traitors must be captured!" the guard commanded. As soon as they were out of sight, Tigress and Po came out of their hiding place.

"It's not safe for us to stay here for long. We have to get out here." Tigress said. "But where can we go?"

"Can't we go to the palace?" Asked Po. Tigress sighed.

"Po, you seriously think we can return to the Jade Palace? The guards will be marching there to find us." She replied, as Po nodded in agreement before thinking of another plan. "We need to go somewhere where we won't be found."

"How about my dad's shop?" Po suggested.

"Good suggestion, but isn't that your home, Po? It is possible that the guards will check there."

"Well, at this point that place will be safer than here." Po said, reminding Tigress that they were still in the bamboo forest. Tigress hesitated a bit but then she nodded.

"Alright." Tigress agreed. "Only if we can reach there without getting caught." Po winked.

"I have an idea for that."

Po and Tigress walked down the village, Tigress dressed up in a cloak and a hood, and Po in green pants and a bit rice hat that hid his face and a staff in his paw.

"Po, I still don't think disguising as travelers is a great idea. We can be caught since we're the only ones of our kind in here." Tigress whispered, a bit worried. Po shook his head under his hat.

"Uh huh. Not we, you." He corrected. "There are plenty of pandas in this village for me to mix in."

"And me? I am the only tiger and a so-called criminal." She replied. "I will be caught by a look."

"We will make an excuse. Those guards aren't gonna get deep into the personal identity of a woman." Tigress sighed, after all this was the only way. They reached the shop. Entering the shop, Tigress stayed behind Po's back, not wanting anyone to recognize her, Po lead her to the kitchen. Li Shan, who was serving the customers, that's what he did to help Ping with his business, watched them passing into the kitchen, a bit confused. On entering the kitchen, Mr. Ping who was cooking food turned to see who entered, he almost screamed before Po grabbed his mouth.

"Who are you?!"

"Dad, it's me, Po." Po replied, taking off his hat.

"Oh, dear. Po, you almost scared me. It's good to see you here, son. But why are you wearing these clothes?"

"I am in a disguise. Dad, I need your help."

"In what?"

Po gave a pretty nervous smile before stepping aside, presenting Tigress who took off her hood. "For hiding her." Tigress waved her paw in a gesture of Hi.

"You are hiding Tigress? From who?" Mr. Ping asked.

"What's wrong, Ping?" Li Shan asked as he reached the counter, curious to see what the matter with the strangers was; only to be surprised to see it were Tigress and Po. "Lotus? Master Tigress? What are you two doing here? You're looking funny."

Mr. Ping slapped him. "Dont say that, Li. They're on a mission. Right, son?"

"Pretty much, dad." Po replied. "Actually dad, as you know Tigress was falsely arrested for attacking me, so I broke into the prison and freed her, and now the guards are on our respective tails." He explained. "And that's why we need a place to hide."

"But son, you might get caught here." Mr. Ping remarked.

"Yes, Mr. Ping. But there's no place we can hide." Tigress replied.

"Hey, I have an idea." Li butted in. "How 'bout we go to the panda village? You won't be caught there."

"That sounds good, Mr. Shan. But we have an owl to capture." Tigress replied, getting an agreeing nod from Po. "We can't be saved from the law forever. We need to reveal the truth."

"Is someone in here?!" A firm voice came from the outside, as the guards entered the shop.

"They're here!" Po said, panicking.

"Hurry up! Hide! Go upstairs! We'll manage here!" Li Shan commanded, as Po nodded and grabbed Tigress's paw, taking her up stairs.

"Come on, Tigress!"

As soon as the guards approached the counter, the officer walked up to Li and Ping. "We need to talk to you something important."

"Oh, really?" Li asked sarcastically. "I bet it's not a good news, because you know, you guard guys never come to give some good news, you always come up bad news. Right, Ping?"

"Yep."

The guards just scoffed. "Do you know that your son, the Dragon Warrior has committed a crime by freeing two dangerous criminals from the Chor Ghom Prison?"

"Wow, really? Cool." Li replied, fake laughing and showing like this was a joke. The guard was just offended by the panda who wasn't taking his words seriously.

"We're serious about it! And we have to search your house in order to confirm whether they're hiding here or not."

"What's the hurry? Have some tea and noodles." Mr. Ping suggested.

"Tigress, this place isn't safe anymore." Po observed, peeking downstairs to the counter where his dads were dealing with the guards.

"I told you already, Po. Now what do we do? There's no way out of here." Tigress replied, unable to plan what to do next. Po thought for a while.

"I have an idea."

"Look, sir. I told you he's not here. You can't just enter our house to investigate."

"Don't make excuses. I know they're in there. Let us in or we'll use the hard way and you both will be in prison!" The guard threatened. Li and Ping exchanged glances.

"What's going on here?" Po's voice came as he came out of the house, still in his disguise.

"Who are you? And where's the Dragon Warrior?"

"Dragon Warrior who? I am just a traveler and Li Shan's nephew." He replied. "You know, we have travelled a lot distance from Mongolia to here."

"We?" the guard questioned.

"Yes, here's my wife too. Come here, honey." Po called, as Tigress came out.

"Yes? What's the matter?" Tigress asked.

"See? She is my beautiful wife." Po said. Tigress blushed under her hood. The guard raised an eyebrow, how could he tell if she was beautiful when she was wearing a hood? "Don't look at her like that, she's very shy."

"Sir, I have a feeling there's something wrong with them." Another guard whispered from behind, receiving a nod from his commander. The guard looked at Tigress, who acted like she was shy.

"You look like Master Tigress." he commented.

"Master Tigress? Who's that…uh…I mean what you mean?" Po asked.

"Don't pretend you don't know. Dragon Warrior has broken out of the prison unlawfully to free her. We know it's you, take off the disguise!"

Po calmly took off his head to reveal his very funny looking make up face which surprisingly hid his actually face. "See? Do I look like the Dragon Warrior? See?"

The guard was surprised a bit. "No, you don't. But I still suspect this woman. Arrest her!" a rhino stepped forward and grabbed grab her wrist, only receiving a smack on his face by Tigress, who had gotten enough.

"This is enough pretending!"

"Tigress, what are you doing?! We'll get caught!" Po said.

"We've already been caught, don't you understand? These guys want to arrest us."

"Yeah, but this was the only plan!" Po replied, maybe too loudly, receiving stares from the guards.

"I knew it was him! Attack!" The guard commanded, as the rest took out their weapons. The customers started running, horrified.

"Hey, you haven't paid the bill!" Mr. Ping called out. The three facepalmed.

"Dad, can you please go inside for a moment?" Po asked.

"Dragon Warrior, Master Tigress, you better surrender before we use the hard way." the guard warned.

"Not so fast."

As the guards attacked, the two managed to dodge, giving a few blows before managing to get out of the noodle shop. Running on all fours, the two managed to lose the guards.

"They got away again!" The rhino said. "We need to capture them as soon as possible. We must visit the Jade Palace."

TBC.

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