Kung Fu Day Care
Tigress opens her amber eyes and she let out a small yawn. She slowly sits up. The sun's rays were slowly begun to shine in the bedroom. Zeng hasn't rung the gong yet so she has fifteen minutes to wait for the morning gong. The master notices Leo was still sleeping and he was laying on his back. His phone was on the floor and Tigress picks it up and puts it on the shelf with the scrolls. She heard something moving and looks over her shoulder to him sleeping on his left side. Tigress chuckles softly and walks back to the bed without waking him up. The master lays down back in bed and wraps her arms around him.
"Hm." Leo sighs softly. He was going to rub his eye, but Leo stops halfway because he felt the feline's arms around him. Leo looks over his shoulder and gives her a small smile. "Good morning, Tigress."
"Good morning, Leo." Tigress gives him a small smile, allowing him to lay on his right side so they can look at each other.
Leo turns his head away and lets out a yawn. He didn't want to yawn in her face because that would be a little rude.
"Did you sleep well last night, Leo?" Tigress asks him.
"Yes I have, Tigress. Did you sleep well too?"
"Yes."
"That's good." Leo chuckles softly. "You know, I think it was a good idea to show you how my iPhone works."
"I agree. But I do hope that no one gets any funny ideas with your phone.
"Don't worry about it, Tigress." Leo assures her. "My phone has a passcode and a fingerprint security. It won't be unlocked by anyone but me. I've set that up a long time ago."
"That's good to hear." Tigress smiled. "We should get ready for the morning gong. After breakfast, Po, you and I will be doing some scaling on the cliffs today as part of your training."
"I'm looking forward to it." Leo said.
The three warriors made it to the cliff. Tigress was scaling up a cliff. She jumps onto the top, did a spinning jump forward to do a backflip on the side to jump over to another boulder and jumps onto the side of the cliff. Tigress lost her a grip a little and slipped a bit, but she pulls herself and looks at a giant rock.
"Ha!" Tigress yelled, taking a giant leap in the air. She grabs on the side of the large rock and pulls herself up. Tigress looks down and watches her boyfriend scaling the cliff.
Leo jumps onto the side of cliff. He didn't bother look to down. Leo held tightly before letting go and jump to another rock above him. "Whoa!" he grunted as he slipped a little. He positioned himself and jumps up to another rock. The big rock where Tigress is just above him.
Leo notices there was two small rock above him. He jumps over and lands the first small rock then the second. Before he could do another jump, the small rock began to fall, forcing him to grab the side of the cliff. Leo looks down and watches the small rock fall to the bottom. He began climbing towards the large rock.
When Leo was close enough, Tigress offers her paw and pulls him up.
"You okay?" Tigress asks him.
"I'm fine." Leo answered. "That second rock caught me off guard. I would've had a broken bone if I didn't grab the side of the cliff." He looks up. "We're halfway there to the top."
"Good." Tigress said, looking up. "Po, we're-" but she stops and notices that the panda wasn't with them. "Po?" She and Leo looks down and notices that the Dragon Warrior was still at the bottom.
"Cant..." Po panted, struggling to hang on. "Hold... on... much longer... HEEELLLP!"
Leo and Tigress slides down the cliff near the panda and Leo landed near Po's paws.
"Look down, Po..." Tigress told him.
Po opens his eyes and notices his feet was close to the ground. "Oh. Heh heh." Po chuckled nervously.
Leo begins to climb away to give room for the panda as Po heaves himself up onto the little rock outcrop.
"Come on." Tigress said to them. "The three of us can eat when we get to the top." She begins to climb the cliff with Leo.
"Really?" Po gasps as he heaves himself completely onto the rock outcrop and climbs after Tigress and Leo.
Leo and Tigress pulls themselves up to the top and begins to look around for a good spot to have for lunch. As Leo was looking around, he heard his girlfriend gasps. Leo turns his head around and sees a small goose child giggling up to them along the way. He runs up to them and makes a sharp turn that causes them to stumble on the edge of the cliff. They quickly regain their balance and watches the kid runs off giggling.
"Whoa! Watch where you're-" Tigress calls out to him but she stops.
Fung and Gahri pops out behind two boulders and chases after the goose child.
Po pulls himself up onto the top of the cliff. "Lunch?" Po asks them with a smile on his face.
"Crocs!" Tigress exclaims.
"For lunch?!" Po asked in shock.
Leo and Tigress chases after the crocs with Po following them.
Meanwhile, Fung his crocs kept chasing after the goose kid. The goose kid was wearing blue robe with a yellow belt. He ran up to a wall and turns around, giggling at the bandits. The bandits stops in front of the kid, panting and trying to catch their breaths.
"Ha!..." Fung panted. "We... got... you!"
"Nu-huh!"
"Yuh-huh!"
"Nu-huh!"
"Yuh-huh!"
"Nu-huh!"
"Yu-"
"No way!" Leo growled behind them.
Fung and Gahri turns around to see Leo, Tigress and Po having a hold on the other crocs. "Ugh, this is... You know, why didn't you guys tell me they... Would it kill you to just, I dunno, you know like a heads up?" Fung asked Gahri.
"I couldn't think of the right words." Gahri answered.
"How about, um... I don't know..." Fung said. "AAAHHH!" he yells in face.
The human and the two warriors let the bandits go back to Fung.
"Do you know these guys?" Po asks the goose child.
"Sure!" the goose answered.
"See?" Fung smiles nervously. "We're buddies! Heheh."
"They're holding me for ramsom." the goose child added.
"Huh?!" Fung gasps in shock.
"It's ransom." Gahri told the child. "We're holding you for ramson."
Fung shoves Gahri into a cliffside as Po, Tigress and Leo got in their stances. "Get the kid!" Fung ordered his crocs.
One of the crocs grabs the kid. Tigress wasted no time delivering a quick punch to the croc that let the kid flew above them. Leo and Tigress caught the goose together. They both saw Gahri and another croc running towards them. Leo sets the kid down and took on Gahri.
"Ha!" Gahri shouted as he tried to punch Leo.
Leo easily blocks his punch before he punches Gahri across the face and did a side kick that sent him away a few feet while Po was fighting another croc bandit. He grabs the bandits tail and slams his ass that sent the bandit flying a few feet.
"Hee hee!" the goose giggled.
"Ha!" Leo yelled, countering Fung's kick with a punch.
Tigress and Po saw Leo was surrounded. Leo blocks two punches from two crocs as he delivered two palm strikes and a spinning hook kick. He heard two crocs shouting from behind and delivered two elbow strikes into their chest before wrapping his arms around him, making Leo and the crocs spin forward before slamming their sacks with his punches. Fung tries to deliver a punch at him and missed, causing Leo to do a sweeping kick before delivering an axe kick to Fung's chest.
Leo looks up and caught Gahri's chop before he did a spinning uppercut to the jaw and straight downward punch to the stomach to send Gahri crashing into Fung and the other crocs as Leo landed in his fighting stance.
"Yay!" the kid cheered.
Fung gets back and looks at them. "This isn't over!" he yelled.
Po took a step forward.
"Uh, guy." Fung said nervously as he and the rest of the crocs ran away.
Po looks down at the kid. "Are you okay, little guy?" Po asks him as he knelt down, spreading his arms out with a smile.
"Ha ha!" the kid squeals with excitement. He runs over Leo and Tigress's legs in a hug.
"Whoa!" Tigress exclaims, looking down at him "Back off."
"Why don't you go see him?" Leo pointed at Po as the Dragon Warrior stands up.
The kid lets go and looks up at them. "I like you two." the child smiled as he continued hugging their legs.
"Uh, I'm Po, this is Tigress and this is Leo." Po introduces themselves to the kids. "Are you sure it isn't me you like, cause usually kids are-"
"Hi Tigess." the child interrupted him, letting of their legs and looking up at them. Tigress and Leo took a step back. "Hi Le. Do you like beans? I can tie a knot!"
"Not a big fan of the kids, you two?" Po asks Tigress and Leo.
Tigress looks at Po. "They're a necessary step in the development of adults."
"So... no?"
"We should head back to the Jade Palace and tell Master Shifu about this." Leo suggested.
Shifu was sitting down in front of the candles to put them out. Everyone learned that the child's name is Zan. Zan was running around in the Hall Of Heroes, giggling playfully. He puts out one candle as the Dragon Warrior chases after the child. The Dragon Warrior slips on his back and got up, telling Zan not to touch anything.
"Hee hee!" Zan squeals with excitement. He shoots across the hall with a sword in his wings and was rummaging through the items there as well as an item broke. The Grandmaster cringes slightly. Leo and Tigress were running to catch the child, but speaks quickly with Shifu.
"Apparently, the crocs captured him, but the boy escaped." Tigress explains the situtaion to Shifu.
Leo looks over at Zan at the sword he presented as trophy. "Don't!" Leo shouted, running to him. Leo lunges at the kid and missed, crashing into the weapon, causing Tigress to rush over and pull him back on his feet. Zan darts across the floor with Tigress hot on his tail. The child runs back across the floor as Po tried to catch him. Po thought he had him and made a dive towards the child, but the child knocks over an artifact into Leo, causing him to fall to the floor with the artifact.
Shifu extends his hand to the left to stop Zan. It caused Zan to stop giggling and he continued smiling. "Zan, can you tell us where you live?" Shifu asks Zan as he looks down at him.
"In the blue house behind the rock or maybe green!" Zan responded, holding both wings behind his back.
"Thanks for clearing that up." Monkey walks up to them, causing Zan to look at him.
Viper and Crane were a little ways behind him.
"Crane! Viper!" Shifu exclaims, looking at the two masters. "I want you two to find Zan's parents. Search high and low."
"Dibs on high!" Crane quickly spoke.
"I always get stuck on low." Viper said to Crane.
"Well, you know, cause uh, I have wings and all, so I-" Crane was saying to Viper.
"Just find his parents." Shifu ordered them.
"Yes Master Shifu." Both masters bowed respectfully and sets off immediately to find Zan's parents.
Shifu and Monkey looks at each other briefly and notices Zan was not with them. The two masters looks over and see Zan standing in front of Leo and Tigress. Tigress was waiting patiently for Shifu's orders with her arms behind her back. Leo, however, was sitting on the floor with his eyes, waiting for new orders.
"I can count to fifty!" Zan smiles at them. "What's your favorite color? Mine is orange with black stripes and jade!" He hugs Tigress's legs and hugs Leo's arm tightly.
Leo didn't say anything.
"Well, it seems Zan has taken shine to you two, Tigress and Leo." Shifu said, walking up to the three of them with his hands behind his back. "The two of you can look after him!"
"What?!" Leo gasps, snapping his eyes open as he threw Zan accidently across the room.
"Wheee!" Zan exclaims excitedly.
Po caught the young kid in his paws.
"He can't be serious!" Leo thought.
"Master Shifu, I respectfully request that, no!" Tigress exclaims.
"I agree with her, Master Shifu." Leo agreed.
"Calm down, you two." Shifu said to them calmly.
"It's not that Leo and I don't like kids-" Tigress was saying.
"Yes it is." Shifu interrupted.
"Okay, yes it is." Tigress sighs. "You can't do this to us!"
"This isn't fair!" Leo shouted.
"Master Tigress!" Shifu raised his voice a little. "Leo! This is a young child who's been separated from his parents. He's in a strange place. The two of you know how frightening it can be for a child."
Tigress looks at him. She recalls from an early memory.
Flashback
It was a dark and rainy night. Two robed figures were approaching the Bao Gu Orphanage. The female tiger was grasping a small bundle of blankets containing her baby cub. The baby cub was set down by the mother on the steps of the orphanage. The baby cub looks out of her blankets to watch her parents walk away together in the rainy night.
Flashback End
Leo lowered his head in response to his master's words as he clenches his fists tightly. How many days was it when he was inside the blanket, hidden from the events? A day or two? He doesn't remember his parents faces and the sound of their voice. All he does remember that Sying attacked all those years ago when he was a baby and was founded by Jenna and Bay.
"Zan likes you two." Shifu explains. "That is the only thing he has to hold onto right now. So the two of you will take care of him and you will at least be happy about it... Are we clear?"
Tigress sighs. "Yes, Master Shifu. Of course."
"As you wish." Leo replied.
Tigress walks over to Zan without changing her stern expression. She bends her knees down to look at him as Leo walks up besides her. "I am happy about taking care of you." Tigress said to him. She effortlessly pats his head with her paw and leans back up.
"Yay!" Zan cheered, giving their legs another hug.
Tigress looks at Shifu, Monkey, Mantis and Po, who are all watching her and Leo. Shifu nodded his head to them. Tigress looks back down at to Zan and tries to walking away. But she couldn't take another step and looks down to see Leo didn't took a step with her.
"Leo?" Tigress taps his shoulder.
"Hm?" Leo lifts his head and looks at her.
"Come on." She said.
Leo nodded his head and they began to walk away as they drag their legs with Zan holding onto. This causes him to giggle excitedly. The Grandmaster watches his two students, noticing Tigress's suppressed efforts and Leo thinking about his mother and father.
"Keep an eye on both of them, Po." Shifu said to Po. "They don't have much experience with children, especially Leo I presume." He walks away.
"Can do." Po smiled, placing his paws on his hips proudly. "See, I know how kids think."
"Because you got the mind of a child." Mantis said.
"Exactly." Po replied.
Several minutes later, Po was hiding one of the walls of the palace out int the front. He sees Tigress is standing in front of Zan with her arms folded, not doing anything with him. Leo was standing several feet away with his back to Zan. He wasn't doing anything either.
The Dragon Warrior sighs and walks over. "So, uh, heh heh, Zan!" Po chuckled. "Wanna play?"
"Yeah!" Zan jumps up and down in excitement.
The panda smiles.
"Go ahead, Zan." Leo turns around and walks up to Zan. "Start playing."
"Wanna play with you two." Zan points at them.
"Tigress and I don't play." Leo said to the kid.
"Come on you two, play with him." Po whispers to them.
Leo and Tigress stares at him.
"Just watch." Po said to them. "It's easy. Zan!" He quickly runs over to a pillar and hides behind it. The Dragon Warrior leans out, causing Zan to giggle and runs over to the pillar and wanted to chase the panda. But Po hides again. Zan was about to looks over the right side and was about to look on the left until the Dragon Warrior jumps out of his hiding place.
"Ha ha!" Po surprised him.
"Hee hee hee!" Zan shrieks of laughter as he fell on his back.
Po and Zan walks over to them. "See? It's just that easy."
"And that's... playing?" Tigress asked him.
"Yes." Po answered.
"Alright then." Tigress shrugs her shoulders and walks by Po. "Zan, let's play."
"Yay, Tigess!" Zan cheered.
Leo watches her hide behind the same pillar as Po did. She leans out and looks at Zan without changing her expression.
"Now you come over." Tigress said.
Zan does so as she hides herself. She jumps out of her hiding spot with an effort to surprise him.
"Ha ha." Tigress tried to surprise him.
The child looks at her with a blank and confused expression. Tigress rolls her eyes as Po has a stern look on his face.
"Why don't you give it a try, Leo?" Tigress asks him.
Leo gives her a nod and walks to the same pillar to hide from Zan. "Haa!" Leo tried to surprise him. Zan just stares at him with a confused look on his face.
"Oh boy..." Po slaps his face.
"Perhaps the three of us should go to the Training Hall." Leo suggested.
"That's fine by me." Tigress said. "Come on, Zan!"
Po watches Zan runs up and hugs Leo's leg tightly as he watches them head over to the Training Hall.
"Gah! Ha!" Tigress grunted, stopping two spinning arms. She was training in the Gauntlet Of Wooden Warriors. Tigress block both attacks with her arms. She did a butterfly kick to the other side and did a double palm strike at a wooden warrior.
Leo was doing his training with a bamboo staff. He thrust the air several times. Leo spun the staff in a circle before leaping in the air with a spinning uppercut. Throwing the spinning staff in the air with the spinning uppercut, he brought his right fist above his head and brought his right fist when landed on the floor with one knee kneeling. His right fist barely touches the floor and the spinning staff landed in his left palm.
Before Tigress can strike again, she sees Po staring at her.
"Hey there." Po smiles, waving a paw at her as he walks up to him.
"Are you here to check up on Leo and me?" Tigress asks the panda, folding her arms over her chest.
"Heh heh, no." Po chuckled. "No, no, no n- yeah, sort of." He looks around for Zan. "Where's ZaAAAH!" he yells in terror when he looks up.
Tigress gasps in shock. They can see Zan tied upside down to one of the Hall's swinging clubs. Zan giggles of the enjoyment, but Po and Tigress can see the danger.
"TIGRESS!" Po shouted at her before he runs over.
"What?" Tigress asked dumfounded as she watches him. "I didn't tie him to the pointy side and I didn't tie him upside down."
The Dragon Warrior got on the spinning logs as the club was lowered to his face. He was doing his best not to fall over as he tried to untie Zan. Po manages to untie Zan from the club.
"Oh." Zan groans in disappointment.
Po notices the club was swinging back to him and hits the panda in the face. It sent him and Zan flying across the hall to Tigress. The feline swiftly grabs Zan from Po's grasp and set the child on the ground. Po crashed and lands in the Field Of Fiery Death.
"Oof!" Po groans. The fire shot out from the pipes, causing the Dragon Warrior to yell and shout in pain as Tigress an Zan closed their eyes and looks the other way. "Gyah! Ow! Hot!" The panda got out of that contraption and crawls on the floor to Tigress and Zan.
The two of them can see he got singed from one of the training mechanisms.
"Where's Zan?" Leo asks Tigress, walking up to her.
"Again, again, again!" Zan cheered.
"Who untied you, Zan?" Leo asks him.
"Me." Po moans. "Tigress, Leo." He hoists himself to stand on his feet. "The two of you can't just tie Zan up or have him upside down."
"And why not, Po?" Leo asks him. "We fed him, watered him and he is fully dressed appropriately for the weather. He has everything he needs after being tied upside down for ten minutes."
"No he doesn't." Po said. "Kids need, you know, hugs and stuff."
"Why should they need hugs?" Leo asks him.
"Because otherwise they grow up to be cold and unfeeling and they-" Po was making a comparison between his description, Leo and Tigress. He stops talking as Leo and Tigress glares at him. "Ooh, heh heh." Po chuckled nervously. "You and Leo didn't get any hugs when the two of you were a child?"
"Hugs are for the weak." Tigress said sternly. "I nestled in the warm embrace of Kung Fu training."
Leo had said nothing for his girlfriend's response to the Dragon Warrior's question.
"Yeah, heh heh." Po chuckled. "Ok then, why don't you and Leo try embracing Zan in some Kung Fu training?"
Tigress and Leo looks down at Zan. "Zan, do you know anything about Kung Fu?" Tigress asks him.
"Mama boils it, with rice!" Zan responded happily.
Leo raised his eyebrows and looks at the Dragon Warrior. "He doesn't even know what kung fu is!" Leo whispers to him. "This is ridicules!"
"So?" Po whispered back. "Come on, you two. "Give it a try."
"Fine." Tigress sighs, looking back down at the goose child. "Watch me and Leo, Zan."
Zan watches both of them get into a kung fu stance.
"We're going to start with a basic stance." Leo said to him.
Zan got into his basic stance. Leo demonstrated his palm strike with Tigress's kick. The kick and the palm strike hits Po.
"Gyow!" Po yelled as he was sent flying into the weapons rack. "Ow."
"Oops." Tigress said without even looking.
"I forgive your oops and silence." Po groaned.
"Alright, Zan." Leo said. "Demonstrate of what we showed just now."
Zan smiles and nodded his head. He lashes out a clumsy kick with his left along with a sloppy palm strike and landed on his back. He looks back up at them.
"Again." Leo said.
Zan stands up and tried both attacks at once, but he flips backwards and landed on his stomach. The goose looks up to them.
"Again." Leo growled lowly.
The goose picks himself up from the floor. "Ha!" Zan yelled, thrashing out a right and palm strike but fell forward on his wings.
"Ugh." Tigress sighs annoyed as Po walks up to them and Leo and Tigress looks at him. "He's hopeless!"
"I like Kung Fu!" Zan cheered. He begins to skip, flap his wing and twirl away.
"No, he's four." Po shook his head. "The two of you have to have some patience."
"I like Kung Fu!" Zan cheered. He runs into one of the lower limbs of a wooden warrior, causing it to sweep Leo and Tigress legs from underneath them.
"Whoa!" they both yelled as they fell on the floor.
"Patience." Po said as he walks up, looking at Leo and Tigress on the floor.
Nighttime came as everyone was getting ready to go to bed. Leo, Tigress, Po and Zan enters the spare room for the goose child to sleep for the night. He had a bed, pillow, blanket and a couple of two tables. Po pats the bed a couple of times as Leo stood next at the foot of the bed. Zan looks at the bed and looks back.
"I want Tigess and Le to put me to bed." Zan said.
"Alright, goodnight!" Po smiled and turns around to leave the room.
Leo quickly turns around took a couple steps forward to reach his hand out and stops Po. "Hang on, Po." he said, causing the panda to turn around and looks at him. Tigress joins them a second later.
"I don't how to- How do you learn to do stuff with kids anyway?" Tigress asked.
"You don't have to learn it." Po answered. "You just have to feel it!"
"But I don't feel anything." Tigress said.
"Then you and Leo will have to fake it and put him to bed." Po replied. "It's not rocket science. You two will end up doing this when you have kids of your own someday."
Leo didn't say a word for that last comment.
"Night Zan!" Po said loudly as he turns around and exits the room.
Leo and Tigress turns around to look down at Zan. The child looks back at them with a smile on his face.
"So that's your bed." Leo said bluntly.
Tigress sighs and picks him up. She walks over to the bed and drops Zan on it. Leo watches his girlfriend covers Zan up with the blanket while Zan was laying down.
"Ok, goodnight." Tigress said as she turns around.
But just as they were about to leave, Zan spoke up. "Tell me a story."
Leo and Tigress looks at each other before looking back at Zan.
"Uh, I don't know any stories." Tigress said while her boyfriend sat down besides the bed. "What about you, Leo? Do you know any stories?"
"Hm." Leo replied.
"Make one up." Zan said softly, feeling sleepy.
She sits down at the end of the bed, looking up at the ceiling. "Uh... okay, so... A person-"
"A boy or a girl?" the child asked.
"I don't know!" Tigress groans. "A boy. He walked to a place and he went in and bought some... some... lumber and, you know, maybe he built... a thing."
"A boat?" Zan yawned.
"Fine." Tigress said. "He built a boat. The end." Tigress and Leo swiftly gets up.
"A magical boat that sails in the sky." Zan gives out a small yawn.
"Boats can't do that." Tigress said to him.
"Why do you want to tell us lies?" Leo asked Zan as they turn around.
"Because it's a story." Zan answered.
Tigress looks over her shoulder to look at him, thought about the story she did as Tigress and Leo turn towards the door.
"Night, mama." Zan said. "Night, dada."
Tigress stops in the middle of the doorway as Leo fell to the floor.
"We're not you're-" Tigress was saying as she turns around and stops. Zen was already asleep peacefully. Her expression softens. She gives a small smile and closed the door gently. But it stops halfway, causing her to turn around. When she looks down of what was blocking the door, Tigress sees her boyfriend looking at the tired child.
"Leo." Tigress lowers her voice so he can hear. He looks up at her. "Come on."
"I'll be with you in a minute, Tigress." Leo looks at her before looking back at the child.
She nodded her head and left to go to her room. Leo stands up and walks towards the bed before he took a knee. As he stares at Zan, there was one story he knew from the other stories he heard as a kid. There were many stories that Leo never talked about from his world. But the story Leo knew, he couldn't tell the story to a child such as Zan or say a word about it to Shifu, Po, the rest of the Five and Tigress.
"Who knew what she been through." Leo thought. "All those people she killed. Just... damn. Hm... I wonder if I ever said those two words to my parents. I don't remember much about my early days before I was found by Jenna. Or the person who threw the blanket over my basket on the night Sying attacked my home. Zan is lucky to have parents. I should head to bed now. I'm sure Tigress is waiting for me since Zan is using my bedroom for tonight."
Leo slowly stands up and walks out of the room before he closed the door gently. While the coast was clear, several shadows were creeping up from outside the window.
"Shh!" Fung hushes his bandits. "He's right in here! Smash and grab!" He, Gahri and two other bandits opens the window to enter the room. "Hey there, Zanny. How ya' doing?" he whispered.
The goose child turns over in his sleep and opens his eyes halfway. "Sleepy, Mr. Crocodile." Zan said half asleep.
"We gotta get moving kid." Fung whispered. "Upsy daisy." He carefully picks up the sleeping child. The child went back to sleep.
"Are we gonna-" Gahri was saying.
"Shh!" Fung shushes him over his shoulder. "He's sleeping. Don't wake him up."
"Were we gonna leave a note or...?"
"No idiot!" Fung whispered. "We're not ransoming him from the human and the Furious Five. We're ransoming him from his parents."
"How much you asking him?"
"Man." Fung chuckled. "This kid is worth alot of..." But he became startled when he saw Po in the room.
"Alright, Fung-" Po was saying.
"Shh!" Fung shushes him. "Be quiet. Don't wake him."
"Oh." Po lowers his voice in a whisper. "Sorry. Alright, Fung." Po got into his stance. "It's time to feel the thunder."
Fung and Gahri turns around to see Tigress with her paws behind her back. Leo stood by her side with his arms folded. They both got into their fighting stances. Fung puts Zan down back on the bed before facing Po. "We've brought some thunder of our own." The four bandits took out their bamboo staffs, preparing to fight.
The croc bandit silently charges at Leo. He tried to attack Leo twice, but Leo bends backward from the first attack and caught the second attack with his hand. He heard a small crash from Fung and looks up to see Zan flying in the air. Leo jumps over the croc's head and tries to catch the child. His jump was a little too strong that he caught Zan in his mouth.
When Leo landed, he silently fell sideways to the floor with the sleeping kid in his mouth. Luckily, Leo was hanging onto the kid's blue robe as both of his arms was underneath the sleeping child as a bed in case Zan falls onto the floor. Everyone sighs in relief before they continued to fight without waking Zan up. He puts the sleeping kid down back onto the bed.
Leo looks over his shoulder to see Tigress twirling the bamboo staff above her head. She pokes Gahri's feet, causing the croc to cover his mouth without screaming. Tigress hits him again and Gahri crashes into the table, causing two bowls, a candle and a small red box flying towards Zan. Leo quickly places his hands and knees on the sides of the bed and stretches both his hands out to capture the two bowls while he extends his left foot to catch the red box. The candle landed sideways on his back.
It began to roll down a bit on his back. Leo puts his head upside down near the child on the bed to arch his back, causing the candle stick to roll in the center of his back. Tigress grabs them off of him and puts the items down on the table as she blocks an attack. Before Leo can rejoin the fight, Zan's body slid into his face and the child hugs Leo's face as he stirred a bit, causing everyone to stop fighting and looks down at the sleeping child until they became certain that Zan is asleep.
"Shakaboie!" Po punches Fung in the face.
Leo dodges Fung's body by lowering his body close to Zan. He heard Gahri thrown on the other side of the bed and got thrown back to Tigress's side, causing the room to shake.
"Retreat!" Fung whispers to the bandits. "Retreat!"
Po and Tigress watches them runs out the window. They both looks at each other and ran over to close the window. Zan lets go of Leo's face, letting him to get off the bed and stands up. He turns over on his right side and opens his eyes to see Leo, Tigress and Po standing in the room.
"Hi Tigess." Zan greeted tiredly. "Hi Le. What's going on?"
"Nothing, Zan." Tigress answered.
"I had a funny dream." Zan said.
"Was it about crocodiles?" Po asked.
"No." Zan shook his head. "The crocodiles were really here, didn't you see'em? My dream was talking clouds taught the houses to fly. Okay goodnight." The goose went to sleep.
"Goodnight Zan." Tigress and Leo said together.
Meanwhile, the bandits were at their hideout. Fung walks back and forth, trying to come up with a plan. Gahri and the other crocs watched him. "Okay." Fung said as he stops walking to turn around and face them. "We've had a little setback but whatever doesn't kill us make us stronger and the..." He became distracted as Gahri raises a claw. "What is it?"
"Maybe we're no good at this?" Gahri suggested.
"Damn it Gahri!" Fung shouted angrily, throwing his hat down. "That's just the kind of negativity I-"
"Fung, would your friends like some water chestnaughts?!" a voice interrupted from upstairs.
"Mom, I told you we're okay!" Fung called back as he picks up his hat.
"If we were good at this, our secret hideout wouldn't be your parents root cellar." Gahri said. He was right. Their hideout was in the root cellar of Fung's parents. It has a table, some chairs, a bed and a axe mounted on the wall.
"Gahri... I...!" Fung snarls at him angrily. But his anger fades away and he slaps himself across the face. "You're right. I know you're right. Who are we fooling? We couldn't even handle a four year old kid. We don't stand a chance against the Furious Five and the human, not the tiniest most microscopic chance!"
"Fung, can your cousin Lidong play with you and your friends?" his mother called.
"Mom!" Fung called back as he turns around and walks towards the door. "I'm not a babysitter for that little brat!" As he approaches the door and opens it, Fung was met by a very big crocodile standing outside of the root cellar. He was very big than Fung and can't even fit through the door frame. The big crocodile was wearing a spike-studded tunic and black pants.
"Hey." Lidong growls deeply.
"Lidong?" Fung asked confused. "You grew up." He watches the wall begins to crumble and gets destroyed by Lidong's powerful punch. He backs away as his cousin enters the room. Lidong's amber eyes stares down at Fung. Fung can see how fierce his cousin is.
"Whatever we're doing, I get fifty... one percent of the take." Lidong said.
"That... should... work." Fung smiled. With Lidong on board, there was no way the Furious Five and the human can stop them. With them out of the way, they take the child back and get the Ramson from Zan's parents. There's no way they can lose now.
Leo enters the barracks after he ran outside to make sure the croc bandits were coming back. He enters Tigress's room and closes the door behind him. When he turns around, Tigress was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed. She stares at him with an angry expression on her face.
"Leo, why the hell did you tie him upside down back at the Training Hall? Tigress asks him angrily.
"So he can figure out what to do if we're not here to protect him." Leo answered. "It'll help him in the future."
"Leo, you can't do that to a kid." Tigress growled. "He should go over the basics of Kung Fu before doing something like that. That was dangerous and irresponsible of you."
"Tigress, I did that when I was I five." Leo replied. "I was hanging upside down for fifteen minutes. But I was going to get Zan down from there."
"For how long?"
"Five minutes. Not even ten minutes."
"Would you do that to our child?"
"No." Leo said. "I only did that once before my teen years started."
"Just don't do that again next time, Leo." Tigress replies, her expression soften. "Promise me."
"I promise." Leo promised.
"Good." Tigress smiled. "Come on, let's go to bed and get some rest."
As Leo walks over to her and joins her on the bed with her back turned, something pops up in his mind and his face turns red. "Damnit!" Leo thought. "That had to pop up in my mind right now! It just reminded me about that...!" He shook the thought out of his head. "It was good to see that movie when we were kids. I can see why people love it. They used it at weddings. I'm lucky Tigress is my girlfriend."
Leo lays down on the bed and continued thinking. "I know we're in a relationship, but we're not even ready to have kids yet. We've slept in the same bed and we never do anything. But if we do have kids of our own, we'll protect them no matter what. I'm just glad that we're dating each other." Leo closes his eyes and went to sleep.
Leo was standing in a ring of fire in the familiar darkness. He turns around and sees the shadow version of himself from before in the Moon Pool. This wasn't the first time he encountered his shadow and it won't be the last. Both stares at each other without saying a word to one another. Then it spoke.
"Have you earned it... legitimately?" the Shadow asked, grinning evilly.
The ring of fire began to grow big with the screams coming from the past.
Leo snaps his eyes open wide. It was morning now. He sits up and notice Tigress wasn't with him. Leo got up and exits the room. He walks into the kitchen and sees Mantis eating some rice on the table.
"Good morning." Leo said to Mantis as he picks an apple up from the fruit basket.
"Morning Leo." Mantis said.
"Have you seen Tigress and Zan this morning?" Leo takes a bite out of his apple.
"They're at the stone courtyard." Mantis replied. "Zan is playing a ball that Po gave to Zan."
After eating breakfast, Leo heads over to the stone courtyard to see Zan playing the ball with Po as Tigress watched them.
"Good morning." Leo greeted them.
"Good morning." the three of hem.
"Sleep well last night?" Tigress asks him.
Leo paused for a moment and answered. "Yes." he answered.
Zeng rushes to them. "Master Shifu needs you at the Hall Of Heroes!" he exclaims.
Everyone rushes to the Hall Of Heroes. Zan throws the ball at Tigress's back. She turns back with anger to look at him but quickly resumes back to normal as Shifu finishes reading the scroll.
"A farm at the far end of the valley is being attacked by bandits." Shifu explains. "We have to go help them at once."
"Of course, master." Leo said. He turns around and kneels down in front of Zan. "Zan, when we arrive I want you to find a hiding spot and stay there until the fighting is done."
"Zan will not be coming with us, Leo." Shifu said, causing Leo to look at him. "He's staying here."
"Of course." Leo nodded his head and looks back at him. "Zan, stay in our room until we-"
"With you and Tigress." Shifu added.
Leo looks at him with a shocked look on his face.
"What?" Tigress asked confused. "No! With Viper and Crane gone, you're going to need Leo and me. Leaving us here is a waste of our fighting skills."
"We can handle it, you two." Shifu said to them, closing the scroll. "And Zan needs two capable protectors. "That is you and Leo."
Tigress hesitates to accept it, but she sighs and bows her head. "Yes, Master Shifu."
Everyone left Tigress, Zan and Leo in the Hall Of Heroes. Tigress growls in frustration as Leo growled much more deeper with fierce.
"Let's head to the Training Hall." Tigress said to them.
The three of them heads back to the Training Hall. Leo and Tigress stood in front of Zan. "Let's work on the side kick and palm strike from yesterday." Leo said to Zan.
"Like this." Tigress said, getting into her stance. She performs her sidekick. "Okay."
Zan nods and got into his stance. "Hyah!" Zan shouted, doing a spinning kick.
"No." Tigress said.
Zan flaps his wings and did a back kick instead.
"No!" Tigress groans. "Look." She kneels down to get him into the correct position.
"Haaa!" Zan shouted as he does a sidekick to the side of her face.
"Ow!" Tigress yelled. "Watch it!"
"I'm sorry, Tigess." Zan apologizes to her.
"It's "Tigress"!" She continues to yell as she stands up. "How did Leo and I windup stuck here with you when I could I be-" She heard someone sobbing and stops yelling. Tigress glances down to see Zan beginning to sob. "I'm... going to get some fresh air."
Leo and Zan watches her leave the hall to outside.
"Hm." Tigress sighs as she sits down on the top step and begins to rub her right cheek where Zan kicked her. "You wouldn't think a think a child would hit that... hard." Tigress remembers a memory from her past when she was a child.
Flashback
"Oof!" Shifu yells as he kicked aback and landed on the floor. He sits up and rubs his nose. "You wouldn't think a child could hit that hard." Shifu muttered.
Standing in front of him was a young Tigress.
"I'm sorry, Master Shifu." Tigress apologizes to him, bowing her head.
Shifu stands up and smiles warmly at her. "Don't be sorry." he said. "Just try again."
Tigress jumps to do a sidekick and she fell on the floor flat on her face.
"No." Shifu said calmly to his adopted daughter.
"I can't do this!" Tigress began to cry. Tears were running down her face. "I'm never gonna get this!"
Shifu approaches Tigress. "Tigress, it isn't important that you get it the first time, or the second, or even the fiftieth." He walks by her. "When you need it, you will get it." Shifu turns around to look at her. "I think that's enough training for today. What do you say we play a game of checkers?"
Tigress stops crying and smiles at her master.
Flashback End
Tigress smiles. She knows how to act with Zan. "Hey Zan!" Tigress calls over her shoulder.
Zan peeks out of the doors to the training hall. He was still frighten by Tigress's aner.
"Do you know how to play checkers?" she asks him.
Zan's expression brighten a for a little bit. Tigress smiled at him, but her smile disappeared when she notices Zan smiles a bit back at her. "What's wrong, Zan?"
"He was angry at me when you stepped out." Zan replied.
As Tigress steps outside to get some air, Leo folded his arms over his chest and looks down at Zan. "Let's do the palm strike." Leo said.
Zan stops sobbing and nodded his head.
Leo got into his stance and did a palm strike. "Go ahead and perform the palm strike I demonstrated." Leo said.
Zan got into a stance and did a jab.
"That's not a palm strike, Zan." Leo growled. "Again."
The child got into his stance again and did a spinning a punch.
"I said "palm strike"!" Leo growled again. "Here." When he kneels down to show him, Zan did a palm strike to Leo's mouth. He was caught off guard and took a couple of steps back and fell flat on his back. "Ow!" Leo moans, rubbing his mouth. "Watch it!"
"I'm sorry, Le." Zan apologizes.
"It's "Leo"!" Leo snaps at him angrily. "Why did we...?!" He stops himself before he'll say something that he will regret and growled. When he looks down and sees Zan sobbing again, his anger disappeared. "I think it's best I clear my mind."
Zan watches him walk towards the end of the hall and crossed his legs. Leo licks his lips and teeth. "To think a child would do that and almost draw blood." Leo said. He recalls something like this happened with Master Lee when he was a kid.
Flashback
Young Leo was helping Master Lee to sit up from the ground.
"To think a child would do that and almost drew blood." Lee muttered.
"I'm sorry, Master Lee." Leo apologizes.
"Nonsense, Leo." Lee smiles at him. "Just give it another try."
Leo stands a couple steps away. He tried to do another palm strike, but he lunges forward and fell flat on his stomach. "I can't get it!" Leo cried.
"Leo, it's not important you get it on your first time, your second or third." Lee explains. "It will come to you when you need it."
"He's right, Leo." Panther said, running up them. "This stuff is easy and there are other moves and techniques that are harder than doing a palm strike."
"You're right, Panther." Lee said, standing up. "This is why we're going over the easy lessons. It takes years of training to perform a advance technique and to apply it in combat. I think that's enough training for today. Why don't we play a boardgame?"
"Yay!" Panther cheered.
"Master, before we do that, can I see the palm strike one more time?" Leo asks him.
"Of course, Leo." Lee answered, walking to Leo's side. "Now, without making a fist, all of your fingers will have to bend like this to make a half fist." He got into his stance and got a palm strike ready. "When your palm is like this, strike your palm out." Lee did a palm strike.
"I understand now, Master Lee." Leo replied.
"Good." Lee smiled.
Flashback End
Leo smiled as he knows how to act with Zan. As he stands up and turns around, Tigress and Zan were standing in front of him. "Zan." Leo exchange a smile. "Do you want to play a board game?"
Zan's expression lights up as he exchanges a smile to Leo while Tigress smiles at his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Po, Shifu, Monkey and Mantis were walking down the path to see the farm.
"There's the farm." Po said as they all stopped. A scream startled them from inside the barn. "Come on!" he shouted, rushing to the barn. Po kicks the door in as everyone rushes inside.
"Let go of her!" Monkey ordered.
When they look at the "barn girl", they notices Wall Eye wearing a blond wig.
"It's a setup!" Mantis alarmed everyone.
A croc bandit landed behind them outside of the door. Two more landed in front of them to join the other two croc bandits.
"Right about now, Fung is snatchin' that kid and there's nothing you can do about it." the croc said.
"Erm, were you supposed to say that?" Po asked.
"Er, yeah, er, no." the croc said unsure. The croc lunges at the group and hits the other bandit as they dodge the croc. The four warrior's begin to fight the croc bandits.
Wall Eye was just standing still watching the whole thing. "Can I take the wig off now?" Wall Eye asks no one in particular. Then he got hit by a croc from Po's kick.
Back at the Training Hall, Tigress and Zan was playing a game of checkers. Leo sat on the side watching the game. Tigress made her move and smiled. As Zan made his move, a big heavy foot crushes Leo onto the checkerboard.
"Gyah!" Leo grunted in pain. He quickly did a elbow strike to the ankle and quickly stood up. But Leo didn't have time to react as a spike malice hits him and Tigress out of the Training Hall and into the courtyard.
"Damn it..." Leo groans as they bot sits up.
Lidong walks up to them. "Fung was right." Lidong said, cracking his right knuckle. "This is going to be fun."
Tigress did backflip to get on her two feet. Leo, however, collides his punch with Lidong's punch as he got up. He did hard jab to the crocs stomach before he joins Tigress at her side. They both got into their stances.
"Heh heh." Lidong chuckled, cracking his knuckles. He began to slash them with his claws, but they dodge them. Lidong spins around to hit them with his tail. Leo ducks under while Tigress got hit.
"Gah!" Tigress shouted as she hits the wall.
Leo attempted to a jumping knee strike, but Lidong caught him before grabbing Tigress and slams him into the ground.
"I got the kid!" Fung called to his cousin, running through the courtyard with Zan in his arm and Gahri running by his side.
"Shit!" Leo cursed.
"Ha ha ha!" Fung chortle.
"Release him, now!" Leo bellowed, slamming both his fist on Lidong's wrist.
"Gah!" Lidong shouted as he releases them.
Leo jumps in the air and used his axe kick on Lidong's head. Tigress attempts to kick Lidong, but the big crocodile grabs her kick and slams her into Leo.
"Hmph!" Leo grunted as both of them landed on their feet.
Lidong runs to them and spins his tail into them, making them fly and hit the wall.
"Uhh!" Leo shouted as he bounces off the wall and hits the ground.
Lidong walks up to them as Leo glares at him. "Heh heh heh." Lidong chuckled.
Back at the farm, all the crocs were laying outside and injured. One of them ran out of the barn with wig. The others pick themselves up and runs away as the masters runs outside with Po panting.
"We gotta get back at the Jade Palace!" Po exclaims.
They all runs back to the Jade Palace.
Lidong threw them across the courtyard. Leo tucked and rolled onto his feet and quickly turns around. Lidong made an attempt to grabs Tigress's feet, but he trips on his own feet that gave Tigress to roll out of the way. Leo did a front kick for extra power as Lidong slams into the staircase that lead to the training hall.
Leo and Tigress runs towards Fung and Gahri to rescue Zan, but Lidong grabs them both by the feet and held them in his claws.
"Take the kid and get out of here and go somewhere else." Lidong ordered his cousin. "I'll take care of these two."
"Can't argue with that, cuz!" Fung smiled as he turns around and starts to run away.
"Zan!" Tigress called. She tried struggling to break free, but the grip was too strong. Tigress notices the red ball and kicks it. The ball bounces off the wall towards Lidong.
"Wha?" Lidong asked. "Oof!"
Tigress and Leo breaks free from his grip. Leo didn't waste a single second and punches the large crocodile in the gut hard, not giving him a chance for his senses to come back. Tigress kicks him hard in the snout and Lidong fell flat on his back.
Fung and Gahri kept on running down the steps. Leo and Tigress landed in front of them a couple feet away.
"Grr!" Tigress growled.
"Ha!" Leo snarls at the two bandits.
"AHH!" Fung screams as they stopped running and turns around in the other direction. They kept on running until Fung bumps into his cousin.
"Give me that kid!" Lidong growled at him, grabbing Zan. "You guys are pathetic!"
"Well I wouldn't say-" Fung was saying.
Lidong spins around and slams his tail into Fung and Gahri.
"Yeowch!" Fung yelled as they both fell down the stairs.
Leo and Tigress ran up the stairs and stopped as they notice Fung and Gahri falling towards them. The two crocodile bandits crashes into them and rolls halfway down the stairs. Gahri lands on Fung as Fung landed o Tigress while Tigress was laying on Leo at the bottom.
"Gr!" Leo growled with fury as Tigress quickly got off her boyfriend. He slowly stood and sees Lidong running away laughing with Zan in his claws.
"Zan!" Tigress gasps. She begins to chase after Lidong.
"Well, that backfired." Fung groans, rubbing the back of his head. He can hear a fierce growl coming from Leo in front of him.
Leo slowly turns around and punches Fung head very hard that knocked him out before knocking out Gahri.
"Good." the Shadow whispered in Leo's mind.
Leo turns around and ran to catch up to Tigress. He caught up to Tigress as she bursts the doors to the Hall Of Heroes open. They both slowly stepped in the hall and didn't let their guard down. After taking the seventh step, Lidong appears behind them and kicks their backs.
"Gah!" they both grunted as Tigress lands on her paws and jumps forwards to turn around while Leo did the same thing. Both of them got into their stances.
Leo and Tigress both dodge and jumps over Lidong's claw slash, but the large crocodile bends forward and hit them with his tail. Leo saw it at the last second and raises his arms as the tail hits him.
"Hmph!" Leo grunted as he hits the floor. He snarls at Lidong as he got back on his feet. Leo was about to attack, but Lidong places Zan between the three of them.
"Careful now." Lidong taunted them, waving the child. "Don't want to hurt the little prince."
"What?" Leo gasps. Before he can think, Lidong spins around and hit them with his tail. Leo and Tigress were sent flying outside of the hall. Tigress slides across the ground and grabs the ledge.
"Wa!" Tigress exclaims.
Leo rolls over on his girlfriend's right paw with his back. Tigress attempts to climb back up but slips. Lidong walks over and steps on Leo's stomach.
"Gah!" Leo gasps as he felt the wind leave his body.
"Stop it!" Zan cried. "Stop it!"
"Shut it, kid!" Lidong snaps at him as he continues to try to get Tigress to fall.
"It's okay, Zan." Tigress said as she still held on. "It's okay."
"Yeah yeah." Lidong said sarcastically, looking down at them. "Any last words?"
"Yes." Tigress answered. "Zan, sidekick!"
"Then use palm strike!" Leo snarls.
"What?" Lidong asked confused, turning his head to the kid.
"Hyah!" Zan shouted, doing a side kick to the crocs face, followed by a palm strike before he fell back into Lidong's claws.
"I'm gonna-" Lidong growled at him.
"You're not going to do anything!" Tigress yelled.
"Ha!" Leo roared, punching Lidong's ankle, forcing the croc to take a step back.
Tigress didn't waste time by jumping in the air and did a side kick to his face and Leo did a palm strike to the croc's stomach.
"Argh!" Lidong shouted as he lands on his back, releasing Zan from his grasp.
"Ahh!" Zan yells as he runs away.
"Come here, you!" Lidong yelled, attempting to grab child.
Leo and Tigress landed on the croc's stomach.
"Run, Zan!" Tigress shouted.
Lidong punches them off his stomach, making them slide towards the ledge. Zan tries to run away but Lidong caught him.
"NO!" Tigress bellowed as she and Leo climbs back up to see Zan back in Lidong's claws.
"Stop it, stop it!" Zan screams.
"Ha ha ha!" Lidong laughs.
"Kiayah!" Leo roars in anger as he lunges at Lidong.
"Let him go!" Tigress yelled, jumping in the air and did a palm strike to his face as Leo did a spinning back kick to his stomach. He jumps and slams both of his fist on Lidong's snout while Tigress did a palm strike to the chest with two kicks. Leo landed on the other side of Lidong and did an elbow strike twice to the side as Tigress jumps on the crocs face and flung herself to the column. Leo kneeled and spins with a low sweep, followed by a uppercut to Lidong's jaw and Tigress double kick to the back.
"Whoa!" Lidong yells as he slides across the ground and grabs the ledge.
"Aah!" Zan yelled, looking down.
"Well, if I'm not getting him, no one is!" Lidong snarled.
Before Tigress can grab Lidong, Leo steps in front of her and grabs Lidong by the snout with one hand. "Claws off our child!" Leo roared in fury and anger. Grasping tightly with both hands, Leo threw him high in the air. Tigress took the advantage to jump into the air and pulls Zan from Lidong's grasp before doing a hard side kick to his face.
As she landed, one of Leo's hands turns light red and strikes Lidong with a palm strike that releases a burst of red energy upon contact.
"Whoa!" Lidong screams as he falls all the way down from the Jade Palace and hits the ground. "Ouch!"
Leo landed on the ground, glaring down at the cliff. His anger disappeared.
"Oh Zan, are you okay?" Tigress asks him, concerned to see he's alright.
"I'm fine, Tigress." Zan answered. "Are you and Leo okay?"
"Tigress and myself is fine, Zan." Leo replied, taking a knee.
"We're never letting you out of our sight again." Tigress said to Zan. The three embraces each other in a hug. They heard someone flapping and turns around to see Crane and Viper returned to the palace as Crane landed.
"We've got company." Crane said.
"It's Zan's mother." Viper told them.
"What?" Tigress gasped.
Everyone stood right outside of the Hall Of Heroes in the sunny afternoon. Po, Shifu, the Five and Leo waited for Zan's mother. Two servant goats, one was wearing a orange robe and the other was wearing green, approach the top steps.
"Announcing Zu Chunhua." the goat announced. "Sister of the emperor, princess of-"
A gray and white goose wearing a orange robe, a brown belt and a imperial headdress as her brown eyes looks at them, finding her son. "Oh, stop that." Zu interrupted as she walks by him and calls out her son's name. "Zan, is he here?"
"Moma!" Zan cries out in happiness.
Tigress sets him down and watches Zan runs to his mother.
"Oh Zanny!" Zu smiled, hugging her son.
Tigress didn't say anything. She is sad by Zan having to leave. The Dragon Warrior notices her sadness.
"Hey." Po lowers his voice to her. "It's okay."
"Of course..." Tigress muttered. "It's okay, it's... great."
"I can't thank you enough for rescuing Zan." Zu thanked them.
"It was an honor, your highness." Shifu said to her.
"Tigess, Le, can you come with us?" Zan asks them.
"No, Zan." Tigress answered. "But Leo and I promise to come visit you."
Zan smiles and runs up to her as Tigress kneels down for Zan to give Tigress a hug. As Zan and Tigress hugs each other, Leo was thinking. He was snapped out of his thoughts by Viper gently call out his name. Leo kneels down to allow Zan to give him a hug. He returns the hug and watch Zan runs back to his mother.
"Goodebye, Masters Of The Jade Palace and Leo." Zu waves at them. "You have my gratitude." Zu and her son turns around and walks away with the two servants.
"Bye." Zan said.
"Goodbye." Tigress said in a low voice as she and Leo stands back up. She turns toward Shifu. "Master, I want to thank you."
"For what?" Shifu asked her.
"For checkers." Tigress replied.
"You know, Tigress." Po said, poking her sides. "You're all tough on the outside, but inside you're just a big sof-"
Tigress got annoyed, grabs Po's paw and crushes it.
"Ow owww!" Po cried out in pain. "Not a softie, oh a hardy, definitely a hardy!"
Tigress lets him go and Po falls onto the ground. Viper had notice that Leo didn't say a word and he left.
Leo stood near the edge of the cliff at the Peach Tree Hill. He looks toward the skies of the late afternoon. "Thank you, Master Lee and Panther." Leo thought. Leo did a palm strike in the air. "What the hell did I do? I became so angry, fierce and full of rage. It looked like something inside me had awoken from a deep slumber. I'm not sure if this was some of Kaira's power or my own. All I know so far that there isn't a clue in the scrolls I read in the past three months that can help me. I know I can't read the other scrolls yet because I'm not a master yet. Damn it. Not to mention I have Saber to deal with now that's she here."
The wind blew gently in his face.
"I know that these two worlds are different, and technology doesn't exist in this world like the iPhone and the helicopter. There are so many questions I have to know. Why are these events happening? Whatever is going on, I have to deal with this with the masters if we received any news like the one in Gongmen City. And without them knowing, I'll deal with it on my own."
But something else came in his mind as he was thinking. It was what he said.
"Claws off our child." Leo thought as he recalls those words. "If anyone did try to hurt Tigress and my children, I'll kill them. But I do wonder though. Would our children be human, anthropomorphic or Neko? I'm a human and Tigress is a tiger and the both of us are in a relationship. She did see me naked after my battle with Zhao and when I was taking my bath without knowing her and Viper joined after the mirror incident. I never even look at her naked and I only got a quick glance of her head and nothing else. We even changed into our clothes in two separate rooms! Even though we sleep in the same room, Tigress and I didn't do anything!"
Leo's face turn red. "And it wasn't the first time I had to take my bath when a bunch of girls come over to take their bath! There wasn't anything I can do when Song and the ladies put their clothes on top of mine! That was fucking awkward! I had to take a bath when I got back the next day get rid of the scent off of me! I don't even want to know if Tigress finds out about it. I do love Tigress. She's a kung fu master; a master in the tiger style. And me..."
Leo sighed. "It has been a few years since it happened. And a few years later, it came back when I went back to Gongmen City and killed that bastard Sying and that assassin on the mountain after what happened in Gongmen City. There are times that I wonder what would happen if they learned or know about it. But other than that, everything changed when I arrived here. Hang on, since Tigress and I are in a relationship, and we didn't do anything while sleeping in the same bed...
Leo's face turned even redder that someone could mistake his face as a red tomato. "Why the hell did that came in my mind?! I shouldn't be thinking about that! Her and I have never done it and I don't want to think about this!"
"Damn it!" Leo snarled, shaking his head so those "images" won't come into his mind. "I am not going to allow myself to think about that! Why the fucking hell did I thought about that?!" He clenches his fists. "I should head to the Palace Arena so I can train alone for the next half hour. That way I don't have to think about "that"."
Leo turns around and walks towards the Palace Arena. When Leo arrived at the Palace Arena, he took his shirt off and sets it down neatly to the sideline. As Leo walks to the center of the arena, he takes his iPhone out and puts on Remember The Name by Fort Minor. Leo quickly got into a handstand and closes his eyes. As he stood in his handstand with the blood rushing to his head, Leo thought about how he changed over the years.
He did wonder how the others are doing back home. There's no doubt that they're searching for him and Panther right now. But there's one thing that came to his mind. How can he and Panther contact their friends at the monastery? There was no way to contact them. And even if their friends do find a way, there will be a strong force to weaken any connection. If there is a way, the human/demon hybrid, Crow, will find it.
When the song ended, Leo pushes off from the ground and landed in a kneeling position with his right knuckle to the ground, his left fist to his side as his head was lowered. Growling, Leo lifts head and stands up to get into his position. He threw in a jab, jump front kick with a downward sweep kick that went into a butterfly kick and a spinning palm strike at the end.
Leo backs up before he did a backward spin front kick. He did a back elbow strike, then brought his right fist up and down before lunging forward into forward roll knee strike jump to the air and landing in a kneeling position with his right leg kneeling while he had his arms do a downward elbow strike and forms an inside block to cover his face. He didn't waste any time by rolling backwards and performed a backspin screw kick by pushing himself off the ground with his hands, a butterfly kick and punches his fist to the ground. Leo ignored the dizziness and did a counter front kick followed by a double punch. That technique is good, he'll admit.
Leo repositioned himself. He quickly sent out two jabs, a spinning hook kick followed by a low sweep kick that evolved into a upward quadruple hurricane kick and lands into a perfect position. He quickly didn't waste time by doing an outside block that was followed by a knee strike with a hook punch and went into a spinning uppercut. As he brought his arms to make a inside block in front of his face, Leo spreads his arms down while landing into a kneeling position to allow his fists to hit the concrete ground. Leo stands up.
He was already starting to sweat. Leo closed his eyes and wanted to catch his breath. He sat down on the ground. The memory of the incident came into his mind. Several screams can be heard from the roar of the fire. A powerful angry and fierce roar can be heard through the night. Looks of horror and terror on their faces.
Wanting not to think about the incident, Leo slaps himself across the face hard. He let out a small grunt after that hard slap on his face. Leo lets out a sigh as the memory left his mind. No one shouldn't not see what he did that night. It was unavoidable. He knows what he did. Leo clench his fists and stood up.
When he got into his stance, Leo lets out a growl and did a forward jump knee strike followed by a downward punch. Leo landed on his feet and did a sidespin kick before doing several blockings inside and outside then finish it off with a powerful double palm strike. He quickly got back into his stance and did a headbutt before rolling back and hitting the ground with his arms and hands to push off forward with two kicks. His feet touch the ground and did a front flip to land on his back on the ground with two elbow strikes. Leo spun his legs around into a hurricane and jumps into the air, landing in the center of the arena with his tiger stance, baring his teeth and let out a low growl.
But before Leo can do another move, he felt a sudden sharp pain in head. "Gah!" Leo grunted, brining both his hands to his head. "What the hell?!"
This pain that he's feeling was strong. Leo took a knee down to kneel. He growled viciously to resist it. Several seconds has passed and the pain went away. Leo panted slowly. Taking in deep breaths, Leo sits down. "Now what the hell was that?" Leo snarled. "A fucking headache?"
"You wished it was a headache." Kaira said in his mind.
"Oh shut the fucking hell up, you..." Leo said.
"Ok." Kaira said.
Leo took a moment to look at the Jade Palace and he knew deep down that in the future that new challenges will come along with the choices and decisions he'll make will affect his master, the Dragon Warrior, the rest of the Five and his girlfriend, Tigress, and will know what to do when the time comes.
Oh my god, this chapter took a lot of work to do. This chapter is much longer than the Ghost Of The Three Masters chapter. Now I know you're wondering if S.H.I.E.L.D from MCU is connected. I'm not going to spoil anything about that. That'll just ruin the fun. I think the ending of this chapter turned out great. Also, I heard that the new trailer of Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight will be revealed this Friday. I just hope we get to see Shifu, the Furious Five and Song in this new TV series.
That would be awesome. So anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to leave a review!