The Untold Mission

Secrets of Bujiao: Part 1

Tigress and the Furious Five, along with some guards, began to investigate the home that Daiyu had been torturing MaSha in The Valley Of Bujiao. The Furious Five couldn't bear to look at MaSha while she rested from her injuries. The doctor's determined she would recover but it was going to be a very long and difficult one. She had injuries on her body that they weren't even aware of. Some old wounds had opened up again and they had found fragments of glass and metal in some parts of her arms from the older wounds. It was heart wrenching to see, even for the doctors. They had only seen things like this in warriors, never did they think they would see it in a child.

Daiyu refused to speak to anyone but had a cocky smirk plastered on her face, very much pleased with what she had done. Tigress wanted to claw it out of her face without mercy. MaSha was in pain and her mother had been the cause of it. How could a parent let their child go through that? How could anyone let anyone go through that?

Tigress looked at everything that Daiyu had in the house. It ranged from close combat weapons to long range. She had pots and scrolls of potions and tricks. Daiyu sure had an extensive collection of Magic scrolls. She picked one of them up that had information on how to properly kill a demon. It was the same way of torture she was using on poor MaSha. Viper didn't miss the growl that came from Tigress.

She knew Tigress was taking it harder than any of them. Not only cus it was a child but because the only other two tigers she's seen were either sinister or suffering from the other. Either way, Tigress was angry and she wanted to make sure she was okay.

"Hey Tigress." Viper slithered next to her. "Find anything?" Tigress didn't respond at first. Just looking at the dreaded scroll.

"MaSha doesn't deserve any of this." Tigress tossed the scroll. "No child should ever go through what she has." Viper frowned. Ever since she had met Tigress, she always seemed happy and cheerful. Tigress, although mostly serious, knew how to smile and laugh along with everyone else.

"Hey, MaSha will be okay. Sure it'll be difficult but as far as we've seen her, she's a really strong girl." Viper smiled sadly at her friend. Tigress smiled sadly back before looking back at the scrolls.

"Hey girls!" Monkey called them. "Check this scroll out." Tigress and Viper turned to see the boys heading their way. Monkey handed Tigress a golden scroll, with dragon designs on each side of it. Tigress unrolled the scroll and it revealed to be a drawing of a family. A large tiger family.

In the center of the drawing stood Daiyu, smiling. Not a hint of anger or darkness in her gaze. Next to her stood a slightly taller male. He had an arm around her waist with a big smile on his face. Between them, they held a baby tiger that couldn't be more than a year old. Around them was what they assumed the rest of their family. Aunts, Uncles, brothers, or sisters, perhaps?

"Do you think that's the missing child?" Viper asked, remembering what MaSha had confessed.

"I don't know." Tigress sighed. "The only ones who can confirm that are Daiyu and MaSha. But Daiyu won't speak to anyone and MaSha needs to recover. I'm not letting her do anything until she does."

"I still can't believe Daiyu could do that to a child." Mantis frowned from up top of Monkey's shoulder.

"Our only option is to find the tigers in the picture." Crane pointed out. "And we don't know where to even start."

"There's got to be something in this house." Tigress told them. "They must have come from somewhere else." The five warriors nodded in agreement before splitting up in different directions of the house. They were going to find out what led to this to happen.

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MaSha whimpered in her sleep. The Empress was in the room keeping the poor child company. She, like most of the others, was horrified at the state that MaSha was in. Daiyu truly had no heart.

It's okay. You're safe now. Her father's voice whispered. Everything will be okay.

MaSha whimpered as she tried finding her father. She could only hear him. "Daddy?!" She would call for him. "Daddy, where are you?" MaSha ran and ran in her dream. Still not a single sign of where he was. Only his voice. "Daddy?" In the real world she was breathing heavily, tears streaming down from her closed eyes. She wanted to see her father again. She couldn't find him, making her feel so alone.

"LiMei will take care of you. I promise." Her father's voice whispered softly. "You'll be okay. You both will."

"Daddy? Where are you?" She continued to cry. Her sleeping body couldn't take it anymore and woke her from her dream. She cried even harder as she felt the pain from the wounds and the ache in her heart of missing her father. The Empress rushed to her and tried to sue her head to calm her down as the doctor came in. Luckily MaSha didn't move her body. If she had the pain would be so much worse.

"I want my daddy." MaSha sobbed. "I want my daddy. I want my daddy." The Empress looked at her sympathetically. She shushed the young girl with a soothing melody of her voice. MaSha still cried, feeling nothing but pain everywhere. She felt nothing else but pain and sorrow. Where was her daddy?

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The Furious Five didn't know how long they had been there. Could have been minutes or hours but nothing seemed to be found.

Tigress was currently looking at the drawing of the family once again. Not that it was helping in the search very much but looking at it gave her some sort of odd feeling in her stomach. She had so many questions about tigers and where they were. And if so what happened to her parents? Where were they? Who were they?

"Still processing the drawing?" Monkey asked. Tigress looked up at him and sighed before looking back at it.

"I have so many questions. And no answers to them." Monkey sat beside her and looked at.

"Daiyu certainly looks happier there." Monkey smiled.

"Yeah." Tigress sighed. "MaSha mentioned that she has two older sisters. One that was killed by their mother but the oldest disappeared years ago."

"Perhaps she has some information?" Mantis joined in.

"Where would we even find her though?" Tigress looked at the picture. "They are at least 10 years apart and MaSha knows very little of her."

"Hey!" Crane called to them for what seemed like the tenth time to him. Seriously, he needed to work on his calls. The four warriors finally gave him attention. "I found a map."

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"Are you sure this is the place?" Monkey asked.

"It looks very abandoned." Mantis added.

"That's what the map says." Crane looked at the map again. The map had the group to a hidden home in the valley. As big as it was, it was hidden with a lot of shrubbery, weeds and vines. Tigress took a deep breath and stepped forth, moving the weeds and vines that covered the door, the rest followed closely after her. She carefully opened the busted door, making a loud creaking sound. Without warning dozens of arrows fired at them that they were able to deflect with ease.

The Five warriors got into a defensive stance as they made their way inside the house, keeping an eye out for anymore traps that were to come their way.

"It's her." They heard a faint whisper.

"How did she get here?" Said another.

"Who goes there?" Tigress growled.

"She sounds just like him." A third voice joined.

"Show yourself!" Tigress demanded. There was a short moment of silence before a lantern was slowly lit. The Five warriors never lowered their stance in the chance of a threat but this....this was something they had not really been expecting. 

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Okay I'll be honest I did not publish this story just cus its the Year of The Tiger my brain did not line that up till now xD

Anyway Happy Lunar New Year!