The Village up in the Mountains

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Haibei, the bar

Po and the Five slowly trudged into the bar, attentive as they listened to Tigress' words.
The six masters walked through a chaos-filled bar, full of brawls in different corners.
In the middle of the bar was the counter, there were also several stools.
"Hello..? I'm looking for Liu Jie." Po said looking around. Po didn't get an answer, so he walked up to the counter and asked the bartender.
"You, I'm looking for Liu Jie, do you happen to know where- OH-" Po was interrupted when a knife was pushed up in front of his face by the bartender.
"Why do you want to know that?"
Po slowly raised his finger and slowly pushed the knife down.
"We promise, we mean no harm. We just want to reach Liu." Po said, looking at the bartender, a brown fox wearing a black vest.
"You guys aren't going to attack her or anything?" asked the bartender. "No." "Sure?" "Yeah."
The fox nodded sideways in the direction where a hooded figure is sitting. "Thank you, dear bartender." Po said and left, the five following him.
As Po approached the table he began to speak. "Excuse me, are you Liu Jie?"
The figure pulled off its hood, revealing a white tiger with a deep scar over its left eye. The pupil was not visible at all, and her forms indicated that she was female. "Mmm" was all she let out.

"Great, we'd like to get answers to some questions."
Tigress looked in confusion at the tiger in front of her. Never before has she seen a tiger, at least not since she was a child.
"Then we might aswell go outside." Liu said, staring down Tigress strangely.
*What was that* Tigress asked herself in her mind.
Liu led the six masters out of the bar. Once everyone was out, they continued out of town. This was getting really weird, Tigress thought. Po continued to walk happily, and the other four were in thought. Liu went completely silent. No one said a word, not even the chatty dragon warrior himself.
Then they entered an oak forest.

"Excuse me, but it really feels like you're leading us into some kind of trap." said Tigress.
Liu stopped immediately. "Huh." then she sighed.
"WOLVES" she called and out of the trees wolves jumped out and surrounded the six masters.
"I knew it" Tigress muttered to herself and began to attack. Po and the other four immediately followed and began to fight.
It wasn't long before a strange jar was thrown among the masters and wolves.
Then all of a sudden smoke started coming out of the can and the wolves quickly put on masks. The wolves tried their best to push the masters together into a single pile. *Cough* "I'm starting to think *cough* this isn't going to *cough* be so good." Po said, continuing to cough.
"I.. think so *cough* too..." said Crane.
Tigress tried to hold her breath, the other five had fallen. They lay flat on the ground. It was now Tigress herself against the wolves and Liu. Unfortunately for Tigress, it's very difficult to hold your breath when you're exerting yourself, to say the least. So she accidentally inhaled the smoke and now started coughing.
In the end, she too fell.

(-Time-skip-)

"W-w where am I.. I mean we..?" Po asked, hearing his voice echo.
He was in a stone room, the others were sleeping. Po looked at the pile of sleeping masters and noticed that someone was missing.
"TIGRESS?!" Po shouted, causing the others to wake up.
"h- huh?" asked Viper.
"TIGRESS IS GONE!" Po shouted. "Auughhh... this just keeps getting worse and worse," said Po, banging his head against the iron bars. They were in a prison cell, probably inside a mountain, with only a tiny crack to the outside world. And it wasn't getting any better that cold air was blown into the cell.
"Okay Po, calm down, you've been in a cell before." said Mantis. "But that probably wasn't for real."
"CALM ME DOWN?! How am I supposed to calm down when we don't even know where we are, in a cold prison cell, and apparently, high up inside a mountain, and a close friend of ours is missing without a trace left?! HOW?! how?!" Po shouted. The cricket's eyes opened, never before had they heard Po scream so loudly, and right at them.
Po sank his face into his hands and slowly fell down the wall.
"You're right, maybe I should calm down." Po said and was greeted by Viper caressing Po's arm a little gently.
"Po, calming down in a situation like this is important. It's important not to show panic in front of your enemies, never show your weaknesses in front of your enemies, you should keep that in mind. But also, if you calm down then it's easier to think clearly. So Po, calm down, and then you can tell me what you think we should do now." Said Viper, giving him a reassuring look, but also that old motherly smile she always gives out.

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