Kung Fu Panda Story (ORIGINAL)

Apart Yet Together

The next day, Tigress paid for her stay at the inn and started back on her journey. It was eight o'clock in the morning she had been walking for over two hours and had crossed a mile now, and stopped to take a break. She sighed as she looked at the mountains ahead. 'I still got a long way to go.' Tigress thought.

 She ate some bread and drank some of her water. Then she felt something on her chest. She reached into her vest and took out a locket. It was small that most of the time, Tigress didn't even know it was there. 

She opened it to pictures. One side was of Shi Fu and the Furious Five together, including herself, which was taken years ago. The other photo on the other side was taken just recently. It was a picture of Po. 

She smiled as she remembered how happy Po was when she asked him for a photo of his. He was cheering for the rest of the day after that. She looked at the photo of the Furious Five and Shi Fu again and realized just how much she had changed over the years.

 Nowadays, she would actually smile in a portrait. Back then, she wore the same serious face every single day with no sign of emotion whatsoever.

Though, there was one particular panda who would always make Tigress' day feel a hundred times better. Then the truth hit her like a ton of bricks. She liked Po! As in the romantic, not just friends kind of way! Tigress almost fainted when she realized the emotions she felt for Po, meant. 'Why did I have to leave now?!' She questioned herself furiously.

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After a good night's rest, the team began their travels once again. They walked in silence as they crossed a big bridge over a thick river. "Are we still heading in the right direction, Po?" Mantis asked. 

"Yep." Po replied as he showed Mantis the map. They then came to an end of the bridge and stood on the dirt path. They noticed that some of the soil ahead was dampened with water from the river. All of a sudden, a powerful gush of wind came that appeared to have come from the cold mountains far, far ahead. 

"No" Po yelled as the map slipped out of his fingers. He tried to catch it, as did the others, but it landed in the river and got torn apart. 

"Oh no!" Said Viper. She turned to Po, "What are we going to now? How can we find Tigress without a map?" 

Po, who hadn't prepared a plan B, was full of panic. He gave Monkey, who was up ahead, a confused look when he said, "We follow the trail." 

The remaining four masters went to where Monkey was to see what he was talking about. "See." He said when they came. "Claw prints."

 "Hey, those look like Tigress' prints." Mantis piped up. 

"How do you know that?" Asked Crane. 

"YOU try being stepped on multiple times!" Mantis huffed. "And some of them weren't even on accident!" Po ignored Mantis and just smiled with relief to know that they weren't completely at loss after all.

Sadly, after fifteen minutes of following the tracks, they stopped at a field of grass. "Oh, great. Just what we needed!" Crane complained. 

"What are we supposed to do now?" Monkey asked to no one in particular. 

Viper said, "I guess we just have to, you know...think like Tigress." 

Mantis just said, "Like we even know what she thinks about. That tiger is an emotionless pile of...kung fu! We don't know if she even thinks at all. Let alone think like her."