Wu Sisters’ game 2: Goodbye Tigress
#4 of Kung Fu Panda
Po was going to lose his girlfriend.
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Wu Sisters' game 2: Goodbye Tigress
** The next morning, Po was helping his father.**
** "POOOOOO!!!!!"**
** As though waking from a dream, Po said, "Yes, dad?"**
** "Po, you're not helping at all. The customers are grumbling already, you better take a break."**
** Po sighed and left the shop. He gazed at the street with dull, glassy eyes. His father was right, Mei Ling's death dealt a hard blow to him. He walked aimlessly along the street, neither knowing nor caring where he was going. Suddenly he reached the river where he met Mei Ling for the first time. Tigress was also there.**
** "Morning Tigress."**
** "Morning Po."**
** They sat on a grassy slope. The cool breeze fanned their hot faces.**
** "Here, I got bullied and she saved me, I was so useless and shameful. Later she also encouraged me to join Shifu," Po remarked, smiling a little. His memory stretched back to his early childhood.**
** "I almost got drown, luckily she saved me but at that time I didn't know her name," Tigress said with dignified sorrow. She began to think back to her childhood.**
** "Tigress, why Shifu didn't ask her to join him? She was a good fighter, calm and serious."**
** "She rejected without any reasons but Shifu still treated her as part of us."**
** Po put his panda paw gently on top of Tigress paw. "She also introduced you to me, a panda and a tigress, I told her it won't work but somehow it worked."**
** "Po, I know you want to kill the Wu Sisters, but you must calm down or else you can't win."**
** "I won't forget what they did to her!" Po's brow lowered, and he protruded his firm chin. He looked fierce and determined.**
** "Po, later I'll teach the students, you better go meditate. Real life is very much like a soap opera in which everyone plays a role. We all have the experience of following the emotional swings of the characters of soap operas." Tigress urged.**
** "Thanks, Tigress, although I don't understand at all."**
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** Inside the headquarter. A trio of leopard sisters were playing Monopoly.**
** "Sisters, we must act before Po calm down," Wing Wu said, her exotic perfume filling the foyer.**
** "Don't worry, she's dead by this evening," Wan Wu said, her voice was crisp and authoritative.**
** "Careful, she's tough. We'll act as soon as she left the Academy," Su Wu, leader of the group, said in an emphatic tone.**
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** That afternoon, Tigress was preparing food in the kitchen alone. Yesterday it was lively here, but now she could only hear the cooking sounds. Life was unpredictable. Life has ups and downs. You never knew what's going to happen tomorrow. It was difficult for her to fight back her tears.**
** The delicious smell from the vegetables reminded Tigress to turn off the gas. Wiped away tears, she had nothing to do but adamance. By looking at the fire, she suddenly recalled how Mei Ling was burnt alive. But no matter how much she cried or ranted or prayed, she knew the painful truth Mei Ling was never going to return.**
** Po did not come to take lunch, Tigress understood as she was having lunch alone too. She did not want to spoil the atmosphere. Now her face would take away other people's appetite.**
** After lunch, Tigress took a shower and forced herself to relax before going to the Academy. She tried to keep up her spirits. As soon as she entered the Academy she could see it was full of sorrow. The students were self-training without smiling face. No one could forget how Mei Ling died painfully.**
** "Tigress, I guess we've to take a one-week break for everyone back to normal," A Master suggested and Tigress nodded. She's not in the mood to talk right now.**
** "Master, can I have a room to meditate?"**
** "Sure, Po is here too."**
** After the students left, the Master led Tigress to a room. Tigress tried to calm down after the Master left.**
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** That evening, Tigress left the Academy and was on the way back to the Jade Palace in the Valley of Peace. She had to hide her grief's and still her broken heart and take up the cross of a long, dreary, aching afternoon, with none among the strangers about her to exchange sorrows with. Suddenly she sensed dangers.**
** "Hi Tigress."**
** "Wu sisters!"**
** "Don't move, Tigress!" Wing Wu shouted.**
** "Why must I listen to you?"**
** "Because if you don't, these poor students shall go to the Heaven," Su Wu said with a laugh.**
** "OK, I surrender, let them go!" Tigress complied without argument.**
** Wing Wu approached Tigress with a long rope. Tigress tried to come out with a plan but she failed eventually. There were no ways for her to fight and protect the students at the same time. Wing Wu used the roped to circle Tigress's neck a few rounds before making a live-knot. Wing Wu pulled the rope and forced Tigress's head down to her own buttocks, Wing Wu then pulled the rope down and tied at her left ankle. Now Tigress's buttocks touched the back of her head and she felt her backbone was going to break. Finally Wan Wu tied Tigress's paws and gagged her.**
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** "Master Po! They kidnapped Master Tigress and retreated to the Peace Hill!"**
** The students sketched the story briefly, telling the facts just as they had happened. "Master Po, they wanted you to go there alone."**
** Po quickly phoned Shifu and told him about the Wu Sisters.**
** "Po, we'll try to surround and ambush them. Meanwhile, you must calm down and trust us," Shifu urged.**
** The spur of that pitiful sight set Po gliding swiftly. When he arrived at the place where Mei Ling was burnt alive, he was gasping with rage. No sign of Tigress - at least she was not burnt too. Desperate with anxiety, he searched the whole place.**
** "Looking for something?"**
** Po lifted up his head and saw the Wu Sisters on the top of the hill, still no sign of Tigress, "Where's Tigress?" Po shouted in an exasperate voice. He looked at the Wu Sisters with an indescribable expression of anxiety.**
** "Do you recognise this?" There was a head on Su Wu's left paw and blood was dripping to the ground from his paw. The orange eyes and muzzle were still opened, seemed like trying to call for help.**
** "TIGRESS!" Po screamed, tears streaming down his face. He was badly jarred by the blow.**
** "Before I removed her head from her pretty body, she was calling your name! You let her to go home alone!" Wing Wu shouted and laughed.**
** A deadly lassitude has taken hold of Po.**
** "Look at her, she can't even die peacefully!" Wang Wu added.**
** Misfortunes never come singly. Yesterday Po lost one of his seniors here, now he lost his lover here. This was a double strike to him. He stood, transfixed, unable to see, his body quivering with the roar. "It's my fault!" Suddenly everything went black and he lost consciousness.**
"My parting blessing on my love, goodbye Tigress. We shall meet again, where the weary are at rest!" Po thought.
** "Damn, his partners are coming this way. Never mind, let's retreat for now. He was almost driven out of his mind with anxiety, we shall set-up a trap and finish them once and for all," Su Wu said, they laughed loudly again and left.**
To be continued. Next part: Final victory