Chapter 3!!!!
This one is a little shorter, bear with me. Four will come up soon.
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Master Shifu unofficially let everyone free that afternoon and evening. Not only was there enough wood to heat the Jade Palace until tomorrow, but, he noted to Po with a cold stare, his food took a drastic toll on the other Masters.
Po immediately went to throw out the sauce, angry as the rest of the masters ambled about, most of them, like Viper, retiring to sleep off the pain. Tigress, who Po thought was one of the masters resting, tapped Po on the shoulder, then whispered, “maybe don’t add so much next time.” Po glared, then looked back at the hot sauce, placing it down forcefully on the counter.
“Po,” Tigress said, her voice beginning to come back, but Po interrupted, “shouldn’t you go rest or something? Didn’t my soup, like burn out your intestines too?”
Tigress shook her head, refusing to buckle under Po’s negative attitude. She massaged her throat and coughed, preparing herself for a lengthy sentence. “I got my shirt stained, I went to my room to change into another one.”
Po didn’t even realize the colors Tigress was wearing. Her shirt was steely white with blue trim. It looked very nice, actually. “Oh,” Po said, not sure what to say. Tigress smiled.
“Viper, *cough*, isn’t used to that kind of food. She’s a snake, remember.” Po felt he was being criticized for not comprehending Viper’s physiology, but Tigress chuckled, a less-throaty cough this time. “It’s alright Po.”
Po didn’t believe her. Even if everyone, even poor Viper, told him everything was ok and no harm was done, none of it would affect him. HE still didn’t think it was a success by any stretch. Plus, Monkey was walking funny now, having his bowels burst into flame about an hour ago.
Po set his ladle down and sighed. “I don’t know why I just mess up all the time. Sure, I do something cool like defeat Tai Lang and save the Valley, and defeat Lord Shen, but when it comes to doing something simple like this, I can’t even do THAT right! I just,” Po stopped, looking at Tigress, who had a smile on her face. Po sighed, noting he was really the only one angry about this whole issue, then finished lamely, “want to be like one of you guys.”
Tigress suddenly changed expressions. She looked sad. Not sad for herself, but for Po. Tigress coughed, then said “Po, I *cough*, we, all know your one of us. You’re the Dragon Warrior.”
“Yeah,” Po said unconvincingly, “who can save all of China but can’t even save his fellow Masters from food poisoning.”
Tigress knew Po was exaggerating. So she couldn’t help but laugh. It sounded raspy still, but she pushed past the strain on her throat then coughed and regained composure. “Po-” again, before she was thinking, said, “you mean a lot to us here. We love you, in a sense.” Po seemed to understand that, looking a little less down.
Tigress felt her heart hammer in her chest as she got closer to him, putting a hand on his arm. “I-I, *cough* I love you.” She looked down and then quickly added, “in my own way.”
Po looked shocked. “What? No way!” Tigress looked up at him, looking almost ashamed.
“*cough* Po, I didn’t like you at first, but once you proved yourself to be far more capable than I figured you’d be, I realized I was wrong. Over these past couple months,” Tigress said, walking from Po and around the kitchen, “I really started to *cough* understand I,” she smiled at Po, “liked you. I enjoy your company and like being your friend.”
Tigress returned to the dumbstruck panda, who first looked shocked, but then started to smile. He took it well. Tigress smiled in response. Po didn’t know what to say.
“I haven’t seen you change at all,” Tigress said, chuckling, “since you first came here. Your determination and will have been untouched from the first day. I just want you to know how much you’ve changed US.” Tigress coughed for a moment upon emphasizing ‘us’, but soon regained composure.
“I’ve felt that I can be more relaxed,” Po nodded, understanding, “as of late. That’s why I enjoyed our dance so much. I’ve been depraved of much most of my life, and you bring me what I lost.”
Tigress felt a wave of relief flood her body upon releasing those words. She really felt Po was giving her what she’d always wanted, but never had. Tigress looked shy for a moment, then said, “speaking of which, I was wondering if you could teach me to sing.”
Po’s mouth hit the floor, as did the ladle in his hand. Tigress licked her lips, a little worried that she may have asked too much, but then looked confident, like when she had to fight a whole legion of demons. “I want to learn to sing.” Tigress said, her voice practically normal now, sounding very straight forwards with her request.
“Um,” Po said, scratching his head, “maybe we should get some help….”

Chapter 2
Chapter 4