After Tigress’ little… scuffle with the fox bandit in the jade palace’s dungeon, the rest of the furious five had eventually found Tigress stuck in the cell door and helped her get unstuck. While they were giving their friend a hand, they of course had to ask her how the hell this had happened, much to Monkey and Mantis’ amusement.
She reluctantly explained the whole ordeal minus the taken advantage of part, of course. She made them all promise not to tell Master Shifu about any of this and just claim that she just found the cell empty. Implying that the fox must have somehow picked the lock and escaped on his own.
The following days, the furious five had been ordered by their master to patrol the entire valley in order to track down this criminal before he escapes for good. Tigress had been told about a certain bar in the more shadier parts of the valley were more unsavory types like to drink and play games.
As soon as she entered the establishment, she received some strange looks like she wasn’t really welcomed there. She noticed a certain bartender who looked somewhat familiar but she couldn’t quite put her paw on it. She was about to interrogate him when three men by a mahjong table called her over and asked her what such a pretty thing were doing in a place like this.
She told them that she was searching for a fox bandit who were wanted for theft and burglary with a scar over his left eye. When she asked if they had seen a fox matching that description, the three mahjong players mentioned that they may have seen a person like that. Unfortunately, that information didn’t come cheap. If she wanted them to talk, she had to cough up some money.
She rolled her eyes at such common greed for just doing the right thing. She simply told them that she didn’t have any money and was about to walk away when they offered her to play a game of mahjong instead but with a certain bet. This caught her attention. They told her that since she didn’t have any money, she could bet her clothes instead. The deal was simple, beat the three of them just once in a game of strip mahjong and they would start pointing fingers.
She was reluctant at first, but she needed that information and she wasn’t one to turn down a challenge. She just needed to beat them all just once. How hard could that be? This would be simple.
