Held And Tickled

This actually, has a story behind it. *giggle* Another Shifu/Oogway bonding moment! ^^ (The version in my sketchbook is much better..)

The air was completely peaceful as Oogway played his bamboo flute softly, the notes as sweet as saccharine echoed across the great mountain. Oogway's music playing was interrupted by soft sniffling from behind him. The old tortoise lowered the flute from his mouth and turned to Shifu. “Fu, what is it? What's wrong?” His eyebrows were creased with concern.
Shifu was crying so much, he could hardly get a sentence out. “I-I-I had a-a a bad-a bad dream!”
“Did you now?” Oogway asked sympathetically. “What did you dream about?”
“I-I dreamed that Su Lin-and-and you were-were killed by Giao-by Giao-”
“By Giao Xun?” Oogway guessed.
Shifu nodded, sniffling. “Yeah..”
Oogway smiled and smoothed the fur on the cub's head. “It's alright my little Fu, it was only a nightmare..I promise.”
Shifu sat there hugging his knees and trembling. He didn't look very convinced.
Oogway tapped his chin, then turned towards Shifu. “You know what? I had a bad dream the other night..”
“Really? What did you dream about?”
“Hmmm..I dreamed that I was chased by a giant fury monster.”
“What was the monster's name?”
Oogway paused for a moment then his eyes lit up. “The leaf monster from the swamp!”
Shifu's curious blue eyes were wide, fascinated. “Wow, what does the leaf monster do?”
“Well.” Oogway began. “First, the leaf monster catches you alone when you're in the swamp. He sneaks around trees and tries to catch up to you. You can run, but he'll always catch up to you. He gives a low raspy growl and then..” Oogway leaned forward to Shifu's face. “You want to know what he does next?”
Shifu also leaned forward, eyes as wide as they could be. “What?” He whispered. “What does he do?”
“You reeeeally want to know?” Oogway asked.
“What? What does he do?”
“He gets ya!” Oogway shouted, grabbing the cub.
Shifu gave a startled scream, with quickly turned to screams of laughter as Oogway pulled him onto his lap and fiercely tickled him. Shifu screamed, laughed and squealed, but could not get free. “Ee-ee-ee-eeee! Hehehehe! Ahahaha! Aaahahahahaha! No! Master-! Eeeeee! Stop it! Ahahahaha!” Shifu's head was buried in Oogway's chest as he tried to avoid his master's fingers. The cub gave a long muffled scream and began laughing again. “Noooo! Le'ggo! Le'ggo! Eeeeee-hehehehe!”
Oogway chuckled and gently replaced the cub on the ground.
“Master, does that leaf monster really do that?”
Oogway smiled. “No, but do you know what?”
“What?”
“I'm going to again, if you don't march your furry little hide back to bed.”