Chapter 1

"Hi! I'm here!" Lupe shouted as she walked up the steps to the dojo. Ahead of her, she saw three boys and a girl come out of the dojo with questioning looks on their faces.

"Who the heck are you?" a boy with spiky brown hair and deep green eyes asked.

"I'm Lupe Santiago," she smiled, posing somewhat like a model. "Who are you?"

"I'm BOB THE BUILDER!" a young bald boy shouted, jumping up and down.

"OMI!" the boy with brown hair yelled, "I TOLD YOU TO GET OVER THAT TV SHOW!"

"But it's a very fun show to watch…" said Omi with a quiet voice, poking his fingers together, "It is one of my first television shows…"

"Sorry about them," the only girl said, brushing her black hair behind her shoulders, "Their idiots. Anyway, I'm Kimiko, this is Clay…"

"How ya doin' lil' missy?" the tall boy asked, tipping his cowboy hat.

"The one being a jerk to an eight year old is Raimundo, and the short bald one is Omi."

"SHORT?" Omi yelled, looking like he was about to burst into tears, "I AM NOT SHORT! I JUST HAVE NOT GROWN YET!"

"Who you callin' a jerk?" Raimundo shouted, looking mad.

Lupe smiled, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Ah, I see you all have met each other," an older man said as he walked out of the dojo.

"Master Fung, who is this girl?" Raimundo asked, gesturing to Lupe.

"She is the new monk," he smiled.

Everyone gasped; "What do you mean? I thought that there were only four of us for the four elements," Kimiko questioned, raising her fingers to represent the numbers.

"Yes, that was it originally, although I had forgotten about hers," he smirked.

"I have an element?" Lupe laughed, "You say that as if I can control it or something."

Everyone looked at her with a serious look.

"Oh…I actually can manipulate an element?" she gasped, seeming to finally get what Master Fung had been saying.

"Which element is she, Master Fung?" Omi asked, looking up at him. "I thought that they were all taken."

"No not all of them," he smiled, waving a finger. "She also has one."

"Which one?" Lupe asked, quickly changing from excited to impatient.

"Guys! Guys!" a little green dragon shouted as he ran around the corner. "Another shen-gong-wu has been activated! We need to go get it fast! I think that Jack might already be there by now."

"Well, let's go then!"Raimundo shouted as the small dragon grew. Raimundo quickly hopped on the dragon's back, followed by the other three. Raimundo paused to look over at Lupe, who was standing there with an unsure look on her face. "Are you coming or what?"

"Really! I can come?"

"Sure, just don't mess anything up," Raimundo said with a shrug. Lupe clapped her hands together and quickly hopped on the dragon behind Kimiko.

"So who is this new kid?" the dragon asked a moment after they had taken off.

"I'm Lupe Santiago from Barcelona Spain!" she shouted to him with a childish smile on her face.

"Nice to meet ya kid, I'm Dojo."

"Cool name!" she smiled even bigger.

"Thanks! See guys? Somebody thinks my name is cool."

"We never said it wasn't," Raimundo said, crossing his arms.

"You never said it was," Dojo said with smirk. After a moment, he started to sneeze, "Guys, were almost there!"

Soon the group had landed in an alley of a small shopping market. A little bit down the alley from them, they spotted a black car.

"Dang rascal beat us to it," Clay grumbled.

"Who?" Lupe asked with a childishly questioning look on her face.

"Jack Spicer," Raimundo said, "the bad guy."

"He's a boy huh? How old is he?" Lupe asked, suddenly getting a devious look in her eye.

"About your age, I guess," Kimiko shrugged, "Why?"

"Because I have a plan," Lupe smiled a devious smile, then pulled everyone into a small huddle, explaining her plan.

"I don't like it…" Raimundo said with a scowl, crossing his arms. "How do you know it will work?"

"Trust me, it will," Lupe smirked. She quickly nodded to Kimiko, who nodded back, and then led her down the alley, followed by the three boys.

"Is that him?" Lupe asked as she peeked around the corner with Kimiko. They were looking into a large square area, where a red-headed boy had just pulled a large golden sword out of a flower bed, and a purple ghost-like being looking over his shoulder.

"Great Jack, now let's head back to the car," the ghost seemed to growl, then went into a wall, as though it was a much quicker route.

"Okay Wuya, just hang on, I'll be there in a second."

"Yep," Kimiko nodded, "that's him! Now go!"

"Wai…" Raimundo started to say with a large amount of regret and jealousy in his voice; but it was too late, Lupe was walking into the square.

"Hi there," she said sweetly as she walked up to Jack.

"Uh…Hh…Hi!" Jack stammered, looking like his stomach was doing a thousand backflips a second.

"Whatchya doin'?" she smiled, twirling her ponytail with her finger, looking at the flower bed and the sword.

"Oh, nothing, just looking for some stuff of mine," he said, looking like he was starting to sweat.

"What's your name? I'm Lupe."

"I'm Jack! Uh… nice to meet you," he put out his hand, but Lupe rejected it and gave him a hug instead.

"Can I see that thingy-mabober? It looks so cool," she smiled, continuing to twirl her hair.

"Sh…s…sure!" he stammered greatly, handing her the sword with shaky hands.

"So do you live around here?" Lupe asked as she looked at the sword, then swung it behind her back.

"Um sorta…" he smiled scratching the back of his head.

"Lupe!" Raimundo shouted from around the corner, disguising his voice. "Lupe, where are you?"

"Oh, that's my brother," she smiled at him. "I'm sorry, but I have to go. I hope we can see each other again. You're kind of cute."

Jack turned bright red as he stammered, trying to get a word out, but completely failed. He then instead waved good bye as she ran back down around the corner and into the alley.

"Let's go!" she said, waving everyone towards Dojo. Quickly everyone climbed onto the dragon and took off.

"Did you get the sword?" Omi asked with excitement.

"You better believe it! Hook, line, and sinker!" Lupe laughed, pulling the sword from behind her back.

"That was brilliant!" Kimiko laughed along with her, giving her a hi five.

"Still don't like that plan…" Raimundo growled.

Off in the distance behind them in the silence, they all heard a loud, crackly angry voice, "JAAAAACK!"

No one could help but laugh.