The bus stopped in front of the museum and the doors opened with a big 'whoosh!' One by one people got out excitedly. Ms. Foster slowly got out with Mr. Herriman right behind her. Frankie was the next off with Mac and Bloo following. Wilt, Eduardo, Cheese, Coco, and the rest of the friends came off one right after the other. Goo Goo was the last, bringing up the rear. The gang stopped in front of the museum and looked up at it.

"Wow...we going in there?" Eduardo said.

"Yes, we are," Madame Foster said. "Now remember the usual rules whenever we go on a field trip. Stay with your group. Don't get lost. Don;t wander off, and all meet at the entrance at 9:00. All right?"

"All right."

"And very important, do NOT touch anything, and do not EAT anything!" Frankie looked right at Eduardo when she said that.

"What?" He asked.

"You will be staying in MY group, Eduardo. The rest of you, have fun!" Mr. Herriman said. The friends all cheered as one by one they entered the museum.

"Hey, look, free cookie samples!" Mac cried, about to steer over to a young girl at the entrance, holding out a plate of steaming fresh chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies.

"NO!" Frankie, said, pulling him back by his shirt collar.

"But Frankie.."

"You know the rules! When we go out in public NO cookies or sugary sweets until we go back to the home!" She shoved a granola bar into his hands and pretended not to notice his visible groan of disappointment.

Most of the afternoon was a very enjoyable one. The gang split up almost as soon as they got into the museum. Mac, Coco and Bloo made sure to stick close to Frankie as they traveled all over. They saw the dinosaur exhibit, and moved on to the statues, their breath taken away by the lifelike sculptures. Bloo however kept making comments.

"What a hunk," he cracked at a particular statue. Frankie gave him a Look. "Of marble, I mean," he corrected himself. Edurado however kept having to be restrained after thinking the statues were all made of ice cream and he almost got caught licking one or two.

Frankie. Bloo, Coco and Mac admired the tapestries hanging in the next room. Of course Bloo cracked, "Hey, think we could buy something like that for our beds?" Luckily for him everyone ignored him. They came to the rocks and minerals display. Unfortunately Mr. Herriman had to hold back Eduardo when THEIR group came into the room to prevent him from diving into the display and eating the 'rock candy' he swore he saw in the cases.

Frankie, Mac, Coco and Bloo then passed by the Hall Of Countries and came upon Walt staring at the Feudal Japan display. "Hey, Wilt?" Wilt looked up.

"Hi!" He waved with his one good arm.

Frankie, Bloo, Mac, and Coco came into the room. "What are you looking at, Wilt?" Mac asked.

"Just looking at this display here," Wilt said, pointing at a huge glass case which was dirtectly across from the display with Japanese paper fans and where lanterns were hung from the celing. The case held a perfectly preserved gi, a pair of wooden sandals that was right underneath it, and next to it was a huge painting of an extremely handsome young man in the gi and sandals with a unique looking sword at his side. He was tall and muscular with jet black hair set in topknot at the top of his head.

"Look at this cool painting!" Wilt continued.

"Whoa, that's a pretty neat painting!" Bloo said.

"Wow," Mac said, staring at the painting. "I didn;t know you were into Samurai!"

"I didn't either," Wilt admitted. "But somehow I felt like I had to see this display. He's fascinating, you have no idea."

"Oh...yeah!" Frankie said, staring at the handsome man.

Wilt pointed to the plaque. "Listen to this. This is actually Emperior Mako who lived and ruled in the Feudal Era of Japan. He was one of the most loved Emperiors in the feudal Era and also one of the Greatest Samurai Warriors in history. He was responsible for saving not only his country, but the known world from an evil Shape-Shifting wizard named Aku."

"WHAAAAT?!" Bloo cried. "It does NOT say that!"

"Right there!" Wilt said, pointing to the plaque. Bloo looked as well. "The evil wizard Aku made his appearance just before the Emperior was born, when he was still a Prince. But his Father, Emperior Shimato, also a trained Samurai, managed to seal him off. But when a passing eclipse happened Aku broke free of the spell. The young Prince was then set off around the world for many years to learn not only Samurai skills, but many battle skills. He returned as a young man and was given a sacred sword belonging to his father, which was the only weapon with enough power to destroy Aku. However before he could deal the final blow Aku sent him forward thousand of years through time."

"Unbelieveable!" Frankie mumbled, staring at the painting.

"Coco," Coco agreed.

"Seriously? All of that is true?!" Bloo said sceptically.

"It's all right here. Look, there's more," Wilt continued to read. "But the Prince managed to make it back to the past accompanied by a young woman who it turned out was one of Aku's daughters from the future, who turned against her father once she found out his pure evil ways."

"Good for her," Frankie said. Suddenly she shuddered a bit. "Ooh! Did you guys feel that just now?"

"Feel what?" Bloo asked.

"I don;t know, all of a sudden I just felt a bit cold. Did any of you feel cold?"

"No," Bloo said. "I didn't feel cold."

"Coco," Coco said, shaking her head.

"Hmm, that's so weird. For one second I just felt a chill, and now it's gone."

"Maybe there's a problem with the AC or something," Wilt said.

"Maybe. Go on," Frankie said.

"And with her help he used the sacred magic sword to slay Aku and save not only Japan but the past and the future from his wrath."

"Gee. He did that?!" Mac said.

"What happened to the Daughter?" Frankie asked.

"It doesn't say here. Once he became Emperior he broke years of tradition. Rather than stay in his palace as others have done before him, he actually interacted with his subjects and showed he cared about each and every one of them. Every morning he would go out on his horse and greet his subjects, interacting with each one of them personally helping them out with anything they needed. For that reason he became one of the most beloved Emperiors in history."

"Wow," Frankie said, impressed beyond belief. "He sounds like an amazing guy. Man...I envy his Empress..."

"He didn;t have an Empress," Wilt said. "Says right here he never got married. When he died his cousin, Prince Iko inherited the throne."

"Guess he was married to his subjects or something," Frankie said. "Just the luck of probably every girl in Japan!"

"Yeah this is an awesome display. But I'm gonna go look around some more," Bloo said, bored. "Ya comin, Mac?"

"Yeah, sure," Mac said. He turned around and then stopped. "Whoa."

"What?"

Mac rubbed his arms. "I felt something too. Just for a split second. Just felt kinda cold."

"I think we oughta talk to the Manager or something. Something's off with the air conditioning," Bloo turned to Wilt. "Hey, yo, Walt, you coming?"

"No," Wilt said. "I think I'll stay here with the Emperior for a while. Is that okay?"

"OK, but don;t stay too long in here," Frankie said. "We have to be out of here by 9. The museum closes at 10." Wilt nodded, but then he shuddered a bit. "Wilt?"

"I felt something just now too."

"Something's really off with this air conditioning." Bloo said as he left the room.

The rest of the afternoon passed by quickly. Soon it was almost time to go. Mr. Herriman and Mrs. Foster gather at the entrance.

"Well, it's almost time to go. All present and accounted for?" Ms. Foster asked.

"Wait...where's Frankie and her group?" Mr. Herriman asked.

"I'm sure they'll be along shortly. They know we're supposed to meet here around this time."

"I hope so. The museum closes in an hour." Soon Frankie, Bloo, Coco, and Mac were making their way down the hallway when Frankie stopped in her tracks.

"Wait, guys," she said, "We forgot Wilt."

"Maybe he's at the entrance already with Ms. Foster," Mac said.

"I hope so," Frankie said. "This place is so big we might not be able to find him."

"Can we just go see?" Bloo said impatiently. "I kinda wanna go back home," with that Bloo began to make his way toward the entrance.

"Hey, Bloo, wait up!" Mac said as he, Frankie, and Coco ran to catch up.

"Ah, you're here. Splended," Mr. Herriman said. But he stopped. "Wait, where's Wilt?"

"Ya mean he's not with you?" Frankie asked.

"Let;s get on the bus, he'll be here," Bloo said, making his way to the exit, but Frankie stopped him.

"Hold it, Bloo," she said. "We can;t leave without Wilt!"

"Where is he?" Jackie said.

"Well, when we last saw him he was looking at a Feudal Japan display. Let's try there first."

"OK, well, we better split up and all look for him. But we have to hurry. We have less than an hour."

Frankie, Bloo, Coco, and Mac headed for the Japanese exebit again, but when they poked their heads in Wilt wasn't there. "OK, so we can leave this place out," Bloo mumbled.

They turned around and walked on toward the various displays in the Hall of Countries. Wilt wasn't in any of them.

"WILT!" Frankie called out.

"YO, WILT, WHERE ARE YOU?" Bloo called out.

"Wilt!" Mac cried out. "The museum is gonna close soon! Wilt, where are you?"

"Hey guys!" Wilt cried out then coming over to them while eating some candy bars.

"Where were you?!" Bloo cried out. "We're supposed to be leaving. Were you in here the whole time looking at that display?"

"Actually no. I saw a little girl lost from her family and I bought her some candy and helped her to find her way back. Is that OK?"

Frankie looked at her watch. "It might not be, Wilt! We're late!" The gang quickly took off running to the left. But after running for a few minutes they stopped. Nothing looked familiar to them. "This isn;t the right way," she muttered. She was about to run in the other direction when Bloo stopped her.

"Wait, Frankie! The way to the entrance runs diagonally, I remember. If we go down this way we'll cut off the triangle and save time!"

"Huh?" Mac asked.

"Coco?" Coco responded.

"I saw it on a map. Come on!"

"All right," Wilt said, following Bloo. The gang ran and ran all over the place, they passed by display after display. Nothing looked familiar to them.

"Where's the triangle?" Mac said.

"Got to be here somewhere," Bloo said. "I'm sure we're close.."

"Hey," Frankie said, "Isn't that the Japanese Display?" They all walked in the direction of where she was pointing. Sure enough the painting of the Emperior was there next to his gi in the display case across from the hanging lanterns and fans. "Great!" Frankie put her arms in the air. "We've been walking around in a big circle! Thanks a lot, Bloo, we're lost and this is all your fault!"

"Hey, I was only trying to help!"

"Help?! Yeah, who lead us here, Bloo? I thought we were gonna cut off the triangle! NOW where are we?! Ms. Foster and Mr. Herriman are probably worried to death!"

"Can;t you call them on your cell phone?"

"It doesn;t work in here!" Out of the corner of her eye she saw Wilt begin to talk into the display again. "Wilt, come back here!"

"Sorry, I just wan to get one more look at this guy, is that OK? I don;t know why but I just feel so interested in him!"

"Should we follow him?" Mac asked.

Frankie looked at her watch. "Why not? It's 9, I think the museum is closing. I think we're stuck here. Let's just stay together until someone finds us, OK?" They all entered the Japanese display again. Wilt turned around from the painting.

"Really, this guy was such an amazing warrior. Don't think there was anyone better!"

"Yeah yeah, whoopie," Bloo mumbled. He looked at the fan displayed and the many things made out of paper that were promenently shown.

"Ya know, Feudal Japan was rather fascinating once you really look at it,"
Frankie said, looking at the many paintings of the era on the walls. Just then she turned around sharply. "Guys? Did any of you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Mac asked.

"I heard something just now. Sounded like someone crying."

"No one here's crying," Bloo said.

"Well, maybe it's me," she said. Just then she looked up again. "Guys? Someone's in here with us!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I heard someone just now! And it wasn't any of us!"

"Was it Mr. Herriman? Mr. Foster? Did they come to find us?" Wilt asked. He stared at the entrance. "Ms. Foster, Mr Heriman, I'm sorry. It was my fault that we got lost, you see I was trying to..." but no one came into the entrance.

"Wilt, it's no one out there. I heard someone in here! Someone is in here with us! We're not alone."

"I did too!" Mac said. He turned to where the sound came from. "Look! You're right, we aren;t alone in here!" For right in front of the painting where Wilt was was a young woman. She was very short and thin. Her hair was jet black and short but in a small flip. She was dressed in an odd outfit, bright blue and looking like some sort of uniform. Her lips were bright red and small. Her head was bowed and it looked as if she was crying.

"Do you think she;'s lost too?" Mac asked.

The girl then looked up at the painting. "Oh, Jack," she said through her tears. "I miss you so much. I wish I was there with you. But I don't know if I can ever solve this riddle."

"Jack?" Bloo whispered. "Who's Jack?"

Wilt then approached her. "Hello?" he asked.