OOC: It's me again! I'm back and better than ever, sorry it's been a while, or two years. BUT! I have rewritten the first chapter, it's much better, clearer, and detailed than before (600 words longer also hahaha!) Wow, I was fifteen when I wrote that….I'm seventeen now….wow……anyway! Here's FINALLLY chapter two!
Shadowed Lands: Book One The Lost DragonChapter Two
Dojo's head snapped back to look at Master Fung's expression. "Of course not!" He said, almost immediately. "I just knew her, that's all. Don't want to believe someone you knows gone bad." At all continued to stare. "But like I was saying! With the Ming Yu Niu Wu, running around again, your going to need protection if she comes near. Keep it with you!" "I believe, maybe we've all had enough excitement for one day…" Master Fung suggested, still eyeing Dojo. "Let's take the rest of the day off," And all, with the exception of Obi, cheered.
Soon evening fell and the sky turning into a pinkish color, Raimondo, Kimiko and Clay walked along the paths in the woods outside the temple. Obi, however, had thought it nonsense to take the day off and insisted on continuing his practices back at the temple. "What'd ya thinks going on with Dojo?" Clay asked, his brow furrowed. "I dunno." Rai shrugged, kicking a rock. "Just what he said!" Kimi suggested. "She was his friend, and they trusted her, but she betrayed them, yet he doesn't want to believe it." "But he said something 'bout a curse." Clay brought up, again, but no one had a response for this. "What 'bout that last ribbon?" Rai asked, pointing to his own that had been tied around his knot in his robes. "There was fifth one, a white one." "Yea…for the lost…." They pondered this. "You think that could belong to the Ming Yu Niu Wu?" Clay asked, thinking out loud. "I don't know…" "Well who else could belong to?" He asked again. "Maybe, we need to do some research on the Ming Yu Niu Wu?" Kimi suggested a small twinkle of mischief in her smile. "Then we could get some serious answers, because we know Dojo doesn't want us to know."
It began to get dark and the gang of three headed back to the temple. After everyone went to bed, and surely they were asleep, Raimondo, Kimiko, and Clay sneaked out of their beds and met in the hallway. Kimi, who was holding the flashlight in one hand and her laptop tucked under her arm in the other, held a finger to her lips before either boy could say anything and the lead off to the library. Or the room where they held all the books of information and such stuff. They sat the table and Kimi opened her laptop. "So what'd we look for exactly?" Rai asked, pulling a book off the shelf. "I don't know." She answered as she typed in "Ming Yu Niu Wu" in the search box. "Maybe I can find something online and we won't need to, or maybe not." The screen search had turned up, no results. "Try spacing it out, like one word at a time." Clay suggested, looking over a book of records. "Yea, and it's gotta be in Chinese too!" Rai agreed and came behind Kimi, leaning over her shoulder. "Maybe, I don't know, we should translate 'em first." "Hmm…if we translate it first, maybe we'll know something of what's this about." And so, she typed in the first word "Ming" and "translation" in the search box. "Here we go. Ming; A female Chinese name meaning "bright." "Bright?" Raimondo questioned duly. "It's a name? Is that the girl's name or something?" Kimi shrugged and Clay picked up a new book. "Next word, Yu; No Results." "Let's just move on." Rai suggested. "Okay, Niu; Female Chinese name meaning Confidant." She turned her head around to face Rai. "I think you can rule out Ming being her name, Rai." He shrugged it off. "And Wu? I know there all called Wu, but what does it mean?" "Let's see. Wu; Chinese, meaning magic." "Magic?" Bright and Confidant Magic." Clay announced while reading from the book and Rai and Kimi looked at him. "The ability to be total and complete control, to use the powers of the darkness as well as light and the power to want to." He stopped for a second, waiting for any questions, when none came, he read on. "It is an achievement I long for, but will never achieve for as long as he's around. That back stabbing fire child." He looked up at Kimiko for a second, then back down at the book. "He tells them my secrets, my most prized thought I share with him, and he goes and makes up lies about me using it, twisting it into something far worse than it is. He shall pay, one day." Clay stopped reading and the two stared at him.
"A dairy?" Kimiko asked. "What did they mean by "secrets"? Clay asked. Rai shrugged. "And they were back stabbed, by the Dragon of fire?" "It would seem that way wouldn't it?" But it wasn't one of them who had said it. They turned around to where the voice had come from. "Master Fung?" They said at once and Clay quickly hid the Diary before Master Fung could see it. "She was a very troubled girl. Had lots of ambition, but she was just too angry, never trusted anyone, something was bound to break inside of her, but there are some who prefer to live only at night." They all gave him curious looks and Kimi closed her laptop. "Now off to bed." And so they did.
In the darkened distance, two pairs of eyes showed out of the trees. "And so they know…Bright and Confident Magic shall be achieved." And suddenly, both pairs were gone.