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(4)

Sitting in a small golden jet plane, on our way to a temple in China which trained young monks our own age to fight on the side of the Xiaolin, I sighed heavily as I pressed my forehead against the glass of the window beside me and stared down at the distant ground. Jack, who was currently flying the aircraft, had shown me and Riley exactly what these freaky Shen Gong Wu could do – and with only one of them at that. We were amazed – Riley a little spooked, to be honest. We could only quietly follow Jack in to the jet, rendered speechless not knowing what to say.

I glanced over my shoulder briefly to check on Riley, as I was sat up front with Jack. She was fine, just staring blankly out the window to her left. I then glanced over at Jack and he seemed to glance over at me at the same time and caught my eye. After a second he threw me a friendly smile and turned his attention back in front.

He was a strange one.

Another few seconds passed and now we were fast approaching what I'm guessing was –

"The Xiaolin Temple," Jack announced. I heard Riley shifting in the back, as I leant forward closer to the front window for a better view. Jack released a heavy breath, "Man, I haven't been here in years!"

I looked over at him and for a moment he was lost in thought staring at the temple with a slight grin on his face. Then he must have sensed me watching and quickly pointed over to the central building in the grounds to divert my attention, "That's the Vault. That's where they keep all the Shen Gong Wu."

"Um, Jack? Where's the witch? Wuya?" Riley asked timidly, "Didn't she say she was going to meet us here?"

"She's gone to talk with Chase first," Jack replied.

"So this Chase guy," I started as the jet began to descend, "Is Bean-Boy tagging along too?"

"Bean-Boy?" Jack repeated, throwing me a confused glance.

I rolled my eyes, "Dude, you said he was persuaded by a bean. You can't expect me to respect that," I said a matter-of-factly.

"Chase Young is amazing! You wouldn't be saying that – not even thinking that – if you saw him!" Jack replied but with a smile that told me he still found my first impression of this Chase guy amusing.

"If I saw him, eh? Is there something about his wardrobe choice then? So far he sounds like the type that has to have his Mom buy all of his clothes for him and help him get dressed in the morning," I added dryly, as I blankly stared out the window. But I had a little smile over my face as Jack burst out laughing and Riley stifled a laugh.

"How did you come to that conclusion?" Jack chuckled, landing the jet in a field next to the temple.

"Jack, if he's letting a bean make all his decisions he must need all the help he can get," I let out a laugh then. Yeah, it was a ridiculous joke that, looking back on it, wasn't even all that funny but we were actually having a great time hanging out together – even if this was a secret mission.

At that moment, I knew I had no regrets of going to the party and then leaving early with two people I didn't necessarily know very well. I truly believed I had finally made some friends.

"If I remember correctly the combination is..." Jack trailed off as he hit a couple of long chimes hanging from the high ceiling. A moment later and the red ring of tiles in the centre of the room began to drop in to the ground forming stairs going down. I watched in wonder and amazement. Jack jumped excitedly and then skipped forward and so I followed.

"But wait a minute," Riley began, "Didn't the witch say that they may have left some sort of defence?"

Just as Jack stepped foot on the first descending step an alarm sounded and the fire torches went out.

"Oh shoot!" Jack cursed.

"What?" I asked, wondering what would happen since the monks weren't currently on the grounds, according to Wuya.

"They'll be alerted and start making their way back immediately!" Jack explained as he jumped down the steps.

"Oh dear," Riley stuttered fearfully.

"What!" I cried running in to the vault after him, "Jack, if they're coming back, we gotta get outta here! We gotta go!"

"We still have some time!" he called, as he swiftly ran down the staircase, pushing and pulling out drawers in the stone wall and digging out - what I presume were - the Shen Gong Wu, "Quick! We can grab twice as many if you help me!"

"But err-"

"QUICK!" he barked, moving on.

"A-alright! Geez!" I grumbled as I began to help dig out the peculiar devices.

Suddenly we could hear Riley screaming warnings to us.

"JACK! DO THE XIAOLIN MONKS HAVE A DRAGON GUARDING THIS VAULT! CAUSE IT'S COMING AND FAST!"

"Oh crap!" he cursed and placing his hand flat on my back gave me a quick light push, as a sign to quickly turn and run up so we could escape.

Fleeing the vault I ran over to Riley and she took the liberty of holding half of the Shen Gong Wu I had collected. We then both dahsed as fast as we could to Jack's jet and threw the mystical artifacts inside. Riley ran to help Jack then and I decided to take a look as this 'dragon'.

"Oh my..." I trailed off. Okay, maybe she wasn't exaggerating at all. That was some huge dragon! And it was probably only a mile away. I turned to the others as they arrived at my side, "Come on! Come on! Come on!"

Jack threw the rest of the Shen Gong Wu we had in to the vehicle and knelt on one knee so they Riley could use his leg as a step whilst I just jumped up and hauled myself inside - there wasn't enough time to let down the stairs!

Once inside Jack closed the hatch and powered up. He didn't even wait for the engine to fully start before we shot up in to the air.

"Whoa!" I cried, struggling with the seat belt, as I stared wide-eyed and fearful at the dragon in front of us.

"Hold on!" He called, and took a sharp turn so that we were now flying away from the giant green dragon.

Thank god it was midnight and almost in the middle of nowhere! This meant that the area was absolutely pitch black. Jack had flicked some switches to prevent the jet from lighting up our presence and we zoomed away - hopefully - unnoticed. Riley and I kept our eyes behind watching the dragon cautiously as he landed in the Xiaolin grounds and disappeared out of sight and Jack kept his eyes in front and flew the jet back to his house.

Deina and Riley were successful in their first Heylin mission! Hooray! Haha ^^ But I wonder...did they really escape unnoticed?

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