Linetra, Erik and Raoul had made it to Ancient China, it was snowing really hard. They got out from the train station portal and landed near an ancient temple with chinese symbols on the entrance. 'Maybe there are some creatures that have a grudge on Jack here'. Linetra walked towards the entrance and knocked on the wooden door. Before long, a tall old skeleton appeared, he was wearing olden dark blue chinese clothes.

"Good morning sir, I was wondering if we can enter in this temple" The old skeleton looked very puzzled, "I know why you are here, young lady"

Linetra was sort of shocked, the old skeleton chuckled. "Come in, young ones" Erik and Raoul exchanged looks and entered after Linetra. The temple looked very old but it had a beautiful garden outside were some strange looking skeletons were meditating; Linetra grew a sinister smile on her face before asking the old skeleton. "Sir, if it isn't any trouble at all, may I ask a few questions to those skeletons over at the garden"

The old skeleton nodded "Yes, just don't ask of how they look like please" "I won't, thank you, come one guys"

Erik and Raoul obeyed and followed her to the garden, the strange skeletons looked nothing like they expected to be. One skeleton was wearing red chinese robes and had small pinkish bat wings, from his waist up he was like any ordinary skeleton, but from his waist to below, he had the body of a red snake, there was two stitches running thru his both eye sockets.

The second skeleton had the same body as the other skeletons, he was dressed in blue robes, huge blue bat wings and he also had a blue tail, he only had two stitches running thru one of his eye sockets. The third had green robes, two pairs of green wings and a green lion tail. Last but not least, the last one was wearing yellow robes, had huge yellow bird wings and long tail feathers.

All of them were in different meditative poses, Linetra walked towards them with an odd feeling. 'Come on, they are not out of the ordinary, but I have to do this, for all of Jack's victims' sakes'. The snake bodied skeleton opened his eye sockets and noticed Linetra.

"Hello, young maiden, what it is that you seek here at the Konshu temple?" The other skeletons opened their own eye sockets and looked upon the snake skeleton and Linetra. "I was thinking if you know the Pumpkin king of Halloween Town, Jack Skellington"

All of the skeletons exchanged shocked looks at each other before the second skeleton spoke. "Jack Skellington? We heard of him and his evil ways"

"We hate him for what he has done to many worlds, and us" the third skeleton said, swishing his green tail.

The fourth skeleton, was quiet for a while, then spoke. "All of us young monks lost our homes and family thanks to him"

The old skeleton walked towards the young monks and the trio, "These young warriors have lived here for a long time, and I think they have to leave soon" The skeletons gasped. "But, master Zometa, this is our only home, we can't leave" The fourth skeleton said, standing up. "You will leave, but you will not be alone." Master Zometa approached to the skeleton and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"You will go with the young lady and her companions, to the evil force that cost you your homes" Linetra was very impressed, she was just about to offer the monks to join her, but the old monk did what she would have done. "You all are Konshu warriors, and now, you must have your own task made, to defeat Jack Skellington's evil rein"

The green robed skeleton rose from the ground and grew a sinister smile on his face. "Heh, I'll go master Zometa, If Kinatsu Godatsu here is still afraid to leave" He chuckled while Kinatsu gave an afraid look. "Tatsu Goke, I'm not afraid to leave the temple" The snake bodied skeleton slidered to Linetra, "Master Zometa, do we really have to go with these guys?" he said, with a happy smile, master Zometa nodded as the blue tailed skeleton walked towards Tatsu and Kinatsu. "Po Kan is right, come on guys, stop fighting and get your things ready, we'll leave in 10 minutes"

Erik walked towards Po Kan, making him slider away from Linetra, when they were a few feet away, Erik looked pretty angry at Po Kan. "Don't even think of trying to slider into Linetra's heart, in any shape or form, she's mine" Po was really confused, "What are you talking about? I don't even like her, she's all yours if you want" He sliddered away to pack his things, Erik walked back to Linetra and Raoul. "What was all that about Erik?"

Erik ignored his brother and walked towards the entrance of the temple, he sat on the temple steps, Erik looked pretty sad. He reached into his coat and grabbed a blood red rose, Erik looked at it sadly 'How can I tell her how much I love her? She can't possibly accept a monster like me'

He put back the rose inside his coat and waited the others to be ready for their departure to Halloween Town.

Sorry if this chapter was short, I had to hurry for my biology exam. Next chapter will introduce other characters that will be in my story...