Kimiko used the Star of Hanabi to light their way. As they were flying, they saw that other than the darkness and lack of water and plants, everything was normal. Kimiko checked her PDA to see if there were any news reports on this. People were convinced that this was only some bizarre major eclipse and everything would go back to normal soon. No one mentioned a witch in any of the reports, either meaning that the news of Wuya hadn't been released to the public, or that nobody had seen her yet.

Clay frowned. "No sign of Wuya. That can't be good."

"Who knows what she may be doing or when she may strike." Omi shivered. Then he brightened. "Or perhaps Master Fung has already defeated her."

Kimiko made no comment. She was too busy fiddling around with her PDA. After a few minutes she said out of the blue, "She's somewhere in the Grand Canyon."

Clay almost dropped Omi. "How do you know that?"

Kimiko waved the PDA at him. "I put a tracking device on Dojo. What do you think? Should we keep looking for the Phoenix's Tear, or go see what Wuya's up to?"

"Master Fung told us not to interfere." Omi protested.

Clay nodded. "And remember what happened with Raimundo when he-"

"Raimundo left and risked the entire Shen-Gong-Wu vault." Kimiko interrupted. "What have we got to lose now?"

Clay didn't answer. After thinking and seeing she was right, he sighed. "All right, fine by me." And they changed direction to the Grand Canyon.

"Now wait a minute!" Omi shouted. "Doesn't anyone want to know what I think?"

Kimiko shrugged. "Not really, since we all know you're itching to kick Wuya's butt."

"If that means I am looking forward to fighting and defeating Wuya, then yes, I am itching. But still I think this is a bad idea."

As soon as the Grand Canyon came into view, they flew in low so they wouldn't be seen and followed Kimiko's the signal from the tracking device.

"We're almost there!" Kimiko whispered excitedly. "They're just around the corner!" But when they peeked around it, there was nothing but a clearing with a few rocks.

"The tracking device must've fallen off here." Clay grumbled.

"It couldn't have. I made sure it wouldn't fall off no matter what." Kimiko looked down at her PDA and frowned. "That's weird. Now the signal's just disappeared completely."

"Perhaps it broke?" Omi suggested.

"Maybe, but that's highly unlikely. Let's look around and see if there's anything here."

Kimiko threw the Star of Hanabi up above the clearing so they could all see. The clearing almost looked like it was in daytime. They split up and searched for anything that might be helpful. After eight minutes, Kimiko called the guys over to her. She had found one of Dojo's scales.

"So they were here," Clay murmured.

Omi's eyes scanned the area where Kimiko found the scale. There didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. No fires, burns, broken rocks, dead bodies, or blood. As Omi was looking around, a sudden gleam from one of the cliffs caught Clay's eye. Then Omi turned his head and it was gone.

"Omi, hold on,"

"What?"

"Just hold still for a minute."

Clay walked over to Omi, turned Omi's head back in the position it was in before, and was blinded with light. He fell back in surprise and pain.

"Clay! Are you all right?"

"Just stay like that, Omi!"

Clay rubbed his eyes, opened them, and blinked a few times. It wasn't so bright anymore, but now he saw little colored spots and his eyes were a little sore. He rubbed them and blinked again and everything was back to normal.

Kimiko knelt beside him. "You okay, Clay?"

"Yeah,"

"May I move my head now?" Clay looked up and saw with relief that Omi hadn't moved. Omi's head was bright with light from the Star of Hanabi. The angle it was at was reflecting a beam of light up at a spot on the cliff. Something was there.

He pointed up at the gleam. "Look up there!"

Kimiko and Omi looked. Unfortunately, when Omi moved the gleam disappeared.

Clay sighed. "Keep lookin' Kimiko."

He got up and moved Omi's head back into position, this time keeping his eyes closed and taking a few steps back before opening them. He heard Kimiko try to stifle a laugh.

"Huh," she said when she got it down. "I'll go check it out. Jet Bootsu!"

She flew up to the gleam, avoiding looking directly at it and the beam reflecting off Omi's head.

"What is going on?" Omi asked. He looked really confused.

"Just hang on, pardner. I think we found something."

Once Kimiko reached the where spot where the gleam was, she yelled for Omi to turn his head so she could see what it was. He looked up at her to see what they found now that he was allowed to move. Clay and Omi couldn't see her face or hear what she was saying. They could see she was slowly reaching out to it though. Suddenly she vanished.

Omi gasped. "Oh no! First Raimundo, now Kimiko! What should we do?"

Clay blinked. He had just looked directly at light reflecting from Omi's head which was the same as looking directly at the sun for awhile, so his eyes were liable to play tricks. But if Omi saw the same thing he did, then maybe he wasn't seeing things.

"Maybe we should go on up to see what happened." Clay suggested.

"I strongly advise against that. The same thing that happened to Kimiko may happen to us. Then who will fight against Wuya?" Omi said.

"Do you have a better idea?"

Omi thought for a moment, then sighed, hung his head, and answered "Unfortunately, no,"

Clay picked Omi up.

"Longi Kite!" he yelled.

And they flew up to the unknown.