The next day was calm and beautiful. The sun was just over the horizon at 9:34 a.m. After breakfast, Sheila walked behind everyone else to the training grounds. She would occasionally glance behind herself to see if the crow was still there. She felt silly, being paranoid because of a bird. It was yesterday when she realized it was the exact same crow. That was when she felt scared. Plus, she knew that everyone felt awkward around her. Though she couldn't read their expressions, she could feel it in the atmosphere that they didn't like being around her.

When they started sparring, Sheila was adequate. She should've known better than to jump right in. Heck, she wasn't even an apprentice yet! It was like this:

Sheila was facing off against Kimiko. She had taken a horse stance. This provided her with stability and kept her from being swept. But Kimiko had done a 540 gyro crescent kick and Sheila was forced to bend backwards, giving Kimiko an advantage. When Sheila regained her composure, Kimiko gave Sheila a roundhouse kick to the gut. Sheila was thrown back and landed hard on her side.

Then it was Raimundo's turn. Sheila learned her lesson and attacked first. She gave Raimundo a butterfly kick which he ducked underneath and pushed Sheila's leg up from underneath. This gave Raimundo the opportunity of throwing Sheila by pulling her back over his head. But Sheila had the advantage of speed on her side. Raimundo was fast enough to grab her whole leg, and gave Sheila an extra flip, putting some distance between them. Sheila was breathing heavily, but Raimundo didn't seem to break a sweat. He ran towards her and easily flipped Sheila on her back.

"Omi, you're up." Raimundo said. Omi walked into the center of the sparring circle and took a stance. The fight was about to begin when Dojo came slithering in.

"Stop everything!" Dojo shouted. "The Komori Sword just revealed itself. It let's you hang upside down like a bat and you'll be able to fight in the dark."

"Ooh! I want to be able to see in the dark. I hate being as blind as a rat." Omi said.

"Blind as a bat!" Raimundo corrected.

"Bats aren't blind!" Sheila protested. "The saying "blind as a bat" ain't true, mate. The truth is that all 1,100 bat species can see and often their vision is pretty good, although not as excellent as many other night-hunting animals. Bats guide themselves in the dark using a special sonar system. While flying, bats make high-frequency sounds that bounce off objects and return to the bats as echoes. Bats' brains then process the auditory information into visual maps, which allow them to "see" in the dark. However, in the daytime or when there is otherwise sufficient light available, they are perfectly capable of using their eyes to see as well. So the truth is, there are no bats which are naturally blind. Some species use their sense of hearing more than their eyes as a matter of adaptation to a particular lifestyle, but their eyes are still functional."

Everyone stared at Sheila.

"Sorry," Sheila apologized, rubbing the back of her neck, looked away and blushed all at the same time. "I, uh, I love animals."

"Okay, then." Dojo said, to ease the awkwardness out of the moment. "Well, dress quickly, we're going to Borneo."

Dojo flew the monks to the area around the Gomantong Hills in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The boys, and Sheila wore exactly what they wore the other day. But this time, Kimiko wore a gray blouse with maroon jeans, blue high tops, and her hair was in a french braid. Sheila thought it was nice for Kimiko to wear something that she could actually look at. This time, Sheila had brought a denim backpack with a first aid kit, a flashlight, some water bottles, swiss army knife, a regular knife, rope, a travel-sized encyclopedia, and of course, a bottle of vinegar.

Couldn't hurt to be prepared. She also had the Tongue of Siaping in her back pocket. She was told it was a Wu, but they didn't explain what it does.

"So, how are we supposed to find anything in this jungle?" Clay asked.

"We start looking for it, that's how." Dojo mumbled.

Everyone started walking around the area. The rainforest was rich in greenery and was very thick. The sunlight barely shone through the treetops. Sheila searched through the darker areas of the shadows, where else would one hide a sword that could help someone fight in the dark. Sheila stopped looking when she heard Omi scream.

"GET IT OFF ME!" He screamed with full-on terror in his voice.

Thinking he was in danger, Sheila ran full speed to Omi, who was panicking and running in circles. But she was relieved when she only saw a squirrel on Omi's head.

"Omi." Sheila said his name to get his attention. He wouldn't stop because he didn't hear her. The others had come to Omi's aid, as well as she did. But they weren't doing anything to help Omi.

"OMI!" Sheila shouted at the top of her lungs. Omi skidded to a stop at Sheila's feet.

"Yes?" Omi squeaked out.

"It's just a cute little Plain Pygmy Squirrel! Why are you screaming?" Sheila asked and carefully picked the tiny squirrel up. The poor thing was terrified, it was panting and it was almost paralyzed. Sheila placed the squirrel in a tree stump and turned back to Omi. The boy had tears in his eyes and was shivering in shock.

"Squirrels are his number one fear, Sheila. You can't make him see it a different way." Raimundo said.

"Omi's a sciurophobic?" Sheila asked.

"That sounds like it hurts." Dojo commented.

"Sciurophobia is a fear of squirrels, mate." Sheila explained.

BOOM!

Thunder shook the trees and the wind picked up heavily. Dark gray clouds rolled over the Borneo like a wave of darkness. Icy cold raindrops pelted down on the monks.

"The sky was crystal clear a minute ago!" Kimono shouted over the crackling trees.

"The weather in the Southeast can be unpredictable!" Sheila shouted back.

"Head for that cave!" Raimundo pointed to a large cave within the opening of the Gomantong Hills. Clay grabbed Omi and everyone ran for cover as the rain came down faster and harder. They had to enter on a board walk that led straight into said cave. The first thing everyone noticed was the smell. It was rancid. The smell of feces filled Sheila's nose and she gagged and coughed as soon as she stepped inside. Sheila solved this by breathing out of her mouth. Second, it was dark.

"Ugh, where are we?" Kimiko asked. She sounded like she was clutching her nose as well. She could tell that the others were. Sheila brought out her flashlight and shined it on. Everyone was indeed holding their noses, except Dojo who had a clothes pin on his own.

"I remember coming in here with Dashi, but I forget what happened next." Dojo said.

"Hey, Sheila aren't you bothered by the smell?" Raimundo asked.

"No." Sheila said simply. Everyone looked at each other in confusion. The sound of clicking and chattering caught Sheila's ear, causing her to shine up with her flashlight. High up on the cave ceiling, wrinkled-lip bats hung upside down, resting for their exodus at dusk. Sheila smiled to herself. She loved bats. She immediately went through her head with everyone piece of info on bats that she knew about. "Crikey." Sheila breathed out.

"EEEP!" Kimiko screeched. She had jumped into Clay's arms. "I hates bats! Just dirty little rodents!"

"Bats aren't rodents. They have very little in common with rats or mice. And they're not that dirty. Bats are meticulous about keeping their fur clean and groomed." Sheila informed them.

"How did you acquire all this knowledge of bats?" Omi asked. He seemed to have gotten over his fear when he saw the bats.

"Ever since I was little, I was always fascinated by animals." Sheila began to reminisce. "So I read almost every books on animals that I could find. Bats are one of my favorite mammals."

"Dojo stop tickling my legs." Raimundo laughed.

"I'm over here." Dojo said from Clay's hat.

Raimundo grabbed Sheila's flashlight and shined it down on his legs. Billions of cockroaches scurried about on the cave floor. Just the sight of so many in front of the monks was enough to make anyone scream. Which they did. Except Sheila, who's smile got even brighter.

"Double crikey!" She exclaimed. Cockroaches were one of her favorite insects. They darted up the cave walls and along the limestone floor.

"Okay, has the rain stopped yet? I wanna get out of here!" Dojo cried.

"Oi! I see something!" Sheila pointed up on the hight point of the ceiling. Raimundo aimed the flashlight to where Sheila was pointing. There, stuck within a rock solid stalagmite, was the Komori sword. It was a long, double-bladed sword with a bonze handle and the cross-guard looked like the wings of a bat.

"Well, let's climb this hill to get it." Clay said. He gestured to a large mound in front of them that was high enough to reach the word that was stuck upside down.

"I don't think ya should climb that." Sheila suggested quietly. "That's bat guano." The monks looked at Sheila. "It's bat poop." She said in simple terms.

Everyone grimaced and took a few steps back from the mound behind Sheila.

"So then how do we get it?" Kimono asked. Omi thought about her question for a moment and snapped his fingers.

"Sheila, use the Tongue of Saiping to have the bats get it for us." Omi said.

"Alright," Sheila said as she brought it out. The Tongue of Saiping was a big jewel, as it had a little hole that a string could get into, so that it could be worn on someone's neck. It was golden, red and black. It had a circle in the middle of it. Inside the circle it was the design of a tongue. "How do I use it?"

"You say its name and then you hold it up to your mouth and then talk to the bats." Dojo instructed.

"Tongue of Saiping?" Sheila asked hesitantly. The tongue on it popped out and Sheila took that as a sign to hold it to her mouth. "Excuse me, bats!" Sheila said politely to get their attention. Every bat in the cave turned its head to her. Their beady black eyes were pinned on Sheila, as if she were the biggest bug they'd ever seen, or at least heard. "If you could spare a moment and help us get that sword, we would be very grateful."

The bats listened and about 25 bats all grabbed the sword handle and tried to pull it out.

"We can't!" Many bats twittered.

"It's stuck tight!" Said some others.

"What'd the little rascals say?" Clay asked.

"They said it's too heavy for 'em." Sheila said. She thought for a moment, before coming up with an idea. She brought the tongue back up to her mouth. "Try picking me up and bringing me to the sword!" Sheila suggested to the bats.

More bats had helped this time. Around 40 had come to grab Sheila and pulled her into the damp, smelly air. Their little feet and claws dug into her skin and she felt little droplets of drop run down her body. She made a mental note to herself to get checked to make sure she didn't catch any diseases. They brought her over the guano mound that was covered in cockroaches as if they were a brown coating of living armor.

"Almost there." Sheila told the bats. She gripped her hand around the handle of the sword and pulled with all of her strength. It took a few minutes but it finally gave.

"Are you done? We're tired." The bats asked.

"Yeah. I'm done." Sheila said. She thought the bats were going to bring her back down. But instead they dropped her into the guano. She sank like a rock until she was up to her neck in bat poop.

"EWW!" She heard everyone groan.

"Yo' Sheila! You okay, girl?" Raimundo shouted. Sheila didn't want to open her mouth, fearing she'd let some of the guano get into her mouth, so she dug out her hand and gave a thumbs up.

"Do you wan' us to come and get ya?" Clay yelled.

"No! I'm gonna try somethin'!" Sheila said as she kept her head above the guano. With the sword clutched her hand, she pulled it free from the guano and yelled, "Komori Sword!"

Immediately she was pulled from the guano and turned upside down as her feet clung to the ceiling. The bats moved out of the way in time as she walked back to her fellow monks. Walking upside down was awesome! She didn't feel the blood rush to her head like a person normally would. Instead, her vision remained the same as if she were right-side up. Once she was at the entrance of the cave, the sword dropped her there. She dropped at least 3 yards and landed on her feet.

"That was totally ripper, mate!" She beamed brightly. Everyone came to congratulate her, but were quickly repelled by the fact that she was covered in guano.

"Let's get out of here." Dojo whimpered. The rain had stopped and it was drying up in the forest. When they were ten feet from the cave, 40 Jack-bots were waiting for them.

"Hand over the Wu, Xiaolin losers!" Jack's voice filled the air.

"Jack Spicer," Omi yelled, "You are always a pain in the back!"

"Butt." Raimundo corrected.

"But what?" Omi asked.

"Forget it." Sheila told them. "Let's just fight!"

Omi brought out a little stick of ice and shouted "Shimu Staff!" It grew into a staff with a mace head on each end. Omi twirled it around and destroyed at least eight Jack-bots.

"Blade of the Nebula!" Raimundo shouted. He brought out a dark blue glass-like sword which greatly resembled the Sword of the Storm. Like the Sword of the Storm, Raimundo didn't use it like an actual sword, instead it transformed into a pair of nunchucks with a small tornado spiraling in the middle. Raimundo whipped it around seven Jack-bots as it grew into a giant tornado. The Jack-bots were thrown in various directions, and ended up being impaled by the sharp tree branches that surrounded them.

"Arrow Sparrow!" Kimiko reached into a satchel bag that sported a golden motif of a bird and pulled out nine golden metallic bird shaped projectiles. She threw them at nine Jack-bots, and with each impact came a fiery explosion.

"Big Bang Meteorang!" Clay threw something that resembled the appearance of a standard boomerang, with a gold-yellow color and black stripe-like designs on it. It split off into several smaller versions of itself and sliced through several other Jack-bots that were racing towards Clay.

Sheila was a little paralyzed with some fear. The nine remaining Jack-bots surrounded her and she knew she couldn't fight very well. So she used the next best thing.

"Tongue of Saiping!" She shouted and brought the Wu up to her mouth. "Sun bears! Please help me destroy these robots!"

Out out the blue, five bears jet-black, short and sleek with some under-wool came out from the forest and tackled the first five Jack-bots. They used their massive teeth to bite into the metal and shook the robots to pieces. Then Sheila used the Komori Sword to slice the last four remaining Jack-bot exploded when Sheila sliced it in it's battery source. The explosion blasted Sheila against the wall of the cave. The Komori Sword slipped from her hand and embedded itself in a tree.

"The Komori Sword!" Jack yelled and flew his helipack to it. Sheila quickly picked herself up and raced to it at the same time.

"Got it!" Jack and Sheila yelled at the same time. They had both touched the handle and the sword began to glow brightly.

"Sheila, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" Jack smiled. "My Monkey Staff against your Tongue of Saiping." Jack brought out a a brown staff with a small monkey on top. It appeared to be made of wood (not including its bronze grip).

"Wait, shouldn't we explain what a Xiaolin Showdown is to Sheila?" Raimundo asked.

"I already know." Sheila accidentally blurted out. Jack looked at her with a warning face. "I read it in the scrolls." Sheila quickly added. "Anyway, what's the challenge, Jack?"

"The name of the game is Echolocation. First one to find the Komori Sword wins!" Jack explained.

"Let's go, XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!" They both yelled at the same time.

The background dramatically changed.

The cave enveloped Sheila, the monks, and Jack into complete darkness. But it changed when candles along the walls lit up, allowing very limited eyesight. The cave was in a maze-form with multiple paths twisting and turning with three entrances, left, right, and middle. Literally, the pathways were alive and moving. The other monks were standing on a floating platform. They were dressed in blue uniforms with masks on. Sheila looked down at herself to see she had her training robes on. And the guano wasn't on her anymore.

"Gong Ye Tempai!" Jack yelled. "Monkey Staff!" Jack grew brownish fur on his feet, hands, arms, and legs and grew a large tail out of his rear. He ran off into the right entrance of the maze.

"Cool!" Sheila breathed. Now she really wanted to win this showdown. Sheila went down the left entrance, mostly because she was left handed and it was her lucky side. She ran at least 9 feet when the floor split apart and she almost fell in. Her arms went into a backwards windmill to keep herself up right.

"Keep going Sheila!" Kimiko shouted. Sheila took a few steps back and ran. She jumped at the last moment, reaching the other side just barely. She kept going and took a right turn.

SLAM!

The two walls in front of her smashed together and pulled themselves apart. She was a hair from being turned into a pancake. The walls slammed again. And again. Sheila counted the seconds.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, SLAM!

"Okay 5 seconds apart." Sheila said out loud. Sheila took a step back and waited for the walls to slam again.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, SLAM!

Sheila sprinted through the two walls as soon as they opened back up. She made it out just in time as they slammed again. But she yelped in pain when she realized her braid was caught. When the doors released it, her hair braid was extremely flat. But she ignored the pain in her head and kept running. Sheila had never ran so much in her life.

"You can do it, Sheila! You're almost there!" Raimundo shouted.

If that was true, then that meant she was almost at the Wu. She ran until she hit a wall with two passage ways. A left and a right.

"Bloody hell." Sheila cursed to herself. On instinct Sheila took a left.

Fortunately, she was correct to go left. She made it into a circular room with the tallest stalagmite she would probably ever see in her life. It was at least 40 ft. tall with various spires coming out of the side so that one could climb it. At the top, the Komori Sword patiently waited for someone to touch it.

"Yes!" Sheila cheered and began climbing. Behind her, Jack came out with his clothes slightly torn and out of breath. He looked up to see Sheila was almost 1/3 of the way to the Wu. He quickly jumped onto the stalagmite and hurried after her.

Up above, the monks were cheering Sheila on as she was now halfway to the Wu. Jack, with monkey abilities, was able to climb fast and caught up to Sheila. He climbed into first place and was a few feet from the Wu. But just as a precaution, he used his fist to break of a spire that hurled its way down to Sheila.

"Oh, rawpawn (shit)!" Sheila cursed as the spire hit the other spire that she was dangling from and she fell to the floor. She was put into shock from the pain by a few seconds, but in anger she made a fist and slammed it on the ground. "No!"

"Jack Spicer for the win!" Jack whooped as he touched the Komori Sword's handle, thus ending the showdown.

Everything returned to normal. They were outside the cave and Jack was smiling with the Wu in his hands.

"See ya, Xiaolin Losers!" Jack laughed manically as he flew off on his helipack.

"Where's Sheila?" Omi asked as the other monks looked around for her.

"I'm up here." A familiar voice said from above.

The monks looked up to see Sheila's backpack had caught on a branch. She was returned to her old clothes and she was covered in bat guano once again.

CRACK!

The branch that Sheila was caught on began to break. It snapped in half and she fell from 6 yards. Luckily Clay caught in his huge arms.

"Thanks Clay." Sheila said as the cowboy set her down.

"What happened out there? You practically had the sword in your hands!" Raimundo came up to Sheila. His voice had a lot of anger in it. Sheila's cheeks blushed heavily and she pulled her hat over her face to hide it.

"It is okay." Omi said. "Girls do not have the upper body strength to climb very well." Kimiko growled and Omi took a few steps away from her.

"Can we just go now and forget about this?" Sheila's voice was muffled under her hat.

"Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired too." Dojo said as he grew into full size. Everyone climbed aboard and Dojo flew them back to the temple.

On their flight back, Sheila just put in her earbuds and listened to her listened to music whenever she was stressed, it helped her relax. She looked through them until she found one of her favorites, Rolling Girl by Hatsune Miku, the English version by JubyPhonic.

She put her hands behind her head and laid back, letting the lyrics cruise into her ears.

Rolling girl is dreaming all the day,
Of things she knows are far away,
Screaming out all the voices in her head,
Are now eating away, Hear them eating away,

Meanwhile, the monks were talking about the previous events.

"How did she know what a Showdown was when we didn't even explain it to her?" Kimiko asked.

"And why didn't she use the Wu?" Raimundo added.

"It was the lady's first Showdown, give her a chance." Clay tried to tell everyone.

"We know, but I get this feeling that she doesn't really like us." Kimiko said as her hair whipped around in the wind.

"You know," Omi said, "The first night she came here, she snuck out past curfew and left the temple."

"What?!" The three monks shouted.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Raimundo asked.

"I confronted her yesterday while we were doing chores. I asked her and she said that she walks around when she can't sleep." Omi answered. The monks looked at each other.

"I wish we could believe her." Kimiko spoke up. "But I've lost count of how many times we've trusted someone and have them betray us the moment we're not looking."

"Do. . . do you really think she's secretly on the Heylin side?" Clay asked.

"It'd be too soon to tell." Raimundo said.

"I agree." Omi said. "For now we must keep an ear on her."

"Keep an eye on her." Kimiko corrected.

"That too." Omi answered.

That night, Sheila was writing in her journal about the events that took place. She tried so hard to forget what happened, but the others just kept bringing up questions about it. Instead of answering rudely, she just put her hat over her face and walked away. Couldn't they see that she just wanted to forget about it and move on?

There was a knock at her doorway.

"Hey, Sheila," Dojo said and slithered in. Sheila closed her journal, placed the lock on it, and put it under her pillow.

"If you're going to talk to me about what happened I don't want to hear your complaints." Sheila said and brought her legs to her chest.

"No." Dojo said. "A package arrived for you." He handed Sheila a small cardboard box with Sheila's address.

"Oh, good. It's here." Sheila smiled.

"What is?" Dojo asked.

"It's private." Sheila answered quickly.

"Oh, alrighty then." Dojo slithered out of her room.

When she was sure that she was alone, she opened the box with a pair of scissors. She took out some pills, a pack of stationery, and a letter.

She quietly read the letter to herself, she recognized each color of ink was her sibling's own signature colors. The first paragraph was Alexis's favorite red pen, the second was Richard's green ink, the third was Lorelei's purple ink, then the last was Boomer's light blue ink.

Dear Sheila,

We hope you're having a wonderful time at the Temple. If those mugs (friendly insult) aren't treating you right, just give us a call. I can whack some sense into them. Please tell us what you do at the Temple, your invitation barely explained anything. I don't know why you wanted to leave the lucky country (Australia), but that was your choice. We could never understand you and Boomer, you know that.

I hope this letter rocked up (arrives) in time.

Sincerely,
Alexis.

Please write back after you read this. I may not have been the best big brother, but I seriously hope you didn't leave us because of my music. I know it can be a bit depressing. Things have been calm since you left and I've seem to have lost my creativity. Please feel free to criticize now that I can't hear you from here.

Sincerely,
Richard.

How's the Temple? I won another pageant (of course), so I now total up to 15 crowns! Are there any cute blokes (boys) at that Temple? Hopefully, you've been able to keep your 'situation' under control. It was hard on all of us when you left, but Boomer mostly. And things have been a bit racked (rough) between us, but you should know that I do love you, lil' sis.

Sincerely,
Lorelei.

Hey Sheila, call it twin-telepathy, but have you been falling down a lot? My sides and limbs have been hurting for no reason at all. When I went to the doctors they said everything was fine. Maybe I just miss you. I know how it can hurt when two twins are separated. I remember how it was when my 'accident' occurred. Hopefully, we won't be going through any of that ever again. Anyway, hope you're having fun. Please write back!

Sincerely,
Boomer.

A few tears fell from Sheila's eyes. She missed her family dearly. But she wanted to come here to have a new life, not that she wanted to leave the old one behind. Sheila just wanted some time away from the chaos of her family life. She felt torn when she received the invitation for the Xiaolin Temple. She picked up the stationery and her favorite blue pen and began to write. She was telling them about who she met and even included the part where she met Jack again. But she didn't include the part where she would be saving the world from evil, fighting her old childhood friend who wanted rule the world, or the fact that she was collecting magical artifacts with amazing abilities from around the globe. They wouldn't be ready for that.

When she was done, she folded the letter up and put it in one of the envelopes. She took the pills that were sent it the letter and hid them in her trunk.

'Maybe I should get some training done before curfew.' Sheila thought to herself. Master Fung had taught her a few moves for her to practice, she should try to perfect them if she wanted to catch up to the other monks. Though, she doubted that very much. The monks were more confident, skilled, talented, brave. All Sheila knew how to do was get scared when people looked at her and talk about animals.

Sheila made her way to the training ground and began to practice her martial arts. She started out slow, but as she was more acquainted with the steps and movements, she sped up her pace. Sheila made her mistake when she messed up by tripping on her own foot during a flip. She landed on her front side, pushing all of the air out of her lungs forcefully. Sheila growled in frustration. Then after a few minutes, she calmed down and breathed.

'Maybe I'll just meditate for a while instead.' She thought.

Sitting and folding her arms, Sheila let her mind wander. The wind whistled around her ears, it caressed her skin. Every one of her senses began to numb as Sheila's mind wandered further from her consciousness until she felt absolutely nothing at all, except hearing her thoughts in her head.

'Sheila...'

Sheila opened her eyes upon hearing her name. "Yes?"

No answer.

Sheila closed her eyes again.

'Sheila...'

Sheila stood up this time. "What?!"

Again, no answer.

"Forget it." Sheila huffed and stomped back to her room. She changed into her PJ's. Just an old blue T-shirt with gray sweat pants. Once she settled onto her mat, she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

The next morning, Sheila was once again the first one up. She brushed her hair back into it's original style, got dressed into her Xiaolin robes, washed her face, and stretched. Before she went off to make breakfast, she dug around in her trunk and took out the bottles of pills that were mailed to her.

There were two bottles. One said: Vyvanse and the other read Welbutrin. The Vyvanse was a small blue capsule and the Welbutrin was a little white pill. Taking a bottle of water, she gulped down the pills. Once that was done, she buried the pills back into her trunk and shut it. Then she went off to make breakfast.

Today it was pancakes with blueberry waffles with milk and cereal. And just like last time, Clay followed his nose into the kitchen like he was a zombie. Soon everyone followed and they were all eating breakfast together.

"Sheila today you are sparring with me! Prepare to be as humiliated as you were yesterday." Omi gave her a smug little grin.

Sheila hurt on the inside but she didn't show it. "You know, mate." She hissed out. "Pride is one of the seven deadly sins."

Omi stopped eating. "It is?"

"Yes. It can lead you to an early death." Sheila smiled when she saw the little one's eye widened a bit. Instead of retorting, Omi just wolfed down all of his food.

"So is gluttony." Sheila added. Omi stopped eating immediately and pushed his plate away.

"I'm full." He said quickly before running out of the room.

The other three monks glared at Sheila. "What?"

"What did you do that for?" Kimono hissed.

"Omi is just kid. You didn't have to scare him!" Raimundo shouted.

"That's just dog-gone wrong." Clay said. They all left their plates and went to comfort Omi. Except Clay who came back to grab his.

Sheila was now alone. "Well, in my opinion he deserved it." Sheila growled to herself. She picked up the remaining plates and scraped them. She had a little more time left before training, so she decided to wash the dishes.

A crow waited outside the kitchen. It kept its eye on Sheila who kept muttering to herself as she angrily washed the dishes.

"Why are they protecting him? He was rude! He may be a kid, but he needs to learn to not insult people." Sheila gritted through her teeth. She was so angry that she scrubbed the plate too hard and she broke it in half. Realizing what she had done, she grabbed the plate pieces and threw them in the trash.

Through the crow's eye, Chase continued to watch her. "It seems the new monk is a little jealous of Omi and his friends."

"Why? You're the one who pointed out that she had powers that they didn't have." Wuya scoffed.

"Because her powers can only be unlocked through her emotions. The stronger her feelings are, the stronger her powers get." Chase explained. "If this keeps up, it wouldn't be long until her powers come to light and the monks will either accept her, or they will reject her."

"Then what? How will we destroy her?" Wuya asked.

"We don't." Chase answered.

"But why-?"

"If she, or the other one, is killed, the balance of the Earth will forever be lost. So we cannot destroy her. But we must make sure that she comes to the Heylin side soon."

Second chapter finished!

Woohoo! I do have a little something planned for my OC and Chase.

I'm on a roll, I may just get my creativity back!