She dragged him out, but made sure to evade any other Monk. "Okay, soon enough, we'll start flight training." she whispered.

"What do you mean flight training?!"

"Oh, yeah, like you don't know about the little KFC misfits sticking out of your shirt." she sighed. "All I'm saying is, soon enough, you'll have full wings, a beak..." she stopped for a scream, but heard nothing, "and you'll be like a dog, unable to walk upright, and so, I'll have to sit on your back, blah blah blah. It's complicated." she noticed it was getting cloudy. Good. I can't concentrate well on sunny days. I'll need as much darkness before sun-down as possible. She smiled at nothing. She also let go of Rai's wrist. "Okay. The next Wu is probably...Grand Canyon. Yep." she agreed with herself. It was something she didn't do too often. The clouds made her relax and calm, so she was more able to be like...Ami. Alittle. "Alright, I'm gonna skip out on your next transformation." she looked at him. And...her eyes widened.

He had a beak, feathers, basically just like her last descreption, just...crouched.

"Soo...that's why you didn't answer me before. Great, this'll be sped up." she whistled for Oni.

The black flame came to her.

Hey, L.K.!

L.K. somewhat jumped. Ami? What's up?

New Wu. Dojo told me to tell you that it's in the Grand Canyon.

Knew it.

So...?

So...what?

So...are you going by Rai?

No, duh. All right, I...we're on it. Don't wait up. I think he's gonna freak soon.

Right...going.

L.K. then heard only her own thoughts. "Now for Birdboy." she knew Rai wasn't totally there. She saw his eyes were closed. "Great, Birboy's out." she kicked him. "Wake up, now's not time for recooperating!"

"Huh? I'm up! I'm up! Oww...did you have to kick me?"

"Some things are better not known, Birboy."

"Stop calling me that!" he trudged to his four feet. "I don't even want to know why I'm standing like this."

Thank God there's no mirror. "Okay, c'mon." she got on his back. It took awhile, because he kept moving around.

"Why are you on my back?"

"Because you have enough power and back-space for a person. And, we're gonna give you-"

"Flight-training. Whoopee." he groaned.

"Wow, great leader, and sarcasm. Lighten up. I'm supposed to be the one who's gloomy."

"Yeah, yeah. I just have a big headache."

"No excuse. C'mon." She kicked his sides as if he were a horse. "Okay, just walk."

He walked.

"Okay, atleast you can still do that. Alright...try running, flapping your wings, and jump, try to be light as a feather."

He attempted, though, he hesitated. When he jumped, he barely flew, then got the hang of it.

"Okay. Predator birds, like you, can glide on the thermals. The tiles help this out." she held on tight. "Oni, we going the right way?"

It came up, making weird whispers.

"Thank--you." she said. "Oh, and am I riding a worried guy? You took awhile to get flying."

"Do you have to interrogate me?"

"Don't make me answer that. Okay, I'll speed us up." she then nodded at Oni, and then had it go into Rai.

He fell unconcious.

"Okay, let's do this." she said, transforming into a black, winged dragon. Actually, black, green eyes, and purple stomach, and hair. She grabbed the unconcious Rai, and she flew fast. I just hope we can get rid of this soon...I can't help the others if I'm stuck with a hot-boy...I just hope no one gets suspicious, or I'll have some butt-kicking to do...and I hope Chase won't be involve...I really don't want to go up against the Boxed-Nose Croc, espiecially if I want to test Rai...I'll just see what I can do.

Later on...

Rai opened his eyes, and looked around. He was on some sort of crevace, near a cliff. It looked...different. "Where...am I?"

"Oh, you're up."

He looked the other direction. L.K. was sitting there. "How'd we..."

"Questions later, we gotta get going. We'll get there sooner than the others, but I don't know about your enemy."

Oh, she doesn't know Jack. Right... "He's...as slow as the others."

"Good. C'mon, let's go."

"What?! I didn't even get to...stretch."

"Too bad. You want this...curse off, or what?"

He said nothing.

"Good, let's go. Sooner you win that Showdown the better." she got on him.

"Fine." he used her earlier advice, and started to fly.

"I'll help out. We're in the canyon, and you don't know what will turn up. And you falling asleep earlier was good. Let's kick butt." She said, tying her hair back. "I can't wait for this."