Chapter 2
As if someone had pressed the play button, everything began to move at a normal speed. Katelin blinked surprised. But even more surprised were her two friends.
"Wait," Amy stammered "You were there… and now you're here…?"
"Wha-what just happened?" Sarah mumbled nervously.
Before Katelin could answer, a voice from behind her yelled "Hey, don't let him get that!"
Katelin turned around and saw a boy with red hair wearing some weird goggles on his head, was running towards her; correction, towards the hourglass thing. Behind him were four others. One was a girl with black hair in a braid, another was a cowboy, the next one was a boy with brown hair, and the last one was a little boy who was bald and had yellow skin.
Amy and Sarah stared for a moment and mumbled something about having to leave, but Katelin didn't notice. She was running towards the hourglass for a reason she didn't really know, except that she had to stop him from getting it. Katelin and the red haired boy both reached the hourglass at the same time, grabbing it in unison. The hourglass started glowing and an awkward silence followed.
The boy, still holding onto the hourglass, opened his mouth to say something, paused for a moment and asked "What's your name?"
Katelin blinked and mumbled "Katelin… why?"
"Katelin I challenge you to a xiaolin showdown,"
"Wait," Katelin interrupted him"
He glared at her impatiently and snapped "What!"
"What's a xiaolin showdown?" She squeaked.
"Look, we try to get to the top of that tree first using the shen gong wu, to get that shen gong wu," he pointed to the hourglass.
"We use what to get a what?" Katelin asked puzzled.
He turned to the other four "You should really explain things a little bit better to your new recruits."
"She is not our new recruit Jack,"
The yellow one was interrupted by Jack "Fine, then let her use a shen gong wu!" he snapped.
The brown haired one was about to respond but a green dragon perched on his shoulder stopped him.
"Let her use one," the dragon said "if she's who I think she is it'll work out."
The four exchanged looks and the girl tossed her a red coin.
"It's called the Mantis Flip Coin; it'll make you jump higher." She explained to Katelin "Just say 'Mantis Flip Coin' and flip it and it'll work."
Katelin nodded dumbly staring down at the small coin wondering how it could possibly work and if these people were from the funny farm.
Jack rolled his eyes impatiently and said quickly "Your Mantis Flip Coin for my Monkey Staff, whoever gets to the top of that tree" he pointed to a large oak tree "gets the Golden Hourglass."
Katelin sighed, relieved. When she was little, she had learned to climb the tree; though she wasn't entirely sure why she was concerned. Her moment of relief came to an end, as the old oak tree began to grow to be twice its original size. The sky turned darker and she found herself at the foot of the gigantic tree. She noticed that she and the four who had let her borrow the coin were wearing different clothes. She was wearing a white and light pink shirt. The sleeves and the upper chest were a white and the sleeves were loose and tightened at the wrists. From the upper chest down to under her knees was a light pink tunic with a white bow around her waist. Her loose pants, which like the sleeves tightened at her ankles, were white and she had small light pink shoes.
"Too much pink…" Jack mumbled.
"But I like pink." Katelin said a little hurt.
"Whatever," Jack said, rolling his eyes "Gong Yi Tem Pai!" He shouted suddenly.
A/N: AHOY! Thanks for the reviews everybody! A nice long chappie to make up for the short first chapter. And personally I agree with Jack, too much pink, but for some reason I've been using a lot of pink... oh well r&r!