Chapter 3
Katelin looked around confused, "What does that mean?" she asked the other four.
"It means go!" The boy with brown hair snapped.
Sure enough, Jack yelled "Monkey Staff!" an instant later he had a tail and paws and was half monkey.
"GAH!" Katelin screamed "HE'S HALF MONKEY!"
"Just go!" The boy snapped again.
"Mantis Flip Coin!" Katelin shouted, swallowing her mix of confusion and shock.
She leapt twenty feet in the air, which wasn't much compared to the tree.
The dragon gave a start. The four looked at him as he said "She jumps higher then you usually do with that wu. Must be because of…" He finished too quietly to hear.
Katelin grabbed the nearest branch, shaking a little. She was now at the same height as Jack, and both had gotten to the half-way point in the tree surprisingly quickly.
"Mantis Flip Coin!" She yelled once more.
Again, she flew twenty feet in the air. She landed, and saw Jack climbing up faster. She went to flip the coin again, but Jack had reached up and started shaking the branch she was standing on. She slipped, dropping the coin in the process. She bit her lip angrily and started climbing.
"Ok, I see how it is;" She growled "Well I can play dirty too."
She grabbed a branch above her, and used it to jump up, going almost ten feet in the air. She grabbed onto a branch next to where Jack was and swung her legs at him forcefully. She kicked him in the stomach, causing him to lose his balance. She stuck her tongue out at him and dropped to the branch underneath her.
Soon she had reached the top of the tree; she reached out for the hourglass and stopped for a moment. Directly underneath her was a small white tiger. It had light blue eyes and wasn't any bigger then an ordinary house cat. She stared at it for a moment, and slowly the eyes turned to a dark orange, and there sweet aura disappeared. She continued to stare into the cat's eyes, literally hypnotized. For some reason, just it's eyes seemed to make the tiger… human. The tiger blinked and it's crystal blue color returned and the tiger leapt out of the tree, landing on all four of it's paws. The four didn't notice the tiger running into the woods.
Katelin quickly grabbed the hourglass and the tree disappeared and she found herself in her normal clothes, on the ground with all three of the shen gong wu. The four ran towards her but she continued to stare into the woods where the tiger had disappeared.
Kira sprinted through the woods, not stopping until she reached a small pond. She stopped at it's bank, breathing heavily. She peered into the blue green water, seeing her reflection. The water showed a small white tiger with crystal like blue eyes. Her reflection shimmered a little bit and was replaced by a boy with long black hair and cold orange eyes.
"It's done, Chase." Kira panted.
"Good," He replied "keep an eye on her from now on. And this time don't let her see you." He put a lot of emphasis on the 'don't' icily.
The small tiger nodded curtly and her reflection reappeared.
Cai snoozed happily in his rabbit cage, waking with a start at the sound of someone near the window. One of his long white ears perked up and he opened one brown-red eye. The small rabbit hopped up and pawed at the cage door. In a moment the cage door opened. Cai hopped over to the window sill. In the long flower pot that hung on the outside of the window, was a small white tiger.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"Name's Kira," She mewed calmly "know a Katelin?"
"Yeah," He answered "why?" he added suspiciously.
"Oh… no reason," Kira replied, jumping down and walking away.
Cai shook his head 'Cats. You never know what's going on in their head.'
A/N: Ahoy! I had to clean my room today, bleh! But while I was cleaning I came up with a lot of good idea's for this! And I also noticed that this has almost the same story line as a certain fairytale. Trust me, as the story gets longer, it'll be obvious. lol anyways r&r