Chapter 14

Later that evening Katelin collapsed in her room, feeling as if all she wanted to do was fall into a deep sleep. She was exhausted because of the training. It wasn't hard for only a few minutes… but all day. She sighed, thinking about what had happened after she had met girl.

Flashback

"I'll come and get you when it's safe to leave." The young girl told her, Cai, and William.

Katelin nodded. She wasn't entirely sure if it would work and shuddered to think of what would happen if she was caught.

"You should probably return to what you were doing." The young girl said, gazing up, to see that the sun was at the top of the sky.

She bit her lip. "I know a short cut…" she continued, "It'll be ok. The tiger that Chase sent you with won't notice. And I'm sure that nothing will happen on the way."

"How did you know about her?" Katelin asked, frowning.

The young girl gave a small smile "I saw you with her." She answered simply.

Katelin nodded.

After she pointed the three of them in the direction of the short cut, they reached the path again after about half an hour. Sure enough, Kira hadn't noticed that they had gone off the path. Come to think of it, the tiger didn't even seem to notice them much at all. She had pretty much been lost in thought.

End flashback

Katelin sat up and pulled her bag towards her, taking out the shen gong wu. As she fingered the egg shaped shen gong wu she started to wonder about the girl. 'How can a girl who's about eight years old know that Chase was once good? Something just isn't quite right about her… I think we can trust her but… I think, well, I don't know what I think. I don't know… maybe she's hiding something from us. But what… and why on earth does she seem so familiar?'

Katelin looked around the room searching for some sort of inspiration of what she could be hiding and her eyes fell on the girl herself, who was standing near the door.

"Oh… umm… sorry. I didn't see you." Katelin mumbled.

The young girl smiled at her, "Don't worry about it. So this the shen gong wu?" She said as she walked over to Katelin, kneeling near her.

Katelin bit her lip, "Are you sure this'll work? Wouldn't he notice?"

"I'm sure he won't." She reassured her.

"Yeah," William said, flying in between the two girls. "What could possibly go wrong?"

Katelin laughed uncomfortably "Yeah… right…" she looked around "Where's Cai?"

"He's making sure that Chase doesn't pop up while there are two of you." The young girl replied quickly.

Katelin nodded, clutching the shen gong wu.

"Voler Egg! Ring of Nine Dragons!" The egg shaped shen gong wu turned into the ring. "Ring of Nine Dragons!" Katelin repeated.

A Katelin, exactly identical to the real Katelin appeared next to Katelin. The fake Katelin stared at the real Katelin with a small grin on her face.

The young girl looked at the two Katelin's a finally said to the fake one "Maybe to avoid confusion we should call you… Niletak?"

Niletak turned her gaze to the speaker and after a moment nodded her head vigorously.

"Now then… Niletak," She said to her "we need you to do us a little favor."

"Yupyup?" Niletak answered cheerfully.

"We need you to pretend to be Katelin for a few days."

Niletak lowered her face to gaze at the floor so none of the other three could see her facial expression. Suddenly, after a moment, she glanced up. Her bright green eyes shined and she had a smirk on her face. Then surprisingly for Katelin, the girl, and William, Niletak burst out in peals of laughter. Katelin stared at her other self, mouth hanging partially open in worry and shock, her eyes wide open. The young girl raised an eyebrow, while William just glanced worriedly at the door.

Finally Niletak stopped laughing, but not before her laughter started to sound a little bit demented. "No prob'" She said, still smirking.

After a moment of silence, the young girl finally cleared her throat a little nervously. "Er right. Time to go. Before I change my mind…" She muttered under her breath.

Katelin stood up, the Voler Egg returning to its true form. The girl also stood, and nodded to her.

"Might as well…" Katelin said a little doubtfully, glancing at Niletak.

Niletak saw her look and grinned again "Don't worry, I'll take care of everything." As she put emphasis on the last word her eyes glinted again with the same shine that had been there before her sudden burst of laughter.

Katelin shook her head "Voler Egg! Golden Tiger Claws!" Once again the shen gong wu changed its shape. "Where are we going?" she asked.

"The Xiaolin Temple." The girl answered.

Katelin's eyes widened and she nodded. "Golden Tiger Claws!" she slashed at the air with the tiger claws and stepped through. The girl gave a last look at Niletak, before following her through.

Katelin took a deep breath of fresh air as they stood on the inside of the gates. "So why are we here?" She whispered.

"Because, I know that they have scrolls explaining what happened."

"Why can't we ask Dojo?"

"Because Dojo has a big mouth and will mention things that I don't like to talk about." The girl mumbled darkly as they started along the path.

"Like what?" Two voices asked simultaneously.

Katelin inhaled quickly looking to where the second voice had come from.

It was Dojo.

"Whoa! Is that you?" He asked surprised, staring at the young girl. "I didn't think I'd ever see you like this ever since that thing with your brother! But enough about that, what was it you didn't want me to mention?"

"That was it." The girl grumbled, looking away.

"Oh… really? You sounded just like your brother when you said that!" He laughed, "Talk about family resemblance! Hey Katelin, what are you doing here?"

The girl replied before Katelin could say anything "We need to find out how… and why Chase became evil."

"Well isn't this a night of surprises, never thought I'd hear you say that."

"Dojo," The girl pleaded, "please, just stop talking."

"Right…"

A/N: Ahoy! Thanks for waiting... I was in drivers ed and I didn't have time to update and then my computer was being mean when I tried to post it. This is definetly not my favorite chapter since it's been cut short, because I thought it would be better to save what she says about her brother for the next chapter, and I also find it a little boring. ButI did put in stuff about the girl and I brought in one of my personal favoritecharacters! lol So thanks for the wait and r&r!