Jenna was back on the climbing rope. Eighth grade gym class, in her grey t-shirt and light blue shorts. Her hands were heating up and she was starting to slip.
"Keep going!" The coach shouted, "Come on, Jenna, you barely went up an inch!" The young girls spectating all giggled menacingly.
Her hands started to slip. She skidded down a couple centimetres and gave out a small scream. Her heart was pounding. The girls continued to roll eyes.
"Jenny! You are losing!" A girl shouted in a voice that did not match her mouth. My name is Jenna, she thought to herself as her hands burned from the slide.
"C'mon, little lady! You can do it!" A small cowgirl shouted encouragingly.
"Yeah, you go!" A tall Brazilian girl shouted.
"Jenna! Get in the game!" Kimiko yelled. Wait- Kimiko?
Like a slap, Jenna came out of her day-mare/memory and into the present time. She was on her vine. A monkey-Jack was dashing in front of her. What to do? She couldn't jump to the next vine. Or could she? She tried to remember playing video games with her friend Josh back at home, and how they jumped from rope to rope. They swung- and built up momentum. So she started to rock back and forth. After she figured she built enough momentum, and saw jack at least 5 vines ahead of her, she let go.
Jenna flew forwards… and missed the next vine. She continued to fly forwards and towards the third rope and grasped for it. She caught it with her right hand, which brought her to a stop, swinging back as she failed to get her left hand on the vine. She finally managed to get her left hand on the vine.
Her wrist throbbed like crazy, her heart was pounding so hard it could break her rib cage, and even though she did not have asthma, Jenna believed she was about to have an attack. But she was on the third vine. I cannot do that again, Jenna thought t herself. She needed a new plan. Her Wu, she realised. How can she use it to her advantage? Brainstorming, she came up with a clever and devious plan.
Sure she could've switched day to night any time, but if she planned it out just right, she would probably have a chance. She waited for Jack to jump for the next vine, which was soon after the plan was thought up. A second before Jack jumped, Jenna hollered:
"Lunar Locket!!!"
The world went to darkness. Jack could not see. He missed his branch, and went tumbling downwards, landing on the small platform her fellow monks were on. In the dark, with her tuned eyes, Jenna slowly but surely made her way across the ropes, and to the Ti-Pow Tassel. She grabbed for it, and her hand was filled with an assuring warmth as the fantastical terrain disappeared into normal jungle.
All Wu were cancelled out, and sun filled the sky. There was Jenna, holding the Lunar Locket, Monkey Staff and the Ti-Pow Tassel. She had won the showdown.
"Woo!" Kimiko cried, rushing forwards to hug her new friend. "That was amazing!"
Jenna shrugged, and put her hands in her pockets. Pockets? She and all the others
