Authors Note: Hey guys! Sorry I took so long to upload. I was VERY busy. Anyway, enjoy.

Ching skipped happily down the custard coloured pathway as she sung a little song to herself;

"Hello everyone my name is Ching, I'm short and chubby but I like to sing. I'm super crazy like jam and bread, I mean who else would wear a chicken on their head!"

The happy carefree girl continued to skip as she hummed her tune until she was interrupted by a loud shout.

"HI-YA!"

'What was that?' she thought.

Ching silently tiptoed around the corner and hid in a nearby bush. She closed her eyes, breathed in deeply, and then risked taking a peek. She saw a tan boy, around the same age as her, jumping, twirling and flipping in the air. He had shoulder length jet black hair, rosy cheeks and wore a black and white jacket with black trousers and shoes. Her mouth dropped wide open.

'Wow,' she thought 'he's really, really good. He's like a guy in the circus!' Ching stared on in amazement, but got irritated when her chicken refused to stop fidgeting.

In a hushed voice she whispered, "Won! Stop annoying me, I'm trying to keep hidden!"

But Won wasn't going to be pushed around that easily and began to lightly peak at her head.

"Stop it!" Ching screamed as she twirled around in the bush. "Get off me you stupid chicken!"

"Is someone there?"

The weary voice made Ching jump. She quickly placed Won in her lap, covered his beak then bent down as low as she could.

'Please don't find me, please don't find me, please don't find me…'

And as if her prays were answered she heard the boy say,

"Hmmm, it was probably nothing."

Ching sighed with relief. "That was too close, he almost found us and it would have been your entire fault."

Suddenly Ching found herself pinned to the ground.

"I knew someone was spying on me! Have you come to fight m- wait, you're just a girl,"

"I wasn't spying!" Ching protested.

"So you normally sit in bushes?"

"Well…I…Erm…"

"Whatever," the boy got up and brushed off his trousers, "This is so boring! I wish I had someone to fight with."

"I'll be your opponent, if you want."

"Pfft, wouldn't be much of a challenge."

"What do you mean?"

"Duh! You're a girl, so you're gonna lose…"

"No way! I refused to lose to such a brat like you! Me being girl has nothing to do with it. I'm going to fight you and I'm going to win!"

"I ain't fighting you."

"If you don't I'll tell everyone that you're to chicken to fight me. You'd be more of a chicken then Won," she said gesturing her chicken.
"No offence Won."

"You know what, I'm gonna wipe the floor with you!"

The children walking the space were the boy was previously training. The boy drew a large circle on the floor with chalk and they both went into a fighting stance.

"Okay. The first one to step out of the circle loses," Ching nodded. "Three, two, one, GO!"

The boy charged at her at a lightening pace.

'This is gonna be so easy,' he thought 'I'll just give her a little shove and fly out this circle,' but to his surprise she jumped into the air, just in time for her to dodge his attack. The boy tried to slow himself down but Ching kicked his back as she landed on the ground. Fortunately, for her opponent, there was a little shrub growing to which he grabbed onto. The heels of his feet scraped against the edge of the circle

"Do you want to give up yet?" Ching mocked.

"You wish!"

He charged at her again.

'Is he really doing this?' Ching thought 'he obviously hasn't learnt his lesson.' Ching gracefully leaped into the air, again, but this is what he wanted to happen. As she was airborne he grabbed onto one of her legs and slammed her down on her back.

"Ouchie..." Ching moaned.

Her head was brushing against the edge. The boy pinned her down and lifted up one of her arms.

"All I have to do is push your arm down and it will be across the line. You've lost!"

He pushed her arm down but struggled as Ching resisted. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as she desperately tried to keep her arm from touching the ground.

'I can't lose,' she thought 'I can't lose…'

Meanwhile, deep in the bamboo forest

It has been a full three minutes since Pucca died and Garu thought it would only be right if he buried her. In that short amount of time he had dug a neat five metre deep hole in the ground.

"Now I have to put her in," he said sadly. He slowly walked towards her corpse, hands shaking.

'Am I really going to touch a dead body?' As he believed this was honorable he decided to forget how scared he was and to just do it.

"Arrgghh…"

Garu jumped backward, startled. 'What was that?' Then his head turned to the motionless body on the floor. Could it be? No. He saw her die right in front of him, but even still he tapped her shoulder.

"Errrgg…"

"Pucca?"

She slowly lifted her head up. "Hmmm?"

"Pucca! Why didn't you move before! I thought you were dead!"

Pucca answered by sitting up, only to grab head as she groaned. Garu understood that she was probably in too much pain to move straight away. Or maybe she was knocked out cold. He moved towards her, to examine her head and was surprised to see that there wasn't even a bruise.

"Are you okay?"

Pucca rubbed her head then nodded

"That's good. We should probably be getting back now."

As the pair climbed back up the mountain Garu noticed there was a huge crack in the ground where Pucca had landed.

'She isn't any ordinary three year old girl,' he thought.

Pucca couldn't help feeling confused. She was certain she had died, her skull had felt like it shattered and her brain was like mush before but she seemed fine now, as if nothing had even happened. That's when it clicked. The unusual super senses, the unexplainable strength and the amazing agility. It all linked with the thing in the locket, it, must have given her some sort of powers.

The fact that she struggles to speak must be some sort of conscience or something. Maybe it was so the secrets of the locket couldn't be spread but Pucca wasn't too sure. She decided to let it slide, what was so bad about being practically indestructible. She wasn't going to use her powers for evil or anything so why did it matter?

Ching and her opponent had been fighting for half an hour , both of them seemed tired.

"Are you... ready to give up yet girly?"

"I'll never give up... I will fight... until the end!"

Ching ignored her fatigue body and swiftly tackled the boy to the ground.

'Yes!' she thought 'I can just push him out, finally,' but her opponent wasn't going to let it end yet, so he clamped one of her plaits in his hand and yanked, hard. Ching screamed out in pain.

"Hair pulling is not allowed!"

"The only rule was that you lose if you step out the circle."

"Fine then."

Ching grabbed a handful of hair and showed no mercy as she pulled. The two continued to tug at each other's hair until Ching heard a loud squawk. Her head shifted, facing the nearby bush.

"Won! Are you okay?"

The boy used this golden opportunity to push her out of the circle. As soon as Ching fell out she sprinted towards the bush to find her chicken. She found Won at the top of a tree.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing up there?"

That's when she noticed the small black kitten scratching at the bark.

"Awww, where's your owner little guy, wait you don't have a collar," she picked up the kitten and held it firmly in her arms, "You can come down now Won! I'm sorry kitten but I can't keep you, you'll probably eat Won." Ching walked back to where she had been previously fighting.

"Wow!" Exclaimed the boy "you were awesome!"

"But I lost," Ching hung her head in shame.

"Only because you got distracted, when did you learn those moves?"

"My dad owns the Turtle Training Hall in the centre of the village. After my mum died he's been teaching me how to defend myself, but I'm better at using swords."

"A Training Hall! I defiantly have to go. I'm going to get so much stronger. Tell your dad to remember the name Abyo because that's the name of the guy who's gonna be hid star pupil."

"Who's Abyo? Is he a good fighter too?"

"Oh, that's my name."

"Well if you want to be my dad's star pupil you're going to have to beat Garu in a fight. He's the best fighter in the class."

"Whos Garu?"

"Hey look, there he is." Ching pointed to a shadowy figure in the distance. "Garu! GARU!"

Garu's head turned. "Hey Ching. What's up?

"This is my new friend Abyo. He's a really good fighter like us and is going to join us at the Training Hall."

"That's cool. Hey Ching, did you get another pet? Watch out, it may eat Won."

"Oh, this isn't mine, it's an orphan, I think. He doesn't have an owner."

Pucca excitedly grabbed the kitten and hugged it tightly. She had always wanted a kitten, but her hug was too rough and the kitten pounced into Garu's arms.

"Sorry Pucca, the kitten seems to be afraid of you but he sure loves Garu."

"I can't keep a kitten, I mean; I don't even know how to look after a pet."

"Well if you don't look after him, he'll probably die."

Garu knew he couldn't let this kitten die and decided to do the right thing.

"Okay, I'll keep it, I guess it could be my ninja sidekick or something."

"Sidekick or not, I'm still gonna kick your ass when I see you at the Training Hall."

"We'll just have to see, Abyo."

And with that the four walked back to the centre of Sooga Village and returned home.

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