"Emily!" I opened my eyes slowly. The light was bright, and it hurt them. I looked around in surprise. Why was I in the garden? Oh, yeah. I couldn't sleep and went for a walk, then... I could only remember something about a bird I was mad at and a man. Oh well. Probably just some weird dream.

"Emily! Where are you?" Blis was calling for me from the temple. She sounded worried, and considering I'd fallen asleep outside I wasn't surprised.

"I'm out here Blis," I called to her. She appeared in the entrance looking relieved.

"There you are! Why are you out here? Were you sleep walking or something? HEY GUYS! SHE'S OUT HERE!" she said all of this in one breath as she walked to me.

"Hi Blis. I'm sorry I scared you. I couldn't sleep last night, and thought a walk might help. Apparently it did, too well. I fell asleep out here on the bench." I stretched. "Man, I could really use a shower and breakfast right now." Blis laughed at me as I stood up.

A little bit later all of us were sitting around the breakfast table. Blis and Jack were being mushy, and Rai and Kim were making goo-goo eyes at each other when they thought no one was looking. All in all it was rather gross. Omi, Clay, Dojo and I had fun making jokes about them. Most of the time they ignored us, unless we brought up the wedding. Then Blis was all ears.

As we cleared the table, Dojo suddenly spazzed. I looked at him and said, "Dojo, are you alright?"

"Gkjdhfkg."

I raised my eyebrow. "Guess not. Hey guys," I called, "Something's wrong with Dojo."

Clay came in and said, "What's wrong little buddy?"

Dojo shivered and said, "Agfkjhdfidkghlgikasgf."

Clay and I looked at each other and shrugged. "It would appear that another Wu has revealed itself." I turned around. An elderly monk stood there, one I had never seen before.

Clay scratched his head and said, "But Master Fung, there haven't been any Wu since Blis joined us. Why did they decide to activate again now?"

Master Fung shrugged. "I do not know, young monk. But you had better go and get the others and go."

After Master Fung left, Clay looked at me and said, "I don't know if you'd want to come or not..." he trailed off as I shook my head.

"I'm good. Not a huge fan of showdowns, remember?" He nodded and left too. I continued on the dishes. Soon I saw the others fly away on Dojo. Looked like I was in for a wait. I finished in the kitchen and decided to go work on my story for a while. You see, something I forgot to mention about my self is that I'm actually a famous author. I write books about all of my adventures that I have. Lately my editor has been bugging me for the next book in my series.

As I was typing on my laptop, I heard a tapping at the window next to my bed. I looked up. It was that dang bird again.

Oh great, I thought. "Now what do you want?" I asked out loud. It tapped again and cawed. I frowned and ignored it. The bird tapped again a few more times but eventually flew away. I sighed and relaxed. However, I didn't get to do so for very long. No sooner had I stretched then a loud sound echoed through the halls.

I got up and looked outside my door. I couldn't see anything, but that meant nothing. I wandered out of my room slowly. I could hear something bumping around in the other room of the temple. I stopped outside the room and peered around the doorway. I frowned at what I saw. There was a hole in the wall, and a giant bean was looking through the monk's belongings. A strange black and gray bird sat on his shoulder.

"Where is it," I heard him mutter. I frowned deeper. What was he looking for? I didn't have any clue whose stuff he was going through, so that wasn't much help. Was it a Shen-gon-Wu? If so... "What do I do?' I thought. I watched him for a while before deciding to walk out and face him.

"Hello," I said. He spun around and when I saw his face I remembered who he was. Hannibal Roy Bean. Wow. The years had not been kind. I decided to play it dumb. "Who are you?" I asked him. He frowned at me. Man, every one's frowning today!

"I'm Hannibal Bean, little lady. Who are you?" I tilted my head. "I'm visiting my brother. Clay, you know?" He nodded. I don't know why I chose Clay, probably because we look a little bit alike and could probably pass for siblings if we had to.

"Why haven't I seen you around the temple?" I asked him. "Are you a friend of the monks?" The bean paused. I smiled inwardly. Oh yeah, I had him.

Then he smiled. "Of course I am! I just live somewhere else." He smiled at me and I had to fight not to be sick. He should never, EVER smile. It made him look even worse then he originally was... if that was possible, anyway. I moved my head to the other side. I didn't notice until then that the bird was copying me. I tilted my head back and forth, and he kept following me. Eventually he got dizzy and fell off the bean's shoulder.

I laughed. "Your bird sure is funny mister!" I said in keeping with my charade.

The bean shook his head (kind of) and scooped the bird up. "Well," he said, "I'd better be goin' now."

I frowned. "Does this mean you found what you were looking for?" He froze. 'Busted,' I thought.

Bean turned to me. "Actually, I didn't. Would you help me find it though?"

I pretended to think about it for a few minutes. "Sure!" I replied with a bright smile.

"Good girl." He grinned again. Ugh. "I'm looking for a very special item. It's a book."

I looked at him strangely. "A book? You're looking for a book? Shucks mister, we've got tons of books in the library!"

He sighed. "Yes, I know. However, this is a very special book. It belongs to the Dragon of Light. It's black with red writing on the cover." I 'thought' carefully. Of course I knew what the book was. I also knew where it was, but there was no way in heck I was going to get Blis' diary and give it to him!

"I don't know about a book like that mister, but I'll ask around if you want."

The bean looked slightly panicked. "N..no, that's alright. I's going to use it to... surprise the monks is all."

I smiled, all cheer again. "Well then I'd be happy to keep an eye out for it!"

Hannibal grinned and left out the hole. I watched him shrink and fly away on his still unsteady bird. As soon as I couldn't see them any more I dropped my act.

"Like heck your gonna get that book, bean." I muttered as I straightened up Blis' stuff. I also grabbed her diary while I was at it. I didn't want to leave it alone. I sighed as I looked at the wall. There was really nothing I could do about that. I sighed again and went back to my room, the little black book in my hand.