Ch. 6: High up and Caged
Colleen wakes up a few minutes later to see Drago in front of her.
"You okay, Kiddo?" Drago asked.
"Just a little dizzy," Colleen responded.
Drago was helping her up when another portal appears in front of Chrissie. Ice grabbed her as she was about to be sucked in.
"Chrissie!" Colleen called as she ran to help.
The others try to help Ice pull Chrissie out, but they were sucked in with her. They find themselves in a dimension of beams. When Colleen looked, she noticed there no bottom downward.
"Something tells me this is Chrissie's fear of heights," Colleen said.
Chrissie had a scared look in her eyes.
"Too high! Too high up! TOO HIGH UP!!!" she screamed.
Chrissie began to have a flashback of her own. When she was seven, she climbed up a tree in her yard. She climbed so high up, she hang on tight and froze. She snapped out of the flashback and hung onto one of the beams.
"Chrissie, I'm comin'!" Ice shouted to her.
Ice began to walk over to Chrissie on the beam that leads to her. He suddenly slipped and hangs onto to dear life.
"Whoa!" he shouted.
Chrissie saw him hanging on, so she started to slowly move toward him. Chrissie finally got to Ice and grabbed onto his hand. Chrissie struggled a little, but she managed to pull Ice up. The dimension had disappeared after Chrissie fought off her fear. They were right back where they have started. It is now down to Drago and Hsi Wu.
"We managed to face our fears so far," Colleen said, "but now there are only our two favorite demons. No telling who's next."
A portal suddenly appeared in front of Hsi Wu. He looked very scared about it because he knows what his fear is. Colleen put her hand on his left wing.
"We'll go in with you, Hsi Wu," she said softly.
All of the J-Teens went into the portal willingly. They find themselves in a cage that barely has enough room for all of them. Hsi Wu suddenly got scared of the cage.
"Don't panic! Don't panic!" he screamed as he gasped for air.
He begins to see his flashback. He was just an infant when a young Tchang Zu locked him inside a closet as a prank. Little Hsi Wu banging the door while crying. Hsi Wu snapped out of the flashback. He was frozen with fear.
"Come on, Unc! Snap out of it!" Drago yelled.
Hsi Wu was too shocked to listen. Suddenly the cage got a little smaller. The J-Teens were pretty much squeezed together.
"It looks like Hsi Wu's fear is getting worse," Cody said.
Colleen suddenly had an idea. He is about to snap him out of the fear with the one thing that is always distracting him.
"Hsi Wu, you have to pick that lock right now," she said, "Outside this cage, there are a ton of girls waiting for you."
"Girls?!" Hsi Wu screamed happily.
Hsi Wu picked the lock with his tail. When he finally got the door unlocked, his illusion disappeared.
"Okay, so where are all the girls?" Hsi Wu said.
"That was only a distraction from your fear, Bat Boy," Ice said.
This left Hsi Wu pouting.