Francis POV

I can't describe how nauseous I was, going through the chi portal felt like going down a hill in a spiral motion. I swear if this thing is any longer I feel I might...well there goes my lunch...hope the others don't get mad if it hit them.

Suddenly I look down and see a bright light that forced me to cover my eyes, after it subsided I found myself plummeting towards the floor of a lush forest, I think quickly and pull out my dagger and plunge it into a tree, causing my to slow down, but not by much. I ended up crashing against the ground and groan as I landed on my back.

"Shit..." is all I have to say as I get up slowly.

I propped myself against the tree and relax. As I catch my breath, I look around and see I'm in a lush forest beaming with life...I haven't seen anything this beautiful in such a long time.

"Did...did it work?" I ask myself as I continue to look around. The area looked relatively empty no one around that I could see.

"Guess I should scout...hopefully the others landed close by..." I say and get up slowly as I hear my back pop a little. I pant and look up and see my dagger still lodged into the tree. I sigh and kick the tree, and my dagger falls into my palm.

"Well...lets get to work." I say and head off to find the others.

Ling's POV

That vortex, made my insides feel uneasy. If I was in it any longer I felt I was gonna die. Luckily I ended up getting out once that light started shinning. Next thing I know I'm in free fall. I managed to undo my scarf and lasso myself along a branch from a hanging tree. I then used all my strength to pull myself up to it and landed with grace along the branch.

"Flawless as always." I say and look around. Quite the beautiful place. Nice lush forest, tall trees that could reach the sky and a lake...with clean water. I could use a bath.

I decide to leap down and immediately head for the lake, once I arrived I gaze upon a beautiful lake with crystal clean water and magnificent waterfall. This almost brought a tear to my eye, it's been so long since I've seen something this pure. Nox's reign had polluted the world, oceans had been filled with hazardous waste, lakes and forests cut down...but this is something I would never have thought I'd see again. It worked...we traveled back in time.

Not wasting anytime I removed my vest, scarf and pants before jumping into the lake and let the clean water wash away my problems. After this I'll need to find the others...hopefully they survived the fall.

Ba POV

I've been screaming for about ten minutes not even daring to open any of my eyes as me and Hai feel through the portal. All I remember is that something hit me on the way down and it stinks. After that I remember seeing through my legs a bright light, it enveloped us both and that's when I felt the wind blowing against us, I removed my legs and started screaming again as we where in free fall. Hai was fast acting and grabbed me from his shoulder and squeezed my causing me to shoot out some of my silk onto a near by ledge, we swung down and landed in a bamboo forest. He released me and that's when he felt that stuff on my back and dropped me. I landed on my feet and he was scrapping his hand against a bamboo tree.

"What's wrong." I ask

"Your covered in vomit." He states and continues to clean his hand off.

I feel my body tense and I look and...He was right my back was covered in vomit.

"Gross!" I scream and roll over in an attempt to get it off my back.

After we cleaned off that vomit we started to survey the area and hopefully locate our comrades.

Hai's POV

Great now my hand smells, hopefully we can find the others. Ba was looking from atop a bamboo shoot and I'm down on the ground surveying the area. So far we haven't found anything.

"Ba come down, we aren't going to find them standing around. We need to get moving. Hopefully we'll find them along the way." I shout up to him.

He slowly makes his way down and hops onto my shoulder.

"Hey Hai while I was up there I managed to see a small village to the north. If we are lucky the others will be there." He tells me, which brings a smile to my face.

"Excellent work Ba. Let's get moving." I say and start heading for the village.

Min-Shi's POV

This has got to be my worst hangover yet, once I went through the portal all I saw was colors upon colors that left me feeling dizzy. Then I'm nearly blinded and let falling through the sky. I managed to fly myself towards a river, I splashed down in went down at least 10 feet. Once I surfaced I swam to land dried myself off.

"Great, I'm dizzy, wet and cold...what next.

"Halt!" Someone orders.

"Oh great..." i turn around and am face to face with a elderly looking ram who's holding a sword to me.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?!" He asks and I respond by grabbing my jug and taking a drink.

"Taking a bath." I joke.

"Oh, well in that case." He pushes it closer.

"Your coming with me to the governor. This is MY land. Your trespassing." He says.

"No, I'm just passing by. Can't blame me for that." I say back.

"Your coming with me." He says again.

Getting tired of this conversation I trip him up and remove the sword from his grasp and throw it into the river.

"Look I'm sorry, but I need to find my friends." I say and start heading off.

"Hey! You get back here!" The goat calls out before I finally am out of range to hear him.

"Well I hope you guys are having better luck than I am." I say hoping my friends are safe.

3rd person POV

As the five try to regroup with each other each of them have no idea they've landed in different parts of China some closer than others, some farther.

Francis, has reached a clearing and looks out to find hes actually close to the Valley of peace. This causes him to break into a full sprint as he makes his way down.

Ling, is finally finished bathing and gets out to dry off, and reveals his indigo mane is subsiding, turns out it is the paint that signifies he is a member of the Lin Kuei it slowly fades from his fur and he reaches for clothes only to find them missing. This confuses him, but before he has anytime to question himself he is knocked over the head and falls unconscious. Standing behind him are three snow leopards with parasols.

"Ladies I think we just hit the jackpot." The leader says as he two followers giggle.

Hai and Ba have finally exited the forest and come across the village, they head down only to be greeted with silence as they entire village is deserted. They look around and that's when a arrow flies by them and impacts the wall. It's an ambush.

Min keeps up his walk and that's when he stumbles upon a ledge that overlooks a large city. He runs up and looks to see he's in Gongmen city. The heart of the masters council. Maybe fortune is shinning upon him yet. He says and makes his way towards the city.

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