After the first shock subsided, Tang Yin suddenly felt a gaze pio the stone walls of their shelter. She turo Jiang and smiled awkwardly, whispering a small "Thank You."

  She was sure it was thanks to him; she met Snakie and now had a way to handle her spirit power. Toug her back, she shuddered; the pain she could still feel was a shadow of it. Jiang rose his body and gave free sight at the great fire Lizard outside that slowly crawled past him and eyed them suspiciously but flinched back as Jiang growled at it.

  This was Mama Lizard, and she was not pleased to see them. She sloroached the hundreds of children that soon gathered closer to her. Sihe weather had only moderately improved, the storm subsided, but it still rained buckets.

  No sunshine or leaving this cave any time soon, so we shared. Or rather, Jia growling at Mama Lizard, and mama lizard hissed back while the humans of the versation were stu the middle and prayed not to be buried under a massive amount of scaly hide. Mostly, Tang Yin was scared of being crushed by the mama fire lizard's scaly self. Someone you could verse with was immeasurably less scary than someone you couldn't uand.

  Unsciously, all humans present shifted closer to Jiang. He noticed and pced himself strategically so that with the gust of wind, the adults were hit by the rain ahrough. Tang Yin and the others were safely protected by Jiang's massive body.

  Tang Yin started to sniggle when she saw the Grandmaster's graceful figure standing there, pletely wet and very muused.

  "Great job.", she whispered to Jiang, who gifted them a toothy smile.

  The rain tinued even as the others spent the rest of the storm being hit occasionally by gusts of wind that brought the rain to them. As soon as the rain finally subsided and the clouds dissipated, they looked upwards and watched the blue sky slowly reveal itself. Mama fire lizard, seeing that hissed again at them to get lost, and this time they happily obliged. They walked back or tried to because they o figure out where they were on the map. They got a little lost during the monsoon.

  Jiang instead vanished into the sky ahem behind. "I have to admit I will miss the dragon.", Lize said, looking after him, "no worries about being attacked." She noticed, and they walked.

  Ning Feng, who clutched her Teddy, walked between Tang San and Tang Yin taking a deep breath.

  "T-to j-join Tang S-Sect, what d-do I -to do? "she asked them, and Tang Yin looked at her, slightly surprised.

  "You want to leave your d join ours?" she was more than surprised by Ning Feng's as, "Why, oor; we ever give you a ce or open the doors that the name of seven treasures open."

  "S-skills.", she stuttered, "Y-your m-martial s-skills."

  "Joining Ta means you may never leave. Learning our skills means making an oath to never reveal them ahem to yourself; if you betray it, we will have to e after you and kill you.", Tang San told her very clearly, and behind them, Yu Hua balled his fists.

  "That's fine.", she muttered in agreement.

  Tang San shook his head, "think carefully about it, Ning Feng. There is no way back.", he told her and walked ahead. Ning Feng looked at Tang Yin, who raised her hands helplessly. "If he says so, I do nothing about it, but he isn't wrong; think carefully about it. There is no way bace you join in."

  With that, she, too, walked ahead a Nio her own thoughts. To learn the skills of the Ta, she not only had to join, but she would also never be able to leave alive.