Jack groaned as he rubbed his shoulder, careful of the recent welts from the day's torture. If it wasn't for the fact that he didn't know anything other than basic magic, he would have blasted that damn "wizard" to kingdom come! He lifted his head slightly as footsteps sounded down the hall, his heart giving off faint hope that it wasn't a solider or a guard, but he was really hoping it wasn't the "Wizard", Hannibal. Why was this happening to him?

Three weeks ago…

Lin smirked as her cousin fell off the pole he had been balancing on. Jack had to have the worst sense of balance in the world, and she and a hard time believing that they were even related. Even if she was adopted into the family, for she wasn't talking about herself… She was talking of a distant relative of Jack's; Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. If only she could get Jack's Talent to reveal itself, but no, it had been squelched by his parents' influence and his mother's refusal of her son's inheritance. Jumping down from her pole, she helped him up.

"You have no sense of balance." She smirked when Jack shot her a look that would have made Elphie proud of him.

"And you can be a cold-hearted little-" Just then a loud screech pierced Lin's sensitive hearing. "Got to go!" Jack shouted as he grabbed his watch and trench coat before using his heli-pack to fly off. Lin shook her head. He really needed to learn how to balance on a broomstick.

At the location of the newly activated Wu, Jack noticed a miniature city that seemed to be made of emeralds, with golden roads leaving it. His attention captured by the sight, he abandoned his search and walked closer to the model. He was so caught up in the sight, he didn't notice Hannibal following him, vines ready to strike. But for some reason Jack couldn't explain, he reached out and touched the model right when one of the vines grabbed his upper arm. All either of the two saw next was a bright light, but Jack landed off course, so to speak, as he landed near the area where Liir had made his home after his daughter was born. Hannibal was the one who landed in the Emerald City of Oz, and that was when hell started in Oz for all of its beings, human and Animal.

Lin clutched her head as the pulse ran throughout the magical portion of the world. Only one object she knew of could do that, and it had disappeared the same time her cousin had. Quickly, not knowing the danger he was in, she rushed to find a way to contact him. She didn't even know she was going to have help on this endeavor, and certainly that it was going to come from source of her cousin's recent behavior.

Of course, due to the disappearances of Jack and Hannibal (who no one really cared about to begin with…), the Xiaolin monks won the Wu, a useless Wu that Wuya had wanted and made Chase help her get. Chase was perhaps the only one who noticed that the missing parties were missing, and when walking out, he stopped. The miniature from before, the small green city. It was gone. And it looked as though it had never been there in the first place. Not to mention, the Monkey Staff was lying on the floor with Jack's heli-pack and goggles. And a piece of paper with a phone number and a name: Lin cell: 768-453-1987. Being careful to not be noticed, Chase picked up the dropped items and decided to find this Lin, whoever that was.

Good thing for Chase, Lin was easy to find. Mainly because she found him, and when he arrived at his mountain palace, she was making friends with his warriors. After explaining his, ahem, problem to her she looked him dead in the eyes.

"I'll help you after you answer on question: What does my cousin mean to you?"