"Where am I?" Roxy muttered as she stood in the middle of a dirt road. "How did I get here?" She looked around. "And where's Sun Wukong? He was right in front of me a second ago!"
As Roxy explored her new surroundings, she realized she was still up in the mountains. But below there was nothing but dark wilderness. Metro City had disappeared too.
Meanwhile, farther up the road, two demons were walking.
"I'm relieved that Master got his mountain back," the tall demon said.
The short demon nodded. "I'm looking forward to the feast. We'll finally eat the Tang Monk, and then we'll . . . "
"Live forever!" both demons said at once, chuckling.
The tall demon's stomach rumbled. "I wish we could eat right—"
The short demon held up a hand to silence him. "Shh! I hear someone."
The two demons hid behind a boulder as a young girl walked by.
"She's wearing such strange clothes," the short demon said. "She's not from around here."
"Let's eat her!" the tall demon said greedily.
"Wait," the short demon whispered. "Someone else is coming!"
Roxy heard voices approaching too. Suddenly several tough-looking men walked toward her, out of the dark.
"Hi!" Roxy called, waving to the men. "Can you please tell me where I am?"
One man stepped forward, gripping a heavy wooden club. "Give us all your money," he yelled.
Roxy rolled her eyes and shot back, "You don't scare me!"
The man stomped toward Roxy. Whiz-hoo! Roxy fired her eye laser beams, and the wooden club instantly burst into flames.
"Ahh!"
Roxy laughed as the man released the club.
The other men looked frightened. "She's a spirit—let's run!"
"Did you see that?" the short demon whispered to the tall one.
The tall demon nodded. "She has amazing magic powers. Do you think she's the goddess Swift Wing told our master about?"
"She must be," the short demon replied.
Roxy walked along the road. "This is bad," she thought. "It's dark and I have no idea where I am. I need to get home."
Just then an old man and woman came along. "Hello, child, are you lost?" the man asked.
Roxy looked at the couple for a moment, wondering if she could trust them. She decided they looked friendly.
"Yes, I'm lost," Roxy admitted.
"You look tired," the woman said. "We work for a wealthy squire who's quite kind. Why don't you come with us? The squire will let you stay at his house tonight."
Roxy followed the couple to a big, beautiful house on the mountain. The man brought Roxy a plate of warm food. Then the woman showed her to a cozy bedroom, where Roxy quickly fell asleep.
The next morning Roxy had tea with the squire.
"You don't live around here, do you?" the squire asked.
Roxy shook her head.
The squire leaned closer. "Do you come from . . . another world?"
Roxy shrugged. "I guess so. My home is a lot different from this place."
The squire smiled. "You have amazing powers."