When four young friends in the tiny town of Antioch, North Carolina find themselves swept up into a centuries old conflict between a Chinese sorcerer and a Taoist Immortal, they have only weeks to prepare for a battle that will test their new found fighting skills against the sorcerer"s trained assassins. In order to survive, they will have to draw on everything they have learned, and trust in their teachers - the Immortal himself, Ming Tao Shih, and Grandfather Chen, a master of Shaolin boxing - and the magical world Ming has created to give them the time and the training they will need.