This is the newly revamped Xiaolin Showdown: Dragon of Lhikan
It has been left to gather dust but will now be brought back with new life and hopefully to accepted approval.
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1500 years ago...
Long ago, a war was waged between the forces of good and evil.. Xiaolin and Heylin. The leader of the Xiaolin side, Grand Master Dashi fought against the Heylin witch Wuya and her army of rock monsters. Dashi along with others used their powers to forge mystical objects known as Shen Gong Wu to fight them.
In the last days of the fight, Dashi used a magic puzzle box to trap Wuya and set about hiding the Shen Gong Wu from those who'd seek to misuse them...
Through each generation, new monks would rise up and defend the world from the evil forces of the Heylin.
1485 years earlier...
A pregnant woman runs through the dark wet streets, shivering gently from the light rain that had recently fallen.. At every turn she takes, the woman would glance back and see a shadowy figure following closely after. Finally she comes to an temple, banging against it's doors before her legs gave out and she collapses onto the stone steps. A light comes on and the door is opened by a man with greying hair wearing robes, he glances down to see the woman before turning back to call inside for assistance..
The figure soon steps forth from the shadows into the light, it is that of a young man with a pale face, long black hair and dark green and brown armour covering his body... Walking forward, his eyes had a reptilian look, "Leaver her to me now monk or you will suffer my wrath," he spoke simply.
A woman with fiery hair and another man who was built tall and muscular appeared behind the grey haired man. "Kuthu, take the girl and flee the temple," he instructed before glancing to the other man "Ellwood, help me get rid of this heylin scum?"
Ellwood grins "It would be my pleasure, Peter." the male cracking his knuckles before turning to face the dark haired individual..
Kuthu gently gathers the weakened woman up into her arms and moved inside the build.. sparing a glance back to her fellow monks who advanced a little down the steps, standing shoulder to shoulder..
Peter calls out "Shoku Terra, Stone!" He sends a karate chop into the ground, sending up pillars of stone at the dark haired man, who dodged each one with ease and smacked Peter into the ground, leaving the grey haired monk in a crater...
Ellwood yells "Peter!" he clenched his hands, "That's it you bastard! Shoku Forest, Wood!" Raising up his hands as branches, vines, roots all spring up from the ground and wrap around the dark haired man slamming him into the wall and ground. Ellwood moves over to where Peter was, kneeling to check the other.. seeing how weak he was from the attack he took..
The dark haired man looks up and breaks free, unhurt. "Did you think you could defeat me? Chase Young!"
Ellwood smiles "No, but I did think that I could distract you long enough for our fourth teammate to trap you, now Reno!"
Another figure leapt down behind Chase.. touching his fingers to the ground, "Shoku Light, Aura! Enveloping prison!" rays of light spreading out from the ground as it raised up to create a sphere of light formed around Chase Young, "You really are foolish to think this would trap me?" he runs a finger along the surface leaving cracks.
Ellwood pulls out what looks like a wind up music box "Yeah thought so, that's why I brought this as a last resort Box Of The Sleeping Dragon!" the top opens up and a fiery tornado coils out enveloping Chase, Reno, Peter and Ellwood. It coiled back into the box trapping all four of them.
The fourth monk fled from the temple that night.. taking the pregnant woman to another temple located within a mountain range using Shen Gong Wu to achieve this task.. staying with the woman, seeing how she appeared to be weakening with each passing moment, helping her to give birth to a child.. a boy.
The woman speaks her last words to Kuthu "Please.. look after my boy.. care for him as if he was your own.." she breathed, cradling her boy.. giving a light stroke along the little one's brow before handing him into Kuthu's arms.. "his name will be Lucas.. my sweet beautiful Lucas.." she murmured, gazing at the child that slept on peacefully.. before the newly made mother went limp..
Kuthu cradled the baby, taking him to the monk that was in charge of this temple while the other monks that helped with the birth tended to the female's body.. gently placing a sheet over her body while saying rites of prayer.. The fiery haired woman showed the elderly monk the baby as both saw the glowing markings along the child's skin.. intricate markings and symbols..
Lightly tracing her finger over the marks, watching as they glowed and pulsed in response before Kuthu looked to the elderly monk "Do you know what this means Master Alem?"
Master Alem replied "It means that this boy is very special and must keep his marks a secret for he is the current Avatar of Lhikan.. the next Naka..."
15 years pass...
A teenage boy was standing alone in a courtyard in the pouring rain, he had black hair and blue eyes. His tunic was red with a golden sash at the waist, wearing white trousers and black dress shoes. A breeze blows through his hair revealing a blue markings on his forehead, which started to glow softly as five figures jumped into the courtyard. Each one held a different martial art weapon, a samurai sword, nun chucks, Bo staff, a Kama and daggers.
They started to advance towards the boy, his markings slowly glowed in waves before he open his eyes and shifted into a fighting stance. The assailant with the sword attacked first swinging it at his head, the boy swept his hands upwards and creating a gust of wind that blew the attacker away.
The others with the nun chucks and bo staff attacked from either side and the boy just kicked down into the ground, causing cracks in the stone pavings and opening up a hole that swallowing up the man with the nun chucks. Turning to face the bo staff user, grasping it and giving a deep breathe in before breathing fire down the wood.. knocking the man away.. The last two stayed back, the boy waved his arms and a torrent of water raised up from the fountain, washing over the man holding the daggers.. forcing him to the ground as the water trickled away.. Soon the last one with the pair of Kamas moved in close behind knocking the boy to the ground when he was distracted with a flip.
The boy grins "Sparking Wave, Energy!" he raises his hands up, focusing as he feels something rising up through his feet towards his fingertips.. Electricity crackled through his body and rippled out knocking out the last attacker. He flipped himself back up on his feet, a old man's voice calls out.
"Lucas!" the voice called out, "stop playing about and come inside."
The boy, Lucas walked to the Dojo, opened the sliding door and stepped inside and took his shoes off. Bowing to the old man wearing white tunic with a dragon necklace, "Master Alem, I was merely defending myself against attackers." Lucas spoke innocently, trying to not grin as the five monks came trudging in cover in bruises and some burnt clothes, giving them a light apologetic look.
"Really Lucas you must be more strict with your fighting, even letting one enemy near could mean death." Master Alem said scolded the young male, shaking his head lightly as he lit some incense..
Lucas sighs "Come on!, why do you always put pressure on me and not the other?" Giving a strong huff of annoyance and frustration as he storms out of the room with a light breeze seem to appear out of nowhere from the boy.. making the candles flutter lightly.
Master Alem's face looked even older as another old monk stood next to him "He has to go to the temple Alem, even you know this."
"I just want to prepare the boy more before he has to make his identity known," Alem sighs, setting aside the extinguished wick as he took a breathe of the incenses..
"He's going to have to leave so time, you might as well do it now before he gets too attached here," the other monk counters..
Alem looks at the other monk "Alright, I'll tell him tomorrow but first i must speak with Kuthu on the matter first."
The master monk walked away, heading down a corridor which lead him to the door of Kuthu's room. he knocked twice on the door panel and waited, a voice spoke "Come in."
He opened the door and walked into the room, it was small with a bed in the corner and a table with a chair next to it. On the table was a photograph of a young woman with fiery red hair standing with three other men, all four of them wearing black and red tunics with golden sashes.
the woman was looking over the picture, before glancing to Alem, her hair still as red as the day the picture was taken.. but it was holding quite a few grey streaks.. with some prominent lines creaking her face.. "So your sending Lucas away."
"Yes Kuthu, it is for the best and he will be with the other dragons," Alem replied, not even questioning how she knew his decision.. as her once being the Xiaolin Dragon of Smoke.. she was always the stealthiest of her team..
Kuthu looked at Alem "Yes and he will be more closer to danger than when he was a baby."
"Come now Kuthu you as an ex-dragon of smoke know that one dragon trains better with others?" He sighed, resting his hands behind his back, just feeling tired more often..
"I guess you must know what's right? I mean when have you ever been wrong?" Kuthu frowned, crossing her arms, "Don't you remember when Lucas was taken into the outside world for the first time," she pressed,
Alem winced lightly, "yes but it would be different this time-"
"He almost lost control because of others.." Kuthu cut across, "he didn't understand things through and could have caused destruction.." she was about to say more.. but closed her mouth.. sighing lightly as she pressed a finger to her temple..
Alem fumed "He will be leaving tomorrow and that is final!" he straightened up and left, Kuthu sat there in silence for awhile then got up and left her room. She went the down a hall to a door with a sign on it that read, 'Lucas'.
She knocked on the door and a moment later Lucas open it, blinking, "Lady Kuthu? come in." he lead her inside his room, it was bare except for a bed, table, chair, bookcase full of a mix of books and scrolls, a chest and drawings on the wall.
Kuthu turned to Lucas "Lucas you need to leave tonight."
The boy frowned at this, "Why?" he asked, confused by her words.
"Because it is not safe here for you anymore," She turns to the door, glancing out of it and ensuring there was no one near to hear of what she was going to say next.. "I am part of a old and secret order who set about protecting the Naka from the forces of evil."
"This is a joke right?" he asked, glancing around before looking at her, confused still, "I mean what even is a 'Naka' Lady Kuthu?"
"Not a what, who," She pulls a couple of scrolls from her pocket and hands them to Lucas, "The Naka is person who can master and embody all of the dragon elements, each time the Naka dies he or she is reincarnated into a new person."
"What are theses?" Lucas inquired, holding up the scrolls.
"They hold some of the answers to the hundred questions you will have after this night," she told him, taking out a small bundle and handing it over to Lucas as well "that was my favourite Shen Gong Wu, the Ninja Sash it allows the user to make a body double of yourself."
Lucas opened it and inside was a light brown sash with a dark brown buckle studded with gold and a ruby, jolting as Kuthu picked it up and tied it around his waist.
"Now Lucas you must leave now." She told him, "gather only what is needed and depart from this place," she spoke softly
He hugs her tight, "I won't ever forget you, Ninja Sash!" the sash started to glow and a double of Lucas slowly appeared, as it appeared he disappeared.
"I'm sorry Lucas but another effect is invisibility, you need to be able to sneak out." Kuthu told him, feeling him disappear from sight as she stepped back, knowing he was still standing there as she left the room.. having her own tasks she needed to tend to.. taking a moment to express the smallest of emotion at letting go the boy that had been like a son to her..
Lucas gathered up some clothes and things, slipping them into a bad before he walked to the door and left the room. He started to head towards the exit but just before he got there he saw Alem leave his room. Curiosity filled Lucas as he slipped inside and looked around, on the desk was some papers and documents, he walked over to it and picked up the closest one, it was an opened letter addressed Alem from a person called Fung, he started reading it...
Dear Alem,
I look forward to taking on young Lucas and having him train with the other monks at the temple, use the tickets enclosed to sent him here.
Hope you are well
Signed Fung,
Lucas grabbed the envelope and shoved it in his pocket, looking over he sees one addressed to him, picking it up and putting it in his pocket with the envelope. He returned to his room one last time.. seeing his double sleeping in the bed.
That night Lucas left the dojo, his only home and headed to the Xiaolin Temple to join the other monks. Lucas used the Ninja Sash to sneak onto a mostly empty bus and let it take him away from the temple.. As he waited in a station to get another bus.. he saw a fire that was growing in the town he was raised in.. whole buildings burning. His home gone and all that was left were ashes, Lucas looked away before his sadness overwhelms him.. closing his eyes as he waited for the bus to arrive..
Later
Trudging up the path as dawn was slowly raising.. having taken different methods of transport as it took a few days for him to arrive at the area.. Looking up as he wearily got to the entrance to the temple compound.. seeing an old man meditating, "E-excuse me.. do you know where I can find a man called Fung?"
The man looked up and smiled "Greetings Lucas, come inside" he spoke, raising to his feet as he gestured for Lucas to follow, "you have had a long journey." He leads Lucas into the temple, through the hall into a long corrider with five rooms attached. Four of them had sleeping shapes in them, Lucas just shuffled into the last room and collapsed onto the sleeping mat while Master Fung silently closed the door.
The Next Day
Lucas woke to the sounds of people training, rolling over to watch the sunlight shined through after awhile he got up and changed into some fresh clothes, a red tunic with a high collar and long sleeves, tied by his black sash, baggy white trousers and black dress shoes. He looked at one of the scrolls given to him by Kuthu, inside was some type of writing Lucas could not understand but one small line of text that read "Keep your marks hidden as they are ways evil can find you.", He went to his bag and got out a headband, shifting it so it sat over the markings on his forehead and tied it on properly.. he carefully placed away his other belongings.. being mindful to hide the Ninja Sash away.. after doing all that he went to find where the other monks were, hearing sounds of training..
He got to the courtyard when he heard the voices more clearly,
"Wudai Neptune Water!"
"Shoku Astral Wind!"
"Wudai Crater Earth!"
"Wudai Mars Fire!"
As Lucas watched the four monks, a small teenager with a round head and wearing red uniform with a light blue sash and black pants, a Brazilian teenager with spiky brown hair and wearing a black uniform trimmed with red and gold with a gold coloured sash and red pants, a big teenager wearing a cowboy hat wore red uniform with a light blue sash and white pants and a japanese girl with black pig tails wearing a red uniform with a light blue sash and white leggings.
As Lucas entered the courtyard, master Fung spoke out "Monks come here please,", the monks stopped their training and walked over to their teacher, each of them sending curious glances at Lucas. "Omi, Raimundo, Clay and Kimiko, I would like you to meet Lucas a new monk who will be joining us."
Well what do you thing? was it good? bad? did it stink? let me know!