ZY: GAHH! Curse my easily distracted mind! ... That's it no more sodas before bed.
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Eye of the Beholder.
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Chapter 1: The Arrow of Destiny.
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"WU ALART! WU ALART!" Dojo shouted wiggling and jiggling as he approached Omi, Ray, Kimiko, and Clay. Carrying the Ancient Scroll of Shen Gong Wu with him.
"What's the Wu this time?" Ray asked the dragon. Dojo opened the scroll, showing the gang a black image of an arrow inside a blue circle. The words Arrow of Destiny was written in bold black letters under the circle. Dojo explained "The Arrow of Destiny is a Wu that leads a person to their true destiny, whatever that means. Dashi was pretty vague when he was making that one."
"I'm thinking we should get this Wu, after all, we don't actually know what it does and that in itself is dangerous," Kimiko stated, Clay nodded, and Ray agreed. Omi happily said "Then let's get the bag out of the sand and van-noose." The four shook their head, and Clay stated "I think ya mean "Get the sand out of the bag" and "vamoose", little buddy." Omi gave a confused look and said "That makes no sense..." Dojo, Ray, Kimiko, and Clay sighed.
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The Monks were currently fighting with Jack Spicer's robo minions. Can't say it was hard. But when Hannibal Bean and Wuya appeared... Well, take a guess.
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Chase Young was doing some Tai-Chi. He decided to feel the essence of nature this time around while he did his daily practice. It was reeeeeealy relaxing.
"ORB OF TSUMANE, WATER!"
"STAR HANABI, FIRE!"
"SWORD OF THE NEBULA, WIND!"
"FIST OF TEBIGON, EARTH!"
"MOBI-MORPHER!"
Now it was no longer relaxing. Chase stopped his Tai-Chi and turned towards the direction of the shouting. 'What are those Monks and that Bean doing here?' Chase thought bitterly. The one day where the Prince of Darkness didn't want to do any evil and just relax, was being interrupted by a bunch of idiots.
"MONKEY STAFF!"
Okay... All of the Idiots...
"MANTIS FLIP COIN!" shouted the witches voice.
'Was every annoyances there?' Chase thought, grudgingly walked towards the fight. He might as well see what the fuss was about, though it was probably over one of Dashi's toys.
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The fight continued, until... "I FOUND IT!" Jack shouted, holding up the golden arrow. The fight immediately stopped. Chase saw this from were he was standing and in all honestly, he wasn't all that impressed. So he decided to move to another location so he could continue his Tai-Chi. But before anyone could do anything, Jack then shouted "ARROW OF DESTINY! SHOW ME, JACK SPICER, THE PATH TO GREATNESS!"
Nothing happened. Everyone blinked Now Chase was curious. 'I know Dashi liked his toys, but there's no way he'd make one that doesn't work,' Chase thought watching the "Evil Boy Genius" trying to get the Wu to work. Still nothing happened. Chase suddenly sensed something. Something close.
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Omi was the first to ask "Does the Wu not work?" Ray commented "That's a first." Clay scratched his head and asked "Ya'll think that maybe, that ain't the actual Wu?" Dojo immediately stated that the Wu Jack was holding WAS indeed a real Wu and that the rash on his tail was also real. Eww, gross.
"Then... Why isn't it working?" Kimiko asked as Jack shouted out the name of the Wu another time. Dojo scratched his head and said "I don't know." The dragon then pulled the Ancient Scroll of Shen Gong Wu put of nowhere, trying to find out why the Wu wasn't working.
So far the Bean and Wuya were arguing over weather or not they should even take the Wu.
Suddenly, Case Young landed near the Monks. He looked reeeeeeeeeely peeved. Jack was overjoyed and happily stated to his idol " Chase! You're here! Did you see me find the Wu?" Chase growled out "Not now Worm." Then a series of golden arrow were launched towards the Prince of Darkness. Chase easily dodged them.
Ummmm... Where did those arrows come from? The next thing everyone knew, golden arrows where flying all over the place. Everyone was jumping around like a bunch of jackrabbit, trying their best not to get hit by the projectiles.
Where did all of these things come from?!
Because everyone was avoiding the arrows, nobody was paying attention to their surroundings. Ray and Omi kept running into each other and Wuya kept hitting trees. One of the arrows opened a portal to the YinYang World and forced Hannibal Bean and his bird YinYin into it right before it closed, trapping the two forever in the YinYang World, but no one really noticed that. (1)
"Dang nab-bit! Where are all of these here arrow are comin' from?" Clay hollered to his fellow Monks. Dojo was trying to hide under the scroll, while the other three monks were dodging the arrows from nowhere.
After dodging a fleet of arrows, Jack dropped the Arrow of Destiny somewhere along the line. At the moment, he didn't care, he just wanted to stay alive.
The next thing the Xiaolin Dragon of Earth knew he was back-to-back with Chase Young. This was weird...
The arrows suddenly disappeared, leaving everyone in a fit of confusion. Everyone stood still, exactly where they were. All looked around. Was the barrage of arrows the doing of the Arrow of Destiny or was it the work of some unknown enemy?
Now everyone was on edge. Clay was still back-to-back to Chase when he saw the Arrow of Destiny a few paces away, the tip of it was pointed directly at him.
What Raymundo, Kimiko, Omi, Dojo, Wuya, and Jack knew, a golden light pierced threw the hearts of Clay and Chase. All present company couldn't believe their eyes. The Monks and Dojo shouted "CLAY!" while Jack shouted "CHASE!" and all rushed to the one they shouted to.
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Both Chase and Clay caught themselves before they could fall and both were clutching their chests. "Clay are you alive?" Air Monk asked the Earth Monk. Clay nodded and removed his hands from his chest, there was no indication that he was even hit. Omi's eye widened as he said "That is most peculiar. You were indeed hit live off." Kimoko corrected the Water Monk by saying "I think you mean "Dead On" Omi." "But Clay is alive..." Omi said cluelessly.
Chase was also fine, but for some reason his heart felt lighter. Jack kept pestering Chase if he was okay. The Prince of Darkness pushed the boy-genius aside and stating that he was "Just annoyed". Chase pinched the bridge of his nose and said "I merely wanted a nice quiet day to myself, but I end up in the middle of a barrage of arrows from unknown locations."
"Wait, you telling us that you just happen to be by when this whole this happened?" Kimiko stated. No one noticed that Wuya was sneaking away or the fact that Hannibal Bean and his bird was no longer in this world. Chase sighed and stated "Yes, it was an unfortunate coincidence." He walked away, not even looking at the Monks, and said in an evil tone "But next time, it won't be a coincidence."
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Since Jack was a bit freaked out about the Arrow of Destiny, he let the Monks have it without a Xiaolin Showdown. Not that they were complaining or anything. It was just... Well... For a Wu that didn't do what it was suppose to do... Okay, it was just weird, plain and simple.
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Later that night. Everyone was asleep, well, everyone but Dojo. He was trying to figure out what went wrong with the Arrow of Destiny, so he was currently reading Ancient Scroll of Shen Gong Wu section about that Wu.
"Ah! Here it it," Dojo said quietly, so not to wake anyone in the temple. Dojo mumbled the description on the Arrow of Destiny "Hmmm. A Wu that leads a person to their true destiny... Wait!" The description was smudged! Dojo cleaned off the smudge to read the real description. "The Arrow of Destiny is a Wu that will lead a person to their true destined one by shooting them in the hearts by a golden light..." Dojo read and then thought for a moment. Didn't that happen with... "Oh!" Dojo realized what the Wu actually does and what just happened earlier in the day. Dojo then thought 'No wonder Dashi was on the hush hush about it, but wait... If the Arrow of Destiny hit both Clay and Chase, does that mean...'
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Clay was tossing and turning in his bed as his dream continued through the night.
The Xiaoling Dragon of Earth knew it WAS a dream, because everything was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too weird. Chase was on the side of good, by his own will, and he was practically anchored to Clay's side. Guess the weird thing was, Clay liked it.
The Monk turned to his side as his dream continued.
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Chase on the other hand was having a real pleasant dream.
He dreamed that he had taken over the entire world. Chaos rained supreme and the Xiaolin Monks were in hiding. This was all thanks to his loyal apprentice. "Lord Chase, those Monks have been captured," the apprentice said happily. Hold on... Dream Chase looked in the direction of his apprentice. The apprentice wasn't Omi, The Wind Monk, or the Fire Monk. The Earth Monk was Chase Young's apprentice!?
Chase awoke with a jolt.
After a minute or so, Chase got out of his bed and walked towards his meditation room. He needed to get that dream out of his head.
}i{ }i{ An Hour Later }i{ }i{
Chase was sitting in the lotus meditative position. That dream DID NOT leave his mind. 'Why on earth would I be dreaming of THAT one being my apprentice?' Chase thought, trying to make sense of that dream. What was the Earth Xiaolin's name? Cory? No. Clip? No. Kyle? No, no, his name began with a C, that the immortal knew... Oh! The girl of the group called him Clay! How appropriate.
Chase thought about the Earth Monk's character for a bit. The boy was obviously not the brightest of the group, he had a big appetite (Chase learnt that from when he was spying on them with an actual useful Wu, in Chase's opinion), was a too attached to that cowboy hat he wears, was too softhearted, easily manipulated, was physically the strongest of the group, solves things in a different way, a pretty good cook (From what Chase hears), knows how to handle his enemies... Maybe Clay WOULD make a pretty good apprentice after all.
Chase placed a hand to his chin. 'That dream seemed a bit too perfect though,' Chase thought as the sun rose over the horizon.
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To be Continued...
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1) What? I find this character to be more of an annoyance then an actual evil villain, so I trapped his and his bird in the YinYang World so no one has to deal with him in this story.
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ZY: I might as well light the match for this. Yup the pairing in this fic is Chase/Clay... Guess this is the first fic with this pairing... Ummmmm, comment in you like this... Or not... Um, your choice, but I would like some feedback on this story, mostly because it's sort of the first of it's kind...