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Chapter Two: The Intruder's Story
I stood in awe at the appearance of the demon lord. His tall muscular figure nearly towered me as he looked down at me. Those amber slits searched my dark brown eyes. His armor was the same as always, with just a few rips and patches of melting ice and snow. His hair was mysteriously flowing in the doorway. Yup, he was the same powerful warlord as always. He waved a hand in front of my face.
"Are you awake?" he asked in monotone.
I shook my head from my observation. He walked past me and wandered through the hallway. Tucking Tootsie under my arm and taking along my ice cream, I followed him. After many lefts and occasional rights, we ended up in the kitchen He casually looked through my cupboards. I sat down watching him.
"This isn't real." I told myself. "This is just another dream." I began to eat my ice cream. It didn't have much flavor to it since I was so deep in thought.
Chase sat down in the seat across from me with a bag of trail mix. We both ate our snacks in silence. The silence was awkward and kind of intimidating. I mean, I was sitting next to something- no someone- that should only be alive and realistic in my imagination. This person is actually just some lines on a piece of paper. How was this possible? "Actually, the question is-"
"How did I get here?" My thoughts were interrupted by the immortal's question. Did he just read my mind? I looked up at him. He was simply eating small handfuls of trail mix.
"E- Excuse me?" I asked bewildered.
"I know what you're thinking," he answered. "You're asking yourself how all of this is possible. How can someone or thing that should be in your imagination be able to speak to you. Or sit near you."
I nodded at his hypothesis.
"But now you understand that that was the wrong how question. The correct question is how did I get here? In your world?"
I began to feel the gears in my head turning.
"So, in order to have a clue of how you got here, do you mind telling me what you were doing before you got here?"
He nodded and made an orb his fingers. It floated over to me. I could see people inside. They were him, Wuya, Jack and the Xiaolin warriors.
"The orb will show you everything." he replied.
I looked inside and saw…
"The Bells of Intelligence must be here somewhere," Wuya muttered. She, Jack and Chase have been wondering around the blistering cold ice of Antarctica for sometime and haven't seen any sign of Shen Gong Wu.
"Jack, will you stop playing with that stupid toy for one moment?" Wuya growled at the albino as she saw him fidgeting with his small invention.
"This isn't just any old toy," Jack replied. "It's my new gadget. I call it the Shen Gong Wu Eight Ball! Every time I shake it around, it'll say something to help us find the Wu!" he smiled triumphantly.
Chase and Wuya ignored him and continued to trudge on in front of him.
"I'll prove it!" he said with conviction.
Wuya and Chase reluctantly turned to the boy. He shook the ball and turned it around to show the two the ball's message. He heard them snickering and looked at the message.
"First way to the Wu: get the idiot out of the way." He gulped.
"Well, we should listen to the ball if it is going to get us any closer to the Wu." Chase said smirking devilishly at Jack. He grabbed Jack by his collar and threw him behind his shoulder. Jack slid a couple of feet behind Chase and Wuya. There before them, a few yards away, was the wu on top of a large glacier.
"Well, what do you know?" Wuya said. They began to run to the glacier, doing their best not to slide off of the ice block.
At the glacier, they saw the Xiaolin monks coming closer with surprised looks on their faces.
"Look! Chase Young, Wuya, and Jack Spicer have already found the Shen Gong Wu!" Omi shouted as he sped up in front of the group. "I cannot allow them to get to this important Wu! Oh, what can I do?" Then he had an idea.
He took out a blue orb from his sleeve and yelled, "Orb of Tornabi! Ice!"
He made a slippery ice path and slid across it to the glacier. By the time he reached the it, Chase was at the top reaching for the Wu. Omi held out his hand and grabbed it. But he saw that Chase Young's hand was also on it.
"Chase Young! I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown! The game is a race to the top! Who ever climbs to the top of the glacier to the Wu wins!"
"I wager my Serpent's Tail against your Orb of Tornami."
"Let's go! Xiaolin Showdown!"
The glacier grew hundreds of miles taller. The others sat on the side on a long ice island.
Chase and Omi yelled, "Gong Yi Tanpai!" and began to climb the mountainous glacier.
The race was long and dangerous. There were very few places to grip on. And when they could find any places to grip, Omi and Chase had to hang on for dear life. As they progressed, they heard shouts of encouragements from the island. When they were about halfway to the wu Chase heard Omi use his Wu.
"Orb of Tornami! Ice!" he began to shoot upwards to the top.
"Serpent's Tail!" Chase shot upwards through the glacier.
At the top Omi reached for the Bells of Intelligence. "Victory is within my grasp!"
Then, without warning Chase's hand shot through the ice and grabbed the Wu from Omi's reach. He stood looking down at the surprised monk with a smirk on his face.
"Sorry, young monk, but today victory is mine!" The area quickly changed back.
Omi stood dumbfounded. "How… did this… happen?" He hung his head in disappointment. The warriors tried to reassure him that he did very well by praising him. But it didn't make him feel any better. He had lost a very important Shen Gong Wu to the wrong hands.
Chase examined the new Wu. "It looks like those pathetic Christmas bells on a ring."
Which was true. It was a small ring that had three silver bells attached by a red ribbon. He shook it and it made a gentle and calming chime.
"Oh! Chase try it out!" Jack squealed. Chase handed the Wu to Jack.
"I think you will get more use out of it then me." he said blankly to the boy, who numbly nodded in return.
He raised the ring above his head and yelled, "Bells of Intelligence!"
The bells began to make a mysterious chime. Jack felt the bells squeezing out of his grasp. He let go, and the Wu floated over Chase.
"What is the meaning of this?" He inquired to Wuya. She shrugged.
"It's supposed to give the dumbest person in the area ultimate wisdom. I thought it was gonna go to Jack."
The bells started to violently shake. The bells' melody began to sound deformed. Everyone looked at the bells, including the Xiaolin monks who were still nearby. The bells were changing into a dark ivory color. They bells suddenly expanded and formed into a giant black vortex. Everyone began to move back, but Chase.
"Chase come on! What are you doing?" Wuya screamed above the bell's monstrous sound.
"I can't move!" Chase screamed back. He felt like he was stuck to the ground. As he looked above himself the vortex began to produce a powerful suction. He felt it pulling himself in. Jack ran toward him to try and save his idol.
"Jack! What is wrong with you? Get back!" Wuya shouted, caring for his saftey for once.
But before Jack had gotten two feet to him, Chase had disappeared. The Wu with him.
I looked away from the orb to Chase. "So, it was the Sheng Gong Wu that brought you here."
He nodded.
"So, then our question is answered, right?"
He shook his head. "I know that the portal brought me here. But the real how question is," he looked at me with suspicious eyes. "How did the Wu change into something like that? And why did it bring me here?"
I began to squirm in his gaze. Was he saying that I had something to do with this?
A loud crash from the basement brought us back to reality. I went left two times and began to run down the stairs with Chase at my heels. At the doorway of the game room, I saw something quite tall move. I turned the switch on and saw the figure.
I gasped, "I can't believe it! ...Reino?"
The silver haired man stood over a broken vase. Chase stood in a fighting position.
"Uh, and you are?" Reino asked looking at Chase like he was crazy.
"I am Chase Young. Prince of Darkness. And you?" Chase asked with the same tone of disgust in his voice.
"He's the lead singer of a group called Vie Ghoul. They copied off of another singer, Sho Fuwa." I interrupted, inspecting the man wide eyed. He had on a long black leather jacket, black jeans and black shoes. His silver hair was gently flowing. He slightly smirked. Yep, the same jerk.
"So you've heard of me?" I felt a cold force flowing in my spine and shuddered. "Now I know how Kyoko felt." I thought referring to the chapter of the manga I had read the previous night.
"Uh, yeah, a bit." The room became silent. Chase and Reino's eyes averted to me. They were burning with suspicion.
"W- What?" I asked looking away from their gazes.
"...You're a witch aren't you?" Reino asked in a whisper. I looked at him as if he had lost his marbles.
"Huh? Are you out of your mind? I have no magical powers! I'm just a normal teenager!"
He crossed his arms to show that he wasn't buying it. I walked over to the couch in the middle of the room and sighed.
"This is gonna be a long night." I mumbled.
"You must have some kind of magical power," Chase said as- a-matter- of- factly. "Only witches and sorcerers can obtain the power of teleportation."
I looked at them. They wanted answers, and they wanted them now. I flopped on my back on the couch. "Reino, how about you expalin how you got here? So, we can work this out together?" I asked, trying to change the subject.
He only nodded slightly, and sat on a nearby beanbag.
His story was...
A/N: I only got 1 review. Yeah, yeah, so what? People also favorited this story, so why not keep going? Plus, I was bored. Now, I have writer's block. So it may be a while before I update this story. But, I'll update soon! Bye!