Thanks to the two of you who reviewed I think you will like the way this goes but if you have any tips on how I can make it better then let me know I am always open to criticism as long as it is constructive
It was the next day and the party was underway though Rai hated any party that he wasn't allowed to pull pranks at and Kimiko was staring at him with curiosity that was kind of creeping him out the others were doing it to but she was way worse than they were the others would at least try to hide it but she didn't even seem to notice that he had seen her. Finally, he had had enough he decided to ask her what was up. "Hey Kimiko can we talk?" Rai asked her after slipping out of the party to come up behind her she jumped a little and almost dropped her glass.
"Sure Rai" Kim told him.
They left and went to the meditation hall to talk it was the best place for a private talk it only had one door which was easily monitored so Rai sat on a cushion that was facing the door and Kim sat across from him "So do you know why I asked you here?"
"Not really" Kim told him
"I have noticed that you and the others have all been staring at me with curiosity but you are more curious so I have two questions the first why are you so curious about me? And the second what is it that you are curious about?"
"Well the reason I'm so curious is because I thought I had you all figured out but you suddenly got so much more complicated and because of something that I and the others over heard yesterday" Kimiko told him about the conversation after he had left.
"So you want to know about the scars?" Rai asked
"And what they have to do with your father." Kimiko
"All right I'll tell you." Rai said.
"Really?"
"Just the basics won't hurt" Rai told her. "My dad always told us to help those who need it but when it came to when a fire burned down our home with two of my siblings and my mother trapped inside we lived out of town it would take the fire department 20 minutes to respond but my father still tried to hold me back" Rai lifted the side of his vest and unwrapped the bandages to reveal burn scars on his left rib cage "my father stayed back when I ran into the building I managed to pull them all out but I got burned when I carried my mother out the door. That's why I can't stand my father always talking about protecting the innocent but won't even risk his own neck to protect his family." He retied the bandages and put his vest on "I hope I answered your questions" Rai stood up and walked out leaving Kim sitting alone to think about what he had said. She was thinking about something she had seen in his eye. He left something out something painful. But what? She thought. She got up to leave when the other two showed up asking her a bunch of questions but she lied to them and said;
"He didn't tell me anything about it" and with that she walked away still thinking about that look in his eye what else could have happened if he got them all out then why would he have such a pained look in his eye. Rai had returned to the party to find that only Eric and master Fung had noticed his absence when asked about it he simply told them that he had gone to talk to Kim about some personal matters but then he pulled Eric aside.
"Don't say anymore about it to them alright it's not their burden to bear."
"But you don't have to bear it on your own and they want to help you" Eric told him.
"I know I don't have to bear it on my own but tell me would you tell people that hardly know you about your darkest secrets?" Rai asked.
"I don't have anything to hide and neither do you and ignoring it wont make it go away anyone that read that news article would know what happened" Eric said looking him in the eye.
"What about your sister? Don't you consider that a dark secret? Besides they all have to many problems without me adding to them."
"Do they come to you with their problems?"
"Yeah but only because I am the leader"
That earned Rai a smack to the back of the head by Eric "They come to you because they are your friends and they know that you will come to them with your problems."
Rai looked at him with the same empty eyes he had had after the fire "I don't have a problem."
Eric started to walk away then said with his back to Rai "just because you ignore it doesn't mean it doesn't exist." With that last comment Eric walked back to the party unfortunately Clay and Omi had been nearby discussing Kimiko's odd behaviour heard everything that was said and this time Rai was not paying attention to his surroundings so they went unnoticed which surprised them greatly. Rai snuck out of the party again with the intention of thinking about what Eric said however when he left the party he saw something wasn't right their were Jack-bots with a bag full of wu in its hands. Perfect I need a way to blow off some steam he thought and jumped at them destroying them but it seemed as if there was always more which was weird because he thought that there were only three of them when he started but when he looked around him he saw the remains of at least 20 more he created a slight breeze and discovered their were in fact more than a hundred of them they were just hiding out of sight above him.
"Easy enough to take them out" Rai said grinning he used the air to form a small tornado around him then lifted himself into the air turning the tornado into a perfect sphere sharpening the wind turning it into blades the others all saw what he was doing though
they had never seen him use this technique before. Eric was wide eyed and the others thought he was shocked that Rai could do that.
Omi just said "that is nothing in terms of power he can use MUCH more powerful attacks."
"Your wrong" was all Eric said before slipping off his shoes and jumping onto the nearest roof then he took off the others looked at each other before following him up onto the roof they were suddenly aware of a bright light ahead of them Kimko was the first to firure out what the light was.
Kimiko stopped running with the others she started to stutter "b-b-b-b-but th-th-that means he is a fire elemental"they began running again started all wondering the same thing: Just who is this guy. Though Kimiko had another question how is this guy so powerful because Kimiko noticed that he seemed to be using the fire to propel himself even faster which required a great amount of control so as not to burn the building they suddenly heard Erics voice:
"Stop you can't control that attack you haven't been trained in your families wind arts"
"If you really think that then stay back or you'll die" Rai said then forced the sphere to expand rapidly slicing the robots into pieces the sky was suddenly lit up by the explosions and it looked almost like fireworks. Eric surrounded himself within a sphere of fire though surprisingly the blades didn't touch him when he lowered the fire shield from around himself he saw Rai panting lowering himself to the ground but also that several of the Jack-bots were moving in to finish him.
"Flame lance" Eric shouted and several lances of fire appeared around him he launched the lances at the 20 or so remaining Jack-bots destroying them instantly. Jack the coward that he is decided to sit this battle out and watched on a monitor he stared open mouthed.
"There are others who can use elemental powers? Since when?" He asked the empty room. Then he heard a voice behind him that usually means trouble said.
"If you must know the ability to control elements occurs in family lines."
"What do you want Wuya?" Jack asked.
"I just wanted to drop in and make you a proposition" Wuya said.
"Why so you can double cross me again?"
"No actually I am here on orders" Wuya told him.
"So Chase is the one who sent you here?" Jack asked brightening up immediately at the thought of his evil hero (one of them) wanting to form an evil alliance with him.
"Actually I am no longer working for Chase I am working for a new man he is recruiting all the villians he can to come work for him. Even Hannibal is considering taking the offer." Wuya seemed like she had no idea why her boss would want Jack but it didn't matter to her she had been given orders and she was going to follow them. "He can give you significant funding and when we take over the world you will receive 1/10 of it to do with as you want." Jack was dumbstruck at the offer he would be one of the rulers of the world Wuya was impatient. "So whats your answer? I don't have all day"
"I'm in who is it we are working for?" Jack said.
"We are working for a man only known as Dark Phoenix" Wuya said.
"I can't believe he wants me to work with him he is my all time evil hero" Jack said letting out a shriek like he was a fan girl.
"You aren't working with him but for him you may be the ruler of 1/10 the world but we will all need to report back to him as the emperor of the world" Wuya said then went to the door "well are you coming to meet your knew boss?"
"Of course." Jack said jumping up out of his chair "just out of curiosity how does he plan to take over the world?"
"All will be revealed in time" said Wuya as they left the building Jack saw a limosine waiting for them the driver opened the door and Wuya and him climbed in.
Back at the temple Omi was putting out the fires made by the exploding Jack-bots though none of Erics lances had made so much as a scorch mark on the surroundings. Everyone but Rai was wondering where he learned to control fire like that. "When did you learn the flame lance attack?" Rai asked him "I thought you said you were never going to use your powers for a fight."
"Things changed after you left I had no choice but to take your place in the organization."
"So they had you take my place huh? I couldn't ask for a better replacement. Though I am surprised you took the job."
"Who else could take it?" Eric asked "it had to be an elemental and your siblings don't know shit about how things work or did you forget that your dad hadn't told most of them besides I'm just a stand in until you get back then my job will be your body guard."
"Well if that's true then get ready for a long wait because I am never rejoining the organization and if my dad thinks for one moment he can talk me into it then he is dead wrong. Though after my training here is done I intend to start my own organization one that keeps its word and doesn't back down out of fear of escalation." Rai said to Eric venom in his eyes. "Only cowards fear what will happen if they stand up for what they believe in." Rai walked away without another word leaving the others with more questions than before. As with before Kimiko was the most curious though the others were starting to wonder.
"So where did you learn to control your element? Which temple did you train at? Who was your teacher?" Omi asked fearing the answer.
"Well in order I learned to control my element in Rio, I didn't learn at a temple, and my teacher was my father." Eric answered the questions causing even more confusion.
"How did your dad teach you to control your element?" Clay asked.
"Because he's a fire elemental. Pretty much every member of my family is a fire elemental" Eric explained. "You see the ability to control an element can appear because of one of two ways way one is a natural mutation of the blood I guess you could call it evolution the second way is genetics meaning one or both of your parents can control an element and pass that down to you. Both myself and Rai got our abilities through the second method you see Rai's father is a wind elemental and a powerful one though his power is a bit unstable for some reason it is chained to his emotions so if he is angry then he loses all control of his ability when he uses them so he doesn't use them when he is angry. Rai on the other hand doesn't seem to have that problem. I am currently trying to trace all of the ones who have these abilities so that we can bring them together."
"Why in tarnation would you do something like that?" Clay asked him.
"The ability to control an element can be over whelming for some. They begin to think that they should rule the world so Rai's ancestor started a group known only as the organization to try and teach the young elementals that their powers make them superior yes but that it gives them the responsibility to protect people whenever they can."
"I have never heard of an elemental that has gone mad with power before and I would have I have studied the history of the temple and known elementals extensively" Omi bragged.
"Oh but you did hear about one that went without guidance and was corrupted by it."
"Who?" Kimiko asked intrigued.
"Why don't you answer the question Dojo?" Eric said looking at the small dragon.
"Well he refers to Wuya she was a fire elemental who had abilities from a young age and was teased and bullied as a result over time she came to hate ordinary humans and decided that she should rule them." Dojo explained to the three stunned monks "there have been others through out time but they were never a serious threat because they were usually shown the error of their ways but some like Chase Young were turned to the side of evil and were eliminated."
"When you say eliminated do you mean…?" Omi let his unfinished question hang in the air.
"Yeah though the temple rarely killed them it was usually the organization that did that part. You see every member of the organization is an elemental like us." Eric told them which shocked them to no end.
"Who founded this organization? When where they founded? Why have we never heard of them?" Omi asked.
"Well you see kids" Dojo explained "it was Rai's wish that we not tell you because of the fact that he is supposed to be the next in line as the leader and didn't want you guys to know that he had received training in advance,"
"What do you mean? If he is already fully trained then why is he here? How could he have been trained when he did not have the ability to control his element?" Omi asked in a rush.
"In order I mean he attended something simply called the academy. He is not fully trained and he is here because he had major fundamental disagreements with the organization and lastly Rai could use his ability ever since he was 6 though he didn't gain full control until he was about 9 years old." Dojo explained.
"So that attack he used just know that was one of the techniques he was taught at the academy?" Kimiko asked.
"No that was a technique that is unique to his family and he's lucky he released it when he did." Eric told them.
"Why what could be so dangerous about that most wonderous technique?" Omi asked.
"Well you see the problem with it is you have to compress the air to such a degree that it actually starts to put pressure on your body" seeing that the others still didn't understand he simplified it "if the pressure builds to much it will break the bones in your body if you continue to build the pressure after that the pressure will crush you into dust." The young monks finally understood the risk that Rai had taken and they were all thinking the same thing why would he do that?
