Flames's Journal
(Flames's Journal has parts of the songs, The Good Left Undone by Rise Against and Ravers in the UK by Mania. I do not own these songs.)
The lot of them are cowards. Unable to truely embrace their element and open new possibilities. I truely found myself.
I'll never forget their faces when they saw me weild my full power.
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"Prepare for a major but-kicking." A Japanese girl warned.
Pfft, bring it on, cupcake.
I snapped my fingers, and my namesake closed off any possible excape. Grinning wickedly, I turned into a Plasma Draconia, a thin dragon-humanoid with light blue scales that could weild plasma.
"Big-Bang Meteorang!" The Cowboy yelled. He threw an eight-pointed boomerang in my direction. I easily lept it, and floated down feather-like. I shot a smug look at him. He just nodded back. I raised my hand, and with the multitude of meteorangs were smacked away with tendrils of plasma.
"Arrow Sparrows!" The Japanese girl shreiked. I turned into a Fire Draconia, the same thing as a Plasma but thicker and sturdier. The little bronze sparrows caught fire, and harmlessly bounced off of me.
"Blade of the Nebula!" A guy with brazilian look called. The Lightning Draconia was designed for high winds and devistating storms. This was a summer breeze to me. With bright brazen scales and long, gleaming talons, sparring came naturally to me. As the Brazilian was busy whipping up dust, I crept behind him, and tapped his shoulder. "What the-?" He questioned, then my claws sliced across his stomach like a hot knife through butter. Thick streaks of lightning lept out of me, striking him. Taking my pronged tail, I struck him on the back, ripping the fabric that made up his robes. I dropped down and struck his right leg, snapping it. Aqualad kept the Japanese girl preoccupied, and Di and Raven double-teamed on the Cowboy. All the others kept the sea of bald people back.
One baldy made it through our defences, and only using two fingers, he broght down the Storm brothers. Bearing my fangs, I streaked over to him, leaving the brazilian's life-blood soaking the ground. "The Sphere of Yun!" He cried, and trapped me in a bubble. Attacking for all my worth, I kept beating the round walls. I clawed until my talons were a ruined mess. Then I turned into another elemental animal. A bright yellow electric spider, an orange fire pig, multicolored dragons, blue creatures of all sizes. When one was ruined, I continued with the next. Growing faster with each of my fallen comrads, I began crying magma.
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I will never forget that utter feeling of helplessness.
I will never forgive myself. I lost myself, too.
I guessed I also learned about myself. I'm not exactly the best, I just need to think things through more.
As I sit in this oak tree, I believe I might have an epifany. Ugh, another person. One second.
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I look over the edge. It was the Cowboy.
"Hey, Alani, it's chow time. You might want to eat before all the food's gone." He called up to me.
My face said it all. Do I look like I'm hungry?
"You could at least answer."
Mentally face palming my self, I lept down and walked towards my room-cubicle-thing. I grabbed my prized possesion, an electric guitar. I trudge back to the tree, and climb back up to the crow's nest I was sitting in prevoisly. (A/N: Crow's nest is a section of a tree that branches out into three branches at the same area.) I began strumming a song that I knew. My powers had the guitar come to life.
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So I tell myself, tell myself it's wrong.
There's a point we pass from which we can't return.
I felt the cold wind of the coming storm.
All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long.
When I do I dream,
Of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore
Where I lay my head down,
I'll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.
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Just playing my guitar, a person walked to the base of the oak tree. Well, what a fine time to do that. As I felt like I was being watched, I totally bombed the final chords. I look down, and the brazilian kid was the first person I saw.
"Jesus, not this guy." I might've said that out loud.
He gave a wide-eyed look and swiveled his head around. "Mabey you hit me in the head harder than I thought."
"I hope not. That would be terrible on my behalf."
He did the swivel-thing again.
"You might wanna stop that. You could break your neck."
"Okay, I have officialy gone crazy. Too much sun?" He wondered as he hobbled away with his crutches.
"Well, you might as well stay and talk to me since you can hear me. The name's Alani." I held my hand out for him.
"Raimundo. So I haven't made it to the crazy train yet." Raimundo said as I pulled him up to where I was sitting. "What song were you playing?"
"The Good Left Undone." I replied frankly.
"I've never heard of it." Rai (he said I could call him that) replied curiously.
"Never heard of it? It's only the best song in the world." I gave him a weird look.
He shrugged. "Mabey I can play a song? I could play a mean guitar before I came here."
"If you can, I give you some of my magnite stash." I betted.
"And if I can't, your allowed one of our Wu." Raimundo wagered.
"Pardon?"
"Mystical objects with unbelievable power."
"Done deal."
His first couple of chords were just like playing an unplugged electric guitaur. "Oh, duh." I face-palmed myself and powered it. "Now play." A high squeal emitted from my poor guitar.
Resisting the urge to cover my ears, I forced a grin and said, "Mabey your just a little rusty?"
"Mabey." He admitted. "Well, a promise is a promise. I'll show you the Wu."
I lept down with considerable grace. Raimundo looked down, and timidly asked, "Can you help me down, ya know, just this one time?"
Turning into a well known rare pokemon called Entei, I lept back up to the crow's nest we were sitting in. Once Rai straddled me (Bi, I swear to God, if your reading this and start thinking perverted, I will bribe Space into sending you to the thirteenth dimension), I lept down as gently as I could.
"The vault's this way." Rai pointed at a tall, round building.
Padding my way over there, I kept thinking about why I trusted Rai so much. I've been around Aqua-jerk longer, and I still don't trust him.
Inside the tower, The most noticeable thing was the orange cauldron in the center of the room. Chimes decorated the walls, and an octaganal skylight was above us. "Walk over there." Rai asked and pointed to a group of chimes. The sound of my paw-steps echoed off the walls. Rai tinkled the chimes in a beautiful yet simple tune. The ring of tiles sunk down and reveild a spiral staircase decending into the underground. "Now we just walk down those stairs and you can check out the Wu."
"Can you walk?" I asked. My massive head turned and tried to look at his face.
"No problemo." He replied in a relaxed tone.
I layed down and, with minor difficulties, Rai dismounted. I transformed to my normal self, and stood up.
"How do you guys do that?"
"Do what?" I replied.
"Turn into animals. Master Fung told us there were only two shapeshifters." Rai questioned as we decended through the vault.
"You mean elememtal beasts. It doesn't count as shape-shifting."
"Is this why your able to talk without moving your mouth?" Rai's second question came out a little quieter, as if he thought it was a little rude of him.
"It's a story I'd prefer not to talk about. What's this?" I pushed out a random drawer, and inside was a small medal bird. I picked it up, and held it in the palm of my hand. Made of a type of bronze, the bird's topaz eyes gazed into mine. It's small wings out streched, it seemed to want to embrace me.
"Oh, that. It's the Pheonix of Fortune, it calls any legendary being to help the holder." Rai replied. He looked a little, for lack of better word, up-tight. I heald the Pheonix of Fourtune in my hand, and another drawer caught my eye. I walked down the stairs towards it and pulled it open. Inside was a rather clunky contraption, compaired to my little bronze bird. It was a thick, dragon-like bracelet made of a shining silver and it had cobalt eyes. Picking that up as well, I slipped it onto my wrist and admired it. "I think you should put the Draku Brace back." He almost demanded me to do so.
"Honestly, what would this do? It looks so harmless." I questioned as I ran my finger over the Draku Brace's intracate designs.
"Umm, just put it down." Rai cautioned. "Besides, you were only promised one."
"You tried twice, correct?"
"Yeah, but-"
"Therefore, I get two."
Raimundo eventualy let me keep both. I have my ways. (Bi, the threat still stands.)
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(next day)
"Okay, we got a 9.0 Shen-Gong-Wu alert!" The scaly green wyrm called, he carried in a rather large scroll. "The Dioxin Oprich can cause temporary mutations that enhance your current abilities."
The item in the picture looked like a beetle, but when it opened it's wings, a green mist encased the holder, and the holder had wings and talons.
"Looks worthwile. So, does this come with a map or something?" Dianna (Di) asked.
The wyrm shifted to a dignified, forty-foot-long eastern dragon. "All aboard the Dojo Express." He called. He turned his head towards us.
"Uh, thanks, but I only trust myself when flying." Beatrice replied, and then turned into the magnificent dragon she was when she flew to the grounds. With scales of moonlight, she was easily more impressive than Dojo.
"We'll gladly trade rides." Aqualad asked Rai, Kimiko (the Japanese girl), Clay (the Cowboy), and Omi ( the yellow cheeseball).
"Sure, uh, no offence Dojo." Clay said the final part to Dojo.
While Dojo was ranting about 'not judging a book by it's covor' and such, Dianna summoned a boney shadow dragon and I turned into a Lightning Wyveren (a draconic chicken that had golden scales). Dianna, along with Raven, Thunder, and Kilowatt mounted the shadow dragon. Lightning was on my back.
"Are you done?" Dianna questioned Dojo.
"Yes, I am."
"Then let's get a move on!" Clay shouted, and then he lept onto Beatrice.
"Don't worry, Dojo," Aqualad comforted the green dragon.
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(Close to the end of the previous scene)
"Lightning, can you please put my headphones into my ears?" My thought was directed to only Lightning.
"Sure." Lightning, otherwise known as Gan, reached into my saddlebags (I have my reasons) and pulled out my orange ipod. Grabbing the white earbuds, he placed them gently into my wyveren ears. "Which song do you want to listen to?" He asked.
"Oh, I'm in a good mood. What about 'Ravers in the UK by Mania'?" I replied. "Wait a second though."
I soully connected with Dojo. "Dojo, where is the Shen-gong-wu aproximatly at?"
"Well, I believe that this rash says it's in Saudia Arabia, but this itch says Russia." Dojo replied outloud.
"Close enough." And on that note, I severed the soul connection.
"First Class ticket to the Dioxin Oprich!" I cried mentally. Lightning cued the music.
Uptown, downtown,
All around the world
We're gunna
Jump now, Jump now
Everybody come because
We need,
More,
Hard,
Core.
Mayday, mayday,
Ravers in the UK!
As the crazy song was playing, I was building speed. Being a Lightning Wyveren, I can't simply launch myself into the air. Once I start moving fast enough, I turn myself (and everything that had a pulse when I touched it) into pure energy, and race across the sky.
Walk.
Trot.
Jog.
Sprint.
Gallop.
Streak. Lightspeed.
Once I had reached unbelieveable speeds, I was more energy than flesh and blood. By now, I was bouncing off the walls and had less contact with the floor. I heard people screaming about not wanting to die, but I wasn't certian. I think I brushed up against a couple people, which was good.
Three, two, ZZzap!
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We ended up in a wasteland in Russia. We, as in the following: Rai, Kimiko, Clay, Omi, Dojo, Aqualad, Kole, Thunder, Dianna and her shadow dragon, Beast Boy, Hotspot, Raven, Kilowatt, Lightning, and of course, me.
And the song wasn't even half over. New record!
Everyone else was less thrilled, I'm guessing light-sickness. I turned back into my normal, human state and searched for anything relatively beatle-like. That's when I heard engines. These guy's lives can't get any more hectic?
"Well, look. It's the Xiaolin losers!" A voice cackled from above. Jack Spicer decanded down with a jet-pack of some-sorts. "Well, I might as well start it early. Jackbots, Attack!" Bronze robots decended upon my light-sick freinds. I used my powers to kill of the fire inside of the robots. As the now Junkbots rained around them, I followed Jack. "Ah-ha! The Dioxin Oprich is mine!" He cackled. I lept out and placed my hand on the puke-colored beatle at the same moment as Jack.
"Jack Spicer," I jabbed into his soul-fire, "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" According to Rai, these basically happen when two people go after the same Wu at the same time. "My Draku Brace against your... What do you have?"
Jack continually screamed. It was awefully girly. He held up a flower that reminded me of a lillypad.
"Your lillypad-flower-thing. The game is 'Wasteland Survival: Elemental Style'. First to have a fatality, loses. Do you except?"
Screaming. I take that as a yes.
"Let's go. Xiaolion Showdown!" I screamed.
Nothing happened. "This is really embaressing. Isn't something supposed to happen?"
"Does Paleface have an element?" Dianna asked. She was one of the first people to get over the light-sickness.
"Actually, Paleface is a pretty good name. It sounds poetic, yet has an evil ring to it. And no, elements are for the Losers." Jack stopped screaming to say that.
"I say his element would be light." Bi pointed out. She also gets over light-sickness really fast.
"And the animal would be a zukon." Dianna pointed out in disgust.
"A what?" Jack was utterly clueless.
"Just say it when the showdown begins. Now, let's try this again, Xiaoloin Showdown!"
The wasteland shifted, creating exaturated valleys, mountians of toxic waste, and what appeared to be radiation monsters.
"Gong-ye-tam-pie! Zukon!" Jack screeched.
"Gakku!" I turned into a light blue dragon with the likeness of a whippit (a type of dog). I ran around, trying to find a sutible shelter from the bulky black and red bi-peds.
Jack's zukon was more defensive, with thick scaley armor plates. He was a pure white, and had large saber-like teeth and talons. He distracted the radiation monsters by shredding them.
After finding a sutible burrow, I lept away, finding Jack still fighting. Draku Brace, I said quietly in order to not give away my position. I understood the radiation monsters.
"Intruder!" "Go away!" "Aargh!"
"My freinds, we must unite, and kill the intruder!" My voice was shrill compared to their deep grumbling. "You must strike where there is no armor, and you must strike fast and hard. Once you hit, pull back and strike somewhere else!"
I lept to their level, and then lept onto Jack's back. I tried to rip out the smaller chain-mail scales, with little sucess. Using the plasma-abilities of a gakku, I momentarily blinded Jack. With heavy blows coming from my new-found radiation freinds, Jack was getting beat up fast. Then he recieved a particularly heavy blow to a place where the sun don't shine.
"Fatality. Tee-hee." An unknown voice called from the heavens, and the Showdown was over. The landscape returned to normal, and I held two new Shen-Gong-Wu: the lillypad-flower, and the Dioxin Oprich.
"And that, my friends, is winning. Now, if you don't mind, I need to go to bed." I promptly collapsed.
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Waking up from passing out is completely different from rising each morning. To get an easy picture, go grab a person who is in a coma and try to wake them up. If they wake up, ask them how it felt. I kid you not, they will say 'It felt like I woke up from the dead'.
Well, Dianna said I had been passed out for four days. And that today was Sunday.
I litteraly bolted to the top of the tallest building and scanned the ground for Lightning. "Tavis!" I called, and zipped over to his side. "I'm so sorry, I couldn't hang out, I didn't know that-. What are you staring at?" I asked him. I looked at my left forearm, where the Draku Brace was. Remember how it was a clunky bracelet? Well, now it was more like a flexible armor that covored my arm, extending from my wrist to my shoulder, where it ended in a silver dragon head, accented with cobalt blue eyes. Embracing my wrist was the Pheonix of Fortune, encircling it's wings around the edge of the Draku Brace, it's beak pointing towards my knuckles.
The first thing that came to my head was, was it supposed to do that? The second thing was, am I supposed to scream?
"I'll go seek Master Fung. Until then, I need you to panic for me." I told Lightning. I walked off towards the temple, holding my arm out if it was dieseased.
After walking through the up-teenth desolate hallway, I ran into Master Fung. Or Dojo, who was slightly ahead of the head monk.
"Ah, I see you are in need of assistance." He, Master Fung, calmly pointed out.
What was the first clue? I said. Somehow, it didn't make it to him.
After an uncomfortable thirty seconds, he finally answered, "I remember. Your the silent one. Can you take me to one of your freinds who can translate?" Great, back to aimlessly wandering the halls. Again. "I believe that they are in the training yard." Baldy, I don't know where that is.
"Since your still new, you can follow me to it." The green lizard, Dojo, offered. I nodded in agreeance. After two right turns, we were at the yard. Unfoutunatly, Aqualad was the only one in it.
"Now, Garth, you must extend your arms before the kick, or you will never be as good as me." The cheese-snack gloated as Aqualad was crunched into yet another position.
"Young Garth, can you translate what Alani is trying to say?" Master Fung asked, his blue robes fluttered in the light breeze.
"I don't know if there's some kind of 'code' or what, but everyone else seemes to understand her." Garth shrugged as Omi shoved his elbow into the correct place, causing both of them to fall dawn.
At that moment, I picked up a weired heat signature, like a moving vegitable. Looking over in that general area, I followed that heat. It jerked, looped, corkscrewed, and sometimes disapeared. A quick scan always picked it back up. Walking the path it followed, four pairs of eyes followed me. At the end of the heat trail, there was a mesquito. I just encased it in fire and incentigrated it. What fell down was a charred bean. "You may have defeated Hannible Roy Bean today, but tommarrow you won't be so lucky." The bean drawled in a, I'm guessing southern, accent. A bird came down, he hopped on it and flew away.
Well, the reflection of my week. My love-life is now screwed, I have an armored arm, the temple-dwellers now realize I'm not normal, Lightning is a nervous wreck, and I think I now have radiation poisoning or I'm now slightly magnetic. It's great to be me!
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What to think of it? I don't know. Please reveiw, and let me know if you like it or not.
Two down, 24 more to go!
The Dioxin Oprich's name came from oprich, meaning apart in Russian, and dioxin, a highly toxic substance.
Answer from Quiz 1: The name of the sky bison from Avatar: the Last Airbender is Appa, one of my favorit characters from the series aside from Toph.
Quiz 2: I made three Poke'mon refrences in this chapter. Two are from Black and White, and the other is a rare fire-type poke'mon. Happy hunting!