Note: Don't own and whatever. Enjoy. Oh, and this is very sad and heartbreaking.

CHAP 3

"Wuya do think that it really happened?" Dashi said looking up at her from her lap. He had been resting his head. Wuya smiled the brightest smile that she had given in two years. It was like she knew something he didn't. Wuya looked down for a moment.

"Yes, Dashi I do. I don't know why, but something in my heart tells me it's true. Ok, now I know that sounds stupid" Dashi grinned and said something under his breath about being amazing. It was late, close to eleven at night, but he was used to it now. If he didn't stay with her then she would go to Jun's. Dashi liked it better when she stayed with him. It felt right having her near him. If Dashi couldn't stay with her, it was because he had to do something important in the morning.

"Dashi, I think I might stay with Jun for awhile. I need to talk with her." Dashi was shocked. Sure Jun was Wuya's best friend, but in two years they had grown close. Wuya knew he was thinking over what she had said. She slow got up and turned to Dashi. "I'm going to bed." Dashi could not help but notice how hollow her eyes looked. The pain they had been hiding for so long made her seem like a doll. Beautiful but lifeless Dashi wondered, as he watched her go, if she would ever tell him what had made her so empty.

Meanwhile, Wuya was walking slowly to her room. She was trying to watch out for anything that could woke her father. "Wuya it's nice to see you" Wuya turned to see Yukio standing in the far off left. Wuya held back her tears and gave him a bow as she said 'Father'. Yukio stepped forward coming up to her fast. Wuya fall backwards with one step.

"Wuya you know how I feel about you staying out late. I'm very anger at you for not listening" Wuya started to cry. He pulled her by the roots of her hair to make her stand up. Then he hit her hard across the face sending her flying. Some of her was still locked in his hands.

Wuya did her best to sit up as she brushed some blood off her lip. "Now Wuya you know how I feel when you start crying. It makes you look like an ugly bitch." He bushed the tears off her before punching her chest. "Now, get up."

Wuya didn't want to, she just shook her head. "Wuya" he screamed, "got up now or I'll make you." Wuya knew it would be worse if he did. So, she did as she was told. But it wasn't easy. Her body still hurt from the other night. He hit her again causing her to choke up blood. This made him even angrier. He disliked the sight of blood. He thought it a bad omen. He took her wrist before she hit the floor.

He held it so tight that she was afraid it would break. Yukio pulled Wuya into his room. She tried fighting back but it was pointless. She was eight and he was a grown man. She was helpless against his great strength. He turned around and hit her. "How dare you fight me!" Wuya tried to move away but it was too late. He hit her again and again. It was like all the other nights and, just like the other nights, she hoped he would be happy with beating her. She hoped that he would leave her there bloody and beaten. She couldn't take it if he touched her again.

He had done it before, but Wuya was not that lucky that night. He pulled her closer to him not caring that she was bleeding. "You grow as beautiful as your mother with each passing day." He had placed his hand now the side of Wuya's face. He touched her not as a father but as a man in lust. His face was so close to hers that she could smell his breath. Oh, how she wished that it smelled of liquor, but it never did. Was that what made it all the more worse? That he could do this to his own daughter, just as he did to her mother, of his own free will.

No! It was the fact that everyone looked up to him… wanted to be him and saw him as a hero when all the time we was an ugly monster who bet his wife to death. And now he was repeating it with his daughter.

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"Master Dewei? Master Dewei are you there?" Wuya made sure that it was loud enough to wake him if he was asleep, but low enough so that she was sure no one would hear. Wuya looked around as she waited. This was something she didn't want anyone to see. Wuya placed a hand to her side and winced in pain. Pain was something she was used too, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt like hell. It just meant that she was able to hold back any signs of pain. So, she looked calm while she was screaming on the inside.

The door opened shining light on Wuya and blinding her for a moment. Thu her dress was black the light on it showed just how bad off she was. Her dress shined with blood. Her hands were covered with it. Her head had a black line going down it and a bight red one next to it. "Wuya?" Wuya did her best to stay strong but she started crying. "Come... come in before someone see." Wuya stepped in slow as Master Dewei closed the door after making sure no one was there. Wuya sat down close to the window.

They had done this dance before. It had started a few years ago. Wuya had been crying at a lake near the temple. It had just happened to be the very lake Master Dewei would go to if he had a woman who didn't fall for him right off the bat. While he was kind and could be trusted he slept with has share of girls. Master Dewei would always ask who did this and Wuya would always just sit still so he could work.

In time he had showed Wuya a few healing spells as she had begun to get hit harder and more often. He had stopped asking because of the hurt look it brought to her eyes. If he could have guessed it had been her father. He had always had a temper, but it had slowly disappeared with time. Looking at Wuya he finally knew why. "Wuya you can't stay any longer." Wuya never looked up at him. She was looking out at the sky. It had become a habit of hers to look at the sky when he was caring for her. "Wuya did you hear what I said?" Wuya sat there as still as a picture. After awhile he gave up hope she would say something.

"Do you think love is more important then anything else?" Master Dewei stared at her. She turned to look at him. "That love can be more...more then flesh." Master Dewei looked down at Wuya. He was about close to six feet tall and had short black hair that was tied back. His skin matched Wuya's but it was a little darker. Dewei gave no answer. In fact he did nothing but just stand there. "I can't leave. We both know that this is all I have. He is the only family I have left. Were would I go? I am still a child. It would be different if I were a teenager, but if I stay here I don't think I will make it to my teens. So, what can I do?" Wuya had spoken like an adult not like a child at all. Her voice had been calm. Had she known this day would come when he didn't know it himself? How could a child be so strong and full of reason?

"I have a friend who'd love to take you in. He said he was never met a child with so much strength with in them. He would take you in." Master Dewei could be trusted she knew that very will. It was what everyone said and it was true. If he couldn't then she had no one to trust. He was the only one who understood. How she would never know? She looked back outside with a face full of confusion. "You would be away from your father and you would come back when your older...for Dashi" Her face lit up in surprise at that. She had never thought about coming back for Dashi.

"I would have to think about it." Standing up she moved to the door. "I will come back with my answer, but tell me...tell me is he anything like my father?"

"No his is not. They don't even have the same habits."

"Good. I'll be back soon with my answer. Good bye till then." She walked out the door before he could say anything. Wuya had surprised him that day. He wounder why she acted the way she did. Was it because Wuya was never a real child? Because she was never innocen? Her father took that away before she could remeber.

It had been a hour or two before Wuya come back to see Master Dewei. She had changed her dress, but she always changed after her father hit her. "Master Dewei I have made up my mind" Wuya said again in a manner much like an adult.

"And?"

It was early next morning. Dashi was talking to a follow student. "I'm telling you she kissed me." said Dashi. The other monk just shook his head. "I'm telling you Wuya kissed me last night. She kissed me and said that was how she felt about me. She let me kiss her back"

"No way Wuya would kiss you. Wuya isn't that kind of person."

"But she did." Dashi stopped talking when he saw Master Yukio coming. "Look you can ask her when she comes." Dashi whispered. He didn't want Master Yukio to hear him talk about his daughter that way.

"Dashi..." Master Yukio was out of breathe. He grabbed Dashi"Have you seen Wuya?"

"No why Master? Whats wrong?"

"Wuya...Wuya has gone missing. You two must help me find her." Yukio left after the boys said they would help look for Wuya.

The other monk gave Dashi an evil grin. "So much for that kiss thing." Dashi just stood there looking at the ground. Asking himself 'Why would Wuya do this?' They looked all day and by the end they found a note that she had written. She had ran way because she couldn't live like this any more. Whatever that meant. Dashi was heart broken. She had left without saying goodbye. Or was that kiss her goodbye?

Dashi had an all knowing grin on. It was the first he had given in along time. Wuya had kissed him last night when the others were a sleep. This meant there was something still between them. Something other than just his feelings. He happily opened the door to what was now Wuya's room. His smile faded as he looked inside and found no one. All there was in the room was a note. Picking up the note he slapped a hand to his face. "Not again" he groaned as he read the note. Wuya had left.

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Wuya walked the halls of the lair she was in. It may have been early in the day but you would have thought it was night. The halls were dimly lit, but Wuya didn't mind. The darkness of the halls gave her peace that she could never get at the xaiolin temple. Wuya leaned her back against the wall as she remembered the day she had met 'him'. The day her life changed forever. A day that had changed it for better or worse. Which she still did not know, but that doesn't change its importance

/Flash/

It was dark but dawn was near. Wuya didn't know what she was supposed to do. Master Dewei had made a door and it took her here. Where ever here was, she could tell it was far from all eyes. There was no town or village that could be seen and the land all around the castle she was in was free of all life. There was a few gardens that she could see out of the window. Wuya let her eyes wounder the room she was in, not noticing the person that was close by. The room was full of rich colors like red, gold and a few other. She could feel a darkness and beauty that surrounded the room.

"Beautiful are they not?" Wuya shot her head up from one of the many paintings and turned around. "I love that one it is one of my favorites" Said the man in front of her as he walked over. He had been talking about the painting Wuya had been looking at. "It was very hard to find and even harder to get" His voice had a soft touch to it but it was hard and dark at the same time. He placed his hand on the fame of the painting and looked on it with love.

Wuya could not help but watch as he moved about. He was so handsome that she had to make herself breathe. He had short light brown hair with black line of red and beautiful blue eyes that were somewhat pale. His tan skin and lean body could make any woman or child's heart stop . Wuya watched his bare chest rise and fall. She couldn't help but blush and bit her lip. Oh yes, he was handsome. He looked over to Wuya and gave a soft laugh at the effect he was having with her.

He stopped and said "Wuya I was beginning to think you were not going to come" Wuya looked up not to sure what to say. He know she was coming. Were her action that forth coming. Wuya had always hoped that she would be difficult to tell. No one ever could guess what she was going to do. "I am Abrain. The lord of this castle and if you let me train you, I will be your master."

"Train me? You mean you would let me fight and stuff!" Wuya was taken back by this statement. She was surprised in all her life no man or boy had ever said such a thing. She was raised to believe that to was wrong for females to fight. Abrain gave a nod. Wuya eyes widen with happiness. "Yes!" Wuya calmed herself down "I mean yes. I would love it if you would train me." For a second Wuya could have sworn that he was smiling.

"Then come and meet the others."

/End of Flash/

Wuya letting out a cry of pain as she slipped down onto the floor. The cry was not because of any pain she felt from her body, but the soul. The soul and the memories it hold on to when she just wanted to forget. Wuya lowed her head and moved her legs closer to her body. Placing a hand over her left breast Wuya said "Master is this my punishment for what I did?" Wuya sat there alone for hours just crying. Believing that she was a fool for trusting so easily.

She shot her head up at the thought. The thought that maybe she was a fool for not trusting at all That because she didn't trust she could never heal. The irony if it made her gave a small laugh. Trusting him had saved her from her father, but it had later brought her down fall. It had later ruined her life. The Master had brought to her the cause of all her future troubles.

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"Dashi" said a voice in the distance. The voice was low almost a whisper. Dashi's eyes grew in amazement. He jacked his head around to find the owner of the hunting, but lovely voice.

"Dashi" said the voice again with a more human ton. She let him gaze not her for only a moment before hiding once more. "Dashi" The being was once again at a distance, mocking him. In away it was daring him to follow and so he did.

He wasn't sure where she was leading him. He just had to get to her. There was something about her. Something he knew. Some one cared for. Her laughter filled the air. It was sweet at first but it turned bitter towards the end.

Finally, seeing the end of the forest, he picked up his speed. Running into the almost blinding light he saw where she lead him. The temple! Her voice called out to him and he knew who it was. Or so he believed. "Wuya?" her name followed out of his lips, thou he wished it hadn't.

"Dashi?" asked someone behind him. Dashi turned quickly, only to have his heart broken. "Dashi are you o.k.?" Cupid asked with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah I just...um...I" What could he say. That he saw Wuya but it may not have been her. The whole thing was confusing to him. So what could he say?

"I can't believe it. God, why dose she do this?" Dashi turned to see Cupid sitting on the ground with tears rolling down her face. Cupid hated to cry. For her to cry so openly it must be bad.

"What's wrong, Cupid? Are you hurt?" Wuya wasn't joking when she said he was a fool. He could stop a giant and kill a monster but when it comes to people he was clueless. He never was good at talking to some one about feelings. So you can image how Dashi acted trying to calm Cupid down.

Cupid cried harder as she hided herself in Dashi's shoulder. This was getting too much for him. In between the crying Dashi heard a clash of words. That were to understandable to even guess what was said.

"Why? Why …aaee...won't...hhhh... she... uhh... train… meee?"

"Who?" Dashi asked, causing the girl to pull back. Her eyes widened with shock. Cupid, realizing she misted up, get up slowly while tell him countless thing. 'That it was nothing,' or 'it was some one stupid.'

"Who won't train you?" Dashi asked more forcefully.

"Wuya. But she didn't tell me were she's going. So, there's no point in asking."

"Every will then tell me were where you when she turned you down?" Dashi spoke coldly, almost in an evil tone.

Cupid turned around with a smile on her face. "Hey, you finally know the right way to ask me things." Her expression changed to a darker one as her eyes grew less puffy. "But I'm so not telling you. Not unless you swear that you won't go to her, on your honor as a grandmaster." Dashi looked at her for a moment debating what to do.

"Your going to tell me now and if you don't then I'll-"

"You'll what? You can't hurt me even if you wanted to. Remember it was part of the spell. You may have free will but it does have restrictions. And I set those now don't I."

Dashi looked at her with enraged by the fact she was right, yet softened when he saw her look. Cupid really did look like Wuya subtract the designs, tan skin, age and doubled dyed hair.

"She's all I have. I need to help her. Make things right, She needs me."

"Are you sure? Wuya is a grown woman and believe it or not she is healing. Not in the best way but she is healing. You going after won't help her."

"Yes. Yes it will." Cupid could see that Dashi needed to know. Not for Wuya but for himself. In his mind Wuya had to be saved by him. After all it was because of him that she went though so much pain. In cupid's heart she knew that telling Dashi would mean even more pain.

"She's … She's with … Chase."

"Thank you." Said a heartbroken man before he ran to save a woman who didn't need saving. A woman who only needed a chance that maybe is too late.

"I'm sorry. I had to tell …I'm sorry but you both need to heal." The wind was the only one around to hear but not the only one to care.

Meanwhile as the monks started on their way to Wuya, a being in the shadows that had seen everything walked away. "So it's finally happening. The day I've dreamed of." He looked at the beast flying not of the distance. "Will, I better got going or I'll be late."

Breathing in and out Cupid set off. She would let no warm come to the monks.

'Why didn't I go with them? Because I forget all about that bustard I may have caused their deaths. Oh, I can't lose him now. God must hate me.' Cupid thought as she ran after the man in the shadows. "You'll never got their before me."

"We'll see about that." He disappeared in the darkness leaving the girl all alone.

"Oh come on. There's no way it could get that dark. It's only like, what midday."

Another being in the shadows whispered a soft song to the forest. 'Good I got to see my old friends again.' She looked to the bird nearest to her. 'Guess I shouldn't have played that game with Dashi. At least not as soon as I did. I wonder if I were to go if Wuya would know I was there.'

"Why up with taking us where Master Dashi?"

"You mean 'What's up'."

"What is up my friend?"

"Never mind that, come an take a gander at that." Pecking in from behind a beautiful old door the monks saw Wuya and Chase.

"What does it matter what happened at the temple?"

"Everything. Look at you. I thought you were a waste before but now you also look it." Chase pulled Wuya off the floor after just pushing her down the steps. "I was wrong in thinking you would be good for something."

"Will, if you gave me my powers then-" The punched to her side made her stop short. Then, as she was there lay still, in pain and helpless he kicked her in the ribs.

"Do you take me for a fool? You are sadly mistake."

"No you are. From the moment you took me for a helpless creature." Wuya stood up best she could. "When you take someone's magic remember that there are two sides of power, heylin and xaiolin."

"I knew that already." She flipped backwards to miss his attack. "Really, because you seemed to have forgotten all about that when you brought me back." Each time he tried to hit her she would speed away. She laughed as a child does when they play with a toy. This made it all the more embarrassing that he could not hit her. Wuya finally had enough. She pounced at Chase grapping him in an affectionate way. "You see you never took my xaiolin powers, only my heylin ones"

With this said she planted her lips on his. Wuya had cast her spell. Chase's life is now in her hands.

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It had taken a while but they had final find Wuya. It just wasn't in the way they had thought. As Chase fall onto the floor from Wuya's deadly kiss, Dashi saw something he hadn't seen in years. He remembered the day she had first looked like that. The first day she looked cold. How could he never forget that day? It was when he first saw her after she left.

"Wuya" Dashi whispered as he looked upon her face from a distance. A face he had missed to no end. "Wuya is that really you?" his twelve year old voice would not let call out to her as he had wished too.

Wuya's scream woke him from his memory. As Jack Spicier tackled her to the floor. His hand was closed around her neck. "Finaly, your powers mine."

"No, Jackal don't." Cupid jumped out from a portal and pulled him off her. Jack had only to move his arm to send her flying. With a crash, she hit the wall. Her body slammed hard against the ground. A black light flowed out of Wuya's throat. The room grew bright with a white light. Cupid stood in the middle of the room. Her cloths had changed into same thing a master would wear. Her black outfit was covered with white flames.

"You want to play that game. Then lets play." Cupids hands glowed bright green as she placed her them on the ground. The earth roared in anger as sharp rocks came raising up.

"You fool my master does not like to be lied to." Wuya's voice was not the same as he remebered. She was a year younger then Dashi, but she sounded older. "I most do as my he wishes. You should have never betrayed him." Her hands glowed a bright green. "Goodbye." In a flash the man who had been before was burning to death. She stood there unmoved as the man screamed for help.

"Come on Wuya. We have to go." Someone pulled Wuya away. "Come on Master Abrian said not to do this. Hurry!" Wuya couldn't take her eyes away from the man she had killed. A state of shock was all that kept her standing.

The necklace in Kimiko's hand glowed as Jackal leaped past Cupid's attack. They both where growing weak as each assaulted the other. Cupid showed her great magic skills as Jack Spicier a.k.a Jackal showed his hidden fighting skills. Wuya moved to the far side off the room. Dashi ran to help but Jackal sent a blast of magic that knocked him off his feet.

"Ha, your growing to weak to fight. You are so done for." She brought forth small balls of fire in her hand as she smiled with pleasure. That smile faded when her magic balls did. "Shit."

"Ah, Who's weak now bitch? At least I studied magic and fighting while you read your books."

"I still can beat you magic are not." Cupid ran in fornt of Wuya. "Ran now will I take him." Wuya stood up. Her eyes were dark and soulless. "Wuya...aaaaa..." Cupid was forced down as Wuya dropped her blood into the girls mouth.

Dashi stepped out of the darkness. The flames had died down and Wuya was gone. She had killed someone. Master Yukio would not be happy that his informant had been killed. Dashi eyes lit up in fear for Wuya. What would her father do if know she had done it?

Wuya disappered while Cupid lay on the floor. Her body stopped jerking as a being reached out from inside. "Help! Jackal help me. There's something in here." Cupid's soul final get out of her body. A black ooze was locked on to her. "Get it off. It's killing me. Aaaa...get it off." Jackal leapt at the thing with a pure white arrow. The energy blew him away.

"I'm back in my body. I'm back in my body and no evil thing is with me." Cupid screamed as she dacned around.

"Oh, my head. Thats great your back in your body and I hurt like hell." Jackal get up slowly when he said. He no longer looked like Jack Spicier but he looked a little like younger paler Dashi who had hair. "Damn it. I'm me again. So, much for my Spicier look. Do you know how hard it was to make a person up and use your magic to be that person all the time?"

"Yes, Jackal." Cupid said rolling her eyes. "You could change what your wearing now."

"I know but my magics a little low. I used a lot of it up."

"Fine. Here you go." She waved her hand in the air and Jackal's outfit changed in seconds. "Is that better?"

He looked over the black wife-beater and the black pants before speaking. "It will do for now sis."

"What the hell is going on?"