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Chapter 4
Yori leaned over a bit, and Kim felt the cold blade of the sword as it lay flat on her neck. With an evil grin Yori said into Kim's ear, "Don't worry Possible-Chan. After you are gone, I'll take VERY good care of your Ronnie."
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If looks could kill, Yori would have fell in heap right then and there. Instead, Yori just looked back at her helpless victim and started to move the sword to just below Kim's left ear where the carotid artery was.
"Yori! No!" Ron yelled, staying the slash across Kim's neck, and the young ninja looked up at the blond boy.
"It's all for you Ron-San. It has always been all for you. Possible-Chan is not the girl for you, it is me."
"But this isn't the right way to go about this Yori." Ron said. "You've released a terrible evil on the world just so you can be with me?"
"It was the only thing I could do. You and Possible-Chan here were destined to be together. How could I compete with that? So, I decided to… as you Americans say, 'Stack the Deck'. I made a deal with The Yono here that once I kill Kim Possible, he would erase your memory of everything that happened here, and you would be hopelessly in love with me. So you see, this conversation is irrelevant. You will feel no sorrow, or longing for her. You would not feel any pain for your loss, and I would have you in my life forever. It is a win-win situation."
"But not for Kim. She's the one that will be dead." Ron said, trying to change the young girl's mind to not go through with her plan. "What about Kim's family Yori? They will feel sorrow and pain from their loss, and they've done nothing to you. You talk about a win-win situation for the two of us, but what about them?"
At first Yori didn't say anything. This certainly wasn't something that she had thought about. Her quest had been Ron, and only Ron. She hadn't met Kim's parents, but Yori knew of them through Possible-Chan and Ron-San. If there was one thing that her culture had taught her, was the importance of family, and the bond felt between them. Destroying a part of that was not an honorable thing to do.
"And what about Sensei Yori? He was turned to stone!" Ron took a breath while still looking into her dark almond shaped eyes. "I know he was more than a teacher to you Yori."
A tear dropped from one corner of her eyes. "He was… It was… necessary." Yori dropped her head for a moment in deep thought, and when she felt Kim stir in her grip, Yori 's hand held tight.
She then looked back up at Ron. "But that's all past and been done. Possible-Chan's family will get over her death, and I'm sure the Yono here can return Sensei to his former self."
"Life is like walking along a long road shouldering a heavy load; there is no need to hurry." Ron suddenly said, and Yori gave him a funny look.
"One who treats difficulties as the normal state of affairs will never be discontented." As Ron said the words, Yori's lower lip began to tremble.
"Patience is the source of eternal peace; treat anger as an enemy." Ron's voice was perfectly calm, almost like a Sage telling a story to a class.
"Harm will befall one who knows only success and has never experienced failure." Yori winced at this one as she remembered when she had tasted defeat from the first Yono.
"Blame yourself rather than others." This caused Yori to think that she would definitely be blamed for the grief put upon the Possible Family.
"It is better not to reach than to go too far." Ron then paused after saying the last
line and said, "And you have gone too far, Yori."
"Don't listen to that rubbish!" Yono-Fist said. "You know what you want, now take it! First Kim Possible's life, and then you can have the boy. Don't forget why you did all of this in the first place."
Yori looked over at Yono-Fist, then back at Ron. She then looked down at Kim, who had stayed quiet and still this entire time since she couldn't move without having her hair ripped out by the roots, or having the tip of Yori's blade nick her artery.
Sorrow appeared on Yori's face and she said just loud enough for Kim to hear, "I am sorry for this Possible-Chan. But I must do what I must do." She then adjusted her grip on the blade handle.
Ron could sense that what he had said to Yori had somewhat gotten to her, but now he had a feeling that she was still going to go through with her plan. I gotta stop her!
Setting the Lotus Shield at his feet, Ron performed a quick series of movements with his hands that he had seen Sensei do many times, and then he thrust his arms in the direction of Yono-Fist. Sure enough, an energy blast came from his hands in the shape of a large Lotus Flower and slammed into Yono-Fist, knocking him clean through the wall with a crash. He then spun on his heel while dropping to the floor, snatched up the shield and then let it fly towards Yori and Kim like a Frisbee Flying Disc.
All of these actions took only a few seconds, and Yori almost didn't see the shield flying towards her head. She was barely able to raise her arm to block it, but it still glanced off her arm and hit her head with a glancing blow. Kim rolled out from under the blade when she felt Yori's grip release her hair and dropped into an attack stance, ready for whatever happened next.
Yono-Fist growled as he stepped back into the room through the hole he had made in the wall, and the first thing he saw was Yori lying on the floor moaning and holding her head. He then saw the Lotus Shield sitting on the floor next to her.
The Yono-Charged Monkey Man levitated himself over to Ron in a non-threatening manner, and set himself down just a few feet in front of him. He placed both hands palm to palm in front of his face and gave Ron a bow while saying, "You have defeated she who unearthed me. And now, as agreed, she will find her destiny following the path of… The Yono!"
"Nooo!" Yori screamed and all eyes turned towards her. Yori's arm was stretched out towards Ron as she was gradually being turned to stone from the feet up "It was all for you Ron-San! It was all for…" Her voice was cut off as finally her face and head turned to stone as well. Yori now stood in front of Kim and Ron with her arm stretched out towards Ron, solid stone. The two teens then turned back towards Yono-Fist just in time to see him disappear in a puff of smoke, never to be seen again.
"Path of The Yono." Kim said in awe as she looked at Yori's stone body.
Suddenly the entire room began to shake and a great rumbling was heard outside. Kim and Ron ran out just in time to once again see the Temple of the Yono as it finished it's ascent into the sky. A bright flash appeared on the very top, and both could see Yori's statue now standing at the very top.
The rumbling then started again as the great temple sank back into the sand, carrying Yori along with it, never to be seen or discovered for a very, very long time. As soon as last part of the temple disappeared beneath the sands, Kim ran over and quickly dialed up Wade.
"Wade! Quick! Can you scan this area for anything odd?" Without a word a beam lanced out from her Kimmunicator and moved across the area.
Wades face then popped up on the screen. "Whoa! What just happened Kim?"
"I'll tell you in a little bit. What did you find?"
"The readings are everywhere Kim! The only thing I could guess here is that the area you had me scan had energy residue from a… dimensional rift of some kind. It looks some what similar to what the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer did, and what the Continuum Distrupter did that Justine Flanner invented."
"Stoppable-San…" Both Kim and Ron turned towards the voice and saw Sensei stumble out of his door, appearing to be no worse for wear. "What… happened… to Yori?"
The two teens ran over to Sensei's side and all three walked back into his house. They all sat down and after Sensei served everyone hot tea, Ron started his tale…
The End…
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Epilogue:
Edward Victor Ignacious Lipsky knew that he was close… very close. The Great Great Great Great Grandson of Andrew Theodore P. Lipsky had been searching for about 5 years, and he was now very close to discovering a temple of great power.
He had read about his Grandfather's adventures all those years ago, and there also had been information about some of his cohorts, including one Montgomery Fisk. The writings never said anything about the two of them actually working together, but something told him that this might not be entirely true.
Be that as it may, after studying Montgomery Fisk after he had become Monkey Fist, Edward discovered information about something called "The Dark Temple of the Yono". It intrigued him enough to start an expedition, and after the loss of many of his search party, he was sure they were now digging in the correct spot.
He could hear the digging going on outside of his tent when suddenly he heard the unmistakable sound of metal hitting metal, then a voice called out, "Mr. Lipsky! We've found something!"
Edward stood from his ancient wicker chair and strolled out of the tent and to the dig site where he saw what looked like a vertical golden ring jutting out of the sand. When he reached down and pulled up, the entire area shook as the large temple rose once again from the sands, this time with a stone statue of a female ninja on top.
"Yes… finally!" Edward said, clasped his hands together in front of him and chanted, "Sim i an… Mon kay ala ono… A waken Ser vant Yono…"
In a flash of yellow light, a figure stood in front of him that was a vision in itself. It was an attractive Asian female with short-cropped black hair and dressed in a ninja outfit.
Her eyes glowed with yellow energy and she bowed before Edward while speaking in clipped English, "I am here to do your bidding. I am… The Next Yono."
The End!
No plans to continue this at this time. Maybe in the future though… You never know…