When the group got back to the Dragon Temple, it was market day in Atlantis. They were sent off to do their usual chores, after they had put down their travelling things, and Wuya had appealed to Master Ko as to whether or not the baby Dragon could stay. To her surprise, and Dashi's disgust, he was very keen on the idea - after all, the Crane temple was home to a number of the water-birds, and the Leopard temple kept a few of the big cats; Why should the Dragon temple be any different?

After their work was done, it was time to train. The three students lined up, and Master Ko approached them.

"When you went out to defeat the Dragon, you were instructed to practise your Dragon Elements. Did you succeed?"

Dashi was the first to jump up. "I called down lightning to stop it in its tracks!"

"Well I froze it!" contested Chase.

"Very good. You can both use the secondary forms of your elements. Wuya?"

"I called up a wall of rock." She said, trying to ignore that Chase and Dashi were trying to outdo each other again.

"So you still haven't mastered the secondary form of your element?" It was more of a statement than a question, yet Wuya answered anyway.

"No, Master Ko."

"But that wall of rock was perfect!" Chase cut in. "Not a gap - if she hadn't done it then I wouldn't have been able to gather enough water in one place to freeze the Dragon."

"But if my lightning hadn't stopped it, then she wouldn't have had time to trap it in a rock prison..." moaned Dashi.

"If you are so well accustomed to working with each other, perhaps we should see how you are at working against each other." Master Ko threw both Wuya and Chase a pole. "Use these. No Elemental or Heylin extras. Gong Yi Tempai!"

Wuya stood awkwardly with the pole for a moment, but at Chase's first strike, moved it up to block him, and then swung the bottom half down to knock out her opponent's feet. Chase jumped; she swiped again, and then a third time, before he jumped back out of range. A few generic parries, she swung down in a circular movement toward his head, and his pole came underneath hers and struck her jaw. She stumbled backwards, and he followed through with a move that ended in his kneeling over her, the tip of the pole beside her head.

She blinked up at him. "You can get off of me now."

"Sorry," he stood up and offered her his hand. She took it and stood up.

"Well done, Chase. Now for today's lesson...

"We will be working on combining your Heylin and Elemental abilities to create elemental forms. These forms could be your greatest allies in battle - should you practise shaping and controlling them."

"That sounds good, but... How?" Chase asked, confused.

"That, you must find out for yourselves" he said, walking across to a mat to meditate. He passed a hand quickly through the air and opened it to reveal a small fire demon, that blinked and then vanished into a puff of smoke. Wuya sat down and closed her eyes, closely followed by Dashi. Chase sighed and imitated them.

Presently, the ground began to shake. Chase jumped up, and Dashi opened his eyes quickly. Master Ko watched calmly as what seemed to be a head rose you of the earth, followed closely by a pair of shoulders, a torso, hips and legs. The great rocky eyelids opened, and green fire burned in the sockets. Wuya slowly opened her eyes.

"Did it work?"

"You did that?" Chase was shocked. Wuya frowned, trying to regain her concentration, but the golem fell apart into smaller boulders. Dashi grinned.

"I see now!" he said, standing up. "You just use your element like normal, and then..." he spread his arms out, air started circling around. He refined the flow so that it went down, up and side-to-side in a pattern, and eventually the air breezed in a path similar to the blood around the body. Wuya bent down to scoop a handful of sand from the ground, and threw it at the apparition. The sand was picked up into the wind and carried around the dust devil, so that it was almost possible to see it. However, like Wuya's golem, it soon fell back to nothing.

"You did not combine it with your Heylin abilities, Dashi." Master Ko commented. Dashi scratched the back of his neck.

"Oopsie."

Chase stretched up his arms. "Heylin Water!" he cried, experimentally pulling some water from the pond. He swirled it in the air for a little, and then formed it into a hand that imitated Chase's own. The water fell back into the pond.

"I can't. I don't know how" he said, confused.

"Do not trouble yourself, young one. There is a reason that I needed you all to try, even though I knew that one of you would fail.

"Each one of you is aligned to an aspect of the great Balance. Chase, you will one day be the Yin Dragon of Water, Wuya, you shall become the Transitional Dragon of Earth, and Dashi -"

"Is left to be Yang Dragon of the Wind?" Wuya frowned sceptically. "The world is doomed."

"Do not be so hasty in judgement. Your strengths have influenced my words to you. For instance, Wuya, you are the best at combining Heylin Arcane magic and Xiaolin Elemental Magic, though your martial arts leave much to be desired. Chase, you have made excellent progress in Physical combat, yet you cannot combine magic with your element. Dashi is unwilling to use Heylin magic at all, yet can control his Element with ease."

"Master Ko, why are you telling us this now?" Wuya was curious.

"Two reasons. Firstly because you are ready to ascend to the Wudai level, and secondly..." His expression darkened. "Secondly, because I fear that fate will not allow me to tell you tomorrow."

(Insert evil cliff-hanger here)

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