Author's Note: Sorry I've been away from writing for so long! I had to do a lot of work and almost completely forgot to write after the work had been completed, sorry to keep you all waiting!
Omi was still being carried by the gentle giant, Jemako. The sky was getting darker by the minute; the water warrior was frightened about what would happen to Master Fung as the time flew by.
"Your master is nearby for sure," said Jemako, they were getting closer and closer to a large white tower.
The water monk looked up at the impressive structure; the top of the huge building must have been the place where the noble martial arts master was being kept.
"We are almost there! Perhaps my friends will arrive here shortly!" Omi exclaimed, happy that his search was almost over.
Suddenly, Jemako screeched to a halt. A foreboding figure stood ahead, the narrow pathway meant that there was no way to get around the stranger. Jemako stood with Omi on his back; he stared at the person who had come to confront them.
"Jemako, what a pleasant surprise. What are you doing with that boy; he's one of the intruders isn't he?" asked the man.
The menacing figure was a member of the Choujin White Legion, but the garments he wore were jet black and made from tight leather. The only way that Omi could tell that he was a super human was by the shoulder pad, the man was 'Φ44'. He had a short red Mohican hairstyle; his eyes seemed to be yellow and reptilian.
"Phi Forty Four, Crimson…you're not wearing our white," Jemako whispered.
Crimson laughed loudly, the frightening man seemed more muscular than Jemako yet he was shorter.
"Hey…I see what you have there!" Crimson said, pointing at the note in Omi's hand.
Omi gasped and thought of something, what if Crimson kidnapped Master Fung? He tried to keep his cool; he did not know what this leather clad super human could do or how dangerous he could be.
"Leave the boy out of this, the deadly weapons I've absorbed can obliterate a wretched dog like you!" exclaimed Jemako.
"Stop acting like a hero, I'm a Phi who's capable of crushing a measly Xi like an ant!" hissed Crimson.
Jemako became slightly unnerved, Crimson began to walk forwards. Lumps started to appear on the red haired fiend's arms, these burst to reveal disgusting pink tentacles dripping with mucus.
"I warned you…" Jemako whispered, a myriad of gun barrels started to emerge from the gentle giant's chest.
There was a loud snap then a bang, Omi had his eyes tightly shut. He opened them slowly, Crimson had attempted to attack him with his tentacles but Jemako had protected Omi by standing in front of him. Suddenly, Omi realized that the tentacles had pierced Jemako's turquoise skin.
"Jemako, no!" gasped Omi.
Crimson withdrew his tentacles; the giant hero fell over with multiple wounds. Jemako was still alive, although he had lost a lot of his oily bodily fluids.
"Miserable worm, maybe I should cut you in half and see if your two sections crawl away!" chuckled Crimson, ready to finish off Jemako.
Omi growled and jumped forwards, protecting the fallen giant. He pointed his trusty Shimo Staff at Crimson; Crimson believed that the watery Wudai weapon was a pathetic tool.
"Jemako is no worm; I shall vanquish you for treating him like this!" Omi yelled bravely.
Crimson suppressed his laughter and asked his opponent a question.
"What's your name?" he questioned.
"Omi, warrior of water!" Omi replied.
The evil super human smiled wickedly, his drool and tentacle slime glistened in the light of the darkening sky.
"Die slowly, Omi!" he screeched, the mucus covered tentacles darted forwards and prepared to constrict the Xiaolin warrior.
As the adrenaline flowed through his body, Omi activated his Xiaolin instincts and deflected the tentacles with his leopard attack. The tentacles were sliced to pieces, Omi's forehead dots were glowing brightly.
"Is that all you have?" Omi asked the startled villain.
Crimson wiped some of the saliva dripping from the side of his mouth, his reptile ayes flickered several times.
"The magic forehead dots, I have heard of these before. The great masters Dashi and Guan had similar markings, although they only had six. You have more dots than them; perhaps this is why you show great power! You and the Treasure of the Blind Swordsman will be a lot of use to Vincent!" Crimson said.
"Thank you!" Omi said, flattered.
Crimson regained his wicked smile; his tentacles regenerated quickly as a flash.
"Unfortunately your power isn't great enough!" laughed Crimson, the slimy appendages darted towards Omi very quickly.
Omi yelled as the tentacles wrapped around his legs, he was tossed into a wall that knocked the air out of his body. As he recovered, the tentacles whipped him to make his skin sore. Like devilish cobras, two of the tentacles raised themselves high into the air and were ready to strike. Omi ignored his pain and quickly got out one of the Shen Gong Wu he was carrying.
"Mikado Arm!" he snapped, activating the powers of the magic artefact.
He caught the two tentacles as they struck; Crimson noticed that the Shen Gong Wu had enhanced Omi's physical strength. Omi swung Crimson around, first bashing him against a wall then bashing him against the ground like a living yoyo. He tossed his opponent into the air; Omi swapped the Mikado Arm for another Shen Gong Wu in his possession.
"Wushu Helmet!" Omi wailed, donning the mystical item and launching himself into the air with a jet of water.
Crimson gagged as Omi performed a mega powerful head butt to his chest, knocking the villain back down to the ground. The water monk landed softly and put his helmet away, getting back into his fighting stance as Crimson got back on his feet.
"Such ferocity!" sniggered Crimson, recovering from the mighty blow and retracting his tentacles.
Omi wanted to ask the fiend a few questions; he kept his guard up just in case Crimson decided to attack again.
"The note, did you write it?" Omi asked.
"The note wasn't written by me, but I am one of the people behind the kidnapping of your master," Crimson answered.
Omi grit his teeth, he then remembered the name that he had dropped earlier.
"Who is Vincent?" questioned the Xiaolin warrior.
"Vincent wrote the note, he is Psi One! He and I are part of the Choujin Black Legion, the group who will finally destroy the Choujin White Legion and rid the world of the pathetic normal humans!" replied Crimson.
Omi smiled, he now knew plenty of things about his enemies.
"I must tell the rest of the Choujin White Legion, you and your colleagues are like a disease! You're rapidly spreading your beliefs across the Choujin White Legion and manipulating Omega One to destroy all humans!" Omi yelled.
Crimson smiled, a dark aura surrounded him.
"You won't tell anyone, you shall die in a minute!" he chuckled.
The villain began to transform, he shed his skin and his muscle mass dramatically increased. His body was covered in red scales; he dropped on all fours as he began to burst out of his clothes. Crimson's head began to elongate, it was now like a crocodile's head but with vertically opening jaws and three pairs of eyes. Membranous wings sprouted from his back, he grew a long forked tail with a pair of nasty looking stingers.
"What are you?" Omi gasped.
The beast's voice rumbled, it was dark and animalistic.
"I am a half dragon, the result of a beautiful maiden being savaged by an unholy beast! We half dragons are sickening monsters that deserve to be purged, that is why I became an inhabitant of this island! Soon I remembered my evil purpose and joined Vincent, now we shall succeed in crushing you!" growled the transformed Crimson.
Meanwhile, Raimundo and Wendell were staring at each other. The wind warrior just could not take the green haired boy seriously, Wendell continued to strike various heroic poses in front of Raimundo.
"Look, can you just move out of the way? I don't want waste my time here!" Raimundo sighed.
Wendell folded his arms and grinned.
"I listen to no villains! My mighty rind shall never be broken open by a weakling like you, you're just a demon trying to get to the juicy red (though sometimes orange or yellow) flesh of the Choujin White Legion! This battle shall be full of pain and power, as well as an excellent source of vitamins A and C!" he said.
Raimundo raised an eyebrow, he was beginning to get the feeling that this warrior was even stupider than Jack Spicer.
"What the heck are you blabbering on about?" questioned Raimundo.
Wendell performed several more manly poses.
"I'm talking about the all powerful, most nourishing thing ever created! The mighty watermelon!" answered Wendell.
Raimundo rolled his eyes, he attempted to walk past the watermelon obsessed boy.
"Excuse me, coming through!" he mumbled.
"I summon you, great watermelon!" shouted Wendell.
Suddenly, a watermelon appeared by Raimundo's feet. Before he knew it, Raimundo tripped up and fell flat on his face.
"What's with this?" growled the wind warrior.
Wendell sniggered and struck another manly pose, by now all of the watermelon boy's poses were permanently scarred into Raimundo's eyes.
"You cannot pass, as long as it is green the watermelon shall prevent you moving any further!" he laughed.
His happiness became shock as Raimundo stomped on the green fruit, splattering red flesh and black seeds everywhere. Wendell shook the surprised expression from his face and put on a courageous face, he smiled and wagged his finger.
"Ha-ha, just as I expected," he said calmly.
"Hey, you looked surprised a few seconds ago!" fumed Raimundo.
Wendell began to mumble gibberish and performed a strange dance, from out of nowhere appeared a large cube shaped watermelon. Raimundo raised an eyebrow; he had not seen one of these before.
"The Japanese have perfected the art of growing a watermelon in the shape of a cube, the shape of intense energy!" laughed Wendell.
"That is pretty cool," Raimundo said.
Summoning a gust of wind, he sent the oddly shaped watermelon flying towards Wendell's face. The melon splattered all over him, he fell over backwards and lay there for a few seconds while groaning. Raimundo slowly walked over towards him, he wanted to take his uniform so he could blend in with the other members of the Choujin White Legion and get his Shen Gong Wu from the medical room.
"This is where it gets hard!" yelled Wendell suddenly, causing Raimundo to jump back quickly.
Wendell got back on his feet; there was a look of extreme anger on his face. He pointed his finger at the wind warrior.
"Chill dude, I don't have time for this!" sighed Raimundo.
"You! You will be very sorry for underestimating my true potential, I will crush you!" growled Wendell.
Waving his arms in the air, the watermelon powered super human began to summon something from nowhere. Hanging above their heads was a dozen watermelons, ready to drop any second.
"Whoa, this is actually dangerous!" whispered Raimundo.
The green fruit remained hovering in the air, Wendell let out a long laugh.
"You can't escape in time! This is the end!" he shouted.
Raimundo covered his head with his arms; Wendell quickly struck a pose that made all the watermelons come down. The sound of the melons falling was like the sound of a dozen punches, the Xiaolin warrior moved his hands away to see what had happened. The watermelons had all landed on Wendell, Raimundo was unharmed.
"Guess I should've used a move that I knew how to pull off properly…" the watermelon lover moaned before he lost consciousness.
"That takes care of business; I'll quickly get undressed and swap clothes with him. If I'm lucky no one will catch me and Wendell will be mistaken for an intruder!" thought Raimundo, lifting the watermelons off Wendell.
In the meantime, the battle between Omi and Crimson continued. The transformation to his true form seemed to make Crimson's movements even faster; Omi was constantly being whipped by the tentacles. He focussed his mind and concentrated on one tentacle that was stretching towards him, he jumped just in time to land on the tentacle and run up it. Omi was getting closer to Crimson's head, he readied the Shimo Staff to extend and decapitate the beast. Suddenly, Crimson belched a stream of fire towards the brave monk. Omi yelled as he performed a back flip to avoid the flames and hop off the tentacle, the flaming breath missed by an inch.
"You still have a lot of spunk in you, I hate spunk," growled Crimson, continuing to attack Omi with his slimy appendages.
Omi was concentrating his hardest, it was difficult retaining energy. Omi felt that he would not have enough energy left to attack Crimson instead of avoiding him, at that moment Crimson did not seem open to attacks.
"I can do this all week!" panted Omi.
"Enough bluffing, I can see you're getting tired! Don't worry, it'll end soon and then you'll get the longest rest of your life!" laughed Crimson.
He stretched out his wings and flew towards Omi; the Xiaolin warrior managed to roll out of the way and avoided the claws. He thought he had avoided Crimson's attack, but suddenly a tentacle wrapped around his leg and soon he was being carried behind the monster in the sky.
"Let go of me you scum slime bag ball!" exclaimed Omi, still focussed enough to blurt out mixed up insults.
"If I let go, you'll fall to your death! If I continue to hold on, you'll wind up as dragon food! Face it kid, you're going to die!" Crimson shrieked.
Omi was thrown screaming into the night air, he remembered his friends who were busy searching Zenith Island too. It was then he remembered that he was not an ordinary warrior, he was a Shoku Warrior. Immediately he used the last chi energy he had to use his new powers.
"I like my food extra crispy!" laughed Crimson before breathing another stream of fire up at Omi.
Before the flames hit, Omi's energy was released.
"Shoku Pisces Technique; Liquid Trident!" announced Omi.
He summoned a mighty three pronged water blast, extinguishing the flames and slamming the dragon down to the ground. The crater created by Crimson's impact filled up with the water, Omi twirled his Shimo Staff like the blades of a helicopter so he landed safely.
"Is this your true power? It just made me wet!" chuckled Crimson.
Holding his Wudai Weapon in front of himself, he ran his fingers down the staff and it began to glow.
"Shoku Scorpio Spell; Frozen Judgement!" Omi yelled.
Massive icicles fell from the sky, pinning down Crimson's wings and his tentacles. The monster growled in pain, but soon he laughed again.
"Nothing in your arsenal can defeat me!" he screamed, he was truly insane.
Omi closed his eyes and got out one more Shen Gong Wu; the Denshi Bunny. As Omi activated its power, he began to crackle with electricity.
"This is the end, foul beast!" shouted Omi.
Crimson screamed as he saw what was happening, Omi was becoming a living bolt of lightning.
"No, it can't end like this!" he wailed.
"Denshi Bunny!" exclaimed Omi.
The living stream of electricity darted forwards, conducted by the pool of water in which the dragon lay. In a matter of milliseconds, Crimson was reduced to a steaming crispy corpse. Omi returned to his original form afterwards, he was tired but still smiling.
"Looks like it was you who ended up being extra crispy! Unfortunately I have no taste in such a delicacy," said Omi.
"Well done Omi," spluttered Jemako.
He turned to Jemako, the heroic giant lay on the ground breathing gently. Omi got out the Sword of Saints; he channelled his life force into the legendary sword Shen Gong Wu.
"Sword of Saints!" exclaimed Omi, healing his fallen comrade with a ray of light from the tip of the sword.
Jemako's wounds were healed; he got back on his feet and brushed the dust from his body.
"Thank you very much; I'm sorry that I wasn't strong enough to fight him myself. I don't know why that fiend wasn't wearing his white uniform; I believe there is something very evil going on," he said.
Omi almost collapsed; he had spent most of his energy fighting Crimson and the rest healing Jemako. He tried to stand but his legs felt like jelly, Jemako helped the little monk onto his back.
"My energy will return shortly, we should be worrying about Master Fung. We're almost there!" said Omi.
Jemako smiled and activated his rockets, the pair of heroes continued on their journey to the central tower.
Raimundo was dressed in the white uniform; he continued to walk through the corridors without anyone noticing him. Eventually he made it to the medical room; he walked past Yannick and Diabolique on their way out.
"Shen Gong Wu here I come!" whispered Raimundo as he headed towards the only blue box in the room.
As he looked inside he noticed that the mystical artefacts had been taken, he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"Those good for nothing punks! They have super powers, why do they need the Shen Gong Wu? Looks like I'll have to kindly ask some people where they are…" thought Raimundo, turning around and exiting the medical room and heading up a flight of stairs.
The wind warrior was now out in the open, he had no clue how far he was from Master Fung or his friends. He walked onwards, hoping that nobody would become suspicious. Just then a fireball flew towards him; he quickly swerved out of the way to avoid being burnt. He noticed that the magical projectile had been fired by Kimiko; the fire warrior was staring at Raimundo.
"Rai, is that you?" she asked, lowering her guard.
"Its great to see you!" exclaimed Raimundo.
The Xiaolin warrior of the wind ran towards Kimiko, he then saw her eyes widening as she looked to the side.
"Get back!" she screamed.
Raimundo stopped just in time; he and Kimiko avoided a rain of knives that fell from the sky. Raimundo looked in the direction where Kimiko was looking; there stood a boy wearing a black uniform with 'Χ96' written on his shoulder pad. He was about as short as Omi; he had short black hair that looked as if it was made from plastic. What was most unsettling was his face; it was exactly like that of a ventriloquist's dummy.
"Hammaaa!" he said in a child like voice, his blue eyes moving in the same way as a chameleon's eyes.
Raimundo and Kimiko got into their fighting positions, the doll like opponent waddled slowly towards them.
"What the heck is this guy? Has he been chasing you around or something?" Raimundo questioned Kimiko.
His female companion nodded.
"Yes, I was really freaked out. I don't know all about his powers yet, all I know is that his name is Hammer!" Kimiko answered.
Raimundo began to charge up his power, he flew strait at his enemy before Hammer had a chance to attack.
"Shoku Libra Technique; Vicious Gale!" Raimundo yelled.
Trivia: Scorpio is the second star sign with the element of water.