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The Past is Back

Chapter 10

"How's she doin' Kim?" Clay asked Kimiko as he walked into the medical building of the Temple complex. They were all required to take emergency medical classes, but Kimiko was the only one of her friends to do exceptionally well and was unanimously appointed as the team medic.

"I think she'll be okay. Now we just have to wait 'til she wakes up," Kimiko sighed as she up her supplies. "From what I can tell so far, she only had a few cuts on her head. Did anyone happen to grab her pocketbook from her car?"

"Yeah I think Dojo might it." Clay turned towards the door and called out. "Dojo!"

"Really, Clay? Did you really have to shout?" Kimiko shouted. "We have an unconsious woman lying here!" She had been having anger issues again for the past few months.

The features on the lady's face twitched a little as she groaned, "Oww."

Kimiko and Clay paused and looked at her as she woke up.

"My head," she muttered and placed her hands on her head as she started to roll to her side.

"Woah, woah! Try to lie still for a while." Kimiko said as she carefully turned the woman on her back again. "We don't know if you hurt your back or neck yet."

"Don't worry about my neck or back or whatever, just give me some ibuprofen for my head please!" The woman begged as she sat up on her cot despite Kimiko's efforts to keep her down.

The harajuku fangirl gave up and went through a nearby medicine cabinet looking for painkillers. "How many do you want?"

"Oh my God this is awful! Just give me all of them!" Kimiko quickly went back over to her with a bottle and poured all of its pills into the woman's hand.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Kimiko asked as the woman stuffed the pills in her mouth. She nodded in response while trying to swallow the painkillers.

"Did someone call me?" Dojo slithered into the room. The woman paused when she saw the little dragon.

"Dojo!" She exclaimed as she went over and scooped him up into her arms and hugged him. "Oh my gosh! I can't believe you're still alive! It's been forever since the last time I saw you!"

"...Can't...breathe!" Dojo gasped.

"Oh! Sorry! I'm so sorry!" The woman apologized as she released him.

There were few seconds of silence as they waited for Dojo to catch his breath. "...Okay, I'm good. Now, who are you?"

"Dojo, it's me, Aisha Katar! I'm Rammed Katar's daughter. Well I really can't expect you to remember me, I was like ten when we met."

"Ra-rammed Katar? But he died centuries ago...How are you-?"

"Still alive? Well...it's a complicated story."

"Yeah, I'm not very good with complicated," the little dragon replied.

"Hold on sec'," Clay interuppted. "What's goin' on here?"

"Oh right, introductions. Um, Clay, Kimiko, this is Aisha Katar, an old friend of the Temple. Aisha, this is Clay, the Dragon of Earth and Kimiko the Dragon of Fire of the Xiaolin Temple." Dojo explained.

"Nice to meet you," Aisha greeted and the three exchanged bows to each other. "I didn't think Xiaolin monks were still needed in this day and age."

"It's like the Heylin side has gotten stronger this time around," Dojo sighed. "This is Temple version 4.0 we're working with now."

"Ohh so this is the new temple?" Aisha wondered as she looked around the simple dojo like building they were now in.

"Sure, if you consider 200 years new. But this is only the medical building."

"Oh okay. But 200 years is new by our standards, Dojo."

"If you don't mind me asking, exactly how old are you?" Kimiko asked Aisha.

"Um, well in this life I'm twenty-one. But really I'm about fifteen hundred years old."

Kimiko and Clay were in complete and utter shock.

"What is this? Why is everyone immortal?" Kimiko shouted.

Aisha chuckled, "Who's everyone?"

"You'll see when we go to tell Master Fung that you're awake. Come on," Dojo said and led them out of the medical building.

The blaring sun was almost too much for Aisha, before passing out all she remembered seeing was gray nothing-ness right before the tree. 'Wait, did I die again?' Aisha wondered while Clay started giving a list of their immortal accquaintances.

"Well there's you, Dojo, Master Monk-"

"I'm sorry, um, what year is it?"

"It's 2011," Kimiko replied. "Why?"

Aisha mentally sighed in relief. "No reason. Now what were you saying Clay?"

"I was just giving you a list of everyone we know that's been hangin' around for over a thousand years. There's you, Dojo, Master Monk-"

"Guan!" Aisha gasped and stopped walking. A man that had been walking towards them stopped in his tracks too when he saw Aisha.

"You know Master Monk Guan too?" Kimiko inquired.

"Aisha!" The man in orange robes shouted as he ran towards her and lifted her off her feet in an embrace.

She returned the hug and when he set her back on her feet, they just smiled at each other for a few moments.

"How are you still alive?" They asked in unison and then laughed.

"You're still hairy I see," Aisha grinned and ran a hand along his shaven head.

"And you're still as ugly as ever," Guan joked back.

"Shut up! Just 'cause I'm old doesn't mean you have to be so nice!" Aisha said as she playful shoved him away from her.

"I'm confused," Clay stated and Kimiko nodded her head in agreement. "Guan is the darn farthest thing from hairy."

"And Aisha is insanely gorgeous," Kimiko added.

Dojo slithered onto Clay's shoulders and explained, "Their families were close when they were younger so they became friends. It's a running inside joke they have, they think it's funny when they talk to each other in opposites. . . .Weirdos."

"Come, there is so much I need to tell you," Guan said taking Aisha's hand. Clay, Kimiko, and Dojo joined them.

"We need to go see Master Fung first," the little dragon reminded them and the group made their way towards a building on the other side of the Temple grounds. "We're supposed to meet him in the Meditation Room."

The Mediation Room had the same dojo styling as the Medical building except it was bigger and had four red pillars on each side that strecthed from the cieling to the floor. Directly below the six sunlights were shallow plant boxes housing groups of bamboo stalks.

A balding man was waiting for them on the other side of the room, opposite the entrance.

"Oh you're awake. How are you feeling?" The blue-eyed man asked. Despite the lack of hair on his head, he had a fully grown brown mustache.

"I'm feeling pretty alright," Aisha replied. "You must be Master Fung?"

"Yes. And you are?" The elderly man smiled.

"I'm Aisha Katar." Master Fung's smile fell a little when she said her name. "Yeah, I know there's some type of bad connotation to my name, but I just don't know what it is."

The Xiaolin Master offered her and the others to sit and they did so on the floor. "I assume you have a few questions. So before I start explaining a few things, you can ask yours first."

"Thank you. Exactly where am I?" Aisha asked.

"This is the Xiaolin Temple in China."

"China?" Aisha repeated. "Okay, um so how did I get here?"

"We were Shen Gong Wu hunting and we found your car," Kimiko explained. "You crashed into a tree before we showed up."

"Really? Damn, that was my favorite car too..." The woman mused. "So what about this Shen Gong Wu thing? What is it?"

"Do you remember Dashi?" Guan asked.

Aisha nodded. "I mean, I've only really seen him a couple of times, but that's when we were younger."

"Well before he died, he created mystical objects that have great power. They were all hidden around the world and had been activating over the course of the last few years."

"The one we were looking for is on your forehead," Kimiko added.

"It's on my forehead?" Aisha asked as she reached her hand up to her forehead and touched the ruby that was there. "My bindi?"

"It's called the Bindi of Bashirya," Clay informed her. "We don' quite know what it does yet. Dojo says it diappeared before he could even hide it."

"Well this was a gift from Dashi when we were kids. He didn't tell me that it was anything special."

"That liar! He let me think it just went missing when he gave it to you all along?" Dojo gasped.

"How old was Dashi when he started making Wu?" Kimiko asked, ignoring Dojo's outburst.

"It was a lifelong process. Dashi had first gotten the idea when he saw my family's spear collection and wondered if he could give objects powers to aid warriors in battle," Guan explianed. "Since he lived at the Temple for his enitre life, I think he started when he was about nine or ten years old. The Bindi must have been one of his earlier creations."

"Do you have any idea what it does?" Master Fung asked. Everyone else shook their heads.

"I've had this thing my entire life and all it does is glow and give me headaches," Aisha replied with slight disdain.

"Well for the time being, until we know what your Wu does, would you object to staying with us for a while? For protection purposes," Master Fung requested.

"I'm sorry, but yeah, I would. I really need to get back to my mother in Massachusetts. And what could I possibly need protection from?"

"You will need protection from the evil forces that will try to take the Shen Gong Wu from you," Guan replied.

"What evil forces?" Aisha asked some what uneasily. 'People are still after me? No one's supposed to know that I'm alive. . .Maybe I shouldn't have used my real name in this life. . .'

"Our enemies on the Heylin side like Jack Specer, the Heylin witch Wuya, and Chase Young," Kimiko explained to her.

"Chase Young? Ha ha! That's weird I know a Chase Young. He lives two floors above me back in my New York apartment building," Aisha laughed. "There's no way that you could mean him. I mean, so yeah earlier today he told me that he was immortal; but, he's so nice. There's no way that he could be evil."

"Chase Young, nice?" Clay asked in disbelief.

"Wait, you saw Chase earlier today?" Guan asked her.

"Mhmm, I was watching his adopted daughter the night before."

"Chase Young has a daughter?" The others asked her. They were all confused.

"Adopted and yeah. She's so adorable!"

"Aisha, don't you remember the prophecy? Don't you remember living with him all those years ago?"

"You lived with Chase?" Kimiko and Clay asked in unison. What the hell was going on?

"Y'know, that's weird. Chase mentioned something about wanting me to come live with him. Supposedly we're 'destined to be together'. Well that scared the shit outta me so I bolted and tried to get to my mother's...But that's when I crashed...Weird huh?" Aisha clearly had no idea of the gravity of the situation at hand. Kimiko began to wonder if the twelve painkillers she took were starting to mess with her head.

"Did anyone see you bring Aisha here?" Master Fung asked Kimiko and Clay.

"Well Jack showed up right before we took her out of her car. And he was still there when we left in the Silver Manta Ray," Kimiko answered.

"This is bad. Go get Omi and Raimundo and tell them to be ready. Chase Young could show up any moment." The two warriors nodded and right when the turned to leave, a body flew in through the open door way and skidded to a halt on the floor.

"Omi!" Kimiko shouted and went over to the yellow young man on the floor.

"Are you alright there lil' bud?" Clay asked.

"Chase...Young," Omi groaned as he tried to sit up. "He's here...He said that we have something that belongs to him."

"What? Chase is here?" Aisha asked.

"Aisha, Chase is a Heylin warlord. Don't you remember?" Guan begged of her.

"What the fuck? A warlord? I met Chase a few weeks ago. He owns the company that I do accounting for."

Guan furrowed his brow. "Do you remember where you were when you celebrated your nineteenth birthday fifteen hundred years ago?"

Aisha was silent for a few moments. This is the second time today she had to think about that day. "No. All I remember is coming home the day after to find my village destroyed."

"Fung, she's suffering from some type of amnesia. I doubt she remembers any of the time she spent with Chase before this year," Guan surmised.

"And I reckon that's a bad thing, right?" Clay asked.

"It is beyond bad at this point. Omi, where is Raimundo?" Master Fung asked.

"Outside with Chase," Omi winced as Kimiko tended to his cuts.

"Guan! I know that you are here! Come out, come out where ever you are!" They heard Chase shout from outside. A few seconds later Raimundo came crashing into the Mediation Room through the ceiling.

"At this rate we'll have to upgrade to a fifth Temple," Dojo said as he hid in Clay's hat. The cowboy and Kimiko went over to Raimundo and helped him sit up.

"What the hell is he after? We haven't seen him in months!" Rai asked angrily.

"...Me," Aisha replied. "Mamma was right, I should've stayed away from him."

"Malesifant knew that Chase found you?" Guan asked.

"Yeah. Why? Does my mother know something about Chase I don't? I knew it! She's always so damn secretive!"

A thunderous boom resounded from outside and Clay went to a nearby window to see what happened.

"The West Tower is down," the Texan announced.

"He's tearing down buildings?" Aisha exclaimed.

"Chase has had a serious problem with his temper since he joined the Heylin side," Master Monk Guan explained.

"Master Fung," Raimundo started, "what is your estimate on the amount of years of darkness the world will fall into if we hand...I'm sorry, I didn't get your name."

"Aisha," she replied.

"If we hand Aisha over to Chase?" Rai continued.

"Really Rai? Could you be anymore heartless?" Kimiko scolded.

"Hey, I'm just asking a question!"

"As an answer to your question Raimundo, I honestly do not know," Master Fung replied. "If things go well between Chase and Aisha, then we should expect a mostly peaceful world for as long as Aisha remains alive."

"Oh, well in that case, I vote hand Aisha over to Chase," Raimundo said. "You're immortal right? Seeing as you know Guan."

"I might be 1500 years old, but I'm not immortal," Aisha replied. "And if his temper causes him to tear down buildings, I don't know if I could keep him in check for very long..."

"Well what will happen if you can't?" Kimiko asked.

"An eternity of darkness," Guan answered ominously.

"...Yeah...No pressure..." Aisha muttered sarcastically.

"Hmm, well I'm gonna put all my eggs in one basket and vote that we hand Aisha over," Rai stated.

"Wait? When did we start talking about eggs?" Omi asked with confusion scribbled all over his face. The whole room fell silent.

"Really, Omi! Are you serious?" Rai questioned. Another boom sounded and the Meditation Room shook a little.

"The Medical Building just exploded," Clay noted.

"Okay, whatever, it if stops him from destroying your home, I'll go." Aisha decided and stood up.

"Aisha, what are you doing?" Guan asked.

"Turning myself in so he'll leave you guys alone. How bad could staying with him be?" Everyone remained silent as they tried to think of a viable response.

"He just threw two people through a building," Guan said.

"And he saved my life by killing two people for me a couple of nights ago. Your point?" Aisha replied a bit too casually.

"Guan, let her go," Master Fung said. "They are destined to be together. It is written; by your own family, no less."

"Thank you everyone for everything. I'll see if I can find a way to visit you guys some time. See you later!" Aisha said before stepping outside into the courtyard.

"I know..." Guan said with a hint of sadness. "But he does not even deserve her."

"He may not, but she just might keep him in line if they fulfill their destiny," Master Fung said explained with calm wiseness.

"...How is it that you manage to sound as though you know more than me when I am older than you by a milenia and a half?" Guan asked with a small smile.

"That, I do not know," the Xiaolin mentor smiled back and they went to help the two fallen monks.

- - -OUTSIDE- - -

"Hi Chase," Aisha greeted her latest object of affection with slight uneasiness. She had just been told that the man she was falling for was evil. 'So what if his proposal to drop everything and flee to China with him scared me a bit? Honestly, I've dealt with worse.'

"Aisha," Chase sighed with a genuine smile. Spicer had actually been useful for once in his life. When Aisha ran out of his apartment, he had a mini-flashback to the day that she disappeared. His first thought was that he might not ever see her again, but once he snapped out of that mindset, he went back to his lair to come up with a way to find her. It would have been much easier in this digitalized world where it was possible to find almost anyone on the Earth. But Jack had saved him the trouble when he told them of the car crash the monks had come across and that they took the driver with them. Even Wuya had a spark of intellectual usefullness when she suggested that Aisha probably had a Shen Gong Wu attached to her.

"Um, I'm sorry for bolting on you like that earlier," Aisha said when she reached where he was standing. "You just caught me off guard and-and I got scared 'cause I thought you were gona try to kill me or something and I-I panic-"

"Shh," Chase hushed and placed a finger on her lips. "Know this: I would never, ever hurt you. Okay?" Aisha nodded lazily; his softened voice and golden gaze had her fall into a slight daze right after he hushed her. "Now have you considered my offer?"

Aisha nodded her head again. "Did I really have any other option? Especially once it involved you knocking down a Temple?"

"Not really," Chase replied. "I would have scoured the Earth again to find you."

"So what the monks told me was true?"

Chase's face fell. He believed that if she knew the truth about him, it would ruin everything. "What did the monks say about me?"

Aisha noticed the sudden cold anger of his voice. "They told me that you were a Heylin warlord." She heard her own voice shake as the words escaped her lips. It scared her to know that the man who was so nice to her was also so dangerous. "Is it true?"

"Aisha, I-"

"Is it true?' Aisha asked again.

Chase inhaled deeply before answering, "Yes." It almost shamed him to admit it to her, but he kept his eyes locked on hers and watched them fill with sadness. "Aisha, let me me explain."

The woman shook her head and stepped away from him. "No, I can't. I can't do this. I can't be around someone that could possibly kill me."

She was starting to get frantic and Chase knew what would be coming next. "Aisha calm down. I could never even think about hurting you. Your mother can vouch for me."

"My mother told me to stay away from you!"

"She what? When?" Chase's anger was reaching new heights. 'That mischevious woman agreed to stay out of this!'

"The day you met her when we came back from the Bangkok restaurant. Right after you left she told me to stay away from you."

Chase calmed down a little. So she told Aisha this before he pled his case to her. "If you want, I can bring your mother and she can explain everything."

"I don't want anything explained to me! I wanna go home!" She was shouting now and starting to cause a scene (as if destroying buildings didn't cause a big enough scene). Chase took hold of both of her wrists and in a blink of an eye they were gone.

Hmmmmm soo not much on this one. I was kinda short. Scholls started again and I have a gillion and a half things to read by next week. I hope I get it done.

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