This is my favourite chapter so far I think. However, I'm not updating again until I get more reviews, because I'm just that horrible. Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Meet Your Master

It had been a week exactly since Raimundo followed Kimiko through the hole slashed in the air by the Golden Tiger Claws and neither of them had been seen since. The Sun was setting behind the mountains of China in the west and the sky was a perfect, cloudless, lilac colour. Several stars were already making their appearance, gazing down on the too-empty too-quite Xiaolin Temple.

Omi, Clay and Rouge were gathered around the kitchen table yet again after another fruitless search, not just for Rex LeBay, but for Raimundo as well. The only good news was that there had been no more murders. The two remaining monks and their friend hadn't even bothered making supper today, knowing it would just get wasted.

"What if...what if Kimiko killed Raimundo?" Clay asked.

"That is nonsense Clay, I'm sure Kimiko would never do such a thing!" Omi said.

"Yeah, but suppose she did kill that woman. That means she could easily kill again," Clay said, sadly. Omi didn't reply.

"I'm sure he'll come back," Rouge said after several moments of uncomfortable silence. "Maybe she has done something to him, but I agree with Omi. Even if she did kill that woman, she couldn't kill any of you, surely. But Raimundo's tough, if she's done something he can get away, I bet." Omi and Clay looked at Rouge disbelieving but wanting to believe.

"What if Raimundo has turned evil as well?" Omi said. "It wouldn't be the first time."

"I'm sure he learned his lesson from the first time," Clay said defensively. Again, Omi said nothing.

"Look, we don't know what happened to either of them and guessing isn't going to help. We'll find them," Rouge said encouragingly. "I'm going to bed." He got up and left.

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Raimundo's POV

My head was pounding from the number of blows it had taken and my whole body felt weak. I wasn't sure how long I'd been there- I'd been unconscious most of the time and it's hard to tell whether it was night or day- but I was sure it had been a few days now. I hadn't seen Kimiko since I followed her through the Tiger Claws. I hadn't seen anyone except him when he came to feed me what little scraps he had or when he came to knock me out again to stop me calling for help. He said no one would hear me down here, it was just annoying. My arms ached from the chains that tied them above my head to a metal loop protruding from the rocky wall. My legs were chained together as well to make sure I didn't lash out and try and kick him. There was even a belt around my neck and another chain tying it to the wall behind me so I could hardly move at all. I must have been in this positing for so long and never mind my head and my arms, my whole body throbbed with the pain of sitting in an uncomfortable position for too long, especially when I was unconscious.

I couldn't see much around me; my eyes hadn't adjusted to the gloom yet, but I knew that if he was coming I would hear him. Then I would pretend to still be unconscious so he wouldn't hit me again and just pray to dear Jesus that he hadn't hurt my friends as well. I hoped they'd discover him before he revealed himself and beat the living shit out of him then come and find me and Kimiko. Until then, all I could was wait.

End Raimundo's POV

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Omi and Clay remained at the table as the lilac sky darkened to velvety blue and then finally to midnight black and the starts shone brightly, the Temple lit by rays of moonlight. And then there was a crash from outside a squeal of panic that could belong to no one but Jack Spicer. Omi and Clay were on their feet in an instant and racing to the Temple grounds. Jack was lying in a heap on the dark, damp grass with a broken helibot strapped to his back. Omi and Clay just looked at him.

"Jack, you useless boy!" Wuya scolded.

"It wasn't my fault! Something hit me!" Jack whined.

"Well I didn't see anything," Wuya said.

"Neither did I, but I felt it!" Jack said. Wuya just rolled her eyes.

"Jack Spicer-" Omi began but jack cut him off.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, prepare for a most humiliating defeat. Can you at least wait until I get over this humiliating incident?" Jack snapped. He picked himself up off the ground and bushed himself off. Then he looked around, peering into the dark sky, looking for any sigh of what he might have flew into. The sky was completely empty. All except for one dark shape, flying towards them from the opposite direction. Moments later, Chase Young landed beside Jack and Wuya.

"What are you doing here?" Clay demanded.

"I received this lovely note," Chase said, holding up a small scrap of paper.

Dear Chase Young it read.

You've been such a kind master to me these last few hundred years or so, I'd like you to see this. Be at the Xiaolin Temple by midnight tonight.

R.L.

"Master?" Clay asked. Chase shrugged.

"Yeah, I got a note like that!" Jack said excitedly. "Only, it wasn't really for me." He dug around in his pockets and produced another note from R.L.

Jack Spicer,

Be at the Xiaolin Temple at midnight tonight. Bring dear Wuya.

R.L.

p.s. don't be late or you'll miss it and don't be too early or you'll screw everything up

"What's going on?" Clay asked uneasily.

"What's that?" Omi gasped, pointing to the Temple grounds wall behind Chase. Everyone turned to look and gasped just as Omi had done. On the Temple grounds wall, which had been spotlessly clean just a few moments before, written in letters that were still dripping with fresh blood were the words: Meet your master.

"What..." Omi began, but even as he was speaking a figure was materializing in front of those words. He just seemed to appear out of nowhere. He was tall and pale skin. There was a scar above his right, dark brown eye and his dark red hair fell almost to his shoulders. It was Rouge Riddell.

"Rouge!" Wuya gasped.

"What a pleasant surprise," Chase said in his usual calm voice.

"You!" Omi and Clay cried. "But...but...it doesn't make sense!" Omi flapped his arms in the air for emphasis, making Clay take a step back to avoid being hit.

"My name's Rouge LeBay, not Riddell," he explained. "I'm Wuya's husband."

"Husband?" Clay exclaimed, feeling slightly nauseous.

"What, just because I'm an evil Heylin witch I can't get married?" Wuya snapped at Clay.

"Not that you can't I just never thought you would," Clay replied.

"It was years ago. Before Dashi trapped me in that damn puzzle box," Wuya said. "What happened to you?" Her eyes were back in Rouge.

"After Hannibal turned Chase here Heylin and Chase locked him in the Ying Yang world, he still thought the Heylin side was a bit too full and he turned me into one of his damn jungle cats," Rouge said. Wuya threw Chase an angry glare. "But when these idiots messed up again and freed Hannibal, he was able to change be back as long as I served him. I thought; fuck that, so I sent that pesky little bean into a nice deep sleep with the Sleeping Star I stole off Jack."

"You lied to me!" Omi said looking at Chase with not anger, but bitter disappointment. Chase ignored him.

"And now I'm going to give you a body again, Wuya my dear, and we'll make those brats pay for what they've done to you. I've already got two of them. One of them I'm sure you'll want to punish for betraying you," Rouge said.

"Raimundo!" Omi said. "Don't you hurt my friends!"

"Quite, boy!" Rouge barked and Omi fell silent.

"How did you get them?" Wuya asked, her ghostly body quivering with excitement.

"I pretended I'd been attacked so they'd bring me here, to the Temple, where I stole their Shen Gong Wu. Kimiko came crying to me about her father's murder and I possessed with the Possession Necklace. When she tried to steal more Shen Gong Wu the other monks attacked so she fled and Raimundo followed her right into my trap," Rouge said, a smug grin on his face. Omi and Clay just stared at Rouge, stunned.

"You've really thought of everything, haven't you," Wuya said, hovering over to where Rouge stood.

"So...hang up the telephone, who is Rex LeBay?" Omi asked.

"My little brother," Rouge said rolling his eyes. "He really is useless trust me. He used to like Wuya but she left him for me because he's so useless. He's hated her ever since."

"Well...I suppose that makes sense," Clay said doubtfully.

"And now my dear," Rouge said, turning to Wuya. "It's time." He brought the Reversing Mirror and The Serpent's Tail out from him pocket and placed the Mirror in front of Wuya.

"I cannot allow this to happen!" Omi called. He started toward Rouge and Wuya but Rouge clicked his fingers and rocky hands emerged from the ground, grabbing hold of Omi and Clay's ankles in a death grip.

"Serpent's Tail!" Rouge said.

"Reversing Mirror!" Wuya exclaimed, unable to keep the excitement out of her voice. There was a bang and flash of blinding green light. Grey clouds rolled across the previously clear sky and a threatening chill descended on the Temple grounds. Wuya rose from the ground, her ghostly body contorting and twisting out of shape, her arms growing longer and her ghostly tail splitting in two and lengthening into legs, all the while she was becoming more and more solid. Her red hair blew around her still masked face as she slowly returned to the ground. Rouge approached his wife and gently removed the mask, tossing it away into the dirt. Omi and Clay stood, hypnotised, as Wuya and Rouge embraced.

"I knew it was you when Kimiko stole the Sun Chi Lantern from Jack," Wuya said, smiling softly.

"Yeah...can I have that back?" Jack asked tentatively.

"Quite, you," Wuya snapped. "You want to be careful Jack, now that I don't need you anymore." Jack squealed and took a step back.

"Would you like to see our prisoners now, Wuya?" Rouge asked, taking Wuya's hand in his.

"I'd like that very much, Rouge," Wuya said and laughed cruelly.

"We'll see you very soon, Xiaolin monks. Thank you for your hospitality," Rouge said to Clay and Omi. Then he turned to look at Chase. "As for you, I'll have to think long and hard to decide what you deserve, but you'll see me again soon, trust me." Wuya cackled. Rouge clicked his fingers and the rocky hands holding Omi and Clay crumbled, then she and Rouge vanished, just the same way as Rouge had done when he first appeared in front of the graffitied wall. There was a small clap as the air rushed in to fill the space where they had previously stood and then there was complete silence.

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