Authors note: Here is a new chapter, sorry I had hoped to get it up last week but I had Easter with the family so there wasn't time. On the plus side my family got a new puppy, yay .

Thank you again to all who reviewed, I love hearing from you. Now on with the story.

Omi and Diane charged at three guards. Omi leapt into the air and flying kicked the first guard in the face. Using the distraction, Diane baseball slid between legs of another guards, tripping him up in the process. They turned to face the final guard as they heard him fall to the ground with an irked Scott standing in his place.

"Took you long enough," Diane taunted, "have a nice lie down?"

Scott glared at her. Just then there was the sound of water moving, it was only then that the noticed the pools of water nearby. Out of the pools appeared an army of creatures made out of water. They each stood 7 feet at least and varied in shape. There were at least twenty of them, all looking fierce and formidable. Inside each of them was an eerie green glow. They charged at the warriors.

"ICE!" Omi shouted.

The creatures turned into ice statues. The green glow died and they remained motionless.

Crickets chirped.

"I guess they were not prepared for a Water elemental," Omi said.

"Are they gone?" asked Diane fearfully, who had jumped behind Scott.

Omi stuck out his chest proudly

"Fear not for I have stopped the water creatures," Omi said.

"Not that," Diane said, "the crickets."

"The crickets?" Omi asked in disbelief.

"She's got an irrational fear of them," Scott explained.

"Hey! Crickets are harbingers of doom, just look at what they did to the Egyptians."

Scott rested on his staff and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.

"We've been through this; it was a plague of locust that Moses sent against the Egyptians, not crickets."

"That's what the crickets want you to think."

They were interrupted from this conversation by the sound of ice being smashed. The Ice fell every where as a legion of animated stone statues surrounded them.

"And I suppose the crickets are responsible for this as well," Scott asked dryly.

The one responsible would have to be me," a voice replied, "The great Master Chang."

The warriors looked through the statues to see the guy the Scott had smashed into the outside walls. Master Chang laughed.

"Didn't expect to be met by such formidable defence did you?" He asked tauntingly.

"Uh well actually," Scott replied, "I was half expecting to be dead before we even reached the walls so really I'm quite proud of how far we got."

"Yeah," Diane said, "what took you so long with these defences? Did you have to wait for mommy's permission?"

"No!" Master Chang snapped, "We had to wait for Lady Shiaw to activate it."

"Whoa," Scott said to Diane, "I've got to admit that's kinda pathetic."

A vain popped out on Master Chang's forehead.

"Don't you dare call us pathetic; you are far more pathetic, we saw you get beaten up by that girl with fans. Why you are nothing more than a pathetic…pathetic… girl with fans what's something really pathetic?"

"Uh…butt monkey," Diane offered, hoping that Master Chang would be dumb for fall for her trick..

"Thank you," Master Chang said before continuing, "you are nothing more than a pathetic butt monkey."

Scott's pupils contracted.

"Oh no," Diane said.

"What?" Omi asked.

"He called Scott a butt monkey."

Gus stopped as he sensed something familiar.

"Oh my," He muttered.

"What?" Clay asked.

"Someone just called Scott a butt monkey."

"Great Fiddling Nero!" Jen exclaimed, "He just called Scott a butt monkey."

Dojo tilted his head slightly.

"What does that mean?" he asked.

"No idea but I was feeling left out and wanted to contribute."

Series of crashes prompted Jen to look back through her binoculars. There was a trail of broken statues from where Omi and Diane were and where Scott was beating up a Master Chang.

"I guess that's what it means."

Omi and Diane stared at the carnage that had unfolded. Scott the meanwhile was getting the last few hits into a semi conscious Master Chang.

"NO. ONE. CALLS. ME. A. BUTT. MONKEY!" Scott shouted between hits.

The remaining statues soon came out of their stupor and closed the gap. It seemed that Scott's temper tantrum had only destroyed a fifth of them. Scott didn't notice that he was separated from Omi and Diane and only stopped hitting Master Chang when he was surrounded by a group of wind creatures. He chuckled nervously.

"Is it too late to surrender and be taken as a prisoner of war?"

Kimiko and Veata walked into what looked like a school gymnasium.

"Must be their indoor training facility," Kimiko muttered.

"You know," Veata mused, "this would be the perfect place to set a trap."

"Don't say that," Kimiko hissed, "that's just asking for trouble."

"Oh come, we're walking around aimlessly in a Heylin Temple, how much more trouble can we get?"

At that a blast sent Kimiko and Veata flying. They flipped mid air and landed with a skid into a crouching position. They looked in the direction that blast come from and saw a feminine figure surrounded by green flames.

"Let me guess," The figure said, "you were looking for the powder room and got lost."

Kimiko just gave Veata a dirty look.

"Oops," She replied sheepishly.

Gus's let out a shudder.

"no…"

"What?" Clay asked.

Gus was about to run off when Clay grabbed his arm.

"Hold it Mr Huggy, what did you just sense?"

"Someone has found Veata and Kimiko," Gus said, "We've got to help them."

Gus tried to pull out of Clay's grip but Clay just tightened it.

"No, we've got to find Rai," Clay reminded Gus, "we're the rescue squad and they're part of the distraction, remember?"

"You're saying we should just leave them?"

"We're working on borrowed time; we have to find Rai before we're discovered. To that, we need to stay hidden. They can take care of them selves."

Gus stared Clay down before wrenching his arm out of Clay's grip,

"Let's try this way," he said before heading down a corridor.

Clay followed closely behind.

Please Kimiko don't make a liar out of me.

Diane sensed something that distracted her from who she was fighting. A stone creature was about to deal a crushing blow to the distracted Diane when Omi chopped off its head.

"Kindly stay with the here and the now," Omi told her.

"Looks like Veata and Kimiko found some trouble," She said, ignoring Omi.

"Could we save worrying about the others for when there isn't THINGS TRYING TO KILL US?" Scott shouted.

Diane rolled her eyes as she beheaded a couple of statues with her fans.

Scott meanwhile was fighting off wind creatures left and right. He dodged a high and swung his staff in a full arc, destroying a few wind creatures and giving him some space to work with.

"Wind!" Scott shouted, flying up into the air.

The wind creatures soon followed behind. They flew high into the air.

"Cyclone Blade!"

Scott spun round and sent a blade of wind straight through his pursuers. The blade went all the way to the ground. It hit ground with a cloud of dust.

Scott looked down at the sight below, he was pretty high up. He had beaten the wind creatures that were chasing him and the others were busy. Maybe he should just leave them to it and see how Jen and Dojo were getting on…

"SCOTT!!" Diane shouted, "YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COME BACK DOWN HERE BEFORE I COME UP THERE!!"

Then again maybe not.

The figure looked disbelievingly at Veata and Kimiko. She walked out of the green flames to reveal a teenage girl with black and white hair and steel grey eyes.

"You mean I wasted a perfectly good entrance and there aren't any cute guys to see it?"

"Well sorry to disappoint," Kimiko said, "We'll just be going."

"Wait," the girl ordered, "who are you and what is your business here."

"Well you see; I'm Katy Cute and this is my partner; Bethany Bongo Butt," Veata explained, indicating Kimiko, "We're just looking for the rest of our show group; The Boom-Boom Brigade."

Veata realised she was getting sour looks from both the girl and from Kimiko.

"Oh you mean you were expecting the truth."

"That would be nice," the girl answered.

"Do you honestly expect us to tell the truth to someone we didn't know?"

"Very well," the girl said, "I am Chyr, the pupil of Lady Shiaw, and you are trespassing in her temple."

Veata said, "I told you those 'keep out' signs were there for a reason."

"Is now really the time to be cracking jokes?" Kimiko asked.

"It's the only thing that's keeping me from wetting my self so deal with it," Veata replied in a hushed whisper.

"Alright last chance," Chyr warned, "why are you here?"

"We're here for Rai," Kim replied, "tell us where he is."

Chyr chuckled at this.

"Well I could but I highly doubt there's much of him left to save."

Kimiko felt her fists clench.

"It's a pity I wasn't allowed to 'play' with him a little longer," Chyr continued, "he had such a wonderful scream."

This pushed Kimiko over the edge. She screamed as she charged at Chyr.

Gus and Clay came to their third dead end in the last five minutes.

"You know," Clay said irritably, "I'm getting tired of following you to nowhere."

"Well I don't see you taking the lead," Gus snapped back.

"Well I'm not the one who said I could find Rai, what happened to that wind sensitivity of yours?"

"I can only sense things that are actually there," Gus said, exasperated.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Clay asked.

"I've scanned this whole temple I can't find him. We're walking in circles, my team is in danger and I don't even know if Rai is…"

Gus stopped himself. Despite his doubts, Gus feared what would come of voicing it out loud.

"Now you listen to me," Clay said, "Rai is alive, I can feel it."

At that Gus leaned on a nearby wall.

"Well in that case, perhaps you can feel where Rai is because I'm out of ideas."

Clay stared at Gus in disbelief; his first idea didn't work and he's given up hope just like that? Are all wind elementals like this?

NO! Rai wouldn't give up. If it were one of us, he wouldn't stop until we were safe. He has always been there for us when we needed him.

When we needed him.

When we needed him.

Those four words seemed to bounce in Clay's mind. He brought his hands together as if he was going to pray. He didn't know if this would work but he had to try.

Rai, pal, we're here for you but you need to help us, show us where you are. Give us a way to find you and we'll do the rest.

Please Rai, show us where you are.

The dark sea bet against Rai's defences. Rai used all he had to keep it at bay.

Show us where you are.

Rai looked around, where did that voice come from?

Show us where you are.

Realisation struck; someone was looking for him. But why couldn't they find him?

Rai felt something around his neck. His hand traced along it and he felt the collar that Chyr had put on around his neck. Not only did it suppress his powers but it also must stop him from being found. If there was to be any hope of him being found, the collar had to go.

He wedged his fingers into the collar and tried to rip it off. No matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't budge. He grit his teeth, there were people counting on him and he wouldn't let them down. He started to glow as he drew all his energy.

The collar shattered into a million pieces.

Exhausted, Rai collapsed to the ground. The defences disappeared and the black water started to seep into his sanctuary. Rai would have tried to stop it but he had nothing left to stop it with.

The collar around Rai's neck let out a spark as a key symbol on cracked. There was a ripple in the air as Rai's suppressed power was let out.

Gus head snapped up as if he had heard a familiar voice.

"I can sense him," he said in disbelief, "its weak but I can find him."

A triumphant yet grateful smile appeared on Clay's face

"Well get some coal in that steam train and lead the way."

Gus sprinted off with Clay close behind him.

I knew you'd come through.