The heroes were wandering around on the island; it was only a small place. It seemed that there were no people about, Omi was crestfallen.
"I was sure that there was someone else here," he sighed, looking at his new friends.
Suddenly, he and the others looked to the right. Something was moving underneath the sand, the creature jumped out making Mitsuko scream. It was a lizard like creature with long claws; it was red and stood about four feet tall. Two more creatures emerged behind it, slowly making their way towards the humans.
"Monsters! I'll take care of these guys," Laster whispered, charging strait into battle.
With a couple of punches from Zeruel, Laster managed to destroy one of the beasts. The remaining two began to gang up on him, making him move back towards the others.
"Take this!" shouted Buck, tossing his enchanted boomerang and destroying another lizard man.
"Look out!" gasped Mitsuko as the final creature leapt towards them.
With a sudden flash, the lizard was sliced in half. At first she thought it was Omi who defeated it, but then Mitsuko noticed that another person had appeared. There was an odd young man standing on top of a dune, he wielded a trident that was transparent and blue. The boy had pale bluish-green hair, ghostly white skin and wore a blue mantle. She and the others noticed he had two small horns growing out of his forehead; his eyes were yellow and had vertical pupils.
"Hydrus!" shouted Omi, running over to the stranger.
"Obviously Omi must know this fella," Buck whispered to his two friends.
Hydrus: A young merman that Omi met a long time ago, he could command sea creatures and manipulate water. He teased Omi and challenged him to a showdown, but soon the two fighters settled their differences and became friends.
Hydrus was smiling, he definitely wasn't human.
"It's awful Hydrus, I've lost my memory! These three people are somehow related to three people I knew before my memories faded away!" Omi explained to his old friend.
The trident wielding warrior looked puzzled too.
"Last time I saw you it was twenty years ago, how can you be still young?" he questioned the Xiaolin warrior of water.
Omi sighed again.
"That is what confuses me; I have no idea why I have retained my youth. Apparently these friends I once knew have grown up and have had children," he replied.
Hydrus turned his attention to Omi's new friends, they looked slightly nervous when the looked their way.
"Where do you live?" questioned the merman.
"The Xiaolin Temple is in China, do you know a way we can get there quickly?" said Mitsuko.
The water manipulating warrior smiled and held his trident out to sea; they could see two dark shapes speeding towards them. When the creatures came closer, Mitsuko could see that they were part fish and part horse.
"These are Hippocampuses; they are the fastest creatures in the ocean. They'll transport you to your destination very quickly," explained Hydrus.
Omi was the first to mount one of the aquatic steeds; Buck hopped on the Hippocampus with him. Mitsuko and Laster shared a steed; the creature's back was very dry.
"So why do you need to get home quickly?" questioned Hydrus.
Laster turned and faced the merman.
"Let's just say we have to save the world!"