The Past is Back

Chapter 11

"Where the hell are we?" Aisha gasped when the pair reappeared in a room far from the Xiaolin Temple. The floor and walls of the great hall were made of a turquoise blue marble that set a tranquil mood to the room. The blue midday sky could clearly been seen through the glass ceiling.

"We are home," Chase replied.

"This doesn't look like any place I've been to in New York."

"That is because we are not in New York. We are still in China, the Himalayas to be exact. And this is my palace; this is our home."

"Oh, so you've just kidnapped me?"

Chase sighed with exasperation, "Please don't think of it that way."

"Well how else am I supposed to think about this? I wanted to go home to New York and you've just taken me away from that and brought me here to your...your palace."

"Because this is where you belong."

"I belong home."

"This is your home. None of this looks familiar to you?"

Aisha warily took in her new surroundings. The indoor waterfalls and the majestic archways were all so breathtaking, but not familiar to her at all. "No, I've never seen this place before. Now take me home."

Chase sighed, he wanted her to stay with him willingly but now he would have to start using force. "Do you not remember your promise to the monks?"

A light bulb went off in Aisha's mind when she remembered that she had promised the monks that she would stay. 'Dammit...What have I gotten myself into?'

"How long do I have to be here again?" She sighed.

"For the rest of your life of course," Chase replied matter-of-factly.

"For the...for the rest of my life," Aisha repeated slowly with wide eyes filled with fear and shock.

Chase immediately recognized the look on her face and knew what was going to come next. "Aisha... stay calm; living with me isn't as bad as it seems."

"B-but...I have a job, family, friends, a life...I'm supposed to just give it all up to live here with you? A man that I barely know?" She was starting to become frantic again and began to back away from Chase.

He grabbed her wrist to stop her and could feel her pulse pounding through her body. "Aisha, look at me."

She shook her head and snatched her arm from him, "How can I even trust you? I just found out that you're an evil warlord and you want me to just calmly agree to live with you? Are you serious?" Aisha took a few more wobbly steps away from him.

"You will just learn to trust me. Now if you would just calm down, we will figure something out." Chase was beginning to lose his patience again as Aisha shook her head in defiance to his request. "The way I see it, you really don't have any other options. We are in the middle of the Himalaya Mountains, how would you even get back home?"

This new realization sent Aisha even further into a panic, "...Oh my God...I'll never be able to get back home..."

'Shit...' Chase thought, he had completely forgotten that you should ever tell a person who's having a panic attack that they're trapped.

By now, Aisha had sunken to the floor and was on her knees hyperventilating & weeping. "You're gonna kill me and I'm gonna die here and no one will ever know!"

Chase let out an exasperated sigh as he crouched down in front of her; she was becoming much too hysterical. "Listen to me," he started staring her directly in her eyes, "I told you earlier that I would never hurt you and I swear on my life that I am telling you the truth." Aisha's sobs quieted and her breathing began to slow down to a normal pace. "That's better. Now, I am willing to offer you a deal as to not seem as cruel as you may think."

Aisha nodded her head, she was much calmer now, but her hand shook rather violently as she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "I'm listening."

"I will take care of all of the things you were worried about back in New York; your friends, work, and I will tell your mother where you are. Just give me two months to convince you that this is where you belong. If I cannot convince you, then I will let you go back to New York," Chase explained.

The young woman was silent for a few moments, biting her nails as she thought about the offer. "Alright, 2 months and-and that's it."

"Good, now come. I will show you to your room, you need to rest," Chase said as he helped her get up from the floor. A few unsteady, trembling steps later, she fell straight to the floor.

"Aisha? Aisha!" Chase called to her unconscious body and then checked her pulse. 'Well at least she's still alive,' he thought with some relief.

'She won't be for much longer if you just sit here! She was in a car accident earlier today. One could only guess what injuries she may have,' Chase's inner beast growled.

Chase just rolled his eyes and in the next second, he disappeared from the hall with Aisha.

He reappeared in his room with Aisha still unconscious in his arms. He careful placed her on his bed and began to check her vitals as his medical team arrived. While he noted her extremely weak pulse, he realized that her body endured some physical damage. Her legs and torso were spotted with bruises of varying degrees of severity from being reddish to nearly black marks.

'Spicer did say that the car was a wreck. I'm rather surprised that she could even walk straight earlier,' Chase's inner dragon commented after noting the damage done to his mate.

'I did not expect this to happen. I should not have rushed things with her...'

'Do not blame yourself, the goal was to get her here and you have done just that.'

The medical team quickly finished hooking Aisha up to the various monitoring devices before they began working on her. Chase silently stepped away from the bed and out of their way, the sound of the irregular beeping on the ECG brought him out of his thoughts.

"What's going on?" He demanded of them.

The head doctor spoke up, "She's going into cardiac arrest, Sire." An attending nurse handed him a defibrillator and then medical terms started flying through the room.

'No, I am not going to lose her again!' His anger flared when he realized that Aisha was slipping through his fingers again and that, just like the first time, he was unable to hold on to her.

The medical team let out a unified sigh of relief when Aisha's heart was beating again at a normal, albeit at times irregular, pace. The head doctor stepped over to Chase and they moved out to the hall to speak.

Chase had a lot of trust in his head doctor; they had known each other for almost a thousand years after Chase's first in-palace doctor didn't work out very well. "From her heart attack and the information that her aunt gave us, I think our best course of action would be for her to have a heart transplant," the wizened doctor advised.

"A heart transplant?" Chase asked with slight disbelief.

"Well yes; if her aunt noticed her weak heart all those years ago, then the last 1500 additional years of stress and the car accident have definitely had a permanently damaging effect on her heart."

The mighty warlord remained silent for a few moments as he let this information sink in. "So exactly where am I to get a heart suitable for her...condition?"

"I am almost positive that just about any heart will do. As a magical being, her body would be able to adapt to the new heart or at least modify the heart to its preference."

"How much time do we have?"

The doctor shook his head as he replied, "I cannot be sure. The sooner, the better."

"Take care of her in my absence; I have a couple of things to take care of," Chase commanded before teleporting from his spot. His ever faithful servant bowed in compliance.

Chase reappeared on the other side of his citadel in front of a giant metal door with the words "JACK'S LAB" engraved on its center. The door automatically slid open at Chase's presence and he entered the boy genius' robotics lab. The spare room was given to Jack once he became Chase's full time apprentice for him to continue his scientific work. It was always a mess of scrap metal and robot parts scattered everywhere as well as the boy's numerous tools hanging from every inch of wall and ceiling space available. Usually some type of obnoxious death metal 'music' would be blasting throughout the extensive space, but not today.

'Well he has been locked in here whenever he gets the chance. Whatever he is working on must be very important...Oh well, he will just have to put it on hold while he runs this errand for me.' Chase mused. He found the redheaded at his work desk, hunched over an electronic object intensely concentrating on what he was doing.

"Shit!" he hissed as he threw himself against the back of his chair in defeat and shoved his goggles onto the top of his head. He sighed exasperatedly before acknowledging his mentor, "Hey Chase, what's up?"

"Quite a few things Spicer, but forget the small talk. I have a mission for you," Chase smirked.

Jack's red eyes lit up with pure joy; he would do anything for his favorite person in the world.

"I need you to find the Heart of Jong and bring it to me," the warlord continued. "Do you know where it is?"

Jack forced his rolling chair over to a metal office drawer and pulled out a folder. "According to the Shen Gon Wu scoreboard, the monks have it."

"Well that makes your job easier. I need you to fetch it for me and bring it back as soon as possible."

Jack immediately hopped up from his seat and gave Chase a military salute shouting, "Sir, yes sir."

- - -THE XIAOLIN TEMPLE- - -

"I hope she'll be okay," Kimiko said just as Chase and Aisha disappeared from the temple grounds.

"For the whole world's sake I hope so too," Clay added.

"Well I think that some people owe us an explanation," Raimundo said addressing Master Fung and Master Monk Guan.

The two elders glanced at each other and nodded.

"You will want to take a seat though, young monks, it is quite a long tale," Monk Guan started and the monks heeded his request and got comfortable for the story. "As you all could have guessed by now, Chase, Aisha, Dashi, Wuya and I have been around and have known each other for quite some time now. For the exception of Wuya, we all basically grew up together. I come from a family heritage of well-respected monks, as did Aisha's father, Rammed, so in turn, my father and Rammed became good friends. Along with being monks, my family also had many oracles. A many years before Aisha was born, a family member of mine had a vision that created the prophecy that would bind Chase and Aisha together forever."

"Bind them together how?" Omi asked.

"They were to be married.'The child of good and evil shall become one with the greatest warrior of all time,' or something like that. However, the prophecy was somewhat unfinished because it states that their union will either bring peace to the world or total darkness," Guan answered.

"Hold on. Aren't prophecies supposed to be accurate with this kinda thing? How did they not know how everything would turn out?" Rai asked.

"Yes well, you know how Chase's destiny was to become the greatest warrior of all time," Guan asked, everyone else nodded. "If you didn't notice, it was never said exactly how he would become the greatest warrior, just that it would happen. And it did, it's just that he happened to turn to the Heylin side."

"Alright, that makes sense. But what was that bit about the child of good and evil? Aisha didn't seem evil at all, just...normal," Clay wondered.

"That is the other part that made the prophecy a bit vague on the ending. Rammed was definitely on the side of good, however, his wife and Aisha's mother, Isabella, is something of a Heylin witch. Her family is essentially evil but they are capable of, and have done, things that are considered good. That and she is also half dragon, but that is a separate issue."

"Okay, so if I'm following you correctly, because Aisha has good and evil parents, she can be loyal to whichever side?" Kimiko asked, Guan nodded. "And because Chase has chosen the side of evil, it is likely for her to follow him when they're married?"

The Master Monk nodded again, "It's just that her parents raised her to fight for good, despite their different allegiances. Usually, whatever evil Aisha commits is because she is part dragon, for example, killing people."

"Dragons eat people?" Rai asked and the monks all looked at Dojo.

"I can't believe you guys! Have I ever tried to eat you?" Dojo said defensely.

"There was that one time when you almost ate me," Omi noted.

"I wasn't quite myself that day and you know that. But no, not all dragons eat people, just the European dragons eat flesh and despite the fact that a cow is just fine, some choose to eat people. Asian dragons, such as myself, have more of a craving for mystical objects," Dojo explained.

"So being part European dragon is like being a vampire?" Kimiko asked.

"Yes, but much messier, they tend to rip out people's jugulars or hearts," Guan replied. The younger monks were silent as they pictured Aisha ripping out people's hearts and throats. "She never did it very often, her parents raised her on animal blood so there isn't much to worry about when it comes to that...Unless she does choose to side with evil, then the earth will probably be stained red with the blood of corpses without hearts..."

'How can he say that so calmly?' Rai, Kimiko, Clay, and Omi thought at once.

Monk Guan continued, "But anyway, one day Rammed had heard from the friend of a friend of a crackpot prophet that Chase Young was to turn to the Heylin side and despite my family's request, he tried his best to keep Chase and Aisha from ever meeting each other in fear of his daughter becoming evil and bringing about the end of the world; he even arranged her to be married to someone else. But of course, prophecies always come true so along with Chase becoming Heylin, Aisha managed to find him and the two of them fell in love. And then, about a year after they met each other, she disappeared. After they argued about going to see her father, she left. But by the time Chase realized she had probably gone to her village and went to find her, he found the village destroyed and the only thing left of her was a piece of her shirt stained in her blood. I can only guess that Chase has been searching for her ever since. I was convinced that she was dead, there was no way that she could have lived this long, but Chase never gave up on her." The room was silent after Guan finished telling them as much as he knew about what happened until Kimiko blurted out, "That's so beautiful!"

"...What's so beautiful about our arch nemesis getting the key to him ruling the world?" Raimundo asked with bewilderment.

"Well when you put it like that, not much. But if you look at it from the point that despite being apart for fifteen hundred years, true love led them back to each other," Kimiko explained. Rai just rolled his eyes. "Promise me that if I ever disappear, you'll never stop looking for me!"

"I don't know Kim, 1,500 years is a long time," Rai replied.

"Raimundo. . ." Kimiko growled threateningly.

"Geez fine! I promise I'll never stop looking for you," Rai complied; Kimiko was scary when she was serious.

"So what's gon' happen now?" Clay asked.

This time, Master Fung answered, "Honestly, I do not know. Probably anything at this point especially since Aisha does not even seem to remember Chase."

"So are we just gonna sit around and wait to see what happens?" Raimundo asked.

"No young monks, we will continue to do our jobs. Starting with rebuilding the towers that Chase Young just destroyed.

The four monks groaned in exhaustion. "Some birthday," Rai mumbled under his breath as he and his teammates started cleaning up the mess that Chase left.

The monks were all so busy fixing the destruction from earlier that day that no one heard the alarm go off as Jack Spicer slipped into the Shen Gong Wu vault and grabbed the Heart of Jong plus a few extra souvenirs.


YIIIKKKKEESSSS! This chapter took me like what? 10 months to put up? Dear Jesus, talk about writer's block. Uuuuggghhh I hope you guys don't completely hate me, I've had alot going on and this got put on the back back burner XD Clearly its gonna take another year for me to actually finish this story... Oh well! You guys won't mind too much right?

Oh and the plan is tohave the next chaper up before the endof the month at latest...even though I'm suffering from another block -_- Dear lord. . .

I also just want to thank you guys who have been reading and waiting and reviewing in my very extended absence. I love you all!

Until next time!