Chapter 14 Jack and The Third Fusion
Gem Temple
Samurai Jack, Emerald and Amethyst managed to get back to the temple after only being away for a couple of days. As they reached the temple Emerald took a glance at the Vortex stone. She felt happy to know that there could be a way to help Onyx after all.
"We are baaaaack!" yelled Amethyst as they entered the temple
All the monks and gems looked to see the three back from their journey. Garnet, Pearl and the Head Monk come to greet them.
"Jack, Emerald, Amethyst it is so good to see you. I hope your quest was not filled with danger." said Pearl
"Are you kidding? It was amazing. We fought those ravagers and got the stone. Piece of cake." said Amethyst with pride
"Where is Onyx?" asked Emerald
Pearl showed Jack and Emerald to where Onyx was. She was currently sleeping on a bed near the healing fountain.
"There she is. I hope that the stone can heal her." said Pearl
Emerald grabbed the stone and got close to Onyx. She placed the stone on her hands and suddenly the energy of the Vortex stone engulfed Onyx. Onyx slowly opens her eyes.
"Emerald... Is everything alright?" asked Onyx
"Now everything is alright. How are you feeling?" asked Emerald
"I feel great." said Onyx getting out of bed
After the rest of the group checked to see if Onyx was doing better they went to check up on Amber. Jack, Garnet, Pearl and the Head Monk went to the room were Amber was chained up. They opened the door and saw Amber chained up from head to toe.
"I see someone has come to visit me. I was beginning to think that I had being forgotten for some reason." said Amber in a mocking manner.
"We came to make sure you were chained." said Garnet
"Now tell us Amber. Do you feel anything different?" asked the Head Monk
"Now that you mention it. I believe I am getting what you humans call hunger. Besides that I only want to destroy you, be fused again, and bring back gem kind." said Amber with venom in her every word.
Without a second thought Jack and the gems got their weapons ready. Amber began to pull the chains in hopes of breaking them. It seemed like the chains were not going to hold her for long, but Garnet decided to punch her back into the wall.
"We should do something about her. She is too dangerous to keep chained up." said Garnet
"I agree." said Jack
A few days had passed since the return of Samurai Jack and Emerald with the Vortex stone. Onyx was back to her old self. Jack and Emerald were preparing to continue their journey once more. But the though of leaving a place that felt like home was hard. Onyx was getting increasingly worried about what could happen if Emerald went out into the world.
"Emerald, please reconsider. You could stay here." said Onyx
"Onyx, I want to but being stuck in one place is not the kind of life I want. Besides, Aku has a price on our heads if we stay we put you all in danger. And you will have friends and family to take care of you." said Emerald
Emerald closed her bag and went to meet with his master at the entrance. After saying their goodbyes they left. As the two walked Jack asked Emerald about what she felt. After all this time she had saved her friend and brought her back to normal. Now she was back with him trying to find a time portal to change history.
"Are you sure you are alright?" asked Jack
"Yes, master. After all this time I always wanted to save Onyx, I thought of her as my family. But in the end you are my family. And I will help you stop Aku." said Emerald
Jack could hear the sincerity in her words. Suddenly They heard a noise behind them.
"Wait!" yelled Pearl
"Pearl, what are you doing here?" asked Emerald
"I came to give this to you." said Pearl unveiling the Vortex stone
"The Vortex stone. But, why?" asked Emerald
"I have analyzed it and along with the Eye of Cronos and the chip of time travel, we could probably open a portal to where you wish to go." explained Pearl
With an exchange of looks the two samurais decided to give it a try. They rounded up the required equipment and began their search for the place to make an experiment.
Jungle
They were walking through a dense forest. Jack was at the front followed by Emerald and Pearl. Pearl continuously scratched herself because she felt an itch. She kept scratching a small bit at first, then she stopped and proceeded to scratch herself all over her body. Emerald took notice of this and stopped Jack and showed him what Pearl was doing.
"Pearl is everything alright?" asked Emerald
"I am fine. I just can't understand why I feel like I have thousands of tiny feet walking all over me?" said Pearl
Jack and Pearl shared a look and nodded.
"Pearl, come with me." said Emerald
Pearl followed Emerald far away from sight. Jack just stood there and covered his ears. A couple minutes later, the entire jungle was filled with Pearl's screams. Birds flew away. Animals ran in the opposite direction. Jack merely stood there waiting for the two gems to return. Pearl came running and jumped into the river. Emerald came right behind her at a more moderate pace with a scarab in her palm.
"Was it the creepy crawlies?" asked Jack
"Yes." said Emerald putting the scarab down
"Did I freak out so much?" asked Emerald
"Not so much as to jump in the river." responded Jack
Pearl had gotten out of the river but she was soaked.
"That was the most disgusting experience of my life. How can so many creatures crawl onto someone and not be noticed?" asked Pearl
"If it makes you feel any better it happened to both me and my Master the first time we came through here." said Emerald helping Pearl to her feet
They continued to walk until they spotted something that caught Pearl's attentions.
"My friends do you know what that is? Its a road! OH thank you Rose, thank you!" said Pearl jumping to the bricks.
Pearl continued to jump like a little girl on the road, until two men appeared in front of her. One grabbed Pearl and threw her gently back to the jungle. Pearl got back up and pulled out her weapon and began battling the two men. She attacked forward with her spear but the second man grabbed it and used the momentum to throw her yet again.
"Who? How?" asked Pearl
At this time Jack and Emerald began fighting the two men bare handed. Jack and Emerald had smiles on their faces such as the men. Emerald threw punches and kicks from several kinds of martial arts and the man blocked and returned the attacks. Jack was doing the same but he seemed to have the upper hand on his side. After a small time the four warriors stood face to face, and then began to laugh.
"It is good to see you both my brothers." said Jack lifting his one finger.
"We are also glad to see you, brother Jack and sister Emerald." said the one of the monks.
The two lifted their fingers just like Jack and Emerald.
"What is going on!?" asked yelled Pearl being the only one out of the conversation.
"Pearl, these are our Xiaolin brothers. I trained with them when I was younger. They are the guards of the temple entrance." said Emerald
"Hello friend, we greet you." said the two bowing in respect
"Well, hello my name is Pearl." said Pearl returning the bow.
"I must say Emerald, you have come a long way, but you still need practice." said the monk
"Thank you." said Emerald
The monks took the three warriors inside and as they walked Pearl couldn't help but observe the monks doing their exercises and their meditation. She was impressed at the level these monks had reached despite being common humans. When they reached the Grand Master's room Pearl couldn't help but bow before him. The trio told them about their idea and the Grand Master suggested that they should go to the Sun Temple where the old time portal used to be. With that the three warriors along with the two monks went to the temple.
Sun Temple
The Sun Temple was a giant Xiaolin temple carved into the mountain. According to the legend at midday a time portal opens, and the stone statues would come to life and attack everyone that attempt to enter the temple. That used to be the case until Jack and the monks came and destroyed the place.
Pearl was amazed at the ancient legend and the adventures Jack had gone on all his life.
They reached the entrance of the temple and began to walk to the roof top. Everyone was on their toes just incase there was any stone warriors around. As they climbed up the temple they heard the sound of pebbles falling. A few seconds pass and everything is quiet. As they begin tho move again a stone hand comes out of the wall and tried to catch Pearl but she summoned her weapon and sliced it. The wall begins to sprung arms and other stone warriors. The five warriors begin to fight and run out of the danger.
"I thought that these statues were destroyed years ago." said one of the monks
"I thought so too. We must get to the roof top there we will have the advantage." said Jack
Suddenly the path in front of them was blocked by stone warriors. So the five warriors had to jump up to the courtyard were they were surrounded by a giant stone warrior and 100 regular stone warriors. The warriors began to battle crushing the stone warriors, but they were being over powered.
"There must be a way to defeat these statues." said one of the monks
"Can you take care of the small statues?" asked Pearl
"Yes. Go now." said Jack
The two gems got together and began to dance making the two monks confused. Pearl did her usual ballet dance and Emerald used a similar dance using a combination of Xiaolin movements. They got closer and they transformed into light. In their spot stood a giant woman. She had short jade hair, and a pearl gem on her fore head and on her chest was an emerald. Her skin was white like Pearl's, but her eyes had a mischievous look to them. She had jade green ancient Chinese armor covering her upper body and legs with designs of lion heads on her shoulders, and knees. Her bracelets were pearl white with green symbols. Her chest was covered in jade green armor with white pearl stripes. She also had a jade green cape coming from her armor and two long jade feathers on her head.
"What?" said the two monks
"Emerald and Pearl can do that. I will explain after this." said Jack
"Hello little guys, time to have some fun." said the giant woman
The statues jumped at them but the giant woman used her open palm to push them back. She then jumped at the statues and began stepping on them and kicking them like a wild monkey. She even did a few monkey noises.
"Sun Wukung." said one of the monks as he shattered one of the statues.
"The Monkey King. I thought he was a legend." said the second monk punching a statue.
"Hmm. I don't like that name. How about Jade?" said the fusion and she punched and kicked the statues.
"Jade, I like it." said Jack
"Then my name is Jade." said the now named Jade
Jade then summoned her two weapons and they combined into a jade staff, with golden tips with monkey designs. She then began to break the statues with her staff. She moved wildly and constantly making fun of the statues. She enlarged it to smash statues that were ganging up on the monks. Samurai Jack kept close to her taking on several statues. Now the only statue left was a giant. Jade merely smiled and made fun of the giant. She then began to spin her staff making it larger and larger.
"Brothers get down!" yelled Jack to the monks.
As Jade's staff picked up speed and size it was creating a tornado the statue was getting closer to her. Jade then slammed her staff unleashing a powerful swing cutting the mountain in half. She then came down as the statue was no more. Jade came down and saw the awestruck faces of the monks but she only gave them a sheepish smile.