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The Xiaolin Chronicles
Episode 23: Chase's Plan REVEALED!
With his hand still pointed to the heavy sky, Chase Young snapped his fingers. "Jack bots, ATTACK!"
"Hey, that's my line!" Jack whined as the swarm of bots filled the sky.
"C'mon, Xiaolin Dragons!" Raimundo led them to face the massive hoard of bots. Never had they seen so many robots. EVER.
"Sword of the Storm! Blade of the Nebula!" A bright X cut through hundreds of them.
"Orb of Tornami! Shimo Staff!" The water sliced and diced the bots that were coming at him!
"Star of Hanabi! Arrow Sparrow!" The flaming bots combusted, and started a chain reaction of explosions among the robots around them.
"Lasso Boa-Boa! Big-Bang Meteor Rang!" The weapon was whacked down and caused a massive wave that crushed all the bots in its path!
"Jade Dragon! Xing Jun Bow!" The Arrow pierced one robot, then a thorny vine shot out that spread and squeezed the countless bots around it until they were rubble.
The incredible and exhausted monks continued to throw bots here and there, but…
"They just keep coming!" Kimiko said to Raimundo. "Even with our new massive powers, these things keep popping out of nowhere!"
"I didn't think Spicer had enough scrap metal to make all of these things!" Raimundo replied as he cut through a few bots with his blades.
"Sapphire Dragon! Spear of Hueng-Ho!" Rika had just placed her shield up in enough time before the Jabberwocky could eat her whole. While the monks had been busy with the bots, Rika decided to go after the newly "tamed" beast that was now clawing at her.
"Oh no!" Jaku, panting, raced over to his friend and stepped between her and the dragon.
"MOVE!" She roared.
"Make me!" He snarled.
"Shoku Night: WATER!" A swirl of water emerged form her staff and spouted out towards Jaku, who dodged with a flip and roll.
"Xing Jun Bow!" He shot out of his bow a green arrow at her. She dodged, but from the arrow a small green vine reached out towards her when it was close enough and wrapped around her quickly. "Shoku Day: EARTH!" Jaku bashed his fist into the ground, cracking the earth until it reached Rika and caused a pit in the ground beneath her. She went tumbling down.
Jaku raced to the pit, planning to seal it up with some kind of earthly substance, but he felt his own blood trickle first. He jumped back, feeling the pain, and realizing that Rika had caused debris to fly out and slice the side of his neck. She came flying out of the hole engulfed in a blue fire, her eyes glazed in the color. She scowled down at him in disgust.
Jaku's face altered into a similar grimace as he stared back at her. His own element encircled him, representing his strained powers by the sheer energy flowing through him.
The two charged at each other, their fiery pressures batting heads with one another before their weapons even reached each other. The speed of their clashing blades was unreadable, and they continued to duel that way for a long time.
Raimundo twirled his blade around in his hands before he swung it around behind him, destroying another batch of bots with his winds and powerful storms.
"Damn, these things keep popping up!" He panted.
With a flaming limb, Kimiko came in kicking several away beside him. "I know, where did Jack find the time and money to make all of these bots?"
Raimundo glanced at Chase Young, who was staring down at all of them in their efforts, grinning.
"I don't know," Raimundo scrutinized, "but why does Chase want us to waste our time battling them? He actually ordered the bots to come after us!"
"Shoku Element: EARTH!" Clay created a mega seismic wave that caused the entire arena to shake violently. Everyone had to hold their ground, including Rika, which Clay saw as an opportunity to dive into the fight while the bots were preoccupied. He stepped alongside Jaku, facing her.
"You…" Her eyes shrink into slits as she analyzed the new rival. "I'll kill you both for trying to take me down!"
"ORB of Tornami! Shimo Staff!" Omi snuck in from behind and was spewing the sharp blades of liquid at her.
She shot her shield up. "Shoku Night: WATER!" Keeping herself protected, her own powers were shot at the boy, who rolled away and flipped to dodge.
Jaku sprang back into action, whacking her shield from behind with his bow, which began forming into a a shade of blue, but her reverted back.
Rika turned her attention back to him and Clay.
"Hmph! Just because I don't have my powers you think I'm rusty?" Wuya snapped at the girl. Kimiko managed to step into Wuya's area and began fighting her.
"I don't know what you guys are up to, but you're not getting away with it!" She told the witch during combat.
"Hmph!" Wuya snapped her fingers and a hoard of robots swarmed her. A surge of fire set the bots a blaze and caused a chain reaction of explosions, however hundreds more came at her, causing her enemy to once again be the heavy load of Jack-bots.
Raimundo was breathing heavily as he approached Chase Young.
"Your skills have improved quite a bit," Chase observed with his hands behind his back, "but I'm afraid it's all in vein."
"You're goin' down right here, Chase!"
"I'm afraid my business is not with you, Kōngjiān warrior," Chase eyed the three dragons battling below him.
"What are you up to? Tell me now!"
He chuckled. "I will, but first, a little more brawling." The robots zoomed at Raimundo, forcing him into more fighting. Chase looked down at the monks before sending more in to attack them.
Clay and Jaku had to revert their attacks on Rika and focus on the robots that were flying in front of them.
"Damn!" Clay cursed as he summoned more of his earth strength. Jaku joined into help, but their attacks seemed relentless…
…
A long time passed and the monks were still fighting off the robots. They were using lighter attacks and less martial arts moves.
They were getting exhausted.
Clay tossed another bot lazily over the cliff. "I don't see Chase no where!"
Omi glanced over at Arko, who had also been battling within the chaos, and could see that he was also lacking energy.
"We must keep on our fingers," Omi told them out of breath, "we cannot give up!"
"Nobody said anything about giving up, Omi!" Kimiko yelled in frustration. She was pissed off that her flame was becoming weaker and weaker with every kick.
Jaku wiped the sweat of his brow and looked around for Rika, who was out of sight.
A ferocious growl form behind caught his attention first.
Jaku spun around to see the green reptile charging at him on all fours.
Shocked, he held up his bow in defense, shielding himself from his claws. Chase wrapped his tail around Jaku's ankle, unnoticed, and picked him up and threw in the air. Jaku hit the ground hard, but he scrambled up right away to go after Chase.
He couldn't.
When he got up, he realized that had been entrapped by a barrier. It wasn't a shield, like Rika's, but a white light that he couldn't pass through. He looked to the side of him, seeing that Arko had also been pushed into a similar light that encircled him.
The robots suddenly ceased movement and hit the ground. The monks looked around in bewilderment, then to the mastermind behind this scheme.
"Chase," Rika approached him, "what's going on? Why are Arko and Jaku-?"
"My dear Rika," Chase transformed back into his human form, placing his hands on Rika's shoulders, leading her forward, "you still have the Sapphire Dragon?"
"What? Of course I-"
Chase stepped back. A light incarcerated Rika as well!
"Hey!" She banged against it, but there was no use.
"What are you doing?" Raimundo lunged forward and struck Jaku's cage, only for his blade to be bounced back.
"Ha, I will enlighten you fools now." Chase stood in the center of the trapped Jaku, Arko and Rika.
"Hm?" Arko pulled the Crystal Dragon out of his pocket because it was glowing. Jaku did the same with the Jade Dragon, and Rika with her Sapphire Dragon.
"Finally, the prophecy will be complete!"
"What prophecy?" Wuya demanded.
"Wuya, Spicer," Chase turned to them, the winds picking up around him, "I should thank you both for all of your help. I couldn't have done it without you."
"DONE WHAT?" Jaku banged on the light. "Let us the bloody hell out of here!"
"I'm afraid I cannot. You see, I used the robots to exhaust you so it would be easier
"Oh, my powers…" Rika dropped to her knees.
"Rika!" Clay tried prying open the barrier, only to be electrocuted and flew back.
"D-dammit!" Arko dropped to the ground as well. Jaku followed the same pattern.
"Chase! What are you doing to them?" Omi asked.
"Little Omi," Chase grinned, "prophecy said that perhaps one day you grow strong enough to defeat me. However, no one predicted the prophecy I am about to commit to today!"
"What prophecy? I'm sure I could guess it just by the title!" Dojo dared.
"There is no title, Dojo; it was never meant to exist. Dashi thought he destroyed its contents after he created the Shen Gong Wu. Tell me: how on earth do you think Grand Master Dashi created all of the Shen Gong Wu by himself?"
"W-well, I uh, don't know, exactly." The dragon admitted.
"Its because he didn't create the magic on his own. It already existed, and Dashi just made them tangible through the Shen Gong Wu."
"What does this have to do with why you captured them?" Omi demanded.
"Everything. You see, the prophecy goes a little like this: Once the sun, the moon and the stars are combined, time and space forever become intertwined. And the world will submit to the one who possesses these powers, for now, until the limitless hour. This prophecy was forged by the three powers of the children of Master Shisui."
"Shisui? Ha! That guy doesn't have any history on him, he was just a guy who could control magic, right? He came before Grand Master Dashi or any of the Xiaolin warriors for that matter!" Dojo recalled.
"Master Shisui was a man ahead of his time. Before there were martial arts, there were the natural magic's of the earth that people used for self-defense instead. Shisui was one seven others who vowed to collect these destructive powers and lock them away from the eyes of the corrupted man. They succeeded, but a particular incident is what drove Dashi to forge the Shen Gong Wu and scatter them around the earth. It was within this incident the reason that I have these three dragons in my possession now."
It had become apparent to the monks that Rika, Arko and Jaku were trapped within the three circles that were connected around the field. The wind grew heavier and the sky darker as lightening began to strike around the arena.
"Master Shisui had become old, so he granted his three children with the most influential elemental powers that existed." Chase continued. "To his eldest son he granted the powers of the moon, his second eldest was his daughter whom he gave the powers of the sun, and to his youngest son he granted the power of the stars. His oldest son, Tanoa, is the one who caused all of their troubles, as he believed that with such awesome magic, he should be ruling the world. His daughter, Anika, disagreed with Tanoa, and believed that their powers should be used to protect the world. The youngest boy, Setario, did not want to betray either of his siblings, so he remained neutral in the epic battle they were about to embark on. Tanoa and Anika battled for years, gaining more and more power on both sides, trying to destroy each other. Setario eventually became involved as well, trying to keep them from killing one another, however all of their powers combined within their little war began to tear the planet apart. When they were so close to destroying earth completely, their father, Shisui, finally kicked in and took their powers away. He sacrificed himself in the process, realizing that these forces were too charismatic for any man to control. He placed the three powers within the first Shen Gong Wu ever created. Can you guess what they were?"
Jaku looked down at his glowing Wu. "The Jade Dragon, the Crystal Dragon and the Sapphire Dragon."
"Very good, Xiaolin Dragon of Day."
"Wait, are you trying to recreate what happened back then with Shusui's children?" Omi realized.
Chase chuckled. "Little Omi, I already have recreated it! This field is the place that Shisui sacrificed himself to seal the powers away within the Shen Gong Wu. Nobody was ever supposed to know about the seal he used to conceal the magic, because nobody was ever supposed to know that these three powers existed!" Chase looked up towards the sky. "You see, the sun and the moon and stars see everything. They hover over all other elements. They were the first spells used to conquer over all others, and nearly destroyed the world because of the bickering of three, mere, mortals. You cannot destroy magic, so the only thing Shisui could do was hide it in those three dragons. To keep anyone from knowing about the dragons, he placed the seal and the detailed prophecy on the dragons, to make them extremely difficult to use ever again, but I found it…"
"I've never heard of this prophecy before!" Wuya intervened. "Chase, why didn't you tell me about this?"
"Because you wouldn't approve of it, Wuya. You see, the small little biff of the prophecy I mentioned early was only one and a millionth portion of the entire prophecy written out in it's sacred scroll that made the prophecy real. As I was saying, since Shisui could not destroy the magic, this meant that people could still claim these destructive powers. He wrote out the prophecy in his own writing that made it difficult to decipher, however after hundreds of years of translating it, it was finally revealed within Dashi's time. When he found out what the prophecy was, he asked the elders of that time if he could something drastic: destroy the prophecy. Much to his relief, they agreed, and the scroll was burned."
"If the scroll was burned, then how do you know about it?"
"If you let me finish, Wuya, I'll enlighten you some more. At the time, even before I was being harassed by Hannibal Bean to question my comrades and the side of good, I had grown maliciously curious of this ultimate prophecy. I knew of some magic that I could possibly use to recreate the scroll so I could read it..."
"T-the Rio-Reverso?"
"Why yes, that's what it's called now." Chase confirmed. "I took the ashes of the scroll and kept them until I knew I could get my hands on this type of magic. I finally did when Dashi created the Rio-Reverso." He held up the oldest scroll ever seen by the monks. "And I've kept it with me ever since." He looked back at the witch.
"The reason why I didn't want to tell you, is because of what's in this scroll. Basically, it states that once the powers reoccur, within the same vessels, the one to reunite these abilities will gain all their powers; the ultimate strength to bend the world to his or her whim!"
"You didn't want me knowing so I wouldn't try to create the prophecy myself! That's why you never told me what you were really planning!" Wuya snapped.
Chase laughed triumphantly. "Correct! The prophecy explains that if the same circumstances reoccurred among the wielders of these prime elemental powers, the one to acknowledge these powers would receive them, and forever gain the ultimate power over this world!"
"Reoccur? But they [referring to Jaku, Rika and Arko] already had these elemental powers! Why did you need them and the dragons?"
"I needed the descendants of the children." Chase turned his attention to the three children trapped around him. "YOU are Shisui's children's descendants to receive their elemental powers, or as we say, the Chosen Ones, to receive the destiny to become Xiaolin Dragons." He went back to the monks. "All of you have ancestors somehow related to the old magic, which is why you have been the Chosen generation to become Xiaolin Dragons!"
"Whoa, I didn't think our ancestors had anything to do with us being chosen," Raimundo thought aloud.
"You are not really supposed to know. Any information that could lead to this prophecy becoming reality was meant to be forgotten, so you were never supposed to know that the Day, Night and Star Xiaolin Dragons were so important. They meshed you in with all of the other dragons, so that you would not be so noticeable… But I knew who all were right away."
He turned to Jaku. "I could see your nobility as the Day Dragon. You are loyal to the side of good, and humbling, and not to mention you obtained the powers of the sun. I didn't want you straying away from the side of good, so unlike Rika, I wanted you to keep ties with the monks. I'm sure that once you had become more intimate with the Dragon of Fire, your desire to be good and heroic increased even more, yes?"
Jaku gave a disgusted glare. "The Wick of Illusion. You used it on me, when I was meditating to get my Wudai Weapon so I would kiss Kimiko when I woke up!"
"Yes, another small favor from me, I suppose. I can see that you're all still close and battling out for your love, or at least I noticed it while I was a cat. Spying on all of you, I could see that your bonds were pathetically close, so I knew you would be ready and still on the side of good for this day, Jaku Romane."
"You son of a..! You used our hearts even for the smallest part of your plan!" Raimundo clenched his fist.
Chase averted his attention to the other entrapped boy. "Arko here obviously hates both the side of Heylin and good, and he just happened to be the warrior of the stars. I may have told him about the Crystal Dragon, and that Kimiko would be there as well. It was like killing two birds with one stone for him; he could infiltrate my castle during the Heylin Ball, steal Kimiko's soul, and take the desired Shen Gong Wu in the process. Either way, I let you escape with the Wu. You still haven't been able to figure out how to use it, have you?"
"Hmph, of course not. The power of the Crystal Dragon is to see which side would win in the end." He lowered his head in shame. "And because I don't believe in good or evil, I never bothered trying to figure out how to activate the Wu."
"Exactly." Chase's voice rang out. "I knew you wouldn't care about it's power, so you wouldn't try to activate it, which is why I knew it would be safe with you until the time was right."
Chase faced Rika now. "She was a little more difficult. Her loyalty seemed to be on the side of good, only for the sake of her duties, but deep down, I could see she was miserable. She wanted to be something greater, whether it had to do with her past or for her own selfish reasons, she desired more power. That power corrupted our lovely Xiaolin Dragon of Night, and she became evil, through a very, very difficult process that I managed to survive."
"You… YOU TRICKED ME!" She screamed.
"I tricked all of you, don't take it personally." He sneered. "I told you that you weren't that important to me, and I meant it. I stabbed you in the stomach that day, to make it seem as though I didn't really require your help that much, so to avert attention away from the fact that I may have been interested in you joining me. While the other monks never saw my approach to you coming, you and I had a few private chats that had you second guessing your place at the Xiaolin temple. Then, I needed a good kick to make you come to me yourself." Chase pulled out the Moby-Morpher. "I used this, more than once, to make you mine, Rika. First, I was the cat, then, I turned into that ridiculous cowboy so you could hear what you needed in order to leave the temple."
"You turned into..?" Her eyes widened. "That was YOU? You said all of those horrible things to me that night, when I was supposed to go out with Clay?"
"The monks' friendship was the only thing keeping you there, really. In reality, you hated how obnoxious they were, and you weren't getting any stronger. I said those things to you so you would finally make the right decision and leave them." His malevolent smirk never fading. "You should thank me."
"YOU BASTARD! WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE I-!"
"SHUT IT." He interjected. "Don't blame me, Rika Harper. You heard what you wanted to hear that night from "Clay Bailey", and you used it as an excuse to get away. You never thought that something suspicious was going on, not because you weren't bright enough to figure it out, but because you didn't want to. With the monks hating you now, you could go do your own thing, right?"
Rika was mute. She wanted to cry, wake from this nightmare, anything to make his words unrealistic, but she just stared with a terrified gleam in her eyes.
"That's what I thought. Don't you see? You were always meant to be against these fools, and inherit the ultimate powers of the Heylin side! It took me a while to make you understand this, but in the end, it succeeded."
"I never said I had officially joined, though!" She argued. "I said I wouldn't until I defeated the Jabberwocky!"
"Oh. That." Chase snapped his fingers and the Jabberwocky vanished in a puff of smoke.
"WHAT?" The monks yelled in unison.
Chase laughed even more at their ignorance. "How was that? Did you monks have fun traveling from place to place to get the Jade Dragon?"
"N-no way…" Omi stammered. "Y-you couldn't have!"
"I did. The realm the dragon was in is a magical dimension. Any fool with a high enough level of magic could manipulate that entire realm, and make it their own. I created the stages to be complex and bizarre beyond all relief, in a way that would intrigue you monks to get more involved during your search for the Jade Dragon."
"You made the whole thing up? The knights, the demons, the haunted mansion, everything?" Dojo gasped.
"Did you all enjoy your trip? I had a few more in store for you, however I had to let you get the Jade Dragon eventually, so Jaku could have it in his possession for this day. Also, the trip to search for the Jade Dragon took up a lot of your time. As you monks searched for the Wu, I took my time drawing Rika more and more to my side."
"You planned all of this, ever since you knew who Jaku, Rika and Arko were! You kept it so secret, so we'd have no idea that you planned to use all three of them eventually!" Kimiko spat.
"It was all so simple, really. You all played the part you were meant to just too perfectly, I just gave you all a little push somehow. And Rika, seducing you was a difficult task. You're quite stubborn, but obviously, I lured you to the Heylin side at a decent enough level for this prophecy to work. Even though you didn't fight the Jabberwocky, you yourself had already chosen to remain Heylin within your heart!"
Rika thought about this for a moment
Even if I do defeat the Jabberwocky, it's not likely I'll ever be going back to the temple.
She had made that decision herself, even before this moment, Rika Harper knew that she had decided she would become evil to get the powers she wanted. She just didn't think it would end up like this…
"You can thank Arko too, for the extra push. He made you feel weak, didn't he? It made you want to find a different power even more."
"Arko?" Clay blinked in confusion. "What does he have to with…?"
"Should I tell them, Rika? How he tried to make you his?"
"Shut up!" She screamed. "SHUT UP!"
"He…" Jaku looked at Arko, who was sitting down with his hands on his head. "You tried to..?" Jaku stood up, weakly. "YOU IDIOT! What did you think would happen?"
"I don't know, alright?" Arko snapped back. "I can't come up with any excuses. I shouldn't have tried to do it, but…"
"But your lust got the best of you." Chase finished. "You've always had a desire for her, but you just could never find the right time to admit you had feelings for her. Once the monks had marked you as the enemy, you just decided to play the bad guy. I may have whispered a few things in his ear, telling him to claim what should be his without any remorse of how to get it, but he doesn't have any respect for anyone anyway, so it made the job easy. I didn't think he'd actually try to do it, though. I had a backup plan for if he wouldn't attack her, but since you did it worked out even better than I thought it would."
"Bastard, YOU BASTARD! I HATE YOU!" Rika's tears were streaming.
"I don't care," he stated flatly. "Everything you monks think, everything you monks have ever done or felt… it won't matter in a few seconds."
"No matter what power you get, we will still stop you!" Omi challenged.
"I don't think you can!" Chase's eyes widened. His face, almost too happy. The most maniacal cackle emerged from Chase Young as the lightning struck him, and the light surrounding the three dragons flooded everyone's sight until there was nothing left.
To Be Continued
Sorry, it's been a while I've just been lazy, and I edited Chase's plans like five times to make sure I got everything. I think I did… if there's any questions let me know!
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