Chapter Twenty

Lights Mistake

"This is it!" Kimiko screamed, banging her hands down hard on the breakfast table.

It was four O'clock in the morning and Kimiko had shouted everyone out of bed. Even Yuki had come along and he hadn't talked to any of the Xiaolin warriors since he some of his memory came back to him. Shashine gave him a big hug but Yuki just ignored her. Shashine sighed. Poor thing...maybe he was just muddled up in his mind when he said that he wasn't human... Shashine thought, but a sudden doubt flashed across her mind.

"Okay," Kimiko said, the fire in her eyes burning out "We have got to find Omi okay? We need him and so I've decided that we're going to break into Chase's lair this morning and find Omi's soul."

"Why this morning? Why couldn't it have been tonight when we'd had a good lie in?" Raimundo asked, then yawned.

"Because mister," Kimiko said, going right up to him and poked him in the chest hard with her finger "Chase has normally always got Zakmes, Xsin and Aketai on guards at the night and they'd surely find us so we're going in the morning when Chase is probably least expecting it."

"And how did you know all this?" Raimundo replied, arching an eyebrow.

"Just shut up and stop talking!" Kimiko screamed at him.

Raimundo instantly fell silent.

"Well why should we listen to you?" Vixtra spoke up "Hell, you could even be working for him and luring us all into a trap. Well, I don't think I'm going to follow you like a brainless sheep."

Kimiko went right up to her and slapped her on the cheek.

"I have had enough of you complaining," Kimiko hissed "Just shut up and listen to what I have to say."

"Why should I!" Vixtra shouted at her, enraged by Kimiko slapping her "How the hell have you got power over me!"

Vixtra slapped Kimiko back. Kimiko was about to slap Vixtra again until Clay got in between them and held her back.

"Let's not go fightin' with eacother," Clay said "Afterall, we're on the same team here."

Kimiko turned away from Vixtra and Vixtra gave her the darkest look that she could muster, which was pretty scary. Kimiko just ignored her and went back to her speech.

"Right, well I think that we should set off now to give us a long time to look," she explained "So, we should get atleast one Shen-Gon-Wu each but if you get small ones take a few because you can always tuck them into your sashes. Shashine and Yuki, your robes are over there. Get changed into them because it will be easier to carry Wu and things."

"Okay," Shashine took her robes and Yuki slowly took his out of the room too.

After they were done everyone went down to the Shen-Gong-Wu vault. Vixtra took the Poison dart and tucked the Acid Splash and Poison Ivy into her sash, Kimiko took the Arrow Sparrow and the Star Hinarby, Clay took the Fist of Tepigong which he had on his fist already and the Third Arm Sash, Raimundo took the Sword of the Storm and the Blade of the Nebula and he caried them in both hands, Shashine had the Fancy Feet and the Eye of Dashi which she had put around her neck, Rei had the Ashes of the Running Wolf and the Tiger Gauntlets, Edward took the Sword of Penzance and the Scroll of the Old Order which he looked at with a worried expression on his face, Xavier (who didn't need his crutches anymore) had the Minds Eye, Stormy Skies and the Crystal Glasses and Yuki had the Jet Bootsu and the Tangle Web Comb.

"Right," a look of worry crossed Kimiko's face for a fraction of a second "Let's go, Dojo are you ready?"

Dojo nodded slowly, even Dojo had a Shen-Gong-Wu (he only had one because that was all that he could carry in his gecko like form) which was the Ruby of Ramsees. Dojo super-sized and everyone hopped onto his back.

"The plan is that we break in through the back because he's bound to have a back door or something. We break in and split up in two's to find Omi's soul. I'll go with Clay, Edward with Xavier, Rei with Vixtra, Yuki with Shashine and that leaves Raimundo and Dojo to pair up. It's most likely to be in that gold box that Xsin had before, I doubt they would have put it in a different box or something and-"

"Kimiko, we're here," said Dojo, as he touched down to the ground at the back of Chase's lair.

Kimiko nodded and they all climbed off Dojo. They all walked up to the wall infront of them.

"It's probably just like his front door," Kimiko suggested as she put her hand on a square of wall that seemed cleaner then the rest.

The square went in and part of the wall slid up, Kimiko grinned.

"Right, okay we all go in different directions from here. Good luck," Kimiko tried to smile reassuringly but couldn't and walked off with Clay at her heels.

The others looked at eachother with worried expressions then all walked off in their two's down different corridors.

"Tag! You're it!" Aketai called, grabbing Zakmes by the arm and pulling him down to the ground as he was flying.

Zakmes laughed and chased after Xsin and Aketai. He flew back up in the air and poked Xsin on the top of his head.

"Tag!" he exclaimed, then errupted into a fit of giggles.

But then Aketai suddenly stopped at an abrupt halt which made Xsin collide into her as he was still runnig and couldn't stop in time. Zakmes landed behind the two of them who were on a heap on the floor.

"What is it?" asked Xsin, managing to pull his furry tail out from underneath Aketai.

"Ssshhhh," Aketai hissed "Someone's coming."

Zakmes and Xsin stayed silent and sure enough they heard footsteps. The three of them looked at eachother and grinned.

"Let's go," Aketai smiled, and the three of them ran out into the corridor.

Kimiko and Clay froze on the spot.

"Arrow Sparrow!" Kimiko screamed, throwing the three sparrows at Zakmes, Xsin and Aketai. There was an explosion of fire which Kimiko and Clay took the chance to run. The Arrow Sparrow came back to Kimiko like a boomerang. She grabbed them and kept on running. The two of them skidded around a corner but the flying Zakmes was in hot persuit.

"FIRE!" Kimiko was running backwards, shooting a giant jet of fire at Zakmes.

Zakmes caught it and threw it back. Xsin and Aketai ducked and almost got hit by it.

"Watch what your doing!" Xsin and Aketai called together.

"Fist of Tepigong!" Clay punched the floor sending Xsin and Aketai tumbling over backwards.

But Clay's pause gave Zakmes enough time to catch up. Zakmes grabbed his arm and pulled him backwards. Kimiko hadn't realised and kept on running.

"Kimiko!" Clay called "A little help here!"

Kimiko skidded to a halt and ran back when she heard Clay's calls.

"Star Hinarby-Fire!" she shot the fire up at Zakmes' hand so he would drop Clay.

But Zakmes wasn't so stupid to let that happen. He swiftly moved and caught the fire in his other hand and threw it back at Kimiko. Kimiko held the Star Hinarby up and the fire dissapeared into it.

"Wudai Mars Fire!" she yelled, flipping in the air and sending a fireball, which was as high as to the floor to the ceiling, straight at Zakmes.

Zakmes yawned and just kicked the fireball back at her. Kimiko put her hand out and the fireball stopped then exploded, showering everyone with bits of fire. Kimiko didn't actually realise that was going to happen and it was burning Clay as well as Xsin, Zakmes and Aketai.

"Holy crap! My hair's on fire!" Xsin screamed, trying to pat it out "My beautiful hair! Noooo!"

Aketai gave him a weird look as if to say 'okaaaaay then'.

"Well wouldn't you be like that if your hair was on fire...which it is."

Aketai shrieked and started patting at her hair too. Xsin burst out laughing.

"It's not really!" he giggled.

Aketai slapped him hard in the cheek and kneed him in the gut. Xsin fell to the floor, clutching his stomach.

"That'll teach you never to do things like that to me," Aketai grinned.

"Wouldn't dream of it," Xsin choked.

"Aaaanyway, Kimiko Tohomiko. We are going to take Clay and be on our way. Toodles," Zakmes put on a fake smile and flew off, Xsin and Aketai running after him.

"CLAAYY!" Kimiko screamed at the top of her lungs and went running after them.

She ran into a dead end and screamed, hitting the wall.

"Clay!" she cried, but there was no reply.

Vixtra walked along a seemingly endless corridor, hands in her pockets and head bowed. Rei skipped along, looking all around for Omi's soul.

"Come on Vixtra!" he urged "Put your back into it."

Vixtra glared at him evily. Rei instantly looked away and kept on searching. He opened a door and in it was a rather large lion. When it saw Rei it growled and went bounding towards him.

"Vixtra! Help!" Rei called, just missing the lions sharp claws.

Vixtra sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Poison Dart!" she called.

The two blades came out of the side of the Wu and Vixtra hit a poisonous arrow into the lion's side who roared and turned to Vixtra.

"Come here kitty," Vixtra said darkly "I'm not scared or you."

The lion roared again and went straight towards Vixtra. Vixtra flipped in the air, her short ginger hair flying around. She landed with force and stuck one of the blades into the lions back. There was a crunch and it came out of its stomach. Blood sprayed out everywhere, spurting on the walls and covering Vixtra and Rei. Vixtra pulled the blade out of the lion with a squelching sound and it fell to the ground, twitching slightly. Rei wretched. Vixtra looked at him with disgust then began wiping the blood off the blade with the edge of her jacket. After that the blades went back into the Wu and Vixtra and Rei (mostly Rei) carried on searching, Vixtra ignoring the blood all over her. Rei was trying to wipe the blood off himself but it only made things worse.

"What's that?" Edward said, slowing to a halt.

"I heard it too," Xavier replied "It was like a ticking noise, wasn't it?"

The two of them stood there silently.

Tick-tock.

The threw nervous glances at eachother. What could be making that noise?

Tick-tock.

Edward looked up, and almost screamed. There was a bomb attached to the ceiling.

"Okay," he said, trying to be as calm as possible but his voice was wavering.

Tick-tock

"When I say ru-XAVIER, GET DOWN!"

BOOM!

The two of them jumped in the opposite direction and the whole corridor was engulfed by fire.

"We're never going to find anything," Raimundo moaned, being his usual grumpy self "I mean, with my bad luck who would!?"

"Don't rub your bad luck off on me pal, I don't want it," Dojo replied who was sitting on Raimundo's shoulder.

Raimundo rolled his eyes and carried on walking. He was the one who wanted Omi back the most but didn't like to show it. He always liked that cheeseball but didn't like to show his feelings. He always concidered him as a really good friend.

"Raimundo, watch out you're gonna walk into a wall," Dojo said, right into his ear.

"Wha-" Raimundo went back into reality "Oh right. Heh silly me."

Raimundo turned on his heel and walked down another corridor, checking in every room. One room was filled with snakes and Raimundo quickly closed the door of that one as there were many angry hisses in his ear.

"RAI!" a girls voice echoed around the corridors.

Raimundo quickly turned around and was face to face with a tearful Kimiko.

"I lost Clay," she sniffled "Zakmes took him. I didn't mean for it to happen I'm so stupid. I-"

"Ssshh," said Raimundo quietly and gave Kimiko a hug.

Dojo was quick to jump off Raimundo's shoulder and grimace.

"Don't worry," Raimundo reassured after he had let go of her "We'll find him."

"Okay," Kimiko replied "Can I come with you?"

"Sure," Raimundo smiled.

Dojo jumped back onto Raimundo's shoulder and the three of them carried on searching.

Shashine opened a small door, just big enough for someone small to get through. I could never fit in there she thought, then looked at Yuki who seemed in a faraway place.

"Yuki," Shashine said.

Yuki shook his head.

"Name's not Yuki," he said, barely audible.

"Well, what is your name. Tell me and I'll call you that," Shashine said kindly.

But Yuki just shook his head once more.

"Well, could you do me the biggest of favours-"

But Yuki cut her off.

"Why do you think that kid's soul will be in there?" Yuki said, suddenly there was alot of hatred in his voice "It would most obviously be in the place where that guy with girly hair can see it."

Shashine's jaw dropped slightly.

"Well, okay," she closed the tiny door and the two of them kept on moving, Yuki at least two metres away from Shashine muttering things to himself.

He's changed Shashine thought, turning her head slightly so that Yuki was in her view. He was looking down to the ground, not knowing where to put his hands. He kept shifting the positions of them every five seconds. Poor thing. She turned around again and got the fright of her life. Standing just a few metres away from her was that...mysterious girl. Nobody knew her name but she had always been there to help them in some way. She helped get Xavier back to the temple after the dracholich accident, she appeared infront of Shashine and Raimundo, she won a showdown against Xsin and they saved her after she was being held hostage by Zakmes, Xsin and Aketai.

"You again," Shashine said to her "Who are you? Why do you always appear?"

The girl shook her head.

"No time. Follow me. I know what you're looking for, and I know where to find it."

"If this blood never washes out I swear I'm gonna have a breakdown," Rei complained "This was my favouritest Miffy top...and I don't care if that's not even a word!"

Vixtra felt like punching him but successfully refrained from doing so. She thought he was an annoying crybaby who ought to have some decency to just shut up.

"Right anyway, we need to carry on searching don't we?" Rei said and Vixtra looked at him as if to say 'obviously' "Well sorry for asking!"

That was the last straw. Vixtra turned to him and attempted to punch him in the side of the head. But the most amazing thing was that in super-fast time Rei grabbed Vixtra's fist just before it impacted with his face.

"Don't," Rei said, and let go of her still clenched fist.

Vixtra glared at him evily. Someday I'll get revenge...

"Guess who!"

Vixtra and Rei spun around as fast as they could, Rei in a fighting stance and Vixtra clutching the Poison Dart.

"Vixtra Vixtra Vixtra," Zakmes taunted "I so kicked your butt the last time we met."

"You wanna try again?" she questioned, holding the poison dart more further out "Huh?"

"Every time," Zakmes told her, and ran straight to her.

"Poison Dart!" the blades came out of the ends of the Wu and she began trying to cut them with them.

Zakmes was to fast and tore at her arm with his sharp claws. Vixtra began to use the Wu as a bow and arrow and successfully put two poison arrows in Zakmes' leg.Zakmes just pulled them out without a second glance. Rei took the Acid Splash from her belt (Vixtra refused to wear her robes and Rei insisted on wearing his Miffy things but the two of them still had belts) and amed it at Zakmes.

"What's this Wu called again-oh yeah! Acid Splash!"

A jet of green poison headed straight for Zakmes. Zakmes just tossed the poison away with great ease.

"Is that the best you've got?" he mocked.

"Vixtra grabbed the Poison Dart in one hand and the Poison Ivy in the other. She clipped the Poison Ivy onto the Poison Dart, then she clipped the Acid Splash on too. I hope this works she thought.

"Poison Dart! Poison Ivy! Acid Splash"

A jet of poison, a poison arrow and poisonous ivy shot out of the Wu. Zakmes yelped and ran off, avoiding all that Vixtra shot at her.

"That'll teach him," Vixtra said, tucking the Acid Splash and Poison Ivy back into her belt.

Edward groaned and regained conciousness. Xavier pulled him back to his feet.

"Okay, what the hell happened?" Xavier asked "What was that?"

"A bomb," Edward replied "Someone must have knew that we were coming."

Xavier nodded.

"Well if someone knew that we were coming then, how?"

Edward shook his head.

"No idea," he replied "Come on, let's keep searching. You never know, maybe the others have even found Omi's soul by now."

Xavier nodded and the two of them walked away from the burnt corridor, not a scratch on them. Edward suddenly noticed.

"Oky, now I'm really confused," sasid Edward, looking at his hands "I should be burned to a cinder. Why aren't I?"

"Oh," Xavier replied "I made a shield, just in time I suppose.

"You saved my life!" Edward smiled "Boy, do I owe you one!"

"In here!" Raimundo called to Kimiko "Quickly!"

Kimiko, Raimundo and Dojo all went into a dimly lit room and shut the door behind them.

"Why?" Kimiko asked.

"Ssshhh," whispered Raimundo "Someone's coming."

"Uhhh, guys," Dojo said, his voice shaking.

"Ssshhh Dojo, you have to keep quiet."

"Yeah, well, it may come to your interest that THERE'S A GIANT PANTHER BEHIND ME!"

Kimiko and Raimundo looked at eachother then screamed as the black panther jumped out of them. They couldn't see it when the got into the room because the room was dark and the panther was black. But now it's jaws were wide open, showing a full set of sharp teeth. then the door opened and in stepped a tiger, that must have been what Raimundo had heard coming.

"I'll get the panther, you two get the tiger!" he called.

Kimiko and Dojo nodded.

"Ruby of Ramsees!" Dojo shouted.

The tiger was suspended in mid air, roaring with hate at Dojo.

"Now Kimiko!" Dojo exclaimed.

Kimiko nodded and took the Star Hinarby out from her sash.

"Star Hinarby-FIRE!" she shot a stream of fire at the floating tiger.

The tiger roared but was them engulfed in fire. The smell of burning filled the room and the charred bones of the tiger lay on the floor, bits of flesh still clinging onto them. Kimiko was almost sick.

"Blade of the Nebula! Sword of the Storm!"

Raimundo used the two swords as if they were propellers. The panther screeched and crashed through the closed window with so much force that Kimiko and Raimundo were covered in bits of panther. This time Kimiko was sick. Raimundo and Dojo wretched (Dojo just because of the smell, he was too small to be splattered).

"I am never doing that again," Kimiko moaned, her face was pale and a slight tinge of green.

There was a wardrobe in the room and Raimundo opened it. It was filled with flamboyant, beautiful dresses.

"Raimundo!" Kimiko screamed "Now's not the time!"

"No no," Raimundo chucked a dress at Kimiko and took one for himself "To clean off all the bits of panther."

Kimiko was sick again then she began wiping herself down with the white dress. So did Raimundo. After all the bits of panther were off them the three of them went out of the room, closing the door so nobody would suspect the smell unless they walked into the room.

"Where are you leading us?" Shashine asked.

"Chase's throne room, it's in there," the woman replied, then stopped at a huge black door "Here it is. Funny, you'd think if you had so many precious things in there you would think of locking the door."

The woman pushed the door open and the three of them stepped inside.

"Wow!" Shashine gasped, there was a beautiful throne in the middle of them room and lying on it was a lioness, she was asleep but could have woke up at any moment "This rooms beautiful."

"Sshh," the woman hissed "We don't want to wake that lioness up, she's one of Chase's toughest cat warriors."

Shashine nodded and they tip-toed carefully upto the throne.

"Okay, I'm getting slightly scared now," Shashine said, she was so close to the lioness that its breath was making her robes ripple a bit.

"It's okay," the woman said, then realised that the lioness' paw was on a golden box "There it is, Omi's soul."

"How did you-"

The woman shook her head.

"We need to find a way to get the box without the lioness waking up. I'll do it, I've done alot of things like this before."

Shashine nodded, Yuki was still at the other side of the room. As soon as the woman put her hand on the golden box he ran foreward.

"Get off!" he screamed, the loudest anyone had ever heard them "That's MINE!"

The lioness slowly opened her eyes, then roared. Then she saw Yuki and ran straight up to him...purring. Yuki tickled the lioness behind the eaes then rounded on the woman.

"Give me that," Yuki insisted.

The woman shook her head.

"Give me that NOW!"

"I knew from the first day I met you there was something wrong with you," the woman said "But now I know what you are."

Yuki ran to her and tried to pull the box from her hands. The woman was pulling it back but Yuki had managed to grab it and was pulling with all of his might. He snatched the box off the woman and she toppled over. Shashine didn't know what to do, tears of frustration and worry were rolling down her cheeks.

"Yuki, give that back," she whispered.

"No," Yuki said, clutching the box tighter "My name's not Yuki. It's Ryuu. I'm seven years old."

"Yuki stop this-"

"SHUT UP!" Yuki shouted at Shashine "And what am I you ask. Well, I'll tell you. I'm a demon."

Yuki ran off out of the double doors, the woman running after him. Shashine fell to the floor, hugging her knees and sobbing. Yuki? A...a

A demon.

Haha! So now you know the big secret! By the way, Ryuu means dragon in Japanese if you didin't know :) Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, it was one of my longer ones. Please leave a review on your way out.

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I do not own Miffy :) Though she is so adorably cute :)

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