A/N: Here comes the end! And it's such a struggle of making men manly! I'm a girl! I don't know how to make men soulless assholes!
Monkey|Dragon part 5
Everything came to this...
Jack slid his hand across the cool metal of his design. It's light flickered on and off from both back and front for those with poor night vision. The cooling within the car, just in case the environment was too hot for certain animals, was working. The window wipers were mobile. The top was customizable. The seats were comfortable with a strap to make sure that the driver or the passengers didn't fly out, and there was to be an inflatable bag that'll pop out to stop the person from crashing against the front. Yet it was to still be considered customization because it could still break necks and it didn't work for animals with unique features.
It was near perfection but there was still the test drive of whether it could move and be steered.
Jack was then diverted from it when a hand touched his shoulder gently. He turned his head to see Le Mime. He hand signed to him if he was alright. It's just been two weeks since he has been told his best friends were murdered by a bitch, and he hadn't seen Magdeline which he was glad for. He didn't get out of his room until a week and a half later once the professor encouraged him to finish the car.
"I'm fine." He responded indifferently as he stared at the silver car. "I can't wait til I drive this baby."
"I believe what Le Mime was trying to get across is that you look tired."
"Are you insinuating that I am crazy?"
"No!"
"It's alright. I dreamt that Goddess Pulan told me that I was her son, and that I was surrogated into Queen Wuya so I could be born fully formed. I wonder why she couldn't have just bought me into the high heavens instead of having me be raised by the woman I'm destined to kill. Thanks mom. You really have such great expectations."
"It is just a dream."
Jack was silent for a moment as he continued to eye the silver beauty before him. He looked at his hand of peach skin. With his clear porcelain skin, it would've matched in a cool way. He still felt so much rage, grief, loss and confusion. The situation was clear but he was confused of what to do. He still visited Chase but just for sex, yet the warrior would cuddle him afterwards so close to his ironically warm chest for a reptile.
Tears flowed down his cheeks. "Aren't prophecies like dreams? What is a dream? Isn't it just an idea in your head? Who did the Great Xiaolin Phoenix Dashi think he was to pick someone he pleases for what he should've done himself! Just because he may have saved my life, maybe I was not a life worth saving!" He clenched his fists. Still delicate to the issues he was facing.
"You don't actually mean that." The professor patted his back.
Jack wiped his tears. "I don't." He croaked. "But it hurts so much." He said breathlessly. "And I'm afraid because Nesa and Caitlin were tributes to my so called prophecy. I told you that I'm afraid of who will be next. I'm so scared."
Le Mime quickly came to him to hold him as Jack looked like he was crumbling. He rubbed soothing circles on his back and took the tears upon his shoulder.
"We're all destined to die at some point Prince Jack."
"But at my hand." He held Le Mime tighter afraid that he would begin to fade.
"That's not true Jack. We're lingering in a war not much longer now. It's natural for people, even the best ones, to die. If I were to be killed, I won't go down without a fight. That we both promise you."
Jack sniffed as he felt slightly more comforted. At least there was a chance at hand. Probably...
There was a knock on the door. "I got it!" Professor Cyclops headed for the door. "What?! What do you want?! Don't you know I'm busy!" he shouted as he opened it to find a guard standing before him.
The guard handed a letter wrapped by the royal ribbons with the color of red and green. "A letter wrapped by the royal colors! It must be important!" He quickly opened it like a child opening a present to read the contents inside. "Great Xiaolin Phoenix Dashi! We're having an open ball where everyone including the town is allowed to be present!"
"What?" Jack wiped his tears streak face.
The scientist slammed the door on the guard and heard a big thump yet it was ignored. "It must be important for having even scoundrels of the town join! He only does this whenever he's passing a law or wants to humiliate someone personally! Very gruesome! It looks like the theme is black!"
"Just black?" In Jack's kingdom, the theme was usually expressed with full extravagant elegance. The scientist nodded.
"Yup! We'll be there, too, Prince Jack! Me, Le Mime and his family. It's really quite a tiresome event but I wish to help you go on through the night merrily! It looks like it's tomorrow night."
Jack looked at the car. "So I have to test drive it another day because I obviously have to be there in a new dress. I'll see you boys tomorrow night." The male went to his room to find out that it had already been filled with almost all the materials he needed. He set out to work, but he could not figure out any design for tomorrow night.
He decided to drop it, and visit his true love Chase. He slipped through the walls using the Serpent's Tail and then saw that he was not in his room.
He decided to wait by lying on the bed and staring at the moon from the window. If Pulan was gone, who was controlling the moon then. Jack had reasoned that it was a gravitational pull between the sun, earth and moon and all this god/goddess business were just nicknames for their appearances.
"So you're the one visiting Prince Chase."
Jack heard a familiar voice. He sat up and turned his head to see a full formed Salamander Dromada.
"You know it took some time to figure out how to finally get through my lovely Chase's room." The deranged woman stared at him with a creepy childlike smile. "Do you know how it feels to be in love?" She chuckled and then laughed out loud to the ceiling. "No you don't!" She closed in on the Capuchin monkey. "Because what you and Chase have will never compare to what we have! I am Chase's true love!" She bared her poisonous claws and strike with great ferocity. Jack turned into his small monkey form to get away. He just then realized he didn't have the serpent's tail with him. Dromada screamed in great irritant as she continued her lust for blood! "I am his soul mate! I! ME! NOT YOU! YOU FUCKIN' SLUT! HOMEWRECKER! YOU ARE EVEN A MAN! A GHOST! A MONKEY MOST OF ALL! YOU WORTHLESS ABOMINATION TO ALL KINDS! YOUR EXISTENCE IS AN INSULT!"
Jack kept trying to dodge all her attack but was fatally caught by one strike to his hip. Blood seeped down his thighs yet he struggled to stay alive. Cursed the fact that Chase sound proof the place. But also bless it because he didn't want to get caught. He tried to look for the serpent's without getting killed through the mess.
He looked through a splintered remains of the bed only to have the poison in him revert into his human body since his small body wasn't as immune as his bigger form. Out of panic when he heard her leap towards him, he pulled one of the splintered woods and thrust it into the bitch's belly.
"You..." Jack swallowed down his realization of his actions to say what he wanted to say. "You killed my friends you psychotic cunt." He pulled the splintered wood out to only have it stab the salamander over and over again even when she pleaded for mercy or even when she stopped moving.
When Jack did stop, he looked down at the scraps of lizard. And he felt powerful. He felt like the god he was suppose to be.
Not until his love entered the room and saw the monstrosity that has happened. He was bewildered at first but then his senses told him who it was. He closed the door behind him and then with one inhale of air, he let out his dragon breath of fire until there was nothing left at all. No even soot.
Prince Chase then had a tornado blow around them to form the room back to the way it was. Even Jack was no long covered in cuts or blood of his and Dromada's.
The man then took Jack into his arms. "It's alright. You did nothing wrong. Nothing that would've had happened because if she killed you, I would've had her killed but in the worse way possible."
Jack burst into tears. "I'm a monster." He stuttered as he tried to clench onto something on the man's armor. He may have felt powerful but he also felt no better than Dromada.
"No you are not. I know monsters," He leaned Jack back gently to place a thumb on the bottom of his chin to tilt upward to tell him with all honestly, "And you are definitely not one of them."
"Then what are monsters."
"Those who kill without any remorse. Destroying lives without a second thought to empathize with those he or she will kill or traumatize."
"Like you do?"
"Only if I was careless of my army."
"Like that time in Hoshu Kingdom. It was one the worst war in history because everyone was raped, tortured, and killed. Those who have survived, a majority had committed suicide because they would never join the Heylin Kingdom knowing they would be captured."
"A mistake I regretted. Your actions was out of survival and vengeance." He placed the serpent's tail at Jack's hands, and had them sit. "Mine was out of curiosity. The books never written this because I didn't let them. There was a soldier who impressed me in every way. His name was Mala Mala Jong. He was a dragon like me. He was strong, clever, intelligent-everything that I saw in myself. He had led several battles to victory, and I praised him. I finally decided that he should be given a bigger role to lead the invasion of the Hoshu Kingdom. I was blinded by my pride and curiosity of him to have let him dictate what his warriors did. Afterwards, I had each of them including Mala Mala Jong executed."
He wrapped his hands around his god's hands with all the love he had. "I want victory and power through fear and admiration, but not in the most unnecessary way."
Jack stared at the man who looked downward as the dragon remembered the worst moment in his life. "It's weird and funny. It's funny in a weird way." The man looked at him. "This kingdom and all the other kingdoms takes lives so easily, and everyone expected to be protected by their higher class. But everything isn't as black and white. It's all grey. You do your duties and kill people, but you give mercy."
"I may be a dragon but the other half is just a man." He kissed his moon love.
"Am I seriously going to have sex after murdering someone?" They laughed. "Oh my Guan, we're psychotic!"
"Just let loose the unnecessary logic. You achieved righteous vengeance for your friend, Princess Jacqueline." The knight pushed his lover down on the bed to be stripped and kissed his collar bone.
"I guess you're right. Dromada did deserve it. I killed because she tried to kill me first." Jack stared at the moon. He began to see its white shade being inked blood red. The stars reformed into a dragon twirling around the moon and then swallowed it.
Jack sat upward abruptly in a thatched house. He looked at his body to see that it was almost completely mummified. He jumped up to run out as his heart panicked.
"Prince Jack, stop!"
The prince stopped to hear Omi's voice. He turned around to see the little squirrel running towards him. "Omi?" The squirrel stopped in front of him. "Omi, what happened? How did I get here? And why am I almost completely covered like a freakin' mummy?!"
"You don't remember? We put those bandages on you to heal your scratches and bite marks, and you came here Jack by using the secret passage through the garden."
"Secret passage?! What secret passage?!"
Omi didn't respond. First he inspected his friend's body, crawled up on it to inspect below his shirt and even the inside of his eyes. "Hey!" he pushed him off. "Too close for comfort!"
"Sorry Prince Jack but it seems that you've been effected by moon madness."
"Moon Madness? That makes sense. I just killed..." he then remembered everything clearly. He had just slaughtered Dromada out of panic, Prince Chase comforted him and then... "Moon madness happens to those who have just killed someone at night which is seen by the moon itself. The symptoms was a relapse of time at the night and sleep walking which results in appearing in odd and sometimes dangerous places. The problem is that it may bring you to a place where you'll be lost in forever." He bit his lip thinking of his next steps but knew they were futile because he's bound to appear at some horrible place without any idea of how to come back to society.
It didn't happen before when he killed the bandits because they were in a narrow passage where the moon couldn't see them. Prince Chase's window was open and shone upon where he had killed Dromada.
"I am aware that we live in a harsh world." Omi told Jack who turned his attention to him. "But my prince, please do not succumb to the dark side." he pleaded hugging the teen's ankle.
Jack knelled down to pet him. "Don't expect any more murders Omi. I wasn't thinking straight, but I will have to take down Queen Wuya."
"And this is why I only bow to you Prince Jack." He purred and cuddled with the teen's legs.
"Hey! What did I tell you about boundaries?!"
The squirrel giggled, and then remembered something. "I also heard that there's a ball where everyone is allowed to come!"
"Well, I guess, if no one knows that your children that are suppose to be not cared for even at a ball."
"We have a way." He takes out a new Shen gong wu called the moby morpher. Omi changed into a handsome bald monk. Jack blushed having to admit that he was rather hot if this was his adult form. "This way we can protect you if anything happens, and the kids you helped make sure they can become inventors made you something." Adult Omi blew a whistle, and a dress appeared.
Jack's eyes widen at its magnificence. "But you do know the theme is black?"
"That's okay Prince Jack because," He held a ball of light in his hands and held it close to the dress. "With artificial light, it will still be beautiful."
Jack took a second look as Omi made multiple balls of light and then had them surround the dress.
Jack was a guy but then he had to admit that he'd look rockin' in that dress.
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In the Heylin Castle, the ball room was packed with the civilians in their best dresses. Some were standing and chatting with one another. Others were dancing. The children had a play room with guards to make sure none is hurt.
The place wasn't as extravagant as Beau Monde's but it still had its bountiful food, wine, sexual entertain of both men and women for those who love to watch and a private room to be a part of that entertainment. It was really a zoo in there that had to be silenced by a spell.
"Another spectacular event King Hannibal!" Senator Panda Bubba showed up. "Especially the ladies."
A woman only covering her private parts by a string of diamonds suddenly transformed into a man. "It absolutely is. Nice to see I can still fool the old panda." Senator Chameleon chuckled.
"I don't exactly have any boundaries unless your pretty and fuckable Chameleon baby." The panda chuckled nastily.
"As much fun as it is to see you two argue, today is actually a choosing of who will be sacrificed to Vlad the Black Plague."
"Ooh!" Senator Chameleon turned into a little boy. "More bloodshed! I hope its a child who has to try surviving the cannibalism of its own kind!"
"We'll see." The man grinned darkly while his yellow teeth shone. "Let us go make the servants do the preparations." They walked out of the ball.
And then heads had turned after hearing the praises of a woman. It was Princess Jacqueline who had finally arrived in the outfit he was given. It was a long over the shoulders a-line gown made of flowers that came in the color of black with in the room along with a choker. Jack added a flower headpiece with a veil which was unknowingly common in his nation to wear at a funeral.
The night before he felt free from his grief of an unjustified death of his best friends. This was the night to symbolize that he had died and then come back to life. Jack, as much as he loved being an inventor, also loved being an artist.
"It's beautiful darling! You're beautiful! It's to be expected from the princess of Beau Monde, and all your fine customs!" An old woman praised. "I've never actually been there, but it's not hard to know after seeing your beauty the first time you came here!"
"Why thank you!" Jack grasped the compliments while he did a twirl which gave him a lot of "Ooh!" and "Ah!"
"Well, aren't you something." Rai finally appeared wearing the Heylin Kingdom's armor.
"Rai!" Jack hugged him. "I'm sorry I couldn't go to your graduation."
"It's alright. Prince Chase told me everything, and Omi told me what you did last night."
They walked around the ball room. "So you know I am infected by Moon Madness."
"Pretty much but turns out I'm given guard duty which means you're mine tonight."
"Please don't talk like that. It'll start making people talk."
"What have they said that hadn't been said yet?"
"The truth." Jack smirked at his warrior. The bird rolled his eyes with a smile.
And then the professor and Le Mime with his wife was found. They chatted like old friends and complimented each other. Jack was actually enjoying the event. He got to dance with Rai and suddenly joined a dancing where he had his arms over other people's shoulders to be moving around until they broke apart and was suddenly dancing with random people.
Jack had fun dancing with Le Mime, surprisingly his wife and the professor. Suddenly he was taken by an adult Omi to dance. "You actually came!"
"Of course Prince Jack. Though I am the only one here. The others wished to stay underground because they truly despise King Hannibal." The monk responded.
"That makes all the sense in the world! I am tired! Let us sit!"
Omi led Jack out of the crowd to finally sit down and take a breather. "So it's really just you?"
"Yes Prince Jack. It really is a lively event compared to Beau Monde. So much dancing and..." The monk blushed since he had recently been dragged somewhere that he quickly escaped from.
Jack giggled. "It's nothing like Beau Monde. At least there it's more about appeal than it is about sex. I wonder when I'll black out. Remember, I can act normal under this madness."
"I know Prince Jack but only when the moon sees you. There are no windows here. Just doors."
"Right. Forgot about that little detail." A maid from her home came to her to give her a drink of wine. First Jack sniffed it and then twirled the drink.
"Is something wrong Prince Jack?" Omi questioned.
"I've spent the whole week drinking like a mad man. I'm going to pass on this." He put the drink down on the table. Jack then contemplated the turn of events all over again as he lied his head on his hand on the table.
There was silence until he was suddenly grabbed by Omi and Rai appeared out of no where with a dagger. Jack was embraced in Omi's arms to his chest yet the gap of his arms had the teen see his best friend stab a man in the torso. Life listless in his eyes.
Women shrieked and eyes bulged out while they stared at the new soldier holding the man against the wall with his hand covering his mouth and nose which increased the pain of that dagger inch more and more inside until the man died from suffocation. Rai removed his dagger letting the man fall.
He turned his head to two other guards. "Remove him." The two guards did so quickly.
Jack was suddenly covered by a cloak. "Omi?" He stopped when he heard his own voice. He then saw his own choker had been removed. The killer had a knife that almost sliced Jack's throat. The male realized how close he was to being killed.
Rai and Omi led him away before Prince Chase had come to the scene who looked to them and saw a faint shine of white skin.
Jack was bought to his room where the cloak was removed and then led to sit on his bed. Omi at his side while Rai was standing like a soldier knowing it was best to leave some room for his prince. "I am sorry Prince Jack. I was careless." Omi apologized.
"No. It has been a while since I've been almost assassinated. This time not from my own mother... The wine. The war. Her army is coming soon!" Jack wanted to stand yet only jumped a little since Omi held him down.
"Don't worry, Jack." Rai told him. "The assassination is too broad of any evidence to blame Beau Monde. The only way a war could start is either you broke the contract or you have died."
"It could start with whatever reason. She wants King Hannibal to make the first move. It's all a game of chess." The prince trembled with fear.
"No one will get to you Jack. We promise." Rai told him reassuringly. "It'd be best if you stayed with Prince Chase for the majority of the night and then come back in the morning. I will be outside your door if anything."
"And I shall stay in this room pretending to be you sleeping in bed, Prince Jack." Omi took out the moby morpher from his sleeve and turned into Princess Jacqueline.
"Thank you. Both of you."
"Good night Princess." Rai and Omi said teasingly in unison.
Jack smirked. "Shut up. I'll be off then in Prince Chase's room until he comes. Good night servants." He used the Serpent's tail and then waited for his prince to arrive on his bed. He was glad to see that the curtains were closed so the moon couldn't see him.
Later, Chase finally came. Jack got up and hugged him. "What took you so long? It's passed midnight." Jack pulled him to bed.
"I had to take care of the assassin that nearly took Princess Jacqueline's life." He responded while he sat on the bed and Jack was sitting on his knees being attentive.
"She told me about that. She thinks her mother was trying to have her murdered because she's prepared for war. Queen Wuya wants King Hannibal to make the first move because she plans of ambushing this kingdom with him absent and use his military supplies against him. She actually has more than half of your father's countries under her control. Not entirely but enough to cause a rebellion."
"And I assure you that we have it under control. A part of the rebellion are traitors against her."
"But she's capable of hypnotizing people. What if she's hypnotizing your traitors?"
"Then we'll find a way, but onto more important matters, I believe this is your friend's accessory." Chase revealed Princess Jacqueline's choker that was fixed. "The killer must've cut it off but it's been fixed by my magic for its original purpose." The knight looked at the choker and then to Jack who looked at him with an unexplainable expression. "Will you put it on for me, please?" He asked.
Jack licked his lips and looked down at the choker and then back at Chase, his true love. "Why?" He questioned.
"Why not?" The knight questioned back.
"Because you may love me less or be more bewildered. Are you still in love with Princess Jacqueline?" The god stated and interrogated.
"I can't deny that as a dragon, we only feel this for one person. I know how to hide my emotions and I come to love you more than her, but my instincts are reaching for both of you. My instincts never lie."
"What about you Mala Mala Jong incident?"
"Pride override instincts and I was young. Just about the age you and Princess Jacqueline are."
Jack knew he was just called foolish but let that insult slide. He took a deep breath. He was scared that if he knew, Chase would call him a liar and be angry, or if he'd accepts it, he realizes that Jack will marry his father for peace if Queen Wuya's were to be delayed. The latter will cause war if Jack were to not show up at the wedding or the honeymoon. Pretending to be dead will cause the war. And when war comes, Chase will have to go and who knows for how long.
The god just wanted to just spend more time being himself because he is in fact a god who didn't want to constantly argue with Chase about him having to sleep with his father even though he technically can't feel anything with his fake vagina. In true love, sex is sacred between them and only Chase wishes to touch him in every way.
Yet he loved Chase and whatever the issues they had to face, they'll figure it out. He took the choker in Chase's hand. "Okay."
By that answer the knight watched his god stretch the choker over his head and lower it down. Yet, there was a knock at the door.
"Prince Chase, we have urgent news to tell you." A guard announced through the door.
"Of course." He looked to Jack holding his hands. "Wait here." He ordered kindly before walking to the door and opening it. "What is it?"
"After you left the party, the king had announced the reason for the special event. There was to be a sacrificial tribune to Vlad the Black Plague. The person that has been chosen was Professor Cyclops assistant, Le Mime. His death chosen was by the hands of Sapphire Dragon."
"This is an outrage! The sacrificial tribune only takes plague when there's a horrible outbreak of disastrous diseases or poor weather and harvests! I will have a talk with my father but for now no one is allowed to interrupt me." The prince closed the door.
He turned around to find his god gone.
"King Hannibal!" Jack as Princess Jacqueline charged towards him. "What is the meaning of this sacrificial tribune! There's no reason for Le Mime to die!" The kind smacked him so hard that he fell to the floor. His sensitive skin already forming a bruise.
"Don't use that tone with me young lady. Now listen buttercup." He grabbed Jack's arm forcibly. Fingertips holding his chin as if he was being dear. "You may by Queen Wuya's little princess but I am the king and you are on my territory. Got that?"
Jack wanted to spit in his face and kick him in the nuts but restrained to not make the situation worse. So he nodded.
"Good." The man let go of him. "Anyway, I already made a deal with the god. It's almost winter afterall. It's good to cut a deal early to save lives. Isn't that a good this Princess Jacqueline? That your friend is saving lives?"
"It wasn't his choice."
"Not a lot of people are able to chose their own destiny. Like yours. Destined to kill your own mother. I know. But it'd be the right thing wouldn't it. Not that you have a choice. Now go to sleep." The man stroked the princess's cheek as a sign of compassion and love but Jack knew better even if the man made sense.
"Dromada told you to do this." He stated in tears. "Even a king can be black mailed by a whore." He walked away.
"YOU BITCH!" The king roared having Jack stop at his tracks yet refuse to look at him. "I know your type. You act like you don't care about other people but you DO!" Glasses shattered from the distance. The man charged towards Jack, grabbed him by the shoulder nearly dislocating it and shouted in fury. "If you do anything to save your friend. I will not hesitate to take your life and start this war." He threw her against the wall carelessly and walked away.
Jack held his shoulder. Rai came to him. "Princess, are you alright? Your shoulder." He used his magic to heal the bruises all over his body. Including his cheek.
"I want Le Mime saved." Jack said passively.
"Omi was already on it when he heard the news. It's impossible Jack. Le Mime is heavily guarded by all the powerful animals in the kingdom. There's nothing we can do."
Jack's lips scrunched up as he slightly nodded. "I did nothing wrong. I DID NOTHING WRONG!" He shouted yet it was soulless. He already shed too many tears for Nesa and Caitlin that his eyes were dry and his grief box was empty.
Rai held him by the arms. "Jack, pull yourself together. There's always a way to save someone. This time we're aware of it."
The prince looked at his best friend as an empty shell. "We're the only ones who are willing to do anything. I can't put Omi out there, and if you did, you'll die. If I did, I'll die and war will happen."
"It's a sacrifice I'm willing to give." Rai placed his hands on Jack's cheeks. "For my prince and my friend." A kiss upon his forehead before taking Jack into his arms and lying him upon his bed. "Go to sleep Jack."
The god stared at his window covered by the curtains. The robin wished he could do something but tomorrow will happen and Jack won't feel any comfort by it.
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Raimundo dressed himself in his armor. It weighed almost a ton but with his magic that he learned to conserve and his perseverance, it weighed about five pounds on his shoulder. He sheathed his danger against his thigh, and then stared at his own sword that he was given.
His own name was etched on it and had a symbol of a robin pecking at a hibiscus flower. It was a gift from Jack for his graduation before he heard the truth. He sheathed the precious sword that was soon to be coated in blood of others and probably his as well.
He smacked the bars of his room which was more of a prison cell. "I'm ready to go out!" He shouted. One of the warriors appeared before him.
"We can't allow that." The man told him.
"What? Why?" Rai questioned angrily.
"An order from Princess Jacqueline. She ordered that you were to stay in your room for the entire day."
"What?! No! Let me out this instant!" Rai ordered.
"The princess's orders rules over yours." The warriors left with the others.
"Hey! HEY! Fuck no!" He tried to shove the gate down, slice it with his sword or get the hinges out with his dagger but the cell was magically sealed. Even as a robin, he couldn't fit through the bars when the increased his size which only left a little space he couldn't fit through but at least breathe. "Somebody! Somebody out there! Get me out of here! Princess Jacqueline is going to die!" The last word trembled. "RAAAAH!" Rai tried again slice the bars with his sword but it was useless. He punch the wall to discover it was magically sealed too because usually his punch could at least make a cracked hole.
He dropped his sword and then onto his knees. Dropped his head to the ground with his fist punching the dirt ground he slept on. Second day on the job and he already failed to protect Jack.
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Almost everyone of the Heylin Kingdom came to the Heylin Diamond Cove that was located at the shore of a beach. It was covered by a boulder which King Hannibal moved with a wave of the hand.
Le Mime was standing and dressed in only a loin cloth. His wife present with a blank expression. Yet her sunken blood shot eyes said it all. She walked over to him and kissed him on the cheek. "It's Jack."
Le Mime's eyes widened and stared at the woman to see a glimmer of red that shouldn't be there. "I offer myself to be a part of the tribute!" She/He cried.
King Hannibal cocked his head to the side. "My. My. What a daring offer?" He looked to his people and then shrugged. "What the hell! Put them both in the cove!"
The mime held Jack's face with a shaking head. The teen smiled sadly as they were led by the Heylin warriors inside. The boulder closed behind them. It was dark until Jack returned to his normal self using the morby morpher. He gleamed.
Le Mime was confused. Jack explained, "I used the pigment of the flowers of my dress to do this. Omi will be here soon to take you."
Le Mime hand signed to ask 'What about you?'
Jack responded, "I need to stay here and take care of business, but don't worry. I have my way back to the castle before King Hannibal realizes I'm gone. Your family is waiting for you outside of the Heylin Kingdom. I had to come here as your wife so no one would question where she went and possibly discover that something went wrong with the sacrifice. Can never be too careful you know. And I talked to Maggie to let Great Xiaolin Phoenix Dashi ask the Valiant Griffin Guan to let you go to the West where Omi's guardian and friends are."
Suddenly Omi arrives inside the cove having used the serpent's tail and the Shroud of Shadows. "Prince Jack, I have come here to transport Le Mime with his family."
"Thanks Omi. Be safe cheese ball." Jack told him earnestly.
"And I to you." Omi earnestly told him too. The squirrel held his hand out to Le Mime who hesitantly looked at the prince. Jack smiled and patted on his back. He hand signed to him that he was going to be alright.
The assistant wasn't sure what to do but listen to Jack so he left.
The god took a deep breath and walked further into the cove.
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After King Hannibal returned to his castle, he decided to see Dromada since she happens to have not been around for awhile. Searching took too much time so he went to his advisor, Yin Yang who was standing outside his balcony staring at the village below. "Hey there Yin Yang! Do you know where that swine Dromada is?"
"Hm?" The old bird turned to his king. "She's dead." He responded nonchalantly.
King Hannibal laughed. "Good one Yin! But really, where is she?"
"She's dead. Her essence disappeared two nights ago before the ball."
"You serious?"
"Yes."
"So the sacrifice was for nothing. Well not completely. Princess Jacqueline was really mad but I showed her! A few more months and she'll be my bride. But to be honest I feel like just getting this war over with, with me as its prime leader!"
"Then you're in luck. The princess has been diagnosed with moon madness the same night Dromada died."
King Hannibal's guards kicked down Jack's door where the male as a woman was in a towel and choker. "Princess Jacqueline, you are being taken under arrest for the murder of Dromada."
Jack was actually prepared for this since in a magical world, its not likely you can get away with murder without the kings approval. Maggie told him otherwise because Yin Yang told her that King Hannibal showed signs of feeling ready for war.
But he didn't think it'd happen so soon. "Can I get dressed first?"
One of the guards with a snap of his fingers had Jack dressed in a casual red dress with wooden handcuffs that wouldn't allow the animal to move a finger or cast a spell. Jack was led out of his room.
Prince Chase appeared across the hall with a brief surprised expression. "Halt." He ordered and the guards obeyed. "What is the meaning of this?"
"I am being arrested for the murder of Dromada." Jack responded before the guard could.
"But there is surely no proof. Her body was never found."
Jack smiled at him. "I am infected with Moon Madness my prince. That is enough evidence against me."
Chase stared at him with guilt cascading his expression with ease. Easily read for the first time that he remembered that night that the window wasn't covered. He grabbed his arm. "I won't let them take you."
"It must happen."
"I can't let you die. They have the best sorcerers that even I-"
"Please Chase." Jack chuckled softly. "War is inevitable. Queen Wuya and King Hannibal are ready. There is no point of postponing the results any longer." The prince took back his arm and walked away.
Prince Chase stared at him with his hand wrapped around the head of his sword. He would kill his own warriors to free her/him and run away leaving everything he has built to now. He took one step forward but he was stopped by a hand from Maggie.
"Let go of me." Prince Chase told her as he tried to struggle free from her grasp that seemed to have weaken him.
"Princess Jacqueline ordered me to stop you." She told him. When no one looked she had revealed herself as an ape briefly when she strengthen her magic to stop Prince Chase. The power of the ape capable of taking magic away. A very difficult trick any animal could use but very easily held by the monkeys secretly.
"Why doesn't she want anyone to save her?"
"It's in the prophecy. Princess Jacqueline found the answer. War must happen in order to be fulfilled."
"It doesn't have to include her death! She could've just ran away! She could've just faked his death! He could've just told my father to just get on with the war! Or we could've just killed them! I can't let him die!"
"It would've been best if the hero could've just chosen the easiest way out right? It makes the reader feel anxious or perturbed by the hero's choices which we've read in books, but each step has a point and everyone makes their mistakes because it's just who he is. You can't expect everything to be done so easily without getting the same results."
"Then please...Please tell me why he has to die." Chase trembled in tears.
"Because he needs to make a deal."
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Jack laid dead on the ground as a woman having still had his collar on. His wrists bruised and scraped by the harsh salty wet ropes that held him up on his knees that was scraped and bloodied from the sharp floor of little mountains. Body stabbed, bruised, charred on his back with the letters "KH" but before all that, as a woman he had semen stain his thighs.
It was a brutal death yet Jack was given mercy by the moon because there was a window in the very dungeon that looked upon him and took his mind away so he died in peace of mind.
War had started the next day, King Hannibal charged for Beau Monde with his entire army which left his own Kingdom vulnerable. Omi with all the children and others hid underground for safety while the kingdom burned. The other nations were in fact prepared with their underground tunnels for safety. The only ones left to die were the soldiers.
Rai and Prince Chase went out into battle at Beau Monde and neither talked to the other having known what has happened and both feeling extremely guilty for it.
In the heavens, Jack was lying on someone's lap. It was Caitlin's who had her hand stroke his hair. "Jack. You came here for a reason. What was it?" She questioned with a cooing voice like that of a mother."
"I don't remember." Jack responded tiredly. He looked up to see Caitlin and Nesa smiling down at him.
"There has to be a reason! You didn't die for nothing!"
"I died?" Jack sat up and rubbed his eyes. He was in the luxurious room where he spent his days talking with the two. "This looks just like the room." He stated.
"It was our happy place. That's what the high heavens give you. Only the happiest places or other wonderful places you can take a long journey in. You know what the irony is. You can have all the sex and wine all you want and nobody judges you. Somebody needs to correct the priest!" Caitlin cried as a wine cup suddenly appeared.
"That's because we're not actually having sex with another person. Just someone of our imagination. Heaven is a lot like a dream without the confusion and nightmares once you settle down!" Nesa stated.
"It is." Jack said slowly. He stood up. "You said I was here for something. What was it?"
"I believe it has something to do with the prophecy. Come here Jack." Caitlin patted on her lap. The male sat on it and laid his head upon her shoulder. The deer had one arm wrapped around his waist and the other having the back of her fingers caress his cheek. "Now why would you die for the prophecy?"
"I don't know." He responded honestly.
"Perhaps it has something to do with Prince Chase?" She suggested.
"No. Well yes but not entirely. I...I talked to the Sapphire dragon. It turns out he's my uncle. Crazy right?"
"The Sapphire Dragon who eats other animals?" Nesa quirked an eyebrow thinking her Jackie was related to a cannibal.
"He doesn't eat them. He actually just burns them into coal and turns them into diamonds. Souls make the most beautiful diamonds he told me."
"Really?" The snake was surprised. "No fair! I want to know how I'd look as a diamond!"
"You would've been the most beautiful darling." Caitlin commented.
"Really?" The blond questioned.
"Really." The red head kissed her nose.
"Okay, back to me." Jack was okay with the lovey dovey stuff but he died for a reason and dying is a crucial matter. "I talked to my uncle and he told me that...that I had to die in order to take down Queen Wuya."
"That's strange. Usually death means you can't do anything in the living world anymore."
"I'll revive eventually because I'm a god. Which means I'm wasting time!" He jumped out. "I can't waste anymore time! I need to think! What could it be that I needed to do?!"
"It takes power to take down that woman so you might be her to find power but I haven't heard of anything that could lately." Caitlin stated.
"No. It wasn't power. There was one ultimate thing an ape could do and I was suppose to discover that."
"Maybe we can find it in the library." Nesa suggested.
"It's not a book. It's a person. Another god."
"Dashi? Guan? Heylin Dragon? Pulan? Vlad?" Caitlin stated.
"No. It started with a J."
"Jermaine, the guardian of the bridge?" Nesa stated.
"Right! We need to get there fast!" Jack jumped in a hurry.
"No worry." Caitlin led him through the door and they were immediately at the bridge where the god Jermaine was waiting there with a smirk. He was dressed in golden armor with a ball bouncing against his hand which was his weapon.
"Hey, you're Pulan's kid! Sapphire Dragon told me you'd be here!" The bridge guardian stopped the ball. "Now what is it that you need kid?"
Jack started with his mouth open and finger up but then the dropped quickly. "I don't remember."
"Well, you better remember. All because you're in the heavens doesn't mean time's stopping for you to be there."
"I know! Stop pressuring me!" Jack tried to remember and then he did.
He woke up with his body completely healed and the professor staring down at him. They were in the lab. "Professor, how long have I been dead?"
"Three years."
"WHAT?!" Jack sat up abruptly with his heart banged against his ribs.
The professor laughed. "Just kidding. It's only been three days."
The male was angry but relieved. He restrained himself from hitting the man. "What happened so far?"
"Soldiers are killing each other on and off and the citizens have been removed in time thanks to your furry little friend."
"What about Queen Wuya and King Hannibal?"
"King Hannibal has his best sorcerers make the shield disappear. Don't understand why he couldn't destroy it himself."
"I do." Jack got up and looked at his body which was a male at daylight meaning that Queen Wuya was using all her magic to secure herself. He was completely healed that to the Professor.
He strided to the silver car and got in it. He turned the keys already in the key hole. The car started with a roar. "Open a way out and then get yourself to safety professor. There are still bandits outside."
"I will. And Jack."
"Yes Professor."
"You are brilliant." The man smiled sadly.
Jack smiled back. "So are you professor."
The man nodded and then opened a way out. Jack drove out and since the man's lab was way up high, he pressed and twisted anything in the car to activate wings from the sides and a propeller in the back to make him fly. He pressed another button to make him invisible.
In less than five minutes, he got to Beau Monde and by the looks of his old home, it was falling apart meaning that King Hannibal had successfully penetrated her force field.
The queen was trying to fly away from the man by going up the stairs to the highest place in order to fly away but the ruthless man had her smacked against a wall with just a wave of his hand.
"Now, now, Wuya. I'm disappointed. I've been saving up all my energy for this one day and this is how it's going to end for you?"
Wuya in her human form leaned against the wall and slid up. Red hair dirtied and tangled and make up stained against her body from the tears she tried to hold in. Her black dress hiding the blood she had the closest people splatter against her.
"Though I'm glad that you're showing your true colors." He took her by the neck. Lightly crushing it with a delighted smile of a child. "My son told me about that little book that can control your minions. I bet it's right up these stairs." He looked at the woman who just glared at him. "It is isn't it?" He then dragged her by the neck up the stairs.
The woman clawed at his hand but it was strong as steel. Just as he foretold, the book was on a pedestal. Open wide and unguarded since she had recklessly killed them to with hold more power.
The king whistled. "That book doesn't only control your minions but its the source of all your power isn't it. Because it takes a lot of concentration to control so many people and not have them do the same thing over and over again. If I were to burn a page, you'd get all your power back and might be as strong as me but your soldiers would be free from control and you'll have to force that concentration upon them leaving you vulnerable to me right here. Either way, you'd lose the war."
Wuya said nothing but gasped for air when the man let go of her neck and pulled her roughly by the hair. "Now let's have a little fun shall we." He had his thumb lit a fire to burn the book and then began the incantations that Queen Wuya knew what it meant.
She screeched, begged and beat the man to stop this and let her go but it was useless. The man was too strong that he felt nothing as the sacred words slipped from his mouth. Then she began to feel them take effect on her. He power seeped through her skin and into the man who deliciously sucked in.
The woman could only try to grab onto the man but her hands began to shrink into frail bones. She stared at horror of the man who grew larger and then stared at a blunt silver object that was falling upon them.
It didn't cause much harm to Hannibal but it did for Wuya who has lost the power to protect herself from the explosion. She allowed death to take her with the power she had left leaving Hannibal with less of half of hers. The book disappeared into ashes.
The man realizing what he had lost roared in fury. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!"
"I am." Jack kicked him in the face causing no damage at all but it surely felt good doing so.
"Another white runt huh? A monkey at that!" The man had his skin ripped off when he turned into his bear form but with red eyes, bat wings and large fangs. He chuckled darkly. "Do you really think a monkey like you can stop me?! Once I have Prince Chase's body, I'll be invincible with the power I do have!"
"And you told me your plan because?"
"I just like to brag because you'd be dead by then."
"That's what all the villains say before they lose."
"And what's a monkey like you going to do? All monkeys can do is nothing but turn into two things. A useless piece of shit and then there's you."
"You should be careful. There's a legend that Wuya nearly erased the monkey race but I'm here to say to waste your time that she only erased a first few and the rest were in fact just imaginations. Monkeys do have magic like everyone else. It's just that we're not lazy ass people who relies on a wand to do everything."
"Is that so? What are you gonna do then? Screech and eat a banana while I kick your sorry ass?"
"Yes and I'm actually against using magic, but technology isn't advanced enough to make you feel sorry so yeah." Jack took in a deep breath and then screeched sonic sounds that broke the room into pieces.
King Hannibal thought that it was going to be weak but then his ears started to bleed and his organs felt like they were being rearranged and crushed. He flew up to the sky to avoid this. Jack jumped towards him.
The beast blasted green flames which Jack retaliated with his electric sword that absorbed the heat reassembled its atoms and then threw it back at full force. King Hannibal dodged with his speed and hurled a punch yet his fist went through. He was suddenly grabbed by a monkey from behind that bashed his head with his knuckles. Jack's hand digged its nails into the man's eyes and ripped it off.
The man roared in pain as he flew down and tried to smack the man down on the ground on its back, but Jack easily got off with miraculous speed. King Hannibal got up and had his eyes grew back but not with an electric sword stabbing into his back and electrified the man.
"N-no! This wasn't suppose to happen!" The king couldn't stand on his feet that he fell to his knees. "I-I-I shouldn't have lost this easily!"
"That's because I am a god and I cheated."
"What?!"
"I had everything planned the night you had Le Mime become a sacrificial tribute. I may be a god but I haven't been qualified as a god since I never did use my powers so I had to take the hardest routes in order to bring you down the easiest way in a short time because people are dying out there!" Jack stabbed the other sword through the man having the electricity increase. "I read about the Sapphire Dragon who turned out to be my uncle who contains vast knowledge he learned through a magic pond."
He continued. "So I asked him how to defeat you and Wuya even if it meant risking my life. I was told how and it turns out If a person were to die through suicide, they weren't allowed in the high heavens so I had you kill me through the best of means since I did murder Dromada."
By that sentence, King Hannibal knew who this was.
"Didn't realize I was a boy or that I have been sleeping with your adopted son who you would've tried to possess." He took out a third sword and stabbed the man right where all men would weep. "I got to meet the God Jermain, guardian of the bridge between life and death. I asked him to give me all the strength of a god for a price..." He walked over to Hannibal with a sad smile. "Go to the Plagues of Hell." He placed a hand on the man's head and threw him into a portal to hell for a very special treatment from Gigi, the devil.
Prince Chase then appeared. Jack had stopped the soldiers from fighting after he dropped the car he worked so hard for by using a spell. Just one spell and a war was stopped before he literally threw Hannibal to hell and Wuya was also dragged there.
"Jack!" The knight took Jack into his arms and kissed him deeply. Arms wrapped around him so dearly as tears fell down.
"I missed you too. Did you bring the locket?"
"Yes." Chase took out the locket from around his neck and held it in his hand. "What are you going to do?"
"Just watch." Jack placed his palm on the locket and then opened it. A wave of light surrounded them and everything is rebuilt as if nothing has ever happened. Lives of soldiers who were good at heart came back to life. "I just healed the wounds of the war. Now all we need is a new ruler to take place."
Prince Chase stared at him suspiciously because the god's tone of voice was distant. "Jack, how were you able to do this?" He asked as he closed the locket.
"I needed to end this war fast and heal its damages just in case someone I cared for died."
"Raimundo is still alive." Prince Chase reassured him.
Jack nodded gladly. "I wanted to make sure."
The knight then questioned, "You couldn't have gotten these powers without a price." His hands touched Jack's cheeks.
"King Hannibal would have sucked Queen Wuya dry of her powers making him twice as powerful as a god and then take over your body. Maggie told me." He placed his hands on Chase. "I was only given a five minutes to say good bye. I still have time left and I don't know what to say."
"Then tell me about your dream. How you rather have everything be?"
Then Jack told him his dream while they sat against a wall. Him sitting on Chases lap with his head on his should. The prince's arms wrapped around his body. He told him his dream that his parents didn't die. Instead he was still living on that mountain with his parents with friends like Omi and the others. He would've still been an inventor and make the weirdest things, and if they were truly fateful lovers, then they'd meet, fall in love and live til their dying days if they ever did reach them.
When the last few seconds were ticking away, Jack told Chase, "Please tell everyone I love them."
"I will." Chase promised.
Jack caressed his cheek lovingly. His final tear slid down his cheek. "I love you Chase."
"I love you Jack." Chase kissed him until life was taken.
Rai showed himself who was hiding in the shadows. Prince Chase carried the lifeless Jack in his arms. "So what are you going to do?" The robin questioned.
"Give you the title of king. Take my sword." Rai did and it suddenly became a crown. "Everyone of the Heylin Kingdom is aware of what this crown is and I am sure that all Beau Monde knows who you are."
"Some of Beau Monde's people will not be kind since I did fight for your side."
"Let the people speak for themselves. You are a bright and strong warrior, Raimundo. One of the best and surely nothing like the best ones who would disappoint me in the end. You'll be a great king."
"A king of many other kings or queens. I won't rule alone."
"That why I trust the position to you."
"Thank you." Rai then stabbed the man with his dagger right in the heart. Chase fell to the floor dead with Jack still in his arms. "Live forever in a beautiful dream."
The End
A/N: It's finally the end! And the wand thing isn't really targeted at Harry Potter. Never truly watched a movie or read a book. But MD Jack prefers machinery over magic sticks. Now Lady Gaga is in my head.
Okay to explain:
1) Why didn't they just killed Queen Wuya and King Hannibal to prevent the war?
A. They are both very powerful Sorcerer and Sorceress. More so than Prince Chase. Queen Wuya is capable of manipulating an entire nation at once and King Hannibal didn't need to manipulate since he already has everyone under his command true acceptance or fear.
2) Why didn't he have the professor teleport him to his destination?
A. Teleportation is tricky since you need to know the exact spot you'd teleport to and the professor hadn't been to Beau Monde.
3) Why does it all depend on Jack to do something wrong when they could just start a war?
A. As it had been explained, Queen Wuya wanted King Hannibal to make the first move so he would come to her domain and the shit you've just read happened.
4) The car actually being used as a plane?
A. To be honest the car was actually unnecessary because he could've got there using the other shen gong wu but it's Jack. He likes using what he created by pure science.
5) Why I had to kill Jack and have Rai kill Chase?
A. Because I couldn't kill Jack in Little Siren so I'm not wussying this out. I'm a writer, all writers eventually have someone important killed.
6) Where does the person go after suicide?
A. Instead they are reborn through another womb in order to claim a rightful or tragic death that wasn't by their hands. There is the High Heavens and the Plagues of Hell where it is a person of itself. In the Plagued Hell, people can be reincarnated after learning from their mistakes and try to go pass the good deed tests or make it their home since some would stubbornly go against changing their person. If stubborn, then you're removed to the good teaching room where you are tortured with guilt and/or annoying teachings of love.
7) If Jack is half dragon, then is he actually related to Chase?
A. There's a possibility but Chase was an orphan so the origins of his parents is a mystery. Even if they were, they'd be far-far relatives.
8) What happened to Ashley?
A. She abandoned the place for her own safety when she knew her mother was failing.
9) Why the price of god's powers so high?
A. With power comes a price and Jack wasn't asking for just anything. He was asking for powers that could stop a war without having to use physical contact with the thousands of soldiers and then using the locket's full potential which other gods can't do without becoming a part of the problem which is why they don't do anything. Jermaine has been the keeper of these sacred powers since he's trustworthy than anyone you'd ever meet.
Ask me questions if liked! I'm going to take a break from Chack.