Okay, still rewriting coursework, fixing my computer up and stuff but I can't keep you guys waiting any longer.
Umm, ok final chapter...Yeah...Here guys. I really hope you like it.
Kimiko finished packing all of the Wu into one bag; she shrunk the bag with the changing chopsticks and tucked the tiny sack into her robe. She sprinted outside and heard the stone grinding together behind her as the vault sealed shut. Kimiko bounded onto the waiting Dojo's back and within seconds they were soaring through the air.
"What were you doin in their Kimi?" Clay asked. Kimiko ignored him. Clay exchanged nervous glances with Omi. Kimiko had completely disregarded what anyone had told her and literally forced the other warriors onto Dojo's back. She looked dead serious and was constantly grinding her fists. They were headed for Chase's lair. Despite constant warnings from master Fung not to give Chase what he wants, Kimiko chose to disregard the warnings and carried on with abandon.
As the group drew nearer to the silent valley where Chase's lair lay in wait, Kimiko felt her heart start to pound. Sweat began to seep through her pale skin, dampening her robes. Grasping the situation by its hem, Kimiko limbered up and repeatedly told herself everything would be OK. Dojo landed outside Chase's lair and the four warriors hopped off, Dojo shrunk and wrapped himself around Clay's shoulders.
"This place gives me the shivers..." Dojo whispered as the monks were swallowed by darkness. Ahead of them were several lit braziers that flickered eerily, giving off an aura of foreboding discomfort.
"Yes, indeed this place is rather scary..." Omi said uneasily. Kimiko led the way, her face set like stone. She was shaking with a combination of anticipation, unease and anger.
Finally, after the tedious anticipation of walking through Chase's lair, (mingled with the fear of being attacked) they came to a large dome shaped room, in the middle was a lowered platform like an arena of sorts. Chase stood on the other end of the room in plain sight. Wuya sat by his legs smiling at the monks. Kimiko jumped down onto the arena cautiously began to walk into the domes center. She heard the large entrance behind her get sealed shut but she dared not turn around. She kept her eyes fixed on Chase. The other monks walked to her side and the group all struck fighting poses. Chase laughed slightly and snapped his fingers; several cat warriors jumped down from nowhere and surrounded the monks. All were growling menacingly at them but before anyone could react, Chase snapped his fingers again. All the cat warriors stopped growling and simply sat on the spot.
"Welcome" Chase sneered at the monks.
Kimiko felt the fire burn up inside her; she stared at Chase, not daring to blink. She wanted to remember that snide smile before she killed him. Every second she stared into his yellow eyes she felt such intense rage build up inside her until she could withstand it no more. Before she even knew what was going on she found herself running full pelt at Chase although she did not dare stop, even when she realised what she was doing. She kept on running, all she could see was Chase still smirking. Before she got there she heard him snap his fingers again, a single cat warrior ran out in Kimiko's way. It heckled and growled, Kimiko stopped, she balled up some fire and hurled it at the large warrior, she got him square in the face and the cat warrior fell backwards into the abyss separating Chase and Kimiko.
"Where is he?!" Kimiko snapped at Chase, she had to restrain herself not to lunge at him when a mere laugh was his response, but found herself being held back by Clay and Rai.
"Give us back our dear friend Nad or suffer a beating Chase Young!" Omi shouted at Chase.
"Friend?! Please..." Chase scoffed. He turned around and sat down in his throne.
"As far as he's concerned you're just the people who look after him, he hates you just as much as he hates me. Through some misplaced sense of pride he feels it's degrading for all of you to treat him differently..." Chase finished and whispered something to Wuya, keeping his gaze fixed on the warriors.
"He's changed." Kimiko growled.
"Maybe!" Chase said, suddenly standing up clapping his hands.
"But it doesn't matter anyway...What I really want to see is how he will fare against, oh...twenty tigers?" Before anyone could say anything Wuya came from behind the throne dragging Nad by the turf of his hair. He was apparently unconscious.
Kimiko nearly punched Clay and Rai just to get to Chase.
"What happened to our deal, look we have the Wu!" Kimiko screamed frantically.
"What?!" all the other monks screamed.
"I thought we weren't gonna bring the Wu" Clay said slowly, yet to catch up.
Wuya and Chase watched the teammates squabble joyously.
"Chaos..." Wuya whispered to Chase seductively.
"Ahem." Chase coughed loudly, all the monks stopped to face him.
"I lied about the exchange of mere Shen gong Wu Now, time for you to watch him die." Wuya snapped her fingers and several of her rock creatures sprouted from the earth beneath them, before they knew it each monk was concealed inside one of the monsters. Kimiko watched, horrified as Chase threw Nad onto the cold hard floor. Nad was only a few inches away from Kimiko, she noticed him stir and he opened his eyes slightly.
Kimiko literally didn't know what to say to him. He was about to be brutally ripped to shreds by a group of cats. Tears began to well up in her sapphire eyes as she found herself being moved further away from him. All the rock creatures holding the monks stood in a line on the edge of the arena, Chase signalled and the cat warriors began to close in. Nad stood up wearily, he managed to keep his balance but was incredibly weak. Not only had he been deprived of food, his whole body ached from several beatings he had received in Chases dungeons earlier. He didn't know what to do as the cat warriors closed in on him. Then he noticed something, on the edge of the arena, a girl. She was hazy because and blurry, but he recognised her she was behind some bars, she reaching for him. She was draped in crimson robes tied on by a blue sash. Her raven hair cascaded down her shoulders and her sapphire eyes showed nothing but fear and sadness.
"Kimiko?" Nad whispered.
"NAD!" Kimiko screamed as the boy was mercilessly bundled by the cat warriors. Kimiko pounded her cage bars, tears rolling down her face, screaming. Rai and Omi watched in disbelief but Clay was simply sitting down. Kimiko turned away, she couldn't bear to watch. When she noticed Clay not even watching. All the hate and anger she was feeling directed itself at Clay, the person she loved was currently being horribly ripped to shreds and her supposed friend didn't even care. Before she could scream at Clay he began to glow. A green aura surrounded him and with a mighty roar the large Texan pounded his fists on the ground and all the rock creatures crumbled to dust. Kimiko sat dumfounded. Clay stood up and rushed to help his friends up.
"What?" He asked noticing Kimiko staring at him confused.
"You didn't think I was doing nothin' did ya?"
Kimiko instantly began running at the huge circle of tigers all blindly swiping and biting everything they came in contact with. But before she could do anything she noticed a small heap crawling out of the circle. She stopped and peered at it for a few seconds before she realised. That heap was Nad. She ran by his side and quickly dragged him a few meters away before anyone realised anything. She lay him on his back, his eyes were closed but he was breathing. Nad had several claw marks over his body and several bite marks but came off generally okay, especially seeing as how he had just been attacked by twenty odd tigers.
"Nad?!" Kimiko repeated several times, finally the beaten boy came around, he inched his eyes open and looked into Kimiko's face for a few seconds before smiling.
"I knew it was you..." He whispered. Kimiko didn't know what he just said but she didn't care, she wrapped her arms around him and tears began rolling down her face again, although this time they were tears of happiness.
Finally she ended the embrace and Nad slowly sat up.
"Weren't we at the koi ponds a minute ago?" Nad asked wearily, he nearly fell over again but Kimiko caught him and helped him to his feet.
"Long story..." Kimiko said. The pair looked ahead of them, before them was a huge pile of cats and on top of them stood Omi, Clay and Raimundo.
"These pussies get weaker every time we meet em'" Raimundo said cockily.
"Yeah, they sure aren't what they used to be..." Clay said, sounding rather disappointed. All three of the monks jumped down from the pile and each greet Nad in their own way. Omi hugged his legs, Clay pat his shoulder and Rai just stood there looking at him from a distance. Everyone watched as Rai and Nad looked at each other for a few seconds, suddenly all the tension was gone between them.
"Y'know up until now I never realised how much I would miss ya...even if I am better looking than you..." Rai said smiling. Nad looked him square in the eye and smiled back.
"Maybe...But you know I could kick your ass in a fight any day right?" The two boys looked at each other still smiling for a few more seconds before they both burst out laughing. They both pulled each other into a hug.
"I thought you two don' hated each other?" Clay asked quietly.
"Oh we do...Just not as much anymore." Rai shouldered Nad and again they both started laughing.
"I hate to break up the little reunion, but you do realise this means you all die?" Chase said growing incredibly impatient.
"Oh yeah?! You and what army?" Shouted Rai indicating to the unconscious pile of cats.
"This army..." Said Chase smiling. He raised his hands and the huge pile of cat warriors disappeared in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared, in the car warriors place stood several regimented skeletons, each with full armour on and each clutching razor sharp swords.
"That is a good army..."Omi said dumbfounded. Suddenly Wuya in a puff of smoke appeared in front of the monstrosities.
"Attack!" She screeched, pointing at the monks
Deciding not to ask questions all four monks struck stances.
"We can take these walking corpses...I hope..." Rai said reassuringly to the others.
"Kim, you gon' get Nad outta here? I don't think he's quite up for fighting..." Clay said to Kimiko, making sure he kept his eyes set on the skeletons. Kimiko grabbed Nad and quickly shouldered him to the side of the arena. She looked over and she could just make out her three friends violently attacking everything that didn't have skin. All Kimiko could do was shoot carefully aimed fireballs at the skeletons, she couldn't leave Nad. After around five minutes the whole arena was littered with random bones and bits of shattered amour and weaponry.
"Is that all of them?!" Omi asked, panting. The three monks stood back to back surveying the room.
"I think so..." Rai said cautiously. Suddenly Wuya's cackling voice echoed through the room.
"Not as long as im here..." She jumped into the center of the arena and raised her arms. All the skeletons sprung the life again, poised and ready to fight.
"Kim! Take out Wuya, or she's just gonna keep bringing em back!" Clay shouted, seconds before the trio was bundled by the renewed undead.
Kimiko looked around, frantically searching for the old hag, and sure enough she was standing but a few meters to the side watching the spectacle whilst laughing maniacally.
"Hey, you old hag!" Kimiko screamed, making sure to grab her attention. Using all the strength she could muster she summoned every bit of fire she could, fire cascaded around her and she shot several fireballs at her. For the first time in her life Kimiko was aiming to kill. Wuya rolled to the side, narrowly dodging the oncoming projectile
"Xiaolin whore!" she hissed at Kimiko. Wuya picked up one of the discarded swords from the floor and ran at Kimiko, the weapon brandished above her head.
"Im going to make this slow and painful..." Wuya sneered. For a good minute Wuya and Kimiko battled it out, not one of them taking so much as a scratch.
"Xiaolin fire storm!" Kimiko began using all her energy for one final attack, Wuya seized this moment to strike; Kimiko was vulnerable while charging up.
Ignoring the fact the Kimiko was completely engulfed in flame, Wuya ignored the intense pain she felt when grabbing Kimiko's throat and lifted her a few inches off the ground. Suddenly the power surging through Kimiko's body got cut off with her air flow and the flame surrounding her stopped. She began flailing about in Wuya's grasp and audibly choking.
"Like I said, im going to make this slow and painful..." Wuya slowly began to push the blade in her hand towards Kimiko's stomach. Kimiko simply squeezed her eyes shut waited for her life to end. Several seconds passed and nothing happened. Kimiko opened her eyes a fraction and saw the exact same sight she saw when she had closed them. Wuya's expression had not changed a bit. In fact she wasn't even moving anymore. Looking down Kimiko saw the blade she brandished slip from her hand and land on the floor with a clatter, Wuya's grip slacked and Kimiko fell to the floor. A small trickle of blood rolled out the corner off her mouth and her eyes rolled up into her head. Wuya simply fell to the floor, contorted one last time and simply stopped moving.
"Wha..." Kimiko spluttered. She had no idea what just happened. She looked up and standing behind where Wuya stood, was Nad. In his hand he had a small dagger, dripping with blood.
"Nad..." Kimiko said weakly. Nad dropped the dagger and frowned ay Wuya. Kimiko stuttered a few times. She couldn't find words to say what she was feeling. Instead she simply lunged at Nad and began hugging him.
"Kim...A little...help here..."Kim whizzed around, she had completely forgot about the huge fight going on a few meters away from her. The whole arena was a litter of bones, armour and shattered weapons. Dead in the center of the room Rai and Omi were struggling to even stand up against the several remaining enemies. She could make out the large heap which looked like hopefully, unconscious Clay being guarded by Rai and Omi
Kimiko instantly began running towards them, if she didn't hurry they would be dead for sure. Omi was on his knees, meagrely avoiding certain death by inches. Rai had a little more energy as he was actually still fighting. Kimiko got around halfway before she heard the familiar deathly laugh creep from behind her. Kimiko turned around and Chase young was standing directly behind Nad. He had him held up close to him, pointing the same knife that had just slain Wuya directly at his neck.
"Kimiko Tohomiko...I never thought it would be you holding the fate of who lives and dies in your palms." Chase smiled at her waiting for a reply. He was threatening to kill Nad.
"No!" Kimiko gasped weakly.
"As I was saying..." Chase continued.
"If you save your friend. Then Nad dies, but I guarantee you and your friends will leave this place alive and of course vice versa. But either way will you be able to live with yourself for choosing...it doesn't really matter..."
Chase began laughing maniacally at Kimiko; she could either save the one she loved, or save one of her dearest friends.
"Kim..." Rai chocked. The skeleton had one hand wrapped around his neck and the other was trying to push the blade into Rai's stomach.
"You better chose quickly Kimiko, because otherwise they will all die." Kimiko fell to her knees.
"I can't..."She said weakly. Tears began rolling down her face. Nad decided enough was enough and something inside his mind clicked.
"Kim...im gonna make this easy for you..." Nad said slowly to her. He looked her in the eyes, smiled one last time, his eyes flashed the fantastic blue they once were again. He kicked one of the skeletons swords up from the floor and with one motion impaled the blade through his stomach right up to the hilt. Everything stopped. Nad fell to the floor with a thump. Chase simply stood there. He was incredibly confused, did he just kill himself? Before he could ponder the situation any further he felt a warm tingling sensation in his stomach. He looked down and saw a large pierce in his armour plate. Crimson fluid began to drip down his armour and like the very blood seeping from his stomach; Chase fell to the floor dead.
For Kimiko it was all too unreal to comprehend. She weakly fell to her knees and began sobbing. She was just about to lose everything that was dear to her. Nad was dead, and her friends had surely been killed by now. Suddenly she felt a warm hand touch her shoulder. The touch was too...nice to be anyone other than a friends, she slowly turned around and looked into the battered face of Rai.
"Raimundo..." She weakly choked. She wrapped her arms around him and closed her eyes tight.
"Its all a dream...right..." Kimiko whispered.
"Yeah...it's a dream."
I have nothing to really say right now. At least not in a subtle away...
So basically, im a little sad that the stroy is now over but at the same time relived that I can start a better one.
Im more so sad than relieved though, this story was the first one I ever wrote and although reading back on it I realised how much it sucked heh.
Im not even gonna attempt to explain how much everyone who reviewed means to me. If it weren't for you guys (you know who you are) I would probably had never finished this story. Once again Im hoping all my friends who read this like it.
ANYWAY
Enough of the bullshit fluff. I just depressed myself. No need for tearful endings right? I mean I will be back.
I owe you guys an epilogue because I can't leave it like I have so one VERY LAST CHAPTER TO COME!
I LOVE YOU ALL!!