"Why is this strange thing call the morbid lance if it's a cape?" Clay asked Dojo, he and the other Xiaolin warriors were high above the forest of a European country.
"I remember hearing" Dojo said, "that it can wrap around the owner's arm and turn into metal, and if the owner is an elemental metal then he could fully unleash it's power."
"Well I guess that really does us any good" Kimiko said as she peered down at the sea of trees trying to find the object, "none of us are element metal."
"Whoa, wait a corn picking minute" Clay said as he searched for the item too, "I heard there are four elements, but five?"
"Well, in the Asia there's five elements" Omi said as he kept the sharpest look out for the shen-gong-wu, "Fire, water, metal, wood and earth."
"I guess that makes sense" Raimundo said, he was just barely looking for the shen gong-wu himself. It's not every day he would want to have anything with Morbid in it's name.
"Speaking of senses" Dojo said as he lowered himself down towards the earth, "I smell the shen-gong-wu around here."
The warriors dismounted as Dojo shrunk down to his smaller size, they spread out looking around the area. They didn't quite know what the Morbid Lance looked like as the scroll was pretty vague on what it can do. They were at the search for nearly an hour when Clay found it stuck under a rock near a old bridge, he snatched it up and called out.
"Hey guys! I found it over here."
He held up the black clothe over his head as he approached the bridge, the other warriors were on the other side. They met in the center and they look at the shen-gong-wu, which was like another other cloak with a red lining. Clay tried it first, the shen-gong-wu wrapped around his arm into a strong metal lance and then it went limp after he disengaged it.
"Wow, a little odd but cool none the less" Kimiko said, "well let's start getting back, I think the chat session was suppose to start at 6 or 7."
They started for Dojo, with Omi taking lead and Clay following behind. That's when the laughter started, placing all of the warriors on edge. The laugh itself was cold but youthful, filled with and a bit of bitterness.
"I see you have no idea what these items can do" a voice that seem to echo around from every direction, "of course not even if you did you couldn't stand a chance against me." Each of the warriors were trying to find where the voice was coming from, none of them notice a strange arm covered in black satan and wielding a golden set of claws emerge from the shadow of Clay.
"Two thousand years of isolation have made me invincible!"
On the last word the claw came down and Clay let out a yelp of pain, he turn quickly and use the Morbid Lance to try and catch whoever did that. The others gather around the impaled shadow quickly and try to find what attack Clay, but they couldn't find a trance of "it".
"what out for the" Clay urped out as he tasted something metallic in his mouth, "shadows."
"Watch out for the shadows?" Kimiko said as she stood up, "what you talking about Clay." She turn to face him, "Clay?"
The blank expression, a dribble of red liquid falling out of the corner the mouth and four gapping holes in his chest area added up to one thing.
Clay was dead.
"CLAY!" Kimiko shouted before she fainted, Omi caught her but he saw staring at Clay's body, and so was Raimundo.
"This can't be happening!" Raimundo said.
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Another burial, the first one was because of pity and guilt of accidently helping a man kill her, this was more personal.
And more personal matters were more hurtful, that's why he asked to Master Fung for a moment with a friend. Dojo took him to the place and he walked up to the door, with a knock he waited for someone to answer.
"Hello?" He said as he open the door.
Raimundo collapsed onto the shorter boy crying, jack didn't know what was going on but he half walked/ half dragged the boy in.
"Clay's dead... Jack, I need some one to talk too."