I'm just not gonna put in a disclaimer right now, I don't have the energy tonight.
AU: Final chapter of part ONE. Yes, I have decided to continue on after this. Again. FINAL CHAPTER. I'm quite relieved. Something will happen that will change the story completely in later parts, and if you wanna know ... just read and review. And EMAIL ME! I'm lonely. This chapter is particularly bloody. Consider this your only warning, lovelies.

( 5 )

Jack was now sitting on the edge of the bed while Kimiko slept peacefully, looking everything like a cherub. So innocent, so ... unaware of what was to be in just a few hours. He sighed, laying down beside her. She'd said she loved him. He said he loved her back. Okay, so he didn't actually love her. But he liked her enough to not tell the girl of her impending doom. Plus, that'd make her cry. Jack couldn't stand crying people. Especially girls. Even more so when he knew that he was the cause. Jack closed his eyes, shivering lightly. It was cold. Very cold. Probably a good idea to get dressed before What's-His-Face gets here. So Jack did. Afterwards he awoke Kimiko, holding out her ragged Xiaolin robes, a blank expression on his pale face. As she dressed, he returned to sitting on the bed.
After a moment, Kimiko sat down in his lap, leaning against him. "Why're you so ... weird?"
Jack shook his head, sighing again. "Can't tell you."
Kimiko, lacking the energy to argue just wrapped her arms around the boy's neck, kissing his cheek. "I love you, Jack."
He faked a smile at the Japanese girl atop him. "Love you too, Kim."

It was only a moment later that the door was pushed open. Rai stood there, looking grim. "It's time, guys. Come on."
The two detached, and Kimiko asked, "Time for what?"
Neither of the boys answered her as they walked solemnly down the corridor.
Seconds passed before Jack turned to Kimiko, biting his lip. "Okay, I gotta tell you, Kimiko, Wuya's gonna..." And before he could finish, the large doors opened, revealing Wuya, lounging at her throne, flipping through an old, dusty book. When she spied the three, a dark, cruel smile touched her lips. She walked over to them, an eyebrow raised.
"So nice of you to join me." She said coldly, grabbing their wrists. "Come. I wish to show you something."

As Kimiko and Jack were dragged off, Rai lingered behind with Chase. After the three had disappeared, Chase pulled a small dagger from it's sheath, dangling off his belt. "I trust you know what to do with this?" He cocked an eyebrow.
Rai replied with a melancholy nod as he took the blade from the older man, heading into the room.

When he entered, Wuya was babbling on about something in front of a statue of herself as the doomed watched, uninterested, Kimiko's hand in Jack's, unknowing that the two had entered.
Rai was pushed forward lightly, and now stood behind his best friend, shuddering. He readied the knife, snaked an arm around Kimiko's waist, but before she had a chance to spin around to see who had grabbed her, Rai slid the cold blade over her pale neck and stepped away, dropping it immediately.
Jack watched in horror as the girl dropped to the floor, clutching her neck as her warm, crimson blood flowed like a waterfall, flooding the floor below her. He glanced over at Wuya, who by this time had the dagger and was now advancing on him. She grabbed the boy, about to stab him before she was attacked from behind Chase, who wrenched it from her hand and in a single, almost graceful movement, and plunged the knife deep into her back. Wuya let out a pained screech and collapsed to the ground, no longer moving. He grabbed Jack around his torso easily, as if he weighed nothing. Chase smirked at Raimundo, who was now cowering on the floor, sobbing, covered in the blood of the two slaughtered women. Jack snatched up the stained blade from the floor and threw it at him. It stuck into Rai's chest, who just sat there as his life slowly came to an end.

The two remaining stared at each other a moment before retreating to Chase's palace, where all the Shen gon wu was kept, as he was formally a trustee of Wuya's.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, new Dragons were being sought out and brought to the mostly destroyed Xiaolin Temple...