Chapter 2: Why?
Previously, on Xiaolin Showdown:
"Jack Spicer! We should have known that you have come to steal our Shen Gong Wu!" shouted Omi. Then, he added, "Not that we have any … But still enough to defeat YOU!"
"You don't have any either? Did Mala Mala Jong get yours to?" Jack whimpered.
"No … They mysteriously disappeared somehow … And who would recreate Mala Mala Jong?" asked Omi.
"I don't know who, but he was seriously advanced … This time, he had all 1030,000,000,000 Shen Gong Wu powers on him and he was much stronger and faster," said Jack. "And he's coming this way! PLEASE HELP ME!" he shouted
Chapter 2: Why?
Mala Mala Jong was free from clutches, and his first target was the young Xiaolin monk that had destroyed him once only a little while back.
He rampaged to the Xiaolin Temple, and saw that the monks were at the ready.
Master Fung had prepared for Mala Mala Jong … He was ready to fight and win.
"FIRE!" he shouted, and all the monks shot Serpent's Tail-combed arrows toward Mala Mala Jong. One of them struck the heart of Jong but was not enough to dismantle it.
"Jong, you have gone to far!" shouted Master Fung. "SHEN GONG WU BOOM!"
A spectacular ray hit Mala Mala Jong, and he evaporated almost instantly. The Shen Gong Wu were left but had been thrown out over the battle field.
Even after their victory, Omi was puzzled … Why had Mala Mala Jong been upgraded? Why had he gone after Jack's Shen Gong Wu? Why had their Shen Gong Wu disappeared? Omi's tiger instincts told him that there was a connection.
"Omi, help your friends with chores," Master Fung said.
"But Master, we have finished chores for the day!"
Master Fung muttered something and then said, "Alright then, tomorrow."
Puzzled, Omi went back to Raimundo and Clay. They were just as puzzled, but Raimundo had plan to make every thing clear.
"Next time Master Fung and Kimiko go off, one of us follows them and sees what they do."
"But who?"
"It should be me! I am the smallest… and the most skilled!" Omi jumped up and cried.
Raimundo laughed and Clay smiled, "Alright, little guy." Omi puffed up his lower lip at being called 'little guy' and turned his head.
The next day, as usual, Master Fung gave them a chore list and took Kimiko away. But instead of starting chores, Omi followed his master and his friend into the Shen Gong Wu vault. They went in, followed by Omi. There, he saw something amazing. They shrunk all the Shen Gong Wu with the Changing Chopsticks and scooped them all up! Suddenly, Kimiko turned around, saw him and landed a kick right in his stomach…
"Omi? Omi, wake up!" Clay cried. Omi sat up and shook his head.
"What happened?" Raimundo said.
"I was going to ask you." Omi said.
"We found you unconscious in the Shen Gong Wu vault!" Raimundo said, "just like we found Clay!"
"I do not remember anything. My memory is like a dead hen."
"You mean dead chicken. No, I mean dead duck. Yes, that's it." Raimundo corrected.
Night was peaceful and so was morning, but when chores came the dragons minus Kimiko had a surprise. Kimiko was doing chores! Kimiko didn't seem to mind, though. Then Dojo shouted "Shen Gong Wu alert! It's the Golden Summoner! It shoots light that blinds opponents for a short while!"
Omi, Raimundo and Clay hopped onto Dojo but Kimiko just said "I have to do chores to make up for the days I missed." And walked away. The rest just shrugged and Dojo set off. He landed where he thought the Golden Summoner would be. There they found Jack Spicer and Wuya, but not the Summoner!
"Give me the GOLDEN SUMMONER!" shouted Wuya, crackling with electricity.
"We haven't got it, ya two-faced snake of a ghost!" shouted Clay.
"Yeah, dude, you've got it!" said Raimundo to Jack Spicer.
"Hey, I haven't got it," said Jack. Evidence was that he was not flying away.
"Well, both me AND Wuya can't be wrong. Someone must have taken it before us," said Dojo. "Hop on, kiddies, there's no point in staying."
"No. Jack Spicer, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" said Omi.
"But, dude, there's nothing to showdown over!" said Raimundo.
"Then I challenge you, Jack Spicer, to an Elemental Dare!" shouted Omi.
"What is an Elemental Dare?" asked Raimundo and Clay simultaneously.
"An Elemental Dare is the greatest wager of all: Each player must wager ALL of their Shen Gong Wu! But, as Jack Spicer has only 1/3 of our Shen Gong Wu, we will only need to wager 1/3 of it!" said Omi.
"The only problem being, I DON'T HAVE ANY SHEN GONG WU!" Jack roared.
"Oh, yes, I forgot. Neither do we. Then we shall wager … Nothing!"
"Oh, Omi, I don't really care. Come on. Lets go," said Raimundo.
"Yeah, come on Omi. Training's more fun than this," said Dojo.
Omi, Clay, and Raimundo hopped on to Dojo.
When the Xiaolin Warriors with Dojo reached the Temple, they saw it in flames. Master Fung and the Xiaolin Monks were outside attempting to fight many masked villains, but Kimiko was no where to be seen.
"Master Fung is in trouble. I must help him!" shouted Omi, jumping down from Dojo's back and using water to stifle his strike.
Raimundo tried the same, and when he could not take Clay with him he still made Clay's fall slightly less painful.
Omi rushed up to Master Fung, but the warrior battling him simply dodged Omi's attack and sent him flying.
"I will not allow you to hurt my young monks!" said Master Fung. "SHEN GONG WU BOOM!"
Master Fung through another spectacular beam of light that threw the power of all the Shen Gong Wu that EVER existed (multiplied the power by 100,000,000,000) and also added the user's power, skill, intelligence, ect. In a single beam. However, the warrior simply deflected the hit as Master Fung sent hundreds more towards the warrior. However, in the end, he got a strike in, and he began sending multiple hits into the warriors face. The bandit was thrown against a wall, and did not get up.
"Well done, Master-" said Omi, who broke off when a bandit seized him and began to walk away. None of Omi's strikes could hurt it, and even Master Fung was not hurting it with his Boom.
Suddenly, a group of men jumped down next to Master Fung. They looked about his age, and looked just like him. There were five.
"Welcome, my past friends. Currently we are fighting weak bandits," said Master Fung. Together, they said, "Stage 100,000: Xiaolin Master KO Formation!"
"Water!" shouted Master Fung is a team flash-back. "Ice!"
"Earth!" said one of the group.
"Fire!" shouted one.
"Wind!" shouted another, whirling through the clouds.
"Energy!" shouted one at the back, surrounded in lightning.
"Light!" shouted the one at the front, the leader.
Then, each of them said, "SHEN GONG WU BOOM WUDAI!"
Omi once again felt knowledge about what it did. It sent 1,000 Shen Gong Wu Booms a second at the opponent (and each one had their power at 20,000 times that of the normal maximized power of a normal Boom) and happened for 10 hours that seemed to have been converted into a mili-second.
Each warrior shot at least 1,000,000 Shen Gong Wu Boom Extras (took exactly one second), and it formed a large ball. That ball became smaller in one second, and split up into 7 balls. Two went to Master Fung, and each one else got 1.
They threw the ball at the same time at the bandit holding Omi, who deflected the shot but didn't look too pleased.
Then, the group sped it up. Creating and throwing 7 balls at the same time only took a 10-200th of a second, and they were raining the main as fast as they could. However, the bandit blocked all of them, until they all sped it up even more (10-300th of a second to create and throw 1 ball each and two balls for Master Fung) and shouted Super Soul. Their souls left their body and sped towards the bandit, still doing their sped-up attack. As soon as the soul left the body, a new one appeared, and so on, and suddenly, their was a flash and it showed a dimension attack that made the same sequence (Super Soul, and many sped-up extra attacks WITH the soul) happen infinite times. It had made the bandit stagger back. They did another Dimension Attack of the same type, and did it again and again hundreds of times. In the end, the bandit was sent flying into the wall and crashing right through.
"Xiaolin Palm!" said Master Fung, repairing the wall. He then extinguished the water using a water attack, and turned to his friends. "Clearly the fire reached your parts of the Temple?" asked Master Fung.
"Yes," said the leader. "It has seared all the way to the Stage 100,001 area. I do not know how."
But the fire had not gone. Suddenly, the flames rose higher than ever, and began to spread. Master Fung attempted to stop them, but even he was unable to effect these flames.
"Quickly!" shouted Master Fung. "We must tell the Grandmasters. They are the only people that will be able to save the Temple.
"Monks. Gather around, all Stages included," said Master Fung. "We will be travelling through the Xiaolin Temple, to the Stage 100,001's and up till the Stage 40,000,000's, in hope that they will be able to extinguish these perfect flames."
Everyone gathered around, including Omi, Clay, and Raimundo.
Omi suddenly felt a hug.
"Omi, you're alright!" said Kimiko. She then grouped in. They were the closest to Master Fung and his friends, as they sped their way through the remaining 39,900,000 Stages. However, no one could put out the powerful flames, even the Full Circle Grandmasters, the Stage 40,000,000s. They tried, but it was no use.
"The Temple can be considered ruined," said the Stage 40,000,000. "We are unable to put it out."
But suddenly, the flames went out.
"Omi, partner, what are you so downhearted for?" asked Clay, stepping over Omi.
"I do not understand why," said Omi. "Why warriors have attacked us right after we are unable to get a Shen Gong Wu. 5 billion of the Stage 40,000,000's greatest fighters ever, with the ability to kill 9 Wuya's each, not being able to put out simple flames. And Kimiko and Master Fung acting strangely. It is erased from my Tiger Instincts, but it seems suspicious. Why?"
"Dude, forget it. The Temple was just saved!" said Raimundo, stepping up. "Oh, yeah, Omi … Up for a battle?"
Omi's frown turned upside down.
"Lets go, Raimundo!" he shouted. They jumped into the arena.
Omi jumped up to kick Raimundo, but he found that he could no longer do 14-foot jumps: He could only do 6 foot jumps, and Raimundo was exactly that size. Raimundo dodged the strike and used Hurricane Wave on Omi from high in the sky. Omi dodged it barely, only to be struck by Raimundo who had caved Omi in. Omi jumped towards Raimundo and started a quick series of attacks that Raimundo blocked easily, and followed with an extremely fast and powerful punch to the face and sent Omi flying into the pond.
"Lake Wave, Water!" shouted Omi, and a huge ray of pure water sped towards Omi.
However, Raimundo raised his hands, and through what looked like green Magic at it. The water was penetrated easily and it struck Omi, who went flying and crashing into the fence of the Training Arena.
"Where did you …" began Omi, but Raimundo cut him off before he could finish.
"Learn it?" Rai finished. "From Master Fung. He's teaching me Xiaolin and Heylin Magic!"
"I wish to learn it as well!" said Omi. "Teach me!"
"Omi?" called a calm voice. "Come, I wish to talk to you.
"Very well, Master Fung. I am coming," replied Omi. He turned to Raimundo. "Master Fung will teach me greater magic than you will ever have!"
Omi turned and walked to Master Fung.
"Yes, Master," said Omi. What is it you want me for?"
"I wish to begin your lessons. Here, you will learn many things. For every first third of the year, now known as a term, you will learn Heylin and Xiaolin Magic. Obviously, this year it will be Xiaolin. The second third of your year will be honing your normal physical combat skills. And the last third will, of course, hone your element. Now, we must begin our lesson," said Master Fung. "The first skill is called the Ice Forge. To do it, you must summon a Lake Wave, and use the ice within you to freeze it with as much magic as possible. To do this, bring out the ice within you, feel confidence, and let it flow out with deliberation and determination. Do this very quickly and horizontally before letting it flow. It will form a ball. Now, throw as much water as you can towards it (with your determination) and it will become a huge 50 foot wall of infinitely-thick ice. Try!"
Omi tried, but failed.
"Again!" said Master Fung.
It took Omi almost 12 goes before succeeding.
"I have done it!" said Omi. "I have managed to create an Ice Forge! What is the next skill, Master?"
"The next skill is called an Ice Roll. It requires determination, deliberation, and many other qualities," said Master Fung. "First, hit your opponent hard into a wall. Use a Lake Wave on him until you have just enough Stamina to cast an Ice Roll. This attack requires ¾ of the average Stage 3's Stamina, so that is how long I recommend holding the Lake Wave for. Then, strike him from one side to gain his Stamina. Then strike him on the other for some more. Do this continuously until you have full Stamina again, and then throw him into a lake. Now, use Ice Forge first on the lake and then on yourself. Next, use Tsunami Strike on the Ice and free your limbs. This will make you hard to defeat as you will be covered in ice, and your limbs will be flexible enough to fight hard. Begin."
Omi attempted the Ice Roll, but found it much harder than the Ice Forge. He made one at the end of the lesson with great difficulty. He decided to use only Ice Forge for now.
Omi stepped outside just to narrowly dodge a knocked-out Clay.
"My powers stopped Clay, the big Texas-sized dude. I won't have trouble with a 1-foot Xiaolin Dragon 1/6th my size," said Raimundo as Omi and he went into the training arena.
"Prepare to be defeated!" shouted Omi.
"I think not!" said Raimundo. "Sparkling Wind!"
Suddenly Omi felt his eyes get blown back with tremendous force, but not the rest of his body.
"Tsunami Strike!" he shouted. Raimundo dodged easily, but Omi was ready. As quickly as possible, he used magic.
"Ice Forge!" shouted Omi, doing the moves in the correct order. After a second, an Ice Forge was advancing on calm Raimundo.
"Leopard Saharah!" shouted Raimundo, and an equally strong force of wind (infinitely thick, heavy, and with a 1 kilometre size on all sides) pushed the Ice Forge back.
Omi concentrated hard on putting more power into his force. The sides were getting even, but Raimundo was heating up.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he shouted, and his Leopard Saharah turned into the claw of a single HUGE leopard.
Omi pushed all his power, but it was no good. He was distracted.
"Raimundo, I am worried. I cannot fight you right now until my mind is at rest," said Omi. "I am worried about all these strange events. My head hurts. I must get some rest."
Omi was walking towards his room when he heard a cackle from Kimiko's room. Deciding not to go in, he used his Falcon Eye power to look inside. Master Fung and Kimiko were standing in front of thin air.
They piled a speck of dust into the vault. It disappeared.
"You have done well!" said a voice. "We have collected all the Shen Gong Wu except the God Star."
"Yes, Master," said Master Fung. "Master Young?"
Omi understood now. It had all been a cover. He pieced the puzzle together, and it fit in. He left to warn Clay and Raimundo, his mind racing.
How can Master Fung and Kimiko be doing this? Why are they taking the Shen Gong Wu? And who is this "Young"?
Find out on the next chapter of LORDS OF SHEN GONG WU!