Chapter 2: The Rock Guardian
As Jackie Chan along with the Teen Titans, Jade, Uncle and Tohru finally made it to Tibet, the Titans immediately started to setup camp. As everything was setup, the Titans got ready to head toward the temple, but as the group were walking toward to the temple, Uncle felt something unusual.
"What's wrong with me?" asked Raven to Jackie.
"Uncle, why have we stopped?" asked Jackie.
"Uncle has the willies" replied Uncle.
"Willies!" said Beast Boy, "You mean he has to go?"
"No!" replied Uncle, "Uncle already went! Uncle feels the power of darkness!"
"You mean Raven?" asked Beast Boy.
"Not her!" replied Uncle, "Something else!"
"Like what?" asked Jade.
"Like me!" replied a voice behind them.
Suddenly Doloan Wong appeared along with Valmont and the Dark Hand.
"It's the anti-Uncle!" shouted Jade as she pointed at Doloan.
"What the heck are you doing here?" asked Uncle.
"I am here to search for the Scrolls of Azerath" replied Doloan, "and Shendu is right here as well."
"Shendu, here?" laughed Jackie, "You must be joking."
"Apparently he isn't" replied Shendu in Valmont's body, "and since you brought the Titans along this makes things even more interesting. You see, Trigon used the magic that was still available with him to free my spirit from the prison you trapped me in."
"Well, we're not going to let you get away with it" said Robin.
"My dear child" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "you don't understand what power I still have even when controlling someone like Valmont."
"Uh, big S" said Finn to Valmont, "are you sure you want to fight the Titans?"
"Yea" said Ratso, "they can kick your behind."
"Nothing but bluffs" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "Doloan, I want you and the Dark Hand to search the temple for the scroll of the Sky Demon. I'll hold off the Titans."
Shendu raced toward Robin and knocked Robin off his guard. He then delivered a good punch at Robin, sending him flying across the dirt. Robin almost hit a large rock nearby, had Raven not used her powers to prevent it from happening.
"We'll take care of this Shendu" said Cyborg to Jackie, "you stop the Dark Hand from getting that scroll."
As the Teen Titans fought with Shendu, Jackie, Jade, Uncle and Tohru reached the temple. As they entered the temple, they noticed a use rock-like statue staring down at them.
"This to me looks like the temple guardian" said Uncle as he studied the statue.
"I think we have more important matters" said Jackie, "remember, the Dark Hand?"
"Uncle is getting there" replied Uncle, "but Uncle suspects that whenever a scroll of an ancient temple is taken, the temple guardian is immediately woken up from his sleep. Only placing the scroll back in its place would make the temple guardian stop fighting."
"Uh, sensei" said Tohru as he pointed down the hallway.
Suddenly Hak Foo stood in the hallway, watching to make sure no body would disturb Doloan Wong from releasing the Sky Demon. As Jackie was coming down the hallway along with Tohru, Hak Foo leaped right in front of them.
"No body passes me" said Hak Foo.
"I'll keep him busy" said Jackie, "you guard Uncle."
"But what about you?" asked Tohru to Jackie.
"I'll be fine" replied Jackie.
Hak Foo tried to kick Jackie, but Jackie dodged the attack. Jackie then flipped over Hak Foo and gave a good kick at him, knocking Hak Foo to the temple floor. While Hak Foo and Jackie were fighting, Uncle, Tohru and Jade went down the hallway of the temple and then into the room where Doloan along with Chow, Ratso and Finn were trying to retrieve the scroll.
"Don't do it!" shouted Uncle as he came into the room, "You wouldn't like the results!"
"Yea right" replied Doloan as he turned around, "what do you know about this temple?"
"I know that if you take that scroll out of that parchment, you would have woke up the temple guardian!" shouted Uncle.
"Yea" said Finn, "like old big D here would believe something like that."
As Doloan grabbed the scroll from the parchment it was displayed, there was some rumbling and the entire temple began to shack.
"Probably an avalanche outside" said Chow.
"That was no avalanche" said Tohru as he got himself up from the floor.
"Oh yea" said Ratso, "then what was it?"
Suddenly Hak Foo and Jackie came running into the temple screaming.
"Big giant rock creature, heading this way!" shouted Jackie as he was running down the hallway.
"Run and hide like a scared little coward!" shouted Hak Foo.
Suddenly the ground beneath everybody began to shake. Even Shendu and the Titans stopped fighting.
"Did you hear that?" asked Shendu in Valmont's body.
"I don't like agreeing with bad people like you" replied Starfire as she was about to punch Shendu, "but yes."
"We have to get to the temple and see what's happening there" said Robin.
As the Titans along with Shendu raced toward the temple, they encountered a huge rock-like creature that was heading toward down the hallway where the scroll was supposedly located. Cyborg carefully aimed his laser cannon at the rock-like creature and fired. The rock creature turned its head toward Cyborg and started to chase the Titans. This gave Shendu the opportunity to head down the hallway where Doloan Wong was located.
"Finally you made it" said Doloan to Shendu.
"Yes" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "give me the scroll and I shall open the portal that shall free the Sky Demon."
"Jackie, do something" said Jade to Jackie, "he's going to release the demon."
As Doloan threw the scroll to Shendu, Jackie leaped over Shendu and grabbed the scroll away from him. He then raced down toward the hallway to try to get the attention of the rock-like creature.
"Chan!" shouted Shendu in Valmont's body, "Get him!"
As Chow, Ratso and Finn were about to go down the hallway to retrieve the scroll from Jackie, Tohru stepped in front of them.
"Hi guys" said Tohru as he grinned his knuckles together.
"Uh, no hard feelings about kicking your butt when we were dark chi warriors?" asked Finn as sweat ran down his forehead.
"Let me handle him" said Hak Foo as he pushed his way through the three, "you grab the scroll; I'll deal with tubby here."
As Hak Foo and Tohru were fighting, Ratso, Finn and Chow went down the hallway to get the scroll from Jackie. The Titans were fighting the rock-like creature. Starfire kept on firing her star bolts at the creature, while Raven tried to smash it to pieces with her powers. Beast Boy turned himself into a triceratops and raced toward the creature, ramming it to the wall. But the creature grabbed the horn and threw Beast Boy across the room. Cyborg kept on firing his laser cannon as the creature was trying to corner him along with Robin. Jackie then leaped in front of Cyborg and Robin and showed the creature the scroll.
"You want this?" asked Jackie as he pointed to the scroll, "Then come and get it!"
The rock-like creature then turned its attention toward Jackie. Jackie went right under the large creature's legs and ran back toward the hallway. As he was running to toward the hallway, Chow and Ratso managed to grab Jackie and Finn grabbed the scroll.
"This is too easy!" replied Finn as he took the scroll out of Jackie's hands.
"I wouldn't say that!" replied Jackie.
"Why?" asked Chow to Jackie.
"Because that thing won't like it!" replied Jackie as he pointed at the large rock-like creature.
Suddenly all four ran down the hallway with the large creature following closely behind them.
"Put the scroll back where it belongs and the creature will stop fighting!" shouted Jackie to Finn.
"Why should we believe you?" asked Finn as he held the scroll in his hands.
"Throw the scroll to me!" replied Doloan, "I'll be able to release the Sky Demon from his prison!"
As the large creature came into the room, Hak Foo stopped fighting with Tohru and they both ran for cover as the creature started to walk toward Shendu and Doloan. Finn quickly threw the scroll and Doloan managed to catch it.
"Hurry" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "release the Sky Demon, now!"
Doloan then muttered some chi spell words and suddenly the scroll fell to the ground, opening some sort of portal that had some strnage light coming out from the scroll itself. Jade along with Uncle, Jackie and Tohru were shocked to see the figure coming out was none other than the Sky Demon.
"Greetings Shendu" said the Sky Demon as he walked out of the portal, "I am glad that I have returned."
"There is something quite different" said Shendu in Valmont's body as he walked toward the Sky Demon, "but I can't place my finger on it."
"Oh, you mean this symbol?" asked the Sky Demon as he pointed to his forehead.
Suddenly the Titans raced down the hallway, only to find out they were too late in stopping the Sky Demon from coming out of the portal. Raven especially was shocked to see that same symbol that represented her father's evil cult was on the Sky Demon's forehead.
"No, this can't be" said Raven to Uncle.
"What?" replied Uncle, "What can't be?"
"It's that same symbol that was once on Slade" replied Robin, "now it's on that demon."
"What's Trigon planning this time?" asked Cyborg.
"And why has the large creature stopped fighting?" asked Starfire.
"All good questions" replied the Sky Demon, "you see Trigon knew that the only way to free me was to retrieve the eight scrolls of Azerath. My brother Shendu accomplished retrieving the first. And as for the temple guardian, it has stopped in its tracks because it knows it can not defeat me. And neither will you."
"That's what you think!" shouted Cyborg as he loaded up his laser cannon.
"You wouldn't hit me if I had a hostage?" asked the Sky Demon.
The Sky Demon the grabbed Jade and brought her toward Shendu and Doloan Wong. Shendu then signaled the rest of the Dark Hand to come back to the group as they did.
"So what are your options here?" asked the Sky Demon, "Fight me and the Dark Hand along with my pal Doloan or risk losing Jade. Your decision."
"You won't get away with this" said Robin as he shook his fists at the Sky Demon.
"I already have" said the Sky Demon.
The Sky Demon then signaled Doloan to cast a teleportation spell. As the Teen Titans were about to try to rescue Jade, the Sky Demon along with Jade, Doloan Wong and the Dark Hand vanished.
"This can't be happening!" cried Beast Boy as he was searching where the bad guys went.
"I don't know where they went or what these dragon demons have to do with my father" said Raven.
"I believe I can answer that" said a strange voice.
"Did that rock-like creature just spoke?" asked Cyborg in an astonished voice.
"I believe the temple guardian has something to tell us" replied Uncle.
"Thank you chi wizard" said the temple guardian, "as you can see, I am one out of eight temple guardians who guard these ancient scrolls of Azerath. These scrolls were created during the time when Shendu and his minions ruled the Earth. These scrolls were backups just in case if the Eight Immortals should have ever failed in their attempts to stop Shendu and his minions."
"And now these scrolls are being used to free them?" asked Tohru.
"Unfortunately yes" replied the temple guardian, "I can show you where the other locations of other ancient temples are. From there you are on your own."
"Come on" said Jackie, "we should also come up with a plan to rescue Jade. I think we can try to get Captain Black to try to find the hideout of the Dark Hand. I am sure they have taken her there."
"I think Uncle knows they might be planning to us her as bait in our next attempt to stop them from activating the next scroll" said Uncle.
"I can give you a few hints on where the next location of the next scroll is" said the temple guardian, "you might want to head to the Amazon. There is the scroll of the Water Demon is located. Stop them from activating it."
"Don't worry" said Uncle as the Titans along with Jackie and Tohru were leaving the temple, "we won't fail this time."
