Chapter 4: Slade's Helping Hand

As the Titans, Jackie, Uncle, Jade and Tohru reached Section 13 thanks to Raven's powers, Captain Black was in the main room to greet them.

"I'm glad you made it back" said Captain Black, "did you have any luck in stopping them from retrieving the scroll?"

"No!" replied Beast Boy, "What do you think?"

"It was just like the last time" said Robin.

"Except this time we got sprayed with water" said Cyborg.

"Lots of it" said Starfire.

"So where are you people going off this time?" asked Captain Black.

"The Sahara Desert" replied Uncle.

"And we need a fast jet to get there" said Jackie.

"I have somebody who would like to help you people out" said Captain Black, "please follow me."

As the Titans along with Jackie, Uncle, Jade and Tohru, they entered another room with a long table and several chairs next to it. There was a figure sitting on the end of the table waiting for them.

"It's about time" said a familiar voice.

Suddenly the strange figure that was sitting on the end of the table revealed itself to be Slade.

"Slade!" cried all of the Titans.

"What is Slade doing here!" shouted Robin as he pulled the shirt of Captain Black.

"Easy" replied Captain Black, "he's going to help you people stop those nasty demons."

"When I heard Trigon was involved with these demons, I decided to help you Titans along with your friend Jackie Chan and company" said Slade as he sat up from his chair.

"Trigon is mine!" shouted Raven back at Slade, "If anyone who is going to stop him from coming back, it's going to me!"

"Enough of this bickering!" shouted Uncle as he tried to stop Raven from attacking Slade.

"Uncle is right" said Jackie, "I don't like this either, but Slade might do some good here."

"There, you see even your friend Jackie agrees with Captain Black" said Slade.

"We can't argue for too long" said Captain Black, "I'll give you people the fastest jet available to head toward the Sahara Desert."

A few minutes later, the Titans along with Slade, Jackie, Jade, Tohru and Uncle were on board of a plane. Robin and Cyborg were piloting the plane while Slade was stuck in the back along with Jackie, Jade, Tohru and Uncle. Uncle was taking out a dead lizard from the suitcase.

"What's that you got there?" asked Slade.

"This is for the location spell" replied Uncle, "it will make our search for the temple easier."

As Uncle and Tohru made the preparations for the chi spell, the dead lizard started to have a yellow glow around it. Then Uncle and Tohru got up from their seats and headed toward the pilot area where Cyborg and Robin were along with Beast Boy, Raven and Starfire watching them.

"Head that way!" shouted Uncle as he pointed his finger in front of Robin.

"Can you please get your finger out of my face?" asked Robin, "It's hard to concentrate."

"You want to stop Trigon from getting out of his prison?" asked Uncle, "Then let Uncle direct you to the temple!"

"Okay, okay" replied Robin.

As Uncle was directing Robin and Cyborg where to find the temple in the Sahara Desert, the Dark Hand along with Doloan Wong, the Sky and Water Demons arrived first.

"Where is the temple?" asked Shendu in Valmont's body as he began to look around, "You said it was right here? I only see sand!"

"Patience Shendu" replied Doloan as he was preparing a chi spell.

Suddenly Doloan Wong began to mutter some words from his chi spell book. As he read the words of the spell, some wind began to blow. Then the wind got stronger and stronger as it blew. Everybody in the area could feel the strong wind. As the plane carrying Jackie and company was reaching the location wind started to blow even stronger.

"We're heading into a sand storm!" replied Cyborg as he was trying to take control of the plane.

"Raven, can you try to control the plane while using your powers?" asked Robin.

"I don't know" replied Raven, "I think it will be too difficult to concentrate!"

"This is no ordinary sand storm!" shouted Uncle as he was trying to maintain balance, "Only a chi spell of some sort of magic can create such a wild sand storm like this!"

"Looks like we're going to crash!" shouted Cyborg as the plane was getting closer to the ground, "Everybody hold onto something!"

As everybody in the plane held onto something, the plane went down like a rock and crashing right in the sand. As the sand storm cleared and everybody on the plane woke up, they saw that the plane was in a wreck.

"Is everybody okay?" asked Jackie as he was getting up.

"I think so" replied Jade.

Back at the location of the temple, Shendu was pleased that the temple had been revealed thanks to Doloan Wong's chi spell.

"This I believe is the temple that holds the scroll for the Wind Demon" said Shendu in Valmont's body as he looked up at the large temple.

"Yes" said the Water Demon, "having him free would help us in defeating the Titans as well as Jackie Chan and company."

"So should we head in?" asked Ratso.

"I believe we shall go in" replied the Sky Demon, "you Dark Hand types stay out here."

"Are you kidding?" asked Chow, "If the Titans come they'll kick our butts."

"Yea" said Finn, "and you don't know who else could ally with them either."

"Don't worry" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "I shall stay with you four. I don't want you people to have an unfair disadvantage."

"Fine" said Doloan, "at least I get to read the scroll."

Meanwhile, Jackie, Jade, Tohru, Uncle, Slade and the Titans were making their way to the temple. The dead lizard Uncle was still carrying was starting to glow even more than usual. Finally they made it to the entrance of the temple.

"This doesn't make sense" said Raven, "I heard this temple was covered up by sand. And lots of it."

"Doloan Wong must have used a chi spell to reveal the temple" said Uncle.

"Which means that was the cause of that sand storm" said Cyborg.

"Exactly" said Uncle.

"Bravo" said Shendu in Valmont's body while he was clapping his hands.

Suddenly Shendu along with the Dark Hand emerged from their hiding places.

"This is it?" asked Slade as he turned to Jackie, "This is the threat that needs help being crushed?"

"You don't understand" replied Jackie, "Valmont is being controlled by a dragon spirit."

"And he says hi" said Shendu in Valmont's body as he punched Slade across the sand.

"Uh, big S" said Finn, "did you just knocked down Slade, big V's friend?"

"He was his friend!" shouted Shendu in Valmont's body, "Well, if he's working for Chan now he's not his friend!"

"That was quite a punch" said Slade as he got himself up from the ground, "but not good enough."

Then Robin along with the Titans stood in Slade's way.

"We'll handle this" said Robin, "you're job is to go with Jackie."

"How touchy" said Slade as he was heading inside to the temple along with Jackie, Jade, Tohru and Uncle.

As they were heading inside, they of course like the other previous temples, saw the statue of the temple guardian in the center of the main room. The temple guardian this time was made of sand but had a warrior outfit on.

"This must be the temple guardian" said Uncle, "if the scroll is removed from the parchment, then it shall awaken the temple guardian."

"But we already know that Uncle" said Jackie.

"Just informing Slade" said Uncle.

"We should probably head down the main hallway" said Tohru.

"Good" said Jade, "I can't wait to kick the butts of those two demons."

As Jackie, Jade, Uncle, Tohru and Slade went down the main hallway; they entered the room where the scroll was located. Doloan Wong of course was about to retrieve the scroll from the parchment.

"Leave this to me" said Slade.

"Wait!" cried Jackie as he was trying to stop Slade from making a sneak attack on Doloan.

As Slade leaped and was about to kick Doloan Wong down, the Water Demon emerged from nowhere, shocking Slade. The Water Demon grabbed Slade's leg and threw him to the wall of the room. As Slade recovered he noticed that the Water Demon had the same sign he once had on her forehead.

"You didn't tell me I was dealing with dragon demons" said Slade to Jackie.

"I told you not to attack" said Jackie.

Then the Sky Demon emerged from the top of the ceiling of the room and flew down right behind Jackie, Jade, Tohru and Uncle.

"I believe it's too late for you people" said the Sky Demon.

"That's what you think" said Slade.

Slade then took out some explosives he was carrying on him and threw them at the Water Demon. The explosives exploded, turning the Water Demon back into water. Slade then raced over, leaped over Jackie and the others and kicked the Sky Demon down. Slade then took out his fighting rod.

"You stop the dark wizard" said Slade, "I shall handle this."

As Slade was battling the Sky Demon, back outside of the temple, the Dark Hand along with Shendu were busy fighting the Titans. Beast Boy easily defeated Chow, Ratso and Finn when he turned into a grizzly bear and roared right in front of them. This scared the three and they started to run off, but they ran right into Cyborg who managed to kick the crud out of them. Robin was busy fighting Hak Foo as Hak Foo tried to hit Robin, but it was no use, Robin was too fast for him. Robin while using his fighting rod managed to leap from the tip of the rod and kicking Hak Foo down to the ground. Raven and Starfire were having trouble fighting Shendu as Shendu managed to dodge their every move. Didn't matter if it were Starfire's star bolts or Raven trying to hold Shendu in position using her powers. Back at the temple, as Jackie tried to approach Doloan and tried to stop him, Doloan managed to pick up the scroll from the parchment. Suddenly like before everything began to shake around the temple as the temple guardian was getting out of his position and heading down the hallway.

"Let me handle the temple guardian" said the Water Demon to Doloan, "you read that scroll."

As the temple guardian started to walk toward Doloan, the Water Demon got in front of it. She then sprayed some water at the sand-like guardian, making the sand all wet and muddy. Some of the sand began to fall out of place from the temple guardian's body, but the temple guardian managed to regenerate the lost sand. The temple guardian then raised its large hands and tried to bash the Water Demon, but the Water Demon managed to dodge the attack. As the Water Demon kept the temple guardian busy, Doloan Wong was nearly finished with reading the scroll. The scroll like before then fell on the ground and a strange light appeared. The light kept on getting bigger and the Wind Demon emerged from the light. At the same time, the temple guardian halted all actions.

"I am free again!" shouted the Wind Demon.

"It's nice to see you again" said the Water Demon.

"I could use some help over here!" shouted the Sky Demon as he was having trouble fighting Slade.

"Let me handle this" said the Wind Demon.

The Wind Demon then gathered its breath and started to blow everybody in the room away. The wind from the Wind Demon sent Slade along with Jackie, Jade, Tohru and Uncle crashing right into the wall of the main room. Then the Wind Demon made his way outside the temple and noticed that the Dark Hand were having trouble fighting the Titans. So he gathered a large breath and blew the wind out of his mouth, throwing all the Titans off balance and right into the sand.

"It's about time you have done some good" said the Wind Demon to Shendu.

"Yes" said Shendu in Valmont's body, "we shall head to the next temple and free the next demon."

"Precisely what I was thinking of" said the Wind Demon.

"Don't worry" said Doloan as he came out of the temple, "I shall find the location of it."

Then as all the villains gathered in one area, Doloan used his teleportation spell and left the area. The Titans got themselves out of the sand and Jackie along with Slade, Jade, Uncle and Tohru came out of the temple along with the temple guardian.

"Dude, how long are we going to have this bad luck?" asked Beast Boy who was trying to get the sand out of his ears.

"I too am getting quite annoyed" said Starfire.

"I can tell you people where the next temple would be located" said the temple guardian, "it's going to be somewhere in the Rocky Mountains."

"But we can't go there" said Jackie, "our plane crashed."

Suddenly a jet appeared from where their plane had crashed. As everybody said good bye to the temple guardian, they raced to the crash site to find Captain Black with a jet ready.

"We figured you might need some help" said Captain Black as he was waiting for them.

"Another demon is loose" said Uncle, "we must hurry to the Rocky Mountains."

"Then to the Rockies we shall go" said Captain Black.