This whole chapter is DELIBRATELY in italics. Why? Because it is a flashback/thought. Flashbacks/thoughts are usually in italics for me.

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'I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so
Heaven bent to take my hand
There's nowhere left to turn… '

Fallen, Sarah McLachlan.

Warning: probably out-of-character stuff.

And note: No happy ending.

And that was the last time we ever saw him again.

We came back with help. All the monks from the temple, Master Fung, all the Shen-gong-wu we had, and even Jack Spicer, Wuya and the other Heylin warriors.

Although they won't admit it, I still think that Jack Spicer and the rest of the Heylin warriors were actually a little fond of Omi. I mean, come on. Who couldn't be? Omi was the happy, go-lucky type of guy, always ready to help someone. But he was way too trusty of a person, though. Now don't get me wrong. Omi was sometimes obnoxious and always a little full of himself, but then again, aren't we all at times? But despite all that, he did manage to make his way into everyone's hearts…and sometimes under our skin as well.

Well, we stormed the place.

It had been a tedious and tiring process, but we managed.

It took some time to find the room where Omi was most likely kept. We found it by accident though. Clay had accidentally touched a wall and it disappeared to reveal the small room. We almost choked when we went in, though. There was dried blood on the floor and a mat for two. It didn't take us long to figure out why.

But on the mat, we found a note.

A note that carried only three words:

"I am free."

Nothing else. Just those three words scribbled hurriedly on the paper. We could tell the writing was Omi's though. There was no mistaking it.

We accidentally set foot in another room afterwards. However, this room was beautiful. Nothing like any of us had ever seen. It was more like an indoor garden than a room. An indoor water garden.

It's so amazing that such beauty can be held in such a horrible place.

A field of flowers, almost every color possible, stretched down to a humongous lake, which in turn, covered at least three fourths of the entire 'room'. A huge weeping willow rested at the edge of the lake, daintily touching the shimmering water. Water lilies drifted gently on the surface of the crystal clear water.

The rain had also stopped. That was what surprised us. The clouds were gone. Instead, the sun was shining for the first time in two weeks, as we were told.

The sunlight made the water glitter…and a thick metal band with a dragon carved into it, lying innocently by our feet, as well. This meant that Omi was free. Free from Chase.

But Chase had not been as cruel as we had originally thought. Yes, he had taken advantage of Omi in the cruelest ways known to mankind, but at the same time, he had given him a refuge.

Long ago, we would often find Omi meditating in the rain or just sitting near the water. Out of all of us, Omi had been the most comfortable around water, which is not surprising since it is his element.

And Chase had did just that. He knew that we were all most comfortable around our elements, so he provided Omi a little hide-away. A sanctuary if you will.

But it was still a prison. The water flowed, yes, but only through small spaces between bars; the spaces so small that even a beetle would have difficulty squeezing through.

We know this because we searched the place. In fact, we searched the whole entire Lair for Omi.

And never found him.

We used the serpent's tail to search underground, just incase he was somewhere were we could not go on foot.

We even used the crystal glasses.

Nothing.

It seemed as though Omi had disappeared off of the surface of the earth.

Where he was, we don't know. And we have no way of finding out either.

When we stormed the place, Chase had put up a fight, but lost. Lost not only the battle, but his life as well. His cats, the fallen warriors, had all died with him.

Now we had no way of knowing.

Well, life goes on.

We keep searching for Omi but we now are back in our normal daily routines. We search for Shen-gong-wu. We do showdowns. But it isn't the same. Nothing is the same.

Even the Heylin side realizes it, I think.

But just a couple of days ago, something strange happened. We were in the middle of a showdown, Rai against Jack, when Rai accidentally fell into a swiftly flowing river, which was flowing towards a waterfall.

We couldn't reach him and we all thought that he was lost, when suddenly the river changed course. It began to flow upstream instead of downstream. None of us could control water, so we were completely stunned. But that did not deter us from retrieving Rai.

There have been many of these strange events. Like sometimes, we think we see a small silhouette standing on the water, but when we try to get a good look, it disappears.

Sometimes, Master Fung had told us when we asked him about it, a dragon can turn into their element. It is a very difficult thing to do, however. It takes a lot of practice and one has to be very careful. If one turns into an element before one had enough practice, one can stay stuck as the element for some time…maybe even forever.

But it was usually used as only the last resort. When you had nothing left to fear. When you had nothing left at all. Nothing, just one last act of desperation.

We had been told that we had been imprisoned by Chase for almost two weeks. Two weeks.

We had winced at that. Two weeks of sheer torture for Omi. None of us could imagine spending two weeks being tortured and used like that. I think I might have gone insane.

But when Omi had come to save us, (a fact which does not help our own guilt) he had seemed pretty desperate.

Desperate enough to try the near impossible.

We don't know for sure whether Omi had attempted it or not, but one thing's for sure. We can't find Omi no matter what we try. But there's still a feeling that we're always being watched…

And then the water acts strange at times…

Maybe, just maybe, he's here all along…but we just can't see him.

But this only feeds our hope. Our hope that just maybe, somehow, we'll be able to see him again.

End.

Sequel? Dunno. Feel free to put ideas in reviews.