O.o I feel bad for not updating in a while. I'm used to updating every day and I feel a little bad for…well… not updating.
I've decided to start writing about the four legendary warriors, which are created by me. I'm starting with Aki because I just feel like it. I'm probably going in the order of their Shen Gong Wu- Aki, Celestia, Iaki, Eienko. Iaki seems like Aki…I just noticed that. Oh well, it's not as if I planned that or anything.
Enjoy! By the way, I promise that I will not leave it with a cliffhanger. So be happy.
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The force from both elements hitting each other with equal force sent chips flying from the rocks that Raimundo had created. Gases and smoke covered the entire area in a gray mist, leaving both Raimundo and Kimiko wondering what was happening.
Raimundo felt something pierce his skin. It seemed like rocks, shards of earth, were flying in every direction. He felt the immense heat of fire and the coolness of a great wind come at him, coughing into his elbow. He couldn't see. Had he won? Was Kimiko hurt at all? Everything became blurrier and blurrier… and then…
Chase Young emerged from the area and cleared the smoke with a strange power, leaving them to see what they had created.
They were both on two platforms, carved by wind and fire, standing right above a deep black void encircled with vivid red flames and floating smoke. They had very limited space, maybe about 3 feet of platform to stand on. The rest of the rocks had fallen into the void through the strange clash between two elements.
"It looks like the two elements, flame and air, have caused a void with the energy that came together. It is an arena for… some kind of Showdown. If either of you fall out of the rock and into the void, you will be killed." Chase smiled smugly. It didn't matter who it was, one way or the other they would both be destroyed.
"What?" Raimundo yelled angrily. "You can't do this!"
"I haven't done anything. It was the negative energy that created this strange void," Chase said. His thin lips curled in a cruel smile.
"Argh," Raimundo said, bracing himself.
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"Master Fung, we have come to ask you something," Omi said. "Clay and I need to know the history of the four legendary warriors."
"The four legendary warriors, hmm? I'm afraid I only know what has been written down in scroll, my young monk. Many of their scrolls were burned when Wuya took her terrible reign 1500 years ago," Master Fung said, sighing.
"Then tell us what ya know, Master Fung," Clay said. "It's our only hope."
Master Fung closed his eyes, remembering a story that he once heard. After a few minutes, he opened them again. "It is time," He said. He began to tell of a brave warrior named Aki, the Dragon of Water.
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1,680 years ago- Aki
Aki had been trained in China. He was a fearless warrior who had black hair and menacing eyes. Nobody dared cross him, and while he was alive there was peace. No evil could harm him, the great master of the Xiaolin martial arts.
He was invincible, as everyone said. But he sought something more than just fighting. He wanted a companion to help him with his journey. He was beginning to tire of his long and wary battles.
He was the first one to become a dragon. To have the great power that nobody else possessed. His power and knowledge was great and he had many years of experience.
One day, he set out to find someone who had strength and knowledge. Someone like him, with years of experience. Perhaps someday he would meet a Dragon of Fire, or Wind, or Earth. He didn't know that day that he was going to meet all three.
But he did. It was actually an accident that he met up with Celestia that first day. To tell you that story requires some backing up, however. Backing up to that first day…
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Aki was a wanderer. Someone who never truly had a home, someone who traveled many places in the world. Aki had visited many rivers, oceans, valleys and mountains, cities, forests and other places- even space. On that fateful day thousands of years ago, Aki went to a small village. The people he saw there were under attack by a group of bandits.
Aki could never resist helping people; it made him feel good and he loved being able to cause at least a small amount of good in this world of evil.
So he was up to the fight. He had a love of peace; he never killed if he could avoid it however. "Bandits, release your captives of this village."
"Who are you to command us, the might Jiu?" one of the men asked, smiling smugly. Another fool that would be assassinated.
Aki threw off his disguise, which was a simple farmer's hat and cloak. Inside he had armor made of gold and the stony face of a warrior. "Who am I to command you? I am the mighty warrior Aki."
"What?" One of the bandits screamed. "Aki, the mighty Xiaolin Dragon of Water? It is not possible! Why are you in a lowly village?"
"Because this 'lowly village', as you call it, is under attack. And I will defend the weak and helpless no matter what. It is on my warrior's honor," Aki said boldly.
"All right, all right, we leave," the leader of the group said begrudgingly. "It is hopeless to fight the Aki who slay seven dragons with one halberd."
"I thank you, the bandits of Jiu, for leaving the village in peace," Aki said. He bowed his head to show that he honored them.
"Farewell," the leader looked regretful.
The villagers were gleeful. There were shouts of 'Aki! Aki!' and a festival in honor of him. After the festival was over, the villagers went to sleep except for one woman. In the middle of the night, she snuck out to see Aki, who was leaving quietly.
"Won't you please speak to me, Aki?" the woman said. She had intricately beautiful features; blue eyes and black hair that shone blue in the moonlight. "I could have saved the village myself, but I wanted to see what would happen when you arrived, Aki."
"And who are you?" Aki asked, but not in a pushy way.
"My name… is Celestia. The Dragon of the Fire," she replied.
"I have heard much about you."
"I imagined so," Celestia said. "I heard you are seeking allies."
"Yes… do you want to help me on my mission to defeat evil?" Aki smiled. He now had a companion, someone of equal strength.
"Yeah," she said. "I think this is the start of something new."
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I'm doing five chapters with a little bit of the Raimundo and Kimiko predicament and mostly the Aki part. The second is about Celestia, the third about Iaki, the fourth about Eienko, and the fifth about the evil Iaki and Celestia had to face (which is like the Raimundo/Kimiko situation) and how it all turned out. Then I'm moving back to the main focus again. Sorry if that disappoints you, but there will be some of the Rai/Kim battle too.