Twelve Soul Dragon

By Gigawolf1

Chapter 15: Rise of Kumei

"Young monks, you have trained your individual techniques often. What none of you seem to remember is that by using the Dragon X Kumei formation, you use your powers together. Perhaps that could defeat Rioss?"

Kimiko sighed. "Master Fung, Rioss is too strong! Even with the Dragon X Kumei formation, we would lose! If he summons the Twelve Soul Dragon, he's stop any attack we made!"

Master Fung thought for a moment. Then he thought for another one. Then he rubbed his chin and thought for another minute. He suddenly raised his hand and went inside. It was another four minutes before Raimundo asked "How is it that he can sneak up behind us and yet he takes forever to come up with a real answer?" He was surprised when he heard Master Fung say "Because the best ideas are the ones with a lot of thought in them." He jumped, since he had no idea how Master Fung had gotten behind him.

"The way to defeat Rioss is simple. In order to defeat him, you will need the Reversing Mirror, the Shroud of Shadows, and Falcon's Eye. Now, of those, what do we have in the vault?"

Omi thought. "Well, we won the Shroud of Shadows from Jack Spicer when Pandabubba took the Ruby Rooster, we have the Falcon's Eye, and Rioss took the Reversing Mirror! So all we need to do is take that Shen Gong Wu from him and we shall win! Right, Master Fung?"

Master Fung shook his head. "No, Omi. I am not speaking of Rioss. Now that he has all of the pieces of the Twelve Soul Dragon, we must worry about the creature. If it gets out, then only the Dragon X Kumei formation can defeat Rioss. You must use the Falcon's Eye, Reversing Mirror, and Shroud of Shadows against the dragon."

Clay spoke up. "What about the Sun Chi Lantern? Wouldn't that allow us to share our powers in a way even the Dragon X Kumei formation can't?"

Master Fung smiled. "An excellent plan, Clay. However, the Dragon X Kumei formation is the only thing that can defeat Rioss. If you use the Dragon X Kumei formation and the Sun Chi Lantern, than you will have an advantage over Rioss that cannot be easily matched."

Raimundo said nothing. He alone knew that there were two Shen Gong Wu that could defeat the Wolf's Head Blade, but the Xiaolin Dragons only had one of them. Heading down to the Vault, he took it out of its box…

Looking down, Raimundo saw a piece of the Scroll of th Shen Gong Wu. He picked it up and read it. 'Dragon A Kumei formation, Dragon E Kuemi formation, Dragon N Kumei formation, Dragon T Kumei formation, Dragon X Kumei formation. The five poses of the ancient dragon Kumei. All five together will…' That was the end of that piece. Raimundo scratched his head. "There are five Dragon Kumei formations? Why didn't Master Fung tell us about the others?"

Later that day

The Xiaolin Dragons stood in the courtyard. Raimundo had told them of the Dragon Kumei formations. They had practiced only the X formation, and had no understanding of the others. Though the piece of the Scroll had the names of the other formations, it had no diagrams or pictures. They were brought out of their trance-like focus by a knock on the outer wall of the temple.

Though the temple had no doors, the visitor had acted as though there was. He knocked shyly and carefully. Omi was the first to the gate, and he gasped when he saw who was just outside the temple.

"Jack Spicer! What are you doing here! Are you attempting to steal the Shen Gong Wu from the vault? If you are, I must warn you that I will make you my property in battle!"

Jack looked at Omi with confusion on his face. "Why is it that you always mess every slang term up? It's 'own you,' not 'make you my property!' Seriously, you have issues."