Twelve Soul Dragon

By Gigawolf1

Chapter 18: Jetbootsu

The Xiaolin Dragons decided to take a break. Jack had mastered the Two-Ton Tunic with his Metal element. His use of the Helmet of Jong was going well. However, he hadn't even tried teh Jetbootsu with his element.

"I got all three of mine first, but you guys took the Two-Ton Tunic. I wasn't the first to use the other two, but I used the Jetbootsu first!"

Raimundo rolled his eyes while Kimiko asked, "What does that have to do with anything?"

Jack just stared and replied "I have no idea. It just popped into my head! If I don't have an excuse, I guess I have to try it... Jetbootsu! Metal!"

The Xiaolin Dragons merely stared for thirty seconds before they started laughing. "Jack Spicer! Your mastery of your element is so weak that you are much more likely stop flying and combust!"

Jack really didn't like Omi saying he couldn't do anything right, so he decided to correct the little monk. "It's 'Crash and Burn,' not whatever you said."

Omi got upset. "Why does everyone always treat me as though I know nothing? Jack Spicer, for that you are going UP!"

Jack really wasn't in the mood. "It'll seem like that to you when you go DOWN!" shouted Jack. Suddenly, to the surprise of all the Xiaolin Dragons, Omi fell over. They watched, dumbfounded, as the youngest Dragon struggled to stand. Jack grinned. "Cool! I have Gravity Control! Sweet!"

Master Fung, in his normal fashion, showed up right then with no one noticing. "Indeed, with the power of Metal the Jetbootsu can control gravity in the surrounding area." Jack screamed his usual scream, sending Dojo into a panic while the Xiaolin Dragons recoiled from the sonic pain.

"Master Fung, after Jack, there will be no more Chosen Ones, right? After all, when Vlad joined us, he was really working for evil. And when Katnappe was wounded and we helped her she was really biding her time, so only the four of us can be trusted. Actually, since me and Raimundo joined the Heylin Side temporarily, only Clay and Kimiko can be trusted. And me! I can always be trusted! Besides, how many more elements can there be?"

Master Fung sighed. Any response other than an outright lie would set Omi off on an endless rant or knock him unconcious with mental pain. Everyone hoped for the latter, but he knew in his heart that the chances were low. However, he promised himself never to hide anything minor about a direct question from Omi, ever since he learnt the truth.

"There are four basic elements: Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth. The combinations of certain elements create secondary elements, which tend to stick to a particular region of statistics. Metal, for example, is highly defensive, with immense power. This is because Metal is the fusion of Fire and Earth. There are also Lightning, Swamp, Desert, Sound, and Magnetism. However, these elements are more region-oriented than person-oriented. There are no more Xiaolin Dragons with elemental Shen Gong Wu. However, almost every person who comes in contact with the Shen Gong Wu has the potential to be a Xiaolin Dragon."

In the meantime Raimundo and Kimiko were placing bets on Omi's reaction. Raimundo bet that Omi would run around screaming his head off. Kimiko bet he would go into a dead faint. Clay interjected and said that Omi would do both, and Jack bet that Omi would begin to rant. Dojo had gone about trying to find a nice quiet spot to avoid whatever happened. But before he did, he bet a month's worth of using the Silver Manta Ray or other vehicle Shen Gong Wu that he would rant while running around before fainting right before Master Fung.

"That makes no sense whatsoever! Master Fung, why do we need more Dragons? Can we not merely defeat every evil force in our path by ourselves?" Omi continued his pointless rant as he paced back and forth. "I am the strongest Xiaolin Dragon of all! Even though Raimundo is the Wudai Warrior, I am still much stronger than him! Just because I was merely on the side of evil temporarily, you chose him! And besides, Kimiko and Clay are strong, though they would never be considered anywhere near Wudai Warrior level! And Jack Spicer... Don't get me started on all the faults of Jack Spicer! We have lost one, two, three, four, five Shen Gong Wu to evil before Raimundo turned to evil! Yet only once was in a fair fight against Jack Spicer, and even then it wasn't so fair! We had no idea what the Heart of Jong did! Speaking of which, he must give it down!"

Since Omi said all of this in one breath, he quickly fainted. At the end, he had begun to run around slightly, enough for Dojo to win the bet. However, no one had time to resolve the issue because Jack said, "I don't have the Heart of Jong. Rioss took it from Pandabubba, who took it from Dude-bot. And besides, the saying is "Give it UP!" At this, the Xiaolin Dragons (plus Jack) began to float off the the ground by about a metre.

Meanwhile, in the Ancient Cave

Rioss stood still as he traced the exact markings with the Wolf's Head Blade. After completing the exact pattern, the tree that blocked the next spot for the Shen Gong Wu was revealed. He shouted "Wolf's Head Blade!' and sliced through the trunk. The tree wilted enough for him to place the Wolf's Head Blade in its smaller form into its rightful place. After he put the embodiement of Catura in the correct place, the tree once more covered the hole.