Twelve Soul Dragon
By Gigawolf1
Chapter 25: Tunnel Armadillo (End of Awakening Saga)
Kimiko ran into the room with lots of scrolls. Inside were Jack and Omi. They were looking for the last scroll. "Guys! Raimundo's awake, and he says that the cave where the Twelve Soul Dragon is right underneath the..."
"Shen Gong Wu Vault," finished Jack. 'He knew all along!' thought Kimiko, becoming extremly angry. "It's all on this scroll right here. It's the last scroll, and it's not very nice to me. It insults my abilities as an Evil Genius!"
Kimiko read the scroll. She found that Jack was not only right, but that Raimundo had figured it out correctly without the aid of the map pieces.
The scroll said exactly: Dear reader of this scroll...
SUCKER! You looked for all the other ones just to find this one, which details not only where the Twelve Soul Dragon is to be summoned, but the exact time and way. The Twelve Soul Dragon will be summoned exactly 15 minutes after Jack Spicer, not-so-Evil not-very-Genious hands this over to Kimiko Tohomiko! He will be summoned deep underground beneath the Shen Gong Wu Vault. The entrance to the Ancient Cave of Kumei is blocked by the box made for the Tunnel Armadillo, which will be required, as the Serpent's Tail will be in its rightful place by then. Behind the box you will find a tapestry which decribes the rite i will use to awaken my Dragon. During the reign of the Twelve Soul Dragon, only one Shen Gong Wu will have the power to activate: The one I cannot locate that will complete my mission. March is the only month I can do this in, so I'll tell you how I know of what will happen. I used the Crystal Glasses to find out when the Twelve Soul Dragon would next be revived. As of reading this part, you will have 14 minutes. The clock's ticking, Kimiko. Raimundo is the only one who can stop me at this point, but he won't. He's groggy and in denial about how the Heart of Jong is going to be used to bring my force upon the world.
Leading you in cirlces, Rioss
P.S. Raimundo figured it out because I left a sheet of paper in the Crouching Cougar that he needed to see. Unluckily, he's unconcious again, so you can't ask him what it said. It also won't have anything to do with you, so you won't get it!
Kimiko read it twice before screaming in unholy inhuman rage. All males and sane people within a ninety kilometre radius recoiled in fear. Even the unconcious ones. The dead ones had a hard time of it, but they managed somehow.
Rioss was 100 kilometres below, however, and there were no people eligible in the above categorization between 90 and 100, so... Anyway, what you need to know is that he was grinning a grin so wide that the Chesire Cat would have been afraid.
However, this is BEFORE the bold part. Which means we can't talk about things from the area of Rioss. We have to keep this chapter about the Xiaolin Dragons. Actually, each chapter that ends a saga has no bold writing, and this is the end of the 2nd saga, so there is no bold message about Rioss doing completely seperate.
Now, where was I? Oh yes! Kimiko getting ready to tear Rioss into itsy-bitsy shreds of flesh! I knew I'd remember it!
Anyways, Kimiko ran into her 'room' while crying in rage. She really hated Rioss right now, since he had done so many wrong things. Her life had been simple before becoming a Xiaolin Dragon: Be the daughter of a rich man, avoid the Japanese Paparazzi, disspell wicked rumours that she was trying to take over Manchuria and start WWIII. But after becoming a Xiaolin Apprentice over a year ago she had made three new friends. Then she became closer and closer to Raimundo. When he turned to the Haylin Side she had been devestated. When she and her friends finally got through to him she had been ecstatic!
When Omi had turned to the Haylin Side, however, it was Raimundo, who had just been made a Wudai Warrior, who had defeated Chase Young and weakened him enough to force back his Good Side. Then the ancient warrior had released Omi from his spell, the Xiaolin Word of Honour no longer binding them. It had been Raimundo who had helped her learn how to sneak back to Japan and meet with her Father on a regular basis rather than waiting for a long time.
Despite all that, it had been her that had made the first move, advancing upon him one night in the courtyard. And now, it was time for her to make the first move again.
Going down to the vault, she pulled out the Tunnel Armadillo. Along the passage she revealed was a small scrap of parchment. She picked it up and saw an ancient dragon standing in different ways. The positions matched the new Kumei Formations that Raimundo had learned about earlier. She was so preoccupied that she didn't see Jack and Omi followoing her.
She went down beneath the earth, following the ancient path that had been made to keep an ancient being from being awakened. 'The Twelve Soul Dragon is so dangerous that these precautions were put in place. Then how is it that Rioss knows these passages?' thought Kimiko. She had no way of knowing that Rioss had been present when this place had been created.
Back on the surface, Master Fung smiled in the knowledge of his being the only one who knew that all was not as it seemed. It was a sad smile, one of irony. Dojo, having forgotten, was being worried enough to make up for his lack of memory. Raimundo and Clay woke up not long after the passage was uncovered by Kimiko, and, after brief conversation, raced down to find Kimiko.
However, they did not reach her until she was in the chamber where, mere moments before, Rioss had used the Ox's Horn to move the giant boulders in his way of finding the target of the Rat's Paw. This had happened at T-5 minutes. Raimundo and Clay bumped into Jack and Omi first, but they kept on going. Both Omi and Jack had brought whatever Shen Gong Wu they thought could help, but only Raimundo knew which one would keep Rioss from becoming unstoppable.
He used his Wudai Wind technique to fly down the passage right past Kimiko and get a glimpse of Rioss as he put the Heart of Jong into its place and the whole floor of the chamber collapsed. He flew down and caught up to the Ancient lord of Chaos as he reached the bottom. Rioss took the Wolf's Head Blade from its place and touched the pile of Shen Gong Wu as Raimundo did.
"Raimundo Pedrosa, Wudai Warrior of Wind and Reincarnation of Dashi, I challenge you to a Shen Yi Bu Dare! My Wolf's Head Blade and Reversing Mirror against your Sword of the Storm and Eye of Dashi! The Reversing Mirror and Eye of Dashi can't be used, though!" yelled Rioss.
Everyone in the room, including Raimundo, wondered what he meant by 'Reincarnation of Dashi.' However, Raimundo had more to do than worry about the insane ravings of a mad lunatic bent on destroying the world. "What's the Challenge?"
Rioss grinned. "You know what it is. The first one to win the battle wins the challenge. Do you accept?"
It was Raimundo's turn to grin. "If you know so much, why do you ask?"
Kimiko and the others could only watch as the chamber fell down and rose in an rapid elevator-like fashion. They briefly heard "Gong Yi Tan Pi!" They knew nothing more of the events until it slowed down into an arena.
Neither of them had been able to move through the rapid motions of the stadium. They were both very dizzy, though Raimundo got over it quickly. "Sword of the Storm!" he shouted. 'Wolf's Head Blade!" Rioss replied. The Wolf's Head Blade cut through the wind easily, sending it in every direction. Raimundo swung the sword at Rioss but never hit, as the blade became intangible near everything solid. Suddenly, to the shock of all watching, when the two blades came near as Rioss struck in a rage, the Sword of the Storm blocked the Wolf's Head Blade!
Omi, as 'expert' of the Sword of the Storm, was shocked by this. It was Clay that first realized the reason. "Part of the Sword of the Storm's ability makes it unable to hit anything but wind! But the Wolf's Head Blade negates any Shen Gong Wu's power, making the Sword of the Storm be solid! Now Raimundo can use it as an actual sword! Raimundo's more cunning than that annoying neighbour's pet foxhound that scared Daddy's herd!"
Clay covered his mouth as soon as he said that, but Kimiko took no notice. Not only had she no knowledge that any other than she, Raimundo, and Rioss were in the cavern, but she had forgotten the bet. All her mind was on Raimundo's battle. The clash was titanic alright, but Kimiko was on some levels excited. She noticed that every now and then Rioss checked his watch. She then remembered that Rioss had said that 15 minutes after she began to read the scroll, the Twelve Soul Dragon would be summoned. She gasped in joy as she saw that there was only 1 minute left before his prediction failed. If that was true, then maybe his other predictions would be false and he would fail!
She was still hoping this as Rioss knocked the Sword of the Storm from Raimundo. "Raimundo Pedrosa, you have been defeated. In order to end the Showdown, however..." said Rioss while grinning, "I must draw blood!" He said this as Kimiko gasped. Rioss cut Raimundo briefly across the cheek and thee Xiaolin Showdown ended. After the world returned to normal, Rioss tossed the Sword of the Storm, hilt first, at Raimundo. He held onto the Eye of Dashi for long enough to reach the centre. No one had bothered to look at the tapestry, or else they would have known that the Blood of Rioss was needed to summon the Twelve Soul Dragon, and that it had to be gained from a Shen Yi Bu Dare in the final chamber right before the summoning.
"Heart of Jong! Reversing Mirror!" shouted Rioss. The Heart of Jong was hit with a beam of light from the Reversing Mirror as it entered the Sapphire Dragon. Draped over it was the Silver Sheep's Wool. Behind it were the Serpent's Tail and Diamond Jackrabbit. On the left were On the left were the Ruby Rooster and Rat's Paw. On the right were the Golden Tiger Claws and Emerald Steed. On a small table above were the Jade Swine and Monkey Staff. And in front of the Sapphire Dragon, where it's eyes looked, were the Wolf's Head Blade and Ox's Horn.
The Xiaoliin Dragons watched in fear from their hiding places as the Heart of Jong brought the Sapphire Dragon to life. They watched as it grew into the other Shen Gong Wu, which joined with the Dragon. As it grew, the Sapphire Dragon's Blue Scales began to fall off, revealing yellow scales beneath. The Jade Swine, Diamond Jackrabbit, and Monkey Staff were absorbed in without a trace. The Emerald Steed, Golden Tiger Claws, and Serpent's Tail joined and were visible, though differently coloured. The Wolf's Head Blade, Rat's Paw, and Ox's Horn were used in ways no one had expected, with the Ox's Horn adding horns throught he Wolf's Head Blade. And the Silver Sheep's Wool and Ruby Rooster appeared on the Twelve Soul Dragon's back, with the Wool creating a small, almost invisible, layer of wool to protect the Dragon from anything the Scales couldn't.
"Awaken, Ancient Kumei, the Twelve Soul Dragon!" laughed Rioss as the ancient dragon awoke, blinking its deep yellow eyes...
AN: There are only going to be 6 more chapters named after Shen Gong Wu, but you now know the identity of the Twelve Soul Dragon! No more lengthy names! We can now refer to him as Kumei! Remember that all questions will be answered at the end.