Twelve Soul Dragon

By Gigawolf1

Chapter 26: Kumei's Here!

The Xiaolin Dragons looked up. Rioss was grinning in pure bliss. And Dojo had decided to make sure that the Xiaolin Dragon's hadn't done something stupid and follow Rioss into this ancient chamber. To his horror, they had done just that. "Omi! Clay! Kimiko! Raimundo! Jack! What are you guys doing down here? This is where Rioss will try to summon the Twelve Soul Dragon!"

Kimiko stared at him. "You mean Kumei?" she asked. "He succeeded."

Dojo looked over and screamed. He then hid under Clay's Hat. What he saw was a huge dragon with razor-sharp claws, four legs, a diamond on it's chest, a small layer of indestructible wool surrounding its body. But what had truly scared him was Rioss.

The Ancient Lord of Chaos was floating, no longer grinning or laughing. The Reversing Mirror and Looking Glasses floated with him. Dojo could only watch as the Reversing Mirror fused with his left arm and the Looking Glasses fused onto his right. Rioss then landed, picked up the Seeker Disk, and glared at Raimundo. He then smirked. "With the awakening of Kumei, the last Shen Gong Wu I need will reveal itself! With Wuya sealed within the Puzzle of Blood and Dojo unable to stop the mighty Kumei, I will reach the Spirit Tome and awaken Alteria!"

Dojo gasped. His memory had never been erased by the Wushan Geyser; At least, not all of it. He remembered of how Rioss had ran when Dashi found Wuya was evil. He also remembered that Alteria had been sealed within the Spirit Tome, which, unlike the Puzzle of Blood, kept a person in their true form forever. After all, the Puzzle of Blood was no more than a void of energy, which allowed one to seal even the most powerful and drain their energy into oblivion.

Rioss laughed insanely as he jumped on Kumei's Back and flew out of the cavern via the ceiling. The rubble came flying down upon the Xiaolin Dragons, who dodged almost everything that came down. Jack, however, had put away his Heli-Pack and ran screaming instead. Then he had a brainstorm!

"Jetbootsu! Metal!" he shouted amid the roar of falling rocks. Then he yelled "UP!" and all the Xiaolin Dragons and rocks went flying up. Then Jack shouted "NONE!" and the Dragons stopped falling upwards. The rocks also stopped. The Xiaolin Dragons swam through the air and out the hole in the ceiling. Every time they tried to exit the hole, however, they were struck by regular gravity and were forced back down. Jack then swam up and kept going. After leaving the chamber, normal gravity was restored within its confines. He then went back and the Dragons stopped falling.

'Jack sure has a lot to learn about his powers... I never thought I'd be thinking that in a million years!' thought Clay. He the second best time of it. Omi was having the best of shaking up and down as Jack entered the cavern, exited, then came back in, over and over. Then he went inside the cavern and pushed Omi to the top. Then he threw Omi out of the cave and onto the regular world. He then did that to Raimundo and Clay. Kimiko wouldn't let him, for certain reasons including that she didn't want him to touch her.

After they were all on the surface, Raimundo asked "Why didn't Dojo just fly us out of there? It would have saved a lot of time... And my lunch!"

Master Fung looked pale. Paler than usual, I mean. After all, the guy really needs to go outside more. This from a guy who dreams of being so pale and never having to see sunlight. Dreaded sunlight... IT BURNS MY FLESH!

What? Oh, right! Master Fung was pale. Very pale. So pale he made the moon look dark. Well, actually, the combined effect of the Lunar Locket and Kumei pushing it in front of the sun made it very dark. It was only then that the Xiaolin Dragons realized that Rioss could have taken any of their Shen Gong Wu while he was in the vault.

Kimiko was the first into the vault. Jack, after having ran from almost every battle he's lost horribly, got their second. Omi was next, then Clay and Raimundo, seeing as how they were still out of it. They checked the Shen Gong Wu and found that other than the Lunar Locket and Shen Gong Wu needed to make Kumei, there were only the Orb of Tornami, Fist of Tebigong, Third-Arm Sash, Star Hanabi, Eye of Dashi, and Sword of the Storm missing. Raimundo had the Eye of Dashi and Sword of the Storm, Omi had the Orb of Tornami, and Kimiko had the Star Hanabi. However, the Fist of Tebigong and Third-Arm Sash had been taken by Rioss.

"Two other Shen Gong Wu are missing, young monks. The Fist and the Sash are only a few of the taken Shen Gong Wu. I will take you to the secret vault, where I put all the truly dangerous Shen Gong Wu so that evil cannot take them."

Master Fung opened up a small door across from where the Emperor Scorpion had been placed before it had mysteriously disappeared. The Xiaolin Dragons entered and saw the most powerful Shen Gong Wu they had ever recovered were once placed in this room.

There was a place for the Emperor Scorpion, Sands of Time, Ying-Yang Yo-Yo, and many others. Sadly, all of these had been taken. The Ying-Yang Yo-Yo had, of course, been taken with the Sapphire Dragon in the Shen Yi Bu Dare which Omi had lost.

"Young monks, Kumei exists to awaken Alteria. You must not let this happen, or else..."

"10000 years of darkness!" said Raimundo and Master Fung at the same time. "This is getting way too predictable!" said Raimundo.

'You have no idea how predictable this is, Raimundo,' thought Master Fung. 'Grandmaster Dashi forsaw this and put everything into place to make sure all turns out for the best...'

FLASHBACK

"GOBLET DRAGON!"

"REVERSING MIRROR!"

The screams of pain... I can hear them... I have a connection with this one... Alteria watches me... Does her mother know? Does her father? Can they sense it? The Dragon screams louder now, screams in my mind... The Wolf's Head Blade makes it enter an unstoppable rage, but now it slows... It turns blue with its own flames... It is no longer the Goblet Dragon...