While the showdown was reaching its final stage, Wuya the evil ghost was busy plotting in the mouth of Chase's cave. The fever of the battle had all but lost her Heylin dragons to her, and their losses were shattering the spell that Wuya had used. What was worse, Chase Young was afoot and planning something of his own. It seemed as if Wuya's plan was collapsing around her.
"Why didn't those stupid idiots train?" Wuya snapped at no one in particular. "I could have made them more than a match for even Chase Young himself!" She zoomed around the stone fangs of the cave entrance in a rage, trying to figure out a way to manipulate this situation to her advantage. After all, she was a Heylin Sorceress. She didn't give up this easily. Not after all of her plans, not after all of the magic, not after all of the work she had put in by bolstering her Dragons' lazy butts.
That was when she remembered the spellbook. It was still supposed to be at Jack Spicer's lair. Perhaps there was a useful spell or two lurking within the musty pages of the ancient codex. If Wuya was lucky, maybe she could even destroy both the Heylin and the Xiaolin dragons in one strike. If she was really lucky, she'd be able to do all that and crush Chase Young in the process.
Yes, this could work to her advantage.
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Wuya arrived at Jack Spicer's lair quickly. She was surprised at how fast she could move when she really put her mind to it. Wuya thought about this for a bit, but was distracted when a sudden stream of air rushed past her with an almost wolf-like howl. While it did not affect her ghostly body, it still appeared wildly on her senses.
Seconds later, Jack Spicer's sleek new Jackmobile 2.0 clambered out of the wreckage in his laboratory and shot out of garage, smashing the sliding door apart. Wuya watched it fly over her head and disappear over the moonlit horizon. It had a steady whine of engines that she could hear long after the vehicle had left her field of vision. "Stupid machines," Wuya muttered, shaking her head in disgust. What was the point of building a flying machine when there were Shen Gong Wu like the Longi Kite available? Honestly, Jack could be so stupid sometimes. And he wondered why she always left him for someone else. Wuya was glad that she had that spellbook available. If she couldn't destroy the Dragon warriors, she could at least find a better minion than Jack Spicer.
The old tome was resting on Jack Spicer's workbench. Wuya saw to her disgust that someone had dropped an oil-drenched monkey wrench near the half-open book. "No respect for one of the greatest codexes of evil ever written," Wuya grumbled darkly. If she had her powers, she would have set fire to the entire building.
Knowing that she couldn't touch the book, she settled for reading the pages that were open.
GREATEST DARK LORDS AND LADIES OF BYGONE ERAS
It didn't sound too appealing. It merely contained a list of villains and their accomplishments. Wuya and every other Heylin warrior worth his or her salt had memorized these twenty times over by the time they were old enough to take over their own miniature citadel. Wuya herself was listed near the very end for exterminating some giant lizards, creating a race of ravenous spiders, and temporarily ruling the world using an army of rock golems as henchmen. It was easily more impressive than some of the entries (such as Squilorquous, listed for his evil attempt at torturing prisoners to death by forcing them to pronounce his name 10 times fast), but it paled in comparison to the efforts of certain other villains who were bad enough to have themselves referred to as 'Nameless Enemy' or ' HeWhoseNameCannotBeSpoken'.
Wuya was about to give up and accept that she was going to be beaten again when another rush of wind blew into the lair. Wuya heard the rustle of papers and whirled around to see the pages turning rapidly.
The book flipped through the entire Dark Lords and Ladies section, skipped over the list of magical artifacts in the world, moved past the Armies of Mala-Mala-Mah-Jongg (the extremely competitive Shen Gong Wu-based demon) and stopped at one of the last chapters of the book.
HOW TO SUMMON A TRUE HEYLIN DRAGON
In one easy step and 500 hard steps
A less desperate person would have been just the slightest bit suspicious about this, but Wuya's current plan was currently falling apart. She had to think of something lest she lose all her dignity and end up as Chase Young's henchwoman. And if a suspicious wind had suspiciously opened the book to a suspiciously helpful page, then so be it. It was probably one of her evil ancestors guiding her.
With this thought in mind, she gritted her immaterial teeth and read on.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
-Sorry this was so late. My Internet connection randomly decided to disintegrate, and then I ended up losing all of my work. I had to restart from scratch. I promise I'll make it up to you! I can't wait to see your reviews.