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Jack and the others continued on down the tunnel. Although, it seemed as though, the farther they went down the tunnel, the more damp and chilly it got. It also appeared that the floor and walls were a little slick.
"Ew!" Kimiko exclaimed as she stepped in a puddle of clear goo that had some sort of eerie green glow to it, "What is this stuff?" she asked as she shook her sandalled (sp?) foot, in a attempt to shake off the slimey substance.
"It is very bizarre," Omi mused and crouched down in order to gain a closer look at the slime that was on the ground.
"My, this place is slimier than a dog drooling over a fat, juicy steak!" Clay exclaimed and poked some of the goo that was on the wall. The goo simply rolled off of his finger and landed with a 'plop!' back on the ground.
"This place is kinda creepy," Raimundo said slowly.
It was right after that moment that a pile of goo landed right ontop of Jack with such force that it knocked him to the ground.
"Jack?" the others rushed over to him to see that he was alright. Well, if you consider having deep gashes in your chest, lying on the floor, and covered in goo alright.
"Are you okay, man?" Raimundo asked the other teen.
"Oh shit," Jack whispered and pointed to the ceiling with his goo covered hand.
The others looked up towards the ceiling to see something out of the ordinary. Something very much, out of the ordinary.
Chase Young, himself, was plastered to the ceiling of the tunnel. His mouth was covered with the goo, as was most of his body. However, he was conscious and apparently in disstress. It was easy to tell of his disstress because he was struggling to break free from his bonds of goo and you could tell by the look in his eyes that he was very pissed off.
"How did you get up there?" Omi questioned Chase. But because of the fact that Chase had his mouth covered with goo, his reply came out sounding something like this, "Mmmmphh!".
"Do ya' think that we should let him down?" Clay asked his friends.
But before Clay got a reply a growling noise came from the wall furthest from them.
However, only Jack and Chase were the only ones to see it before it dropped itself into one of the dark holes nearby. The others were not lucky enough to see it, because they had not turned around in time to notice it.
Jack immediately stood up from his former position, dismissing any of the pain that was shooting through his body, and backed up against one of the walls.
Chase struggled against the tight bonds of slime, even fiercer than before.
"What was it Jack?" Raimundo asked.
Jack didn't reply, he was too busy hyperventaliting (sp?) to give an answer.
"Calm down Jack," Kimiko said, "If you don't, then you might pass out"
And right when she said the words 'pass out' he did that very thing and fell unconscious onto the ground.
"Great," Raimundo rolled his eyes, "Now what are we going to do"
It was then that a purple blob zipped out from one of the goo covered walls and flew over to them.
"This is fabulous!" Wuya shouted with a smile plastered to her face. That smile quickly turned into a frown when she saw Chase stuck to the ceiling and Jack lying on the ground.
"Well this just makes my day," Wuya said sarcastically and placed her ghostly hands on her nonexistant waist, "The day finally arrives when the Xiaolin Warriors get destroyed, but it also means that Chase has to die too!" Wuya said angrily and then looked back at Jack, "Well, Jack will die too, but that's okay. He was a waste of air anyways," Wuya said cruelly.
"What are you talking about?" Omi asked the witch, "Would somebody please tell me what is going off here!" Omi exclaimed.
"You mean going on," Raimundo corrected.
"On, off! Same difference"
"Well, it seems that the answer that your looking for is right behind you," Wuya said with an evil string of laughs.
"It is?" Omi asked as himself and the others turned to see the terrible creature inches away from them.
No one had the chance to scream at the sight, because two seconds after they had seen the monster, it opened it's mouth and let out high pitched scream. Had the warriors been wearing earmuffs, they would have a terrible pain deep inside their ears and they would feel extremely disorriented. But this was not the case. Instead they fell unconcious due to the sound.
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"Ummmph...," Jack groaned as he began to awake from his slumber. That sure was some weird dream he just had. He dreamed that he met a terrible monster inside of a cave with the other xiaolin warriors and Chase. Or, at least he thought that he had dreamt it up as he slowly awoke.
"Huh? Wha-?" Jack let out when he opened his eyes. There was many strange things to see in the room he was in. Apparently, he was in some sort of chamber, a chamber that was covered in glowing goo of course. He himself was stuck to a wall of goo.
Jack attempted several times to break free from the goo, but to no avail. And when he finally stopped, he began to take in more of his surroundings.
One thing was obvious, he thought as layed against the wall, he wasn't the only one there.
The Xiaolin Dragons and Chase Young were stuck to the goo as well and all of them seemed to still be asleep. As for Wuya, well she was no were to be seen.
Jack's heart began to beat heavily against his chest. This action did not help the wounds that were against his chest either.
Jack grunted in pain, but at the same time, tried to ignore it.
"Hey, you guys," Jack said meekly, hoping that he could wake the others (Jack was very grateful that he didn't have any slime covering his mouth at this time.
The others did not move.
Angrily, Jack shouted, "Look! There's a steak buffet right in front of me!".
This to worked, but only Chase and Clay awoke. Chase obviously awoke due to the fact that he had extremely heightened senses and was a light sleeper. Clay, however, awoke because the words steak were mentioned and the first thought that came to his mind, ended up coming out of his mouth, "Where is it?" he mumbled, followed by a rather loud yawn.
"This is not good," Chase stated, apparently the goo had came off of his mouth sometime after everyone else was knocked out and he could speak clearly.
Jack's eyes slid closed. Why did he feel so dizzy all of the sudden? Well, it might have been the fact that he had lost a considerable amount of blood since he entered the cave.
"Hey everyone!" Clay shouted to his comrades, "Time to rise and shine! And today's weather is wet goo and very little sunlight. Common' you guys! Wake up!"
The ones who were asleep began to slowly open up their peepers and look at the sight before them.
"What is going on here?" Omi being the first to fully awake, asked Chase.
"We were captured by a creature of darkness," Chase said simply, "Now leave me alone. I must think of a way to escape from this infernal prison of slime"
"What are you talking about?" Raimundo asked Chase, "We can get out of this place easy! All this stuff is is goo!" Raimundo jeered and tried to wiggle free.
The other xiaolin warriors tried to free themselves from the goo as well. But of course, it failed.
"Okay, so maybe it's not that easy," Raimundo stopped to take a breather.
Kimiko screamed loudly all of the sudden.
"What is wrong Kimiko?" Omi asked.
"Wh- What is that beside Jack!" Kimiko studdered.
Everyone, includeing Jack, looked at the figure beside him.
Jack screamed as loud as he could when he saw what was next to him and uneffectively tried to move away from it. How come he never noticed that before?
Next to him was a rotting corpse. It still had meat on it's bones, but most of it's skin had rotted off. It's eyes were open, however you could only see empty voids of darkness within them, because the eyes had long since rotted out. If anyone were to guess, it would probably be male, because of it's height and shredded attire that it was wearing, but the only thing that registered into the minds of others was: Awaiting Death.
Jack screamed loudly and tears began to run down his face. Never in his life had he seen something close to this. Well, there was a time when he went to his mother's funeral, but this was nothing compared to that.
Jack whimpered and turned his head away from the body, seeing as to the fact that moving the rest of his body was futile. He felt himself shiver from the horror of the sight and his breathing patterns began to increase again.
"Get a hold of yourself Spicer," Chase rolled his eyes, "It's dead, it can't hurt you. But what you should be worried about is the thing that got our dead friend here"
Nobody replied. Everyone else was speechless and turning white in the face.
Omi had never seen something like this in his life. Yes, he knew what it was and meant to die but, he couldn't quite grasp the thought that the fellow before them was dead and rotting.
Clay had seen many things die, while living on his Pappy's ranch, but never actually saw any humans dead. So of course he didn't feel to great right now. In fact he felt like he wanted to throw up.
Kimiko had seen death scenes in movies, books, and games, but never actually saw anything real dead and rotting. So, she began to scream in terror like Jack had.
Raimundo. Well, not much to say about him since he passed out.
TBC
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so tell me, which do you prefer? first or third person pov? yeah, i know that i shouldn't be asking for a certain amount of reviews. but i just really like to know what you people think of my fic. and reviews give me encouragement anyways. in fact if it wasn't for lilvior i wouldn't have updated in the first place. neways. please review! and gomen nasia for all the spelling and grammar errors. i was really wanting to get this posted before midnight. YES! i know for a fact that cheetah's run faster than humans! that's why it didn't have to much of a problem chaseing Jack. besides, you know how cats are. they like to play with their food.