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Title: Xiaolin Showdown 2: To Hell and Back.

Chapter 1: The New Life.

The world was sent in to darkness. The world was sealed away from the light. The warriors who where meant to protect it, failed. People starve under the ruling. The iron fist that clamps around it tightens each day. Cities in almost ruin as the world changed. The shadows move and feed upon the people who dare venture near such dark places. The only emotion known to most of the world is fear, complete terror. Happiness and other "good" emotions seemed to of fled this desolate land. This world, this black world of oppression and fear, is called earth. There are only a few places were people can seek comfort from these terrible times. Places were the light still seems to shine, where the grass and trees still grow and places were rivers are full of fish. One such place is about to have company….

A black forest lay near this glimmer of light, but in the forest, the shadows move. Several metres into this dark land, a figure ran. Across the dead land and pass the lifeless trees ran a woman. Her dress dirtied but trips and tumbles to the ground beneath, but she still ran on. In her arms was a small child and down her face were tears. As she watched what followed, the little girl couldn't make a sound. She had to watch the tree gave birth to places for them to hid, places for them to attack from. She watched as one of them moved, jumping from one shadow to the next, but never stopping for long. There were many after them, these creatures were set lose upon the people of the towns and villages to keep them from doing anything to over throw her. The woman gazed back for a second and saw her worst fear. About a foot behind them was a Dancing Bane. Living shadows that moved gracefully across the land via shadows, but they kill with the same merciless grace and then take what they have left to dark places. No one truly knows what happens after that, and no one really wants to find out. The woman turned back to the direction she ran, wanting to reach this land of hope and light. As she scanned the horizon, the forest edge came into view. As the forest opened to the starry darkness known as night, the Dancing Banes struck. A single lash of a shadowy arm and the two fell to the ground. The woman lay face down, struggling to get up and to get to her child. The girl was staring straight up though. Standing above her was a shadowed figure of a normal looking person. It was when the face shone with no eyes but just lights did the girl scream. The Shadow come down, one arm formed into a blade. As the girl closed her eyes and heard the desperate cry of her mother, she waited for the pain. There was no pain, but a yell. "Jack-bots, Attack!" echoed through out the forest as the sounds of guns fired left, right and centre. The girl opened her eyes to meet the sight of the Dancing Banes dodging the blasts. Some of the creatures were taken down by the fire, but not enough. As the shadows regrouped and went for an attack, there was another yell. "Star Hinarbi, fire!" came a female voice and stream of fire caught most of the Dancing Banes of guard. One was left standing, but one was enough to kill many warriors. As this lone figure looked for a victim, finding the girl again, and be fore it could lunge and kill her, a streak of lightning lashed out and killed the creature. As the thing fell to the ground dead, the girl fainted. They three warriors who had saved these two people from the slaughter stepped into the light. Two were dressed in blue uniforms, with symbols on the front. The other one wore a long, black coat and trousers. He also had strange goggles on and had red hair. The taller of the two blue warriors removed her head gear. She revealed black hair with blue eyes. Her name was Kimiko.

Kimiko's POV.

I woke up the next morning, sort of refreshed. We had to do another rescue in the middle of the night. A woman and her child had made a brake for it from some city or town close by. Man I hate midnight heroics. Ever since the world turned so dark, it has been difficult on every one. I turned to my side to see the bed empty next to me. He was already awake, as usual. I threw on one of my many uniforms, a red tunic with white trousers and blue belt. Once I had done this, I left the room and went down the hall. No matter where I walked, there were people. Either children running around and being playful or adults attending the chores around the temple grounds. Yep, the Xiaolin temple is still around, and has been expanded. It now included many more buildings and a very large field to grow crops. As I went past the kitchen and eating area, I saw an old friend. The cowboy of the group, literally, was cooking breakfast for the people at the table, most of them being kids. He was much taller then me, even in high heels, and he wore the same uniform. He always had his hat that covered his blonde hair and hid his blue eyes. We were about the same age, he was a year older though, and they had always been friends. I continued forward past the delicious smell that emanated from the kitchen. I left the building I was in and entered the court yard, and even in the light of midday the ground still looked dark. I started to cross the temple grounds to do what I have always done after I wake up. As I moved past the people who now lived in the temple with them, a group of people caught my eye. Raimundo and Silver were teaching some of the children to defend themselves. They wore the same uniform as her, which allowed them to do the sort of moves that the kids were gaping at. I smiled but continued onward. As I past many of the people and monks that now lived here, them all looking happy and peaceful, I was not all that happy. I came to the foot of a hill, and stopped. I closed my eyes like every day and then continued on. At the top lay two shrines. As I reached the top, there were two people already there, one at a shrine each. I walked over to the man at the first shrine. The bold one was kneeling at the base of the house like structure, eyes closed in pray. Omi always did this, at least twice a day. This was a shrine to their great teacher and Omi's mentor, Master Fung. He died not long after the darkness of her evil entrapped the world. Omi had become the new master of the temple, and he taught the young ones the ways of the Xiaolin warrior. I kneeled beside him and prayed for a few minutes, letting the wind rush passed. I then moved on to the next shrine. There was a girl there though. This was Diamond, wife of Omi. I kneeled beside her and prayed to this shrine. This was one of a different design to the other one. Instead of being a small house of some kind, it was mainly a sword. It was the last Shen Gong Wu that we hunted for. It was odd though, because Dojo didn't know what the sword did and it wasn't listed in the Ancient Scroll of the Shen Gong Wu. So instead of throwing the Weapon in the vault, we used it to make this shrine to him….. I still remember it. Hours seemed to flow past as I stayed there, not paying much attention to anything. "You alright?" came a voice as a hand landed on my shoulder. I looked up at the face, startled a little, and saw Jack Spicer. His eyes and face were soft and caring as he looked into my eyes. "Yeah." I responded as I got up off the ground, and hugged him. After he went, Jack Spicer had come to the good side and, we fell in love. I turned once more to the Shrine and read out the name engraved on to stone plague that was placed there. "Mercurius."

It was breakfast as usual for the people running the new Xiaolin temple. I sat next to Jack at the table. At the table also eating was Raimundo and Silver, Omi with Diamond and Clay with Sapphire. We all keep the place running and kept the place safe. We ate their food pretty quickly, not wanting to lose any of it to the others. We all had different things we wanted to get done, but they never seem to. That may be because of…. "MUM!" Came a familiar voice. Sapphire sighed and got up. After she kissed Clay, she left to take care of her daughter. We all had children now. It had been twenty years since it happened. Since we lost Mercurius and Wuya began her dark rule. Now our kids are about as old as we were then, well some of them are. In came the tornado twins, Umi and Sophie, both being about 12 years old, and they started to harass their parents for something, I wasn't paying much attention. Omi was stern towards them, and that's why they had the fail safe of their mum, Diamond. They four of them left shortly, for what reason I don't know. As I finished my breakfast, I looked up and saw Raimundo and Silver leaving, talking to their son. I smiled, every one knew that Silver was expecting another child, and it wasn't showing just yet. The only ones left in the room were me and Jack. I turned and faced him, as he did as well. We kissed, and smiled at each other. "Well," started Jack, "I want to see if I can improve the defence system." He said as he stretched his arms. We had fought against Jack for such a long time, then 20 years ago, a few days after we lost Mercurius, he joined the side of Good. He never really explained why he had defected to our side, but it doesn't matter any more. After he left, I was the last one in the room. I stared glassily at the table, thinking, and I never noticed that fact that someone entered. When I finally lifted my head, I met the gaze of a small floating robot. "Wha…" I gasped slightly, as laughing reached my ears, not again! I turned on my seat and saw her laughing in the door way that led to the rest of the building. She was about 18, and is kind of small. She had Red Hair and Red eyes, getting both from her father. "Samiko!" I said sternly to the teenager. "What?" she managed to get out between breathes. Her daughter had inherited my attitude along with her father's brilliance, having a habit of asking for clothes and Robot parts. "I hope you got a good night's sleep, young lady." I spoke silencing Samiko quickly, as a parent always knows how to get to their own children. I already knew she hadn't, she's a teenager. About 18 years, but can still act like a kid. "Erm…. Yeah, sure mum." She responded, slightly hesitatent. I knew I had her, so I got up and walked over. As I looked at her I smiled, "Don't you mean Mummy?" I asked as I started to tiggale her. Soon after, it was an all out tiggaling war. These were the times that kept me going, the happiness that we experienced in these rare moments. The day continued by, the blue sky letting the odd cloud float by. We worked most of the day, teaching the children the ways of the Xiaolin Warriors, patrolling the near by areas for anything and growing the crops. The Chores were shared out between all the adults, and even some to the kids, but the days are usually very long now a days. As night started to appear, though it was pretty dark to start with, every one started to bed. Jack and I stayed up a little later then the others, looking for stars in the midnight black sky. Jack went to activate the defence system, one of his own design that is made to alert anyone and to start defend the temple, and then walked to their room. I walked to the Mercurius Shrine on the hill, and I prayed like I do every night. A tear fell down my face, I could feel it, and I still miss him to this day. After about a minute or two, I got up and headed off to bed.

Third Person.

As Kimiko walked to wards the sleeping area that she shared with the others, she never noticed the change in the air. When every one had left and the Shrine was left alone, the Shen Gong Wu used to make it began to glow. It was a faint but distinctive glow, enough to light the area around. On the floor were some leaves that had fallen from some tree, and a gentle breeze blew through the air around the Shrine. The breeze built up and swirled to form a rather large Dust devil around the sword. The leaves were picked up as they floated around the sword on the breeze as it grew in power. A few minutes later, every stopped. I had gone dead silent, and the temple was normal once again.

A few hours later and there was something wrong. The Scene of the Xiaolin Temple sitting in a large valley, surrounded by mountains, and the black forest near. But tonight, there was something in the black Forest. The forest looked normal in the dark night, until, upon one of the darkened trunks of the almost dead trees, opened two shining white eyes. These terrifying eyes looked and targeted on to the temples, unmoving. Soon, they were joined by multiple eyes, filling the shadows of the forest with white eyes of an army. By they were not alone. In the darkness of the forest, another type of eyes could be seen. These were large, glaring eyes, filled with a horrible green fire. They were ready. They were going to attack.

A/N: Hello there. Hope you enjoy this chapter of the story. For those who have read the prequel to this and liked the original person Kimiko was with, then HAHA! If you feel that there is something wrong or there is something I should focus on in this story, please review this chapter and tell me?

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