Reach for the light Rai!
Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown I am only using it for my own twisted Fan-Fic…so don't sue me!
Warnings: My First XS, Fan-Fic so don't hurt me!
Other Notes: not sure what to rate this so be warned about violence and um…yeah other stuff…DW no romantic bed scenes just hintings of Rai/Kim
Zero; Peeps around sofa er..hel- ducks as swordfish blades rain down on the sofa. ok! I'm sorry! I was busy!...ButI updated! Please let me live or the story will never be finished!
Rai; You're so lucky your fans like your story or you'd be toast right now.
Zero; Glares at Rai I know. But even if 'm dead I can still haunt you.
Rai; Thanks for that wonderful thought...and I would like to say thank you to whoever thought up the idea of making her make me wear a tutu! Shakes fist... I vow to get you!
Zero; Ignore him he's just mad because pinks not his colour
Rai; Am not!
Zero; Are too
Rai; Grrrrr! Lunges for Zero
Zero; Holds tutu up
Rai; Stops mid run and high tails it the other way
Chapter 8- Losing Hope
It was late and still Raimundo stared sightlessly at the ceiling. Master Fung pulled the curtain across the door way and sighed. He was getting too old for this sort of worry.
WuYa's jaw dropped but she quickly regained her composure and began calling on her ancient powers to quickly finish the serpent and win the showdown.
But her powers didn't answer her. Frowning she tried again aware that the serpent was slowly coiling around her. Again there was no answer of her powers.
"It would seem that the showdown requires for you to battle without your powers WuYa." Omi said. She turned to him and glared.
"Fine then." She replied and swiftly leapt up into the air and gave a mighty kick to the serpents jaw. The serpent hardly moved. It was at this point WuYa realised she was in way over her head, there was no way she could beat this thing without using her powers.
Omi closed his eyes and tuned into his tiger instincts whilst trying to solve the mystery of defeating the giant snake. To be honest he didn't want to kill it, he actually like snakes but this battle was not only his, it was Raimundo's also and Omi had already failed his friend once, he could not fail him again.
He jumped up dodging the rapidly moving tail of the serpent and performed a double flip that even Raimundo would be proud of, and then landed hard on the nose of the beast.
"Fist of Tebigong! Water!" he yelled and smashed the Shen Gong Wu into the serpents head right between the eyes. The serpent recoiled and swatted at the bump on his head. Next Omi ran down the length of the serpent and took out another Shen Gong Wu.
"Orb of Tornami!" he cried then added "ICE!" and a wall of ice encased the serpent, trapping it inside a makeshift prison. But the showdown did not end.
Instead the serpent broke through the ice cage and snared at Omi, it lunged and bit down into bare flesh.
Omi felt the pain spike through his whole body. He felt his legs give out under him and his arm and upper body fall unceremoniously to the ground.
With a sudden, heart-wrenching realisation, he found that he had failed both himself and Raimundo all in one fell swoop.
WuYa almost lost her concentration but regained it and took a page out of Omi's book. She held the reversing mirror up and took out the changing chopsticks.
It was only a matter of minutes before a very big WuYa had squashed the serpent beneath her booted foot and won the showdown.
She came out victorious and smiled knowing she had just crumpled Raimundo's last hopes of survival. Besides she was never going to hand over Raimundo's light anyhow, it was far too valuable to her now.
She turned to the remaining two apprentices and smirked at their fallen faces. She could tell their hopes had just been crushed, like the serpent. She smiled and vanished.
Kimiko shook herself out of her daze and ran to Omi who was lying still on the floor. She hadn't expected Omi to lose, she had thought he'd win and they'd finally have Raimundo back with them also but that was not the case. Omi had lost the showdown and now they had to let WuYa take over the world. She couldn't stand letting that witch take over the world, but she knew she'd be forced to sit back and allow it to happen.
But wait, didn't Omi say he knew a way around her wager? She wondered what it could be and came up blank. If only Omi would wake up and tell them…
WuYa charged inside the temporary lair; a cave with a hidden opening, and cackled in pure delight. Her plan was going marvellously and there wasn't a thing in the world that could stop her.
She practically glided to her temporary throne; a stone pedestal in the middle of the vast, dimly lit cave. She waved her hand in mid air and a small sphere of light appeared and hovered in front of her; Raimundo's light.
She smiled as she recalled her ingenious spell casting on the pathetic boy. Her spell had to take his light out of his body in order for her to make him a slave…if his light had not been removed from the body he would've fought her spell and she'd have lost him again.
She waved her other hand and another sphere of light appeared, but this one was darker, tainted.
"Poor Jack, you never did understand why I chose you…and if I could have chosen someone else I would have…but I can't choose who my descendants are…"
Her smile widened as she recalled Jack's imprisonment too;
-FlashBack-
"Why is he so important anyways…it's not like he's any match for us." Jack asked as he tweaked his robots again. WuYa sighed, 'Doesn't he ever get bored with those things?' she wondered.
"Raimundo here will help me gain my ultimate power back. His light will be sacrificed for my powers…and make me even stronger than before." She grinned evilly at the last sentence. Jack shuddered involuntarily, 'Stronger? That does not bode well' he thought. Then he felt her eyes boring into his back; he turned and glared.
"What." He asked scowling holding a screwdriver in his left hand and bolt in the other.
"Don't you ever get tired of those things?" she asked incredulously. He gaped at her in disbelief;
"These are my babies! How dare you talk about them like that!" he squealed and turned back to the robot he was working on. "Don't listen to her Ditzo, you're ten times better than she is…" he crooned.
"Quit whining Jack and get into the real world." WuYa said turning her back in Jack and his robot. She clenched her fist and the robot exploded right in Jack's face. He gave a shriek of surprise and looked totally lost in the black soot that now covered him from head to toe. "My world." She added.
"Your world! I'm the Evil Boy Genius here! I'm ruling!" Jack yelled, irrated and fuming over the loss Ditzo. WuYa turned gracefully to face him, an evil smile crept on to her perfect lips. A glint of power echoed in her devious eyes as she called on her limited powers.
"Have you forgotten something?" she asked sweetly. Jack just looked at her, a bemused look on his face. "As much as your services have…helped…me these past few years, I feel you have fulfilled your use and I no longer require your work anymore Jack Spicer, consider yourself…fired." She cackled her trademark cackle as a tornado of flames leapt up from the floor and engulfed the gothic boy.
Jack let out a scream tucked himself in, to avoid the heat burning into him. This was the scariest moment of his life but amidst his worry and fright, he heard a low chanting…he peered through the flames and saw WuYa talking…chanting…
'Oh god…she's casting a spell on me!' he thought, panicking. His breathing came in short gasps, and his head felt heavy, his fingers felt tingly as he hyperventilated and frantically searched for an escape…there were none.
He looked back at WuYa who had her deep green eyes locked with his; she was smiling, thoroughly enjoying herself. Then her eyes took on a purple glow and a huge flash blinded him.
He felt his body falling backwards as the black engulfed his mind and soul…he never felt his body hit the floor, he never heard the inhuman cackle…he'd never felt so alone in his life.
-End FlashBack-
"Jack Dearest, your light, or should I say darkness, will open Pandora's box and unleash my powers," she cooed, then turned to Raimundo's light, "and you my dear Raimundo will merge with my old powers and bring them into the material world…then I can finally be free." She smiled as she watched the two lights floating a few feet from her face; her power was almost in her grasp.
Zero; R&R people!
Rai; Anymore suggestions on how to torture me and I will kill you!