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Zalo: Now, onto the story! Enjoy now. (walks off)
Chapter Eight: Ciara Chimera and Wuya
Ciara's POV
She glowered at all the Heylin boys as she unpacked her traveling bags. "I can't believe it! Khu, you're almost gotten yourself killed! Since…" She trailed off, remembering how Khu and Raimundo had fought Chase in the reptile form.
Khu sighed tiredly, closing his amethyst eyes as he sipped his favorite teacup he was holding with his right hand while he clutched his white-bandaged chest with his left hand. He had three long nasty scars across his chest since he had made a mistake to open the door.
Lobo perked his long ears up and looked right at the youth witch. "Hey, babe! Where's the puzzle box that one you're trapped your 'great-great-great-great' grandmother? She's one the heck of a hot chick! OW!"
Suddenly, a boot chucked at the werewolf's head as it knocked him out cold his back on the floor with a huge bump on his head.
Ciara huffed angrily, glaring deadly at the unconscious werewolf on the floor. "Once a lecher, always a lecher." She said in deadly tone as she stalked out of the living room.
Why can't Lobo take it seriously! I wish he had to get over his lecherous habit. She thought angrily. If even it means I have to turn him into a toad so he can learn his own lesson.
She could hear Khu scolded the werewolf about how to treat the women right. She sighed shaking his head. No matter how much the werewolf had to learned, as for almost over three years none of the werewolf had learned his lesson yet.
She looked up at the sky and she realized she was walking out of the palace while she was deep in her thoughts. As the icy wind brushed her bared arms, Ciara shivered and rubbed her arms to keep herself warm.
And then she remembered her book as she pulled out a book from her backpack and read it out loud to herself.
"The descendants of the Ancestor Hey Lin, the first clan of the south and her granddaughter, Jiro, the first Heylin Tiger of Wood and the first witch. Great Heylin Witch Wuya, Jiro's other sister, decided to went over to the dark side since the great evil set freed by the traitor.
"After the first showdown of Grandmaster Dashi and the Heylin Witch Wuya, the second witch trapped in the puzzle box for eternities. No one knows what will happen if the puzzle box opened by a fool.
"The great evil decided to possessed a host, seeking to destroy a great elder of ex-grandmaster and ended his very life. After the death of an ex-grandmaster, his stepsister flee with great sorrow and heartbroken and never be heard once again so no one knew what happen to her.
"The clans of the Xiaolin and Heylin continued their journey to search of the stolen magical objects called Sheng Gong Wu. Until then they had witness the horror of the South Temple was destroyed by the man-reptile creature and the news of Hey Lin's death caused Jiro's grief-stricken feeling shattered her very heart.
"The first Heylin Tiger of Wood went off in search of the great evil, to stop him from feeding such horrors upon the Earth. Until then she met the great evil, what she saw was a evil snake with dull yellow eyes, in the forbidden forest.
"She demanded him to let the host go free of his evil grasp. She recognized the host, as she knew as an older brother of the first Heylin Tiger of Lightning who had been banished by ex-grandmaster over two years ago.
"A evil spirit forced the host to used the two magical objects as known as Wushan Geyster and The Void of Staff. While he used them at same time, the purplish blue aurora began to flowing over the land where all the Heylin clans, erasing all of their memories and replaced with their false memories.
"But only ones resisting the dark spell are the two who are in love from the opposite sides, the host's young brother and the grandmaster's young sister. It takes a two years for the lightning chosen one to insisting his friends to stop the war that the White Tiger and the Blue Dragon against each other.
"Jiro was asked a favor by him, to take care of the wife and a newborn son, as she agreed and take them back on the black dragon, the green dragon's brother. They flee to another land that no one knows what happen to them after the death of the lightning chosen one.
"Since the lightning made a vow before he died, the prophecy is already made. A chosen child's unimaginable power will be passed down to the every generation in each year. Until then the descendant of the lightning and the wind who have to fought against the descendant of the banished warrior with a deadly power called Darkness…"
Ciara shut the book with her eyes widened in shock and stared down at the old torn book cover with the fading golden title of "Journey".
Did it have to do something with Khu and his power? Surely, it didn't say about Heylin Tiger of Darkness existed… She frowned at the book confusedly. Or it is?
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Wuya's POV
After the final battle in between Omi and Raimundo, she was trapped in the puzzle box until one of the cat warriors opened it again. She returned into being a ghost again, asking one of the cat warriors to used the Reversing Mirror and Serpent's Tail to turn her into a human again.
Fuming at the Dragon of Fire quietly, she walked on her bared feet on the smooth floor graceful as she narrowed her cold green eyes when she saw the small black and red bird flew toward her.
Ah, it was a bean sitting on the bird's back. She grinned evilly, knowing the bean is one of the greatest evils in the time of the Lord Ariko.
Then again, after she was trapped in the first puzzle box by cursed Dashi so she didn't know what happen to Lord Ariko and the young host.
Wuya narrowed her cold green eyes even again, remembering the young banished rebel too well as well as the Lightning rebel. As her thoughts wandered to the young Heylin Tiger of Darkness, she frowned curiously why in this time there is now Heylin Tiger of Darkness exists in the sacred cycle.
She remembered her traitor sister's words echoed in her mind.
"Why you have to go over to the dark side, sister?" Jiro asked, looking back to her sister with a frown. "Is it because of Dashi?"
Wuya snarled, whirled sharply to her sister with her cold green eyes narrowed. "You do not want to continued or you will wish you'll be dead at hands of mine rather than the dark lord."
As she could hear her sister stirred behind her back with a heavy sigh. "Is it possible you're fallen in love with him? Or…"
The second witch snapped angrily, looking into her sister's soft eyes. "I despised him, Jiro! His master praised him on and on, like as if he's hero! He's no hero. He's worse like Shinyu!"
No respond from the first witch. Wuya snorted un-lady-like at this, turning her back on her sister and was about to walk off to road in the forest.
"What would it happen if you challenged him and lose?"
Wuya suddenly halted at her track as her back was still on her sister. She lowered her cold eyes on the ground and saying nothing to the first witch.
"You would regret to challenging him, sister. Because of your greedy and hungry for the magical objects you're targeting… Please change your mind and be resist against all lies that man feed upon you!"
Wuya began to walk again, ignoring her sister's cries.
Until she felt regretting to not listening to her own sister and fell for the grandmaster's trick. A puzzle box which she did not see this coming and soon become her prison life.
The last thing she saw was the lightning chosen one and the cowardly dragon Dojo sits around on the rebel's shoulders before she trapped in the ancient box.
Shinyu…
She knew he was there to witness her downfall. She truly glad that he wasn't there to humiliated her and rubbed it on her face.
Since she was freed from the ancient box that fool known as Jack Spicer who opened it in his stupidly way and meet all four Xiaolin Dragons during the first and last showdown.
All Xiaolin Dragons but one… is so different and yet rebellious.
Just like Shinyu. She thought bitterly. They are both sly and clever, even with carefree attitude as well.
But… the Xiaolin Dragon should have been a Heylin Tiger of Lightning because of how similar both the rebels looks and acts alike.
Until she saw his power revealed as a wind. She wasn't stupid as all other children as she looked. She knew the lightning and the wind chosen ones had already fallen in love with each other and has a son.
Then a next year later, she met the Heylin Tigers and to her own surprise to see the young version of the Banished Rebel Xuan stood in front of her.
The same eyes like Xuan's.
He had a half soul… like Xuan's after sacrificing himself for his young brother.
The same habit the child received like Xuan's…
But one lone question echoed in her mind.
'Why now Heylin Tiger of Darkness exists in this time of present?'
She knew she would found out about the mysterious lost piece of puzzles soon or later.
The bean greeted her, shattered her very deep in thoughts and brought her to the world of reality from her memories.
"What do you want, Hannibal?"
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Ciara's POV
She glowered angrily at Lobo as she used her white cloth on her flute and looked at the green metal sparkled reflect on a beautiful tool. While the Heylin Tiger of Wood polish her flute, she heard the werewolf whispered to Khu with his voice low so she can't hear what they're saying to each other.
She huffed angrily, polishing it hardly while thinking back to Lobo. Stupid Lobo. He has so much pride in himself. He wouldn't dare to bruise his pride by apologizing me for his "cursed" habits!
Then her thoughts suddenly changed to her ancient book, caused her angry look into worried look at Khu.
What did it meant by "Since the lightning made a vow before he died, the prophecy is already made. A chosen child's unimaginable power will be passed down to the every generation in each year. Until then the descendant of the lightning and the wind who have to fought against the descendant of the banished warrior with a deadly power called Darkness…" How strange…
"Ciara?"
She looked up to see Khu's looking concern at her. "Yea?" She asked finally, stopped what she was doing and waited for Khu's respond.
"You're staring off into space, Ciara. You're never seem distracted before…" Khu asked looking concern in his amethyst eyes when he looked at her. "What's matter?"
Ciara looked down at the flute she was just polishing and a little pink blush crept across her cheeks. "Ano…Khu… Can I ask you a question?"
Khu's dark eyebrow quirked up in surprise as the strong warrior took a seat and sit on it, staring down at her. "Oh? Go ahead." He said nodded, looking interesting at what the girl had to say.
"You know… even I wonder why we are chosen ones like the Xiaolin Dragons…" She said softly, looking up at the boy's amethyst eyes. "Have you ever wonder why you're are chosen one for a reason?"
Khu was taken back by the question she asked him directly, as he did not expect this question and now he had think about it a while ago.
Ciara sighed softly as she stood up, startling the silent warrior, and was about to walk off as Khu gripped her shoulder to hold her back. "Wait." He said quietly, knowing a small word stopped her track.
"Mmm?"
She turned her head and glanced down at him with a sad look but a curious creeping in her eyes.
Khu sighed closing his amethyst eyes and opened them again. "I believe that I actually do, in fact, Ciara." He finally said while later after the silence in the air in between them.
"Huh?" The Heylin Tiger of Wood asked confusedly, blinking at the leader.
"Ever I wonder… why I am the choose one as a Tiger of Darkness for a reason. Perhaps…it's a destiny have me and my cousin meet like our ancestors… What it got me thinking, my cousin's ancestor's older brother… my ancestor… was actually a long lost Heylin Tiger of Darkness but…" Khu trailed off, frowning down at the floor.
"…But he was banished by the first grandmaster." Ciara finished looking away, knowing what's happening in the book but refused to admit it.
Khu smiled nodding at her direction. "Yes. There are two darkness in the cycle as well.."
Ciara looked back to the leader and stared at him oddly. "Two darkness?"
Khu nodded.
"But what did you mean by 'two darkness', Khu?"
Khu stood up suddenly, startling the girl. "Perhaps, it's time for us to found out about what happen in the past or so what I have heard the rumors about my ancestor have given up his soul by splitting it into two. Like Yin and Yang…"
He turned around, clutching where his heart might have been with his right hand. "The demon had tricked my ancestor into being his puppet…after two years later, he sacrificed himself for his brother… A life for a life."
…And he left Ciara alone in the room.
Ciara glanced down at her book and thinking about what her leader had admitted to her. How did he know what happen to his ancestor? What did he meant by "a life for a life"?
She sighed.
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Wuya's POV
Narrowing her cold green eyes, she stood watching the Xiaolin Dragons in New Chinese Year party.
She smiled when she found out the small child wants to know where are his parents or what happen to them.
The bean sits on the dark bird chuckling darkly next to her. The witch smirked knowing they had a plan to lure the small monk to fell in their trap, leaving other dragons weakened without the fourth.
Perhaps, I should let Jack come along… She smirked widely, showing her small tiny fangs.
End of Chapter Eight
Me: (snoring) Z…zz…zzzz…Zz…
Yamato: (twitch) Why always she doing up again? She supposes to have a class tomorrow! (looks at time) Actually… I mean, today. Her class is start at 8.
Khu: True. Kobo, say something so we can leave Lady Lizgon at peace.
Kobo: (nod) Okay, readers, please read and reviews this. Thank you!
Yamato: Now. (dragging Khu and Kobo out of the room) We go buh-bye, folks!