The Time has Come
Smurf-Chan
Confusion and Light
"Who…am…I?" Chris asked herself and looked around at the surrounding area, there her eyes met with Zen's. Zen was just shocked at how his fighting partner could just stop fighting and lose her memory. Chris then ran to him, her eyes big. "Do you know who I am?" Zen's face turned from shocked to confusion.
"Heh.." was all he could reply, his face tuning red. Then he looked up as his master started to yell.
"DANG! I hit the wrong one!" He then pointed the Amnesia Crouter at Master Fung and then yelled. "Amnesia Crouter!" but nothing happened. "What!" was his only reply. The Amnesia Crouter did not work a second time. There was no reason for it not to work, but it did not. "WUYA!" He screamed and then looked at Jack who had his newly won shen-gong-wu from earlier. "What are you doing with that useless JUNK!" Jack then smiled and replied.
"I won this, isn't it cool?" Chase just groaned and smacked Jack in the stomach with the Amnesia Crouter, but he accidentally hit the Angel's Tunic, which burned him.
"OUCH! What the…?" He then looked more carefully at the items he had won. "The Angel's Tunic! MORON!" He then yelled, he couldn't believe his stupidity. "We can not use THAT shen-gong-wu!" Jack was puzzled.
"Why not?" Chase then smacked his forehead with his hand.
"Because THE Angel's Tunic can only be wielded by the good. We are Evil and evil cannot touch the Angel's Tunic or we will be burned." Jack then got even more puzzled.
"But I'm able to touch it." Chase then replied.
"You're not fully evil like me." Jack just groaned and then Chase said. "Get rid of those things, we must go." Jack looked shocked.
"Why, we're winning!" Chase then growled.
"We did NOT get our objective! So we are leaving! ZEN!" Chase yelled then smacked Jack to drop the wu he had. Dav and Aletia noticed that their wu was falling and ran to get it. Zen looked at Chris confused as she kept asking him questions, then she paused.
"You have ears of a dog, and a tail." She was even more confused. "Are you some kind of dog?" Zen then blushed as this girl kept asking him all these questions about him and was to close for comfort. Then he saw the Angel's Tunic fall and the girl trying to get it. He then pushed Chris out of the way. "Hey!" Chris yelled and then Zen ran to the wu and grabbed it, and took a good look at the girl.
"Aletia..?" He said in a soft voice. Aletia then blushed and covered her mouth. Zen was holding her Angel's Tunic and not getting burned, and she knew him from somewhere. Zen was blushing, then heard.
"ZEN!" He looked back at his master and saw that he and the others were leaving. He then quickly ran to catch up with his master then looked back at Aletia who was still blushing and then turned around and left. Aletia couldn't believe it was him, from her past, she then held her head. She didn't want to remember. She NEVER wanted to remember! She gasped as she remembered the fire, the screams. Then Dav put his hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?" She then came to.
"Yea." She replied she then saw Clay and the others run to Chris, and decided to join. Chris was looking at everyone confused, a way she never looked before. She always had a stern face with no emotion, but her face now clearly showed fear.
"You okay?" Clay asked his cousin. Chris just looked at him and asked.
"Who am I?" He was shocked and so were the others. Clay looked at Kimiko and the others and then at his cousin.
"Your Christie Lynn Bailey."
"Chris…tie?" Clay then nodded.
"We call you Chris." She looked even more confused.
"Why?" Clay was kinda stumped by that question.
"Well…" He started then Raimundo added.
"Because you prefer it." Then Aletia added.
"And you said it was easier to remember." Chris then looked like she was thinking.
"But Chris is a boy's name!" She then thought. "I'm a girl right?" Everyone laughed.
"Of course you are." Clay said putting a hand on her shoulder. She then said with a big grin.
"Just call me Christie." Her grin and the wanting to be called a girlie name like 'Christie' shocked Clay and the others. Christie then got up and said. "So, how do you know me?" Christie asked looking at Clay.
"We're cousins." Christie smiled.
"Are we close?" She then thought of something. "Are we like brother and sister?" Clay then shrugged and said.
"Not really." Christie was confused.
"Why?"
"Well, we haven't seen each other since we were five." Christie looked wide-eyed looking like a questionable five year-old asking questions of any form that entered her mind.
"Why?" Clay was getting flabbergasted.
"Well," He started and took his hat off and rubbed the top of his head. "Because you went to train far away." Christie was still confused not really understanding what Clay was saying to her. Master Fung then came into the conversation.
"Well, Christie." He started. "To understand better, I will explain and answer any question you may have. Please come with me." Christie nodded and followed Master Fung to the meditation area. Everyone else just waited outside still in shock that their tough warrior of earth could turn into such a child.
"Who would have thought?" Dav said crossing his arms. "That miss stick-up-her-butt would actually turn into a totally different person." Raimundo agreed, he never thought he would see the day where Chris… or.. erm… Christie would actually be nice and dare they say, bubbly. After awhile Christie and Master Fung came back outside, Christie looking like she had eaten something bad. Raimundo went up to her and asked.
"You okay?" Christie smiled and looked at her clothes, or her robes.
"I'm a monk?" Rai nodded and said.
"Yea, well a special monk." Christie held her head not believing it. She didn't remember who she was, her own family, and now she was a monk. What else? She then looked at Clay.
"Can you take me to our family, so I can see them again. Please?" Clay was taken back at the question. To Clay, his family tried to hide her existence from him, he never really knew she was actually alive and breathing till a couple a days ago. What was he going to say to her? That he couldn't take her to see her family because they really didn't want anything to do with her. To him all that really mattered was that she was alive and they could be the family that she never had. He could at least take her to her roots at Texas and know what it was like living on a farm, and maybe get the family to accept her again. Clay then smiled at Christie and replied.
"Well, sure. It would be great to see the family again." Master Fung then came beside Clay and said.
"Are you sure you want to do this young one, it could end up being a big mistake." Clay then looked at his Master.
"I have to, she is my family after all." Master Fung nodded and said.
"Clay you may go to Texas with your cousin, just take the Golden Tiger Claws with you, the rest of you will stay here and guard the temple. We will need you to go get the Cure of Osirus so we can cure Christie of this amnesia. Once it reveals itself, of course." Raimundo then stepped up and said.
"I want to go with Clay and Christie." Master Fung looked at him questionably. "I think I could help Clay, I mean she doesn't remember anything, he'll need help!" He said trying to protest. Master Fung then nodded and said.
"Yes, Clay will need help. You will go and make sure our Warrior of Earth does not get hurt. We still need her help in ridding of this evil." Clay smiled at Raimundo for offering to help, then a thought went into his mind.
'He's going to take advantage of this situation to get close to my cousin! That down right, no good..' He thought of how he was going to strangle Raimundo, and then Raimundo went over to Clay and said.
"I'm only helping, don't get any ideas." Clay just stared at him and looked at the others, they were going to be guarding the temple while Raimundo, Christie, and he were gone. He then went to Kimiko and said.
"Take care of the temple, we'll be back as soon as we can." Kimiko nodded and replied.
"We will, but are you guys going in your robes, go change." She said, knowing her as the fashion guru. Clay then nodded and helped Christie find her room, then went to go change. Christie was looking through her things and then came out looking for Kimiko.
"Um…" She said looking for Kimiko, but not really knowing her name. "Black haired girl! Um… help." She said getting a bit scared and more or less shy. Kimiko then came up to her, since she was the only black haired girl for miles.
"Yea, it's Kimiko." She said politely. " What's up?" Christie then showed her the black outfit she had.
"Is this all I wear is black?" Kimiko laughed, it was the only piece of clothing she had. She didn't have anything else and Texas was hot. Very hot. And black was not one of the colors that someone that didn't want a heat stroke to wear. Kimiko then smiled at Christie and her innocents.
"Yea, that is usually all you wear, but I can ring my papa, and he can have a wardrobe here, asap." She then used her cell phone and called her dad. "Moshi Moshi Papa. Listen this is kind of an emergency, could you bring down some western clothes to the temple. Arigato Papa." Kimiko then closed her cell and said that her father would bring in some clothes at any minute. Soon a helicopter came from Tokyo and out came Kimiko's father and a line of clothes. Christie was in utter shock at all the clothes Kimiko was offering to give her just for her visit to Texas. Kimiko smiled and said. "Pick out something nice." Christie nodded and went to get some clothes. After awhile she got clothes that she liked and went to change. She came out with a light brown-laced shirt, a long white skirt, and brown cowboy boots. Everyone was in shock at the look she had chosen; she was wearing a dress. Rai blushed at her; she looked so pretty to him. Then Dav smacked him on his back to wake him up.
"Dude, don't get mushy." Rai then socked him in the arm.
"Shut up!" Raimundo then saw Christie try to move her hair out of her eye, but wasn't having any success. He then thought of something and went to Kimiko's father. "Excuse me, is there something in there that can get hair out of someone's eye?" Kimiko's father looked at him confused then said.
"Well, there are burettes." Showing Raimundo the burette he had. Raimundo then picked one that he thought looked nice and put it in his pocket, then thanked Kimiko's father for the help. Kimiko's father just shrugged and went back onto his helicopter after saying goodbye to Kimiko and was back off to Tokyo. Raimundo then went up to Christie and said.
"You look cute." He blushed then flinched. Christie smiled, and then frowned.
"Thanks, um… why did you do that?" Raimundo rubbed his head and replied.
"Every time I said that you punched me. Very hard." Christie put her hand on her mouth and said.
"I'm sorry, do I not like you?" Raimundo then looked at the ground and said.
"You said I annoyed you, and that you hated me." Christie blinked.
"Why would I hate you, you're one of the nicest people I've met." Christie then turned around. "But whatever I did to you, I'm sorry." Rai rubbed his head and said.
"It's okay, don't worry about it. We're going to have a blast in Texas, so let's just think of the fun we'll have." Christie smiled.
"I can't wait to see my family! I wonder what Texas looks like?" Clay then came into the conversation.
"Well, it's big and open." Rai then groaned.
"And dry." Clay smiled at Raimundo and said.
"Not all of Texas, partner." Rai then shrugged.
"It looks like a desert." Clay then said.
"Not all of Texas, there is still Houston and Austin. Those are huge cities in Texas, and their lush and green. Where we were was west Texas, we'll go east and then sum." Christie was smiling ear to ear; she was excited to go see her homeland. Clay and Rai were getting use to this Chris; she was more fun and opened. Not detached and lonesome. Kimiko giggled at them because they looked like they were getting really excited. May then frowned.
"I wanna go to Texas too." Aletia nodded.
"Me as well, it sounds like fun!" Dav then smiled and said.
"Well, maybe some other time, right now we have to worry about the Shen-gong-wu, they might come back and we need to stay here and make sure we get it first." Kimiko nodded at Dav.
"Plus we need to stay here and guard the temple." May and Aletia nodded understanding, they would visit Texas soon enough anyway because they had Dojo the flying dragon. Then Dav put his hand into a fist and said.
"I'm going to get that dang Jack Spicer in the next showdown!" He was still a little mad about not winning his first showdown, but he was rusty. He'll get it next time. Then Clay went over to him and the others.
"Just incase, here is some of Christie's Wu. Use it well." He gave The Scroll of Casca to May, The Daggers of Teimami to Aletia, and the Gauntlets of Tebigong to Dav. Kimiko already had the Wing of the Phoenix. "These will help if there is a battle." Dav then looked confused.
"Dude, what about you? Don't you need wu too?" Clay then shook his head 'no' and said.
"We'll be okay." Dav was still confused but shrugged it off. Hopefully nothing happens to them, but if anything did they had the Golden Tiger Claws. Clay then tipped his hat at their friends, grabbed Christie's hand and used the Golden Tiger Claws. "Golden Tiger Claws!" Then he slashed the air and he helped Christie through. Rai went after them and then waved at them.
"Ciao!" And soon they were gone. Dav then shrugged at them and said.
"Well, let's go get some food." The others agreed and followed Dav into the kitchen.
Back at Chase's layer, Chase was angry beyond believe and he was going to take it out on the only person that wasn't Jack. "WUYA!" He said and as soon as she came out, he threw the Amnesia Crouter at her.
"What are you doing!" She yelled.
"That thing you call a WU doesn't work!" He said getting annoyed. Wuya glared at him.
"Well, of course it doesn't work, you threw it!" She yelled. He then glared at her.
"IT only worked once! I hit the wrong target with it and tried to use it again but it wouldn't work." Wuya then looked more closely at the Wu.
"Well, the reason it won't work is because it can't be used properly unless it has it's sister wu with it." Chase glared.
"Excuse me, what did you say?" Wuya grinned.
"It can't be used properly unless the other wu is with it. You said you were able to shoot it once, but nothing after that. Right?" Chase was getting sick of then tangling a string in front of his face and her not getting to the point.
"Yes." He said getting impatient.
"Well, you can shoot it once, but nothing more. If you want to do more damage you need the Cure of Osirus, because you cannot have the disease unless you have the cure." Chase was confused.
"What?"
"It's a lesson of this earth, there are number of diseases, and they all must have a cure, even if some cannot be found." Chase was already getting annoyed.
"How do we find this wu then?" Wuya smiled.
"It will reveal itself soon." She then stopped her evil grin to see another body standing before her. "Who is this?" Chase grinned.
"This is Zen, he will be most useful." Alliyah then came into the room with Josh and Rose by her side. Alliyah just paused, she remembered Zen from somewhere, and then gave a grin.
"He's cute." She said and went over to him. "Hello, Zen. Remember me?" Zen just looked away and then down at his feet.
"Yes." He said softly. Chase then raised an eyebrow.
"You know each other?" Alliyah smiled her evil grin and said.
"From a long time ago, but it's none of your concern now." Alliyah said. Wuya was getting upset.
"Does anyone ever follow my orders anymore?" Chase then glared at her, he did warn her after all about the 'new' followers that will have a mind of their own and want conquest. Josh then went from Alliyah's side and went over to Wuya's.
"I will do as you ask mistress." He then kissed her hand and looked up at her with soft eyes. He thought she was the most beautiful woman on earth. Wuya smiled and liked the thought of a lackey. Unlike any other person that was going to volunteer, besides a dumb one-eyed giant, a fat ninja, a lazy cat-woman, a huge weird militia Japanese man, and then there was Jack Spicer. Her options were not very good, but she liked Josh and how he was going to do everything her heart desired. Alliyah groaned at this scene and then looked at Rose.
"Be ready, your skills will be needed soon." Rose grinned and nodded.
"I cannot wait my Master. This will be fun." Rose then looked over at Omi and grinned.
Omi the little lion cub just looked at this family of evil, he really did not want to be here. What was he going to do; he had to fight his friends sooner or later. The when seemed to be clueless, the only thing he thought of was how he was to get out, without trying to go back on his word. The only way seemed to be his death, or the death of Chase. He then remembered how he saw the way to get rid of evil for good. The only problem was, he promised not to tell anyone, even his own friends. He knew how to get rid of it, but he couldn't do anything. What was he to do?
"Omi." Chase said and Omi came and turned back into himself.
"Yes, my master." Chase grinned.
"Please open the door." Omi was confused.
"Why my master?" Chase gave an evil grin.
"We have company."
In Texas a claw like mark was seen at the sky, and out came Clay, Christie, and Raimundo. They were what seemed to be a huge city in Texas. Clay smiled. "This is good ol' Houston. This was your hometown Christie." Christie smiled.
"WOW!" She shrilled. "It's so pretty!" Rai then held his nose.
"Polluted too." Clay shrugged.
"What can you say, Houston is like the fourth largest city in the world." Raimundo's eyes bugged.
"You're kidding right?" Clay shook his head 'no'.
"Nope, the first largest is Hong Kong in China, then Tokyo in Japan, then New York City in America, and then Houston. Well, I think. It either might be the fourth or fifth I can't remember clearly." Raimundo got scared.
"How do you know that?" Clay shrugged.
"I pay attention at school before I had to leave for the temple. That is." Raimundo slapped himself.
"Whatever man.. hey.." He said looking around. " Where is Christie?" For their talking, they had lost Christie already. "Dang, who would of thought she would wonder off?" Clay then said.
"She couldn't have gone far." He said looking around. " Ah, see there she is." He said pointing at her in front of what seemed like a chocolate shop. They went up to her and she said.
"I'm hungry." Her stomach growling. It was right, they were all hungry, they forgot to eat before they left. Clay then said.
"Ah, that's great!" He smiled. Rai then said.
"What's so great about being hungry?" Clay shook his head.
"No, no, not that. We now can eat the Texas delicacy. Country Fried Steak." Rai looked at him.
"Yea, I always wanted to try that." Christie looked confused.
"Fried… Steak?" Clay nodded.
"You'll love it!" He said taking her to a country buffet restaurant. Soon they were eating Texas food, and Christie loved every bite. After what seemed like a long while till Clay was full. About ten plates worth of food in his belly and only one for both Rai and Christie, they walked out of the restaurant content. Rai looked at Clay and said.
"You ate all that food? Are you sure you don't have a black hole for a stomach?" Clay blushed at that comment.
"Heh, well, fast metabolisms runs in the family." Christie looked at her stomach.
"How come I didn't eat as much?" Clay then turned to her and said.
"No offence, but you're a girl. Girl's in our family don't eat very much." Christie nodded and then said.
"Can we go meet our family now?" Clay looked away trying to think. What was he going to do? He had to think of something quick. He had to go talk to the family before she went to see them. Clay then said.
"Rai, I need to speak with you a second." Clay then said. "Stay right there, Christie, we'll be right back, okay?" Christie was confused but did as she was told. Clay dragged Rai away from Christie far enough so only he could hear him.
"What's up, Clay?" Rai said. "Something up? How come we haven't gone to see your family yet?" Clay then groaned.
"Because, my family tried their best to wipe Christie from the family. No pictures, no prove, no nothen'." Rai then looked at Clay not believing his ears.
"So, Christie's.. I mean you're family wants nothing to do with her?" Clay then looked depressed.
"I guess, I don't know." Clay said. "One of the reason's I needed to talk with you was, I need you to look out for Christie till I come back." Rai got confused.
"Come back from where?" Clay looked serious.
"Back from my pa's place and talk to him about Christie. Make them be nice to her or something. Anything, I just don't want Christie to think she was never wanted." Rai then looked down and Clay put his hands on his shoulders. "Please." Rai nodded and said.
"Okay, I'll look after her while you are gone. I hope you can get through to them." Clay nodded.
"Me too." He then went into another direction and used the Tiger Claws and he was out of sight. Rai groaned and went back to Christie. Christie looked around for her cousin.
"Where did Clay go?" Rai then said.
"He went to…." He rubbed his head. "He went back to the temple because he forgot something." He said and Christie nodded.
"When will he be back?"
"In a couple of minutes." Christie nodded and said.
"Well, what else is there to do?" Rai then looked around.
"We'll find something." He said grabbing her hand and ran off in the city.
Clay then found himself in a familiar scene, a fast desert and then his house. He remembered fondly about his farm and him playing with his sister, and even his cousin. There in the background he saw his Dad hitchen' hay and preparing to go and take it down to the fields for the cows to eat it. Clay then went up to him and said. "Hey, dad." Clay's father looked at him and smiled at his son.
"How's my grown man doing today?" He said still pitching the hay. Clay smiled and said picking up a pitchfork and helping his father.
"I'm doing okay." Clay was silent for a while; he really didn't have any clue what he was going to say to his dad about Christie. He might as well just spit it out. "Pa.." He said stopping. His dad looked at him confused.
"What is it son?" Clay looked at him and said.
"I found my cousin." His dad was even more confused now.
"What?" Clay then said.
"Remember when I was a kid and I always asked where my cousin went and you said she was just in my imagination." Clay's father was silent for a while and then went down onto his porch to sit. Clay followed and sat down on the steps. "I found her, she came to my temple. It's Christie I remember playing with when I was a kid, pa." Mr. Bailey looked at his son and said.
"I'm sorry I lied to you about your cousin." Clay was confused.
"What? I thought you would be mad about her." Mr. Bailey shook his head 'no' and said.
"The only reason I hid her from you was, I knew you two were very close. I didn't want you to be left with a pain of not ever seeing your best friend again. So I told you she was just an imaginary friend. So you wouldn't get to attached to her." He then looked down. "But I guess I was wrong, you always did remember her and it was wrong of me to try and hide her from you." Clay looked down at the ground as his father continued. "This is what happened the day she left."
/Flashback/
Your cousin, your sister, and you were out playing in the yard. All of you were having fun, all in your little diapers. It was so sweet for your aunt, uncle, ma, and me to see the little blondes playing in the yard and in the pig's pen. Clay you were always on guard of your little sister and cousin. All of you were like the three musketeers, never apart from each other. Your mother was always baby sitting you until one day…
Mrs. Bailey was inside cooking some dinner for tonight's little feast and the celebration of a great year. Mr. Bailey had gotten all his livestock into market and all were sold at a descent price. So in the celebration Clay's Aunt and Uncle brought over Christie to play with them while the adults helped cook and celebrated. Clay was playing pat-e-cake with Christie and Clay's sister, Jesse was just clapping along. Cooing and singing along with them. Then all of a sudden there came a loud thump on the door. Again and again it was heard till someone answered it. It was one of the monks of the temple; at first he wasn't welcomed because he looked a little weird. But then he started to talk to them about how he needed Christie to come with him. Clay's uncle and aunt looked at their baby girl and they nodded. They would miss her, but she was needed elsewhere. They went to pick her up and as soon as they did, Christie knew something bad was going to happen. She held onto Clay, she started to cry and wiggle. Clay just held her not wanting to let her go, because Christie was crying Jesse started crying too. But soon the grown ups strength was too much and finally Christie was out of Clay's arms and into the hands of the monk's. He started to cry for his cousin and then Clay's mother went to pick him up and cradle him. Clay's father went up to his mother and said. "It's harder for the kids." The other parents nodded. "I think it's best if we don't tell them about Christie, They will only worry, and be more upset." The other adults nodded. Soon all the pictures, all the things of Christie was put into a box and put away for no one to find.
/End Flashback/
Clay's father got out of the attic and brought down the box they put away. "This was mostly all of Christie's things and here, it's a picture of you kids playing." In the picture it was old and torn a little, with Christie hugging her cousin Clay and Jesse laughing and cooing. Clay wore his little cowboy hat and was playing with Christie's hair. Clay smiled.
"She'll be happy to see this, pa." Clay's father smiled.
"Where is she?" He asked.
"She's in Houston, right now with a friend." He looked down. "I wanted to come here first to tell you she was coming and to get ready for her." Clay's father got the message and said that his mother and him will be waiting to see her. Clay smiled and then went outside and used the Tiger Claws to go find Christie and Rai.
Back at the temple Dav and May were outside enjoying the calm right before the storm. May was sitting on the grass holding one knee and Dav was laying down looking at the sky. May then turned to him and said. "I wonder when the next wu will come?" Dav shrugged.
"Feels like forever since Clay and the others left." May nodded she then blushed at the question she was thinking of asking Dav.
"Um.." She said gulping. Dav then sat up and asked her what was up. "I was wondering… What do you think of Rai?" Dav then looked kinda stumped that she would ask about his best friend, but then he smiled and said.
"What's wrong with me?" May blushed and said.
"Nothing, nothing. I was just…." Dav then said.
"I understand." May then shook her head 'no' and said.
"It's not like that, I was just… curious… about." Dav raised an eyebrow.
"Yea?" May gulped again.
"About Chris…or um.. Christie and him." She gulped. "What's going on with that?" Dav shrugged then said bluntly laying back down.
"He likes her." Dav then knew that May like Rai and not him and he felt his chest ache a little. May then looked down at her feet and said.
"I see." Was all she said. She didn't know what to say next, so she just got up and said. "I'm going to train a little, excuse me." Dav just sat back groaning to himself and rolled on one side then the other. He then got up and ran after her.
"Wait! I'm coming too!" Aletia was in her room hiding from the others, she was trying to think of something else then her past. Why did that boy have to bring it back up again? All her thoughts, everything was red on fire, it was like bleeding. Her wounds were bleeding, everyone was screaming, no one was safe, it was her fault, all her fault. She still remembers everything that happened. She then hid her head and mumbled.
"I won't. I won't." She then started to cry. "I won't turn evil." Then a knock came to her door. She quickly snapped out of her state and cleaned herself before answering the door. It was Kimiko.
"I thought I heard something… like crying.. You okay?" Aletia just glared.
"I'm fine!" She said quite rudely, then walked past Kimiko who just blinked.
"O..Okay." Kimiko said not really getting what Aletia was so upset about; it was nothing Kimiko did, or mean to do to her. "I'll just leave you alone for awhile." Kimiko kinda felt alone now with the boys gone, it was all these new warriors around and none of them really wanted to be with her. Kimiko just then went to her P.E.T. and started to surf the net. Just as soon as she was about to turn a corner, Dojo scared her half to death.
"AHHHHHHH! WU!" Another wu had just revealed it's self and Dojo just tripped her.
"AHH! DOJO!" She was angry. "HOW MANY TIMES DID WE TELL YOU NOT TO SCARE US LIKE THAT?" Dojo looked at the spitfire and said.
"Tons.." and slithered off. Kimiko was getting mad and her eye started twitching. Soon she walked into the kitchen to find everyone looking at the scroll for the new Wu, it was of course the wu they were waiting for The Cure of Osirus.
Soon back at Chase's layer, Omi opened the giant wall and waited for the enemy to attack. He glared at the new comer and started to get into attack formation. "What do you want, stranger? Know that no one sees my master unless he is invited, which you certainly are not! Prepare to fight!" The dark person just smiled at Omi and walked past him. "HEY! You cannot pass! I…" The boy looked at Omi with a grin and said.
"I'm here to join, pip-squeak. So back off." He then walked up to Chase's throne room and smiled and bowed at Chase. "My new Master.." He started but before he could continue, he looked over to his side and saw one of the prettiest girl's he's ever seen and smiled at her and winked. It was Alliyah and she just looked at him funny and then looked away. 'Feisty. Heh?' He said to himself. 'I like that.' He then saw her stare at someone else. He then looked confused, as he tried to see who it was. It was his own brother. He was shock to find his own brother here before him. "Brother?" He said to himself more than to anyone else.
"Your brother?" The boy looked at Chase and said.
"He's my twin." Chase then grinned.
"Zen has a twin, this will be fun, indeed. What is your name?" Chase said very interested.
"I am Zalak, my master. I would ask of you to let me join. I will have utter fun destroying your enemies and I do this all for one price." Chase then raised an eyebrow.
"And that is?" Zalak grinned at Alliyah and said.
"To have your sister, Alliyah." Alliyah blushed and looked at her brother angrily. If he was even thinking about handing her over to some guy, he better think twice. Chase then grinned as his sister panicked. He then looked back at Zalak and replied.
"We shall see.." Zalak smiled and then looked at Alliyah and blew her a kiss. She then turned to Zen not believing what was happening to her and there, Zalak knew she liked Zen more than him and he hated his brother for it. Zalak went over to his brother, his brother looking down the entire time. "We shall see what your made of my brother." He grinned, his teeth showing of dried blood. "Yes, we shall." He said then walked away. Wuya then came in from her room and said to Chase.
"Chase, the Wu has revealed itself." Chase grinned and thought it would be a perfect to send his sister Alliyah and Jack together. He really wanted to see what his sister could do.
"Alliyah, you and Jack go and get that wu for me, and don't fail me." Alliyah didn't like the idea of going with Jack and protest that she wanted to go with Rose. Chase then smiled and said. "I want to see what you can do with a buffoon." Jack then came in and said.
"Who's this buffoon?" Alliyah glared at him and said.
"You are buffoon! Come on." She said glaring at her brother who just grinned.
"Do well!" He said most mockingly then grinned his evil grin.
Back at Houston, Rai and Christie found a fair to hang out in until Clay came back, Rai bought Christie an ice cream and she was eating it happily. " This is so good! Who would of thought!" She then looked at Rai. "What flavor was this again?" Rai smiled eating his own, which was almost gone.
"It's vanilla, but chocolate is very good too." She ate it happily till it was all gone.
"What else is there to do?" Rai looked around and saw a Farris Wheel in the distance.
"There! You'll love the height and you'll be able to see all of Houston from up there!" Christie smiled and let Rai lead her to the huge wheel. When they got there, the wind was starting to pick up.
"I dunno, my hair will get in my face, it's already bugging me." She said trying to hold her hair in place. Rai then smiled as he brought this along.
"Actually I got you something for your hair before we let for Texas." She blinked and blushed a little.
"What is it? And why didn't you give it to me earlier?" Rai then blushed putting his hand behind his head.
"Well, one I didn't want to be made fun of, and I prefer to…." He then trailed off not really wanting to finish that sentence or that thought. He just went into his pocket and grabbed the burette. He brought it out and gave it to her; she looked at it and smiled. It was so pretty. It was a deep blue burette with two silver hearts on it. Christie then put it in her hair and got the hair out of her eye. She smiled at Rai and said.
"Thanks.." She blushed. She then shook her head and said. "So, tell me about yourself." She said quite interested in her newfound friend. Rai rubbed his head as they got onto the Farris Wheel and sat down. As the Farris wheel started to turn Rai said.
"People call me a rebel." Christie was confused.
"Reb…bel?" Rai then rubbed his head.
"Heh, never mind…" He said then he lost his words as he looked around Texas. "WOW! Clay was right, Texas is pretty cool!" Christie smiled at her hometown, she then saw the sun was starting to go down and looked at Rai.
"Where's Clay? It's almost been forever since we saw him." Rai nodded thinking the same thing. Soon Christie and Rai got off the wheel and started looking for Clay, but before they could go to long. They saw Clay's Tiger Claws and him coming through them. "Clay!" Christie ran to him and hugged her cousin. "Where were you? We were worried." Clay then smiled at his cousin and then at Rai. Rai mimicked the words. You went back to the Temple…You forgot something! He said without Christie trying to see. Clay then nodded and said.
"I went back to the temple because I forgot something, and then I went to find you guys you were gone, so I looked all over the city for you." Christie grinned.
"I'm sorry Clay!" She smiled sweetly. "Rai wanted me to go on the Farris Wheel." Clay then glared at Rai who gulped.
"Yea?" Christie smiled.
"Yea, it was fun!" She giggled and that took Clay and Rai aback a little. She hasn't giggled in a long time and it was weird. She then went up to Rai and said.
"Thank you for everything." And gave him a kiss on the cheek. Rai blushed and looked at Clay with a funny face. Clay groaned and then said.
"Okay, we're going to see our family." Rai then whispered.
'I thought they hated her?' Clay then said in a whisper.
'Naw, I'll explain later.' Christie smiled.
"I can't wait to see them!" They then left for the ranch with the help of the Golden Tiger Claws. They soon were at the ranch and found Mr. and Mrs. Bailey waiting for them. Rai was shocked that Clay's mom and dad were waiting for them. Christie blushed at Clay's parents and looked down. Clay smiled and said.
"Don't be shy, this is your Uncle and Aunt, my parents." Christie smiled and went up to them.
"Hi.." She said in a shy voice, and then surprisingly Clay's mom gave her a huge hug.
"We missed you so much!" It seemed that she was about to cry, and Christie smiled knowing a bit of her family. Clay's dad gave her a hug and then asked her if she ever saw a roping of cattle. She said no and so Clay's father told Clay to go show Christie the ropes of the west. Clay went to rope cattle while Rai and her watched.
"GO CLAY!" Christie shouted on the sidelines then she turned to Rai and said. "Have you ever roped a cow?" Rai was taken back a little but said.
"Yea, I have, but that was awhile a go." Christie grinned.
"I bet your lying." Rai looked at her with disbelieve.
"Well, I'm not." Christie's grin got bigger.
"Prove it." He growled and went into the ring with Clay who had just roped a calf. Clay looked at him weirdly and asked.
"What you doing out here, Partner?" Rai then grabbed the rope and said.
"Proving a point." Christie shouted.
"Don't trip RAI!" Laughing as she was getting him really mad. She liked teasing him. Rai then swung the rope over his head and before he got it out, it was all around him. He had tied himself up with the rope and was then humiliated. Christie and Clay laughed at him while he tried to get himself up. Then all of a sudden they heard something like a copter but it turned out to be Jack Spicer. Christie gulped and asked.
"Who's that?" Clay answered her by saying.
"That's Jack, he's a real pain!" Christie had a look of fear on her face, as Jack was starting to speak.
"Well, Well. It seems the newest of the Xiaolin Losers has lost her mind. I wonder where it could be?" He laughed. He then sent his Jack-bots towards her and she froze not knowing what to do. Rai then got in front of her and then kicked major robot butt. Clay was having a time for himself, he was just kicking at the robots then he stopped and meditated for a second. Two robots came at him fast but he moved a split second before they hit him and they smashed into each other. Clay then smiled.
"Now that's how it is done!" Then all of a sudden Dojo with the others appeared. "HEY!" He shouted for Kimiko. Kimiko waved and after Dojo let them off, she went to him.
"The Cure of Osirus is near here!" Clay then looked around.
"Here?" He then thought of the time his dad had that star around his neck. "Oh. Not again!" He said getting angry, he then ran for the ranch but Alliyah got in front of him and smiled.
"Where are you going?" Alliyah got the biggest evil grin Clay ever saw.
"Oh, you evil farment!" Clay said Alliyah then jumped into mid-air and kicked him in the face. Clay then grabbed her leg and threw her as far as he could. "Nice kick!" He said and then ran for his house. Alliyah stopped in mid-air and glared at Clay going, she was about to follow him when Kimiko using the Wings of the Phoenix came in front of her and stopped her.
"If you wanna get him, you're going through me first!" Kimiko said. "FIRE!" She then blasted fireballs from her hand at Alliyah. Alliyah dodged what she could, but then started backing up till her feet hit the ground. Then with her Zodiac Talisman she was able to conjure up a tiger to attack Kimiko. Kimiko using the Wings of the Phoenix was able to dodge every attack the Tiger attempted. The other warriors were helping Raimundo with the bots and protecting Christie from getting hurt. Dav saw Clay run for the house and he decided to follow and help.
"What's going on?" He asked Clay. Clay was still running and saying to him.
"My dad might have the Cure of Osirus. I have to go see." Dav nodded and when they got to the house they saw Clay's dad and mother surrounded by bots. Dav and Clay got rid of the bots in a hurry and then Clay asked. "Do you have the wu dad?" Clay's father looked at him and asked.
"What, another one?" He then looked at his wife who was red. She did have something old from her side of the family. She then went to get it and it was in an old treasure keepsake box she had when she was little. She opened it to find what seemed like a porcelain yellow flower. Clay then held it and asked Dav if it was the wu. Dav nodded and said.
"Yea, that's the Cure of Osirus." They both nodded and told Clay's parents thanks and ran outside to find Jack Spicer with his arms crossed.
"Well, Well. I guess I don't have to go searching for it now." He then quickly flew up and grabbed it. The Shen-gong-wu then glowed and Dav said.
"Pay back time, Jack!" Dav said. "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown! My Flame Sabre for your Serpents Tail!" Jack then looked around.
"I don't have it with me." Alliyah then came in and said.
"Yea you do! Here!" She then threw it to him and he grabbed it.
"What about you Clay?" Jack asked. Clay then took his hand off the wu and said.
"One against one will be fine. Dav will wipe the floor with you!" Clay said then turned to Dav and said. "Go get 'em." He then went over to the others and Dav grinned and said.
"Who ever can get the wu first, wins!" They both nodded.
"Gong Ye Tan Pai!" Then everything started changing from desert to what looked like clouds in the sky and at the very end of all the clouds was the Cure of Osirus. Christie couldn't believe her eyes, everything had changed so suddenly. She then looked at Raimundo and asked.
"What's going on?" Rai said.
"A Xiaolin Showdown." Christie was confused, but was even more confused when she changed into her black outfit.
"A Xiaolin… Show…down? And why am I in this black outfit?" Kimiko answered.
"Because in a showdown we need no distractions." May then put her hands to her mouth and shouted.
"DAV! GOOD LUCK!" Aletia waved at him and said the same. Clay then said.
"You can do it partner!" Dav waved at them then Jack and him went started their run for the wu. Dav was running as fast as he could and Jack didn't run. He then said.
"I don't run for nothing." He said and used his flying machine his granny gave him to help rule the world. He then flew as fast as he could to the Wu. Dav glared as Jack went past him and he brought out his Sabre and shouted.
"Flame Sabre!" His sabre got inflamed and he swiped his sword in the direction of Jack. The sword let loose flame shock waves and hit Jack's flying device making the machine unable to work. Jack then fell till he hit another cloud. Dav ran past him as Jack got back up and started following Dav. He then took out his serpents tail and shouted.
"Serpents Tail!" He then came invisible and flew right past him. He then got to the wu but was unable to touch it. "Wha?" He asked himself but Dav was able to get the wu before him and the showdown was over. Dav got two new wu for their victory. Everyone cheered for Dav's victory as he held the two new wu. May hugged him and told him he was wonderful. Dav just blushed. Clay smiled at him and said.
"That was down right a good show." He then went to his mom and dad and said. "We'll we have to get going, I hope to see you guys soon." Aletia and the others stared at Clay's parents.
"Are those Clay's mom and dad?" Aletia asked. Christie smiled.
"Yea, their my Aunt and Uncle." Aletia grinned at her and soon Clay came back to the others. He used the Golden Tiger Claws and swiped the sky. "See ya!" Christie yelled to her family members and off they were to the temple.
Back at Chase's lair, Alliyah and Jack came back empty handed. Alliyah was really mad at Jack and hitting him most of the way. Zalak was standing beside the door and said. "Have a bad time?" He then went up to her and said. "Did that loser, lose everything that you were aiming to have?" Alliyah didn't look at him but said.
"I need to see my brother." She then walked past him and headed to her brother's chambers. Chase was sitting on his throne as he watched Rose play with the Shadow of Fear. He then saw Alliyah come in looking a bit gloomy.
"I see you didn't get the wu." He replied quite softly. "Never you mind that, it wasn't your fault, but know this sister. We will get that wu, and I am counting on you to receive it for me and next time you will be going with Zen and Zalak. They will both be every interesting to watch. Alliyah nodded and looked at the failure behind her, Jack.
"Next time, you won't fail or I'm breaking your bones." Jack winced at the thought and then stuck his tongue out.
"Whatever!" He shouted and walked away. Alliyah then sensed something wrong in the air. It felt like something was coming, but what was it?
As soon as they got back to the temple, everyone got back into their uniform, except for Christie and Raimundo. Christie was giggling and feeling a bit playful and she started bugging Rai. "Got ya!" She said and ran giggling. Rai was getting a bit annoyed and ran after her. Dav and May looked at each other and giggled at them. Aletia rolled her eyes, because soon it was going to be all over. Soon everything was going to go back to the way it was. Christie or Chris was going to be a warrior again, and never smile, and never have fun ever again. Kimiko and Clay smiled at Rai was trying to catch her because she yelled at him that he was it. Soon Rai was able to catch her and he tickled her till she fell over laughing. Rai then helped her up and Master Fung came out of the temple. Master Fung then looked at Raimundo and said.
"I'm sorry Raimundo, but now we have to cure Christie." Rai looked down at his feet and Christie didn't understand why he was upset.
"What's wrong? Soon I'll be better." Rai then looked away as Master Fung answered her.
"You will not remember anything that has happened when we cure you. You will not remember Texas, you will not remember anything. Except for what you were before you lost your memory." Christie looked at Master Fung confused.
"No." She then looked at the ground. "I wont remember? I won't laugh, I won't smile?" She then looked like she was going to cry. Master Fung then shook his head.
"No, you will not remember anything." Christie put her hands to her face and started to cry, she then ran away from them. They followed her and she stopped. Master Fung then said. "We need the Warrior of Earth back. We need to win this war. We need you." She then looked at Master Fung, then at Clay, then at Raimundo. She then looked down and said.
"Okay." She then looked up at all her friends. "Goodbye." Then Rai was given the Shen-Gong-Wu and he held it out.
"Cure of Osirus!" A beam of light hit Christie and she fell to her knees, Raimundo gasped as he felt his chest hurt; now nothing was ever going to be what he wanted. The girl he started to have feelings for left him. Now he would never have a chance to be with her. She would hurt him and refuse to be near him. He thought it was the end to do anything now. Christie then got up and looked at everyone. Something felt different, though. She looked down and she saw she was wearing a dress.
"What the?" She asked herself. "Why am I in a dress?" She then got up and ran to her room, everyone just stared at her leaving but Raimundo. He didn't look at her, or watch her leave. He gave Kimiko the Cure of Osirus to put in the vault and he went to go think. May saw this and ran after him to maybe have some girl chat in his system. Kimiko and Clay went to go put the new wues in the vault, Dav went off to do some chores, and Aletia followed Chris. Chris was in her room and changed back into her black stealth suit, She was mumbling to herself and turned to see Aletia there. "What happened to me?" Aletia looked down and said.
"Basically you lost your memory, and I won't tell you anything else, because it will embarrass you." Chris glared at her and looked at herself. How could she fall victim to a wu. She trained to hard not to let this happen to her. Aletia left her alone as all Chris wanted to do was be alone for a while. She then felt her hair and felt something holding her hair back. She took it out and looked more carefully at it. It was a burette, but where did she get it from? She then remember something about Texas….but….
/Flashback/
"I dunno, my hair will get in my face, it's already bugging me." She said trying to hold her hair in place. Rai then smiled as he brought this along.
"Actually I got you something for your hair before we let for Texas." She blinked and blushed a little.
"What is it? And why didn't you give it to me earlier?" Rai then blushed putting his hand behind his head.
"Well, one I didn't want to be made fun of, and I prefer to…." He then trailed off not really wanting to finish that sentence or that thought. He just went into his pocket and grabbed the burette. He brought it out and gave it to her; she looked at it and smiled. It was so pretty. It was a deep blue burette with two silver hearts on it. Christie then put it in her hair and got the hair out of her eye. She smiled at Rai and said.
"Thanks.." She blushed.
/End Flashback/
"Raimundo." She said to herself softly. "He gave me this burette. But why?" She then put the burette in her pocket and went outside. She walked for a little while then saw Raimundo and May talking.
May went up to Rai after he went to sit down. "You okay?" She asked him as she sat down next to him. Rai didn't really say anything. So May stayed quiet for a moment then said. "It's okay, I'm sure everything will be okay." Rai shook his head.
"I do care for her a lot, but now that she went back to her former self. She doesn't remember everything that we did, nothing that I hold dear." May smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"It's not all that bad." Rai then blushed and said.
"Whatever, nothing will be right again." He then got up and walked away.
Over in the kitchen Dav was cleaning the dishes and Kimiko came in a little bit later to help. Dav and her were talking about something when he took a look outside to find May and Raimundo talking, then the kiss. He dropped the plate he was cleaning; he was in total shock. He backed away from the window and put down the towel he was using to dry them Kimiko looked at him after he dropped the dish.
"Are you okay?" He didn't answer but walked away. His best friend and the girl he liked.
'How could he, he likes one girl, but he takes another.' He felt like he wanted to cry, but he didn't. He walked out to find Clay working on his Ty-Chi and Aletia going to her room. He just sat down and looked at his feet. What was he going to do now? Chris looked at the two and saw Raimundo walk off. May felt bad for him but didn't follow. May then saw Chris staring at her, which scared her.
"Oh Chris." She said. "Hi!" Chris did a nod and then went her own way. After everyone settled down after such a long day Master Fung then had everyone come into the mediation hall to talk. As they sat there waiting for Master Fung to enter, Dav was glaring at Raimundo who was just not looking at nothing in particular and Chris was just completely embarrassed for the way she might of looked and acted while she didn't remember anything. She just kept looking down at her feet, not wanting to look at anyone else. Clay was upset too, because she didn't remember meeting his mom and dad, or anything that happened. Master Fung then came into the room and sat down with his students.
"Now, young ones. Now that we have all of our dragons. We must talk." All the dragons listened carefully as their Master spoke. "With all the warriors together, it is time that we confront out enemy." Rai smiled at the thought.
'We're going to kick butt!' He said mostly to himself. Master Fung then stood up and said.
"Please go to the Chase's fortress and confront him. We have to try and get Omi back!" Everyone nodded and got up. They were no sooner on Dojo flying towards the fortress and of course this was Chris' first time on a flying dragon, so she was basically holding on for dear life. As soon as they got to Chase's domain, Dojo went down in size and went under Clay's hat shacking as a leaf. Chris glared at the door that was actually a wall.
"Is there suppose to be a door here?" She asked questioning the dragon. Dojo looked from under Clay's hat and said.
"Yes there is, I just….um… have no clue how to open it." Chris just groaned at him and started feeling the walls. After a while of looking she found the switch and the door popped opened. There standing at the door was Omi.
"Omi!" Clay, Raimundo, Kimiko, and May shouted. Chris, Dav, and Aletia shrugged at each other, and then realized it was the original warrior of Water standing before them. May ran to him and gave him a hug.
"Omi! I thought you were lost to us!" She cried but Omi pushed her away.
"Sister, please…I cannot." She looked at Omi confused.
"Wha…?" She said not understanding what was going on. Omi looked down and said.
"You must go, before Chase knows that you have come. His sister sensed your coming, but I was able to confuse them for awhile." Kimiko went up to him and said.
"Why don't you just leave?" Omi looked down.
"I cannot." Chris then came in and said.
"It was that oath, huh?" Omi nodded at her. "What will it take to bring you back?" Omi was silent "Either you tell us something that will help us, or…" She said bringing out her sword. "I'll have to kill you." Everyone was shocked by how aggressive she was being then May stepped in front of her brother.
"You kill my brother, you kill me first!" Dav was in shock.
"May!" Omi just looked down at the ground not saying anything. Kimiko then came up and said.
"Omi, remember that time you said you saw how do get rid of evil for good?" Omi looked at her and said.
"I cannot tell." Everyone was discouraged, and then Chris thought of something.
"Don't tell, write." Omi was confused a second but she was right. He then brought out a piece of what looked like scroll paper and started writing it down. He then said.
"It's going to be in a rhyme so neither you or Chase can understand, but you will eventually get it." He finished writing and Chris read it out loud.
On the other side of the Earth where the pilgrims rested, in the here and now it was sented. The largest city in that nation, you will find many stations. In the vast plains, where there are no trains. You will find a wolf fighting a tiger. One is without the other, but one is the brother. Find the one with the light, the heart will show you the light. Remember this… The light is the only thing that can defeat the darkness.
Chris looked at Omi and Omi bowed and walked back into Chase's layer. Raimundo then asked. "What was that?" Chris then said.
"Our clue."
On the other side of the world a girl was helping her mother take in some of the clothes that were outside. "Thanks hunny." He mother said and the girl smiled.
"Your welcome mom." Her mother then looked around.
"Where is your brother?" The girl looked around and said.
"He's been missing for some time, mother." The girl said. Then all of a sudden another woman came up to them and said.
"Hi Jillian, how are you today? Is your brother here?" The girl named Jillian shook her head 'no' and said.
"He's missing; we have no clue where he is." The woman was quite upset about that, she could have really used his help. He was a big strong boy, and she needed help lifting a very heavy object.
"Well, if you find him Jillian, please tell me." Jillian nodded and went into her house. Her brother has been missing for quite a many days. She had no clue where he went, she missed him terribly. She then sat down at the computer and started looking through the web, checking her e-mail and looking at some stories. She then looked at the door.
"Josh, where are you?"
Smurf-Chan: AWWWW! I'm done with the fourth chapter; I never thought I would be done with it. It was the longest chapter I ever written and I wrote more than I thought. This Chapter is 25 pages. : P the others were only 11 or 12. Heh. Well anyway, I hope it wasn't to… um… dumb. Enjoy it and the next chapter will be. The Finding of the Light.