The Time has Come
Smurf-Chan
The Turning of the Fire
"ALETIA!" Chris screamed as she fell to her knees, she put her arms on the ground and started to get angry. "Why?" She said softly to herself, then more loudly. "WHY?" Tearing the grass out of the ground. She grabbed rocks and started throwing it in the direction they left in, but they were already gone. Jillian looked in silence at Chris who was screaming, she really didn't want to be caught up in the mess, so she decided to grab her stuff and leave, but before she got to far someone was standing in her way.
"Now where are you going little lady?" Jillian looked up and saw a pair of blue eyes staring at her. She was in awe at this boy; he pulled up his hat to get a better look at her. "So, you're the light." Then Jillian snapped out of La-La land when he said 'light.'
"Light?" She said not getting it. "What are you talking about?" Clay looked at this girl and said.
"Apparently you're supposed to save us." Jillian's eyes widened then she raised her eyebrow.
"Okay, this is a joke huh?" Jillian said getting back up on her feet. "Why are you here, and what were those things I saw?" Chris then got up from the ground; she was still mad; and looked the girl square in the eye.
"Those were our nightmares." Chris then looked away and said. "You better be worth it." Jillian looked at Chris weirdly.
"Well aren't you the rude one." Clay then put a hand on Jill and said.
"Don't take it personal, she's like that with everyone." Kimiko looked at Chris as Chris mentally beat her self up for letting that idiot take Aletia. Kimiko went up to Chris and said.
"We'll get her back." Chris then glared and said.
"Yea, because I'm going to find her." Chris then turned to Jillian and said. "Well, what's your name?" Jillian was taken by surprise and said.
"Jillian, Jillian Vavra, but you can call me Jill." Chris then walked over to where Dojo was and said.
"I didn't ask your last name or life story." Chris then picked up her katana and put it back in its sheath, then put her hat down over her eyes. "You're coming with us." Jillian then dropped her gear and said.
"What? Where am I going? Is this a kidnapping?" Clay then said more calmly than Chris was doing it.
"No nothing like that. You're going to a temple to be a monk and help save the world." Jillian stared at Clay and said.
"A Monk? Me?" Jillian was happy now. "That's so COOL!" Chris was getting annoyed by the whole thing and was rubbing her head. Rai then went over to Chris and put a hand on her shoulder and said.
"We'll get her back, and I'm going with you." Chris glared but nodded to that agreement.
"Fine." Dav then went up to them and said.
"Me too." He didn't want anything to do with Raimundo, but Aletia was his friend and he was going to save her no matter what, and maybe May would think that he was worth it. Chris then walked away from the boys and said.
"Okay, fine." She then looked at Clay, Kimiko, and May. "You take care of Jillie.."
"JILL! Not Jillie!" Chris glared and said.
"Okay, JILL, take Jill to the temple and tell Master Fung what's going on. You and You are coming with me." She said pointing to the two boys and started to walk past them to an unknown direction. They started to follow and May ran up to them and said.
"Good Luck!" Both Rai and Dav waved and then Dav glared at Raimundo. Chris brought out the Golden Tiger Claw and swiped it. They soon were gone. Jill looked in shock as the three disappeared through what seemed like a portal. Jill looked at the three and said.
"What was that?" Clay then rubbed his head and said.
"Well, that's the power of the shen-gong-wu." Jill looked confused.
"Shen-gong-what?" Clay then went up to her and said.
"It's an ancient artifact with special powers, there are tons of them and they all have unique powers." Jillian was still confused and then looked at Dojo and based on how this whole night went; she wasn't going to get it any time soon.
"Oh, whatever. So, what now?" Clay then said.
"Well, we're going to fly back to the temple and take you to Master Fung." Jillian raised her eyebrow and said.
"Fly?" Clay then grinned, as this wasn't going the way he had planned.
"Yea, on Dojo." Jillian looked at the dragon. She really didn't know what it was.
"You mean the gecko." Dojo then grew in size and said.
"I'm no GECKO!" Jillian's eyes went big and Clay went up to her and said.
"He's a dragon." Jillian eyed Clay and said.
"Dragon?" She then put her hands on her hips and said. "I thought dragons didn't exist." Dojo who was getting angry said.
"Oh they do! You're looking at one." Jillian then gasped.
"Oh NO!" She said nearly scaring the warriors.
"What?" Kimiko asked her and Jill started picking flowers like mad.
"I forgot about mom! She wants me to bring flowers for the dinner table and I completely forgot!" Clay then rubbed his head and said.
"Yea, we might want to tell her about taking you to China." Jillian with a full load of flowers stopped picking and looked at him.
"Yea, she might not be to thrilled."
"WHAT!" said Jillian's mom after she arrived home with the flowers and three visitors and a dragon. "They wanna take you WHERE?" Jillian looked at her feet and said.
"To China.."
"Why?"
"To be a monk."
"It's still no excuse to just pick up and go like that! I lost your brother, I won't lose you." Her mom ran to hug her and to keep her from going. Jill backed up and said.
"Mom, I saw Josh." Jillian's mom teared up and said.
"You did? Where is he?" Jillian looked down and said.
"He tried to hurt me, mom." Jillian's mom gasped.
"Hurt you? How?" Jillian put her hand on her arm and said.
"He actually tried to kill me." Her mom's eyes went wide. "That's why I have to go, to try to get him to come back." Her mother looked at her feet and then walked over to the sink and looked into it. She was silent for a while then turned to her daughter.
"If you think you can do it, go. Bring your brother back." Jillian smiled and hugged her mother. Clay then said.
"Go get your things, we'll go when you are finished." Jillian nodded. May then looked at a daze and then said.
"I hope they get Aletia back… I wonder what's going on? If she's okay?"
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Aletia screamed, but that just made Rose do much, much worse. Aletia was starting to cry. "PLEASE! STTTTOOOPPPP!" Rose then stopped for a second and Aletia said softly. "….please……stop.." Tears rolling down her face. Rose then went into full and Aletia screamed again, Rose laughing at her pain. Chase then came in to see his captive and motioned Rose to stop. She did as she was told and looked up at Chase with happiness. She loved making him happy. He then went up to Aletia, now exhausted and completely weak, and put his hand on her chin to force her to look at him.
"So how does it feel? Does it hurt? Does your past hurt?" She could hardly open her eyes, her head was so full of pain, she couldn't use any of her skills to get out of this mess, even turning to wind was beyond her means. Her hands were tied with rope, very tightly, and so were her feet. She could hardly move, all she could do was look at this mad man. This man that made her very life a living hell. "You know this pain will end, if you turn to my side, you know it's your destiny. Just like Omi knew he would some day as well." Aletia took a little glance at an Omi who was looking at his feet, there was nothing that he could do, but take orders from his new Master. Zalak was standing next to his brother Zen. Zen looked like he was about to be sick, but Zalak was just picking his ear.
"So, are we going to have a chance to hurt her yet?" He then looked at his finger that was in his ear and rubbed the matter on Zen. "Can I kill her?" Zen then felt him rub something on him and looked at his jacket with a face of discuss. Chase looked at Zalak and said.
"You can't hurt her! We do need her." Zalak looked away with a huff and said angrily.
"I wanna kill something!" Chase then went up to him and said.
"You will get your chance, but right now she cannot die." Zalak groaned and said.
"Well, if I don't get any action soon I'm gonna…." He didn't finish his sentence because Chase interrupted and said.
"When the next Wu reveals itself you will be sure to go get it." Zalak grinned and said.
"YES!" He then raised his fist and said. "More pain!" Chase then replied.
"To make sure you do well, Rose will go with you to help in the scaring of these warriors." Chase then looked at his sister and at Josh. "We do have the Amnesia Crouter and The Cure of Osirus. So we can go on with our plan to get rid of the elders at the Temple. That way the warriors won't know what to do and the world will be mine." Wuya then interrupted and said.
"OURS!" Chase then looked at her and said with a laugh.
"Well, you will be a minion of mine, but if that's what you think you need." He then did a hyphen remark and said. "'Ours.'" Wuya glared, as she wasn't getting her way. Josh just bowed and said.
"It will be done." Alliyah smiled and said.
"With pleasure my brother." She then started walking out with Josh and started getting the wu ready for the battle. As everyone started to leave the chamber where Aletia was, Zen looked at the girl who was to weak to do anything. As soon as he knew they were alone he ran up to her and put his hand on her face and said.
"Aletia… Aletia…" She looked up weakly and replied with a 'heh' but close her eyes again. "Aletia, please stay awake." She opened her eyes again and looked at Zen.
"….zen?…." She replied weakly. He smiled and nodded his head trying to get the hair out of her face.
"Yes, it's me. Please don't go to sleep." He then looked around himself and said. "I have to try and get you out of here." He then got up and said. "I'll be right back." Aletia didn't reply but just looked at him, he then got out of the room and looked around. 'I have to find something to get her out of here without people seeing me.' He then heard someone and hid, it was Katnappé walking around the halls looking for something to eat.
"Where is the kitchen? Where is a cat supposed to get her milk!" She complained taking a turn to another hallway. Zen sighed in relieve as he then thought of something.
"Wu.." He then went into Chase's secret vault and looked around to find what he needed. "Shroud of Shadows." He said grabbing it and it instantly made him disappear. "This is perfect. I can get her out of here, without someone seeing me." He then took off the wu and turned around to see to his surprise was Omi. Omi then looked at him then looked outside the vault. Omi then motioned him to go. Zen nodded, even though Omi was on the side of evil, he didn't want his friends to get hurt at all. Zen walked past Omi nodding at him and ran down the hall; he then stopped at the kitchen to find something to give Aletia some strength to go on. He found Katnappé there drinking milk from the carton. She licked her lips as she drank the last of the milk. Zen hid the wu in his pocket and went into the kitchen and instantly started making some kind of soup. Katnappé looked at him weirdly and said.
"Yuck! Soup!" She then stopped and said. "Are you sick or something? Why are you making soup?" He just glared and then replied.
"If you must know, I like soup." He said blushing at that comment. Katnappé growled and said waving her tail.
"You're weird!" He then glared back at her and said.
"Same could be said about you." She smiled.
"Cheap shot! I like you, you're better than that baboon." Zen just nodded and finished his soup and then started to walk off.
"HEY!" Katnappé said getting angry. "Do you always walk away when someone is talking to you?" He just looked back at her and said.
"I just like being alone, thanks." He then with the bowl in hand started walking down the hall carefully hoping that no one returned to finish her off while he was away. He slowly took a look in the room she was being held and saw her eyes were still opened like he asked her to be and seemed to be okay. It seemed like no one tried to lay a hand on her, which was good. He then looked behind him to see if that cat-girl tried to follow him. When she was nowhere in sight he went in and sat down beside her, putting the bowl down and started untying her bonds. As soon as she was untied he held her close and started feeding her the soup. At first she wouldn't eat it, but he said. "This will get back your strength." So she started eating it till it was gone, it was warm and it made her feel better. She was still to weak to move on her own so Zen carried her and used the Shroud of Shadows to avoid being seen. He started walking out of the chamber into the hallways and started walking along the walls to make sure that no one hears or bumps into him and Aletia. Aletia did start to softly moan from the pain she was feeling, Zen just held her closer letting her know that he was here to protect her and to have some comfort. He then made a turn then saw someone in front of him that looked familiar to him. He then took off the Shroud of Shadows and then ran to that person because he knew that that person would be able to get her out of there.
Chris, Raimundo, and Dav just got out of the vortex and into the middle of Chase's layer. Chris looked around seeing if there were any enemies that needed their butt kicked. There was none around. She glared and said to the boys. "Their planning something, either they knew we would come, or the attack already began." Dav and Rai looked at Chris in shock. Raimundo then said.
"I hope the other's are okay." Chris nodded and replied.
"Right now we are on a mission, we have to get Aletia back." The boys nodded and they headed into the hallways. It was like a labyrinth in Chase's layer, Chris looked around confused and then looked at the boys. "We're going to have to split up to find her." Raimundo then said.
"But what if one of us does find her and the others are stuck here looking for her?" Chris then thought of what to do next. Basically it wasn't an easy problem to fix. She then thought of a plan and said.
"Okay, we'll meet back here in twenty minutes and see who has found her. Also to try and get any other important information." Rai and Dav nodded and went down two separate halls and Chris went down one that was the closest to her. She slowly walked down the hall with her hand on her sword just in case she heard something, or someone saw her, or attacked her. She finally came to an opening and when she came out she found Rai already in the same room. "Raimundo?" She said taking her hand off the sword, he turned around and said.
"Did that hall lead you here too?" Chris then looked around and there were ten different halls they could try, plus the two they came out of. Chris nodded and walked to his side looking at the different halls. "Do they all go to one room for a reason?" Chris shrugged and said.
"Maybe they like to have lots of entrances." Rai scratched his head and looked at one of the halls. In that hall he thought he saw something, like feet without a body. He blinked and shook his head and it was gone.
"Did you see that?" Chris looked at him weirdly and said.
"See what?" He put his hand on his head and said.
"I think the darkness is playing tricks on me." He then looked at Chris as she turned her back to him. 'This is the first time I've ever really been alone with her. I wonder what she's thinking?' Chris looked at one of the halls with a jolt. She quickly put her hand on her sword and looked like she was about to strike at any moment. Rai was taken back by her sudden stance but heard fast footsteps coming towards them. He was getting worried, maybe the feet he saw was someone watching them and was about to attack. He gulped, as he got ready for who ever it was to attack them. They could be surrounded for all he knew, he just knew that if that were the case they wouldn't go down without a fight. Then all of a sudden out of the shadows came Zen and in his arms was a semi-unconscious Aletia. Chris lost her stance when she saw Aletia in his arms.
"Aletia…" She said and then growled as Zen came to a stop a couple of feet away from her. "What did you do to her?" Zen glared back and said.
"I have done nothing, for your information I saved her." Chris couldn't believe that, he was evil, helping the bad guys. How could she believe him? He then slowly came over to her and put Aletia in her arms. Chris looked as Aletia softly moaned in her arms.
"Why are you doing this? Why help her?" Zen then turned around and walked towards the hallway he had came from and looked back.
"She saved my life, I'm just returning the favor." Chris then scoffed at him and said.
"Yea right! Tell me the real reason!" Zen then turned fully around and said.
"If you must know, I care for her." Chris' eyes went wide.
"You what?" Zen just didn't reply and walked away he then said before completely disappearing.
"You better leave before they find you." Chris then looked at Aletia; she did looked like she needed medical attention.
"What did they do to you?" She then looked at Raimundo and said. "Come on, we need to find Dav." She then ran into the hallway she had come out of with Raimundo right behind her.
Dav went down the hallway looking around for any signs of Aletia, of course all he saw was darkness and more darkness. It was hard to find anything in this mess of hallways; he then saw a light at the end of a tunnel. He walked towards that light and slowly peaked his head inside to see if anyone was there. He saw no one and decided to go inside and take a look around. He walked into a room that looked like a throne room, at the very end was a huge chair and a door behind it. Dav slowly walked up to the chair and then slowly looked behind it to see the door opened. He then heard something in that room and it seemed to get louder, like it was coming towards the door. Then the door opened. "Oh Sh.." He hid behind the chair, or the front of it not to be seen and tried to seem as tiny as he could. He saw someone with black hair come from behind the door; they seemed to be moving very slowly and then walked out into his chamber. It was Chase Young. Dav was right behind him and was slowly about to move behind the chair when Chase said.
"You don't need to hid yourself. I knew you were there the whole time." Dav stopped from moving to behind the chair and the look on his face looked of horror as he turned to face the back of Chase's head. Chase seemed to be eating an apple, because he had a half-eaten apple in his hand and he turned around to face Dav, but to Dav it felt like an eternity for him to turn around. He was horrified. He heard such horrible things of Chase he didn't know of what to do. He then got out of his shocked face and got up off the chair and then went into a fighting position. If he was to fight, he would fight. Chase smiled as Dav went into fighting position and said. "You don't want to do that." He said eating the rest of the apple and throwing the core away. Dav ignored him and ran at him, kicking and punching. Chase was able to move without being touched by Dav but then Dav punched him hard in the face. Chase was thrown by surprise to the ground from being hit so hard. He wiped his face, which had a little bit of blood coming from his mouth. He smiled which shocked Dav. "Very good." He then got up from the ground. "You would be very useful." Dav got out of his fighting position and looked at Chase with shock.
"What do you mean?" Chase grinned and said.
"I know how you've been feeling left out, how you hurt." Dave just looked down at his feet. "I know that you think that you have friends, but they really don't care about you. Especially the girl you love." Dav closed his eyes and put his hands on his ears.
"No… no.." His eyes were filling with tears as he tried so hard not to hear.
"Your friend Raimundo takes everything you hold dear."
"No…"
"Yes.." Chase's grin got bigger, it would take more for him to change, but it would be very easy. He saw tons of pain from his heart, lots of denial coming from him, but for now he would let him go. "Your friends are waiting for you." He then turned around and walked away. Dav looked around for him but found him nowhere to be seen, he then got up from the ground and started running for the hallway and to the entrance to meet up with his friends. He wiped his face and breathed as he came towards the hallway to see his friends. There was Chris and Raimundo looking frantic for him, and in Chris' arms was an unconscious Aletia. Raimundo was the first to see him and run to him.
"Hey! Where were you? You're late!" He then gulped and looked away from Raimundo to Chris and said.
"Sorry, I…" He then thought of what happened with Chase and decided not to tell. "I lost track of time." Chris then glared.
"We have to go to the temple now." Dav just nodded as they all left through the portal of the Golden Tiger Claws.
Back at the Temple, Dav and the others came through the portal in time to see Clay explain Jillian to Master Fung. Kimiko and May were walking into the temple to prepare. Master Fung greeted his newest student who bowed in respect and looked around the temple, but before she could say anything Chris with Aletia in her arms ran to Master Fung. "Master." She said coming to him. "Aletia is.." Master Fung stopped her from finishing her sentence and said.
"Yes, Clay already explained to me what happened. Come and take her to her room. I will care for her there, but next time…." He said before Chris went any further. "Next time be more careful. Going into an enemy's chamber without any plans was very foolish. Who knows if any of you would have come back? We would have had more people to rescue. Do you understand?" Chris looked at her feet and replied with a 'Yes sir.' She then went to the rooms to put Aletia there for Master Fung to tend to. Master Fung then turned to his other students and said. "It will be more difficult to care for Aletia, we do not have the Cure of Osirus. It could take a while to get her back to perfect health." He then walked to the rooms and found Chris looking at Aletia and then at her feet.
"I didn't do my job." Chris said not looking at her master. "I couldn't save her or protect her. I let my team down." Master Fung then put a hand on her shoulder and said.
"You didn't do anything wrong, it was very brave of you to save her and bring her back without any casualties to your friends. You did everything you could for her, now all you need to do is let her rest." He then looked at Aletia; she didn't seem to have any major gashes or cuts. "All she needs is rest and she will be better. Just go and do some training and next time look before you leap." Chris nodded at her master and left the room for him to attend to Aletia's wounds. She came out to find everyone staring at her, but she just looked down at her feet. Raimundo then went to her side and put a hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?" She nodded and said.
"I'll be okay." Jillian looked at the two weirdly and then looked at Clay. She already knew she liked him, he was cool and strong and wasn't fake like some people. Clay saw her stare at him and blushed and put his hat lower to his eyes. All of a sudden Dojo came out carrying the scroll and started screaming.
"HEY! New WU! Another wu has shown itself." Everyone gathered and looked at the scroll as it animated the new wu. Kimiko blinked and said.
"What is it?" Dojo then gulped and said.
"It's the Devil's Tunic." Everyone was confused and Dojo explained. "It's basically armor to block out good chi, just like Aletia's Angel's Tunic does for evil. It also means we can't touch it." Rai then asked.
"Why?" Dojo then glared at his stupidity and said.
"Because you will get burned. Only people who are of pure evil will be able to touch it." Chris then stood straight and then said.
"I'm going." She then turned to May and Kimiko. "Can I please have my Scroll of the Casca and my Wings of the Phoenix back. I think I'll need them." May nodded and handed it over and so did Kimiko. Rai then looked at her and said.
"I'm going too." May then said.
"Me too." Chris then nodded and said.
"Everyone else will stay here with the Elders and guard them." Everyone nodded but Jillian.
"What's going on?" She asked as Chris and the others were about to leave on Dojo. Clay then replied.
"Well, there might be a battle here." And he explained about the wu's and what would happen if the elders lost their memories. She nodded and looked as the others left on Dojo.
"Why do they need that wu?"
"Better for us to have it then our enemies." Dav just glared as May went with Chris and Raimundo. Chase was right; they really didn't care for him at all. Kimiko then said.
"Let us get ready." Everyone nodded and they went to prepared.
As Dojo was flying around looking for that wu Chris then said getting close to his ear. "Do you know where it is?" Dojo then looked at her and said.
"It's somewhere down there." He said looking down to see many tiny islands. He came to a stop on one of the islands and slowly shrunk down to his little size. He then slowly slithered a little bit and did a tremble. "Oh it's close." Chris looked around the island not really seeing this wu.
"How are we going to find it? I don't see it." Rai then said crossing his arms.
"Better question, how are we to touch it? No good guys can touch it without getting burned." Chris then said.
"I'll touch it, pain means nothing to me." Rai then said a bit worried.
"Are you sure? Won't you get hurt?" Chris then said.
"If you let it bother you, then you will feel it." Dojo then slithered over to what seemed like a cave.
"It's in here." He said pointing, then looked down at the cave. "Oh, it's dark. One of you wanna go first?" Chris and the others glared.
"Dojo!" They glared at him; he then slithered in as the others followed. May looked around at the complete darkness.
"Wow, it's dark." Chris was walking ahead of her and said.
"Yea it sure is." She then grabbed Dojo to make sure that they were following him without getting to lost. Dojo jolted in her hand, as they kept getting closer to the wu.
"That way!" He said as they came to an opening with light coming from it. There they found the wu that was on a very high pillar with a beam of light hitting it from a little hole at the top of the cave. Chris then handed over Dojo to May to hold and started up to the pillar and started climbing for it. As soon as she got to the top she reached out for it and it did start to burn her but on the other side of the wu was another hand.
"Hey! Miss me?" said Zalak as he was reaching for the wu as well. Chris glared at him as he grinned. "I guess we have a showdown." Chris then grabbed the wu and said.
"Fine! I decide the showdown!" He just smiled and let her continue. "Race towards the pillar and fight till one of us gets knock off the edge." He just nodded, but Chris continued. "I also want to do a Shen Yi Bu Dare, my Wings of the Phoenix, and Gauntlets of Tebigong." He then said.
"Okay fine. My Ring of Ganno, and the Ring of the Nine Dragons." Chris just glared at him and replied.
"Fine!" Then they both yelled.
"Xiaolin Showdown!" As they were wagering their wu Rose came up behind Raimundo and May. She glared at them as she watched Zalak make his wager. She then replied.
"He best not lose." Rai and May turned around to see her there then the scenery changed. All of a sudden the solid ground tore up and Zalak and Chris were on very high pillars with lava at the very bottom. They saw other pillars that lead to a larger pillar, which was their fighting ground. Chris was in her stealth outfit with the Wings of the Phoenix around her neck and the gauntlets on her arms. She then turned to Zalak and they both yelled.
"Gong Yi Tan Pai!" Zalak was the first to go out and start to jump the pillars, Chris looked out at the pillars and then she went to the edge of the pillar she was on and jumped off. Rai and May watched in horror as she looked like she was about to end the showdown without trying, but before she hit the ground she yelled.
"Wings of the PHOENIX!" She yelled and wings of flame came out and she was able to fly to the fighting pillar and land when Zalak just got off the last pillar, he grinned as she landed and they both got into fighting positions. Her wings dissipated as she got into ready position. She was able to use the wings but nothing more, it was more for the fire and wind element.
"Nice display, now let me kick your butt and call it a day." Chris glared and replied.
"Sorry, I'm kicking the butt." Chris said and ran towards Zalak and gave a kick, he was able to dodge and then go down and kick at her feet to knock her down. She fell and instantly got back up before he punched her, which he hit the ground and made a huge hole. She then ran back at him and tried to punch him, but he was able to grab her arm and swing her around and send her flying, but before she went onto the end she shouted. "Gauntlets of Tebigong!" She was able to hold her position before going over the edge. He then grinned as he used his wu.
"Ring of Ganno!" Then he had two extra arms. "Oh, I'm going to win." He said with glee, but Chris got back up and ran at him but when he thought he was going to get her she slid and went under his legs to behind him and was able to kick him to fall forward. He stumbled and looked behind him as another kick came flying his way. He grabbed her leg and the same thing seemed to be happening again. He smiled as he saw this girl squirming around trying to get free. "It seems that the same thing is happening again." He then went over to the edge was looked like he was about to drop her when Chris glared and said.
"Oh, no not again!" She then yelled. "Wings of the Phoenix!" Then she got wings of fire which burned him and she was able to get back on the fighting ground, her wings disappeared and she got back into fighting position as Zalak blew at his hands from the flames. He then stopped and got back into fighting position.
"Fine, you wanna play! We'll PLAY!" He yelled getting very tired of her already. "Ring of the Nine DRAGONS!" He then turned into nine separate guys all looking differently and all in fighting position. Chris gulped as now she had many people to fight; she didn't know how the out come would be. They all raced towards her and she got into ready, one threw a punch and she was able to dodge it and two others tried to kick her, she dodged one but the other made contact which sent her flying almost to the edge. She quickly got up as they all came for the attack, she kicked and hit one of them, but two were able to grab at her and hold her while one punched her repeatedly in the gut.
"CHRIS! You can DO IT!" Rai screamed and May jumping up and down screaming for her to fight and get up. Chris was getting pummeled in the gut until she kicked the guy that was punching her in the face then punched the one on her left and the other on her right to let her go. She back flipped and landed as Zalak went back to one, since it wasn't working to out number her.
"Fine we'll make this fair, no wu from here on." Chris nodded in agreement as it was coming close to who was going to win. Zalak then ran at her and punched Chris in the face as hard as he could, but she was able to stand her ground, her hair in her face and her face facing the way he had punched her.
"You know…. I am earth." She then looked at him with the most evil glares and then made a fist. Her eyes then started to glow as her anger was over powering her, she then said. "How's this for PAIN!" She said then yelled. "SIESMIC PUNCH!" Her fist glowing as she punched him in the face and sent him flying and was able to knock him off the cliff making Chris the winner of the showdown. She then stood on the solid ground with all the new wu in her hands and Raimundo and May came to congratulate her for her first showdown win. May hugged her, which made her blush, and Rai wanted to hug her too, but he was afraid she would kick him or something. He was kinda nervous about her being able to use her skill elsewhere and not on the ground. She was kinda surprised she won and looked at the two rings she won and the Devil's Tunic, but Zalak wasn't going to take his lose lying down.
"I can't believe I lost!" He screamed as Rose put a hand on his shoulder.
"Master wont be pleased." She said not really saying anything to him, but mostly to herself. She then started to walk to the door. "Come Master wants us." Zalak then glared at her and then ran for Chris and knocked her down. Scattering all the wu that she had won and he started to impound her with his fist, finally after getting out his aggravation he ran and grabbed his two rings and ran off. Rose just looked back in shock at to what he had just did and said. "What about the Tunic?" He then ran out the cave yelling back.
"FORGET IT!" Rose then followed him out the cave as Rai went after them.
"HEY! That's CHEATING!" Chris then got up from her pummeling and rubbed her head, she then dusted herself off and picked up her hat and placed it back on her head. Rai then came to her and asked. "Are you okay?" Chris just bent down and grabbed the Devil's Tunic and said.
"I've been hurt worse, that was nothing." After awhile they could hear a sizzling sound from the tunic Chris carried. She looked down at it and said. "Let's get back to the temple." They all followed Chris out the cave and got on Dojo and left that scene to get to the temple.
Back at Chase's layer Zen was walking along the halls wondering how Aletia was doing. 'I do hope that she's okay.' He thought worried about her and thinking so hard that he accidentally bumped into someone. When he looked up it was Chase, looking down at him with Omi by his side.
"What's going on Zen? Are you alright?" Zen gulped and said.
"Everything's fine my master." For some reason Chase didn't believe him and said.
"You know that someone came in and took our prisoner, do you know who?" Zen looked down and replied.
"Sorry my mater, I do not." Chase then glared at him and said.
"We are going to the Temple to meet up with Alliyah and Josh, there I want you to find our prisoner and kill her." Zen's face froze when his master said for him to kill Aletia. "It doesn't appear that she will come to our side willingly. It's to bad too, I see great potential for her." Zen bowed at his master and Chase put a hand on his head and said. "If you ever betray me, you will be killed." Zen looked at his master with confused eyes.
"What are you talking about my master, I only listen to you." Chase then said.
"You know what I mean.." He then started walking over to the vault and went inside and grabbed the Lunar Locket. "Come Omi, Zen. We are going to the temple."
Back at the temple, Jillian was sitting at the table eating lunch, which she completely forgot about. She was so hungry she didn't know what to do with herself so she went into the kitchen and made herself a sandwich. Dav was sitting on one of the steps thinking to himself while Kimiko and Clay were trying to move wu and help barricade the elders from any attack. He kept thinking of what he was going to do and thinking of what Chase had told him.
/Flashback/
"I know how you've been feeling left out, how you hurt." Dave just looked down at his feet. "I know that you think that you have friends, but they really don't care about you. Especially the girl you love." Dav closed his eyes and put his hands on his ears.
"No… no.." His eyes were filling with tears as he tried so hard not to hear.
"Your friend Raimundo takes everything you hold dear."
"No…"
"Yes.." Chase's grin got bigger
/End Flashback/
He then held his head and said to himself. 'What am I going to do?' Kimiko then came from up behind him and put her hand on his shoulder which scared him and made him turn around fast. He looked into the blue eyes of Kimiko and said. "Kimiko, you scared me." Kimiko giggled at him and said.
"Big, bad Dav. I didn't think you could be scared of anyone." She then looked concerned as he wasn't kidding. "You okay?" He then looked at his feet and said.
"Yea, I'm fine." He then turned and said. "I just… need to be alone." Kimiko then just watched him leave, as Clay came by and see Kimiko watch him leave.
"Everything okay?" Clay said seeing her worried face. Kimiko frowned and said.
"I think something is wrong with Dav." Clay then lifted up his hat and said.
"I wouldn't worry none about it, some people like to be alone." Kimiko looked at the ground and nodded.
"Yea, I know you're right." She said and then walked over to their rooms. "I'm going to see how Aletia is doing." Kimiko then walked past the kitchen as Jillian had just left it, in her new robes and just enjoying the moment to being a monk. She went down onto the training field and started to do some yoga to unwind. It would help her in battle and it would also make things easier to handle, and to keep her calm. Clay then went up to her and said.
"So, how life of a monk treating you?" Jill smiled at him and said.
"I'm enjoying it very much, I just hope that your expectation of me hasn't faultered." Clay sat down beside her and said.
"Naw, don't think that the whole world is riding on your shoulder, that would put the weight of the world on your shoulders. I like to think you would make it easier for us to defeat Chase Young and get Omi back." Jillian nodded and said.
"What exactly am I suppose to do to get rid of Chase?" Clay's face then went blank and he said.
"Actually I don't know, I never really thought about it." Jillian then laid back and looked at the sky.
"I can't help but wonder what I'm suppose to do." Clay then said.
"Don't worry none about it, I'm sure we will find out what to do when the time is right." Jillian smiled and nodded and then said.
"What kind of martial technique do you use?" Clay then got up and said.
"I do a bit of Ty-chi, but Rai calls it 'Old man Kung-fu.'" Jillian frowned and said.
"Well, that's not very nice." Clay just laughed and said.
"That was when we first met, he doesn't think that unless he kids, Rai is a kidder, but so is Master Fung at time." Jillian then got up and said.
"I wanna learn this Ty-Chi!" Clay then got up and said.
"Alright, but you have to do everything I say." Jillian nodded and Clay started his teaching of the 'Old man Kung-fu.'
Kimiko then walked into the room where Aletia was and found that she was trying to get up. "Aletia!" Kimiko said grabbing her before she fell. "You okay?" Aletia looked up and said.
"Where's Zen?" Kimiko blinked and said.
"What? Don't you mean Chris? I mean she did rescue you." Aletia shook her head and said.
"Um.. yea, Chris." She said looking down at her feet. She couldn't possibly tell Kimiko about Zen and how they use to know each other, and also how he saved her life. He saved her life, even though she couldn't remember most of what happened. All that time was mostly a blank; all she remembered was seeing scenes of Zen's face and feeling his warmth. She blushed thinking about it and shook her head to get out of la-la land. Kimiko put her back on her bed and noticed that her face was red.
"Do you have a fever? You're red." Aletia then blinked and turned redder.
"What? Me… no.." She said looking away; she didn't know what to think anymore. Kimiko then sat down beside her bed and said.
"So, are you feeling better? We could use you for the upcoming battle." Aletia looked at her and stood up. She did feel a bit dizzy and she felt horribly tired. She held her head as it started to ache.
"My head still hurts." Kimiko nodded and said.
"I'll go get you some ice, okay?" Aletia nodded as Kimiko left to get some ice for her head. She then laid down and turned to face the wall then thought to herself.
'Zen? Are you okay? Where are you?'
Outside the Temple waited Alliyah and Josh to get the ready from Chase; he wasn't too pacific on what to do. The only thing that he told them was to be ready, but for what they didn't know. It was just Josh and Alliyah at that moment, Chase never said anything about coming or who was going to be in this army. They couldn't fight all the warriors by themselves. "What are we going to do now? Stupid brother!" Alliyah said pacing back and forth, as Josh watched her. He was still angry about the whole thing with Zalak taking away his opportunity to kill his stupid sister. He would never really get another chance to see his sister in New York and have another chance to rid her from this world.
"Stupid Zalak." He said under his breath and Alliyah turned around and glared at him.
"Did you say something to me?" Josh just scoffed at her and said.
"What makes you think I was talking to you?" Alliyah was getting even more angry.
"You said something about 'Stupid.' Are you talking about me?" Josh then walked past her and said.
"None of your business who I call stupid!" Alliyah was about ready to kick him in the face when Chase came up to them with Omi, Zen, and Jack at his side. He did bring Jack because Jack begged and drove him nuts till he agreed.
"Now, now." He said going over to his surprised sister. "No need to be slashing our own throats. We're in this together." He placed a hand on her shoulder. "I came because I thought you would need back up, and also.." He said placing his hand opened in front of his sister who handed him the Amnesia Crouter and the attached Cure of Osirus to him. "I want to be the first to fire at the elders. Especially Fung." He said with the most evil of laughter. Jack looked at his with teary eyes.
"Now that's an evil laugh!" He said with pride and joined in. Zen just looked weirdly at Jack laughing, it was kinda disturbing how this Jack was such a fan boy of someone that despised him so. Chase then turned around and glared at Jack.
"SHUT IT! Do you want them to hear us?" Jack went quickly to being silent.
"Sorry.." He said in a soft voice. Chase looked at the wall, the last time they were here they had just gotten the Amnesia Crouter and missed his target ruining the whole reason why they came. Now was the time to do what they came here to do. Chase looked behind him at his collective army with Alliyah and her Zodiac animal charm, Josh, Omi, Zen, and Jack and his many Jack-bots. They seemed ready, so Chase looked onward towards the temple and he ordered them to move out.
Kimiko was just getting out of the kitchen with the ice in hand when she saw something entering the temple. She dropped the ice and screamed to Clay and Jillian who were still in the training ground doing some Ty-Chi.
"CLAY!" Clay looked up to see Kimiko running towards them breathing hard. "Something is attacking us!" Clay looked up to see several Jack-Bots coming over the wall and coming through the temple doors was Chase and his entourage. Omi was one of them at his side; Jack was flying in the air with his Jack-bots and screamed.
"GET THEM!" He said pointing to the group. Jillian got up and went closer to Clay and Kimiko not really knowing what to do.
"What do we do?" Clay looked around and said.
"We fight! But…" He stopped and looked around again. "Where is Dav?" Kimiko's eyes got big, that was right, he disappeared a while ago, but she had no idea where he went to. She did notice that he wasn't in the greatest of moods, but he wouldn't talk to her. She looked around and said.
"I dunno, He just disappeared." Clay then looked at Jillian and said.
"Could you find Dav for us?" Jillian nodded and ran out to find him while Clay and Kimiko stood to fight there ground.
"You know we can't do this, just the two of us!" Kimiko said with a quiver in her voice. "There's way to many!" Clay then put his back on her back as they were getting surrounded.
"We'll have to do the best we can." He said getting into fighting position. Kimiko did the same as Chase stopped his group.
"You know you could just give up." Chase said smiling. "We won't mind." Kimiko then looked at him and said.
"Never!" Chase then glared.
"Fine." He said and snapped his fingers and his entourage started to attack.
"Dav!" Jillian said searching the temple, running in and out of buildings. She then ran into Maser Fung. "Master! They're attacking the temple and I can't find Dav!" She said trying her best to stay calm. "What do I do? Clay and Kimiko are all by themselves." Master Fung then nodded and said.
"We'll secure the temple and try to keep them from getting to the elders, you find Dav and as soon as you do, help Clay and Kimiko." Jillian nodded and ran out to the courtyard to find Dav. Master Fung went into the meditation chambers and told the emergency of what was happening and that they needed to secure the temple. The elders nodded as they got up from their meditation and started to get into ready if Chase did do anything. Jillian ran till she came to a Koi pond and found Dav sitting on the edge and picking off the grass around the pond. He was in deep thought when Jillian went in front of him and said.
"We're under attack!" Dav looked up in shock and then got up and looked with panic on his face.
"What! When?" Jillian then said.
"Just a second ago! Come on we need you!" Dav just nodded as he followed Jillian back to the temple and found Clay and Kimiko doing their best to fight off this evil that has entered their domain. Jillian soon got into action and kicked a couple of Jack-Bots and was able to destroy them. Dav brought out his Sabre C24's and started shooting at the Jack-Bots and destroyed some of them, but all the help from them wasn't enough. They were still out numbered badly. Jack was squealing with delight because they were winning. Chase just watched as more and more of his minions fought them and they were losing their strength. Kimiko just got finished with getting rid of a Jack-Bot when from behind her Alliyah came and tackled her to the ground and start throwing punches. Kimiko was able to throw her off and then do her attack.
"Judallet Flip! FIRE!" She yelled and did a jump with her inflamed she kicked Alliyah in the face and sent her flying. Alliyah bumped into her brother who was watching the whole thing, Zen and Omi were on ether side of him just standing there with no hope in their face. Chase glared at his little sister and she just glared back as she got up and rejoined the fight. Chase then turned to Zen and said.
"You will fight and find Aletia." Zen looked down and said.
"Yes, my master." He then stepped forward but before he could do anything else, he heard a noise and looked up. It was the giant green dragon Dojo with the rest of the Xiaolin Warriors. As Dojo was flying over the temple Chris and the others looked down at the fighting.
"Darn!" Chris said looking down at the fighting. "We came to late!" Rai then said.
"We're here to help at least." Rai said then looked at Dojo. "Dojo land! We have to help them!" Chris then shook her head and said.
"No, there's no time." She said and got up and handed the Devil's Tunic to Raimundo who was juggling it in his hands because it was burning him. She then looked down at the ground and Raimundo was getting worried.
"Hey! What are you…" But before he could ask his question Chris jumped off of Dojo falling fast towards the ground. "..doing?" He finished watching her fall. "CHRIS!" He then turned to May and said. "Why does she DO THAT?" May shrugged and looked at Chris kept falling, Chris then brought out her katana and took it out of it's sheath and then landed on a Jack-Bot striking the Jack-Bot with her sword through it's head. There the Jack-Bot sizzled and blew up. Chris then jumped to another Jack-Bot and slashed at it making it explode. Kimiko looked up from her fighting to see Chris get rid some of the Bots and screamed.
"CHRIS! GUYS!" Chris smiled a little and nodded at her as she went on the attack. Rai and May then came down with Dojo and when they landed Rai went into the vault and put the Devil's tunic away and went right into kicking some butt. Rai destroying some of the Bots as May helped Kimiko fight Alliyah. Jillian went over to Clay to help him fight Josh. Josh saw his sister and smiled an evil grin. Now he had the chance again to try and kill his sister. He then used his Lacrosse stick to strike at her but she was able to dodge, but she tripped and looked up at Josh was about to impound her head with his stick, but Clay was able to intervene and then punched Josh in the face knocking him down to the ground. Rai, Chris, and Dav were fighting some of the Jack-Bots together Chris using her sword, Dav using his Sabre C24's, and Raimundo using old fashion Kung Fu. Soon Chase was getting impatient with Zen because he didn't go into the fight as he had asked.
"Zen! You are to be fighting at this moment, but you have not. Why is that Zen?" Zen looked at his master and then looked at the group fighting. He didn't know what to do; he really didn't want to fight them. He kept thinking on how they were friends with Aletia, and how Aletia would be mad at him for trying to hurt her friends, but it was an order that Zen could not ignore. Chase then gritted his teeth and held up the Lunar Locket. "Do you want me to use this to make you fight, ZEN?" Zen looked back in horror, he didn't want to be used like that. He felt powerless. He then turned to the battlefield and pulled out his katana. Chris had just got done slashing the head off a Jack-Bot when she saw Zen. She glared at him.
/Flashback/
"Aletia…" She said and then growled as Zen came to a stop a couple of feet away from her. "What did you do to her?" Zen glared back and said.
"I have done nothing, for your information I saved her." Chris couldn't believe that, he was evil, helping the bad guys. How could she believe him? He then slowly came over to her and put Aletia in her arms. Chris looked as Aletia softly moaned in her arms.
"Why are you doing this? Why help her?" Zen then turned around and walked towards the hallway he had came from and looked back.
"She saved my life, I'm just returning the favor." Chris then scoffed at him and said.
"Yea right! Tell me the real reason!" Zen then turned fully around and said.
"If you must know, I care for her." Chris' eyes went wide.
"You what?"
/End Flashback/
Chris then went down to where he was and put her katana in front of herself and glared at him. "Fight me!" She said as Zen just glared back at her. He then nodded and ran at her, but before he could take a swing at her Aletia was stumbling out of her room after hearing all the commotion and was holding onto a railing and looked out on the battlefield to see Zen about ready to take a swing at Chris.
"ZEN!" She yelled and he stopped and looked at her, Chris was shocked at how he had stopped and looked at Aletia. He really did care. Chase glared as Zen stopped; he really did start to disobey. He growled as he brought out the Lunar Locket.
"You are like a child, Zen! You never listen to your betters! LUNAR LOCKET!" Zen looked at him with fear as he used the lunar locket and made the moon come out. Then his horror started. He then started to change into a wolf like creature, almost like a were wolf, his teeth growing sharp and his eyes turning blood red. Aletia gasped as Zen turned into a devilish creature. Chris' eyes got big, she never in her wildest dreams ever thought she would fight a creature of this caliber. Zen in his devilish form came towards Chris and was about to hit her with his over powering claws when Aletia came out and stood in front of Chris.
"Don't ZEN!" The creature growled and swiped his claws anyway and hit Aletia and threw her to the ground.
"Aletia!" Chris said holding her up. " You okay?" Aletia looked at Chris and said.
"I guess I'm still to weak to do anything.." She giggled a little but coughed and said. "Don't hurt Zen." Chris just looked at the evil creature Zen and then brought out her Scroll of the Casca.
"Scroll of the CASCA!" She yelled and put it in her mouth and bit it. Soon she turned into a cat beast, with cat ears, a tail, and super sharp claws. Jillian and the others looked at the scene with Zen and Jillian saw the cat beast and said.
"Yuck a cat! I hate cats." Rai and Dav finished off the Bots and looked at the fighting with Zen and Chris.
"Go Chris!" Rai said as he cheered her on, but Dav remained silent as she went onto the attack. She swung her claws at him, but he dodged and kicked her but she was able to move fast and do several back flips and then went forward and kicked him in the head. He fell to the ground but was able to get back up, and go towards Chris with his claws and scratch her. While they were fighting Chase smiled at Zen for he never realized what a great fighter he was in his beast form.
"Yes, he will do just fine." He then saw Dav over by himself and walked over to him while everyone else was battling, Kimiko and May were fighting Alliyah, and Clay and Jillian were trying to get Josh to back up, Raimundo was trying to help Aletia get out of there before she got hurt again. "Are you sure you don't wanna join me? You will have everything you will ever want. Plus respect." Dav looked at Chase, as Chase was getting ready to go on the attack at the elders. Dav glared at him and then glared at Raimundo. He thought of everything Raimundo had put him through, how he took May; how he thought he was better than him, and how he thought he was so special. He then looked at Chase and nodded.
"Fine." He then looked over at Raimundo helping Aletia and walked over to him. Rai smiled as Dav came and said.
"Great! You can help me." He then tried to help Aletia stand up but Dav punched him in the face instead knocking over Rai and Aletia. "Why did you do that for?" He asked holding his now hurt jaw. Dav just glared at him.
"Because I'm not on your side anymore, I'm with Chase." Raimundo's eyes got bit.
"You what? Why?" Aletia looked in fear as Dav grabbed Raimundo's shirt and held him up in the air.
"It's because of you. Raimundo."
Smurf-Chan: Oh, another Chapter done. I can't believe my story has gotten so popular. Never thought that would happen. Well, anyway I hope this chapter was everything you hoped for and the next chapter is: The Kiss between Fire and Earth.