Sorry y'all. I forced myself to take some time off because for a while I was completely addicted to fanfiction, I had a problem. I admit it. Anyway I'm back with more story-y goodness. PS: I figured, just for laughs, I'd give all the creatures funny accents so I apologize for any difficulty in comprehension that was experienced.
Songs: Barrel of a Gun-Guster and Listen to Your Heart-Roxette or D.H.T., which ever you should choose and Center of Attention also by Guster, if you don't know who Guster is, I highly recommend them.
"He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day."
-Traditional Proverb
"There it is!" Kimiko exclaimed pointing at a low to the ground tree with many boughs. Nestled in the shaded branches was an old leather-bound beat up book about a foot long and three inches thick. Omi hopped off the dragon and grabbed it.
They returned to the Jade Temple and were met by a few blasts of fire from massive red dragons sitting on the temple's wall. Dojo evaded the heat and took for the caves. All five ran inside. Carly sat contently drumming on her thighs and singing while Nisha tried to bandage her scratches. "Four, three, two, one. When at the barrel of a gun, keep my head way down. Stay out, I'll stay in."
Could you stop moving please?" the small Indian girl asked her, "It makes this most challenging."
"Sure thing, dear." She stopped drumming on her legs but continued to belt out her song. "Half dead, half numb, she's enough to make me warm. It's all so safe and sound."
"When I say stop moving, I mean stop the singing!" Nisha roared.
"You could have just asked then." Carly smiled and sat quietly as Nisha finished.
"We have obtained the Shen Gong Wu." Omi declared to the cave's occupants.
"That's great, Omi." Carly said standing, "Rev it up so we can take back the temple." Omi opened the book. It was an illustration of many noble magical beings and creatures.
"Book of Angels!" Omi shouted. There was a gust of wind and a flash of bright light. When the flash dies down they saw before them a host of radiant beings: massive golden griffins, glowing unicorns, handsome men with large white wings who glowed with a heavenly light, hippogryphs, a phoenix, centaurs and rising up in the back was a huge creature much like a hippo called Behemoth, the arch nemesis of the Leviathan.
"Wow," Carly said beholding them. "You must've been in there for-"
"Fifteen hun'urd years, Toots, and lemme tell ya, it wadn't no pahty." A gruff black centaur growled at her. "Bein' wit them fah so long." He jerked his head at the angels who glared back.
"'Cuse me?" one of them said, "Weah unpleasant, guvnah? What 'bout you lot wit your wild parties and target practice?"
"Least we don't drink tea twenty fouah seven." He retorted.
"Vat be vrong vit der tea?" an auburn hippogryph asked, "Du are die abvnoxious ones, mister funny talk."
"Look who iz doing ze, 'ow you say, ha ha talking now." Came an accusation from a large flaming phoenix. An argument quickly ensued, though due to heavy accents, the reason was unknown.
"Pardon me," Carly tried to cut it, "Um, I'm sorry but," They ignored her. "Hey! Shut up!" There was silence. "Thank you. Now, you have been summoned to help us. Look behind you." They all turned to see the evil creatures now resting comfortably content with their victory. "We need your help. We can't handle them by ourselves. What do you say?"
"Vell, I is guessing we could be giving der help." The hippogryph said.
"Oui, we will be, 'ow you say, assistance.
"We'll be glad to 'elp ya, right lads?" One of the angels said there was roaring approval.
"Um, thanks guys. We'll be right behind you. You all go ahead." In a flash of feathers and fire, they were gone to destroy the evil. "That was one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed." Carly said after they were gone before turning toward all the others behind her. "Everybody, um, forget what I said earlier. If you truly wish to fight, you can." She was almost trampled by a stampede. After they were all gone, only Omi, Nisha, Raimundo, Kimiko, Steve, Tori, Scotty, Clay and Carly were left. "I think I'm gonna sit this out." Carly said sliding down the cave wall to the ground.
"Well you shouldn't be alone," Kimiko said, "I'll stay too."
"Okay then." Carly said as she ran a hand through her hair. "Have fun you guys." She said and the others exited the cave.
"Should I 'uve stayed with her?" Clay asked as the all creeped toward the sounds of fighting.
"Naw," Scotty replied climbing over a fallen tree, "A little sep'ration will do ya both sum good." They both then found themselves in the middle of the fight and quickly concentrated on the task at hand.
"What do you think I should do?" Kimiko asked Carly. Carly was now thick into both sides of the tiff. Raimundo only wanted Kimiko and Kimiko seemed to want just about everyone else.
"Well," Carly said leaning back and admiring the many scratches and bruises than covered her hands. "It seems to me," She lightly scratched her neck, "That-" She stopped that sentence. "Do like Raimundo?"
"Well, sure, he's a good frie-."
"Not just as a friend." Carly cut her off.
"Um," Kimiko thought of when Raimundo had gone to the Heylin side not that long ago. "Does hating him count?"
"No, nothing negative."
"Hm, well, I guess when I met him; I kinda had a bit of a crush, but that died when he turned on us. And I haven't thought of him as anything more than a friend since then."
"You're lying." Carly said with a calm look.
"What?"
"It's in your voice. I'm very sensitive to sound and that last part was a bit hesitant, you liar."
"What are you saying?"
"Why have you been following Steve? What's does he have that Rai doesn't have?" Kimiko was silent. Carly waited patiently for an answer like a cat waits for a mouse to come out of its hole in the wall.
"I…I don't know."
"Which question are you answering?"
"The first one."
"Then what does Steve have that Raimundo doesn't?" She asked slowly.
"Camouflage pants and an Australian accent?"
"And is that why you like him so much?"
"Um,"
"Then why don't you tell Rai?"
"Oh, I can't."
"You don't have to tell him today or tomorrow, just tell him whenever you fell is right." Kimiko simply nodded and they were both quiet for all of ten minutes until Carly began to sing, "You've built a love, but that love falls apart. You're little piece of heaven turns to dark. Listen to your heart when he's calling for you. Listen to your heart, there's nothing else you can do. I don't know where you're going and I don't know why, but listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye." Kim sat and listened, taking in Carly's low alto voice and her song. Another minute pasted, "And there are voices that want to be heard. So much to mention, but you can't find the words. The scent of magic, the beauty that's been, when love was wilder than the wind."
"I'm gonna go," Kimiko said standing. A weight of guilty pressed down on her heart from Carly's song and advice.
Once she was gone Carly laughed softly, "Oh Carly, you dog." She resumed singing with a different song, "One of us won't last the night, between you and me it's no surprise. There's two of us, both can't be right. Neither will move 'till it's over. I'm the center of attention and the wall's inside my head and no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight."
Kimiko stood and took in the sight before her. Rocks were flying, obviously from Clay. Flashes on light, Scotty. Waves flowing over creatures pushing them against the wall, Omi's doing. Vines grabbing things and throwing them. Clouds absorbing monsters. Shards of ice cut the air at lightning speed. Caught up in the sight, Kimiko was caught off guard as a huge mountain like troll stomped down beside her. The shockwave from its footfall knocked her to the ground. It loomed over her with a club in its gray fist. Kimiko was paralyzed. Her brain told her muscles to run, attack, do anything! But her body didn't respond. It raised its weapon to crush her. Kim shut her eyes tight and then heard, "Typhoon Boom, Wind!" Her red shirt and blue capris ruffled around her body and a few stray hairs from the bun her hair was in whipped around her face. The wind died down and Kimiko opened her eyes. Raimundo stood over her with his hand offered to help her up. "Are you alright?" He asked but before she could answer him, he said, "Look out!" Raimundo grabbed her by the waist and spun her around to his other side as a streak of lighting jetted past where Kim had been a second before.
"Thanks Raimundo." She said breathlessly.
"No prob," Rai replied smiling. He felt a blush crawl across his face and scratched the back of his neck. "You would've done the same for me, right?"
"Yeah." Kimiko smiled a bit blushing too.
"Well, gotta go, lot's of evil butt to kick." He ran off with out another word.
"Oh, you is making such a cute kleine couple." Kimiko jumped and turned to see a white hippogryph beside her.
"Really?" she asked.
"Oh ya, du bist so sveet together." (AN: I found that if you type two words of real German in a sentence of fake Deutchlish, the language on the Microsoft Word changes.) "You should be watching your back in der fight." He took off to the sky and Kimiko readied herself to battle.
Carly sat calmly resting listening to the faint sounds of the fight. She began to doze off until she heard the sound of a heli-pack and some evil laughing. "This is the perfect place to watch those Xiaolin losers try to beat my army of evil." Carly raised her head and saw the redheaded boy she'd seen earlier. She got up.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" She asked. He jumped three feet in the air and turned around. Clutched to his chest was a leather-bound book with golden writing, though Carly couldn't read it.
"Well," he relaxed a bit and held the book with only one hand, "What are you doing here?" On the word you, he made a great gesture with the hand that held the book and practically threw it at Carly. She picked it up and read the title, 'The Book of Demons' written in gold with a decorative pointed devil tail trailing down off the final s. It took Jack all of fifteen seconds to realize his folly. Carly began to leaf through the pages, they were all blank. But they could be filled with the monsters outside. This was it. This was how they could win. "Hey, gimme that!" He ran down the cave to her. Unfortunately for Jack, Carly had something called 'common sense'. As he got close, she grabbed the front of his black jacket.
"Not on your life." She whispered and shoved him into the black abyss that was the jade mine. "You got Jacked." She laughed and ran from the cave to the fight.
"Carly, what in tarnation are you doin' out here?" She held out the book to him, "How'd you get this?"
"Let's just say that there's a kid with a heli-pack out there who's not that bright."
"My friends, what are you doing standing around when you should be punching backside. No breading!"
"Uh, kicking butt, and loafing?" Carly asked Clay who merely shrugged. "Whatever, Omi, we're not loafing. Look what I found." She handed him the book.
"But this is the bad one, what are we to do with this?"
"We can put them all back. Then none of this will ever have happened except in memories." She ran a hand over the bandages on the side of her face.
"Very well," Omi said. He opened the book to the center, "Book of Demons!" He shouted. There was a wave of overpowering bright light. It dimmed and the pages of the book were filled with the drawings of the creatures that had torn the temple apart only a few hours ago. Everyone began to wander over curious to know why the fight was over.
"Everybody," Carly addressed them, "It's over."
"Really," one of the centaurs pushed over to her, "'cuz, we was just gettin' into it. That's a damn shame."
"Yeah, sorry about that." Carly said. "Omi do have the other book?"
"Yes indeed," He pulled it from his robes.
"Do you want to out them back?"
"It would be most simple. Book of Angels!" There was another flash and when the light died down, the other creatures were gone.
"Charlemagne!" Carly jumped and saw Master Hei-Li and the other temple masters marching toward her. She immediately stepped in front of Omi to hide the books and put on a big fake smile.
"Hello, Master Hei-Li, having a nice conference. Anything wrong?"
"Yes something is wrong, either I am mistaken or there was some sort of huge battle involving magical creatures taking place."
"No, of course not. We didn't do anything."
"Then what are you all doing here?"
"Playing capture the flag." Carly blurted out the first thing that came to her mind.
"Then what were those flashes?"
"That was Scotty, she's our referee. Right Scot?"
"Oh yeah, rousin' fun game." She too smiled.
"So there is no reason for you to be concerned with what we're doing. I have everything under control. Now you go back and have a good remainder of your conference." Master Hei-Li looked at Carly and the other Dragons with a bit of doubt about their story, but she brushed it away and bowed.
"I trust you, Charlemagne. Don't let me down."
"No problem, ma'am." The masters left and Carly sighed heavily, "That was close. Good job everyone. Has anyone seen my violin?"
Oh man. This took me like a week to write. I'm wicked tired. Alright, I'll stop whining. R&R
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