Me: My sister still bothering me 'cuz she wants to know that everybody likes her special recipe. (sigh)
Lobo: (shake head) she won't give up...like you, Lady Lizgon.
Me: (smile) Yeah.. It is kind scary that my little sister grew up imitating me. Everyone in my hometown told me that we are look alike. Scary, huh?
Lobo: (nod) True.
Me: (turn to Lobo) Your turn to do disclaimer, you know.
Lobo: (grin) Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown, Sheng-Gong-Wu, and any characters in it. Only she owns us and our sheng-gong-wu, a brown cat named Rai, and a ton of artworks of Xiaolin Showdown.
Me: Please enjoy! (waves) And if you don't read Hybrid Child, please read it first so you will not be confused with this second story. (waves)
Chapter Five - The Lost Temple
On the beach and the sky become darkness, the Xiaolin Dragons and the Heylin Tigers gathered together in the small circle where the fire pit in the center of the circle. Khu wrote on the sand with his wood stick, telling his companies about his plans.
"We need to divided our groups into four groups. Rai will be team with me, Yamato will be team with cowboy, Ciara will be team with a Japanese chick..." Khu replied ignoring the angry protesting voices of the female warriors. "And Lobo will be team with his brother and cur-ball monk."
"I, Omi, am not cur-ball monk! I am most powerful warrior of the Xiaolin Dragons!" Omi cried out, glaring at Khu for insulted his titles.
Yamato rolled his dark red eyes and snorted. Indeed, if I'm not wrong that monk had biggest ego rather than his head. One day his biggest ego will get himself in deep trouble, just like he did with Master Young. He thought frowning and watching them chattering each other without having a trouble upon them.
Yamato had waited for everyone to go sleeping on the clearing ground without ground, of course thank to Ciara's power to making a nice plant-type mat for them. His dark red eyes narrowed at the Khu sat on the branch of a old oak tree and he felt a stirring with a jealous tugs heavy in his heart.
The Heylin Tiger of Metal shook head, cleaning his mind off something he didn't want to go there. He frowned he had been jealous of them... Lobo had a young brother Kobo and Khu had a cousin and older brother.
He scowled at his thought and sneered at them silently like a cat. Then he closed his eyes tiredly and unconsciously his head went back onto the plant-type mat, sleeping soundly.
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In the dark swamp
The Heylin mermaid narrowed her light blue eyes, watching them and scowling at the sleeping little monk. How much she had despised that little boy who had beaten her in the showdown and kissed her like that.
"Lady Dyriis."
She turned her head toward the voice behind her and saw the familiar sea demon. She smiled at him. "Lord Susku." She said acknowledged him.
Lord Susku stood floating in the air, above the swamp in front of the dark mermaid and held his sacred ocean's staff in his right claws while he was crossed his arms against his blue chest.
"Is everything plans goes well I assumed?" He asked coldly, narrowed his red ruby eyes at Dyriis.
Dyriis smiled cruelly, nodded at him. "Yes. You know I do very well."
"Good."
"Lord Susku?"
The sea demon turned his head toward the mermaid and acknowledged her. "Yes Lady Dyriis?"
"The man had been hunting me all my life was already slain, Lord Susku?" Dyriis asked, a malice in her innocent yet cruel light blue eyes and smiled softly at the sea demon.
Lord Susku sneered at the dark mermaid. "The blood of the Dragons and Tigers had been tainted on my hands so I do not need his blood added to mine. That man, you called it Klofange, had been already devoured by my brothers of my tribes."
He turned around and disappeared into the dark water leaving the Heylin Mermaid alone in the swamp.
Dyriis scowled at the spot where Lord Susku had left. Fool, he refused let his past go of his clutches... his heart had been heavily tainted with the blood of the humans. She thought disgusting to herself.
He was fallen in love with the human without possessing a sacred power. He slain her without shed a tear of sorrow. He could not betrayed his master and his own kind.
The dark mermaid turned and swam deeper into the darkness of the black swamp.
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The small boy played his video game, quirked one of his eyebrows up while he was sticking his tongue out of his mouth when he was so concentrated on his favorite game. He was siting back on the backseat of the car.
"Matt?"
He scowled at the childish nickname that his dad give it to him and looked up at him, glaring at the mirror that his dad was looking at.
"What?" He replied annoyingly, while he was being distracted from his concentration with his video game and quickly glanced down but only he saw the message flashed across the screen told him that game is over.
"AW! MAN!" He whined angrily, chucked it across the seat from him and crossed his arms with a loud huff.
"Honey..."
He looked up at his mother looked back from the front seat next to his dad was behind the wheel, looking forward the road in front of him.
"Yea?" He said still angrily with his dad for distracting him from his video game that he was so closer to winning.
"Are you excitedly to see your new house and probably your new school?" His mom asked, smiling gently at his son.
His dark red eyes softened at his mom's smile he always loved it and can't stay to mad at them any longer. He sighed, shaking his head at his mom.
"No, mom. Not really." He replied, smiling at his mother and picked up his video game, starting it over again.
His mom smiled, turning her head back to her attention on the road again. Then suddenly, in the background there had been dark clouds in the sky and thundered loudly startling him.
He looked up from his video game and peered at the window, only to see the raining heavily against his window and realizing that was too dark to see anything let alone to see himself in the window.
"Uhh... Mom?" He asked squirming into his seat and looked worriedly at his mom.
"Yes?" His mom answered looked back smiling at him, calming him down and his fear was already lifted.
"I have a bad feeling about this. The weather didn't look too good, Mom." He said, looking upward his window and frowning at the darkness in front of him.
"Hah! Matt, my boy. Don't worry about it." His dad laughed, grinning at the mirror and controlled his wheel he was driving very carefully on the road.
He avoided his eyes connected with his dad, being shamed that he had been worried for nothing at all. He prayed hoping it wouldn't happened to them and arrived safely to their new house.
Only he didn't know how wrong he was. Then next thing he saw was the white light flashed at him and his family before he feels suddenly being thrown around in his seat belt like a lifeless toy.
He shut his eyes tightly, clutching his seat in fear and feel the cold and wet harshly hit him. Took him a minutes to realized he was in the freezing water and opened his eyes to see his parents in front of him.
Hanging there lifeless and limping like a lifeless chinese doll in the ocean. A cold reality hit him like a pound of brick, he was in the ocean and he can't swim very well.
And running out of his air too!
He choked widened his fearful red eyes, clawing helplessly at his seat belt. And next thing he noticed in front of him and it was red ink floating from his parents. He realized it was not a red ink, it was a real blood.
He cried out in horror, not caring that he was losing his precious air and gripped his mom's hand. To his surprise, his mom's hand wasn't warm and gently... it was only deadly cold and icily...
Like a dead bodies.
He may be a young kid but he wasn't stupid enough to realizes that his dad and mom are dead. His visions suddenly started to blurred and he was slowly losing his air, luring himself into the state of sleep.
He feel so cold...feel so dead...His heart slowly beating quietly and his eyes closed gently. At least he knows he will joined with his mom and dad forever.
But he did not know that his life had been spared.
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The Heylin Tiger of Metal was sleeping peacefully on the plant-like mat until he was shaking so hard by the huge hands on his shoulders.
"Wake up, partner! It's already dawn of seven o'clock now." The familiar voice of the cowboy said shaking Yamato's shoulders. (A/N: T-T I finally found a Texas Slang website, I wasn't sure if I did the right thing for Clay's accent)
Yamato snaps his dark red eyes opened and jolted up into his sit position. "Where's everybody, cowboy?" He barked harshly at the Dragon of Earth, looking around their empty camp.
"Eh. They already left." Clay replied, looking up at the weather. "It's been hotter'n a goat's butt in a pepper patch."
Yamato rise his eyebrow in questioning at the cowboy and shook his head. "I don't want to know what the heck are you talking about." He muttered darkly, managed to get up and wiping the sand off his clothes.
The Heylin Tiger of Metal and the Xiaolin Dragon of Earth walked into the dark forest, avoiding the swamp until they came in the view of the lone well in middle of the opening field.
Yamato frowned at the lone well, approaching to it and being followed by the cowboy behind him. They had only noticed the familiar symbol on the stone wall of the ancient well and looked at each other.
"I reckon we should go in there, just checking what was it in there." Clay replied, tugging the strong rope and looked down the darkness void of the ancient well.
Yamato nodded in agreeing with him, lifting his legs over the well. "Let's go, buddy."
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In the dark damp forest
Khu and Raimundo walked quietly into the cold and dripping forest, looking around. A something caught his dark forest green eyes and glanced at it.
"Uh. Aseso.."
Khu winced at his real name and glanced back to his cousin. "What Rai?" He said, frowning confused at the Dragon of Wind.
"Is that... the lost temple you talk about, right?" Rai asked, pointing at the ancient blue temple in middle of the lake but only being in flood.
Khu groaned at the sight of the underwater temple. "Yea, it is. But one problem... What do we do now?" He glanced back to Rai.
Rai grinned, pulled the familiar item out of his pocket. "Ta-da!" He said in song tone, smirking in victory.
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Meanwhile, the boys climbed down the ancient well and searching on the old stone wall around them.
"Cowboy, look!" Yamato exclaimed, pointing at the ancient written on the wall. The Dragon of Earth looked closer to it and nodded to him.
"Looks like we did found a part of the hidden script, I reckon." Clay replied begin to climb up the rope and followed by Yamato behind him.
When the cowboy got out of the well and helped Yamato up, unaware of the enormous shadow towed over them and causing them looked up in confusion.
"What in tarnation..." Clay trailed off when he saw the familiar figure and realized it was Dyriis he had meet in almost two years ago.
They saw the hideous sea-like beast roared loudly in front of them. They paused for a moment and leaped out of the well, running for their life.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" They screamed.
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In the underwater ancient temple, the sea demon looked up from his hiding spot and smirked when he saw the oncoming figure swam in the water.
A cruel smile crept on his handsome blue face. It's time to greeting my guest.
End of Chapter Five
Me: (grin) I was pretty good with the flashback of past in one of the Heylin Tigers'. What did you think of it? Not bad? Not good?
Khu: (still hiding)
Yamato: (snort) At least I don't like the last part where me and the idiot Cowboy run off screaming like coward.
Suddenly he was run over by the herd of cows and a yells of pain can be heard over the herd of the cows.
Me: (shook head) Boys... (to Chaseforever) Gee... thank you very much. I did my best with them and my stories. I had hope everyone likes my characters.
Ciara: Come on! You had something much to do, like college for example!
Me: (groans) Oh well, I hope you likes it and please don't forget reviews it! No flamers please. Feel free to beating up Draio. (Grin)
Draio: Hey! You no good in goody shoe!
Me: Stay!
BAM!
Draio: (groans in pain) Awwww man!