Me: (hugs all reviewers and readers) Thank you so much! And I'm still waiting for some votes for my future stories.
The Dark War - Sequel to the Gateway of Darkness. The non-ending war between two raging chinese Gods, the Blue Dragon and the White Tiger. The bond of harmony between the four gods was shattered by Dark Lord Ariko. The time-machine travel will takes you to look at their past and why the dark war begun.
The Heylin Beasts - Sequel to the Dark War. The four Heylin Demons. Ocean, Forest, Fire, and Steel demons. They will tell their tales in each of POV's from the beginning of the Dark War and the ending of their almost immortal life.
The Heylin Tigers - Sequel to Hybrid Child and the Gateway of Darkness. Each of the Heylin Tigers will tell their tale in their POV's in each of chapters about how they got their powers, how did they meet Chase Young and their childhood memories.
Me: If some of you don't vote, I guess it's up to me to choose it to be the first. (shrug)
Kobo: Is my turn to do disclaimer?
Me: Yes, it is. (to Yamato) I wonder where ismy LAZY muse, Draio?
Yamato: (shrug) He is on somewhere, I don't ever care about his well-being.
Me: (mumbled something about cold-hearted jerk and back to her normal voice) Okay, alright now get ready to read this chapter nine! Kobo, do your honor.
Kobo: (smiling shyly) 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.
Lobo: Enjoy it!
Chapter Nine - The Black Forest
In the tree house, the rising sun entered into the window and spread its light all over the floor, flowing to the bed where the shadow figure sat on it, fixing the small strange look doll.
Sewing the silver needle with the golden string that made of a human hair into the voodoo doll, the forest demoness smirked at the doll version of the dragon of water in her hands. Next to her side, there were seven voodoo dolls on the table with full of needles all over its bodies.
"Time to play, children. The game of Seek and Destroy." The Forest Demon replied, chuckling darkly and holding up the voodoo doll, bathing in the sun light.
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In the early morning, the sunlight approached the sleeping Heylin of Shadow's face. His closed eyelids twitched quietly, groaning tiredly and silently cursing at the sun for waking him up. The sound of birds chirping and other animals making its noise above him.
He growled, rolling over on his mat but he realized he can't moved and feeling something bind him tightly. His eyes opened widely in surprise as he looked down at the dark green forest vines bonded around his body that he was unable to move.
What the hell! What is going on...? He thought, staring bewildered at the dark green vines.
"Hn. You're awaken, Lobo."
Lobo looked up at the voice of his best friend, blinking confusedly at him. Closing his dark gray eyes, his right hand touched his forehead.
"Where's everyone?" He asked.
Khu blinked and looked over his shoulder to the confused werewolf boy in human form. "They're searching for something useful information on this forest. Your brother is sleeping in the cave." He answered, pointing at the cave where Kobo was sleeping in.
Lobo sighed, managed to sit up and looking up at the bright blue sky, the sunlight beamed on the dark green almost black leaves above him.
"The last thing I ever remembered was seeing a red moon and then next thing I knew..." He said quietly almost to himself rather than to his best friend and leader.
Khu nodded, looking at the huge pot that was hanging over the fire pit and stirring with the spoon. He'd been very grateful with the two girls who were the one always carrying their bags. "Your brother mentioned the red moon is..."
"A cursed of the blood moon, I know." The werewolf answered quietly opening his dark gray eyes and glanced back at Khu. "I remember now... I attacked all of you last night."
Khu looked back to the werewolf boy, frowning at the sadden look on his best friend. "I know. It is not your fault, Lobo. It is Ariko's fault." He said calmly, flashed him a little smile and turned back to the cooking.
He poured it into the bowl and handed it to the werewolf boy. "Here it is, Lobo." He replied, grinning at the tiger of shadow.
"Thanks." Lobo grinned, accepting his bowl and showed him a grateful smile.
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In the ancient Heylin Temper where the huge chamber of the dinner room...
The dark purple haired boy narrowed his dark dull red eyes at the white statue of the white tiger. He had heard so much about the great White Tiger, the chinese God of the West, was the name of Byakko.
Byakko was the second powerful chinese tiger next to Seiryuu, the first powerful chinese dragon and the God of the East. No matter how much powerful they are, still fighting each other since the beginning of the Dark War.
Over ten thousand years ago, the balance of the dark side and the light side continues to struggling, fighting each other while one of them trying to taking over the world. The blue dragon and the white tiger was seen by the humans, fighting each other with its claws and fangs.
Closing his dark red eyes, the Heylin Tiger of Metal knew none of them won the dark war that is still going at it, the raging water and the howling wind always there anywhere on the Earth.
Heh. Reminds me of the cur-ball brat and the hybrid kid. Yamato snorted, not realizing the faces of the small monk and the brazilian boy popped in his mind seem barely familiar to him. I would not surprise if they're actually reincarnated of the blue dragon Seiryuu and the white tiger Byakko.
"Ah, young warrior, why are you not eating your dinner?"
Yamato jerked his head back to the dark lord sat on the huge chair, smirking at him. He was at the end of the dinner table and the opposite of Yamato at other end of the dinner table.
It is feel like I'm being a royal. He mused, glancing down at his dinner plate with full of foods. He hadn't eat that since the day of he left his foster father's cave to...
He paused for a moment, realizing he doesn't remember why he was at the temple and can not remember what he was destined for. He frowned to himself, trying to remember as hard as he could.
And then he remembered the amethyst eyed boy rode the dragon he had seen earlier and knows his name but, the name had escaped him and he can not remember his name as well as with other strange faces.
He must be very grateful that he still can remember his parents and his old life, but why can't he remember him and other kids he had a feeling he knew them before.
Sighing tiredly, he rubbed the spot his neck back and become very annoying with the bothersome itch on his neck back.
"Do you still desires to know what of the cause of your dead parents, Yamato?" Lord Ariko asked, sipping the red wine he held in his hand and smirking, revealing his white fangs to the young tiger of metal.
Yamato narrowed his red eyes and without having a second thought, he nodded sharply at the dark lord. "Yes I desired to know the truth." He replied coldly, clutching the white dinner cloth on the table.
Lord Ariko smirked evilly, locking his fingers each other and supported his chin while he looked directly at the young boy's red eyes. "The cause of the death of your parents, Yamato, was your greatest rival you have strongly despised so much."
Yamato scowled darkly at him and stood up, not caring his chair fell over with a sudden force. "Who? Tell me who is my greatest rival!" He demanded, smacked his palm angrily on the dinner table.
"He is known as Khu Pedsora, the one you saw earlier on the white dragon. He is the one who wielded my beloved sword and also the one who possessed my element which I have no longer control now." Lord Ariko answered, smirking widely. "He also is the one who causing the death of your parents with his allies."
Yamato looked enraged, angering at the boy who rode on the dragon flashed across his mind. He must be the one who kills my parents! He must be the one I searched for to avenge them!
"The bastard killed my parents!" He roared angrily, seized the dinner plate and chucked it angrily at the wall, shattering it with a powerful force. "Damn him to the seven hells!"
"Calm down, young warrior. You must not go attacking him." Lord Ariko said calmly, sipping the red wine. "You shall go after him and ended his life when I say so. Guard, please be kind to show him his room?"
The guard took the young Heylin Tiger of Metal to the room where he was suppose to sleep in. Once they are out of the dark lord's sights, smirking evilly at the reflection of the red wine glass.
"The time of the night, the true beast of the night will come out to play with its prey. It is neither human nor demon. The true beast had no true form but taking each of the different forms in one body, a gender does not matter to me." The dark lord chuckled darkly, sipping the red wine.
"A blood of human is always tasting sosweeter than the blood of dragon."
His yellow eyes glanced at his arm which it was slowly turning into the blue skin that was once belong to the dead sea demon. "Those fools... they are nothing but the children, the reincarnation of the former warriors."
He paused, the thought of the young boy with amethyst eyes came to him mind. This boy... the lost shadow of mine and the half soul of mine. A part of my past life... also the part of my dark element.
Lord Ariko glanced at the huge mirror, the scene of the children appeared before him. He scowled at the children, including the source and the hybrid child. If only he knew the truth behind his element, he was never a true heylin tiger but a merely reincarnation when I gave up my half soul, in the order to become immortal of the night.
He snorted.
"Lady Meku." He called to the mirror, narrowing his cold yellow eyes angrily.
"Yes Master?" The female voice answered back through the mirror as the face of the forest demoness appeared before him.
"You shall target on the most weakling one of the strongest group. You shall kidnap the child and use your special potion on him." The dark lord replied venomously, glaring coldly at the forest demoness.
"Yes my master." Lady Meku said, bowing her head and vanished quickly.
The immortal glared coldly at the red wine and clutched it tightly, until the glass shattered and the shards dig deeply into his palm he do not feel any pain from the bleeding palm. He turned back and sulking to his bed chamber.
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The white falcon sat on the branch, watching at the immortal entered into the bed chamber and fluttered its white wings. It turned around and bounced off the branch, flying into the beam light of the sun.
It knows of the darkest hour of the war, it had been there for ten thousand year in its life and had seen lot of things horrible on the earth between the raging war of the jealous gods. It remembered its ancient life of its past...
...it was once have been a reincarnation of the great grandmaster and yet shared its memories with his old companion, a immortal dragon. It did recalled the riddle of the ancient prophecy, knowing it can read the golden written in chinese characters as well as Jiro, the former Heylin Tiger of Wood.
"The source of the darkness shall awaken at the time of the darkest hours,
while a black cloud spread over the sky...
The pure arrow of four harmony shall aim at the love ones,
The wind of fire shall danced in the victory of the battle.
The blood of the steel must overcome the illusion of hatred past.
The source shall be choose the true destiny to fight the immortal of the night beast."
The white falcon flapped its silver white wings, a hidden smile beside its gray beak. It knows what it means. It must have the message delivered to the reincarnation of the wood as soon as it could.
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In the part of the black forest, the Xiaolin Dragons and the Heylin Tiger of Woods walked back to the camp area where Khu and the others were waiting for them to eat their dinner.
Lobo looked up at them and flashed them a friendly grin, assuming them that he was no longer blood-thirst beast now. He knew the Xiaolin Dragons looked fearful at his direction, almost expecting him to pounced them and eat them.
He sighed, chewing the slices of the apple and he don't blame them for fearing him because of his cursed form. A tribe of the werewolves always had the cursed form because of the blood moon, attacking the humans of the village that nearest to our cave.
"Khu, we found the pathway, probably led us to the Heylin Temple." Ciara said, looking right at Khu. "And I didn't know you could cook."
Khu scowled, looking back to her. "Are you mocking of my cooking skill, Ciara?"
Ciara chuckled, shaking her head happily. "No I am not. I just surprised that your cooking is amazing."
Khu stared at her and the faint pink creeps across his nose, turned back quickly and finished his dinner. "Uh... thanks." He muttered quietly, hiding his blush.
"My most best friends, we must be spreadwidely for searching the moreclues now." Omi said proudly, pointed his finger up like a childish-like behavior.
Lobo frowned darkly at him and barked at him. "What the hell you talking about, cur-ball head!"
Kimiko sighed, shaking her head.
"I think he meant we should split up." She said smiling a little at the werewolf, unsure what to do with a crazed blood-thirsty beast she had witnessed yesterday.
Kobo covered his mouth stopping himself from a yawn, walking to them and muttered sleepily to Kimiko. "Hrrm, why don't he just say so?"
The eight children walked on the path, just like Ciara talked about it. Khu was in the front of the group, narrowing his eyes at the forest which it was sudden become blurred in his vision.
"Huh!" The seven children said surprised and confused in union, telling him that he wasn't only one noticed the strange thing in the black forest.
The trees surround him and his companions become too faster and too blurred for them to see anything, he looked down and saw the ground he was standing on, on other side of path was blurred and speedily past him.
And then suddenly it hit him like he was being run over by a truck. The ground is actually moved by itself! He realized surprisingly to himself.
"Guys, jump on other side now!" Khu ordered his companions and he leaped on the right direction of other side at same time, but also another ground under their feet moved as well. "Damn it!" He cursed angrily, glaring at the ground.
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The forest demon was laughing hysterically at the looks of bewilderment on the children's faces and grinned at the screen of the small tv, pressing the button of the remote. "Oohh, this is most not so boring!"
She grinned, she will taking care of the voodoo dolls of the children later when her first plan could probably won't work at all.
"Let's do play, don't we?" She chirped happily to the screen, laughing hysterically again.
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"What can we do now, oh so great leader!" Lobo muttered in sarcasm tone, glancing lazily at the leader of the Heylin Tigers. "We're trapped here, Khu!"
"Shut your yelping, mutt!" Ciara growled, glaring at the werewolf.
"Calm down..." Kobo laughed nervously, stepping in between the angry girl and the scowling boy, preventing them from tore their throat each other.
"We need a new plan." Kimiko said ignoring the bickering noise in background, scanning the area of the blurring forest with her blue eyes. "The better one had to be."
Khu looked thoughtful, narrowed his amethyst eyes and noticing the trees beside them. Suddenly, the invisible bulb above his head lighted up brightly.
"I've got a plan, guys." He smirked to his companions. "All you have to is..."
—
Lady Meku had finished her so called evil laughing and checked to see if the children was still there in her screen of the small tv, gaping in surprised to see the children wasn't there any more.
"WHAAAT?" She screeched loudly, causing the black man-eating plant creatures cringed in fear. "How can they be! WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE!"
She clicks her remote quickly and rapidly in several times, looking for the children in different channels in her small tv. "GRRR! I see you do love to playing the rough game, huh?"
The forest demon seized one of the voodoo doll of the children. "I shall teach you how to play like that." She smirked darkly, began to playing the voodoo doll on the version map of the forest game.
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The eight children sat on the branches, watching down at the speeding ground path. "Brilliant, man, very brilliant." Lobo chuckled, holding the branch from falling down and grinning wolfishly at his best friend.
"This is the work of Lady Meku, no doubt." Clay assumed, reckoned with his huge cowboy and his dark blue eyes flickered at the Heylin Tigers and his companions. "I reckon she just toyin' us like a cat toyin' a mouse."
"I vote we find her and beat her up!" Raimundo said, huffing angrily next to Kimiko on the branch. Khu shook his head at his cousin's childish behavior and said, "Maybe we should ask Ciara's opinion since she's the expert of this forest. Right, Ciara?"
He turned his head and only to find Ciara was no where in sight. "Ciara! Where did she go?" He asked in surprise, looking around and to find Clay was too gone as well.
"So are Omi too!" Kobo yelped, staring at the empty spot where Omi was sitting on.
"I'm feeling so strange." Lobo replied when they got a glimpse of him disappeared in front of them like as if someone transported him to somewhere.
"Not Lobo too!" Kobo cried, watching worriedly at the empty spot where his older brother was sitting on. "Where are they going to, guys!"
"Calm down!" Khu bellowed, staring coldly at Kobo, Kimiko, and Rai. "I bet this is also the work of Lady Meku again, guys. We have to find them before it's too late!" He replied calmly, leaped down to the ground and the others followed him shortly after him.
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"Hmm.. maybe I wonder what I'd do to the mutt with my voodoo doll?" Lady Meku asked to herself, smiling playful at the small version of the Heylin Tiger of Shadow. "Should I turned him up and down?"
She picked the voodoo doll up in the mid-air.
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Lobo blinked when he was reappeared on the ground near the lake and looking amused at Ciara landed on the swamp, cursing to herself.
Suddenly, he was in mid-air looking confused, anger and bewilderment at all once in same time. "Lobo! What are you doing up there!" Ciara said in shock, staring up at him.
"GET ME DOWN!" Lobo howled easily losing his temper, flinging his arms uselessly in the air.
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Lady Meku laughed at the screen and grinned evilly, turning the voodoo doll up and down. "This is most amusing!" She said laughing, revealing her fangs.
The black man-eating plant creatures looked at each other, thinking the lady is alreadycompleted insane in her room. None of them dared to comment about her, risking being turned back to useless seed.
—
Lobo yelped in surprise when he was turned down and up, his long silver ponytail hair almost touched the ground while he was helplessly floating in the mid-air.
"WAAAAH! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, WOMAN!" He snarled at the unmoving girl in front of him, floating in the mid-air and flinging his arms like a helplessly bird. "Why aren't you moved!"
Ciara shot him a dirty look and yelled back, "BECAUSE MY BODY DOESN'T OBEY ME! SOMETHING CONTROL ME LIKE YOU WERE, FLYING MUTT!"
"ME! FLYING MUTT! WHY I OUGHT..." Lobo growled, glaring at her and not caring he was looking like a fool floating in the air.
Suddenly, he went down and hit his head upon on the ground. "OOOOW!" He howled, clutching his head in pain and glared angrily at the laughing companion.
"That serve you right!" Ciara smirked down at him, crossing her arms happily amused at the sight of him bonked his head up down on the ground as if he were standing on his head.
"Wench."
Ciara's eyes flared up angrily and summoned the well alive plant-like snakes behind her back. "What did you said!" She asked trying to hold her temper back but slowly failing.
"You heard me right, wench!" Lobo barked back angrily, nursing his huge bump on his head.
"COLD-HEARTED BASTARD!"
"BRAINLESS BITCH!"
"EGOTISTICAL JERK!"
"IMPUDENT BRAT!"
"STINKING BUTT!"
"INSOLENT FILTH!"
"BLOOD-THIRSTY MUTT!"
"FLEA-EATING TRAMP!"
"BASTARD!"
"BITCH!"
They bickered angrily, shooting at each other with their hurtful and angry words. Not caring where they are or they're completed alone in the forest area.
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The forest demon looking amused at the uselessly bickering between the girl and the werewolf boy. "Whoa, who knew how much longer they kept doing up until killed each other or lunging their throat each other." She mused, changing the channel to looking at the two boys.
"Let's see what I'm planning in store for them." She grinned evilly, reaching for another voodoo dolls.
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Khu, Kimiko, Lobo, and Raimundo stopped at the two pathways, staring at the blank sign stood in the middle of two roadways. "Now what, Aseso?" The Dragon of Wind asked, glaring at the blank sign.
Khu frowned, looking for some clues but he was unable to find anything useful. "Looks like we have to split up now." He mumbled darkly, reaching in his pocket and pull the small black cell phones out of his pocket.
He handed it to the brazilian and answered for him. "This is speciality walkie-talkie between you and me. So we could not afford any some of us lost in the black forest."
Raimundo nodded in understand, taking his girlfriend's hand and guiding her to the right road while Khu was walking on his way with Kobo to the left road.
Behind the black forest, the glowing white eyes and chuckling darkly. "Oh, oui! Madame Meku was right about this is amusement." The male voice in his french accent to himself.
The glowing white eyes disappeared into the darkness... he will have to strike the tall boy soon and kidnap a brat for Lady Meku. When he was done to handed the brat over to the lovely forest demon and he will kill the dragon of wind who defeated him in the showdown.
I will get you for this...
End of Chapter Nine
Me: (rubbing her temple) Oh great, now I'm having a major headache. (to Khu) You're in charge now. I'm off to bed now. (walks off to bed and fall asleep)
Khu: (sipping his green tea and looked at the readers) Thank you for reading this chapter and please do not forget to reviews this. Have a nice day. (sips)