Me: (appeared with a sad look) Sorry for take bit long time. I had received a worst news from one of my old teachers that one of my good friends got a bad problem with his heart. He's dying... (sniffle)
Khu: (pat on me gently) I'm sure he's strong and tough, he can live through it.
Me: (sniffles) Yeah... What if he's...
Yamato: Dead?
Me: (suddenly burst out crying and run off)
Khu: (glared at Yamato) Nice going!
Yamato: (scowls) Wasn't my fault. (suddenly being attacked by angry wild dragons)
Kobo: (sighed) Looks like it's my turn to do disclaimer. 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.
Ciara: Enjoy!
Chapter Thirteen - Kobo's Sick
Cough
The two Xiaolin Dragons and four Heylin Tigers, including Xiao Lin in a white falcon form, was walking on the road on the desert of nowhere since they left the Black Forest to find the Metal City.
Lobo sighed, wiping few sweats from his forehead with the back of his fist and glared at Khu. "What was that guy thinking to put that road on the desert of nowhere? I haven't seen the single of city or house or even a piece of metal!"
Khu did not answered him, looking forward the endless road with a calm frown. He looked back to Ciara, walking next to her. "Did you see anything, Ciara?" He asked, knowing that Ciara had a small spyglass with her.
The Tiger of Wood looked right at him, shaking her head as she put her small spyglass in her pocket. "Nothing. Nothing at all." She said, running her fingers through her short green hair.
Cough
Khu heard it again, frowning when he looked back at the child was walking slowly behind him. "Kobo? Are you okay?" He asked worriedly, halted at his track and so are the others.
The young child weakly looked up at Khu and managed to smile at the leader, shaking his head. "I'm fine. Really." He said grinned weakly at him, walking directly toward the Dragon of Wind and the Dragon of Fire.
Khu shook his head, looking back to the endless road again. Absentmindedly, his cold amethyst eyes glazed up at the cloudless sky and wondering what happened to the Tiger of Metal since he had seen him at the Ocean.
Where the hell that idiot is now! What happening to us...? The Tiger of Darkness thought scowling darkly to the cloudless sky.
Cough... Cough... Cough...
His ears perked up at the faint coughing from the child, Khu resisted to sighing in furiously and turned around, he was about to walking up to him and scooped him up but to his surprise to see him laying unconsciously on the hot, black road.
"KOBO!"
Khu was shoved rudely by the older brother ran to his young brother, kneed next to him holding his small body in his arms. Khu cursed softly, noticing the feverish sweat-looking on the child's face and seem so pale than a white ghost.
Remembering the forest demon's words rang through his mind, Khu quickly thought of something that can help him to take care of the sick child. He turned to the white falcon, narrowing his cold amethyst eyes at him.
"What?" Xiao Lin asked impatiently, looking directly at the cold amethyst eyes. Those eyes... that symbol of the fifth warrior. Xuan had the same eyes before he left the group of four warriors.
"I want you to find something for us. Informed us when you found something." Khu ordered in leader ship tone, watching the white falcon nodded and flying upward in the sky.
His eyes returned back to the sick child with a great concern. He placed his hand on the Tiger of Shadow with a concern smile. "We should get him away from the glaring of the sun." He replied.
Lobo glanced up at his leader, looking for some answer in the leader's eyes and then he decided it was best for his baby brother to stay away from the sun.
—
In deep darkness of the chamber, the silent shadow narrowed his dull yellow eyes at the mirror. He was still young looking man, probably age of twenty. His eyes drifted to the small purple orb with black pendant. A symbol of the darkness embedded on the lavender orb painfully reminded him of the four warriors in two thousand years ago.
Xiao Lin...
He snarled softly at the image of his mortal enemy in the mirror, clenching his fists angrily and smashed his fist onto the mirror. The image of the mirror shattered, stabbing the shards into the flesh of the bleeding fist.
That monk was the reason he had left the temple because of being rejected from him... And how he hated the blue dragon god because he can sense the evil in his very soul and warned the monk of him will becoming a great evil forever when he had the power of darkness.
Closing his cold yellow eyes tiredly, Lord Ariko turned away from the broken mirror to the frame of the black snake.
The great enemy of the Four Gods... He had first met him after he set him free from the imprisonment and he was granted with the power of immortal and shape-shifting so he can get revenge back on those four warriors.
He had give up a half of his soul to the demi-god to be a immortal vampire and he tricked on the Four Gods into against each other, causing the great destruction upon on the four harmony tribes.
His plan would worked even if it weren't for Xiao Lin to step in his way, he would become a great ruler of the world with the ten thousand year of the darkness. He killed him for interrupting him from his plan to conquer the world and taunted him for unable to use his power of spirit to stop him.
The dying monk grinned up at him, telling him how fool he was because he did not pay attention the prophecy. "How fool you are, you yet not realize the prophecy will revealed in one thousand year later. There will be the chosen ones with great elements to defeat you...Metal, Water, Fire, Ice, Light, Lightning, Wind, Earth, Wood, Spirit, Immortal, and Darkness. All together as the one will defeat you... Heed my warning..."
Lord Ariko snarled furiously at the mocking words of dying monk in his mind. "There is no Ice, nor the Immortal and Spirit. They are wiping off from the face of the earth forever." He growled, glaring at the piece of the shards reflected with his face. "Beside, the Light will die soon..."
A cruel laughing echoed through the darkness of the cold hallway, causing the servants shivered in fear.
—
The sun began to setting slowly as in the hut in the desert of nowhere, Lobo stood glaring at Khu with disbelief and worry while Kimiko and Ciara stayed with the sick child in other room. Raimundo sat outside of the door, watching them continues bickering since Kobo become sick and took to the empty hut.
"WHAT DID YOU MEAN HE'S SICK!"
Khu winced at the screeching of his best friend shook his shoulders painfully, not caring he was drawing the attentions from the Dragons and Ciara. Narrowing his cold amethyst eyes, the leader grasped the werewolf's wrists to stop him from making him dizzy.
"Just relax, will you!" Khu barked angrily, glaring at the sulking werewolf boy. "Kobo will be fine, just hold a little longer until Xiao Lin came back."
Lobo scowled at him darkly, opening his mouth and then shut his mouth again as they heard the familiar voice outside of the hut.
"You won't believe what I found!" Xiao Lin said, swooping down at the group of young warriors. Khu and Lobo glanced at each other and nodded in agreement.
—
Yamato wandered in the dark cold hallway, shivering when he had heard the cold laughing when he first entered into the dinner room where it came connect to the dark lord's chamber.
He frowned, remembering he had to find him and asked him a question. Now here he was, stand glaring at the black door and not sure if he suppose to knocked on the door.
Scowling darkly when he realized he was hesitating to knocks on the door and turned around sulking across the room, hearing the door behind him suddenly swinging opened for him.
"Young Zendi, please invited yourself in."
Yamato frowned, turned back sulking into the chamber and suddenly he was taken back when his eyes meet the blood taints on the dark lord's lip. He froze, staring confusedly at him and noticed the dead female servant laying on the ground next to the dark lord.
The dark lord noticed the terror expression on the young warrior, knowing he had seen the real truth revealed in front of his eyes.
A cold smile on his face.
Time for him to taste of the evil.
—
In the slowly blackening sky, Lobo in the white feathered dragon form carrying the three Heylins and two Xiaolins on his back while he followed Xiao Lin.
The city came in the view of the warriors as they dropped their jaws at the familiar looking city. Ciara choked with a disbelieving look and glanced at Khu. "New York City?" She mumbled to herself, confusing at the huge city.
"It looks like New York City, Tokyo, and Los Angeles blended together." Raimundo said, gaping at the sight of the Metal City.
Khu nodded mutely, allowing his eyes scanned at the safety place and found what he was looking for. " There is the mansion! Lobo, land there right now!" Khu yelled, pointing at the opening area of the mansion.
The white feathered dragon nodded his head, swooping down toward the mansion. Once he landed on the opening area near the mansion, looking huge that could rivaled with Jack's mansion.
Khu helped Raimundo carried the unconscious child to the bedroom and placed him on the huge bed to keeping him warm from cold sweating fever. Looking up at his cousin with a look of concern, Khu nodded silently walking out of the bedroom with the Dragon of Wind to discuss the situation.
"I should go find the medicine for Kobo. I'm sure one of the hospitals still have them in this city." He said, looking back at the window that view of the biggest city. "You should stay behind, look after them for me."
Rai frowned, shaking his head with upset look on his face. "No." He replied, clenching his fists quietly. "I'm coming with you too!"
Khu sighed, knowing there is nothing he can do to change his cousin's stubborn mind. "Fine." He mumbled, rubbing his temper he can feel it throbs dully on his forehead. "Let go then."
"Wait a second... If he's going with you, then I'm going with you... for my brother's sake." Lobo growled, walking up to them.
Khu nodded knowing how much he love his dear brother and willing do anything for his brother. "Very well, Lobo." He said as the older boys dashed out of the mansion and running down the road way to looking for the hospital.
"Wait..." Rai said stopping them, pointing at the computer board. "Over there, guys."
Khu quirked an eyebrow up, frowning as he walked up to the computer board. "Well, which one of you can hacking in the Internet?" He asked, glancing at the boys and crossed his arms across his chest.
Raimundo grinned up at his cousin. "Well! It's suppose be Kimiko's job, but I can do it." He said, past his cousin to the keyboard he typed.
A thirty minutes later, the beeping of computer told them that Dragon of Wind had successful hacked through the Hospital's computer.
"There it is!" He said, pointing at the blinking yellow dot on the map of the Metal City. "It's nearby to us...around five miles away from here."
"Let's go!" Lobo said, running after the direction of the Hospital leaving Khu and Raimundo behind. The cousins glanced at each other and running after them, yelling at him. "Wait up!"
—
Underground the Metal City, the hidden tunnel of where the enemy's base and the steel palace of where the Lord Yuki live.
The dull cold steel blue eyes of the machine beast glowered in the light blue light, growling quietly at the glowing screen in front of him. "Reveal information of the children's whereabout, Number # 16!" He demanded with dull, emotionless monotone.
The number #16 trembled under the glaring of the cold dull blue eyes of his master. "I found three boys in the Area 2! They are heading to the Hospital." He answered, bowing before his master.
Lord Yuki glazed at the screen with a map of the Metal City, the blinking dot where the three boys are heading to the Hospital. "Prepare to attack... Activated the Number #100 and Number #101."
The number #16 nodded and running out of the chamber room. "Yes, Master!"
Lord Yuki returned to his eyes on the screen, staring emotionless at the blinking dot. Soon when the children are exterminated... The target is somewhere hiding in the city with the girls will be unable to defend themselves against me.
—
In one of the biggest hospital, Raimundo busily typing on the keyboard looking for the name of the medicine for Kobo while Khu and Lobo stood looking at the many names of medicine bottles on the every rows of the board.
"Found it!" The Dragon of Wind cried out, startling the Heylin Tigers. "A - 4 bottle, a medicine can stop the any type of illness."
(A/N: Sorry! I can't think of a medicine bottle's name.)
Khu nodded, looking for the A - 4 bottle when something caught his eyes and noticing the same name of the medicine bottle laying there covering with dust.
"Got it!" He said to them, seized the bottle up and wiping the dust off the label that said A - 4. "Now let's go back."
As they walked out of the private medic room, the lights went out suddenly startling them. "What is going on!" Raimundo said, blinking in the darkness.
"Damn." Lobo swore angrily, "Now what?"
Soon as his words left his lips, the ground trembling violently under their feet and making them fall on their rear dodging the fallen bottles with made of a glass. Khu leaped back on his feet, glancing down at them. "Get out of here... NOW!" He yelled, dragging them toward the exit.
But when they get closer the exit doors and to find the machine-like troops stood waiting for them. Raimundo gritted his teeth, pulling out his Storm of the Sword but he was stopped by his cousin.
"No. They are not like the idiot's robots. They are of the Steel Demon's." Khu whispered, narrowing his eyes. "We have to get out of here before they blasted us."
"DUCK!" Lobo screeched, making Khu and Rai looked up to see the red beam shattered through the huge window.
They yelped, ducking down as the red beam past above their heads. "Go! Go! Go!" Khu yelled, pushing his cousin into the other direction of the hallway and followed by Lobo as the another red beam shattered the couch behind them.
—
In the Mansion
Ciara sighed, rubbing her eyes and opened her dark hazel eyes to watching the sleeping boy in the bed. Xiao Lin smiled at her and he landed on her shoulder. "Do not fret, Ciara. The boys will return to cure his illness." He replied.
"That what I'm worrying." The Tiger of Wood mumbled quietly, looking back to the Dragon of Fire stood watching out the window.
"...Uhnn...Where's Lobo?"
Ciara turned her head back to the awakening child with a startle smile. "You're finally wake up! Your brother already went out with Khu and the Hybrid–er–Raimundo." She said. "They are looking for medicine to help you recovering."
Kobo sighed tiredly, closing his pale silver eyes. "I...am...sorry for...slowing all of you...down.."
"No!" Ciara said quickly, frowning. "You do not slowed us down, kid. I do not know what Lobo would do if you are gone."
Kobo was silent, pondering at his thought. "Moonshine Sprout..." He bursted out weakly, opening his pale silver eyes.
"Huh?" Ciara asked blinking confusedly, looking at the white falcon and back to Kobo. "Moonshine Sprout...?"
Kobo sighed, closing his eyes tiredly. "A cure for my illness...The location is within the black mountain..." He replied weakly, smiling up at the older girl. Ciara frowned, about to opened her mouth to say something but Kimiko interrupted her quickly.
"Hey... Look outside.." Kimiko said, pointing out the window as she squinted at something moves on the outside. "Something move."
Ciara and Xiao Lin ran to Kimiko, squinted through the window as they noticed something invisible running speedily toward them and they heard the loud strange roar. Xiao Lin saw the invisible rushed toward them and his eyes widened in surprise.
"INCOMING!" He squawked loudly, flinging his wings in panic.
The girls ducked down as the window shattered when the invisible beast bursts through, snarling silently. Ciara turned and quickly scooped the unconscious child in her arms as they speeded down in the hallway while the invisible beast chased them.
—
In the hallway of the Hospital...
Khu, Raimundo, and Lobo ran down in the darkening hallway and suddenly they halted their tracks when they saw the strange shape of a robot tiger stood waiting in front of them. Raimundo narrowed his dark forest green eyes angrily at the robot tiger.
"Who are you!" The Dragon of Wind asked, rising his favorite golden sword.
The robot tiger narrowed his glowing dull green eyes and smirked darkly at the three young warriors. "My name is Number # 100.. Or on the other hand, you can call me Hui." He answered emotionless in his tone.
Khu glared coldly at the robot tiger and lifted his silver sword. "Step aside, you piece of steel cat or else." He warned.
"Or else what?" The new voice asked, stepped behind the three boys as they looked back at the new voice.
The another strange shape of a wolf robot snarling venomously at them, the twin cannon guns on it's back. "I am called Number #101 or known as Kui." He answered, his dull yellow eyes glowed brightly in the darkness.
"Are you working for the Steel Demon?" Khu asked, narrowed his cold amethyst eyes at Hui.
The steel robot tiger smirked evilly at the Tiger of Darkness as he stepped forward. "Yes. We have orders from Lord Yuki to destroy you three!"
Kui narrowed his dull yellow eyes glowered as his twin cannons loaded suddenly. "Twin Red Blasts!" He growled as the twin red beams lashed toward the three kids. As at same time, Hui opened his steel mouth and the blue ball glowed inside his mouth. "Azure Blue Blast!" He roared as the blue ball beamed toward the three kids.
The blue and red beams toward the young warriors in the middle of the hallway as Khu slammed the Dragon of Wind and the Tiger of Shadow in his right shoulder, shoving them into the other room and escaping the double beams.
The red and blue beams clashed each other, exploding with fire toward the machine robot beasts. Hui and Kui gasped in horror and pain when they caught in the explosion.
Meanwhile the three boys leaped out of the window and ducked down, covering over their head as the fire bursted out of the window. Until the explosion stopped, they opened their eyes standing up and dashed quickly down the road.
Until they found the church to hid while the army of the machine beasts disappeared. Lobo grumbled angrily pacing around in the room while Khu peeked over the window, looking for the machine beasts.
Raimundo kicked angrily at the chair as the chair fell over, whirled back to his cousin. "I say we should go back and fight them!" He yelled, clenching and unclenching his fists.
"Shh!" Khu shushed him, continued looking out of the window and his blood ran cold suddenly as the thought of something came to his mind.
"Wait... This city... that is belong to Steel Demon and I bet he knows where we are..." He whispered quietly to himself, gripping on the rail and his knuckles turn into sickening white pale.
"What hell are you talking about?" Lobo growled, glaring angrily at his leader. "And why you looking like you have seen a ghost."
"Go under table, guys!" Khu yelled, shoving them under the table that made of steel. "I think I got it figured out!"
Khu turned back to his cousin with a worry look on his face. "He's tailing us! He doesn't stop until destroying everything in the area!" He whispered hastily, ducking under the table with the dragon of wind.
Suddenly the red blast shattered the window, showering the glass shards all over the floor and everything.
—
Yamato stood before the dark lord, staring at him in surprise and pure fear. He had seen him licking the blood on his lips and grinned hungrily at what he had done to the female servant, stepping backward away from the dark lord.
"You're... You're... You're a vampire!"
A smirking on the dark lord's face, revealing the white fangs. "Yes. Too bad, I must erased your memory of what you had seen my true self."
The Tiger of Metal turned around and ran.
The dark lord grinned wolfishly, flicked his wrist as his hand turned into green plant vine-type. "You can run from me but how long you can run, hmm?"
The dark green plan vine-type snaked toward the older boy and wrapped around his waist tightly, dragging him back to the dark lord and hanging him in mid-air. Smirking widely at the shrugging warrior in the coiling vine around his body, Lord Ariko reached for his head and placed his pale hand on his forehead.
Suddenly, his red blood eyes went back to dull, lifeless eyes as he stopped shrugging. Dark Ariko smirked darkly, patting on the boy's head. "Good boy..." He laughed loudly as the black ravens flew out of the lifeless trees.
—
After the second attacks, the three boys run back to the mansion as Lobo saw the flying robot dragon fired the mission at the mansion. He gasped in horror, speed up quickly leaving Khu and Raimundo behind.
"I'm coming, Kobo!" He yelled, running toward the mansion and he ignored Khu's yelling after him. "Hang on!"
"Lobo, stop!" Raimundo yelled cupping his mouth after the stubborn werewolf boy. "Don't!"
"KOBO!" Lobo yelled in horror at the mission hits the mansion and exploded with a powerful force, sending the boys flew backward across the hard ground.
"NOOOOO!"
The Dragon of Wind sits up quickly, rubbing his head painfully and opened his forest green eyes to see the another mission fly toward them, especially Lobo. "Watch out, Lobo!" He yelled at the groaning older boy.
Lobo opened his cold dark gray eyes and to see the mission toward directly at him. He froze in his track in fear, closing his eyes tightly while he waited for pain. Suddenly he heard the female screamed, "Star Hanabi - Fire!"
He opened his eyes again to see the fire pushed the mission into the sky and exploded with a flame burst and then he turned his head back to where the attack from.
"Kimiko!" Raimundo yelled, noticing her stood there proudly with the golden star in her hand. "You're alive!" He laughed, scooped her up in his arms and hugged her tightly.
As Ciara appeared with the sleeping Kobo on her back and the white falcon, Xiao Lin landed on her shoulder. "We're fine." The Tiger of Wood said, smiling at the three boys.
The werewolf boy sighed in relief, smiling sadly at her. "Thank you...for taking care of my baby brother. I don't know what I do if I lost him again." He whispered barely for her to hear.
Ciara smiled at him and nodded in understanding. "No problem."
Suddenly, the steel ground bursted through startling the young warriors. They looked up at the giant angry machine demon stood towing over them, growling deeper than any wild beasts.
The demon made of steel and he had long black cannons on his back, his head shaped of a dragon and his body combined with shaped of a wolf and a tiger. His eyes were dull, lifeless blue eyes glowing brightly at the Tigers and Dragons.
"Steel Demon!" Khu, Lobo, and Raimundo yelled in surprise and anger as they pulls out their powerful weapons.
Lord Yuki narrowed his cold dull blue eyes, smiling down at them coldly. "Ah...children! I learned your attacks with the piece of junk that won't work against me. Prepare to attack." He replied monotone as his double cannons aimed down at the warriors and began to glowing yellow brightly.
Khu's cold amethyst eyes widened in surprise and horror, turning back to the others. "Run!" He yelled, running with his cousin and Lobo into the left door. As the girls with Xiao Lin and an unconscious child into the right door.
When the beam turned into blue, Lord Yuki roared. "Fire!" As he fired the double blue beams onto the tallest building, collapsing it down to the ground with gray cloud dusts anywhere.
"AAAAAHHHH! LOBO, HELP ME!" Kobo yelled opening his fearful pale silver eyes, falling downward in the darkness and saw his older brother but also his brother's out of his reach. "HELP ME!"
"KOBO!" Lobo yelled, stretching his hand out toward his little brother, but he was drifting away from his little brother.
The group spilt into two group, falling into the void of the darkness. They separated each other, falling unconsciously into the void.
Lobo gave one last time and he struggled to cry out toward his little brother before the darkness swallowed him whole. "KOBO!"
End of Chapter Thirteen
(After three hours of being attacked by angry wild dragons)
Khu: (sips his favorite tea) Great, you had to go and make her upset.
Yamato: Wasn't my fault. (twitching in pain)
Kobo: (shake head) Then it's time for all readers to peek what's next chapter.
Sneak Peek for next Chapter 14
"Clay..."
Clay snapped out of his trance from staring at the light brown orb and looking back at the small monk. "What is it, little partner?" He asked, frowning at the worry look on the small monk's face.
"The last orb is missing."
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"Lobo, calm down! I'm sure they will take care of your brother."
Snarling furiously, Lobo turned around lunging at Khu and tackled him down to the cold hard floor made of steel as Khu groans when he had banged his head against the steel floor.
"Shut up!"
Khu opened his amethyst eyes, shook off the dizzy spell from his head and only to his eyes meet the fist.
—
He stared at the young girl laying unconsciously inside the shattered tube, and then he suddenly realizing the girl had no clothes on. Blushing creeps upon across his cheeks and he averted his red blood eyes away from the exposed body of a unconscious girl.
Suddenly she opened her eyes, revealing the color of the light hazel. He froze on his track as her light hazel eyes meet his red eyes.
End of Sneak Peek
Khu: Have a good night. (Sips his tea)