Me: (spit out tea liquid at the TV) Raimundo had too many siblings! OO
Khu: (cringed)
Me: (relaxed) At least, it's going along pretty well with my stories. I don't expected him to have too many siblings… Khu, why don't you tell me that you got many cousins?
Khu: Uhh….
Kobo: (popped in) Time for story!
Khu: Saved by Kobo! Disclaimer: Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown and its characters but her sheng-gong-wu and her ideas. Onto the story, enjoy!
Chapter 14: Twelve Orbs
The light spread over the wet, cold steel floor from the window with a metal fan spinning slowly. The water drop cling on the ceiling and suddenly, it falls down toward the sleeping body.
Splash
The sleeping body stirred, groaning and opened his pale silver eyes slowly. He blinked rapidly, cleaning off his clouded visions. He wiped the wet stain off on his cheek and sat up suddenly, stared blankly at his surrounded.
"Hey, you're awake!"
He looked up at the Japanese girl, Kimiko, and then he felt a cold touch on his forehead. "And it seems like your fever is already gone now." She said, taking her hand off the young boy's forehead and smiled at him.
"Where's Lobo?" Kobo asked quietly, looking around with a worried expression on his face. "Where's everybody?"
Kimiko frowned. "We were separated…. From each other..."
(Flashback)
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 groups, 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 Flashback)
Kobo looked down, feeling guilty. "It's my fault… for dragging you and others into danger." He said softly, sniffling.
"No." Kimiko said, holding the young child of light's shoulders gently. "This isn't your fault, alright?"
"Lady Kimiko…." He began.
Kimiko shook her head. "Just call me Kimiko. "Lady" make me sound like old." She said, chuckling a little.
Kobo blinked at her and nodded. "There is something I need to tell you… the truth…" He said, averted his pale silver eyes to the floor and refused to see the reaction from the older girl. "That I was…."
"Poisoned?" Kimiko offered, smiling gently at him.
Kobo jerked up in surprised and stared disbelief at her. "But how did you know about I was poisoned?"
"Xiao Lin found out, by able to tell the look of your face and he said that you sweating too much…" The Dragon of Fire admitted. "And too pale for being sick. So he knew you are poisoned."
The Heylin Tiger of Light sat silently, closing his pale silver eyes. "Are you mad at me?"
Kimiko was taken back in surprise, blinking at him. "Worry, yes…. Afraid, yes…." She replied smiling at him, recovered quickly. "But I'm mad at you? No."
Kobo widened his eyes in shock and confused. Surely, he might have gotten lot of yelling from his brother when he got in hurt or trouble.
He cringed, remembering his brother. Where ever he was… I do hope he's not going to blown up when he found out I was not with him.
"I'm back!" A familiar voice of the older female yelled cheerfully as they looked back to her. Ciara noticed Kobo sat there, on the mat that made of dead leaves. "You're finally wake up, kid. Boy, it sure take you awful long time."
Kobo smiled. "I'm fine."
"Oh no, sure you don't." Xiao Lin said, shaking his falcon-like head and landed on Ciara's shoulder. "Tiger of Wood and I found something that might have you interested."
Ciara nodded, walking over to Kobo and picked him up on her back. "You're still not able to walk, kiddo." She said, looking back to Kimiko and Xiao Lin. "Let's go look."
They walked toward where Xiao Lin pointed at, hoping they run into their other friends soon. Unaware of the shadow shape moved closely, looking at them silently.
It smirked evilly, turning into an invisible and followed after them.
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Meanwhile, the Xiaolin Dragon of Earth and Water still trapped under the ground, looking at the golden chest that Omi held in his arms.
"Piece of Pie!" Omi yelled proudly, revealing the eleven colorful orbs in the golden chest. "Those are legendary twelve orbs that once belong to our great ancestors!"
"It's piece of CAKE, little buddy." Clay corrected, looking over Omi's head and eyeing at the orbs. "What are they for?"
"They are simply similar to our element. Once we lost our element, so we can using the ancestor's orbs to help us get them back!" Omi explained, grinning with so much pride.
The cowboy monk nodded, bending over and picked up the light brown with little hint of orange orb. Studying at the brown orb, he can feel the energy of the element inside the orb and he frowned at it.
"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."
Clay frowned, looking at the eleven orbs in the golden chest. "Which one?"
"Metal."
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In the Heylin Temple, the dark lord sits in the chamber chair and glaring at the crystal ball in front of him. Smirking at the two Xiaolin Dragons, Lord Ariko held up the dark gray orb in his hand as the reflecting of the metal orb from the light.
"Oh, you never knew what the orb of metal can do?" He asked quiet, smiling darkly. "The one can only kill, unlike the other elements."
"My lord…." The cold yet warm voice behind him.
Lord Ariko looked over his shoulder and smiled at the Lava Demoness. "Ah, Lady Roi…What a surprise to see you leave your lave land."
Lady Roi narrowed her cold golden eyes at the Dark Lord. "It seems our little friend, Yamato, had quite wandering off to the place where you forbid us to."
He smirked, revealing the tiny white fangs. "Oh, let him to be…"
'What is the place so forbidden, my lord?" Lady Roi hissed quietly, gripping on the metal rail and melting it into the silver-gray liquid on the floor.
"Because…." Lord Ariko said softly, closing his eyes. "The one who cannot be killed, yet being sealed away from us, Heylins, but only the person who can unlocked her."
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"KOBO!"
"KOBO!"
"KOBO!"
The Brazilian cousins watched lazily at the overprotective werewolf cupped his mouth with his hands and shouting his brother's name over and over again.
"Should I knock him out and stuff him in the bag?" The Dragon of Wind said annoyed, glaring at the Tiger of Shadow.
The Tiger of Darkness sighed, rubbing his temper to keep himself from strangling his best friend for standing and yelling all day. "No, Rai. Just let him to be wasting away his precious air." He muttered, silently wishing for his favorite jasmine tea. The scent of jasmine tea is always smoothing his temper and relaxing him bit.
"They reminds me of Edgardo and Cerisa." Raimundo muttered, remembering his older brother and young sister from his eight siblings.
Khu cringed, he did indeed remembered them. "Why am I not surprised that they're not much of changing after many years." He said to himself, shaking his head.
"KOBO!"
The Heylin Tiger of Darkness narrowed his amethyst eyes at Lobo. "What about we go walking and looking for your brother and others…. INSTEAD OF SHOVING US ANY FAR IF WE ARE TIRED AND SORED!"
Lobo stood, still cupping his hands to his mouth and slowly let his arms limping by his sides. "No…." He said softly, whirled around and glared at his leader. "You don't understand anything, oh so called emotionless leader!"
"Whoa, whoa, chill out. No need get dirty fight over." Raimundo said, stepped over in between of the angry Heylin warriors.
Silence.
They stood silently, glaring at each other as Lobo turned around his back to his leader angrily. Khu sighed, rubbing his temper again and any second he would be soon closer to blown up.
"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. Narrowing his eyes angrily, he suddenly caught the stubborn boy's wrist from punching his eye out. "Stop, Lobo." He ordered.
"Let me go so I can beat you up!" Lobo snarled furiously, pulling his wrist out of the deadly grip from his leader. "You never understand how I feel if I lost someone that is very important to me, Khu!"
Khu sighed. "I do understand how it feels… was like to lost something very important to my life…" He looked over to his cousin. "Someone is very important to me had lost something very important to him too."
Raimundo looked away, silently.
"But in this time, we will find your brother. I could swear it on my life, even if it means risking my life… then so be it." Khu said calmly, looking back to the angry boy. "Do you understand why I am become a part of your team for a reason?"
Lobo narrowed his dark gray eyes and then his eye softened. He sighed, climbing off his leader and stood up, lending his hand over to him. "Need a hand?" He asked, smiling weakly.
Khu nodded, pulled back to his feet.
"Man….I'm sorry that I lose my temper." Lobo said apologized, rubbing behind his head sheepishly. "So, are we looking for them or what?"
The Brazilian cousins looked at each other and smiled, nodding in agreement. They start to running while they looked for another lost companions.
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In the forbidden room, Yamato grumbled darkly and kicked the pebble into the darkness void. Suddenly, he heard the cracking sound.
He blinked in surprised, staring at the darkness void. What was that? He thought, running toward the room and halted when he saw the strange tube with a young woman inside.
He narrowed his red eyes and kicked the weak crack, bursting the water out of the tube. The young girl floating gently to the wet floor, not breathing.
He stared at the young girl lay 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 an 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.
Silence.
"KYIIII-AAA!" The girl shrieked suddenly, rising her smooth hand in the air and swooping down.
CRA-CK!
"OW!" Yamato yelped, rubbing his red hand mark on his cheek. "What was that for, woman!"
"You scared me that was what for!" The girl yelled angrily, glaring at him with her softened light hazel eyes. Then she realized she had no clothes on. "KYIIII-AAA! PREVERT!"
WHACK!
Yamato fell back unconscious on the wet floor with a huge bump on his head as the girl huffed with a long metal mace in her hands and looking for her clothes.
Then ten minutes later, she came back with the royal blue-purple robe and stared down at the still unconscious boy. "Um… Maybe I should wait for him to wake up…or leave him here?" She asked to herself softly.
She looked around at her surrounded, in the full of the strange lab. "Looks like I'm not in my time anymore…. I wonder what's years it had been since for me to sleep?"
"Owww…that's hurt." Yamato groaned, rubbing the sore spot on his head where the girl had hit him with the metal stick. "You are quite punch hard… for a girl."
"I'm sorry about that." The girl laughed nervously. "You're just scared me for a minute…. I'm Liz, the Taolin Dragon of Immortal."
"Yamato, the Heylin Tiger of Metal….. Wait a second, there is no Taolin exist in this world!" Yamato said, blinking at her. "Why are you only Taolin Dragon of Immortal?"
Liz smacked her forehead and shaking her head. "That because I'm only one left and sealed here. That why my power cannot be passed down to the chosen one if I'm not dead. Nor I can't reincarnated into next cycle either."
Yamato stared blankly at her.
Liz sighed. "It is kind of long story."
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Somewhere in the Brazil, someone stood before the eight siblings and sighed running his fingers through his dark brown hair.
"You mean, Raimundo wasn't here or in temple?" He asked, looking directly at the older sibling. "You're sure you're not lying, Edgardo?"
The tallest boy with long light brown hair and lime green eyes shook his head. "I'm sure, Marcos." He replied, crossed his arms and huffed. "He hadn't been back for three days. The same goes for Aseso too."
Marcos sighed. "I might have guessed as well. Thanks, Edgar."
"No problem." Edgardo nodded.
Marcos turned and left, walking through the forest. "That Aseso… He always run off when there's a trouble." He mumbled darkly. "But how did I have to find them?"
"Because that where I am came in." The voice answered, grinning down at him.
End of Chapter 14
Me: (watched at the ending of the Xiaolin Showdown) that so sweet for them to cheer Omi up.
Lobo: (pokes Khu) You never tell me that you have eight siblings!
Khu: (ignored him and sips his tea)
Me: (to readers) If you wonder who Liz is. That's where I came in this story. (grin) I believe it is kind of confusing thing, isn't it?
Yamato: Stop chatting with the reviewers and readers! Time to go now.
Me: (sigh) Okay… Before I need do something for Sneak Peek.
Sneak Peek
The metal beast demon roared, whacked the Dragon of Fire and Wind away with his long steel tail.
Khu gritted his teeth angrily, gripping his Shadow Blade. "That's it! You're came too far for this!"
A sudden scream startled Khu and Lobo.
"KOBO!"
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"He's the Heylin Tiger of Darkness?" Liz asked, looking back at him. "It's impossible…."
Yamato nodded. "As what I thought of."
"….You're go after him? You shouldn't do that very foolish thing to do."
"I must what I must avenge for the people I loves. Don't ever change my mind, woman!" Yamato said harshly, running toward the Black Mountain.
"No you don't. That what Ariko wants you to!"
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Marcos stared up at him. "Who…are you?"
"I am the brother of Dojo…." It replied softly flashing its red eyes. "And the companion of Ariko."
End of Sneak Peek
Me: Well, enjoy your read my story and don't forget to review it before you left. (waves)