Me: Stupid writer's block… (stabs the writer's block) For blocking me like that!
Khu: (sigh) Calm down… at least you have a day off.
Me: A worse day off I ever had! A cat scratched me, slipping on the smooth sidewalk in the rain, my backpack ripped and spilling my homework papers all over the wet puddle!
Lobo: (winces) Oooooo! A bad day, indeed.
Me: (grumbles)
Khu: Disclaimer: Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown and its characters but her sheng-gong-wu and her ideas. Onto the story, enjoy!
Chapter 15: Healer's Light
- Previously -
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.
- Now -
Marcos stepped backward in surprise, staring up at the black dragon. The black dragon had sixty-inch long body, including its tail. He had two legs and two arm-wings. His dark red blood hair on end the tail and on the dragon's head.
"Who… are you?" Marcos asked, staring at the huge creature with two wings and long tail.
"I am the brother of Dojo…." It replied softly flashing its red eyes. "And the companion of Ariko."
Marcos narrowed his light green eyes at the dragon. "Who are you." He repeated again, stepped forward bravely to the black dragon.
The black dragon flashed its red eyes and chuckled quietly. "You are quite brave, aren't you Marcos Pedsora?" He said, smirking at the Brazilian's eyes widened in surprise and shock. "Surprise, eh?"
"How the hell you know my name!" Marcos yelled angrily, glaring at him.
"I have my own ways," The black dragon said, smirking darkly. "Oh, I forget to introduced myself. My name is Gojo Long Cho."
The black dragon lowered himself on the ground for a human to climb on his back. Narrowing his red blood eyes that was reflected of a Brazilian human, he smiled recognizing the color of the human's eyes. The emerald color of Shinyu's eyes he had seen since 1,500 years ago of the Dark War.
"I shall bring you to your brother, Marcos."
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In underground tunnel under the ruin area of the Metal City, Raimundo and Khu walked behind the impatient warrior of the shadow.
"…. I wonder how's Marcos?" Raimundo asked, looking back at his cousin. "I haven't seen him for a while."
Khu narrowed his amethyst eyes, thinking back to his older brother. Knowing him, probably he'd came to looking for him.
"He's fine. Knowing him, he will came to looking for us." He answered eyeing at the cold steel made of wall he walked past, following after the stubborn ill-tempered warrior to looking for their lost companions.
"Quiet." Lobo snapped quietly lifts his hand to silence his leader and the Dragon of Wind, his dark gray eyes narrowed at the cold, empty tunnel. "Listen…"
Khu frowned as he and Raimundo exchanged the looks to each other, listening silently. They head nothing like Lobo with his sharp pointy ears. "I didn't heard anything." Raimundo replied annoyed as soon as the words left his mouth.
The puddle of the water stirred twice next to Khu. Khu narrowed his eyes, feeling the thick air around them become tightly.
The floor under their feet trembling slowly increased too faster. The source of the soft earthquake came from behind their backs, whatever it was, and running speedily toward them.
It's impossible to recognizing the heavy footsteps, Khu knew it cannot be a human's footstep and he seized the boys' collars. "Get outta of way!" He ordered, shoving them right into the thin alleyway tunnel and joined them shortly after.
"Be quiet!" He hissed quietly to the boys who opened their mouth to argue and shut them mouth quietly again.
Khu turned his head back to the spot, watching the familiar shape of a huge shadow stomped heavily because of its size, the huge shape of creature made of metal appeared in his view as he recognized him quickly. It's Lord Yuki… He thought, slowly gripping on his sword's hilt.
The giant machine-beast senses the warrior's auras behind him, turning around let out a low snarling at them. "Target on a three male humans. Destroy." He said monotone, lashed his metal claw toward the two tiger warriors and one dragon warrior.
"Jump!" Khu yelled quickly as they leaped out of the way the flying metal claw. The flying metal claw crushed into the steel wall.
"So that seem we have no choice but to fight that monster thing." Lobo muttered darkly landed on his four legs on the barely shattered floor.
"Finally," Raimundo said grinned cockily. "About time."
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The light hazel eyes flickered back to the red blood eyes of the Heylin Tiger of Metal. "The Xiaolin Dragons of Wind, Fire, Earth and Water are located in the Metal City I assume?" She asked, crossed her arms staring curiously at him.
Yamato nodded. "There are also Heylin Tigers of Wood, Light, Shadow, and Darkness…." He flickered his red blood eyes back to the forbidden dead forest and he studied them, not sure why he feel like he'd recognizing the area of the dead forest.
Lady Roi owned the dead land… with full of sleeping black lava under the lifeless forest.
He narrowed his crimson red eyes.
"You shall meet Lady Roi at her region, she will handed the special orb to you so you can get revenge back on the one you hatred most. Those people, your beloved parents, will be avenged well soon..." The voice of the Lord Ariko echoed across his mind, Yamato scowled darkly at the image of the amethyst-eyed warrior faded into his mind.
"I'm going to kill Khu…"
Lizzy turned her head back to him, frowning again. She knew something's up with the silent-cold heart warrior and she didn't like it. "Khu…?" She asked, looking directly into the red blood eyes of the Heylin Tiger of Metal. Those eyes… are of Zalo's…
"The one is, Heylin Tiger of Darkness, who had killed my parents. I must to kill him for avenged them." Yamato replied coldly, glaring icily at the almost immortal girl who claimed to be the Taolin Dragon of the Immortal.
"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." Lizzy said, staring at her in shock.
"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!" The Taolin Dragon of Immortal shouted after him, chasing the cold-hearted warrior but to be halted by the wall of the fire.
No… Lizzy thought, backed off away from the wall of fire and looking for the weak spot but failed. Don't make a same mistake as Zalo did…
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"Why don't she summoned her power of immortal to break through the fire wall of mine?" Lady Roi asked out of her curiosity, staring emotionless at the mist-like mirror in the air. "Why she do not, my Lord?"
"Because she didn't have it…. The orb of immortal is in the hands of the Xiaolin Dragons of Water and Earth." Lord Ariko answered calmly. "Do not fret of her. She is already useless to me unless the orb of immortal is summoned back to her. She will be known as threat… But the one of the Heylin Tigers is the most threat that I must to get rid of."
"The child…" Lady Roi growled.
"… Yes. As soon as the poison will completed its job in the weak body of a small child." A cruel smirk labeled on the pale face.
"Without the Light, they cannot defeat me. The Hybrid and the Source will be under my control to rule the Earth."
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In another area of the underground tunnel, the girls walked along with the still weakening child and the ancient warrior spirit in the white falcon.
The white falcon, Xiao Lin, paused in the mid-air and narrowed his golden eyes. "Quiet…" He said softly, cocked his head trying to listen and ignoring the curious looks from the girls and a child. "I recognized the sound of it…"
"What sound?" Ciara asked held tired-looking Tiger of Light child, looking around cautiously at the deadly silent tunnel. Suddenly, Xiao Lin turned around and pointed with his talons at the darkness void of the silent tunnel. "There! Kimiko, aim fire at it!" He ordered quickly to the Dragon of Fire.
"FIRE!" Kimiko yelled, flipped in the air and landed on the floor forcing her element at the shadow shape in the darkness.
The shadow howled, shaking off the sparks of fire of his black skin and it had no choice but to revealing itself to the girls, the ancient spirit in falcon, and a child. It narrowed its cold lifeless blue eyes angrily at the ancient spirit in the white falcon. "Xiao…Lin…" It growled softly, the tone dripped the hatred of venomous in its tongue.
The white falcon stared calmly at the shadow beast and smirked, well as almost as the ordinary bird could at it. "No long to see you again, Invisido." Xiao Lin greeted coldly but coolly. "
Ciara frowned, her dark hazel eyes turned away from the sight of the shadow beast and to the white falcon. "You knows it?" She asked, ignoring the angry growling of the shadow beast when he felt insulted of being 'it'.
"I am the one who locked him away in the realm of the Yang-Ying Portal. Also I'm the creator of the Yang-Ying yo-yos as well." Xiao Lin replied, flinging his white wings proudly.
Kimiko blinked, looking confused. "But I thought Dashi was only one who created all of those sheng-gong-wu."
Xiao Lin makes an odd noise that sound like between a scoff and a snort. "Xiaolin Grandmaster Dashi wasn't only one who created the mythical sheng-gong-wu but as well as me and my old friends – your ancestors did help to created them…"
"Talk later and run now!" Ciara yelled, dashing past the white falcon while she carried Kobo on her back. Kimiko seized Xiao Lin, running for their life as the enraged shadow beast chased them down.
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"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!"
Raimundo flew backward across the tunnel of the underground and landed on his back, groaning in pain while he clutched his beloved Storm of the Sword in his right hand. "Man… that thing is sure made of steel!" He muttered. "Even with the power of lightning and wind didn't stunned him."
"He is not demon nor human…" Khu said, narrowed his amethyst eyes. "Even if he is a true demon inside the machine body of the beast, we must find the weakness spot in it."
Lobo yelped loudly as he was crushed into the wall and created a nice hole of crater that makes Clay proud. "Well, think of it up faster, you amethyst-eyed freak!"
Khu groaned at the old nickname that he received from many years ago and closed his eyes, thinking of the strategy to kill the steel demon.
Steel absorbs Lightning
Steel stood Wind
Steel survived Fire
Steel reflected Light
Steel sliced Wood
Steel survived Water
Steel shined Shadow
What… what about the other elements? He thought, pausing for a moment. Clay isn't here and so is Yamato… It leaves up to me…
He did not realize the steel tail lashed toward him and he heard the voice of the female behind him.
"FIRE!"
The hot flare of the fire hurled on the steel tail and scorched it harshly, as the steel demon roared and lashed out his claws at the Dragon of Fire in the blind of his fury.
Kimiko cried out in surprise as the white blurred scooped her up and dodged out of the steel tail. "Raimundo…?" She asked, blinked up at the forest green eyes of the Brazilian.
The metal beast demon roared, whacked the Dragon of Fire and Wind away with his long steel tail. The dark smirk on the steel demon's face as the dragons being knocked out cold.
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!"
Kobo yelped, landed on his side against the cold steel floor as the shadow beast held up the claws, smirking coldly. Lobo narrowed his cold dark gray eyes angrily and dashed after the shadow beast, snarling. "Shadow must fight Shadow, eh? Fine by me!"
"Elemental Pendant – Shadow!"
The gray wolf snarled flew in the mid-air and lunged on the shadow beast, biting on the shoulder. The beasts fought each other with fangs and claws while the other warriors stood fighting against Lord Yuki.
"How pitiful. You never defeat against the immortal steel of demon like me." Lord Yuki replied monotone, staring down at them with his lifeless, glowing azure eyes. "No one… even with the power of yours… can break my body that made of steel."
Khu snorted. "Shall we see." The Heylin Tiger of Darkness said, leaped in the air and whirled his Shadow Blade.
"Shadow Blade – Darkness!"
"Double Steel Cannon!"
Khu yelped in surprise, shielded himself with his shadow blade against the double missions and then the missions exploded, nicked nearly on the skin of his arms as he landed on the steel floor with a painful grunt.
"A human with the dark sword that can destroy any steel type… " Lord Yuki said quietly but monotone as always, walking heavy toward the wounded amethyst-eyed boy. "How weakling… I do not understand why you insisted to stay fight against me. What made you stronger than before?"
"I am not telling to the likes of you!" Khu hissed, shrugging to get up but failed.
Lord Yuki stopped in front of the wounded warrior and looked down at him with his lifeless, glowing azure eyes. "Is because of the companions? Is because of their elemental powers as teamwork?"
"…." Khu glared at him silently, gripping the hilt of the Shadow Sword weakly.
The steel demon took it as a yes. "Very well… your life had ended now… Double Ste---"
"Healer's Light!"
Khu's eyes widened in surprise at the voice of the child as the light covered all over the dark tunnel blinding all of the warriors and including the steel demon. "…Kobo…" He whispered to himself, wondering why the young warrior summoned the ancient spell that only heals, not destroy.
Wait…
His strength… it's returning to him! He can feel increased his boost power to higher level, even stronger than Grandmaster Dashi's. He flapped back on his own feet, lifting his shadow blade in the air. "Shadow Blade – Darkness!" He yelled, dashing toward Lord Yuki in super speed mode.
The steel demon's lip curled into snarl. "Iron Claws!"
They lunged at each other in the white flash, blinding the older warriors except for the child and the ancient spirit in the white falcon.
Until the white flash faded away, the demon and the warrior stood opposite in few yard away in their battle position.
Khu grunted, kneed on the floor painful as his side bleed rapidly to the floor. The others ran toward to him, talking to him at all once.
Lord Yuki turned around, staring coldly at them. "That seem I win…."
Crack!
Khu smirked, looking up at him weakly. "No… I won."
Crack!
"Let's go! All whole Metal City are going to fall on us!" Ciara shouted, lifted Kobo to the feathered dragon's back. As the others followed after her, riding on the winged dragon's back and escaping out of the underground by through the huge hole of the ceiling.
Lord Yuki watched them go as his steel body cracked slowly, spreading all over him. "So… I failed to see the truth behind the human boy…"
The steel mask on his face cracked painfully, few pieces falling down onto the steel floor.
Why…
He fell on the floor with a heavy thud.
Can't I understand…?
A cold smirk.
How does a mere human like you ever defeat me…
The lifeless, glowing azure eyes began to flicker like a weak fire.
You do not fear death…
He gazed up at the sky, revealing the moon above him.
What made you stronger than before…? Not what… But who…
The computer chip inside his shattered body slowly shutting down.
You do have everything that I do not… is your friends…
The glowing eyes faded away into the darkness and emptiness glass-like eyes.
I understand.
Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrr-----
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The dark lord opened his eyes slowly, feeling the silver bond shattered inside him. "So he is dead." He said softly. "No matter… he is just holding back his power against those insects."
The crystal ball flashed, revealing a scene to him. The image of the flying dragon with the children on it's back and then next image of the young rebel with the power of his element.
"Soon, they will meet him…. The battle will be began…."
End of Chapter 15
Me: (still grumbles)
Lobo: (sweatdrop) Lady Lizgon…?
Me: WHERE THE HELL THE DRAGON IS!
Lobo: You mean Draio? He's in… somewhere.
Me: ARGH! He supposes to stay with all of you!
Kobo: Lady Lizgon, I will go find him! (run off to find the small winged dragon)
Me: (sigh) Okay… Before I need do something for Sneak Peek.
Sneak Peek
The amethyst eyes widened in surprise as he saw him stood on the black hill, glaring down at the group.
"….Yamato…?"
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"Stupid boy!" Lady Roi hissed, seized the Brazilian and hurled him away across the land. He yelped as he landed on the burning black land.
"Raimundo!" Kimiko screamed.
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"Hang on, kid!" Xiao Lin yelled. "Don't fall asleep!"
Kobo closed his pale silver eyes, stumping onto the mountain trail and the flower fell out of his hands to the bottomless hole.
End of Sneak Peek
Me: Well, enjoy your read my story and don't forget to review it before you left. (waves)