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Yamato: (sigh) Wait until you will loves the battle next chapter…
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Khu: Jasmine tea is always good for your health, get riding of cancer and illnesses. Also---
Me: (sigh) Blame on Chase Young and Iroh (from Avatar: The Last Airbender)…
Iroh: Hey!
Me: Oo Where did you came from!
Iroh: Flew.
Me: (sighed and shoved Iroh out of the room) Sorry about that.
dArkiTe-sPirit: Me: (laughing) Alright, alright, here it goes!
Lobo: (whispering to Yamato) why is she always hyper and impatient for Lady Lizgon's story?
Yamato: (shrug) No idea.
luveroffanfic: Me: XD Yes true! (continue chasing the lazy dragon Draio)
Draio: (groans) Oh boy…. Not this again…
Yamato: (points at Ariko) blame it on him…
Ariko: (blinking innocently) What? I have no such thing to do.
Me: Okay, then Disclaimer!
Ciara: Disclaimer: Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown and its characters but her sheng-gong-wu and her ideas.
Kobo: Onto the story, enjoy!
Chapter 17: Old Hatred
The two strongest Heylin warriors landed each of the long, tall steel pikes and glaring fierceness at each other. Amethyst eyes softened, Khu gripped the black hilt of Shadow Blade and looked directly at his second in command friend.
"Who have done to you, Yamato, with such hatred toward me?" Khu asked held emotionless in his tone, narrowing his eyes at him.
Yamato's dark crimson eyes silted angrily, twisting his wrist with Coyote's Dark Claw merged with his elemental power. "Shut up you heartless bastard! Coyote's Dark Claw – METAL!" He roared, leaped in the air and rising his metal claws above his head.
Khu sighed, dodged the attack and leaped to another steel pikes. "I have no desire to fight you, Yamato." He replied calmly, continues dodged the angry attacks.
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1,500 years ago… before Dark War began
The shadow figure had the dark brown hood over his face, walking lonely on the path in the rain. One of the black boots stepped in the view of the loner's sight, as he looked back revealing his rare color eyes.
Amethyst…
"Xuan…." The owner of the black boots hissed quietly, glaring at the amethyst eyes of a young man. "Why are you betray your own team? Betrayed your own brother? Betrayed my trust in you…"
He narrowed his blood red eyes angrily, holding back his tears. "…Why?"
"I have no desire to reveal anything to you…." Xuan relayed, looking directly at the crimson eyes of the another man. He smirked humorous at him and he added, "…Zalo."
Blood…
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Xiao Lin panicked, seeing the child collapsed on the side of the mountain trail and flapped over to the unconscious child. "Kobo….? Kobo…? KOBO, wake up!"
Kobo closed his eyes silently not aware of his spirit slip into the dream state he was in. His fate was balanced on the life and the death on the line.
Vision began
Snake-like yellow eyes…
The blade struck in the silver ground… with the taint of blood…
The mirror shattered…
The black fox with amethyst eyes howled in pain, being swallowed in darkness…
The wind swept followed by the lightning…
The rod bolted, struck into the body of an immortal demon…
A spirit ancestor of the hybrid child…
Vision ended
Xiao Lin look so completed lost, being unable to revived him from being in the coma. He used to be a human long ago…
"Panicking again, don't you Xiao?"
The white falcon froze at the familiar voice spoke behind his back and turned his head to stare at the young blond girl and the Moonstone Sprout in her hand.
She looks so familiar….
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Forest eyes darted back at the two Heylin warriors fought each other, leaping from silver steel spikes to another, he turned and seized up the amethyst orb with his unwounded arm.
Raimundo jerked his arm backward with a warning cry, hurled the orb toward at Khu. "KHU, CATCH IT!" He yelled catching the young warrior's attention.
Khu turned his head, seeing the dark amethyst orb flew toward him and quickly caught it with his hand. Squeezing the round ball into his palm tightly, it glowered gently around his fist and he leaped into the air to aim at Yamato.
"Wudai Comet Darkness!" Khu yelled, opening his palm and blasted the giant black comet at Yamato.
Yamato's crimson eyes widened in surprise, blocking his arms over his face and being smashed by the giant black comet. The black dust exploded all over the spot where the Heylin Tiger of Metal was standing, almost blinding the Xiaolin Dragons.
Khu landed on one of the silver steel pikes, looking back at the black dust cloud and frowned at the sight. I do hope I do not kill him by accidentally… He thought.
Suddenly, the silver-like metal snake lashed out of the black dust and through Khu's shoulder flesh, spiting the blood. Khu's amethyst eyes widened in pain and surprise at same time, flying backward onto the metal wall with his bleeding shoulder. "Ooof!"
"Aseso!" Raimundo yelled, running after his cousin and being followed by his teammates. But suddenly, the freezing steel cage popped out of the ground and caged them inside, surprising the Xiaolin Dragons.
"Wha…!" Raimundo said startled, grasping the silver bars and shaking them violently. "What's going on!"
"Why'd Yamato trapped us in this cage!" Omi shouted angrily, kicking and punching at the freezing steel bars. "Why won't they break?"
"Yamato do not make them, young monk…" A dark person replied laughing. "I am. Freezing Steel is made of ice and metal.. Very skillful weapons, isn't it?"
Raimundo narrowed his forest eyes and glared at the dark person. "Who are you!" He asked snarling, gripped on the silver bars angrily.
The dark brown haired man looked up at them revealing their eyes made of dull golden, causing the Xiaolin Dragons shivered at the cold glaze of a dark immortal lord. He looked almost like the adult version of Khu except for a purple birthmark on his right cheek under his eyelid. He was wearing the first Heylin Tiger robe, black robe and bright purple on his chest armor with a golden collar with black second collar.
"Oh…. You didn't really recognize me, Hybrid… or should I say, reincarnation of Shinyu the traitor and Lady Kisara?" He mocked, smirking at the enraged brunette boy.
"You are the Dark Lord Ariko, am I correct?" Raimundo growled, glaring icily at Lord Ariko.
"Bingo!" Lord Ariko grinned, revealing his bright white fangs. "My, you're much smarter than you looks."
An angry vein popped on young brunette boy's forehead, boiling at the laughing villain and gritted his teeth angrily. "Shut up!" He snapped, shaking the silver bars in his hands.
"Now, now, now. No need breaking bars, Hybrid." Lord Ariko scolded playful, shaking his head slowly. "Those are nearly impossible to be broken."
He eyed the medallion, frowning at the reminder of his young so-called brother.
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Laying in the blood pool, the white priest seems sleeping dead with the blood stained on his chest. Slitting the cold amethyst eyes, he turned away from the white priest and only to faced with the familiar softened light sky blue eyes.
"Kisara…." He said taken back in surprise, staring confused at the graceful and innocent priestess warrior. "I…"
"Why…?" Kisara asked, her light blue eyes clouded with tears. "Xuan… why must you kill my brother Xiao Lin?"
Betrayal…
Xuan's amethyst eyes softened, reaching for her but to his heart breaks when she moved away in frightful. "…Kisara…"
"What would Shinyu thinks when he found out…" Kisara said softly, turned around and ran.
Trust no one…
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Lord Ariko turned his head back, watching Khu stumped clutching his shoulder painfully. "It must be exciting to know how the battle turns to be." He said, smiling at the sight of great battle. "One of them will died either way or they will be destroyed as well."
Being trapped in the steel molten cage, Raimundo clutched the steel bars and shaking them in furiously. "YOU BASTARD!"
Laughing dark golden eyes, the dark lord turned his head back to the Brazilian boy. "Oh.. I am? You took quite nice after the fool Shinyu… Your eyes and that traitor's medallion after all."
"Why do you do that!" Kimiko yelled outraged, narrowing her dark blue eyes. "Why you turn Yamato against Khu!"
Smiling widely, Lord Ariko laughed coldly at the words. "My dear fire… The old hatred between Yamato and Khu… Just like my old dear friend Zalo and I… It had never changed after all years…"
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Xiao Lin gaped in surprise at her. "You're…alive?"
Lizzy smirked, tossing the moonstone sprout in the air. "In the blood and flesh…" She said kneed next to the unconscious child and lift his head up, pouring the medicine she'd made from the moonstone sprout into the barely mouth opened. Once she done poured in the child's mouth and placed his head back on the black ground. "He's fine now." She replied, flashing a grin at Xiao Lin.
"How did you stay young… oh wait, your power." Xiao Lin said, smacking his forehead with his white wings. "Lizgon…"
Lizzy turned her head upward at the blackening sky, smiling softly. "Xiao, how did you get in the body of a eagle?"
"A Falcon!" Xiao Lin snapped, glaring at her. "Not bald white huge bird!"
Lizzy chuckled softly, shaking her light blond hairs in the air. "You didn't answer it right."
Xiao Lin huffed angrily, rolling his eyes. "Even heard of a Reincarnating?" He squawked, landed on the female warrior's shoulder. "But… how come I don't sense your aura or even if you're gone I could have sense it right now."
Lizzy smiled secretly at the white falcon. "Because of freezing coffin… Lose my power of course…"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Xiao Lin screeched, dropping his jaw onto ground and staring blankly at her.
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"You bastard!"
Xuan turned his head and staring calmly at the angry warrior in the black and silver Heylin Tiger robe. "Zalo. What a surprising to see you here."
"Cut peep chat! What have you done to Xiao Lin!" Zalo snarled, narrowing his crimson eyes and jerked his metal fist with deadly claws. "Tell me a truth, no lies!"
Laughing amethyst eyes lit up at the comment, he smirked coldly at the Heylin Tiger of Metal. "I merely break him with my shadow blade… He was simply defeated."
"Why you!" Zalo roared, leaping after Xuan. "I should have known you're up to something!"
"Oh really?" Xuan asked in mock surprise, blocking the punch attack with his shadow blade. "Tell me something… What is a darkness?"
Zalo frowned at the question, leaping back on the ground and glaring fierceness at the Heylin Tiger of Darkness. "What the hell are you talking about, traitor!"
"A dark source of the light… Once it tasted a lie, it grew stronger and darker… Once it taste a betrayal, it great hatred and sorrowful… Once it tasted a death, it great insane and killing flesh…" Xuan prophesied, smiling darkly.
"What the hell?" Zalo asked confused with an angry expression, continued glaring at Xuan. "Quit it singing! It makes no sense!"
A dark source of the light…
A whole soul spilt up…
A yang soul…
A ying soul…
One held a body with full of black heart…
One held a memory with full of pure innocence…
One carried with heavy guilt of regret…
One carried with heavy lust of killing…
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Khu leaped, gripping the halt of the Shadow Blade and rising it over his head while wincing at the pain pulsed in his shoulder. His eyes caught the sight of his once so-called teammate and his hidden anger trigged by accidentally.
Slitting his amethyst eyes, Khu swung his Shadow Blade and snarled silently. "SHADOW BLADE DARKNESS!"
The red outline of the black blade in the shadow wind whirling toward the steel-spiking mountain where Yamato was standing.
Yamato's crimson eyes widened in fear, his eyes reflecting of the deadly wind-blade in front of him. His elemental power shielded him into the barrier of the steel molten liquid, trying to halt the deadly attack.
Cracccccccck!
Crimson eyes widened in surprise, he escaped barely as the steel barrier exploded with the powerful attack of the dark Shadow Blade and the Heylin of Metal landed on the silver pikes like a graceful cat.
How in the world did he gotten even stronger? Yamato thought panting and wheezed, narrowing his eyes at the silent warrior in few yards away with the cold look on his face.
Damnit…
He thought he was seeing the silent warrior's expression fell with a look of regret but quickly replaced with a bold look by a second. I have to kill him… or my life won't be rested knowing my parents unable to be avenged…
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Regret…
The long dark brown haired boy groaned, laying on the crimson pool of his blood and the blank expression on his face. Suddenly, he was in the arms of warm enhanced…
His young brother… Shinyu…
"Shinyuuu… I am sorry for all pain I have caused for your teammates and friends…" He gasped, glazing up weakly at the young face of his brother. "I gave up half of my soul… to the great evil… now I've regret to accept it…"
Shinyu's expression softened sadly, his forest eyes watered with despair. "Xuan…"
Xuan smiled weakly, gripping his brother's hand and slowly limping in his arms. The final thought leaving his mind, wondering his sin can be forgiven…
For all he have done so horrible…
His amethyst eyes sparked was gone and dulled…
Shinyu mourned over his loss of a sibling, crying with his hands on his face… Xuan…
Xuan was sleeping in the ancient coffin, being burned from the first Xiaolin Dragon of Fire until his flesh turned into ash and flowing into the graceful wind. But…
His half soul was still alive in his dead body, the dark side, awakened and risen up… Becoming very known as Lord Ariko…
The blue feather continuing flowed into the graceful wind… over the another lost soul reincarnation of the last Heylin of Darkness…
Amethyst eyes…
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Raimundo can feel almost as if it were a simply memory stirred inside a part of his memory, blinking confused. "Aseso…"
He turned his head over his shoulder, looking at the silent warrior. He noticed the sad and regret expression on his cousin's face and looking at him closed his eyes quietly.
And then…
His cousin opened his amethyst eyes, looking lack of sparking in his eye with a frown…
A look of regrets and pains from the ancient memory…
A blue feather vanished in the sight of the silent warrior and the brunette boy's eyes.
Khu narrowed his amethyst eyes, gripping his hilt even tightly than before and bracing himself for fighting against Yamato.
A battle just beginning.
End of Chapter 17
Me: (chasing Draio with a long hook and a short needle) Draioooooo! You need to take a shot! Doctor orders!
Draio: Nooooooooooooooo! (wailing)
Khu: (sigh) Time for Sneak Peek…
Sneak Peek
Yamato snarled, turning back and glared fierceness at Khu. "You bastard…"
Khu frowned, feeling an odd familiar sensation tugged at his heart. Where did it came from…? He thought blinking in confusion.
"YAI-AH!"
Khu looked up startling to see Yamato in the air and being shoved off by his kicking attack over the million of pikes pit.
"Aseso!"
"Khu!"
"No!"
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Kobo blinked, staring at Lizzy and back to Xiao Lin and then at Lizzy again. "You two know each other…?"
Lizzy snorted, looking amused. "Old friend… Indeed.."
Xiao Lin's eyelid twitch annoyingly, glared at his old friend. "No kidding…"
Kobo blinked confusing at their behavior and realized something. "Lobo! I almost forget about them!" He yelled, turned and ran.
"Hey kid!" Lizzy yelled after him, running as well.
Xiao Lin sighed shaking his head in amused. "Those kids days…"
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"Wudai Meteor Metal!"
Khu's eyes widened in surprise and confused at the new attack. "That's impossible!"
End of Sneak Peek.
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