Me: (appeared and blinking at TobasHawk13) Well, Lizgon is something I made up. Lizzy is a nickname I got from my cousin, it is now remained with me forever since. She picked up three vowels from my real name "Liz" in between first two letters and last one letter. Don't even think of how many names with "liz".--;; Oh and you love Draio? OO Oh well, have fun with him. (tossed Draio to TobasHawk13) Send him back when you're done. (grin)
Draio: T-T oh, mercy!
Me: Oh and… dArkiTe-sPirit? (pulling her away from the full of readers) You're spoiled the surprise… T-T But closer enough, really. Here's treat! (toss Halloween cookie with a vampire Raimundo's face to dArkiTe-sPirit)
Lobo: T-T But those are mine…
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 18: A Deadly Battle – Part 1
A battle just beginning.
Crimson eyes and Amethyst eyes glaring coldly at each other, clutching their fists in silent anger. Khu looked up at him, clutching his bleeding shoulder while he struggled to stand still, watching his ex-friend walked toward him.
Yamato… What's happening to you?
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The time of the great night,
The dark war in between the good and the evil...
The wind blows,
The lightning strikes,
The earth rumbles,
The water flooding,
The wood lashes,
The fire burns,
The shadow stalks,
The metal clanks,
The light shines,
And the darkness spreads.
A stream of life that flows around the planet,
The source of the planet and every life that lives on it…
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What's happening…? I feel the planet weakened… So I am, but stronger than before…
Who is the girl…?
"Look, he's waking up!"
Xiao Lin…
"Well, good. I haven't got all day, since I heard the death of battle already began!"
Battle…? Who's fighting whom?
Khu…
And Yamato…
I have to stop them before it's too late…
Kobo stirred, lift his hand and touched his forehead while he blinks at the blackening sky and at the girl. "You're the one… I saw before I blacked out…" He said, rubbing his forehead and realized his fever was already gone. "Poison…"
"Is gone now." Lizzy answered, grinning down at the child. "At least you're stronger than I expected to. Just like your ancestor do."
Xiao Lin sighed, shaking his head. "You're always impossible, Lizgon…"
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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However, one of the great warriors betrayed his teammates…
The great warrior of the darkness named Xuan, he began to hold a grudge…
Against the four Gods…
Giving up half of his soul to the great evil, the demon…
The same demon who gave the immortal potion to the great warrior, Chase Young…
The demon revealed known as Ariko…
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Lord Ariko watched at the great battle, smiling calmly. It didn't matter which one died first, I can steal the soul from the victor.
"Wudai Crater Earth!"
His smile quickly disappeared and an annoyed frown replaced his smile, he turned around and chopped his hand through the small giant rock.
The rock shattered around him, harmless falling on the ground as Lord Ariko smirked at the trapped Xiaolin Dragons in the steel cage. "Nice try, Dragon of Earth. Who's next, hmm?" He said, titling his head to side with a smile.
"Wudai Star WIND!"
"Wudai Mars FIRE!"
"Wudai Neptune WATER!"
"Wudai Crater EARTH!"
The wind whirling, joining with the giant wave of the fire and then followed by the spiral of the holy water and merged with the giant rock becoming into the one like a comet. It lashing toward the dark lord, the immortal demon, stood on the cliff and smiling still.
Just like all of Xiaolin Dragons' ancestors…
How ironic…
Lord Ariko's golden eyes glowing yellow light, the steel liquid flowing upward from the ground and swirling into the silver barrier. It blocked against the comet, dissolving it into thin air and vanished quickly as the silver barrier flowed back into the metal ground.
Raimundo's forest eyes widened in surprise and so are his friends as he heard exclaiming in disbelief from Omi and Kimiko. But how…
And then he remembered. First Susku, Meku, Yaki, and then Roi…
Just like all other demons… He realized, clutching his fists tightly. Now I understood… He's planning all along… He's not taking over the planet, but he's going to destroy the planet!
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Ariko created all evil beasts, demons, and other dark warriors…
Known as Heylin Beasts…
Hannibal Roy Bean, the Heylin demon…
Wuya, the Heylin Witch…
Mala Mala Jong, the demonic warrior…
Zypklope, the giant yet clumsy Heylin Cyclops…
Invisido, the invisible demon…
Sabeeny, the evil spirit…
Raksha, the snow demon…
Dyris, the Heylin mermaid…
Lierre (known as Gigi), the plant demon…
Lord Susku, the ocean demon…
Lady Meku, the forest demon…
Lord Yuki, the steel demon…
And Lady Roi, the lava demon…
All the great evil beasts and dark warriors flowed over the villages,
Destroying every lives of the living ones that lives on the planet…
Until then, Dashi came…
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"Ugh…. My head…" Lobo groaned, standing up with help of Ciara and rubbing his head in pain. "I feel like a giant STEEL truck ran over me…"
Ciara sighed, looking back to the battle. "We have to hurry up! Khu's fighting Yamato."
Lobo looked up quickly at her and groans, clutching his head. "What! Oh, my head…."
Ciara huffed angrily, glaring at Lobo. "Relax! You'll recovering soon. C'mon now!" She said, turning around and was about to run. Suddenly, the small rock lashed out of the sky and falls on poor Lobo's head as the werewolf boy's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and his tongue stick out while his teeth grounded together.
"…Lobo?" Ciara said, recovered from the shock and stared at the werewolf.
"…. Ouch…" He replied as a rock fell off his head and onto the ground. He rolled his eyes back into his head and his head titled upward….
And then he faints.
"Lobo?" Ciara asked, sweatdropped with a sigh cloud. "Not this again…"
"Ciara!"
The Heylin Tiger of Wood turned her head back to find Kobo, Xiao Lin and the girl she didn't know running down toward to her and the again unconscious werewolf.
"Kobo? Wait, your face… they're returning to normal!" Ciara asked, her dark hazel eyes widened. "That means… you're healed!"
Kobo nodded, beaming happily at Ciara and stared down at the unconscious werewolf with a throbbing bump on the head. "…What happened to him?"
Ciara sighed, her hand slapped her face and mumbled quietly, "He woke up but he was knocked out cold by a rock again…"
"Well, wake him up again!" Xiao Lin yelled, flapping his wings getting impatient.
Ciara sighed again, kneed next to unconscious werewolf and shaking his shoulder gently. "Lobo? Wake up… please?" She said quietly and then she froze, her eyes widened as she feel something brushing on her rear.
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Khu fell on his knee, huffing as he landed on the high small ground and looked up at the attacker. He can feel the blood spread down from his wounded and dripping onto the steel ground. Yamato turned around, his steel claws dripped with Khu's blood, narrowing his cold crimson eyes and the look on his face chilling down to your spine.
Khu gritted his teeth, trying to ignore his pain as he struggled to get up.
Yamato frowned at him, leaped attacking at the wounded warrior. "Why don't you stay down!" He roared, sharpened his claws at the dark warrior.
Khu looked up frowning, sidestepped as Yamato attacked past him and skipped to stop, snarling furiously. "You had to stop this all nonsense, Yamato!" He yelled, clutching his shoulder still.
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 come 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!"
Amethyst eyes widened in surprise and his emotions in his eyes betrayed him, a look of fear and sadness on his face as he glazed up at his friend while he was falling down to the deadly pikes pit like a fallen angel.
It was like a slow time passed each second, he thought to himself falling. Everyone says your life flashed before your eyes…
Lord Ariko smirked, his golden eyes slits with a delighted look.
Raimundo clutched the metal bars with his eyes widened and shrugging with his strength. "ASESO!" He screamed. The sparks of the lightning flowing slowly around his fingers, sensing his angers and fears that brought it to life.
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Dashi's sacred power angered the dark lord, victory over his beasts and best warriors.
Shinyu… One of his best warriors…betrayed him by protecting Dashi…
He slain the traitor and was about to kill Dashi.
But… he realized his true power – the true power of darkness – didn't revealed. It was like it disappeared after Xuan's death. He roared with a great anger.
The Source was taken and hid away from the angry lord.
The Source is within Xuan's life but Lord knew Xuan's dead and had to find the Source.
He was trapped in the black orb by Grandmaster and knew he will wait…
Until he would be freed once again.
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Yamato opened his arms, summoning all of his power and the steel liquid pikes came to life, lashing like striking snakes. He glared down at the falling wounded warrior and he aimed his arms down at him, grinning insane.
"WUDAI METEOR METAL!"
Still falling to his doom, Khu widened his amethyst eyes in surprise and disbelief at the steel meteor merged by the metal-striking snakes. "That's impossible!" He exclaimed to himself, gripping his Shadow Blade and cursing softly as his pain throbbed again.
He knew he was trapped in between the rock and the hard place… Either that, he was going to die. He wouldn't let it happen.
He closed his eyes tightly, taking a deep breath as he lift his sword over his head and ready to attack the giant metal meteor.
He can hear the Xiaolin Dragons screaming his name over and over again with full of fears and worries, including his cousin.
"ASESO!"
The black sky swirling with the gray clouds, like an evil sign of the doom, as hearing Khu's silent command. The evil swirling power flowing over the Shadow Blade as he swung his sword at the meteor while he didn't realized how powerful the dark side of the Shadow Blade could be…
"WUDAI COMET DARKNESS SHADOW BLADE!"
End of Chapter 18
Me: (clutching her headache) It's throbbing…painfully, really! (falls unconscious) X-x
Kobo: Is she okay?
Yamato: (snort) It was her fault for running around with high sugar and scaring children away with a creepy smile. It is already wearing her out.
Khu: (sigh) Time for Sneak Peek…
Sneak Peek
Yamato fell down to his knee, clutching his arms as he was bleeding badly. He glared at the wounded warrior. He spat blood on the steel ground and panting heavy, "Khu…why'd you had to go and saved my life?"
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Ariko's eyes widened as the Dragon of Wind's power of great wind shattered the freezing bars out of the cage and charging toward the dark lord.
"Wudai Star Wind!" Raimundo roared with full of hatred, lashing out his fist at him.
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"Guan…" Chase Young's dragon eyes narrowed at his best friend and gripped his best weapon. "What are you doing here?"
End of Sneak Peek.
Khu: Don't forget to review this before you leaves. (sips tea)
Yamato: Cut it out, it's annoying!
Khu: (give Yama a look) Hmm..? Did I hear a voice? Yama, did you say something?
Yamato: Arg!