Me: Uh… (cleared her throat) dArkliTe-sPirit, there is one of them will die in next two chapters. Also someone will be almost dead in next chapter.
Zalo: (in spooky voice) "There shall be a sacrifice… A life for a life…" in next third chapter…
Me: (glare at Zalo) You're scaring them… (dangerously low tone) Zalo…
Zalo: Humph. (sulking away)
((in background, Ariko run screaming while the angry mob from dArkliTe-sPirit, Kosmic, and other fangirls.))
Ciara: Disclaimer: Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown and its characters but her sheng-gong-wu and her ideas.
Yanji and Lobo: Onto the story, enjoy!
Chapter 23: Shinyu's Wish
Previously
"SHADOW BLADE, DARKNESS CYCLONE!"
Marcos snapped out of his trance and stared in surprise at the black hurricane with red ball flying rapidly toward him, tearing up the earth to reach for him.
He stepped back in horror at such powerful attack in front of him and he was suddenly pushed down on the ground as he saw another boy holding the huge sword over his shoulder.
"Stay down!" Another boy yelled down at Marcos. "Hold on, you idiot!"
Marcos braced himself, shielding his arms over his head as he watched the boy stood in front of him facing the huge attack.
Yamato yelled out as he swung the huge sword over his shoulder forward so powerful force at the approaching storm. As the powerful force tearing up the silver ground with strange blue lightning all over the ground, as the white glowing ball toward the attack and then it collided the enemy's attack.
The black hurricane cannot hold back the attack and being swallowed by the strange attack. It continued toward to the puppet.
Khu's dull amethyst eyes widened in shock and terror. "No!" He yelled threw his arms over his face as it went flying around him and shattered his own blade with its powerful force. The sharp invisible blade of wind tearing up the silent warrior's clothes, lashing out its wind on his cheek and leaving him bleed.
The huge flash of the white light as Yamato watching it with pure stunned on his face and Marcos stared in horror and stunned while he was shielding his arms over his head.
Until the white light disappeared, revealing the bad wounded Khu panting with angry look and he looked like he could barely to stand still.
Yamato sighed in relief to seeing his leader still being alive, but knowing the puppet still under the stupid lord's control. "Damn…he's still under control." He growled quietly, lowering his huge sword.
Marcos looked up at him in surprise and confused until he realized what's going on. "Aseso…" He whispered, pushing himself off the ground and stood up. "What could we do snap him out of this control?"
Yamato gritted his teeth as he looked back at the older boy and realized that boy does look like mix in between Khu and Raimundo. He assumed that older boy was a Pedsora too but he didn't know if he is Khu's brother or cousin.
"I… don't know." Yamato said finally, looking back to Khu. "Until we had to do something or die trying."
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And then he remembered something as his pale silver eyes widened in terror when he realized his vision.
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…
"Khu!" He gasped as he sits forward startling the mistress and winced at his wound. "I have to go!"
"Take me back to them!" Kobo demanded turning around and stared at her with serious look. "Now!"
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Wuya narrowed his cold light green eyes at the evil demon spirit. "Lord Ariko, what a surprise to see you that you are a spirit no more than a solid being." She said in disgusted.
The demon spirit grinned wolfishly down at her. "And then you are sadly mistaken, Wuya."
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He wasn't on the black land, fighting against Yamato. Unless… his amethyst eyes widened as he saw the familiar temple and familiar people.
I'm in my ancestor's own time!
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Afterward
Yamato stood forward while Marcos was behind his back, looking at his young brother was still in pain yet he wasn't aware of bleeding to death.
Aseso… Marcos thought sadly, watching him get back on his feet and his amethyst eyes locked his own eyes. He held his breath as he stared at the empty, almost black void in his brother's eyes. Just like he had no soul… or what was all he had left of in him…
But what he truly don't know that his brother had a half soul still clinging in somewhere in him.
Suddenly, he heard a low growling in front of him and he glanced back at Yamato but to his surprise, he saw the boy's eyes glowing dark red like blood…
What's going on…?
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The Serpent smirked at the two powerful warriors as he altered into very human-looking cobra in the ancient armor robe. "You are very missssssstaken, my dear Wuya." He hissed smirking at the witch. "You never did listen to your ssssssssister, did you?"
The snake smiled coldly as his dull yellow eyes lit up knowingly at the mention of Wuya's sister, Jiro.
Wuya scowled darkly and narrowed her cold light green eyes sharply at the shape-changing vampire demon. "…"
"I do remember you… I offered you a great dream of a powerful ruler, foolish witch. Jiro warned you not to take it lightly." The Serpent laughed cold and empty in his tone. "Greedy and Jealous are your own downfall!"
"SHUT UP!" Wuya snarled, clutching her fists as the light green flame lit up on each of her hands. "I'LL KILL YOU!"
The Heylin Witch hurled the green fireballs at the shape-changing vampire demon but to her startled look when the snake waved the attack off carelessly like swapping a tiny fly.
But how?
"It seem you did not learned a lesson from your dear mother." The Serpent smiled extensively as his dull eyes seem amusement at the weak attack. "Sadly, you could not win over young Dashi in a showdown. Instead of killing him, you fell for his clever trick."
He smiled seeing a young witch's eyes widened in shock. "Yes. I know about your defeat, little girl." His dull yellow eyes switched from the fuming witch to the cursed immortal warrior. "Ah, Chase Young… also fell for my trick."
Chase narrowed his golden dragon-eyes silently, eyeing at the vampire demon.
"I sent my dear old friend to brought you to our side. Tricking you into drinking the forbidden soul, won't we dear old friend Chase?" The Serpent grinned playful, walking calmly to the warrior. "Being blind by lies and turn against your own best friend."
Without waiting for the warrior's respond, the serpent turned around and walked away from him grinning. "Falling to your knees at the mercy of the great evil like usual, Chase. You are like me. Become what you are… a full blood beast. Monster. Freak."
"Snake Killing Bird!"
The Serpent leaped out of the strike blow and landed on few yard from Chase Young's blow. As he turned and dashed after the dragon-eyed warrior, he raises his long claws in the air above his head.
"Tiger Leaping Air!"
"Dogs Playing Poker!"
"Rattlesnake Poisoning Mouse!"
"Cat Playing Yarns!"
"Lizard Swapping Tail!"
Chase was taken back in surprise by suddenly double swapped and being thrown backward at least thousand yards from the demon. "ARG!"
The Serpent snickered quietly as he returned back to walking again. "You should learn to watch out for tail as a back up while dodging a kick blow."
"THAT'S CHEATING!" Lobo howled, glaring hatefully at the demon. "You don't have a tail while ago!"
And it was true, when the Serpent was turned into a human-like form, as he had no tail until now.
He turned back to the wounded werewolf and the young new witch… His eyes narrowed at the green haired girl. She does look like Jiro, except for she don't have a long hair like her.
"Foolish mutt," The vampire grinned. "Have you forgotten I am a shaping-changer, meaning I can changing any forms. Unlike your so called magical object."
Lobo growled his long ears backed angrily, about to step forward toward the demon but then suddenly the serpent was thrown backward on the ground.
The Serpent demon narrowed his eyes sharply as he got up in a flash and turned around to see the cursed immortal warrior. "Impressive." He hissed deadly, clicking his claws quietly as he eyed at the beast man.
Chase flipped backward and landed on the ground, remain in his fighting position as he glared hateful at the serpent.
As the serpent opened his mouth as the flaming ball blasted from his mouth and it flew toward the older man.
"Master Young!"
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He wandered aimlessly in one of the small town, unlike any town in the future, it looks really small area with million of hut-like houses. As his thought wandered off to his friends, he sighed wondered what his loyal friends are doing without him.
He smiled when he thought of the hothead temper ex-rival friend, Yamato. Ironic, he thought amused, he always wanted to be the leader but now he is without me being there.
"WATCH OUT!"
His amethyst eyes widened in surprise and he leaped out of the way as the cart being carried by a young boy dashed in amazing speed past him.
A man walked past him wearing an odd-looking hat on top of his head and smiled at his direction with his greeting nod before he left.
His amethyst eyes widened again, he stared at them in disbelief and scratching behind his head. Didn't he suppose to be invisible to the human's eyes in the past?
"Lost, eh?"
He turned to the voice behind his back and stared at the older werewolf. "Lobo?"
The older werewolf was taken back and blinking confusedly at first until he threw his head back and laughed. "Bah ha ha ha! Heck NO! I'm Yanji Wolf."
He stared at the laughing werewolf and realized suddenly, the person in front of him was Lobo's ancestor. Surely, Lobo's ancestor looked almost like Lobo in adult version.
Then the werewolf glanced down and up at him and grinned playful. "A robe style, eh?" He teased watching the youth reacted.
"No. It's not." He shook his head flustered. "What are you doing up at the time of night?"
Yanji blinked and sighed. "Well, at training outside of this area." As he look gloomy at the mention of the training, until then he beamed toward the youth. "Wanna drink sake, boy?"
The youth stared at him oddly. "Am I not that too young for this?" He asked rising one of his eyebrow at the older werewolf.
Yanji laughed gleefully, shaking his head as his long ears twitched happily. "True, true, true! You're reminding me of the two rebellious brothers. Especially Shinyu!"
He perked up at the name of the lighting warrior. "Shinyu? Show me where he is."
"Of course." Yanji sighed sullenly, leading the youth to the rebel's house. "This is his house, kid."
Suddenly, the older werewolf grinned wolfishly at someone he seem recognized with his eyes lit up and crept up to her…
…And then he groped the forbidden area and the woman shrieked angrily, swinging her fist onto the face of the lecherous werewolf.
"LECHEROUS WEREWOLF!"
SMACK!
"YIEEEEE!"
THUD!
"OW!"
The woman fumed down at him angrily and stalking off to one of her friend's house, leaving poor unconscious werewolf on the ground. The youth sweat drop a little at the sight of the lecherous man. Indeed, he thought to himself chuckling quietly, he is truly Lobo's ancestor.
Suddenly, a sigh from behind him, startling him as he turned around and see the wild brown haired man with a familiar sparkling dark green eyes.
And he noticed the man also wearing a golden medallion as well.
"Typical Yanji…" The wild brown haired man replied with a dry chuckle. "Hmm? Who are you might be?" He asked when he finally noticed the youth.
"Khu..." The youth answered, looking up at him with his amethyst eyes as the man was taken back in surprise to the youth's eyes.
"Oddly, your eyes…"
Khu blinked at him and raises one of his eyebrow. "Huh?"
The man shook his head with an amused smile and waving it off carelessly, "Never mind, kid. I'm Shinyu."
"What about the woman that Yanji was hitting on?" Khu asked looking back at the still unconscious werewolf on the ground.
Shinyu laughed shaking his head as some of his hair fell covered his eyes. "Her name is Jiro. Come in if you wish." He turned back to his house, knowing the youth was following him in.
Khu stepped forward in the hut and sighed, looking around in the living room and his own eyes met the soft light blue-silver eyes. He stepped back in surprise to see the First Xiaolin Dragon of Wind was sitting on one of the pillow.
Kisara.
The light-pale blue haired woman blinked at the newcomer and smiled with a great kindness to him. "Welcome, young traveler, my soon to be husband told me you're staying at our house."
Khu raise an eyebrow up at the older girl's kindness. 'She does remind me of my cousin. He had same kindness as she had.'
When the woman stood up from her seat spot, Khu noticed that she had a swell stomach that it was able to be visible and when it hits him in full speed.
Their unborn son!
"His name will be Alvaro…" Kisara answered, seeing the youth's expression. "It means "guard of all," young one."
Alvaro…
'Alvaro was Uncle Miguel's great, great, great, great grandfather.' The youth thought in surprise and grateful that he heard the great stories from his uncle's late grandfather since he was a young child.
He tried to think of ways what he's saying to the Xiaolin Dragon of Wind and he opened his mouth but the words weren't from him.
"When he will be born in this world, Miss?" A cold voice startled him.
Khu turned to see the man stood at the doorway scowling at the woman; dressing in black and dark grayish-blue robes. What startling him ever more was see the familiar eyes.
Crimson eyes.
Yamato's true nature color eyes suddenly come to his mind.
"About two next moons, Zalo." Kisara replied, unaffected by the cold look from the angry man. Khu noticed the man, Zalo, narrowed his crimson eyes and snorted rudely at the unafraid dragon.
"Once if He found out you're carrying one of his best warrior's child, oh so enemy of mine, he will come down and kill you along with the child with forbidden power." Zalo snarled glaring at Kisara while he ignored the newcomer stood next to them.
Kisara turned her head and glared coldly at the ill-temper man. "I would like to see him try and take my child away from me. Why so all sudden, you're once a kind heart like yesterday until one day you and the others suddenly become so cold and tyrants?"
Zalo's crimson eyes switched from the girl's eyes to the ground as if it were looks interesting in them. "You wouldn't understand."
Kisara's hardened eyes softened and closed her eyes, sighing sadly. "I understand. One of those days, you'll do what you know is right thing and this will be your death."
The cold and hateful dark crimson eyes locked into the warm and loveable pale blue eyes. Zalo looked away from the kind heart that girl had possessed and noticed the youth. "Kisara, I must to go back to…"
A long, sad sigh from the Xiaolin Dragon of Wind, "To the Lake of Demon Susku, I know. Trust me, he's bad news."
Khu caught the familiar name of the demon. 'Susku? Wait, I remember. Susku was the one who killed Zalo.' His amethyst eyes widened in realization as he watched the Heylin Tiger of Metal walked back to the door and paused for a moment.
"Yeah. I know. I'm only one who could strike back at very heart…" He looked back at Kisara with a small smile. "If Xuan and I knew each other before the war's beginning, would a friendship be going on? But now I will not go back against my word that I would be the one to beat him…"
"But he's under control, Zalo!"
"… I know. It won't change my mind. Under control or not, he still owns me a fight and he will have a chance to show who's strongest warrior." He said as he left.
Khu's eyes lowered to the floor, as he knew Zalo never had chance to fight against Xuan after two month.
"That Zalo..." He looked up at the woman who said so soft and small voice. "A fight he want will never comes to him no matter how determined he is."
Kisara looked right at the youth with a bright smile. "How silly that I am, worrying over his safety. Would you like to a tea?" Her eyes suddenly sad at the mention of a tea and sighed as she sits down on the pillow-like seat.
"Why are you sad?" Khu cannot help by questioning her as his amethyst eyes falls on the tea. Tea… Why at the mention of tea makes her so sad and heartbroken?
"Xuan's favorite jasmine green tea. He would come to my house and ask for his tea." She smiled at the memory. "The first time I met him, to my own surprise so I would expect him to be so much determine like Zalo and strong-head like Shinyu. But he looks so peaceful and calmly, he looks at me and asked me 'Milady, would you please tell me you have a jasmine tea? Oh! And don't tell my brother, he hates Jasmine and would do anything to get rid of it.' He shot me a playful smirk so almost match his brother's." She laughed.
"Until then Shinyu came in and yells at him for leaving him alone with the lecherous drunken Lobo and poor young small monk who can't tell difference between genders. Then he noticed me, he turns red and laughing awkwardly, what a strange greeting of course. Instead of greeting polite, he make a remark so I would be angry and hit him in arm."
Khu smiled, remembering the same situation when it came to his cousin and his crush love. As he politely asked for a tea and took a few sips while his amethyst eyes closed at same time.
Until then he opened his amethyst eyes, to his own surprise, to finds the forest near lake that instead of with Kisara, he was with Zalo.
Zalo did not see him. But instead of at him, he was looking at the sky.
"There you are, Zalo!" Khu turned his head toward the familiar sound of voice and saw Shinyu walked to them.
He had a strange feeling that soon is after this; the death will be Zalo's. 'But, why is there more to it,' he wondered, 'after Zalo's death, there would be soon turn into worse had happen to them. Especially Shinyu.'
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Yamato snarled his red glowing eyes as the strange green-bluish mist around him, slowly transforming him into very beast like his master.
Marco's eyes widened in surprise at before the silver beast in front of him. What's happening! He thought in surprise and horrific at the new scene he wasn't used to it.
"Kill!"
"Don't! You're going to kill him!" Marcos yelled seeing Yamato leaped toward his young brother and landed on the injured shoulder he had nickered earlier.
Khu was thrown and landed on his back, staring up at the furious face of the silver beast with his emotionless face. Almost as if he knew it was coming to him and dragging him to his doom.
The beast snarled down at the calming leader as he raises his black claws in the air. Kill, Kill, and kill the puppet! All words repeating in his own mind as his slitting red crimson eyes laid on the cold, void of black amethyst eyes.
He could feel his great anger was still at raging and the thirsty of killing his rival. Khu is a powerful threat and he need to get rid of it.
But…
A side of his soul still resist and being confused why he was slowly hesitated to strike a friend or is he an enemy to him?
"Under control or not, he still owns me a fight." An unfamiliar words echoed through his mindless thought at first, he did not recognized the voice but all he knows that someone wants a fight.
"Stop it! You're choking him to death!"
He glanced down at his hands to his own shock, his hands was wrapping around his leader's neck without noticing or realizing. For a first time, he had seen what his hands look like and it was not his, instead of human hands it is a silver beast scales-like paws with black sharp talons.
Wasn't he a human?
"No…"
He refused to believe that he was a half-breed like Lobo always had told him too many times and he denied it while insisting he's only a human.
What's happening to him?
Who I am…?
And what I am…?
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"We are not meant to be enemies, Zalo. We are meant to be great friends and we are destined to protecting the world from the dark forces. Like Xiaolin and Heylin are not meant to be enemies many years ago... since before the time of Lord Ariko and since before the time of the demons..." Shinyu whispered softly, smiling sadly at Zalo.
Khu sits in few yards from them, watching them silently as he remembered the familiar scroll that Ciara told him and others about the elemental cycle and symbols.
Zalo scoffed. "You think we will be friend with those dragons? In your dream!"
Silence between them and neither of them spoken to another as the silent wind blew the leaves past them, and the sound of the chirping from the small birds above them. Shinyu decided to change the subject; his dark forest eyes glazed at the symbol of Love and looked up at Zalo.
"Have you been fallen in love before?" Shinyu asked innocently, grinning when Zalo fell over stuttering in surprise and stared bewildering at him.
Khu looked surprise at the question and glanced at him for answer but instead of he expected him to be sulking like Yamato would, he stood up and turned around glaring at Shinyu who look calmly to his angered behavior.
"Where did you get that idea!" Zalo yelled angrily, disliking what the moron was playing a game against him.
Shinyu shrugged his shoulders, looking at the clouds. "I have been dreamed of being fall in love with her. The way of her move is as grateful as white tiger... The mirror of her smile is like a sun shined upon me... Her eyes are like an sky of blue..."
Khu looked back to Shinyu with an amused look. 'Boy, he's really in love.'
Zalo groans in annoyingly, he knew that Brazilian/Chinese boy had been stuck in love and willing to follow her rather than followed their master. "Who is she, you love-stuck fool?"
Khu blinked in surprise at him. 'Is he forgetting that Shinyu and Kisara are together. Unless he denied her?'
"Kisara." Shinyu replied suddenly sighing sadly, avoiding his eyes from the red eyes of the Tiger of Metal.
Zalo frowned at him. "Kisara? As in the Xiaolin Dragon of Wind and the daughter of the Great Grandmaster of Spirit!"
Khu sighed. 'Yep, he either denied or pretending to believe Shinyu wouldn't involved with her.'
Shinyu nodded slowly, looking away knowingly that ill-tempered man looks like as if his head would go set off in any moment when he was very angry.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND! She is an enemy of our ancestors! Don't you even remember The Xiaolin Blue Dragon was the one who starts all the war?"
Khu frowned. 'Who is the Blue Dragon they keep mentioning?'
Shinyu mumbled under his breath. "But Heylin White Tiger did start it in first place...'" But Zalo ignored him, ranting goes on and on.
"She could fool you into loving her and she will even turned you against us! She could be the charming white witch.." Zalo growled, turning back to and only to find Shinyu was not there. "Shinyu? Great, when I'm talking and even when they are not there!"
Khu snickered quietly. 'Typical, just like Raimundo would do as long as he don't need to listen to the ranting monk Omi.'
Zalo glowered back at the youth. "Where's Shinyu?"
Calmly, he looked up at the fuming warrior and shook his head clearly telling him that he did not know where the rebel is at this time.
"Zalo! Over here!"
Both of them looked back to where the voice came from the direction and to their stunned look as the rebel swam in the cold lake.
Zalo blinked, looking back to the lake and sees Shinyu waving at him, swimming in the cold lake. He sighed, shaking his head. "I have to go to mediating somewhere, Shinyu. Believe me, falling in love is a dangerous one even for an enemy to know the true weakness."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah." Shinyu mocked, waving his hand at him and swim back to the middle of the lake.
Khu looked back to Zalo and to Shinyu. As Shinyu smiled at him, swam back to the shore and picked up a dry shirt. "Khu, I believe you should go with him. In his mind, I do not want to know what happen to him when he's angry like that."
Khu nodded as he run back to Zalo. In which for the second time he met Jiro, the same one he saw when Lobo was hitting on and end up with a huge bump.
Jiro shoved a hidden scroll into Zalo's hands and tell him to deliver it to Yuiku. "Zalo, please deliver this to Yuiku! I'm sure you know who he is."
Zalo's crimson eyes hardened and nodded sharply as he glanced back at Khu. "Pest, let's go to The Temple!" Ignoring the annoyed look from the youth as he dragged him to the temple.
For the first time he had seen the boy in the dark blue robe with light blue hair. Yuiku.
"Ah, good, my friend Zalo." Yuiku bowed to Zalo in polite greeting as he ignored his look and looked at the youth. "Ah, who are you might be, young one?"
Khu blinked, "Uhh… Khu."
"And my name is Yuiku, the greatest Xiaolin Dragon of Water. It will be quite cold." Yuiku grinned down at the youth.
Zalo rolled his crimson eyes. "Cut that crappy language, O great brainless monk."
Yuiku flashed his eyes angrily and shot him an annoyed look. "Zalo, please give me this." He tilted his head toward the scroll that the hothead man held in his hands.
Zalo snorted as he shoved it into the monk's hands. "Whatever." As he turned and looked at the youth, "C'mon, pest."
Khu rolled his amethyst eyes as he nodded and followed after him. But until then the familiar face he did not want to see popped out of the lake.
Susku grinned down at Zalo and Khu, not realizing Yuiku leave as quickly as he could. Greeting to the Heylin Tiger of Metal, Susku sniggered loudly. "Ah, Zalo. You're the traitor now to our great master."
Zalo narrowed his crimson eyes at the ocean demon and scoffed, "So?"
Susku smiled evilly at Zalo with his own cold blue eyes. "I know you're protecting the real traitor and the wench."
Khu and Zalo's eyes widened in surprise and stunned as Khu recovered quickly. "How did you know?" He yelled at the water demon.
Susku grinned so widened like a cat love tuna. "I can't say. Like us, demons, have a secret. Now, quit little chitchatting and it's time to kill!"
Khu leaped in ready and to fight but Zalo stopped him, glaring down at the youth. "No. You must run, pest."
Khu glared back at Zalo. No wonder Yamato was so alike as his ancestor, both they wants to fight on their own instead of fighting side to side with their friends. "No."
But he was grabbed and thrown far into the forest, out of the reach as he knew he can't change the past knowing Yamato's ancestor was the first to die.
He sighed as he turned and running back to Shinyu's house but he knew he heard the familiar voices and one of them belong to Shinyu.
Shinyu knew what was coming for his friend's fate and unable to stop it.
"Under control or not, he still owns me a fight." The words rung in his mind painful and sad, knowingZalo never had a chance to fight against his rival.
But…
He knew somehow a spirit of Zalo was still in somewhere and determine to fight a spirit of Xuan. His eyes widened when it came to hit him again. Yamato…
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Gojo turned around and glared at his twin brother, Dojo the biggest coward. "What did you mean by he isn't here?"
Dojo laughed nervously as he crawled around Jermaine's shoulders and glanced down at the black dragon. "Err, yeah. Marcos said something about his brother and runs off."
Gojo sighed. "Great. Marcos's going to get himself killed or try to not get killed."
"Is it just me or did I see the huge flame over there?" Jack replied for the first time he spoken since they traveled through the void.
All everyone looked right at Jack's pointing in direction. Gojo's eyes bugged in surprise and stared at him in disbelief. "Ok, maybe you're not useless than I thought."
"Hey!"
Gojo ignored him as he changed into an oversized black dragon and glared at the young villain-wanna-be group and one newly Xiaolin Dragon of Soul. "Get on."
Without words, they scattered to get on the back of a dragon's as he takes off toward where the fire was seen.
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Khu stared at the man with familiar color eyes as he collapsed into Shinyu's arms and the bloody stained blade fell out of his hands.
Xuan. His ancestor he was finally to meet yet met him in spirit for few times.
Shinyu's forest eyes watered up in tears as he sank into the ground on his knees, holding his dying brother.
Xuan opened his all too familiar amethyst eyes and glanced up at the face of his young brother. "So this is Khu…" He studied at the youth and smiled knowing. "I see your reason to come, Khu."
Khu blinked in startle and stared at him. 'Did he know?'
But Xuan broken his eyes contract and return to his young brother with a weak smile. "I'm sorry for all cause of pain in your friends, brother."
The older boy stared down at the dying boy in his arms as his sad eyes clouded with tears. "Brother…"
The dying boy opened his eyes and smiled weakly at his young brother. "…I'm here…"
"Why, brother?"
Xuan sighed tiredly and then he glanced up at his brother's tearful forest green eyes. "The reason I will not let that spirit to have my full soul. Is that why I broke my soul into half two and scattered them over world."
"But you could have died, Xuan!"
Xuan shook his head. "I could not. Unless you have to destroyed my body to get rid of all of my power. Perhaps, the reason why Xiao Lin have banished me because my power is too powerful to control and destroy all lives I have caused in under control. Please, my little brother, do it to end my life."
"No, I will not!" Shinyu cried, crying heavily as he clutched his dying brother's body knowing the last thing he wanted for his brother to be out of his sight forever. "I promise you that you will live the life!"
Khu's eyes softened at Shinyu's words.
Xuan shook his head weakly and closed his eyes for one more final time. "No, Shinyu… As a true Heylin Tiger of Darkness and exiled warrior, I asked you to placed the blue feather on your newborn son." To Shinyu and Khu's surprise as the exiled warrior sighed, "Yes I did know of your newborn son, Alvaro. Let a half soul be in one of our grandson/grandnephew, little brother."
"What about the other half?"
"… Let it lie within the void…the place where he will not find… The gateway of the darkness, the link to the source… one of our grandnephew who will be the one to hold the true darkness."
Shinyu frowned in confusingly at his older brother and looked down at his fading life of the amethyst eyes. "Brother… Xuan…"
Xuan smiled for one more time and then he went limped in the brother's arms. As Shinyu let out a sob and lend over his brother's lifeless body while he cried upon on him.
Khu knew the heartbeats had no longer to beating anymore. His ancestor had finally died and something caught his eyes, he saw the blue feather landed on the ground beside the two brothers.
A blue feather…
"Khu…"
Khu looked up from the ground and looked into the dried tears eyes of the Heylin Tiger of Lightning. "Yea?"
"Once his ashes will be disappeared from the face of the Earth…" Shinyu turned to him looking serious and his carefree, sparkling vanished from his own hardened dark green eyes. "I shall avenge my brother is to fight until my death."
Khu nodded in understanding, knowing where this situation was going to and he knew the story went along as well.
Shinyu sent his wife and his newborn son to other land, in the safe hand of Jiro and Gojo while he stepped in the final war against the spirit who had stolen his brother's body.
Khu grimaced remembering the reason why he was here in the past, is to see why a spirit was able to stealing a body which it was already burnt and ashes.
Once again, he closed his own eyes and reopened them to see the final battle, he never want to see it himself but he still must to know what's going on and the reason why.
To see Shinyu's in his own Heylin armor, which that it was soaking with his own blood and held the familiar Sword of the Storm and the Rod of Lightning in each of his hands.
He panted looking up at the smirking spirit demon in the stolen body. "How… I thought my brother's body was already burned to ashes. It is impossible to revived them to flesh."
Ariko or what it was named threw his head back and laughing chilly. "How blind you are. I have found a ashes of your foolish brother, traitor. Yes, I can revive them to flesh. Unlike Wuya, this body of your brother will be no loner to belong to him anymore."
Ariko grinned down at him. "No matter how sick I am. Tell me one more time and I shall spare your life. Now, where is the two souls that Xuan send them?"
Shinyu spat some blood onto the ground and glared hatefully at Ariko. "No."
Ariko's dull yellow eyes widened and then narrowed angrily at the rebellious warrior. "Very well."
Then he looked right at the direction and smirked coldly, "Say, how dear Kisara feel when his brother is about to be killed?"
Shinyu's eyes widened in horror as Ariko dashed after Grandmaster Dashi while rising his deadly Shadow Blade and aim for the grandmaster's heart.
"NOOO!" Khu screamed in horror, not realizing he was fading away from the solid and returning to the spirit world with the spirit of his ancestor. Before he disappeared, he had heard the wishes were spoken by Shinyu and telling Ariko that one of days the one with greatest power will be the one to restored the world and get rid of the great sin Ariko had spread.
He noticed the look on the spirit ancestor was sitting on the ground looking at the youth...
He knew.
"That bastard…"
His spirit ancestor nodded in agreement as Khu sighed, covering his face with his hands until it something hits him for the third time. "Xuan…"
"Hmm…?"
"Where's the two half souls?"
All the youth had gotten from Xuan's answer was a smile.
End of Chapter 23
Me: Wow, fifteen pages. O.o And Gomen, for not able to updated this because of writer's block's fault.
Here's sneak peek.
A blood split onto the ground.
Golden dragon-eyes.
"A life for a life."
Falcon fallen from the sky.
Dragon roared in pain from the burn.
A sinful spirit held the prize in its talons.
Sneak Peek End.
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