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Shinyu: Onto the story, enjoy! (hearts sign)
Chapter 26: Khu's Downfall
Previously
Everyone watched in horror as the void grew bigger and bigger, the spirit laughing darkly as the black wind trashing violently, the earth shattered while the silver liquid spiking upward, tearing over the black ground. At same time, the lava flowing from the mountain's peak and the water floods over the ground, freezing all trees and some still living creatures to death. The Wood grew bigger and black, with deadly thorns all over the ground like a black plague. The ice dropped the warmth of bodies into the deadly low, freezing the lungs inside slowly. The Light was blocked out as long as the sun never rises again. The darkness, shadow, and the immortal death covered the earth, transferring the true fear and death into the humans' very soul.
The children stepped backward in horror and fearfully at the sudden change. They had heard the voice of the Lightning spirit.
"No! A half-soul is taken!" The rebellious spirit yelled his green eyes widened as he stared in horror at the beginning of destruction.
The End of the World…
The Beginning of the Apocalypse!
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Afterward
The earth gave one final groans under the children's feet, rumbling as they fell on their rear. The metal of spikes stabbed upward, scaring them to death. Marcos' eyes widened as he stared at the deadly silver pikes while he crab-walked backward away from one of the silver spike.
Arms flailing, Omi stared bewilderedly at the deadly, silver pikes all over the shattered ground. "Oh great ghost of Grandmaster Dashi!" He gaped, staring fearfully at the powerful, full solid, sinful spirit stood before them. "That cannot be true!"
Khu landed on one of the highest grounds, looking right where his older brother. "Marcos!" He called out, squirting through the gray mist.
"Over here!"
Khu turned and leaped over where the voice came from the direction and landed next to his older brother. As soon as he landed on his knees and palms on the ground, he saw his brother was injured from one of the rock showers. "Marc!" He said, running to his older brother. "Are you alright?"
Marcos grunted, opening his light green eyes and grinned up at his younger brother. "I'm fine, piece of cake." He joked, waving off Khu's concern as he groans a little pain when he moved.
Raising an eyebrow at his older brother, Khu nodded silently and turned back to where the evil spirit was. "Damn… where's that feather?" He said out loudly, looking around.
Overhearing his leader, Yamato blinked and stared at him bewilderingly. "Feather? What feather?" He asked, standing up from one of the highest ground. "What the hell are you talking about, Pedsora?"
"Talk about that later, Zendi." Khu replied, narrowing his amethyst eyes at the grayish mist. "We got a company."
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The blue feather
In the second son
Of the first heir
Will be
The
First
Darkness
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Raimundo landed on the one of the flat, silver steel-pike while he was holding the unconscious dragon of fire. Looking down at the Japanese girl, he frowned worriedly at her and placed her on her back against the ground.
"Raimundo!"
He looked back at the small monk running back to him, waving his arms in panic. "We have failed! We are failed to saving the world!" He screamed, running wildly around the tall boy.
The Dragon of Wind huffed annoyingly, lashed his hand out and seized the poor monk's huge head. "Hold still, Omi!" He snapped, holding the monk still so he wouldn't run off like a crazy, frightened animal. "Relax, man."
Omi breathed deeply and let out with heavy sigh, closing his grayish black eyes. "Okay. I'm calm… I'm calm… What do we do now, my friend?"
"Find the other group and reunited them."
The Dragons of Wind and Water looked over the Spirit of Lightning. "Who… are you?" Omi finally asked, staring bewilderedly at the ancestor spirit.
The ancestor spirit grinned cockily at the two youths. "Don't you know who I am? The one who possessed the Lighting element," He pointed down at the Dragon of Wind's medallion. "It still belong to me, pal."
Frowning at the spirit, Raimundo narrowed his forest green eyes until something clicked in his mind. "Wait… You're that Shinyu, Master Fung told me that you're the Heylin Tiger of Lightning!" He gaped, pointing at the grinning ancestor spirit in disbelievingly.
"Bingo!" Shinyu grinned widely, his familiar forest green eyes sparkling with hint of playfulness and rebellious. "Omi, you must be the Dragon of Water that Dashi told me about?"
Omi clapped his hands together and bowed before the Tiger of Lightning. "I am honor to be in presence of you, Great Shinyu."
The spirit Ancestor of Lightning shoots the young Dragon of Wind a look. "Is what he do that often?" He asked quietly, rubbing back his head.
Raimundo laughed, shaking his head. "I dunno. He just Omi."
Shinyu chuckled quietly to himself. "Now I know. Omi remind me of Yuiku, that squirt's ancestor of water."
"There you are!"
All of three warriors looked back at Clay, Lobo (in wolf form) with unconscious child of light on his brother's back, and Ciara runs toward to them.
"Clay! You are uninjured!" Omi cheered, trusting his arms upward to the sky happily.
Raimundo rolled his eyes and glanced at the two Heylin Tigers of Shadow and Wood. "Where are my cousins and the others?" He asked, noticing three missing persons.
The gray wolf and the young witch look at each other with sharing a same look. Where are they?
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The Source
Must get
Through
The Void
Of the Key
To the
Door
Of the
Dark
Element
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Two amethyst eyes darted over the shattered ground in search of the missing feather, Khu wobbled a bit and clutching his forehead when his headaches grew throbs even painfully.
"Aseso?"
Khu looked up to see his older brother's look of concern and shook his head, smiling weakly at him. "I'm fine. No harm."
Marcos frowned at him but not press any question farther and nodded. "Now where are we? I suppose we're end up split each other on somewhere."
Yamato sniffed in the air and growling a little at the mist, narrowing his crimson eyes at the distance as he mumbled, "Damn… he's still out there waiting. YEOW!"
He jerked his feet away and staring disbelief at the river of lava as his crimson eyes widened. "Oh crap."
Khu cursed quietly, looking at the lava. "It's rising up now. Get outta of here now!"
Yamato nodded, closing his eyes as he transformed into the beast form and opened his dark crimson eyes. "Get on and I mean it now!"
The brothers hopped on the beast's back and rode him while Yamato hopped from the high ground to another high ground.
"Wait, what about that lady that was with us?" Marcos asked, remembering the mistress as he looked at his younger brother while they continued riding on the beast's back.
Khu closed his eyes and opened again. "I'm not sure. If she said she's Immortal, then she should be fine." He replied softly, looking forward as he clings on the beast's neck.
"You're choking me to death, Pedsora!" Yamato growled his eyebrow twitching violently while he kept going and going.
"And you're deserved it too." Khu grinned back, holding back a bubble of laughter. I wonder what kind of Zalo and Xuan's friendship? He thought, turning a smile to frown. What cause them hate each other?
"Look ahead!" Yamato said, rising his head to see something ahead.
Marcos nodded. "Ok. Get off and Yamato, change your…um…thing back to human."
"Feh."
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The Darkness
Will be fallen
At the Downfall
To reach the endless pit
Of the void
Let there be a light
And it shall
Be
Light
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She glared at the grinning, sinful spirit in front of her. "What. Have. You. Done. Ariko!" She growled, stressed with each of her words in poisonous tone in her voice.
The Serpent turned his giant dragonish head to her. "So, you're still surviving my powerful force… Of course, how could I have forgotten that you're the immortal? The Long Lost Heylin Dragon of Immortal."
The Mistress flinched at the old memories. Of course, her father was a first Xiaolin Dragon of Life and her mother was a first Heylin Tiger of Death. It makes her… an immortal that could live through death and could revive the near-dead bodies with the breath of life.
"How possible you have summoned Xuan's high powerful attack? It's only Grand Master level could allow. Heylin Tigers cannot. Neither Xuan can." The mistress hissed, glaring deadly at the Serpent.
"Simple." The Serpent grinned. "I'm still part of him. He's still part of me." He stretched his arms widely around the lifeless earth.
"I am also part of his death." He looked down at the mistress. "You do not understand how can I summon his power… is because he is still within me… still a piece of power, of course."
"A piece of power?" The Mistress asked, looking confusedly but on guard, just to if the spirit could do something trickily. "What are you talking about, snake?"
"After his death, I was… how did you said… ah yes, rejected from his own body. I stole the small piece of his power before he split two souls. I once get the two souls back together so I shall be the Empire of the Darkness… There shall no life among my demons."
"You're sick bastard." Lizzy growled, clutching her fists tightly while she was standing on the burning lake of lava. "You're turning the Earth into the Paradise of Hell."
The Serpent laughed, his dull yellow eyes brightened in amusement. "Yes. That what I am planning to do… First killing off all mortals that including you, my dear."
"You know you cannot kill me." Lizzy snapped back, crossing her arms across her chest. "I'm an immortal so you said yourself."
"Perhaps… you're right." The Serpent said stroking his dragonish chin with a playful grin. "I know there's a way to kill immortal."
Without a warning, he flickered his wrist in the air as the sound of metal chunk against each other, as the mistress gasped in surprise while the chain of steel wrapping around her chest and legs, including her arms as well.
"What's better to sealed you than kill you, hmm?" The sinful spirit asked, laughing evilly as he glazed down at the angry mistress. "Just like those bastards and wench bird sealed me rather than kill me, don't you agree? Waiting in thousand of years is so such lonely and dull."
"Don't insult Four Celestials in that such ill manner!" The mistress hissed, shrugging with all her mighty but no effort.
The Serpent just laughed.
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Let the
Source
To be
Reawaken…
Return to
The
Beginning
Of the
Tale…
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"WENCH!"
"Son of a BASTARD!"
"Slut!"
"LECHER!"
"BITCH!"
"BASTARD!"
"WRETCH GIRL!"
"JERK BOY!"
"TRUMP!"
"MUTT!"
Shinyu stared boringly at the bickering between Lobo and Ciara. "Some things never changed so I see." The spirit mumbled under his breathes, smirking.
"Look! Your cousin and Yamato are coming! Wait, who's that boy behind Khu?" Clay said, looking closely to the three boys running toward them.
"Cousin!" Khu yelled, running to Raimundo and looking for any injured on his cousin. "At least you are all in one piece."
Raimundo smirked, looking over Khu's shoulder and stared at the man, trying to recognize him. As Marcos seem noticed him, smiling down at him.
"Hey, squirt. You don't recognize me? How hurt!" He said faking hurt, smirking at the Dragon of Wind. "Remember teddy bear? You kick me in shin." He winked playful as Rai dropped his jaws in surprise.
"Marcos?"
"Bingo!" Marcos laughed, pulling his cousin and give him a big bear hug. "I miss you, little brat. You're still own me for one."
"Ughhhhhh! Let me go! Breath! For air!" Raimundo gasped, wiggling out of his elder cousin's embrace and stepped back, breathing easily. "What was that for!" He snapped glaring back at Marcos.
Marcos just laughed. "You know I could have swore you and Aseso are just alike when I did that. Aseso, remember that?" He glanced over to Khu, grinning.
Khu cringes, remembering back when he visited his older brother first time after he had found the hybrid child right under his nose. He could still feel the sore spot in his ribs every time he thought about it.
"There you are!"
They all looked up, seeing the black dragon landed on the black ground next to them. "Jermaine!" Omi exclaimed, bouncing up and down happily.
Gojo glanced at the Heylin Tigers and Xiaolin Dragons. "Guys, I have a bad news and good news. Which first?"
Yamato narrowed his crimson eyes at the black dragon, lifted his chin up proudly. "Bad news first." He replied, as the Dragons and Tigers looked right at him.
Gojo nodded. "Mistress is dragging to her doom. Serpent is going to be turning Earth into Paradise of Hell… full of demons. He's going to destroy Earth and restored it as new planet."
Khu cursed softly, pacing around. "This isn't good… this isn't good at all." He mumbled to himself and turned his head up at the huge dragon. "And good news?"
Gojo nodded his dragonish head at the leader of Heylin Tigers. "The idiot goth took Master Young, Lady Wuya, and his crew back to Earth. They're safe back home."
"Good." Khu nodded quickly, turning back to the two huge groups. "Dragons and Tigers. It's up to us to fight back. Or die trying."
The Dragons and Tigers nodded in agreement, knowing there's a slim chance to fight or die trying to save the world.
Gojo grinned at the children. That's like all old days before the bastard come in and ruins all friendship. He looked upward at the dark crimson and blackening sky. Xuan if you're watching, you'll be proud of this child, Khu.
"All right, quit chatting. Get on my back!"
All cheers from children, as they climbed on the back of dragon and took off into the sky.
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The half
Soul
Buried
The heart
Of the
Void
Waiting
For
The Source
To restore
The Darkness
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The Serpent's dull yellow eyes become slit as he get on four legs and opened his mouth, loading the powerful energy. "Black…"
The Mistress shut her eyes, looking away as she tried to wiggle out of the chains but no effort. Somebody, do something!
"…Void…"
The silver beast leaped out of the grayish blue mist and snatched the mistress in the flash as the chains shattered and fell down. As the beast landed on the black ground and the dragon landed at same time.
The mistress was startled, staring at the glowing crimson eyes. "…Yamato…?"
The beast nodded, growling quietly and placed the mistress down to the ground safely. The mistress turned and saw the familiar face. "Shinyu…?"
The spirit grinned, waving see-through hand at the mistress. "Hello Liz Gon."
The mistress sighed, holding her head as she said, "Oh, Shinyu. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE!"
The spirit cringed. "I'm a spirit."
The mistress growled. "I can see that… but why are you here."
The spirit trusted his finger upward and opened his mouth to say something but the black dragon interrupted him.
"QUIET! AND GET OUT THE HELL OF HERE!" Gojo yelled his eyes bugged out at the powerful energy force behind the Dragons and the Tigers. "He's going to blow all the land away!"
The children scattered back toward the black dragon in blind panic.
"DESTROYER…"
Khu stopped and turned his head, his eyes widening as his cousin run back toward the monstrous spirit holding his golden sword and the blue sword. "RAI. MUN. DO!" He screamed, turned back away from the black dragon.
He gripped the sword as he leaped forward the nearing immortal spirit and flings his sword over his shoulder.
"WUDAI STAR WIND SWORD OF THE SWORD BLADE OF THE NEBULA EYE OF DASH LIGHTNING!"
The twin element combine of the Wind and Lightning transformed into the swirling light blue lightning wind force, blast blowing through the lava, the flood and the black ground toward the oversized giant black energy.
"DARKNESS!"
In the slow motion, Khu ran back stretching his hand toward his cousin. "Raimundo!"
The blue light collided the dark light but being swallowed by the dark force as it continued toward the Dragon of Wind. As the young dragon of wind widened his green eyes in surprise and stepped back fearfully.
Back to normal motion, the Heylin Tiger of Darkness grabbed the silver sword and lifted it upward and swung down in the flash.
"WUDAI COMET DARKNESS CYCLONE SHADOW BLADE!"
The forceful dark cyclone, glowing in amethyst crimson orb swirling past the Dragon of Wind, toward the dark energy as it collided against the dark energy, holding it back.
"Guys!"
Raimundo and Khu looked up, seeing Yamato waving his arms wildly from the black dragon. "GET THE HELL UP, PEDSORAS!"
The Cousins looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement as they started to running back like hell, chasing the black dragon while Gojo was flying lowered the ground.
"HURRY UP! It's eating up land, even toward you two!" Ciara screamed, her dark hazel eyes widened in horror at the dark energy.
Khu looked over his shoulder and swore in his native tongue loudly, "Damn. It's breaking through my new attack!"
"Grab my hand!" Lobo yelled, lending his hand toward the cousins. "Come on, buddies!"
The dark leader looked over to his cousin narrowed his green eyes, panting heavily as the Tiger of Darkness paused in his thought, he's still young… one year young than I am. He had to go first.
Suddenly, his hand snatched up his cousin's collar as the dragon of wind snapped open his eyes and blinking in surprise. As Khu swung his cousin back and forth, letting the collar go and spent the dragon of wind landed his stomach on the black dragon.
"Aseso…?" He asked stunned look back at his cousin, clutching on the black dragon as he turned his back on his crew and others, stretching his hand at his cousin. "Grab my hand!"
Khu reached his hand toward the tan hand, still running like crazy as the black hole getting near and near to him.
As the two hands claimed each other barely, but Khu feels like he was pulling backward by something as he gasped in surprise when his hand slipping out of his cousin's hand.
Raimundo widened his forest green eyes. "ASESO!"
Khu looked up, grunted as he still stretching his hand upward toward the dragon of wind's hand. "Raimundo…"
His amethyst eyes softened. "…I am sorry…"
As his hand went limp, farther back away from the boy's hand as he was swallowing into the darkness.
The youth rebel yelled, reaching for the hand but too late, as the void of death swallowed the body from him.
The sad eyes as he cried out, as the medallion glowered brightly in slow motion "ASESO PRIMO!"
Yamato watched the cousin fell his head into his hands, screaming his rival's name. "Damn it…" The Heylin Tiger of Metal cursed, closing his crimson eyes as he punched his fist onto the black dragon.
"OW! Hey, watch it!" Gojo growled, looking back at the boy.
"What can we do?" Ciara asked, watching at two unconscious warriors. Kimiko was holding by the cowboy and the child was in his older brother's arms. "Our leader's gone."
"He isn't only gone…"
All everyone looked back at the quiet werewolf staring down at his little brother he was holding. As the mistress and the spirit of lightning closed their eyes, knowing what was happening.
"My boy… my little brother… he's not going to wake up."
Yamato snarled loudly, stomped through the group to the silent werewolf. "WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT? OF COURSE HE'S UNCONSCIOUS!"
Lobo growled, snapped his head upward and glared menacingly at the half-breed boy. "DAMN IT, HALF-BREED FREAK! HE'S NOT BREATHING! NO HEART BEATS! He's GONE YOU HEARD ME! DAMN! DAMN!"
Yamato was taken back in surprise and then his crimson eyes softened at the crying werewolf. "Lobo…"
"Shut up, bastard!"
Raimundo sighed, looking down at the sleeping Japanese girl in the Dragon of Earth's arms. Kim, I hope you're still hanging on. Just hold on.
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The creature gazed down at the lifeless body, walking toward the sleeping one. As the creature sits on the white snow, watching the eyes closed.
The white petals floating carelessly around the creature like a white guardian as the unknown lowered its head to the human's face and smiled softly at the innocent look on the sleeping human.
Thecreature nuzzled the sleeping form, glazing down at the lifeless body. "Time to wake up, child…"
The child's eyes opened slowly like to waking up from the peaceful dream.
End of Chapter 26
Time for Sneak Peek!
"Wait a second…" The green eyes widened as he gaped at the bright light. "What was that!"
"It looks like…" Marcos trailed off as his jaws hit on the back of the black dragon.
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The Keyof theVoid
The Source buried within the Void
The Blue Feather…
In the second Heir of the first Son.
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End of Sneak Peek, and please read and reviews, thank you!