Hello everyone! Thanks for R&R! I need to point something out that you may have missed…For all you people who think Clay and Rai are dead, I would like you to look at this line from the last chapter…

"Once you training begins" said Chase "I will tell you your training missions, don't fail this time"

Think about it…Now if you don't mind I'm going to run away from an army of angry girls who hate me for killing Raimundo…Bye!

(UXD runs away, closely followed by a mob of angry girls with pitchforks and torches)

Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown

Xiaolin Showdown: The Legend of the Thunder Child

44: Killer Instinct

Ryan looked up as he heard someone heading towards him. He was about to jump back up into the rafters again when Kimiko and Omi came around the corner.

"Ryan!" gasped Omi "Ryan is here!"

"Ryan! What are you doing?" gasped Kimiko. She looked at him; his sword was dripping blood on his second victim.

"No!" screamed Kimiko, her hands were cupping her mouth, "Raimundo!"

"Damn it…" said Ryan as he darted backwards into the shadows. He ran through the temple grounds and hid in a dark corner.

"Ryan!" said Chase's voice "What's going on?"

"So far so good" said Ryan "Clay and Raimundo are dead, but I have been detected, they know I'm here"

"Your training mission still isn't complete; all the dragons must be killed!"

Ryan moved out of the shadows and leapt onto the dormitory roof.

"Yes father" whispered Ryan "Let the hunt begin…"

"NO!" cried Kimiko as she sobbed over Raimundo's body "Why!"

"This is most disturbing…" gasped Omi "Ryan and Chase have gone too far!"

Kimiko looked over at Clay body; his skin was no longer its usual colour, it was now a ghostly white and his eyes had no life in them. The silent air was suddenly broken by the sound of footsteps; Omi looked up as the footsteps got louder.

"Kimiko!" said Omi as he tugged at Kimiko's robes, "We must get out of here, Ryan is coming back!"

Kimiko ignored him as she looked into Raimundo's eyes; they were dull and lifeless like Clay's. Within one hour she had lost two of her closest friends.

"This…isn't…happening…" she cried as Omi continued to pull at her robes, trying to pull her to her feet. She knew that every second she used mourning over Raimundo and Clay; she was putting herself in more danger. She tried to get to her feet, but her body just wouldn't let herself get up. Suddenly a sword shot through the wall, the blade was inches way from Kimiko's neck. From the other side of the wall they heard Ryan's cold voice say "Damn…I missed…"

Suddenly Kimiko's body went into hyper mode, instead of Omi pulling Kimiko down the corridor, Kimiko was running at top speed down the corridor with Omi being dragged behind her, his hand was still holding onto her robes. Ryan removed the sword from the wall and began to walk after them. He felt no urgent rush to find and kill them because he knew that it was only two of them left, and the thought of an evil murderer hunting them would make it easy to find them. He looked down a corridor to the left of him and saw a brief flash of Omi and Kimiko as they ran past him towards the Great Hall. Ryan grinned as he walked after them.

"Time for an ambush…" he said as he sped up to head them off.

"Where the hell is everybody!" gasped Kimiko as she and Omi stopped to catch their breath in the Great Hall. Omi looked up with shock on his face.

"You don't think Ryan…" said Omi.

"Do not worry about the others…" said a voice from the doorway, they spun around and saw that Ryan was standing there, grinning at them, "I have no reason to harm the others, it's you two that I want dead!"

Omi stepped in front of Kimiko and pushed her back, "Kimiko, you must flee!"

"What about you?" said Kimiko.

"I will try and stop him!" said Omi.

"But Omi…" said Kimiko as Omi began pushing her further back.

"Just go!" said Omi "The Dragons are destined to defeat evil, as long as one survives; we still have a chance of ridding this world of evil!"

Kimiko bit her lower lip as she looked at Omi's face; he no longer showed fear, but determination. She spun on her heels and sprinted out of the Great Hall at top speed, leaving Omi staring face to face with Ryan.

"Very brave, very noble…" said Ryan as he slowly approached the small monk as he went into his battle stance, "Sacrificing yourself for others"

"No one will be sacrifice! You won't get away with this!" shouted Omi. Ryan gave him an evil laugh.

"Do you think anyone can stop us? Soon, my father will be the supreme overlord of the world! But you will be little more than a corpse lying lifeless on the floor!"

"ARRR!" roared Omi as he lunged at Ryan "Monkey strike!"

With a quick flash of metal, Ryan swung his sword at Omi, who was franticly thrashing his arms at him.

"ARRRRR! MY ARM!" screamed Omi as he flew backwards and hit the wall with a thud. There was another thud as he slid to the floor, his left arm was screaming in pain. He moved his other arm to his left to try and stop the pain, but he felt nothing, no arm, just the warm trickle of blood. He gasped as he looked up; his left arm was on lying a few feet away on the floor. He slowly reached out to grab his arm, when he felt cold steel go through his chest and pierce his heart. Omi gave a small gurgling noise as he toppled over sideways, blood slowly dripping from his mouth. Ryan looked up towards where Kimiko ran out of and began to walk towards the doorway.

He looked out into the corridor and looked down it; Kimiko was just around the corner at the end of the corridor. She took a quick peek around the corridor and saw Ryan with his evil grin on his face, she collapsed onto her knees when she realised that he could only be there because Omi was dead.

"They are all dead Kimiko!" called Ryan "You're next!"

Kimiko quickly scrambled to her feet and ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She didn't care where she was going, as long as she got away from him.

"Where are you going?" said Ryan as he stepped out in front of her from nowhere.

"WAH!" screamed Kimiko as she fell over backwards, "Where did you come from!"

Ryan grinned as she moved backwards along the floor.

"Well done Ryan" said Chase's voice in Ryan's head, "Now kill her!"

Ryan walked towards her as she kept backing until she got to the wall. Her whole body was shaking as she cowered in his shadow. He began to gaze at his sword; it shone in the moonlight as the light hit the metal and the little droplets of blood on it. He then looked down at Kimiko, her face was full horror and her eyes were full of fear.

"What are you waiting for?" said Chase's voice, "Kill her!"

He raised his sword, and with a swift swing, he thrust it into her chest. Kimiko made some weak gasping noises as she looked up at him.

"Game over Kimiko" said Ryan as he removed the sword from Kimiko's chest. She spluttered as she fell over sideways. With the last of her breath she whispered, "R…y…an…Yo…u…Bas…tar…d…"

Ryan watched her as her life drained from her body; her arms went limp and flopped to the ground.

"Ryan" said Chase's voice "What's your current status?"

"All dead" said Ryan "Mission complete!"

"Well done! Prepare to return to the training room"

Ryan grinned as he looked at Kimiko's body.

"Soon I will kill the real dragons…" said Ryan "Then there will be no one who will be able to stop me…"

If you still haven't worked it out, Ryan didn't kill the monks. It is special training created by Chase to train Ryan by creating a virtual world, basically it was a fake temple with fake dragons used to train Ryan to kill them. Do you think Ryan will kill the real monks? Anyway, R&R everyone!