Title: Impending Doom
Summary: he was tired of waiting for the day, he was angry time wouldn't bend to his will and go by faster. When the day came he'd make them ALL pay... dearly, rated T: for swearing and impeding doom
Disclamer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown
Chapter 5: the New Evil
The four dragons again were searching for a new wu. They were in large plains-like area with sparse high grass. Knotted trees with very few leaves dotted the landscape. Over to one side was a small lake, to the other rolling mountains. Right front of them was a patch of bushes.
"Let's split up," Omi suggested as scanned the area.
"Whatever," Raimundo sighed; his bad mood from the previous day had still not been alleviated.
They began to split up.
"I'll look in this patch of bushes," Kimiko said and leaned over to see two pair of golden yellow eyes staring at her, "AAAHHHH!"
They quickly ran over to her and saw the yellow eyes and from the bushes emerged a teen maybe the same age as them. But he was quite a sight to behold.
He had dark green hair that went down to his ears with the last inch or so stained black. Golden yellow eyes that were full of nothing but coldness. He skin was pale. The stranger's ears had cuffs at the top of them and his left had a piercing at the bottom, too. Black eyeliner rimmed his eyes and a straight black line with a dot under it that went from the bottom eyelid to a little past the top of his cheek. To make it even more imposing the teen was taller than all of them.
He wore a long silvery gray lab coat with a pocket on one side that was tattered at the bottom and had writing and drawings all over it. Under the lab coat he wore a dark blue shirt that read, "Have A Nice Day," on it with an evil looking smiley face. Under that could be seen the bottom of a mesh top. He wore baggy black pants that had a ton of different leather straps going around them that barely stayed on and only because there was a large black belt with little silver studded stars on it holding them up. He wore dark gray and blue cuffs that went from his wrists to his elbow and he had on black meshed fingerless gloves. On his feet he wore large black boots.
"Hello," he said in a dark cold tone, he quickly grabbed the little dragon and knocked him unconscious.
Raimundo's heart jumped into his throat, it couldn't be!
While they were all focused on his brother Jack snuck around looking for the wu.
"What was that for!" Kimiko yelled at him in shock.
"No, interruptions from foul little dragons," he snickered, staring at her coldly.
"Then who are you?" Kimiko demanded changing topic as she grabbed Dojo's still form and handed him to Clay. Clay took off his hat and put the small dragon in it. Then he laid the hat down on the ground beside him.
The only response she received being a small smirk that played across his lips and a little laugh.
"Look the lady asked you a question," Clay said in irritation, "Who are you?"
"Who am I?" he laughed, "The one to bring you down."
"I knew you were no good," Clay growled launching himself at him trying to punch him.
The teen folded his arms behind his back and easily dodged Clay's fist jumping into the air and landing gracefully to one side.
"Now, now, Clay, don't be so rude," he said, simply in that dark tone, "You can't start to play until I say so and I haven't said so."
"How'd you know who I am?" Clay growled and tried once again to knock the evil teen to the ground. He deflected Clay's attack this time, and he did it only using his pointer and middle finger and his thumb. Clay couldn't move his entire hand.
"One, I know everything," he said darkly, "and two listen better, no playing until I say so otherwise you will all be punished."
"Be punished?" Omi asked in surprise, "but we have done nothing wrong. You are on the wrong."
"You can even manage to butcher a simple sentence like that?" The dark stranger laughed evilly, and stared at him, "You really are a queball."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Kimiko snapped, fire emitting from behind her. She was so totally ready to fight this guy.
"Nothing, Kimiko," he said, he loved making them sweat. Then he saw Raimundo who had been quite the whole time, "Raimundo, aren't you usually one of the loudest. You okay?"
Raimundo stared at him flatly. Yeah, it was definitely him, no doubt about it.
"Nothing at all to say?" he asked, once again folding his hands behind his back.
"I know you," Raimundo said quietly staring at the other.
"Oh, you do, do you?" he asked raising one eyebrow, this is interesting.
"Yes," Raimundo said still in that quiet tone.
"Than who am I?" he asked smiling a deceitful smile.
"I don't know your name but I know you were locked up," Raimundo said, "in another dimension."
That warranted loud cold laughter, "indeed. I was locked up. For a loonnngg time, so long. Thinking on it, it makes me want to play; it's been such a long time since I've got to."
"You're crazy," Kimiko shouted at him, launched into a kick, calling out her element. He quite simply jumped back a step and dodged.
"Now you've done it," he laughed ominously, folding his hands once again behind his back, "punishment time."
He brought his hands out from behind his back. Between his fingers was an arsenal of various items, including poisoned darts.
"Better watched out," he said coldly and threw them at the Dragons.
But what came at them was definitely more than what he had in his fingers. They dodged the best they could but one blade slashed into Clay's arm.
"Looks like I got a hit," he laughed in a monotone voice.
"That wasn't funny!" Kimiko growled, looking at Clay as Clay grabbed his arm trying to stop the bleeding.
"Oh, it's not the bleeding you have to worry about," he continued, and laughed, "it's the poison."
"You low down dirty rotten snake!" Clay shouted steam flaring from his ears.
"What you gonna do about it?" He hissed, cold eyes boring into Clay's.
"Wha', wha'?" Dojo said as he began to stir.
"Dojo," Omi said and ran over to him.
"What's goin' on last thing I remember is a stranger clubbing me?" Dojo asked as swerved his body to see said stranger.
"It's awake," he teased and played with his hair.
"You!" Dojo shouted and sounded scared.
"That guys pretty bad," Clay said, showing Dojo his arm which was starting to look infected.
"That's no guy!" Dojo shouted and pointed at him, "that's a demon!"
"What!" everybody except Raimundo gasped.
"I thought so," Raimundo said staring at him, "so what'd you to do get locked in another dimension and be tortured?"
"Murdered the wrong person," the demon sighed, "high powers don't like it when you kill one of them."
"How could you make that mistake?" Kimiko asked gawking at him stupidly.
"We meant too!" he hissed with a laugh.
"Who is we?" Omi asked, what they were all thinking.
"Oh, won't you find out," he said darkly and snickered again.
Just then Jack Spicer popped up right next to him from out of nowhere.
"I found it," he said flatly, once he was standing right beside the demon his back turned to the Dragons. He looked over his shoulder at them and then back at the demon, "Let's go, visiting hours are over."
"Oh, but I wanted to play some more," the demon whined playfully.
"Next time," Jack instructed.
"So this demon is your new henchman?" Dojo shot, "How'd you get 'em to do that!"
Jack laughed banefully, it was a laugh none of them had ever heard him use before and it sent chills down their spines, "Henchman! No he and are partners!"
"Allies," the demon chimed in, "working towards the same goal."
"Why would you partner up with him?" Kimiko asked the demon laughing.
"Maybe I'll tell you next time," he said, and Jack's helipack blades popped up. But the demon stopped him smiling evilly, "I've got a better idea."
He held out the Golden Tiger Claws.
"How'd you!" Clay asked angrily, seeing he no longer possessed them.
"Finders," he laughed, "keepers."
"You stole them!" Kimiko shouted, wanting to desperately land a punch in his face.
"Say what you want," the demon snickered, moved to use them, "Golden Tiger Claws."
And a portal was opened and the demon and Jack jumped in.
End Chapter 5
