Chapter 6: Capture

It had been days since the last wu revealed itself. The defeated teens had told Master Fung right away about the new threat and he had gone right away into looking for a possible way to defeat it. The Dragons knew that Jack and the demon would probably strike but they just didn't know when. They were starting to get stressed.

Clay's arm was healing well; Master Fung had been able to procure a vaccine for the poison. But things were not to stay that way.

All four warriors plus Dojo were outside when the demon appeared.

"Are we practicing!" the demon laughed standing on top of the rock wall.

"Demon, you will not fool us this time!" Omi growled at him, preparing for battle, "Where's Jack!"

"Jack?" he asked quietly, "who said Jack was anywhere?"

"You two are 'partners' so where is he?" Kimiko demanded looking.

"The devil should know," he laughed, and jumped off the wall, "I got rid of him."

"Why should we believe you?" Omi asked, still in his fighting stance.

"I'm a demon!" he laughed, incredulously, "Why wouldn't I?"

"True," Omi said thoughtfully.

"He let you out of that dimension didn't he?" Kimiko asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, but I really don't care," he said and shook his head hair falling into his face.

"Is that true?" Omi asked as the demon pushed his hair back.

"Sure it is," he explained and looked at Omi coldly.

"No, you didn't," Raimundo said staring at him just as coldly, "You just like playing games, don't you? Riling your opponents. Getting people to believe the things you come up with. Jack's in the vault isn't he?"

A smile spread across his face and he laughed again.

"And you don't like games?" he asked sinisterly, folding his arms behind his back.

"Don't you dare try that again," Raimundo growled and without thinking he went after the demon trying to knock his head off.

The demon dodged; highly amused.

There was a flash of light and the dragons covered their eyes instinctively. When they could see again the demon had changed.

He had large black dragon-like wings and a long tail that was spaded on the end. He smiled evil displaying a set of rather insidious looking fangs.

"Think you can hit me?" He beckoned, raising one hand motioning for Raimundo to try again.

Raimundo snarled accepting his challenge and again went to strike down the demon. Who dodged at the last second ensuring that Raimundo would land on the ground hard. Raimundo angrily got back up and wipe away the blood from his lip.

While the demon was watching Raimundo Omi decided to launch a surprise attack.

The demon spun around, "so eager?" he asked evading Omi's attack and countering it with a punch of his own that knocked Omi back several feet, laughing, "Oops... didn't mean to knock the little guy so far back." He spat sarcastically.

"You..." Omi began but couldn't think of anything to say.

"Low down dirty snake," Clay said and also took a large swing at him. He grabbed Clay's fist mid-swing and threw the big lug several feet into the rock wall.

"Clay!" Omi shouted running over to the fallen cowboy.

"My turn!" Kimiko growled as she tried a running kick at him. He grabbed her foot and she dangled helplessly upside down.

"Put her down!" Clay yelled making to grab him around the waist only to have Kimiko be thrown his way. She landed with a thud on top of him.

"Well, at least I didn't hit the ground," she sighed getting up from Clay, "Thanks for the save."

She turned back to the demon. Now they were all up near the rock wall facing him.

"Are you having fun?" Jack asked them coldly and the dragons swung around to see him standing on the wall. He used his helipack to drop down beside the demon. He had had big knapsack slung on his back.

"So, you did steal our wu!" Kimiko growled angrily.

"So?" Jack asked snickering, "hurt your pride just a little bit?"

"No, of course not," Clay told him, "you better watch your buddy there."

"Hmm," Jack said eyeing said buddy, "I think its time you made your introduction. You said you would the next time you saw them."

"Of course," he laughed, eyeing Raimundo in particular, "I'm Kri Spicer, hmm... I thought that would be more... dramatic, I guess."

"Spicer," Kimiko asked stunned, "So your cousins or something!"

"Or something," Kri parroted nastily.

"I think it's time we get going," Jack told him, taking out the Golden Tiger Claws.

"No, not yet. We're were just getting to the good part," Kri pleaded.

"And I would deny you you're fun?" Jack asked as if hurt.

Kri turned to the dragons malice laced into his smile, "You fell into my trap." His hands were behind his back.

"No!" Raimundo yelled realizing it was too late.

The demons hands came out from behind his back. Once again there were projectiles between his fingers and tossed them at the dragons.

Having nowhere to run they did the best they could manage. One of the blade smacked Kimiko in the arm and a dart hit her leg. Kimiko fell on the ground her leg completely numb. Another blade sank its teeth into Raimundo's arm too, another one slashed his cheek, and a dart hit him. Clay was hit with a dart in the same exact arm that he'd hurt before and two blades swung by hit his legs. Clay fell down as the blades hit him. Clay's arm went numb too. Omi got hit in the arm with a dart but he also fell to the ground.

Raimundo swaggered and fell unconscious only to be caught by Kri.

"What are you doing?" Kimiko shot as she saw him dragging Raimundo back to Jack.

"I think it's fair that I get a prize," he laughed as Jack called out Golden Tiger Claws.

The remaining dragons were powerless to stop them as they took Raimundo.

End chapter 6