Me: Sorry! Sorry! I'm having a writer's block. Geez, it's becoming addicted to me, doesn't it? Christmas came and went. How's your Christmas day, eh? Everything you wanted does came to true, doesn't it? (grin) Oh and I forget, Happy New YEAR! (blow a tootles) And I realized my next semester in college will be start in Jan 9th. Pretty suck… (sulking) Anyway… onto the story!
Kobo: Uhh… You forget about Disclaimer.
Me: (sigh) Okay, then Disclaimer!
Shinyu: Disclaimer: Lady Lizgon does not own Xiaolin Showdown and Spirit World and its characters but her sheng-gong-wu and her ideas.
Yamato: (looking bored) Onto the Story!
Chapter 1 – The White Mountain
The black haired Japanese girl in the Xiaolin robes watched the undersized Chinese monk and the strong Texas cowboy sparred each other. She sighed, started to playing her favorite game that was her father sends it to her for her birthday before the elder monk invited her to the Xiaolin Temple.
"Water!" The small monk cried, lifting his small hands in front and pushed with the water ball forward as the water sprout in speed at the cowboy in the red robes.
"Earth!" The cowboy bellowed, he stomped his right foot onto the rich soil ground as the stone table rumbled upward from the ground to block the attack. "Try again, little panther."
"I would not think so, Clay!" The small monk scowled darkly and then he leaped upward in the sky as his arms shot upward when he yelled. "ICE!"
The ice shards flew down at the cowboy.
The cowboys known as Clay Bailey, the Xiaolin Dragon of Earth, use his arms as shield himself against the ice shards. "Easy there, Omi." He grinned as the ice shards shattered harmlessly on his arms.
The small monk known as Omi, the Xiaolin Dragon of Water, flipped backward and landed on the ground as he grinned at his giant friend. "United we fall, divided we stand!" He said drawing his right arm as his other arm stay in the front.
Clay blinked and laughed, picking up his cowboy hat from the ground and put back on where it's belong to. "Don't cha mean 'United we stand, divided we fall?' Omi?"
"That too." Omi chirped, trusted his tiny finger up proudly.
Suddenly, the green snake wormed over to the three warriors while he flipped his small arms in panic. "It's awakened now! The Mirror of Illusion activated!" He cried his eyes seem nearly bugged out and sweated a little. "Now I have a painful boiling rash! Down where it's…"
The black haired girl frowned in disgusted. "Too much information, Dojo."
The green snake sweat dropped a little. "Sorry, Kimiko." The small dragon named Dojo, known as the guardian of the Xiaolin Temple.
Kimiko, the Xiaolin Dragon of Fire, shook her head and stomped toward the safe place where it held the Sheng Gong Wu. Clay, Omi and Dojo followed after her through the door and to their surprise to find their Master.
Dojo crawled after the master and climbed up on his master's shoulder, whispering into his ear about the activated Sheng Gong Wu.
"Ah, Mirror of Illusion…" The Master started stuffing his hands into his long blue sleeves. "It had been a while since the black mage sealed the Dragon of Wind in the Sheng Gong Wu Mirror."
The black haired girl widened her blue eyes as she and her friends stared at the old monk. "There is actually a Dragon of Wind exist in this world?"
"Yes. All of you three will go find him and free him before the Evil forces find him and used him against us."
The Xiaolin Dragons did obediently ran back to the huge dragon and hopped on its back, flying back to where the place that hid Mirror of Illusion.
But…
They did were not aware of the creature sit silently on the branch with cold, dull black eyes and flapped its black wings as it flew back the dark palace to tell its master.
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The white spirit drifted from the cloud to another cloud with a bored look. He look like about a sixteen-year-old teenager in the white robe and silver sash. He sighed dully as he opened his sparkling silver eyes to the blue sky.
Running his white transparent hand through his silver transparent hair, he flopped over the cloud and glanced down at the Spirit World.
Actually, a spirit lives in the spirit world, right? Right.
He leaped off the cloud and falling carelessly down in at least around one thousand feet high as he landed on the dark red grass without effort.
He grinned.
"Young Master! What are you doing! You could have hurt yourself!"
He glanced over his shoulder to the old sage in the light blue transparent robes with an annoyed look. "Relax, Kaangie." He replied rolling his eyes and turned around. "I'm just a spirit. How can I be injured by a fall?"
"It's High Priest Kaang to you, young Master! You could have yourself lucky that Great Master choose you as a chosen one." High Priest Kaang huffed. "What could have happen to you if he wasn't come to rescue you from those filth things!"
He scoffed and crossed his arms. "He could have."
Kaang sighed rubbing his worse temper and muttered something like spoiled child and should respect all elder ones before he left leaving the youth spirit alone.
The spirit frowned and then he looked upward at the now light orange and dark yellow sky where the transparent animals in odd shape floating with or without wings.
He sighed tiredly and turned around, disappeared into the thin air.
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The shadowy figure grinned as he heard the voices from the radio he used on a fly in the Xiaolin Temple. All he had heard was "Mirror of Illusion" and "Dragon of Wind" so he decided to go followed the Xiaolin Losers and steal them before the monks could.
"Hahah! I, Jack Spicer the Super Evil Genius, shall win this day!" He crackled and then paused. "Jack-bots!"
One of the Jack-bots appeared in front of the evil genius. "Yes, Master?"
"Let's go!" Jack yelled, leaping in the red car and drove off being followed by the Jack-Bots.
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The creature flew back to the evil skull head mountain where the great evil was living in. It searched for its master and found him mediating on the cliff near the waterfall as it flew to its master and stand on its master's shoulder.
It whispered to its master's ear. And then the man grinned.
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The spirit appeared on the enormous silver symbol of circle and looked around in search for the sacred temple. He needed to find him so he can ask ton of questions. And he needed to know who he was and what he was.
…
No…
The spirit sighed remembering one of the high spirits told him once the Great Master passed the sacred power to him after he was now made of stone. A statue.
He had heard the story about the Great Master's power. It held great blessing but also great cursed. It can be powerful and manipulating other elements. It was above the six elements but equal to two elements. It can be either good or evil. It had two colors and also a double face…
The spirit huffed turning around and stomped back to the teleporting symbol but he bumped into another spirit and both fell down on the gray ground.
"Master! I don't mean to knock you down." The other spirit apologizing and bowed for a million times in front of him.
The spirit looked up and saw the faint light green glowing spirit and it's only a boy. He hated being called master as if everyone doesn't know his name, yet he can't remember his name either.
"Meh, it's okay. Relax, dude." The white spirit said got up and wiping off the fake dust off his glowing white robe. "I don't bite."
The light green spirit blinked and relax a bit, smiling. "I guess so, Master."
The white spirit huffed. "Don't call me Master. I hate… no… despised it."
The green spirit frowned, looking at him and realized the white spirit was the same age as he was. "I… I understand how it feels." He mumbled remembering his past life as a human. "I was human, in my past life as a son of the lord in Japan."
The white spirit grinned. At least he found a person who understands him.
"I'm Zu. What's yours?"
Then the white spirit's grin quickly disappeared and replaced with a frown with a sad expression. "… I don't remember mine or my past self."
Zu frowned but don't push it far when he can see the white spirit's troubled face. "Maybe I can help you to find something so it can help you to get your memory back?"
The spirit blinked and smiled a little which it doesn't reach to his eyes. "Thanks."
"Should I call you something other than 'Master'?" Zu asked turning around and headed to the symbol circle with the spirit.
The spirit frowned in thoughtful. "Ar…"
Suddenly Zu stopped at his track and looking confused. "Ar?"
"I'm not sure… but I know it means Air in Portuguese…" Ar replied trailing off as he stepped on the silver circle and turned around, to his surprise, to see the green spirit's grinning. "What?"
"Portuguese! Maybe it's a clue!" Zu looked at Ar's face closely. "Surely, you don't look like Japanese or Chinese. Only if you're not a spirit, your color skin and hair can be another clue for who you are."
Ar laughed. "But one problem is I don't remember my name and where I came from."
Zu sighed. "Good point." The green spirit crossed his arms as the silver circle glowered and they disappeared again.
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The green dragon floating in the sky and searching for the sacred white mountain as the small monk, Omi, leaped on Dojo's head. "Look! There it is!" The Dragon of Water cried, pointing at the barely visible of the white mountain behind the cloud.
When they landed on the white ground, the three warriors leaped on the same ground as the giant dragon shrunk back into his normal size.
"Wow…" All the Xiaolin Dragons and Dojo awed at the sight of the land. White sakura tree, white tall grass, and everything were all white and silver.
"Just like fairytale suddenly came out alive from the book I was reading as a child…" Kimiko mumbled quietly to herself than to her friends.
"Boy, look at those apples." Clay said reaching for the silver apple that was hanging from the white tree. "I've never seen anything like this."
"NO!" The two Xiaolin Dragons and Dojo tackled him away from the silver apple white tree.
Dojo snaked up on the cowboy's shoulder to the huge cowboy hat. "You shouldn't eat the silver apple. You could be cursed for seven days till you're dead." He said in haunting tone in the fake white cloth-like ghost.
"Anyway," He replied returning back to normal. "This way." He pointed the lone path in front of the Xiaolin Dragons. As they leaved, the shadow figure landed on the same spot where Xiaolin Dragons had left and smirked.
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Zu and Ar stared at the white forest they ended up in. "Zu… Don't tell me you accessed wrong terra?" Ar asked staring in awe, as he had never been to Earth for nearly five thousand years since his death.
Zu laughed nervously, "Actually…" He began.
Ar sighed crossing his arms, looking around. "Never mind that. Zu, how did you end up in Spirit World?" He asked changing the subject after seeing Zu's nervous behavior.
Zu paused for a moment and running his see-through hand through his see-through hair before he looked back at Ar. "I was sitting in the mediating room unguarded…" He looked up at the blue sky. "Do you remember that I tell you I was the son of the rich lord?"
Ar nodded seeing where it leads.
"I was killed by archer's arrow in my back. The tip of the black arrow is very poisonous." Zu said wincing at the remembrance of pain. "I was lying in the bed and next thing I remember that I ended up in Spirit World. What about you, Ar?"
Ar stopped at his track and makes a face when he unable to recalled how he died and how he did get in Spirit World. "…I… I remember… fire…"
The red, orange, and yellow fire dancing in front of his innocent eyes as it twisting and cracking loudly, scaring him.
It roared and laughing in his face. Where's Mom? Where's Dad?
It twisted around him, smothered him. He can't breath! Can't breath!
All he heard the screaming and shouting in Portuguese. The frightful cries of women, the screaming of the children, the panicking chattering of animals, and the loud yelling of men.
The fire… it choked him. The smoke, it is too much. He was choking, dying…
"But… then the fire stopped as it turn blue…like slow motion in the tape…" Ar continued, closing his silver eyes.
He clutched his favorite small teddy bear and in awed when the fire suddenly frozen as it slowly turning into the blue in slow motion. He wasn't hurt anymore… But he was still feeling cold… very cold.
He shivered and rubbed his small arms. He looked up and saw the clear path that blue fire were making for something or somebody on its way…
"When I made a mistake, I looked back behind me. I saw the shadows… They tried to take me back through the floor…" Ar stopped and smiled sadly at the ground. "But then…"
Zu seem understood what Ar was trailing off. "The Great Master, Gale…"
Ar nodded. "If it weren't for him, I would be dragging to who knows where."
He turned his head and noticed the four shadows in the black and gray shape with two yellow eyes. They reach over to him with long, creepy arms and claws.
"…mu…ndo…..ra…im…un..do…" They cried to him. "Join us…. Join us…the child of Vento… the protector of Terra… the love of the Fuoco… the rival of Acqua…"
He backed away in fear, clutching his teddy as his eyes widened at the shadows.
"The life bearer of Legno… the illusion of Ghiaccio… The ally of Lampo…" The shadows continued. "The shield of Metallo… the death of Scuro… the hope of Luce…Join us… Join us… Be one of us… Be one of us…"
He stepped backward in fear but to his surprise when the shadows began to cower back afraid of something behind him. As he turned his head slowly and saw the beautiful dragon turned into a man in the white, sleeveless robe with the light blue sash.
He could see the white outline glowered on the man's pale skin. Whoever he is…
He could see the silver outline of the wind being blown by the man. He could hear the screeching of the shadows.
Then next, the blue fire turned white. Everything so white, blinding his eyes. He can feel the arms wrapping his waist like a father would hold a son. He relaxed a bit and closed his eyes quietly as he heard the smoothing words echoed to his ears.
"You are now Dragon of Wind. It is your destiny to break the curse. You shall waiting for the One to free the curse of the looking glass… You will find the Others and help them restored the balance of the world, young master."
The white shoe landed on the white ground as Ar turned his head to the noise that were opposite of their path. "What was that over there?" Zu asked looking in Ar's direction and seeing the white spirit's frowning.
"Let's go."
Zu dropped his jaw in surprise. "Go where?" He asked staring at him like as if the spirit could grow a horn in forehead. "But what if the mortal could see us or whatever what might be lurking around like demon or shadows… We should go back to Spirit World."
"Well, I'm not going to back again. I need to check it out whether you like it or not." Ar snapped as he flew into the white forest and then Zu stared at where the white spirit went to and sighed.
"Whom am I kidding to?" Zu whispered to himself before he chased after the white spirit. "Wait up for me, Ar!"
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It opened its eyes as the color of crimson like the blood. It raised his black see-through head, as it was shape of a lizard with two horns.
It sensed the four elements are coming to this very place. It suddenly caught the scent of the familiar presence he knew very well.
A new host of its brother, it realized with a smirk.
And then another it sense the very dark than the four elements. It grinned as it had been waiting for the dark prince since one thousand year.
It knew it could break out of the statue since it was banished from its brother.
'Brother, I have been waiting so long time. Once I'm free, I will kill you… but the humanity will be the first.'
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It stirred inside the source of the life.It could sense the One is coming to set the last element free. But it worried for its brother would be freed at same time…
It frowned as it shook its white shape of lizard with no horns. The Great Master's fault for split the souls and created two brothers when He was banished from the mortal world because of the black mage.
It could be over protective of its child since it found him and save him from the soul-snatching imps. Sure, it could be look closer to like the Great Master but... the child thought it was him, not itself.
However, it knew the Chosen Ones and its child would shatter the looking glass before the dark prince did. If its brother is out of the world being uncaught, it will have to go join with its child as a unseen guardian who would whispers to his ears like the silent wind send its quiet message to the wielder.
'Child of Vento, be safe.'
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The three Xiaolin Dragons and the small dragon walked on the path until the wall came in the view and blocked their way. Kimiko groans at the sight of the wall and frowned. "Oh great! Dead end!" She grumbled glaring at the wall hoping it would be melt into hole for her to climb in.
Clay walked up to the wall, pressed his glove hands and tracing slowly on the wall almost as if he's looking for a secret passage. "I know it's there but…" He trailed off frowning at the wall.
Kimiko sighed as something glowing white caught her eyes and she turned her head to see the direction she saw was gone. The Dragon of Fire frowned curiosity, she would swore she saw a boy with a odd looking clothes and he also wore the necklace that wasn't glowing white, only a solid and gold…
"Kimiko?"
Kimiko snapped out of her trance and looked back to Omi and seeing Clay had found the secret passage in front of them. "But how…?"
Clay grinned at her reaction. "I used my element to break whatever it was." He explained as he stepped forward in and the small monk followed after him.
Kimiko looked back at the bush she had seen earlier and wondered who is the boy she saw. She shook her head and disappeared in the cave.
End of Chapter 1
Me: (yawning and rubbing her eyes tiredly) man, I'm getting tired so easily… Wow, it's seven AM, I have been writing it since 12am. (faint)
Time for Sneak Peek!
Sneak Peek
She stared at him. He stared back. She blinked. He blinked. And then she screamed.
End of Sneak Peek.
Scuro: (waving) Have a good night!
Me: (wake up) Oh and I forget to tell you 'bout Zu and no he's not a mary-sue or whatever it was. (shudder) He's very important and beside, he's a friend to Ar (as you should figure it out who Ar is, if you're right, your award will be given.) Also if you're guessing right about the two mysterious figures ('it'), your double award will be given too. Have fun to put the two puzzles and two puzzles together, ciao! And Happy New YEAR! Oh and I forget one more thing...
Ar - Air (Portuguese)
Vento - Wind (Italian)
Scuro - Dark (Italian)
Terra - Earth (Italian)
Fuoco - Fire (Italian)
Acqua - Water (Italian)
Luce - Light (Italian)
Metallo - Metal (Italian)
Lampo - Lightning (Italian)
Legno - Wood (Italian)
Ghiaccio - Ice (Italian)
I found them in Italian tranistion. I hope it does help. Please read and reviews, thanks!