Chapter 6: last chances

The other continues to laugh as Jack stumbled up, he glared at them and Omi manage to look at him with a barely straight face.

"Jack Spicer, I suggest you leave at once before you get your buttocks handed to you…" he was silenced halfway through his taunt as he was thrown back by what felt like a massive fist of stone, the other stopped laughing and Raimundo stifled a scream.

"I so know that look" he cried. Jack gave a cold stare and flung out his fists Kimiko and Clay were flung back as well, Jack walked forward towards Raimundo who held out a trembling sword of the storm.

"If you want to live past this night Rai I suggest you just kill me" he whispered and then snarled "Before I kill you!" he punched forward and Raimundo went flying back into a keg of flour. It went flying into the air and the Xiaolin Dragon watch in confusion when the flour landed on two invisible arms, they were withering around Jack like snakes and on each of them ended with two fingered claws.

"So that's how you do it…" Raimundo muttered.

"You haven't seen anything yet my dear friend" Jack smiled and the claws changed into blades, "I do miss the blood shed!" he grinned and looked at Kimiko; Raimundo saw where the blades were heading.

"KIMIKO!"

She spun around just in time to see the blades, but not quickly enough to get clear out of their way she winced and gave a scream of pain as the blade sliced through her side. Omi rushed to her as blood soaked into her clothes.

"Darn my aim must be off" Jack chuckled as he watched her whimper in pain, the blades became fists again and he knocked Kimiko and Omi away and Clay soon followed. Raimundo who had been lying against the wall looked up at Jack who was now standing above him, the two blades hovering just above his head.

"I thought you were my friend Rai…I thought I could trust you…" Jack whispered Raimundo steeled himself for a painful death but Jack just held out his hand and a box dropped onto Raimundo's lap. "This is the only time I'll give you any mercy remember that!" suddenly Raimundo felt a powerful blow to his back and he blacked out.

"Rai…Rai? Come on Partner wake up!" Clay cried and Raimundo slowly opened his eyes to see Clay and Omi looking down at them, they looked worse for wear but they'd look like they'd live.

"Where's Kimiko?"

"Fiddling with that little box you found, from what she's found she can't hack it" Clay declared.

"How can you hack a box?" Raimundo demanded.

"When it is one of Jack Spicer's contraptions you know Kimiko will want to get into it" Omi exclaimed Raimundo looked to see it was a little box and on top was a sort of glass panel. He touched it and a little light blipped.

"DNA confirmed" it declared and opened.

"How did it know my DNA?" Raimundo murmured as they watch it open up to reveal a prong that came up, it crackled and a holo-gram of Jack appeared.

"Hey Rai I hoped you don't mind me using your DNA to lock this, best if you get this it could save your hide!" Jack smiled. "This is a recorded message if you've got this it means my attempts to fight whatever it is that is making me like this has failed. I remember what I've done but I've never wanted to kill anyone, yeah I know some evil boy genius!" he groaned "But still if I was gonna kill someone I'd give them some dignity before I did, the way I kill it's…it's like snapping twig dolls in half it's horrible" Raimundo watched as the hologram Jack's shoulders slump.

"But the sheer rush of being able to kill with a thought it's intoxicating I want to do it more and more, and I'm worried I'm gonna hurt my friend" he pointed down at the box "Inside this box is a serum that can stop me but listen carefully, it must be in the back of the neck and only do it if there no other choice, I did a test of this before I left it stop brain cells so it should stop me. However there's also 95 chance I'll also wind up brain dead too" Raimundo watched this and swallowed hard.

"I'll most likely be with Chase Young right now you have to stop me before I swear my loyalty to him if I do I'll…well let me put it like this think things are bad now? It gets even worse!"

Raimundo picked up the serum and looked at his friends.

"Considering the butt kicking we got today I say we stop Jack now!" Kimiko said "And the chances of Jack ending up Brain dead might be an added bonus!" she grinned but Omi was glaring at Raimundo.

"Jack said you were his friend Raimundo, is this true?" he asked.

"Well yeah sorta it was just a little deal we had but it grew into something more…" he stopped when he saw they were looking at him funny. "We're just friends honest!"

"Have you given him any wu?" Clay demanded.

"No funnily enough he just wanted someone to hang with him and then all this Telekinesis started, Jack found out he could move stuff with his mind, but for some odd reason all he can use it for is for hurting and killing people"

"You mean…that's why you had me search up the Manor House massacre?" Kimiko demanded, Raimundo looked away from them and nodded "and you think Jack was responsible?"

"I know Jack was responsible, he told me he was there and he hates talking about it and how else can you explain how fifty six kids and seven teachers got sliced to pieces with no evidence of weapons?"

"We have got to stop Jack Spicer before it's too late" Omi cried.

At Chase's palace Jack walked in to see Chase standing at the top of the steps smiling, Jack sighed and looked away.

"You were right I am just a killer" he muttered "And I don't belong anywhere"

"You belong to fight by my side Jack, isn't that what you wanted all along?" Chase said and held out his hand "Come and let your full powers be restored"

Jack looked away and stared at the open door, should he just make a run for it?

"No you shouldn't run Jack" the little boy smiled and Jack glanced at him "Chase is giving us the chance to be whole again, don't deny it!"

"But…Rai…" Jack whimpered.

"Forget him!" the little boy roared "if he was such a friend he wouldn't have let those jerks beat you up!"

Jack's face contorted with rage, he spun around to face Chase and walked up the stair to be face to face with him.

"You know what I ask in return" he smiled.

"Chase Young I swear my loyalty to you" Jack said bowing down, Chase grinned evilly and held out his hand as he placed it onto his head.

"I return to you your power" Chase said and Jack winced as dark blue fire crackled down his body and into his skull, the freezing cold pain was like an ice storm in his mind! He staggered back and collapsed.

Just then the Xiaolin Dragons rushed in and Raimundo saw the limp body.

"Jack!" he cried, the body twitched and Jack got up, his eyes cold with rage and an insane craze. He held out his arms and smiled, Omi held up the Orb of tournami.

"Orb of tournami!" he cried and water exploded forth into the air letting a cool mist float down.

The mist revealed one arm, then two…then three…then five…then seven…then twelve…in all they could see eighteen of the things all withering around like tentacles on an octopus.

"you are too late Xiaolin Dragons…much too late" Chase sneered.