Escape and Darkness

Sue stood up.

"Look out! Reversing Mirror!" shouted Li leaping in front of Kuzusu's beam the beam reflected and vaporized Kuzusu, but the shockwave knocked him into Sue, and he rolled over her.

"They're coming to life, run!"

They picked up a few Shen Gong Wu

"Tunnel Armadillo"

Dashi's lightening beam was beginning to over-power Wuya's. He had an almost unlimited amount of energy behind him and Wuya hadn't had lightening for years, and even when she had it had been backed by the power of darkness. She was growing exhausted, but her will-power to beat Dashi was greater, for she was seeking vengeance.

Raimundo and Rai came to a small chamber that was pitch-black.

"Hello" said a deep, echoing and slightly metallic voice

"Tas?"

"Jong"

"Raimundo" whispered Rai in a low growl, "This Shen Gong was from the Helmet of Jong, he can see almost everything that goes on. He is a great warrior. Feel the wind, make it blow with all your power everywhere, and try and use it as a form of echo-location. With any luck you should be able to find a tunnel leading out of here and back into the light, I will try and distract him."

Rai leapt into the air, and was struck down. Raimundo heard him growl and leapt up again. A powerful gale blew and he was able, to an extent, sense the exit. He ran forward but a Shen Gong caught him.

"Hello Raimundo"

"Who are you?"

"Tas"

"What Wu?"

"Third Arm Sash"

"Sonic Boom, Wind" shouted Raimundo and there was an explosion of wind that must have deafened Tas, because he let go of Raimundo and grabbed his ears, Raimundo rain out of the cavern and through the tunnel, he eventually came to a passage that was lit with wooden torches. Rai ran up behind him, bleeding and Jong soon followed.

"He's found a way to not be affected by the magic-preventing field" said Rai as he collapsed.

"Rai, get up!" screamed Raimundo

"I'm dying" muttered Rai

"Master... I fear the coldness is growing in me, I may die before I can break the last seals"

"..."

"I know... but"

"..."

"Sue?"

"..."

"I suppose... I'll go and get her"

Li left the cave; he jumped down the rocky hill, to where it was much warmer.

"Sue? ... Sue!" he ran over to here, she opened her eyes and the black flies buzzing around her vanished.

"What?"

"Were you using the Lord of the Flies on yourself?"

"Of course not, they were surrounding me because I was trying to tap into their deeper power"

"Oh!"

"So what do you want?"

"I have to show you something, follow me"

He started to climb the rocks and she followed.

"It's a bit cold up here."

Li grunted something incohearant in response.

"Fusion Cuffs!" shouted Raimundo, handcuffing himself to Rai. There was a bright light and then there was one person: a golden weretiger that sort of resembled Raimundo. Jong ran up to him.

"Golden Gale, Wind!" shouted Raimundo, and spun round slashing open a portal that let through an almighty storm.

"Tornado Claws, Wind!"

Golden Claws struck into Jong's chest, and his golden body started to crack, then he shattered and dissolved into golden light. Raimundo then ran off in the direction that he sensed some Shen Gong Wu.

Wuya was too tired, she felt her energy dying, and then... She was over-powered and in a white flash she was no longer Wuya, but the Eye of Wuya.

"So long Wuya" said Dashi, picking up his two prizes.

"Hanabi?" gasped Li as they reached the cave mouth

"Say your prayers"

"Stasis" said Li, there was a blue flash and Hanabi was encased in a blue light.

JuJu appeared from behind them and shot a stream of flies at them.

"Lord of the Flies!" the flies seemed to turn round and struck JuJu, and he went into a void of despair.

Sandy was hundreds of years in the future, looking at a wasteland. Then she sensed the destruction of JuJu. It was strange, she had been alive for a day (she had awoken a few hundred years ago) and so had JuJu, but now she was sensing his death. It was one of her curses as a Shen Gong, empathy. And he was dying a death that was so unbearable; it was the work of the Lord of the Flies. Hanabi too, Tebigong, a whole bunch of them were dying together under the terrible plague of darkness. It was obvious that their death would be self-induced, meaning they would kill themselves. Sandy was always there at the end of a Shen Gong's life, at least in mind. Sandy could never explain how all their minds were connected, but they were, probably through Emping, the Empathy Ring. However she couldn't be bothered to think of this, as she was going through great depression.

She leapt back in time, to just before the Sands of Time had turned into her. With three kicks to it, it shattered. After a few jumps through the time/space continuum she disappeared from time altogether.

The Shen Gong exploded in golden light, not being able to cope with such emotional depression that normally only came with mental illnesses.

"We have to go" said Li "more will be along shortly"

Suddenly a wormhole opened and Wilds and Zoey fell through.

Raimundo ran into the room. He saw his friends in magical bubbles; he also noticed a small black portal closing as he entered. However, what caught his attention the most was the fact that it was filled with Shen Gong. He glanced to his friends, and then leapt through the crowd of Shen Gong. Lightening and explosions filled the room, he jumped at the bubble Ashley was in and slashed at it, ripping away the wooden structure, and the bubble disappeared.

She didn't have to say anything; she just turned to light and vanished. It was strange how now that the seals were being broken, their powers were easier to control. This was what Raimundo thought at least, as he slashed open Kimiko's and Clay's bubbles. Kimiko burnt open Omi's bubble and Clay stomped around a bit, and the cave started to collapse.

"Cuff De-fusion"

Rai and Raimundo split.

"Rai, I can't open portals when I'm fused with you, you have to focus, just get us out of here"

"Graaghghh!" growled the injured tiger and opened a portal, a massive gust of wind blew any Wu that hadn't transformed through it, the monks jumped through and it started to close. A few Shen Gong decided to run for it, and some tried to jump through the portal, but Rai stopped them. A giant human-shaped beetle leapt at him, and he slashed at it knocking it down, and a massive rock fell on it, destroying it. Hui leapt at the portal, but Rai tackled him, the portal closed and the rest of the cavern collapsed.

Sue was sitting on the grass, below the rocky hill. Li was busy with Zoey and Wilds.

"Lord of the Flies" she whispered, "darkness"

Flies surrounded her, and she focused on the chi she had managed to steal from Tom, the Mind Chi, which gave her the ability to see her own mind in physical form. It was filled with shadows, and as the flies surrounded her they came to life and attacked her, some in the shape of humans, some in her shape, some demon-like ones even some shaped like massive blades. She struggled against them but same dark energy wrapped around her so she couldn't move, and the blades slashed at her, and the people punched her, despite the discomfort, deep down she enjoyed it.

Li was trying to break Zoey and Wilds. Neither would break their seal, so he had got Sue to create chains of darkness, and had tied them up, and he was slowly making it colder and colder for them until they would have to break it.

"B-B-B-Black Void, Cosmos!" shouted Wilds, aware of the consequences. As a black hole opened, the temperature dropped drastically, and he was almost dead. Suddenly a portal opened and Kimiko fell through and knocked Li into the black hole, then Clay fell through, then Omi and then Raimundo along with several Shen Gong Wu. The temperature returned to normal around them. The black hole imploded on itself and Li was left there unconscious.

Sue awoke from her trance.

"Lord of the Flies" she said darkly, and flies surrounded her, and followed her to the monks.

"Eye of Wuya, Lightening!" shouted Dashi, outside of the massive cave mouth, firing blindly, as it collapsed on the escaping Shen Gong. Shad, the Shroud of Shadows kicked Dashi in the back and picked up the Eye of Wuya.

"I never liked you Dashi" he said as the Eye of Wuya powered up. Dashi kicked blindly and hit Shad's feet; he toppled off the cliff and fell through the sky with the Eye of Wuya, which was fortunate because the collapsing of the cave caused the entire mountain to fall. A few Shen Gong managed to jump out, along with Dashi, and the small mountain crumbled.

Flies surrounded the monks, Zoey and Wilds. Zoey leapt at Sue, and kicked the Lord of the Flies out of her hand, then fell to the floor under the pressure of the mental trauma. Sue ran over to the Lord of the Flies, and grabbed it, but Ashley appeared in a flash of light and grabbed it to. "Sue, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown" said Ashley.