Elements on the Mountain

The Golden and Sapphire Dragons attacked the monks. Despite their attacks of earth, fire water and wind combined, it seemed impossible to defeat them, and then the sapphire army came, an army of Sare's petrified victims.

"What are we going to do?" they asked each other in a huddle

"I have an idea" said Wilds

"What?"

"Can't Kimiko simply smoke and soot the Sapphire Dragon?"

"It's not that easy"

They broke the huddle as a blue flame came down. Omi was grabbed by a sapphire person; he broke form his grasp in a water explosion. Clay was grabbed next and he was still injured from the arrow he took to his chest. He tried to break free, but by the time he fought of some, more came, soon they were piled on top of him, and then a blue flame came down.

"Clay!" screamed Kimiko with tears in her eyes. The sadness quickly turned to hate and anger, fire surrounded her and she leapt at Sare, kicking and punching, creating a cloud of smoke and fire.

"This is my master" said Li, letting Sue enter the cave

Sue stared at the bald monk frozen in a block of ice. He was wearing a tattered robe and holding a giant spear, though the block of ice he was in was probably the most striking feature.

"He's... frozen?"

"Yes, you see this is the Hunter. All people cursed with ice die because of the coldness of their heart. They literally freeze themselves. Fortunately for the Hunter he was holding the Dragon Spear at the time, which trapped his spirit inside and will flow through whoever holds it. It's too late to use the Resurrection Scale on him, but I believe the Heart of Jong or Healing Stone could do it."

"But how do you communicate with him?"

"The elements can 'speak' with the Wu, especially ones such as the Dragon Spear, it's how we sense them, but the Dragon Spear holds his spirit so I can faintly hear his voice."

"But if you break the seals, won't the Dragon Spear become a Shen Gong"

"We agreed it had to be done, my seal had to be broken at least... Everyone who has ever owned the ice seal has died because of it, except the Hunter's daughter, who found a way to pass it on without dying from it."
"She lost it in a showdown?"

"No, even if you lose your element in a showdown it's likely you will still be cursed with its residue. No one knows how she cured herself of it. You-"

"GET DOWN!" Shouted Sue, and dived into Li, and pushed him against the side of the cave. Lightening flew past them and hit the ice. There was an explosion, and then only the Dragon Spear lay there. They looked at the entrance and saw Suchi standing there with Scorpio next to him holding the Eye of Wuya. Li grabbed the Dragon Spear, and his entire eye turned ice blue, except for his pupil which stretched vertically, like that of a cat's eye. He roared and leapt at the Shen Gong. Scorpio dived out the way, and the Spear's blade met Suchi's body. A couple of wild slashes and Suchi exploded in light.

The monks couldn't see inside the flames, but they occasionally saw Kimiko leap out momentarily, surrounded by fire, or possibly on fire, she was definitely getting burnt inside the inferno. They heard a roar, and blue flames shot through the inferno, but Kimiko leapt out, into the sky, this time she was really burnt, she dived into the ground and hit Sare.

"She won't survive in there" said Raimundo

"I might be able to get her out" said Wilds

"How?"

"I could leap in there and create a wormhole around myself and her; we'd both be sucked in."

"Do it"

There was an explosion of smoke and fire, Wilds leapt in; creating a wormhole, there was another explosion as he entered the flames, then the fire imploded. Nothing was left except the remains of Sare, which quickly dissolved. The Golden Dragon seemed to have fled while the fight was taking place. Omi and Raimundo looked at each other, as though asking the question neither dared speak. Finally Omi said it: "Did he get her out in time?"

Li leapt at the Golden Dragon, and sliced it open. He leapt on its back and stabbed at its wings and head. It released a high-pitched scream and imploded into a bright white light. Li jumped down and landed in the burnt remains of the forest outside his cave. Shen Gong surrounded him and he was injured. He had ordered Sue to escape, and she had done with a few of the Shen Gong Wu. Scorpio himself had returned to his base. A storm was brewing overhead, Li had heard thunder earlier. He leapt at an unknown Shen Gong a sliced it in half, letting his Master, the Hunter guide the spear for him. He slashed again, this time he put his element behind it and the Shen Gong was frozen solid before shattering. The sky lit up with lightening and Dashi leapt from it in perfect union and struck a Shen Gong with his sword.

"Omi and Raimundo are coming" he shouted above the roar of the wind, "they wanted to check to see if their friends were alright"

They both leapt onto the mountain and the Shen Gong followed, they ran fast up it and leapt together, soon only a few were behind them, and they attacked them, a few energy beams were fired by the Shen Gong, but they were destroyed.

"You do realize only two seals remain?" asked Dashi

"Yes" muttered Li as the rain began

"Stay here" shouted a Shen Gong to Wilds, as he put him in a cell with Azo.

"Wilds are you alright?" asked Azo, as the guard locked the door and walked off.

"Yes, are you?"

"I'm fine"

"Where are we?"

"Atlantis"

"What?"

"Atlantis, this is Scorpio's headquarters"

"You still have Jack's armlet?"

"Yes, it's not as though I can take it off"

"It would be a nice way to destroy this place though"

"Except it's sort off impossible to break free from"

"What if I teleported you"

"Firstly it would be taken through the portal with me; secondly Atlantis has a field around it like our Shen Gong field, except it works against the elements"

"Firstly, I can teleport living organism without wormholes, except for their clothes and items, which means this will come off. Problem is I can only do it to one person at a time. Secondly if I focus hard enough I could teleport you a few hundred meters"

"But Jack's armlet explodes as soon as it stops detecting my pulse, it's an assurance your killer is taken out with you. It would take you out too"

"I could have a wormhole ready to jump through"

"It happens immediately"

"I'd be happy to risk my life to cause an explosion which could damage the Shen Gong, also you would be free"

"Well this place is prone to lava flows; I guess an explosion of the magnitude Jack talked about could do the trick... but..."

"Don't worry about me"

"Fine, do it"

"Where do you want to go? Remember I can't teleport your clothes."

"Li's cave, he has spare armor and weaponry"

"I guess he will finally learn your gender"

"You were eavesdropping?"
"I prefer to think of it as voluntarily overhearing" said Wilds, opening his escape wormhole

"-in secret" said Azo as he faded out, leaving his clothes behind.

Wilds jumped, there was an explosion.

Raimundo and Omi looked and the sapphire statues.

"Why haven't they turned back?" asked Raimundo

"Sare is very different from the Sapphire Dragon, maybe if we soot them"

"But that could destroy them"

"On the other hand it could free them"

"Or destroy them"

"Or free them"

"Or-"

"This is going nowhere"

"Perhaps we should help Dashi and Li, first. I really am detecting a large surge of Shen Gong activity around Li's cave" said Dojo. They nodded and climbed on him.

"Look out master!" shouted Yun as the area collapsed and lava flowed through. He put Scorpio in an energy bubble, and the lava flowed down and wiped out a bunch of Shen Gong, including Yun. Scorpio floated in his bubble out of Atlantis and into a cave leading to the surface, the energy bubble popped, and he ran out.

Li leapt at a Shen Gong. He didn't see the one coming up behind him which lifted its axe to strike him with. Azo threw her spear at the Shen Gong and it fell backwards, Li turned round.
"Is that my armor?"

"Long story"

Omi and Raimundo leapt down from Dojo and landed in the heat of the fight. A Shen Gong was running around at a tremendous speed, kicking Dashi. Raimundo created a tornado and swept it off its fancy feet. Dashi then struck it with his sword, destroying it.

"This is getting really bad" said Omi looking into the horizon at the Shen Gong that were coming for them.

"Lord of the Flies!" shouted Sue, leaping from a higher point of the mountain, the Shen Gong that was about to destroy all of them in one click of the fingers was suddenly distracted by emotional turmoil. Li took the chance and stuck the spear into him. Soon the flies were all over the mountain, attacking all the Shen Gong. Sue looked at Li who looked very pale and wet.

"No!" screamed Li suddenly

"What?" asked Azo

"The Cosmos Seal has just been broken"
"Wilds?" asked Sue

"Maybe, he said the wormhole wouldn't be able to take him far... On the other hand he might have died and Scorpio may have got the new Cosmos element to break the seal."

"Either way Wilds is unlikely to be alive any more"

"He could be-"

The Lord of the Flies started to shake. Sue dropped it and it transformed, it became darker, and grew, it became humanoid. It was a long black cloak which resembled a shadow, and it had a hood which had two little beady red eyes inside it. The flies stopped attacking the Shen Gong, who were already committing suicide, and started attacking the elements on the mountain.