A Devil Put Aside For Me

The mountain was surrounded by flies, every living creature on it cried out in pain, a howl only beaten by the thunder and wind that was now at a devastating strength. That was everyone on the mountain, except for Sue, who was surrounded by flies, but was deep inside her own mind. She was surrounded by shadows.

"Well done" said Beelzebub in his echoing, metallic voice, which sounded so inhuman

"..."

"Sue..."

"...?"

"Sue, It's me... Li"

"...?"

"The Dragon Spear is holding my spirit, Sue you must resist Beelzebub"

"Don't listen to him" said Beelzebub

"Li, you are harming our friends"

"...?"

"Yes, our friends"

"..."

"Don't listen to him, you know you enjoy this, you know you want everyone to experience this feeling"

"Sue, you are harming people"

"Everyone has caused her pain, you know her curse and you never had the nerve to tell her"

"...!"

"I didn't want to upset you; I thought I could take care of it... I'm sorry"

"..."

"Sorry..."
"Don't listen to him; he left you like everyone else did"

"..."

"I'm still here; I will always be with you"

"Don't listen, everyone leaves you eventually... Think of all the times Li has left you before"

A memory of Li leaving Sue in the rain, Sue running up to him, putting her hand on his shoulder, only for him to shrug it off and walk away, leaving Sue bowing her head as the rain gets heavier.

"Sorry"

"Is that all you can say? For all the pain she felt, the pain of the Flies is nothing compared to what she has felt"

A memory of Li leaving Sue in the night, thinking she is asleep, but she watches him go, then cries herself to sleep.

"I... I had no idea..."

"You never do... But everyone shall soon understand"

Shadows appeared out of the darkness and grabbed Li, and dragged him, screaming, into the darkness of Sue's mind.

"Good girl"

"..." replied the horned monster

Sue was surrounded by her shadows, similar to her fight in the showdown against Ashley. Her eyes became red beads amongst the darkness. Tentacles crawled out of her back, she plunged the four tentacles into the four elements on the mountain.

"So long" she said in an echoing, metallic voice that sounded so inhuman.

Li formed a blade out of ice, he slashed through the shadows with his ice blade, and ran over the black platforms, shadows came out of the ground and shot tentacles at him, he jumped over them and slashed at their heads, they vanished. He ran on some more, but tentacles came out of the ground and tipped him, then a body came out, attached to the tentacles, a head and legs. Li shot ice out of his two longest fingers at the shadow and it dissolved on impact with the ice bullet. Li jumped over some more tentacles coming up and soon the platforms were turning into giant faceless shadowy beasts behind him. He ran and jumped onto a much higher platform, and barely caught it with his hands. He climbed onto it as the dark spirits floated after him, e noticed he was running in an upwards spiral, and at the top was Sue and Beelzebub. He ran, jumped and jumped, slashed and slashed, until he reached Sue's dark bubble at the top.

Ripples of dark energy flew into the minds of the elements. The strange thing was, they were familiar with the darkness, and all of them had at some point been on the dark side or had at least been tempted by it.

"This is the end" said Sue in Beelzebub's voice, grinning at their discomfort.

She increased the power of the dark pulse that flowed through the tentacles, Raimundo and Azo screamed in pain, Omi cried in pain and Jack choked on his own tears.

"SUE!"

The ice blade sliced through Sue, her connection with the other elements was destroyed.

"..."

Where Sue had been cut in half, two new Sues formed, one looked like the demon Sue, strong and powerful, and the other was disfigured with darkness, and looked weak and frail.

"It seems Sue must battle with herself" said Beelzebub

"Did I do that?" asked Li, shocked

"You were a... catalyst for it; you helped it happen, though it would have anyway"

Demon Sue leapt at Shadow Sue, roaring, Shadow Sue ducked out the way and kicked Demon Sue as she flew over-head. Demon screeched and jumped at Shadow, pinning her down, the shadow bubble around them vanished and they were on a large square of white marble. Shadow kicked Demon off her and leapt at her, she flew through her, doing damage to her on the inside, then she leapt down on her and pushed her into the ground. Demon grabbed Shadow and threw her across the square, then dived at her. Shadow rolled out the way and kicked Demon as she landed, then leapt at her, and went through her, she skidded as she landed on the square and jumped back at Demon, but Demon turned round and delivered a kick to Shadow's head, and she went flying into the corner of the square.

Demon ran over to her, but Shadow leapt at her when she got close enough and went through her, causing pain, spun round in midair, landed then leapt back at Demon as she turned round and kicked her in the face. Demon, while falling back, lifted her leg and managed to recover with a kick to Shadow's stomach, a flip and a landing on her feet.

In the real world, flies flew above people's heads like crowns; the crowns of flies were shrinking and growing. Sometimes Sue's crown was biggest, sometimes everyone else's was biggest. The tentacles had vanished. What no one noticed was because of the rain, wind and collapsed tunnel, the cliff-face was collapsing and soon the entire mountain would be under an avalanche.

Demon charged at Shadow, with her talons ready, she slashed at Shadow, who ducked out the way, and Demon fell forward and over her. Shadow kicked her, and she fell onto her back. Shadow's dark hands turned into sickles and she slashed at Demon, who managed to roll back, but her chest was badly injured, she threw herself at Shadow, and their Talons and Sickles met in fury, bouncing off each other, until Shadow fell on her back and Demon brought down her Talons, but Shadow had already pushed herself through Demon's legs and sliced at the. Demon swung round and slashed Shadow's back. Shadow ran but fell over, she rolled over onto her back, and Demon jumped on her and pinned her down, then forced her talons into Shadow's heart. Shadow lifted her sickles and slashed Demon's throat, which started spurting out blood. Demon lifted her hands to her hands to her throat, but soon fell to the ground. Shadow got up.
"As if you could hurt a shadow" she said silently, as the demon faded away along with the white square, she was back in her bubble, with a crown of flies above her head.

"Leave!" she demanded

"Sue" said Beelzebub

"LEAVE!" she screamed, and dark bolts of energy struck Beelzebub, there was an explosion of emotions which forced Li out off Sue's mind and probably destroyed Beelzebub. The flies exploded in white light, flying in all sorts of directions. The elements were getting to their feet. Sue, who had been levitating, landed and passed out.

Sue awoke. The rain had stopped beating down so heavily but was now a wet haze in the strong wind. She lifted herself off her stomach and onto her knees and hand. She noticed her fist was clenched and looked into it, feeling something in it. It was the remains of the Lord of the Flies. She stared up and saw Omi and Jack fighting a Shen Gong, and Raimundo fighting another. She looked over and saw Li's pillar of ice.

"Thank you" she whispered to him in a hoarse voice.

She looked over to Azo, who was bound in Silk, she heard a sound and looked to her right, just in time to see a ball of silk hit her, and bind her.

Raimundo shot a typhoon into the blade-handed Shen Gong.
"Face it you are weak" said the Bladed Shen Gong, feeling nothing

"No!" screamed Raimundo and leapt in the air and tried another wind-based attack.

"With out lightening you are weak"

The bladed creature leapt at Raimundo, who managed to duck in time and leap forward before the creature tried to attack him form behind.

"You are getting predictable" said Raimundo, as the creature recovered from missing Raimundo twice. The creature charged at him, and Raimundo leapt in the air, and fired high-powered waves of sound energy at the creature, which rippled through the air at such a high velocity, that when they missed they turned the rock they hit to dust. The creature leapt in at Raimundo and elbowed him in the stomach. Raimundo managed to kick away before the sword-hand came down on him. He fell into the mud and got up, wiped himself down, but was hit by a giant ball of silk from his right.

Jack and Omi leapt around as Silky fired randomly through the rain at them. All the shots had missed or had been sliced by Jack. Jack heard a scream of pain and looked over at Raimundo wrapped in silk, being prodded by a Shen Gong with blades for hands. Jack got out his blade hands and ran at the Shen Gong. Jack sliced at it, but was blocked. Jack ducked down and sliced at the Shen Gong's legs, but it leapt and brought its steel fist down to where Jack had been. Jack had rolled forward, then leapt up, spun round and managed to slice at the Shen Gong's leg, damaging it. Their blades met again, and again, and again, each time they jumped back, did various movers then met again, nothing changed.

"Jack"

"What?"

"Jack, this is Scorpio"
"Where are you?"

"I'm actually at the bottom of the mountain, using the power of a psychic Shen Gong. Listen, we could use someone like you"
"What?"

"You are clearly the most powerful element. Think about it, you could help rule the world"

"Why should I?"

"Why should you help the monks? When you were going against them, they bullied you. Remember the waterfall? And after they defeated the mermaid? Then just before Omi messed about with Time Travel? And when you tried to join them they made you do all that work, and just laughed at you? Remember all that? They became what turned you into the boy obsessed with taking over the world. Bullies. They preyed on your weakness, but you are stronger and they ask for your help. They are no better than Wuya, Chase or anyone the double-crossed you. They are evil, and it's disgusting how they justify their bullying. Join me; I am the most loyal partner you could ever hope to have."

Jack sighed; the Shen Gong had stopped fighting him and was probably waiting from orders from Scorpio. Jack wondered if he could catch the creature off guard, then decided against it. He looked over at Omi who was easily fighting off Silky. He formed a metal spear in his hand and threw it at Omi, aimed to miss, but Omi was distracted by it and he looked up. Silk hit him in the gut and expanded over his body.

"Jack"

"What?"

"It's Li"

"Li?"

"Please... Don't do this. The monks may have been horrible to you, but Sue, Azo and the world are innocent. Don't do it"

The two Shen Gong were crouched down, bowing at Jack. Jack threw another metal spear at the bladed Shen Gong, which jumped in the air, and then he fired an iron cannon ball at the Shen Gong's chest as it was in mid-air, and it fell back to the edge of the mountain peak. The ground crumbled beneath it, and it fell off the peak, causing a chain reaction, which Jack guessed caused a lot of damage on the surface. Jack quickly kicked Silky in the head, as he got to his feet, and then fired a sharp metal disk at it, and the Shen Gong toppled over the mountain peak.

"I must warn you" said Scorpio, as Jack went over to the silk-bound elements. "This Shen Gong's power isn't only a form of communication, it's a weapon!" Jack continued to go, but suddenly gripped his head in agony. He fell to the ground and whimpered in pain.

"You were born with the potential to be Xiaolin or Heylin, Element or Shen Gong. I don't want to hurt you, but this can kill you" said the voice in his head.

"Jack" said Li. "He doesn't want your help, he wants you to die. You are too powerful and he fears that... You can defeat whatever is doing this to you... Reverse it"

Jack suddenly saw into his own mind Li was standing by his side and a phantom was standing in front of him.

"You are the Shen Gong?"

The phantom leapt at him, but Jack knocked it back with ease. The Shen Gong looked confused and leapt again, but was forced back, this time with a strong force. It cringed in pain. Li walked off into the darkness, leaving Jack to destroy another Shen Gong.

Scorpio looked at the Shen Gong that was on the floor in pain. The Shen Gong's skin began to crack and neon blue light shone out of the cracks, the Shen Gong shattered completely, and the parts dissolved into blue light.

"Li" muttered Scorpio, and looked to the mountain peak, high above him. He could just make out the block of ice on top of it. He gestured for his followers to leapt up the mountain.

Jack sliced the silk around Azo's mouth; she breathed heavily, and then looked up at Jack who had already begun to slice away at the silk around her body. Something hit him in the back of the head and he fell over. Azo looked up and saw a troll-like Shen Gong. Omi saw it too from inside his cocoon. Water filled the cocoon like a balloon, unfortunately the pressure was too great for Omi to stand and when the balloon popped he shot out, his body in pain, and he head butted the troll-like creature as it raised it's sword to Azo's head. But then he felt his body was numb, in his determination to save Azo he had wound up doing himself so much damage. 'The curse of water' he thought, then didn't realize why he had thought it. A Shen Gong, who he didn't see, lifted him up from behind, by his head in one hand, and held him to face Azo. Another Shen Gong was holding an axe above her head.

He nodded, and understood. In order to save Azo, and probably all the elements, he would have to break his seal. He focused, and there was a ruble as the seal began to break. The Shen Gong holding him tossed him aside, as Scorpio walked onto the peak to be present at his victory.