A few days later
Stella was meditating in the gardens. She focused on her inner power, which meant lifting in the air, her hair high above her. Her power outlined her whole body as she went deeper into the abyss, a yellow hue that faded into white. A sense of peace went through her system.
Master Fung quietly approached her, tapping her shoulder gently as not to frightened her.
"Stella? "
Stella breathed a sigh of relief, coming back to reality and back to being aware of her surroundings. She landed perfectly and looked up at Master Fung.
"Yes?"
"Your town pass is tonight, Stella. Are you ready to have fun?"
"Oh yes, Master Fung. I'm so excited." She said with a huge smile on her face.
"Well, you should start getting ready then, huh?" Master Fung gave out his hand, hoisting Stella up on her feet.
"Of course. Thank you, Master Fung." Stella bowed and ran off to her room. She ordered the perfect dress to go out with that night: a light blue halter dress with deep blue lining the halter, and with an even lighter sleeves underneath, and silver shoes to go with it. She pulled her hair back with a matching blue headband and she was ready to go. By 7 she was outside the temple gates, greeted by everyone seeing her off.
"Have fun, Stella." Master Fung nodded
"I will, Master Fung." She walked out feeling excited and once she was out sight, transformed and flew back out the city.
Meanwhile
Chase wore a light blue long sleeved collard shirt with a silver watch and black slacks. He wasn't amused to wear such bright colors, but for Stella, it was worth it. He wore a chain with his insignia on it, and he was ready to go. In an instant, he was at the city and waited for her to meet him there. Stella landed in front of him. He smirked.
"Good evening, Princess." He mused, bowing slightly.
Stella transformed back to her dress and bowed back while giggling.
"Good evening, Prince of Darkness."
"Shall we head into town for a night of bliss?" He put out his arm for her to grab onto and kissed her cheek gently
"We shall."
"Well then, let's go." He lead her down to the city limits and brought her to another extravagant restaurant.
He sat her down before seating himself. At first they said nothing, just stare into each other's eyes. The waiter came with their food, and they started to munch.
"So, have you thought of what else to do tonight?" Chase asked
"Maybe go back to that club. With that creep gone, I'm sure it's much better now."
"Very well."
They ate their meal in peace before leaving to head to that club. Stella looked super excited to go in, Chase on the other hand, looked super bored and unhinged. Still, it was for her, not for him. He noticed some guys checking her out in line, and he quickly held onto stellas waist, who didn't think much of it. She laid her head against his shoulder as they waited. Chase heard the guys groan in frustration that she was taken, and he had a small smile on his face.
"Finally We're next in line!" Stella chirped. When they went in, chase realized what he just dragged himself into. Too many people, too many flashing lights. Not his forte. Stella dragged him to the dance floor where she started swaying to the beat. Chase stared, perplexed at the weird motions Stella was doing.
"Cmon, Chase! Dance!"
"THIS is dancing?!"
"Of course! Why so confused? You've danced before."
"A waltz is the way to dance. This isn't dancing."
"You're funny!" Stella wrapped around his neck, hips still swaying to the beat.
"Wasn't trying to." He rolled his eyes.
"Okay, grumpy. Next slow song You'll dance with me right?"
"Of course."
At that instant, Faithfully by Journey started playing. She turned to Chase with a devilish grin.
"Let's go, Dragon boy."
Chase smiled and brought her closer to him. He swayed her back and forth.
Highway run into the midnight sun
Wheels go round and round, you're on my mind
(Chase twirls her gently and brings her back to him)
Restless hearts sleep alone tonight
Sending all my love along the wire
They say that the road ain't no place to start a family
Right down the line it's been you and me
(Chase spins her so her back is against his chest, her arms crossed one another holding his hands.)
And lovin' a music man ain't always what it's supposed to be
Oh, girl, you stand by me
(Chase brings her back to face him. Stella wraps around his neck and they both stare into each other eyes.)
I'm forever yours, faithfully
During the solo they swayed back and forth between the crowd of people, who weren't into it as much as they were.
Circus life under the big top world
We all need the clowns to make us smile
Through space and time, always another show
Wondering where I am, lost without you
And being apart ain't easy on this love affair
(Chase pushes her back and grab her wrist at the last moment to spin her around and bring her to a dip.)
Two strangers learn to fall in love again
(Stella looks at him with disbelief while chase brings her back up very close to him. His hand digging into her waist and the other gripping her hand.)
I get the joy of rediscovering you
(Stellas face melts into a look of appreciation and lust, which chase happily returned)
Oh, girl, you stand by me
I'm forever yours, faithfully
Chase pressed his forehead against hers and spun around the dance floor more, intensifying the moment during the next solo. Stella cupped his face and leaned more into his body, then she laid her head against his neck they glided around the dance floor.
Whoa, oh-oh-ooh
Whoa, oh-oh-ooh, oh
Whoa, oh-oh-oh, oh-whoooooa-oh
(Their magic, connecting with their emotions, caused the lighting to fade in and out, none of which was the staffs doing)
Faithfully
I'm still yours
I'm forever yours
(Chase twirled her around one more time, and engaged in another staring contest with her)
Ever yours
(Stella blushes and chase cupped her chin and leaned in)
Faithfully
The song ended with them kissing, making the crowd watching them cheer and whoop at that their performance. They were interrupted by a group of badly dressed Asian men, all wearing tacky neon blazers and pants, stomping up to them.
"Hey! You're the bimbo who lead our friend on! " the biggest one in the middle shouted
"Excuse me?" Stella growled
"You left our friend hanging last time he let you in and he's been missing for months! And now you're here with this loser! Where is he?!"
"Psh. I don't know what you're talking about. " Stella replied, rolling her eyes. The big guy wasn't having it. He got up in her face, spittle hitting her.
"Now listen you little SLUT!" The guy started out. "Tell us where our friend is, or your little punk ass boyfriend gets it!"
Stella wiped the spit off her face with a look of boredom. "That all the insults you got?"
The big guy yelled and backhanded her. The crowd gasped, and chase was ready to kill. He balled up his fists ready to fight, but Stella laid a hand on his fist gently, letting him know to not intervene yet. She looked at the guy with so much anger that his goons backed away some. The next thing the big guy saw was a blue heel in his face and crashing into the floor.
"Don't just stand there! Get that bitch !" The big guy yelled while holding his bleeding nose. The two went after Stella, throwing punching but it wasn't anything Stella couldn't handle. She dodged them all and back flipped onto one back and kicked the other one charging at her, before chopping the guys neck, knocking him out, and landing next to chase, who looked very pleased.
A loud bang echoed in the building and Stella and chase jumped at the sound, along with screaming from the crowd. In the big guys hand was a gun, pointed at the ceiling with smoke coming out the chamber, a massive grin laid on his face.
"EVERYONE OUT! NOW!" He yelled and shot at the ceiling again. In a matter of seconds, the whole club ran out the doors in a stampede, with Stella and chase being the only party goers left. The two goons sat back up and took their own guns out, aiming at the two.
"You shouldn't have pulled that stunt, hoe." The big guy said.
Stella put her hands on her hips and gave another bored expression. "Seriously, you don't have any better insults? "
The big guy looked confused at her reaction, but shook it off and aimed for her. Chase got in front and grabbed the bullet, crushing it to dust. He blew the dust into his face and the guy felt his face burning. His screaming was quickly suppressed as Stella kicked his kneecap in and threw him at the bar. The two goons aimed their guns at her but she did a split in the air and kicked their weapons out their hands. The confused goons charged at her instead but were quickly pushed back by her magic. They screamed at her power and tried crawling away to the door. Stella giggled and locked the doors with a stream of light.
Chase was beating the mess out of the big guy during the whole thing, but what he didn't see was the guy reaching for his gun. When he finally noticed, the guy was pulling the trigger. At Stella!
"No!" He yelled and pushed the guys arm. The push was barely enough and it grazed Stellas leg. She screamed and fell to the floor. Chases eyes widened and he grabbed the gun and crushed it with his bare hands.
"You're gonna pay for this..." he growled. Slowly he transformed into his reptile form, scaring all three men. The big guy had a wet spot growing in his pants while he screamed.
"Chase, no!" Stella got up and limped over to him, laying a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't do it."
Chase gave her a super confused look.
"Y-yeah! Listen to her! D-don't d-d-o it!" The big man nodded his head profusely.
Stella gave him an evil grin.
"Not without me."
"What?!"
Chase smiled.
"That's my girl." He said. He looked back at the squirming man in his hands.
"What should we do to him?"
"If we get rid of them, there'll be evidence. I say burn the place down, make it look like a freak accident."
"N-no! Please! You can't do this!"
"Oh yes i can!" Stella snapped
"Cmon! We're just playing around! Aren't we boys?!!?"
The two goons, now holding each other, nodded profusely.
"Oh yes, shooting my LEG is playing around? You're gonna pay. "
"Then we'll give you money! Name your price! It's yours !!!"
Stella smirked. "Now you're sounding like your crybaby friend, before my man here got to him. No. You will pay with your life."
Chase looked at her with so much happiness in his face. He let him go, and big guy crawled away to try to get out the locked doors.
"I love you so much right now." His raspy voice said. He grabbed her hands with his scaly ones, overlapping them a lot.
"You're sweet. But right now is not the time. Let's make these fools regret what they did." She said in a cold tone. Chase transformed back to normal and leaned onto her, back to back. The closed their eyes to focus, and the red aura came back to them. They pushed their hands out then above, all with the same coordination and timing. Rings of fire popped up in the club, slowly burning their spots. The three looked around scared out of their minds and holding onto one another.
Chase and Stellas eyes glowed again. Chases filled with light and Stella filled with darkness.
"Xiaolin-Heylin convergence! Hell under the rising sun!!"
A huge fire combusted around them, a fire burning so bright it turned blue, with a touch of black from chases heylin magic. Everything slowly turned to ashes as the ring moved away from the two. The three pushed their backs to the wall, a redundant thing to do, but it was instinct. The flame touched one of the goon's arm, immediately his arm fell off from the heat and he screams grew louder. The other goon started banging on the door in a desperate attempt to signal help till the flames got to his shoes and slowly burnt him from the feet up. Finally the big guy tried to grab one of his dead goon's gun, but the gun had already melted and the bullets exploded, hitting his hand and one went straight through his leg. The rest went flying everywhere through the fire and causing a lot of noise. The flames went over the big guy and he died screaming and flaying around. Stella started laughing at all this and pushed the flames all over the building to burn the seedy place down once and for all. At the last possible moment chase grabbed Stella and teleported them to the city limits. From their perspective, they saw the blue flames engulfs the whole club, and firefighters rushing in to stop it.
Stella covered her mouth before laughing again. Chase laughed with her too now, grabbing her waist and twirling her around in the air. Their laughter soon dwindled down, and they stood there forehead to forehead. Chase broke apart and cupped her chin.
"Have I ever told you how amazing you are?"
"I don't think so." She purred
"Well, you are. What you did tonight. It was so.. so."
"Evil?" Stella finished for him. She giggled an evil laugh and looked at him. "I know."
Chase smiled. "You're catching on fast."
"Who's gonna stop me?" She said. Chase leaned in.
"Not me." He muttered and kissed her. He wrapped around her waist and held the back of her head as if she was gonna fall at any moment. Stella cupped his face and pushed into the already rough kiss. They pulled away and watched the fire get put out together till it was time to fly back to the temple. They walked to the clearing where they danced the first town pass.
"Tomorrow night." Chase said
"As usual." Stella sighed. She gave him one last kiss goodnight and walked into the temple gates.
Stella woke up to a something moving by her gaping wound. She screamed making the person in her room scream, and she made a ball of light to see who the trouble maker was. There was dojo, looking super freaked out at her reacting from him slithering by her leg.
"What are you doing????" She hissed.
"I wasn't here to sleep in your hair." He whimpered
Stella had a confused and disturbed look.
"...you sleep in my hair?"
"Yeah. It's warm and soft and smells good. Better then my own bed."
"Well you bumped into my cut." She threw the blanket off and pointed at her leg, to Dojo's surprise.
"Oh my goodness! What happened ?!"
Stella realized she had to make up a lie quick.
"I was almost late for curfew and flew through the woods and my leg brushed by some thorns. "
"Oh geez. That sounds awful." He inspected the wound gently. "What's this black stuff inside it ?"
"Uhh probably bits of the plant." She said sheepishly
"It smells funny." He commented and at that point Stella grabbed dojo and put him in her hair.
"Oh it's probably those plants that smell bad to attract bugs and eat them. We should go back to sleep! Big day tomorrow!"
Dojo looked confused but the moment he touched Stellas hair he relaxed and curled all in it, pulling some over his shoulder like it was a blanket.
"You're right. Goodnight Stella."
"Goodnight, Dojo."
The next morning Stella had gotten her wound cleaned and wrapped up, then headed outside to meet up with the rest of the monks. It was Saturday, the last day of training for the week, and when Master Fung makes the monks use everything they got before the day off.
"Alright, Young Monks. Let's see you go against your opposite element. Omi, you will be against Kimiko, and raimundo, you will be against clay. Begin."
All 4 immediately went into their stances and began fighting their opponents. Winds, fires, water, and earthquakes shook the temple grounds, making Stella stumble around and dodge their straddling blasts. In the process of not getting hit, she bumped into Master a Fung.
"Sorry. Master Fung, who will I be fighting?"
"Your opposite is darkness, so we will have you be in that hut dojo built up and you will face the monks." He pointed at a rounded hut made out of wood, pressed together so no light can peek through. Out came a tired dojo with a hard hat and tool belt on his skinny body.
"Just got done! Anytime you're ready for her to go in! "
"Stella, please disband the others."
"With pleasure." Stella said while cracking her knuckles. The popping of her joints emitted tiny yellow lights, small but powerful, shot out at the monks, knocking them down to the ground. They groaned in pain from the wind being knocked out from their lungs and glared.
"AUGH What was THAT for!?" Raimundo yelled. They walked over to her, ready to beat her to a pulp.
"Master Fung has something for us." She said, one hand on her hip and the other gesturing at Master Fung with a smug look on her face.
"As you all know, Stella is a light fairy. Her opposite is darkness. So she will get special training today in that hut over there." He pointed at the hut. "She will be facing all 4 of your in the dark, where she will have to use more of her power to fight."
"Sounds good to me." Raimundo glared more and she stuck her tongue out.
"Now go in young monk, and we will be done for the day."
"Yes Master Fung." All 5 said in unison.
Stella entered first, the door letting in the only light in the room. The monks came in one by one, with raimundo being the last one and shutting the door, omitting them into complete darkness.
Stella folded her hands and closed her eyes, although in the dark it was hard to tell if she did or not. She listened for the tiniest sounds, allowing her tiger instincts to kick in. She felt someone jump to her and she kicked in their direction, a puff of fire spewing out, indicating she got Kimiko. The quick burst of light revealed omis shadow lunging at her from behind and she grabbed his foot and threw him to the wall. She leaned on one side of her leg and waited for another sound: the sound of wind circling, and water splashing around, as raimundo and omi had merged their elements to defeat Stella. A white aura outlined her body as she raised the water up to fill the roof. The white turned yellow and her sun powers activated, raising the winds up as well and heating the water till it grew heavy enough to make it rain indoors. The monks were in shock at her doing.
"Had enough!?" She yelled over the pelting rain.
"No!" They yelled.
"Dragon X kume formation!" They said as they got into position. Their elements combined and wrapped around Stella, who grew angrier.
"SUN PLASMA!" She yelled, unleashing a bright lava packed with heat all around. The monks screamed and the whole hut fell apart at stellas command. She stood at the carnage she made, the monks knocked out and the hut destroyed, an evil smile grew on her face. It went away when she heard Master Fung walk to her.
"You've done well. Your father would be very proud."
She turned and gave him a fake smile .
"Thank you, master Fung." She giggled nervously.
"Aughh...my head!" Clay complained, finally coming to. The rest followed and Stella lifted them up with her magic.
"Great work, young monks. Enjoy the rest of today and tomorrow.
"Thank you, Master Fung." They all said and bowed at their teacher.
They walked away talking and laughing, while Stella had decided to branch off so she can sneak away.
Of course Stella was gonna spend her free time with chase. She made a makeshift dummy out of her clothes and a yellow scarf for her hair, before sprinkling an illusion spell over it to make it look like she was there, sleeping. Now the monks will think she's here, and if dojo comes to sleep, he'll curl up in the scarf. Perfect.
She made her way to Chases lair, where he waited for her.
"Good evening, Princess."
"Good evening, Prince of Darkness."
"How was your training with the monks?"
"Not as intense as the training you have in store tonight." She said as she kissed his cheek and walked with him inside.
"Indeed. Because tonight , you'll be learning dark magic."
Stella stood there while he kept walking, only stopping when he realized she wasn't next to him.
"Something wrong?"
"Dark magic?"
"Did I stutter?"
"No! It's just that...that could get dangerous."
Chase smiled and led her to his training room.
"You're more then capable of performing such acts. Now let's get started."
Stella transformed and waited for his instruction.
"Make a sun sphere." He ordered. Stella did and threw it to the ceiling, making the room way too bright for Chases comfort.
" Eternal Sunset." He said, and a purplish blackish orb appeared in his hand. He aimed for the light and threw it, diminishing it into a mixture of black, red, and purple, like a sunset, and the sphere of light was no more. He looked at Stella.
"Make another one and do exactly as I did."
Stella did and started to focus on the dark spell. It hurt. A lot. Darkness wasn't her element, therefore she wasn't comfortable channeling it.
"Chase, I can't."
"Channel your inner darkness."
"I don't HAVE any inner darkness."
"Everyone does. Vanity, gluttony, envy.." he paused and gave her a sultry look. "...Lust.."
"Okay, so what?"
"Focus on that and the darkness will flow out."
Stella closed her eyes and went deep into her emotions. The feeling of lust for chase and sneaking out to do this evil thing overwhelmed her and she focused her magic into it. She opened her eyes and she held a dark sphere, and quickly took aim, destroying her own sunlight.
"Very good, Stella. Do it again."
Stella emitted more balls of light all around the room and blasted them all with dark orbs of light. The room lit up in different hues of dark colors as Stella performed these acts. Chase smile grew bigger.
Stella made a huge ball of light, taking up half other room. Chase backed up, wondering what she was planning.
"Stygian darkness.." she growled. A stream of darkness wrapped around her as she moved in one fluid motion before clapping her hands together towards the big ball, shooting the small stream into it. Slowly the light faded to darkness from the inside out, and it exploded, shaking the room and causing some debris to fall. The impact pushed Stella back and hit the wall with a loud thud. She groaned as she tried getting up, but chase already had her in his arms.
"WHAT WAS THAT?!"
"An ancient dark spell I remember reading about on solaria."
"You've been holding out on me! That was amazing!" He exclaimed as he helped her up.
"Well I never thought I'd use it." She pointed out.
Chase grabbed her face and kissed her hard, pulling back quickly.
"You're incredible."
"So I've heard." She said with sarcasm.
"Looks like you will have to teach me next time."
"Ohhh has the student become the master?" Stella teased. Chase booped her nose.
"Nice try. You're not even close to my level."
"Uh huh."
"Would you like to spend the night ?"
"You know it."
"Tomorrow morning you could teach me."
"Of course, as long as you send one of your cats to cover me."
"That could be arranged."
"Good." She jumped on him to kiss him again, him leading her to his room, where they spent yet another night making love and falling asleep in each other's arms.
