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"Crown of Ares," Jack said with the crown on his head.
He had the crown on his head because he couldn't stay focused without it.
It was a race against the clock; he didn't want to have to deal with the whole town and the Temple waking up and questioning what the hell happened to all their Appliance's.
It would make it so much harder for him to work.
Thing's would go from bad to worse for him if the whole Temple came down from the mountain, he could beat most of the apprentice's, but he couldn't defeat the true Master's.
He activated his jetpack and began to work.
If he needed to get into something that required him to get small, he would use the changing chopsticks, with his new knowledge, he wasn't as nosey as he usually was when he was building something because his hands were more fluid and quieter.
He worked for hours on a blueprint his mind had come up with within minutes.
He couldn't use his 'Jack Bots' to speed up production because they were too noisy and all of them had the mind of a 5-year-old.
When something was getting too heavy, he would shrink it down so that he could carry it.
At the rate he was working, his brain was v put to good use.
Wires and Cables were everywhere as he cut them up and placed them into the device he was making.
What he was making looked like four pairs of antennas.
They weren't pretty, but he was pressed for time.
He could feel his time was running out and activated his jetpack and put the first antenna in the highest thing in town.
The radio antenna.
Then he put the other two around town in a purposeful location.
He then went to the Temples and placed it on their tallest point, if somebody heard him it was too late.
The moment he put it on, he got out a tiny remote, it wasn't glamorous, but he was pressed for time.
The sun was about to come up and knowing Temples; their day starts at sunrise.
He pressed the button, and all four activated.
"Rise and shine," He said.
A giant wave came out of all of them.
Ch 2: Only Jack could do it.
Jack landed peacefully on the ground just in time for the wave to disappear and more to continuous come out, he heard the sound of a Gong vibrating through the whole land, signifying the start of the Temple day.
He didn't have to wait long for the heavy footsteps that came from the Students and Master waking up and heading to the court for morning practice or for the Masters to make their way to their office for morning Tea.
It wasn't long before he saw Students start to appear.
However, instead of running as he should, he stood without fear.
He didn't move because of pure stupidity.
The reason why he didn't move, was because he was confident in what he had done using his mind.
The students were amazed to see him, but none of them immediately want on guard and ask who he was.
They just stared.
Finally, a Master come forward.
The man had a white beard and was old, dressed in a red tunic.
From the apprentice named Rain memories, he learned that this old man was called Master Kairu and he was the most respected Master in the whole Temple.
"Master Spicer. What brings you to this Temple?" Said, the old man and a smile slowly growing on Jack's lips.
Just like that, his money problems were solved.
To them, he was the person who owed everything, the land and them.
"Master Kairu. Just the person I wanted to see" He said, turning around and smiling.
The man raised an eyebrow.
"Let's go into your office," He said, walking up the man and using the memories of the Temples most promising apprentice, he began to walk to the man's office without hesitance.
The man followed after him without missing a beat while the Apprentices watched.
It always amazed them that somebody who was about their age or younger owned the land.
Jack walked up some stone steps and opened a wooden door to a large room, inside the room on the right was a shelf filled with books, on the left was a shelf filled with scrolls.
The carpet was red and lush, and there was a large desk in front of him that had two chairs nearest to him while a large and more comfortable looking chair was on the other side.
On the table was a set of hot Tea.
It was apparent to him that the man was about to have his morning Tea.
Jack sat on the most comfortable seat and watched to see if there was even reluctance on the man's face as he did so.
There was no protest as he took the seat.
"Would you like some Tea, Master Spicer? Forgive me, I didn't know you would be coming today" Said, the man extremely polite.
"It's understandable. I dropped by in the spire of the moment" Jack said, "In all honesty, I should be asleep right now, but certain things have made me pull an all-nighter."
"P-Please allow me to apologise on behalf of the Temple. We would like to prepare a room for you, as an apology." Said, the old man, it was unacceptable that his master had to come here instead of getting a good night sleep.
"That's very kind of you, and I'll take it later," He said, "But right now I need to talk to you."
The man was all ears.
"It's come to my attention that I am lacking in fighting ability," He said, looking the man straight in the eyes. "I wish to learn."
"Master, if you want to join this Temple all you need to is ask, and it would be so," said, the old man. "I and the other Master's will make sure you are giving our full attention. Depending on your experience and your ability to learn, you should reach the level of Shoku Warrior within three years."
Shoku Warrior?
Just like what the Dragon of the Wind had now?
Would he obtain that in 3 years?
What Jack wanted was the title that nobody in the world has right now.
"You misunderstood," He said, confusing the man. "I wish to learn from you. I want to duplicate your thought, skills and techniques so that I can put it into me."
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.
Silence.
"What?" The man said, beyond shocked.
"Do you want me to repeat it or is there some problem?" Jack said, looking directly into the man's eyes.
From the memories, he knows that this old man was an honourable man who did not like people taking shortcuts.
He was asking the man if he could steal everything he had trained countless years to obtain.
What he was asking the man to do was against the man's very moral code.
However, for Jack, this was a test.
He wanted to see how much he could get away with, turning the man against his morals.
He wanted to see if the transmissions were enough to make the man, go against his very moral code.
He could see the fight in the man's eyes.
So, the man will is strong enough to fight the beams He couldn't help but observe.
However, the fight only lasted for a second before the victory was declared.
The man's eyes grow dim as he got down on one knee and said. "Of course, Master. Anything you wish, I will do."
He was the victor.
He got out the changing chopsticks and placed it on the Manchurian Musca.
Changing Chopsticks! He thought and the watched the Wu grow to regular size.
Manchurian Musca He thought, and suddenly he was fly.
The man was surprised to see him change but he did not move as Jack entered him through his right ear, by now he had pretty much memorised how to get to a human brain.
The brain waves inside the old man were much worse than the head he had entered last time.
Maybe it was the ongoing conflict that arose from the man being forced to do what he usually would not do.
With his new movements, he managed to dodge all the strikes and get close enough to take out the device and placed it on the man brain.
He turned it on.
The Brainwaves were sucked into the device until it was full.
Then Jack removed the device and made his way out before the brain waves could recover and go after him.
He, flow out of the man's ear and thought. Manchurian Musca and Changing chopsticks!
He returned to normal and the device he was holding in his hand become full size.
"Leave and no matter what you hear, do not come in. The same thing goes for everybody else." He said.
The man bowed and left.
Than Jack pressed a button and it became a helmet, he touched the crown that he hadn't taken off since he started building.
He sent a quick prayer to his brain.
He wasn't just about to absorb a Master's information. A monster who was old and had knowledge that far exceed Master Fung own, because of his age.
He took a breath and pressed the button.
Immediately the world worst headache assaulted him, and Jack lost consciousness.
#Inside his mind#
Jack opened his eyes to find that he was in the space where the three bookshelves were, the Crown of Ares floated behind him.
And that's when an unholy amount of information assaulted him, whacking him clean off his feet and the Crown made bookshelves.
But The information just kept on coming, the crown was trying it best, but it was too much and too fast for it to handle.
One bookshelf after another sprung up, but after the 8th bookshelf, the Crown had reached its limit.
A Trash Sheng Gong Wu will always be trash.
And without anything to store that Knowledge, the knowledge ran rampant inside his head.
On the outside, Jack's head was enlarging, and blood was coming out of his nose, ears and eyes.
Jack could feel it.
He was going to die.
It was too much.
He had tried to consume too much knowledge too soon.
It would have been better if he had done it in small pieces at a time, wait for a year or two to absorb it all, but he just had to dive right in.
This mistake will cost him his life.
The crown had lost its shine, and he felt like he and it were going to die together.
It had taken on too much, and the knowledge was bounding into brutally, wanting to destroy it.
A Wu wouldn't usually shatter, but the Crown of Ares was weaker than most Wu's.
However, at that moment, Jack did not want to die.
No.
He refused to go down like this!
He made his way to the Crown.
"Damn it. We're not going to die. We're going to live" Jack said, banging on it. "I refuse to die. You're going to pull through. You're the best Sheng Gong Wu; I have ever had. You see my flaws, and yet he still helped me."
The Crown was the only one who hadn't abandoned him.
The first person who took his evil side, seriously, Wuya was now with Chase Young after she had ditched him four times and only came crawling back when her new 'partner' or plan failed her.
He was a rebound guy to her.
He gave Panda Boba his Sheng Gong Wu but not only did the man double-cross him by selling his bots back to him but with a different skin, and if that wasn't bad enough he was even turned into a mindless Zombie.
He freed Hennible Roy Bean, and yet he was tricked into almost becoming a permanent Monkey, and he would have become a Zombie for life, all because he wanted to help.
He hired a cyclops and yet he was reduced to the monster foot scrubber.
He planted the seed of evil and yet, it didn't even take a day before the plant to turned on him, and he became a plant.
Chase Young was his hero, and yet, he knows the man only tolerated him because sometimes he did genuinely come up with good ideas.
Not even his robot double stuck beside him, the bot ended up going solo and gave him the boot out of a tall tree in a Showdown.
Somewhere along the way, he had stopped having self-respect for himself and become a somebody who just wanted to be useful to the Heylin side, no matter what they did to him.
He just kept on coming back, satisfied with only being a pawn in somebody else's game.
He was well aware that nobody on the side of Good or the Haylin side wanted to be in the same room as him.
But he put on a mask and gave the impression that it didn't bother him, even though he was already a crybaby to them anyway.
And then he found this Wu that nobody wanted and it felt like he was looking at himself in the mirror.
When he put it on, he felt like it could change himself, he felt like he could become somebody amazing.
That's why he couldn't die yet.
They couldn't die yet.
"Crown of Ares you're not a trash Sheng Gong Wu! You are my treasure!" He said, "I and you are the same. We are both disregarded by everybody around us as nothing, and we can't do anything about it because we're too weak. We're too stupid. But do you want to go out like that?"
He banged again with tears rolling down his face.
"Do you really want to go out without doing a single meaningful thing in your life? Do you really want to go out and be remembered as weak and useless?" He said.
The crown still did not glow, and the darkness of the world began to swallow Jack whole.
He began to sink.
So, this was it? He thought.
This was how he was going to end?
Was he going to die a failure?
Jack let death sweep over him.
Suddenly he was assaulted by a bright light.
The light knocked him back to his sense's, and he opened his eyes to find that it was the Crown.
The Crown was glowing.
And very vibrantly as well.
It shouldn't have been possible, but the Sheng Gong Wu was responded to him on an emotional level.
Master Fung had been right.
What made a Sheng Gong Wu wasn't the power in itself.
It was the wielder who could bring out its real power.
A blast of light penetrated the space and blew the darkness away; Jack witnessed the creation of many bookshelves and all the knowledge that ran rampant began to fill them, up.
If one ran out, two more would appear.
"HELL YEAH!" He said, reverting to the old jack for a moment.
He watched as the knowledge that was too much for him to handle was sorted, within minutes.
When it was done the Crown began to transform, it started much thinner but that just made it more beautiful in his eyes.
The Crown of Ares was no longer trash; it had transformed into a treasure, something that was only thought to be a myth.
Jack Spicer of all people, had made a Treasure.
The Crown had been through many far worthier hands over the years, and yet nobody had managed to do what Jack had done.
The Crown floated to him, and he hugged it.
The Crown of Ares had finally found. It's true Wielder.
"I know you weren't trash," He said, hugging it tightly.
This was his Treasure.
The Crown of Ares was his treasure.
Both of them glowed together, and the light was so bright you couldn't see through it as a transformation took place.
At the same time, all over the world, the Masters wither on the side of Good or Haylin felt it.
And they were shocked.
Who was it?
Who was it that just forced their way into legendary Xiaolin Dragon, that nobody had seen since Grandmaster Dashi?
And scene!
Next chapter, the Xiaolin Temple is in an uproar over a person who has reached the stage and prays he's not on the side of Haylin, while the Haylin side begs that he's not on the side of good or they could easily sway him to join their team. Meanwhile, Jack who has no idea that he had become a feared existence, has a new and stronger body. Review/fav and follow!