Ladies and Gents i give you the long awaited chapter 9!

Nope I haven't given up on my stories, just got distracted by life. So enjoy and let me know what you think.

The great wolf beast tried to shield the three young Dragon Scouts from the remaining shadow, it's eye's fixed on the stunned man trying to regain control. His fist were clenched and a sickening shade of white, Hei'an had set him off to enjoy the return of his powers, while the great Dark Lord tried to regain some of his strength. His master had promised this as a simple errand, a free treat, but no one had informed him of this monstrosity. Though the beast itself was foreign to him those eyes, those soul shattering golden brown orbs, paralyzed him. He slightly remembered their owner, a the pain and destruction they brought on him, how the ruined everything he had accomplished. No. Not again, he would not let history repeat itself, he would not fail again and return to the human world as nobody. He was once seen as a god, and he would have such power restored. His eyes beamed in an aura of light blue, as he extended his arms. From the very corners of the room, shadows crept closer, pouring from the ancient antiques, the cracks in the ceiling, and dripping from the rims of the few windows. The shadows rose to form his disfigured minions. They gave no human resemblance, with empty sockets for eyes and reeking of the stench of death and decay. The great beast bore it's fangs as it charged threw the newly formed army of shadows. They leapt on its back as it howled in pain, as it slashed with its giant claws and ripped various appendages from the dark figures. Ham was straining, with pearls of sweat dripping for his brow as he tried to maintain control of the creatures, but with little success. The beast was winning, he would fail again and lose everything. If his minions would not stop the great distraction, then there was only one alternative.

Ham placed his hands in front of him, forming his fingers in the shape of a circle. His eyes focused threw his targeted fingers, taking aim at the beast. His hands began to pulsate, as a slight blue circle formed on the forehead of the creature.

The beast frantically shook her head, it was if a swelling bubble was filling her mind and taking over her body from the inside. She attempted to regain control, to protect her friends, but instead her eyes feel on an unforgivable sight. The bodies of her friends laid motionless on the floor, blood flowing out onto the cold tiled floor. Hovering above the boys where three shadow figures, their black skin covered with the fresh dripping blood of the young ones below them. One creature let out a wicked laugh as it plunged its clawed hand into the lifeless body of Frank, ripping his still heart from its boney cage and began to feast upon it with great joy. He grinned at the beast with a disfigured fanged smile, it's once white figured now sickeningly coated with blood and flesh. Jade felt her own heart break. She had failed. Her friends were gone, just like before. She had begun to lose all thoughts around her once more. no. no. not again. NOT AGAIN! The beast charged at the three shadows, making silent pledge to make them pay for the pain they had inflected. Her claws gripped the floor under her paws, sending shards of title behind her with each mighty step, her eyes were sharp and narrowed on her prey. There will be blood, blood to fuel her animal instincts and blood in retribution for her fallen allies.

Frank, Charlie and Rocko looked on as the wolf creature left them to attack the shadowy figures, wondering in unison how this beast knew they were in danger, let alone why it was helping them.

"Ok that right there, that's just freaky."

"Freaky on a stick!"

"Where do yah think it came from?"

"Uhh…maybe there's a giant dog catcher looking for it?"

(Charlie smacks Rocko behind the head)

"Knock it off youz guyz. I think we may have stumbled into some sort of 'demonz' fight."

"Yah mean like the kind our uncles talked about?"

"So why are they fighting here, and why is the giant dog thing trying to save us?"

"Uh guys"

"No clue. I don't know about youz but I'm not turning no gift away."

"Uh guys"

"Maybe we can find a phone or something, n' get ahold of our uncles. They've fought these things before so they can help."

"GUYS!"

"WHAT!"

Rocko pointed a frightened finger across the way. There, Charlie and Frank saw their savior. It's eyes were like slits, cut with the fine dagger of hate and fury. Her claws were bare, cutting deep into the hard stone below them. Blood and shadow dripped from it's fanged mouth, without warning the great beast lunged from across the room. The trio scattered as the creature came closer, scarcely missing the boys and shattering the statue behind them. The creature quickly regained its balance and took up the chase again. The boys tried to lose the monstrous canine by hiding behind various objects, skillfully aiming object to distract it when it came to close to another, but all their attempts where in fain.

"Oh man, Jade made this fighting demon stuff sound so easy."

"Yah, wish she was here to help out."

"So why isn't Rover trying to save us, wasn't it on our side?"

"Don't know, it was fine till it got a headache."

"What are you talking about Rocko?"

"When you two were talking, it was fighting the shadow things and then he must'tav got a headache or something cuz she was thrashing about."

"Rocko you maroon!"

"What?"

"Dude haven't you evah watched tv before!"

"What?"

"Duh dude, Rover must of have it's mind melted or something."

"There!"

Charlie pointed to a broken corner of the damaged room. There the man from before stood, his eyes locked on the creature and sweat dripping from his brow.

"Ok boys, just like Gnomekop episode 256, attack of the mind melters."

"Take out the Main Melter"

Before the trio could act on their plan, they found themselves flying through the air. The beast had leap infornt of them, causing the shear backlash from her pounce to send them flying in various directions. A shard from the marble floor flew the air, slicing the tender edge of Rocko's eye. The boy grasped his face in pain, barely able to see threw his clenched fingers. The beast saw it's wounded prey and with a final leap sunk it's teeth into deep into the flesh.

Scarlett found herself getting strangely dizzy, the room starting to rise and fall in all directions. She tried to hold on to the medical table under her for support but the effort was in vain. She turned to the doctor, silently asking what was happening to her. She was answered with a wicked smile. The blond beauty inflected a strong slap across the agent's face, causing her to crumble to the ground. The doctor then walked to the back window, opening it and bowing before it. Despite her disoriented state, Scarlett could see a grey scaled foot crawl into view.

Black passed in front of the examination room, finding it strange that he was so concern with his agent's health. He was caught up in his inner dialoged until he caught something in the corner of his eye. In front of the room was a small inventory closet, and from under the door Black could see a small puddle of blood. Drawing his gun, he prepared for what might be behind the door. As it flung open, his eyes fell on a blond beauty bound and gagged on the floor. He quickly removed the roped and gag from the mouth of the woman, handing her a towel to apply pressure to her injured head. The woman was the mirror image of the doctor…the doctor alone with his agent….alone with his agent in a room filled with chemicals and sharp medical instruments. With a sharp turn on his heel Black turned to face the door and with a precise kick forced the door to cave in. he then faced, with his weapon locked on, a grey reptilian like creature towering over his agent.

The beast felt the blood from her bite drip threw her mouth, it had a bitter sting and brought back a series of past memories.

Rocko looked up at the beast, it's fangs deeply embedded into a scaled green arm. Just before the creature gave a sured death blow, a green figured had jumped in front of him and placed his arm in front of the creature. it's fangs deeply penetrated the scaled arm, it's owner clenching in pain.

Jade looked down and saw Drago standing in front of the shadow minion, why was he protecting it. Wasn't Dragon on the good side now since he was looking for his Master? Had he returned to his dark ways? Die Hei'an take control over him again? The answers did not matter at the moment, she had another task at hand. With her jaws still locked on his arm, she flung him into a pile of dabre across the room, they knew the impact would not kill him and give her enough time to finish her revenge.

Drago clenched his head as he emerged from the rubble, seeing that Jade was once again trying to kill the young boy, he rushed her dog form, resting her head as she tried to buck him off. Jade let out a cry of pain as a large chunk from the roof rubble crashed into her head. Drago used this temporary distraction to grab hold of her front leg and throw her into the room's west wall, creating a pile of rubble on top of her.

"Uncle Ratso!"

Rocko let out a cry of delight as he saw his uncle rush into the room. Surprisingly the object of his affection, Lydia, was not far behind him.

"What are you doing here?"

"Lydia does work for the museum and she was stopping by to grab some new materials. I was coming with her to help carry it back when we saw the rest of the Dragon Scouts outside with everyone else. They said you were still in here WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING!"

"It wasn't our fault! We just walked in on the weird evil dude and kinda got caught up here."

"Weird evil guy?"

"Yah he was in here doing something to all those people and then when he tried to kill us, Rover came in and saved us. Then the evil guy went all Mind Melter"

"Mind Melter?"

"Gnomekop episode 256" (Ratso looked back in surprise at Lydia, who would have thought she was also a Gnomekop fan)

"Exactly! Well the evil dude there did something to Rover and made him want to kill us!

"Couple things wrong with you facts there kid." (Ratso took a protective stance in front of Rocko, Frank and Charlie, the last of which silently made their way over as Rocko was telling what had happened, as Drago made his way over. Drago had carelessly torn a piece of fabric from some display to mend his injured forearm.)

"First of the creature there is a she not a he."

"So what, another Master was awaken?"

"Yah the dog, woke up about twenty minutes ago."

"So does she already know what's going on?"

" She should, she was there when this whole thing started. The new Master is Jade."

"Jade!"

As if on cue from the sound of her name, Jade lunged at the collection of people, in her eyes she saw Ratso, Lydia and Drago were in danger by the trio of minions. Drago and Ratso took hold of either side of her to try and control her, but Jade's sheer size and strength prevented them. All they could do was hold on for dear life and she pounce and bucked to fling them off. Lydia turned to see the man still focused on Jade, the emphasis Mind Melter. Her eyes fell on the glowing symbol on his neck, a sharp pain in her temple pulsed as her own mind was flooded with memories of her past life and the final battle that ended it. She then remembered who this thing was, what his power and control he welded. Lydia took control and turned the trio to face her.

"Ok boys listen, Jade doesn't know what she's doing. That thing over there, his name is Vishuddha, code name Ham, please make any and all jokes later. His power is over thought, he changed how she's thinking. She came in coming to help y'all, I'm assuming, but now he's messed up how she sees things. Knowing his style he probably made it so she sees you as creatures that killed someone else."

"Huh?"

"She sees you as Darth Vader killing Luke instead of seeing you as Luke."

"Oh."

"So we have to stop Ham now, too long under his power and it can warp her mind permanently."

"We have to stop him!"

"And this is how."

Lydia whisper her plan as the falling and crashing wails of Rocko and Drago filled the room.

The blond behind Black let out a frighten gasp as she saw the scene in her examination room. There her long lost twin knelt beside a grotesque crocodile like thing, and some poor woman was crouched on the floor. In pure disregard for her own safety she lunged forward to try and help the woman, who gave a look of greater of confusion at the apparent clone. The croc beast gave an angered tone at his knelling subject.

"Why did you not kill her?"

"Forgive me master, but I thought you might have enjoyed her 'company', she is a bit attractive."

The croc gave a perverted grin, his servant knew his tastes well.

"Ok Gator step away from the agent and I won't shoot."

The croc gave a sinister grin as he cracked his fists.

"You really think you can kill me mortal?"

"Probably not but at least I can still have fun shooting at you."

The true doctor noticed the empty syringe on the examination table, quickly analyzing the chemicals within and deducing the red maiden's disoriented state. With all attention on Black, she placed a reassured hand on the other woman's shoulder. She then was able to discreetly insert another syringe in the her arm, quickly the female agent noticed her vision clearing and the room stabilizing.

The kneeling servant's skin began to transform into a sickening shade of black. Slowly her form returned to that of the other shadowy minions. The creature than lunged at Black, he tried shooting at the monster but the bullets simply passed through it. Rage built in Scarlett, she focused that energy and felt the wave of chi take over. Green feathers extended from her arms, her nails extending to claws as her shoes were discarded as her feet also grew claws. She lunged at the croc creature, slashing his eye with a swift motion of her good arm. The roar of pain from its master distracted the minion long enough for black to conduct a series of punches to its face and abdomen, the last attack created such a force that the minion burst into fumes and dispersed.

The croc returned the attack to the Master, soon the room was filled with streaks of green and grey slashes. Blood of red and black splashed among the floor and walls, Black took hold of the doctor and hid behind the table. Black took the moment to make sure his gun was loaded, planning to keep true to his word and shot the bastard if he appeared to gain the upper hand.

"What is going on? Who are you people?"

"Agent Black, and the woman fighting the Gator Man is Agent Scarlett. Now It's our job to make sure you and everyone else makes it out of here alive, so I need you to do exactly what I say. If I say run then you run, if I say punch the scaled bastard, you punch!"

"But…but I can't!"

"Why not?"

"I'm a pacifist! I…. I don't believe in violence."

Scarlett found herself tiring, her broken arm was screaming in pain and her head was muddled from the mixture of chemicals. Her only advantage was Vam's now blind spot. He was now blind to his left side, his eye completely slashed and covered in blood. Her power of flight was useless at the moment, the room was too constricting to allow her to fly to gain a height advantage. Suddenly Vam ceased his moment. With one hand her held both of Scarlett's wrists above her head as his other took hold of her throught as he bashed her into a wall. His claws dug deep into her skin, streams of blood trailing down. He felt the failed attempts of Black's bullets against his scaled back, no mortal weapon could pierce his skin.

Ham focused on keeping Jade's thoughts clouded, he could since that Ham was having trouble with his task but he could not leave, not yet. He remembered how the Dog had ruined their chance for domination all those many centuries ago. But he felt his energy wearing thin, he would have to alter her thoughts again to make her fight these two new figures. One last alteration to make her kill them all, and then the grief would kill her. His body began to glow as he prepared to use his ability once more. Without warning twin tapestries rolled from either side, wrapping themselves around both of his arms and forcing them apart. With his focus completely broken Jade's vision cleared. Jade felt a weight lift from her mind, her vision cleared as she scanned the room. The shadowy figures, the ones she was so hell bent on destroying, the darkness lifted and left where her friends. Her friends were still alive, they were safe, she didn't lose more people she cared for to Hei'an or his warriors. Ratso and Drago noticed her change and released their grip on her, Drago even began to scratch her ear to help her calm down, he knew what it was like to wake from having your mind controlled. Jade's body began to shrink as her beast form began to fade. Drago picked up a random tapestry from the grown, catching Jade as she fell in her human form. He quickly wrapped her before anyone could see her bare form, he cradled her in his arms. Combine the exhaustion from her coma, growing and shrinking from her beast form and her fight in the museum, in was understandable that the young girl would crash from fatigue. He brushed a small light grey hair from her face, there was something almost intoxicating about this girl, even before her power as a Master was awaken. She was destined to change the world, considering she had done it once before, one could only wonder what change she would make this time.

Ham had lost, he knew it, the Masters knew it and sure enough Hei'an knew it too. All he could do now was try and escape. He created a swirling portal behind him, not taking his eyes of the exhausted white haired maiden cradled in the arms of the young dragon. He wanted to remember everything about her, this was the new form of the Master who destroyed him years ago. She was the one who stopped Hei'an, who saved the world and suppressed his powers. He had to kill her, he had to destroy her, he had to exact his revenge for his past humiliation as well as his current. If he destroyed this whelp then not only would he redeem himself but surely Hei'an would advance his status as well. He turned around and was met with a crossed vixen. Her violet eyes shown threw her dark hair, a clear look of disguise on her face.

"Running away unskaved again are we."

"What can I say, one of the few benefits of being a soulless spawn of hell, only a Master can kill me. And as my memory serves, you still have not unlocked your true power and pledged your loyalty. You are not a Master, you are a nothing."

Lydia couldn't control herself, she remembered all the devastation he had inflected in the past and now he was doing it again. She saw the pile of corpses that he had killed no less than an hour ago, he was going to kill these three innocent children simply for walking in on him. How much disregard could he possibly have for human life? Her primal instincts took hold, inflicting punches on either side of his skull, a mighty blow to his abdomen that lifted him off the ground and a final forceful roundhouse that sent him crashing through his portal. True she couldn't kill him, but she could still inflect damage. The portal faded as he passed, the nightmare ending for now. Ratso watched her from afar, his heart growing as he witness her fight against the dark warrior. True he had followed her to the museum to help her carry materials back to her shop, but it was she who heard the commotion, who saw from the from spying around the corner the boys who were in trouble, who helped him calm down when he realized Rocko was in danger, and who helped orcastrate the distraction that helped Jade and very well saved all their lives by stopping her attacks. If there was somehow possible he had fallen even more in love. Seeing that explaining the destruction of the museum dude to demons and reincarnated guardians of the world, Ratso and the others snuck out through a hole in the back of the building and parted ways. Ratso and Lydia led the boys back to her shop to tend to their minor wound and let everyone know they were alright. Dragon leap from rooftop to rooftop to take Jade back to her Uncle's shop, planning to contact him as soon as she was safe.

Vam felt stabs of pain in his back, a loud crash was heard as a mighty form burst through the room's window. The shower of glass stabbed him in various attacks on his back, the form of a white horse taking shape as it entered the room. As soon as the creature entered the room, it completed a 180 turn and with two strong rear legs kicked Vam threw the wall and crashing him into the room across the hall.

Naomi thought she was walking through a strange dream. When she came into her examination room to gather a few things, before her she saw herself. Before she could understand what was going on, her doppelganger attacked her with a nearby bed pan. The less than flattering injury left her with a bleeding wound that disoriented her as her was bound and stuffed into the supplies closet. She was then rescued by a secret agent who then tried to protect her as another agent fought some sort of mutant after she herself transformed. And now a white stead crashed into her room and proceeded to save them from the mutant. It was as if she was living threw a bad plot in an even worse dollar bin book.

The horse made its way over to the frighten blond, her blue eyes full of concern. Somehow Naomi felt a connection to the steed, she had always had a love of horses but there was something familiar about this one. She extended her hand to pet its muzzle, once her hand touched the animal both their bodies glowing in a dark blue light. She felt a surge of energy shot threw her arm and engulfing her body, memories surging threw her mind, recalling a life that she had once lived and a life that once ended. She remembered her 'sisters', the fight between the great demon lord, his promise to enslave all the earth, how she fell during her final battle and how her sister promised to that they would one day stop the great evil from ever obtaining it's goal.

As she accepted the truth of her past her body began to change. A indigo image began to glow on her left hand, resembling an image of a horse. Her ears morphed to resemble the steeds, her hair extending to mirror a mane, and from her fingers to her elbows and her feet to her knees her flesh turned a light shade of brown and hardening her skin. She looked back at her red haired sister, the blood dripping from her wounds and the bone from her arm puncturing from under skin. Naomi rushed to her side, true she was against violence but her true nature symbolized her power. Focusing her chi her blue glow traveled over Scarlett, in almost a flash her wounds where healed and her arm was fixed. With her wounds healed she ran to where Vam's body would be, only to find the pile of rubble. He must have known he could not win against a Master and another that could constantly heal her and decided to flee back to the hell he called home.

"Uncle told you to wait!"

From the shattered glass Uncle emerged. He was desperately out of breath, holding the lining of the window for support as he tried to regain it. Scruffy leap threw the gaping hole, finding his was over to Black and covering his face with a sloppy wet greeting. Uncle looked at the room at the broken walls, glass and various instruments scattered threw out it.

"WHAT IS GOING ON! Uncle sent you on simple job, get arm fixed but no you have to go and destroy office!"

"We didn't destroy it! That croc thing set up an ambush for us."

"Would have killed us too if you didn't show up with the horse."

Uncle walked over to the seated Master. Her hazel eyes meeting his, still full of confusion and fear from the day's events. Uncle gave her a reassuring smile as he offered his hand to help her up.

"I did not bring the horse, she felt the awakening of her master and ran to her aid. You may have caused a big mess for me to clean up, Black, but at least you where able to gain a new Master."

"And how is the mess my fault?"

"You are telling me that big mess for Uncle was made by reborn Guardians here to save the world from total darkness and destruction!"

Scarlett and Naomi gave a school girl giggle at Black's expense. Scarlett wrapped an arm around her new sisters shoulders, silently welcoming her into the group, she would later introduce her to Gwen and Jade and inform her of Lydia. With one more member in the group they stood a greater chance of winning the war against Hei'an. Uncle revealed a small vile from his vest, throwing it into the floor, bursting in a cloud of green smoke. As the air cleared the room was restored to its original state. Scarlett and Naomi focused their energy to restore to their normal state, then leading a strange procession through the hospital consisting of an old Chinese man, a blond and a red haired beauty, a obviously too uptight bald gentleman in a black trench coat, a dog and a white horse. It was hard what to say what was stranger, the procession or the fact that no one commented on it. Indeed the norm of chaos was now part of their lives, the only thing any of the Masters and their allies could do was embrace the change and wonder what new adventure the next day would bring.

And there we have it, after what seems like forever there is chapter 9! Some parts didn't turn out the way I really wanted but I'm thinking that once I finish the whole story I may do a rewrite. So a little fact about Naomi, like she said she's a huge pacifist so she won't be fighting anyone, that's not to say she can't fight (hint hint for upcoming chapter) also the Naomi they saw in the last chapter was a fake, her personality was in away that Scarlett would enjoy and relax too.

So my new years resolution was to really crack down on my writing, pushing out new chapters more and more quickly than last year, plus I have a few new ideas for stories I want to publish too.

To please let me know what you think and I'll see y'all next chapter. Small heads up, it's gonna be a very crucial chapter with new revelations, answers will be given, attacks will be made and one Master will reveal her true power.