In Tahiti, Raimundo and Kimiko's peaceful sleep was interrupted by Kimiko's cell phone ringing. Eyes still shut tight, she reached over and felt around on the nightstand beside the bed until she felt her phone in her hand.

"Hello?" Kimiko mumbled sleepily, yawning and rubbing her eyes.

"Kimiko! Thank God! You have to come back!" Emeline screeched into her phone. Kimiko bolted out of bed, throwing a shoe at Rai to wake him up before hastily pulling on some clothes, one hand holding her phone to her ear. Rai jerked awake and scowled at Kimiko for waking him up, until he saw her expression.

"What wrong Em?" Kimiko asked.

"Hannibal took Lilia." Emeline wailed. Kimiko froze, staring at Rai with horrified eyes. Rai jumped out of bed and got dressed quickly before grabbing their stuff and shrinking it, getting ready to go back home.

"We have the Tiger Claws. We'll be there in no time." Kimiko said before hanging up.

"What happened?" Rai asked anxiously.

"Hannibal happened. He took Lilia." Kimiko said. Rai clenched his fists.

"Well then let's go get her back."


Back in China, Lilia and Hannibal watched from afar as a portal opened and Raimundo and Kimiko stepped out. They watched as Rai and Kim ran to the group which consisted of Omi, Clay, Emeline, Master Fung, and Dojo and Lilia felt her heart lurch as her mind once more processed the fact that her friends, her best friends, were now her enemies. And that three of them were dying at this very moment.

"Well? Can we just get this over with?" Lilia spat.

"Anxious to get to your first evil deed?" Hannibal chuckled.

"Shut it. We made a deal, I cross over to the Heylin, and you save my friends. So now it's time to hold up your end of the bargain." she reminded him.

"Of course. I'm a man of my word." he smiled sardonically.

"You're not even human." Lilia muttered under her breath.

"What was that?" Hannibal asked. Lilia contemplated actually telling him, but then dismissed the idea as childish.

"Nothing, nothing. Just go give them the antidote." Lilia snarled. She then gasped as Hannibal grabbed her by the hair and yanked her back.

"Let's get one thing straight, my dear. You don't order me around. I order you around. And I order you to go reveal yourself as an agent of the Heylin to your precious friends." he sneered at her.

"You can't make me do that!" Lilia said through clenched teeth.

"Oh can't I?" Hannibal said sarcastically, then laughed as Lilia cried out in pain and clutched her arm with the Black Dragon.

"If you want the pain to go away, all you have to do is follow orders. Now go to them." he said in a deadly voice. Lilia shuddered violently before getting to her feet and starting towards her friends who would soon hate her.


"...and then we woke up and realized that Lilia was missing. That's when we called you." Clay finished explaining what had happened to Raimundo and Kimiko. Rai nodded then looked around at his team. Kimiko and Emeline seemed to be holding each other up, Clay was obviously extremely worried, and Omi looked...lost. Rai could understand. If anything happened to Kimiko, he didn't know how he could go on.

Rai walked over to Omi and gently laid a hand on his shoulder.

"We will find her Omi." he reassured him.

"Yes, we will. Even if I have to go to the ends of the earth, I will find her." Omi said, his voice layered with determination.

"Yeah..." Rai glanced up at that precise moment, and gasped as he saw none other than Lilia walking slowly towards them, her head lowered.

"Lilia!" he exclaimed. Omi whirled around while Kimiko, Emeline, and Clay all gave joyous cries.

"Lilia, love. Where were you?" Omi asked as he pulled her into a bone-crushing hug. It wasn't until a few seconds later that he realized Lilia hadn't reacted at all. In fact, it seemed as though she had tensed up.

"Lilia?" Omi said worriedly. Lilia slowly raised her head, revealing tears and eyes filled with pain.

"What's wrong?" he asked, taking a step back to look for bruises on her body. That's when he saw her new look.

"Why are you not wearing your Wudai robes? And is your hair longer? Lilia, what's going on?" he stared at her.

"I'm...so sorry." Lilia said in a choked voice before shakily raising her right hand and giving Omi a backhanded slap which sent him tumbling to the ground.

"Lilia, what the hell was that for?!" Rai yelled as he ran to her, the others right behind him.

"Well there's a simple answer to that. She works for me now." Hannibal drawled, appearing next to her. That stopped them in their tracks.

"No...there's no way. Lilia, you don't work for him!" Rai yelled, cutting his stare to her.

"He's right. I do work for him." Lilia said miserably.

"No you don't! Lilia! Just stop this and come over here!" Kimiko yelled angrily.

"I'm sorry. I can't do that Kimiko." she shook her head.

"Now my dear Lilia. I order you to attack them." Hannibal said conversationally.

"What? Why? They haven't attacked me!" she protested, but her words were cut shout as she cried out in pain and once more clutched her arm.

"I said do it!" he growled at her.

"Wudai Venus Lightning!" Lilia yelled. The powerful attack sent Rai, Kim, and Clay flying back.

Wudai Sun Thunder!" Emeline attacked back, albeit weakly as she didn't want to hurt her friend. That cost her as Lilia's next attack sent her flying as well. Which just left Omi. During this time, he had just stood there with his hand to his cheek, unable to comprehend that Lilia, his Lilia, would do such a thing. He walked slowly to her and looked her in the eyes.

"Please Omi. Leave. I don't want to hurt you." Lilia whispered to him.

"Why Lilia?" he pleaded with her. Lilia raised her right hand, and in it she had the capsule which would save him.

"I had no choice." And with that, she threw the capsule onto the ground and released the thick smoke in it.

When the smoke cleared, Omi searched wildly for Lilia and Hannibal, but they were gone. As he lifted his hand to his cheek where Lilia had hit him, he realized that the physical pain was no match for the pain of his broken heart.


Me: Hey! So yeah, I'm back from hiatus! Well, not completley. I've decided to put Xiaolin Academy on hiatus so i can concentrate on finishing Eternal Love. Anyways its good to be back, and please review!