Chapter 7: Together Again Part 3
Raimundo, Kimiko, Clay, Saya, Omi, Mimi, Julia, and Elena suddenly found themselves standing in the middle of an arena which Rai knew all to well. The stands that surrounded them were made of large sand stone blocks and large cloth banners with the black and white seven pointed star of the Sins hung all around the edge. There were a few private boxes were more wealthy viewers would've sat. But today the stands were completely empty, save for one colossal man wearing a stone mask sitting in a private box and Wuya sitting next to him. "Welcome to the newly revived Roman Coliseum, kids. We hope you enjoy the show… because you're part of it." Wuya laughed.
"Be ready for anything, guys." Rai said. "The coliseum has become infamous since Gluttony brought it back. I've seen people go in to watch the games… the ones who sat in the front row usually were covered in blood when they left."
"Thanks for the warning." Kim said. "Have you ever actually seen these games?"
"I've been living on the streets with a couple of orphans for the passed week." Rai said. "What do you think?"
"Don' matter if you've seen 'em or not." Clay broke in. "Yer about to experience 'em first hand."
Four steel gates around the walls of the arena slowly began to creak open and low growling could be heard from within. "Something tells me those aren't house cats in there." Mimi growled.
"I doubt it's your ordinary lion or tiger either." Omi added.
"Relax, guys." Julia tried to reassure them. "We've been through worse than this and lived.
"Only because the Sin's let us last time." Elena pointed out. "But this time they want blood… and for the most part the Sins get what they want."
"So anybody got any bright ideas?" Saya asked.
And then the beasts showed themselves. Four huge lion like creatures that snorted fire with a second goat like head and a serpentine tail with a snakes head at the end. The four chimeras padded their way into the arena, eyeing the monks with a blood lust and licking their lips, knowing that it was feeding time.
"Just try not to die." Rai advised.
Gluttony raised his club into the air and then slammed it to the ground with a thundering clap. The chimeras roared and looked up to where Gluttony and Lust sat. All eyes except for Gluttony's were now on Wuya who was grinning devilishly as she watched the chimeras circle around the monks. Only one thing was on her mind at the moment: "Time to end their good for nothing lives… LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!"
The four chimeras leapt at them with their claws extended and their fangs bared. The monks scattered, dashing off in separate directions. This was going to be one hell of a fight and loosing wasn't an option.
One of the chimeras skidded across the floor and turned around to find Omi and Julia directly in its line of sight. The goat head glared at them while the lion head growled and drooled as it stalked closer to them. Omi began to glance around, trying to find anything he could use as a weapon. There was nothing. Then something in his head clicked and he stretched out his arms and opened his hands. Instantly water appeared out of nothing and froze into the shape of a sword and a spear.
"How'd you…" Julia began.
"No time." Omi snapped, shoving the spear into her hand. "Just don't let it blast fire on these and we should be fine."
Omi charged at it, leaving Julia behind. The goat and lion heads both caught sight of him and tried to torch him as he ran. But Omi jumped over the jets of fire and landed on its back. Unfortunately he'd forgotten about the tail which was now eyeing him hungrily, flicking its tongue to taste his sent. The snake head lunged at him but Omi side stepped it and slashed his ice sword across its side. The snake head shrieked, wrapped itself around him and then threw him to the ground behind it. The chimera turned around so the lion and goat heads could deal with Omi while the snake head dealt with Julia.
Julia gripped her spear tightly as the snake caught her sent on its tongue. It lunged at her with its fangs extended. When it was close enough Julia swung her spear and knocked the fangs right out of its jaw. Again the snake shrieked but its pain was short lived as the fangs quickly grew back and it came at her again. Julia jumped out of the way and threw her spear at it as it crashed into the ground. The spear pierced its neck and sailed right through it, stabbing into the ground on the other side. It ignored that it now had a hole going through its throat and went after her again. Julia jumped at the last second, landing on its head and jumping again. She landed on the other side and grabbed her spear from the ground, turning around just in time to catch the snake's mouth with the spear and get it in a deadlock. They struggled for a while, trying to get the upper hand, but then Julia pulled her spear back, again ripping the fangs out of its mouth. She jumped into the air and threw her spear at its neck again, this time it stuck and pinned the snake to the ground, leaving it to shriek and struggle in vain.
Meanwhile Omi was still struggling with the two remaining heads. The goat head blasted him with fire, forcing him to jump to one side. The lion head nearly caught him but Omi managed to jump back and slash at it, leaving a gash on its nose. The lion head roared in pain and blasted fire his way again. Omi managed to jump over it and land right between the lions eyes. He stabbed his sword right between its eyes, causing the eyes to roll back in its head. He then manifested another sword and threw it in the goat's direction, catching it right in the jugular. The chimera fell to the ground, dead, giving Omi and Julia the win.
Clay slammed his fists against the wall behind him causing the sandstone to crumble from the wall and form armor on his body. The chimera before him roared and jumped at him but Clay ran under it and jumped onto its back from behind. The snake head lashed out at him but pulled back when it was blinded by two handfuls of sand thrown by Mimi. The snake shrieked and started flinging its head around randomly. Barely able to avoid it, Clay jumped back to the ground and hit the wall again. This time a long javelin like rock fell to the ground next to him. "Mimi, catch!" he shouted before throwing it to her. Mimi caught the weapon in mid air, slashed it across the snake's underbelly and then headed for the lion and goat heads.
The lion had blasted a jet of fire at Clay who ran through it, protected by his rock armor, then jumped into the air and slammed his fist into the beasts jaw. It roared and tried to catch him in its mouth but Clay landed on top of its head and jumped off as the goat head blasted fire at him. The fire missed him completely but torched the lion head to a crisp. Clay landed on the ground again and the gat head continued blasting at him but failed to notice Mimi running on its back until it was too late and she stabbed her spear into the back of its neck. The gat heat cried in pain and then tried stabbing at her with its horns, but Clay ran up to it and punched it under its jaw, driving the spear deeper into the back of its neck and killing it.
Just as the two thought they'd won the snake head came at them again, but was quickly taken care of when Mimi swung around and kicked its head and it fell limp.
Saya threw two bolts of lightning at the snake head as it lashed out at her but they were easily avoided. The snake came at her with its mouth open and its fangs bared and ready to stab though her. But before it could strike Rai came flying in from nowhere and knocked it out of the way. Apparently he'd rediscovered his ability to fly and was loving it. Saya then blasted more lightning at the snake, this time striking it. The snake fell to the ground, twitching slightly but for the most part paralyzed. But then just like that the beast swung around and they had the remaining two heads to worry about. Both heads blasted fire at them, the goat aiming for Saya while the Lion tried to catch Rai in the air.
Rai flew around the jet of fire from the lion and then dove straight at it. The lion head lashed out and snapped its jaw at him but Rai dodged it again but getting hit by lightning instead. "Watch where you're shooting, girl!" Rai shouted to Saya.
"Sorry!" Saya called back. "The stupid goat won't hold still." The goat head dove down at her, ramming into the ground as she jumped over it and landed on its back. Thinking quickly she grabbed onto the horns and sent electricity coursing through them, zapping the goat head until dead.
Meanwhile Rai continued to avoid the lion head in mid air as it snapped and breathed fire at him. Suddenly struck by an idea, he flew down and landed just in front of the wall. "Hey, Simba!" he called, getting the chimeras attention. The beast roared and leapt at him but Rai flew out of the way at the last second and it crashed into the wall. The chimera went limp and fell to the ground.
That just left one more of the three headed beasts to deal with. Kim stood her ground as both the lion and goat heads blasted fire at her. She caught the blasts in her hands and threw it back at them, the lion head cancelling it out with more fire but the goat head taking it full force. "I don't have time for this." She grumbled before clapping her hands together and her entire body was engulfed in fire. "Who's ready to burn?"
Meanwhile Elena was having enough trouble handling the snake head. The snake lashed out at her but Elena managed to jump onto its back. The snake turned around and went after her again, forcing Elena to run up its tail on onto the chimeras back. It lunged at her again with its fangs bared but she slid back down the scaly body. The snake pulled back just before biting into itself and turned around to follow her again, but as it did she came out of nowhere and kicked the fangs right out of its mouth, catching them both out of the air and holding them like daggers. Its fangs quickly grew back and it went for her, but instead or running she went as it as well, stabbing one fang into its eye and landing on its back again. The snake shrieked in pain as it was infected by its own poison but wasn't about to give up. Elena slide down its back again as it followed her, turning around at the last minute and stabbing her remaining fang right into its mouth, amazingly avoiding its fangs. Elena jumped back to the ground as the snake fell to the ground dead.
The goat head, now horribly scared after being hit by its own fire, went to ram Kim with its horns but she jumped onto its neck, catching what remained of its hair on fire, and then driving her flaming fist onto the top of its head, catching all but the horns on fire. The goat head shrieked and started flailing around randomly as it was engulfed in fire. The lion head, obviously annoyed by this, blasted its own fire at the already flaming goat head, cancelling out both flames. Then, knowing that it was just carrying dead weight now, it closed its jaw around the dead goats neck and ripped the head off, tossing it aside.
Kim was shocked by what the lion head had just done and lost her balance, falling back to the ground. The lion turned back to her, growling and glaring, before blasting fire at her again. Thinking quickly, Kim protected herself by blasting back. The two jets of fire stopped each other on contact but were now caught trying to over power one another in mid air. Kim new that she was going to be out done quickly but didn't know how to end it without burning to death first. Then it hit her! She stopped her fire and then slid down to the ground, rolled under the chimera's fire as it went blazing over her, jumped into the air and threw a huge fire ball directly at the lion heads throat. It roared as its throat caught fire and the blaze slowly spread to the rest of the head and then the body. It wasn't long before it was nothing more than a blazing heap on the ground.
Wuya slammed her fist on the railing of her and Gluttony's private box. "Damn! I was sure those beast could've taken them!" She yelled as she glared down to the arena where the monks were now regrouping with the four dead chimeras lying around them. She sighed. "No matter. They've been distracted long enough. I'm sure that not even that blasted rodent could take care of the army I've hired.
"Wuya!" she looked down to them again. It was Omi who had called her. "Come down here and face us! It's time to end this once and for all!"
Wuya simply laughed. "Oh, no child. My end is nowhere near close." She called. "Yours, however, is just about to begin."
"Not if I have anything to say about it, Lust!"
No one knew where the voice had come from. But it wasn't long before a portal opened above one of the dead chimeras and the armored man stepped through. Wuya recognized him immediately. "You!"
The armored man summoned his katana and pointed it to her. "I've waited a long time to see you again… and even longer to finally get another chance to destroy you." He said before turning to the kids. "Go through the portal, now!" Kim tried to argue, but the armored man wasn't going to have any of it. "I said go! The world needs the eight of you more than it needs me!"
"Why should we listen to you?" Kim shouted. "You tried to kill me!" She wanted to say more she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Kim, listen to him." Rai said. "He wants us alive and, honestly, I know we can't take two of the Seven Sins… not now anyway." Kim glared at him and wanted to argue, but knew he was right. She nodded to him and together they ran to and jumped through the portal, quickly followed by the others. The portal closed as the last of them passed through.
"All right." The armored man said. "Now it's just the three of us."
Gluttony grabbed his club and started to rise, but Wuya pushed him back. "You sit this one out, Gluttony… he's mine."
The armored man nodded and jumped into the air with his sword in both hands and raised over his head, ready to plunge it into the Sin of Lust's chest.
XIAOLIN TEMPLE
They passed through the portal just as the armored man had told them but couldn't believe what they saw on the other side. It couldn't have been more than an hour since Wuya had forced them to the Roman Coliseum to battle the chimeras but so much damage had been done in that time. The smell of burning wood and stone overwhelmed them and the sudden heat was almost too much to bear so quickly. There before the eight monks were Jet, Jess, and Hamster, looking onto the temple as it burned to the ground.
The three turned back to the eight. Jet's fists were clinched tightly, tears streamed down Jess' cheeks, and Hamster hung his head in shame. "I'm sorry." Hamster said. "There's nothing we could've done."
LOCATION UNKNOWN
"Sloth!" Pride shouted. Gabriel Spicer suddenly appeared in the center of the conference chamber facing Prides throne.
"Pride! How's my favorite overlord of the earth? Have you lost weight?" Gabriel laughed. Pride simply glared at him, his eye turning red under his blindfold. "Not the time for jokes, gotcha."
"Is the machine complete?" Pride asked.
The Sin of Sloth scratched the back of his head and nodded. "Yeah." He sighed. "The robots got it done quick, just like you asked. But I keep telling you, without a targeting system and a sample of their Chi it won't work."
"Which is exactly why I had you and Envy collect those." Pride retorted. "Come forth, Envy. And bring our honored guest."
Rush suddenly appeared next to Gabriel holding a bird cage in one hand. Inside of the cage, holding onto and shaking the bars, was Dojo Kanojo Cho, the Xiaolin Monks shape shifting dragon. "This is crazy, Rush!" Dojo shouted. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"My job." Rush replied.
"Bring me the beast." Pride ordered. Rush presented the cage to his master who eyed it carefully. "Do you know why I've brought you here, dragon?" he asked.
"I'm guessing Lao Mang Lon Soup is involved." Dojo said.
Pride chuckled. "Hardly." He said. "You are going to have the esteemed honor of helping us track down those who we seek."
"And they would be?"
"The Seven Holy Virtues. The only people in this world that even have a chance of destroying us… Sloth, take it and hook it up to the machine. And I suggest you capture your brother quickly, or else hope we happen upon another Virtue shortly."
Just as Pride had finished speaking and Gabriel had disappeared Wuya suddenly appeared in his place with a smug look on her face. "I come bearing excellent news, love."
"This had better be good for you to think you are excused from calling me Lord Pride." Pride growled, his eyes turning red again.
"Oh, it's better than good… bring him in, Gluttony." Gluttony appeared next to her with the armored man standing before him in chains. "My lord, I present to you the Virtue of Chastity."
Pride immediately rose from his throne and stepped down to examine him. "If what you say is true then we are one step closer to achieving our goal." He said as he turned the armored mans helmet and turned it to one side. "Yes, this is truly one of them. Now we have two within our grasp."
"Two?" Rush questioned.
"It is only a matter of time before we capture that insect Spicer." Wuya explained. "Now I suggest you stick around for the unveiling, kid. You'll just love who's hiding under the helmet."
"Yes." Pride agreed. "Let's take a look at my old foes face… it's been a long time, hasn't it…?" Pride clenched his fist and slammed it against the mans helmet, shattering the steel and revealing the bald Asian man of legend inside. "… Dashi."
End Part 1: The Reunion
(a/n) now who expected that? Dashi was the armored man all along, the temple has been completely destroyed (again) and the people that the Sins have been looking for have finally been revealed to be the Seven Holy Virtues. I smell epicness, dont you? Ive revealed 3 virtues so far: Dashi as chastity, Jack is unknown, and raven is unknown. the other four will reveal themselves soon enough. now, a few things you should expect soon. the next few chapters will chronical events that happen around the world over the next 3 months (in the story) involving the monks, the sins, Chase, Hannibal, and various outposts of the rebellion. but that will only last a few chapters and Ill have the next big even coming soon enough. long story short, something is going to go boom.
P.S. sorry I havent updated any of my other stories lately, I just wanted to get this done. One Champion is next on my list.