Supreme Wizard Vs Valiant Sorceress

Zarlak managed to put up a shield a mere second before the he was hit. However, not even his magic could prevent him from feeling more than a little hot under the collar and he frequently had to use magic to put out the flames bursting to life on his robes.

"Grr, you are becoming more annoying than the children and the entire resistance movement combined!" He growled as the heat blast finally faded, shooting a beam of his own from his hand.

"To me, that's a compliment." Gwen smirked, dodging effortlessly before her glowing hands directed jagged rocks from all around Zarlak to surge towards him. Zarlak rid himself of them with a simple wave of his hand before covering the area with a dark, greenish smoke, hiding within it.

"Oh please. Wind!" Rai scoffed, throwing his hand out carelessly in the smoke's general direction. The wind quickly blew it away, but before Zarlak had even been uncovered, Gwen had already struck him with an energy ball, using his own smoke cloud against him. As the last wisps disappeared, it was to reveal a groaning Zarlak hovering himself back to his feet.

"I will not be defeated. Dark forces, destroy them!" He ordered maliciously, pointing towards the Guardians. However, only one giant gnome and a cockroach monster came to his side.

"It'll take more than an overgrown lawn ornament to stop us." Jake taunted, dive bombing the gnome. Bringing his sharp claws before him, he spun his body, increasing his speed and power. Right before he hit the ground, he altered himself so his belly was in perfect alignment with the ground and shot straight through the gnome's chest. Cracks quickly appeared all over the mobile stone creature's body and it exploded, leaving only tiny dirt clods behind.

"Oh yeah, that's what I'm talkin about." The reptilian hero cheered, returning to the air.

Namine was just as quick with the magically mutated creature. Charging right at it, she ducked into an army roll as it tried to slash at her with four limbs before leaping back up and placing her glowing hand on its back. Her white energy quickly spread throughout its entire body and a moment later, with a flash of green under the white, the creature reverted to its original, harmless form.

"What is this? Where are my servants?" Zarlak scowled, watching the only soldiers to answer his call fall as he took into the air, avoiding a blast of fire from the sorceress.

"Just look over there." A cocky voice replied behind him. Before Zarlak could respond, a brutal kick landed on his back, followed by a powerful gale, blowing him away. Right into the direction of his minions.

Recovering in midflight, Zarlak looked up to see what the Xiaolin Dragon was talking about, only to gasp and growl at the sight before him. With the dome down, the forces sent by the Wizards High Council had immediately joined the teachers and his usual three pests in stopping his horde. To make matters worse, the other teachers and students seemed to have grown backbones as a moment later, the main doors of the castle burst open and they surged out, wands alight with blue, green, and yellow blasts heading right at his forces.

"Your forces are being taken down and those that are still standing won't get through the shots coming their way. You're cut off from them." Rai stated triumphantly. Whipping around, Zarlak glared bloody murder at the wind wielder and the sorceress floating behind him.

"But the two of you are right where I want you." He snarled, whipping his hands out. All at once, a dozen tentacles of pure, dark magic burst out towards them, forcing them back. However, before they could ensnare the young heroes, a flamethrower struck his chest, knocking him painfully back with a scream.

"Forget about me?" Jake asked, soaring right in front of the dark wizard. Before Zarlak could even respond, Jake circled around him and struck his back with his tail, shooting him off to the ground and away from his minions.

'Guys, we have to finish this soon. I can sense many more dark minds approaching on the horizon.' The three in the air immediately halted as Namine's voice echoed through their minds and shivered as she sent an image of what she'd sensed their way. It was more than enough to bring back the worry and fear they'd felt before.

"Guys, have Namine send a message to everyone on our side and have them help you get the dark creatures back near the portal. I'll hold Zarlak off until we're ready to finish our plan." Gwen ordered, getting nods from Jake and Rai. Jake immediately created a clone to give Namine the message while the original Jake and Raimundo took off and around the mass of dark creatures.

Lowering herself back to the ground, Gwen took off at a run towards the rising dark wizard, her hands already charging energy again.

"Tempestus!" Water rose from the plants, forming a giant mace before launching itself at Zarlak. In response, Zarlak merely raised his own glowing hand. A few seconds later, the water weapon was also glowing green and stopped in its place.

"The only thing impressive about this is the size." He drawled. "How about I show you something a little more advanced?" Twitching his fingers, he split the mace into twelve lances and turned them into ice before launching them right back at her.

Unperturbed, Gwen just raised her hands again.

"Vitalis Eruptum!" Vines shot out the ground like bullets, catching every lance before it could get halfway to her. They didn't there however, as they threw the lances right back to where they came from. Zarlak managed to blow them up, but the distraction was all that was needed for more vines to shoot up around his feet and wrap around him, constricting his movements.

"Gar! Do you really think such weak restraints can hold ME?" Zarlak roared, glowing all over and expelling the vines. But before he could do anything else, Gwen, who had taken all the time he'd fought with ice and plants to her advantage, closed the remaining distance between them and struck him with a flying kick, right in the gut. Winded, he fell back off his feet. Grabbing his arm mid fall, Gwen tossed him over her shoulder with a grunt, causing him to land with a loud thump next to the portal. Puffing slightly, Gwen watched his groaning form with a satisfied smile.

"To answer your question, no. but they were a great distraction, don't you think?"

On the other side of the battlefield, the battle couldn't be going better. The witches and wizards proved to be very affective in herding the dark army back towards the portal, not by skill in combat, but simply creating a barrage of magical blasts that the creatures couldn't weave forward through. They had quickly moved themselves from between the army and the portal at Namine's mental command and with Raimundo adding powerful gales to one side and Jake and his clone almost constantly breathing fire on the other, it was easy to make the cowards back up.

"Looks like Gwen's got him down. We should take this chance and finish this now." Rai called as the creatures reached the portal and started moving around it.

"You got it. Let's head skyward." The American Dragon agreed, absorbing his clone and shooting higher into the air, right above the centre of the portal with Rai close behind. "Give us the biggest dome of wind you've got bro."

Nodding, Rai took a deep breath as he raised both of his magical swords from his sides. "Xiaolin power! Wudai Star Wind! Sword of the Storm! Blade of the Nebula!" The three sources of power united and created an enormous dome of raging wind, surrounding all of Zarlak's forces, the dark wizard himself and Gwen, Namine and the closest wizards and witches, being Ubos' chosen children. Taking the biggest breath he could, Jake breathed the strongest flamethrower he had into the air currents and watched as the fire grew and spread throughout the entire dome.

Groaning with the effort needed to pull it off, Rai put all his concentration into compacting and shrinking the dome, eliciting terrified screams from the dark creatures closest to the edge as they ran and flew as fast as they could towards the centre.

"Gwen, we must hurry." Ubos stated, flying before her as Zarlak started pulling himself slowly to his feet again. "Zarlak will be able to stop us if we wait much longer."

"Besides that, Rai won't be able to hold up something this big for long and the dark cavalry is almost here." Namine agreed, running to her side.

"But I don't know if our combined power can still undo all of Zarlak's magic." Gwen said worriedly, turning back to Ubos. "This battle's weakened both of us, and there's so many of them."

"Then we'll help." The three turned to see Cassie running to their side, followed closely by Gus and Verne. "Ubos, show us the spell."

The look of pride couldn't have been greater on the book's face as he smiled at his young charges before doing as Cassie said. The three younger spell casters quickly pulled out their wands and had the glowing, pointing ends touching the book as Gwen did the same with her hand.

"Ancient evil, get behenced

Only good can recompense

For the misdeeds in which you've done

Wizard return from which you come."

Blue and gold magic exploded from the five of them again as they finished chanting, filling the entire area within the dome. But what was even more noticeable was that the portal had completely lost its greenish glow and was replaced by a dark blue and released a number of pulses.

"What? NO!" Zarlak screamed as the first pulse hit him, covering his entire being and pulling him back. "I will not be SENT BACK!" Struggling against it, his body started glowing with green magic and he managed to stabilize himself.

However, it made no difference as the pulses continued and found others touched with his dark magic, pulling them all towards and through the portal, screaming the whole way. On its way to the portal, an elephant man crashed into Zarlak, sending them tumbling back. The blow was more than enough to break Zarlak's concentration and the energy exuded from the portal quickly finished its job, pulling him towards and through.

"NNNNOOOOOO! I SHALL RETURN!" His scream echoed throughout the area, above the panicking cries of his minions as he disappeared in the blue energy, followed quickly by the rest of his forces. As the last of the dark army was suck away, the spell casters on the ground and the warrior in the sky were finally able to let their powers die down and fell to the ground in exhaustion and relief, Jake catching Rai as he fell and placing him gently on the ground.

"We did it. He's back where he belongs." Gwen said with tired relief.

"You all did incredibly well. I am beyond proud of all of you." Ubos said, smiling down at them all before yawning.

"Now there's only one more horrifying mission to deal with." Namine said softly, causing everyone to look at her warily.

"And what would that be?" Jake asked cautiously, his whole body tensing.

"The group of old, firm, business type wizards and witches that must be the Wizards High Council approaching us. Something tells me they are going to want answers to about a million questions. And I'm not even using my telepathy." The others all whipped their heads towards where Namine was looking and groaned loudly. She was right, a horde of wizards and witches with firm, no-nonsense looks on their faces was quickly approaching them.

"What a day." Rai groaned, rolling over and dropping his head face down in the ground. "An epic battle with the world's greatest dark wizard and his army and now the promise of an endless verbal assault from a bunch of stiffs in the wizards equivalent of business suits. Can't we just go and find another pair of multi-headed dragons instead?"