The classic "Xiaolin Dragons Verses Chase Young" fight, slowly building towards the stories climax! Thanks for R&R!

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Xiaolin Showdown: Legend of the Thunder Child III: Apocalypse Clone

66: Chase's Last Stand

In the Core…

Chase dived at the Dragons, sword in hand. Raimundo was first to attack.

"Wudai Star Wind!" yelled Raimundo as he blasted Chase with a strong gust of wind. Chase swung his sword through the wind, blowing it way from him as he hit the ground. He lunged at Omi, who flipped over him and landed behind him.

"Wudai Neptune Water!" yelled Omi as he summoned a wave from the water that was flowing around him, it shot over his head and hit Chase hard. He was knocked back, but it didn't hurt him.

He roared as he summoned a ball of black fire to his hand and threw it at the ground, fire spread across the ground. Omi leapt out of the way as the fire burned up the ground below him, but in doing so he stopped blasting Chase with water. It was then Clay's turn to attack.

"Wudai Crater Earth" yelled Clay as he slammed his fist on the ground. The stone tiles on the ground shook as a crack spread out from his fist. Stalagmites shot up from the ground around Chase, trapping him in a cage, but his sword made short work of it. Kimiko took her turn next, she ran at him with teary eyes as she leapt into the air above him.

"Wudai Mars Fire!" yelled Kimiko as she drove both her feet down like a needle, fire spewing from her body like a volcano. Chase grinned as he raised his sword at her; she hit the sword hard, but not hard enough. She bounced off the sword and hit the ground.

"Come on!" called Chase "You're making this all too easy!"

"My friends…" said Omi as he turned to the others, they all nodded in agreement as they leapt into formation.

"Wudai Orion Formation!" yelled the three of them as they went super charged.

"Heh…" laughed Chase "Do you really think that will make all the difference?"

"Don't underestimate us" said Omi "You can't beat us as a team, we will…"

Kimiko suddenly roared as she lunged at him, blasting him with balls of fire. Chase effortlessly dodged each and every ball of fire that came at him. Kimiko swung her fists at him, but he sighed as he blocked each attack. He grabbed one of her punches and lifted her body off the ground. Tears were streaming down her face as she looked back at him with fear and anger.

"Ryan's death was inevitable" said Chase "He was expendable"

"No!" cried Kimiko as she shook her head franticly, as if she was trying to block him out, "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"

Face it" said Chase as he grinned evilly, "You will never see him alive ever again…In fact…"

He raised a hand and aimed it at Ryan's body; black fire began to burn forth from it.

"You will never see him dead either!" said Chase.

"NO!" cried Kimiko as she kicked her feet hard, her foot hit Chase's arm, knocking the ball of fire into the air and away from Ryan's body.

Chase frowned as he looked back at Kimiko; he raised the blade to slice her when Raimundo and Omi lunged at him. The force of the blow knocked Kimiko from his grasp. She landed on the floor with a thud. As Raimundo and Omi kept Chase busy, Kimiko felt Clay's arms around her, lifting her to her feet.

"Kimiko?" said Clay "You okay? Are you hurt?"

"Only my heart…" said Kimiko as she lowered her head. She sighed as she turned her head towards Ryan. She then looked up as Omi and Raimundo flew overhead, they landed a few feet on the ground behind her. She then turned to Chase as he ran at her with his sword out. She rolled out of the way as he swiped his sword at her, she yelped as she felt the blade rip through her clothes and across her skin. She clutched her arm as blood began to seep from her arm and into her clothes. Chase grinned as he gazed at his sword, droplets of Kimiko's blood was still on the edge.

"You do know I can end your pain Kimiko…" said Chase as he turned around, Raimundo, Clay and Omi ran to her side and stood between her and Chase.

"By taking your life, you will put you into a deep slumber" said Chase "Death will silence your troubled mind Kimiko…Let me kill you…Ryan wouldn't want you to suffer like this…"

Kimiko looked up at him and saw he had a twisted grin on his face.

"No…" said Kimiko as she shook her head and slowly stumbled to her feet, "You're wrong…Ryan wouldn't want me to give up, he would want me to live…because he loves me…"

Her lips wobbled as she joined her friends.

"He loved me…" said Kimiko as she wiped the ever falling tears from her eyes, "And I still love him…"

"But he's…" said Omi. Clay immediately realised what he was going to say and put his hand over his mouth. Chase suddenly leapt up and swung his sword down at them. The blade came down between them; Raimundo grabbed Kimiko and dived one way while Omi and Clay rolled the other way.

"Omi, just because Ryan is dead" said Clay "Doesn't mean that Kimiko doesn't still love him"

"But…" said Omi as he scratched his head, "Oh…I am so confused…"

"No one understands love Omi" said Clay "No one does"

There was a thud as Raimundo and Kimiko landed near them, they both went into their aggressive stances as Kimiko and Raimundo leapt to their feet.

"You put up a good fight" said Chase "I keep saying I will kill you, but somehow…"

He began to growl as he took deep breaths.

"This is it!" roared Chase, there was a sudden rip of clothes as he transformed into his Dragon form, "I will devour you, each and every one of you!"

He lunged forward, still wielding his sword. The four of them leapt at him, avoiding the blade. They shot right at him as a team.

"Wudai Iron Palm!" yelled the four of them as they put their fists together. There was a thud as they hit Chase hard, Chase slid back as they pushed against him. He gritted his teeth as he managed to put his hands against their fists, trying to direct their fists away from him. He managed to push them under him so they hit the ground hard, forming a huge crater in the ground. The force of the blow scattered the Dragons, they all hit the ground with a hard thud. Kimiko groaned as she came to, she gasped as she saw Chase was standing over her with his sword held above her, she noticed he was now back in his human form.

"Your time has come…" said Chase as he moved his blade over her, "I have waited for this day for almost a year…And now…You will die Kimiko, you will die…"

Kimiko began to breathe faster as Chase raised the blade over her head. Suddenly, there was a loud thud that seemed to echo in the entire room. She gasped as she tried to find the source of the noise; maybe it was someone who was going to help her. There was another deafening thud that filled the room, she looked around the room, and no one seemed to hear the sound, only Kimiko.

"It sounded like…A heartbeat…" thought Kimiko as she looked around the room, "But where?"

The heartbeat echoed loudly in her head as she looked around franticly, she looked up briefly as she saw Chase's blade still getting higher above her. She looked to her side; she was so busy panicking about Chase killing and the strange heartbeat, she didn't notice that she was lying right by Ryan's body. Tears welled up in her eyes as she saw his lifeless body by her. She slowly wrapped her fingers around his hand; she closed her eyes as she ignored the icy touch of his fingers.

"I love you Ryan…" cried Kimiko to herself. She heard the whoosh of Chase's sword as it came down on her, which was followed by the scraping of metal on the floor. She flinched as she heard the sound of sharp metal slicing through flesh and bone and she felt droplets of warm blood splash on her. She felt faint, although she didn't feel any pain. As she felt she was going to pass out, she heard a voice echo in her head.

"I love you too…"

¬¬ Well that's very obvious who that it is…R&R!