…And then I said to the bus conductor: "Hey! Let's have a little less talking and a lot more shut the hell up!" Oh! Hey everyone! Didn't you have a nice weekend? I bet your looking forward to what happened after the last chapter? Well let's find out! Oh and thanks for R&R!

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

67: The Soul of The Past

Kimiko took a deep breath as she tried to make sense of what just happened. She could remember Chase stabbing her, complete with her own blood splattering her face. She smiled slightly as she remembered the voice that echoed in her head.

"Ryan?" thought Kimiko "Is that you?"

When she opened her eyes, she expected to see the pearly gates of heaven where she would see Ryan rushing towards her with open arms, but she didn't. Instead she saw the roof of the core, burning rubble was still casting a reddish orange light. She looked around, still in a state of partial shook, she could see Chase still standing over her.

"Am I…" gasped Kimiko to herself, "Am I dead? Is this…death?"

She looked down at her body and gasped, there was no wound in her body, not even a scratch. She could see that Chase was still holding the blade high above her head. Her eyes went down his arm towards his head, her eyes widened as she saw he had a shocked and surprised look on his face. Her mouth fell open as she went down towards his chest; his clothes were soaked in blood as a large jagged piece of metal went right through his body, which explained the splattered blood. She followed the slowly turning red metal down towards a pair of hands that was holding the metal firmly. Kimiko's eyes had never widened as large in her whole life as she saw who was holding the metal.

"Ryan?" gasped Kimiko. Sure enough, Ryan Young was kneeling over her body, holding the sharp shard of metal right through Chase. He was positioned so even if the metal missed, Chase's sword would have went through him instead. He still had cold blue skin and lifeless eyes as he began to push Chase away from them. He choked as he stumbled back, the piece of metal still through his body.

"You…" gasped Chase "How…How are you still alive?"

He groaned in pain as he fell to his knees.

"You…impossible…" gasped Chase "No one has ever beaten me like this…You're impossible…"

"Right through the heart…" said Ryan as he slowly got to his feet, Kimiko gasped as she saw his skin slowly begin to return to normal like a chameleon, "The only way to kill someone cursed with Low Mang Lone Soup…is through the heart…"

Chase roared as he lent back, suddenly black blood began to fall from his wound. Chase writhed in pain as he fell to the floor with a thud; finally…after one thousand, five hundred years of terror, Chase Young was finally defeated.

Ryan gasped as he fell to his knees; he took deep breaths as he tried to straighten his mind out. He looked to the side where Omi, Raimundo and Clay were getting up from being knocked out from the miss Wudai Iron Palm. He turned around to look at Kimiko; she was still staring up at him in disbelief.

"Kimiko…" said Ryan as he smiled at her, "You do not know how relieved I am to see you're okay…"

He stepped towards her, only to have her move back a bit.

"No…" said Kimiko as she shook her head, "No…Don't…Don't come closer…"

"Kimiko?" said Ryan with a confused and worried look on his face, "What's wrong?"

"You're dead…" whimpered Kimiko "You're dead, you're not standing in front of me!"

"But Kimiko…" said Ryan "I'm right here…"

"No!" cried Kimiko as she buried her head in her hands, "I'm just imagining you! I must be going insane! Your death is making me see things!"

"But…" said Ryan.

"I don't want to see you here…" cried Kimiko "It will only break my heart again if you say you're real when you're not…That would kill me…"

Ryan said nothing as he walked towards her.

"My eyes are tricking me…" cried Kimiko "Ryan is dead…Please, don't break my heart again…My brain is saying you're just a figment of my imagination"

"But what is your heart saying?" said Ryan as he bent down beside her. She sniffed as she looked up at him; he gently moved his hand and rested it on hers. Tears were rolling down her porcelain cheeks as he cupped them with his hands. She closed her eyes as she put her hands against his, keeping them on her cheek. The warmth that flooded her cheek was unmistakeable. When she opened her eyes again, she looked like she would burst into tears again.

"Ryan!" cried Kimiko as she thrust her arms around him; Ryan felt tears in his eyes as she sobbed into his chest.

"I love you Kimiko" cried Ryan as he kissed her head tenderly.

"I love you too Ryan" cried Kimiko. Raimundo looked up as he got to his feet and gasped as he saw Kimiko hugging Ryan as he stoked her hair.

"Ryan?" gasped Clay as he and Omi got up from behind him, "He's still alive?"

"Looks like it…" said Raimundo as Kimiko looked up at Ryan; she smiled as she kissed him. Raimundo and Clay knew they should give Ryan and Kimiko some privacy, Omi on the other hand.

"Ryan?" said Omi as he climbed over the wreckage, "You're still alive? But how? Guardian Angel said you'd die if he died?"

Ryan smiled as he got to his feet, helping Kimiko to her feet.

"Yeah…I'm not sure what happened…" said Ryan; he looked back at Kimiko as she hugged him again.

"I thought you really were gone that time…" sighed Kimiko as she wiped her tears on his clothes as she buried her face in his body.

"Not really" said Ryan "I promised you we'd finish this together…"

"Well…" said Clay as he dusted his hands, "Is that it? Have we finally saved the world?"

"Let's see…" said Ryan as he counted on his fingers, "Chase is dead, Hannibal is gone, the Ibis Cannon is destroyed, the Shadow Ecliptis has stopped falling…Yep, were done!"

"Finally…" sighed Kimiko "We can go home now…"

They were about to get their Elemental Wu from the Eclipse Reactor, when suddenly a light blue light began to fill the room.

"What the…" gasped Ryan as they all turned around, the light seemed to be coming from Chase's motionless body. A blue ball of light rose from his chest with small wisps of light floating off from it. As the light hovered in the air above Chase's body, it began to take the form of a person. As the light began to die down, they could see the see-through figure of a man, he was garbed in a long light blue robe and had long black hair that covered his head.

"Great ghost of Dashi…" gasped Omi "It's Chase…"

No way…" said Ryan as he stepped towards the ghost, "That can't be Chase…"

He looked up at the boy's face; instead of cold piecing eyes, there were soft calming eyes, instead of a dark glare, there was a friendly smile.

"Chase?" said Ryan as he cautiously moved towards the ghost.

"Ryan" said Chase as he smiled at him, "My son…"

"Dad…" said Ryan as he began to breathe heavily.

"Chase?" said Kimiko as she stepped beside Ryan, "What's going on?"

"They say when a person who drank the forbidden soup is killed" said Chase "Their soul temporally returns to their body for a moment, before moving on…"

He then turned to Ryan.

"Ryan, before I go, I need to tell you…" said Chase "I'm sorry for what my soulless body did these past a thousand five hundred years…I was young and foolish when I drank the Low Mang Lone soup…"

Ryan looked to his side as he felt Kimiko's arm around his, Chase smiled as he looked at Kimiko.

"You two…You remind me of when I was young long ago…" said Chase "I too had a girlfriend…I loved her as much as you love Kimiko"

"What happened to her?" said Kimiko. Chase sighed as he lowered his head.

"It is a tale that Ryan should know…" said Chase "It is about Ryan's true identity…"

Suddenly, Chase's ghostly body began to glow even brighter. They all cowered from the light as it shone around them. Ryan felt Kimiko hold onto his arm tighter as the light got so bright it even hurt your eyes even if they were closed. Ryan suddenly opened his eyes as he felt the wind blow past him. They were no longer standing in the core of the Shadow Ecliptis.

"Wha…Where are we?" gasped Ryan as he looked around.

"It looks like…" said Omi as he walked forward, "The Xiaolin Temple?"

No mistake, there in front of them was the temple's great hall, to the left was the Wu vault and to the right was the dormitory.

"The Xiaolin temple…" said Chase as his ghostly form floated near Ryan, "One thousand five hundred years ago, give or take a year or two"

Ryan was about to open his mouth, when a female voice screamed from the dormitory.

"DASHI! GIVE IT BACK!"

They all looked up as a young boy, about the same age as the others ran out of the dormitory, clutching a book in his hand. The boy was bald like Omi, but was much taller and had a much smaller head. He was wearing a red Xiaolin robe and had a turquoise sash around his waist. He laughed as he sprinted past Ryan and the others as if they were not there.

"Dashi?" gasped Omi.

What is the secret to Ryan's identity? And why does it 1500 years in the past? Is there something about Ryan that even he doesn't know? And who did Dashi steal the diary from? Find out on Monday! R&R!

Tomorrow's going to be a very special day in "The Legend of the Thunder Child" series…but you have to wait and see…