Setting: Chase Young's citadel. Present day.
Bending down, KJ placed her hands on the floor in front of herself.
Shadows swirled up and ensnared Wuya's ankles.
Chase recognized this action…Kacie had used it on him several times.
Wuya shrugged it off.
"No matter."
Raising her arms into the air, she summoned four rock creatures.
Taking a few steps back, KJ's hands began to flame.
As the creatures ran in to attack, she mixed Carmen's fire with Amy's energy to explode/melt them.
Laughing, Wuya simply raised her arms again, and repeated the process.
"If I move in for a direct attack, these things will just defend her and pound me into the ground…" KJ told herself. "And I can't separate into five people, because I need the Amy/Carmen combo…Plus that would take up too much time-damn!"
She mentally swore while dodging a creature and blowing it up.
"I'm going to have to get help from Chase…" KJ grimaced. "If only I could figure out how to get him out of that thingy…"
While dodging another creature, she tossed an explosion at the sphere, in an attempt to destroy it.
The only thing it did, however, was make a very loud noise.
"Looking for help, are you?" Wuya laughed. "Keep trying- you'll never break the Sphere of Yun."
KJ smirked. "That might be so, but I have an idea."
She vanished in the shadow of one creature, and reappeared in the shadow of another.
"Reversing Mirror!"
Grabbing the Shen Gong Wu, KJ held it up to the Sphere of Yun.
The activated Wu reflected off of the mirror, and trapped one of the creatures inside of it.
"I'll kill him later." KJ told herself. "But right now, I need his help."
With Chase, it'll be easier to defeat the stone creatures.
Wuya laughed. "This is pointless."
KJ glared at her. "I'm tired of hearing you talk."
Extending her left hand, shadows arose and bound Wuya's arms to her side. With a flick of her wrist, her mouth was also sealed. More darkness enfolded around Wuya, and she fell over on the ground.
"Now…" KJ turned to Chase.
"You're an idiot." She laughed. "Did you know that?"
Chase sighed while destroying the last of the creatures.
"Why did you lie to me? I was starting to trust you, but now, I'm not so sure." KJ informed him.
"While I recognize that it was wrong, I needed you to give my story a chance. I knew that if I had told you of my true nature, you wouldn't have believed me, and left without a second thought."
She scowled. He was right.
"That's no excuse." She snapped. "And it's really a shame, because now I have to kill you."
Chase's pulse quickened. There was no doubt in his mind that KJ could kill him…up until recently, the only things restraining her were her feelings for him.
A new, almost frightening thought dawned on him.
"I very well could die right now."
The look in her eyes suggested that she was intending to make sure that Chase breathed no more when she finished with him.
He sighed once more.
"Very well…Kill me if you must."
KJ cautiously raised an eyebrow.
"You're not going to fight back?"
Chase shook his head.
"That would be pointless. You intend on killing me, and a fight for my life would only result in me killing you…which I do not wish to do."
Her expression softened.
"Even after this, and all of the trouble I've allegedly put you through (Shix, ruining his take over the world scheme, the partial Wuya plot, Cherushii…), you'd still rather die than kill me?" She asked. "Why?"
"Because I love you."
His answer shocked her, and she gasped.
Seeing her falter, Chase remembered what Cherushii had told him.
"To unlock those memories, you'd have to do something really drastic…something that would shock her."
It was then he knew what was happening.
"I've taken it this far, I might as well make sure this never happens again." Chase told himself.
He decided to close the small gap between himself and KJ, and embraced her as he did so.
"Chase…" she confessed while returning the embrace. "I remember now…"
A soft smile crept onto his face…but he would never let her see his joy.
In her moment of happiness, KJ accidentally-without thinking- released the shadowy bind that she had on Wuya.
An evil gleam in her eyes, the witch arose and summoned the last of her power for one final deed.
As KJ pulled away from their hug, Wuya's essence flew up out of her own body, and entered the vessel of Chase.
His eyes glazed over a milky white, as the eyes of the others did when they were under Shix's control.
KJ grimaced. It wasn't over yet.