Change of Heart
"Guys! Guys, come quickly!" Kimiko shouted, looking at the strange person walking towards the temple.
"Is that…" whispered Raimundo.
The boy looked sick, his hair was red and flattened. He was not wearing decent clothes; he wore a white vest and pale blue boxer shorts. It was Jack, it was obvious due to his jet parked a few metres back. He looked different without his goggles and makeup, his facial expression was blank.
"What are you doing here?" asked Omi, he was saddened by Jack's looks.
"I…I want to be reborn," whispered Jack.
Kimiko, Clay and Raimundo were also upset. The boy genius wasn't being pathetic in a funny way like he normally was, this was extremely upsetting.
"What?" asked Kimiko.
"Reborn. I want to be reborn," he said again, almost choking.
A tear came from his eye, it dropped onto the floor in front of him. Suddenly, his stomach heaved. As soon as he finished vomiting, Raimundo and Clay helped him to the temple.
"I don't know what to say. He was on our side for one day, but he turned," Master Fung said a few hours later.
"Yes, but when I engaged in a showdown with him, he first intended not to betray us! Please, this will be his last chance!" Omi exclaimed.
"Master Fung, he's sick!" Kimiko pleaded, fearing the worst for Jack.
Kimiko managed to pluck up the courage to see Jack; he was lying in a vacant bed. The warrior of fire crept in silently; she sat down in a wooden chair next to him. Somehow, she knew that the genius knew that she was beside her.
"Kimiko…I've done terrible things. Proto, the day he died, I felt sorry for him. He was my son and I neglected him like an unwanted plaything, he still saw me as his father. Kimiko…why, why was I evil in the first place? Why did I want to use my gifts for evil? Why did I want world domination? Why was I so…bullied?" he asked his eyed remained closed.
The dragon of fire was speechless, she was really upset. A look of anger appeared on Jack's face, but his eyelids were shut still.
"You…you beat me up. You beat me up each time; you beat me up to earn points on who's going to be leader! I am a boy with no powers at all, yet you still beat me up. You have no mercy, you beat me up! You beat me! You beat me!" he started to scream.
Kimiko tried to run, but Jack grabbed her head with a cold grip. Images appeared in her mind, were these his memories?
Ten years ago, Jack crept down the stairs of his house to get a glass of water, but not without permission from his parents first. They were in the living room, yet the television was off. They were sitting in almost darkness; the only light was a lamp in the room. He heard his mother and father talking, they sounded serious.
"We can't keep this a secret! My mother and father keep asking me how I've raised him, they've told all their friends too!"
"But Drew, we can't tell him he's adopted! That'll destroy his fragile mind!"
Jack didn't need to hear anymore, his thirst had been replaced by extreme sadness.
"Stop it Jack! Jack, how are you doing this?" shouted Kimiko.
A few minutes later, Jack stopped holding Kimiko's head. She was shocked, but not harmed physically.
"Jack…I'm sorry…" she whispered.
There was a sudden explosion outside; she rushed to check it out with the other dragons.
"Looks, ominous…" whispered Dojo, the phoenix was shaking violently.
"Young ones! Lord Sezeros' children have managed to revive him! You need to find them and bring an end to their reign of terror before it's too late!" added Master Fung.
Raimundo activated the Silver Manta Ray, he was as nervous as the others. They all jumped in, they flew towards the city where the evil demons were raging.
"Dojo, you look after Jack. He is seriously Ill, you must monitor him!" Fung said, there was a tone of fear in his voice.
The phoenix daemon nodded and went to join the boy genius, Jack was still in bed and supposedly asleep.
"Okay, here they are!" exclaimed Kimiko as they got out from their mythical craft.
Epiales and Poze were standing alone; the demonic brothers were ready to do whatever they could to destroy the Xiaolin dragons. They were laying waste to the city that they were in.
"Look brother, starters!" laughed Poze.
"Let's make them scream!" snarled Epiales.
Clay and Kimiko were the first to leap into battle; they had their two daemon knight helmets in their hands. In their places stood the Pearl Knight and the Topaz Knight, ready for battle.
"Thou shall pay for your sins, vile shades!" exclaimed Jemako.
"Prepare to die!" Meliza exclaimed.
The two demons fought the two knights, Raimundo and Omi looked for anymore dangers. Suddenly, Raimundo screamed.
"Omi, look out!"
Water monk Omi was blasted away by the infernal flames coming from the mouth of Reid, the satanic creature was in his full size. Accompanying him was Backbeard, insanely laughing.
"Dirty trick!" shouted Omi.
He and Raimundo immediately became the Diamond and Emerald Knight.
"We'll make you wish you'd never done that!" said Kaval.
Jeran and Kaval struck the two beasts hard; Jeran had the amorphous black body of Backbeard in his hand.
"Hehe…you have become strong…" whispered the many eyed demon, there was a tone of fear in his voice.
"I know," said Jeran.
He crushed the life out of Backbeard, the demon was no more. That was one down, seven to go.
"Kaval, what are you doing?" asked Jeran, seeing his comrade.
Emerald Knight was being beaten up by Reid, despite the fact that Reid was possibly one of the weakest children of Sezeros.
"I can't kill him Jeran…he was once Omi's friend. The boy won't let me kill him!" Kaval panted, he was injured already.
Omi's mind whirred into action; he remembered all the times he had with Reid back when he was pretending to be Dojo. He then remembered all the death he had bought, the people of Atlantis, Dashi and Feng. He also thought about how the real phoenix Dojo was kept locked up for 1500 years.
"REID!" screamed the Emerald Knight.
Jeran was shocked; Omi had suppressed the power of Kaval. The water monk was in control now and there was no stopping him. Omi in green armour lunged at Reid; the green dragon stared in horror.
"Omi! It's me, you old pal, Dojo!" Reid whined.
"You are not Dojo anymore!"
Kaval grabbed hold of Reid's left arm, he started to bend it the wrong way. It suddenly snapped at the joint, blood splashing everywhere as Reid screamed an ear splitting scream.
"Die!" yelled Omi, throwing Reid into a building.
Before Reid could react, Omi leapt on his chest. He landed on the ribs of the dragon with such a force that they cracked, blood shot out from Reid's nose and mouth.
"Kill! Kill! KILL!" Omi screamed.
He disembowelled the scaly fiend; Reid was still quite alive and screaming.
"This is for Dashi and everyone you killed!" Omi wailed.
The Emerald Knight gripped onto the top and bottom jaw of Reid, there was salty tears of pain trickling down the sides of his reptilian face. Omi pulled, the dragon's head tore open like a paper bag full of meat.
"You killed him, just like that?" asked Raimundo, he had become his ordinary self.
Omi became his ordinary self too, he knelt down, crying. Raimundo was shocked at what his friend had done to Reid.
"I …know!" Omi cried.
Jeran delivered the final blow on Poze, tearing off the monster's wings. It was as if he wasn't even putting up a fight. Meliza had Epiales in a headlock.
"You're making a big mistake by killing us!" laughed the nightmarish demon creature; he was not even trying to break free.
"Quiet!" Meliza shouted, delivering a quickly executed stab.
The Xiaolin regrouped, Clay and Kimiko also saw that Omi was crying his eyes out. Raimundo explained to them silently, they too were surprised at their friends' ferocity.
"Now, we need to find those other demons!" Kimiko said, trying to change the morbid subject.
Jermaine and Jessie suddenly flew down from the sky, Jermaine held tightly onto Jessie as they glided down on her Wings of Tinabi. Jermaine looked shaken from their magical flight.
"Howdy guys, hope we're not too late to save the world!" Jessie said.
"Don't worry, you're not. Half of the trouble is over now," Clay explained.
Jermaine saw Omi was sad, but didn't ask him why. The amount of blood in the area probably answered the question.
"Bonjour!" said the voice of Pierre.
The three minor dragons and Tyson had appeared from a rift caused by the Golden Tiger Claws.
"Sorry we couldn't make it in time. We want to teach that Raphalt a lesson with our new elemental Shengongwu!" Sheila exclaimed.
"That time will be now, I guess…" whispered Tyson, pointing up into the air.
Raphalt glided down, he laughed maniacally.
"Time to end this!" he said.