Hey guys here's another exciting chapter to "Wielder of Ice"
The ending will surprise you guys. I thought it would be a good plot line.
Armina's POV
I was in the middle of doing some Tai-Chi exercises in the garden when I heard Master Fung coming.
"I hear you Master what may I do for you?" I called to the elderly monk as I continued exercise my eyes remaining closed.
"Armina I see you have finished your chores but your fellow warriors did not" I opened my eyes at that comment and sighed, before I placed my left leg back onto the ground. I turned to Master Fung.
"I'm afraid I don't know where they are sir perhaps we can look around" I suggested. Diamond let out a screech and landed on my left shoulder.
Their playing a video game in that wooden room where we tried to warm Omi out of his ice cube came the owl's answer.
"I know where they are Master Fung" I explained to him, the elderly man give me a nod as I started to lead him to where the others were. Sure enough Rai, Kim, Omi, and Clay were focused on a television. Omi had the game controller in his hand.
"Young monks I see you have time to play but you not have completed your chores" Master Fung said to them getting all of them to look guilty as they stood up,Omi held the game controller behind him.
"Mina please tell us you didn't rat us out" Rai scolded at me. I shot the Latino a shut up look, Rai gave me a nervous smile before he turned back to Master Fung and began. "Yeah about that we figured now that we're Wudai Warriors we save our strength for more important things, like saving the world from evil and stuff" I sweat dropped at that comment.
"If you are to become dragons one day you must continue your efforts now the hard work begins" Master Fung explained as Rai's head bowed down in defeat.
"What a bummer I thought we were done with the hard work" Rai complained just as a god awful singing began. I winced at the noise as did the others.
"What is that most fascinating and yet annoying sound?" Omi inquired as Master Fung turned his head. I walked outside to find out what the hell was making that sound, the others followed me. We stopped at the entrance of the Temple and saw an elderly woman no more than eighty years old dressed in a dark pink dress with a white apron around her waist she had the same colored bandana on her head.
"The singing old lady is an omen follow me and let's learn what the omen means" Master Fung said as he came from behind us. As we turned to follow Master Fung Clay said.
"I guess it's an omen that someone is plumb tone deaf"
"Clay that's not nice!" I scolded the Earth Dragon. We walked into one of the Temple classrooms, and found Dojo focused on a digital board, writing and calculations were all over it.
"Dojo what are you doing?" Omi asked.
"We seem to have a few Wu missing in action so I put together a new system to keep track of them and one big mess" Dojo answered before he pressed a button that made the board go back into the table.
"Dojo have you seen the Sacred Book of Omens?" Master Fung asked.
"Ya its right here" Dojo said as he got off of the table and dove underneath it, he came back with a book held in his right hand. "I was using it to level the table"
"Thank you Dojo Kanojo Cho" Master Fung said as took the book from the dragon.
"Well I guess I could have used a holy scroll instead so what omen are you looking for?" Dojo asked turning his head to Master Fung.
"There's some old fossil lady who can't carry a tune outside" Rai replied making a pointing gesture with his thumb to the right.
"Oh yeah I remember the old singing crackpot" Dojo started as he began to mimic the old woman, the dragon gave a yelp as I smacked his head. "Ow Mina that hurt anyway the omen means the coming of the Bird of Paradise"
"Dojo is correct whoever finds the Bird of Paradise will receive powers like they have never known" Omi suddenly got excited because he snuck up behind Master Fung.
"Oh I must have the Bird of Paradise with powers like they never known" Cue Ball asked as he hung over Master's Fung left shoulder looking into the book, before Master Fung shut it causing Omi to fall.
"Young monks now that you are Wudai Warriors you are ready for your first Wudai Quest" Master Fung explained.
"Killer anything beats doing chores" Rai gloated this got Master Fung to arch an eyebrow, Rai's face paled and he hid behind me.
"You can do your chores when you return, you are to search for the Bird of Paradise but finding it will not be easy" Master Fung explained while placing the book with a map down in front of us on the table. "It is hidden in the Land of Nowhere, beyond the Valley of Somewhere, but not as far as the Jungle of Neither Here or There"
"That's a mouthful" I blurted out. Dojo suddenly leapt onto the table and peeked over the map.
"Hey isn't the Land of Nowhere run by Chase Young that's one scary neighborhood" the dragon said.
"No problamo let's go down to the vault and load up on Wu" Rai suggested just as we were about to leave Dojo stopped us.
"Not so fast from now on you have to check out your Wu using your Wu card" Dojo explained as he gave each of us a card with our picture on it. "It's part of what I like to call my Doey Dojo System"
"I am afraid that no Shen-Gong-Wu may be used on the quest" Master Fung said getting all of us to gasp and look to him flabbergasted. "You will rely only on your Wudai Elements"
"We can't bring anything with us?" Kimiko inquired. Master Fung looked to her and held up a leaf in his hand.
"You will take along this leaf"
"It looks like a mighty fine leaf but I don't think it's going to make evil shake in its boots" Clay said as Master Fung put a bowl of water onto the table and placed the leaf on its glassy surface.
"You will float the leaf on water and it will point that way"
"That's pretty cool" I said while Omi went to the leaf and exclaimed. "Sweet a magical leave I am most impressed"
"All of you must remain cautious if the dark forces of evil were to learn of the Bird of Paradise the quest would be compromised"
Jacks' Lair
Jack's POV
I smirked as Anya and I looked listened through a pair of headphones. I sent one of my many bugs to spy on the Xiaolin Losers.
"Looks like we need to get on out of here before those punks find the Bird of Paradise love" Anya said to me as the two of us took off our headphones. I went to my girlfriend and pressed a kiss onto her forehead, which got her to giggle.
"If anyone deserves the Bird of Paradise it's us baby" Anya wore a black vest over a purple tank top, she wore ripped up jeans along with black combat boots, her hair was tied back into a pony tail. She wore fishnet gloves on her hands. A spark of lightning cackled in her hands, Anya wielded the element of Lightning which was a surprise to me.
"I'm ready to make my grand entrance to show these Xiaolin punks what we're capable of what do you say?" Anya asked me flashing an evil fanged smirk.
"I say let's go!" I grabbed Anya into my arms bridal style before I left the lab with my heli bot.
Later
Armina's POV
After a change of clothes we left the Temple to start our quest to find the Bird of Paradise. Kim had her usual crazy outfit which consisted of orange longed sleeved shirt with a purple vest, her pants matched the orange shirt along with her headband also orange, with a diamond pattern in the center, her hair was spiked up. I chose to wear a red halter top along with black jeans and boots, my hair was braided up. The five of us along with Dojo walked beside a mighty river. Rai gave a sigh before said.
"Maybe we should check on leafy to see if were still on track"
"Smart idea" I told my friend as we came upon to a calm spot of the river in front of us, we stopped at the bank. Omi put the leaf into the water which spun for a few minutes before it pointed in front of us towards the singing old woman from earlier. The woman suddenly stopped singing and turned to us.
"Kind strangers would you help an old lady cross the river I am afraid my feet are hurting me"
"Sure no problem" Rai answered but Omi suddenly stopped him as he tried to head towards the woman.
"Raimundo remember what Master Fung told us about remaining focused"
"We don't have time to focus because she just fell in Chrome Dome!" I scolded Omi as the woman fell into the powerful river.
"Oh my help me help me!" she begged. I phased and dove into the river, I was a strong swimmer so swimming towards the woman wasn't hard, I quickly paddled to her left and she threw her arms around my furry neck. I swam towards the bank to our right which wasn't strong with the current. Once the two of us got out of the water the old woman patted my head.
"Thank you young she wolf" the old woman said before she went back to singing. I smiled a fanged smirk before returning to my human form, my eyes narrowed at two straw figures into the water near the leaf. Jack popped out of the water along with a girl beside him.
"Jack what the hell are you doing!" I snarled at the Goth.
"Don't talk to my boyfriend like that!" the girl growled back to me, her eyes turned gold and her teeth bared. My eyes went bug eyed this girl was the Miaka cosplayer from AWA and she was a fellow werewolf. Her hair was a darker shade of red than Jacks' was, and her eyes were blue.
"Don't worry about them Anya, we got the leaf babe" Jack said as he grabbed his girlfriend in his left arm while she threw her arms around his neck. The two of them lifted away from the water by Jack using his Hel-Bot.
"Soon the Bird of Paradise will be ours and there's nothing that can stop us!" Jack cackled with glee until lightning hit them both. The electricity seemed to not harm Anya while it fried Jack literally. Jack screamed as he and Anya began to fall down towards the river until a parachute escaped from Jack's heli pad.
"Whew we're okay" we heard Jack say before another bolt of lightning hit them again causing the parachute to break and the evil couple fell into the river.
"This is all my fault I should stayed focused" Rai said bowing his head in defeat.
"Don't worry about it Rai we'll get the leaf back anyway" I told the Latino pressing a hand onto his shoulder careful to not annoy Kim; the two of them were now dating.
"Well at least Jack will quit flirting with you Armina now that he has that other girl with him" Kimiko said.
"Ya but she's a werewolf like me Kim, plus I think she might possess an element didn't you see how the lightning didn't hurt her?" I asked to my bff turning to her.
"We can talk about Jack's girl later right now we need to continue our quest to find the Bird of Paradise" Clay said. As continued to walk Dojo suddenly said.
"Guys I got this creepy feeling like we're being watched"
"Yes and I have a pretty good feeling by whom" Omi agreed while his dots glowed.
Anya's POV
Jack and I stood in a canyon the rocks had faces on them. Jack shook with fear at the sound of the lightning booming across the sky the rain poured on top of us. I chuckled at my boyfriend as he took a quick bite to eat from a chocolate bar to calm his nerves. Jack then calmed down and placed the leaf into a puddle it spun for a second before pointing to the canyon in front of us. I phased into my wolf form as Jack took the leaf from the puddle. My wolf form was silver with white socks on my paws; I bent down so my other half got on top of my back.
Armina's POV
I led the others to a canyon following Jack's scent; it had rained earlier because the after effects of a shower hung around. Clay picked up a chocolate bar wrapper as Kimiko said.
"Looks like Evil Boy Genius is also a litterbug" Clay licked the chocolate from the wrapper.
"This is no more than a few minutes so we can't be far behind from Jack and Anya" Clay said, I mentioned Jack's girlfriend's name earlier. Kimiko gave a look of disgust as Clay held the candy wrapper in front of her. Omi started to walk ahead of us and we followed behind.
"Where are we anyway Dojo?" I inquired from the dragon.
"The canyon of Doom and Agony" was his reply. I noticed the rocks around us had faces which creeped me out I hoped Chase wouldn't bring me here for our honeymoon. The ground beneath began to shake.
"Guys get on!" I called to my friends as I phased into my wolf form, the guys hurriedly jumped onto my back and I began to run like the wind dodging the falling rocks and debris. As I ran rocks that took the forms of arms tried to punch me but I easily dodged them until my face crashed into a rock that took the form of a foot. Evil laughter could be heard from the canyon as I gave a growl and shook my head before Omi shouted from my back.
"Try as you wish Chase Young but you will not stop us from reaching the Bird of Paradise!" this got a rock like fist to come towards us I backed up before I got squashed.
"Mina!" Rai shouted pointing to the way of out of the canyon I quickly took off in a run just as rock like tongue came after us. My eyes went bug eyed as did the others went we came to a dead end. The others jumped off of my back and turned ready to fight, I took my human form again.
"It's time to kick some ass" I said.
"What Armina said" Kim agreed as we all got into our fighting positions.
"Wudai Arm Palm!" the five of us cried in union using our hands to hit the rock tongue getting it shatter a bit, before it came towards us again, as one we kicked it finally causing it to break apart.
"I say we mosey on out of here while the moseying is good" Clay suggested as we began to run for it. The canyon suddenly began to fall apart. Omi was ahead of us and was about to squashed when Clay grabbed him using his lasso. I caught Omi in my arms as he was freed from the lasso.
"What do we do now?" Kim asked.
"Let me handle this partner this is my element causing this mess" Clay said before he got into a fighting stance in front of us and focused hard along with his element. As the rocks above him began to fall, Clay's hands became encrusted into rock, and then he cried. "Wudai Crater Earth!" Clay suddenly began to pulse gold, he created a hole in the rock in front of us creating a way to escape the canyon.
"Damn Clay your element is badass" I praised the cowboy as we came up to him, the earth around his hands crumbled off.
"Thanks Mina" the cowboy said as walked through our escape route. We continued our journey through a forest that was surrounded by fog.
"I smell Jack he's close" I explained as Clay grabbed another candy wrapper and soda. The trails stopped in front of the front us. A candy wrapper came down from above us and both Anya and Jack were in a tree.
"Jack Spicer I demand you stop hiding in the tree and hand over the leaf at once!"
"We're not hiding we're being held prisoner!" Jack snapped back.
"By what a bunch of baby birds?" I called to the Goth flashing a fanged grin. Suddenly a bunch of giant squirrels that resembled Minako appeared with glowing red eyes; Omi gave a yelp and hid behind my legs. One squirrel that had to the leader growled and his minions flew down and attacked us. Fire breathed out of their mouths which surprised me. Each of us except Omi began to punch and kick the squirrels while in the air. These squirrels were Sugar Gliders. Our fighting was starting to exhaust us, Omi refused to budge he had to be rescued by Kimiko she put Cue-Ball someplace where he couldn't be harmed before she and I as one began to dodge the flames. One of the squirrels grabbed me and her with its claws and pressed us into the ground before Omi kicked it away. Rai and Clay joined us a minute later just as we were surrounded by the Sugar Gliders.
"I think it's time to fight fire with fire Wudai Mars Fire!" Kimiko shouted leaping into the air and slammed her hands onto the ground creating her element to spiral in different directions then it spun into a fiery whirlwind. The flames scared off the Sugar Gliders, just as flames began to burn at the trees around us.
"Awesome move Kim I can't wait to see my Wudai move" I praised Kim hugging her.
"Help us damn it you guys need to save us!" Jack cried.
"And exactly why is that?" Clay asked his arms folded across his chest.
"Because we mean so much to each other" Jack suggested. I saw Anya sweat drop.
"Then you must promise to turn over the leaf and turn a new leaf over" Omi said pointing to Jack.
"Omi it's turning over a new leaf" I corrected him.
"Okay, okay you got a deal do something!" the Goth shouted in panic fire behind me.
"Wudai Neptune Water!" Omi cried as his element swirled around his left hand.
"Wudai Star Wind!" Raimundo shouted as he pushed his wind element towards Omi, the wind lifted Omi up into the air; the water began to swirl around and started to put out the flames.
"Yes, yes we're saved and the leaf is still mine!" Jack cackled.
"Jack look out!" Anya cried as I leapt into the air.
"Wudai Aurora Ice!" I shouted as a huge ice beam escaped from my hands coming straight towards Anya and Jack. Both of them bug eyed, Anya grabbed her boyfriend and the two of them leapt out of the nest. I grabbed the leaf into my right hand and landed gracefully back onto the ground alongside Clay and Kimiko just as Omi did. I gave the leaf to Omi, who called to his element creating a mini funnel of water in his hands.
"Oh magical leaf which way?" the leaf spun for a brief second before pointing in front of us that led out of the forest. We started walking and shortly entered a desert like landscape that was named "The Bone Yard" there was a sign in fact that said it.
"Where on earth does Chase come up with these lame names?" I asked to no one in particular.
"Let's make this I wouldn't want to wind up as part of the landscape" Dojo said looking to some bones in front of him.
"Look there is the Bird of Paradise!" Omi shouted pointing in front of us. A bird sat on a wooden perch in front of us. It didn't look anything mystical like as we approached it. Its front feathers were lime green its wings were darker green it had red feathers on its head along with its tail feathers.
"Hello are you the Bird of Paradise?" Kimiko asked as we approached.
"Bird of Paradise, Bird of Paradise" the bird said like a parrot I seriously doubted this was what we were looking for.
"Yes I knew it we found the mystical bird!" Omi exclaimed in glee. Suddenly the desert began to turn dark we all looked up and saw Chase's shadowy form along with Wuya's both of their eyes glowed white.
"And why is it you're so interested in this Bird of Paradise?" my mate asked to Omi.
"Because we our Wudai Warriors and that's all you need to know!" Omi snapped back at him.
"The Land of Nowhere is my domain therefore the Bird of Paradise belongs to me" Chase replied before lightning crashed in front of us, I had to grab Omi so he wouldn't' get hit. Fog surrounded us before it cleared revealing my fiancé along with Wuya.
"We'll see about that little one" Chase simply told Omi before he used he slammed his hand into the ground causing it to glow with black flames, my eyes went wide as a huge rock serpent formed in front of us.
"Oh Sh(t" I cursed. Suddenly the old lady from before walked in front of the serpent.
"Man she chose a bad time to come " Rai said before the old woman called to us.
"Oh good I have been looking for you young warriors I wanted to pay back your kindness" suddenly the rock serpent grabbed the poor woman in its tail.
"We need to help her before she gets killed guys!" I told the others.
"Then we must focus on our Wudai elements as one all of you focus" Kimiko, Rai, Omi, and Clay suddenly cried. "Wudai Orion Formation!" like the Dragon X Kumei the four suddenly glowed with the color of their element outlined as they two turned into shadows. I closed my eyes and felt the power of my ice element began to surface.
"Wudai Ice Form Dragon!" I cried leaping into the air. My body grew larger as I took the form of a huge western dragon with my scales the color of icy blue my fins on both sides of my face were a darker shaded of blue as were my scales that traveled down my neck underneath my tail. Three spikes diamond white sat at the end of my tail. I roared and took flight. I hissed out a stream of ice on the rock serpent's tail which froze it. Raimundo used his wind element to briefly send the beast flying, Rai used that chance to rescue the old lady and flew her to me, he placed her onto my back. The serpent hissed and brought outs its wings, I snarled at it. The serpent began to chase me, I dodged at its attempts to bite me, I flew over it and unleashed another stream of ice, causing it to freeze up. Kimiko then used her flames to melt the ice, while Omi's water put the flames turning the Serpent into black soot, Raimundo then simply blew his wind element at it, causing the serpent to finally break apart into dust. I landed and let the old woman off of my back before I returned to my human form just as the others returned to their normal selves.
"How did they do that?" Wuya asked in fear from behind Chase.
"Apparently their Wudai powers have awakened" Chase replied to her just as Jack shouted from our left. The Goth held Anya in his arms while she held the parrot in hers.
"Jack in a wheat baby the Bird of Paradise is ours"
"By Xiaolin Losers!" Anya sneered before she sent a lightning bolt towards us. We all jumped into the air to avoid being fried. Chase turned back to us.
"It appears despite your impressive performance you have lost"
"Oh get lost you prick" I growled to Chase shouting him the bird. Chase gave a seductive smirk before he and Wuya disappeared in a flash of white light.
"Oh you all look so sad I hope I didn't cause you any trouble" the old lady said as we turned to her.
"No it's not you it's us we messed up big time" Rai said sadly.
"Holy guys look!" I said noticing the old lady suddenly glowed. Rai's eyes bug eyed as she took the form of a beautiful pink bird with blue wings.
"Quite the opposite you see I am the Bird of Paradise"
"You're beautiful" I told the Bird of Paradise.
"Thank you for that kind compliment Dragon of Ice"
"I thought the Bird of Paradise was just a normal bird" Omi said.
"I have come to payback your kindness by giving each of you the greatest gift of all"
"Farm equipment?" Clay asked hopefully. The Bird of Paradise chuckled before replying.
"In rescuing me I have given you the gift of discovering your finest qualities courage, loyalty, strength, kindness, and devotion those are the greatest gifts you can ever receive"
"Ya even if they don't cost anything" Dojo said from Clay's hat.
"That was the purpose of the quest to honor you with the greatest powers of all a power within that can never be taken away" the Bird of Paradise finished as she started to sing again and flew into the air. I laughed at her attempt to sing.
"Well she's one mighty impressive bird but she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket" Clay said getting all of us to laugh.
Chase's Lair
Armina's POV
"I am proud of you Luna, I am pleased your element has progressed" Chase told me. The two of us were meditating in the air; my mate thought it would be a good idea for me to learn some new meditation techniques. Our eyes were shut the two of us were beside each other.
"Yes love but after using my new power it drained me of energy" I simply stated. I suddenly felt tired and floated back to the floor. Chase suddenly opened his eyes concerned.
"What is it Luna?" he asked me.
"I'm just tired love nothing more"
"Armina you have been a lot more tired recently are you sick?" Chase inquired as he floated back to the floor himself.
"I don't think so" I suddenly felt the urge to throw up. I covered my mouth and high tailed to the nearest bathroom and puked my guts out in the toilet. Once I flushed away the vomit I washed my hands and walked back into the throne room.
"Luna I want one of my physicians to check on you" Chase suddenly snapped his fingers and a black panther came from behind him. Liam walked beside to Chase with Elsa at his side. The little cub meowed at me before running to my legs and began to purr around them. I took her into my arms.
"Find out what is wrong with her" Chase ordered the panther who nodded. The big cat walked to me and made a follow it gesture which I did.
Chase's POV
I was really worried for Armina. It had been almost two weeks since the anime convention and after she came back the two of us spent time together including us mating. I paced in my room worry overcoming me.
"Mate of mine" Armina called as she walked into my room.
"What is it Luna what is wrong?" I demanded coming to her.
"Relax you fool I am fine something wonderful has happened but the timing could have waited"
"Luna what do you mean?" I asked
"Listen then you'll learn love" confused I closed my eyes. The room was silent except for a faint heartbeat weak but yet strong. I opened my eyes and looked to Armina realizing what was going on.
I couldn't help the smile that came across my face.
"Are you really pregnant Luna?" I asked to my fiancée as I walked up to her bringing her into my chest.
"Yes love, I am only four weeks this pregnancy could vary from nine to eleven months Chase I will not start showing until I reach the seventh or eighth month"
"Good now that you carry our child, I need to keep an eye on you for the infant's sake" I told her before kissing her lips. I felt Armina's cry a little bit, but they were from tears of joy not sadness.
"Words cannot describe how much I love you Armina"
"You baka you tell me that all the time" Armina teased pressing her forehead against mine.
I bet none of your were expecting that!
Mina's pregnancy will be slow, she will start to show in the next story. Who wants to bet the sex of baby?
Let me know in a review!