Disclaimer: Xiaolin Showdown is a product of Kids WB and Cartoon Network so I don't own it. I'm simply going to use its characters to entertain myself and others through the power of fan fiction that is all.
Summary: Sequel to Code Xiaolin. After finally finding the key to Omi's materialization, Jack and the gang must now search Xanadu for an anti-virus to rid Omi of W.U.Y.A.'s infection for good. With new powers and upgrades, the Xiaolin Warriors face even more deadly W.U.Y.A. attacks, dangerous new monsters, and even the occasional famous transfer student! The question is can they do it?
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Speech on Xanadu"
Chpt. 3: Homeland
Shortly after the group of teenagers had finished their meal for the evening, they swiftly returned to Jack and Omi's dorm. All five of them were eager to return to Xanadu in order to explore the new and mysterious sector, Sector 5; better known as Shen-Gong. Jack quietly sat at his computer desk, quickly inputting the information they had gathered on the sector so far onto his computer. This data only included the pass code needed to enter Shen-Gong and the fact that they needed to be at the end of a sector in order to call the Transport Orb.
After entering the data, the genius turned around to face his friends. Omi was seated on is bed, opposite of Kimiko who was seated on Jack's mattress while Clay and Raimundo occupied the floor. A gleam of annoyance flickered in the Brazilian's emerald eyes after being seated for so long without any sort of activity.
"Are we gonna do this or what?!" he finally shouted, going crazy from the silence.
"Just calm down, we gotta take into account what we already know," Jack said calmly.
"I know that, but it doesn't have to be so damn dramatic!" he scoffed. Raimundo folded his arms across his chest as he turned his head partially away in annoyance.
"If you're done, I'd like to begin," the red head stated at the childish response. The chestnut haired youth then unfurled his arms giving Jack his complete attention. "Thank you. Now, as you guys already know, W.U.Y.A. has created a fifth sector," he began.
"Uh, no offense," started Clay, raising his hand, "but can you speed this up?"
"I was getting to that!" Jack yelled, growing impatient himself, "Anyway, I believe the real question is how long that sector has existed."
"Maybe W.U.Y.A. created it during the past month and that's why she wasn't active during that time," Kimiko concluded.
"That is possible," Omi stated, stroking his chin. "If that sector had existed before, I think that maybe I would have sensed it before now."
"You have a point," Jack continued, "But W.U.Y.A. does have a knack at keeping things under wraps until she's ready to strike. The way she sent the Transport Orb was also suspicious. It was almost like she wanted me to go to Shen-Gong alone and she wanted you guys to follow..."
"Are you sayin' it was a part of her plan?" Clay asked.
"Could be, but I can't be too sure," the red head replied with a hint of uncertainty in his voice. "Our best bet would be to begin exploring as soon as possible. We don't have any classes tomorrow, so I want all of you to meet me at the front gates after breakfast."
"Right!" the other four teammates replied readily.
"If we're done here, I'm gonna go back to my dorm," Kimiko announced, stretching. "I'd hate for Ashley to use up all the hot water in the girl's showers again." The group bid their farewells to her as she made her exit.
"I gotta get goin' too guys. All this adventure's really tired me out," the blond cowboy yawned.
"Yeah, me too," agreed Raimundo. "I'll catch you guys tomorrow."
"Remember; the early crow gets to feast upon the apple!" Omi (semi) quoted.
"Don't you mean the early bird gets the worm?" Jack asked.
"That too!" the tiny teenager grinned.
With no more plans for the night, each of the warriors went to sleep excited and ready to explore Sector 5. They told themselves over and over again how ready they were for any of W.U.Y.A.'s tricks as they drifted into blissful slumber, awaiting the arrival of the Sunday morning sun.
---OMI---
It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the sun was shinning brilliantly across the campus of Fung Academy for Future Achievers. Like they had planned, the Xiaolin Warriors had eaten a hearty breakfast and were stationed at the front gates of the school, just about ready to take off.
"I am so excited for this exploration that I was not able to slumber a blink!" Omi announced to his friends.
"It's 'sleep a wink'." Raimundo corrected his smaller companion.
"That too!" Omi countered.
"And yes you were," Jack added, "Your loud snoring kept me up most of the night!"
"Well it is a good thing you are used to not getting much sleep then," chuckled the bald member of the group.
"Hey!" Jack scolded.
"Not now guys," said Kimiko. "Let's get to the lab now so we can get as much information as possible."
"Li'l lady's right," Clay agreed. "We'd better get a move on."
The others nodded and Jack proceeded to move through the front gates. The genius must've been paying very little attention to where he was going, because the next thing he knew he had stumbled right into someone else and fell to the ground out of shock.
"Hey buddy, watch where you're..." he started to say, quickly annoyed with stranger's sudden appearance."...going?" His voice swiftly went from annoyed to slightly frightened when he spotted a well built man towering over him.
The strange, muscular man had a gray mustache across his face and was wearing a pair of dusty blue jeans and a blue shirt. His face was stern and his cowboy hat covered his piercing eyes. Come to think of it, he looked just like...
"Daddy?!" Clay gasped in surprise, causing the others to turn to him.
"Howdy son," the man replied eyeing only his son. Jack quickly scrambled to his feet and ran back to the others. "These your friends?"
"Well, uh, yeah," the younger Bailey replied nervously.
"Nice to meet all of ya," he stated with a thick Texan accent. "Y'all can call me Daddy Bailey."
"Hello there Mr. Clay's father!" Omi said as politely as he could. "It is an honor to meet you." The others also greeted him in a polite way of their own. Jack even apologized for bumping so carelessly into him. After a few more pleasantries, Clay asked the question that was burning in his mind…
"What are ya doin' here Daddy?"
"Well son, I'm here because I need to talk to ya," Mr. Bailey replied. "Could ya show me to the Headmaster's office first though?"
"S-sure!" the young Texan replied quickly. He turned to his friends and gave an apologetic look. "Sorry guys. I'll meet up with ya as soon as I can."
"Don't sweat it!" Raimundo replied, waving his hand dismissively.
"You know where we'll be, it's not a problem," added Kimiko.
"Thank ya for lettin' me borrow him for a bit," said Mr. Bailey. "Lead the way son."
"Alright Daddy," Clay responded, showing the older man to the administration building.
"Hope this doesn't take too long," Jack said, finally leaving the school grounds with the others.
"We wouldn't want W.U.Y.A. to head her ugly rear," Omi added on.
"You'd better mean rear her ugly head," the Brazilian corrected again.
"Oh, you know what I mean!" the small boy yelled.
---CLAY---
The two members of the Bailey family walked in total silence to the administration building. Clay's mind was full of questions he wanted to ask, but he somehow couldn't find the ability to voice them out loud. "Why are you here? What is it that you want to talk to me about?" were a few of the questions he thought about asking. It was strange, actually. If his father was going to show up for a visit, wouldn't he had called prior to let his son know?
"Is this the place?" Mr. Bailey asked, breaking the silence.
"Huh?" the younger one gasped from being pulled from his thoughts so abruptly. "Oh, yeah this is the place."
"Somethin' botherin' ya son?" Clay's father questioned out of concern.
'Well,' Clay thought, 'I might as well ask an' get this over with.' He swallowed hard before opening his mouth. "Daddy, what is it you wanted to talk to me about?"
Mr. Bailey's face, if possible, turned into more of a frown. "I guess you're gonna find out anyway," he sighed. "Clay, I think its best you come back to Texas with me on the family ranch."
"What?!" he cried in shock, "But why?!"
"I have my reasons son. We can finish the discussion in the Headmaster's office." the gray haired man stated.
Clay didn't know how to respond to this. He couldn't just suddenly abandon his friends! Especially with W.U.Y.A. still around. Even if they had defeated the virus, he still wouldn't be willing to go! But Clay always listened to his father and always stuck by his decision weather he liked them or not.
All the cowboy could do was mutter a small "Yes sir," before entering the administrative building.
---JACK---
Meanwhile, the others were in the lab preparing for the transfer to the fifth sector. As Jack entered some information into the supercomputer, the other three stood around him awaiting his signal.
"Alright guys," he finally spoke, "I'm not sure if this applies to all sectors just yet, so I'm transferring all back to the Forest. From there, I'll send you your vehicles and guide you to the edge."
"Gotcha!" Kimiko said in confirmation.
"Ready when you are boss man." stated Raimundo.
"Let us go forth and conquer the secret territory!" Omi shouted.
Together they ran into the scanner room and stood in the metal tubes awaiting the sequence that would return them to Xanadu.
"Transfer, Raimundo; transfer, Kimiko; transfer, Omi!" The doors around them closed as they were lifted into the air. "Scanner, Raimundo; scanner, Kimiko; scanner, Omi!" A metal ring went up and down their bodies, preparing their virtual I.D.'s. "Virtualization!" Jack pressed the enter key, causing a greater gust of wind to blow up Kimiko and Raimundo's hair and consume all three in a bright light.
As usual, the three landed on the lush floor of the Forest sector in their battle attire.
"Here come the vehicles," Jack announced, sending over the Longi Kite and Crouching Cougar.
"Thanks a lot!" Raimundo stated, jumping onto his dragon-shaped hovering skateboard.
"Here we go!" Kimiko shouted as she jumped into the golden, metal cougar along with Omi.
"The edge of the sector is due west. Not far from your current position actually," the genius informed.
"Wonderful!" Omi cried, "The sooner we get there, the more information we can attain!"
Without further delay, the drivers of the vehicles kicked them into high gear, heading for end of the Forest. The ride was swift with the warriors having to dodge obstacles on the landscape. Raimundo had to dodge the random tree branches that appeared from seemingly nowhere and Kimiko and Omi were busy avoiding the tree trunks and occasional boulder. As they continued on, a few blips appeared on Jack's monitor.
"Guys, there are a few monsters coming your way!" he warned, "Five Hornets to be exact."
"We'll keep an eye out Jack," Kimiko stated, making the Crouching Cougar leap over a tree trunk.
"There!" Omi pointed ahead of them. "They're trying to cut us off!" The squad of Hornets had formed a shape similar to a pyramid in order for to stop them from advancing.
"I got 'em!" Raimundo cried, taking out his blue, jagged blade. "Blade of the Nebula! Wind!" The sword transformed into a pair of nun-chucks. The swordsman began to spin them, creating a tornado that knocked the monsters out of their path. It wasn't enough to destroy them, however.
"They're still coming!" the girl in Indian clothes warned.
Omi swiftly jumped onto the back of his and Kimiko's ride before summoning his own weapon. "Shimo Staff! Water!" He transformed the staff into a large battle ax and swung it as hard as he could. The force of the weapon was able to slice clean through three of the Hornets.
"It's still two more left! Just try avoiding them; you're almost at the edge of the sector!" Jack instructed.
"That's easier said than done!" Raimundo complained, "These things are freakin' annoying!"
The edge of the sector was now visible to the warriors. As they prepared to depart the vehicles, the remaining Hornets fired a stream of acid causing them to crash to the ground.
"Dammit!" the boy in silver robes swore.
"Arrow Sparrow! Fire!" Kimiko cried, fusing three of her arrows into a large firebird that killed the two opposing monsters.
"Victory!" Omi cried, giving the V sign. "Please enter the code Jack."
"You got it!" the genius replied excitedly. "H-E-Y-L-I-N! Heylin!"
As the three waited anxiously, the white Transport Orb descended from the sky and captured them inside it. The orb sped off, carrying them across the Digital Sea and into an even greater sphere of light. After passing through the seemingly never-ending stream of blue data bits, the Transport Orb let them out in the core zone of Shen-Gong before vanishing.
"We have arrived safely," the fish warrior announced.
"Okay, now enter the dome area and start looking for anything that looks suspicious." Jack said.
"That's a little vague," said Kimiko, "This whole place is suspicious if you ask me."
"Then it looks like we gotta search the whole place," Raimundo shrugged.
"Hold on! Something just appeared on my screen," the red head informed them, "It looks like a sort of timer. I think W.U.Y.A. installed it in order to keep us out."
"Why? It's just like any other sector, right?" asked the Brazilian.
"No clue, but it looks like you have three minutes to trip the key. We have no idea what'll happen when time runs out, so go for that first."
"Got it!" Kimiko complied. She then spotted something from the corner of her eye. "Guys it's a Creeper!"
"Once again, W.U.Y.A. has found a way to hold us back," Omi sighed.
"You guys go for that key! I'll handle things here!" cried Raimundo.
"Be careful." the Japanese girl warned.
"Relax; I'll be fi- Argh!" While he was off guard, the Creeper decided to shoot Rai in the chest with its laser.
"I forgot to mention how powerful the Creeper's laser is," stated Jack. "It moves fairly slow, but it can take out forty life points in one shot!"
"Gee, thanks for the warning," the chestnut haired teen said sarcastically, dodging more laser fire.
---CLAY---
"I know this is sudden son, and you're probably not willin' to do this, but as your father I say this is what's best for ya!" Mr. Bailey argued.
"Sir, I can see that your son's grades are not that great, but he tries his best in all of his classes. Won't you reconsider your proposal?" Headmaster Fung asked calmly from behind his desk. Clay and his father sat in the two green chairs in front of him, Clay looking at the floor and his father focused on the aging Headmaster.
"Can't do it," Mr. Bailey said without much thought. "There's nothin' here for my boy. He needs to be in a place that suits him. That place is at home on the farm with his family."
"Even so, would it not be best for your son to make his own decision?" Fung countered.
"Alright then," the older Bailey began, "What do ya say boy? You wanna come back home, don'cha?"
"Daddy, I..." Clay stammered, flustered to find the right words. He wanted to tell his father no. He wanted to tell him that he'd rather stay with his friends. But he couldn't. For whatever reason Clay just couldn't disappoint his father, even if it meant doing something he'd hate to do.
"Then it's settled!" Mr. Bailey shouted. "Thank ya for your hospitality Headmaster, but my boy an' I'll be leavin' now. Let's go pack your things Clay."
"Goodbye Clay, it was an honor having you as one of my pupils. I trust you will become a successful young man in the future." the headmaster stated, turning around in his chair.
In his mind, Clay wanted to scream no, he wanted to make sure his father understood how he felt about the situation. But the only thing he could mumble from his mouth was "Yes sir," before standing and leaving with his father.
---KIM---
"Arrow Sparrow!" Kimiko cried, blowing up the Creeper in her and Omi's way. They had still yet to find the key and time was draining fast.
"You have one minute left!" Jack informed. "Look out, more Creepers!"
As she and Omi continued searching, two Creepers slid out from behind the corridor. Both wasted no time in spitting their lasers at Kimiko.
"Jack, how many life points?" she asked, clutching her stomach.
"Just twenty," he informed.
"Shimo Staff, extend!" Thinking quickly, Omi grabbed Kimiko's hand and pole vaulted to the other side of the monsters. As they landed, however, one of the Creepers blasted her, wiping out her life points.
"Blade of the Nebula!" Raimundo cried, appearing out of nowhere with a trail of silver light behind him. He slashed through the Creeper that blasted Kimiko, forgetting about the other one. A fatal mistake, as it fired and took out his low life points as well.
"Damn!" Jack yelled. "Ten seconds to find the key Omi! Once you find it, head out the way you came and we'll try again some other time."
"Right, but where could... aha!" he shouted, spotting the key on the wall in the shape of W.U.Y.A.'s mark. "Shimo Staff, exte- Ah!"
The Creeper blasted away his weapon as the timer ticked down zero. Jack became worried, but the monster seemed to back away from Omi and retreat. The next thing he knew, the walls around the lone warrior begin to rise, trapping him in something like a giant square box.
"What is going on?" he asked.
"The structure of the room changed. Don't worry; when the Kim and Rai come back I'll see if I can resend them to get you." Jack explained. Speaking of Kim and Rai, they still hadn't come out of the scanner yet. Could something have happened? "That's strange," the genius mused, "Omi, I'll be right back!"
He leapt from his chair and entered the scanner room only to find absolutely nothing. The doors to the scanners were still closed, so they couldn't have come back. Did it take longer for them to return from Sector 5?
"The others aren't here!" he screamed returning to his seat.
"How can that be?!" Omi asked.
"Perhaps there's a special re-materialization program specifically for Sector 5. We'll have to find it, but it doesn't look like you can move around much. Clay's our only hope now!" The panicking genius quickly took out his cell phone and hit Clay's number on speed dial.
---CLAY---
In his dorm, Clay was silent as he slowly shoved things into his suitcase. He tried to take up as much time as possible to delay the seemingly inevitable. What was wrong with him? All he had to do was say he didn't want to leave and he probably could've stayed. But no, he just sat there, oh so quietly with his dad standing over his shoulder. He jumped slightly when his cell phone rang and Jack's number appeared on the caller I.D. They must've really needed him now.
"Hello?" Clay answered; glad he could stall for more time.
"Clay? The others didn't return from Xanadu after being de-virtualized from Sector 5!" Jack said worriedly. "I need you to get to the lab so you can help Omi escape a room that W.U.Y.A.'s trapped him in. Then look for information on how to get Kim and Rai back!"
"I'll do what I can to get there as soon as possible!" Clay replied, hanging up.
"Something the matter son?" Mr. Bailey asked.
After all this time, Clay realized that he had found the words to get out what he needed to say. His friends were in danger, and he was the only one able to help them. He had to, whether his father liked it or not, he had to go to them!
"Daddy, there's something I gotta tell you," he began. His father raised and eyebrow, urging him to go on. "I can't leave the academy. I don't want to. I know that ya think there's nothin' here for me, but I have friends here who need me. Right now I have to go 'em or somethin' terrible might happen. I'm sorry to disappoint ya Daddy."
"I'm sorry too son," the older Bailey replied, "I'm sorry if I made it seem like ya had to come home. I just assumed ya wanted to is all. But I am proud of ya for tellin' me how ya felt. Do ya need me to do anything else before I go?"
"Actually..." Clay said with a relieved smirk.
---CLAY---
"This the place?" Clay's father asked after pulling up in front of Jack's house.
"Yeah, thanks Daddy, you have no idea how important this is," his son responded.
"Do ya need me to go in with ya?" the concerned father wondered.
"Err... no thanks," Clay replied, "I'll be in an' out in a jiffy."
"Alright! I'll wait out here for ya when ya get back!" Mr. Bailey shouted as his son ran inside the house.
Back in the lab, Omi sat patiently in his small room when all of a sudden a wall opened up.
"Hm?" He lifted an eye to the sudden noise and spotted the moving wall. "Jack, has Clay arrived already?"
"No," the genius replied, "That's strange, why is the wall moving?"
"Ahh!!!" Omi screamed in complete terror. Emerging from the wall was a giant jellyfish-like creature with extra long tentacles. The frightened warrior backed away slowly, not even thinking to fight it.
"What the hell?! Omi, get out of there!" Jack screamed.
But it was already too late. The monster extended its tentacles and captured Omi in its grasp. It placed its two main tentacles on both sides of Omi's head and the captured boy's eyes widened and a stream of purple energy was either sucked or transferred into his body.
"Oh no! Clay, get your ass here now!" Jack shouted desperately.
"Y'know, there's a nicer way a saying that," the cowboy stated calmly, hearing his scream from the elevator.
"Thank God you're here!" cried the red head, "Omi! Jellyfish! Freaky! Not to mention the others!"
"Say no more," the cowboy said, readily stepping into a chamber.
"Transfer, Clay; scanner, Clay!" The blond cowboy was lifted into the air as the ring of metal scanned his body. "Virtualization!"
He landed on his feet and awaited the arrival of his mode of transportation which appeared moments later. Without a word, Clay leapt onto the Serpent's Tail and went full speed to the edge of the sector.
"Clay, I've determined that whatever that creature is, it's stealing Omi's memory!" Jack exclaimed. "You've gotta hurry and get to Shen-Gong and save what little memory he has left!"
"I gotcha!" Clay said, jumping off at the sector's edge. Jack hurriedly typed in the code as the Transport Orb came to retrieve him. He arrived in the core zone of Shen-Gong holding on to his stomach. "Ugh, I hate that I gotta go through that every time," he groaned.
"Get going! When you arrived, the timer reset itself so we have another chance to trigger the key!" Jack informed.
"Don't worry, I'm on it!" the cowboy shouted, making alternating lefts and rights around the maze known as Shen-Gong. Jack's instructions had him now standing in front of the room Omi and the creature were supposed to be in. "What on Earth?!" Clay gasped. He immediately unstrapped his large boomerang and flung it at the monster's tentacles. It gave a shrill cry before dropping Omi to the ground and floating away.
"What just happened?" the fish-based fighter asked groggily.
"I'm gonna call the monster the Scyphozoa. Omi, I don't know why, but it was after your memory," the genius explained, somewhat relieved. "Hurry and trigger the key now before the next twenty seconds expire."
"Right!" Clay nodded, throwing his boomerang and the symbol on the wall. "What now Jack?"
"Let's see... there seems to be a sort area outside of the holosphere you guys are currently stationed. There's a nearby elevator in the next corridor. Take it and see where it goes."
The two nodded and ran across the blue tiles and blocks as they entered a new corridor. A metal lift almost hit them and they jumped back in surprise.
"Is that the elevator?" asked Omi.
"Think so. Let's jump on!" Clay decided. They waited patiently for it to make a return trip and barely managed to catch it the second time around. Once they got off, they found themselves on a platform inside a large room that looked as if they were in space.
"Whoa!" Jack gasped.
"Look, it is an interface!" Omi pointed out.
"Go to it and look up anything on de-virtualization!" Jack instructed. Omi did as he was told in examining the data, making Jack unable to use any functions from his side. As Omi keep searching, his eyes widened in shock.
"I don't believe this!"
"What is it?" asked Clay.
"There's so much information in this place!" he answered more amazed than he had ever been. "It even says that... it says that Sector 5, this place known as Shen-Gong, is where W.U.Y.A. lives!!!"
"No... way..." Jack's jaw dropped at hearing this.
"Well I'll be..." Clay also gasped.
"Jack, I am sending over the de-virtualization program from Sector 5. Also, it says that we can use those tunnels to travel to the other surface sectors by redirecting the information!" Omi explained. "I'm giving control back to you now."
"Alright. After I install the program, I'll get you two out of there. Sit tight until then," the red head told them.
"Uh, Jack?" the earth user alerted. "It looks like we've got company!" The outer walls of the space-like arena began to bend and fold as new monsters shaped like manta rays emerged from it.
"Hold on, the program's almost installed." Jack stated.
"Whoa!" Omi and Clay gasped, dodging the fire from the Mantas.
"Hurry!" Omi yelled.
"Fine, fine!" Jack groaned, "Get to one of the tunnels and I'll redirect the data!"
As the Serpent's Tail appeared in front of them, Clay jumped on first followed by Omi. The Mantas let loose another string of lasers, striking Clay in his chest and Omi in the shoulder. Clay steered his vehicle away from the attackers, but was shot in the side and knocked off the Serpent's Tail.
"Omi!" he screamed.
"I am sorry my friend!" Omi shouted back, "Shimo Staff! Water!" The small warrior transformed the staff back into a battle ax and threw down at Clay, slicing him in half and de-virtualizing him. By this time Jack had the tunnel open. Omi quickly drove the vehicle through and wound up in the Mountain Sector. "Jack, I have arrived outside the Mountain Sector's Way Tower!" he announced.
"Okay, get inside and I'll materialize you!" Jack replied.
---OMI---
"I can't believe that thing wanted to steal my memory!" Omi gasped, entering the elevator with the others.
"Yeah, but on the plus side, we learned some pretty interesting stuff about Shen-Gong!" Kimiko stated.
"And you got us back! Everybody wins!" Raimundo cheered. "Oh yeah, what'd your dad wanna talk about Clay?"
"Err... don't worry 'bout it Rai. The important thing is we're all together again," the Texan asked. With that the doors to the elevator opened up, surprising the gang with what they found. "Daddy?!"
"Son!" none other than Mr. Bailey gasped. "I got worried and came in lookin' for ya! Why on Earth are ya comin' out of a bookshelf?"
"Uh..." Clay stammered.
"Don't even bother, I'm already on it," Jack groaned, lowering the elevator back into the lab.
"Son? What's goin' on?" Mr. Bailey asked cluelessly.
"Reverse Rebirth Activation!" The genius snapped his fingers, returning everything to the way it was mere hours before...
---RAI---
Back at the front gates of Fung Academy, Clay had decided to explain that his dad had wanted to take him back home to Texas. He also told them that they shouldn't worry, because he already knew how to take care of it. So, by the time Mr. Bailey walked up to them, he already knew what he was going to say.
"Howdy son," the man replied eyeing only his son.
"No way!" Raimundo shouted, beating him to it.
"We are most sorry, Mr. Clay's father, but we can not allow you to take your son away from us!" Omi added.
"We need to have him around, he's very important to us!" Kimiko stated.
"Don't take him back Mr. Bailey sir!" Jack cried.
"Are these your friends' son?" Mr. Bailey asked.
"Yes Daddy. They're my best friends in the whole world and I'm never gonna abandon 'em!" the blond said defensively.
"I see," the gray haired man replied. "Well son , I'm not sure how ya guessed, but it was my intention to get ya back home, but seein' how your friends are so darned determined for ya to stay, I'm gonna leave ya be."
"Really? Thanks Daddy!" Clay smiled.
"Your welcome son," his father responded, also with a smile. "But now that I'm already here, ya mind takin' me to see the Headmaster? I'm thinkin' 'bout enrollin' your sister Jesse here so she can make some friends as good as yours."
"No problem Daddy!" Clay shouted.
"Hurray! Clay is going to stay with us!" Omi cried "It is a most joyous occasion!" The tiny boy jumped happily onto Clay's back, causing everyone else around to laugh at his actions. Yes, everything was joyous now, but who knows what could happen now that the group knows where W.U.Y.A. lives?
---TBC---
Wow! That took a long time to get out! I'm sorry for making everyone wait and I hope you really enjoyed it! Also, I want to let you all know that I know what I want to happen; it's just the stuff leading up to it continues to stop me time and again. Also, I thought it'd be good to do a chapter that centered on Clay. It seems that every other main character has had a chapter for them except him, so I decided to give him the spotlight! Once again, I hope you guys enjoyed and I promise to get the next chapter up as soon as possible!