Chapter 4: Unbalanced

"So let me get this straight: we're going to find a magical artefact called Shen gong wu?"

"Pretty much, yeah." Jack nodded as they flew through the air in one of Jack's new inventions.

"And Wuya said these are Shen gong wu too?" Rhea looked at her black blade and golden dragon fan.

"Yeah, she forgot to ask you about those because of the cat fight."

Rhea chuckled "Hey did you hear something?" she moved to glanced out the window, a blast of fire and earth had been launched at them. The pair hurtled out of contraption. Rhea fell into the forest below, breaking her fall.

Groaning she attempted to untangle her hair from the branches "my hair." She whimpered. "JACK!" she hollered hoping to hear some sort of response from the whiny young boy. Just as Rhea shifted her wait on the branch it gave way under her weight sending her crashing into the bushes below. "Stupid tree. Stupid bush. Stupid whatever blew up the plane." She huffed angrily, crawling out of the shrubbery: mentally rejoicing that they went thorny.

"Rhea?" glancing up she recognized the four staring at her as the xiaolin monks.

"Hi." She sounded quite calm as she picked leaves out of her hair.

"What are you doing out here?" Kimiko asked.

"Taking a walk."

"In the bushes?" Raimundo added confused.

"I fell out of that tree actually. I was climbing it and the branch snapped." Rhea shrugged, "What are you doing out here?"

"We are looking for Shen gong wu!" Omi announced,

"I have no idea what that is but need some help?"

"O that would be most welcome. As they say two skulls are much more enhanced than one." Rhea as well as the other monks stared at Omi oddly.

"What did he just say?" Rhea pointed at the bald monk who was marching off happily to find the Shen gong wu.

"I think he meant 'Two heads are better than one'" Raimundo translated: seems like Omi did this a lot.

"So what are we looking for exactly?" Rhea questioned, Dojo sat on her shoulder to explain a little better.

The green dragon produced a large scroll from where she didn't want to ask. The circle on the scroll showed a little moving picture "It's called the 'Sea of Smog' it allows the user to turn into smog."

"Hmm, interesting."

They were searching the woods for sometime before Rhea came across a golden baton with a red gem inset in the middle. Dojo checked with his scroll and nodded. "That's the one."

Kimiko ran forward to pick the relic up but Rhea grabbed it at the same time. The Sea of Smog started to glow brightly.

"Rhea what are you doing dude?" The monks were startled by her actions.

"What? I like collecting antiques." She smirked, tightening her grip.

"Rhea, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown. My Eye of Dashi against your-" The blue haired girl paused, did she have any Shen gong Wu?

"This." The older warrior held up her black blade. "I was told that this is one of your Shen Gong Wu." Everyone looked at Dojo for an answer.

"Okay give me a minute." The dragon placed a pair of reading glasses on his nose: even fifteen hundred year old dragons need help with the fine print. "Okay here it is: the Komori Sword. A sword Shen Gong Wu that lets its user hang upside down like a bat and fight well in darkness."

"Okay the challenge is a game of rollerblade chase. First to catch the Wu wins. Let's go Xiaolin Showdown!" Kimiko shouted. The forest started to flash brightly as it morphed into the battle arena. A winding road complete with full loops and hair pin bends.

"This is interesting." Rhea looked at the race track with amazement. The baton hovered in front of them.

"Gong Yi Tanpai!" the teenager shouted this phrase caused the Wu to shoot off and Kimiko gave chase.

"What?" Rhea frowned, 'How nice of her to tell me the rules' Fortunately for Rhea, roller-skating was no problem for her but she was still somewhat behind Kimiko and the Wu.

"catch me if you can!" Kimiko taunted.

"O I will. Azure hustle." Azure flames flared around Rhea's blades giving her a sudden boost of speed.

"Blue flames? That is so cool!" Raimundo was easily impressed.

"Eye of Dashi FIRE!" glancing behind her Rhea decided to use her own Shen Gong Wu.

"Komori sword!" she jumped and started skating upside down on the underneath of the track.

"Come on Kimiko you can do it!" Omi cheered. The young Japanese monk used Rhea's previous trick and used her own fire element to give her a boost. She raced above whilst Rhea clung to the underside of the track.

"Sorry Kimiko but I need that item." Reaching out for the trail edge, she flipped over onto the right side almost knocking Kimiko off in the process. Rhea spun around, skating skilfully backwards. "Copy this. Azure Tempest." A tunnel of sapphire fire formed around her right arm before she launched it towards Kimiko. The young monk was completely overwhelmed. Rhea took this opportunity to leap forward with another boost to seize the Wu. There was another blinding flash and the scenery returned to normal. Rhea was leant against a tree holding the two newly acquired artefacts.

"More for my collection. At least you know who has them." Rhea chuckled, inspecting the Eye of Dashi.

"Why did you challenge us? I thought you were on our side?" Omi asked still very confused by her actions.

"The only side I've ever been on is my own. Later Monks." She waved and disappeared into the forest. "that was fun." She mused.

"O I FINALLY FOUNBD YOU!" Jack appeared out of thin air and jumped on Rhea energetically.

"And I found what you were looking for." Holding up the two Shen Gong Wu, Jack was speechless. Unfortunatly someone else wasn't.

"Good, now give them to me." The ghostly witch demanded eagerly.

"How about no." Rhea glared at the spirit and waved her hand through her.

"Give me the Shen Gong Wu you wretched girl!" Wuya snapped impatiently.

Rhea stared at the fifteen hundred year old witch dumbfounded "How are you even going to hold them? Besides this one turns you into smog, how much more disembodied can you get?" She remarked, sniggering slightly. Rhea heard Jack chuckling too.

"You have no need for those. NOW GIVE THEM TO ME!"

Jack finally decided to intervene with a curious question "Say Rhea. Where did you get the Eye of Dashi from?"

"I won it. Here you go Jack-chan." Rhea smiled and shoved the two relics into his hands.

"you'll give them to a useless fool like Jack but not to an all powerful witch like myself?" Wuya was still complaining.

Rhea ignored Wuya and ruffled Jack's hair so much that his goggles fell over his eyes. "Who did you win it from?" Jack questioned again.

"Well after I climbed out of a tree, I bumped into the Xiaolin monks. They were quite glad to let me help them find the Sea of Smog but not so glad when I refused to let go of it. I got challenged to a showdown thing. Most bazaar thing I've ever seen. I won of course." Rhea was rather egotistical at times and didn't care who she crushed to prove it.

"I'm impressed that Spicer has such a competent ally." Both Rhea and Jack jumped when Chase Young entered the scene nonchalantly.

"It's not hard when I'm challenged to silly little games. I wanted a proper fight!" Rhea huffed, fiddling with her blue dyed bang. "Later Jack-chan" she waved and started to walk off in a random direction.

"Hey wait! Where are you going Rhea?" Jack pestered.

"I'm going to Shibuya. So I won't be back for a day or two...possibly a week. Tell your mom not to worry." Rhea smiled and flung out the golden fan "Dragon Wing fan." The Wu turned into a giant fan, hoping onto the strange transportation device and soared off ungracefully over the trees, clipping the tree tops as she went. "This is different and yet economical." She mused.

As they say

"What Omi did to that sentence is what we're going to do to you!"

Omi: I command you to spill your internal organs now!

Jack: What kind of sick people are you?

Rai: I think he means "spill your guts".