A/N: MERRY CHRISTMAS! :) My christmas gift to you all XD Hope ya enjoy.
18: Game
An evening at the Kiyosawa household was quiet and ran on time as always, meals were ready for when Nori and Haru return from work in Tokyo which was usually six or seven unless there was more work to be done at the firm; then baths; after that was leisure hours before evening drinks: the only one that never followed this daily plan was Rhea who more often than not crept back into the house in the wee hours of the morning.
This routine was disrupted by Haru: Rhea's older brother at 29, rushing into the living room with a cordless phone in his hand "Dad phone call for you- it's the police" he explained handing the phone over to his father who grumbled under his breath.
"Hello this is Nori Kiyosawa" He exclaimed calmly though moments later his face flushed void of any colour,
Rei rose from the sofa looking concerned "What's wrong dear?"
"The company building has been burnt down"
"I wouldn't say so much 'burnt' but blown into tiny pieces"
Nori frowned deeply something was amiss here "What did you say your name was?"
A slight tut sounded on the other end "I didn't say. But Mr Kiyosawa your building was the first of many to be eradicated. See ya dad" a quick beep signalled that the phone call had ended
"That little brat" he growled throwing the phone across the room
"RHEA!" Kimiko shouted as she burst through the factorys doors,
"You hollered?" the dark pink haired woman smirked sitting on top of a conveyor belt with a walkie-talkie in her hand,
"you've gone too far now"
Sliding down the conveyor belt childishly to greet the monks face to face "So you're saying I can steal your comrade's soul and drive a city into pandemonium and that doesn't bother you? Are you really on the right side?" Rhea joked riling the teen further.
"Where is it?"
"the Zing-Zom-bone? I can tell you I don't have it, I gave it to Pandabubba"
The wind dragon glared at her suspiciously "And why are you telling us that?" before Rhea could get a word in edge ways there was a loud exclamation of 'Eureaka!' and moments later the red haired genius floated in followed by three robots which were the spitting image of Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay.
"I call them 'Camelion bots 2.0" he announced proudly as the three robots lined up before the real monks,
Raimundo scoffed loudly "What can't you count Spicer? There's four of us" as those words were uttered a familiar face dropped down beside them, a short bald monk.
"You forgot about the evil Omi golem" Rhea smiled "Good luck with finding Pandabubba after you deal with your clones that is. See ya" she waved casually, jumping onto the giant fan leaving the building through a hole in the ceiling with Jack in tow.
The duo got a good look of the city as they drifted above the buildings, where the explosion had been was now a smouldering mess and the rioters that swarmed around it from the sky looked like festival people dancing around a large bonfire happily, spreading their joy by turning other buildings into bonfires.
"Wow you really turned this place upside down" Jack awed at the mayhem, sitting down on the giant fan too.
"I have...good friends who are always willing to help out" she laughed tickling Yuki behind the ear.
Chase's layer was deadly quiet when she returned from the city.
"I wonder where everyone is." Rhea pondered aloud following Yuki whom bounding up the stairs "Care to share that energy?"
Rhea checked all the usual spots for signs of life: nothing, until she reached the dining area where Chase was sat in his large stone chair at the foot of the long table, Wuya draped over the back of the man's chair.
"So the traitor returns" Wuya sneered eyeing Rhea whom found it best to linger a goo foot away from the table,
folding her arms wearily she glared back at the witch "so what have I done this time Wuya?"
The prince of darkness answered for Wuya "she claims that you are raising an army against me" he didn't bother to look up from the book he was reading, this was just another quarrel between women to him.
"Well I suppose that's what it looks like but since I used a shen-gong-wu and have given said wu to Pandabubba, it's not really my army anymore so-"
"Why would you hand over control to someone like him?"
Rhea placed her hands impatiently on her hips tired with Wuya's questions "Well that's easy to keep the monks busy, after they fight their clones that Jack made, they then have to find Pandabubba for the wu beat him: not that that should be difficult the man's an idiot and while they're doing that I can be off causing more mayhem...or getting other people to do it for me" she finally slumped down into a chair at the table, she was certainly starting to flag after such an eventful day,
"A likely story" Wuya frowned: nothing was ever good enough for this old coot.
"It seems there is only one true way for you to prove yourself" Chase finally looked up from his book and snapped his fingers, a lion placed a bowl of deep green soup before her, "That is my famous Lao Mang Long soup, it is the reason for my immortality and my other form" he explained casually,
"Right and you want me to drink it because?" Rhea stared at the suspicious liquid in the bowl, it looked horrible.
"Drink it, cast away your human form and Wuya will be satisfied that you are loyal to me"
'this guy is serious...' Rhea grab the soup that had been placed beside the bowl "If that's all it takes" she devoured the contents of the bowl under the watchful eyes of Chase.
Lao Mang Long soup