19: Set A/N: First upload of the year...I really need to sort my update pattern out . Hope you all had a good christmas and new year :)
"WHAT?"
Chase sat quietly between the two enraged women,
picking up the empty bowl Rhea shook it angrily at the immortal "What do you mean it was PEA SOUP?"
"It was a test to see how loyal you were to me and you drank it without hesitation, I hope your doubts have been cleared up Wuya" Chase glanced sternly to Wuya who looked mortified, she was at a loss for words, staring gormlessly as he rose from his chair "It is time to further your training"
"Do you know how gross pea soup is?" she frowned and quickly caught up to the immortal, "So I'm not going to turn into a cat right?"
"DRAGON X-KUMEI FORMATION!" both teams of monks shouted launching themselves at each other, each attack was matched by it's counterpart neither team was winning.
"This is getting really annoying" Raimundo grumbled, "We're not getting anywhere"
Kimiko performed her signature Judolette flip only to have her flames extinguished by the bots "I don't think we're suppose to, these are here to stall us"
The battle got a lot more complicated when a horde of zombies stumbled through the factory doors.
"Well this don't look good" trying to fight off zombies as well as highly trained robots, this called for a massive attack "Stand back guys!" Clay hollered over the noise hoping his teammates heard him "WUDAI CRATER EARTH!" bringing his foot down heavily on the ground, the metal was forced up as the earth burst through in large jagged spikes like a wave across the room, taking out a lot of the hostile beings. from a far corner Clay heard someone shouting behind him "OMI WATCH OUT!"
"What?"
"What? you want me to walk on the lava..." Rhea looked from the bubbling lava pit then back to her teacher "I know I'm a dragon of fire but lava and fire aren't exactly the same thing."
Chase looked at her with an arched brow "I believe you said you weren't going to question me"
sighing as she stared bewildered at the lava "Yes I know but-" a sudden force pushed her towards the pit.
"AHHH!"
"Hey dude you okay?" the zombies had been knocked out from Clay's mass attack and laid scattered across the floor but Omi hadn't heard the warning shout,
"What happened?" the small monk was disorientated "When did we start fighting?" he looked around the building then lept to his feet "Did I do all this? Yes I must have done since I am so amazing" he boasted leaving his fellow monks speechless,
"He's back to normal"
Raimundo chuckled "Good it was weird him being so nice all the time"
"We'll now we only have three robots to beat"
"Lets go!"
"Wudai Orion Formation" all four monks glowed a colour representing their element and in their traditional Kumei formation began what they hoped was the final attack on the clones. Without the omi golem the real monks had a little more power than the clones, their attack reduced the robots to nothing more than scrap metal.
"Finally!" three of the four monks collapsed where they stood, exhausted from the tiresome battle.
"Why are you laying about?" Omi questioned suddenly full of overwhelming energy,
"We've just fought off a horde of possessed people and our clones I'm bloody tired" Raimundo explained quickly.
"Why do I not remember any of this?"
"Well little dude you weren't all here" Clay added taking in a few deep breaths,
Kimiko hobbled to her feet with great difficulty "Okay guys we really need to get going, we have to find Pandabubba"
"We'll explain on the way," they half shouted at Omi, who about to pose more questions to the group "DOJO"
Rhea was on her knees panting heavily, the bottoms of her feet burned with a passion sweat rolled off her brow as she forcefully tried to ignore the tingling sensation in her legs,
"Get up" Chase's train had moved up to a whole new level of brutal, he had pushed Rhea into the pit never had she moved so quick in her life,
she managed to choke out 'just a minute' between her breaths, that wasn't quite the response Chase was looking for and seized her by the collar lifting her from the ground "you won't learn anything on your knees" he threw her mercilessly back towards the lava.
Summoning enough flames to negate the lava around her was almost impossible, her concentration was wavering and could only summon small patches of her blue flames around her feet which was barely enough. The lava under her shifted constantly which made standing up straight not as easy as it should be, the flames under her right foot was consumed by the lava, that sent her off balance and heading face first towards the burning hot lava.
"HOW HARD IS IT TO FIND ONE PERSON?" Omi exclaimed loudly getting impatient which the progress of their mission,
"Well since we have no idea where he is, it's very hard" Raimundo snapped back, the lack of sleep started to make everyone cranky, flying around aimlessly for a good six hours and still no sign of Pandabubba.
"Will you two shut up for five minutes"
The green dragon they were riding on noticed something strange about the area they were flying over "Have you guys noticed the lack of zombies in this area?"
The monks looked over the side and true be told there was no one in this area at all, "I think we should try this area"
Within seconds of landing in the abandoned street they were surrounded by men in black suits and the familiar Panda themed mafia boss appeared "It looks like you finally found me, I'm guessing you're here for this" he pulled an odd looking item from his white jacket.
The monks had very little patients to deal with the likes of Pandabubba and showed no mercy in beating his many bodyguards to a pulp "Now hand over the wu"
the chinese kingpin refused to let go of his treasure so easily and turned the wu on the monks "Zing-zom-bone!" he yelled, the wu didn't glow nor performed it's latent ability "ZIng-zom-bone!" he tried again and still the artefact refused to respond, out of angry and embarrassment he threw the wu against the floor causing it to shatter on contact.
"That's impossible!" Dojo announced examining the broken item with his reading glasses "The Shen-gong-wu can't be broken this is a fake"
"Wait till I get my hands on her!" Pandabubba growled furiously and stormed off leaving his men in a crumbled heap on the floor.
"She tricked us again" Raimundo huffed annoyed at how Rhea was leading them on a wild goose chase.
A television flicked onto the news, which was covering the recent riot in Shibuya,
"In light of the recent riots in Shibuya central, police have just arrested several individuals they believe are behind organizing the riots. The leader is claimed to be 22 year old, Takahiro Haru, the head of the Shibuya police force..."
"This is going to the top news story for weeks" a voice mused setting a small shot glass down on a mahogany desk,
"I really don't understand why she did this."
"Do you need to? It's interesting and it'll be good for business in the long run"
the other voice laughed loudly "or so you hope anyway she left you something what was it?"
A golden artefact was placed next to a bottle of whisky "I forgot what she called it but I can control people with apparently but I'm just keeping it safe for a while."
Once again Rhea was staring up at the stone ceiling, unable to move her entire body from the harsh training session Chase had thrown at her or in this case thrown her at it. She was covered with small burn marks her feet being the worst of them all. The room around her felt oddly different, before the heat that the lava gave off was almost unbearable it was like sitting at the top of a volcano but now the thick bubbling liquid had vanished and was replaced by cobalt blue flames. When Rhea closed her eyes and listened to the crackling of the flames she was reminded of a coal fire in cosy living room with a horribly patterned but comfortable sofa.
"That was...interesting" she huffed waiting on the cold stone floor for the feeling to return to her body.