New Dragons

In the morning, a taxi was driving unknowingly carrying a precious cargo. The driver looked in his rear view mirror, seeing his passenger was tossing and turning in sleep restlessly and was starting to irritate him. What could be with this passenger? This person had wrote down the destination. 'The Xiaolin Temple, huh', thought the taxi driver to himself. Finally she woke up, with a start, when they stopped. "Okay that will be fifty five yuan, miss", said the taxi driver in a thick Chinese accent.

The girl nodded her head in understanding and grabbed a small bag filled with yuan. She then gave them to the driver. He counted the yuan and nodded to the girl.

She nodded back, grabbed her things and left only to meet up with stairs. As the taxi left her, she sighed heavily.

'Yep, I'm definitely not in the states anymore', she thought to herself as she made her way up the mountain in deep thought. How does an American girl go from a orphan from the tough city at the bad side of town to a USA girl adopted by a person in China, more particularly a mountain in the middle of nowhere? She had to admit that this fresh air was pleasant change, compared to the smug of the big city.

She made her way finally to the last step to the stone staircase. She let out a breath as she wiped the sweat off her brow, then looked at her surroundings in walls of the temple. The ground was a lovely shade of green due to the grass. To her right, she saw a small water fall and a garden of fruits and vegetables. To the left of her, there was a training field with dummies, targets, and something that looked like a obstacle course.

The stranger then looked right in front of her seeing white stoned buildings with blue tiled roofs on them. However, when she looked up, she saw a giant tower colored tan with a black roof by the look of it. She then looked down at herself, 'I hope I don't stick out too much.' She did stick out quite a bit in the orphanage because of her choice of dressing and her looks.

This new girl always wore black for some reason, unless she had nothing else to wear then it was gray or may be white, but other wise it was black. Today she wore her usual black T-shirt, black baggy jeans that hung slightly low, and black sneakers with white laces. Around her neck was the necklace she was found with as a child, it looked like a collection of teeth from different animals like a shark's tooth, a snake's fang, and a tiger's tooth.

While her physical appearance looked the total opposite. Her hair was down to her waist in a pure white avalanche and slightly curly, but rarely noticeable. Her skin was pale, but only ever so slightly tan for a girl from the states. Her eyes were the thing that stood out the most for her, in a sea of white skin were deep black eyes. There was a sort of peace to this scene and danger in another way.

She carefully took one step forward and suddenly, without warning, a trap was sprung from below her feet. She tried to break free from the rope net that contained her, however, whenever the captured gal moved pots and pans were banging together. Over the noise she could make out the voice of a Latino male, "Come on chicos, it might be Jack again!"

If she wanted to get out, she would have to think quick. Then the girl looked at her neck and clutched it in a firm grip, and muttered, "Fang of the Beast." It was almost an airy whisper, barely audible but it was just enough to activate the jewelry's awesome power.

Slowly the quiet girl was transforming with a soft growl, her smooth skin turned into black fur with white stripes, her hair stayed the same color, but had black stripes across it, her nails grew to a claw like state, her canines turned into fangs, her spine lengthened to create a swift tail, and her pupils turned white and changed into cat like slits.

Just when the teens came to the scene, the stranger had already fully transformed into a black tiger like creature, but still carried a human like figure. She lifted her arm in the air to show off her razor sharp threw it across the rope cage, cutting the rope in clean cuts. Her luggage fell before she did, the creature looking girl landed on her feet without a sound in a crouching position.

Then, as the furry stranger arose from the ground cautiously, she looked at her opponents. The tallest one was extremely muscular, short blond hair, but most of it was hidden by his cowboy hat, his bangs hid his left eye but showed off blue eye, and like the smaller boy, he wore a red tunic with black seams, blue belt around his waist, however the tall one had a white pants and the little one had black ones. The little one was big headed and yellow skinned. The Chinese boy was barely off the ground and the stranger was surprised that he was even able to stand properly with such a large cranium.

The Japanese girl of the group, was only a up to the Latino's shoulder. Ulike her male friends, whom wore trousers and blouses, she wore a cheongsam but it had long sleeves and they were cuffed at the end. However, she still had a blue belt tightly around her waist. The girl's skin was pale, while her pigtailed hair was as black as the night. Her eyes were of a light sky blue color. Her shoes were black and looked like a a Hercules style lacing.

The Latino boy was about her height. He had a dark tan on his skin and dark brown hair. He had forest green eyes and a white toothed sneer on his face as he looked at her. His outfit was different compared to the other completely. His tunic was black with red seams, red dragons on the sleeves, and his trousers were red.

Finally after a good look of each other, the leader like figure spoke angrily, "Who are you?" The new creature tilted her head to the side as though confused or curious, then she looked at the necklace around her neck. She muttered the name of the jewelery, again, a airy whisper and returned to her normal state. She reached in her shirt to retreive something but was interrupted by an attempt to hit her in the face by the leader. She left the item in her shirt to get ready to fight. "She's carrying a weapon", assumed Raimundo and they all tried to attack at once.

The stranger may have not been completely familiarized with the style of fighting but she was not unfamiliar with being out numbered. since they were all heading towards her, she front flipped just in time to miss the hit. The only one whom stopped was Clay who looked back to see her shaking head and holding up her arms, as if to say, I don't wish to fight you. Clay stared at the girl in confusion and thought to himself, 'May be she's trying to tell us something?'

She tried to take out the object again but Omi used his element on her, "Tsunami Strike Water!" The teenager gaped at the water running towards her. Then give a serious face as Omi neared her, however, fire appeared in the attacks way, creating steam. "Wha-? This is most strange. Kimiko, why do you wish to save the intruder", asked the small confused monk. Kimiko looked at the intruder then at Omi.

"I didn't do anything, Omi", she replied. "Alright, you're going to give us some answers and now!" The guest again tried to take out the object but Kimiko used her element on the stranger, "Judai Flip Fire!" Her attack too was foiled, but this time by a tornado of wind. "Rai, what's up with that? You're the one who said to attack her", said Kimiko in question.

"I didn't, what's wrong with this girl", exclaimed Raimundo. "WIND", shouted the Wudai leader as he attacked. However, his attack also was defeated but by a ribbon of darkness instead of another element. The long ribbon entangled them all except for the Dragon of Earth. "Clay, what are you doing? Attack already", demanded Raimundo as the ribbon squeezed on all of them.

"You know, guys," started Clay walking towards her. "I reckin' she don't wanna hurt us. Ain't that right, feller", asked the cowboy. The girl nodded her head in response, and for the last time tried to pull out the object, but stop to look up at him with a suspicious eye and took a step back. "No worry, ma'am, I aint goin' to hurt cha'", he reassured. Believing his words, she continued slowly to revealing an envelope. "Why is this lil' ol' thang what you were tryin' to tell us?" She nodded in response to his question, with small smile on her face. "Why didn't ya jus' tell us?" She looked behind him at his answer, he looked back and to see his friends with angry faces. "Oh, I see now. Hey, could ya...", Clay trailed off and pointed behind him, the girl nodded and released them from the constricting darkness.

"Alright, who are you? What are you doing here and what is that letter for", demanded Raimundo. The smile on her face disappeared and turned to a scowl.

'Well, this guy needs to learn some manners and some breath mints', thought the girl as she waved the envolope in the Dragon of Winds face. Raimundo grabbed the message and ripped it open.

"It is most likely battle plans for Xiaolin Showdowns", suggested Omi.

However, Rai shook his head, "No, it's a letter for Master Fung. Listen to this it says:

Dear Master Fung,

I am sorry that I was not successful in finding both Dragons and I also apologize for not arriving with her as well. But, I have succeed in finding this one off the streets of a large city they call the big apple, though I don't see any orchards here. She has already mastered some of the elements of Fire, Water, and Darkness , however, she has yet to truly master Wind, Light and Earth. Around her neck is the Fang of the Beast, and she seems to favour it, as compared to other Shen Gong Wu. She chooses to remain as silent as the night, although, Yin will speak only if necessary, so don't be surprised to find the young Dragon in a position where she will speak at the most difficult of times. Yin like her element is her name and she prefers to be alone most of her time. I hope she succeeds in her training Dragon training I will keep searching for the other Dragon, needed for the prophecy. Good luck and fairwell

Sincerly,

The Locator".

They all looked at where Yin had been found her missing from her place. They looked around the area only to find her gathering her things starting to walk down the stairs. "Hey, wait a second! Where are you going?" The girl, supposedly named Yin, turned around to look at the others and pointed to the way down. "Look, sorry for the misunderstanding. See the thing is there's been a few dudes that come here so we're on our gaurd a lot of the time", said Raimundo. She still looked unsure of the idea of staying here.

"Come on now. You're a Xiaolin warrior", incouraged Clay with a tilt of the hat.

"Yes, you would be a most valuable member of our tagging and ragging family", explained Omi, Yin raised her brow to the younger monk.

"He means our rag, tag family", explained Kimiko. "I'm Kimko, the Dragon of Fire. The nice, tall one is Clay, the Dragon of Earth. The little one is Omi, the Dragon of Water. And last but not least our leader Raimundo, the Dragon of Wind." Yin nodded to all of them as their names were spoken.

"Well it seems that you have met the new Dragon", came a elderly man's voice from behind.

"Hey, Master Fung. She came with this letter", said Raimundo handing the letter to the wise man with a snake like dragon around his neck. It only took him about a minute to read the message.

"Very well, Yin, correct", asked the master, Yin nodded to him in great respect. "Yin go with Dojo to your new room and Dojo get her her uniform if you please. The rest of you come with me." The other went there seperate ways as they were told. Master Fung was quiet on the way to the vault as they walked. Then they entered the vault room and sat on the soft mats around the cauldren. "Now young monks as I was saying before during lunch, It seems that were two Dragons short of the elements."

Sorry about the cliffies. I just love to keep you on your toes you know what i mean. Polls are on my profile for my TT fanfics. R&R