Raimundo POV
"Well that sure was weird… Wonder why Cyra just ditched Jack?" Clay wondered, as all of us walked back into the temple.
I tried to keep my mouth shut, in order to keep my promise, but it wasn't easy.
"We should ask Master Fung if it had anything to do with that new Shen Gong Wu." Omi suggested, then all of us approached Master Fung and told him what had happened.
"We lost the Incense of Existence, Master Fung…" Kimiko sighed.
"Don't worry young ones, there will be more Shen Gong Wu." He assured us.
"Master… We believe something strange is going on…" Omi started.
"Yeah, you see, Cyra acted all out of sorts to get that one Shen Gong Wu, and as soon as she got it, she dumped Spicer for good! Does that have anything to do with the Shen Gong Wu's abilities?" Clay asked.
Master Fung thought for a minute, and pondered something unspoken before his eyes snapped open and he asked us something in a low tone, "What did you say Cyra's last name was?"
All of us looked at each other, and only I remembered the answer. "It's Athalia… Why?" I replied.
Then Master Fung turned extremely pale, and backed up a few steps in shock.
"What's wrong Master?" Omi asked concerned, helping his teacher regain his balance.
Master Fung paused for a moment, and then told us all to meet near the Shen Gong Wu vault. We all followed him over there in silent worry, and we sat down as he prepared to tell us a story.
"In ancient times when the Shen Gong Wu were young, Grand Master Dashi, after sealing Wuya and starting to hide the Shen Gong Wu, faced a new foe. The Athalia clan was a group of power-hungry humans that used dark arts to create their own magical items aside from Shen Gong Wu. They desired to take over the world using them, and Grand Master Dashi fought them with the Shen Gong Wu he hadn't hidden yet." He started explaining.
At the mention of Cyra's last name, I began to sweat, afraid that Cyra herself was evil all along…
"How could they have made magical items?" Omi asked.
"Even to this day, we are not sure Omi. We don't even know how the Grand Master created them, only that they learned from him somehow and used their new items against him." He answered, and then continued on with his story.
"He ended up barely defeating them, sparing only their youngest child, a girl named Marana. All of the items and Athalia's were destroyed in the battle, except the 14 year old girl went back where her family had come from in the first place. They traveled to China in order to learn how to make their own Shen Gong Wu, and started their conquest there."
"Enraged and bitter, Marana put a curse on her own family for all time, until they could find the Incense of Existence and summon their ancestors to take their revenge on the Xiaolin Monks. The eldest child would receive the burden of hunting down this Shen Gong Wu on their 18th birthday, until they had a child of their own, and chose to pass the curse on to them. If the cursed didn't work to find the Incense of Existence, then they would be plagued with misfortune and eventually die a horrible death. The instructions were passed down by a scroll written by Marana herself that told her decedents what to do, what Shen Gong Wu were, and how to use them."
"So that was how Cyra got cursed… Her own family did it to her?" I thought.
"So is that why Cyra joined the Heylin side? To find this one Shen Gong Wu?" Kimiko asked.
"Yes I do believe that is so… I wish it wasn't but I fear that is the case, Kimiko." Master Fung answered.
"Cyra must be the from that clan, and she must be planning to use the Incense of Existence to summon her ancestors to take revenge on the present Xiaolin Monks. Even though the dead don't have much time without a body, the ancient Athalia clan will most likely find a way to come hunt us down." He concluded in dread.
"No this can't be right Master Fung! Cyra would never try to kill us off! It's just not like her." I argued.
"We don't know for sure Raimundo. She could have been planning this all along." He replied grimly.
"Rai…" Kimiko started, trying to calm me down.
"No! She told me about her curse, and she would have never done that if she just wanted to destroy me. She never wanted to hurt anyone… Just to be free." I continued in a rage.
They all looked at me, surprised I already knew about the curse. Then I covered my mouth, horrified I had just given away her secret, and lead all of them to distrust me for keeping this from them.
Just as Clay, Omi, Kimiko, and Dojo were about to question me about not telling them, Master Fung said, "Cyra may not have known exactly what her ancestor's wanted either… She might have been only doing what she's been instructed all her life to do."
"We must stop her from using the Incense of Existence!" Omi shouted, and urged all of us out the door and on to Dojo to find Cyra.
"Good luck my apprentices." Master Fung called, and then retreated into the confines of the temple. We were quiet on the way to find Cyra while Dojo could still barely sense the Incense of Existence and tracked it down. I just didn't want to believe that Cyra had been planning to kill us all along… There's no way she would. I managed to push away any doubt I had about her when I remembered seeing her tear-filled face so openly honest all the time. No, she didn't know what she was doing… and I had to help her.