A/N: So, this is seriously overdue. I'm going to be very irregular but I'm gonna try to write more than once a month. This has been very difficult to write and I've been very AU with this. Focusing on the storyline rather than the characters. This has taken a while and I'm so sorry.

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-Anna x

Everyone stared at the small 15 year old girl. It was the most they had heard from Anastasia since she had arrived back from Wuya's domain.

"Jesus Christ!" Frankie was the first to speak, drawing everyone's attention with a snap of heads.

"Are you okay Anastasia?" Omi was straight to her side which surprised the gang. She shook her head.

"I feel better." Taylor sat up and began wiping black liquid from her face. The black still covered her eyes fully but it was lessening.

"Let me help you with that, darlin'." Clay took a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the liquid revealing a black tattoo like mark. He began to trace it when the liquid cleared from her eyes revealing black irises. He jumped back.

Everyone except Kimiko stared at her.

"What?" Her eyes widened with worry.

"You're beautiful." Kimiko tilted her head. "Is that what I look like?" She looked at everyone.

"Yes but you're red." Frankie smiled.

"Incorrect, Frankie. The markings on Taylor-Jane's face are different to Kimiko's." Omi stated.

"I mean that is the gist of what she looks like." Frankie rolled his eyes.

"Omi's right. They differentiate based on the element." Dojo appeared.

"You knew about this?" Rai's eye twitched.

"It was a legend. I didn't expect it to be real. I've never seen it happen. I certainly didn't expect you six to end up with this."

"What is this?!" Rai was becoming a bit frantic.

"Well the legend says it is a-" Dojo started.

"A lifetime of pain." Kimiko finished, remembering.

"Well yes and a-" He began again.

"A lifetime of death." Taylor looked up.

"Yes yes. Can I finish now?" Dojo was irritated.

"Yeah sorry…" The girls mumbled.

"You could all be cursed with a lifetime of pain, death, corruption, imprisonment, failure and hatred." Dojo was unnerved by the words that had fallen from his lips.

"Well there are six curses and six of us… Who gets what then?" Rai asked cautiously.

"Pain is fire's curse and death is obviously darkness's. Omi shall receive corruption as a punishment. Rai, you shall receive imprisonment and failure shall be Clay's and Anastasia shall receive hatred." He let out a deep breath.

"Why?" Frankie spoke, narrowing his eyes on the dragon.

"Why what?" Dojo looked blankly at him.
"Why are they cursed with this?"

"Well, legend goes that originally the power associated with the elements were supposed to be used for good but this kind of power ended up coming with a price. Fire began to burn and darkness wreaked death. Water became murky and air became suffocating. Earth stopped growing and light blinded. Each started causing problems. Fire was supposed to warm not scold. Darkness became a hiding place for shadows and death. Water war corrupted not pure. Air imprisoned and took away freedom. Earth failed to grow, depriving millions from crops and food. Light began to blind everyone from what was good. It became hatred." Dojo shook his head.

"So what happened?" Clay asked.

"Well, once realising what their element had done and that this was their fault, they began to fix. They decided the generations will need this one day. One day such a great evil will come and in order to defeat it, the generation will need to access this. That's all I know. I'm so sorry I cannot explain anything more."

"So basically what you're saying is, this is kind of a warning that the greatest evil so far is coming and we have no idea what to do."

"Rai, don't be rude." Kimiko shook her head.

"Kimi, don't you understand? This is huge and we can't handle it." He was giving up on everything.

"I remember Master Fung telling me this story when I was young. There was more. We shall all be marked, like Kimiko and Taylor-Jane. And the spirit bird song." Omi looked at Dojo for help.

"Was that this legend?" Omi nodded. "Gosh, I forgot about that. There is one more thing. The Bird Song of Spirit is how you defeat this evil." They looked at the dragon confused. "It produces the ultimate weapon for you to defeat evil but you must use your gifts in a formation. Master Fung has the formation in the scroll library at home."

"What is the weapon?" Anastasia asked.

"We don't know." Dojo shifted uneasily.

"Okay then… We better start moving on then. We have Russia to visit and everywhere else. If we take my helicopter then Dojo can get the scroll and we can take it in turns to decipher?" Kimiko worked it all out. "Dojo, you go now and meet us in Russia. See you soon." She kissed his scaly cheek and off he went. She called for the helicopter. "Thank you so much Doctor." She gave him a huge hug.

"Kimi, you can address me by Suke. Your father always did." He gave her a sweet smile.

Everyone looked at them. "Isn't Suke a girl's name?"

"It's short for Daisuke. And he's my dad's best friend." Her eyes were tearing up a bit but the liquid was red.

"Your eyes are bleeding, Kimi. Let me get that for you." He dabbed at her eye and smelt the liquid on his handkerchief. "It's tears. It contains Lysozyme and all the main properties of tears but it's red. It's not blood."

"Fascinating, Doctor." The nurses chimed in.

"We best be off." He gave Kimiko one final hug and kissed her cheek and walked away with his nurses in tow.

"Well, that's strange." Kimi laughed, wiping the red tear stain from her eyes.

"Um, okay… So when is the helicopter getting here?" Anastasia's voice was soft but audible.

"About two hours, it would take too long to get there so I thought we could have some time in Tokyo." She smiled.

"That sounds pretty good to me." Rai's arms began to slink round her waist.

"No, Kimiko is going to do yoga!" Frankie was like a child having a temper tantrum.

"I'm sure it'll be something like that…" He winked at Frankie and began to nip her neck.

"Kimi!" Frankie cried.

"I'll go shopping with you, Frankie." Anastasia appeared at his side.

"I'll go too!" Taylor squealed.

"What am I going to do then?!" Clay was not impressed.

"We can go hit up some clubs or something, Clay?" Zach suggested.

Clay happily agreed, much to the dismay of Taylor.

"We're gonna go baby shopping!" Ashley announced, dragging Jack out the door.

"Omi, what are you going to do while we're gone?" Anastasia asked, wide eyed.

"I shall meditate on what we have learnt today." He sat and began to meditate.

Kimiko thought. "Omi, my dad's room is really peaceful and has a lot of… energy. Would you like to meditate in there?"

"Kimi are you sure about that?" Frankie asked.

"Kimi-cub, this isn't just some room, this is your dad's room." Rai backed up Frankie.

"Yeah, I can't just lock his room and expect it to go away!" She thought for a second. "And we can lock him in and have the apartment to ourselves…" She whispered in Rai's ear.

"I'm proud of you baby girl!" Frankie kissed her cheeks and then departed with the other two girls in tow. The boys left a moment after wishing Rai luck.

Kimiko walked Omi to the room in silence. She pulled the key from the ribbon on her neck and pushed it into the lock.

She went to open the door but paused. "Please don't touch or move anything and really just don't do anything wrong in there. It's my dad's room and I just really love him and miss him so much."

Then the most surprising thing happened. Omi wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her to reassure her.

She hugged him back. "Do not worry Kimiko. I shall look after it like it was my room." He opened the door and closed it after him.

"Wow, what did you do to cue ball that made him hug you?" Rai smirked.

"I just trusted him." He pulled her into a hug.

"I'm proud of you."

She smiled up at him. "Thank you." He bent down and kissed her. She rose on to her toes, balancing easily in his arms. He rested one arm on her waist and the other on the small of her back, pulling her into him. She put one hand on the back of his neck and they stumbled into her room, giggling as they shut the door with a slam.

The gang eagerly waited to get their bags but the lift wouldn't open onto floor 79. They couldn't hear anything going on but began to bang on the lift doors, knowing they were at the right floor.

The phone began to ring.
"Hello?" Kimiko answered. "They're here? I'm so glad you rang. No, I'll press the button for the door to open. Thanks, Herman." She put the phone down. "They're here." She got out of bed. "Put some boxers on." She winked and threw his boxers at him. She pulled on a robe and pressed the button. In piled the whole gang.

"What happened here?!" Taylor exclaimed.

"Well nothing in that particular spot but if you pick any other place and I'm sure I can tell you." Rai smirked as he emerged from their room and hugged Kimi from behind.

"I feel physically sick." Taylor began to make gagging noises.

Kimiko giggled.

"You guys better clean this place up whilst we get ready. The helicopter will be here soon and Omi is still meditating." The two sauntered back into the room and shut the door.

"I am utterly repulsed right now." Frankie walked into his room. "IN HERE?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" He came running out and began to bang on the door. "KIMIKO, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

She opened the door and pecked his cheek. "Love you too!"

And slammed the door in his face.

A/N: wow I'm rather proud of that if I say so. By the way, Frankie will be a permanent character in this now because... SURPRISE HE'S GOING WITH THEM. Yay. Okay anyway, yeah so mainly storyline as I said but it's really started now I guess.

R&R!

-Anna x