A/N: Thanks again to those who keep bothering to read this. This chap starts where the last one ended.

XxxxxxX

"What are you going to do to me now?" Wuya quietly demanded. She did her best to appear unnerved.

"Hm...I think that it's about time I corrected a mistake of mine," Chase replied with a smirk.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"When I gave you your body back, I thought that you would be grateful enough to stay loyal to me," he explained. "But I was obviously mistaken in thinking this. All you do is annoy me and take up space. And since you're useless anyway, why should I allow you to keep a physical form?"

The witch's eyes widened in fear. "N-no, Chase, please!" she begged. "I can't go back to being a ghost. It's hell! I promise-"

"Your promises are worth less than dirt," Chase stated flatly. "I will hear no more of them."

Smiling dangerously, he raised his hand, which glowed with dark energy. "Hold still now..."

XxxxxX

Jack sighed and leaned back in his chair. He was currently sitting by Ashley's bedside. The girl still hadn't woken up, not that he really expected her to. He knew how painful his master's spells could be.

He was currently distracting himself with a Rubix Cube. He already had three sides solved, and was working on the fourth. He was really losing his practice with these things. He used to be able to solve one within ten minutes, and it had already been half an hour.

Out of boredom, he surveyed the room for what seemed like the hundredth time. It was a bit smaller than his. The bed also wasn't as large, nor was the rest of the furniture as high a quality as his. It was surprising, since he thought that girls were always given the nicer things. Or at least they were in his experience. Hm, maybe that was just Chase's way of winning him over faster and making her jealous at the same time.

His eyes trailed over to the jaguar that was lounging on the end of the bed. There was a bored expression on its face, and it was absentmindedly swatting at the sleeve of a shirt that was laying nearby. It obviously had no interest in the girl it was supposed to be serving.

"Long day, huh?" he asked. Part of him wondered why he was talking to a jaguar, but it just wasn't in his nature to be quiet for long periods of time.

The jungle cat turned to him with with a "you think?" look on its face.

"Yeah, I'd get tired of putting up with her, too," Jack chuckled.

Its whiskers twitched and its shoulders started to shake, so Jack assumed it was laughing.

Their master chose that moment to walk in. His arms were folded behind his back, and his posture was relaxed, so the young genius assumed that his mood was pleasant enough.

"You may go now, Matlal," Chase said to the jaguar.

It eagerly jumped down from the bed and left the room. The immortal then walked to his unwilling minion's side and gazed at her for a moment.

"She'll most likely be out for the rest of the night," he mused. "This spell can be quite...excruciating."

"Yeah, I guess," Jack murmured, not quite sure how to respond.

It was then silent for a few moments. Jack's eyes hovered on his master. If he didn't know better, he'd say the man looked downright happy about something. What could have caused that?

"Is there something you want to ask me, Jack?" Chase suddenly asked, amusement in his voice.

Jack started. How did his master always do that? "What happened to Wuya?" he blurted out.

"Always straight to the point, aren't you, Jack?" Chase chuckled. "To make a long story short, I turned her back into a ghost."

"What?" his apprentice gasped. "How?"

"It's actually very simple," Chase replied. "You recall how we used the Reversing Mirror and the Serpent's Tail to give her a human body? Well, ages ago, I decided to develop magic that would deactivate the effects of Shen Gong Wu. And before you ask, I've never used it before because I never saw the need to. Besides, the spells that I create myself can sometimes be quite draining."

"Oh," Jack simply said. He made himself remain calm on the outside, but he was jumping around with excitement on the inside. His master was just so awesome!

"So why are you just now doing this?" he questioned the older man. "Shouldn't you have done this the first few hundred times she betrayed you?"

"Well, she did have a few uses," his master replied. "Just awhile ago, for example."

"What do you mean?" Jack asked.

"Wuya is always far too predictable. Of course I figured that she'd try and get Katnappe to assist her, even after she failed with you," Chase answered with a grin.

"So why did you let her?" Jack demanded. He hated it when conversations took forever to get to the point.

"To see what you two would do," Chase said. "Even though I was sure you learned your lesson from last time, I wanted to make certain. I'm most pleased that you had shown where your loyalties lie. And I must say, I'm glad you've realized that what happens to you reflects on me."

"And what about her?" Jack murmured, trying not to smile at the compliments from his idol.

"I was trying to hurry the spell up a bit," Chase said. "Usually, being offered a chance to betray me sends it into overdrive. If she hasn't succumbed by the time she wakes up, she will in a day or two."

"That's good. I've been getting tired of all her whining," Jack sighed.

"As have I," the immortal agreed. "Hopefully she'll have stopped by the time the next Shen Gong Wu activates."

"Shen Gong Wu?" Jack asked, confused. "I thought you didn't care about those."

"I don't," Chase said, sounding a bit annoyed. "But it will serve as a purpose for your first mission. When the next one reveals itself, you and Katnappe will retrieve it, relying only on your martial arts skills and your cunning."

"I bet it will certainly surprise those Xiaolin losers when they see the fighting skills you taught me," Jack laughed.

"Yes, I suppose it will," Chase said with another vicious grin.

XxxxxX

For once, Wuya was glad of all the vulgarities that she'd overheard Jack say over the years. It gave her so many more insults to call Chase Young.

She was currently muttering all she could think of under her breath as she floated toward her destination.

After Chase had finished with her, he had simply walked off. He didn't leave her with any new instructions, nor did he even glance back. This only added insult to her injury. For what seemed like a long time, she simply stayed in place and screamed out her frustration. It only made it worse when she tried to pick up a rock to throw or ram her head into a wall. She instantly phased through any solid mass.

Honestly, if she wasn't her, she might have cried.

She was brought out of her tantrum by the nearby sound of a bird call. She turned to see a familiar gray, red, and black bird gazing at her.

"Ying-Ying!" she gasped softly. "Why are you here?"

The bird simply jerked its head to the side and flew away. Assuming that it wanted her to follow her, she quickly took off after it. Since Chase didn't tell her to stay, she didn't see any reason to. Besides, she wanted to be nowhere near the man.

And so now she was following Ying-Ying to...somewhere. But really, where else could it be besides Hannibal's hideout? She smiled at the thought of seeing the bean. Perhaps he could help her with some much needed vengeance.

After awhile, they reached a small cave in a forest. The entrance was mostly covered by large rocks, so only something her current size or smaller could enter. As expected, it was dark inside, but that didn't hinder her.

"Hannibal, are you in here?" she called.

"Over here, sweet pea," he replied.

The cave suddenly became brighter, although neither of them needed it to be. He was standing close to her, a grin on his face and his roots on his hips.

"Well, Wuya, I certainly didn't expect this to happen," he stated. "What'd ya do to make Chase so mad?"

"I was trying to get out of that dungeon!" she snapped. "He just left me hanging there for weeks! And it's not like you were much help!"

"Calm yourself, darlin'" he said in a fake-soothing voice. "I'm here for ya now. Now, I don't suppose you managed to find out anything good?"

"A few things," she answered begrudgingly. If she wanted his help, she would have to cooperate. "Apparently, Chase is planning to gather all the Heylins and make them his loyal minions."

"Oh, so that's what the boy's up to!" Hannibal exclaimed, actually looking surprised. "Hmm, I kinda wish that I'd thought of that..."

"Never mind that!" she yelled. "Are we just going to let him do this? If he succeeds, he could use them against us!"

"Indeed he can," the bean mused with a glower. "We should definitely do something."

XxxxxX

It was a regular afternoon at the Xiaolin temple. The monks had already finished their chores, and were currently taking a short break from training. Their conversation had mainly consisted of video games and Master Fung's feet, so it was surprising when Clay suddenly changed the subject.

"What ever happened to that no good ombre, Jack Spicer?" he wondered. "It's like he disappeared off the face of the earth."

"This is true!" Omi agreed. "He did not even show up for the past three Shen Gong Wu."

"Maybe he finally gave up," Raimundo guessed. "Nobody's heard from him in, like, two months."

"Maybe we should go check his house later," Kimiko said.

"Yes, and if he has truly given up his evil ways, we can convince him to join the side of good!" Omi said with a smile.

"And if he's not there, we can search his house for Wu," she added.

This earned a chuckle from everybody except Omi. Just as he was about to give a lecture on how that wasn't "honorable behavior", Dojo slithered in.

"Break up the sewing circle, kids," he ordered. "A new Wu has just revealed itself. We have to hurry before anyone else gets to it."

"Oh, calm down, small green dude," Raimundo said. "We haven't had any real competition for months."

"Well, you never know," Dojo huffed. "Let's go!"

And so they sped off toward the Wu, never suspecting what would happen when they got there.

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A/N: Seriously, guys, if you liked this, pretty please leave a review! I have to study a lot for my classes, so it really does take time out of my busy schedule to keep working on this. Some feedback really helps keep me going. So, I'm going to need at least 4 before I update again. That's reasonable, isn't it?