Chapter 8

Here we go. Prepare yourself for action and surprises!

At the end of the tunnels there was an altar, with a pool of water in front of it. Jack, Amy, and Kim starred in awe of it.

"I'm going to check it out. You girls stay here" Jack said. He slowly approached the altar. He felt an urge to just jump into the water. He knelt down beside it and looked into it. Instead of seeing his own reflection, he saw a glowing ball of light. Then the ball of light transformed into his face. He was shocked. It made no sense to him whatsoever.

"Jack!" He heard Kim shout. Jack stood up and turned around. He was shocked at what he saw. Asher had a knife to Kim's throat and Nyching had a knife to Amy's.

"Jeng Chi. Why?!" Jack asked.

"With your powers, I could rule the world. Now. Lets go."

Jack was half ready to go, until he saw Jeong Soo and the rest of his friends. They saw the situation and nodded. Jack remembered the water behind him, and how much of an urge he had to jump into it. Jack looked Jeng Chi in the eye. He then took a deep breath, then took a step back. He fell into the water. It felt like it was a part of him. Jack looked down at his body. The skin was dissolving, and underneath, instead of muscle, there was pure light. It was happening to his entire body. He panicked for a second then relaxed. This felt so natural.

Meanwhile outside the water, Jeng Chi had charged for it. Jeong Soo and Rudy each broke Kim and Amy free, then they were ready to fight. Rudy took Nyching, Amy and Jerry took Asher, Jeong Soo took Kai, Milton and Eddie took the guy from Tai Chi, and Kim ran up to take on Jeng Chi.

Jerry swung Amy around him, and she kicked Asher in the chest. He stumbled back a little then went after Jerry. Jerry turned and tripped him. He fell onto the ground, then quickly got back up. Jerry and Amy each did a spinning back kick into his chest, and he fell to the ground unconscious.

Rudy and Nyching each went to kick each other, but their kicks collided in midair. Rudy threw two punches, but Nyching blocked them both. Then Rudy grabbed his arm, and flipped him over his shoulder. Nyching hit the ground unconscious. Rudy smiled and patted himself on the back.

Jeong Soo was having a difficult time fighting Kai off. Within the first minute of their battle, Kai had her in an arm locked. She couldn't feel her arm. Then Rudy came over, and kickin Kai in the face. He fell to the ground, and didn't get up. Then Rudy looked at Jeong Soo's arm.

"Is your arm ok?" he asked.

"I think it might be dislocated" Jeong Soo said holding it, "I think you better go help Milton and Eddie"

Rudy looked over at his students. Eddie was under the one guy's boat Milton was being choked. Rudy ran over and pried Milton from his grip. He immediately started taking in large gulps of air. Rudy kicked his leg off of Eddie's back, then shoved the boy into the concrete wall. He collided head first with the wall and the floor. Rudy bent down and felt for a pulse. There was none.

"I-I think I just killed him" Rudy said. Everyone gathered behind him and looked at the dead boy. Completely ignoring Kim and Jeng Chi.
Kim wasn't doing a good job at fighting Jeng Chi. Jeng Chi was pretty much flawless. He got Kim in a double arm locked and dragged her toward the water.

"To think" he said, "you thought you could come in here and save the day? Well now you can join your boyfriend." Jeng Chi threw Kim into the water. Her head popped up, but Jeng Chi pushed it down. He was drowning her. Rudy and the others started coming over.

"If you take another step I'll make her suffering last longer. Then I'll begin yours" Jeng Chi said. The others stopped dead in their tracks. All of a sudden the room started rumbling. Everyone grabbed onto something. Then all the water shot up out of the pool, Kim with it. She landed on the ground and started gasping for air. All the water in the pool then formed a column in the air, and came down on Jeng Chi. It continued coming until he wasn't breathing.

The water settled down and rested in the pool as if it had not been touched. Then a large ball of floating light floated towards Kim. It then morphed into the shape of a boy.

"Are you ok Kim?"

"Yeah. I think so" she looked up at what she was talking to, "uh. What are you?"

"I'm Jack silly. The spirit of Otai"

"WHAT?!" Everyone was in shock. Jack looked over at his friends, "you guys did good. Thanks for everything. But I have to stay here, I need to keep the world in balance. Especially this school"

"Jack please don't leave me" Kim said, standing up.

"I must"

"At least let me hug you one last time"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

"I am light. That is my physical form. I must go now. Kim. You are the best thing that ever happened to me" Jack floated back toward the water. He turned back into a ball of light then entered the water. Not even a ripple formed. Kim ran over to the edge of the pool and looked in. Tears dripped from her eyes. As they hit the water Jack's face appeared. It smiled back at her before dissolving.

Rudy stepped up and wrapped his arm around Kim. She turned and cried into his shoulder. Jerry, Milton, and Eddie stepped up next to them. They wrapped their arms around each other.

Amy and Jeong Soo then stepped up next to them. They wrapped their arms around each other.

"I'm guessing it was for the best" Amy said.

"It was" Kim said.

The seven of them stood and stated at the water for a long long time.

That's it for this story. What'd you think? This was one of my favorite stories to write. I know I've been working on this since August and I took a break from it(then again, I took a break from all my stories for a while. It was the start of school. It was hectic. Now I'm back on schedule) my writing is doing awesome and I hope you liked this story and I hope you'll check out my other ones :)
-Croc9400