Toru: I have no idea where this story is going.

Me: good. I don't want you giving any spoilers

Toru: fine, don't share. I'm gonna go see Aranea

Me: not yet you're not anyway. Remember I own nothing

Previously:

Toru awoke in Chase's chambers with him nowhere to be found. She then placed the collar back on her neck.

'Our mate has left us to rest. Do not fret.'

"What the hell! Who was that?!" she looked around and saw nothing

'Calm yourself. I am you, well your other you that is.'

'You're my beast?'

'Yes I am. We are one you and I. body, mind, and soul.'

'Does Master Chase's beast talk to him to?'

'Probably. Now as I was saying do not fret our mate simply wanted us to rest after last night.'

'Last night was pretty amazing. Master Chase was never so passionate before. Was it because of you?'

'It is possible that our more primal nature just collided with his causing such intense passion.'

Although she was still a bit confused Toru was happy that she could provide her mate/master with such pleasure. And even more pleased at how her strength increased, between the two of them there was no way Chase's dream of world domination could be foiled again.

Chapter 12: To Capture a Monk

Chase Young's lair

Hitomi was training with Toru in her new form. Hitomi, using her large claws and agility was slashing wildly keeping Toru on the defense. Luckily Toru's scales were pretty tough so she was barely getting grazed.

Chase watched from a distance. "Toru get back on the offensive!" he ordered.

She wrapped her barbed tail around Hitomi's ankle digging into her flesh. Toru threw Hitomi across the floor. Now while the cut its self would just hurt her wound was on fire and bleeding badly.

Hitomi felt immediately dizzy and groaned lightly as Toru attacked her again slashing at her with her tail and claws. The cat woman falls, bleeding profusely. Toru rushes over to her injured friend.

Hitomi laid on the floor writhing in pain as she coughed up blood. "Oh, God! What did you do to me?!" she sifted back to her cat form.

Toru carried her friend over her shoulder, back to her room and tried healing incantations on her but nothing was working. She looked into her messenger spider's eyes to talk to Aranea.

"I don't know what to do. None of my spells are working." Toru said deeply concerned about Hitomi. She only did have 2 friends in the world and it would suck if she killed one.

Through the little spiders eyes Aranea was watching from another spider's eyes on her island to communicate with Toru.

"Well first off calm down. What are her symptoms?"

"She's anxious, babbling, she can't really move, and she can't really focus on anything."

Aranea thought about it for a second and came to a conclusion. "It's a neurotoxin, you need an antidote quick or else it might kill her."

Great the one time she didn't want to kill some, fan-fucking-tastic. "Ok, but how I've tried every healing spell I know and nothing's working."

The spider queen rolled her eyes, how was the solution not obvious. "Look all you need to do is inject yourself with your own poison, your body will create the necessary antibodies and you'll transfer your blood into Hitomi saving her."

Toru nodded and let the spider crawl back up to its web. She did as instructed but not without a price, Toru felt like shit, her body was aching all over and she vomited at least twice, and Hitomi wasn't doing any better. At this rate Hitomi was going to die long before an antidote could be made. No way Toru was going to let that happen so the young sorceress casted a spell that slowed the poison down. After about 2 hours of excruciating pain she felt better and took a blood sample, and sure enough under the microscope her blood was rich in antibodies. Using the medical equipment in her room (that she stole), Toru began to separate her blood until only the antibodies where left and inject them into Hitomi.

It took 20 minutes but Hitomi's fever finally broke with a splitting headache and she was mad as hell as she transformed into her humanoid form.

"Oh, may aching everything. What the fuck is wrong with you?! And since when can you admit poison?" the cat woman said angrily.

Toru tilted her head as she looked at her tail and gave a devilish smile. "Never…Until now."

"Oh no. Toru I know that look, and it only means trouble-for me! What could you possibly be concocting?"

Toru began to milk the poison from her tail into a beaker, and smiled as she looked at the clear liquid. "I finally have a way to get rid of the monks."

"You'll poison them, what's gonna stop them from just finding a cure?" Hitomi asked as she licked her fur.

"Because even though my poison acts like a neurotoxin since its unique to only me it has certain biological chemical factors that make it impossible to cure by regular means. Do you follow?"

"No," Hitomi said shaking her head, "because you're speaking nerd to me."

Toru sighed. "My body is the only thing in the world that holds the cure and just getting one of the monks means they'll all be under my thumb."

"Ok so if you manage to accomplish this-"

Toru interrupted, "'When' not 'if' I don't fail remember"

Hitomi rolled her eyes and sighed "When you accomplish this, what do you plan to do after words?"

Toru poured the toxin into a dart, and then looked at Hitomi. "Well once I do that I'll get them to go to Aranea's island.

"From what you told me the spider queen hates humans, so what possible reason could you have for sending them to that death trap?" the clouded leopard asked as she thought about it a second. "Oh, I get it. You evil genius, you."

Toru smiled, "I try."

"But what about Lord Chase, aren't you going to inform about your plan?"

"Nah. I what it to be a surprise."

Xiaolin temple

The monks played in the court yard acting like the kids they are and having some much needed fun.

Kimiko on the other hand was rather down and she wasn't in the mood to play.

"Hey Kimiko, what's up? You ok?" asked Raimundo.

"I'm fine Rai, I just can't stop thinking about Toru. I mean she completely loyal to Chase and I don't see why." She said while putting her hair in a ponytail. "Omi had to lose his good chi for him to be loyal to Chase but Toru's totally willing, it just doesn't make sense. And on top of all that she's just as bad as he is. What could turn someone so evil and cold hearted, when they haven't their soul?"

Raimundo sat next to her. "I'm not sure Kimiko; Chase must have done something to trick Toru into being loyal to him."

Kimiko looked at Raimundo with tears in her eyes. "But what if he didn't?! She said it herself Rai, Chase gave her an offer and she took it, and I'm been so upset about it ever sense. My past life-it feels like Jun is crying-she wants her sister back and it tearing me apart! I just-I cant-!" She broke down in tears and sobbed hard. Raimundo did his best to comfort her.

"Ssh. Its ok Kim, we'll figure it out."

Jack Spicer's house

Jack was working on his robots in his basement mumbling to himself.

"Tsk. That Toru thinks she's so great. How in the hell did she get Chase's attention anyway? I could do that stuff to if I wanted to."

A low chuckle was heard in the distance. "Even I you lived for 100 years you couldn't even come close to my level of training." Toru said as she and Hitomi step out of the shadows.

Jack let out a high pitched scream. "Wh-wh-what are you doing here? How'd you even get in here?"

Toru scoffed at this idiot, "Simple we walked in. Maybe you should consider, oh I don't know, locking the motherfucking door!" she shouted.

Hitomi came up from behind Jack and looked at him with her curious ice blue eyes. "Huh, so it Jack Spicer?" she giggled, "He's built like a noodle."

"I am not a noddle!" he shouted, "Wait a minute are you a cat?"

"Yes."

"A-are you naked?"

Hitomi sighed. Are you serious? "Yes." She said with a hint of announce.

"What we are here for Spicer is that you're going to make yourself useful and help us get into the temple."

"You're after their wu?" Jack asked.

The cat woman started to use Jack's robots as scratching posts, "Sorry to disappoint you Noddle, but we'll be the distraction while Toru implements her plan."

"And that would be what?"

Toru picked up Jack by his collar. "If it was important for you to know I would have told you. Now you're gonna help me whether you like it or not."

"Give me one good reason why?"

Toru dropped him and moved her thumb over the topaz opal of her collar. "Hmm. One good reason, huh? Oh I know how about this." Toru ripped off her collar and transformed, them roared in Jack's face. "Reason enough for you."

Jack's eyes sank in to his skull with fear. He let out a small squeak in response, "Yes."

Toru gave a smile showing off her fangs. "Good. Now let's get to work."

"Hey does Chase know about this?"

"No, he doesn't and if you say anything…well I might just have to eat you."

"Eat me?" Jack was extremely close to pissing himself. His seen Chase in his 'true form' it scared the hell out of him and seeing Toru, while her form wasn't as reptilian as Chase she was even more intimidating that before.

Unbeknownst to everyone Chase's raven was watching everyone from a distance, while Chase watched from his all-seeing-eye sitting in his throne.

Chase Young's lair

The lord of darkness watched his mate/apprentice execute her plan. He found it amusing that she tried to hide something from him. Chase had always kept his raven close by to watch Toru sense he had developed a sense of being a bit over protective because she always got herself in trouble when she was younger. But while Chase was having fun watching her commit her first plan his beast was less than pleased.

'We must help mate! What if she fails and gets trapped on that cursed island? You know as well as I we cannot step foot there with that barrier in place'

'We cannot doubt that she will succeed, and for whatever reason she does fail we will simply send one of our warriors to retrieve her'

'Of course if she does end up victorious that means we can resume our plans'

Chase and his beast both gave a wicked smile.

Xaiolin temple

A large explosion hit the court yard and the monks came rushing to source. Hitomi and Jack stepped from the smoke.

"Jack Spicer! Prepare for a humiliating defeat!" Omi shouted

Clay noticed the Cat woman standing next to Jack and blushed due to her semi-nakedness covering his face with his hat. "Jesus, lady mind putting on some cloths?"

"Did Katnappe get work done?" asked the dragon of wind.

Hitomi tilted her head confused. "Who? The name's Hitomi. All me and Noodle wanted was to just bring your deaths."

Kimiko snickered, "Noodle? It suits you Jack."

Jack's face was red from embarrassment. "The name's not Noodle! Jackbots attack!"

About 2 dozen of Jacks' robots seemed to have popped out of nowhere and started to fire. The monks where easily dodging and destroying Spicer's toys. They were fairing pretty well, that is until Hitomi joined in. She nearly as ferocious as Toru, using her feline instincts to easily keeping Clay busy.

On one of the temple roofs Toru sat watching, she reached out her hand and a pentagram appeared. "Reqiup." Toru pulls out a sniper rifle from her magic armory and placed the 2 poisoned darts into the magazine. She cocks the gun and aims, or tries to at least. With all the fighting Toru couldn't get a good shoot.

Clay was the closest, so Toru took out a cat whistle and blew. Hitomi's ears twitched and knew what it meant and quickly corralled Clay away from the others. With a clear shot Toru fire and got Clay in the shoulder.

The dragon of earth felt a sharp sting, "What in tarnation?" he plucked the dart and quickly fainted.

Omi saw his friend unconscious and ran over to help not knowing what happened, and was shot too quickly passing out.

Kimiko and Raimundo finished off the remaining Jackbots when they saw their injured comrades.

"What happened?" asked Raimundo.

Kimiko looked up and saw Toru holding the sniper rifle. "You! What did you do to them!" she shouted.

Toru smiled wickedly as she jumped down from the roof and walking nonchalantly pass the lightly groaning Clay and Omi. "24 hours."

"Wh-what?"

"24 hours, kiddies, is my estimate before the poison I injected them with kills them." Toru holds up the dart.

"Did-did she say 'poison'?" Raimundo looked back at Clay and Omi.

"Of course I'll give you a chance to save them. All you have to do is make to this location in one piece and the antidote's all yours." Toru said snidely as she threw a dagger that had a note attached to it.

Raimundo picked up the paper and looked at the coordinates. "What's the catch?" Raimundo yelled. "There's no way you're gonna let us have the antidote that easily, Heylin always have other motives."

"Well even if I did, (which I do) your friends don't really have time for you to figure it out, now do they? 24 hour heroes." Toru spat the last word. Then she produced the Golden Tiger Claws that she lifted from the vault and tore open a portal.

Jack Spicer house

The portal reopen in Spicer's basement.

Jack snickered, "Oh man, did the look on those losers' faces! Ha! They didn't know what hit them! So what's next? They get to that location and we spring our trap, right?"

"There is no 'we' at this point Spicer." Toru said.

Jack gave her sad puppy dog eyes. "What?"

"Your usefulness is over and as for the monks I'll keep my word, they make it to the island they'll get the antidote." She gave a devilish smile.

Jack scratched his head, "Then what was the point of all this?"

Hitomi giggled, "Oh Noodle, you have to see past the usual traps and schemes and see the big picture. The trap is in the location; once the monks land they'll have no hope and no means to escape."

"Which means nothing will stand in my master's way."

The raven watched showing Chase everything, he smiled as he and Toru laughed evilly.

Once again soooooo sorry for the late update. There's no excuse I've been lazy. But hopefully I can get the next chapter up sooner. To all my loyal readers I thank you. Plez review.