The Soul of a Dragon (Xiaolin Showdown Fanfic)

Monk Guan

At one of the other temples, Guan was sitting in the lotus position, meditating in the garden. His mind was contemplating certain things that had happened over the last couple of years, including that of the Xiaolin temple that Dashi had founded gaining a new group of apprentices a little less then a year ago. They dealt with what he was contemplating.

He had to also wonder how he had fallen into such a depression as he had to have let one weapon, when he had so many of the same kind and could make so many more, to have become such a big issue at all. Of course, he knew the reason for this by heart, though he couldn't say he was happy with it.

When Chase Young beat people, it was known that they became members of his cat warriors. Yet Chase Young had not done that on the day that he had defeated Monk Guan. Instead, the young man had taken the weapon from him. This had gotten Monk Guan to thinking about why Chase Young might have done that.

The only reason that he could think of at the time was the fact that, while Chase had changed sides, Guan was still his companion on the other side, an old friend. This meant that Chase still held the bonds of friendship dear, though he barely ever resembled the person that Guan had grown up with, he had defiantly changed.

This had gotten Guan to thinking about whether or not there was still some good in Chase Young. A villain like Hannibal Roy Bean wouldn't even think about treating past allies with respect and would do just the opposite and annihilate them or decimate them, or do something else and get enjoyment out of this.

This led Guan to try to figure out a way to figure out if perchance that Chase might still have a soul left in his body. Everything he knew about the soup told him no, it wasn't possible. But something had been eating him up, causing him to become more and more depressed with the situation.

He had then gone and asked for his weapon back. He had commented to Chase about the fact that he hadn't turned him into one of his cats. The response he had received was one of anger, for it seemed that Chase knew exactly what Monk Guan was trying to find out. The response illiterated that he cared not for friendship at all… that Monk Guan was just a tool to get something he was in need of.

Monk Guan had then received the trade that Chase wanted, a smirk on the others face, telling Monk Guan that Chase was playing one of those games of his. He was doing this to prove to the other that he did in truth not care about friendship. He asked Monk Guan to bring him one Dojo Kanojo Cho, yet another old friend.

Instantly, a plot formed in Guan's head, to use the monks to prove that his original idea had been true. He pretended to turn on them, then came back to rescue them, tacking great risk on the part of the four monks, Dojo and himself. But if what he thought was true, happened to be true, then it would end up being worth it, for everyone involved.

Fortunately, Monk Guan happened to win the battle, his depression from all this time fading away, making him realize that perhaps this wasn't the best route to take, but in truth was indeed something that would end up being important to everything. Chase had done exactly what Monk Guan had expected… he had released all of them.

He had also paid close attention to the look on Chase Young's face when he had won. He might have been looking into things too much, but he didn't think that the defeat was the only thing that was upsetting the ex-ally of his, but the fact that Chase Young's personality forbid him to go back on his promise. He had to have known then that Guan had planned all of this.

There was a lot of bitterness now between the two of them, but Guan could not forget that someone had once been his friend. This was possibly, what drove him to do something so stupid and foolhardy, but if Chase could be brought back over to the Xiaolin side, things might actually turn out for the better.