Jack sipped the tea. Peppermint, a little too sweet but fine overall. And as far as Jack was concerned the only way to soothe the soul. He sat back in his chair and sighed. He had gone six months in this place. It was nice but he was so bored. An old farmhouse in the heart of the U.S. It was rundown, at least in comparison to what he was accustomed to anyway. A two story house that seemed much smaller than that. If you asked him what state he was in, well he wouldn't be able to tell you. Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma? It didn't matter as long as it was far away from the Xhoulan Showdowns. Jack was out on them. It wasn't worth it, why go through all that pain if he wasn't going to get anywhere. The monks were getting stronger. He wasn't. And none of the truly evil heylin was willing to give the new heylin any instruction. So Jack gave up on the entire struggle. He had given the monks all of his Wu. He even got rid of his favorite, the monkey staff. He wanted no record of his life back in China. Jack was 18 now. He was an adult and it was time to put childish dreams of world conquest behind him. It was time to give it up. It had been hard to give it up. This was all he had known for as long as he could remember. His only source of stability in his life. But eventually Jack stopped seeing the point. When his parents died Jack tried, he really did, to see the point in life if you were only going to die; and if your gonna die then what's the point of risking your life in a pointless struggle everyday of your life. Love? Who could he really say loved him? Everyone had despised Jack back in China. Even people he had brought to the fights treated him with thinly veiled hatred. Power? Jack was a loser. He lost battles, comrades, and hope. Losers can't be powerful. All they could do with power was lose it. Money? Jack had quite enough of that thank you very much. Besides all those times Jack had had to drag himself to the ER because of broken bones, extreme blood loss, or a concussion was costing a lot of money. So Jack decided one day to sneak into the monks vault and leave all his Wu there. Then he moved out to his Grandmum's old farmhouse. It was quiet and peaceful. Just south of Nowhere and to the left of Civilization. Jack didn't do much but shoot at starving a coyote going after some farmer's cows and read. He never killed the coyote but shoot close enough to scare it away. The fool thing always came back. In a twisted way it reminded Jack of how he used to be. Always coming back even though it knows it was useless. But Jack learned and that coyote would too. Jack lifted his cup and drank the last bit of tea in the cup and picked up the twin pistols that he carried to shoot at the coyote. They were a family heirloom that was old as the hills and shouldn't have even worked, but they worked just as well as any new pistols would have. Besides thy felt perfectly balances in his hands. The only downside was that they bared an eerie resemblance to the dead man's gun. If there were two of them anyway, this scared Jack just a bit. But enough on that, it was time to start watching for the coyote. Jack stood just in time to see two people crash through his ceiling. Two people he never wanted to see again. Omi and Wuya were sprawled out on his kitchen floor covered in wood and debris. Jacks eyes widened a bit but he didn't scream. After all the years of the monks braking through his wall Jack was impervious to loud noises. And most surprises. He didn't know what was going on but he knew he didn't want those two in this house. Jack pointed a gun at each of their heads and kicked them awake. When they opened their eyes Jack smiled and started talking. "Hey are you two up?" His question was answered with a groggy moan from Omi and a slurred "Where the hell am I?" From Wuya. "You two crashed landed in my kitchen." Jack replied "Now get out before I blast your brains out." Jack said his smile gone. This got their attention. Half open lids went wide. Omi stared and Wuya whispered a curse. "Jack long times no see. How's it been going?" She said

"Fine till you showed up. Now get out." Jack said Then the rest of the monks barged in with Chase Young.

"Omi! Are you-" Clay stopped mid sentence when he saw Omi and Wuya were staring down the barrels of some strangers' pistols.

"What the hell? Who the hell are you?" Raimundo asked. Jack looked up at the newcomers who had just barged through his wall.

"Well it looks like I found something to work on for the next few days. It's just not home until you losers brake down one of my walls." Jack said sadly

"Jack what are you doing here?" Kimiko asked

"I live here moron. That's why I said it was my wall." Jack replied

"So this is where you've been hiding Spicer." Chase said
"No this is where I've been living. Now," Jack said as he took the safety off the guns "I'm only gonna say this once more. Get. Out."
"Aright. Aright I'm going. Watch where you point those things. calm down." Wuya said moving the gun of of her face and getting up.
"Jack Spicer, do not take a sheep! We did not mean you any harm." Omi said as he got up and brushed himself off
"Jack I can see you don't want us around but we can't leave. There's a powerful Shen gon wu in your house." Dojo said from his perch around Clay's shoulders.

"So?" Jack said

"So? What have you gotten thicker since you left Jack? We want it and we're going to fight for it." Wuya said with a sneer.

"If it's in my house then its mine and none of you can just swoop in and showdown for it. It already belongs to me." Jack said brushing off her insult

"You left the fight Jack. You don't have a claim to Wu anymore." Rai said

"But I do have a claim on my an processions. It's on my property in my house and like everything else in this house it belongs to me! I expect those two to steal things from me," Jack said gesturing at Chase and Wuya "But are you monks really going to steal from me."
"If it me means keeping this most powerful Shen gong wu out of the hands of evil then yes." Omi said
"Omi's right! We're doing the right thing by keeping it away from Chase and Wuya." Kimiko said
"We're going to take it no matter what you do." Wuya said

"We won't let you." Rai said

"Hey, where's Chase?" Clay asked

"He's already gone looking for the Wu! Come on guys let's go! Dojo where is it." Rai asked

"Try a few rooms over." Dojo guessed. Then they were all running to find the wu leaving Jack behind in his destroyed kitchen.

"What, did they forget I was here?" Jack asked. He didn't know what this wu was but If he had to take a guess he'd say it was Great aunt Sally's old necklace. It always gave his the creeps because dear old Sally had been a fortune teller and gris-gris seller born in the late 20's that moved here to nowhere from New Orland's that died a few years back in an asylum cuz she was crazy as hell. Jack thought about this on the way up to the attic where they kept the necklace. It gave off a weird magic voodoo vibe. If anything in this house was a wu that was.
"So what's this thing Dojo?" Rai asked

"The drop of heaven. It's made of Lapis Lazuli which allows its wearer to embrace the wisdom of heaven and gives them enhanced physic abilities." The little dragon answered as they searched the attic.

"Hm, sounds cool." Kim said

"It sounds like its mine!" Jack said as he stepped into the room guns ready. "Now you get out or you eat lead. Your choice losers."
"Jack just give us the wu! It has no value to you." Clay said

"Says you. It's got sentimental value." Jack said as he spotted the necklace just behind Omi

"You don't even know what it does." Kimiko said
"Yes I do, because I heard you guys talking." Jack said

"You don't know what it looks like and you're not powerful enough to take it." Rai said

"Says you." Jack said as he started walking toward Omi

"If it is a battle you wish for we will be most happy to deliver you a humiliating defeat." Omi shouted
"Oh please. I don't need to fight for it I just need to grab it first." Jack said still walking toward Omi

"How are you gonna do that." Clay said

"Like this." Jack shot at Kimiko's feet and when they turned to make sure she was okay Jack lunged at the necklace. Grabbing it and placing the tear drop shaped stone in the center of his forehead and shouted. "Drop of heaven!" Then an orb surrounded Jack and disappeared. Chase and Wuya entered the room just in time to see all this.

"Oh shit." Wuya said

"What just happened?" Clay asked

"You let Jack take the wu! Do you realist the horror he will inflict on all who have wronged him if he learns the wisdom of heaven?" Chase Young was shouting now, which showed how bad this was. When Chase Young loses his cool the world is doomed.

"I know I know. Kids come on we have got to find Jack before he can learn the wisdom of heaven." Dojo said

"And we will assist you." Chase said while Wuya simply nodded

"But where is Jack?" Kimiko asked
"Who knows the orb takes each person to a different location to give them its knowledge." Dojo said

"Then we must search everywhere. No time for plans or dally dilling!" Omi said

"Dilly dallying." Rai corrected by instant

"That too." Omi said

"Them stop talking and go!" Chase screamed still enraged at this. Everyone left to search for Jack

But Jack didn't know how upset everyone was or that they were coming to look for him. Jack didn't even know where he was. He seemed to be floating in the night sky. The place was dark blue and littered with bright little lights.
"Where am I?" He wondered aloud

"You are beyond human comprehension." A blue boy answered. His skin was blue and he had black hair, slightly slanted eyes, full lips, and was dressed in nothing but a loose pair of pants. This boy was also stunningly gorgeous, blue skin and all. His radiance was almost heart breaking. "I am Jignesh keeper of the wisdom of heaven. And you are?" The boy named Jignesh asked Jack

"M-my n-na-name i-i-is Jack." Jack who innerly cursed himself for sounding stupid in front of Jignesh.

"A lovely name. Well jack would you like to learn the wisdom of heaven?"

"Yes." Jack said figuring after he learned this he would never be bored again.

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This S.O.B. made me do a shitload of research. I want this story to be my best yet so I'm giving it my all. While I was researching East Indian names I found out that Jack is an eastern Indian name meaning God is Gracious! Isn't that too cute!