Dragon Quest
Chapter 1: déjà vu
It was just another peaceful day in the lives of out favorite Xiaolin dragons in training, and each one was taking part in one of their favorite activities. Clay was in the kitchen once again making a midday snack. Omi was of course out side amongst the training dummies, as always trying to perfect a move that seemed perfect to everyone else but to him still needed to be perfected. Kimiko was merely sitting by the temple fountain, messing with her PDA.
On the inner quarters of the temple amongst the scrolls sat an aged martial arts master known to the dragons in training as Master Fung and beside him was the always alert resident dragon, Dojo, who happened to be taking his afternoon nap. Wandering the halls of the temple was the leader of our group of heroes, Raimundo, but unlike his friends he was not at all relaxed. He had been up all morning telling himself today would be the day he would finally tell a certain dragon of Fire how he really felt about her, but just could not find the right words. While he paced the hallways he also grumbled and mumbled how he was going to do just that,
" Kim, I just wanted to say, you and I have know each other for a while now and well I, I…ah man. I'm never going to be able to do this." "Do what?" With that, Raimundo nearly hit the ceiling, because he thought he had been found out to soon only to realize it was merely Dojo. "Dojo when are you going to learn not to sneak up on people?", Raimundo yelled at the little dragon. " Well I would still be asleep if someone had not going back and forth in front of the very room I was taking my nap in," Dojo replied. " Sorry I'm just on edge right because I thought you were someone else." "You mean you thought I was Kimiko." "Right, I thought you were…hey how did you know…" "Look kid everyone has seen the way you look at her and sees the way she looks at you, and I think it is about time you told her." Raimundo stopped and thought a minute and the replied, " You think she might feel the same way too?" "Well kid, you won't know unless you ask." With that, Raimundo's face filled with excitement and dashed out of the temple to find Kimiko.
It did not take long for Raimundo to find the person he was looking for, because she was still sitting near the fountain. As he approached her he felt his face begin to blush a little, but he knew he had to do this and get it over with. "Hey Kimi, I…" before he could go further he was cutoff by none other than the dragon of Fire herself. "Hey Rai, come here I have to show this cool new videogame my Papa is working on, he just sent over the demo." As much as he really wanted to play the game, he decided to carry on with his mission. "Kimi, the game can wait I have something to say and it is not going to be easy." Kimiko looked on with a look of confusion andfear, but him to continue. "Kimiko, you consider us to be best friends right?" "Of course you guys are like family and I," but she was cutoff with Raimundo shouting "No, no, no." Kimiko looked at the Wind dragon quite puzzled and he continued. "What I mean is you consider you and I to be best friends right?" Kimiko nodded and continued listening. " And we can tell each other anything?" Again Kimiko nodded, but turned and asked, " Rai, what's going on, you're kind of scaring me."
At this point he knew he could not stop from telling her the truth, and at the realization took a deep breath and gave way to his feelings. " Kimiko, you and have known each other for nearly three years now and all this time I've kept my feelings to myself to try and keep from getting hurt. And now I realize a can't fight the urge anymore and need to say what I am feeling, take this how you like, but believe me what I'm about to say is the honest truth. Kimiko, I love you and would consider being my girlfriend?" At this Kimiko did not know what to say but as she was about to reply, a loud explosion came from the temple gate.
Raimundo wanted to hear Kimiko's response but knew it would have to wait. As they approached the gate they were joined by the others, and stopped when they came face to face with none other, than Chase Young, Wuya, and Chase's jungle cats. " Chase Young be prepared for a most humiliating defeat," Omi shouted. Chase just looked at the warriors and smirked and said, "I believe it is you young monk that shall face your defeat at my hands." With that a battle between good and evil started. Chase commanded the jungle cats to deal with both Omi and Clay. Wuya of course targeted Kimiko and Chase wanted the chance to fight the newly appointed Shoku warrior, Raimundo.
This battle went on for nearly ten minutes, when Chase shouted, "Enough. I'll handle this in one fell swoop." He then mustered a great surge of power and opened a portal. Inside was what appeared to be a tower and at the mere sight of the tower Dojo began to shake in fear. "This is bad, really bad." "Mind cluing us in Dojo?", Clay replied. "That tower is called the Lao Mane Palace, and is the prison of the Heylin Dragon." Everyone stared with fear in their eyes, what was Chase planning to do. " I see can sense you all are wondering why I would summon this portal to this forbidden zone." The Xiaolin warriors and their master shook their heads and Chase continued. "Starting with the dawn of tomorrow anyone who has had dealings with the Heylin side will unfortunately fall into a deep slumber for exactly seven days. This time period is known as the week of the Dragon Quest. The ten dragon stones will reveal themselves and with them new dragon warriors." Raimundo and the others looked at each other then at Master Fung and Dojo who nodded.
Raimundo was the first to speak, "Why haven't we heard of this before and how are we supposed to find these new dragons?" Master Fung gave a depressing look and Chase smiled all the while. " There is no we Shoku warrior," Raimundo turned and looked at his long time enemy " you must be the one to find the remaining Xiaolin dragons and the dragon stones, only then will you be able to save your friends." With that, Wuya launched herself from behind Chase and used the Sphere of Yun on Raimundo, Dojo, and Master Fung. Chase then used the Sun Chi Lantern to use Raimundo's wind element to lift up his friends and the girl he loved and sent barreling into the portal. Raimundo tried his hardest to escape is prison but could not and Chase soon closed the portal. "NOOO…" Raimundo shot up in his bed, breathing heavily and waking from that horrible nightmare. As he sat there a soon remembered it wasn't a nightmare but a memory and muttered the only thing that came to mind… "Kimiko."