Not Really A Vacation
Well, since no one gave me any idea's for the name, I just went with this one. It's okay I guess. I don't really think the title matters that much but it's kind of essential for the story 8D.
Summary- During the summer, Master Fung gives the monks a 'vacation' that just so happens to involve finding Shen Gong Wu. So what will happen when our monks visit France, Hawaii, Madagascar and other places when they're NOT finding the Wu? RaiKim and possible others.
Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown, any of the characters or any of the Shen Gong Wu. They all belong to Kids'WB (trust me, if I owned XS, there would have been a fourth season last fall, and a movie this summer. But alas, I don't –cries-)
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Chapter 1
Just another hot summer day. The air was humid, the sun was out with the occasional cloud and the Xiaolin Monks tried their best to just stay out of training for the hot summer day. The one thing that Clay, Kimiko and Raimundo missed the most was summer vacation. (a/n: that statement is probably geographically wrong. I DON'T CARE. This is going by the standers I live in. No offence. But I live in the U.S and summer equals hot and I think that in Rio, summer equals cold. ?? oh well. China? I have no clue) Hanging with friends at the beach, getting an ice cream cone, staying up really late etc. They never had to worry about any training in between catching waves or during a sleep over. This day was particularly hot and sticky, so hot and sticky, that Master Fung had given them the most amazing words that they had ever heard. The words were: No training for today.
Kimiko specifically was absolutely ecstatic when the words came from Master Fung's mouth. It had been hot and sticky out for the past two days and her hair was a mess. The humid air made it look disgusting and frizzy on the top. It was tangled at the bottom sections of her hair and she had been having trouble trying to fix it. She had been very busy the last two days. Wake up, brush hair, eat while trying to keep hair normal, shower, take a half hour just to blow it dry and style it, train while trying not to ruin her hair, shower again, brush, style, keep hair from dying on her. And by that point it was only one in the afternoon. She eventually gave up and just put it into a low ponytail so it wouldn't receive too much damage while hunting for Wu or training. But today, she could actually take her time and style it into something a little more, 'Kimiko' than a simple ponytail.
She had rummaged through her room to find a small fan that would keep her cool but wouldn't blow her hair out of control; she didn't need anymore trouble. She turned the fan on and reached into her small stack of containers and gently pulled out one in the middle and one closer to the top.
The containers were simple rectangles and were at a good height so things could fit in conveniently but wouldn't take up too much room. They were a gift from Keiko who had seen photos of Kimiko's small cubicle. Keiko immediately sent her the containers for organizing purposes. Kimiko just thought that they would take up even more space and just get in her way, but it turned out when she was cleaning out her cubicle she needed them more then she knew. There were a plethora of colors of the containers. From top to bottom they were red, yellow, light blue, purple, green and orange. Kimiko had pulled out the light blue and green ones. The light blue contained her brushes, combs, hair curlers and straightners, and other products that would stop frizzy hair or other things like that. The other container consisted of her numerous hair dying products that went from blonde to purple. She rarely dyed her hair anymore because she hadn't had the time.
"Alright," Kimiko said rubbing her hands together while staring at the containers. She reached over to her left and grabbed a small mirror with a stand and set it next to her. "What to do, what to do?" she sighed and examined her many possibilities. There were hair ties, hair clips/pins, headbands and even a few fake flowers that she could slip into her hair. Kimiko then picked up one on the flowers and thought about why she ever got them. She set them back down and took a long breath that was eventually exhaled with a large sigh.
Kimiko pulled a piece of her hair and brought it more forwards for her to examine. Although it was washed four times in the passed two days, she considered washing it again. There was a small knot in her hair and then she bit her lip and sighed again. Eventually she stood up, grabbed her bathrobe, the two containers and a clean pair of clothes and headed over to the bathroom.
Meanwhile in the kitchen, Omi, Clay and Raimundo were all sitting in front of a large fan. They all took turns being in the center while the other two sat on the sides. The person in the middle was hit more directly than the others and was cooled off quicker.
Clay took a sip of his lemonade that was sitting on the table next to the fan.
"Man oh man," Clay began while taking his hat off. "It is a scorcher today!" he began to fan himself with his hat. Clay was on the left of Omi who was in the center.
"I must agree my friend, Clay!" Omi said as he stood on his chair and balanced himself with his hands on the table.
"I hope we get a thunderstorm later," Raimundo panted. "It would kill the heat,"
"Why do you wish to harm the heat, Raimundo?" Omi questioned not taking his face away from the front of the fan.
"It an expression, Omi," Raimundo began disappointed in Omi's un-knowing of phrases. "But usually after a storm it begin to cool off,"
"Oh!" Omi said exited with his head practically in the fan. "That would be most wonderful!" He laughed slightly and made random sounds into the fan.
"Omi, partner?" Clay asked as he gave Omi a strange look. "What in the name of Texas are you doing?"
Omi grinned. "I sound most amusing!" he said referring to the sound of your voice when talking in front of a fan.
Raimundo and Clay glanced at each other exchanging amused looks. Then Raimundo stood up and picked up Omi. Omi looked at Raimundo and gave him a questioning look. Then Raimundo put Omi down in his previous seat.
"Hey!" Omi said standing on Raimundo's chair.
"It's my turn!" Raimundo said sitting down and soaking up the breeze that the fan gave.
Kimiko tied a knot in her bathrobe and turned on a small fan that was positioned on the sink. The bathroom was rather hot after someone took a shower so Kimiko demanded that a fan was to be kept in there. She squeezed out her hair into the sink and pulled a brush and a comb out of the light blue container that was set on the floor. She began to brush out her hair from the bottom and worked her way up. When she completed brushing her hair out, she used the comb to eliminate any tangled parts of her hair that she might have missed. She did the process of brushing and combing two more times to make sure her hair was absolutely tangle-free. She picked up the blow dryer and began to dry her hair.
"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" Raimundo and Omi said at the same time to decide who would leave the comfort of the fan to go and refill their lemonade glasses. Clay had gotten them first so he wasn't participating.
Both of them got scissors so tried again. This time, Omi got paper and Raimundo got scissors again.
"Ha!" Omi said. "In your head, Raimundo!"
"In my face, you mean?" he responded while standing up.
"That too!" Omi said.
Raimundo enjoyed his last breeze of air from the fan and grabbed the three empty glasses. He walked over to the fridge and set the glasses on the counter, opened the fridge and got out the lemonade pitcher.
"Hey guys!" Kimiko said as she entered the room.
"Hey," Clay and Omi both said focusing their attention on the fan. Kimiko sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Hey, Raimundo!" she said cheerfully.
Raimundo turned around and gave her a regular old 'hey.' He turned around and continued to pour lemonade. His eyes enlarged and he turned around to look at Kimiko again.
"Whoa!" he said.
Kimiko curled her hair entirely and wore a blue headband. She had a black tang top on with light blue polka dots on it. She wore jean shorts that were roughly four or five inches above her knees. She also had light blue sandals on. Her bangs were something new. They were all pushed to the right side of her face and it slightly covered her right eye; but not entirely.
"Like it?" Kimiko asked.
Raimundo started at her admiring every part of her outfit. "You have outdone your self this time!" he finally said.
"Yeah, I was planning on wearing this a while ago, but I never had the chance,"
"Raimundo!" Omi called.
"Hmm?" Raimundo responded.
"Come over here!" Omi said. "I have discovered that it is most amusing when you blow a blueberry into the fan!"
"Raspberry," Clay corrected. "It sounds really cool, Raimundo!"
Raimundo let out a laugh and ran over there to listen to the wonderful sounds of blowing raspberries into a fan. Kimiko continued to stand there and just sighed at the boys as she rubbed her temples with her index fingers.
"Boys," she sighed.
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"You know what we really need?" Raimundo asked to his fellow monks as they sat in a circle in Omi's cubicle. They were all playing a game of Texas Hold'em (a/n: déjà vu from like, EVRERY STORY OF MINE) with a soft fan going in the entrance of Omi's cubicle.
"What?" Clay asked as he threw some chips into the pile in the center of all of them.
"We need a vacation," he finished. "A little break from Shen Gong Wu hunting, and training, the temple; and most importantly, Jack Spicer. Am I right?"
"Well," Clay began. "A vacation would be nice. But really, Raimundo, do you honestly think that master Fung will just give us vacation?"
"I can dream,"
"I agree with Raimundo!" Omi said. "Although I would love to harness my skills better than they already are, which of course is very great by the way, it would be nice to take a break,"
"I would love to just go shopping…" Kimiko said daydreaming about it.
"…catch some waves…" Raimundo added in a dreamy tone.
"…learn the way of the modern person…" Omi added.
"…eat at the all you can eat buffets…" Clay added with his mouth watering.
As they were all daydreaming, Kimiko suddenly snapped out of her thought of going to a mall and shopping for hours. She shook her dead to get rid of the thought.
"But, let's not get worked up about it," she began. "There is no chance that Master Fung would ever-"
"I would ever what?"
All the monks turned to face the person who stood at the 'doorway' of Omi's cubicle; it was Master Fung.
"Never mind," Kimiko said in a small voice.
"I request the presence of you all in the scroll room," he began. "I have some news for you and I am sure you will all like it," he turned and began to walk away gesturing for the others to follow. The monks exchanged looks and all followed Master Fung to the scroll room. When they got there the room was a mess, but it was quite cool in that room.
"Don't tell me we have to clean the room!" Raimundo pleaded.
"No, Raimundo," Master Fung began sighing. "It is much cooler in this room so I wish to tell you the news in here," he paused and looked at the monks almost like he was expecting them to respond. But he wasn't so he continued a few seconds later. "I am sending you all on a trip,"
"I trip?" Omi asked. "To where?"
"Various places," Master Fung responded. "You can call it a vacation if you want,"
"A vacation!?" the monks all exclaimed.
Master Fung watched as the monks all had their mouths wide with happiness and there eyes full of joy. "I am sending you to fifteen different locations. The last one, the sixteenth, you must find on your own," he paused and was about to continue until Raimundo cut him off.
"This sounds like it's going to become a mission," he said disappointed.
"May I continue young one?" Master Fung 'asked' although he knew the answer.
Raimundo brought his attention back to Master Fung.
"Please note that you shouldn't react to what I am about to say," Master Fung began. He waited to see if Raimundo would cut in again. "On your way you must find fifteen items. These items can only be seem with ones concentration for their power is hidden within normal items,"
The monks all groaned. Master Fung cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms. He them beamed at Raimundo.
"Is there something wrong?" Master Fung asked.
"No," Raimundo began. "It's just that we were all kind of hoping for a vacation and all…" he trailed off.
"You didn't let me finish," Master Fung said. "I am allowing for you to stay for one or two nights at each location after finding the item,"
There eyes widened and a smile grew on their faces.
"With no doubt, a few of your enemies will be after the items," Master Fung began. "So you may bring four Shen Gong Wu and your Wudai weapons,"
"Master Fung," Kimiko began. "What are some of the locations that you're sending us to?" she waited inventively for an answer.
"Some of the locations are France, Hawaii, Madagascar and America," Master Fung said. "Like I said before, you may all stay over night for one or two days if you wish. Dojo has a list of hotels for you to stay at,"
Kimiko's eyes were very wide as she thought about spending a few days in the countries. "Why didn't you say that first?!" she exclaimed. "I would have been packed yesterday!"
"But how would you be able too if you just found out about this today?" Omi questioned.
"It's an expression, Omi," Raimundo said once again, disappointed in Omi's lack of knowledge of terms. Kimiko was overjoyed with glee and was still smiling and daydreaming.
"I have got to call Keiko!" Kimiko said whipping out her cell phone.
"This'll be amazing!" Clay said.
"I can hardly wait!" Raimundo said.
"Maybe on the trip I can learn new slang!" Omi said overjoyed.
Master Fung brought up his hand to silence the monks of their joy. Kimiko shut her phone and put it away.
"Please note that on your trip, the items will be your first priority," Master Fung said. "Now my young ones, it is late, please get some rest and I shall tell you more in the morning," with that, Master Fung left the room leaving four overjoyed monks in the room.
"This is most exiting!" Omi exclaimed jumping up and down. "It will be most wonderful to visit these places!"
Maybe if I'm lucky, Raimundo thought while standing next to the three overjoyed monks. Kimiko and I will have a spectacular time. But only if I tell her the truth…
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Note: Please don't judge this story by the first boring chapter.
zomg suspense :O Not really. So yeah, hopefully this'll be more popular than the other story I uploaded ("Zodiac Xiaolin Titans Go!"). Please review!! This is going to be a fun summer story!!
vivi-raikim14
P.S- I'm beginning to see the light of my "Six Years Later" block!!
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I'm getting some ideas :D