I don't own Xiaolin Showdown in any way.
And I might even get some facts wrong just to let you know, you know?
The little green dragon stormed into one of the temple rooms where he found the elemental dragons relaxing for the moment, the dragon's hands flaring everywhere, "Hey, everyone, come quick!" he shouted.
"Dojo, what's the problem?" Kimiko asked walking up to the jumpy little lizard.
"Ah," he twitched and then ran in a circle around Kimiko.
"What's wrong with you?" Raimundo said walking closer to inspect the commotion.
"Well you see, Raimundo," Dojo tried to keep his eyes on Rai as he circled Kimiko, "I sense a Shen Gong Wu,"
"Another has revealed itself?" Omi the bald headed yellow monk asked. The dragon answered with a nod.
"And that's why you're jumpier than a kangaroo on a sugar rush at a hopping festival?" Clay, the cowboy from Texas stated seeing Dojo jump back and forth around the older teens.
"So which one is it?" Kimiko asked.
"I don't know," Dojo said, "But it's there, I can feel it,"
"You don't know what it is?" Omi asked.
"Dragons please understand," Master Fung walked in after they all gathered around Dojo, "The scroll does not ever have details of this Wu. But Dojo apparently senses it so it must be a magical weapon hidden by Grand Master Dashi for him to sense it so eagerly."
The young Dragons looked to their master, "So we will have to search for it to find out what it is?" Rai asked.
"If it is a weapon then it must be us to find it than Chase Young and his goons, Wuya and Jack." Omi stated proudly.
Clay tilted his hat up to look at his friends, "Guess we better leave then,"
"Come on Dojo," Kimiko grabbed the little dragon carrying him outside. The other dragons followed, except one.
"Master Fung," Raimundo called to his master, who turned to give him his attention, "This Wu, there is nothing about it in the scroll? At all?"
Fung shook his head, "I am afraid not even in the slightest detail," he held up the scroll to open it for Rai, "The power or description are black, the appearance of the Wu is also unknown," Rai looked down pondering what it could be for there to be no information on it at all. Fung went on, "I want all four of you to investigate this mysterious Wu, I along with a few other monks will search the records in the vault to shed any kind of light on the matter."
Rai nodded, "Yes master Fung," and ran out of the temple to catch up with the other friends of his.
Fung closed the scroll, and watched as Dojo took flight, with the four dragons on his back, swerving and weaving like a true serpent dragon of the past. The scroll was black where the information should be; in fact the entire page was black not blank but a swirling dark aura of what Fung felt it to be a sad and lonely feeling.
Clay rode in front, "Hey, Rai," he shouted to the back of group.
"Yeah?" Rai shouted back.
"What did master Fung tell you?"
The two smaller dragons in the middle looked to Rai. "He just wanted us to look into the mysterious Wu," he called over the wind, "Said he was going to look into it more through the other extra scrolls they have laying around in the vault."
"But," Omi began, "If the master scroll doesn't have it then why would the other ones have any mention of it?"
"That's true, Rai," Kimiko added, "I think we won't know what we are dealing with until we get there and see what it is,"
"Be prepared for anything I say," Clay explained, "Could be bad, could be good."
"That's right kids," Dojo spoke up, "We don't know what's in store for us,"
"Oh, Dojo," Kimiko patted his back, "How are you feeling? Calmed down any?"
"Why yes I have, thank you very much Kimiko," Dojo smiled.
"What was that anyway?" Rai asked, "You wouldn't stop moving; I thought you finally convinced yourself of having ADHD or something,"
"I was just antsy," Dojo explained, "Couldn't stop myself, wanted to just keep on the move,"
"Looked quite bothersome if you asked me," Clay said.
"Irritating if anything," Dojo said, "But now I'm alright, I'm moving and the hyper, overexcited feeling has lessened so on to the location of the mysterious Wu."
Dojo landed on a small hill somewhere in what was believed to be Sweden near a large lake surrounded by trees. The dragons looked at one another and hopped off Dojo, "This is it guys," he said returning to his small stature and continuing his circle where he left off.
"It's beautiful here," Kimiko awed at the area around her, "Very nice and quiet and peaceful. I wouldn't mind having a picnic here."
"Well, sorry to say this outing is no lunch break Kimiko," Omi intensely searched around from where he stood, "We are here to find an object of mass destruction,"
"That's right," Dojo swiveled back and forth to the lake while the others followed.
"It might not be a horrible Wu it could just be something not marked," Clay suggested.
When has it ever been good that the scroll knows nothing about the Wu?" Rai asked. "So Dojo, what's up?"
Dojo spun in a circle, "In the lake," he tried to point, "Not sure where exactly but I know it's under the water somewhere,"
"There seems to be a tiny looking island in the middle of the lake," Clay said, "Worth checking out first I say,"
"Dojo said under water so who's going?" Kimiko asked looking around.
"It's my element so I'll go." Omi shouted jumping up. Standing in front of everyone facing the water's shore, "Water!" he exclaimed opening his arms wide to the blue lake. Nothing happened; "Huh?" was Omi's response to it all. "What happened?" he stated worriedly.
"Not sure partner," Clay clasped a hand on the little guys back, "Let me try," and stepped forward to the water as Omi did. "Earth!" he exclaimed as well, stomping the ground hard. Nothing happened again.
Kimiko looked at the water, only seeing her reflection, "What's going on?" she asked.
"Something is wrong," the dragon muttered to himself, "Try using a Wu instead?" Dojo said.
"Alright," Rai brought the fish gills Wu out, calling out its name and placing it on his neck. It grew silent for nearly a minute then finally someone spoke.
"Um, Rai I don-" Omi was cut off as a light shone bright for an instinct and transformed Rai in a fish man. He promptly jumped in the water after that so as not to suffocate. A splash was heard and everyone turned to the lake waiting.
"Rai?" Kimiko called out.
Rai popped his head out of the water, "It works fine," he answered.
"Be careful," Dojo spoke, "Whatever is happening it's blocking the use of your elemental abilities and causing static for the Wu,"
"Yeah," Clay said, "We don' know when the Wu you're using will give out an' stop working,"
"So," Omi blurted, "Don't be under for too long."
Rai brought a webbed a thumbs-up for his friends, "Got it, guys, don't worry." With that he went under again. The water was a nice blue; clear enough to let light past through but dark enough to not be able to visibly see where he was going. Warm and clean, is what he thought about the water he swam in.
In the corner of his eye something caught his attention and looked to see just a small school of tiny fish swim away from him. What was he supposed to look for? He wondered what it would appear as and he wasn't even sure if he would find it at all.
He was going to resurface to see if he was anywhere near the rock he was to go to, but something caught his eye again, something shiny and small. That tiny glimmer of light sent a cold shiver down his spine that went almost unnoticed. Swimming downward he noticed a reef of sorts of rocks, 'I must be at the bottom of the lake,' he thought swimming closer to the weak light source.
A few fish swam past him; though he knew that they couldn't have been the glint from earlier he felt something tell him to get closer. Landing on the rock, he found what looked like a cave. But this cave had what looked bars in the opening, making sure nothing could get out, or in save for the tiny fish that swam by earlier. That same something told him to get yet another closer look at the bars and what was inside.
Grabbing the stone bars the cave resembled a cell formed into the rock itself, he peered inside but it was dark, fortunately there was some kind of light already inside, dim as it may be. The light emitted from a chain. Rai followed it and found it was attached to an ankle. The ankle attached to a leg and so on and so forth. A woman was sitting in the dark cell with chains around her ankles and wrist and even her neck.
Puzzled Rai could only stare dumbfounded at her. 'What were a woman, let alone anyone, doing in a place such as this?' he thought. The woman stared back at him, her clothes old and filthy; thanks to the light from her chains he could make out she was a woman and staring at him.
She sat against the wall legs and arms displayed carelessly about as if she plopped down from a thirty mile run nonstop. But as he continued to stare she withdrew her legs under her and crawled forward not breaking any kind of eye contact. The closer she came the tighter Rai's grip in the bars became, 'Who was she?' he wanted to ask her, 'What was she doing here? For how long has she been trapped in here?'
The woman finally made it to the bars as far as the chains let her move still kneeling; she looked Rai over and studied his face and figure. Reaching out her hand slowly, Rai saw her eyes, they were familiar somehow, gold and catlike. Hair of black he could have mistaken it for the shadows behind her, he instinctively reached out his own hand, the other still griping tight to the bar.
As his one hand passed the bars it turned back to human skin. The Wu around his neck began to shine with a weak light and he was reverting back to human, it was losing its power. He had to leave before the Wu completely lost its ability.
The woman however continued her reach cautiously, he couldn't leave her here alone and chained, it was wrong. She suddenly grabbed his hand and with that the Wu lost all and any power it had left. Rai was fearful for a moment; he might die from the pressure of the water so deep, lose air and drown. He watched as his arm and body returned to what it was before.
The woman pulled him closer to the bars at seeing his transformation, grabbing his head and pulling it into the cell. Her chamber was filled with air and he took a deep breath in. Rai gasped for the air he had been given. "Thank you," he breathed.
She smiled at him; he gripped the bars for his life. How was he going to get out of this situation now? Rai was at a loss of what to do, he had nothing to do but stare into the strangers eyes. Which were getting closer now that he thought about it. What was she doing leaning so close to him?
What could he do, he needed air and she was in the cell of air he needed, the woman closed her eyes and laid her lips on his there was no way to avoid being kissed by the stranger. "My Rayflo, my dear, you have returned to me, as you said before," she whispered though Rai could hardly hear since he was trying to comprehend the kiss form a few seconds earlier.
The bars in his hands disappeared and he fell on her no longer floating in the water. She held him close to her chest, she was sitting on the ground and he noticed her chains were gone save the iron bands and a link or two. Rai stood up helping her as well, both standing in the cell of air, she smiled at him soft and kind, as one would a lover of many years and lifetimes.
He saw her robes similar to his own ripped at the edges and torn here and there, a dark green and gold edged, and it would have been very beautiful in its prime. She was near his height, and she held his face gently once again and quickly kissed him once more. But this time Rai felt blown away, it was as if he could hear the wind riled up and swirling around the two. Which it was, a whirlwind was formed form above and broke through to the cave and a cyclone appeared and surrounded them.
The woman had yet to let go of their kiss and Rai kept his eyes closed but he now felt the wind grow strong as it circled them. He pushed away gently then and looked around. With the woman now hugging him instead, he saw the water had been taken by the cyclone, by the wind that encircled them and made them its center point. Rai looked up to the sky and could barely see the shore and his friends; he was at the bottom of the lake near the middle where the stone was.
"Alright," he said removing the woman's hands from his shoulders, "Let's get out of here,"
A/N: Well, there is the first chapter, I would like to explain I haven't watched the show recently but I loved it when I was younger and remember very little of it. So I do apologize for any wrong information written up there, but I enjoyed writting this. I do not have chapters written in advance (though that sounds like a good idea that I should probably invest in sometime soon...)... (dots)... so that means I will not be sure when the next chapter will up. Well, anyway, thanks for reading and hopfully leaving a review. I don't mind if you would like to correct anything I have wrong in the chapter thus far (i.e. grammer, spelling, the use of a word, ect.) or even questions about thee (intentional extra 'e') chapter, but I do mind that it not be something that sounds too harsh, or flames as one would say. Remember, there is a difference betweem helpful and harmful, borderlines are paper thin sometimes. I wonder if anyone really reads these, I mean I do sometimes...back to this sorry. All in all, thanks for reading if you read this, hope you'll read the naxt chapter whenever it comes out.