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Chapter 1

Revealed Power

Rai's POV

I sat alone in my room, bouncing a soccer ball on my head. I was about to go insane! Nothing has happened in over three weeks now. I was dying for some excitement. My cell phone then went off, making me lose my concentration and the ball smashed into my face. I rubbed my nose and checked the message, just another girl from back in Brazil.

Normally I would be ecstatic that this girl texted me, but being so far away and with other people, they just don't matter as much anymore. Nothing in my old life really mattered as much. Having to save the world almost every day puts a lot on your shoulders I guess. The new people in my life mean everything to me; Clay, Omi, and especially Kimiko. She's been my best friend since we came here. She's the only one actually in-tune with not only the world but the cyber world. We used to stay up till three in the morning every night to play Goo Zombies together. I sighed and lay back on the mat. Why haven't things been like that lately? Kim, now that I think about it, had been a little off recently. I decided to pay her a visit.

I got up and stretched before pulling the curtain back. I took the one step walk it takes to get to her cubicle and knocked on the side of her cubicle.

"Hey Kim?" I peeked through the curtain to see she wasn't even in there. I huffed and drew back the curtain completely to get a good view of her room. Her room even seemed off. Sure, her room was always messy, but this was bizarre. Her blankets were twisted in knots, her make skewed everywhere. Her electronics had been carelessly wedged into random places, looking untouched. I pursed my lips; maybe it was time for some good old fashioned spying.

I picked the least messy spot on the ground and had to yank an eyelash curler out from underneath me. I chucked it across the room and picked up her lap top. This was the only thing that looked like it had been touched in the past few days. I opened it up and powered it on, and the screen popped right up to her emails. My eyes widened at all of the messages she'd sent back and forth to Keiko. The subject of those messages surprised me though. It was "It's almost time." What the hell did that mean? I scrolled and scrolled, trying to reach the point where it changed. I finally made it, but the message before it changed shocked me even more. The senders email address was blocked. I clicked on it and waited for the message to pop up.

"What do you think you're doing?" A cute but very aggravated voice rang from behind me. I turned and gave her a sheepish grin before closing the lap top and standing up.

"Oh you know, just spying as usual." I shrugged and played it cool. "I can only go for so long without knowing what's going on in Kimi's life!" I shrilled like a girl before her playful swing caught me in the stomach, making me lose my breath for a few seconds. As playful as her glare looked, behind it I could tell she was worried I had read something. After I caught my breath I laid a hand on her shoulder. "Kim," She looked up at me, "are you okay?" I saw her face turn five different shades of red and her expression turn from confusion to horror before ripping away from me.

"What's that supposed to mean?" She spat. Her normal harsh reaction didn't catch me off guard. I tried to pull a playful smile before ruffling her hair.

"Ai nothing Kim, let's go see what everyone's doing." I looked down at her, and she halfway smiled. I draped an arm around her shoulder and we walked in silence to the training grounds. Omi and Clay were sparring with some of our Sheng Gong Wu. We took a seat on the fountain edge before I removed my arm from around her. I decided to throw one more thing in before we completely dropped the subject. "You know you can tell me anything, right?" All playfulness had left my face, seriousness masked it. She glanced over at me and I bore my eyes into her so she wouldn't turn away. I saw her gulp and she managed another weak smile.

"Of course Rai… There's nothing you don't know." She turned her weak smile into a full on beam before turning to watch the others spar. God, she's such a bad liar. I sighed and decided to let it go.

Omi and Clay were going nowhere; they sparred back and forth for another good ten minutes before Dojo entered shaking.

"Guys, we got a hot one!" Dojo slithered over to all of us and pulled out the scroll. "It's the Ring of Silence. Pretty lame, it disables your opponent from being able to talk." He shook his head and mumbled something about losing creativity before super sizing. We all hopped on and took off into the sky. I was pumped! Finally, we had some action. It felt great to have the wind blow through my hair, the familiar scent of noodles and ointment that Dojo gave off was greatly appreciated for once. I let out a loud howl and threw my fist into the air. Everyone seemed to be just as excited as me and joined in with the cheering. We had this in the bag.

"Where are we going Dojo?" Omi asked between bouts of laughter and cheering.

"Turkey!" He yelled back at us.

"Mmm, I could really go for a big ol' turkey sandwich right about now." Clay said while rubbing his stomach. We all laughed, it felt great to be out again!

We landed in the midst of a jungle and hopped off to take in our surroundings. The usual dangerous forest, filled with giant trees and giant animals. We decided to break off and go in different directions.

Kim's POV

I stumbled over another rock and cursed silently to myself. Forests just weren't my thing. I pulled down on my light blue cami and readjusted the strings on my matching high tops before pressing forward, searching every shrub that came along. This was going to take forever. I was pumped to be out actually doing something, but not if it was going to be boring! I picked up a giant stick and lit it on fire. I started hitting all the shrubs around me and watched them engulf in flames. Once they stopped burning, it was a lot easier to check the shrubs; since there were no more shrubs. I giggled to myself and continued doing so until something caught my eye high up above. I groaned, of course the ring would be all the way up there.

The black ring was dangling on the thinnest of branches at the top of the tallest tree I'd seen. I pulled a small red and gold coin out of the back pocket of my jean shorts and yelled, "Mantis Flip Coin!" I began twirling and flipping and leaping up the tree. This felt great! I couldn't help but laugh all the way up until I collided with a tall figure. I grabbed onto a branch and swung my way up to stand on it. I looked up into red eyes that smiled down at me. I glared playfully and just began leaping away again.

"Sorry Spicer, I don't have time for games!" I laughed and managed to make it to the top, but I over shot it! As I came falling back down, Jack began rising up until both of our hands covered the ring. I grabbed onto Jack so I wouldn't fall and glared at him, not playfully this time. "Jack, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown. My Mantis Flip Coin against your…" I looked down to see something blue around his waist, "Third Arm Sash. First one to make it to the top wins!"

"I accept." He smirked.

"Let's go, Xiaolin Showdown!"

The ground began to tremble and the trees grew larger. The branches came in-between us and forced us to separate onto opposite tree branches. The ancient mossy trees kept extending higher until we were unable to even see the top. Finally the ground stopped shaking and the branches quit extending and we were ready to go.

"Gong Yei Tampi!"

"Mantis Flip Coin!" I sprung into the air, wasting no time. I cut through the air much more easily with my robe on and was nearly halfway there. I heard my teammates cheering me on, and it only made me go faster. My adrenaline was pumping. I was bounding toward the top, going too fast to even have time to think about stopping, when something latched onto my foot and yanked me downwards. I collided into a tree branch and began falling limply through the air. My mind couldn't register what was happening. I landed hard into a pair of trench coat arms. I looked up dazed, feeling something warm running down my head.

"Aw poor Kimi, need some help?" He smirked before propelling upwards toward the Sheng Gong Wu. My head was pounding; I couldn't see or think straight. God that hurt so bad. I struggled in his arms to get out, and I could feel him shaking from laughter. "Want me to let go?"

"Yes!" I yelled, sending a wave of pain through my bleeding head.

"Alright, if that's what you want." He let go. I began plummeting down towards the ground again, hitting branches every few feet. Cuts and gashes appearing everywhere. I was getting torn up; by a tree. Oh no, this wasn't happening.

I felt this fire grow down deep inside of me. It built up until it was literally exploding from my finger tips. My mouth flew open for a scream but a stream of ancient Japanese words came pouring out. Soon all I could see was fire; it began bursting from my every pore. I turned so my head was facing the ground and opened my mouth. Fire flew everywhere, flames lapped at the branches, singeing them until they were no more. The fire propelled me upwards, and I burnt down everything in sight. I caught up to Jack and burned him as well. He began falling and screaming down the trees just as I had. I finally reached the top and wrapped a firm hand around the ring, before everything went black.