Disclaimer- I do not own xiaolin showdown

Master Fung walked into the training area where the young xiaolin warriors were struggling with fighting blind folded against various objects. "Warriors you may be at peace." They all stopped whatever they were doing (Kimiko: fighting robotic alligator/ Raimundo: dodging swinging hammers/ Omi: breaking vases / Clay: rescuing the puppy.)

"Thank you Master Fung." Omi bowed still blind folded and Fung dismissed the bow.

"So why are we stopping early?" Kimiko asked lifting up her blindfold.

"Because you've all worked hard and… we have a new student." They all took off they're blindfolds and Master Fung stepped aside revealing a girl in jeans and a T-shirt that said 'eyes up here' with an arrow pointing up towards her face.She also carried around a large backpack. She had blondish brown hair that was past her shoulder blades and a dark sun tan. Everything about her seemed normal except her eyes ,her eyes were brown with a gold flecks and a ring of green in the center, earth eyes.

"Hi my names Mary, Mary Jane." Her voice was timid and quaint very feminine. (yes I know what Mary Jane means! That's why I used it.)

(Okay this is an author note thing and it's to give a better description of Mary

Hair: Blonde/brown

Eyes: Green/ Brown w/gold flecks

Skin: Dark suntan (around Raimundo's skin tone)

Clothes/ accessories:

T-shirt

Jeans

Sneakers

Back Pack

Long gloves that go up to almost her shoulders

Got it? Good.)

"Hi I'm Kimiko welcome to the xiaolin temple." Kimiko jumped from the mechanical alligators jaws which snapped shut right after and landed in front of Mary.

"Thank you." She took Kimiko's hand and shook it.

"And I'm Omi I too welcome you." Mary kneeled down and patted Omi's large head.

"Well aren't you just the cutest thing!" when she spoke louder her voice had a twinge of western to it and by twinge I mean straight from the bayou.

"Well hi there little lady I'm Clay." He tipped his hat to her and she did an air curtsy.

"Your certainly well mannered." She was about shoulder level with Clay standing up straight, taller than Kimiko.

"Are you two related?" Raimundo asked.

"Usually you say hi I'm so and so welcome but I'll take that too. No we're not if we were you'd know." She grinned and shook Rai's hand squeezing it and shaking till it was limp.

"I'm just from the great state of New Orleans." Clays eyes followed her every move almost as if this girl was a little too good to be true and she was just some imposter.

"So which dragon are you? We already have all four elements." Fung smiled after Kimiko asked the golden question.

"She is the Dragon of Spirit." Everyone even Omi looked confused. "There are five elements. Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Spirit, Spirit is just a lot less common." Everyone gave a 'ohhhh' of acknowledgement.

"I didn't believe him when he told me but how could I resist? Cause I am from the bayou."

"What does the bayou have to do with anything?" Rai asked her but it was Clay who answered.

"The bayou…is the home of voodoo and witchcraft as well as spiritual energy." He smiled and ran his finger along the rim of his hat.

"Very good Clay how is it you know so much about the bayou hmmm?" He shrugged and blushed a little stumbling around his words.

"Well ummm I heard a lot of uh stuff from my um relatives."

"That's good, at home no one will listen to my relatives…then again they're crazy." Rai and Kimiko put together a few strings looking back and forth Clay and Mary.

"Ohhhh Clay have you got yourself a new girl friend?" Both Clay and Mary jumped at Rai's comment and answered at the same time.

"Wha? No I mean he/she uh we just met!" They both stopped and regained composure.

"uhhh." Mary rubbed the back of her head and laughed nervously, Clay did the same.

"Ahem, that will be enough for now, dinner time. Omi you come with me I have something to discuss with you." All of their stomachs growled in unison and Omi left with master Fung.

"Yea I could do with some chow." Rai said laying his hand on his stomach. It growled again. "Shut Up I'll feed you, I'll feed you!" Mary laughed like a southern belle.

"You guys are funny!" Her head nearly did a 360 looking at the temple. "preeeeety." Her eyes stopped at some particularly shiny objects.

"Hold on to your head or you'll loose it." Rai said addressing it with a certain feeling to it that said 'don't loose your head over Clay' instead of 'quit looking at all the goddamned treasures'.

"This head isn't going any where." She stuck her tongue out at him. "Too bad I've got a boyfriend Clay'd be perfect for me." Mary went deep into thought lost to the world around her. "Well…we only know each other over the internet so I could have both they stay secrets to each other." A wicked grin crossed Mary's face and she chuckled to herself.

"Yo Mary? Hello?" Kimi snapped her fingers under Mary's nose.

"Yes?" She said coming back to reality.

"We lost you there for a sec." Mary just smiled and laughed.

"Y-yea I do that a lot." Kimi smiled back.

"Well not on the battle field."

"After dinner can I play with your hair?" That was a question out of the blue.

"Uhhh sure?" Kimi sweat dropped not sure what to make of the sudden request.

"Yay!" She jumped up a little and threw her fist in the air leg lifted like how a cheer leader would.

"Your such a girl." With that sentence Rai had sealed his fate.

"You die now." She pounced on him and started to beat his ass! (srry had to do that.)

-please excuse us for one minute because this scene is violent and could be disturbing to younger viewers-

Rai's body laid twitching bruised and battered.

"I HOPE you've learned your lesson." He groaned as she stormed away only to stop realizing that she had no idea where she was going. "Uhhh which way is the dining hall?" Clay smiled a little she was cute in a vicious puppy kinda way.

"Here I'll show ya." He took her arm like how a gentleman would in the old west.

"Thank you ,you remind me of my pa in a way..." The rest of the xiaolin Dragons watched them walk away talking like they had known each other for years.

"Well they're just meant for each other aren't they?" Rai rubbed his head.

"Yea meant for each other… right." Kimiko smacked the already large lump on his head.

"Rai! Come on you have to admit they're cute." Rai had a little throbby thing on his forehead.

"Cute? Yea they're cute! Cute like a Doberman! Do you see me do you call that cute?" He pointed to his many bruises.

"No, I call that funny." Tears streamed down Rai's face.

"No it's not funny it's painful!" Kimi left while he was complaining about how bad Mary had beat him. "Fine walk away!" he sat down cross legged muttering to himself, his stomach growled. "Okay,okay." He got up and walked to the dining hall. He was met with a great deal of laughter.

"Hi Raimundo!" Kimi waved to him from the table.

"And I mean, I swear, I saw my mom hit the kitchen pot with a wooden spoon and say 'git on back it dere!'" Everyone laughed. Apparently Mary was telling everyone about her life in New Orleans.

"My auntie did something similar at my family pot luck last year except a chicken flew out when she did." They laughed again. Mary looked down at the miso soup she had just been served.

"wazzis?" She sniffed it and poked the seaweed with a chopstick.

"It's miso soup try it, it's good." Kimiko picked up her bowl and sipped the soup, Clay and Rai did the same thing. She gulped picked up the bowl and took a sip spitting back into the bowl soon after.

"Whats wrong?"

"This stuff is saltier than my granny's mashed taters!" she took a sip of the green tea she had also been served. "ahhhh.."

"I thought that too at first, but I got used to it after a while."

"Yea it's just one of those things." Mary wasn't paying attention; she was glaring at her soup.

"Okay I don't like you and you don't like me but I'm hungry." She took a deep breath and swallowed all the soup in one gulp. "ugh…" Every one was giving her strange stares.

"Wow…I haven't seen anything like that since Clay hadn't eaten all day."

"Yea. Weird." Mary looked a little green.

"Never again…." A beeping noise filled the dining hall. "oh!"

"What is that beeping?" Mary went digging thru her backpack and pulled out a laptop.

"My laptop." She opened it someone was IMing her. "Ohhhh…gottatakethisbye!" She zoomed out of the dining hall and hid behind a hedge. "phew."

Evilgenius1: Hey babe how R U?

Voodoobabe: Fine U?

Evilgenius1: Good up 2 the usual EVOL stuff.

Voodoobabe: EVOL?

Evilgenius1: capital E-V-O-L babe so where R U?

Voodoobabe: China

Evilgenius1: Seriously babe where R U?

Voodoobabe: China no kiddin

Evilgenius1: Wow good 4 U, Y?

Voodoobabe: Cause

Evilgenius1: Cause Y smartass

Voodoobabe: Can't tell

Evilgenius1: your no fun…puhleeaaase tell me!

Evilgenius1 gives puppy dog eyes

Voodoobabe: well it's only a breech of national security but….I'm here undercover as a radiologist working for the US spying on their secret plans and saving the world!

Voodoobabe does hero stance

Evilgenius1: You're a horrible liar did you know that?

Voodoobabe: :) yes. I'm evol too.

Voodoobabe kisses Evilgenius1

Evilgenius1: I uh knew that?

Evilgenius1 smiles dreamily at Voodoobabe

Darkruler4eva: JACK! GET BACK TO WORK RIGHT NOW!

Evilgenius1: Y-yes ma'm!

Evilgenius1 flees from Darkruler4eva

Evilgenius1 has left the room

Darkruler4eva has left the room

Voodoobabe has left the room

Mary closed her computer and leaned against the hedge letting out a sigh. "Uhhh Mary?" She jumped at clays voice.

"gyah!"

"Heh it's okay little lady just me, what're you doin back here?" Her heart rate returned to normal and she smiled at Clay.

"Nothin just answerin a message from home." She laughed nervously.

"Okay then, but if you need anything just let me know." He turned and left.

"Ohhhh I couldn't cheat on Clay he's just too nice of a boy so later on I'll have to tell him… I hate my goddamned sense of decency." Mary sighed and got up. "I'm gonna havta do it…Um Clay?"

"Yea?" Mary hugged the laptop to her chest and blushed.

"Th-that wasn't home callin…it was my uh b-b-b-b-b…"

"yea?"he raised an eye brow.

"BOYFRIEND! It was my boyfriend." She expected something a bit angrier than what he did.

"Glad you have some one who keeps in touch with you shows he cares." Mary smiled glad that he wasn't upset.

"Yea." Clay walked back into the dining hall. "That was less painful than I expected."

Clay P.O.V.

I sat down next to Raimundo and sighed. "What's wrong? Did you get rejected by Maaaary?" I felt really tempted to strangle Rai at that moment.

"No." He smirked at me.

"With that attitude you'd guess it." Kimi was the one who gave me a true sympathetic look.

"Seriously Clay what's wrong?" I sighed again and got up from the table.

"Nothin." She gave me a pout that said I'm sorry.

"I told you he got rejected by his girlfriend." That was the last straw; I whipped around and grabbed Rai by his collar.

"The little lady HAS a boyfriend and it ain't me." I dropped him on his ass.

"Dude, harsh." I left the dining hall in a huff and passed Omi.

"Clay my friend where are you going?" I was in no mood to face his cheery attitude.

"Nowhere." I said in a flat voice.

"Where is nowhere?" I turned to Omi.

"Listen little buddy can you jus- well can I be alone for a while?" He gave his patented Omi grin.

"Fine I will be alone with you." I sighed again.

"No I mean ALONE just me no one else."

"Ohhhh I see good luck with that my friend." Omi went to go eat and I walked over to a coy pond.

"Get over it you've only known her about 3 hours" I sighed.

"But then why does it feel like you've known her forever?" That was inner Clay talking he's not as playful but he's a true cowboy.

"Cause she's just like me." I stared at the coy's for a while

"Does she like you back?" I pulled my hat over my eyes.

"No she has a boyfriend."

"Find out who the boyfriend is see if he's good enough if he's not and he's not faithful hogtie im and leave im for the buzzards but even if you don't think he's right for her but he still is devoted then leave im." And I laid back.

"That was a right pretty speech but…that doesn't stop the fact that I'm jealous…did I just say that?" I sat up immediately realizing that I had admitted jealousy to some guy I didn't even know. "I did didn't I?…well that's southern romance for ya."

"Mmhmm." I could feel inner clay tip his hat to me and I just sighed and took off my own hat, running my fingers through my hair.

"This is real confusin."

"What's confusin?" A southern belle voice snapped me out of dreamland. I looked up and Mary smiled at me.

"A lot of things…a whole lot of things." She took a seat next to me at the coy pond and looked beyond the surface of the water into the sunset behind it.

"Well that's life." We sat in silence for a while looking out at the sun set until almost all the pink, orange, and gold was gone. "Hey Clay?"

"Yea?"

"Do you ever miss home?" The question was a little odd cause she had only been here a few hours, was she already homesick?

"Uh sometimes but not a lot this place easily became a second home to me." She nodded and looked out at the now black starry sky.

"We don't get stars like these in New Orleans too much light from the city lamps." She got up and stretched. "Where do we sleep? Cause I got a serious case of jetlag." I got up too and showed her where are rooms were.

"This is a spare room so I guess it's your's well g-night." I turned to go but I felt a hand on my upper arm so I stopped.

"Thank you for helping me out today It's hard to find real gentlemen like you anymore." I could feel her pull her self up slightly and she kissed me on the cheek. "G-night." She closed her door and I felt the spot on my cheek where she had kissed me, it was a little sticky probably from lip gloss or some other girly make up thing.

"That…May have just been the first time a girl has ever kissed me." I walked back to my room which was right next to Raimundo's.

"Hey cowboy still want to disprove that Mary isn't your girlfriend?" He was standing in the door way of his room suppressing laughter.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" He poked my cheek and burst out laughing. I checked in a hall way mirror and sure enough there was a shiny, pink, lip impression. "Awwww shoot!"

"Better hope her boyfriend doesn't find out." I grabbed Rai by his hood and literally kicked him out of the building our rooms were in.

"You can sleep out there tonight!" I slammed and locked the door shut and could hear muffled banging from outside.

"Come oooon! Man I was only joking! Come on let me in! please?"

"Nope." I went into my room closed, and locked the door and fell asleep.