So I've decided to publish a new Xiaolin Showdown fic. The one that's currently in progress wasn't exactly popular, and in any case I was having issues with figuring out where I was going with it. So I bring you this instead. I know it's been done before, but this is my take on a season 4 of Xiaolin Showdown. That means for the most part it's strictly characters from the show, maybe a few minor characters that add in for the sake of the plot, but for the most part just the characters from the show.
WHICH brings me to this...
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing, none of the characters, Shen Gong Wu, locations belong to me. If I did own the show, I would definitely be working on a new season, not writing it on fanfiction.
so enjoy the new story.
It was the start of an ordinary day, the sun was shining, the birds were sing… chirping, and the trees blew softly in the gentle breeze. Well, it all appeared normal, until you realized that just past the majestic mountain range stood the Xiaolin temple, and assuming you knew anything about the place, then you knew it was anything but normal. A dummy burst into flames as Kimiko caught a small, star shaped object.
"I never get tired of that." She said, blowing smoke from the Star Hanabi. Maybe it would help to start from the beginning.
You see, Raimundo was chosen as Shoku Warrior, as well as the leader of the four monks. Well it turns out that on the same day that Raimundo was elected leader that the Heylin forces came to the temple. At first glance, you would assume that they were there to fight, but their visit was benign, merely a warning.
The monks approached the gate to the temple, where the Heylin forces were standing, ready for the worst, an all out Heylin onslaught. Instead, Only Chase walked forward.
"Hello Xiaolin Monks." He said to them.
"Chase Young, to what do we owe this pleasure?" Raimundo said to him, also stepping forward.
"Nice to see you too, Raimundo, you're looking chipper as ever." Chase said to the teen.
"Yeah, yeah, save it and get to the point." Kimiko said, crossing her arms.
"So pushy today. Alright, I'll tell you why we're here. This is a warning, a warning to let you know that while you may have been able to defeat us this time, next time it won't be so simple." Chase said before turning to face the other Heylin forces. Before the monks could question him, the group disappeared in an explosion of green flames.
That brings you up to speed. The monks took this warning as a joke at first, until they spoke to Master Fung about it, who told them that as hard to believe as it might be, it was, unfortunately, very true.
"Young monks, this warning is very legitimate, in fact, I was about to tell you all myself, Chase just happened to beat me to it." Master Fung said to the four monks.
"So you mean to tell me that Chase Young was telling the truth, and that we are in for a tougher fight than we have ever faced before?" Omi asked, his voice filled surprise.
"I'm afraid so, Omi." Master Fung replied.
"Leader or not, I don't know if I could win in a fight like that again." Raimundo added in.
"That is why," Master Fung began, turning to face away from the monks, "We must begin training. It will be more intense than any training you have experienced before, but by the time you have completed it, you will be more prepared than ever."
Now we're in present day. It was just two days ago that Master Fung had informed the monks of the training that they would have to undergo. That training begins today.
"Now tell me again what we could possibly gain from training with Shen Gong Wu that we've used countless times in the past." Raimundo said to Master Fung, crossing his arms.
"Young Monk, you must constantly practice with the Shen Gong Wu. The more that you use them, the more you will be able to do with them." He told Raimundo. The Brazilian shook his head and went back to observing as Kimiko switched out the Star Hanabi for the Orb of Tornami. She held the orb in her left hand, and summoned a ball of fire in her right.
"Kimiko, I must advise against using the most fearsome Orb of Tornami with an element such as yours." Omi said to her. Kimiko glared at Omi, and he knew instinctively to back away from her, leaving her to do as she pleased. In front of her stood a metal dummy, fashioned from some of the Jack-Bot parts that had piled up during Jack's many attempts to attack the temple. She examined it, noticing that no part of the dummy was uncovered, the metal covering every inch of the dummy. She tossed the orb into the air and kicked it, sending it soaring. The other monks watched with confused looks. She summoned fire in her left hand as well. She flung the balls of fire into various parts of the dummy's metal armour. Parts of the metal glowed an intense red-orange glow as they were bombarded with fire. She caught the orb in her hand and pointed it at the robot.
"Orb of Tornami!" She called out, sending a huge flow of water out of it and into the dummy. The water stopped, and the glowing had decreased. Steam poured off of the glowing pieces of metal. Switching the Orb for the Fist of Tebigong, she flipped over to the dummy and drew her right arm back.
"Fist of Tebigong!" She shouted, thrusting her arm forward, propelling the fist into the dummy's chest. It made contact with the glowing metal, and it shattered. Her right hand became engulfed in flames and she slammed it into the dummy's chest. She used her fingers like claws, the fire seemingly slicing into the dummy. The dummy caught fire from the inside, and it collapsed in on itself into a pile of flaming cloth and metal.
"Well I'll be. You taught that dummy a thing or two Kim." Clay said, blinking a few times to make sure that what he was seeing was true.
"Dude, Kim, you kicked dummy ass." Raimundo said, patting her on the shoulder.
Omi stood there, twiddling his thumbs and avoiding eye contact with Kimiko. He finally put his arms to his sides with a sigh, and said, "Kimiko, you were most impressive, even to me."
"Thank you Omi, I think." Kimiko said. The monks were about to continue when they noticed a shadow pass over the temple. It was too large to be something like a bird and too close to the ground to be an airplane. They were about to investigate when they felt the ground shake, followed by the smell of fire. They began running when the noticed a pillar of thick, black smoke rising from the area around the Shen Gong Wu vault. As the group approached cautiously, they noticed a large, robotic aircraft sticking out of the upper section of the vault. They could tell that it belonged to no other than Jack Spicer, but something about it made all four of them feel uneasy. It had a much more sinister design to it, with sections of jet black metal that had glowing panels and wires. The most surprising part was that even after crashing into the vault, it still looked like it would not only work, but it almost looked as if it had suffered no damage to it.
"Like it? Chase had Wuya cast some sort of elaborate and confusing spell on it, the metal is infused with Heylin magic, so I'd like to see you losers blow this thing up." Jack gloated from his pedestal at the top of the temple vault.
"Sounds like a challenge, guys." Raimundo said, the three nodding in agreement. Raimundo and Clay had knelt down, and Kimiko stood on their hands. They launched the teen girl into the air and she sailed towards Jack. With surprisingly quick reflexes, he activated his heli-bot and dodged Kimiko, who, in order to avoid plummeting into the ground, was able to grab onto part of Jack's aircraft and pull herself onto it. She stood up and faced Jack, who stuck his tongue out.
"Keep your tongue in your mouth, Spicer, or you're liable to lose it." She threatened. Jack's response was to pull out one of his various death rays and shoot at her with it. She flipped into the air, and was barely able to avoid the laser and land back on the object under her.
"Come over here and fight me like a man, Jack." Kimiko taunted. Omi was about to open his mouth and say something, but Clay looked at him, nodding disapprovingly, and Omi closed his mouth.
"Well, it looks like I've given the others enough time to get some of the Wu, so my work here is done." Jack said as he pressed a button. The aircraft began to move backwards, pieces of the temple vault being knocked off and to the ground. The three male monks turned their heads to see Katnappe making her way out of the vault, a large bag over her shoulder. Raimundo pushed his arms forward, blowing a gust of wind at Katnappe. She lost her grip on the bag and it flew into the air.
"Oh c'mon you little hairballs, the plan almost went purrr-fectly." She whined.
"Someone get the Wu" Raimundo shouted as the four monks, Katnappe and Jack dived for the sack. Clay jumped into the air and touched the sack at the same time as Jack, who was able to reach the sack at an almost surprising rate.
"Jack, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown." Clay told him.
"As long as there are no flying saddles this time, I accept." Was his reply.
"Alrighty, here's the challenge; We both stand on top of the vault, and the first to fall loses, and the winner gets this mighty fine sack of Wu here. As far as anteing the Wu goes, I wager the …" Clay began.
"Say, why don't we make this a bit more interesting, me and Katnappe against you and Kimiko?" Jack proposed, the two girls nodding in agreement and standing beside the two males.
"I reckon that's fine by me. We wager the Star Hanabi and Moby Morpher for your Eye of Dashi and Third-Arm Sash." Clay said to the two.
"Let's Go, XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!" The four teens called out.
The ground around the temple began to shake and soon fell away. The vault itself had ascended greatly, towering over the ground. The roof broke away, only the rafters and the edge if the building were left to stand on. Clay and Kimiko stood on one side, and on the other side stood Jack and Katnappe, while Raimundo and Omi watched from an adjacent pillar that had risen up from the abyss below them.
"GONG-YI-TAN PAI"
"Moby Morpher!" Clay called out. He slammed the two halves of the Wu together, and was transformed into Kimiko as he pulled them apart.
"Two Kimikos? I think I'm in heaven." Jack gushed, which caused Katnappe to smack him on the arm. Both Kimiko and Clay made their way to Katnappe and Jack slowly, trying to avoid falling into the void. While Katnappe had no trouble distinguishing Clay from Kimiko, Jack could not figure out who was who. Katnappe shook her head and charged at the real Kimiko nimbly.
"Star Hanabi!" Kimiko shouted as she pointed the star at the cat girl. Katnappe let out a loud hiss and ducked, the ears on her hood getting scorched by the flames.
"You know I'M going to be the one who has to fix those, right Kimiko?" Katnappe shouted.
"And you honestly think I care?" Kimiko retorted.
"I love a good Cat Fight, GET HER KIM!," Raimundo said to Omi, "although it's creepy when one of the girls is, uh, dressed like a cat."
Katnappe clawed at Kimiko, who dodged and flipped over her, making her way to Jack. Now both Kimiko and Clay stood on either side of Jack, who looked side to side with a confused look on his face.
"Moby Morpher!" Clay called out as he returned to his original self as Kimiko set Jack's coat on fire. He began to scream, giving Clay the opportunity he needed. Clay slammed his head into Jack's, and the sound of shattering bones could be heard.
"Talk about a think skull." Jack whimpered as he fell off the edge. Clay and Kimiko turned to face Katnappe, but unfortunately she was close enough so that as Kimiko turned, Katnappe's foot caught Kimiko's leg, causing her to lose her balance. She tried to grip the edge of the building, but Katnappe stepped on her foot, causing her to let go.
"So, cowboy, we all know you won't hit me, maybe you should just surrender now." Katnappe purred triumphantly.
"Well, the way I figure," Clay began, transforming as he spoke, "If you beat yourself up, it doesn't really count."
"Oh, so you think you can take my appearance and kick my butt with it?" Katnappe growled at the cowboy, who now looked exactly like her. Clay began to approach her, but Katnappe retaliated.
"Eye of Dashi!" she called out, lightning flying towards Clay. Using Katnappe's agility to benefit him, he skillfully jumped out of the lightning bolt's path, landing on his feet on a rafter. Katnappe pounced, but Clay slammed the Moby Morpher together, turning back into himself. Katnappe flew straight into his arms.
"Betcha thought this hugging thing wouldn't work a second time, huh?" Clay asked both rhetorically and sarcastically. He walked over to the edge of the vault. He looked Katnappe straight in the eyes and then dropped her off the roof.
"Nice of you to drop by, ma'am." He said as he watched her fall, tipping his hat as he did so. The showdown ended and Clay stood in the middle of the courtyard in front of the vault, the sack of Shen Gong Wu in one hand, and the wagered Wu in the other. Raimundo, Omi and Kimiko walked over.
"You may have won the battle, but you have not, shall not, WILL not win the war!" Jack shouted as he and Katnappe flew away.
"Nice going man." Raimundo said he high-fived Clay.
"Most impressive combat abilities my Texan friend." Omi added.
"You really covered for my flop Clay, I owe you." Kimiko told him.
"Nah, y'all don't have to congratulate me, I was just doing the right thing." Clay said modestly, a faint blush visible on his cheeks.
"Ah, young monks, I see you have managed to ward of yet another attempt by the Heylin forces to make off with our Shen Gong Wu, but this was easy compared to what you will face in the time to come." Master Fung said as he walked over to them.
Yeah. So the real story behind this comes from the fact that i reread my first fanfiction, and i loved chapter 1, because it contained only the characters from the show. As much as i love my OCs, i just feel like the first chapter was the best. So please don't forget to review, and be on the look out for chapter two.
Ignore that unintentional rhyme.