The moon hung high in the inky sky spreading it's light all across the dark, sleeping landscape as a gentle wind brushed across it. Out at the Xiaolin Temple someone was stirring a bit, insomnia was plaguing this young girl as she lay awake staring up at the ceiling as something inside her own subconscious has been banging itself against her own psyche after encountering the Path Gem. A dream, going over it each time she closed her eyes and it was keeping her up.
Kimiko tried to fall back asleep but she snapped awake, why did she woke up this time? It was only two minutes so it could not be the dream bothering her, maybe it was the meaning her conscious mind was trying to make sense of it. She cannot keep this up, she was slipping up in training and her choirs as her mind was not as sharp as she needs to be in case of a new Shen Gong Wu appears or one of their enemies appears. But tonight she could not get even in a remote amount of sleep, she might as well as crawl out of bed to use her laptop a bit.
I hope Dilah is on, she thought as she waited for her computer to boot up and allowed it cast a shallow glow into the room and around the screen. The modem had connected and she opened her instant messenger, and there in the off-line messages was Dilah. It was just the usual everything's fine, saw a nice girl during the weekend and nothing was new. Kimiko smiled a bit, she was going to type out a fast message back when her friend came on.
"You there, Thompsongunnergirl?"
"Just got on."
"Glad to catch you as I have something I wanted to talk to you about in person, sort of speak." Kimiko raised a brow but understood what Dilah was getting at as she waited, the icon showed her friend was writing. "I have this problem with a girl I constantly fight with and not just picking on, name calling fighting but full fists and kicking, you see I have been developing feelings for her but she's... You know. I cannot even talk to her because of the things I had done in the past, but I at least want try yet in a cliché way I am afraid to be rejected."
"I know how it feels, it is the same here with me only it is childish name calling AND fist fighting." The emoticon for "laugh" appeared in response, "funny. But seriously I have wondered if I did manage to actually have some sort of relationship with her what would the people around think of me, because I know we can't change it would make everything so much more difficult then it already is."
"Same problem here, my parents are cool about my love of women but the people I have to encounter are a bit loopy." Kimiko went to type a message but her friend suddenly went off line, she sighed as she logged out as well since this was a common occurrence. Going to her e-mail account she found nothing of interest, just spam and junk from people she want to avoid. After a moment she turned off the computer and almost literarily she crawled back into bed hoping that she does not have the same nightmare again.
The hallway was small and narrow, there was a few pictures that were blurred so badly there was just color and form and a nightstand. There was a door to the left and down the other way was another door but ahead is a sharp turn right, it was here there was a magnetic pull. It was one that Kimiko could not resist now matter how much she tried, as she turn the corner into a room with furniture broken and over turned and deep grooves carved into the walls she saw two human forms laying on the floor. They had no details except for being just a silhouette of a man and a woman, and they both were laying in a pool of blood.
But in the center of this chaos was a machine, black and plated with armor it stood there to it's full height almost touching the tall ceiling. That is all she can see as it raised a scythe it was holding and brought it down.
The waves came in to greet to shore before leaving out to sea in a rhythmic pattern as old as time itself, above this shoreline is an apartment complex over looking all of this. In one particular apartment a young woman was laying awake staring up into the ceiling as she rolled a small marble-sized object around in her hand.
She had won it as an insult but now as she looked it over in the light she wonder if it was really worth it, all it was to her is a glorified marble which it looked like. It really did not do much as she expected but of course she did not know what it does, placing it onto one of her nightstands she sat on the edge of the bed. The apartment was quite as her kittens were asleep and her parents were off on business trips, so she was basically alone. Walking over to a computer that sat in the corner of her room she turned it on and waited to log into her instant messenger. Her friend was on line and they talked for a moment, she cut the conservation short after hearing a loud beeping coming from the other room she turned off the computer as she grabbed the jumpsuit on the way to the other room, sitting on a coffee table was a diamond shaped device with four arrows and a small LCD screen at the bottom.
Picking it up Katnappe looked it over, it would take a moment but she would get a ride to the location of the new Shen Gong Wu.
"Hey, wake up everyone."
Kimiko opened her eyes as she was still in a state of sleep and let her body operate on auto-pilot as she walked out into the hall. The other Dragons were emerging from their rooms as Dojo was floating through with the scroll, when all of the warriors were in front of him as he unrolled the scroll. "What is it?"
"The prisoner Bracelets," Dojo showed two little miniature figures wearing the two bracelets, when one walks away the other is dragged close by. "Dashi made it as a punishment device, there is a master bracelet and a slave bracelet. The slave bracelet is forced to follow around the master bracelet, if the person with the slave bracelet tries to attack the wearer master bracelet the injury would reflected back onto him."
"What happens if both bracelets were put on the same person? They would have to follow himself?" Raimundo smirked at his own quip.
"Nothing, they just fall off if that happened." Dojo rolled up the scroll, "we better catch it before one of the others get it as we don't know what kind of trouble the villains can cause with it."
"Well we better go after it," Clay said as Dojo enlarged himself. The warriors left the temple as Kimiko really thought nothing of it, her mind was instead on the dream again and what does it mean. Perhaps out there, somewhere in the world was a new threat waiting for them.
Great, another enemy.
Jack had just finish building another Jack Spicer's Shen Gong Wu-detector-bot as he grumbled about how Ashley stole the other one. Lifting up the device with a smug smile a large amount of pride welled up inside him as he started to laugh, he went on for the time until he began to cough. He kept on coughing as he used the table for support as his coughing had grown worse and he fell to the floor a bit as he passed out.
At the entrance the door slowly opened as a young blonde figure had slipped in, she found Jack laying on the floor as she snuck through the large rooms picking up the keys on her way to the jet kept in the hanger. Just as she entered the cockpit Jack woken up unsuspecting of his leaving jet even as dust blew through the hanger door. He just kept on admiring his new detector when it had suddenly gone off, Jack leapt back as he went through all of his moves until he came back to reality. "Those Xiaolin losers would never knew what happen, come one my little beauty of Wu detecting potency and find this item."
Walking through the door to the small hanger he had not full focused on his surroundings as he stepped up the metal stairs and reached out to grasp the non-existent handle on his new jet. Frustration finally gotten to the young genius and he glared at the empty space, it took his mind several seconds to process what had happened then to crush the device in his hand. "Katnappe." he growled, then noticing the mangled metal in his hand and let out a shriek.
The sun was beginning to rise when they had arrived at the destination which happened to be a small city in Mexico, in the horizon one can see the top of the city blending against the background of an orangey hued sky.
The sight they landed at was undeveloped but had several chain-linked fences and construction equipment waiting for use later on in the day. The four waited for Dojo to sense out the Shen Gong Wu, he pointed towards a large mound of dirt. "There, I sense something over there."
"I'm no it," Kimiko darted. There was something sparkling on top of the dirt, it was changing between blue and red as she neared the object. She climbed up a bit to seem more of the object, it was half sticking up and two of the gems on one bracelet was shimmering. "I got," Kimiko smiled as her hand out stretch to grab it, her fingers were just touching the metal when a leather paw grasp it.
"No, I got it." Katnappe said smugly as she lifted the Shen Gong Wu from the dirt to reveal two intertwine "hoops" of solid silver, each contains two gems, one blue and red, the other was purple and green. The warriors gathered at the base of the hill as Kimiko brought out the eye of Dashi, opening her mouth to challenge Katnappe to a Xiaolin showdown when there was a sudden bright flash.
When the glare died away the two girls stood opposite of each other, each with a bracelet on their wrists. The slave bracelet wound up on Kimiko and the master bracelet was on Katnappe, the situation cannot end well.
It was dark as there was no light except for the sparks from the wielding as the machines continued about the lab, in the center with several mechanical arms severing different jobs just as wielding and soldering he waited. Soon he will be complete again and revenge will be his, if he was able to smile he would have.