Kaori slid the chest of draws forward again and opened the cupboard. She pulled out the diary and ran a hand over the black cover. It was smooth and the spine was worn where Kimiko had obviously opened it and written in it everyday. She wished she could've known her.
She pulled out another photo. This one was of Kimiko and Omi pulling faces at the camera and a green lizard was curled up Omi's arm. She was wondering what the lizard was called when she remembered that Kimiko had mentioned someone called Dojo in the entry she had read. Maybe that was him? Or maybe dojo was a friend and just didn't like having his picture taken. Or he was the one holding the camera all the time.
Kaori skipped back to where she
had been reading and after making sure no one was coming, sat down
and continued to read.
Kimiko and Raimundo walked hand in hand to the training area. They were laughing and talking about nothing in particular, but they always seemed to be smiling and laughing these days. Chase young was defeated, Wuya had gone into hiding; too weak to fight them, and that just left Jack, who returned to the Ying-Yang world to try and search for Chase Young's soul, but had been unable to find it. Instead, his 'evil' had been returned, but lets face it, he was hardly a threat.
More or less everything had returned back to normal. No one was trying to kill them or make them join the Heylin side and about once every two or three days a Shen-Gong-Wu would activate, giving them something to keep them busy.
"I think today we are going to meditate," Said Master Fung, "After all, what is the use of keeping our bodies in shape if our minds are not?"
They all nodded and sat down, Omi included and closed their eyes. As Master Fung spoke softly to them, his own eyes closed, they slowly closed out all sound.
Kimiko slowly opened one blue eye. She looked over and saw Raimundo had opened his own eye. He smiled and winked at her. She smiled back and closed her eye. A few minutes later she opened it again and saw Raimundo, both eyes open grinning at her. She smiled at him and indicated silently that they should join in. He nodded and they both closed their eyes.
A few seconds later there was a loud crash and they all opened their eyes. Standing on top of the roof, was Jack Spicer, surrounded by heavy armed robots.
"Hi there Xiaolin Losers!" He called, "Did I interrupt your mid day map?"
"Get lost Spicer! We have more important things to do!" Shouted Kimiko.
"Really? Well I'm sorry, but I'm not leaving till I get some Shen-Gong-Wu!" Said Jack, glaring down at them.
"JACK BOTS ATTACK!"
"Kaori?" Asked Ray, knocking on the door.
Kaori quickly shoved the book under her bed as he walked in.
"Hey dad" She said, smiling.
"How's that homework coming?" He asked.
"I'm almost done dad," Said Kaori.
"Well finish quickly, don't you want to get some practice for the competition done?" He asked.
"Yeah, I will dad," Said Kaori.
Her dad nodded and left, shutting the door behind him. Kaori pulled her homework towards her and glanced at the questions. She scribbled a few notes and answers down, occasionally tapping on her calculator. When she had written down something for each question (not bothering to check if it was right) she pulled the diary out from under the bed.
She ran a hand over the pages,
thinking about the girl who had written in them. She wondered if she
would ever meet this person, or if she had already met her and didn't
know. It was strange, but she felt like she already knew this person.
Maybe she just reminded her of herself. Either way, where was she?
"JACK BOTS ATTACK!" shouted Jack Spicer, pointing at the dragons.
The robots attacked, but the fight didn't last long. The dragons always had been more than a match for the loser bots. Why did he even bother anymore?
Kimiko ran for the vault as soon as she cleared a path. By the time she got there the door was already open and Jack was walking up the steps from he vault.
"Put the wu down Spicer," She said.
"Or what?" Asked Jack, glaring at her with a strange smile on his face.
"I'll kick your butt, does that sound fun to you?" Asked Kimiko.
"No, but kicking yours does." Said Jack.
Kimiko rolled her eyes. Had she thought about, she would've realised how strange it was that Jack Spicer, for once, wasn't crying like a little girl and throwing the Shen-Gong-Wu down at her feet, but she didn't think about it. She jumped into the air, span around and aimed a kick for his head.
Jack threw the Shen-Gong-Wu into the air and caught her foot, spinning her around, straight into the wall and then dropping her before catching all the Shen-Gong-Wu before it hit the floor. Kimiko slowly and shakily sat up.
"H … how did you …?" She began, but Jack quickly sat on top of her and pinned her arms down.
"How did I get so good?" He asked, "Well that's simple, I learned."
"You aren't Jack Spicer!" Snapped Kimiko, "you're someone else!"
"You know I could take offence from that," said Jack, "But I'm not that shallow."
"Get off of me!" Snapped Kimiko, trying to struggle free.
"You know, I risked everything trying to help you out, but you never even noticed, did you?" He said, "And now, well, I'm even better than I ever was."
"You are nothing!" Said Kimiko, glaring up at him.
She realised she was having trouble breathing. She wasn't sure why it had suddenly hit her so hard, but she couldn't get Jack off her chest to draw in breath.
"I can't breath!" She gasped.
"What a pity," Said Jack, not making an effort to move, he just sat there watching her glare up at him.
"Get off of me Spicer!" Kimiko gasped.
"You never realised what I was doing, did you?" Asked Jack.
"I don't understand you!" gasped Kimiko.
"You wouldn't," said Jack, leaning down by her ear, "But don't worry, you will and when you do, you'll come to me. What you don't realise is I didn't just return to my old self; I lost everything inside of me. There is no more of that pathetic weed Jack Spicer. I'm so much better than that now."
He stood up and picked up his sack of Shen-Gong-Wu. Kimiko spluttered and gasped for breath, spitting slightly on the floor.
"Kimiko?" Called Raimundo, running into the room.
"See you later dragons," Said Jack, "I'll be back."
With that he was gone and Raimundo ran over to Kimiko and knelt down beside her.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"He's gone …" she whispered hoarsely.
"I know; he just left." Said Raimundo, "But we'll get him."
"No!" Gasped Kimiko, "I mean … Spicer. He's not Jack anymore … he left all of his chi behind. He's not even the Jack Spicer we knew anymore."
Raimundo looked down at her and frowned slightly.
"Come one, we'd better get you out of here. Get some fresh air," said Raimundo, helping her to her feet.
Kaori frowned, wondering what Jack Spicer could've meant. She was tempted to skip ahead and check it out, but that was cheating and she knew she shouldn't. So she didn't.
(A/N) I'm sorry it's shorter than normal, but I've hurt my right hand (since I'm right-handed it's not so good) and I'm finding it hard to type it up. I'll get back to regular sized chapters because I feel guilty. This chapter is a good 700 words shorter than normal. I tend to try and get it up to 2000 words per chapter at least, but sometimes I'm naughty and skip out.
Tell me what you think so far.
Lots of luv, Becky.
