Wow, you guys came back! Guess my writing isn't too bad. XD It's nice to see all of you again! Let me address a couple of things: first, there is no RaixKim love story, but it is hinted at; and second: yep, I do some Clay-bashing in this, but I love him I promise! He's just so easy to tease. XD Rai is my favorite, Omi is my sister's favorite, who doesn't like Kimiko, and Clay . . .well there's no special spot for him. XD

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So, a year or so ago, I created a quiz to see which Shen Gong Wu is right for a person. This quiz contains every wu out there, and took awhile to make. The quiz can be quite a lot of questions or just a few, depending on what you answer.

If you'd like to take it, answer the first question: Do you lean on others for support or are you more independent?

Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown or The Temple of Doom

Rated T for violence and peril

CH. 2

Raimundo and Omi followed Kimiko as she entered the dark tunnel. They had walked for awhile without any end in sight. It was dimly lit from Kimiko's room way back, just enough so that they could see the rock around them.

Kimiko stopped. "I'm starting to have a bad feeling."

"Maybe we should go back," Dojo suggested.

"A little further," she said. "Just stay behind me and don't touch anything."

They started walking again. Raimundo rolled his green eyes, wondering what there was to touch. Then he saw a carving of a skull on the rock wall. He stopped and ran his fingers along it, when that small portion of the wall collapsed and three dead bodies fell out. He screamed and jumped back.

Dojo also screamed and dived into Omi's robe.

Kimiko glared back, scrunching her nose against the smell. "Rai?!"

He raised his hands. 'I didn't do anything!"

They went on. As the silence became oppressive, Raimundo said, "Could anyone clear up for me what supposedly went on here?"

Omi looked up at him. "Well . . .it is rumored that once, in the palace, a religious cult existed called the Kali Thuggee. They were trying to collect sacred stones that they believed had power to help them rule the world. I think Master Fung called them the Adi Shankara stones. But, this is supposedly legend."

Kimiko nodded. "The Kali Thuggee cult practiced black magic and human sacrifices. Nasty stuff."

Rai frowned. "How come you guys know all this and I don't?"

She rolled her eyes. "Some of us pay attention when Master Fung lectures."

They came into a room that was completely dark. As they walked, they heard crunching.

"What is that?" Kimiko asked.

"Is sounds like fortune cookies!" Omi said. "Maybe they are hiding a secret stash here."

"Fire!" Kimiko said, flames filling her hand.

They all gasped. Covering the entire floor were layers upon layers of bugs.

"Oh, gross," Raimundo said. "Maybe we should leave now."

Kimiko pointed to an open doorway. "Let's just see what's through there. If there's just more of the passage, we'll go back and get Clay."

They bounded through the doorway to find a square room, with no way out. There weren't any bugs on the floor, but there were small, round holes.

Kimiko frowned. "This is weird. There's no exit."

Omi poked Raimundo in the stomach. "We will search for an exit. You stand against the wall."

Rai sighed and backed up, leaning against the wall. Suddenly, a block sunk under his shoulders. The door they came through closed and the floor and ceiling began to shake. Kimiko, Omi, and Dojo shot a look at him.

"It wasn't me!" Raimundo protested. "I stood against the wall like you said, it's not my fault!"

Metal spikes slid out of the holes as the ceiling came down.

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Clay carefully made his way through the bugs, holding a candle. "Kimiko? Omi? Rai, are you out there?"

Omi gasped and ran to the wall, weaving through the protruding spikes. "Clay! Help us!"

The cowboy frowned. "Where are you?"

Omi pulled his pants from a spike. "The door is closed. There must be a switch or something out there."

Clay looked around the wall, brushing dust and webs aside.

Raimundo and Kimiko were ducking and pushing at the ceiling. Omi pressed himself against the wall, wide-eyed.

Clay reached in a hole in the wall. He felt bugs crawl around his hand and between his fingers. He felt a handle and he pulled.

The ceiling stopped and went back up, spikes withdrawing. The door opened and Clay ran in. "You all right?"

The three monks were huddled in a corner, hugging. Omi looked up.

"It is safe!" Omi smiled.

They stood up.

"Thanks, Clay," Kimiko said.

The cowboy nodded, grinning.

They went through a new door that had opened to a tunnel leading up. Soon the light began to grow red, and they could hear faint chanting. Finally, they topped a ledge and looked down on a huge cavern.

"Whoa," Dojo said, crawling out of Omi's robe.

It was large and all rock. In the center two metal doors were made into the floor. Torches sat about the walls, and ledges and pathways ringed it. There was a large platform on which many dark-skinned people stood. They wore brown leather and colorful paints on their bodies. There was a wire cage shaped like a coffin that one man was being dragged to.

"What's going on?" Kimiko asked.

"Shh," Raimundo said.

The man was locked into the cage by cuffs on his wrists and ankles. A tall man, seemingly the leader, walked in front of him, chanting in a foreign language.

Omi leaned closer, frowning.

The leader raised his hand in the air, then brought it down, stroking the trembling man's face. He reached to his chest, fingers above where the man's heart was.

Kimiko, swallowed, her own heart pounding.

The leader's chanting grew faster. His fingers made contact with the man's skin. Then, he broke the skin, reaching into the man's chest and pulled out his heart.

The monks gasped. Dojo jumped away to puke. There was wild cheering from the cavern.

The cage was closed and pulled over the metal doors. The doors opened to reveal a boiling pit of lava. The man was lowered in, screaming.

Clay's eyes widened.

Then, the cage was dropped into the lava. There was a pause, and it was pulled up, empty. All the people cheered.

Raimundo sat back, breathing hard. The others followed him.

Omi made brief eye contact with all of them. "We have to get out of here now."

They nodded. They turned to leave, when a large group of the painted people came up behind them. They had swords raised, and one held Dojo, a sword to his throat.

The monks gasped.

"Surrender," one man said. "Or he dies."

The paused, then sighed.

Omi looked down. "We surrender."

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