Author's note: Ok, here's chapter four and part 2 of Dreamscape. This and the last chapter were supposed to be one chapter originally but my sister told me to start making the chapters shorter so blame HER for the evil cliff hanger! This chapter is dedicated to Raikimluva22 and RaiKimTomBoY because your reviews are the only comments that have ever made me wonder if after you reviewed you did something totally crazy. RaiKimTomBoY, I hope you didn't explode and Raikimluva22 I hope you're not in a mental institution or something cuz your review kinda sorta scared me a little... But Thank-you SO much for the reviews!!! I would like to answer one! Ok, is 'Katokat' reading this? Because if she/he is…Omigosh…do you mean Katokat from youtube? Ah! If it is, I TOTALLY loved the video you made with 'My Happy Ending!' I was watching/listening to it while I made the last chapter! You did a great job! And since you reviewed anonymously, I couldn't reply to your review! So, you got 7/10 of the songs right! The third song was 'Stuck' by Stacie Orrico. The last song was 'Taking Over Me' by Evanescence. And, you also said that the 2nd one was 'Since You Been Gone' but it was 'Behind these Hazel Eyes,' by Kelly Clarkson. But I am VERY impressed that you were able to recognize 'Every Time We Touch!' Go you! You deserve a cookie! Except…I don't know how to give away cookies. So, umm………+ponders for something that I could give away+ Ooooh! I know! You get a free review if you ever write a story! Yay! I thank ALL who reviewed on this chapter!
And a HUGE thanks to Nick Johnson, who DIDN'T review again. Thank-you. And here without a further ado…CHAPTER $!!! Whoops. That's just me trying to capitalize 4.
Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown because if I did, Raimundo would have been with Wuya longer instead of it ending after two stinkin episodes and Dojo wouldn't be gay.
Things you should know:
'Thoughts'
Plus signs mean action because the shift 8 stary thingy don't work. +
Signs
Xiaolin: Two-Ton Tunic, Tongue of Saiping, Sapphire Dragon, Serpent's Tail, Orb of Tornami, Star Hanabi, Heart of Jong, Sun Chi Lantern, Glove of Jisaku, Thorn of Tunderbolt, Sweet Baby Among Us, Mind Reader Conch, Crystal Glasses, Shroud of Shadows, Longi Kite, Monkey Staff, Falcon's Eye,
Rai, Wuya: Third-Arm Sash, Fist of Tebigong, Jet Bootsu, Ruby of Ramses, Tangle Web Comb, Golden Tiger Claws, Sword of the Storm, Lotus Twister, Reversing Mirror, Shard of Lightning, Silver Manta Ray, Wushu Helmet, Mantis Flip Coin, Eye of Dashi, Tunnel Armadillo, Silk Spitter
Jack: Changing Chopsticks, Ring of the Nine Dragons, Helmet of Jong, Wings of Tinabi, Ju-Ju Fly Trap
Random announcer: Last time on 'Trusting Your Weakness'…
"Kimiko?" I heard a familiar voice ask. I spun around and saw the absolute last person I expected to see. Raimundo was standing in the doorway, a confused expression placed on his face as he peered at the hole.
--------Xiaolin Temple Kimiko's POV--------
"What happened?" he asked his gaze returning back to me.
Instead of answering his question I took a battle poise. "What are you doing here?" I demanded.
The confused look on his face deepened. "Uh…..is this a trick question?"
"No." I practically screamed.
"Uh, I live here." He answered as though it were obvious. "What happened to your wall?" he asked again.
"What do you mean you live here?!" I asked completely astonished, "Yeah, about two months ago maybe, before you betrayed us and joined Wuya!"
"What are you talking about?" he asked completely confused yet again, "am I being punked or something?" he searched for a hidden camera. "Um…Kimiko are you sure you're feeling alright?" he took a step forward with his hand outstretched, as if to feel my forehead.
"Get away traitor!" I screamed pushing him to the floor. "Judallet flip! Fire!" I leaped into the air, creating a trail of fire in the action and aimed at Raimundo. His eyes widened and he rolled to his left, just missing the flames.
"What is the matter with you?" he yelled. Clay and Omi ran into the room.
"What's going on?" Clay yelled.
"It's Raimundo!" I screamed, pointing a finger at him.
Clay turned to Rai, "…Ok, what'd ja do this time?" he asked accusingly, folding his arms. 'What does he mean 'what did you do this time'? He's the enemy! He doesn't have to have done anything. Why is everyone here so crazy?!?!?! First Rai's acting like he's still on our side, and now Clay seems to think he is too!'
"I didn't anything!" Raimundo exclaimed, "she was the on the made a hole in her wall, I came in asking what was up, and then she started flaming me and what not! Ask her what's wrong, cuz whatever it is, it wasn't my fault!"
Clay turned back to me, "Kimiko what happened?"
"IT'S RAIMUNDO!" I screamed again, pointing at him. "HE'S IN THE TEMPLE!" I panted for breath. 'It takes a lot of air to scream that loud.'
Clay looked at Rai again, "Yes Kimiko, we see that. We just don't see the problem."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM? HE-"I was cut off by the voice of our small green dragon.
"Heads up kids!" he yelled, "we've got a hot new Shen-Gong-Wu! It's called the Heart of Jong!" I blinked.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" I screamed and woke up. I sat upright on my mat. 'What the heck-? Ug, I have NEVER hated dreams more in my life.' (A/N: Ah! It was just a dream! PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!) I looked at my PDA's clock. 2:14 am. I went back to my email and checked my friend's boxes. None of them had any emails that had been sent in the past few hours. My iPod was still unscathed and there was no hole in my wall. There was still only one unread message. 'That's it. I'm going to answer it. Right now.' I reached for my PDA and opened the message. It was sent so long ago, I hadn't even remembered what I had written so I reread it.
Keiko, omg, I can not believe this really just happened. U remember when I told u about what was going on here, lik how the Jong guy lik attacked the temple and we got promoted to Xiaolin Apprentice but Rai didnt? Well, lik, 2day this new wu activated, and there was a showdown between Jack the whiny wimp and Rai and Rai won but Omi (baka) wuz lik all 'Raimundo, your performance in the showdown wuz MOST impressive. And u r not even a Xiaolin Apprentice.' Then Rai wuz lik 'Youre rite Omi, Im not.' And then he's lik all turn 2 Wuya (evil floating witch hag) and he's lik 'So, where do u want em.' And she's all +cackle+ and we're all lik 'OMG WHAT???' and im like 'rai what r u doing????' and he's lik 'I'm done w/ this Xiaolin thing! From now on, you can find me on the Heylin side." And then rai made a portal with the golden tiger claws and left w/ Wuya. Then jack has to start mocking what just happened. Omigosh I don't know if I should be sad or angry or TOTALLY FRICKIN PISSED! idk…this is really bad…maybe this wouldn't have happened if he'd been promoted to Xiaolin apprentice. That and if omi had shut his trap. +sigh+ I have to go. Master fung's gonna have to find out sooner or later and I'd rather he not hear it from omi…bye.
Kimiko
I began to read Keiko's reply.
Raimundo? Isn't that that lik guy from Brazil that you always talk about? Heylin's the evil side, right? Okay just ignore those questions. OMG r u lik serious??? But that means lik, u wont ever c him unless ur fighting him! That totally sucks. Not a good way to feed a relationship (which u want +nudge nudge+)! That ghost hag is soo ugly y would he join her? She's lik ugly to the point of creepiness…and beyond. And ur pic u sent me of Raimundo is lik totally hawt. (I mean Raimundo IN the pic is hawt! Is that y u talk about him so much?) y would he lik join the creepy one? Hawt and creepy don't work…ok to the more serious stuff now…u said he left cuz he didn't get promoted to the Xiaolin apprentice thingy? That's a really dumb reason. R u positive that's why? OMG WHAT IF HE LIKES THE GHOST????? OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the nightmares Kimiko…least he doesn't like that other bad guy…john or james or something….jake? idk…meh things'll work out! Probably…by the way, did u see that new Orlando bloom movie??? He is like sooooooooooo beyond gorgeous!!! Sooooooooooooooooooo beyond!!!!!!!!!!! Ttyl kimi and don't worry about this…he'll be back on ur side in like two days or something…probably……no, definetly:-D ttyl
Keiko
I rolled my eyes at the end. 'Two days? Yeah right. It's been two months. Leave it to Keiko to turn something totally horrible into a joke.' I began my response.
Ok in order:
Yes that is the guy from Brazil, but NO i SO don't always talk about him. Yeah, Heylin's the evil side. Completely serious. So true. WAT R U IMPLYING?!?!?! Yes, very ugly. Don't know. Hahaha! Yep. Ok, 4 a second I thought u were crushing on a picture! I DO NOT TALK ABOUT HIM SO MUCH! Do I? Don't kno. Ur 100 ttly right.
I don't kno y he left, but I intend to find out. I've ttly have a plan. I don't kno if it'll work but it's the only one I got. Ok, I am OFFICIALLY ignoring the rest of this email. But I've g2g. If my plan's going to work I'm going to have to act fast. C ya.
I pressed the send button and looked at my clock again. 2:18 'Ok, I should have enough time.' I thought and switched off my PDA. Instead I reached for my GPS. I gave a sly smile as I congratulated myself for remembering to put the chip on Raimundo.
----Flashback (!)----
I watched as Clay took his 'cleansing breath' or whatever. "Bet you five dollars he says seismic kick earth." I jumped as someone murmured in my ear. I quickly turned to my right to see my ex-best friend smirking.
"Seismic kick! Earth!" Clay yelled.
"Told you." Raimundo said, his smirk growing into a full-out grin. I rolled my eyes, and then glanced at his left hand a.k.a. the hand that now almost always had on the Golden Tiger Claws. However, they weren't there. 'So, is that why it took him so long to get here?'
"Where are the claws?" I asked bluntly, poking his arm to get his attention.
Raimundo flushed a bright crimson red and stared at his hand. "Uhhhh……. see um…I sorta put 'em down somewhere….and I couldn't remember where. That's why I have the Longi Kite instead." He gestured to the back of his sweatshirt, where the green Shen-Gong-Wu was displayed.
-End Flashback-
'Thankfully, Raimundo's probably so unobservant there's a good chance he hasn't realized that while he was staring at his hand I planted the chip in his hood. And I'm SO glad my papa gave me one of the water-proof kinds that also sticks to its surroundings when it's activated. So there's no chance that it can just fall off. Thank-you awesome technology!' I did a small victory dance and pulled open my curtain. I checked the hallway to make sure no one was up for a midnight snack or because they sense great evil and whatnot. There wasn't anyone so I proceeded quietly down the hallway. My first stop was at the meditation hall.
I rang the chimes and when the staircase opened from the middle of the room I tip-toed down. 'Ok, let's see…along with my GPS I'm going to need, uh…The Shroud of Shadows…' I pushed open the drawer and it slid out. 'The Shadow of Fear, the Star Hanabi, and um…the Longi Kite. I opened the drawers containing them. 'I will never understand how the Longi Kite, which is SO much bigger then all the rest of the Wu, can fit in the same sized drawer.' I thought as I brought them up the stairs. 'I totally wish I had the Changing Chopsticks right now. These are heavy.' (A/N: No upper body strength!)
I went outside of the temple grounds and turned on my GPS. +beep+beep+ it bleeped while showing two dots on a screen. One was red, the other was green. Green was where it was, while red was the chip. I stared at it. 'What? How can that be right? It says that I'm right here,' I touched the dot with my finger. 'And that Rai is right here?' I moved my finger over just a tiny little bit. Of coarse it was a whole lot farther then that, since it was scaling it by the country but compared to where I thought he might be that's like half a step away! 'Ok…but where could you live around here besides the temple?' I wondered turning around. My gaze fell on the mountain that I had first used the Golden Tiger Claws to go to.
'The mountain? Maybe my GPS's just busted. But still, my papa's things almost never malfunction for no reason. Ok,' I thought, placing the Longi Kite on my back 'let's go.' "Longi Kite," I whispered and the green Shen-Gong-Wu began to beat its wings rapidly. I flew into the air and at first it was pretty hard to control but it got easier once I got used to it. I flew 'which is SO cool by the way' toward the mountain.
My GPS started going insane with beeping when I landed. I turned down the sound so I wouldn't wake anyone, or more specifically, Raimundo. 'Ok, now all I have to do is find Raimundo, invade his dreams to find out why he left, and then figure out a way to get him to rejoin our side! Simple right? I hope so…' I searched for that cave I had seen when I stood up here with the claws. My GPS, although a lot quieter now, was still beeping obnoxiously and the two dots were growing closer and closer. I reset the scale so that it would be able to show about how far Rai actually was.
Beep+beep+beep+beep+beep+beep+ 'Ugh. This thing is going to drive me crazy before tonight is over.' I treaded softly over the cliff's gravel trying to remember where I had wanted to go with the claws so that I'd be able to find it again. My GPA beeped faster every step I took. 'if this weren't the thing leading my way I'd totally turn it of right now cuz this is WAY too obnoxious.'
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep+ I stopped when my GPA gave a long beep that signaled I was like five centimeters away from the chip. Well, not literally five centimeters but…never mind. Then I saw the cave that I had seen when I had come up here with the GTC. 'Yes! Maybe Rai's there.' I walked into it but my GPA's long single beep stopped and became separate beeps again. 'Ok, so that rules out this cave…only a billion or so more to go.' I sighed and leaned against the side of the cave.
"Ow," I mumbled as something poked my back hard. "Stupid rock." I turned around to glare at it but it looked really weird. Even through the faint light it seemed to be almost a perfect circle. 'Huh,' I thought as I placed my hand on it. It was perfectly smooth also, no bumps nothing. 'If this were a movie and I were to push this some dramatic thing would probably happen.' I smiled at the thought and, rolling my eyes, pushed it. My eyes widened when it went in without any resistance and a quiet clatter filled the silence of the air. The sound reminded me of the gears back at my papa's factory though not as loud. I stepped back and watched as the stone spun clockwise. When it stopped the noise followed suit and there was a loud clinging sound.
"Ah!" I shrieked as the floor seemed to disappear underneath me. The fall was long and, although I was able to land on my feet, the landing still made my leg still hurt slightly. I rubbed it and looked around. It was completely pitch black so I searched myself for the Star Hanabi. "Star Hanabi," I whispered and it lit the room with a dim glow. My mouth dropped open in disbelief. I had fallen in a huge room with about a billion video games, a pool table, four or five surf boards, a mini fridge, a plasma screen TV, an electric guitar, and on a nearby table an iPod video, a computer, a PDA and the Golden Tiger Claws. 'I don't believe this…he sold us out for STUFF?!?!?! Why that low-life, shallow, backstabbing, deceitful, lying, devious, son-of-a-+beep+, traitor!' (A/N: Oh, no she didn't.)
I took a long soothing deep breath. 'Calm down girl. You don't know that for sure. But that BETTER not be the reason.' I pulled out the Shroud of Shadows. "Ok, since this is obviously where Rai and Wuya are," I whispered, recalling the Golden Tiger Claws, "I don't think it would be very smart to be visible right now." I activated it and pulled it over me. "Good," I murmured checking my hands and body. This was the first time that I had used the shroud and I was glad that it worked (A/N: I'm pretty sure it's the first time, if it's not I'm sorry. My bad.)
-----Normal POV-----
Once invisible and calm, Kimiko began to explore around in the large and overwhelming room. Still dimly lit by the Star Hanabi, it showed a bunch of passage ways leading out of the room. 'Hm…' she thought, 'Let's see…eeny meeny miney moe.' She silently recited pointing at the different passage ways. 'Omigosh, how does he remember where each room is?' She rolled her eyes and in the action caught a glance of the high part of the wall right to the passage ways. She stared at it. On it there were a few signs with arrows pointing down the different passage ways. Swimming pool one said with an arrow pointing down a passage way. She looked through the other ones until she found what she was hoping to find. Rai's Crib. 'I guess Raimundo couldn't keep track of all the hallways either. This is convenient.' Kimiko smiled and began at full speed down the hallway.
There were more rooms that all were connected to the hallway, including an arcade, a movie theater, and also a kitchen that smelled of pizza. There was also a room that had absolutely nothing in it. '…ok.' Kimiko continued down the corridor until she came to a room where she could here a quiet mumbling coming from the inside. She looked inside and her eyes immediately widened. Inside the room Wuya was floating around talking to herself (creepy) unaware of the dragon in training just four meters away. Wuya paused and looked around a suspicious look in her eye.
Kimiko hid herself against the wall, remembering that Wuya could also sense Shen-Gong-Wu, just like the Shroud of Shadows. 'Not good. Not good. This is so not good!' she thought frantically. 'On the count of three run. One…' Wuya began floating toward the hallway. 'Ok forget three. Run!' Kimiko dashed by the room, silently ditching Wuya, just as the ghostly witch drifted through the wall into the hallway. 'Ok, that was WAY too close.' Kimiko thought once she was a good distance away, heaving a sigh of relief as she continued down the passage.
The next room was way farther down the hallway and it had to be the biggest room in the whole place. The ceiling was a least two stories high and the walls were almost entirely made up of marble pillars. The floor looked like it was made of marble too and it was clean to the point of sparkling, even in the dim light. There were a billion more video games too, but what was really the center of focus for Kimiko's eyes was the HUGE throne with an even bigger 'R' behind it. 'Ok, now that a little over the top. And yellow and purple? Clash much?' Kimiko scoffed. 'How many video games did he get?!?!?!'
Deciding that this was obviously Raimundo's "crib", as the sign said, Kimiko, still covered by the Shroud of Shadows, began to walk around the room. She had almost begun to think that Raimundo really wasn't here until she caught a glimpse of something very shiny. Kimiko turned her gazed to where she had seen the flash come from but there was only floor. She stared at it confused until she realized that the floor was SO shiny that it had reflected something that was also shiny. She looked for another SUPER shiny thing and when she found one, she also found who she had been searching for.
Raimundo was lying asleep on a very comfortable looking bed, 'oh yeah sure, HE gets a bed,' with a small smile on his face as he slept clutching his teddy bear. He was wearing his normal grey sweatshirt with his medallion. 'Oh, I get it. His necklace was what reflected the light.' Kimiko thought as she walked toward him taking out one of her Shen-Gong-Wu. She hovered above his sleeping form before she whispered the Wu's title. "Shadow of Fear," and she, along with the Shadow of Fear, dissolved into black, swirling, confetti like stuff that twirled into Raimundo's ear.
-----Raimundo's dream, Kimiko's POV-----
As I spun around, falling into what I presumed to be his mind, I felt my arms and back lighten. I glanced at them and saw that the Shen-Gong-Wu that I had been carrying weren't with me anymore. 'Shoot. I guess I can't bring other Wu into people's mind. Well that's just great. Peachy even. I guess I'll just have to remember to get them once I get out of Rai's head.'
When the spinning stopped and I was able to steady myself, I looked around. The street I had landed on was in a run down and frankly ugly neighborhood. The sky look as though it was just before dawn, and only one star still shown. It flickered happily next to a tall volcano. I heaved a deep breath but the scent of the air made my eyes widen. 'Smoke.' I turned around to see a small house, much like all the others around it, except for the fact that it was on fire.
"Dad!" I heard someone cry from the inside of the burning house.
"Go!" an older sounding man shouted back.
"No, Dad!" I heard the younger voice scream again. "I won't leave you!"
"Do as you are told!" the second voice yelled. "Get out of the house! The ceiling boards will cave soon!" There was a terrible snapping sound above the crackling of the fire of wood breaking, then a thud of something heavy falling.
"Dad!" I heard the voice call again louder, and this time I could imagine a tear-stained face of a small boy calling for his father. Gasping slightly as the thought came to him that the horrible breaking and crashing sound could have been the weakened ceiling boards, falling and continuing to burn onto their now doomed victim below.
"Dad?" he called quieter, more desperately. "Dad?!" he screamed through the house again. There was no returning answer. He choked out a sob and the front door of the small house burst open as he ran out. His arm was covering his eyes, and most of his face, and his hand was grasping a string with a golden medallion attached to it. His left hand, which was at his side was clutching a chocolate brown teddy bear.
I gasped. "Rai?" I whispered as he collapsed to his hands and knees, tears still pouring from his eyes, in front of his home. Raimundo looked only about six here, and he wore a white shirt with blue overalls with a dark green bowtie. He hugged and cried into his teddy bear and I realized it was the same bear he had slept with at the temple- Ninja Fred.
I felt a small tear trickle down my own cheek. 'How could this be Rai's past? Raimundo had never, ever acted as though anything like this had happened. His dad died in a fire that burned down his entire home? But…where's his mom? Is she still alive? Why didn't he ever tell anyone at the temple? How come-' my stream of questions was interrupted by two simple words, spoken from behind me, that made my blood run cold.
"Having fun?"
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