Chapter 4

Fight Of The Century

Kimiko opened the curtains hesitantly. There was nobody outside, nothing. The candle blew out. Kimiko threw it back into her bedroom and went to see what the source of the noise was about. There was another bang. It was coming from the direction of the room with the Shen-Gong-Wu vault in. As she walked down the corridor, bits of the wall-paper were ripped. Kimiko held her breath when she saw some blood on the floor and the walls. She kept walking, looking straight ahead of her.When she got to the end of he corridor, she flattened forwards onto the wall. She held her breath and opened the door...to see Lightning and Volts, battling Omi, Clay and Raimundo. Sadly, Lightning and Volts were winning. Kimiko winced as Raimundo got punched in the face by Lightning. She ran in, lava in her fists and fire in her eyes.

"WUDAI MARS, FIRE!" she screamed, aiming a perfect hit at Lightning.

"If it isn't the whimpy little dragon of fire!" mocked Lightning.

"Yeah! What she said!" agreed Volts, nodding her head.

"You're not gonna get away without a fight!" cried Raimundo "WUDAI STAR, WIND!"

The whole room was engulfed with high-speed winds. Lightning clicked her fingers and the wind stopped.

"I know Raimundo, I am a bitch," said Lightning, clearly reading his mind "I can control the weather!"

Raimundo swore under his breath. Lightning sniggered.

"Well, if you're gonna be like that...LIGHTNING BEAM!" screeched Lightning.

Lightning span around in the air, her arms outstretched. She tilted sideways and went for Kimiko, her eyes closed and her lips pursed. Kimiko fell down. Lightning was inches away from her. She screamed...and Raimundo dragged her out of the way so Lightning went crashing to the ground. Volts ran over to her and helped her up.

"LIGHTNING VOLTS!"

Lightning balls exploded out of the palms of their hands, hitting whoever and whatever stood in their way. The Xiaolin Dragons shielded their heads as the wall behind them came crashing down. A giant rock off the wall came tumbling for Omi...but he didn't notice. It hit him on the back of the head and knocked him out. Lightning and Volts stopped. Lightning posed her hand in a gun shape and blew on her finger.

"One cheeseball down, three Xiaolin losers to go!" she remarked.

"WUDAI CRATER, EARTH!" yelled Clay.

The broken bits of wall rose into the air and went straight for Lightning and Volts.

"Lightning shield!" called Lightning.

A giant sphere of Lightning surrounded both Lightning and Volts. As soon as the rocks touched it, they went crumbling into tiny little pieces. Lightning clicked her fingers and the shield vanished.

"Awww, the poor little cowboy doesn't know his own strength. He thinks he's tough but really he's as soft as camel poop!" shouted Volts, a smile across her face.

Lightning and the Xiaolin Dragons looked dumbfounded.

"Camel...poop..." said Lightning.

"Ummm...ya..." Volts replied nodding "Camel p-o-o-p!"

Lightning pretended to be sick while Volts wasn't looking. Kimiko quickly got Omi out of the way and ran back to her fellow Xiaolin warriors. Suddenly there was an eerie green light...Wuya had arived.

"Stealing their Shen-Gong-Wu will be a sinch," said Wuya, not noticing that anybody was in the room at all.

"Hem HEM," growled Lightning, pretending to cough while tapping her foot.

Wuya span around and met face to face with her.

"Ahhhh," said Wuya, smiling "If it isn't ickle Lightning! I know all about you! Aww, little grim-reaper dude Nettle killed your parents! You've never been able to live it down! He sent a pack of wolves on your dad! You've never been able to beat him! So you took it out on Sting, didn't you?"

Lightning could feel tears pricking up in her eyes and succeded in fighting them back.

"LIGHTNING BEAM!" she cried, throwing a high voltage beam of lightning at Wuya.

Wuya merely held her hand out and the lightning dissapeared. She tossed her hair back and said: "Is that the best you've got?"

Lightning gritted her teeth, she pulled Volts by her side and shook her head.

"LIGHTNING VOLTS!"

Lightning engulfed the whole room. It bounced off the walls and the floor. When it cleared, the Shen-Gong-Wu vault had caved in and the Xiaolin Dragons had avoided electricution by going into Wuya's protective shield without her noticind. Wuya gasped and ran down into the Shen-Gong-Wu vault. Kimiko followed her. Wuya grabbed the nearest Shen-Gong-Wu (Sphere of Yun) and it was surrounded by a golden glow. Kimiko had grabbed it at exactly the same time.

"Just what I need," moaned Wuya, drumming her fingers on the side of the open draw "Kimiko, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown! My Third Arm Sash against your Star Hinarby. The challenge is, hide-and-seek! The first one to find the Shen-Gong-Wu wins!"

"LET'S GO, XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!"

The room suddenly changed into differnet terrains. There was a very sharp rocky one, a grassy clearing (with extremely long grass), a dense forest, an ocean, a deep dark cave, a cliff and red hot springs. Kimiko bit her lip. Lightning and Volts got transported onto a floating rock and so did the Xiaolin Dragons, high above the air.

"I remembered the binoculars," said Clay.

"GONG YI TEM PAI!"

"Third Arm Sash!" yelled Wuya.

The sash went straight for Kimiko. Kimiko jumped up in the air, did a flip to avoid the sash and landed on the ground again unhurt (apart from the pulsing agony in her sprained leg). Kimiko ran into the dense forrest and Wuya followed.

"Star Hinarby, Fire!" belowed Kimiko.

She aimed for a tree and set fire to one of its branches. Soon, the fire had travelled around the whole tree. Kimiko punched the air. Her plan was to burn the forest down so it would be easier to look for the Wu and that Wuya would be confused...she hoped. Kimiko quickly retreated from the forest and headed for the rocky terrain. Wuya stalked her, keeping in the shadows. Kimiko climbed up to the top of a very large rock, looking down and hoping that she could spot the Sphere of Yun. No sign of it. Kimiko sighed and climbed back down. AS she was climbing down, a bony hand got ahold of her ankle. She looked down and Wuya was smiling up at her. Her arm tightened around her ankle and she threw her off the rock.

"FIRE!" cried Kimiko.

A jet of scorching hot fire flew out of her hands, lowering her safely to the ground.

"Damn!" cursed Wuya under her breath.

Kimiko ran on, dodging in and out of rocks, Wuya at her heels.

"Let me see partn'er," said Clay, trying to get the binoculars off Omi "You've had them ages!"

By now Omi had regained consciousness. He sadly handed the binoculars to Clay, who put them straight up to his eyes.

"Ooooh," he winced as Wuya made the sash slap Kimiko in the face "Unlucky."

Kimiko advanced onto the grassy clearing. She cut through the grass, leaving a trail of trampled grass behind her.

"Star Hinarby, Fire!" she exclaimed, aiming it at Wuya, who was directly behind her.

Wuya jumped over the fire, then tripped over a rock. She rubbed her sore foot and got back up again, following Kimiko's trail. Exhausted, Kimiko kept running, running as fast as her two legs could carry her.

The Shen-Gong-Wu was nowhere to be seen in the grass, so Kimiko went for the cave and Wuya closely followed. Kimiko tripped over and had a huge rip down the back of her armour. She got back up again, like a fighter, and kept on looking. As she got further in, the cave was pitched-black. Suddenly, she came across a glowing light. The Sphere of Yun! She made a dive...but Wuya beat her to it. Her crooked fingers closed triumphantly around the Shen-Gong-Wu.

The showdown magic stopped. Kimiko wasn't very happy at her own performance.

"It was a good try partn'er," Clay encoraged her.

Kimiko cheered up a bit when he said that. Wuya dissapeared with a flash of green light.

"That no good snake in the grass!" remarked Clay after she had left.

"See ya losers," Lightning and Volts chorused, flying off.

Kimiko suddenly realised that Raimundo was gone. She went into the corridor where all the bedrooms were and opened his curtain. He was sitting upright in his bed, pyjamas on and tears staining his cheeks.

"Raimundo...uhhhh...sorry, I'll just be leaving," said Kimiko heading towards the door.

Raimndo held out a shaking arm and pulled her down on the bed beside him.
"Stay with me..."

Big thanks to my friend Lorna, for making up the chapter name (It's from her Sensational Sen story) Thankyoooooooh! I hope ya'll liked it!

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