Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown, any of the characters or any of the Shen Gong Wu. They all belong to KidsWB.

Once again, I'm so sorry for the randomness of this story. Oh well, randomness is good…ish.

Chapter 4

Clay ripped out another piece of paper from his notebook. He was trying to remember a family recipe for Bavarian cream pie. He didn't want anybody to be miserable around Christmas time. He started to write some more stuff down on the paper, but then he ripped it out and threw it behind him.

"Come on," Clay said. "Now what was it?"

He wrote some stuff down on the paper and circled a few, and left the others as they were.

"Alright, so out of all the things I can think of, all I know is three of the ingredients," Clay said. "I have to make sure that Christmas is happy,"

Meanwhile where Rai was he was looking through the memory of his camera. He hadn't taken one new picture.

"Nothing is interesting enough," he said to himself.

He looked through the pictures again until he came to his very first picture. It was a picture of his family at Christmas before he came to the temple. His camera was a gift from his mom who told him to take many pictures.

I have some pretty old pictures on here, Rai thought.

He looked at the very back of the picture. He gasped then looked outside. He tried to see far enough until he saw what he wanted to see. Rai had an idea.

Where Omi was, Omi was still looking outside.

"Water, you have betrayed me," Omi said in an emotionless voice. "Why have you betrayed me?"

He looked outside at the sky the clouds were still dark.

"STOP SNOWING!" Omi yelled.

Where Kimiko was, she just finished putting on her outfit for the day. She put on a long sleeved forest green turtle neck shirt with a pair of black jeans. Her shoes were green sneakers and her hair was left in her normal pigtails.

She walked out of her room and saw Rai and Clay talking.

"What are you guys talking about?" Kimiko asked.

They both looked at each other then said, "Nothing,"

"It's something," Kimiko said.

"Okay it's something," Rai said.

"Really?" Kimiko asked.

"Yeah," Rai said.

"Then what is it?" Kimiko asked impatiently.

"Something,"

"Ugh,"

The boys grinned of each other then smiled suspiciously at Kimiko.

Kimiko raised an eyebrow at them and folded her arms.

Omi came out of nowhere and asked, "Hello my friends! I was unsuccessful at stopping the snow,"

"Obviously," Kimiko said.

"Why is Kimiko so grumpy?" Omi asked Rai.

"They won't tell me what they're doing," Kimiko said. "And if it's some cruel prank, you better sleep with one eye open tonight,"

They both looked at each other and then Clay said, "It's a surprise. Now you wouldn't want to ruin a surprise would you?"

"I guess not," Kimiko said in a slightly annoyed voice.

"Okay then," Clay started. "Rai and I will be back in about ten minutes. Can you two wait in our room area?"

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Kimiko asked.

"Man girl, just wait for ten minutes," Rai said.

Kimiko groaned and dragged Omi to the room area.

"Ready to go?" Clay asked.

"Yeah, let's go," Rai said.

Rai and Clay both ran to the front entrance, and then they ran outside.

Meanwhile back in the room area, Omi was talking to Kimiko.

"So, why do girls put slime on their faces Kimiko?" Omi asked.

"Slime? You mean make-up?" Kimiko asked.

"Yes,"

"Uh, I guess we wear it to look nice,"

"Why do you want to look nice?"

"Well, I don't know. I don't wear a lot of make-up, only lipstick and blush really. Sometimes I'll wear eyeliner. But that's all,"

"Is any of that stuff eatable?"

Kimiko smacked her face then said, "No Omi, it's not eatable,"

About nine minutes later, Kimiko was standing by the door looking at her phone's stopwatch (she started it when the boys left).

"And three, two," Kimiko started standing right in front of the door, "One, zero,"

Just then the door opened and Rai was standing right in front of her. The two didn't even notice that there was only half a foot of space between them.

"You guys can come out now," Rai said.

"Nice timing," Kimiko said.

Clay 'coughed' and the two suddenly realized how close they were. Kimiko and Rai both took a giant step backwards, both blushing.

"Umm, so, anyway, you guys ready to see the surprise?" Rai asked.

The two nodded and Rai and Clay took began to lead them to the only empty room in the temple.

The empty room was very big and there was a fire place inside on the back wall. The room was so big that you could fit 20 jackbots going from the fireplace to the entrance and 20 jackbots going from the left side to the right side. However, across from the fireplace there isn't a regular wall. The wall is shorter and you can look through parts of it (a/n: In the episode 'Omi Town' at the beginning there is a short wall at the beginning behind Omi, that's what the wall looks like except it's not outside.). All the walls in the room were dark wood. There were some low windows all over the room and a door going out to a porch. There was also a light blue chandelier hanging in the middle of the ceiling. In front of the fireplace there was a light green circular rug that switches to dark green every other ring.

"Tell me," Omi started halfway there. "What's the surprise?"

"Just wait partner," Clay said. "Trust us,"

When they got to the room, Kimiko and Omi dropped their jaws in awe. Inside the room, was the tallest, widest tree that they have ever seen.

"How did you, where did you," Kimiko said trying to figure out what to say.

"It wasn't easy partner," Clay said. "The snow has really picked up outside,"

They all looked outside and they could barley see.

"Amazing!" Omi said.

"This isn't normal," Rai said.

"Do you think that a Shen Gong Wu is involved?" Kimiko asked.

Rai shrugged.

"So, what do we do with this tree?" Omi asked.

"We can decorate it," Clay suggested.

"With what?" Omi asked.

"I have some ordainments hanging around in a box somewhere," Kimiko said.

"Me too," Rai said.

"I think I have a few," Clay said. (a/n: Don't ask why they have this stuff hanging around.)

"What else can we do?" Omi asked.

"Clay, you said that you have recipe for some sort of pie, right? Could you try to make it?" Rai asked.

"I'm a little foggy on the ingredients, but I can try," Clay said.

"Okay, Kim, you can make cranes out of paper, right?" Rai asked.

"Yep," Kimiko said.

"Cool, maybe you could make this room look nicer," Rai said.

"What could I do?" Omi asked.

"Hmm," Rai said pacing. "You can help me find the ordainments, and we'll hang them on the tree,"

"Cold," Omi said.

"Cool," they all said.

"That too!" Omi said with a big smile on his face.

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Told you it would be happier! A couple things:

1. I usually have very detailed stories, SO BEWARE!

2. I have no idea if pine trees grow in China. If they do, yay! If they don't…just don't question it and move on! Just like Princess Tutu! You have to accept the completely strange things that go on in that series (like their teacher Mr. Cat :D)!

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