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Rai POV

My breath caught in my throat.

I couldn't think, couldn't move, couldn't breathe. All I could see was the permanent image in my mind of a gun against Kim's head. I swallowed.

I reviewed my options.

I could go over to the Hey-lin side again and make Kim think I was a total jerk, when I was trying to protect her, or I could not join the Hey-lin side and have Kimiko die. And that wasn't an option.

So I was stuck with the first option.

I sighed and glared an extremely nasty glare and Wuya and Chase. "You both are-!" I started. "Ah, ah, ah" Wuya sang teasingly. "Language, Raimundo. You'll never get by with a potty mouth on the Hey-Lin side, now will you?" She was still grinning evilly.

Suddenly, Wuya jumped at me, sending a kind of greenish purple fireball at me. I yelled in surprise, escaping Wuya, but not the fireball. The fireball reached me, and crawled into my mouth. It went down my throat. I could feel the warmth of it, like soup.

The warm feeling was gone, but replacing it an agony that I can't describe. It started in my throat, but then spread out through the rest of me. I screamed in agony, dropping to my knees and clutching my stomach, trying not to puke.

Suddenly, it was gone.

I took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from my brow. I coughed a little bit.

Chase stepped forward toward me and kicked me in the side, rolling me over. "Get up, Raimundo."

I coughed again, but surprisingly I stood up, involuntarily it almost seemed like. Chase stared at me, disgusted. "Look at your hand" he spat.

I looked at my right hand, and gasped.

A black dragon wove around my hand, like a tattoo. It seemed to move and shimmer like smoke.

I stared at it, barely missing Chase's words.

"Now, Raimundo, the first thing we'd like you to do is this…"

Kim POV

"Kimiko! Kimiko you must wake!"

I bolted awake to find myself staring at Omi.

I screamed. "Omi, what the heck-?!"

"Someone has broken into the Shen Gon Wu vault!" Omi hissed impatiently. I jumped up, in my pajama shorts and tank top and ran past Omi out into the hall.

Clay met up with me and we started running down the hall, Omi trailing behind us.

"Where's Rai?" I asked Clay. "I reckon already at the vault" Clay responded, holding his hat against his head so that it didn't fly off.

I rounded the corner, skidding a few inches, but then regaining my balance and running down the next hall. We burst out into the cold night air.

No, I mean seriously cold, like winter type cold. I could see my breath, and I was shivering. I suddenly thought that if Rai were here, he'd probably offer me his sweatshirt or something. I blushed at that thought.

"Come on, Kim!" Clay hissed, tugging at my arm.

I pulled out of my daydream and ran after the guys, into the vault.

When I got inside, I gasped.

Rai was standing there, with a big bag slung across his shoulder. The bag was bulging, and I could only guess what it was full of.

"Rai…" I started, feeling the pain leak into my eyes.

"What in tarnation are you doing?!" Clay yelled, taking a step toward Rai. Rai rolled his eyes. "I'm stealing your wu, you stupid Cowboy" he retorted. "Flame" Omi whispered. "Burn" I corrected, swallowing the tears that formed in my eyes.

Clay looked crestfallen.

I snapped out of my trance.

I stepped forward so that I was in front of Rai. I got right up into his face, so that I was staring right into his emerald eyes. "Rai, what the hell are you doing?" I growled.

Rai grinned. "Like I said" he retorted calmly. "Stealing your wu, sweetheart." I drew back my hand in a fist and punched his face. It hurt to punch Rai, but he was betraying us again, and considering how I was his girlfriend, I had the right to beat the living crap out of him.

I jumped on top of him and started punching him again, even though his nose was now bleeding. "You jerk, we're through, do you hear me? Through!" "Uh, what do you mean, through?" Clay's voice said from far away.

Yeah, I may be being a little harsh on him…no, I take that back, I'm not.

Rai kicked me in the stomach, and I fell off him. He blasted me with a big burst of wind, and I got knocked into the wall. "Rai, you jerk!" Clay shouted. He started fighting with him, while Omi peeled me off the wall. "Kimiko, are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine!" I spat. "Go help Clay!"

Omi looked hurt, but ran away to help Clay.

I coughed, clutching my stomach where Rai had kicked me. How could he do this? Even after he kissed me?! What the heck was wrong with him?!

There was another smashing as Clay was thrown into the other wall. I looked up to see Clay fall to the ground, unconscious. Omi smashed into the wall next to him, also falling unconscious.

Get up, I commanded myself. I coughed again, preparing to get up, when someone grabbed the front of my shirt. I looked up in surprise as Rai picked me up and smashed me into the wall, holding me there by my shirt.

I struggled, trying to break free of his iron grip. I even tried to bite his hands.

Then I stopped struggling, and looked into Rai's eyes again. They were blank, empty of their normal light, but they didn't have a dark glint in them like the last time that he'd gone evil.

"Rai" I whispered again. "Why are you doing this?"

Rai's eyes softened as he looked at me, and he whispered back "Because I love you." Before I could digest what he said, he threw me across the room, and I smashed into the opposite wall, next to Omi and Clay. I fell to the ground like Clay and Omi. I coughed again and my vision slid in and out of focus.

I lifted my head to see Rai looking at me from the doorway with the sack of Shen Gon Wu slung across his back. His eyes locked mine for two seconds, but then I fainted.

Rai POV

I sailed on the Lon E Kite through the sky, toward Chase's palace. I can't even begin to describe how much it'd hurt to betray the guys like that, let alone Kim. Especially having to beat the crap out of them. That'd really hurt.

I hated doing this. But it was for Kim's own good.

I landed in front of Chase's palace and climbed the stairs. The doors opened and I walked in to find Chase and Wuya waiting for me. I tossed the sack at them, scowling. "You won't get away with this for long" I hissed. "Are you sure about that?" Wuya taunted. "Because last time I checked, we were the ones with the guns."

I flipped her the bird, and walked away, going to sit on Chase's throne/chair type thing. I picked up a bead necklace that had been lying on the ground and began twirling it around my fingers as I sat on the throne and swung my legs over to the side.

"So, why me?" I asked casually. "Why use me as a doorway for your evil doings?" "Very poetic" Chase growled, suddenly behind me. "But it's obviously because you're the Shoku Warrior." He tipped the chair and I spilled out of it. "Use your head."

I glared at him, and then at Wuya who was standing at the bottom of the stairs. "I will get out of this" I growled. "And when I do, you're going to wish you've never been born." I walked down the stairs, toward the doorway to go to my room. "A decent threat" Chase called after me calmly. "But not true at all." I stopped walking and turned around, glaring at Chase again. "You just wait" I whispered. I tossed the beads at Wuya, and walked out of the room.

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