Rewrite

I think I'm going to completely redo the story from here on out.

CHAPTER 5: *Rai's pov*

As every body stared at her, though nobody could actually see her completely, she started fidgeting.

"Um… Uh…Hi I guess." She said looking nervous, from what we could tell.

"Oh, my friends I am so sorry. This is my new friend, Natalie. I met her on my vacation. She came very much in usefull. I got in a slimy situation and she helped me out." Omi said as he smiled.

"Um, Omi I think you mean I came in handy because you were in a sticky situation." Natalie corrected.

"Yes, yes whatever you say friend."

Natalie started to laugh, but quickly stopped. "Omi. Do you remember the condition that I made when I helped you? Well it's time for you to come through on that. That girl you all just saw get stolen away was my best friend. I've been searching for her for the last year or so. She disappeared because the temple we were training at got attacked by someone she's very close to. It's kind of a long story that I really don't want to get into right now, but I need your help to find her. I have to find her. But I need to tell you that the girl that did all those things to you wasn't the real her. She wouldn't do that if she could help it, you have to believe me. When the temple was attacked, something happened to her and ever since then she's been different. I think those people who took her, have her under some kind of mind control and their manipulating her. Please. Help me save her." After that big announcement everyone went quiet.

"It is no problem Natalie. I made a promise to you and I fully intend to keep it. We will help you because that is the proper Xiaolin warrior thing to do. Besides, I would never imagine leaving a small, frail, weak, powerless girl like you to do something so dangerous. Isn't that right you guys?" Said Omi with a smirk on his face. He was soon rewarded with about five death glares.

"A weak girl you say?" Asked Natalie as she pulled Omi off his feet and proceeded to beat him up. Kimiko was about to stop her, but I whispered "Kim leave it alone, he's had worse done to him. Besides maybe she will finally get it through his chrome dome of a head." Kimiko reluctantly sat back down beside me and went to sleep. She had had a very long day and needed a good nights rest.

When Natalie was finished with Omi, she sat down near the back of Dojo.

I slid Kim's head out of my lap and walked over to her. "Wanna talk about it?" I Asked. She nodded yes as I sat down next to her.

"So what's the story about the reason your temple was attacked?" I asked, looking at Natalie.

"Um, well, like I said, we were living at a temple, training. What I didn't mention was that there was a third warrior there with us. His name was Dominick. The thing about our temple is, Delanie was the only one with actual powers. Dominick and I, well we're just normal people. Well about as normal as our job gets. We have reasons that we're at the temple, like Dominick is the greatest fighter I've ever seen. He's strong and merciless and if you let him loose then he can be a killing machine. And I can sense things that normal people can't. So we are very useful when it comes to this warrior stuff. But Delanie was special. Because she actually had powers, she was regarded higher than us and was soon named our leader. I was ecstatic, she's really a great leader, but Dominick was less than happy for her. He felt that it wasn't a fair decision. And it became even worse when Delanie started talking about how she didn't like being the leader. How she didn't like being a warrior anymore, and how she just wanted a normal life. To have a family and friends and maybe get a boyfriend. It drove him crazy though. He thought she was being ungrateful. That she should be happy she had powers and that he needed to teach her a lesson. What he didn't know, was that the reason she didn't want any of it was because she wanted to be normal just like him. So that she could be with him without the problems and complications of being a warrior. She loved him, even though it was against the rules of a Xiaolin warrior. He was one of the smartest people I knew, but when it came to her, he was so dense. I still remember what happened that night…" Natalie trailed off as tears started to drop from her eyes.

"I'm so sorry. That's such a tragic story. I want you to know that we're going to do everything we can to get her back and end all this. If you don't mind me asking though, what happened that night? Who was it that attacked the temple?" I asked, my eyes pleading for her to tell me.

"Well, believe it or not it was…" But she never got to finish her sentence. Her eyes started to glaze over, then shut all together. "He's coming for m..!" She was cut off by a hand covering her mouth. A shadowed figure was behind her, laughing maniacally.

"Natalie, Natalie, Natalie. You're slipping you know that? You used to be able to sense my presence much faster than that. I guess being apart for so long has made you lose your touch. Tsk tsk."

"Hey! Let go of her! Get away from her! Who are you any?" I shouted, trying to get Natalie out of his grasp.

"Natalie. How could you? You haven't told your new friends about me yet? I'm hurt."

Natalie started to struggle, then bit his hand. He let go immediately to tend to his injured appendage.

"We need to get her to a safe place fast!" Shouted Natalie, who was trying to get as far away from the shadowed stranger as fast as possible.

"Get who to a safe place?" Asked Clay, who was clearly confused on what was happening.

"Kimiko! She's in danger! That's who he's here for! He wants to take us! Please don't let him take us!" By this time, she was in hysterics.

I turned around, fully prepared to fight this guy off, but he was already gone. "We have to go to the temple now guys. Dojo, get us out of here!" I yelled

"Shouldn't we go after him Rai? It's not like you to give up like that without a fight." Said Clay.

"No, we just need to go to the temple and come up with a plan. That's the only way we're gonna be able to get through this alive." I Said, not looking them in the face. Dojo obeyed his orders from the higher up warrior, and headed towards the temple.