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It's precipitating outside…it makes me inspirational.

Chapter 7

The monks had been training night and day improving their skills and learning more difficult ones. They got up every morning and ran a few miles, then ate, then went right into training. They were all very tired by the end of the week and were all relived when they heard they were going back to the temple. They all decided that on their last night that they'd go back to the hot springs once more.

"Ah, this feels most pleasant!" Omi said sitting down in the springs.

"Agreed," Raimundo said.

There was a long pause of silence. It was a clear night out and there was a half moon. There was a ton of steam in the air too.

"Hey look!" Clay said pointing at the sky. "It's Venus!" (a/n: can you see Venus from China? Just wondering.)

"Cool," Rai said.

"What other stars are in the sky?" Omi asked.

Clay pointed out many stars in the sky and a few constellations, some of which the others never heard of.

"Wow," Raimundo said. "That's a lot,"

"Perhaps I will get my own constellation one day!" Omi said very sure of himself.

"Oh really? What would it look like? A giant circle?" Rai asked jokingly.

Omi glared at him.

"You can't create stars in the sky, so what if we named our own stars?" Clay suggested.

"Yeah!" Omi and Raimundo said.

Omi looked around in the sky for a while and said, "That one"

He pointed to, what else, the biggest one he could find.

"Okay, Omi-Star,' Clay said.

Rai looked around for a while then said, "That one!"

He pointed to the one that was a little left of the moon.

"Okay, Rai-Star," Clay said.

Clay then looked around the sky for a while until he said, "I choose that one!"

He pointed to the one that was near the mountains. It was a bright star and was a little ways up from the tip of the mountain.

"Clay-Star," he said.

"What about you Kim?" Rai asked turning around to look at her. "Kimiko?!"

Clay and Omi immediately turned around also to see a crying Kimiko. Her hands were covering her eyes. The three all swam in front of her. Rai then went to her right side.

"Kim, what's wrong?" Rai asked softly.

She didn't answer.

"Kim!" Rai said.

"I'm scared," she said quietly.

"You're scared, of what?" Rai asked with his hand on her shoulder.

"Kimiko, we have fought very touch evil before and you were never scared!" Clay said. "Heck, you're normally the one who loves to kick butt!"

"I know," Kimiko said. "It's just that I heard Dojo and Master Fung talking, and they're worried that…"

"Worried that we'll lose?" Rai asked.

Kimiko (whose hands were no longer on her face) began to cry harder.

"Worried that one of us will die!" Kimiko yelled rather loudly. "I don't want to lose you Rai!"

Realizing what she had said, she covered her mouth with her hands and blushed. She shut her eyes tightly hoping that she would disappear.

"I don't want to lose any of you," she said softly.

"Kim," Rai began while blushing very hardly. "Do you think that we don't have the same fear of losing someone?"

"Yeah Kimiko, we have known each other for a long time," Clay said. "But we're not going to let that happen,"

"We are going to defeat Alydia!" Omi said enthusiastically.

Kimiko smiled.

"Kim, I promise that we'll defeat Alydia and we'll all live to tell about it," Rai said. "I'm your leader, I'm not going to let any of my friends die,"

"You promise?" Kimiko asked.

"Promise," Rai said smiling.

Everyone smiled.

Kimiko looked up to the sky and then said, "That one,"

"Huh?" Rai asked.

"The star next to yours Rai, I would like that one," Kimiko said.

"Kim-Star then?" Rai asked.

She shook her head then said, "Kimi-Star,"

"Kimi? If I can remember correctly, the last time I called you 'Kimi', you kicked me in the shin," Rai said. (a/n: has there actually been an episode where Rai called Kimiko 'Kimi'?)

"Yes I did kick you in the shin; and I still will kick you in the shin if you call me that. Well, now that you mention it, I really do hate that name. So Kimiko-Star it is," Kimiko said.

"Kimiko-Star? That's a mouthful! You should have stayed with Kimi," Rai said.

Kimiko punched him in the arm, hard.

"Ow!" Rai said. "I didn't call you 'Kimi'!"

"I know," Kimiko said. She then splashed him with the water.

"Hey!" Rai said. He slashed her back.

In no time, they had gotten into a water battle and they were completely soaked.

A bit later they went back to their tents and fell asleep. They woke up the next morning and went back to the temple. They all took a shower and then met each other in the dining room for lunch.

"So Kimiko, are you still afraid?" Omi asked.

"Nah I'm cool," Kimiko said. "I'm ready to kick some butt!"

Dojo entered the room and sat on Omi's head.

"Hey Dojo," Rai said. "Are you tired from the hike back down?"

"Me? Tired? Are you kidding?" Dojo asked.

"No," Rai said.

"Maybe I'm a tad tired, but I could still fly to Florida and back!

"Why Florida?" Kimiko asked.

"I don't know. It's pretty far away," Dojo said.

"So when is Alydia's staff going to become active?" Clay asked.

"Well, any day starting two days ago," Dojo said.

They all glared at him.

"What?" Dojo asked with his hands in the air.

"Well, you could have told us that it's that close," Rai said.

"Master Fung and I told it would go active in five days and our third day up there. So, if we stayed there for a week, seven days, it would go active- today," Dojo said.

"Are you trying to be ominous?" Rai asked.

"No!" Dojo said. "I'm just saying that we need to be on guard! You never know when-"

Suddenly, Dojo was shaking all over and he began to itch his tail. For a split second, he turned red and was steaming.

"Alydia's Staff just went active!" Dojo exclaimed. Then he just realized what he said. "ALYDIA'S STAFF JUST WENT ACTIVE!"

"Come on!" Rai said standing up. "Let's go kick some demon butt!"

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Well, here you go! I can probably think of one question that may be on your mind:

She's not really going to kill a character, is she?

Tee-hehe! You'll never know! Well, actually you will if you keep reading. So review please! (does this chapter seem short to you?)

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