The Blood-Stained Rose
Chapter 7...Something New
Kimiko walked down the hall of the temple with a small boom box and a C.D. She suddenly stopped dead when she heard a voice.
"Hey Kim, what'cha doing?"
She sigh in her head. She didn't really want to talk to him, but she knew she couldn't not talk to him. 'Raimundo, why won't you leave me alone for a bit...I mean, I did just break up with my boyfriend...'
'That boyfriend was for the sake of getting Raimundo to notice you. And besides, you know you like his attention...'
'Fine...I'll admitt, I do like this attention he's giving me, but I mean...that was my boyfriend...'
'Good point I guess...' There was then silence in her head as she answered Raimundo's lingering question.
"Umm hey Rai...Just umm...going to go set something up."
"Oh umm...you need help?"
"Nope I'm good...thanks though!" she smiled, but then frowned at his disappointment. It wasn't there now, because he was masking it with a cocky smile, but unfortunatly for him, she saw it...
"Rai..."
"No, it's cool...come get me when you're done?"
"Sure thing!" she smiled sweetly.
He began to turn away, but Kimiko caught his arm. "Rai...?"
"Yeah?"
She kissed him lightly on the cheek, "Thanks for last night!" she ran down the hallway off to one of the many empty rooms in the temple.
She pressed the botton on the boom box/radio and the C.D. slot slid open. She then opened the C.D. case and soon she found herself pressing the play button.
Pulling off her Xiaolin robe she revealed white, loose sweatpants with a pink stripe down the side of each leg, and a pink tank top with the words 'Dance Dance' printed making a horse-shoe shape on the shirt. (go figure, that's just what she's about to do lol, i know im a spoiler) She pulled out her two ponytails and tied up her hair into one messy bun.
I still here your voice when you sleep next to me
I still feel your touch in my dream
Kimiko began to dance slowly, swaying to the music with planned out steps.
Forgive me my weakness
But I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive
Sure enough, just as the song got faster, so did she. Spinning and stepping perfectly, never missing a beat.
Cause everytime we touch I get this feeling
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side
Cause everytime we touch I feel the static
And everytime we kiss I reach for the sky
Can't you hear my heart beat so
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
(dance part of the song as you may all know...if you've heard it, i bet you have lol so pause!)
Kimiko did a couple gymnastic moves, ending with a front flip. 'Wow, all this training pays off!'
(catchy music turns to steady beat)
Your arms are my castle
Your heart is my sky
They wipe away tears that I cry
The good and the bad times
We've been through them all
You make me rise when I fallll
Raimundo ran down the hall to the way of the music, just intime to see the picture of Kimiko positioning herself up, then dropping down the the ground...he stood in confusion for a moment, just watching.
Cause everytime we touch I get this feeling
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side
Cause everytime we touch I feel the static
And everytime we kiss I reach for the sky
Can't you hear my heart beat so
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
(pause)
Kimiko again, freestyled, but it looked to Raimundo like she had done this dance routine before.
Cause everytime we touch I get this feeling
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
As Kimiko was finished Raimundo spun into another room so she wouldn't see him. She walked passed, and she was now in her Xiaolin robes and her two pony tails now. Quickly, almost running down the hallway she scampered into her cubicle to find her laptop.
Raimundo watched Kimiko scamper away quickly and decided to go to her cubicle. He knocked loudly, and tried to sound casual.
"Kim, you in there?" He mentally kicked himself, because he could here her typing on her laptop.
"Yeah Rai, come on in..." she trailed off, getting sucked up into her e-mail.
"What'cha doing?"
"My friend sent a letter...I'm going to miss these lessons! They only come out to certain people every four years, and my Papa got a letter in the mail...I was suppose to go this year!"
"What was the lesson?"
"All different things...swimming, dance, singing, gymnastic crap, sports-"
"What kind of sports?"
"You know...basics...tennis, basketball, softball, soccer." she sigh, finishing her e-mail and pressing send. "Kieko's going to be so mad at me! Since it comes only every four years, it focuses on two main things, switching everytime the people pick girls and guys from Tokyo!"
"What were the main two this year?"
"Swimming and soccer...why?"
Raimundo's head for once flicked an idea. "Kim...you know I used to surf right?"
"Yeah..."
"Umm-"
"But the real question is...were you any good?"
Raimundo glared at her when she giggled, "Yeah, I wouldn't me talking miss change my style everyday!" he shot back with a playful tone. Kimiko punched him in the arm, but once again...it was weak. "Girl, you need to get your arm fixed, I'm actually missing the whole hit hard thing..."
This made her giggled again, but yet she didn't do anything.
"And I was in soccer..."
"Yeah?"
"Went all over Brazil..."
"Wow! You think...you know...you could teach me some things about both? Just so I don't miss out on those lessons..."
"Sure! Here hold on..." Kimiko could hear Raimundo rummage his room, and come back. In his hand was a soccer ball. "Shall we?"
"We shall!" she giggled as she got up from her laptop. What she didn't realize was that she left her personal, digital jounal up...
"Okay, next thing...You wanna kick the ball with the top part of your shoe, not the front part." Raimundo instructed as he kicked the soccer ball with the top of his shoe, then the front.
Kimiko saw the difference, and observed that kicking it with the top of her shoe would make it go faster and further.
"Okay...since you got that down, obviously," she had just kicked it, and he could hear the air go by his head after the soccer ball.
"Sorry..."
"it's fine..but, since you're ready, we are going to both kick a ball at once, and they are suppose to hit eachother in the air."
"Okay..."
They both backed up and got ready to kick, but unfortunatly Raimundo didn't back up far enough and he kicked it first. His ball went flying through the air, but it passed the point they were suppose to hit just as Kimiko's got kicked. (yes that's how hard he can kick lol) It wouldn't have worked anyways, because Raimundo kicked it up off the ground, and Kimiko kicked it weird, so it stayed on the ground.
Before Kimiko knew it, her vision was spinning, and it turned black.
Raimundo's jaw dropped as he saw his power kicked ball hit Kimiko square in the stomache. As she flew backwards, he could see her eyes unfocus and close.
"Kim!" Raimundo raced over to her, as she came around.
"Ohh...what time is it?"
"You've only been out for about five seconds."
"Really? it felt like forever..."
"Yeah, it'll do that if you black out."
She laughed unstably. "Rai...I think it's time we go for a swim..."
"Good idea, 'nough soccer for today..."
They both laughed as they grabbed their bags and the soccer ball and left for Rio.
Omi walked down the hallway; a confused expression planted firmly across his face. He walked up to Clay in the kitchen and asked him, "Clay, do you know where Kimiko and Raimundo are...? It seems they have disappeared."
"Omi, they couldn't have disappeared, but they're probably out doing something. Ya know, Rai's still tryin' to cheer Kimiko up from her breakin' up with her boyfriend."
"Why is she upset?"
"Uhh...look at the time!" he pulled up his sleeve alittle and looked at his wrist. "Got to go!" he sped away from Omi, leaving him there; an even bigger expression of confusion swept across his face.
"He did not even have a tiny clock on his wrist..." Omi walked outside the temple, trying still to find his friends.
"GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!!" Kimiko yelled.
"Kimiko!" Raimundo growled and ran after her.
Kimiko jumped out of the portal and laughed, running towards the temple.
"Kim!" she heard a voice behind her, but she also heard laughing. Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks. Raimundo obviously didn't notice she stopped and ran right into her, knocking her over. As he kept muttering sorry and trying to help her up he finally saw what Kimiko was staring at.
There were roughly around fifty jackbots and ten jungle cats. They both blinked hard, but saw nothing else. Raimundo knew what Kimiko was thinking when she pulled out her cell phone. She pressed eight then the call botton.
"Don't say a thing, just get out here now with Omi." with that she hung up. Raimundo must have left his cellphone in the kitchen where Clay would most likely be, and he was thankful for that for once.
Kimiko whispered something in his ear, but after he shook his head no, she pressed eight on her cellphone again, hoping for it to ring. Fortunatly, Clay took the cellphone with him.
"Bring a small fan and some matches..." She heard him mutter okay and hang up once again. She smiled at Raimundo, because Clay knew to bring everything for everyones element.
"Wudai Mars, Fire!" she and Raimundo were engulfed in fire, and she made sure it didn't burn him. She took his hands and spun him around, making the fire break into the huge and familiar circle, but it was going ten times as fast, therefore taking out not five jackbots, but ten, plus a bonous point of a jungle cat.
"Wudai Star, Wind!" he blew himself and Kimiko over all the jackbots/jungle cats and closer to the temple...There they met Clay and were brought together with their signature item.
Kimiko quickly lit the match and let it engulf her hand. "Wudai Mars, Fire!" the fire increased ten fold and she cartwheeled into the mess of Jackbots, leaving a sparky trail behind her. She was lucky she wasn't hit, and fairly surprised her arm didn't get out on her.
"Just like oil in fire...you in me, you're gunna blow up!" She got on one hand and spun, letting all the fire off, and giving herself a shield. All the jackbots that were around her blew up almost instantly.
Omi poured the water bottle's water onto his hand, and let the icy chill mist onto it. "Wudai Neptune, Water!" The water increased, and because Omi was more experianced, the power increased even more than Kimiko. He made an Ice wall infront of him everytime a jungle cat charged, and since the jungle cats would leap, they wouldn't be able to stop being for hit the ice, and because the ice was so cold already, once the hit it, even if they got themselves off, the ice would soon purly grow around them, freezing them to death.
Omi had one bit of ice water left, but didn't have enough to build a wall, so he snapped the water at five jackbots and just as the water came in contact with the metal, Omi changed it to ice, shattering them like glass.
Clay picked up some dirt and held it in his hand, moving it a little. He did the same to his right boot and then ran into battle. He swung hard at an oncoming cat and nearly knocked its head off, but instead, just busting its shoulder and leg, along with the lower part of the side of it's head. It made a small whimper, backing up, soon the be encircled by purple magic, then being teleported away.
"Wudai Crater, Earth!" The fist and boot increased by strength and size. He swung at a rob of six jackbots trying to shoot lasers at him, but luckily, they were all deflected by Clay's rocky weapons.
Raimundo took the fan and turned it on gathering the wind around his hands, he got ready to blow over half the group of jackbots.
Suddenly, something slammed the back of his head and his concussion kicked back in. He swayed for a moment, then tried his attack. It missed by a mile and hit only half the amount of Jackbots that he hoped, but ontop of that, he burst a huge and unexpected gust of wind at Omi, who, so small, got knocked over, letting his guard down on a jungle cat.
Raimundo gaped at what happened, he felt so bad, but he couldn't focus anymore. He sat down on the ground, and could just make out Kimiko rushing to Omi. Then the small figure rushing towards him. He could hear the faint sound of his name being called. Wait, how did he know it was his name? Who was calling it if it was? He didn't know...
Okay there's your chapter. DUN DUN DUN!! what happened to Rai?? Sorry I haven't updated, got some family/boyfriend stuff going on lol. I know, horrid excuses, and they shouldn't count, but anyways, I am sorry I haven't updated. Okay, this time...king sized kit kat bar for anyone who reviews and a cupcake for anyone who read. Thanks to all who had read/reviewed and who will! Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I left you with a good little cliffhanger!