Hola! Greetings from Arkansas! I'm still on vacation but I have a 15+ hour car ride (in which I always get car-sick -- ) and I'm typing this during that. So….yeah. Here's chapter 7! Sorry I left you guys at that evil cliff-hanger. I just didn't know when I'd be able to update again. So, enjoy this chapter!
P.S.: GUESS WHAT?!?!?! For the first time ever I'm on the 'author alert' for someone!!! WOOT! XD
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry but Jack might be a little OOC in this chapter cuz I couldn't think of a way for this plot to happen unless he was some bit eviler then he usually is. SHUTUP! I know it's annoying when the characters act differently then they do from the show but AT LEAST I TRY TO MAKE THEM IN CHARACTER! YOUR LUCKY I'M EVEN WRITING THIS AT ALL!!! God. You people are so obnoxious.
Sorry. Way too much sugar. P
SUGAR!
Xiaolin: Two-Ton Tunic, Tongue of Saiping, Sapphire Dragon, Orb of Tornami, Star Hanabi, Heart of Jong, Sun Chi Lantern, Glove of Jisaku, Thorn of Tunderbolt, Sweet Baby Among Us, Mind Reader Conch, Crystal Glasses, Shroud of Shadows, Monkey Staff, Shadow of Fear, Wings of Tinabi, Mosaic Scale, Monarch Wings, Lasso Boa Boa, Serpent's Tail,
Rai, Wuya: Third-Arm Sash, Fist of Tebigong, Jet Bootsu, Ruby of Ramses, Tangle Web Comb, Golden Tiger Claws, Sword of the Storm, Lotus Twister, Reversing Mirror, Shard of Lightning, Silver Manta Ray, Wushu Helmet, Mantis Flip Coin, Eye of Dashi, Tunnel Armadillo, Silk Spitter, Falcon's Eye, Longi Kite, Crouching Cougar, Sphere of Yun, Black Beetle, Gills of Hamachi, Emperor Scorpion,
Jack: Changing Chopsticks, Ring of the Nine Dragons, Helmet of Jong, Ju-Ju Fly Trap, Monsoon Sandals, Lunar Locket,
I spun around just as the vines tangled themselves around me. I took a deep breath in. 'It's alright. All I have to do if stay calm and clear my mind.' Of course what Raimundo did next did not help at all.
My eyes grew wide as Raimundo pulled what looked a large pocketknife out of his sweat shirt pocket. One of his hands grabbed the top of my head from my hair (which, FYI, I had taken down from it's high ponytail when I changed) and the other one put the flipped out knife by my neck. "I'm looking for a statue by a fish mart and you're going to tell me where it is." He put the cold metal menacingly closer to my throat.
I gaped. Then murmured innocently "What makes you think I know where it is?" I heard him sneer.
"Please, as though I'd actually fall for that. You've lived in Tokyo your whole life, there's almost no way you won't know."
"Well, yes I suppose I do know, but it's not like I would tell you. So go ahead kill me." I was testing him, seeing if he actually would. The truth was that I had almost reached my state of calm and if he actually did try to, I would let myself go and kick him in the area that nobody wants to be kicked in. (A/N his shin! Lol. No one here knows why that's so funny to me. If you want to know why, PM me and I'll tell you. It's really a funny story.)
I felt the knife actually touch my neck and I thought he was actually going to do it. 'Rai…what happened to you? I can't believe this is what you've become.' My eyes turned down to look at my feet and then I saw that his huge pocketknife was shaking quite severely in Raimundo's hand. His hand was…trembling? As I was wondering, his pocket knife fell from his hand.
A small shimmer of hope shone through to my 'Raimundo's not really evil, he's just acting like it for some ingenious reason' half of my brain. However that feeble ray dimmed in only a few seconds.
He then threw me on the ground, I was still facing him, and yelled "I know what you're trying to pull. If I were to kill you I might not even find the statue before Clay and Omi get it. That's the only reason I won't. Well, not right now anyway."
Crushed. The light was crushed and I was left in the darkness. 'Fine. If that's how you want to play…' I thought, half a second before I began reclearing my mind. 'I'll just play that way too.' The webs shot off of me and into the comb and I was just about to flip backward, until the same powerful gust that had held me against the wall in Raimundo's nightmare pinned me to the roof.
I gasped silently, as I tried, now urgently, to get up. "I do have to thank you though," Raimundo said, smirking. "Because of that night I figured out how to completely control the wind. Thanks." His smile disappeared completely and he glared at me. I avoided his gaze and looked over the closest edge of the building.
"…….."
'Oh my God, Rai's stupid.' I thought as I stared at the head of the tall statue. 'Wow. He's so…special. Well, this won't take long.'
I looked back up at him, my face now showing obvious fear, as he picked up the pocketknife again. His hand clasped it tightly and I chose then to say in an exceedingly convincing, scared stage voice "Wait!"
He looked up at me his face showing no emotion, where as mine showed wide-eyed fear. "Alright, I'll tell you just stop!" I purposely made my voice crack when I began the 'just.'
He glared suspiciously at me before I felt the gust die gust enough so that I could, although with great difficulty, get to my feet. I looked up at him again and he glared at me expectantly. I had already carefully measured the distance to the ledge and I had determined that one nicely made jump should get me down.
"…….."
"…Well?" he demanded.
"…..You didn't know I was kidding?" I asked innocently, and, after having the satisfaction of seeing his disgusted face, did a perfect back flip off the building.
The moment before I dropped off the building, I was able to catch another glimpse of his face and, yet again, my 'Raimundo's still on our side!' half of my brain rejoiced. Raimundo looked, well, afraid as I began to fall off the building, still tied with the Tangled Web Comb's ropes, to what would have been any normal person's death. (Seriously, they get attacked by tigers in the show and all that happens to them is a little black eye here, couple scratches there, and then the next scene they're all perfectly fine. God. Now in Naruto they actually have a hospital and…no no. Naruto's just as unbelievable with the 'human limits' line. Seriously. Iruka and Naruto sure love jumping in front of those big spinning things of Mizuki's. Whee! Let's get stabbed in the back to save to other person! Yahoo! Sarcasm. Anyway.)
Focusing only on clearing my mind, the vines began to loosen and the second before I would have hit the hard cement, they completely came off and shot back into the comb. I made a perfect landing that I'm sure would have gotten me a perfect score in a gymnastics competition.
Wow. Too many perfects there.
Note to self: find synonyms for 'perfect.'
As I straightened and looked about at my new surroundings, I immediately saw Clay and Omi fighting about ten fish bots and Jack hovering around looking for the new Shen-Gong-Wu. Hm. Fish bots. That's new. Still lame, but new. I turned my head to look back up at the top of the building I had been standing on a few moments ago. Raimundo was no longer there, or at least he wasn't standing close enough to the edge that I was able to see him.
My head snapped back forward as Clay called my name. "Kimiko partner, we could sure use some help." He yelled fighting the new fish bots that had just flown out of nowhere. 'Probably the water now that I think about it though…' I thought as I called upon some fire and judellete flipped into the fight.
XXX (Awesome fight scene that I don't feel like describing) XXX
Narrowly dodging a missile (did the fish bots have missiles?) and melting a fin, I finished my half of the robots and looked over at Clay to see that he too had just crushed his last robots.
Omi had finished his half (YES three halves make 1. XP ) long ago and had began searching with Dojo for the Wu. I scanned the skies for a green dragon and easily found Dojo circling the dock. I succeeded in catching his eye and he gave me a shrug, meaning he couldn't find it. I turned to Omi, who had been searching around some large crates full of smelly fish. He shook his head.
I sighed and gave Clay a somewhat depressed look before I heard Omi yell "Look! Up in the sky!"
If it had been anyone else besides Omi I would've expected them to make some pun about how it was a bird. No a plane. No! It's Superman! But instead I obediently looked up.
Up in the sky where Omi had pointed, Jack and Raimundo were wrestling for a shiny, gold thingy. I wonder if the Shen-Gong-Wu are made of real gold? Wow you could sell them on ebay for a lot. I imagined spending a million dollars on some gold trinket just so that the obnoxious other guy bidding wouldn't get it and when it arrived it turned out to have magical powers. Back to reality.
"Let go!" Jack screeched, trying to keep the Wu away from the brunette. In case your wondering how they were flying, Jack had his helli-bot-thing-a-ma-bob and Rai, er, Raimundo was reaching for the Wu while keeping his balance on a gust of wind.
Even from this distance I could see the 'Do-I-look-like-an-idiot-to-you?' look Raimundo gave Jack as he attempted to grab the artifact. Raimundo, however, had the disadvantage here. See, Jack was flying on his stupid h-b-t-a-m-b (it gets tiring to write helli-bot-thing-a-ma-bob after a while XD) so he wasn't doing anything whereas Raimundo was using his element and, while Raimundo was still able to fly and whatever, he had to keep an arm out to keep the wind going. Not to mention, whenever I use my fire it take a bit out of me. I wonder if it's the same for Rai?
Poor Rai….mundo.
That's gotta be draining his energy.
He was certainly breathing hard enough that I could see it from down here. Like what you'd be breathing after a suicide in gym class. Oh, God I hate those.
I glanced at Clay and he had a 'deep thinking' look on his face. Most likely he was wondering whom to attack, as I was subconsciously. Attack Jack and Rai would snatch the Wu and teleport himself out of here. Attack Raimundo and Jack would fly away. God.
How annoying.
Bad guy vs. Bad guy. Who do we attack?
Looking back at Clay he seemed to have reached the same decision I had which was wait until someone got the Wu and then attack him. I was glad we were on the same page but apparently someone wasn't reading the same book as us.
My head shot up as Omi gave his "Prepare to suffer a humiliating defeat!" and jumped into the airborne fight. Unfortunately, he hit Raimundo with his attack and they both fell to the ground.
Jack Spicer gave an evil laugh that confirmed my suspicions that he was indeed mental as he flew upward and disappeared into the clouds.
Raimundo stood up and brushed off his jeans. He rolled his eyes at Omi, apparently exasperated.
"Nice one, chrome dome." He sneered. I folded my arms and glared at Omi, as did Clay and Dojo.
"What? What did I do?" he put up his arms.
"You let him get away. I would've had him if you hadn't gotten in my way." Rai, I mean, Raimundo snarled. "Smooth." Our attention was turned to him momentarily as he slashed a portal to God knows where.
"Oh…" he looked quite embarrassed. "My badness…" he hung his head in shame.
I felt sorry for him so I sighed and put on a reassuring smile. "It's okay." The others looked at me as the light bulb appeared over my head. I'm guessing it must've showed on my face because Dojo said "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, mind you." I retorted, rolling my eyes before returning to my newly acquired bouncy mood. "I just had an idea! Why don't we all go visit my Papa? He's awesome! You guys'll love him!"
Omi looked up at me and smiled. "That sounds most-" I did not hear what it sounded most like because then my cell phone rang. "Hello?" I asked flashing the others an apologetic look before turning around.
"Kimi!" Keiko's voice rang into my ear. "Where are you? It's been like, forever!" I glanced at my watch.
"It's only been twenty minutes." I replied, rather moodily because of our loss.
"Whatever." I could tell that she was rolling her eyes. "So, anyway, did you guys get the Shen-Gong-Wu thing?"
I sighed. "No. Jack got it."
"Oh." She said sympathetically. "Well, no big right? I mean, it's better to like, lose a Wu while looking fabulous then getting it with bird poop on your shirt. Am I right?"
"….."
"So! Anyway! Where are you going now?"
"Omi, Clay, Dojo and I were going to head over to my Papa's building." I replied, looking back at the guys. Omi was gazing at himself in a mirror, Dojo was playing golf, using the golf ball and club he always carries around and aiming at largish hole in the dock and Clay was whittling a small statue of himself.
'I wonder where he got the wood? Tree killer.' I thought as Keiko squealed. "Seriously? I'm like, only two steps away from there! I can totally meet you there!"
"Sure!" I grinned into the phone. "I'll ttyl 'kay?" (Sorry, I just had to make her say some net speak even though she's actually talking. Isn't it annoying when people say lol or OMG out loud though?)
"Toodles!" she sang as she hung up.
I too clicked of my cell as I turned back to Clay and Omi. "Okay! Change of plans! Keiko's going to meet us there."
Clay shrugged, Omi nodded and Dojo supersized. "Well then if she has a temper like yours we better not keep her waiting," he joked with a small smirk dancing on his lips. I rolled my eyes. "Thanks."
XXX
Five minutes later, we arrived in front of the tallest skyscraper in Tokyo. I grinned as we slid of Dojo, eager to see my Papa again. "Come on!" I yelled, using my arm to motion them to follow. I did a double take as I thought I saw Raimundo on the roof of a neighboring building, but brushed it off.
'It'd be the 9th time I hallucinated him somewhere since the night I invaded his dreams.'
Unfortunately, Clay noticed when I stopped and was staring at me with a weird look on his face. "Kimiko? Are you alrigh'?"
I smiled immediately and nodded reassuringly. "Yeah. Yeah. I'm fine."
He didn't look convinced. "You sure? You've been acting mighty strange for a while now…?"
'Crap. Clay's noticed. I can't tell Clay or Omi that it's all my fault that Rai's so angry at us…I'll pretend I have no clue what he's talking about.' I put on a confused look.
"Really? Huh. How so?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. Just sorta jumpy. And you always stop whatever you're doing to just randomly stare somewhere. Ya know. That sort of stuff."
I looked surprised. 'Man those acting classes really helped my lying.' "Really?" I sounded amazed. "Weird. I don't know."
He shrugged. "'Kay. If you're sure you're alright…." He turned back toward the entrance to follow Omi and Dojo and I let out a sigh of relief. 'God, that was close.' Taking a last glance at the neighboring building's roof, I chased Clay into my Papa's building.
---With Raimundo, Normal POV---
"God, that was close." Raimundo murmured, as he looked back at Tohomiko industries' entrance. "I can't believe she almost saw me…"
He continued hiding behind the thick pole, waiting for a few seconds before calling upon a gust of wind to carry him to a semi-large ledge on the 3rd floor of the skyscraper. Remaining silent, he stood keeping his balance as he looked into the window to his left. Where there should have been employees working on the assembly line, the room was completely deserted. He hardly noticed as he continued to grumble about his assignment. 'I actually wish I could be back in my crib playing my new Wii right now (WE GOT A WII!!!! WOOT!) but stupid Wuya with her stupid sensing Shen-Gong-Wu power…God. How obnoxious.' He rolled his eyes as he quietly eased the window open.
---With Kimiko, Dojo, Clay and Omi. Kimiko's POV---
'Okay…weirdness. Where is everyone?' we had just reached the second floor but so far we had seen no one.
"Kimiko?" Dojo asked obviously just as confused as I was. "Is this place supposed to be completely empty or is everyone just on a picnic or something?"
"…I don't know. But I'm actually getting a little freaked." I was beginning to panic. The place that I had always known to be buzzing with new machines and employees was, like, totally deserted. I mean, besides the four of us. "Hello?" I yelled, now desperate to find someone. "Is anyone here?"
No answer.
At all.
"PAPA?" I screamed, almost frantically.
When no answer came, I ran to the elevator and jammed my fist into the up key. The panel broke. "Kuso…" I swore in Japanese running to the main staircase.
---Five minutes later---
That's about when I lost the others. Probably because I had forgotten that there was another elevator on the other side of the main entrance but I had already reached the 7th floor once I remembered this. My Papa's office was on the 23rd floor.
It was two floors later until I realized what an idiot I was.
"Kami, I'm an idiot." I mumbled out loud as I pulled a green Shen-Gong-Wu out of no where. (WHERE DO THEY KEEP THEIR WU?!?!?!?! And here's another question for you guys. Where does Hannabil Roy Bean keep the Moby Morpher?! Answer? UP HIS CRACK. Seriously, he doesn't have any pockets or anything but when he put his arms behind his back, he has it. WTF?!?!?!)
"Serpent's Tail!" I yelled, activating it and beginning to fly through the roof. Seven seconds later, I was on the 25th floor. I swore under my breath and ran down the two flights of stairs.
XXX
The door shot open on the 23rd floor as I ran, arms first, through them. 'It's just down this hallway…' I thought, turning a corner and running full speed ahead. 'Then I'll find out what's up…'
I skidded to a halt in front of the double doors of my Papa's office. I took a deep breath, making myself look calm again, before I reached for the handle. I mean, how embarrassing would it be if I ran in there screaming Papa at the top of my lungs, just to find out that everyone was in a meeting and everything was all right.
I closed my eyes as I pulled open the door. The second I opened them I immediately wished that I hadn't.
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I thought about putting this as an evil cliff hanger so that I'd be able to post my chapter as soon as I got home but then I decided 'I'm not that evil. I'll just finish the chapter on the million hour ride car ride. Well, turns out we got in at about 2:30 or something so I was sleeping for a lot of it and I didn't get close to finishing the chapter. Boo hoo, cry me a river. So, I decided that I would just post this to get you all to shutup. Cry babies. :'( EMOS. Lol. Sorry. I just had a fudgesickle. Which have a lot of sugar. YUM!
