Iced - Out Fire
The last chapter. I hope you all enjoyed the story... And hey, check out this song... It's actually like a REALLY good song. Love it! One of my more favorite bands... For once, their voices are pretty unique.
Sorry to ramble. On with the chapter...
Chapter 10: Everything
(Everything - A Cursive Memory.)
"A what?" Kyri's eyes narrowed.
Kimiko's eyes sparkled with delight for what seemed like the first time in forever. Raimundo looked a bit nervous, but had faith in the girl. "A Xiaolin Showdown... A battle, instead of a fight."
She nodded. "I accept your challenge Kimiko..." Her voice was back to it's normal tone, which was actually much different than Kimiko's... She must have been good at mimicing things.
"I wager my element." She knew it was a gamble, but at the moment, she didn't have anything else to stand on.
"And I'll wager it as well..."
"It's settled..." Raimundo started, his faith in the girl growing... Just as it had when she had won her first showdown. "Whoever wins, shall get the element of fire!"
The scenery began to change, as Kimiko explained. "Whoever is the first, to get through the blind tunnel wins..." There were stone walls that wriggled up in perfect and thick rectangles. Each tunnel had some twists and turns in it, but no dead ends to make the showdown move more quickly. Raimundo was put on a platform, above the rest, and although he couldn't see where either of them were, He knew he could still cheer Kimiko on.
"Gong Yi Tan Pie!" (sorry if that's wrong, I haven't done this in a while.)
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Kimiko immediately put her hands infront of her, and began to run. She didn't care if she broke both of her wrists doing this... She just had to win. Running a little ways, they hit a wall, and she already heard on of them snap.
She cried out, and stopped for a moment, trying to see how bad it looked. But, to no avail, so she had to suck up the pain, and run at the same time.
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Kyri took off, not making any preporation incase she were to run into a wall. She used her sense to try and get past all the turns, but the first time she figured there was a turn to the left, she rammed into the wall.
"Damnit!" She screamed, moving forward again. Unfotunarely, forward wasn't the way to go either, as she hit her face on the stone once again.
Finally being to dizzy to move, she sat down for a moment and literally dragged herself to the right. She had to keep going...
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"So far... So good..." Kimiko breathed. She hadn't run into anything for a while, and she was becoming nervous and anxious. She just wanted the god damn maze to be over, so she could try and beat Kyri.
On top of that still, she didn't know how far the girl was. And that scared her... A lot.
She rammed into a wall, and cried out in pain again. For the other wrist began to throb, and the first broken wrist stretched. She shook her head to rid her eyes of the tears, but the pain was untolerable.
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"Ugh!" Kyri stumbled, hitting more and more walls as she went. She was surprised she wasn't bleeding yet. As if on cue, the next wall she hit made a sticky and warm subsence flow down her face.
Looking up, she saw the light almost right infront of her. She felt her way to the dead end wall, and began pulling herself up.
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Raimundo watched as she pulled herself over the wall. He bit his lip. The antisaptation was killing him!
The other crawled over the wall as well, and leaped for it without being fully out.
But, the footing was lowsy, and she missed it by just a few inches. The other one caught it, and the scenery began to change.
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After the bright light was gone, he saw Kyri on the ground, screaming and pounding the ground. Blood was running down the side of her face, and she looked down right pissed. But, he couldn't hear her, as the bright light also made a melodic, although deafening sound fill the cave.
It began to shake, and the whole thing was going to collapse. Kyri got up, and ran out of the room, not wanting to get caught in it.
When the light died down, Raimundo saw Kimiko lying on the floor, unconscious. He scooped her up, and saw her face was a little bruised, and her hands were swollen... But, quickly taking the Orb of Tornami (don't quote me on that name) out of his bag, he let water flood about five inches of the cave floor. Safely knowing a few moments later, that it had probably rushed out of the cave, he froze it all with a wind attack.
Then, he began to skate as best he could on boots, with Kimiko bridal style in his arms.
They were finally going home...
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Opening her eyes, she looked around. A moan escaped her lips, as she tried to sit up. Her wrists throbbed, and she had a massive headache. She felt hot to the touch, but shivered, claiming to be cold.
"What happened?" She mumbled, looking around the hospital wing. "Last I remember... Chase was dead and he shot - Oh my god! Who did he hit?" She wracked her brain for a moment, then gasped. "Me? He hit... me? But I don't feel -"
"KIMIKO!" Three people yelled at once, shotting to her bedside, and hugging her. She laughed for a moment, smelling all of their familiar scents.
As they backed off, Raimundo took her hand in his. "You told me, that in Japan if you went through great trouble, or caught one of these, it would tell you how good or bad your future would be... What was it?"
"A cherry blossom stupid." She looked at him weird, as everyone sigh in relief.
"You back..." He hugged her... He hugged her so tight, she thought he was afraid she would leave if he let go.
"Raimundo Pedrosa, what is going on? You never hug me like you're trying to kill me..."
"You do not remember?" Omi asked, stepping forward, and looking at her.
"Remember what? Ahh..." She put both of her casted hands to her head, to make the room stop spinning.
"You lost your memory lil'lady!" Clay smiled at her shocked expression.
"My memory?"
"And your element."
"My element? How does that work?" She was confused, and already had a headache.
"Let me... Uh... Tell you the whole story..." Raimundo smiled, and began telling his tale, the others also listening intently on the things they hadn't heard.
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"And you've been out since yesterday." Raimundo finished.
Kimiko blinked. She couldn't believe it.
"So... Are you going to say something?" Omi asked, pressured, wanting to hear her reaction to this.
"Kyri sounds like a bitch in my opinion." She smiled, as they all sighed in relief once again.
Kimiko was finally back... And they made sure she was staying here...
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He ran faster than her, calling back every so often to tell her to hurry up.
"Come on Kim! You've got to be fast if you want to make it!"
"Where in the world are you taking me!?" She laughed. Raimundo was much faster than her when she didn't have any adrenaline in her body.
It was one of those nights where it was perfect to be outside. The bugs seemed to stay away, the grass seemed to sway in a rhythm with the wind and birds, the temperature wasn't too cold, but wasn't too hot...
Everything was in sync with everything else... It was just the perfect way, to end a perfect day.
"Damnit Rai! You run fa - wow..." She breathed, at the scene infront of her. The sun was half way over the horizon, the other colors streaking out into the sky.
The normal clear blue air, was now splotched with scattered like of gold, yellow, red, and orange. Everything was so beautiful... The grass looked lush, and part golden from the rays reflection,
A newly formed pond from the odd rains had developed magenta lily pad flowers, and fish and amphibians a like splashing and playing in the water.
Birds chirped their beautiful songs, and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Raimundo sat down, taking Kimiko on his lap.
"Do you like it here?"
"This sunset never ceises to amaze me..." She smiled dreamily, looking forward at one of the more pleasant and peaceful things in life.
They sat in silence for a few moments, enjoying the long needed relaxing time just hanging out with the other.
"Hey Kim?"
"Yeah?" She asked, still soaking up the magestic glow the scene was giving off.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Sure!" She chirped, now paying attention to him.
"If I... umm... err... asked you right now... To marry me..." He coughed at her look. "Would you say yes?"
She jumped up, pulling off an outraged face, as he automadically flinched, not wanting to get kicked like he did last time. "You idiot!" She pushed him into the grass and fell ontop of him, her lips teasingly close to his. "Of course I would..."
"Just to let you know though..." He smiled, trying to recieve a quick peck. It didn't work, so he continued. "I'm not actually proposing."
"You know... I'm sadly okay with that..."
She kissed him passionately on the lips. He immediately wrapped his arms around her back, and pulled her cloesr, never wanting the moment to end.
She smiled into the kiss and depended it.
It was a definately a well needed, and long deserved kiss.
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Yay! It's FINALLY over! You know, this is the first story I've completely since October 27, 2007. Isn't that a little sad?
Thanks all for... reading. Heh, can't say I had many readers toward the end, but you know... That's okay!! Hope to hear from some of you, so you can give me your love!!
Guess that's all I have to say. This story didn't turn out as awesome and successful as I wanted it to be. Well, I'll talk to you soon...!
-zesty-