Kosmic

Is it bad that I have plans for this story at certain events without thinking in between? Yeah, this chapter has a plan. The next couple chapters also until a certain point, so yeah, filler. Maybe I can pull things in.

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Kosmic does not own Xiaolin Showdown, just his lovely wacky ideas. Yamato is owned by DeafLizgon. Katra belongs to Kosmic.

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We are Who we Are

It had been a couple of days since Omi and his friends started their new training. He was saddened when Kimiko told them her father disapproved of the new time. Unlike the others, Kimiko only came on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for only half the time he and the others had.

The training, though, was different, that was for sure. Everyone had to wear weights on their arms, legs, and around their waists on belts. At times, they all had to put large sandbags on their backs as they trained. The training itself was also intensified to running over coal, and everyone needed to be able to split their legs over their heads.

Omi, to show he can go further than everyone, decided to keep his weights on outside his training. He made it a goal to keep them on at all times except for when he needed to shower. He even added extra weights, determined to not let anyone surpass him. The only person he considered a rival to his skills was Katra.

Omi was playing basketball in the school's gym, because the rain made them all stay inside. He was on a team with Raimundo and Yamato, who were both ready to fight each other. He had to play against Clay and Jermaine, but he was not sure why the coach ordered the two teams this way. The bell rang, signaling the end of class, and Omi made his way to lunch with Clay and Jermaine.

"Hey, Omi, any luck with with your classes?" Jermaine asked Omi who nodded.

"Yes, I am doing really great with Kimiko's help in English class." Omi said as his friends made a small laugh.

"Do you still have a crush on Kimiko?" Clay asked in a quick laugh, making Omi blush a bit.

"Maybe a little... Stop it. I bet you guys never had a crush on a girl before." Omi retorted, annoyed his friends teasing him.

"Well..." Jermaine began until Clay covered his mouth.

"Don't even start, Jermaine, that's history." Clay said in a blush that was very noticeable.

"So you have a crush on a girl, too, Clay." Omi said in a victorious smile.

"Yeah, Clay has a crush on a girl named Ashley." Jermaine said breaking away from Clay who covered his face with his hat.

"He only stopped after hearing people claiming she is a thief. She always proves she's not and there has been no hard proof. Myself, I can not see it, she is a nice and sweet girl. I think Clay should get out of his shell and ask her out." Jermaine blurted out, making Clay even more embarrassed.

"Stop, Jermaine please, Omi I promise I will stop teasing you on this matter if you tell no one about my crush." Clay told Omi, who agreed, happy to hear his friend had a girl in his heart.

School was over and it was still raining, those who had umbrellas were walking. However, the ones without an umbrella ran. Omi did not have an umbrella, but he felt the rain would stop soon. He was not sure how soon, but it was no longer than an hour. So, he decided to wait for the rain to stop before leaving. His friends had already left, because they had to rush home before going to the dojo.

"Excuse me, Omi is it?" A girl walked up to Omi as he turned to her.

She had blonde hair cut short to her shoulders and black greenish eyes. She wore a black short sleeveless shirt with a white colored design, revealing her bellybutton, and a dark blue knees skirt. She had two golden bracelets on her left arm.

"Yes, I am, who may you be?" Omi asked the girl, happy to pass the time chatting with someone and maybe make another friend.

"My name is Ashley, we have gym together." Ashley told Omi as he thought back before he remembered her.

"I am so sorry, I should have known." Omi said bowing to Ashley, who just smiles.

"You are friends with Clay and Jermaine. Also the gang leader Raimundo right?" Ashley said spitting out Raimundo's name darkly.

"Yes, they are, and do not take Raimundo badly. He is actually not a gang leader, just a leader of a group bringing good to the streets. The cops and everyone else sees him and his group as a gang."Omi told Ashley, who looked not unsure of what was said.

"Sorry, I just can't buy that. I have heard too many bad things about him to agree with that." Ashley told Omi, who believed this may be the Ashley Clay had a crush on.

"Well, I was told there is a girl name Ashley at this school who is a thief, just not proven." Omi remarked only to get a frustrated and sad look from Ashley.

"I am tired of people thinking that of me. I am a good person, really, I am. I help at an animal shelter with the experts on cats. I would never steal a thing in my life." Ashley told Omi, who felt bad and quickly apologized.

"I am sorry, it was something I heard, but it is the same for Raimundo. I got to know him and actually see him help others." Omi said as Ashley looked over at Omi.

"Yeah, I guess, but he solely sees me as a thief. If he is good then he would have helped me once instead of blaming me for stealing. He is out to get me, he is the one person who keeps saying I am a thief." Ashley told Omi making him feel bad for her.

"If he is not willing to help you, I am. Is there something I could help you with?" Omi asked as Ashley turned around with a dark grin.

"I don't know, there is something, but you wont believe it if I told you."Ashley told Omi, who took a step forward and placed his hand on Ashley's arm.

"I am here to help you, and I want to consider you as a friend." Omi said and received a hug from her, he smiled at getting a hug from a girl.

"Thank you, Omi." Ashley quickly said then kissed his forehead before sitting down. Omi blushed and was happy to get a kiss.

"You see, my family use to live overseas. We were really wealthy until we went into dept. People came in and took our stuff saying it was to pay off the dept, but it felt like they were stealing from us. I was given to my aunt and moved here to New York. One item that belong to my parents were these cat eye gems that is being shipped over to be put on a museum as if they actually owned it. They even said it was an artifact they found and considered to be owned by them." Ashley said emotionally, being sad at first then angry.

"They stole from my family and now they are lying about an item that belongs to my family. I want to get it back, but with the security they have, the police that are most likely being paid to guard it. Would you help me get these gems back, Omi?" Ashley asked with tearful eyes.

Omi had mixed feelings on all this, he even had to replay it all in his head. It was wrong to steal, but these gems were stolen from Ashley's family and people are lying about where these gems actually came from. They were wrong and it had to be fixed.

"I will help you take back what rightfully belongs to you, Ashley." Omi said, receiving another hug and a kiss to his forehead.

"Thank you, Omi, please just do me one favor, don't tell anyone this. A lot of people would not believe this, and knowing Raimundo if he knew, he would stop us then blame me for everything." Ashley told Omi who agreed, as their conversation ended the rain stopped.

Ashley explained the cat eye gems were going to show up at the dock tonight. Once Omi got to the dojo, he readied his robes to start training. He wanted to hone his skills for tonight, but once everyone got in they would notice how much harder Omi was trying. It was Wednesday, so Kimiko had joined in the training.

Right now Omi was sparring with Raimundo on a balance beam that was three feet above the ground. The training was to be able to fight on a line to learn to keep balance and focus on your opponent. So far, only Omi, Katra, and Raimundo can spare each other on it with out falling off before the first couple attacks.

"You are pretty good, Omi. You seem a lot more intense in training today than usual." Raimundo observed as he caught Omi's punches.

"I feel as if I should increase my training, I refuse to have Katra be my equal... In skills." Omi added the last two words, not wanting to get hurt as he jumped over a leg sweep from Raimundo.

"Good save, Omi." Kimiko said as she trained with Katra.

Kimiko and Katra were sparring in a small circle. They were to keep there feet in small circles fit only for their feet to remember stance and to prepare if the opponent tried to do something to the to hurt them.

"Well, I'm going off on a limb here, but I believe Ashley is going to steal the cat eye gems tonight." Raimundo said and took a step back to avoid an attack from Omi, receiving glares from his friends, mainly Omi and Clay.

"She is not a thief, Raimundo, she helps at an animal shelter for darn sakes." Clay quickly defended Ashley as he sparred with Jermaine.

Clay and Jermaine trained to make an attack no more than ten seconds. They trained to keep in track of motion and time, they unlike the others had to train with sand bags on their back at this time.

"Yes, she is, she lies and manipulates others to get what she wants. She is fooling everyone at school with her innocence." Raimundo said only to get kicked by Omi and fell on a mat.

"Raimundo, get back on the balance beam." Master Fung ordered quickly as he followed their conversation.

"Raimundo, you have been out to get Ashley ever since you lost that amulet you had, because you believe she stole when she didn't." Jermaine said as he launched an attack at Clay.

"You guys have not seen what Raimundo has seen when he tries to stop the crime in the streets. Ashley is no good." Kimiko said defending Raimundo and herself as she dodged Katra's high kick.

This conversation went on for a while as Clay and Jermaine tried to protect Ashley's name, where Raimundo and Kimiko argued she was a criminal. Omi did not say a thing as he tried to absorb the information, but his heart kept telling him Ashley was a good person, and whenever Raimundo said anything bad, he would hit Raimundo right off the balance beam. Katra was the only one who was concentrating on her training.

"That's enough!" Master Fung yelled, grabbing everyones attention.

"This is a time for training, any other words better be of friendship or about training. Is that understood." Master Fung spoke, tired of his students arguing on that matter.

"Yes, Master Fung" They all responded to their master.

The rest of training was silent until Kimiko had to leave. They all said there good byes and Raimundo ran after Kimiko. That was when Omi felt bad remembering Ashley hugged and kissed him, when he knew Clay had a crush on her. Omi actually felt bad, because it seemed Ashley liked him.

Raimundo came back as they started up their training. Omi was now facing Katra on the balance beam since Raimundo had been knocked off nearly ten times by Omi. Clay and Jermaine were on the small circles and Master Fung had Raimundo on a small trampoline. Raimundo had to keep himself in one form while jumping on the trampoline for the rest of the training time.

Once training was done they all said their goodbyes to go home. Omi got in a couple more hours training on the trampoline before hitting the shower and eating. He looked at the time, then looked out the window. It was seven thirty and Ashley was in view of the window. It was time for him to help her as he made his way to the door.

"I am going out for a run master, be back later." Omi quickly said and left.

"I knew you were a member of this dojo, but not that it doubled as a home." Ashley said as she went to an alley with Omi.

"Yes I do, umm..." Omi was about to ask what she was going to do.

"Could you watch the streets while I quickly change cloths, please?"Ashley asked sweetly to Omi, who blushed and watched the streets.

"Thanks, Omi, and sorry for the wait. Also, I hope you don't mind the change, I just simply love cats." Omi turned to see Ashley in a black cat costume.

It was weird to see it on her, but he had seen stranger things in New York. They quickly made their way to the docks where a few policemen were. They hid and Omi sensed he was doing something wrong. He was not sure why, because these people were the ones who stole them gems in the first place. It was then Omi remembered something then pulled Ashley down.

"Ashley I remember Raimundo saying he was going to pull a nighter to keep watch on the gems." Omi whispered to Ashley as a small unnoticed grin crossed her face.

"Great, if he sees me, he will most likely believe I was actually trying to steal the gems." Ashley said worried and seemed as if she was about to cry.

Omi put his hand on Ashley's shoulder and whispers "It will be alright, you do not have to do a thing."

Omi then quickly went to the shadows to get the cat eye gems from these people. Ashley then put on her sly grin, it was too easy for her to trick Omi.

Omi had a good view of a where all the cops were from the top of a large crate. He quickly leaped down and took one out with a kick then quickly moved the cop out of sight. No one had noticed as Omi went back to the shadows to the next cops.

Again, Omi came out and kicked one in the back of the head, then jumped back to disappear. This time barely being noticed as cops ran in that direction to find who was behind this. It was all apart of Omi's plan to lure them into a trap. He had lured them into a warehouse before heading back.

There were only four cops left and they were on the alert as a box came out from the ship. The cops stopped the man bringing out the box and sent him back in. This time, before Omi did anything, Raimundo made himself shown by Omi. He pointed down with a glare before jumping down.

"What do you think you are doing, Omi?" Raimundo asked quietly, but seriously.

"I came to help..." Omi began only to find Raimundo holding his neck before falling over.

"Don't worry Omi, he is only asleep. He will wake up in five minutes, I have your back." Ashley appeared show a small needle in Raimundo's neck, pulling it out.

Omi went back where he was only to find the police were no longer where they were. He made his way to the ship to the one man who had the box. He open the box to find it empty, so he went back to Katnappe to tell her.

"Someone else must have gotten it before us, I am so sorry for bring you out here, Omi." Ashley said in a sad tone as she gave Omi a hug.

"I will find who did this, and get them back." Omi said as he hugged her back then ran home.

Ashley smiled and took the cat eyes gems out of her backpack. Two green gems that look like cat eyes. She laughed before leaving, only to be stopped by a couple people.

"You simply can't stop who you are can you, Ashley?" One of them said with Raimundo over his shoulder.

"I almost forgot Raimundo's little helping hands. We are who we are, right? Try and stop me..." Ashley ran off quickly.

End of Chapter

Kosmic

Don't worry, the next chapter goes off from this one. I love cliff hangers, don't any of you? If you like this chapter, please give it a review. Until next time...