The Spicer Monologues

By: CrystallicSky

Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown or any of its characters, nor do I make any money off the writing of this.

Warnings: Language, sexual situations/implication, etc.

Notes: THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT- this story is part of a collab with Silvarbelle, in which she wrote as Chase Young and I wrote as Jack Spicer for an entire year of 'diary' entries. This project is already entirely finished on both of our ends. However, both on my deviantART account and my Fanfiction account, I am only posting this half of the story to roughly the midway point. This is because, for various reasons, Silvarbelle and I have decided to showcase the Diary Project exclusively on LiveJournal, at least in its completely finished form. See the A/N for more information.

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1/10/09-

Yesterday was depressing, but I can't stay down in the dumps forever: nothing gets done that way unless you work at the dump.

So! Now I just need to turn my attention to something else, something productive so I can actually face the competition.

No more repeats of yesterday.

I could rebuild my matter-shifter; in fact, I probably will. Normally, my policy is 'if you've done it already, don't use it again,' but the matter-shifter worked really well, and besides that, there's no way I'll ever succeed if I build something completely different every time the monks break my stuff: I'll run out of ideas that way.

But I'm going to work on rebuilding the matter-shifter today, with a couple of improvements. I have to make it out of more durable material, for one thing, because I really don't want to see it crushed to bits again: that hurt me inside way too much.

Another thing I'm probably going to do is start working on other things to convert my matter into. I said before it could do any kind of matter, but really, it only does solid things. I wasn't able to figure out how to do gases and liquids because the molecules of those are too far spread out. If I tried to turn into a non-solid form, like oxygen, I would completely dissipate and I wouldn't be able to rearrange myself back into a solid form.

But I'm going to figure out how to fix that. There's got to be a way to do it, too: nothing's impossible, (at least not with all the things I've seen).

Wait…would the Serpent's Tail help? I might not need to keep it, but maybe I could run some tests on it, collect some data and whatnot. I mean, the Serpent's Tail can make matter intangible and then reconfigure it into something solid again. If I could figure out how the Wu does it, I might be able to make my matter-shifter do the same thing!

If only I could remember who had…oh… Fuck.

Chase has the Serpent's Tail.

Well, geez, that makes the whole thing impossible, now doesn't it? I might've had a shot at borrowing it if I'd actually succeeded at something lately, but now…Can you even imagine?

"Oh, hi, Chase! I know you just saw me get my ass kicked sideways about fifteen times yesterday, but I was wondering if you'd let me borrow one of your Shen Gong Wu? I promise I'll take good care of it!"

Yeah, right. Double-fuck.

Then again…what other choice do I have? I need the Serpent's Tail if I'm ever going to impress him again and besides that, I haven't actually seen him in person for awhile. Even if he says no, it's still a couple minutes of eye-candy before I get kicked out, and who knows? Maybe if I ask really nicely and promise I'll give it back to him in a day or two, he'll actually lend it to me!

…oh, who am I kidding? This is a fool's errand.

Guess it's fitting I do it, then. I really don't have much other choice if I ever want him to pay attention to me for doing something well instead of fucking it up stupendously, so…I guess into the lion's den it is.

Triple-fuck.

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A/N: Continuing on from the above notes, this story will only be available in its entirety on LiveJournal. The Spicer Monologues (this half) can be found at tech(UNDERSCORE)lord dot livejournal dot com. Chase Young's Diary (the counterpart to this half) can be found at dragon(UNDERSCORE)lordcy dot livejournal dot com. In order to be able to read, you must have or make a LiveJournal account, which is completely free to do, and friend both journals so that I may friend you back. This was a safety filter meant to keep it so that only people who want to read (AKA, those who won't flame or report the story because they don't like it) can read. After you friend the journals and are friended back, all of the entries from both Jack and Chase's diaries will be available to you.

Other than that, I have nothing to say but I hope you enjoyed the story! :D