Bianca: Ta dah!! Next chapter…First, I'd like to my reviewers…Thank you, thank you, I'd like to thank all the people I've stepped on to make this happen…
Gurl in shorts/man in bra-Thanks so much for reviewing. Hey, I worry a lot too.
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And now, the story…
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Raimundo stared up at the sky, then back at the spot where Lica had been lying just a few moments ago. Jack Spicer had taken her…was she okay?
"Dojo, what do you mean by 'The People'?" Omi asked.
"Well, uh, you see, Omi…Okay, long ago, about the time when Master Dashi was about to hide the Shen Gong Wu after he defeated Wuya, he knew a tribe of people, I can't really pronounce their name, but I just call them 'The People'. Which is really dumb because I-" and Dojo began blathering about the name.
"Just tell us so we can go on already!" Raimundo practically screamed.
The others stepped back. "Yeesh kid, calm down, we'll rescue your girlfriend soon enough." Raimundo blushed, 'Lica's not my girlfriend, she's my friend, and I'm her friend. We can't be anything more…Right?'
"Anyways, Dashi was tired from his battle with Wuya and he had the wounds to prove it. We were walking home, when he collapsed. We were found by 'The People', they took us in, gave us a place to rest and recover. They had powers just like us, elemental and healing. They seemed to fascinated by the Element Band, I don't know why, anyways, Dashi was going to hide the Shen Gong Wu so he gave the Element Band to the leader of that tribe." Dojo continued.
"So how'd it end up here?" Kimiko asked.
"I'm not sure but what I'm sure of is, that girl, Rai's friend. I suspect she is a descendant of 'The People' she had all their powers."
"Then, why did the Element Band go into her skin?" Omi asked, obviously very annoyed at the fact he wasn't able to use it yet.
"Okay, about her people, Dashi told the king to never let his daughter use the Element Band. His daughter had powers just like your friend. He said that her powers and the power of the Element Band would counteract each other. He said that once the Element Band was united with its one true owner, it and the owner would become one. That's not good."
"Why? Tell us already!" Raimundo said.
"Like I said, their powers would counteract. Causing a major change within the owner. I think their spirit will be sealed in the Shen Gong Wu or something. Hey, it was a long time ago, you expect me to remember all those details? I bet your friend is the princess. I mean the princess was reborn in her." Dojo said with a slight tone in his voice.
"Lica's spirit? She can't be sealed in that thing forever! She has dreams! She has a life! I can't lose her…" Raimundo said, turning away from the others.
"Don't worry, Rai. The effects of the merge aren't instant. We may find a way to save her, if we can find her before time runs out…" Dojo said solemnly.
"Yes, we shall find your girlfriend!" Omi said.
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"Okay, the Element Band thingy disappeared into her. How do we get it out?" Jack asked a pensive Wuya.
"We could extract it out of her…" she said.
"Extract? That doesn't sound very comfortable!" Lica said from her force field prison.
"Ah, you're awake. So, how do you like my lair?" Jack said, holding a long buzzing stick.
"What's that? And this lair is so cliché villains lair." She said.
"This? Oh, it's nothing. I'm just going to use it to torture you until you cough up the Element Band or reveal to me the weakness of the dragons. Whichever comes first." Jack said with an evil grin as he poked her with the stick.
A surge of electricity flowed through Lica's body. She could feel the volts go right into her. She couldn't give him the Element Band and she would never tell him the secrets of the Xiaolin that Raimundo had shared with her. The pain was intense, but her martial arts training had taught her not to crack.
"STOP!" she shouted and with a wave of her hand, the…the… "Hey! Why isn't that stick Swiss cheese by now?" She could melt things…most of the time.
"As long as you're in that prison, there's no way you can use your powers to hurt me." Jack said.
"Damn." Lica said and received another swipe from that stick, only this time, Jack had put a little more juice into it. She bit her lip to keep from screaming, she kept thinking about Raimundo…Help me! Help! She cried out in her mind.
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HELP! Raimundo's head hit the bottom of the top bunk in Clay's room. He came back to the temple to talk and get help from Master Fung. It was good to be back but how could he feel good when his best friend was still in Jack's clutches?
Help! He heard in his mind again. Lica! That's her voice! He closed his eyes and tried to concentrate.
Raimundo! Help…Jack…torture…lair…. Was all he could hear. Lica was trying to communicate with him but he bet that the battle wore her out. TORTURE?!?!?! He's torturing her?!?!? He felt rage inside of him. Jack was torturing his best friend! He had to find her somehow. He punched the side of the wall and made a small hole. He was angry, she needed him, but he couldn't do anything except sit there. He didn't know where to look or where to start.
His punch woke up the others, who came running just to see if everything was okay.
"Hey kid, why'd you do that? We just patched up the last hole that you made." Dojo said, curled up on the table across the room.
"Waffles?" Clay said, leaning over the edge of his bunk so he could see Raimundo. "You okay Rai?"
"Yes, Raimundo. You are supposed to punch the cement during training." Omi said, rubbing his eyes.
"What did I miss?" Kimiko said, entering the room, her hair in knots. The boys nearly fainted from laughing at her bed head. "What? I can't keep it neat all the time." She said, pouting.
"I heard Lica's voice. In my head, she said something about being tortured and Jack's lair. She needs help!" Raimundo said, breaking up the fun.
"Hop on! We've got a damsel in distress to save!" Dojo said, morphing into his 40-foot form.
"Have you been watching 'The Knights of the Round Table' again?" Kimiko asked.
"Maybe…"
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Jack finally got bored of poking Lica with the Zap Stick and went off to tinker with his robots on the other side of the room. From her spot, Lica could just barely make out his conversation with Wuya.
"I don't understand why you just won't kill the girl and get the Shen Gong Wu." Wuya hissed.
"Hey, I am not cutting anybody open to get a Shen Gong Wu." Jack replied, tightening a nut on one of his robots.
"And I thought you were all evil…" Wuya said, floating towards the ceiling.
Lica could hear Jack's thoughts somehow, 'Yeah well, you thought wrong.'
She grinned to herself, 'Underneath the goth boy, does he really have a heart?' Lica thought. "Ow!" she said, clutching her head, she wasn't feeling well. She noticed that her body was beginning to turn translucent. "What the heck!"
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Bianca: Well, that's all for today. Will Lica's spirit be sealed into the Band forever? Does Jack actually have a heart? Why am I asking you all these questions? Will update soon!