Bianca: Alright! Next chapter right here! Thankies to my reviewers…

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"Help! Wuya has sent evil night demons to attack us!" Omi screamed as Kimiko's hair flew into his face.

"Sorry, Rapunzel-style locks are in." Kimiko said, pulling her now long hair into a ponytail.

"Dojo, can you find her?" Raimundo asked the dragon. He needed to help Lica, she was his friend. He wouldn't let her be tortured any longer.

"Well, if she has a Shen Gong Wu, I can track it. But its gonna take a while, maybe even more than a day-THERE IT IS!!" he shouted, pointing to a large house with a red roof.

"Are you sure? It don't look like some evil lair to me." Clay said, toying with his rope.

"Looks can be deceiving, Lica's down there. I'm sure of it." Dojo said.

Raimundo held the Orb of Tornami in his hand, "Lets go! We attack with everything that we've got! Rescue her or die trying." He said.

"Looks like someone's been watching too many warrior movies lately." Clay said to the others.

"Hey, she's Rai's girl. How would you like it if I took something near and dear from you?" Kimiko said.

'She's not my girl. She doesn't like me in that way. We can never be more than friends, even if I really want to…' Raimundo thought to himself.

"Raimundo? Are you still with us?" Omi said, waving his hand in front of his face.

Raimundo shook his head to clear his mind, 'Focus, she needs you. Don't lose your head in the clouds.' He thought as Dojo landed next to the house.

"There!" Dojo said, pointing to a small window at the foot of a wall.

They all looked into it and could see robots, robot parts, a large map of the world, Jack Spicer sitting at a workbench and Lica lying curled on her side inside a large floating ball.

Lica was in a cold sweat, her eyes were shut tight, she was shivering and she kept muttering something in her sleep. The effects of the merge were beginning…

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"Okay, cross these two wires and then-" Jack was saying to himself before the Xiaolin warriors burst in.

"Jack Spicer! I suggest you let go of Raimundo's lady friend right now! Or suffer the consequences…" Omi screamed as he jumped down from the ceiling.

"In your dreams, Omi. I want that Element Band and what Jack Spicer wants, Jack Spicer gets." Jack said, calling in his robot minions.

Raimundo rushed to Lica's prison while the others fought off the robots. "Lica, Lica! Can you hear me? Are you okay?" he shouted, hoping she could hear him.

'Voices, voices…only in my head…Wait, no! That's Raimundo…My Raimundo… RAIMUNDO!' Lica's eyes flew open. "Rai? Rai is that you?" Her head was aching and she could barely see. She could make out Raimundo's features. "Rai, I don't know what's happening to me…I'm becoming a ghost…" she said, holding her hand up to the surface of her prison.

"Lica! The Element Band, your spirit. You've gotta get out so we can cure you." Raimundo said, pounding on the prison. "Concentrate, you can go through the wall. Just focus."

Lica nodded and focused her meager energy on the prison wall. She wanted to get out…She wanted to be free. Her eyes glowed blue and she was surrounded by a blue aura. 'I WANT TO BE FREE!' she screamed in her head.

There was a flash of light and Raimundo saw Lica standing in front of him… No barrier whatsoever. "Lica…" he said as he approached her for a hug. But as he opened his arms to embrace her, her body went right through his. She was intangible, a ghost…

"Whoa! Looks like Wuya isn't the only ghost around here." Jack said, looking up from holding back Kimiko's punches.

Dojo gasped, "Oh no! She's a ghost, now her spirit will be lost in the Shen Gong Wu!"

"NO!" Raimundo shouted, reaching for Lica's hand, but he couldn't touch it. She could barely see her.

Her eyes glowed blue again, a mini tornado formed at her feet. As it swirled upwards, Lica's body was disappearing. "It's too late…Good bye, Raimundo…I… should have told you earlier…That I…" before she could finish her sentence, she was engulfed in the vortex and soon, the vortex cleared.

And what remained? The Element Band lay where Lica had been standing. Raimundo's tears flowed freely. He picked up the Element Band, the Chinese symbols were still there but he noticed a small picture of a girl with strange markings on her face on it.

Everyone stopped whatever they were doing. Time seemed to stand still, the other dragons began to cry as well. Even if they didn't know her all too well, they could feel Raimundo's pain. Jack looked away, he wasn't the type to cry, but he knew that nobody deserved to lose a friend like that, even if they were his archenemies.

Raimundo slipped on the Element Band and faced Jack. He was furious, "You tortured her! You! You! YOU!" he screamed. "You are going to pay!" He ran straight at Jack and started punching him. Blow after blow, Raimundo was too angry to even notice that Jack wasn't fighting back.

The others didn't know what to do. They wanted to defeat Jack, not kill him. "Rai, STOP! Don't kill him!" Kimiko said, running towards them.

"Stay out of this! All of you!" Raimundo said and with a wave of his hand, he and Jack were surrounded by a force field. He kept hitting Jack and the others tried to calm him down, but to no avail.

Raimundo kept hitting, he had no mercy. 'Raimundo, stop. Stop hitting him…you cannot undo was has been done…' He heard in his head, the voice was Lica's. 'Rai, what can hitting Jack do to bring me back? It's just going to make things worse…'

Raimundo stopped hitting Jack, "Lica, he tortured you…I never got the chance to tell you that…"

'That what, Rai?'

"That I love you…" His tears began to flow again, they landed on his hand. His hand, which was covered with blood. 'I…I…I nearly killed him…' he thought, glancing at an unconscious Jack.

Suddenly, a vortex appeared out of nowhere. And a blue form stepped out of it…the form approached Raimundo. "Rai…" it said and began to take the shape of a girl. The form's features became finer until Raimundo could see Lica's face.

"Lica! Wha-How-Who?" he said, tongue-tied.

Lica stood there for a moment and then threw her arms around him…Raimundo returned her hug, still feeling numb from all that had happened.

"Just so you know, I love you too." Lica whispered into his ear. Then, she walked over to the bloodied Jack and laid a hand on his head. Her eyes glowed blue and a blue aura surrounded Jack, healing him. Jack was in pain, but alive.

"Now, let's go home…" Lica said, slipping her hand into Rai's as she twirled the Element Band around her head.

"Uh, Lica, I don't think you should do that. It is gonna." Raimundo said. The Element Band merged into her skin again. Raimundo's eyes widened. "What the-Why are you doing that??" he asked, watching her eyes glow blue.

A few seconds later, Lica's eyes went back to normal and she grinned. "Hey, when I disappeared, I went to this beautiful place, it had everything I'd ever wanted and more…Everything except you." She said. "I saw you punching Jack silly and I wanted to go back to you guys, I wanted to be with you. I chose to come back to earth. If coming back here to be with you meant leaving that place, then I came back… The Element Band is in me now, my powers and its powers are one. I hope I have more control over them…"

The pair walked towards the others, who were standing there, holding Jack-bots in their hands. "Guys, I'd like you to meet Lica." Raimundo said.

"Hi!" Lica said, smiling.

Epilogue:

Lica and Raimundo sat on a ledge on one of the mountains surrounding the temple…The Element Band was in the vault, the other dragons like Lica and Lica became a Xiaolin Warrior and now lived in the temple. Everything seemed perfect…

They faced each other, their heads moving closer and closer together. Just perfect…

"SHEN GONG WU ALERT!" they heard Dojo call, their heads moved away from each other, just before they got to kiss…

Oh well, everything's almost perfect…

THE END

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Bianca: That was my fic. Hope you guys enjoyed it! I will make a new one soon. Hopefully a crossover one…