Kimiko swung the sword of the storm around in her hand and smiled quickly.
"You ready for this?" asked Kimiko.
"I've been ready for this since I killed your pathetic friends!" laughed Wuya, "By the way, did you enjoy seeing your friends again? I could hear your pathetic crying over the wall!"
"You're right," said Kimiko, "The crying was pathetic, but they weren't anymore my friends than you are."
"Why do you insist in fighting me?" asked Wuya, "Wouldn't it be easier just to let me kill you?"
"I would," said Kimiko, "But you see, I've got four new dragons to train."
Kimiko pulled out the emerald box and opened it. She pushed the sword inside the small box and then drew the tangle web comb and the eye of dashi.
"What are you doing?" asked Wuya, "When did you get the eye of dashi?"
"An old friend gave it to me," laughed Kimiko, thinking of Clay as she closed the box, which instantly began to glow, "don't tell me you didn't keep the Shen-Gong-Wu from your fights?"
When Kimiko opened the box, she pulled out a long, thin sword with a curved blade.
"I call this, Dashi's tangle Katana!" said Kimiko, smiling, "Wanna see what it does?"
She jumped forward and slashed the sword through the air. Wuya dived and pulled out the orb of Tsunami. Jets of water flew at Kimiko. She dodged them quickly and side stepped around the back of Wuya, slashing the sword. Wuya winced and swore loudly as she turned around.
"Come on Kimiko!" called Dani, "You can win!"
"Get that witch!" shouted Matt loudly.
Kimiko continued to dodge Wuya's water jets.
"Well," said Wuya, "Lets see if you can dodge this!"
A huge gush of water swept from the orb, drenching the ground. Kimiko had been waiting for this. She leapt forward lightly and plunged the sword into Wuya, but just before she struck, she phased the sword, so it didn't harm Wuya.
"What are you doing?" asked Vic, "Kill her!"
Kimiko gave a small smile as ropes flew from the hilt of the sword and coiled themselves around Wuya. Kimiko leapt into the air and lighting streaks flew from the sword, electrocuting everything the coils and the water touched. Wuya screamed as the stench of scorched flesh lingered in the air.
Wuya fell unconscious to the ground. As she did, the emerald box flew from where it was being held at Kimiko's belt. It span next to Wuya and opened and green smoke coiled out of the box and hovered around Wuya, sucking her back into the dark depths of the box. There was a blinding flash of light and they were back in the forest, with the emerald box closed at Kimiko's feet and the four objects that Kimiko held in memory of the friends, were glowing in a light green shine.
Jack stepped forward.
"Interesting," he said, picking the box up.
Kimiko pulled out the scroll. She smiled as she read it.
"We should read this thing more closely," she laughed, "The loser of the showdown involving the emerald box with be trapped by the souls of those they have condemned."
"Condemned?" asked Vic.
"Killed," explained Tamara, "In this case…"
"My friends," whispered Kimiko, holding the four items as the green glow faded.
"We'd better head home," said Jack, "We've got a temple to re-build."
"What?" asked Kimiko, looking up.
"Well you did agree to train them as dragons and can you think of a better place to train Xiaolin dragons than the Xiaolin temple?" asked Jack.
Kimiko smiled and sighed.
"No…I can't"
Five years later, there is a new temple standing on the ashes of where the last one was. Three young students were laughing as they walked along the path towards the temple gates, teasing the fourth.
"Come on you three cut it out!" said the brown haired boy, green eyes shining.
"Don't worry Vic," said a voice from the temple gates as they opened, "I'll sort them out with some early morning training tomorrow!"
They looked up at the tall, black haired girl standing in the gate way. She was in her early twenties and her blue eyes shone with a trust that couldn't be betrayed.
"Miss Kimiko!" said Tamara, bowing.
"Master Jack is very annoyed at you," said Kimiko, "You're late! He's going to give you a lesson you won't soon forget."
"Way to go Matt! You just had to stop to get your bike cleaned!" said Dani, giving Matt a shove.
"Well get going!" said Kimiko.
The four students walked through the gates and ran off in the direction of their lesson. Kimiko smiled gently as she watched and looked around the temple. It was more or less an exact replica of the temple that had once stood there, except deep in the Shen-Gong-Wu vault, on compartment was always securely locked. On the front, was the label 'Emerald Box'. Kimiko wasn't going to let the same mistake happen twice.
The only other change to the temple was a memorial which stood on the other side of the temple. There stood a large block of stone, draped with a cloth on which stood the remaining items of the original dragons and monks. All expect the pendant belonging to Raimundo, which Kimiko never took off. In the centre stood a framed photo of the four dragons, master Fung and Dojo.
As Kimiko watched, she could've sworn the people in the picture were waving to her. She blinked and shook her head slightly. When she looked back the picture was just as still as it usually was.
"Kimiko?" called Jack, "Come and explain to these students why we're here again!"
"Alright," called Kimiko, "I'm coming."
She looked down at the photo.
"It's time to let go of the past." She said, taking off Raimundo's pendant and placing it on the table, "I'll only wear it when I'm going into a showdown."
She turned away.
"After all," she said smiling, "I wouldn't want to forget that I've never won a battle without you…"
As she walked away, she didn't see the items on the table glow and the people in the picture smile…
THE END
(A/N) R&R. Tell me exactly what you think! I wanna know, even if you don't have much to say.
