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Chapter Two – Robbery?
The next morning, there was a dim mist over the hills surrounding the Xiaolin temple. It hadn't been this cold since Raksha had used the lunar locket to begin a new ice age. Omi and Clay were training outside in the cold when Kimiko woke up. As she went outside, there was an obvious lack of Raimundo.
"Hey, have you guys seen Raimundo anywhere?" she asked, with a lie in the back of her throat. Clay shook his head and then returned to lassoing bottles of Texas hot sauce off the wall. Omi was in the middle of a flying kick when he turned his head to say good morning and instead crashed into a wall.
"Good morning Kimiko!" he greeted cheerily, while getting to his feet. "We thought Raimundo was being a lazy-bones, and decided not to awaken him. He can be most grouchy in the morning"
"Ain't that the truth…" Clay muttered, missing a bottle and instead hooking the rope around the Fist of Tebigong, which had been put on the wall by accident, probably by… Well, someone. The fist rebounded, came flying back and hit Clay in the stomach. "What in tarnation…"
"I'm sure Raimundo will wake up eventually" Kimiko suggested. Omi shrugged, and went back to training.
"Guys, which one of you left the Fist of Tebigong out here?" Clay asked. Omi shrugged again.
"I haven't seen any Shen Gong Wu all morning"
"Kimiko?"
She was in a state of wonder.
"Kimiko?" Clay repeated.
"Sorry… not mine" she replied.
The three of them thought about this. There was a chance that Jack Spicer or someone could have taken it.
"Quick! We have to check our Shen Gong Wu and make sure none have been stolen!" Omi yelled, grabbing the Fist of Tebigong and running towards the vault. The other two followed, although at a slower speed. When Clay and Kimiko arrived, the vault was open and footsteps could be heard below. Omi's head popped up. Kimiko was dreading this moment.
"Two Shen Gong Wu have gone missing" Master Fung interrupted from the doorway.
"Two?" Kimiko asked, before realising the suspicion she was arousing. "Two" she repeated. Master Fung looked at her with a look of suspicion, then he shrugged it away.
"Yes, two. As Xiaolin Warriors, it is up to you to find out which two. I will leave you to find them"
With that, he was gone. Omi jumped out of the vault and Kimiko went down the stairs past him. Above, she could hear Omi telling Clay what had gone missing.
"Someone's stolen the Reversing Mirror and the Heart of Jong!" he exclaimed. Kimiko froze. What about the Jet Bootsu and the Sword of the Storm? She looked in the respective places. They were still there. What was going on? She walked back up to meet the others.
"Well, that's a mighty strange combination of Wu" Clay said, thinking about how you could use them.
"Perhaps… you could… sorry my friends, I am barked" Omi sighed.
"Stumped" Kimiko interrupted.
"That is most perplexing"
"My Xiaolin apprentices, it seems that whoever took these Shen Gong Wu must have been in a hurry. The combination of the Reversing Mirror and the Heart of Jong is a most confusing one. Further still, the Fist of Tebigong was outside. The only thing I can suggest is that you go and find out what Jack Spicer has been doing."
"Yes, we must not be forgetting- Jack Spicer has stolen our Shen Gong Wu from the vault in the past" Omi reminded.
"Go and wake Raimundo, then Dojo will take you there. We cannot be sure that Jack Spicer will have used the Heart of Jong for evil yet. Move hastily, and ensure that a disaster doesn't happen."
The three Xiaolin Apprentices went to their rooms, but Raimundo wasn't there.
"Forget Raimundo, we have no time to rubbish!"
"Waste"
"Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you Clay"
The three of them climbed onto Dojo and set off through the air. As Omi and Clay looked on, Kimiko discovered something.
She still had the Reversing Mirror.
