Y'all scoot back to the Television faster than a horse strapped to a…
Clay! You said I could write the filler!
Darn it Rai! Look what ya' made me do! Now I'll have to start over!
Do you have to use so many exclamation marks?
You're workin' my last nerves partner!
Ok I think its Time to get on with the episode now, the commercials sucked.
I'LL TELL THEM WHAT TO THINK! … The commercials sucked so lets get on with the show.
Jerk.
The whole temple was as dark as a moonless night. The only motion was the flicker of the last candle down the hall (Dojo liked to have a nightlight and couldn't afford the ones Panda bubba sells) Raimundo, waking up for his usual midnight snack of chocolate and whatever pizza Clay didn't eat, crawled out from under the covers dazed. He looked around the room and it seemed so much bigger.
"Omi, Have you been playing with the reversing mirror and the changing chopsticks again?" Rai asked, but his question was met by a sharp snore and Omi chattered:
"Snore…. Yes Kimiko I would very much like a back massage…Sn…Snore"
Rai shrugged and headed for the kitchen. The halls seemed so big and so much longer than in the day. He stopped for a minute and wiped his brow.
"Maybe I shouldn't have shared that expired cheese pizza with Clay…" He groaned.
After what seemed like an eternity he finally got to the fridge, which now seemed like a skyscraper. Raimundo looked up for a second wondering how he would open it, then gave up and headed back to bed.
Kimiko was the next to wake. Every night shortly after Rai's snack she would go on a game website on her Palm laptop and game for a few hours. There was never enough time in the day, what with training and Shen Gong Wu searches.
As usual she pushed back the covers and reached for her palm laptop.
When her hand hit something huge she thought she had touched the wall, but upon closer inspection it was her palm laptop.
"That's odd… I don't remember it being that big. Maybe I shouldn't have shared that expired cheese pizza with Rai…" She Muttered
She pulled the covers back over and went to sleep.
A Little while later, Clay awoke to continue his whittling. He pulled down the covers and reached for his pocket-knife, but his hand couldn't grab.
He yawned assuming his lack of co-ordination was due to insufficient sleep and reached with the other hand to grab his carved bull.
Again, he couldn't grab and knocked everything on his bedside trunk onto the floor. There was a loud crash, of which the only repercussions were the ground shaking a little, and Rai muttering:
"Wa! Don't shoot! I have a wife and cabbage…. snore… Cumquat…snore…" In his sleep.
Clay shrugged.
"Maybe I shouldn't have shared that expired cheese pizza with Kimiko." Clay muttered before heading off to sleep.
The last to wake was Omi. He threw off the covers and skittered off down the hall.
When out in the courtyard where no one could hear him, he practiced he leopard attack, with much more success than usual.
He didn't seem to notice anything being bigger. Being small helps in that aspect.
"Hmm, my leopard attack is much more successful than usual. Maybe I shouldn't have watched Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay share that expired cheese pizza." He thought to himself.
After an hour or so of good moves he crawled back to bed, pondering the purpose of dresses.
Early that morning, the four dragons awoke at the same time.
"Morning guys." Raimundo yawned stretching; his eyes still glued shut with sleep gunk.
"Morning Rai." Kimiko said rolling over a few times.
"Man I had the weirdest dream last night." Rai muttered rubbing his eyes.
"Me too." Kimiko said yawning.
"Ya got that right." Clay muttered.
"Everything" Rai Said.
"Was" Kimiko interrupted.
"Real Big" Clay finished.
The three fell silent for a second as they all opened their eyes at once to see that everything was still big.
"Ok… What is going on?" Rai said walking out of his little sleeping cubicle jig.
Kimiko screamed as she saw Rai.
"What?" Raimundo yawned.
"Have you been playing with the monkey staff again?" Kimiko shrieked.
"No, you know I gave that up!" He replied.
"Then what's with the tail?" Clay muttered.
"Tail?" Rai said confused. He turned to look and almost had a heart attack. "What in the name of Rio?"
"Eek!" Kimiko screamed, "I've got one too!"
She picked up her mirror (She always had a mirror handy for making herself look beautiful in a crisis). Her ears were larger, she had a tiny pink nose and whiskers and paws instead of hands.
"Guys, you'd best take a look…" Kimiko said tossing Raimundo the mirror. He tried to grab it but his fingers were too short and it hit the ground with a smash. "Rai! You just got me seven years bad luck!" Kim snarled pulling another identical mirror from her bag and sliding it over to Rai. He looked at his face and smiled.
"Hey, I'm a cat! Rad!" He grinned licking his paw and running it through his hair to flatten down a stray patch.
"This is no joke Rai! We've all been turned into cats!" Clay said inspecting his little pink nose in the mirror.
"But its cool! I have whiskers now so I can ram my head into really small spaces and know if I can get it out, without making Omi help me!" Raimundo Grinned.
"We'd best go check it the others are alright… wait, where is Omi?" Kimiko said.
A loud cry alerted their attention and the three kittens darted down the hall to the bathroom. The all pushed on the door so it opened to see Omi in the toilet.
"A little help please, I cannot get out of the toilet!" Omi cried flailing his paws.
"We'll help you!" Kimiko said leaping up onto the seat and pulling Omi out.
"Thank you Kimiko… Do you realise you are a cat?" Omi said.
"Have you looked in a mirror?" Rai said chasing his tail.
"How did this happen?" Omi cried.
"More importantly how do we use the bathroom?" Rai said stopping for a second.
"I guess we'll just have to use Dojo's litter tray." Kimiko said.
They went into Dojo's room and Dojo Glared at them.
"If you think you can use my litter tray forget it! A dragon needs his privacy!" Dojo snapped.
"But I really need to go! How do you do it?" Rai asked sheepishly.
"Well… I guess you just squat." Kimiko said.
There was a moment of silence.
"Well turn around, I can't do it with you all watching!" Rai said, his cheeks going red with embarrassment.
"Seeing Raimundo squat like this reminds me of a dream I keep having, it is a cold night and…" Omi trilled
"Lets keep this on a need to know basis." Kimiko snapped.
END OF EPISODE! Stay tuned for the next episode that comes on same time tomorrow, or if you are a sad looser like me who has nothing better to do you can watch the re showing at 8.30, then watch recorded episodes for the rest of the night. (Note: Freeze frame your recorded episodes of Xiaolin Showdown on most any scene where Rai and Kim are alone, then go one scene at a time. You will notice that in almost every scene, Rai turns to look at Kim for a short time.)