Chapter 5 - Best Friends
Kimiko led Sol to his room. "It's not much, but it's a room. You should have been here a year ago. We all only had one room and it was divided into four spots. All we had was a little wall to ourselves." she smiled. He walked in after her. "It's perfect." He placed the backpack on his bed and took out a laptop and placed it on his desk. She gasped. "That so isn't a Kowatsu 5500!" He smiled. "You like it?" "I have one just like it!" She ran out of the room and retrieved hers. She came back with it and placed it on the desk beside his. They were identical. "It's nice to know there's people like me out here." he said with a smile. "The feeling's mutual." she replied.
After several hours of conventional training Master Fung began to explain the elemental abilities. "You must let the sun breathe into you. Let yourself and the sun become one. Only then we'll you gain it's stregth and abilities." Sol breathed deep and assumed a fighting stance. A dummy stood 40 feet in front of him. "Say your element's name and concentrate on what you want to do with it. "Sun!" Sol called out. He held out his fists in front of him. They were engulfed in white light. He released the engergy. A thick white beam shot from his hands and above the dummy's head. The beam struck the wall behind and blew a large hole in it. "Ow." Sol said looking at his hands. They were slightly burned. "You must control it. Not unleash it. You could hurt yourself if you use an attack that your body can't handle."
Sol approached the dummy. "Can I hit it instead?" "You may attack the dummy in any way you see fit." Sol cocked an arm back. "Sun!" The same light engulfed his had. He snapped the arm into the chest. As the fist made contact, the light transfered to the dummy's body. The wood body shattered and exploded. "Whoa." Omi said. "You said it partner. No Wu or anythin.'" Clay replied. Sol was knocked to his feat and was coughing. "Control is key." Master Fung said helping him up. "Thanks, Master."
Months past. Sol trained with them in the day and alone until late at night. He even won a showdown against Jack. He became close to all the monks. Especially Kimiko. One day Kimiko walked past his room grumbling. "Something wrong?" he called out to her. "Oh, it's just Rai. He keeps messing with my PDA and laptop. I don't know how to stop him." "Hmm," he said putting a hand to his chin. "Those are real metal handles on your cabinet aren't they?" he said. "Yeah, what are you getting at?" He grinned and sat on his bed, going through his backpack. "I think I know how we can catch Rai." he said, not looking up. "Can you fetch me a drawer from your cabinet?" "Yeah..." she left and came back with the drawer. He had set up some electrical parts on his bed and begin to place them in the drawer. "You can pretty much guarantee, he'll be looking for your PDA?" "Yeah, of course. He's like clockwork." "All right, that should do it." she looked at the drawer. It just looked like wires on the inside. "All we need is a power source..., ahh, this'll do." He said pulling his laptop's battery. He hooked it up. He grabbed a screwdriver. "With this, we'll know when he tries to get in." he said with a smile. He ran the screwdriver across the handle. It cracked. Kimiko jumped. "What is that?" "Just a little electrical current. Too much is dangerous, but this much is good for a prank. All we need is bait." he said with a smile.
Kimiko fetched her PDA and went with Sol to the kitchen. Raimundo was there. Kimiko improvised. "Thanks for the MP3s, Sol. It sure took a long time to transfer them." "Yeah, that was too long. It would be such a pain to do it again." Sol replied as realistically as he could. "What kind of MP3s Kimi?" Raimundo asked looking up from his cereal. "You'll never hear them! Serves you right for messing around on my PDA. HMMPH!" and she stormed out. She quickly ran to her room and placed the PDA in the drawer where she always did. Then she closed it making sure not to touch the handle. She giggled and skipped to the kitchen. Raimundo wasn't there. "Rai said he was going for a run." "Yeah, that'd be the day!" They both smiled and waited.