Raimundo jumped into the air and slammed his foot straight into Wuya's face. She fell backwards, too distracted to consider blocking the attack. For some reason, she couldn't even cling onto that much. He took a step back and swung round, his foot connected to her face again. Wuya fell to the floor. She spat and got up, swaying on the spot.

Raimundo lashed out with his fist. This time she blocked it, crossing her arms across her face. She grabbed his arm and swung him around into the wall. She then took a step back and shook her head. Something was hurting inside of her. She couldn't figure out why. Her head was pounding and her breathing was shallow.

In a split second, Raimundo had taken advantage of this. He had gotten up, grabbed her around the waste and bent over backwards, slamming her head into the ground. Wrestling moves weren't normally his thing, but if it got the job done, he wasn't going to complain. He hoped that if Wuya was knocked unconscious, Kimiko would take control, but that might be hoping for too much. He didn't even know if Kimiko was still in there. He wanted to her to be, so maybe he was seeing something that wasn't there, but either way, he wasn't going to kill Wuya until he was sure it wouldn't do Kimiko any harm.

Raimundo pulled her up by the neck and slammed her into the wall. Wuya's voice was still cackling from inside of her. It didn't match the soft face, light eyes, the shining hair and the delicate figure that rightfully belong to Kimiko.

"Are you going to kill me Raimundo?" Asked Wuya.

"Only if it helps Kimiko." Said Raimundo, slamming her into the wall again.

Wuya winced with pain and glared down at him. The soft eyes were now hard and almost frightening. As Raimundo gazed into those eyes, looking for Kimiko, he let his guard down for a split second and Wuya kicked out, straight into his stomach. He let go and fell back, gasping for breath. Wuya pulled him up by his hair punched him in the face before throwing him across the room.

Raimundo had expected another attack after that, but Wuya was looking around her, as though looking for someone. Raimundo reached out and grabbed her ankle, pulling her to the ground. He got up and took in a breath to fill his lungs again. As he wiped his hand across his face, he felt a warm liquid pouring from his left nostril. Wuya had hit him harder than he thought. He wiped it away on his sleeve, wondering why Wuya hadn't gotten up yet.

Kimiko fell away from the bush, rubbing her head. For some reason, she suddenly felt very crowded. She looked around. There was Wuya standing not six feet away, leaning on the door frame.

"Kimiko, you look so frail." She laughed, but then her face was harsh and glaring once again, "You've distracted me for long enough. You caught me off guard, but don't worry. It won't happen again."

"You can't stop us." Said Kimiko, "Raimundo will win."

"No he won't," Said Wuya, "He's too busy waiting to see if you're okay. You'll have noticed that he's not continued his attack. He wants to see if you've taken over again."

"You really are pathetic Wuya." Sighed Kimiko.

Wuya raised an eyebrow. What a random thing to say.

"Excuse me?" Laughed Wuya.

"You heard," Said Kimiko, "You're pa-the-tic!"

"Explain," Said Wuya.

"You knew you couldn't win without me, so you stole my body." Said Kimiko, "You'd never win if you didn't have my powers. You couldn't even beat me when you were at full power."

"Nice try, but I'm not separating us." Said Wuya.

"You don't need to." Said Kimiko, "It'll happen all by it's self soon."

"What?" Asked Wuya.

"You said that it was irreversible." Said Kimiko, "I found the loop-hole."

"Excuse me?" Asked Wuya again.

Kimiko smiled gently to herself. This was too good. It would be irreversible, if Wuya had destroyed the ring. What an idiot. And, while Wuya was in here, she couldn't read Kimiko's mind and that would mean that she couldn't figure it out.

"If you can't figure it out by yourself," Said Kimiko, "Get out there and fight for your rights. Go on! I don't want you in my head, making it all crowded and dirty. I've got stuff to do in here. I hope I don't distract you too much."

Kimiko started laughing hysterically. She knew it wasn't funny, but she couldn't help it. Wuya was so clueless. Wuya glared at her and then disappeared. However, when Kimiko stopped laughing, she realised she was now in an entirely different room. The tree was gone. She had been too distracted to notice that Wuya had moved her with her magic. Kimiko swore and started to search once again.

Raimundo watched as Wuya slowly got to her feet. She turned around. One look at those eyes and Raimundo knew that she wasn't the one he wanted to see. He jumped, span in the air and spread one of his legs out, ready to attack.

However, before his foot could, connect, Wuya caught it, swung him up into the air and slammed him down on the floor. Raimundo lay there stunned for a second. Wuya jumped into the air and came down, in the same sort of attack he had just attempted. He rolled over; dodging the foot and it hit the ground, cracking the stone. Wuya caught herself just in time, keeping balance. However, Raimundo crouched on the ground, he span around, leg outstretched, knocking Wuya's legs out from under her. She fell to the ground and attempted the punch Raimundo while he was still on the ground. He rolled backwards and onto his feet. In seconds he was prepared to attack again.

Wuya got to her feet and brushed the dust off her clothes. She smiled at Raimundo. Quick as he could blink, she summoned Kimiko's power of fire and a fire ball flew at Raimundo's head. He dived sideways, landing on one hand and bouncing back onto his feet.

"I never realised just how talented you were Raimundo," Sighed Wuya, "It's such a shame I had to restrain you."

Raimundo stood still, not answering, slightly turned to one side, glaring at her.

"You don't remember that do you?" Asked Wuya, "You told them that the reason I imprisoned you was because you wanted to return to them. Didn't you? Well, the real reason I imprisoned you was not because you wanted to return, but because you intended to get their trust. Then you wanted them to come back and kill me off, before you ran for the hills."

Raimundo didn't answer.

"You loved Kimiko, true." Said Wuya, "But you never really intended to return to her. You wanted to use her and get away from them as fast as possible. You wanted her to trust you so the others would and then you would break her heart by running away from your responsibilities." Wuya smiled gently, "Taking their Shen-Gong-Wu while you went to get you started."

Raimundo was breathing heavily now. It wasn't true. It couldn't be. He knew that he had loved Kimiko and that's why he was going to return to the temple, but he would never steal their Shen-gong-wu and then run away. He wouldn't break Kimiko's heart like that.

"Of course, you never told me this. I read your mind." Laughed Wuya, "It was so simple. You act injured, show up telling them how I was insane, saying how sorry you were, telling Kimiko in private that you loved her. Act as though you injury was worse than it was. While they came up here to kill me, you'd get up and grab their Shen-Gong-Wu and leave. How to kill two birds with one stone. You'd get Shen-Gong-Wu, I'd be dead and you'd never have to go back to listening to the monks at the temple."

Raimundo clenched his fists. He didn't remember any of this. It couldn't be true … could it? No! It wasn't. She was messing with his head.

"You could start your life a fresh without having to stay in a temple you hated. With people you hated," Said Wuya, "You'd run away and do what you wanted. Even if it meant leaving Kimiko behind. You never loved her that much to take her with you."

"You're lying," Said Raimundo quietly, looking down at his feet, "I … I'd never leave Kimiko behind. I love her."

"It wouldn't have stopped you back then," Said Wuya, "Oh no; having your friends back has made you weak. And just to prove it …"

Wuya lashed out. Raimundo was sent flying across the room. He hit the other side of the cave and spluttered. Wuya smiled as he attempted to get up and slipped back to the ground.

"Really Raimundo, you knew at heart you'd never beat me now that your friends are all dead." Said Wuya, shaking Kimiko's long black hair, "You always knew that they were the only ones to stop me. That's why they were going to kill me while you ran away …" Wuya bent down next him, whispering in his ear, "… like the weak coward you are!"

"He's not weak!" Came a voice from the entrance to the cave, "And his friends will always help him!"

Wuya span around. Standing, or should it be slithering, in the door way, was Dojo. In his hand was the Sun-Chi-Lantern. He threw it into the air. Raimundo caught it in his outstretched hand. He smiled gently.

"Three dragons in one, Wind, Water and Earth," He said quietly, getting to his feet.

"Let's see who's weak now."

(A/N) Longer chapters are now going to be coming regularly. The big fight and there's a hint about Raimundo's past with Wuya. I'm getting along better with the prequel and once both of these are finished I've got about a thousand other ideas in mind, but for some reason, they all fit around Raimundo and Kimiko and sometimes Jack Spicer. I might try something different. I know Kim-Rai's my thing, but I don't want to become predictable.

One thing I want to clear up, I am not a wrestling fan. I made a reference to wrestling briefly during the fight at the beginning. That is because my brother (who happens to be twenty years old, so it's very silly) watches one hell of a lot of wrestling and keep telling me the moves and occasionally tries to use them on me (idiot) despite the fact that I'm, like, five years younger that him. I never have this problem with my sister (seventeen) because I can beat her up easy.

Either way I'll stop talking crap now. Thanks for reading. Luv you lots! Luv Becky. (P.S NEW EPISODES OF XS ON CARTOON NETWORK OCTOBER 3RD. WOO HOOOOOOOO! Not that I'm excited or anything! )