Chapter 02: Guessing Games
"Sky?" guessed Clay.
"Nope, sorry." Raimundo replied.
"The ocean?" ventured Kimiko.
"Nah. You guess already guessed these." responded Raimundo.
"Omi?" asked Omi.
"NO." said Rai.
The four monks were sitting in an open field, spending their one work-free day guessing Raimundo's blue aura's meaning.
"Orb of Tornami?" asked Clay.
"Nah." was the reply.
"Third Arm Sash?" Kimiko guessed.
"Sorry." Raimundo told her.
"Omi?" asked Omi.
"NO, Omi" Rai told him in a much louder voice.
"Shen Gong Wu?" Clay ventured after a moment of thinking. His guess received a "Nope."
"The Temple?" Kimiko guessed. Raimundo told her "No" but began to feel a tad uneasy about how close they were getting.
"Omi?" the dwarf monk guessed once more.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, OMI, IT'S NOT YOU!" Raimundo shouted practically at the top of his lungs, even though the Dragon of Water was a few feet away.
"But-but-Did you not hear what I said before? I am one of the greatest mysteries of the universe!" Omi declared in a voice that questioned Raimundo's sanity.
"Omi, the only mystery about you is why you look like the long-lost 8th dwarf." Rai retorted.
As the Xiaolin monks debated as to whether or not Omi had indeed been out sick during the tale of Snow White, a pair of malevolent watched them from rooftops, unnoticed by the beings around him.
Unseen and unheard, a raven left the Xiaolin Temple toward the Land of Nowhere…