"Come on. Your turn, Kimi-girl." the Japanese girl groaned as she shifted around to see the Brazilian standing over her a bit looking a bit tired himself. "My shift is over, the kitty is asleep and I got a tomb of riches to raid in my dreams."
Kimiko sat up, she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as Raimundo left them both alone. Sitting there she looked over the sleeping face of the blonde girl, she looked a bit devious yet innocent at the same time which kind of interested her bit that made her stomach flutter a little but looking away and blushing deeply she felt silly. It's just a crush.
"Are you up?" Katnappe spoke in a sleepy tone, she opened her eye to find Kimiko glaring down at her. The two stared at each other for several minutes, not knowing what to say or do. Both wanted to lean forward and try to touch the lips of the other but there was a fear of hurt and rejection, Kimiko was about to go through it yet she stopped herself when she thought up a question.
"What is your name?"
"It is Katnappe, just Katnappe." that had killed the mood sharply for her, in fact it had placed her into a foul mood.
"But what is your real name?" Kimiko raised a brow while waiting but Katnappe faced away from her, "oh come on, I won't tell anyone, Ashley."
"You just said my name, so drop it." Katnappe did not face the other girl as she pulled her knees up to her chest, Kimiko lean back a bit in a sense of confusion. The awkward silence hung between them, it was a bit unnerving as the two was searching for something to say something if it was stupid. "What's your name?"
"Kimiko Tomohiko."
"Be quite."
Kimiko was silent as she wonder what had caused the girl to snap suddenly like that but dismissed it, she placed her foot onto the floor while stretching to get ready for training soon. Katnappe noticed Kimiko was trying to walk away but came to a dead stop as she was bound by the punishment bracelet. "Came you please let me go to the bathroom."
"Only if you say the magic word," Katnappe smiled a bit as she blinked sweetly. Kimiko jerked the bracelet causing her to fall a bit and the mood be came serious again as the girl followed close by and was separated by the young girl with a door with a lock. She sat there, silently mumbling to herself mentally about her bad luck, perhaps she could pick the lock to get a small peek. Sounds like an interesting idea so she poised herself so she could easily undo the lock, it took a few seconds and a smile crossed her face as she grasp the knob when the door shot open with an angry Kimiko on the other side. Katnappe was sent sprawling to the floor and looking up at the Japanese girl, she was only wearing a bathrobe and nothing else. "Nice view."
"OUT!"
Katnappe found herself back out in the hallway and hearing the door being jarred with something, while curiosity may have killed the cat she was very satisfied and brought her back.
"I am starting to regret having a psychical body during times like that," Wuya exited the bathroom a bit down. Chase Young was still sitting in his throne looking towards the Heylin witch, "not that I want to go back to being a ghost."
"You should really stop complaining about that."
"It other the other thing."
Chase raised a brow wondering what is the witch is talking about then curled his lip in disgust as he waved a hand through the air not wanting to hear more about it. He then shifted all attention to the eye that had just emerged from the floor, in the clouded pupil appeared Jack Spicer as he was busy gathering parts for his plans. The image changed to a figure that Wuya had not see before, taller then Chase himself and bulked up by the black armor it wore. The armor was a mix of robotics (from what Wuya can tell since all of her time with Jack) and medieval knight armor, on the chest was a bright red "ring of fire" and topping it all off was a long black cape with a red inner lining.
"Who's that?"
"A new player in our little game." Chase changed the image to Jack again which caused Wuya to be a bit confused as she was wondering what did the "evil boy genius" has to do with this, "and a new pawn for our little game." Wuya nodded as she mentally yawned as she was growing tired of games, the world needs to be taken over but these games are ultimately annoying and wasting their time. She won't voice her opinion though, not when the one playing these games can bend and twist her in any direction that would make a wad of salt water taffy. Wuya stood next to him but he turn his head to look over his shoulder a bit with a glare, "is there something else should you be doing?"
"Like?" the tone the witch took was an offensive one, but it rolled off the back of the domain's master.
"Like keeping the monks away from here for a while." Chase return to the images, now Tubbimaru and Pandabubba were sharing the "screen". "This cannot be compromised in anyway, do you understand Wuya?"
"Crystal." Wuya was annoyed that the dragon was treating her like a slave, or a second class womanseverent that is there to serve as his "royal foot stool", she turned away to sulk off into the darkness of the rest of this so-called castle. Chase watched quietly before sliding back into a comfortable position, if she was such an useful tool to him he would have "broken" her along time ago and sent her to the pit of evil lurking at the bottom this domain. But there was much more important things to tend with, one was getting rid of the competition and stopping the monks from foiling his plans.
Leaning forward he knew that there was a weakness between the monks he can exploit, which comes back to Wuya again. But first he has to "thin the field" a bit since he does not want some upstart to overthrow him suddenly. If this plan works then he would not have to worry about it, because if everything goes well he would be a true psychical form of evil itself.
Katnappe was bored after trying to peek on Kimiko again, finding the door barred with something she had sat in the hall way until the dragon of fire had came out. Afterwards the next three hours was basic bits and ends of random training in the vast open area which held little interest to the blonde, it was tiring just watching. Deciding on taking a catnap she climbed onto a small part of the roof that did not cause Kimiko any problems (although she did yank the bracelet a bit for a joke) and tried to get some sleep.
Kimiko was ignoring the feline woman for now as she practice her flip kicks, her mind was going over what had happened this morning in the bathroom. Embarrassing, she was defiantly embarrassed but it does confirm something for her at the cost of most of her dignity. Katnappe was into girls, at least she acted interested but of course she could be joking at the time. Taking a fast glance back at the blonde her mind was still going over the possibilities of what to do, some were good and a lot of them were bad.
Clay had came out of the temple, "breakfast is ready, Kimiko. I have to say you have been earlier then an owl out for field mice, is there something bothering you?"
"No nothing is bothering me." Clay could see through the façade but said nothing because he knew if he pushed on the girl she would just close herself off more and more, it was best if she left it alone. "There is a plate waiting for you, Katnappe." he had place some tone into his voice on her name as he walked into the temple.
"What's his problem?" Katnappe leap down from the roof, the word breakfast had woken her up better then an alarm. Kimiko ignored her for a moment as she try to walk in, the blonde girl rolled her eyes as she walked into the temple and was lead to the dinning area. The food did not look half as bad as she had expect as she took her place at the low table, a glass of milk was waiting for her which made her a bit happy.
The atmosphere was strange as the Xiaolin monks ate in a quiet manner, the constant glances were all mainly towards the "new comer". Paying no heed the blonde kept on eating until Fung had cleared his throat catching all of their attention. The room was silent as the focus had change from the cat girl to the elderly monk.
"I have something to say to our guest since she would be here for a few nights that she will partake in most of the choirs around her."
"What?" Katnappe almost choked when the mention of "work" came up, she coughed a few times before clearing her throat then standing up. "I am here against my will and you want me to work, forget that." Katnappe was about to walk out but the Xiaolin monks had gotten to their feet and was waiting for her to make a move, the entire room was filled with a tense air about each person as they stared down each other waiting for one side to make the first move.
"Raimundo, Omi, Clay. Sit down!" Fung had stood up calmly as the dragons stepped to one side, Katnappe scoffed as she crossed her arm. Everyone except for the two was standing on the side expecting bloodshed to happen very soon, "it seems you think the world owes you a living, that you can do what you want when you want. If so then here's a proposal, if you can knock me to the floor then you can loaf around the temple as much as you want but if I knock you to the floor then you must do your equal share of work."
Katnappe smiled, "if you knock me down, I will do double the share." without warning she leapt onto the edge of the table and with persuasion she avoided stepping on any of the plates or glasses as she charged at the elderly man who just stood there. Jumping up with her arms out stretched and an insane grin on her face she could feel the victory at hand.
"You missed a spot." Kimiko pointed towards a corner of the large room. Katnappe grumbled, she was very tired from all of the choirs.
The cliffs surrounding the massive "natural" stone castle of Chase were vast and numerous, some just drop sharply into the dark abyss while others extended themselves out over the blackness. Near the north, opposite of the entrance of the castle, near a dead and gnarled tree sat a witch. She came here to think when she is ether upset or angry, which was happening more and more lately.
"What's wrong," a voice had came from nowhere. "Not quite evil enough to break away from his chains?"
"It was your fault." Wuya snapped at the small bean standing at the base of the dead tree, she was not in the mood to hear his banter today. Turning away Hannibal Roy Bean frowned, "go away."
"Don't be that way." he said, "just because Chase Young manage to spoil our plans. It was the kid's fault really since it was his shoddy workmanship that spoiled everything, and it was his junk that broke."
"Will you leave me alone." Wuya growled, she was tempted to throw the annoying bean into the darkness below.
"I have a new idea, Wuya. To get the monks at each others throats and over throw Chase as the ruler." Hannibal smirked coldly as he tried to climb onto Wuya's shoulder but she flicked him off, he landed on his feet. "It would mean having him again, you know."
"Go away."
"Two men, well one man and one boy, that is all there is for you?" a growl came deep from Wuya, "you could have one of them back, you know."
"He was a man. More then anyone here would be." Wuya snapped a bit at Hannibal, "go away or else I will throw you into a pot and boil you to death."
He mocked being frightened, "I am shaking in my Moby morpher. But seriously, love 'em and leave 'em to break up that team. Come on, be evil."
Wuya snapped, her hand shot out to grasp the bean and with a smooth back motion she send him hurdle through the air. As Hannibal prepared for impact below the witch fell back against the dead tree as she felt the urge of cursing rise up but she fought it back, it was not her style. He was right but she did not want to go that low, she only gives herself to the ones she loves. At least the ones she thought she loved, both of them broke her trust and a piece of her self.
I'll never make that mistake again.
I hope I got the names right but I will fix them later on.
And also I am beginning to name the chapters (this and the previous ones) after song titles, if you know what the connect is and who does most of the songs there will be cookies.