Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or Sheng Gong Wu from the program. And for those who don't know, The Seismic Staff is of my own mind, so is the Blood feather.
Chapter 3: Well that's new?
The Showdown between Kimiko and Jack Spicer had started. Their second that day. The challenge was to climb the cliff in front of them and find the Sheng Gong Wu from a bird's nest. From where they stood on the narrow ledge, they ran to the straight up wall and started to climb the cliff. A few feet of the cliff later, Kimiko was clearly in the lead, being much healthier. She was cheered on by her friends Raimundo, Clay, Omi and the new dragons Diamond, Sapphire and Silver. All of them wore matching uniforms of a red Tunic, and white trousers apart from Omi who wore a black pair. The original four Dragons had blue belts of the Apprentice level, while the other three wore black for In-training. Ten or fifteen minutes later Kimiko was leaving Jack way behind.
"See you at the top Jack!" shouted Kimiko. However, she forced to halt her climb when a large part of the cliff in front of her started to shake and crumbled. Jack had started to catch up. Just before Kimiko decided to move to go around this obstacle a huge sea bird, most likely a seagull, busted out and caused at least a 40 by 40 foot hole in the cliff. Jack had however got in to the lead just a Kimiko started going up again.
"Dang it!" said Kimiko as she pulled out her staff Sheng Gong Wu. "SEISMIC STAFF!" Rang out as she pointed the staff at the cliff in front of her. A few seconds later, An about ten feet wide circle of rock around Jack started to shake wildly and almost threw Jack of as he just held with one hand. When the cliff stopped, there were rocks pointing out of every where. "Whoa!" yelled Jack as he looked down to wards the Abyss below.
"Well, I guess this one is a bit of a Cliff hanger?" said Diamond as she turned to look at the others. All but Omi chuckled at this little joke, Omi was just watching as he saw jack pull out the Fist of Tebbigong. What is he planning? Pondered Omi as he watched with the others at the events that were unfolding.
"You want some Kimiko?" asked Jack with a sneer. Kimiko didn't answer but just climbed catching him up. "Then take this baby! Fist of TEBBIGONG!" he shouted and aimed at the nearest and sharpest rock and broke it off. It flew and neared Kimiko, but just as she looked up and saw it as it just hit her. She was knocked clean of and was unable to grab the cliff.
As she reached the ledge they stood on at the beginning, she saw a fast moving and extremely sharp rock come straight at her. "NOO! KIMIKO!" was cried and screamed by the Dragons as Kimiko landed with a bone chilling thud. She tried to turn on to her good side and caught a slight glimpse of Jack as he reached the top.
Jack Spicer and reached the very top and found the giant nest and climbed to the middle. HA, he thought as he saw the feather float up. Jack ran back to the edge and looked over at the bleeding body of Kimiko. "Well," he started his rant, "it seems that I, Jack Spicer, master of evil and dark ruler of the Universe, have beaten you Xiaolin losers once again! MWAHAHAHA!" and he ended with his trademark laugh as he ran to grab the Sheng Gong Wu that he was to receive.
When his hand was about an inch from the feather and before he could grip it, it vanished. "What the?" he asked out loud and looked around for it. Did it blow away? Where the hell is it? Who took it? He looked around trying to figure out where it had gone. A wind took up, and a huge dust cloud came out of nowhere and blinded every one to the events of other people.
Kimiko laid on the cold ground; she felt the pain of her wound like someone was constantly ramming it with sticks, blades or anything that would really hurt. She laid there crying with her eyes closed, she thought of she rather short but enjoyable life. The training at the temple, her friends from Tokyo and even all the showdowns she watched and did. She wondered why she was to die, why she was to leave her friends so early. When her eyes opened, she saw someone walk towards her. She turned to look up at his face but her kneed next to her slumped body and looked at her wound. As she breathed to speak, he put his finger at the top of the wound, like last time. But it was slightly different, sure it still hurt like hell, but there was something else there, another feeling. Pleasure? He stopped at the bottom and she struggled to keep her eyes open. She watched as the drop of blood fell from his darkened face. When it hit the wound, the pain rushed and subsided in a few seconds. The mystery man helped Kimiko up on to her feet. Then the cloud of dust started to fade.
Every one stared to see if Kimiko was ok from the wound. As it thinned, two figures could be seen and a golden light. In the minutes that followed straight after this sighting, many things happened. First was that jack was still very higher in the air for a few seconds, then found out his was so high up by looking and seeing all the Xiaolin warriors standing of the cliffs top. After this gravity defying moment, Jack tumbled and fell straight down right in to the deep waters of the ocean below. No one noticed though. The second thing that happened was that every one gasped at the sight of Kimiko and Mystery Kid both holding the Blood Feather. Next was the fact every one gasped at the fact Kimiko had torn clothes but no wound.
"Can it be?" was first thing said by Silver as she stared at the boy facing Kimiko. "How in the world?" was what Diamond followed with for she also stared at this new person. "Is it possible?" was what Sapphire ended with on the note of Kimiko's new friend. Each of them was staring at the new pair.
"Well, that's new." Was all that dojo could say, as they watched the Boy let go of the feather.
Death's Best Friend: yeah well that's done. Reviews would be nice. The Mystery boy will be revealed in the next chapter.