Chapter 13: Find My Hidden Power Within.
Kimiko and Raimundo were never seen separately, if they were ever seen at all. Keiko didn't mind.
Alright, she didn't know about them okay?
Raimundo, meanwhile was thinking about what was happening back at his palace.
Were all his loyal subjects going to go outside and hunt him down? He didn't really think the King and Queen cared so much.
"Listen
to me Raimundo, I think we need to sneak past those bushes over there,
and my friend will be waiting right over there, at least I think he
will..." Kimiko mumbled. Raimundo shrugged and pulled his (Or maybe
Kimiko's hood?) hood over his head, Kimiko did say there was a bounty.
"Shouldn't we go somewhere else?" asked Raimundo.
"No, my friend can help us, and he's a human, so stop worrying and fiddling around with my hair."
Kimiko slapped his hands away and ran her fingers through her hair.
"See, he's right there, and if you didn't notice, I was with him at the bar,"
A short, little, bold, child walked to where Kimiko was pointing, and Raimundo knew perfectly well who she was talking about.
"Omi? You want me to talk to Omi? He doesn't know anything! Come one,
before he catches me and sends me back to the castle!"
Raimundo pulled at her arm but she resisted.
"Raimundo, he made a deal with me, and he's not going to hurt you. Also, I think he might know something about your powers..."
Kimiko took his hand (Sending off butterflies in his stomach) and marched over to Omi.
"Ah. Hello Kimiko, and who is this? PRINCE RAIMUNDO?" Omi asked, a bit too loudly.
Quiet Omi, we don't want anyone knowing he is here, and I was hoping
you could tell him certain things about his... Powers."
Raimundo shifted his foot around, why did they have to talk about him so openly when he was right there?
"I don't think he needs to tell me Kimiko, I already know how to control my uniqueness."
Kimiko shook her head at his words and tightened her grip on his hand.
"Aren't you going to tell me then?" asked Kimiko, ignoring the fact Raimundo was squirming around.
Omi glanced around and shook his head. "We can't talk right here,
someone may come through and listen, I suggest we go to the forest,
where only the trees and nature can hear us, come." Omi turned away and
took off at an amazingly fast pace, no wonder he was Raimundo's servant!
Kimiko frowned to herself and let go of Raimundo.
"You'd better follow me, and don't stray off Prince, and this time I mean it." Raimundo lazily tagged along.
And he knew how to control his powers!
Well maybe there was a little flaw here and there but he had talent! But that was what Raimundo was thinking.
"Here, sit. I will tell you Raimundo, of what I have heard from Queen Lucia and King Charon." Omi sat down on a rock and waited for
Raimundo to do so.Raimundo did the same; reluctantly, and then crossed his arms."What did you want to make me do Kimiko? Listen to Omi talk about all this magic? I don't believe magic exists."
Omi sighed and thought along the lines 'What is wrong with this spoiled Prince?', Kimiko was almost thinking the same.
Raimundo began to simper down when Kimiko shot him a pleading look, the one that he couldn't refuse. Why?
"Raimundo, I do not think you know how to control you Wind powers," Omi started off.
"I know how to! Look at this!" He lifted his arms in the air and pointed at Omi.
Nothing happened. Instead, Kimiko flew into the air, and when she was about to smash into a tree, Kimiko fell down.
"Brilliant Raimundo." Kimiko said dully, as she brushed off all the dirt on her clothes.
"So maybe I didn't have the power this time, but it'll work... Eventually."
"Excuse me, what was the last word you said?" asked Omi.
"I said eventually. Happy now?"
Raimundo stood up and dipped his fingers in the water. (Guess... They
are at the waterfall,) "I do think we need to go over somethings, and
this concerns Clay, you, and me." Omi didn't mention Sophia.
"How about miss dork? How come you didn't say anything about her?" Raimundo tapped his foot, impatient.
Do not tell Charon this, but I do not think she is the one of Fire." Omi whispered.
"How can she not be?" Kimiko asked, why was she curious in the first place?
"She
has not shone any signs of being able to produce fire, and when she
walks into the room, the room is supposed to heat up a little-"
That struck something in Raimundo's mind.
"Kimiko... Say something." She cocked an eyebrow at his request.
"What? I'm just sitting here, I have nothing to do with Sophia." Kimiko muttered, feeling a bit jealous.
Omi widened his eyes in realization.
Raimundo nodded at Omi, something was fishy here.
"Kimiko, have you ever felt like there's this little burning feeling in you?" asked Omi.
"Sometimes, if I get angry enough... Why? Isn't it natural?"
Raimundo
wasn't listening to a word she was saying, as usual. Now that he was
thinking about it, she did have these explosive outbursts for no reason
sometimes, and she heated up the room!
"Omi, do you have a candle on you?" asked Raimundo.
"Yes, Prince. I carry one every night, but since you escaped I didn't have a chance to light it."
Kimiko gasped in shock. Something was tugging on her neck.
"KIMIKO!" Raimundo rushed over to her, she was almost choking herself.
"G-Get this off me!" Kimiko tore off her necklace, and instead of that sparkling little ruby there was a star. The ruby was in the middle, but now it was... So different.
"Kimiko? What is that?" Raimundo tried to pick it up.
His hands went through it.
"I do think that is a Shen Gong Wu!" Omi called.
Raimundo tensed up. If he couldn't touch it, then that meant Kimiko could?
"Touch it Kimiko." Omi instructed. Kimiko gulped and closed her eyes.
Her fingers grasped around the star, it glowed a little.
"What do I do?" she asked, frantic.
The star was glowing brighter, and the ruby seemed to be on fire.
"Raimundo! MOVE!" Omi pushed Raimundo away from Kimiko, just before she screamed "Star Hanabi! FIRE!"
Raimundo watched, again; in slow motion.
His servant was standing in the way of her blaze, and something unexpected occurred.
"Orb of Tournami! WATER!"
There was a clash, and Raimundo closed his eyes.
He hoped Omi and Kimiko were going to be okay...
"Raimundo..." A breathless voice gasped.
Kimiko struggled to stand up, but she made it to him.
"Raimundo,
I don't know what just..." Before she could finished, she fainted.
Because of loss of power, and loss of sanity. This couldn't be
happening...
"Omi. What is going on?" Raimundo lifted his friend up from the ground, Omi wasn't unconscious; he was in good shape.
"The Fire took me by surprise, that's all."
Omi took in a deep breath and stood up by himself.
"Kimiko is the one of Fire. I understand now."
Raimundo looked over to Kimiko.
(He was not going to listen to Omi's boring lecture!) Her silky dark hair was covering most her pale skin...
The 'Star Hanabi' still clutched in her hand. How could this be?
Raimundo ran all these thoughts through his mind. He needed to know more.
"Omi, how come I had to witness this? I don't want to see her helpless like this."
"It only drained her energy Raimundo, when she has conquered her power she will be... Kind of like me," Omi panted, "Also, I do think you should consult an Oracle. They enlighten even the wisest of people..."
Omi sat back down and motioned toward Kimiko.
"She needs to be taken somewhere safe, in her current state, any dark force may be after her."
Even though Raimundo couldn't understand what Omi was explaining, he saw something move in the corner of his eye.
Dark forces indeed.
Kimiko's Dreams...
"You don't understand..."
Kimiko ran through the hallways of what seemed the Temple, but everything was burnt.
"Master Fung, where are you? What's this?"
She lifted up charred wood, to find the corpse of someone... "Master Fung?" she asked herself.
No, it wasn't him. Someone else... Kimiko put her hands together and prayed.
"It's just a dream, it's just dream..."
She told herself over and over again.
But everything seemed so real... "Kimiko."
Something was calling to her.
"Kimiko..." The voice was vaugely familiar.
"Help me."
Kimiko covered her ears, to find the voice coming from her head.
"What do you want!"
There was a cruel laugh. A different voice was speaking.
"You burnt down your own home, shame on you..."
Kimiko felt tears in eyes.
"No I didn't I would never do that! Quiet!"
Another laugh. Who was that? "And don't forget, you almost saved your most beloved, but I snatched him from your filthy claws..."
Kimiko ran through the hallways, wanting seek out who was talking.
There was a mirror.
"Look at yourself Kimiko."
No... She couldn't make Kimiko look in the mirror!
"What do you see?"
Kimiko still didn't make her eyes open. But she had to...
It wasn't a mirror at all, it was a picture of something, chained to a wall. RAIMUNDO!