Okay, here's the actual first chapter!

I don't own Xiaolin Showdown or the characters from it, but I do own Vesta! I made her up! She's mine! She's like me... in the XS universe... so yeah! On to the story!

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Master Fung walked out of the infirmary ward where he had been talking to the new arrival. All of the Dragons; including Kimiko, who had been informed after she was curious about the girl being carried around in Clay and Rai's arms; ran towards him, bombarding him with questions.

"How is she?"

"Yeah, what's her name?"

"Where did she come from?"

"Forget about that!" said Raimundo, pushing aside the rest of the Dragons, "WHEN did she come from? I mean, did you see what she was wearing? It was like ours but… like… in the future!"

Everyone just sort of stared at Raimundo, which by now he was quite used to.

"Uh, Rai," stated Kimiko, placing her hand on his shoulder, "It looked exactly the same. No difference. At all. You need some serious help."

Before Raimundo could retort, Master Fung said, "I think you might be surprised, young ones. Go in and talk to her. She is ready." With this he bowed, and left.

After many long years of his mysterious departures, they weren't quite as confused. But with a situation like this, they were sure that the Master Monk would stay around. The Dragons of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire all looked at each other, shrugged, and walked in.

There hadn't been an attack in a while, so the infirmary was empty except for their visitor. When Clay, Rai, Omi, and Kimiko walked in, the girl sat up and bowed her head.

"Hello, Dragons." She said, "I am honored to meet you."

Not wanting to make the girl uncomfortable, they all bowed back. She smiled,

"Okay, can I PLEASE talk like a normal person now?" she shook her head and laughed, "Master… uh… my Master always makes me talk like that, and MAN I hate it!" she stuck her hand out, "My name's Vesta, a pleasure to meet you."

They all shook her hand, their own introduction following.

"Howdy, name's Clay."

"Yo, Raimundo. But call me Rai."

"Greetings! I am Omi! I am quite honored to meet you as well!"

"Hey, girl. Name's Kimiko, nice to meet ya."

Vesta laughed, "Really there wasn't any reason for you to say that, I know who all of you are."

"You do?" they all asked in unison.

"You might wanna sit down for this… it's gonna be a long story."

They all sat on the floor, attentive as school children to the explanation they were about to hear.

"As you know, my name is Vesta." She began, scooting to the edge of her bed, and swinging her legs over the side. "I would tell you my last name, but I'm afraid I can't. For a reason. You see… I am from the future."

"AHA!" Raimundo screamed as he jumped up, "What did I tell you? Who's good? Who's good?" he did a little "it's your birthday" dance before sitting down again, as if nothing ever happened.

"Oh… kay then…" Vesta continued, "And the reason I can't tell you my last name is, it would give everything away. From birth I have been raised… differently, you could say. My Master contacted me when I was merely 3 years old, explaining to my parents what he had known for a really long time. I'm part of a prophecy, made thousands of years ago."

"Well," asked Clay, "What is it?"

She giggled and sighed, "I can't tell you THAT either, I'm afraid that I can only give you clues."

"Clues to what?" asked Kimiko, her eyes growing big.

"Clues…" Vesta stated, pausing for dramatic effect, "To who my parents are."

"WHAT!" Omi screamed, jumping up.

"Whoa, Omi," said Kimiko as she pulled him down, "It's not that surprising. A little disturbing, but not that surprising."

Vesta continued, "Okay, no more interruptions please. I've been practicing this for the past 11 years, and I really wanna get it out without a hitch." She continued, "I can only tell you the first half of the prophecy, since it doesn't give anything away.

She will be born when she claims her sire, the daughter of two Dragons mortal.

That's all I can tell you now. But don't you see what it means? 'She will be born when she claims her sire'… I have to come back in time and make sure that my father knows he's supposed to become my father. 'The Daughter of two Dragons mortal'? Everyone knows that real dragons are IMmortal… except for the Xiaolin Dragons." She smiled at them, "Don't you get it? 2 of you are going to be the parents of a real live prophecy!" she basked proudly, while the 3 young men and young woman in front of her just stared blankly at her. "Well, as you can see," she stated, pointing to the only female, "My mother is obviously Kimiko, so I don't have to keep that secret. But what I do have to keep secret… is who my father is…

But the beauty of it is… you get to guess. Over the course of the next 2 weeks, you have to guess who my father is by observation. How I dress, how I talk, how I act, it's all going to point to who 'the sire' is."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, so what you're saying is," Raimundo said, "That one of US is going to end up with Kimiko?"

Vesta nodded, "Yep."

"Oh… okay… just clearing things up…" He stood, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go slap myself until I wake up."

"Wait!" screamed the girl in the bed, "I haven't told it all yet."

Raimundo sat back down, grumbling about how a little baby teenager was bossing him around.

Vesta sighed, "This is the part that I hate… if you don't guess in time… I'll never be born…" She shuddered, "And the timeline will be messed up forever… I don't even wanna know what will happen if that happens." She yawned, "I'm afraid I won't be able to stay awake much longer, time travel takes a lot outta ya, so I'm just gonna finish telling you all I need to tell ya." She got right up in the Dragons' faces, "Pay attention to everything. Every little thing that you think has nothing to do with it, it probably does. Pay attention as if… well… as if you're a fly tryin' not to be swatted." She lay down, and faced the other direction, "You never know when I'm trying to tell you which one of you is gonna be my daddy." Within the next minute, she was snoring.

Omi stood and walked away, "We should probably get some sleep too. Something tells me that this is going to be a very extended amount of time even though it is only 2 weeks."

The other Dragons stood, "Once again," Rai stated, "Not even close."

And another thing with this story? If you guess who the parents are... and give me evidence from the story as to why you guessed that... and you're right... you get... COOKIES!