Title: Sick in the Head
Summary: Raimundo centric and in mostly Raimundo's POV. After having several wierd experiences Raimundo starts worry if anything is really real. Slight swearing.
Disclaimer: Xioalin Showdown not owned by me.
Chapter 1
Raimundo's POV
I awoke, quite startled. The young bald monk known as Omi had jumping on my bed; grabbing my attention.
"Get up!" Omi yells as hyperactive and cheerful as ever, "We have breakfast to eat and chores to do. Come, Raimundo!"
"All right, all right," I groan, very angry and a littlle groggy. I roll myself out of bed. "I'm up." I stated flatly.
Satisified, the little monk zipped out of my 'room,' if that's what one could call it, off to know god knows where, to bug the hell out of god knows who.
With the annoying short monk out of my way I got dressed and took my time going to breakfast. Chores were something that just didn't mix well with me. The longer I put them off the better.
Everyone else was already up and eating breakfast as I enter the kitchen.
"Raimundo, my friend, what took you so long?" Omi asks staring at me.
"Nothing," I mutter and take a box of cereal off the counter and a bowl. Where's the milk? I turn to the table. Oh there it is. Then I remember that I still need a spoon. Kimiko having seemed to read my mind held up a spoon to me.
"Here," she says and tosses it to me.
I caught it easily and thank her before taking a seat at the table. I took my time eating too. By the time I was done no one was left at the table. Everyone had gone to work.
Having delayed my own work as long as I possibly could I had no choice but
to start it now.
I grumble and start the dishes. I HATE dish washing most of all. But I always ended up with it. As Omi has so kindly pointed out (and still does that), I'd been the last one to become an apprentice I should do the dishes. Whatever, he only makes me do them because he knows how much I hate them.
It took me a half an hour to do them all. Boy, everyone likes to dirty up as many dishes as possible so I have to wash them all. If I had even a half a penny for every dish I washed I'd be rich by now.
"How are your chores coming, young monk?" I turned surprised to see Master Fung watching me carefully.
"Great!" I said in utter sarcasm, a slight high pitch to my voice.
"Good," he said, as if he hadn't heard my sarcasm. Or maybe he really was dumb enough to believe my sarcasm. I never really knew for sure.
With that said, he left. Probably to check on the others' progress. He'd probably come back later and check on me again. In my opinion, he did afair bit more checking in on me than the other monks. Lousy stupidold-timer.
I cross the kitchen and start working on scrubbing the floor. My mind still deep in thought.
But yet I stay. I guess it's not all that bad. If I left I'd probably just get bored doing nothing. The evil side was boring and always losing. Therewas no way I would go back there either. So I have little choice but stay here and get bossed around, usually by a bald yellow-colored midget.
"Raimundo, is your work done yet?" Kimiko shouted as she came in.
And also by a certain fiery raven-haired Japanese girl.
I glance up and am relieved to find that she was in good spirits.
"No," I immediately sigh and go back to my work.
"Oh, sorry, how long will you be?" she asks, her eyes not leaving me.
"Take a look," I tell her, a little too harshly, "How long do you think it'll be?"
She gives me an annoyed look but leaves me to do my work.
I'm almost finished when Omi comes running in, "A new shen-gong-wu hasrevealed itself! Come, let's go see the scroll!"
He runs out of the room with me running a few steps behind.
Clay, Dojo, and Kimiko are already waiting for us.
"The new shen-gong-wu is..." Dojo said as he took out the scroll, nothing flashed out the blue screen. "Hmm... that's funny,it seems to be broken."
"You know what happened the last time we got a shen-gong-wu that we didn't know what it did," Kimiko points out worriedly. I could just tell that they all where remembering happened with the Sapphire Dragon.
"We don't even have a name," Clay agrees coming out of his daze.
"Yeah, but it's probably better than Jack getting it first," Dojo tells us.
"You should go now, young monks, we must not let any wu slip into the hands of our enemies." Master Fung agrees with Dojo. His voice made all of us jump. I guess I wasn't the only one who hadn't heard Master Fung join us.
He probably came when we were thinking about the Sapphire Dragon.
"Master Fung agrees," Dojo said, "Go get some wu and we're outta here."
We all go to the vault to grab some wu for the trip. But I could tell that everyone was nervous.
Well that's the first chapter. I'm having a real hard time with this present tense stuff, sorry but it needs to be present tense seeing as the story isn't being told by looking back. Also this first person stuff… not used to it, yet.
Tell me what you think.