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 4
I was almost done mopping the main hall. Jeez, why does the main hall have to be so big anyway? Or dirty for that matter? I shook my head annoyed. I hear what I think to be whispering; it's probably Omi and Kim. They probably wanted to sneak up on me. I whip around to yell at them. I stare dumbstruck at nothing. There's no one there. And I can still hear whispering.
"Who's there?" I growl not wanting to deal with anything right now.
The whispering continues and I try desperately to track down the source. "I mean it come out now!"
"Partner, are you okay?" Clay asks once he sees me pawing through the closet.
"Yeah, of course I'm okay," I said defensively, "I was looking for… cleaning supplies."
'Oh, that's it real smart, Raimundo,' I thought.
"Don't you all ready have some out?" Clay asked scratching his head.
"I… used it all," I said quickly.
"But there's still some in your bucket," Clay tells me.
"Yeah, but I wanted some more," I tell him off-handedly.
"Kimiko said she heard you yelling," Clay tells me hastily.
'Oh so it was her!' I think, 'trying to make me go crazy or something.'
"Yelling?" I asked innocently, "I wasn't yelling. She must have been hearing things."
"Whatever," Clay said not believing me.
I awake the next day to the sound of more voices my eyes are still closed and I get the feeling Omi is going to pounce on me and try to wake me up. I sit up straight quickly and attempt to grab him; only to grab thin air and there's no one around, the room is empty. On the plus side the voices have stopped. I get up and look into the other monks. Their all still sound asleep. It is really, really early. I frown and turn to go back to bed.
"STOP THAT!" a voice shrieks.
I spin around to look in the direction I think the voice has come from. There's no one there; did I really think there would be. Damn, I am going crazy, aren't I?
I go back to bed and attempt to sleep. After a couple hours there's no luck and the others are starting to wake up. I frown and get up passing Omi as was on his way to wake me up. He looks stunned, but quickly brushed it off.
"Raimundo, my friend, you're up all by yourself!" Omi yells happily after me and runs to catch up.
"Yeah, it's weird, why are you up?" Kim asks curiously.
"I woke and then couldn't go back to sleep," I state angrily and shut them out as I go into the hall to get breakfast. They're whining about me not listening but I don't care.
The chores were just as hard today as they were any other. Training was even more brutal. It was about noon when Master Fung let us go.
After lunch Kimiko was stacking the bowls. Out of the corner of my eye I saw one of those black shadows and I spun around to see what it was, why do I still do that? Course there was nothing, again. When I look back Kim's glaring at me and her stack of bowls was on the floor. Funny, I didn't even hear them fall.
"Rai, why'd you do that!" she shouted at me angrily.
"Do what?" I asked confused.
"Don't act so innocent!" she growls and lungs at me. I duck and run to avoid her.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" I whine angrily, I hated it when I whine.
"You knocked over my bowls!" Kim shouts at me as I run.
"No, I didn't!" I shout back at her.
She stops and stares at me, "Oh, really then who did?"
"Not me!" I tell angrily. Omi and Clay are staring watching us yell.
"Really!" she yells not believing me.
"Did you see me do it!" I yell angrily.
"No!" She yells back angrily, "but you were the closest one to them!"
"She's right," Clay sighs agreeing with her.
"Things don't fall off by themselves," Omi tells me, and then looks dumbstruck and turns to Clay and Kimiko, "Do they?"
"No, Omi, they don't," Kimiko sighs angrily.
"Look if you don't believe I'm out of here. See you guys later," I sigh and in huff take off to look for Master Fung. It's probably time to do more training. Hopefully it'll be some ALONE training.
Once I find him I sit and wait for the others to come back. My previous hope being squashed when Master Fung says we're going to spare so more. I'm so pissed off that I ended up beating Kimiko today. I still didn't beat Omi though.
By dinner time Kimiko still isn't talking to me and I'm glad; I don't want to talk to her either.
"No, but he won't… never will… but I can't… Yes, of course."
I wake up to that voice, the one that yelled at me yesterday. I cringe, it sounds familiar, but I don't know. I've decided to come up with a new theory; it's ghosts. But so far the theory that I'm going crazy sounds more plausible. The best one is that I'm just coming down with something- something that's not mental. I get up and go to breakfast, I don't feel like trying to go back to sleep.
I eat my breakfast with no one around.
The next thing I know I'm sparring with Kimiko and the sun is up.
"No, no, no! You're doing it all wrong!" she yells at me angrily.
"Doing what wrong?" I yell annoyed at having suddenly thrust into training.
"That kick!" she scoffed, "do you have A.D.D.?"
"No!" I yell at her, why am I out here? What happened to the morning?
"All right it's time for lunch," Master Fung informs us and Kimiko goes stomping off in huff.
"Ummm… Master Fung, what were we doing?" I asked trying to remember anything between the wee hours of the morning until just a moment ago.
"We were practicing," Master Fung tells me, he sounds confused, "youdo not remember?"
"No," I sigh and lower my head shamefully.
"Go and eat," he tells me and leaves to go on my way.
The whole day passes without another incident.
In the morning I awake to that voice again. Why won't it go away and leave me alone? I go and eat breakfast. I wait for the others to come and eat.
"Hey, Raimundo, up early again?" Kimiko says, she still mad.
"Yeah," I sigh irritably and turn my back to her.
"What's up with you lately?" she asks, there's something funny with her voice. I don't know what is but I turn around to stare at for a second. She's not there and then I blinked and there she was. I stumble back staring at her shocked.
"Rai, are you okay?" she asks staring at me, she's obviously forgot to be mad at me and was worried now.
I shake my head and continue to stare at her as if expecting her to disappear again.
Then I lose all consciousness…
That's the end of chapter 4-
You know what to do (corny)