Hey everyone! I am so sorry I have'nt updated for so long! I had camp all last week and then a weekend camping trip, so I'v been a little preoccupied. I'm so glad I can finaly type again! Alright, here we go...
Disclaimer: Ash ( that would be me!) does not Xiaolin Showdown
I'v Been Meaning to Tell You
chapter 7: Kitchen Madness
The sun was beating down hard on thegolden sandybeaches of Rio, where Raimundo walked along theshore where the water washed the sand away. The boy's footsteps in the sand stopped just behind himas he stopped walkingand stood looking across the beach. He smiled and his emraldeyes lit up with joy when he spotted a girl in a flowing light blue summer dress and a white flower tucked into her long black hair, standing across the beach from him.
"Kimiko!"
"Rai!"
She began to run to him with arms open, her dress and raven locksflowing behind her as she went. A cheery smile lit up her face and her sky blue eyes glistened in the sun as she came closer to him. He also began running to her, his heart thumping harder and breath growing shorter as he awaited the embrace of her arms around him. They were meer yards away from each other when suddenly something erupted out of the sand between them and Raimundo skidded to a stop. There standing covered in sand with their backs turned to him was Omi, Clay and Dojo on Clay's shoulder.
" Alright thats it! What gives guys? Why do you keep doing this to me? Why do you have to keep-" He stopped his sentence short and gasped when his three friends suddenly spun around to face him, each with a twisted look on thier faces and evil grins. Raimundo took a few steps back and stared at them.
" Oh sorry, were we inturupting something?" Clay, Omi and Dojo asked at the same time, in dark menacing voices. They began to laugh evily to themselves, just as Rai felt something smack him in the back of the head and he fell face first into the sand. When he lifted himself upright he knelt on his knees and found a frisbee in his hand. He also found that the others were all gone and there was a mist filling the air.
" Huh? Whats happen...ing..." Raimundo let the frisbee drop at his side and his eyes dialated when he looked and saw that a motor boat was flying through the air right towards him. It's headlights through the mist made Raimundo's shadow grow behind him as he sat there on his knees. His eyes grew smaller as the light shone brighter on him.
" No ... way..." And then all he could see was the white light...
END DREAM SEQUENCE...
" No... no... no... Kimiko... no..." Raimundo muttered as he shifted around in his tangled covers. His eyes suddenly shotopen and he quickly sat upright in his bed.
" Ahh! Dont go near the light! Huh?" he yelled, but then looked around and relised he was back in his room. He let out a sigh of relief, and brought a hand to is head where he felt a bandage. He flinched at the little shock of pain from the touch, but quickly brushed it off. He moved his covers a bit and saw that the rest of himself seemed to be okay from yesterdays "fun" boat ride.
" Well at least it's nothing major." he said and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He bounced himself off of it and his back straightened and crackled when his feet hit the floor. He froze for a second from the small twinge in his back, but then placed his hands on it and leaned back to loosen it up.
" Aye, but a massage would be nice..." he said before rubbing his back and procceding out the door and down the hall to the kitchen. On the way through the hall he just kept thinking about the previous day. ' Jeeze, yesterday was such a disaster. I had my chance too! Until Clay ruined it again!' he thought angrily.
" But today is gonna be better! I'm gonna tell her, and nothings gonna ruin... it... for..." he started to say confidently, but trailed off and stood in the doorway of the kitchen with a blank expression at what he saw.
The kitchen had flour all over the place, a brownish looking gooey substance splattered on the cabinets and the floor, one or two eggs smashed onto the cieling, and a puddle of spilled milk in front of the stove. Clay was running around the kitchen apparently looking for something, andDojo was frantically looking through the silverware drawer and then slithered to the table to grab the flour bag, only dumping more of it onto the already messy floor. The dragon ran over a fork on the counter and it flung right forRaimundo's head, but it narrowly missed when he ducked a bit and it wobbled in it's spotin the wall. Meanwhile, Omi was trying to control a mixer that was swirling around a bowl of supposed pancake batter, sending it splattering out of the bowl and onto everything else in the room.
" Uh... guys?" Raimundo asked, searching for an answer to his friends rushed attempts to make breakfast.
" A little busy here!" Dojo said and jumped onto another counter to grab two fresh eggs. He tossed them to Clay who caught them and went to quickly retrieve the milk carton.
" Thanks there lil' buddy. Sorry Rai, but Kim went out for a bit and said she wanted breakfast made and ready when she got back. So we're in a bit of a hurry pardner." the cowboy said as he rushed to get the eggs over to Omi's mixing bowl, but slipped on the spilled milk and sent the eggs right towards Raimundo. He ducked and let the eggs hit the wall behind him.
" Ha you missed, stupid eggs!So wait, Kimiko went out this early? To shop?" Raimundo asked as he stood up straight again, but tried to get some pancake mix from the flooroff his foot.
" Rai buddy, this is Kimiko we're talkin about." Clay said as if it were all to obvious.
" Yes, our female friend could purchase items at shops throughout every hour of the day and never grow tired of it." Omi added, while wrapped around the out of control mixer. The bowl with the batter in it being mixed started to rock around even more than before and shot out of it's place off the counter to Raimundo.
" Raimundo, watch out!" Raimundo hadjust stood upright from cleaning off the pancake mix when he saw a blue bowl with brown, goopey muck heading his way.
" Aww man!" and before he could move the whole bowl went right into his face and on his head. He just stood there, and after a minute the bowl slid off his head and clanked onto the floor. His whole face had the gooey mixture dripping from it and onto the floor. He opened his eyes and everyone could see the anger in the green orbs. Dojo slithered onto a counter and up to meet Raimundo's face, sticking a clawed finger into the goop dripping off his hair. The dragon tasted it and grimaced a bit.
" Ugh, needs more milk." he said jumping off the counter.
" Um, perhapes we should just have eggrolles for breakfast?" Omi inquired as he looked from side to side around the room, seeing that they were getting no where fast with the big mess.
" Well I reckon it's better than nothin." Clay agreed, handing Raimundo a cloth to wipe off his face.
" Yeah I guess so... Still, an actual breakfast would have been nice to go with our vacation. Master Fung could have thrown in some maids along with the beach house to make breakfast." Rai joked and tryed to get the thickening substance out of his hair over the sink.
" Yeah good luck talking Master Fung into that one." Dojo responded.
" Eggrolles eggrolles eggrolles... where are those eggrolles?" Omi muttered as he went through the refrigerator.
" Anyway, what'd Kim go out for?" Raimundo asked.
" Ah, just said she felt like going around town a bit to shop. She said she would'nt be long, but knowing Kimiko... Well let's just say it'd be a sign of the Apocalypse if we see her again today." Dojo said.
" Eggrolles eggrolles eggrolles... half eaten mustard pizza? No. Eggrolles eggrolles eggrolles..."
" Yeah your probably right, but dont tell her you said that or your fate will be worse than the Apocalypse."Raimundo smirked, knowing that Kimiko's temper would probably flare up at hearing what Dojo said. Then Raimundo took a quick look around the kitchen and frowned and Clay did the same.
" You know she's gonna kill us for this, right pardners?" Clay asked matter of facilty. Just after he said this an egg dropped off it's spot on the cieling and into the sink, just to make things all the better.
" Eggrolles eggrolles eggro-"
" Omi! If you say eggrolles one more time I'm gonna use your headto get the rest of this pancake mush outa my hair!" Raimundo yelled from his impatience.
" No time to bicker about breakfast items guys! We gotta clean up this mess before Kimiko-" Dojo was cut off by the sound of the front door swingingopen, which was right next to the kitchen entrance.
" Yay! I have located the eggrolles!"
" Yay!" Kimiko also said as she stepped through the door with about five large bags.
" Yay because I found the eggrolles?" Omi asked her.
" Um... no. Yay because I found a bunch of awsome stuff when I was out shopping, and I was also told that there's going to be a beach party right near here tonight!" She said excitedly, but then stopped and stared around the kitchen.
" ... I ask you guys to make breakfast... and you destroy the kitchen?" She fumed. The boys and the dragon all looked nervously at eachother.
" Uh, um, uh..." they all said, then each one quickly pointed to another and yelled " he did it!"
" Hey now, you guys were the ones making breakfast in here, not me!" Raimundo said to Clay.
" You got the proof all over ya! You made the mess!" Clay retorted.
" Well my friend Clay, you are the one who threw the eggs at him..." Omi said calmly, trying to defend Raimundo on that call.
" Yeah, what the little guy said!" Rai said still trying to clear his case.
" But Raimundo did let those eggs go by him and hit the wall... hm..." Omi said, making Rai's face drop.
" Dude, who's side are you on?" Rai yelled.
" Why the Xiaolin side of coarse." Omi said cluelessly, and they all got back into senseless arguing again. The whole time Kimiko just stood there and tapped her foot and rolled her eyes impatiently.
" WHOULD YOU ALL SHUTUP!" She eventualy yelled before a useless fist fight broke out among the boys and dragon. They all imidiately stopped fighting and gave her their full attention.
" Look, the kitchen can be fixed, it's okay. We can do that before we get ready to go to this beach party." She said trying to calm herself, and get back on the main subject she wanted to tell them.
" So wait, when is it? And where?" Raimundo asked her.
" It's at 5:30 till whenever, and it's just a little ways down the beach from here. I hear it's gonna be realy cool, with things like snack tables, dancing, a DJ, you know, stuff like that. I cant wait! I even got a new outfit!" Kimiko squeled.
" How'd you find out about a party?" Dojo asked as he coiled himself around her shoulders.
" I was shopping and I over heard this girl talking about a beach party tonight, so I asked her where it was and she gave me the details. Oh, and I even picked up some new cloths for you guys to wear tonight for it."
" As long as their not pink or have frills, I'm cool with that." Raimundo said and smirked at her, earning him an angry smile and lightjab in the ribs. Even though she did'nt look it, Kimiko was realy happy that Raimundo was alright and was back to his normal cocky self since yesterday. She was also looking forward to this party possibly as an oportunity to spend some more time with him, and maybe even tell him the truth about how she felt for him. Well, of coarse she spent lots of time with him, but she wanted this time to be diffrent.
" Well my friends, I suggest we eat our eggroll breakfast and begin cleaning the kitchen. Let us jump toward it!" Omi said enthusiastically. Everyone thought for a minute...
" Hop to it?" Dojo suggested with a shrug.
" Sure lets go with that." Rai responded kinda bored, and was about to go into the kitchen to do as Omi had said when he heard Kimiko and he stopped.
" By the way, the pancake mix look works for you." She commented sarcastically and giggled. Raimundo relised he still had the drying brown batter on his face and in his hair, so he stopped and turned around to walk down the hall.
" Cool, taking a shower and getting out of cleaning? Works for me." He said with a smile and started to saunter through the hall towards the bathroom.
" Oh no ya dont! We'll be sure ta leave ya some buddy! With a sponge and mop!" Clay called from the kitchen so Raimundo could hear.
" Yeah, count on it!" Kimiko added. They all laughed when they heard Raimundo from down the hall.
" Aww man!"
Alrighty then, finaly thats done... Sorry if this one was kinda pointless. Just basicaly a way to get even the slightestbitof humor going, and also to introduce the idea of the party! Yay party! throws streamers and confetti Whoo-hoo! Alright not fun anymore... So anyway, next chapter will most likely be the party, and then the last chapter. Hope you liked! Please R&R!
-Ash-mei