I know this should have been somewhere sooner, but better late than never. I don't own Xiaolin Showdown or Daggereyes, Moonskin, and Rustfoot. Daggereyes is from the book 'The Shamer's Daughter', Rustfoot is from 'Blood and Chocolate', and Moonskin is from 'The Silver Kiss'. For those of you that have read those, sorry to have ruined the surprises that come later. For those of you that haven't, they're excellent books, but please don't read them until after the surprises come.

Clay was dumbstruck. Kimiko gripped her branch. Omi's eyes widened. Their reactions were different, but their thoughts were identical. How did she get those? The city they were in wasn't even near the Xiaolin Temple. And where did she find the Phoenix Tear? How did she even know where to look?

Daggereyes wiped the sauce and cheese off the shen-gong-wu and handed them to Raimundo. "Did I get 'em all?"

Raimundo looked over the shen-gong-wu appraisingly, grinning. "You got enough. Thanks."

Daggereyes pulled the Longi Kite off and held it out to him. "I swiped this too."

Raimundo took it. "Cool. Nice work."

Daggereyes nodded, beaming.

Moonskin came out of the caravan, minus his violin. "What'd I miss?"

"Daggereyes got the supplies." Rustfoot informed him.

"Great. So, Silvertongue, you want me to work on the mirror?"

"No, I can do it. You and Rustfoot can go out now if you want."

"Okay. Thanks a lot." He turned to Rustfoot. "You coming?"

Rustfoot straitened out his cigarette and put it back in his mouth. "I'm gonna stay a little longer. Catch up with ya later."

Moonskin walked into the trees. This made the warriors nervous. Now they could be discovered if they stayed here and without the violin music their footsteps could be heard. Their best chance was to stay as still as they could.

Raimundo shifted all the shen-gong-wu to his left arm and held his right hand out to Daggereyes. She dug into her pocket and pulled out two of the red things. She placed one on her tongue and gave the other to Raimundo, who popped it into his mouth and, with a grimace, started sucking on it. "Thanks."

Rustfoot glanced disgustedly at them. "How can either of you stand sucking on that crap?"

Daggereyes made a choking noise and covered her mouth. Raimundo looked at him, cocking an eyebrow and grinning disbelievingly. "You've gotta be kidding me, Rustfoot."

Daggereyes turned to him with a smirk. "We could ask you the same thing."

Rustfoot's ears turned red. He took a drag and held up a hand. Kimiko almost let go of her branch. His finger nails grew three inches in sharp points. "Don't you fish sticks make me get ugly."

"I thought you were in the ugly form." Raimundo laughed.

Daggereyes took two slices of pepperoni and one slice of cheese out of the pizza box and handed them to Raimundo. He turned, walked to the caravan door, and went in. Daggereyes swallowed whatever was in her mouth, took a slice of cheese pizza, and sat beside the wheel Rustfoot was on. "Is the Dweller's village still standing?"

"Don't worry. We waited for you. We know you've been waiting for a chance like this for some time."

"You have no idea." Daggereyes clenched her fists. "I can't wait for tomorrow."

"Well, try to get some sleep. Revenge won't feel real sweet if you're too tired to enjoy it."

"I'll wait 'till Silvertongue's done."

They sat in silence for a moment. Daggereyes feed the fire a couple sticks and finished her pizza. Rustfoot blew a smoke ring and said in a soft voice "Seriously. I'm glad you made it back okay."

Daggereyes smiled. "Thanks. I appreciate you waiting up for me."

"No problem."

The caravan door opened. Raimundo poked his head out.

"How's it going?" Rustfoot asked.

"Good. There's not that much left to do, but it can wait 'till tomorrow. Daggereyes, you ready to come in?"

"Yeah." Then her smile faded. "Uh, Silvertongue. . ." She sighed, dug into her pockets, slowly pulled out a scrap of paper, and held it up. Kimiko could see by the jumble of numbers on it that it was the receipt from the pizza. Then a possibility struck her. What if the receipt was actually a secret message and the numbers were code for something? Her hypothesis was confirmed when Daggereyes said "Silvertongue, you got an update from the watchers."

Raimundo rushed over to her and grabbed the piece of paper. Then he opened his mouth, pressed the paper onto the roof of his mouth, and closed his mouth and eyes. Kimiko blinked. What, he didn't want to hear from them or something? What were watchers? Why did he do that? Maybe she was wrong about the numbers. Maybe it had a taste on it that was code so no one could decipher it. No, that was too paranoid. Who would go through that much trouble and why?

Raimundo held the paper in his mouth for awhile. It looked like he was holding his breath. His expression was unreadable, but it seemed with every five seconds his face got paler. Finally he exhaled, spat the paper into his hand, and slipped it into his pocket. Rustfoot cocked his head. "Well?"

Raimundo turned, walked to the fire, stuffed his hands in his pockets, and watched the flames. "They found another temple in Mundo Um."

When he said this, Rustfoot inhaled deeper than he meant to and started coughing on cigarette smoke so hard that he fell off the wheel. Daggereyes pushed her sunglasses down a notch, peering over them at Raimundo. Without taking her eyes off him, she reached over and pinched out the cigarette that had fallen from Rustfoot's mouth. The apprentices were confused. Did he mean a xiaolin temple? Were there more than one? They had no idea what was going on, but they all could tell it was crucial. When Rustfoot had finally stopped coughing, Raimundo said "You know, you really should give up that junk."

"Should we go over there?" Daggereyes asked.

"No need. Everyone there's dead now."

Everything went completely still. Omi struggled to understand. Did Raimundo not want a xiaolin temple to be harmed yet so they could get something from it? Or was this not a xiaolin temple, but a temple that he and his allies were protecting? Omi desperately hoped it was the second option. He could not bear it if a xiaolin temple had fallen because he was not there to protect it.

Daggereyes whispered "Were they dead when the watchers found them or . . . ."

She left the sentence unfinished. Raimundo seemed to hesitate before he answered. "The watchers found four alive. Of course, none of them were really that far from death. They were questioned before they were put out of their misery."

"And?" Rustfoot asked.

Raimundo shrugged. "Nothing new."

"What happened to the monks in the temple?"

Clay raised an eyebrow. Wasn't that what they were just talking about? If the monks weren't the ones dead, who were they talking about? Who else would be at a temple?

"None of the monks are even aware the watchers went in. That's kind of the whole point of an inside observation."

"What? The watchers didn't even knock off one at the door?"

"For crying out loud, Rustfoot. They're spies, not assassins. They only kill for good causes."

"This was a good cause."

"If they killed a monk, they could've been caught."

Rustfoot was about to retort when Daggereyes suddenly said "Are you sure that there was nothing other the watchers could do for the outcasts other than kill them?"

Raimundo turned. "I asked the watchers that same question last time they did the job." He answered gravely. "This time they made sure I knew for sure."

Kimiko was wondering what he meant by that and what outcasts were when something tapped her shoulder. She automatically turned her head. Her eyes grew wide as saucers and she let out a scream that pierced the night.

Sorry this took so long, but school has been hectic lately.