I don't own Xiaolin Showdown. If I did, my fanfics would be turned into episodes.
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Suddenly, Dashi was off, running through the streets. Joe sprinted after him, skipping corners. He sent a spark of electricity after Dashi, who tripped. But then he was up and away again.
"Nice try!" he called behind him. Joe ran again, faster, catching up with Dashi. He jumped, a ball of electricity formed in his hand. He threw it, it hit the pebble, sending it flying into the air. He jumped onto the side of a building, and hopped between two walls, snatched the pebble and landed. The village returned to normal.
"Well done," said Dashi. "Now, give me the pebble." As soon as it touched his hand, it turned into a puzzle box.
"You can use this to catch Wuya. It will open when the person who needs it to open most, opens it."
"This stuff drives me crazy too," said Dojo.
Raimundo walked steadily back towards the temple, head thumping. He wondered vaugely where his former comrades were, and what they were doing. He sighed longingly.
"I'd give anything to have you guys back. Anything to be back..." He stared at the temple for a moment, before longing was overtaken by anger.
"No! They wanna treat me like dirt, then I'll hunt them down like dogs! Even Spicer never had this kinda power!" He fumed, stepping into plain view
Wuya didn't care about Raimundo's hesitation. She was confident that he only needed a little more time to sink deeper into the evil that was present within him. It woud take a little more time, naturally, since he seemed to still want to hang onto the things that had made him good, such as his friends. But he would forget about them in time.
This wait was worth it--unlike Jack, Raimundo would be a useful ally. The Heylin witch turned her attention back to other important matter, namely the fact that a golem had just appeared out of the ground to mention in its stone-like voice there was still one intruder in the fortress, and that he was in the process of being apprehended by a few guards.
Raimundo walked into the temple, trying to hear his friends within the temple walls. Sighing upon finding nothing, he decided to use the tiger claws to get back to the palace entrance.
"What's going on?" he asked a golem, who shrugged and pointed. He followed the path to the throne room, and paused.
"Please, Wuya!"
"Let him stay!" Raimundo yelled, glaring at Jack. "I'm getting lonely around here, and these guys can't play basketball."
Jack turned about face towards Raimundo.
"Raimundo! Buddy..." Jack spattered out,"Help me! Their are going to EAT ME! I'm going to be an APPETIZER!" Now down on his knees, Jack and ruffled Rai's shirt in his hands and begged with a spastic manner.
"PLEASE SAVE ME!" Jack looked over his shoulders at the surrounding golems in the throne room; each rocky face staring intently, glaring at him. He glanced up at Raimundo only to find even more glaring; he has officially made a fool of himself.
"You want Jack to stay...?" Well, considering the alternative Wuya had planned for the boy genius--locking him up in one of the cells in the castle--wasn't that important, and considering Jack was about as threatening as a chihuaha named Muffin...
"If you want. The golems weren't made to be companions like that, anyways." Wuya waved her hand, and everything she had previously promised Raimundo--the arcade machines, the food, even a basketball court this time--appeared. "You will be alerted when your presence is needed." With that said, she turned and walked off to the balconey, one of the golems following steadily. There was still the matter of the Xiaolin warriors to deal with...
Meanwhile, the crow wasn't a crow anymore, but a moth attached to one of the stone creatures that stuck around near Raimundo and Jack. That very disconcerting feeling about such a large surge of power had faded by this time, as the moth fluttered off the golem and over a darkened ledge, turning into a crow again.
Raimundo turned to Jack, who was still cowering from Wuya. "You wanna play some games or something?" He picked up a basketball, and turned away. This was ridiculous, even Jack made him think of how much he missed the others.
"We got video games, tv, basketball, whatever you could need."
"Psh, no wonder you want me here. This is completely boring on your own!"
Rai scowled. "Do you know what?"
"What?"
He shot for the basket, the ball thunking away. "You're right."
The Evil One put his hand on his hips and gloated.
"Of course I'm right, I'm a genius." He picked up the basketball and tossed it at the hoop; the ball
zoomed four feet left of the goal and bounced off the wall.
"Dang, stupid game."
Omi sighed as the golems trudged back to Wuya's fortress. The space inside had shrunk since they had been captured, and he had banged his head many times. Kimiko had a larger space - the golem did not want to crush her. Clay was pushing to keep alive, but Theo had dissolved and was resting comfortably.
Wuya watched from her place on the balconey as the golems finally came into view, and sent a command for them to hurry up. Once the warriors were out of her way there would be no one stopping her from taking over the world. She turned and, avoiding the throne room where Raimundo and Jack were playing basketball, (she didn't need Raimundo to see his friends
captured right then) headed down to 'greet' the stone soldiers.
"Theo! Theo!" hissed Kimiko. The shadows flew into his shape and he faced her.
"What do you want?"
"Why don't you slide out?"
"Simple. I'm betraying you."
"What? But Theo, I thought you hated Wuya!" said Clay.
"Hey, why not just join her until she fails? If Joe can get back to stop her, he will. I can tell you that. All Thunders are determined, and never give up."
"But..." Omi whispered. "You are giving up!"
"Giving up? Yeah, right. I'm going to betray Wuya as well. I just need a bit of relaxation." Then he melted back into shadow.
"You know, I think Theo might be a little bit strange..." said Omi.
"Oh great, we're at Wuya's fortress!" groaned Kimiko. "It's been nice knowing you guys..." The golems banged on the door. It opened, they trudged inside, and the doors snapped shut behind them. Theo changed back to human again. His golem was at the front, so he was the first to see what was in there.
"Wow, nice..." he muttered, seeing the throne. The golems stood in a line, and one of them spoke.
"Xiaolin. Captured. You."
"Okay..." muttered Kimiko. "What did he say?"
"I think the short style meant "Empress Wuya, ruler of all lands, we have brought the pitiful 'Xiaolin Warriors' for you. We captured them in their hiding place. We hope you will deal with them well." Anyway, that is what it seemed like to me," said Omi. The Xiaolin Warriors waited for Wuya to speak.
"Excellent, excellent." Wuya walked down the line of golems, eyeing them approvingly and chuckling. "If any of you were more than just simple-minded rocks you would be greatly rewarded."
Of course, none of the golems replied to this, because they were just that--simple-minded rocks. The Heylin witch turned and walked back up the line. Yes... they all seemed to be there... except—
Wuya paused in front of the first golem--the one holding Theo. She narrowed her eyes.
"Who are you, and where is that red-headed monk? The one that controls lightning?" There were some similarities between the person in front of her, and the one she was thinking of... but they obviously weren't the same person.
Theo reached into his belt and pulled out a throwing boomerang. He threw it - it broke the bars of his stone cage and span back to him. He then carefully stepped out.
"Joe, Joe, Joe... oh yeah. He's trapped 1500 years in the past! He's trying to find Dashi to get a puzzle box so he can trap you again. And me? Theo."
"Where's Rai?" shouted Kimiko. "Raimundo?"
"I am afraid, Wuya," said Dojo suddenly. "That you have made a tatical error. Your standard Dojo comes in two sizes! Gecko, and supersize!" He grew, and found he couldn't move an inch.
"Oh no." And he shrunk again.
Wuya just gave a mocking laugh in Dojo's direction. "It's rather unfortunate the dragon is almost as bad as Jack when it comes to thinking before acting, isn't it? "
"And you," She sneered at Theo, green magical flames licking at her arm as she raised it. "You seem to have the same problem." An energy blast exploded towards Theo, lighting up the entire area with a sickly hue. "Though I should thank you for that information about the missing Xiaolin warrior..."
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Please R&R. Get some good words in for Raimundo, Jack and Wuya. And the demon crow, named Loki. I didn't write for any of those characters.