Coal

Disclaimer: I forgot to add them in my other stories, so… here! I do not own Xiaolin Showdown! (I wish I did.)

Jack Spicer, master of all evil, technology, all that jazz, sat in his room. He was sitting at his desk, chewing on a pencil and staring at the sheet of paper in front of him. His English homework, in fact. He hadn't been able to answer one question for what felt like hours, but in Real Life, was about three to four minutes. The question in question?

Inside each nugget of coal is a gem. Write about someone or something you have seen/met like that.

Jack stalled by writing a paragraph on how precious stones are made and that most do not, in fact, come from coal.

But that sill doesn't answer the question, he thought. He started to chew on his eraser again, thinking.

Hm…Omi? Don't make me laugh; he's a piece of cheese, not a piece of coal. Kimiko seems likely… then again, she'd burn coal, not be it. Raimundo and Clay are out of the question. That little gecko-dragony thing? He furrowed his brow. I'm not thinking clearly. That dragon adds comedic relief, nothing more. Er…

Jack got up to get some pudding, because he always thought more clearly with it. Sitting down at his desk again, mouth full, he continued to think.

The pudding should help. My mom? No. My dad? No. Megan or Ashley? No. At all. Me?

He froze. Where had that thought come from? Usally, when he wasn't being an idiot with an ego the size of Texas, he didn't think about himself much. This is a thing that often astounded people. While not ranting and trying to prove he was 'evil', he often acted normal. Er.

In fact, he had been compared to Zaphoid Beeblebrox, from A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though there were some differences. He did not have two heads, for one. For another, he had only drunk once, which had resulted with him seeing nothing but the inside of a toilet for an hour. But anyway, back to the story.

Not knowing what else to do, he picked up his pencil, and beside the notes about gemstones, lightly wrote in one word. Me.