Title: Impending Doom
Summary: he was tired of waiting for the day, he was angry time wouldn't bend to his will and go by faster. When the day came he'd make them ALL pay... dearly, rated T: for swearing and impeding doom
Disclamer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown
Chapter 3- The Pendent
"So where are we going?" Kimiko asked, after about ten minutes of flight.
Dojo sighed and said in a low voice, "The Bermuda Triangle."
"I thought that place didn't exist," Omi said in surprise.
"Isn't that only some legend!" Raimundo agreed.
"No, it's real all right, that's why Dashi hid the Pendent there," Dojo explained, "It's... um... pretty hard to get into... and harder to get out."
"That doesn't sound to good," Clay muttered.
"Does it have something to do with the necklace Master Fung gave Raimundo?" Omi asked, turning his head to look at his Brazilian comrade.
"Yep," Dojo said.
About twenty minutes later they saw dense clouds up ahead. A major thunderstorm was brewing.
"Umm... Dojo shouldn't you go around that big storm," Raimundo asked as he realized the dragon was headed straight for it.
"We have to go through," Dojo said sullenly.
"We have to go through that?" Omi asked in shock.
"I told you that it wasn't going to be easy," Dojo sighed, as they started into the storm.
Bolts of lightning flickered on either side of them threatening to hit them and Dojo had dodge and swerve to aviod hitting them. The wind blew so hard they had to hold as tight as possible to Dojo, not that they weren't already. And the rain made them feel as they were under a waterfall. They all felt like at any second they could slip off and fall to their doom.
These conditions didn't improve they only got worse. Soon the Dragons were chilled to the bone, shivering and freezing. They felt like one solid ice cube.
It was about ten minutes in when the clouds finally broke or more like disappeared completely. The sun beamed down brightly upon them. The ice that had formed quickly melted as they landed on what looked to be a small deserted island.
"Well, we're here," Dojo said as he shrunk back into his small form. He glanced around as if to see if anyone was there.
"We should split up and begin looking," Omi informed them.
"NO!" Dojo screamed at them and then remembered where he was and once again glanced around before going on in a whisper, "there will be no splitting up here. It may look deserted but trust me things are here. And this whole island is one big trap."
"Okay, so we won't split up," Raimundo agreed looking around to try to see any of these things Dojo was talking about.
"What sort of things?" Omi asked copying Dojo and Raimundo.
"Bad things," Dojo shivered, "trust me you don't want to know."
"So we comb the island together then?" Clay asked staring at the little dragon.
"Yes," Dojo said, and slithered up Clay and hid under his hat.
It was ten minutes and several nasty booby traps later that the Dragon's found themselves becoming food for the people of the island; If you could call them that. The people were dancing around them as they were being lowered into a bowling pot
"Great now we're food," Raimundo growled as they dangled.
The rope jerked and the pendent around Raimundo necklace bounced out of his shirt.
All of the sudden it glowed brighter than the sun and everything around them became white.
The white light began to clear only to be swallowed into pitch black.
"Does anyone know where we're at?" Raimundo sighed.
There was no answer.
"Umm... guys not funny," Raimundo said angrily and whirled around not really expecting to see anything because of the dark.
And he was right.
"HEELLLLOOO!" Raimundo yelled starting to get worried.
There was still no answer.
All of the sudden he saw a glowing red light in the distance. Having nothing better to do he decided to go and see what it was.
After walking towards it for ten minutes and it still not getting any bigger or brighter he decided either it was farther away than he thought it was or it was moving away from him.
Jack had found the pendent easily enough, just as that psychic bitch had told him. Now he replaced it with the fake. It was perfect and flawless in every way. Well, except for the fact that it didn't work. But they'd never figure it out, it was too dangerous for them to try to use. Even to see if it worked; but they would never think of that. They'd think it was real and that's the important part.
He thought back to Memuary, that crazy psychic she had come in handy. He would have never known about shengongwu, or the Demon Pendent for that matter, if she hadn't told him. He didn't want to think what would happen hadn't he gone to see her. He done his homework on the subject and eventually made the knock off. He was glad he had good sources. That stupid demon he'd tricked to getting to this very spot also help so much. Jack cringed thinking about how he'd ever be able to dupe them if he couldn't get there first.
He stared at the Pendant with all its glory and power. This was the ticket to everything. Jack yanked the little gem off its chain. There was no way he was going to mess this up. That would be entirely not like him. He'd been acting for too long; it drove him beserk.
Now all he had to do was sit and wait for them to come get it. He hid using the Shroud of Shadows and silently laughed to himself. This was going brilliantly.
Ten minutes later and Jack was getting antsy; there was no sign of those losers. He started to pace a bit when Kimiko came into his line of vision.
She looked like a complete wreck. The Cave of Pitch Black obviously had done a number on her. Kimiko was gulping in air trying desperately to catch her breathe. Her hair was tangled, full of dirt, and long strands stuck to her face.
She was still breathing heavily when Raimundo appeared in front of her. He too, appeared as if he was just about drowned.
"Can't breathe," he choked out, trying to draw up his breath.
"Raimundo, are you okay?" Kimiko shouted as soon as she caught her breathe.
She ran over to help him up.
"I... think so," Raimundo said finally catching his breath, "you're fine?"
"Yeah, now I am," Kimiko sighed, "when I figured out everyone was gone I sort of freaked out."
"I was a little freaked out too," Raimundo sighed.
"I was a little freaked out too," Jack mocked them silently from where he was hiding.
Where were the other two? He was becoming annoyed by Raimundo and Kimiko's banter.
As if to answer Jack's thoughts Omi appeared. He was in the same boat that Kimiko and Raimundo were in when they had come out.
The two ran over and grabbed Omi.
"Hey, little guy, you okay?" Raimundo asked when he thought Omi had caught his breath.
"My friends, you are unharmed!" Omi said happily with a smile.
"In a matter of words," Kimiko sighed, trying to fix her hair.
"Where is Clay!" The small monk asked searching around for their fourth comrade.
"He hasn't shown up yet," Raimundo sighed searching the area with his eyes.
"I hope he's okay," Kimiko said and started to walk away from them.
A small red shiny rectangular object caught Kimiko's eye but before she could investigate it Clay appeared a few feet away from her.
"Clay you are unharmed!" Omi said running up to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Omi," Clay sighed, he wasn't in the same state as the rest of them had been.
"You're not all out of breath like the rest of us," Raimundo stated skeptically.
"No," Clay said simply, "watcha talkin' bout?"
"That would be Clay for you," Dojo said slithering up to them.
"And where have you been!" Raimundo asked the little green dragon angrily.
"Nowhere," Dojo said quickly.
"Bull, you left us when those people got us!" Raimundo shouted and pointed an accusing finger at him, "what a scaredy dragon!"
"I had to leave you!" Dojo yelled at them, "You had to be tested."
"Tested?" Kimiko yelled at him angrily.
"Yeah, first by the Girgines and then by the Cave of Pitch Black," Dojo said off handedly, "I couldn't tell you guys, that would be helping you cheat."
"So we passed?" Omi asked the only who didn't seem to be ticked off about the whole situation.
"You're not dead are you?" Dojo asked.
"No," Omi said after looking himself over.
"Then you passed," Dojo sighed, "so we should probably get a move on and look for that Pendant."
"I saw something just a minute ago," Kimiko said, remembering the red rectangular object.
She looked again to where she had seen it. It was still there, gleaming.
"There," She said and pointed, "Is that it?"
It was at this time that Jack decided to make his entrance.
"Yeah, that's it," Dojo said and shivered as he saw it.
"Good let's go get it!" Kimiko said as she ran towards it.
"No so fast!" Chase Young said as he appeared, he had also come from the Cave of Pitch Black.
Damn it I forgot he'd be after it too, Jack thought.
"Well, don't forget about me," Jack growled from in back of them and landed on the ground, "You didn't think that I, Jack Spicer Evil Boy Genius, wouldn't want that Pendent too!"
"Great the bad guys," Kimiko sighed, looking at Chase and then at Jack.
"JACKBOTS ATTACK!" He yelled and the metal robots went after not only the monks but Chase Young too, when Chase realized it he growled, "can't let you get it, either," Jack teased.
Kimiko ran after the pendent as everyone else fought. Jack was to busy, as it seemed, watching his robots to even pay enough attention to get the pendent. But as she grabbed it he whirled around to see her.
"I got it let's go!" Kimiko shouted as she raised it over her head.
"I don't think so!" Chase yelled and ran at her.
Jack slipped and ran right into Chase and the two toppled aside creating a doorway for Kimiko. She eagerly took it as Chase tried to detangle himself from Jack.
Dojo quickly grew big again and the monks hoped on and left before Chase could stop them.
That worked well, Jack thought evilly.
"You insolent boy!" Chase growled at Jack.
"I'm sorry!" Jack pleaded in that little scared and groveling voice he used around Chase and backed away.
"Whatever!" Chase growled left Jack alone, thinking him only a mere annoyance. He had other things on his mind.
End Chapter 3
