Last time

"Hmm?" After a second of looking at the Silver Star, Fung gasped as he remembered it's meaning. "Gingetsu..."

Now

Rai groaned as he stood up, he felt like he got hit by a truck, and muttered as much.

"You would compare having all you energy, which is quite a lot, released at once, to getting hit by a truck? I think I'll try to avoid trucks from now on then..." Turning towards the voice, the newly instated Shoku Warrior immediately fell into a ready stance. Standing behind him was...him, not the child him who represented his inner fears, but a reflection of what he could hope look like in a few years, with a few obvious differences.

First off, the late teen's version of him had large, the span could be place around 12 foot from tip to tip, scaly purple draconic wings. Other then that there was a look of, most who knew Rai would have a heart attack to see it on his face, even such an altered one, wisdom. 'Rai' was what Rai had always wanted to be, no not overly muscular as one might think, but very well toned. He was dressed the same as Rai, Shoku robes without the ghi top, he even had Rai's new tattoos. Besides those drastic changes, he also had the obvious differences that came with being older, he was taller, around 6'3''-ish, and a stubbly beard hairs. Oh, his ears were pointed, and his eyes were a deep windy purple. "Who are you?" Raimundo asked.

'Rai' raised an eyebrow. "Isn't my appearance enough of a hint?" When Raimundo stayed in his stance, 'Rai' sighed. "I'm your Dragon Spirit, idiot. Sheesh, Kimiko managed to figure it out almost immediately." Rai, who had gotten out of his stance after learning who this was, started looking around.

"Kimi's here?" While looking for Kimiko, Rai took in his surroundings. They were at a tropical beach at night, with a large silvery full moon hanging in the sky, with the only beach goers being him and the Dragon. The surf was good, and the beach stretched as far as he could see. Behind him there was a large bon fire, a little further back the tree line started. Further off, Rai could see a mountain range, on one there seemed to be bursts of fire coming from the peak. 'Heh. That must be her.'

"She was, but she left with my mate."

"Your mate?"

"Yeah, her Silver Fire Dragon Spirit. I've been her mate for centuries now."

"Do you and she have a name, and what do you mean 'Silver'?"

'Rai' rubbed his chin. "Hmm, you may call me Silon, she goes by Firdra. As for the 'Silver' thing, ask Fung, I'm here to teach you things he can't, not to tell you things he'll explain when you return."

Raimundo lay down on the sand, and raised an eyebrow. "So, what do we do now?" Rai asked, not noticing Silon's eyes widen, and ignored the spirits mutterings that sounded like 'All he needs is that damn hat...'. Rai didn't like the grin that spread across Silon's face after he stopped his mumbling.

"Now? I torture-I mean train you for a couple hours." Yeah, Rai really didn't like that grin...

Meanwhile, Kimiko was getting much the same treatment.

"Come on." Firdra laughed as she 'trained' Kimiko. "I know you can do better."

"How do you figure that one?!" Kimiko yelled at her Dragon Spirit. Like Rai's, her spirit was in the shape Kimiko considered perfect for her gender, she was tall, if you took in the fact she was Japanese, at 5'6'' even, had beautiful flowing black hair that reached down to her ass, and ample breasts, not overly large more large B small C cups. Also, like Silon, there were obvious differences, such as the red draconic wings, the wise ruby eyes, and pointed ears.

"Simple, we've been the same person for fourteen years now, I know your abilities." Firdra reminded the flustered Japanese girl.

'Duh!' Kimiko mentally smacked herself. Looking around to make sure she wasn't close to the edge of the mountain peak they were on she started to launch more attacks at her other self.

'Heh. That must be her.' Startled she looked around.

"What the heck? I could have sworn I heard Rai for a second, only it sounded like it does when I use the Mind Reader Conch...but he's still down at the beach..." Kimiko muttered to herself. Her attention snapping back to Firdra as her laughter increased. "What?"

"Don't you get it?" Firdra asked after she got a hold of herself. "You two mixed your energies, both physical and mental; did you think there wouldn't be side effects? You two share a special bond now, a telepathic connection that allows for telepathic speech, and no distance can affect it. Try to talk to him, just think the words, don't speak them." Kimiko nodded.

'Rai, you there?'

'Kimi? Where are you, I'm lookin but I don't see you and...are we talking telepathically?' Rai's confused thoughts responded a moment later.

'In that order: Yes. A mountain top. So of course you can't see me, silly. And yes, we're talking through telepathy.' Kimiko giggled through the bond.

'As cool as this is, I need to focus on the fight, before Silon kills me.' Raimundo responded sounding panicked. Giggling, Kimiko went back to her spar with Firdra.

Master Fung watched as Clay and Omi trained, waiting for the return of Raimundo and Kimiko from the Land of the Spirits. Walking over to Fung, Clay and Omi used their two minute break between spars as they had all day, and asked where their Leader and other team mate were. Before they could open their mouths, Dojo came slithering up. "Shen Gong Wu alert! The Fist of Earth is active!" Nodding the dragons of earth and water jumped on the enlarged dragon, and took off.

Going inside the Great Hall, Fung sat in front of the golden star cross legged, and began to meditate. Fung had lost track of time by the time he heard a thump from behind him. Standing, he turned to face the tired looking Raimundo and Kimiko that had landed on their legs and arms. "Welcome back, Shoku Raimundo, Wudai Kimiko."

Tiredly the two fell on their asses, and sat cross legged. "We have some questions for you, Fung man." Resuming his own cross legged position, Fung gestured for him to continue. "First off, what the Hell happened, Silon never explained much..."

"Hmm, as said before, the 'release' brought you to the Dragon Spirits that give you your elemental powers."

"That's another thing; they called themselves 'Silver Dragon Spirits' not just Dragon Spirits, could you explain that?" Kimiko inserted.

"To explain that I will need to give you a history lesson. Several millennia ago, a powerful being came to this world. He was called 'Gingetsu' for his silver hair and eyes, and the katana he uses. This 'Gingetsu' was the one who erected the Xiaolin Dragon Order, he provided a chosen few with the power of the Dragon Spirit Stones that held the power of elemental dragons, they were the first to be called Xiaolin Dragons. After establishing us he left, saying that he would come to train those who inherited the Silver Dragon Spirits." After Fung let that sink in, he dropped another bombshell, right on Rai's head.

"Since then only one person has been chosen by the Silver, coincidently that Silver spirit was also Silon."

"...Who?" Rai had to know who else Silon had chosen to give his powers to.

The single word Fung spoke rocked Rai's world "Dashi." Kimiko and Raimundo looked at each other in shock. Dashi? The man they swore by? The one who had created the Shen Gong Wu? Silon had been the Dragon Spirit who gave Dashi his elemental powers?

"Wait...if he trains those with the Silver Spirits..."

"Yes, he will come to train you two." Even as he spoke, a small purple vortex opened, and spat out a scroll, which Fung caught. Unrolling the scroll, Fung read it to himself, and nodded as he rerolled it. "That was from Gingetsu. He writes that he shall be here tomorrow. Any other questions?"

After a minute, Kimiko spoke. "Are there any more side effects of our chi mixing, other then telepathy?"

Fung chuckled. "Such bonds are different for every person; you will have to find out on your own."

"I got one. Are there rules against romance? I know there are for the monks, but we're not exactly the average monks..." Raimundo asked, getting a shocked look from Kimiko, and an unnoticed, because Rai was staring at the ground, and Kimiko was looking at Rai, smile from Fung. Before Fung could answer Kimiko stuttered a nervous.

"W-w-why do you n-n-need to know?"

Rai lifted his eyes to meet Kimiko's. "Bonito means beautiful, bonito. And I kissed you because I've been crushin on ya since I met ya. I need to know so that I can ask you out." Out of the corner of his eye, Rai saw Fung nod his head. "Tohomiko Kimiko, will you go out with me?"

The look of pure shock on Kimiko's face was quickly replaced with one of pure joy. Using what, Fung was sure, was left of her energy, Kimiko launched herself at Rai. Tackling him to the ground, Kimiko gave Rai a sound kiss.

"Sorry, am I interrupting something?" Clay's calm voice asked as he and the others walked in, an almost identical Shen Gong Wu to the Fist of Tebigong on his right hand. He smirked at the scene in front of him. 'About time.'

Blushing, the two realized what a compromising position they were in. Smiling sheepishly, Kimiko broke the kiss, and got off Rai.

"Hey, Clay. Sorry, but we're kinda talking personal stuff. Go put the Fist of the Earth in the vault. Then return to training with Omi, Kimiko and I'll join you shortly." Rai gave his first order as Leader. Clay nodded, and walked off.

"Well handled, Raimundo. I have one more thing to tell you. Do you to recall what you said to each other last night?" They nodded, wondering what that had to do with anything. "Well, know it or not, you two are now formally engaged in Xiaolin fashion. You have pledged your powers, your very chi, to each other." After dropping that particular bombshell Fung stood to leave, before he could, however, Raimundo came up to him, whispering a question. Fung looked thoughtful, before nodding, and leaving. Rai walked back to Kimiko.

"Well, that was...interesting, to say the least." Rai said, holding a hand to help his fiance up.

"Yeah..." She agreed. "What did you ask Fung?"

"Just if Dojo could take me somewhere..."

"Where?" She asked curiously.

Rai grinned. "You'll have to wait for me to get back, but I'm sure you'll love it. I wont be leaving for an hour, Fung gave us the day off, wanna go into the town? Fung man's gonna take care of excuses for us." Grinning back, Kimiko took the offered hand.

"I'm not going find out am I?" Kimiko sighed dramatically.

Raimundo laughed. "Nope! Not until I decide to tell you."

Kimiko giggled. "And if I bribed you?"

"Bribed? Depends, what's the 'bribe'?"

"Hmm..." Kimiko leaned over and gave the Brazilian a quick kiss on the lips. "Well? That bribe enough?"

Giving a playful smirk, Rai shook his head. "While that was very nice, no. I want to surprise you." Muttering darkly about 'men', Kimiko took Rai's offered hand. They went to their rooms to change into their street clothes.

"Where are Raimudo and Kimiko, Master Fung?" Omi asked as Fung walked towards them. Clay also turned his attention to the middle aged man.

"They have been excused from training for another hour. The ordeal they went through yesterday was rather draining; Kimiko shall join us at that time. Raimundo has made a special request; he shall be gone for the better part of the day."

"I know you won't tell us about their ordeal, but what's Raimundo doing?" Clay asked.

"You're a smart boy, Clay, I'm sure you've guessed the new relationship between those two."

"Yah, about time too."

Fung chuckled. "I agree. You know how Mr. Tohomiko is a rather strict man when it comes to his daughter, I'm sure you can imagine why Raimundo requested to go see the man."

Clay chuckled. "To get permission?"

"Correct."

During the entire conversation Omi had question marks all over his face. "What are you two talking about? How has their relationship changed? And why does Raimundo neeed permission?" He asked, very confused.

Clay smacked his forehead. "How old is he?"

Fung pinched the bridge oh his nose. "Thirteen come next twenty-first. I was going to explain such things then, unless you would like to do it for me?"

"Thanks, but no thanks."

"Thought so." Mean while Omi had even more question marks over his head.

Rai felt great, he had left for Japan with Dojo, after escorting Kimiko back to the Temple. That had been half an hour ago, during the whole trip, Rai had not allowed thoughts of Mr. Tohomiko's un-approval to enter his mind, however as Tohomiko Electronics came into view, such thoughts began to bombard him.

"Don't worry, Rai. Mr. Tohomiko likes you, I'm sure he'll allow your relationship with Kimiko." Dojo incurraged his rider, after he noticed his troubled face.

"Thanks, Dojo. I needed that." Rai thanked the dragon as they landed unnoticed in a alley across from the massive building. Dojo slithered under Rai's sweatshirt, wrapping around his torso. Rai walked across the street, he was greeted by two security guards at the door to the multi story building.

Rai smiled, he knew these two. The blonde was Takeru 'TK' Takaishi; they had met on a few of his other visits. "Ohayo, TK-san." Rai also knew the other one from the same circumstances, the mute, Daito. "Ohayo, Daito-san."

TK smiled. "Hello, Rai-kun." The 40 year old greeted, Daito simply smiled. "Where's Kimiko-chan? Are you here to finally ask if you can date her?"

"Actually, yes, I am." Rai muttered, scratching the back of his head. The two gaurds stared at him for a bit, then bursting out laughing...well TK did, but Daito couldn't. TK was laughing so hard that tears poured from his blue eyes

Calming down, TK rubbed the tears out of his eyes. "Oh man, Kari and Keiko are going to love this." Rai groaned as he remembered the other reason he knew TK, Keiko, his daughter, was Kimiko's best friend. They had met at a party a year ago, she had given him a once over, looked at Kimiko and said 'I'm sssoooo jealous.' And ever since then she teased them whenever she could. Kari was TK's wife of twenty years, while not as bad as her daughter, she too teased them endlessly. "Well, don't let us stop you, go on in." Nodding, Rai went through the door and went through the same procedure he had every time he visited.

Ten minutes later, Rai stood nervously in front of the doors to Toshiro's office. Now that they were safe from prying eyes, Dojo slithered out of Rai sweater. "Well, come on." Dojo urged. Giving a resigned sigh, Rai nodded, and knocked on the door, a minute later Toshiro called him in.

"Why, hello Rai-kun, Dojo-san." Mr. Tohomiko smiled from behind his desk as Rai and Dojo walked into his office. "What brings you here? Where is Kimiko and the others?" He asked, standing to greet his visitors.

"Hello, Mr. T. They're at the Temple; I came alone with Dojo this time. And I'm kinda here about Kimiko…" Rai trailed off, scratching the back of his head again.

The shorter of the two raised an eyebrow. "Is something wrong, Rai-san?" Rai instantly noticed the more formal title.

"No! Nothings wrong, unless you say no, then we'd have a small problem……" Rai hurriedly said.

Toshiro's other eyebrow joined the first. "If say no to what, Raimundo-san?" Rai flinched as Toshiro became more formal.

"…I-if you say n–n-no to me d-d-dating her…" The Dragon of the Wind stuttered out, feeling even more nervous then when he had asked Kimiko out, feeling afraid of this minute man that could end his relationship with Kimiko.

Toshiro hmm-ed as he sat back in his chair. "Have you asked her yet, Pedrosa-san?" Rai flinched at the very formal use of his name, but answered none the less.

"I have, Tohomiko-san." Rai said, deciding if Toshiro was being formal, he should to.

"What was her answer?"

"She said yes. We even went on our first official date before I left, I had to rest anyway. I wanted to ask you first, but stuff happened, and I ended up asking her before I could get your approval."

Toshiro hmm-ed again, rubbing his chin. "Rest? Has your training been upped? And please tell what this 'stuff' that happened was." Rai nodded, launching into a summary of the events of the last twenty-four hours. By the end, Toshiro was wide eyed, which was saying something because of his squinty eyes.

There was a pause as Rai waited for Toshiro to respond. "Is this story true, Dojo-san?" Toshiro asked the dragon, who had remained un-characterly quiet during Rai's story.

Dojo nodded. "It is. Rai here is the Shoku Warrior." Toshiro hmm-ed again, turning his eyes back to Rai.

Toshiro smiled. "Take care of her, Rai-kun." Rai looked shocked, before smiling broadly.

"Arigatougozaimasu, Tohomiko-san." Rai thanked, bowing deeply

"Just take care of her. Even the Shoku Warrior, and first Silver Chosen since Grand Master Dashi, won't last long with all the money I have poured into a man hunt sent after him." Rai gave a nervous chuckle, Toshiro wasn't kidding with that threat. "Well, go back to the Temple and tell her you two have my full support." Rai nodded, turning to leave the corporate head to his work.

"Oh, and one more thing." Rai turned in time to catch a small box being tossed at him. "Give that to Kimiko, it used to be her mothers, I think Ayame would want Kimiko to have it." Looking at the box with a new reverence, Rai nodded.

"Come on Dojo, Let's go home." Dojo nodded.

Toshiro smiled to himself as the door closed. "Our little Kimiko has grown up to be a strong, smart woman, Ayame." He said to the empty room, returning to his paper work.

A/N. Yo, with this all my posted stories have 2 chaps, yay! First to answer a few questions this chap might rise.

No-the thing from Ayame will not be inmportant, or if it is, i haven't decided why it would be so.

No-TK and Kari woll not be main charactors.

Yes-TK and Kari are based off the Digimon Charactors.

Translations:

Arigatougozaimasu-thank you

san-Mr/Mrs

I still need help with a title, please help!

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