Sorry this chapter took so long, I've been looking around for a job, with no luck.
Anyway, I'd like to give a shout out to MISTER MISFORTUNE for the review.
I do not own XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN.
The light fluffy clouds floated by as Dojo sailed through the sky towards a tall jagged mountain.
The four monks sitting on the back of the large dragon gazing at the scroll the small red haired Japanese girl held in her gloved hands.
"So what Shen Gong Wu do we have this time?" Omi asked.
"The pendant of Takara. It allows the user to combine their chi energy with another."
"What is that supposed to accomplish?" the brunette asked.
"We won't know until we find it and try it out."
"You know, I remember every Wu that's been hidden, but the pendant of Takara doesn't ring any bells," Dojo said.
"Well, it's in the scroll, so it must be a Shen Gong Wu," Kimiko said.
Dojo decided not to press the matter any further and soared down towards the mountain.
A tall girl with golden blonde hair tied back into a short ponytail, wearing a red shirt and blue climbing shorts stood in the shadows. Behind her protective googles her red eyes followed the green dragon coming in for a landing.
She withdrew into the darkness so as not to be seen and opened her hand to admire her treasure: the pendent of Takara.
A smile spread across her face but quickly faded when she heard a faint whirring growing louder and louder.
She turned and a red haired boy came into her sight.
"Behold, the evil boy genius, Jack Spicer."
"Can I help you?" the girl asked, slightly annoyed that she had failed to keep herself hidden.
Jack noticed the pendant in the girl's hand.
"Actually, you can, you can hand over that Wu."
"You want this?" she asked playfully, holding it up in front of him, swinging it from side to side.
Jack instantly realised that this girl was not going to make thing easy for him.
He started to think of a way to convince her to give it to him, but taking one look at her was enough to know she would not be easily swayed.
The girl stood examining the red head in front of her.
She could easily tell that this boy, Jack Spicer, was bad news and she wanted nothing to do with him.
Her intincts screamed at her to run, but where would she go. She couldn't risk allowing the other four to find her, for all she knew, they could be friends with the boy.
Perhaps they were planning an ambush; the red haired boy being the one to chase her out while the others prepared themselves to attack.
No. She was overthinking things, she had to be.
Jack noticed the girl in deep thought and decided to make his move. "Jackbots! Attack!"
The girl snapped out of her thoughts and quickly took a battle stance as five bronze robots rushed at her. She closed her eyes and slowly breathed out.
With five quick strikes the robots crumbled and crashed to the ground.
"You should choose your opponents more carefully," the girl said.
Jack stared, unable to believe what he had witnessed.
Questions raced throughout his mind. The one that occured the most was: who was she?
The chance to ask vanished when the four Xiaolin warriors came running over.
"This isn't over," he directed at the girl before taking off on his helipack.
The monks stopped just a little ways behind the girl watching Spicer as he flew into the clouds.
Raimundo was the first to tear his gaze from the sky to the blonde stranger. He noted the broken machine parts around her, and had come to the conclusion that the incident was caused by this girl, who didn't look like the fighter she appeared to be.
Without saying a word, the girl turned to the monks and revealed the pendant to them. The brunette simply stared at the Wu wandering if the girl wanting to hand it over to them or if she was challenging them.
"This is what you're after, if I'm not mistaken."
"Yes, the pendant of Takara is extremely precious to us," Omi replied.
"Is that what it's called? I found it and thought it was just a simple pendant."
Raimundo was not fooled. "So you just happened to be on this mountain when a Sheng Gong Wu just happened to activate."
"Believe what you will. I just trying to be nice," the girl said, dropping the Wu and turning to leave.
She couldn't believe the nerve of that boy. She had kept the pendant out of the hands of the red headed boy and had allowed them to have it without so much as a 'thank you'.
Kimiko stared after the girl. There was something about her that made her feel uneasy.
She could sense an unknown power flowing from her, but she was sure she had felt it before. She tried desperately to remember where but was unable to recall.
"Kimiko!"
The red haired girl looked around and saw Dojo, transformed into his larger self, with Clay, Omi and Raimundo sitting on his back.
She had been so lost in thought that she hadn't noticed her friends pick up the Wu and get ready go leave for the temple.
"Oh, coming."
Dojo took off into the sky with the four warriors and faded into the distance.
"Well done young monks. You have successfully obtained another Shen Gong Wu, however this one is unknown, even to me," an elderly man addressed the warriors.
Omi held the pendant out in his hand, gazing at it in wonder.
"So who's going to try it out first," the tall blonde boy asked.
The dragon warriors stared at one another and nodded in agreement. They all took hold and called out out its name.
"Pendant of Takara!"
Nothing happened.
They waited a while for something, anything to happen. But there was no such luck.
"What's wrong with it," the black haired girl asked.
"Maybe it's broken," the small green dragon spoke up.
"Or maybe it's a dud," the brunette said. "That girl must have given us a fake."
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