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Xiaolin Showdown: Legend of the Thunder Child III: Apocalypse Clone

27: A Splinter of Time

Meanwhile…

Ryan and Kimiko landed with a thud on the floor. They groaned as they looked around the pitch black room they were in.

"Oww…" groaned Ryan as he rubbed his head, "Is everyone okay?"

"Hey! I can't see a thing!" said Kimiko "At least I landed on something soft…"

"Lucky…" groaned Ryan "I hit the floor and then had something land on me…"

Kimiko squealed as she felt something move under her.

"Ryan?" gasped Kimiko as she felt what she was sitting on, "Is that you?"

"I think so…" groaned Ryan, he reached he arms up and found her body.

"Ryan…" said Kimiko as she felt his hands snake around her waist, "What are you doing?"

Ryan grinned as he gently squeezed her.

"Well, since you're on top of me…" said Ryan, Kimiko squealed slightly as Ryan pulled her so she was lying on top of him.

"Oh Ryan…" giggled Kimiko as she tried to climb off Ryan, only to be pulled back down, "Is this really the time for this?"

Ryan chuckled as he stroked her hair.

"Kimiko…" said Ryan "We're stuck at the bottom of a hole, its pitch black and Omi is nowhere…We're all alone…Just the two of us, with you on top of me…Can you think of anything better to do?"

"Shouldn't we be trying to work out how to get out?" said Kimiko "And what about Omi?"

"We've been walking for ages and we fell down a hole" said Ryan "I think we should take a small break…and have a bit of fun too…"

Ryan grinned as he heard her breath harder as his hands went up and down her sides; she shuddered with pleasure as he gently lowered her towards him.

"Kiss me…" said Kimiko as she lent forward. They felt their lips connect, Kimiko let out a soft moan as Ryan gently caressed her body; she giggled as she felt his hands move up her shirt and towards her back. Kimiko stopped kissing and took a moment to let out another pleasurable moan as Ryan gripped her body softly, sending shivers up and down her spine.

"Oh Ryan…" sighed Kimiko as she ran a hand over his head, "You make me feel so good and…Hold on? Since when have you been bald?"

"Ahh…" sighed Omi's voice "My first girl kiss…"

There was a brief silence.

"WHAT THE HELL?" yelled Ryan "OMI?"

"Hold on…" said Kimiko as she held her hand out, "Fire!"

The room lit up, revealing Ryan on the floor with Kimiko lying on top of him. But right between their heads where they supposedly kissed each other, was Omi's large yellow head.

"Eww!" cried Ryan as he leapt to his feet, throwing Kimiko and Omi off him and pulled out his tongue and began wiping it, "That's just gross!"

Omi sighed as he rubbed his left cheek where Kimiko had kissed him and his right cheek where Ryan had kissed him.

"We were kissing you this whole time?" gasped Kimiko; she was blushing red with embarrassment as she franticly tried to sort out her clothes, "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Well I was…" said Omi "Then you started making a strange moaning noise which felt strangely stimulating…Then Kimiko began stroking the inside my leg and moved up towards…"

"Kimiko!" yelled Ryan. Kimiko went even redder as she looked at her feet.

"I'm sorry, it thought it was you…" said Kimiko "You know what happens when you get me going…"

Ryan groaned in disgust as he slapped his forehead.

After awhile, Ryan and Kimiko had calmed down and they began to look for away back to where they were. They couldn't climb back up where they fell from, so they decided to search for a new route up. They walked past glass displays, each on were filled with strange objects.

"Do we have any idea where we are going?" said Kimiko as she bent over and rested her hands on her knees, breathing heavily, "We've been walking for ages…"

Omi sighed as he looked ahead; there was a crossroad that split into three paths which seemed to go on forever into the darkness.
"Okay" said Omi "Let us split up! Kimiko you go that way, Ryan, you go that way"

"Who put you in charge?" said Ryan as he tapped on the floor with his feet and crossed his arms.

"By planning and organising my team…" said Omi.

"YOUR team?" said Kimiko as she raised her eyebrow at him.

"Yes Kimiko" said Omi "By planning and organising my team, I show skills of leadership, helping me obtain the Singala promotion"

Ryan and Kimiko groaned as Omi shot off down his corridor, they shrugged their shoulders as they walked off down their corridors.

Later…

Ryan groaned as he sat down against a wall, he has been walking for half an hour and he hadn't found a single fight of stairs, ladder or any way of getting back to the floor they were on. He looked up at the wall where a sigh was hanging. He groaned as it said "Floor 238", they had fallen 237 floors and he not only had to find a way up, but they had to go up 237 times.

"Maybe I should head back to the crossroad" said Ryan to himself as he slowly got to his feet, "Maybe Kimiko or Omi had better luck than me…"

He looked back down the passageway he just came down; it went off into the darkness just like the passageway he was originally going down. He sighed deeply as he lent on one of the glass panels, there was a creaking noise as the glass gave way. Ryan fell through the panel and the glass shattered on the ground, the sound of the shattering glass echoed down the passageway.

"Oops…" said Ryan as he got up from the glass covered floor.

"Ryan?" echoed Kimiko's voice from behind him, "Is that you?"

Ryan gasped as he turned around to see Kimiko and Omi standing behind him.

"What happened here?" said Omi.

"Err…I don't know…" mumbled Ryan as he looked sheepishly at them, "It just…fell down…"

They all looked into the display case, in the middle of it was a strange looking hourglass. It looked rather similar to the Sands of Time, but it was four times bigger and set in a set of giant rotating rings. The thing that put them off it was that it was black and covered with the skulls of many beasts.

"Whoa…" said Ryan as he walked towards it, "What's this?"

"He-vois…"

"Err…Ryan?" said Kimiko in a worried tone as something very faint echoed through the air, she couldn't understand it, but she could hear something and it sounded like it was coming from the hourglass. She began to breathe faster as she watched her boyfriend walk towards the evil looking hourglass.

"I don't like that thing…" said Kimiko "Its creeping me out…"

"Who-set…"

Ryan smirked in her direction as he pretended to reach out to touch it.

"He-vois…"

"Ryan…" said Kimiko as she walked towards him, "Don't touch it!"

She lunged at him, grabbing his hand away from the hourglass.

"He-vosi-set…"

"Please Ryan…" said Kimiko as she put his hands in hers, "There is something wrong with it…Please, don't touch it…"

"Oh, okay…" sighed Ryan as he hugged her, "If you're really that worried about it…"

"I'm not worried about it" said Kimiko as she rested her head on him, "I'm worried about you…Something's not right…"

"Hmm…" thought Omi as he read the information sigh for the display, "It says this is a Splinter of Time, when activated it creates a portal to a set moment in time"

Ryan and Kimiko both walked to the sign and looked at them themselves.

"It is a one of a kind artefact" said Ryan "No one knows why it was made or when, but it was rumoured it was going to be used by a great evil…Spooky"

Kimiko gave an uneasy whine as she hid behind Ryan and looked at the hourglass.

"Ryan…There's something about this hourglass…" said Kimiko "I don't know what it is, but I don't like it, I feel…drawn to it…Can we go now?"

Ryan sighed as he put his arm around her, comforting her.

"Okay…" said Ryan as he kissed her on the cheek, "Omi, let's get going"

Omi nodded in agreement as he ran on ahead, Ryan followed behind him with Kimiko holding his hand. Kimiko looked worried as she looked back at the hourglass as it got small into the distance; she could feel like something was watching her from it and trying to speak to her from it.

"Hmm…That girl…She knows the boy who has the soul of Rycon…That can only mean one thing…She has the soul of Rycon's soul mate…Fortune"

Kimiko shrugged her shoulder as she dismissed it as the wind. She looked back at Ryan, he looked at her and smiled, making her smile too as she rested her head on him.

"Yes…She's Fortune alright…"

"Ooooh…" said Omi as he stopped in his tracks in front of a huge hole, "Look how deep this place goes!"

Ryan and Kimiko looked over the edge; the hole went on for miles and miles.

"Ugh…" groaned Kimiko "First a fake legend about a power generator that doesn't exist, a scary hourglass, now a bottomless pit…I hate this place…"

"Are we there yet?" echoed Raimundo's voice from below them.

"We still got 278 floors to go" echoed Colza's voice. The three of them looked down and saw Clay, Raimundo, Dojo and Colza climbing up the hole.

"Guys!" called Kimiko "You okay?"

"Kimiko?" said Raimundo as they looked up and saw them, "Hey! There you are!"

Ryan, Omi and Kimiko helped them up from the hole; they collapsed with exhaustion onto the ground after climbing up the hole.

"This is going to take forever…" groaned Dojo "If only we could use our Wu to get out…"

Kimiko realised something as she reached into her bag and pulled out the Ying Yang Yo-yos.

"We can use these to get back to the temple" said Kimiko as she held up the yo-yos; Raimundo gave a groan of relief as he got to his feet.

"Let's just get out of here…" sighed Ryan as he stretched his arms, "I need to take a nap…We can discuses what has happened after we have rested up…"

Kimiko nodded in agreement as she swung the yo-yos in the air.

"Ying Yang Yo-yo!" said Kimiko, there was a bright flash as a portal appeared and they all jumped through, back into the temple grounds.

UXD: Who was the voice?

Ryan: Don't go and ask questions…

UXD: Well, well, well…Look who decided to visit? I though you were still on DeviantART?

Ryan: Nah, I thought I go see what's up?

UXD: Whatever…Who was Fortune? What does he have to do with Kimiko, the mysterious Rycon and the Splinter of Time? R&R!