Me: Okay, this is pretty much all showdown. It's an actiony counterpart to the romance –
Dojo: CHEESY romance.
Me: Whatever. Romance in the first two chapters.
Dojo: Please R&R for this chump who writes cheesy romances!
Me: Were you talking to Raimundo again or something…?
Chapter Three
Kimiko's Point of View
The Doll of Domachi was a doll of golden silk. Its hair was black linen, and it clothes appeared to be soft, shining mica. To me, the doll would have been beautiful and great to play with except for its formidable appearance…the Doll had no face.
I didn't know why, but I wanted to impress Rai. He was an annoying, impudent, indolent idiot. But when it came time, he was sincere and a true friend; plus, he was damn hot. So I walked up to the Doll, and as I did, a huge violet and black ball of oblivion burst through the walls – it was Wuya. "So it's Kimiko, the Dragon of fire…the one without upper body strength," she cackled. In my rage, I forgot to retrieve the Doll. I quickly reached for it, but Wuya had her hands on it too. "Wuya," I said, squinting with a frightening facial expression, "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown." 'Wuya is a pretty terrifying character,' I was thinking to myself, 'and not only because she's an ugly hag, either. I better prepare for the worst.' "I wager the Denshi Bunny for your Moonstone Locust (I remember she had it during the four-way tag team showdown whence Raimundo became Shoku Warrior)." Wuya interrupted me and declared, "This pagoda will divide into different levels with different battlefields. We must hit each portal to ascend to the next level. The first one of us to reach the Doll of Domachi at the rooftop wins. Let's go!" "Xiaolin Showdown!" we shouted in unison.
In an instant, the pagoda split into thirteen pieces, and shuffled like the steps of a spiral staircase. The vines in the garden grew incredulously long and thick as it winded around the walls like a snake on its prey.
Wuya and I were standing at the bottom of the first floor, and we were interfaced with a maze of living sliding doors and dark, crawling vines. We both hollered, "Gong Yi Tampi!"
"Moonstone Locust!" She summoned the white locusts of her Shen Gong Wu to eat away at the vines. She automatically got a head start. "Denshi Bunny, Fire!" I conjured my Wu to become living fire, as I even more quickly blasted my way, trying to find my way through the maze. This maze was purely based on luck, and only if you have high intelligence would you have been able to use memory, for the sliding doors constantly changed. 'Left. Right. Dead end. Going back. Right again,' I thought to myself until I finally reached the blue portal. I walked into it and immediately transported to the next level.
The second floor was an empty room with random pieces of floorboards everywhere. The pieces were just falling into an endless abyss. I spotted Wuya in the distance, and I tried to catch up. I hopped from one piece to another, until, all of a sudden, I tried to land on a piece when it fell. I was about to lose to showdown when I realized with idiocy that I had powers without Shen Go Wu…and I had to impress Raimundo, who was watching from the sides of the pagoda. "Wudai Mars, Fire!" I screamed at the very last moment, and heated vapor came under my feet, quickly sending me across a disbelieving Wuya and to the next level.
The third floor was just like the eighth floor of the old pagoda – complete darkness. I walked forward and ran into a wall. 'Ow!' I rubbed my head. I walked around aimlessly until I found a red portal. If found it strange, since the other two were blue. I entered it, as I entered the next level…or, at least, that was what I thought. The level that was floor four was still pitch black. Footsteps passed me. Looking behind me, there was nothing there. I wandered for another five minutes before I found another red portal. Floor five was also completely dark. Combining the Denshi Bunny with Fire to light up the obscurity, I looked around; the area I have just been walking around was about a ten-yard-long passageway that was winding around just to get people confused. In my luminous form, I just entered the next passageway, and the next, and that was when I saw the true blue gateway. I walked into it, and found myself finally in a brighter area – floor four.
Raimundo's Point of View
I could barely see anything once Kimiko entered the black ball of oblivion with no light passing through that was floor three. After a very long time, she finally got to the fourth level. I looked at Wuya, who was already on the sixth floor. I worriedly refocused my gaze once again on Kimiko.
Wuya's Point of View
Floor four was really nothing special; it was just a room with three doors, which one was the portal. I chuckled, for I left a little surprise to keep dear Kimiko waiting…
Kimiko's Point of View
Greeted to the room by a typhoon of great energy, I was hit in the head once again, but now by a table. Furniture was flying everywhere as I tried to dodge out of each one's path. I tried using the Denshi Bunny again to fireball my way out of this, but the wind blew me off course and I smashed into a wall. After I rubbed my partially dislocated shoulder, I continued onward. I was once again blown back.
From nowhere, I hatched an idea. I once again used the Denshi Bunny to change my atomic structure, now using electricity instead; it wasn't as powerful as the fire, but it was quicker. Once I transformed, I traveled in the opposite direction of the twister. I spun around and around for at least two minutes (if you're spinning around, that's a long time) until the twister at last ceased. I transformed back into my human shape and reached for the portal, which I found in the middle door out of three – it's always the middle door.
Things were not going my way. Apparently, I have reason to believe that natural disasters are after me today, for a rock slide was right there waiting for me. The portal was clear in sight, but I couldn't have gotten to it if I were to be crushed by rocks! It was about a two-hundred-meter stretch. I was pulling quite far ahead of the rocks; I could tell by how far away the rumbling was. I was fine until I looked back, and I didn't see the crevice I was just about to walk through. I tripped, and then I fell…
Me: Cliffhanger!
Kim: Psh. Typical you to make me trip over a crack.
Me: I know. Aren't you clumsy?
Kim: (steaming) Please R&R.