Love, War, and Choices

Chapter 5...Flashes

Kimiko's PoV

I'm writing this down...just as it's over...just as everything is over...I figure that if this is ever going to smooth out...we will need a thorough report...even though I am quite shaken.

Maybe I was the reason for all of this...

Losing our Wu...

This whole attack...

Losing our temple...

Losing our friend...

Our leader...

No...it's not maybe anymore...

I was the reason...

And for that...I will never be forgiven.

And never...again will I be able to forgive myself.

He died under the rebble...trying to save me...

I know...because he pushed me out of the way.

I know now that he is gone...even though no one has said anything to me yet...he is gone...and it's all, my, fault.

The others say it wasn't...Instead, just a misfortune leading to another, but I say it was my fault...It was mine, and no one elses, and they can't change that...They cannot change my guilt, my horror...and worst of all, they cannot change the fact.

We were fighting against them...just simply fighting...and doing quite well. Yes...quite well indeed.

I myself against the evil 1500 and something year old hag, Omi against the derranged and demented thing people call a bean, Clay against The jungle cats, Jackbots, and Jack...although, it wasn't too much of a threat.

Clay was strong...as was Omi...and they were doing quite so well...probably better than they had ever done before...because they had an even bigger reason to fight.

A bigger reason than anyone could ever imagine...Even bigger than they could...at the time.

They did not know how big it was, but they knew it was big...something horrible, and...if we lost...we'd pay dearly...Omi and Clay could tell...

Then there was our beloved leader. He was up against Chase Young. That was no big shocker to anyone...We all three knew that he'd be up against him...after what Chase did to him a few weeks back.

What was the shocker though, was how much courage Raimundo had...after being broken and battered so.

Oh, how it pains me to say his name...the one and the beloved to all. He grew onto us all, never letting us down...until now...when he let go, when we refused...

I'm now trailing off the subject, so I should be getting back on...

Chase and him were fighting, and us other dragons could tell it was not Raimundo's best or favorite (for that matter) fight, but...we did know that Raimundo had the strength to beat him...even if the he himself and Chase didn't know it.

I had faith in him...Omi did, and Clay did...but...I do not believe Raimundo had faith in himself. And Chase? Well...Chase had too MUCH faith in himself, but...hey...I guess that comes from Jack's gloating...That also grows onto people...I should know...even more than the rest of my team...

It had been a quiet day...a very, very quiet day...The drag of all the Valentine disastores still dragging on...

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"Raimundo! Where are we going?" Kimiko laughed as they ran up the hill.

"Here, just atop the hill! I want you to see!"

"I can't see!"

"Well, I will take the blindfold off in a moment, just hold on..." he laughed as he stopped the both of them... "Okay, before I take this off...Look straight ahead and don't let anything distract you...just keep looking forward...and, you should know...I did this with no wind power at all...only with my two hands."

She giggled and nodded. Then, as Raimundo's old Apprentice Sash was taken off of her eyes, and, doing just what she was told looking straight forward, she gasp.

"Raimundo! It...it's beautiful!" she whispered as he hugged her from behind.

"All with my two hands..." he laughed..."I'm sorry if it ain't the best...took forever to do on crutches..."

"It's perfect!" she turned and kissed him, as she led him off of the hill. "Now it's your turn for your surprise!" she laughed.

"I get one too?" he asked, laughing aswell.

"Yeah!"

There, on the other side of the hill was a meadow...All of it grass green, except for some acceptions of a few missed flowers.

Raimundo had picked almost every flower in the meadow (all of them being pink) and had layed them in a giant heart with a K + R inside.

(yes, that sounds out of character, but you know, Raimundo can be sweet at times...)

"Come on Kimiko...how much further!" he whined.

"Oh stop, least you aren't blind folded!"

"Good point...But you would have never been able to lead me."

"Hey!"

"I'm joking girl! Joking..."

"Good..." she kissed him, but in doing so, she put her sash around his eyes.

"Kiiiiim."

"Don't whine, or you don't get your present!"

"Fine, fine..."

She led him carefully to a tree. "You gotta look straight foward at a kneel."

"Huh?"

"Just kneel and look straight forward!" she snapped in a playful tone.

"Okay, okay! Sheesh girl!"

She then took her old sash off from his eyes, and he saw a heart engraved fiery into a tree with KT and RP in the middle. Then, next to it...There was a plastic rose. The plastic melted, again by fire, onto the tree, so it stayed right next to the heart.

"Okay, what's this?"

"You don't get it?" she asked disappointedly.

"Let's say I'm stupid..." that lightened her face as she smiled and kissed him. Then moving to his ear she whispered.

"Our initials are in the heart...and...that flower up there...I'll love you until it dies..."

"But it's fake..." he thought outloud.

"That's the point." she said, still in a whisper.

Kimiko's PoV

That's when it happened. The tree had just fallen down, and started on a green flamed fire...

That's when the fight began...

Him and me turned rapidly around to see Chase, Wuya, Hannibal, Jack, and ten jackbots, and ten jungle cats.

We had asked if they had bothered us enough lately, but they said not quite...It seemed to me that Chase and Jack were still fighting to win my love...But, I had already chosen. It was set in stone...Omi and Clay had accepted it...supposivly...why couldn't they?

My two other teammates came flying out just as the tree smashed to the ground.

Then we all took our enemies, and...simply started fighting. It was like any other major attack on the temple. Until things began to get personal. Wuya began to use her own fire to cause destruction on the temple...It began to crumble...Fall apart to quickly no one could quiver.

All of the baddies just laughed and kept fighting us.

Clay had a good number down, it was easy enough to alude his enemies...even at his size...no offense to you, Clay.

And Omi...He was wearing (sp?) Hannibal down easily, and that thing once again I state, people call a bean was getting slower and slower with every attack...But to me...perhaps it was just Wuya's affect on my still tired body, and still fractured ribs that Hannibal was still quite fast. Omi didn't seem to mind though. Even if he did just get off of crutches and into a walking cast.

Raimundo...He was doing great! Very great...although like I said, it wasn't his best fight...He was still doing great.

I was thinking, and I know that Omi and Clay were thinking it too...That he could beat him...

No...

That he would beat Chase...Once...and...For...All...

I guess that plan sort of backfired.

I was doing good too...until that is...

Wuya decided to play dirty...

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"Wuya, you old hag! Just give it up! Chase won't give you your full power back yet, so there is not even a slight chance you can beat me!" Kimiko screached bluntly in her face in hand to hand combat, with the help of some fiery fingertips.

"My my, what naughty talk for a little girl like you...You know it's not a good thing to gloat!" She emphasized the last word because she had fell back into a bridge, Kimiko's fire only fringing her hair.

"I must give you credit Wuya..." Kimiko laughed. "I'm surprised you can bend like that, being over 1500 years old!"

"Ack!" Wuya spat on the ground and lunged for Kimiko's neck, who gladly dodged by an inch.

"I won't give you credit there Kimiko...for having all of that youth...You sure cannot use it to it's fullest!"

"Haha! Truly a treat...Wuya...Telling me what I can and cannot do...when she don't know me like that...when she doesn't know my ability! It's a true treat right there!"

"You gloat way to much..."

"Blame Jack!" Kimiko found herself giving another angry punch at Wuya's face with fire at hand...literally.

"Let's see if we can fix that!" Wuya smirked, glancing above Kimiko's head.

She then shot a bluish-green bolt at Kimiko, that hit her square in the chest, stunning her.

"Kimiko!" Raimundo yelled, angered by the act. He went and punched Wuya in the back, making her lose her aim and hit one of the remaining walls of the temple, just behind Kimiko.

"NOOOO!!!" Raimundo screamed out of pure horror this time at Kimiko, who was still standing there, tears rolling down her face, but her staring straight ahead, prepairing to die.

Kimiko's PoV

He ran to me, as fast as he could, also getting help from his wind powers.

I knew the fear of dying was strong, but the fear...

The slight chance

of Raimundo dying in my place...

Scared me most of all...

That was unfortunate for me...

Very unfortunate that the 15 chance of Raimundo dying, still with his original speed, plus wind power...that he could not get out...He still died in my place...

Still did...

Did...

And he is never coming back...

Me being stunned by Wuya's newly aquired power made me think of something, as Raimundo ran quickly, as if almost to fly towards me with screams and shouts to try to move...It made me think...Wuya cannot get that kind of power with only the power Chase gave her...

Which would mean...

Raimundo

And

Chase...

When the fought...just as Raimundo called my name...

Was his last pull back...His last attack...

Chase was dead.

Back on track with this horrifying story...

He came at me, pushing me in my side, obviously attempting to somewhat care for my ribs...but not caring about them nearly as much as saving my life...so that my ribs could heal, and his wounds could fully heal as well...and we'd live together.

He got me out of the way sure...

But, the wall had crumbled...

Slicing my ankle slightly, just as I was thrown out of the way.

I screamed a blood curdling scream, that made everyone stop.

Every single person...

Every single thing...

Even Time...

It had slowed, as I saw Raimundo's head jerk towards me to make sure I was safe.

There was a small smile, a flick of hope...Then I had to turn away.

I could not watch my loved one die...

I couldn't...

Not even if my life also depended on it...

Even if his life had to be in vain...although...

I would go to the ends of the earth to make it feel like his sacrifice wasn't in vain...

But I cannot bring myself to think that it was a great thing to sacrifice his life...for mine... I wish he had not gotton to me in time...I wish that I had died...

So maybe...I wouldn't have to feel the aftershock...

The pain...

The guilt...The horror...

Everything.

I didn't want it to be like that...But then again...I didn't want Raimundo to feel the pain of losing me either. Because I knew he loved me...I knew that force was so great, no matter what, both of us...as young as we were, were destined to feel pain...

No matter how it had ended.

Writing this so close after this all...I can remember it well, but it's like going through it all again...

All of the pain...

And the new found memories, that I could never forget. The last look of a strange smile, and spark of hope on Raimundo's face, when he saw mine...obviously tear striken, but nonetheless...safe.

Afterwards, out of pure rage, I wanted my revenge...

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"Wuya!" Kimiko's screams of sadness and anger that fate had done this to her, turned into that name.

She got up to her feet, and although unsteady, she marched to where Wuya now sat.

Wuya actually looked scared, because...she knew she had done something very, very bad. And to piss off the fire dragon in her eyes, was as though she were going to experiance living in hell, while still a live.

But, even after the long flicker of fear, Wuya got up, still confident, and started her green magic on her hands.

"What's the matter Kimiko? Did I kill you little 'boyfriend'?"

Kimiko's eyes went from a hot sapphire to an almost pure raging red with small glints of warm blue.

Wrong thing to say, Wuya...SO WRONG!

Kimiko screamed in anger, and swept flames across where Wuya stood, and five feet out, so she made sure the old hag didn't have enough energy to get out of the fire.

Omi, startled by what happened to Raimundo (him having watched the whole thing) decided it was time to put an end to this.

He ran to a fallen part of a temple, and picked up an old puzzle box, he had crafted with the help of his teammates, if Wuya ever gave them too much trouble again.

He stood by Kimiko, and waited for Wuya to singe to almost death, and then pulled her into the box...making sure, even in her ghost form, she would suffer until her end, burried in box with a lock, deep below the ground, in a sacred place where not even Wuya could taint it.

Kimiko's PoV

Clay then joined us, having killed off Hannibal after his sudden laugh attack over the death of Raimundo.

Oh how I hate them all...accept...

They were all gone now...

All accept Jack.

We turned to him, and he had just as bad of a saddened face, full of pain and horror as we did. We decided it would be best...If Jack lived.

He feared for us.

He feared for me.

Even though I didn't want comfort...

I didn't deserve it...

I had killed him...

It was my fault Raimundo was dead.

All

My

Fault...

It was only us four now...

Master Fung had died in the siege with the rest of the temple monks, they had found because the rubble had fallen unexpectedly onto them.

But...

We did find...

Dojo...

We were all happy to see him, even Jack...

And they knew (supposivly in my eyes) that we'd be okay.

Yes...

They would...

But never me...

Never...

Because It was my fault...

Losing our Wu...

This whole attack...

Losing our temple...

Losing our friend...

Our leader...

And it was all my fault...

Suddenly, I shot up in bed, panting and sweating...

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