Love, War, and Choices
Chapter 11...Try and Stop It
Kimiko's PoV
"Kim, what's wrong?" Raimundo asked, putting his arm around me.
"Huh? What?" I asked, completely snapping out of my engulfing fears.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I am, why do you ask?"
"Just curious, you seem sorta out of it since Master Fung told us the date..."
"I just have a lot on my mind, that's all." I tried to smile.
"Okay." He shrugged and walked off. It was weird... Normally, Raimundo would push harder than that. I wonder...
I was suddenly torn from my thoughts when Omi began to scream stuff. I turned to him, to see him red in the face, and breathing hard. Poor little guy... Rai sure took a lot out of him with their... accident.
"I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU PUT THE BUTTER IN THE FRIDGE THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!!"
Clay and I both looked at each other a little confused. "Par'ner, you alrigh'?"
"He put the butter in the fridge!" Omi lowered his voice to a mere confused call.
"Who?"
"And what butter?" I asked, trying to stiffle a laugh.
"Dojo... He put the butter in the fridge!"
"It's suppose to go there Omi." I smiled.
"Ooo no, Dojo is suppose to let the girl do that job." He eyes me up.
"Excuse me?" Since when did Omi bring up being so sexist again.
"You are suppose to cook, and clean up the food!"
"Omi, you haven't said anything about your Ancient Guide to Females book in over two years, why the sudden outburst?"
"Outburst? That does not make any sense."
"Neither do you par'ner." Clay shrugged at me.
"Dojo's not even in here Omi." I said, dodging his bad slang.
"Yes he is!" He pointed to Dojo who looked just as confused as we were at the butter situation.
"What did I do?" He asked.
"Dojo... Did you put any butter in the fridge?"
"No..."
"I think Omi's a bi' ou'a i' today." Clay stated.
"Perhaps..." He said shaking his head. "Shall I-"
"Just go get some sleep." I smiled at him.
"Okay!" He ran off, only dodging a couple of walls by inches.
"That wasn't just totally random..." I was still confused by Omi's outburst.
"Whatever, the kid's prolly just tired, that's all." Dojo shrugged, going off with his business.
"You know what's weird Clay?" I asked, suddenly realizing something.
"What?"
"It's been a LONG time since a Wu has activated."
"You're right..."
"Weird..."
"It's probably just because the war..." Clay also walked off, wanting to go eat something.
My eyes widened as I remembered... This was a war. Wow, some war. Almost no action. Which was good in a way... With three of my teammates like still horribly injured, it wouldn't be a good thing...
"Kimiko!" I heard someone call out my name, and I spun around. Raimundo was standing there smirking at me.
"Yeah?" I asked, trying not to sound a thousand miles off.
"I got a surprise for you, come with me." He beckoned me over, and once I went over, he blindfolded me.
"What the-"
"Don't worry... It wouldn't be a surprise without the classic blindfold."
"Raimundoo!" I whined and hissed at the same time.
"Don't complain you hot head."
"Don't call me that!"
"It's true!"
"Hmmph." I pretended to pout.
I could tell he dropped his crutches, and was using a bit of wind power to really hold himself up... Or he was really getting better. I was happy at the thought of him being off crutches.
Normal PoV
"Raimundo, where are we going?"
"Hold on! I just want you to see!"
"I can't see!" Kimiko pointed out.
"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.
"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.
Then her eyes widened. She had just realized what happened. Exactly the same. (yes if some of you are wondering, I did copy paste lawlz).
"Thanks..." He whispered back to her, and was about to kiss her, but she pulled away. "What's wrong?"
"No...nothing..." She began to panic, she hoped they didn't come... Please say they don't...
"Don't lie to me Kimiko Tohomiko... I know when there's something wrong with you. I've spent two and a half years around you... I'd know..."
She had to smile at the thought of him and her... It was a great thought. But it was soon interrupted.
The tree started to tip as tears began to find their way to my eyes. Then, when it fell over, my head almost autimatically glared at them, along with Raimundo.
"Haven't you already bothered us enough?" Raimundo spat at everyone standing there.
Jack, Hannibal, Wuya, and Chase just simply laughed. "Not quite Dragon of Wind!" Chase crackled.
Kimiko growled lowly, but then Omi and Clay came crashing out, scowling just as bad at their enimies.
Then, they jumped into action, all taking their own choice, but... It was mostly already planned out. Raimundo would take Chase, Kimiko would take Wuya, Clay of course took Jack, the bots, and panthers, and Omi took Hannibal.
The fight had now gone on for several hours, not stopping. Everyone thought that if this war started over a month ago, and there were little attacks here and there. It was a might long war...
The fighting went on, and everyone was doing extremely well. Kimiko glanced at Omi and saw that he was taking Hannibal fast, but... To her, his speed was still well. Taking a glance at Clay next, she saw he easily outstrengthed all of them.
Then they all took a long enough glance (including the baddies) at Raimundo and Chase. He was doing extremely, although it wasn't his best fight, he was still doing great.
Kimiko herself was doing great aswell, that is, until Wuya decided to play dirty. She gave a low growl as Wuya knocked down temple walls around them, making them crumble faster than anyone could quiver.
"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.
Raimundo used his wind power to get to Kimiko.
While he was running, screaming, and shouting to her to move, she thought of something.
"Wuya... Can't get that much power unless..." Kimiko gasped silently. "Raimundo defeated Chase... He did it... " She couldn't help but smile at the happiness, but obviously it just made her look more upset to Raimundo. Because he sped up.
No, please... Go slower, trip, fall... Get punched in the gut... Anything. Just please, don't have it like my nightmare... Don't let him die... Please Raimundo.
Kimiko thought hard as she heard the wall crumble, and she could almost feel it was waving too bad... Raimundo ran at her, and it was as though time slowed.
As his warm arms wrapped around her waist, Kimiko almost wanted to just grap on and hug him, stopping the wall from falling. She knew this would be the last time that she would feel his touch... Ever again...
She was thrown out of the way, and a new hope flickered into her mind, making time speed again. Hopefully, Raimundo made it out.
Kimiko glanced back and saw... Raimundo didn't... The stone had just barely scratched her ankle. A scream that froze everyone's warm blood, along with curdling it escaped her lips. Raimundo then glanced over.
"RAIMUNDO!!!" Her scream turned into. His eyes flickered with hope, and a strange smiled danced upon his lips as he saw her safe. Her face tearstained... Definatly not the way he would want his last picture of his love to be, but... Nonetheless safe, and that's all that mattered.
Kimiko turned her head away. She couldn't watch him die. She'd do anything not to make his death in vain, but... It just didn't seem worth it. It wasn't worth it in her eyes.
She wished she could have been the one to die... Because then, she wouldn't have to feel the aftershock... The pain. But then, what would Raimundo do?
No matter what happened, even at an age so young, they were meant to feel pain... And meant to be apart.
Kimiko wanted revenge.
"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! The witch thought to herself.
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.
Clay came over, after defeating Hannibal away from Omi (so he could get the puzzle box).
The last person left... There was one... Jack.
He wore the same sad and horrified expression as they all did, and Kimiko's eyes became twice as puffy.
"Jack..." she tried to speak to him, but broke down crying into his chest. The others decided it would be best if he stayed.
"Hey, par'ner, could you keep an eye on Kimiko, we needa go check ou' Master Fung and the other monks' situation."
Jack simply nodded as Kimiko walked to where their cubicles were suppose to be. She found her cell phone, a picture, locket and her diary still intact. Picking up the diary, she opened to the next new page, and took out the pen, sitting down on a stone.
Jack came over to her.
"What'cha gunna do?"
"I think... If... I write it all down. I can at least tell his family and friends what happened. Truthfully."
"Are you sure?"
"It's my duty. As Raimundo's pupil, teammate, friend... And girlfriend." Sorrow filled her heart, and found it's way to her eyes... But, she could still write down everything.
"I'm sorry Kimiko. I really am."
"So am I Jack." A tear fell onto the paper as she wrote, landing on Raimundo's name, smudging it alittle. "So am I."
It was only after an hour Kimiko finally finished in her diary and shut it. Jack smiled at her when she looked up. "It'll be nice."
"Yes... It will." They looked out to the rising sun. "You know what Jack?"
"What?"
"He was going to purpose to me last night."
"Wha? How do you know?" he asked, curiousity taking over, so he couldn't watch his words. But Kimiko didn't mind.
"I had a dream... A dream all of this would happen. And it's like it had to. I tried to say something to change it... Or anything... But I couldn't. It all came true. I saw Raimundo was going to die. Now... I know he was going to purprose to me last night. It was the night we first began going out, and the first night we met." Kimiko looked around the temple grounds.
"How do you know?"
"It was probably years later that part of the dream revealed he was... I probably found something... His parents, friends... something." I smiled. "At least he doesn't have to live in this hellhole... Not at the moment, I'm sure no one wants to."
Just then Clay came back, even his usually mostly covered eyes were puffy and red.
Kimiko stood up. "What? What's wrong, where's Omi?"
"Omi's back... Where we found Master Fung."
"Why didn't they just come over here?" She was confused.
"He's dead Kimiko. Along with every other monk that used to be at the temple."
"Why? How?"
"They were in the meditiation hall... They must have been meditating... And not heard the wall fall."
Kimiko's eyes widened in horror. "No..."
Then Omi came running out. "My friends!" He tried to sound strong and pulled together. "You must come! Quickly, Dojo!" He ran away again, and they all looked at each other before running after him.
There, under a heavy rock, they saw Dojo. He looked just as battered up, and Clay carefully moved the rock off of him.
"Dojo!" Kimiko went down and touched him lightly, making his eyes peek open.
"You guys... You're alive... Good..."
"Raimundo is not." Omi said, his voice so full of sorrow.
"Be happy... It's over." Dojo tried to lighten the mood.
"Dojo, that isn't helping." Kimiko didn't try to sound mean, but she couldn't help it.
"No... The Heylin and Xiaolin War. It states it... It's all over... No more Wu... No more evil... No more..." Dojo smiled as he was lifted up to Clay's shoulder.
They all five (Jack is included in that) looked out to the sunrise as the wind rippled their clothes.
"What now Dojo?" Kimiko asked.
"There's always something like try and rebuild... Give people a proper place to die." Dojo shrugged.
"Heh... Sounds like fun..." Kimiko smiled as the day began new.
Okay there is your chapter! Yayness! Okay, that was a very sad chapter, I was almost in tears just writing it... Okay so review on this one, kay? Thanks a ton for your support guys, although this one NOTE ain't over yet... just member that :D Okay, hope you liked the craptastic chapter! And once again, REVIEW:)