Chapter 7

After preparing some coffee and toast, and while she ate, Jessica Spicer thought about her daughter. She knew what was going on. Jackie was falling in love with that boy. It was just like the prophecy predicted. Although she was happy for it, she was also fearing for the young couple's happiness. Knowing Sirilis, he was surely already thinking of a way to stop it.

Well, not on her watch!

Jackie felt tired. And sore. And cold. Very cold. It felt like she was sick... and dying.

She tried to breath but she couldn't. It was as if she was drowning.

She was starting to panic, when suddenly she felt an arm placing itself behind her back, holding her, while something was placed on her lips. Whatever it was, it felt soft and warm, and it was blowing air into her, helping her breath.

Slowly she opened her eyes. First she saw clouds all around her, but said clouds started to disappear and her vision started to clear. She saw a tanned shade of skin. It was very close to her. Really close.

As soon as she managed to see perfectly, she saw who happened to be holding her. It was Raimundo. And the other monks were right behind him with worried looks. And...

Her eyes widened. His lips were pressed on hers.

She gave a little whimper, which made Raimundo break apart from her. Concern was in his eyes, and a tear rolled down his face. Before Jackie knew it, Raimundo was hugging her and sobbing.

"I was so worried..." he said "I thought I lost you..."

"L-lost me?..." she asked, confused.

"Yeah. I thought you were dead..."

"D-dead?"

Raimundo broke the hug and placed his hands on her shoulders. "I promise you, Jackie," he continued "I won't let anything like that happen to you again. I promise."

And then, he kissed her.

Jackie woke up with a start.

She looked around. She was in her bed, in her room, in her house. The pale girl gave a sad sighed. It was just a dream.

She got out of bed, grabbed one of her red towels an went into the bathroom to take a long, hot shower.

Moments later, Jackie got out of the bathtub, her body warm and soothed by the extremely hot water. She let out a satisfied sigh. Oh, how she loved to take long, hot showers. If she could, she would spend the whole day having a shower. It was one of her biggest dreams: to spend 24 hours in the bathtub taking a shower, the water pressure massaging her body.

Unfortunately, her dream was still far from becoming true, and like all good things in the world, it had to end. So she got out of the bathtub and wrapped herself in the red towel and opened the door of the bathroom.

The minute she opened the door, Wuya went in and flew through Spicer's head, giving her a major headache.

"Gah!" she screamed "Do you have to do that?!"

"No, not really. Now quit your whining and hurry up! I'm sensing a new Sheng-Gong-Wu!"

The teen sighed and walked towards her closet to get dressed.

Raimundo and the other monks were in a golf course, looking for the new Wu. It was called the 'Jealousy Sphere', and it looked like a purple golf ball. Omi had suggested that they should split up in order to cover more area, and all the others agreed.

The Wind Dragon liked Omi's idea. He wished to be the one having a Xiaolin Showdown with Spicer.

Unfortunately, luck wasn't by his side. He heard both a male and a female voices screaming 'Xiaolin Showdown'"

The ground started shaking, and Raimundo, for the first time, was having a bad feeling about the Showdown. So he ran towards the place where the voices came from.

"Gong Yi Tampai!" the voices once again screamed.

Raimundo sped up, hoping to be there in time and make sure that none of the girls would get hurt.

He was in such a hurry that it seemed like an eternity for him to get there. But he managed to arrive there when the Showdown was almost finished. It was a golf competition. There was only one hole left, and the one who gave less hits on the ball to get it in the hole would be the winner.

Kimiko was the first one. She gave the ball a big hit, making it land near the hole. Then she approached it and gave the second hit, which was enough to end her turn.

Then it was 'Jack', who seemed very confident. 'He' placed himself, and after a few minutes of focusing, 'he' hit the golf ball.

Raimundo thought it was already lost on Spicer's side, but he was soon proven wrong. 'Jack' managed to put the golf ball in the hole with only one hit!

And then, the Showdown was over.

"Hah! Booya, Xiaolin Losers! The Jealousy Sphere is mine!"

Right after Spicer said that, the Wu started glowing. And it glowed. And it glowed, until everyone had to cover their eyes due to the bright light.

As soon as the light faded, Rai looked at the pale teen. Spicer had also closed her eyes, which she opened as soon as the light faded.

He could see Jackie was confused, since the Wu did nothing.

"Jack Spicer, give the Wu to Kimiko immediately!" Omi yelled.

"Wha?" Spicer asked, even more confused than before.

"You heard the little fella! Hand over the Wu, you no good cheater!" Clay also screamed at the disguised girl.

"Huh?"

"Hey, Spicer!" Jackie turned around to face Kimiko "Either you give me the Wu or you'll be going for a swim!"

The evil girl genius was so utterly confused she didn't even react.

"Good choice!" the japanese girl said, instantly punching the redhead on the stomach, which made her fall backwards and into the lake.

"JACKIE!" Raimundo screamed as he ran towards the lake. He dived in, coming back with Spicer in his arms.

The others joined him, worried. Rai supposed that their previous behavior was effect of the Wu, which was no longer affecting them.

He laid Jackie down and pressed two fingers against her neck. There was a pulse, but she wasn't breathing.

The Wind Dragon knew he had no choice. He covered Spicer's nose and pressed his mouth against hers, blowing some air into her, giving her a mouth-to-mouth.

He was expecting the other to make disgusted noises (after all, they didn't know Jack Spicer was actually a girl) for seeing him doing that to 'Jack'. However, they didn't.

They all understood that Raimundo had no choice. The main priority now was to save Jack Spicer's life.

Rai kept on blowing air into the albino girl's mouth, using his wind power to help. Just when he was about to lose hope, Jackie started coughing.

"Jackie?" he whispered, holding her up so she was half sitting.

She looked up at him and, although she was shivering a lot, she smiled.

"My hero..."then she closed her ruby eyes again and laid her head limply against Raimundo's chest.

"No... no, Jackie, wake up! Don't do this! Don't leave me! Please, open your eyes, Jackie... Wake up...Please..."

But her eyes just wouldn't open. He shook her, he slapped her lightly, he spilled some water over her face, he tried everything he could think of to bring her back to counsciousness, but to no avail. Jackie still wouldn't open her eyes.

He placed the two fingers against her neck again.

Nothing.

He felt nothing. Not even one beat.

Raimundo felt his world shattering to pieces, and a tear rolled down his cheek.

He slid an arm under her legs, the other arm behind her back and hugged her. He placed his head on her chest and cried, getting her overcoat wet with his tears.

He couldn't believe it.

He just couldn't.

He didn't want to believe it.

But it was true.

Jackie Spicer was dead.