I really must get better at thinking of titles. Anyway, here's the second chapter! Thanks for reading it so far, I hope you enjoy this chapter :)
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Chapter 2: Confusion
Wuya went straight through Jack's body making him shiver and wake up. "Ugh, that is not a nice feeling!"
"I don't care Jack. Get up now. A Shen Gong Wu has revealed itself."
Jack groaned. "It is 5:30 in the morning."
"I don't care!"
Jack glared at Wuya before getting out of bed. He got dressed and looked in the mirror. He grabbed his eyeliner and started applying it carefully. When he was happy with his appearance he put his coat on and got ready to go. He grabbed his goggles from his workbench and put them over his head, pushing his hair back as he did. He flung his heli-pack onto his back and looked in the mirror again. Liking how he looked, he left the house.
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Jack arrived at the place the Shen Gong Wu was supposed to be. He caught sight of Clay looking through bushes. 'Looks like I'm in the right place'. Jack looked carefully around, wanting to get the Shen Gong Wu and leave without being detected. It was just so much easier that way. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Kimiko climbing up a tree to get a better view. Wuya called his name to stop him from staring at her and to actually get a move on. Unfortunately a certain teenage girl heard it. She looked in their direction and spotted Jack's bright red hair. Suddenly she looked up above Jack, spotting something glinting in the branches above him. She smirked at Jack before elegantly making her way over to the Shen Gong Wu.
Jack realising what was going on, used his heli-pack to get up to the Shen Gong Wu. Just as he was about to grab it Kimiko pushed him out of the way and snatched it out of the tree, but she lost her balance on the small branch fell. Jack flew up again and caught her, but not without grabbing the Shen Gong Wu. She quickly got her hands on it again, causing the Shen Gong Wu to glow. Jack looked at Kimiko's face instead of the Shen Gong Wu and spoke loudly. "Kimiko, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!"
"Bring it!"
"My Monkey Staff against your Mantis Flip Coin! First one to the Wu in the centre of the maze wins!"
"I accept your challenge!"
The ground shook as thick walls of earth rose tall, creating a complicated looking maze. The Shen Gong Wu flew off towards the centre of the maze. The ground shook again as two platforms rose, one for the Xiaolin Dragons, one for Jack and Wuya. A thick mist formed, making it impossible to see the maze from above, presumably to stop others from helping or hindering Jack and Kimiko. They both yelled, "Gong Yi Tan Pai!" The two were dropped down into opposite sides of the maze without a clue of where they were going. Jack yelled out the name of the Monkey staff and started running around the maze faster, hoping to find the correct way to the centre.
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Kimiko growled in frustration as she hit another dead end. She used the Mantis Flip Coin to jump from wall to wall, getting higher every time to have a look at the maze from above. She studied the layout of the maze before using the coin to flip over to the next wall over. As she was getting closer to the centre of the maze her legs got swept out from under her causing her to fall off the wall. She closed her eyes, waiting for the impact of the floor, instead she was caught by Jack. She pushed away from him, making him drop her, she landed neatly on her feet. She started to run in the direction she thought the centre was. Jack, with the Monkey Staff, easily outran her and caught her again.
"Let go of me!" She growled.
He dropped her to the floor and grinned as she hit the floor ungracefully. "As you wish."
Kimiko punched him hard in the chest, winding him. He screeched and swept her legs from underneath her for the second time that day. Kimiko fell flat on her back and groaned. "Ow."
Jack stood over her. "I thought I already proved that if you got in my way that I could deal with you?"
Kimiko glared at him and kneed him in the crotch making him screech again. She swore under her breath. "Cocky bastard." Kimiko started to run towards the centre again, really wanting to win the showdown.
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Wuya was getting restless with this challenge taking so long. She figured as much seeing as it involved a maze, but not being able to see or hear anything made it much more annoying. She had no idea how much longer it could take. Neither did the Xiaolin Dragons who had taken to playing simple games to entertain themselves. She rolled her eyes. It was really irritating her that she had no idea what was going on in the showdown. It also irritated her that the Dragons clearly had a lot of confidence in Kimiko to the point where they weren't worried. "The arrogance of children these days."
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Kimiko turned the corner to see the shining Shen Gong Wu. She grinned and ran towards it. Jack however was not far behind. He was determined to win this. He ran as fast as he could until he caught up with Kimiko, who was now a few feet away from the Shen Gong Wu. He grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the Shen Gong Wu, causing her to squeal out of surprise. He grabbed her other arm and slammed her roughly against the wall of the maze. "I'm not going to let you win."
She spoke defiantly and menacingly. "You know you should really stop pinning me to things."
Her warning didn't scare Jack. He smirked. "Why? Afraid you might like it?"
Kimiko rolled her eyes and snatched her arms out of his grasp. "That Shen Gong Wu is mine Spicer."
She kicked him across his knees and pushed his shoulders roughly, making him stagger backwards and fall on his knees. Kimiko ran as quickly as her legs let her and reached the Shen Gong Wu, thus winning the showdown. As the maze walls went back into the ground and the area went back to it's previous state Jack stood up and glared darkly at Kimiko. She stuck her tongue out at him and smirked before running over to Dojo and the boys. The group flew back to the temple quickly, leaving Jack annoyed and Wuya even more irritated than she was during the showdown.
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Jack leaned over his workbench in frustration. He just couldn't concentrate. The sight of Kimiko smirking at him and running off kept replying in his mind. By that time she was already back into her normal clothes. Earlier today when he saw Kimiko looking for the Shen Gong Wu he couldn't help but notice just how attractive she was. She had let her natural hair down, which now reached to her lower back. She wore a large but fitted thin white t-shirt that was tucked into denim hot pants. It was no different to what a lot of girls wore, after all Kimiko prided herself on staying in fashion, but wow it worked on her. It brought his attention to her fantastic legs and her figure. Jack was a little surprised when he realised that she was actually pretty well endowed. Well, well endowed for someone with her genetics anyway. When she smirked at him we wanted nothing more than to grab her and show her who was boss.
After being shoved aside, feeling small and being ignored for so many years the idea of being dominant over someone thrilled him. The image of Kimiko pinned against the wall by him excited him. Of course he had thought about sex before, he was only human after all, but he never listed it as one of his priorities. Many teenagers seemed to desperately want to lost their virginity, but honestly he wasn't that bothered. He had other stuff to do. When he was younger he was home-schooled. After that he was pretty much in the basement of his parents house or his house all the time. If he was honest the sole reason he did go outside as much as he did was because of the Shen Gong Wu. Otherwise he wouldn't have bothered. So he didn't exactly make contact with many people, let alone girls.
Honestly, he wasn't even 100% sure he was straight. He always was the type to keep his options open but he never really thought about it too much before. Sure he liked Kimiko before but that was when she was a child and he was only a young teenager. He didn't even consider sex. He's had occasional visits from Katnappe, and seeing her flexibility did spark certain thoughts, but he was never attracted to her, so he never took it further. Jack could see why girls would find Raimundo attractive, and quite frankly he did briefly consider it, but Jack hated his personality, which made him incredibly unattractive to him. Honestly, except for the people he met in his search for Shen Gong Wu and the occasional guest from his parents' parties, he never met anyone, which limited his choice. So sex rarely crossed his mind. Relationships almost never crossed his mind.
Jack thought back to his recent encounters with Kimiko. She certainly wasn't a child any more, and it seemed like she wasn't a stranger to the concept of sex. The image of her squirming and writhing beneath him made him heat up. She looked far too sexy when he pinned her to the wall, with her glaring at him like that. Her defiance just made it hotter. Of course he would never do anything sexual without her permission. Behaviour like that disgusted him. He could never torture someone like that. He would never do anything to her if she didn't consent to it. He decided that while he wouldn't tone his advances down, he wouldn't tone them up, unless she came onto him, which was very unlikely. Jack sighed and tried to concentrate on building his robots again.
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Kimiko sighed as she sliced chicken for dinner. Raimundo, noticing her frustration, tapped her lightly on the shoulder. "What's up Kim?"
Kimiko snapped out of her trance. "Hmm? Oh, it's nothing."
Raimundo nodded. "Ok, as long as you're sure."
Kimiko finished cutting up the chicken and washed her hands. "I'm gonna go wash up"
Raimundo nodded again. "See you at dinner then."
Kimiko hung her apron on the back of the kitchen door and walked to her bedroom. She sighed as she sat down on her bed and took off her shoes. A moment passed before she got up again and walked to the mirror on the back of her bedroom door while taking her top off. She looked at her reflection in the mirror. She could point out a few things that she liked, for example she liked that her stomach was toned and pretty flat but she could also see many flaws.
Kimiko was no stranger to guys coming on to her or looking at her, especially in recent years and if it was any other guy she would be completely sure and say that he was coming onto her. But it was Jack. It seemed like he was coming onto her, I mean it was certainly flirting, but was it serious or joking or what? If it was any other guy she would think for sure that he was coming onto her but because it was Jack she didn't know what to think. It's Jack for christ's sake. He could be doing this just to mess her around, or to use her, or he could be doing this for some sort of evil plan, or he could be doing this just as a joke for his own amusement. On the other hand, he could actually be seriously hitting on her, which was...weird. Why would he? Kimiko inspected her own reflection again. She was nothing special. But if he was being serious, what was she supposed to do about it? She really didn't know. She didn't think she liked him back, but then why was she so bothered about it? Why couldn't she just forget about it and move on?
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It had been a few weeks since a Shen Gong Wu had revealed itself, meaning that it had been a few weeks since the Dragons had seen Jack. Kimiko had almost forgotten about what happened with Jack. Kimiko was woken up by Omi shaking her rather frantically. Being half asleep Kimiko only really caught half of what he was saying but from what she gathered a Shen Gong Wu had revealed itself but Raimundo was still asleep and Clay was in the shower so while she should be quick getting ready she didn't really need to rush. Kimiko applied her makeup quickly with skill, deciding to go with bold cat eyeliner which brought a lot of attention to her eyes and a pale pink lip gloss. She teased her hair a little, giving her hair a slightly messy look. She put on tight black leggings and and a simple cropped top. Actually on second thought. She took the cropped top off and put a mostly red cropped military style jacket on instead.
Kimiko grinned at her reflection. Honestly she mostly went for cuter styles and while she thought they suited her, she felt more confident in sexier styles. She would honestly wear that sort of thing all the time but sometimes she just didn't have the confidence to pull them off and she didn't want to give off the wrong impression. Honestly while it was flattering when guys hit on her, it always scared her a bit. Especially when she wore something a little bit more revealing. It was nice to appreciated, but men looking at her as if she was a piece of meat was a little terrifying.
Kimiko suddenly remembered how Jack had pinned her to the wall and did exactly that, stare at her almost hungrily. Her cheeks turned red. It didn't scare her when he did it, but her heart rate felt like it sped up dramatically. Weird. Kimiko shrugged it off. 'Probably just because I know I can kick his ass.'
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Dojo landed safely in a rural area of South Korea, despite his shaking. "Ok guys it's close, real close."
Raimundo spoke as he got off Dojo's back. "Can you give us a direction to go in?"
"I think its about that way." Dojo said while pointing east. The four Xiaolin Warriors started walking in that direction, carefully searching for the recently revealed Shen Gong Wu. Omi started to climb up a tree to try and get a better view of the area until he realised there was already somebody in the tree. Without warning the mysterious person jumped to another tree, trying to not get detected.
"Reveal yourself, mysterious stranger!"
Raimundo scoffed. "Chill Omi, it's probably just Jack."
"Well that would be impressive, because that would mean I was in two places at once without the Ring of the Nine Dragons."
Omi and Raimundo quickly spun around to see Jack calmly standing there with his arms crossed.
Raimundo raised an eyebrow. "Well actually, haven't you done that before? You created that robot of yourself."
"At what point did I say that wasn't impressive?"
Kimiko rolled her eyes before walking over to the boys. "While this is all very pleasant, Jack is quite obviously here, so who the hell is that in the tree?"
All four of them turned to face the tree, the Xiaolin Dragons ready to fight, Jack watching out of curiosity. The person in the tree tried to retreat into the tree and use the branches to hie themselves. Kimiko, getting impatient, took the first move and rushed forward, having enough momentum to run up the tree into the branches. However the other person was just as quick and flipped out of the tree and down onto the ground.
Raimundo, Omi and Clay surrounded the person, unsure of whether they were on the Heylin side or not. Kimiko slid back down the tree and studied the mysterious person. Jack, noticing that no one was paying attention to him any more continued to search for the Shen Gong Wu. Suddenly the person attacked Omi, taking him by surprise. They escaped the circle and ran away from the Warriors. Being a quick runner, the Warriors lost sight of the person.
Raimundo shrugged. "Doesn't look like they're much of a threat."
Kimiko turned to him and replied. "Just because they ran doesn't mean they couldn't be dangerous. They attacked Omi."
"Yeah but that was to get away from us. I doubt we'll see them again."
Clay interrupted. "Er, don't we have a Shen Gong Wu to find?"
The four of them quickly began their search for the Shen Gong Wu again. The split up and went off in different directions, as the area was quite big and spacious.
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Kimiko grinned as she saw the Shen Gong Wu. About time too, she along with the Dragons, had been searching for at least half on hour. She went to grab them but her wrist was grabbed. Honestly expecting Jack, she snatched her wrist back and put her hands on her hips. "How long are you going to think that you can actually beat me?" She looked up to find that the person who had grabbed her wrist wasn't Jack, it was the person from before. "Ugh I thought you had run away."
The person took of their mask, revealing a quite beautiful feminine face. "As if. I've been watching you lot for a while and I've decided that I'd like some of these magical objects. Some of them could certainly come in handy."
Kimiko shifted into a defensive position. "For what?"
"For whatever I want. Don't worry, I wouldn't call myself my evil."
Kimiko looked relieved.
The woman flipped her hair and smirked. "Oh honey, don't get the wrong idea. Just because I wouldn't call myself evil doesn't mean I'd call myself good either. Now if you don't mind, I'll taking these now."
Kimiko hit her arm away from the Shen Gong Wu. "I don't think so."
The woman glared at her before attempting to kick Kimiko out of the way. Kimiko couldn't help but laugh as she easily dodged. "Is that the best you got?"
The woman shrugged nonchalantly. "You asked for it." She lifted her arms her arms and pulled two Sai weapons from sheaths strapped to her back. Kimiko's eyes widened slightly. 'And Rai didn't think she was dangerous.'
Kimiko glared at the woman before moving forward and attacking. The woman defended herself and fought back. Kimiko concentrated hard, not wanting to get hit with the noticeably sharp weapons. Getting hit with a kick or a punch was something, but getting stabbed with a weapon like that was something else entirely that she didn't really feel like experiencing. Kimiko learned quickly that this woman was ruthless and did not care if she seriously injured Kimiko while trying to get what she wanted. Kimiko watched her movements carefully and stepped up her game. She managed to send a pretty brutal kick to the unidentified woman's head, sending her flying to the floor.
Kimiko assumed that the woman was knocked out and took a second to dust herself off before grabbing the Shen Gong Wu. She turned around in time to see the woman lunging at her with one of the Sais. She tried to get out of the way but she was too late. The woman plunged the weapon deep into Kimiko's stomach causing her to scream. The woman kicked Kimiko off of her weapon rather than pulling it out and grabbed the now dropped Shen Gong Wu. Omi, being quite close to where Kimiko was heard her scream. He ran quickly to her, gasping when he saw her. He ran to her side and knelt beside her. He sat there in shock. He didn't know what to do.
Ok, so I wanted to put more action and more drama into the story, I wasn't really feeling it and I felt like it needed to be more exciting, hopefully I've achieved that! I do actually have a plot now and I'm getting more familiar with the series again so hopefully this will improve. I'll admit I didn't really like the start of this story but I'm kinda getting into it now so yeah, we'll see how this goes! :)