Hey guys. I'm-

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Ahhh! Stop Stop!

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Let me explain, then you can pelt me! Okay. As I was saying, I'm really sorry I haven't updated in like a month and I very much so understand if your mad at me and don't wanna review! ;) I honestly don't have any excuse for not updatin except for that fact that I'm just too lazy! And lately I've been hooked on my DS but I'm getting very bored of that so I decided to get on here! Okay, now you pelt me.

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Oh wait! One more thing!

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Sorry. I do not own Xiaolin Showdown. Done.

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Chapter Six

A Huge Mess

Jack's POV

Okay. I'm seriously confused! I have no clue what Kimiko and Chase were talking about, partly because I was half unconscious and couldn't really hear anything, why she would willingly go with him...and why she would kiss me.

I blushed thinking about her soft, light pink lips gently brushing against my cheek. It sent shivers down my spine, but the good kind of shiver.

"Okay. Now to explain it all to Raimundo, Omi, and Clay. That shouldn't be too hard, right?" I though about it for a second. "Oh gosh! Lord, help me!"

Okay, okay. Calm down. You'll be fine. It'll all be okay. Gosh I just wish Kimiko was here to defend me. She's the only one who can talk some sense into them! They don't even like me. Gee I wonder why? Okay, enough sarcasm, Jack. I need to call them.

I reached over to Kimiko's hot pink cell phone and opened it up. The background picture was of the whole Xiaolin team, including Dojo, and Master Fung. My eyes wondered over to Kimiko, who was on Raimundo's back, trying to get her PDA back but him holding it up too high for her to reach. I suddenly became, jealous? Of Raimundo? No, no. Of course not. I knew those two would end up together, no matter how much I want to be with her...but then again, she did kiss me. Is that her way of telling me she likes me? Ugh! Girls are way too confusing! Always messin with everyone's emotions! Now what was I doing...oh yeah! Calling Rai.

I clicked 'Shortcuts' and scrolled down to 'Speed Dial' I clicked it and immediately a list of five names were on there.

Papa

Keiko

Raimundo

Toshiro

Sara

I knew three names and I just guessed Keiko and Sara were her friends I don't know about.

I was about to click Raimundo, but something stopped me. I looked at two particular names. 'Papa' and 'Toshiro'. Okay, hang on. Somethings wrong with those two names. I though Toshiro, was her father. Something was up. Curiosity got the best of me and, even though I probably shouldn't, I called 'Toshiro'. I know it's a really bad idea, but it was just bugging me way too much! I want to know so bad what's going on with Kimi!

Ring! Ring! Ring!

Mushi Mushi, Toshiro Tohomiko speaking. How may I be of service?

Um...yeah, hi. My name's Jack Spicer. I believe we've met before. I, uh...kinda tried to take over your company with my partner, Pandabubba.

Aw, yes. Mister Spicer. How are you today?

Um...fine. Yeah. Anyway, I have a question.

Shoot.

Well...it's a long story, but I'm using Kimiko's phone right now and before I called you, I was looking at Kimiko's speed dial, and I saw at the top, it said Papa. But at number four, it said Toshiro, can you explain that?

Well..uh..probably just a mistake, heh heh.

Mr. Tohomiko, please. I'm a very close friend with Kimiko and she's in a lot of danger right now. I'm not sure if this has to do with anything, but please just tell me the truth! I'm kinda in a hurry.

-Sigh- Okay. Kimiko told me to pose as her father for her friends. I, of course, could not refuse. She was using that sad voice and she's my only niece for goodness sake! And I would have done the same thing if my friends were good, my father was possibly one of the evilest beings on earth, and you had been lying to your evil father for three years saying you were evil but really good!

...Care to explain?

-Sigh- Okay. Kimiko's real father is-

Is? Hello? Hello?

Beeeeeeeeep

I looked at the phone. 'Battery Running Low' Crap. I better call Raimundo. Man I really wish I could have heard who Kimiko's real father was. Chase and Kimiko's discussion probably explained it all, but like I said before, I was still half unconscious and pretty much out of it. Okay, shortcuts, speed dial, Raimundo.

Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!

Yo, Raimundo.

Hey, it's Jack.

JACK! Where are you!? What did you do to Kimiko!? When I get a hold of, I'm gonna kill you!

I know, I know. I had a really good reason to kidnap her-

WHAT!? You had NO reason to kidnap her! You-

Look!? Do you want to know where she is and why I called? Because if you don't, the only person who could possibly save her is just laying out in the middle of a forest. So if you want to know where she is and the whole story, come pick me up and take me to the Temple.

...Fine. Where are you?

Okay, the last time I looked at the GPA, we were flying over-

Beeeeeeeeeep

NO! I looked at the phone, the screen, completely black. NO! Come on you stupid phone!

I began smacking it against a random rocks. Come on! Okay, I know. Not the way to get a dead phone working, but I was really frustrated. I kept smacking it, until I heard a crack. Oh Crap. I think I got a little too mad.

I looked down at what was left of the phone in my hand. A couple pieces of black wire, a few pieces of pink plastic from the outer covering of the phone. The rest of the phone were just pieces all sprawled out on the ground.

Crap. Not only is Kim in a horrible situation, one I'm not so sure about, but now I just broke her phone!? When all of this is over, she's gonna kill me. Okay, now, last time I checked the GPA we were flying over, I think, Mongolia, just above China. So, we probably crashed somewhere in Mongolia. I need to find out which town I'm in.

Rai's POV

Jack? Jack? Hello?

Beeeeeeeeeep

Ugh! I angrily slammed shut my cell phone.

"So, what is tha' no good dirty rotten snake up to, partner?"

"Something happened to Kim, but he said he wouldn't tell me where she was until I came to pick him up. He was getting ready to tell me where he was, but I guess he hung up!" I yelled, thrusting my arms into the air.

"Do not worry, Raimundo. I am sure that wherever Kimiko may be, that she is fine. But I do wish we could find her, for she may not be fine for long. After all, she is a female." Omi said, trying to help calm me down but failing miserably by adding in one of his sexist comments.

"Omi, you're lucky Kim isn't here or else she'd be kicking your butt right now." I said, crossing my arms.

"I most certainly think she could not, as you say, kick my butt, for she lacks upper-"

"OMI! Enough with the sexist stuff! Sheesh!" I said, smacking him on the back of his head. "Let's just stay here, and see if Jack will maybe show up." Everyone nodded in agreement and went off to do the things they normally do.

Kim's POV

"Kimiko, it is time." A mysteriously dark voice said.

I opened my eyes and sat up. Immediately everything around me was lit on fire. There was only a small circle in the middle of it all, and I was in it.

"Wh- Where are you!?" I screamed above the crackling fire, trying to peer into the fire to see where he was.

"Awaken, so that you may come home. There is only one hour left." The voice sounded as though it was breathing down my neck.

"N-No! I'm not coming father!" I swung my fist behind me to punch him in the face, but no one was there.

"What do you mean, daughter?"

"I mean, that I've been lying to you for the past three years! I'm-I'm...I'm NOT evil!" I had stood up, but crumpled to my knees and and wrapped my arms around my stomach. I was crying by that point.

"I knew it, but you will come to me, if you like it or not." He had appeared out of no where in front of me.

"I've been training at the Xiaolin Temple for the last three years, and I'm glad! I hate you, dad! I hate you!" I screamed, not even looking up.

He bent down and lifted my chin. "How, how could you hate me? After all I've done for you-"

"All you've done for me!? All you've done for ME!? You've done nothing but horrible things to me! You always worked me to where I was almost dead almost everyday from five years old, to twelve years old! Then you shipped me off to some evil school from which I managed to escape! They didn't want to contact you for they feared you would surely kill them, so the evil facility and myself have been lying to you for three years! I think I can hate you! Uncle Toshiro has been a way better father to me then you have!" I had wrenched my chin from his hands and slammed my fists against the ground.

"My guards will be coming for you...I love you Kimiko."

I was sobbing. "NO you don't!" I hissed. "You're only saying that. You're only using me to take over the world!"

"No Kimiko, I love you. No matter what you say I always will. You're the only thing I have left of your mother...I must go. You will be captured and taken here. Do not try to rebel. They are much too strong for you. You only need to be her by four o'clock. The battle can begin anytime that day. Goodbye, Kimiko."

He started to fade away, as he did, an eerie mist surrounded the scene, making the fire slowly disintegrate. I was left sitting in the middle of a black room...

I shot straight up from an unfamiliar bed. I put my hand on my head, it felt as though I had just been hit by a truck. I dizzily looked around at my surroundings. I was sitting on a king sized bed, that was up very high, probably twice my size. It was loaded with some black sheets and a comforter on top. I looked to my side. Nothing. Other side. Nothing. I looked straight ahead. One black chair sitting in the middle of the floor. What an...interesting room. Very blank. Suddenly light began to shine in my eyes and flood the room with the sun's intense rays. I looked up to see a rather large, stained glass window on the left side of the room and all the way up to the ceiling.

I admired the window for a while. A rose was plastered on it, with a humming bird sucking the nectar from it. How lovely, for a blank and depressing room! But then, my thoughts were carried from flowers, to this room, to my dream. I shuddered. I don't care what he said, I hate him. I'll hate him forever! He made my life miserable. I know he's lying! He's just saying he'll love me so that maybe I'll actually turn evil. You may think that after seven years of evil, compared to three years of good, would make me become evil. But I hated it. Every second of it. I was the nicest one in the palace and my father hated it. He knew it would be hard to deprive me of the goodness that swelled inside of me. I got that from my mother. She thought she could soften him up, but that really didn't work out all too well. He's pure evil. I don't even think he's ever spared one life! Maybe mine when I was very rebellious when I was little, but I'm most definitely and likely to be the only person he's ever spared!

I was ripped away from my depressing thoughts by the door bursting open. Of course, it was Chase. His face looked a little panicked, though he tried to have the same, emotionless, blank look on his face, you could tell something was wrong.

"Kimiko, your father somehow knows you are here, his guards are fighting through my jungle cats and making their way here. We must flee." He started running towards my bed and reached out to grab my arm, but I jumped off the other side of the bed and landed hard on my feet, seeing as though it was probably about a five foot drop!

"No." I stated darkly.

"Yes Kimiko, we must go now! Now is not the time for your stubborn and childish behavior. Either you come willingly with me, or I force you."

This reminded me of Jack. When he had captured me to keep me safe from Chase. It made me smile to think back about him. But I quickly wiped the smile off my face. I suddenly felt intimidated as Chase towered over me, his last few words finally reaching my ears.

"N-No. We can't run. They'll find us. We have to fight!" I stomped my foot and crossed my arms, determined to win our battle.

"I cannot risk them getting to you and taking you to him! You will come with me, now!" He demanded, getting a hold of one of my arms and forcefully prying them from their crossed position.

I gasped in shock. One, for how it was just so sudden, and two because his grip was deathly tight. I crumpled to my knees like I did in my dream, only I was dangling in the air, from Chase still had that death grip tight on my arm.

"Chase! Let go!" I hissed through my clenched teeth.

"No." He stated just as darkly as I had before.

"Then I'll make you." I used my other arm that wasn't about to snap in two and swung it into his gut. He gasped and fell backwards, letting go of my arm. Wow. That was easier then I expected. I guess I knocked the wind out of him. I began running towards the door, when a gloved hand grasped my ankle.

I gasped again. I turned around to see Chase still on the floor, but had an even deadlier grip on my ankle. "Ow!" I fell to the ground and tried to pry his fingers off of my ankle. I failed miserably. He then took his other arm and grabbed my right upper arm, removed his grip on my ankle, and grabbed my left upper arm. He lifted me up, and said a few magical spell words, I assumed, and next thing I knew, my hair was whipping around me and it looked as though we were being consumed by a giant, dark purple hole. This all happened so fast, that I didn't have time to react. But once reality hit me, I was steaming mad. But it seemed that in this teleporting hole, I couldn't move, I could only be pushed up against Chase, with his hands still clinging to my arms, and my hair swirling wildly in the fast air moving around us.

Wow. Okay. There ya have it! ;) And like I said, if your mad at me, you don't have to review. If your mad but you want to yell at me, go ahead and send it in the review!

I'm not sure if I've decided what the pairings gonna be. I mean, I think I kinda do, bu we'll just see how the story unfolds, cause I really don't have a whole plan figured out. So suggestions for the story, comments about my story, and flamers, practically everything and anything is welcome! Thanks for reading!

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