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Chapter Thirteen
Her Decision
Recap
I slowly crumpled to my knees and stared at the ground. My eyes turned back to the gentle, crystal-like sapphire eyes everyone had come to love. But at this point...I didn't care about Jack, or Raimundo. Didn't care about becoming the Fire Lord. Didn't care about the monster inside of me. Didn't care who watched me fall apart. I didn't care about anything. I gently laid down in the soft grass, and curled up into a ball. I let my tears soak into the dirt beneath my face, turning it to mud. I let everything go. A sob escaped my lips as my body trembled. And I fell apart in front of my friends, my enemy, and the monster.
Rai's POV
Oh my gosh. I-....I have no words to explain how I feel right now. Hurt. Anger. Sadness. Confusion. Concern. But my biggest concern right now was to comfort Kimiko.
The guards were so concerned about their precious Fire Lord that they didn't notice Omi freezing the cage bars so we could escape.
As soon as the bars to my cage were frozen, I karate chopped them and flung myself out of the cage. I sprinted closer and closer to Kimiko, and when I drew nearer I slowed down to a hurried walk. Then finally I got near enough to bend down and gently pick her up in my arms.
"Kimiko...." I looked down at her small, battered body, and looked into her eyes to see her crushed soul. She stared blankly up at the sky, not even being fazed by me picking her up. I gently shook her. "Kimiko, please, snap out of it."
She started murmuring something.
"Le....e...o...."
"Kimi?" I shook her a little more, because the spark in her eyes started dimming. "Kimko!"
"Let...me....go..." She whispered in a cold...hurt...and shattered voice.
"No Kimi, I'll never let you g-"
"Let her go." A voice said from behind me.
Jack's POV
Once we had all escaped from our cages, I started running towards Kimiko as well. But I glanced over at Chase Young, who had been standing on the sidelines this whole time, just watching everything unfold. Something in his eyes made me stop dead in my tracks. He shook his head and slowly adverted his gaze back to the sprinting Raimundo. God how I hated him.
Raimundo scooped her up in his arms and cradled her. That should be me cradling her....Stupid Raimundo.
I tried to listen to what was being said, but their words were lost in the gentle breeze. I looked up at the sky and saw that it had turned dark.
Unnaturally dark.
The clouds were black swirling holes with tints of red in them. They looked the clouds that had appeared when Chase had taken over the world. That can't mean good things.
I looked back down to hear Chase's commanding voice.
"Let her go."
I saw Raimundo turn around.
"Why should I? You wanted this to happen. You just stood by and let this happen."
"You don't know what you're getting into. Hand her over to me, and I'll be able to help." Chase extended his arms out to Kimiko.
Raimundo hissed and wrenched Kimiko away from his arms. "Never."
"Raimundo..." I jumped as I hear Omi's voice beside me. "Listen to him...we know nothing of this Queen that is possessing friend Kimiko."
"Omi's right." Clay said as he placed a hand on Omi's shoulder and nodded approvingly. "Chase has had years of experience with stuff like this, he could help."
"We just got Kim out of the evil clutches of her dad! Now you want me to hand her over to an even greater evil!?" Raimundo clutched Kimiko closer.
I had no idea who to side with. I just wanted Kim to be safe and in my arms again....
I saw Kim squirm a little in Raimundo's arms. It was the first sign of life in her I'd seen since she crumpled down to the ground, and I was relieved beyond belief she was still alive.
"Rai...." I could hear her soft whisper. She slowly lifted her delicate hand to his cheek and caressed it. "He can help..."
Rai's whole body relaxed, and his eyes softened. "Kimi please....it could be a trap..."
"No Rai. Please."
He reluctantly placed Kimiko's tattered body into Chase's arms.
"You better not do anything to hurt her you son of a bitch." Rai spat as he moved his loving and caring eyes to glare into Chase Young's.
"Oh don't worry about Kimiko." He shifted Kimiko in his arms to where he was cradling her in just one of his arms and gently stroked her hair. "I'll take excellent care of her."
I snapped.
A low growl escaped from deep inside me as I sprinted across the battle field to where Chase and Raimundo were standing.
"If you so much as even touch one time inapro-" Chase's hand that had been stroking Kimiko's hair reached out and grabbed me by my neck.
"Don't worry, worm. Once the Queen is removed from her body and concealed once again, she's all yours." He released me as I coughed and fell to the ground, rubbing my very sore neck. "Now, if you all will excuse me, I have some work to do."
"Not so fast."
Rai's POV
"Aint no way you're just gonna walk off with her like that. I still don't trust you and we're all going with you." How the hell did he expect to just walk off with her like that after we risked our lives to try and get her back again?
"I cannot transport you all." He calmly explained. "There is no other way of transportation for the rest of you."
"We'll take the Crouching Cougar!" Omi piped up out of no where as he pulled the Sheng Gong Wu out of the sleeve of his robe.
"Where the hell did you get that!? I'm supposed to have that wu!" Jack yelled over at Omi.
Omi smiled sheepishly. "What you do not know certainly will not scratch you."
"Hurt you." I corrected.
"That too."
Chase cleared his throat from be hind us all. "As much as I hate to interrupt this pointless conversation, We do actually have a time limit before the Queen completely possesses Kimiko's body and takes over the world."
My face turned red with rage. "Why the hell didn't you tell us that bef-"
"Crouching Cougar!"
The small golden object in Omi's hand started glowing as soon as he said those words. It grew to a tremendous size and landed next to him. "Let us embark on our new journey!" He exclaimed, jumping into the driver seat.
Jack pouted, but hopped into the backseat next to Clay. I climbed in and sat next to Jack, keeping a cautious eye on Chase and Kimiko as he climbed into the passenger seat. She still lay motionless in his arms. God, she looks like an angel.
Then Omi started it up, which scared the hell outta me because I had been staring at Kimi, and we were off.
"So...how exactly are you planning on getting that thing out of Kimiko?" I asked. I'm still not sure if Chase is on our side or not. It's hard to trust him, he's very deceiving.
"There is something in my studies about this...but it does actually require the Queens power to reveal it. I know you all were not with Kimiko and I when we were in my studies, but she used the black flame to reveal her Fire Lord prophecy. She thought she had taught herself how to use that flame, but it was the Queens power the whole time. Once I find the book, we will have to wake Kimiko so she can perform this again." He stated flatly, and unemotionally, as usual. I rolled my eyes at his 'playing it cool'ness. It was getting so old.
"So...how do you THINK you're going to get it out of her?" Jack asked with concern, not wanting her to get hurt.
"Probably some potion or something, nothing too big. But this isn't just some ordinary Queen....she's the Fire Queen. The evilest being to ever walk this earth. So it probably will take some sort of ritual."
We all stared at Chase, mouths agape.
"WHAT!? WHY the HELL didn't you tell us it was THIS serious!? You act like this is no big deal but the most evilest thing to ever walk the earth is INSIDE of KIMIKO! And could take over her and the UNIVERSE! How can you just explain it that calmly!?" My temper was off the charts. I couldn't believe what was inside Kimiko!
"Because I know I can handle it. Now all of you shut up. I think Kimiko is awaking."
Jack and I were about to protest, when we saw Kimiko move slightly. She fluttered her eyes open and looked up.
Kim's POV
Inside my head the entire time I was out, the monster inside of me was whispering all sorts of things at one time. It was giving me a major headache. So I told it to shut up, and it only got louder! What the hell!? I can't even understand it, why does it keep talking? It was seriously making me mad. But behind all of that anger I was feeling, I was freaking out. I was scared to death, this thing I knew was going to posses me if something didn't happen soon. I was already battling it, it was already trying to take over. Right now it was weak, but I think the more I struggle, the larger it grows. The only thing I could make out over the whispers, were "Give up child." and "I'm too powerful, I will take over soon." Yeah that's totally comforting right now.
Then out of nowhere, the whispers started getting louder, and louder. Until they were screaming inside my head! Finally, I think it took me out of unconsciousness it was screaming so loud. I opened up my eyes, but the screams were getting louder and louder still, and I was in someones arms, some unfamiliar pair of arms. I couldn't see clearly, and this was all too much.
"Eeeeek!!" I screamed as loud as I could. And surprisingly, it helped. The second I screamed, the screams inside my head silenced, until there was one fading whisper.
"Just wait child....I'll be back, stronger than ever."
Right now I was not in the mood to think about it. Instead I shot straight up so I was sitting in someone's lap. I looked up into a very shocked and confused face. What I saw freaked me out, so, I screamed again.
"Aaaaii-!" Chase's large hand clasped over my mouth.
"Would you quit it!?" Chase fumed. I glared up at him as he uncovered my mouth.
"You'd be screaming too if you woke up to such a scary face...." I mumbled while childishly crossing my arms.
He glared down at me and was about to retort, when...
"KIMIKO!!"
I looked over Chase's shoulder with a surprised expression. Jack and Raimundo. Of course.
"What's wrong!?"
"What happened!?"
"Are you okay!?"
"You killed your dad!"
"SHUT UP!" I screamed. They both blinked and looked at me, dumbfounded.
"Okay, in order, Inside my head the monster thing was whispering scary things to me until they turned into screams and they woke me up and I screamed. I have no clue what happened back there, and I don't care anymore. Yes, I'm fine. And yeah, I killed him, and I don't care." I smirked at their shocked faces.
They both just blinked again, and sank back in their chairs, while they said in unison. "Oh...."
I remembered where exactly I was sitting right now, and scooted over into the seat between Chase and Omi.
"Okay, so Chase, how the hell are you gonna get this thing out of me?"
He sighed angrily. "I just explained it to your friends, ask them."
I looked back at Jack and Raimundo with pleading and scared eyes. "Please tell m- Aaaaii!" I was cut off by something jerking inside of me. It felt like someone had tied a chain around my soul and tied the other end to a truck and floored it. I spazed out and fell to the floor. I held my hands to my chest and kept screaming.
Everyone jolted up and tried to get to me.
"Kimiko what wrong!?"
"Kimiko are you okay!?"
"Can you hear me!?"
"Kimi!?"
"The QUEEN!" I screamed out. "She's trying to take....over..." My energy was getting low, the Queen was winning the battle. I was using every bit of will power I had left, until everything, went black.
The last thought in my head.....
Jack....I love you.
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