Author's note: ok so as I said in my summary this is my first fanfic so if it's awful please don't hurt me! This starts just before Rai steals the Serpent's Tail. There is going to be a little bit of 'In the Flesh' in the beginning (just saying). Plus, I'm not so great at writing 1st person POV but I'm going to try so if it doesn't work or it sounds really stupid I'm sorry!

P.S. just because I took some parts of it from the show don't think you know what's going to happen at some particular parts…

Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin showdown and +sniff+ I probably never will.

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----------Xiaolin Temple Kimiko's POV-----------

'Omi has been jumping and sighing for five minutes straight each time landing in different kung fu poses. Jump, sigh. Jump, sigh. Ugg. This is starting to get very annoying. Uuuugggggggggggggggggg.'

"Let me guess Omi," I began. "There's some imperceptible fault in your form that only you could possibility notice."

He stopped hopping to give me his answer. "Oh no Kimiko" he said happily. "My form is without flaw! Naturally!"

'His ego is so huge. I'll make him feel good…or at least better.' "Naturally." I replied. 'Here it comes…'

"But still I am dumped in the downs." He said the joy in his voice disappearing. "Even training cannot lift my gloomy spirits."

I sighed. "I know how you feel."

"Yeah," Clay put in. "Sittin' on my spurs wouldn't hurt as much as this."

"I can't believe Rai has gone bad just because he didn't get promoted to Xiaolin apprentice." I said, beginning to get angry.

Silence.

"Maybe that is because Raimundo hasn't gone bad!" Omi spoke up, the joy returning to his voice. "Maybe Raimundo is enacting a secret and elaborate plan designed to….uh…lore evil into a false sense of confidence?" He paused as if making sure it even could be a possibility. "Yes! That is clearly what Raimundo is doing!" A huge, satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"…Omi. That makes no sense….at all." I said making his smile droop a little.

"Not even a little bit." Clay added backing me up, making Omi's smile all but disappear.

We sat together in silence before the one other living creature on the Xiaolin side that knew about Rai going to the Heylin side came slithering up to us. "Guys! Heads up! We've got a hot Shen-Gong-Wu that just activated!"

I quickly changed my outfit to a yellow jacket with green heart buttons and a pink miniskirt with green heart earrings that matched to buttons on my jacket and dyed my hair purple but the dye was pretty cheep so it only half worked. I had no time to be able to put my hair up so I left it down.

"Come on!" I screamed, "We need to hurry! Jack will get to it soon. Not to mention we all know who else will be after it." I added bitterly.

"Oh yes Kimiko! For there we shall see our friend Raimundo. And perhaps he might be able to tell us of how his secret elaborate plan is working!" Omi replied his voice as joyful as I've ever heard anyone talk.

None of us had the heart to crush his over-optimistic attitude so we responded with silence. No one spoke until we were about half way to the new Wu.

"Hey, Dojo, partner." Clay began, "I think that in all the excitement you forgot to actually tell us which Wu we're lookin, for."

"Oh. Sorry." The shape shifting dragon replied taking out the ancient scroll of the Shen-Gong-Wu and passing it back to us. "It's called the Shard of Lightning and it allows the user to move at the speed of light, but only for as long as the lightning flashes."

"Yeah, umm….Dojo?" I started with the slightest hint of sarcasm. "I think you've been hanging out with Master Fung a little to long. You're starting to talk like him."

----where the people in Xiaolin Showdown find the Shard of Lightning, normal POV------

The Xiaolin warriors landed by a tall rocky cliff, only to find a familiar ghostly witch, along with a hooded teenager. They seemed to be completely oblivious to the newly arrived.

"Uh-huh." The teenager, whom the Xiaolin warriors guessed to be their former friend, said his voice submerged in sarcasm, "And you are completely positive that it's here?

"Yes! Of course I'm positive!" Wuya's raspy voice exclaimed. "If I weren't completely positive I wouldn't think it was here!"

"Alright, alright. Just jerking your chain." Raimundo said clearly quite annoyed.

"That's funny" Clay began finally making Raimundo and Wuya notice them, "A jerk jerking a chain."

"A jerk jerking a chain!" Omi laughed. "Most amusing Clay!

Raimundo looked at Omi as if asking him 'what are you stupid?' Out loud he said "You know what I don't miss? Omi constantly missing the-"

What Raimundo would have said is unknown because he never finished his sentence. At that moment Kimiko, completely fed up with him, screamed "Judallet flip Fire!" flipping in the air rings of fire following her.

Raimundo, completely distracted by Omi, was caught of guard and would have been burned if he hadn't been able to dodge at the last second.

"Girl you have got to go get some 'anger management' classes," Raimundo said then smirked. "Not to mention some aiming lessons."

Wuya, unhappy to see the Xiaolin warriors, didn't want to stick around and waste time. "You stay here and I'll start looking for the Shen-Gong-Wu."

"Fine by me" he said still smirking as Wuya began flying up to the top of the cliff.

Kimiko, extremely pissed of about now, took out her favorite Shen-Gong-Wu, the Star Hanabi. "Star Hanabi Fire!" she screeched sending a large ball of fire hurtling toward him. Raimundo yawned then took out one of the three Wu he possessed.

"Golden Tiger Claws!" he shouted slicing a portal leading to a light purple and black vortex.

----Kimiko's POV----

'Ug. That Wu is totally awesome when I'm using it but if Rai has it that can only mean bad news.'

"Kimiko, Clay…where is our friend Raimundo?" Omi asked.

'Poor Omi. He still thinks Rai is on our side. Someone's going to have to tell him sooner or later…..'

"Omi," I said in my most comforting voice "I don't think Rai is pretending to be with Wuya. I paused. "I think Raimundo really has betrayed-"

'I guess I don't have to tell him after all because at that moment a portal created by the Golden Tiger Claws appeared behind him, with a certain traitor in it. Raimundo then did the most annoying, mean and immature thing ever. Like the first day I stayed at the Xiaolin temple Raimundo pantsed Omi….again. Then he shoved Omi so hard that the monk-in-training fell into the water under the pier the five, now four, of us were standing.'

"Now that was as treacherous as rabbit right in front of a buffalo stampede" 'Three guesses who that was.' Raimundo and I looked at Clay with large question marks above our heads. "Umm…..like how a buffalo herd might stampede all over a defenseless little rabbit." Clay said trying to clear up his, 'as usual', strange and confusing metaphor.

Rai was the first to respond, "Sure Clay. Whatever."

'I'm guessing Clay doesn't much like people dissing his metaphors or maybe it was just the fact that Raimundo betrayed us, but Clay seemed pretty ticked. He used his new Xiaolin apprentice earth move'. "Seismic kick earth!" 'I'm also guessing Clay probably isn't the smartest person I've ever known…seeing as we're on a pier...Something Raimundo was sure to point out for him...'

"Yo, Clay……ummm….I'm just wondering……you do know your element is earth right? And you also know that we're currently on wood, correct? Well what I'm asking is why did you just create a big hole right where you're standing?

I began to rub my forehead slightly and shake my head a little. Raimundo was right and since Clay is quite +ahem+ large…..

The pier under Clay started to creek softly. It swiveled a little before it began to sway, and then tilt, about twenty seconds after Raimundo's comment the pier had pushed Clay into the water. Dojo, who had been standing behind the cowboy for protection, also disappeared into the water. "Great job Clay" I mumbled sarcastically.

"Guess it's up to me." I said rolling my eyes, "Judallet flip fire!" I screamed creating large rings of fire hurtling at Raimundo. Using a cheat-cheat called The Golden Tiger Claws he simply tore a hole in the space time continuum and disappeared into it. 'Raimundo is actually pretty predictable,' I thought smirking.

Just as I thought Raimundo used the Tiger Claws to make a portal behind me. 'Oh yeah, like I totally didn't see that coming.' My back still to him he leaped into the air as if to make a jump-kick at me, with not that much success though.

Right before he would have hit me I turned around pulling a Shen-Gong-Wu out of no where (An: seriously! they do!) which just happened to be the Tangle Web Comb. Completely focused, I shot the viney thingies out at him, catching him so off guard he had no time to block or dodge them. The vines completely entangled him making him fall to the ground, which probably didn't hurt, too much anyway.

He struggled against the vines only to make them grow tighter and tighter. After about a minute I started to walk to the cliff to try to find the Wu we came for. I searched for a while before I finally heard him stop struggling. I looked at where he had been only to see that he wasn't there anymore. It seemed as though he had vanished without a trace, and possessing the Golden Tiger Claws he probably had.

I stood with my back to the cliff to prevent any attacks from behind. Everything was completely silent. I listened for anything that might be able to help me know where my former friend was. Just as I thought maybe he left or something I heard the sound of rock moving slightly which didn't help too much seeing as, besides the now broken pier, everything was made of rocks. 'Swell'

I poised myself holding the Tangle Web Comb so if he were in front of me he wouldn't stand a chance, where ever he stood I'd be able to simply shift slightly and, well, tie him up.

It was another few minutes before I heard the same sound again, only this time it was louder as if the one who made it had gotten closer. I looked around my surrounding once again but found no one. 'Am I imagining things?'

So yeah. I'm still standing and waiting…. 'Where the heck is Raimundo?' I sighed letting down my guard for one moment which was all it took for Rai to make his move, only not the way I'd expect him to. It surprised me what he did and how smart it actually was. In the few seconds he had, he jumped down from a ledge on the cliff I was standing against and grabbed the Tangle Web Comb from me so fast I could barely see him do it. Before I could consciously realize what was happening I was on the ground, a victim to the Tangled Web Comb.

Rai smirked seeing he thought he just won, but there seemed to be something wrong with his smirk. A tint of sadness seemed to be almost completely hidden but still visible. 'Rai was sad that he had "won"? I'm confused. I thought Raimundo was an egotistic jerk…right?'

Raimundo stood up and using the Golden Tiger Claws teleported himself to the top of the cliff. 'Ha-ha…he thought it was all over didn't he?' I smiled to myself knowing this battle was far from over. Just like I did with the Tangle Web Comb I pulled two new Shen-Gong-Wu out from no where. They were a certain pair of shoes that looked identical to Jack's and a golden sword, the Jetbootsu and the Sword of the Storm.

------Normal POV------

Using the Jetbootsu Kimiko flew up almost to the top of the cliff but stopped just below the surface as not to be seen by either the witch hag or Raimundo. (AN: so basically she's hidden by the cliff) She waited patently, watching the Heylin team looking for the Shen-Gong-Wu. As she hovered defying gravity the sky, which was a dark bluish black color, shot a large, golden yellow lightning bolt at the cliff shaking it and slicing off miniature boulders of rock and dirt and hurtling them to the ground. As luck would have it the particular Wu they were looking for just 'happened' to be under them.

Raimundo grinned as he reached for it but he wasn't the only one. At that moment another hand touched it (guess who) at the exact same time making the Wu glow gold. Raimundo looked up in surprise to see who it was only to find the Japanese dragon of fire. Glaring at him Kimiko said "Raimundo I challenge you to a Xiaolin showdown. My sword of the storm" she held up the golden sword "for your Golden Tiger Claws."

"You're on." Raimundo said "we'll both stand on high platforms and try to knock each other into the water." He smirked knowing that with his Wu it would be almost impossible for her to win.

"Fine!" Kimiko agreed.

"Let's go! Xiaolin Showdown!" they yelled in unison making the annoying Chinese music play and the scenery to change. Clay and Omi had finally gotten Dojo out of the water and had climbed to the top just as the showdown started. Wuya had also floated over to the Wu. The showdown was about to begin.

Clay, Omi, and Dojo stood on a large stone platform where as Wuya floated above her own dinky a.k.a. much smaller raised area. Raimundo and Kimiko stood poised on their own platforms glaring at each other.

"Gong Yi Tanpai!" the two competitors shouted. Immediately Kimiko started.

"I've been wondering what would happen if I did this for a while!" she screamed and jumped into the air clutching her Shen-Gong-Wu, "Sword of the Storm, Fire!" Kimiko started spinning the sword and for a moment nothing different happened but then the Wu began glowing a dull red. After two seconds the sword had become a bright orange and just as everyone thought that was all that was going to happen it gave a surprise. The Sword of the Storm began shooting out fire as though the flames were wind, simple and breezy, and as much wind as there usually is. In other words, a giant (three feet in diameter) ray of burning fire was shooting out of the sword strait at Raimundo.

Raimundo looked wide-eyed at the fire, not knowing what to do. It took him a few seconds to realize he had the Golden Tiger Claws.

"Golden Tiger Claws!" he shouted, tearing a vortex in the space-time continuum, just before the fire reached the platform he had been standing on milliseconds before. Kimiko landed on one of the high stone platforms and looked for the Heylin teenager. It appeared as though he hadn't 'landed' yet as she couldn't see him.

That moment Rai tore a portal behind her and, wouldn't you know it, pushed making her fall off the platform. When you think of what Rai did to Omi you'd probably think 'déjà vu' right? Right.

------Kimiko POV-------

As I fell I couldn't help but think this was the tiniest bit ironic. 'The last time someone I know fell like this it was Raimundo, and I was the one that screamed his name as he did. Now here I am about to hit the water and it's because of Rai that I will.'

------Normal POV--------

Kimiko closed her eyes and braced for impact but the hit never came. At that second a familiar slashing sound was heard, one that could only be the Tiger Claws, and two hands reached out from it to grab Kimiko's arms. Kimiko opened her eyes to see that the dragon of the wind had made a portal just where she was falling and had caught her just as she would have hit the water. The lower part of Raimundo was still in the portal so he seemed to be only half there in a way, the other half hovering in the fifth dimension or some other dimension. He and Kimiko locked eyes for a second and Kimiko saw in his eyes so many emotions. Sadness, anger, confusion, pleading, and one that she couldn't tell. It seemed as though that one emotion may have been tried by Raimundo to be suppressed or banished from his mind, a dark past or a tragic moment he would have been more then happy to be able to completely forget.

Kimiko stared at Rai not knowing what to do next, but she didn't have to know. Kimiko had been sort of dangling by her arms connected with Raimundo's but that was the only thing keeping her up. Her foot grazed the surface of the water and that was just enough for the scenery to change back to normal, and that stupid Chinese music to play and what not. The showdown ended with Raimundo as the victor. Kimiko had been saved from falling but Raimundo still wanted to win right?

Rai stood on the cliff top holding the Shard of Lightning, the Golden Tiger Claws, and the Sword of the Storm. Dojo and the Xiaolin warriors watched as he tore open a vortex with the Golden Tiger Claws and stepped into it. Just as all but the Dragon of Fire had stopped watching he gave a final look back and their eyes connected. Both faces remained expressionless as they seemed to say good-bye to each other. Kimiko looked away and turned toward the others.

Raimundo watched her and sighed wondering if he had just made a huge mistake in joining the Heylin side. He sighed, stepped into the vortex and disappeared from sight along with his ghost companion who was pleased with his victory and oblivious to his delayed movement.

------Kimiko's POV--------

Dojo supersized and Clay, Omi, and I climbed on. I remained quiet for most of the ride until a certain yellow headed someone who thought I was sad about loosing decided to cheer me up.

"Do not feel sad my friend Kimiko!" Omi began, "I am sure that if you were to have been in a showdown against Jack, someone very dumb or a girl you would have stood a chance!" He beamed. "However…..I am also sure that if I had been facing Raimundo in the showdown I would have easily won!" His head and ego began growing to the size of my papa's building and I thought he would fall off Dojo. Of course, at that moment I would not have cared if he had fallen off.

My head was fuming and I could swear there was smoke coming off the top of it. 'Cool down, cool down. Breathe.' I stopped my self from exploding and sighed. Clay, who had been watching and fearing for Omi's safety, knew something was up when Omi remained conscious after that sexist crack.

"Hey um….partner," Clay began uncertainly, "uhhhhh……….you're not acting sad because you lost are you?"

'Huh. I guess Clay is smarter then I give him credit for. At this particular moment I wouldn't give a +beep+ if I had won the showdown, I'd still be depressed. You'd think Omi would be smarter then that.'

"Yeah, Clay," I said without a trace of sarcasm, "I was just thinking." I paused and sighed. "Just….I think Rai might actually have fought better against us then he ever did against the Heylin side." I looked up and stared and him. "What do you think?"

"I think that dirty rotten snake betrayed us and he only fought good 'cause he knows our weaknesses." He glared, not at anyone in particular but at the memory.

I gasped realizing Clay was right. "He knows Omi is too trusting, Dojo is a scaredy-cat," 'although everyone knows that' "he knows you aren't exactly the smartest guy in town-"

Clay glared at me obviously insulted. "And he knows you're a hot-headed fire girl who can't control your temper and that that plays against you." He finished, taking his revenge for what I said about him.

I almost shot some fire at him but I stopped myself. I sighed again. "And the worst part is that he was our friend, and that still didn't mean he wouldn't betray us."

The optimistic in the group found a way to make this a good thing. "But, Raimundo was our friend and he is not Wuya's so if he were to be willing to betray us maybe he will be willing to betray her!" He beamed proud of his logic.

I always hate crushing his optimism but someone had to. "Yeah, but Wuya probably knows that and she won't give him up without a fight." I pointed out. "Not to mention she can give him anything he wants, and with Rai being shallow like that, he probably would stay with her." Omi's smile deflated until it was completely gone and he looked and me and Clay with sad eyes.

"Then how do we get our friend Raimundo back?" His huge sad eyes were drilling a hole in me and, although I don't know why, they were making me feel guilty.

I sighed. "I don't know Omi." I stared off into space wishing the answer would be flashing in neon lights "I really don't know."

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Author's note: So how is it? Good? Ok? Bad? Horrible? (OO) please review and tell me if I should keep writing. I want to know if everyone hates it! Please don't hate it! But flames are greatly welcomed as long as there if a good reason for flaming. FIRE!!!!!!!

P.S. Yes I know I left Jack Spicer out of it, but in the actual episode it takes him a while before he gets there (and it's not ever him!) so he didn't get there in time to even have a chance of getting the Wu. Just saying.