Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown.

PROLOGUE

A confrontation between the Heylin and the Dragon sides had begun. For days on end they had been fighting, trying to defeat the evil Chase Young who held Omi under his spell. However, the battle was becoming more and more perilous due to the fact that the Dragons were without their strongest warrior and Chase's strength only seemed to be increasing and his followers were growing in number. Even with their newly formed alliance with the new 'non-evil' Jack Spicer (unknown to Chase Young), they did not have the strength to defeat this growing collection of not only ancient power, but also new technology that Chase was producing from his many followers.

Raimundo watched in horror as the split in the dimension grew larger in front of him. Chase was forcing a large amount of his power into the gap, trying to make it large enough to swallow the Xiaolin Dragons whole. Raimundo was suddenly pulled out of the way of the split by Dojo who had super-sized beneath them to make an easy escape.

They flew up into the air as they retreated. Kimiko punched Raimundo in the arm.
"What were you doing just staring at it?" She asked.
"I just kinda froze …" Raimundo trailed off.
"Well at least we got out of their in time." Said Kimiko, "I couldn't stand to lose you."
"Really?" Asked Raimundo.
"I mean we couldn't stand to lose you." Said Kimiko hastily.

Raimundo smiled at her and put his hand on her shoulder as she turned away embarrassed. He knew exactly what she had meant. She turned around again and they both leant in … before Dojo began to fall suddenly. He had been hit.

Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay were thrown off his back and they plummeted to the ground. As Raimundo fell, he saw the large split in the dimension below him. Kimiko and Clay would fall in as well if she didn't do something. He suddenly drew in all his power and sent out a blast of wind strong enough to knock Kimiko and Clay out of the way of the split, but it was too late for himself.

Down he fell, into deep blackness and the last thing he heard was Kimiko's scream as she went out of view as he fell down deeper and deeper into nothingness …

Kimiko hit the ground and rolled over before slowly pulling herself to her feet. Around her, everything was gone. Chase Young was gone, obviously satisfied with the work he'd done. Clay was six feet away; face down on the ground, his hat lying next to his arm, which looked bent out of shape. It was probably broken. Dojo was lying unconscious just beyond Clay and just beyond that …

"The portal!" Shouted Kimiko, getting to her feet and running at the shrinking gap.
However, it closed just seconds before she got there. She sank to her knees, horror filling up inside of her. She had let him down … she had le Raimundo fall …

Tears fell down from those bright blue eyes as she stared at where the portal had previously been. She put a hand out, searching for a sign that it was just a trick of the light and that the portal was still there, or better; that the portal had never been there and that Raimundo was merely lying unconscious out of her sight range.

She leant forward and … fell to the ground. She was on all fours, her hands lying flat on the ground. Nothing was there. Raimundo was really gone. The tears fell down from her eyes and landed softly on her hands, which she balled into fists as she continued to cry. Her heart was burning with the pain and grief. She suddenly threw back her head and screamed.

"RAIMUNDOOOOOOOOO …"
(A/N) Don't worry; the chapters will all be longer than this! I just wanted to set up a dramatic scene for when the real story begins.

All's fair in Love and War.

Don't you just love that quote? Well I do anyway and I've been trying to think of a story to fit it, but I gave up and started writing this instead and then I thought 'Hold on a god damn moment!' I was writing a story that matched it and I hadn't even noticed. I'm such a dope!

I just want to inform you that over here in England we've only got up to the episode where Omi gets turned into a cat by Chase (Kawaii!) and Kimiko, Clay and Raimundo ride away with Dojo and it ends on Raimundo looking back all sad. SO DON'T RUIN IT FOR ME BY TELLING ME ANYTHING! I'm going to follow this story because I don't know what happens and I like it that way while I'm writing it.

Please R&R, lots of luv Becky.