The Promise, Chapter 1

Normal POV:

It was a pretty day at the Xialin Temple. Birds were singing, bees were buzzing, and the four young munks were practicing there technique.

Kimiko’s POV:

I grabbed the Star of Hanabi and yelled its name.

“Star of Hanabi!” I yelled. A blast of fire shoots out and hit the target.

“Nice work, girl,” Rai says. “But can you beat this?” He grabbed the Sword of the Storm.

“SWORD OF TEH STORM!”

Wind shot from the sword and hit ten targets. They broke.

“Well I’ll be darned,” said Clay.

“Yes. Raimundo, your technique has improved greatly,” said Omi.

Rai smirked.

Raimundo’s  POV

Nobody knew it but I had been training to improve my skills for a while now. I was the leader now, so I had to be good.

“Heads up, gang!” said Dojo, entering the courtyard. “We got a new Shen-Gong-Wu!”

“A Shen-Gong-Wu?” said Kimiko.

“Yep,” said Dojo. He took out the scroll thing and a picture came up. It was a picute of a ring and two people. The guy put the ring on the girl’s finger and it glistened.

“The Ring of Eternal Promise,” said Dojo. “Whoever wears it has to keep there promise in two weeks or they die.”

“Oh,” said Kimiko.

Clay’s POV

“So,” I said. “Where we headin’?”

A big rash appeared on the back of Dojo’s head. It was in the shape of the city of Jamestown.

“Why Dojo, you got a rash the shape of the city of Jamestown!” I exclaimed.

“Then I guess that’s where were going,” said Dojo, scratching the remains of the old fort. “Get on.”

Normal POV

They got on Dojo and started to fly away.

LATER AT JAMESTOWN

Omi’s POV

I had never seen such a place before! A bunch of people were milling around in old clothes from the sixteen hundreds. Except for one-

“Jack Spicer!” I shouted!

He was wearing his normal emu clothes (I think that is what Raimundo called them), with his normal emu make-up. I noticed he did not have any feathers.

“Back off, Xiaolin Losers!” he shouted! “The Ring of Eternal Promise is mine!”

I wondered where the ring was.

“Where is the ring?” I wondered.

Jack’s POV

I actually didn’t know where the Wu was, but I wasn’t gonna let them know that.

“If you chuckleheads had a brain youd know it was-it was….over there!” and he pointed to this one tourist with a big ring.

I looked at Raimundo. “You think that’s the ring?” I said.

“There’s one way to find out!” he said. And he ran over to the tourist.

“Hey guys!” he said. “It’s the Wu!”

Raimundo’s POV

“WHAT THE…? NO WAY” Jack said.

I looked over at the tourist lady. She was wearing a big muumuu. I flashed her my most suave grin.

“Pardon me, ma’am,” I said. “But that’s a very powerful item. May I please have it?”

She gave me a big smile. “Oh, aren’t you a doll!” And she gave me the ring.

At this time, Spicer had flown over.

Jack’s POV

“Oh no you don’t!” I said. I reached out and touched the Wu. “Raimundo, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown.”

“Fine,” he said. “What’s the name of the game?”

I grinned. “Two words.” I leaned in close.

“Wine making.”

Dojo’s POV

Wine making?!

Kimiko’s POV

Spicer’s come up with a lot of weird challenges in the past, but this one takes the cake. Already Rai and Jack were in these green and plum-colored dresses, they’re hair covered by bandanas. They both stood in some barrels full of grapes;

“GONG YI TAMPAI” they saif

They began stepping on the grapes really hard and really fast. I wondered how bad their feet would get stained.

“TIME’S UP!” said a disembodied voice. Two ghostly hands came out of nowhere and pulled the two boys out of the barrels. Then the barrels poofed away.

“Now where did they go?” asked Clay.

We all shrugged. Then suddenly two wine bottles appeared, one with Rai’s face on it and one with Jack’s face on it.

“DRINK UP AND DECIDE THE WINNER.” Said the voice.

I gulped. I really didn’t want to drink anything that had been on Jack’s feet, although I wouldn’t mind drinking something on Rai’s feet….

Wait, WHAT am I saying?

Clay, Omi, and I drank up.

“Rai,” we all agreed.

And the showdown faded away.

JAMESTOWN

Omi’s POV

“This is so lame!” said Jack. And then he flew away.

“Not bad, partner,” said Clay.

“Yeah, Rai,” said Kimiko.

“I am most impressed with you’re whine making skills,” I said.

“Wine making skills,” said Raimundo.

“That too!” I replied.

Then we all got on Dojo and flew away.

THE VAULT

Raimundo’s POV

Today was a great day! Kimiko and I were in the vault.

“You did good, Rai!” Kimiko said.

“Yeah, thanks,” I smiled. She leaned in to put the Wu away. “Say Kim?”

“Yeah?”

I looked into her cristal blue eyes. “Don’t you think I deserve a kiss for today?”

She froze.

Kimiko’s POV

I froze.

“A what!” I asked.

“A kiss,” he said. “You know, with lips and everthing…”

“I know what a kiss is!”

“Come on,” he teased. “Just one?”

My heart started to beat faster, but I don’t know why. “Rai, we’re just friends-“

Raimundo’s POV

Just friends? My face fell.

“Rai?” she asked.

I quickly put up a teasing front. “Nah, come on, Kim.” I teasingly took the ring form her. “Just one?”

“Rai! Don’t play with that!” Kimiko yelped.

“Aw, come on!” I continued to badger her.

Eventually Kimiko got annoyed and sighed. “Rai, I’ll promise to kiss you if-”

“Young munks!” Master Fung called. I got startled and dropped the ring right on her finger.

“AAAH!” said Kimiko as the ring fell on her finger. It glowed and then stopped.

We looked at each other.

“Heh heh….opps?”