I don't own Xiaolin Showdown

This fanfic is going to be a little bit like '24'

It was night at the Xiaolin Temple and a hard work of training, the Xiaolin warriors were sleeping soundly into their little rooms. The boys were snoring soundly, drifting off into their little dreams. All three rooms were full except one. In that empty room was a girl known as Kimiko Tohomiko and she was the dragon of fire. She was skilled, pretty, and smart but she had to go onto a dangerous mission. If she failed, the lives of billions of people would be lost. If she succeeded, the lives of billions would be saved but she would die. It was a difficult choice for her to make but she was a very giving person and she would risk her life for innocent people and for her three best friends. Not to mention her crush. Thinking about him made her cheeks blush. He was cute, strong, and he had the cutest smile that she'd ever seen.

No time to think about him she mentally scolded herself. She looked at her clock. It was three a.m. She had plenty of time to get there and try to meet up with them so they could put a stop to it and come back here. She tiptoed out of her room and closed the drapes. She watched her footing and tried to look at the silhouette objects that were spread across the floor hoping not to trip and fall and cause a ruckus. She looked at Dojo that was sleeping soundly on that tree bark where he usually rested. She walked out of the temple and headed into the shen gong wu vault. She walked into the lit room. The light started to sting her eyes. She lightly touched the bells that were hanging from the walls. They made a quiet melodic sound and the stairs to the vault opened as she walked down there. She opened one of the blue drawers and pulled out a black shen gong wu. She quickly ran outside.

"Silver Manta Ray," she whispered as the shen gong wu was activated into a large flying convertible. She hopped inside, strapped on the seat-belt and blasted off into the sky, flying towards her destination.

Raimundo yawned as he walked to the breakfast table. Clay and Omi were waiting for him. "'Sup guys?" he said as he rubbed his eyes to wear off the sleep. "Hey..." he said as he opened his eyes and only saw two people, "where's Kimiko?"

"Don't know partner," Clay said as he and Omi shrugged.

"Kim wouldn't miss breakfast with us would she?" Raimundo said as he thought about it. Really unrealistic. "Where could she be?"

Suddenly rushing footsteps were heard as a running Kimiko came and met up with the three boys. "Sorry I'm late," she said.

"Yeah where were you?" Raimundo asked her.

"I...um overslept," she said as she tried to give an apologetic smile to them.

"You never oversleep," Raimundo reminded her.

Kimiko didn't know what to say. She wanted to say where she had been and why but the plan was top secret and nobody had to know what she did and why she did it. "Well," she said slowly, "we were training a lot yesterday and we did defeat Chase Young and Wuya in a showdown during the evening."

"Oh yeah," Raimundo said as he reminded that event. Somehow a new shen gong wu had been revealed during the evening and Chase and Wuya happened to be there. They were a strong force but they weren't tough enough for the four Wudai Warriors and not to mention their Shoku warrior, Raimundo.

"Yeah hehe," she giggled nervously. Phew she said to herself good thing they didn't ask me questions about it.

"Wait a second," Clay said as he looked up from the table, "what is the Silver Manta Ray doin' outside the vault?"

Kimiko froze. Heart beating rapidly.

"Jack," Omi said as he leaped up from the table and ran into the shen gong wu vault. So did Clay and Raimundo.

Kimiko stayed put. Her heart was beating so hard she thought that it was going to explode out of her chest. She really wanted to tell them, she really did. She just didn't trust her instincts to do it. She did trust her friends that they would keep it a secret but she just didn't trust herself. After a while of looking down at the floor she heard a soft "hey." She looked up and blue eyes met green eyes.

"Hey," she smiled at him.

"What's the matter?" Raimundo asked her as he pulled up a chair and sat next to her, "you're looking pretty down."

"Oh nothing," she said as she lightly shook her head, her pigtails swaying about.

"Are you sure?" he asked her.

"Yep," she said.

"If you need to talk about something you know where to find me," Raimundo said as he gave her shoulder a squeeze and then departed from her. She looked at him walking away. If only she told him how she felt.

"Wait," she said as she ran to him. Raimundo stopped at looked at her. A smile on his face. So cute she thought. "I...I..." she tried to say, "I want to know, did Jack steal any wu?"

"No," Raimundo shook his head, "they were all there. Maybe the dope came to get the Silver Manta Ray and possibly dropped it. I don't know the kid's so stupid," he laughed.

Kimiko laughed along with him, "yeah stupid."

Raimundo waved to her and walked away.

"Stupid," Kimiko said to herself as she mentally started to beat herself up.