Chapter 3 - Forest Guardians

Jack Spicer x OC[br]

I’ll try to make it as interesting as possible.[br]

DISCLAIMER: I still own nothing but what I’ve said, and now Raynne, Sunn, and the Fox of Trickery[br]

BASIC SYMBOLS: “Talking”, Thinking, IIIII change places/setting, XXXXX Flashback[br]





“Hey kids! New Shen-Gong-Wu alert!” announces Dojo, crawling his way to the others. Everyone looked up in a mournful silence, waiting to hear what Dojo had to say. “This one’s called the Fox of Trickery. It allows you to fill your opponents head with false facts, and they’ll believe it. Of course, if you tell them a bunch of non-understandable who-haw, they could break through the influence of it.” The warriors all looked away. Dojo sighed. “Look, guys...I know it’s hard to lose such a close friend, but I’m sure that Shaye wouldn’t want you to mope around about it. I’m sure that she would want you to keep the Shen-Gong-Wu out of the hands of evil, just as she did.” They all sighed in agreement.[br]

“The little fellers right...”[br]

“I suppose so...”[br]

“True...”[br]

“Dojo raises a good point...”[br]

“Now, whaddaya say we go get us a Shen-Gong-Wu?” asked Dojo, transforming into his larger form.[br]

“Right!” They all mounted onto Dojo, their spirits lifted slightly, and took to the sky.[br]



“Wuya! Must you go on about this?! I’ve told you already! I’m not attacking the Xiaolin Temple!”[br]

“WHY do I even bother?! You’re such a useless, whiny little bo-AHHH!!” Wuya wailed.[br]

“AHHH HAH HAH!” squealed Jack, springing away in surprise. “For the last time, stop with the ear shattering screeches!”[br]

“A new Shen-Gong-Wu has just revealed itself! It’s the...Fox of Trickery!”[br]

“Ooo...Sounds scary...” mocked Jack, rolling his eyes. “What exactly does it do?”[br]

“It allows you to fool your enemy into believing anything you tell them.” Jack thought for a moment.[br]

“...Anything...?”[br]



“Wuya, you are my extremely stupid, till-death-do-us-part loyal slave, and you do everything I tell you, and you’re head is going to explode, so get me some chocolate chip cookies before it does, and make it quick.”[br]



Jack smiled widely.[br]

“Obviously not, you foolish boy. If it doesn’t make sense, they’re going to realize it and break through the powers of the Shen-Gong-Wu.” Jack’s smile disappeared.[br]

“So, pretty much, you’re telling me it only works on extremely gullible, and extremely stupid people...” Jack thought again, and his smile returned.[br]

“It can work on anyone, as long as you have a good plan, and some kind of convincing ‘truth’ doesn’t hurt either.”[br]

“It still doesn’t sound as amazing as you seem to think it is...” stated Jack, picking his ear with his little finger.[br]

“Just go get it!” screeched Wuya.[br]

“Okay! Okay! I’m going!” Jack responded defensively.[br]



The Xiaolin Dragons were soaring through the clouds, eyes peeled for any sign of the Shen-Gong-Wu.[br]

“Ugh...Dojo, we’ve been circling this place for forever! Are you sure that it’s here?” complained Kimiko.[br]

“I’m positive!” answered Dojo hesitantly. “I’m sure that I felt it come from here, but it feels so distant and so close at the same time...”[br]

Raimundo let out a sigh. “So there’s a possibility that we’re no where near it?”[br]

Suddenly, Omi broke out in a toothy grin, and pointed into the forest they had been circling.[br]

“I saw the light shine off of something down there! It has to be the Fox of Trickery!” he shouted in excitement.[br]

Gracefully, Dojo glided down into the forest, landing silently on the undergrowth. As he landed though, they heard a girlish cry, followed by a loud thud.[br]

It was Jack, screaming and swatting at his hair wildly.[br]

“Get it off! Get them away! AAGGHH!!” he cried.[br]

Raimundo chuckled to himself. “It’s probably a bug...” he joked to Clay, nudging his arm.[br]

“Hey! Who are you calling bugs?!” demanded an unknown voice. A small fairy-like creature lunged itself at Rai, stopping just an inch away from his face. “We are NOT bugs!” it huffed, it’s wings beating furiously. It was no bigger than the size of his palm.[br]

“Well you do look like a butterfly...kinda.” recoiled Raimundo.[br]

The creature gasped in anger. “I’m NOT a BUTTERFLY!! I’m Raynne the faerie, and I will not be confused with a butterfly!” she retorted, shaking a fist threateningly.[br]

“Pretty tough for a little guy.” Mocked Rai. The faerie scowled and responded by kicking the cocky boy on the end of his nose. He jerked away instantly, tears in the corners of his eyes.[br]

“Woah there partner, no need to get you saddle in a bunch! Raimundo’s always a pain in the rear.” intervened Clay.[br]

“Who are they Raynne?” asked another unknown voice suddenly. The group looked over to see a second faerie, and an exhausted Jack laying on the ground behind him.[br]

“I don’t know Sunn, why would I?”[br]

“Well then, why are they here?”[br]

Abruptly, and without thought, Omi declared, “We’re here to find the Fox of Trickery from this forest. I saw it around here.” Everyone was silent. The had all forgotten about what they were doing.[br]

“Our Shine Fox? You can’t just take it! It’s ours!” yelled Raynne, her small body radiating anger, as the group regained all their senses. The Shen-Gong-Wu could be seen clearly a few yards away, sitting on a tree stump.[br]

Immediately, the sound of running feet could be heard. The twigs and undergrowth snapped and crumpled under their weight. The three Xiaolin boys ran for Jack, while Kimiko charged straight for the Shen-Gong-Wu. Omi leapt for Jack’s midsection, who was brought down easily, but go back up just as fast. Sunn and Raynne waited ahead, pulling back a thick tree branch, and releasing it in time for both Rai and Clay to be taken out by its unexpected sweep. Kimiko smiled as she grew closer to the Wu, and made a final dive. She was about to celebrate when she noticed that it was glowing. Looking up, she could see Jack clutching the other end, and immediately he spoke up.[br]

“Kimiko! I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown! My Eye of Dashi against your Star Hanabi. The game is Truth and Lies. Questions must be answered truthfully, or you lose! Also, you have to make it to the Fox of Trickery without falling.”[br]

“I accept you challenge, Jack.” Answered Kimiko.[br]

Simultaneously they shouted, “Let’s go! Xiaolin Showdown!”[br]

The ground below them began to tremble terribly. There was a series of bright flashes, and then the trees surrounding them began to shoot upwards endlessly, extending into the clouds. Around their feet, a circle of earth cracked and split. It gave a forceful jerk, then they too followed the trees. Both were forced to stay low, in order to reduce the strain and to keep them from falling.[br]

Jack screamed, “Nose bleeeed!”, and if by command, the trees and earth pedestals came to a sudden stop, and booth ‘popped’ into the air, then landed on their feet, Kimiko gracefully, Jack clumsily. Though the trees were thick, the branches were thin and weaved in and around each other, forming almost a net-like structure. Several branches though were thicker, and straighter than the rest, the path they decided that they would take.[br]

“Gong-yi-tan-pi!” they shouted.[br]

Slowly, they both inched their way forward. Time to have some fun... thought Kimiko.[br]

“So, Jack, do you sleep with stuffed animals?” she chuckled.[br]

For a second, Jack flinched. “He keeps me warm at night, and he makes a good pillow, okay?!”[br]

This made Kimiko laugh. “A night light too?”[br]

Again, Jack flinched. “It’s too dark in my lair!”[br]

Kimiko almost fell she was laughing so hard.[br]

“What about you? You must sleep with one too!”[br]

“A night light? No. Unless you count a computer screen. As for a stuffed animal, yes.”[br]

“HA!” laughed Jack triumphantly.[br]

“It was a gift from my father, and it sits beside my pillow, nothing like you.” Kimiko responded. Jack felt stung.[br]

“Well then, who’s your biggest crush? Who do you looove?” asked Jack, desperate to embarrass her as she had done to him.[br]

“Men are beneath me. I’ve yet to find one that I would be willing to ‘love’.” She responded coolly. “What about you?”[br]

He now began to sweat, and his hands began to shake nervously. He wished that he had never brought it up. He tried to talk, but his words caught his tongue, and he found himself mumbling silently.[br]

“Well Jack? Who is it? Or are you going to give up?”[br]

“I’m not going to give up! I just...I...I-I...” The words were too hard to get out, and he continued his gibberish ramble. He mustered all of his strength, and just spat it out.[br]

“SH-SHAYE!”[br]

Kimiko stopped moving completely, eyes wide. “Shaye...? Bu-but why?” She couldn’t tell if she was hurt that someone cared for Shaye more than her, or if she was just plain jealous. Jack’s pace slowed as he caught up to her, he was now depressed, remembering that horrific scream. “She was the only one who would listen to me...All of you treat me as though I’m not human! As though because I’m different, I have different feelings and different needs...I know that we’re on different sides of the playing field, but, the things that you guys do seem unnecessary, and honestly, a lot of it are really @$$ things to do. There, are you happy?!”[br]

Kim was at a loss of words. “Jack, I...” Her feet had begun to shimmy towards the finish line again, when her foot caught a stump of a branch. She fell sideways, shaken back into her senses. Luckily for her though, she landed on [br]

her ‘trail’. Quickly, she regained her posture, and looked ahead at Jack who was nearly at the Shen-Gong-Wu! She gasped.[br]

She began to run, even though it was hard, and the narrowing branch didn’t make it any easier. Jack caught her out of the corner of his eye, and quickly yelled, “Eye of Dashi!”, sending out a lightning wave at Kimiko. Easily, she jumped over it, ran a few more steps, then leapt again, grabbing the Shen-Gong-Wu as she landed. She looked back to Jack sadly. She felt bad, and Jack could see this. He cursed in his head about his loss, and the setting flashed back to normal.[br]

The Xiaolin Dragons cheered when they saw that Kim had won.[br]

“We couldn’t see a thing that was happening, how’d you do?”[br]

“I did alright.” she answered flatly.[br]

“What about Jack? Didja find out anything new about him?” question Raimundo interrogatively.[br]

“N-no. Just the same old things that we already knew.” She felt guilty. She never thought about how they all treated him.[br]

“How could you lose?!” screamed Wuya irritably.[br]

“It didn’t seem all tha interesting anyways. Why do you care about it so much?”[br]

“Why don’t you care about it enough?!”[br]

Jack pressed a button on his watch, and a jet lowered down to the ground in front of him. “Let it go already!” hollered Jack, on his last nerve. “Why is it THAT important?”[br]

Wuya sighed. “I’ve come up with an idea, and that Shen-Gong-Wu is a crucial part of it. And don’t bother asking what it is, because I won’t tell you yet, if I ever do.”[br]

“O..kay...” said Jack, confused.[br]

“Just do what I tell you, and don’t ask any questions.” Jack rolled his eyes.[br]

“Whatever...” With that, they boarded the jet, and were gone in seconds.[br]



“They took our Shine Fox...” pouted Raynne.[br]

“Hnmpf. They think that because they’re bigger they can do whatever they want? Next time I see ‘em, I’ll show them! They’ll wish they never stole from us!” declared Sunn.[br]



Lawl, dramatic relief, lawl. Remember, constructive criticism is welcome, along with questions, and anything else you’d like to say or perhaps something you’d like to see, either in the future, or as a picture.[br]

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