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xXx Nine Lives

By: Zara

Chapter one

You could literally smell all the glistening, beautiful, half-naked women parading around in their teeny weenie bikinis. It was an intoxicating aroma, especially when combined with the turquoise waters and white sands of Bora Bora.

By now the bartender Geko would have a cranberry club soda poured and iced before Xander Cage could rest his two tattooed and now deeply tanned arms on the mahogany. "Xander! How's it goin' my man?"

"Slammin," followed by the routine high-five.

"You lucky bastard. Where's that fine lookin' Czech woman of yours?"

"You mean Yeleana?"

"That's the one! Sexy name too, damn!"

Amused at Geko's obvious fascination with Xander and his beautiful counterpart, he let out a laugh.

Suddenly a familiar ringing sound could be heard, muffled but continuous. Several people seated close by reached for their cell phones.

"Shit!" Grudgingly, Xander reached into his back pocket to pull out his cell phone. "Now what?"

"Is that any way to speak to your boss?" Asked the NSA agent Augustus Gibbons.

"Now what, pretty boy?"

"You do realize that I have the ability to terminate your little Bora Bora vacation and have your ass back here at headquarters before you can say hang ten?"

"Yeah.sorry. And by the way, we don't say hang ten anymore. That went out with the seventies."

"As much as I appreciate all that you have done for me thus far X, I'm going to have to cut the honeymoon short. In less than forty-eight hours I need you on a plane back to the United States. An urgent matter has come to our attention."

"Yeah, well send someone else."

"Triple X," exclaimed Gibbons.

Rolling his eyes Xander replied, "Yeah?"

"I only ask once politely. Then I don't ask again."

"That's great 'cause I gotta head back and get ready to do some extreme wind sailing, so if you don't mind.it's been nostalgic, peace."

Xander almost got his phone back into his back pocket when Gibbons voice could be heard once more, only much louder, "Triple X!"

Annoyed, Xander once again opened his cell phone. "You said you only ask once. What's the deal?"

"I just wanted to bid you sweet dreams, sleeping beauty." Then the line became silent.

"Sleeping beauty? What the?"

"Excuse me Mr.Cage," Geko politely asked from behind the bar.

Looking up Xander saw a gun in the bartender's hand pointed directly at him. But before he could utter a syllable, a shot fired and everything faded to black.

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