Frendea, a Chinese red fox wearing loose jeans, a loose red shirt, and running shoes, swirled her drink a little still contemplating the team's battle with Dragon, how everyone had gone their separate ways after Panda died to save them from Dragon's fire, but it also got rid of Dragon in the process. She knew Skunk was still around taking done remaining Ninja Monkeys that were still wondering around China, Rabbit disappeared shortly after, and Fox herself had went to the New World on the first boat out to look for more work but she had fallen on hard times lately. Fox looked around the bar, and she was surprised went she saw someone, a cheetah, motioning for her to come to their table. She sighed after awhile and decided to go see what the person wanted. When she got to the table the guy quickly moved to pulled out her chair and waited until she sat down to sit back down.

"What do you want?" Frendea asked him

"I know you've fallen on hard time, and I could probably help you out of your little hole." The guy replied

"Maybe, but what's your name?" She asked him

"Oh, yeah, sorry 'bout that, my name is Kino Riverias, and you might be?" Kino asked her

"My name is Frendea Jire, and what bring you to the New World?" Frendea asked Kino

"A little of this and little of that, but mainly to get somewhere I wasn't suppressed in my art." Kino replied

"Are you an artist?" Fox asked him

"Artist, Musician, Sculpture, you name it I can do it." Kino replied

"Wow, I can fight pretty well but that's about it." Frendea told him

"Now you know what brought me here, and now it's your turn to tell me what brought you here." Kino told her

"You wouldn't believe me if I told, you would call the hospital for the mentally insane, and you would leave me." Frendea replied

"Try me." Kino told her

"Okay, it started at least two year ago when was a severe drought in China, the heavens had given a mystical being named Dracen power over fire and water, and he had used his power over water to help China, but he flooded the place instead. The heavens were angry at Dracen, they took away his water, leaving his fire to scorch him, he blamed the valley animals for what happened to him, and he swore his revenge as sunk into an icy lake to keep his own fire from cooking him from the inside out. The guy who trained me and my friends he was named Pabolis, he prayed to the heavens for something to help us defeat Dracen and a stork dropped off Stathen, a young skunk between that ages of 10 to 12. There was another guy Roljoh, a rabbit at least the age of fifteen." Frendea started

"Where does a beautiful young fox like you come in with all of this?" Kino asked her

"I was getting to that part, my father was the only reported death from Dracen's flood. I strove to be a warrior as great as my father. After training vigorously for a long time, Stathen goofed off a lot but he was a kid what would you expect. In the end as we fought Dracen to end it all I didn't see exactly what happened, but Stathen couldn't bring himself to destroy Dracen he summoned up a giant fireball and launched it at us. Pabolis got in between the fireball and us, and recycled it to his use destroying Dracen and himself." Frendea told him before finishing off her drink "Now I guess that you're going to laugh."

"No, I'm not going to laugh I believe you Frendea, and do you have anywhere to stay?" Kino asked her

"No, but I think I found a place." Frendea told him

"How 'bout this, you stay with me, and you can easily look for a job from my place." Kino told her

"Really, you'd do that for a complete stranger, and I'd like that." She replied

"Like I said, you've fallen on hard times, and I want to help you out." Kino told her

Frendea smiled as Kino stood up as she did, she hooked her arm into his and they walked out of the bar. The walk to Kino's was short, it was only a few blocks from the bar that they were just at, and when he opened the door for her Frendea couldn't help but to gasp. Kino's house was stocked to the brim with the finest furniture, from what she could see from the doorstep was that there were a lot more room than he actually needed for himself, and also that there was an open wine bottle on his coffee table.

"Wow, this place is amazing." Frendea told Kino as she stepped in

"Wine from France, furniture from Italy, Belgium, and Germany, and the paintings done by myself." Kino replied while picking up the wine bottle drinking the rest of it "My room is the first one in front of the stairs, and you can pick any room that you want they're all empty."

"I'll take the one by your room." Frendea told him

As she reached for her bags Kino stopped her, picked up her bags, and motioned for her to follow him. When he opened the door, without the use of his hands, Frendea noticed that the room was as lavishly decorated as the living room, and when she sat down on the bed she sunk into it.

"Where do you want me to put your things?" Kino asked her

"If you could place them by the door if you could that would be great. And Kino thanks for taking me in." Frendea told him

"No problem, I call you when dinner is ready." Kino replied

"Okay, I'll be in the shower if you need me." Frendea told him

As Kino left she looked in her bags for her shampoo and body wash and when she found them she got into the shower.

Kino descended the stairs taking two at a time, and went to the kitchen. He grabbed a few eggs out of the freezer he also grabbed some tilapia, lemons, oregano, white rice, flour, and, mushrooms. He went to the kitchen, cracked the eggs into a bowl with the white rice, flour, and mushrooms, and after mixing it together evenly he evenly covered the fish that were in a pan. When he heard a noise behind him he spun around saw a ghost from his past.

"What are you doing here?" Kino asked the person

"I've come to ask a favor of you." The person told him