Back story—they are finishing up high school and Miracle city has decided ((Courtesy of Police Chief Suarez)) that El Tigre needs to figure out if he's good or evil by the end of the summer. The prom was last night and Manny and Frieda went together as a friend date. Black Cuervo wrecked the prom and during the battle Cuervo's old bolt necklace fell—this is about noon the day after
El Tigre gulped to himself. Frieda, in the bushes behind him gave him a thumb up as he walked to the purple lair of the flock of fury. He sheepishly rang the bell to the lair of the Flock of fury. A loud birdcall was heard. Voultora opened the door
"And what do you want?" She snarled viciously. El Tigre shrugged a bit
"Um…I just wanna talk to Z—er—Cuervo." He smiled, even more sheepish. He had found out Black Cuervo's real identity at the super Villain fashion show last year, but had kept it mum due to the fact that she would probably just have another trick, not even Zoe knew he knew—Frieda never stopped thinking they were the same person in the first place. Voultora pointed harshly in the direction of what he assumed was Cuervo's room. The sign on the door proved him right as he knocked. "Um, Cuervo…It's me…El Tigre. Can we talk?" Black Cuervo opened the door all right, lasers' out.
"WHAT—what else could you possibly want with my life!!!" She screamed. Tigre backed up a few steps back
"Hey…Cuervo…new lasers?"
"I got them for my Quinceañera—three years ago, but you are so stupid, I don't even care" Black Cuervo snarled, turning her back to him. El Tigre snorted at that, before Cuervo could even turn to question him he slipped the necklace back over her head.
"I doubt it." Tigre's smile could be heard in his voice as she suddenly clasped it to her heart. "You should have asked me to prom; it was a Sadie Hawkins dance and I was looking for a date."
"Would you have said yes?" Cuervo questioned, before answering her own question "I doubt it" She quoted him coldly. Tigre looked hurt
"I might have, I was desperate" he tried to joke, but then turned serious. "I'm still sorry for that night years ago. I wish I could make it up to you" he admitted. Cuervo turned to him, and looked him dead in the eyes.
"Tigre, I don't really think you realized exactly how much you hurt me." She sighed and went inside the room. "You might as well come in and sit down" She called back to him. Tigre sat on her large purple and black Canopy bed. The whole room was purple, dark purple rug, light purple walls and dresser, dark purple vanity with a medium purple brush rammed through it…wait, he'd ask her about that later. Cuervo came back with a large light purple photo album. "Now, you don't know this, but I am secretly Zoe Aves…I tell you this because of a horrible family condition. We call it the Aves Curse-we meet Riveras, fall in love with Riveras, get dumped by Riveras, marry the rebound, get knocked up, divorce the rebound, and have a daughter that to falls in love with a Rivera." She sighed, taking off her helmet, her hair had been changed from the 'emo' style she wore in school; now flipping away from her face and letting her lovely red eyes and the normally obscured part of her face show. She opened up the photo album to the first picture. A young pretty teenager was making a funny face at them, next to her a young man tried to one up her in the department, another slide and she was in his arms, he was looking at her adoringly. Manny only recognized the man by the fact his mask was on in the last shot. "'White Pantera' broke Carmelita's heart in high school; oh you don't know who she is… Vueltera" She explained. The next picture in the book was even worse. His gran papi was on a horse with a beautiful young woman, with a tearful bride in the background reaching out for him. "Need I say more?" Next picture Justice Jaguar spinning a gun on one finger, talking to a lovely woman in a black western costume with white boa, gloves, and shoes, and whose upper face was in a black mask with white feathers…through jail bars. "Justice Jaguar used 'The Swan' the same way you used me, he started to think of her more like a good friend then anything…she never quite got over the heartbreak when he let it slip he proposed to another." She flipped another page to a gorgeous woman with a multicolor peasant top, a black jacket, a long black skirt, and a black bandana with a multicolor trim. Next to her was the Mighty Cheater, holding her close and pointing at something off camera. "He only got close to Parrot-dice to steal her treasure; she was the only Aves that got her revenge. The next page was of a young woman, Manny couldn't see her face because she was in black knight armor but she had on a long black skirt with white streaks and spots. The boots of the man riding beside her gave him no doubt who it was. "Golden Leon loved 'Loon de doom'…that is until he realized who she was." She flipped to another picture; this woman was just as lovely as her descendants—a red sort of paint coating around her eyes and a dark green Aztec looking dress that faded into black. "She was Cuckoo vuela. She got the closest, but one day, Dark Lepord didn't come back…he wrote to her later, saying he might be evil but he owned up to his mistakes…he got another girl pregnant." She turned to the next page in the book. The woman on the page was her older, prettier, fully developed spitting image…the man beside her looked just like the boy sitting down on the bed only, again older and more filled out. "The original El Tigre; y the original Black Cuervo; he dumped her to save her, he knew she would go crazy along with him if he didn't let her go, by the time she realized she'd been tricked he was dead. Another page, normal looking teenagers in a black and white setting "I wish I could blame it on powers but before they were even there, this mess started." With a sigh she closed the book. "Now do you understand?"El Tigre turned back into Manny, nodding slowly.
"I do want to make it up to you Cuervo, especially now since I feel eight times as bad…I got it-I'll break the Avis Curse!!!" Zoe looked at him, one eye narrowed in confusion, head tilted and sending some hair back across her eye. "If you breakup with me, then the Avis Curse will be forever broken! I'm gonna tell you before anyone but my family and Frieda—the choice, I'm choosing good, but that's great 'cause then you just say your disgusted with me and boom the curse is gone" Zoe's eyes widened in recognition and she nodded slowly
"You really think that will work, don't you?" Manny nodded happily; Zoe sighed "Sadly nothing you do could make me fall out of love with you, the proof being how I managed not to throw you out of the house for an idea that stupid". Manny's eyes snapped open unhappily—he really had thought it was a good plan.
"Then I will just have to prove how horrible Riveras are, and then you'll have to dump me…after all no Rivera has ever kept a bride longer then it took a son to get there. You'll be running away after about a month. THIS I SWEAR" He exclaimed. Zoe giggled at the familiar catch phrase, Manny blushed; nobody thought him funny…except Frieda of course. "So it's about 1:15 now, I'll pick you up around…
"2:00?" Zoe helped
"Sure, and we can go to…
"The new movie Coraline…I heard it was good" Zoe intervened again as Manny searched his mind, the grateful boy nodded and, turning into El Tigre, he left.
"So Dude what happened?" The Blue haired maniac asked as soon as he left and changed back. Frieda hadn't changed much in four years, the only thing that had changed was her hair getting longer and her fighting better…and she had a slightly better track record for the maximum time out of Sartana's lair at a time was jumped all the way up to a full day…granted she'd been on vacation.
"I'm picking up Cuervo at 2:00 and taking her to the new movie Coraline" Manny said happily to his best friend.
"Wait, she wrecked our prom, so you're dating her?! What now?" Frieda's expression portrayed even more confusion then her words.
"Well…kinda—it's this weird family curse thing that she's trying to stop and to stop it I have to date her first" Manny's explanation fell on death ears as Frieda continued on her rant
"She's EVIL and besides now she'll just like you even more then she already dose…unless your stabbing her in the back and stuff again, cause that was AWESOME!!!" Manny rolled his eyes at his hyperactive friend and continued to walk with her to his house.
"Frieda I would really appreciate it if you backed me up on this…we all know what my dad's gonna say about this…
As predicted as soon as Manny told his father what he was doing the ranting started
"Black Cuervo? She is the scourge of the skies; the evil to end all evil, and Manny what would you dating her do to your reputation right before you turn good huh?" Rodolfo demanded of his seventeen year old son. Manny thought for a bit
"Well, if they ask I'll just say it was a 'last hurrah' that's believable, right" Manny asked his father hopefully. Rodolfo sighed, but nodded his head. "Great, I gotta go to that movie, see ya dad." And with that statement he turned into Tigre and ran out the door. Frieda sighed.
"You don't think anything'll happen…do you?" She asked Rodolfo. The man shrugged and Frieda sighed, before going into Manny's room to wait.
At 11:00 Tigre snuck in, granted, he was eighteen, he didn't need anyone to tell him how late he could be out, but he preferred not to wake up his family. He turned into Manny and fell into bed and right on top of Frieda.
"OWWW!!! What in the—Dude where have you been!?" The blue haired girl was unaware if the time and so didn't curb her voice in the slightest. Manny grabbed her mouth and shushed her.
"Well, the movie was sold out, so we got a later show…then we went to the park to waste time , then we ended up staying to late, and Cuervo packed a picnic…she's actually a really good cook. Well, we went to see Coraline, and then we snuck into the Knowing. She really has good taste in movies. Then it was time for dinner, I walked her back home…and—well, here we are." He shrugged at the end of his slight rant and fell on the bed. "Now, I don't know about you, but I'm tired, Cuervo's exhausting." Though it was a slight insult his face held a smile as he faded to sleep. Frieda looked down at him worriedly
"Oh No"
Hi—I have to put it to a vote. Who does Frieda end up with?
Sergio? (I can't really see this pairing and even if it wins I'll try twice and like give up.)
Django? (I have like the rest of the story written for this so faster updates…this is my fave one)
Diego? (Dr. Chipotle jr. This is hard but not impossible and not un—seeable, tell me what ya think!!!)