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Responsabilidad: I don't own anything for Xiaolin Showdown. It all belongs to the creator, Christy Hui. I only own this idea that randomly came to me.

In my storyplot:

- characters are older than they are in show (by 2/or 3 years)

- Omi is still on the side of heylin (before he got chi back)

- shoku warrior hasn't been chosen

Advertencia!: Warning!

- Yaoi/slash/MxM etc.

- Strong Language

- Violence

is in story plot. You don't like to read that, don't continue.

Rai POV

"Well, (cough) here it is," I stopped for a moment to catch my breath from trudging my bags around for so long, "the old pile of bricks itself."

I looked over the building's features from the bottom of staircase to the gate's entrance; blues shingles layered at the top, dull yellow stones outlining the small building's structure, and the grey stones that built the building itself. Once I caught breath, I trudged further to the gate, and began walking up the stairs.

"Yo! Anybody home?" I yelled as I walked up the long staircase. A small crunch from beyond the gate caused me to stop in my tracks. I watched a figure approach me, with something in its hands. When it stepped into the sunlight, I smiled to see an old familiar face, and continued up the stairs closer to the figure.

"Welcome back Raimundo, I trust you enjoyed your trip?" Master Fung looked up at me and bowed to greet me, although he didn't bow as low as he used to years ago.

I set the bags down for a moment and bowed, "Definitely. I guess you could say it was a breath of fresh air."

"Good, how is everyone?"

I shuffled my feet, not looking at him but the ground. "They're all great and are doing fine. They were so excited about my stay and we caught up with each other's lives. But I just wish I hadn't took so long to give my 'departure notice'."

His head slowly nodded to show he understood. "In delay there lies no plenty."

After being around the Fungster for so long I was able to keep myself from rolling my eyes at his useless sayings. Instead I looked at the item in his hands; a green cup of what seemed to be black tea. When Master Fung noticed me looking at the steaming teacup and he held it out to me. I smiled and took the cup, then gulped down every drop of the warm drink. Once I was done, Master Fung motioned me to follow him. I quickly grabbed my suitcases and slowly followed him through the courtyard to the temple. As we approached the building, I noticed that the area was quiet. Too quiet for my taste.

"Hey Master Fung," Although he didn't turn around I could tell that he was listening. "Where is everyone? It's so quiet, not to mention nobody's tackled me, or bombarded me with questions about the trip... yet."

After Master Fung chuckled for a moment he replied, "The others have left for a new Shen Gon Wu shortly before you arrived. They shall return soon."

When we stepped inside I saw that some furniture was rearranged, different rugs, and the sleeping area was in another part of the temple. We went through a hallway where I saw four different colored doors; one red, one blue, a brown door and a green door, where Master Fung stopped.

He turned to me and said, "We have made a few adjustments while you were gone. Too much old, time for the new, eh?" He laughed for a moment but stopped when he began coughing viciously. I quickly patted his back and stopped when he raised his hand.

He looked up at me with a small smile, "Thank you Raimundo. I forgot that I am not as young as I used to be." He walked away to the end of the hall. At the end, he turned back to me and bowed as low as he could and said in a sincere voice, "Welcome back Dragon of Wind." After that he left my sight and I entered my bedroom.

Inside my new room I saw all of my furniture placed in nearly the same places as in my old room. Old sport posters taped messily on the olive walls and slightly slanted ceiling, my bed was put in a corner, and my clothes and soccer ball placed in a pile across from my bed on a stool. Perfecto. I walked to my bed, arms full with my bags and tossed them onto it. I opened the suitcases and slowly one by one I began to unpack. After about 10 minutes of unpacking, I finally noticed my last bag. The one with my birthday gifts.

I opened the bag and took out the wrapped boxes and colored envelopes. The first present I opened was a medium yellow envelope with the Lexi scribbled all over it. Her gift was several photos of the family during my years away and recent ones of us together on my birthday. I grinned when I saw a picture she drew of me flying, with her smiling in my arms in a homemade frame.

Putting Lexi's gift on my nightstand, I moved on to Javier's big brown box. His gift was a green soccer ball with Brazil's flag symbol on it and famous Brazillian futball player, Kaka's signature next to it.

"Awesome!"I tossed the ball in my hands for a moment before moving on to Tony's present.

Inside the small blue box was a... I laughed when I took out a homemade slingshot and a bag of marbles. When I finally stopped laughing I opened a stuffed envelope that was attatched to a small yellow box. I took out 1,000 yuan. A note in the envelope had Elsa's handwriting.

Hey Rai,

I wanted you to know that the money you've received from me and Donzel is exactly 1,000 yuan. Do not ask me how we got CHINESE MONEY. It's a secret that I'm not telling. Muito hush hush, certo? ;) Jaja... Donzel is making me write: Everyone misses you already shorty.

Anyway, I think mom is nearly in tears at the thought of her children leaving again... I wish you and I could stay here, with everybody, but we gotta grow up, right? That's what you have to do to make a living in the world. First you're in another country trying to fit in with your new friends and enjoy your new habitat. Then when you see your family again its like you haven't seen each other in a lifetime. And after only a short moment, WOOSH you're gone back to the country you started in. And then someday you find yourself in bed with a beautiful foreign hunk smiling down at you, his hand holding a morning cup of tea and he whispers 'Sugar' to you in a husky voice... Oh whoa! Sorry, monologuing, in pen at that. That wasn't very smart of me... Okay pretend that I didn't just tell you about my imaginary love life! Oooh, speaking of love don't forget your promise to me and Lexi! Yeah that one 'bout the Fire Dragon. Don't you dare forget! Or else! Yeah I think you know what Elsa Pedrosa is capable of. Jaja. Alright lil' bro, gotta go.

Love you!
~ Elsa Pedrosa, your big sis

P.S. You're the first to see what is in the box. Not even Mom knows about this. :) Let me know how you like it when you read it. And you will read it right? Or else I'll have to come and get you! And we both know you don't want that. Jaja.

I smirked and began to open the box the envelope was attached to. "What a hopeless romantic sis I have," I said to myself thinking about her imaginary life. "Now what's in here?" In the box was a black and silver book titled Hiding in the Dark. I was proud to see the words 'By Elsa P.' at the bottom of the book. Turning book over I read the summary.

Everyone says all men are created equal, has equal rights, and has equal opportunities. But when Samantha Beck meets Howard Yin, her new next door neighbor, she learns how different a man can be; inside and out. And how love can sprout in unsuspecting ways, no matter how dark and forbidden it is... But how will she feel when she discovers that she has fallen in love with someone who can't love her back?

That's all? Knowing that geeky sister of mine I thought she would have wrote a whole paragraph or something. No, actually I thought she was writing book about biology, or something like that. Okay so not Biology, but something boring and educational. I shrugged and put the book on my nightstand next to Lexi's pictures. I guess she was thinking of trying something different, I mused.

My final gift was a new gold medallion from Mama. It was thin and flat, like old one but it was in the form of a heart. And it seemed to be bleeding golden blood. I curved a brow, but put the strange, yet unique necklace on. I then noticed a folded piece of paper in the box I took the medallion out of. In Mama's small cursive handwriting I read her letter.

My son Raimundo,

Seeing you again, for the first time in 3 years was such a pleasant surprise! I wish I could have seen you growing up, from the boy sent to China, to the young man you are now. I know your siblings loved seeing you again. When we got news about your arrival the house was just buzzing with excitement! Tony and Lexi were talking nonstop about what they would do when you came. I couldn't help but laugh when they suggested you guys go bungee jumping or scuba diving. But you guys had a nice time just going to the beach and hanging out, didn't you?
Well, back to the point, I want you to know that everyone misses you, and we hope you and your friends accomplish many things. And send our prayers to everyone that we hope you rescue Omi. He sounds like a dear friend in great need... Also how is Master Vung, or is it Fung? Well how is your teacher doing? In good health I trust?
I'm not going to keep you away from your temple duties Raimundo... I'll go and wipe away these tears of mine before they ruin my makeup.

Take care,
~Your teary eyed Mama

I read the letter over and over again, fiddling with my new medallion as I read her handwriting. I felt like a big baby for a moment, missing my family like this. But when you haven't seen them for so long it feels like you almost didn't know them at all. Especially my siblings.

"Ugh I can't believe this! Did we actually lose to that big red eyed monkey?"

"That lil' greasy handed evil scandal!"

"I don't understand why you guys are so upset, that Wu almost as useless as the Monkey Staff."

The sound of my friend's voices caused me to jump up and hurry outside. Dojo just landed when I rushed out the temple. The frowns on their faces changed once they saw me running toward them. I laughed as Kimiko and Clay hopped off Dojo and hurried over to me, I pretended not to notice that Kimiko tripped on a rock.

As soon as they reached me we had group hug and asked each other questions all at once.

"When did you get back? Why didn't you call to let us know you were coming back?" Kimiko gasped.

"It feels like forever man! How does it feel to be an adult?" Dojo asked slithering up to my shoulder and wrapping around my neck.

"Hey pardner! We all missed ya! Ya bring us anything from Brazil?" Clay lightly punched me in the arm.

"It's great to be back! How were y'all? Lonely?" I joked.

If Master Fung hadn't stopped our conversation it would have lasted through the night. We followed him to the temple where we sat in the kitchen and had jasmine tea and melon seeds. While nibbling on the seeds and drinking tea, my friends and I told each other what had happened during the month I was gone.

Kimiko gave me an update about the wu hunts, since shen gon wu have been revealing like crazy since the last year. The two wus they went after were the Dark Matter Glove, and the Arachna Cloak. The Dark Matter Glove shoots destructive black orbs at user's opponents. The one that they just lost to Jack was the Arachna Cloak., which allows the user to either transform into an actual spider, or just grow a desired amount of legs out their sides. Pretty lame and disturbing when you think about it.

I told them that my family was fine and told them the fun I had with them. We were all laughs and smiles for a while, even Master Fung grinned from time to time from behind the tea cup. But inside was a feeling of worry. The feeling wouldn't leave me alone, so I finally decided to let it out. I asked them about Omi. The room became still and quiet. The smiles were wiped from their faces and they silently drank their tea. I shifted uncomfortably from room's tension. I was about to excuse myself until Master Fung whispered to me.

"We haven not had any luck with reaching out to our fallen monk but-"

"We tried tah save him just last week!" Clay interrupted.

Then Dojo spoke, "But it was hopeless. We barely got out of the place in one piece, with Chase and his cats beating the daylights out of us!"

Clay and Dojo noticed Master Fung's eyes looking down at them, and became silent. With a slow shake of his head, our master explained how we needed to think of a plan in order to save him. I sighed. Since nearly two years ago, Omi was tricked by Chase Young to join heylin side. He was just ten then. And now two years later, the kid is 12, still a kid. We had to save him soon, or else he may be stuck on the heylin side forever.

The sad spell broke when Kim jumped from her seat to run towards the sleeping area. I lowered my head, believing that she left to cry to herself. My head shot up when I heard her door slam and her footsteps hurrying back to the kitchen. Her face was not sad or teary, but delighted and excited. In her ams were bags with her, Clay's and Dojo's names labeling them.

"I checked to see if you had seen our gifts yet, and seeing them untouched in your closet broke my heart," she said in a mocking tone with a grin on her face. "So here they are, open them already!" she placed the bags in front of me.

A bit shocked, I glanced at the others' looks on their faces. Each of them had inspired glints in their eyes. I smiled, realizing that the glint wasn't there because of the presents, but it was their quiet determination. The promise we made to each other to get Omi back, no matter what. I flashed a knowing grin at them, letting them know I was also prepared to kick some major ass to get our egotistical friend back.

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? POV

I watched sight of the temple, a toothy grin plastered on my face as I petted the almost golden cub on my lap. So, the dragon has returned from his vacation? I flicked my wrist for the orb in front of me to disappear.

"I should roll out my own... 'welcome' mat for him, what do you think?" I asked the cub, and received a purr in return as the cat's black eyes looked into mine with a sinister glint in its eyes.

NOTA: No idea why I wrote ? POV. Its so obvious XD

Translation:

Muito hush hush, certo?: Very hush hush right?

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