The sun was setting on the Xiaolin Temple; It has been a long day for Coby after he revealed his wyvern nature to the monks; but after his little reveal; he tried to spend some quiet time for himself, until Omi told him that he had to see Master Fung to speak to him about what he did.
And there he was now: on the main chamber on the temple, facing Master Fung and explaining his wyvern nature to the old master. As both of them were sitting on Lotus position.
"...and so, that's what I really am, Master Fung." Coby had finished explaining with those words. "...I'm sorry if a Shen Gong Wu like this one fell in my hands; but you have to understand: I felt something on that armlet calling me, like he wanted me to be stronger; I'm just sick of always being looked down as a weak one...I hate it...I HATE IT!" Coby shouted, when Coby notices it, he covers his mouth and after five seconds or so, Coby returns to his normal tone of voice.
"Y-yeah...I just don't like when I feel like it…"
That having been said, Coby then braced himself for what Master Fung was going to say of this revelation.
"Young Markos…" Master Fung started "Could you please wait outside of the chambers? I've have a lot to think about."
"Yes…..Master Fung."
Coby couldn't help but still be very concerned about what was going to happen now.
Once outside, he sees the four monks entering Fung's room, making Coby say to himself:
"This is it...they're gonna throw me out...I can feel it…" and Coby curls into a ball and starts quivering; just then, Dojo was passing by with a towel around his neck and a back brush. On that moment, the dragon noticed Coby and gave him a couple of soft hits on the head with the back brush.
"Ah!" Coby was startled, but then he saw it was only Dojo, "Oh...hi Dojo."
"What's bothering you this time?" Dojo asked, to which Coby said:
"I think I'm about to be kicked out."
Dojo chuckled and said "What makes you think that?"
"I….I just feel it!" Coby explained "I've explained to Master Fung I'm not a human and he said 'he had a lot to think about'."
"I don't think it means, what you think it means."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I know Master Fung and I know he's not one to judge!"
Coby sighed and before the meek boy could say anything, Dojo continued:
"Look, I know you're stressed and you feel that you have no place in the temple, but I can help you with that; us scalies must stick together, am I right?."
"T-Thank you….yeah…..heheh….then, why do you think Master Fung brought the monks?"
"Well, some things are not gonna be THAT easy, I can tell you that…"
"Heh…I just he doesn't hate me because I'm a wyvern."
"Look: Dragons, Wyverns...I don't see much difference, we've all have scales and we can fly; I have a couple of cousins that are engaged to wyverns, and just their parents mind, but you can blame them, they're pretty old fashioned; you don't wanna be there on Thanskgi-" then the dragon noticed Coby looking at him, with a confused expression.
"...I think I spoke too much."
"Hey, Coby." Clay called, as he came outside "Fung's need to talk to ya."
"Oh...um...okay." Coby followed the cowboy, and there they were: Omi, Raimundo and Kimiko at one side and Master Fung still sitting on lotus position.
"Step forward, Young Markos."
"Yes, Master Fung?" Coby asked, rubbing his arm.
"It has come to my attention that the words you've spoken the truth about your origin; and I can assure you that we have the best intentions to help you...but with good intentions alone, we cannot accomplish our goals."
"And...and what's that supposed to mean?"
"I've decided that one of my monks will be assigned to you as your caretaker: the monk will have the duty to look after you and personally train you on your time here; and making sure that you're on the right track."
"So….I get to stay?"
"Under special supervision of one of the monks."
"That's good….heheh…but who's gonna do it."
"I've already made my decision...and Raimundo is gonna look after you in the meantime."
"What?" Coby got surprised and looked at the tanned boy, seeing that Raimundo nodded; signaling that the worlds of the old master are true. "W-w-wow….heheh…"
"Raimundo, I hope you understand the responsibility you have for the moment."
"Yes Master Fung" Raimundo respectfully bowed, "I do."
"Good...there's nothing more to say, you're all dismissed." and the monks and Coby bowed and went outside; once there, Raimundo approached Coby.
"Come on, Cobes." Raimundo said "Let's get your things so we can sleep together."
"...o-okay…." Coby replied that, blushing like crazy, though Raimundo wasn't noticing it much. Omi, meanwhile; was showing a big frown.
"I get Raimundo is the Shoku Warrior but come on!" Omi complained, "I was here before any of the others, I should be the one to help with Coby!"
"Why you?" Kimiko asked "Any one of us had the same chance to be his caretaker."
"Because I'm me?"
"And what else?" Clay asked
"I have extensive knowledge of the Shen Gong Wu, I'm very intelligent, and highly skilled on martial arts more than Raimundo."
"That's true, still...I think Coby needs someone as outgoing as Rai to help him out since he's really shy; haven't you thought of that?"
"No…..I guess I haven't...still, I don't have my full trust on Coby yet; he might try to make Raimundo go to the Heylin side...again." that comment made Kimiko and Clay stopped walking, something that Omi noticed. "What?"
"Are you sure it's Omi who's saying that?" Clay asked
"Of course it is! Why would it not be?"
"Because it seems that you're jealous of Coby taking Raimundo away from you." Kimiko asked, to which Omi gasped:
"JEALOUS!? Jealous of that guy!? He can't play the third trumpet of someone like me?"
"Second fiddle?" Clay asked,
"That makes no sense! But what will make sense is that I prove to Coby I'm the best master!" and Omi storms off, leaving Clay and Kimiko confused, and shrugging to each other.
Later on, at night; Coby was already wearing his pajamas: purple silk pajamas; the boy was coming back from brushing his teeth and ready to sleep next to Raimundo, although with their distance, when he opened the curtain, he saw something that surprised him:
Raimundo was looking himself in his mirror, posing and flexing his muscles as he was wearing just a green and yellow jockstrap, which of course revealed a lot more skin that what Coby was of Coby, he couldn't take his eyes off. He was entranced seeing the strong arm muscles, the well-toned chest and six-pack, a firm rear and from the look of the bulge, it looked like Raimundo was 'packing'.
Coby didn't know what to do, think, or say. Luckily for him it didn't seem Raimundo was noticing his near permanent gaze. Though all of the sudden:
"Coby, are you back yet?" he asked aloud, making Coby alarmed into shutting the curtains:
"Ah! Y-y-yes! I'm back!"
"OK, give me a sec...I need to put something on."
"O-Okay…." Coby waited for a couple of minutes; until Raimundo pulled the curtains revealing he was now in his sleeping gown: it was a green long-sleeve shirt, with a face sticking his tongue out on the chest, blue-ish green pants with the same faces all over it and green slippers. Coby however, was trying to focus on other things, namely hiding the front part of his pants and on Raimundo's face.
"OK, everything set?" Raimundo asked, to which Coby just nodded.
"OK, your cover and pillows are ready…"
"Oh yeah?" Coby sees that indeed, Raimundo prepared the 'bed' with two pillows and an extra blanket for Coby. Coby softly hovered and lied on the floor, feeling a little bit uncomfortable, and not knowing what to do about it.
"Mhmm…" Coby whimpered a little.
"Something wrong?"
"N-no! Nothing's wrong...this….bed is comfortable, heheh..."
"You sure?"
"YES! Positive!"
"Alrighty then." on that moment, Raimundo picked up something from his chest: a brown teddy bear with beady black eyes. He cuddled to it as if it were an old friend of his and throws himself to rest on the makeshift bed, as if forgetting all else.
"Raimundo?" Coby asked as he was facing opposite to Rai's.
"Yes?"
"How was your life?...before all of this?"
"Before...this?"
"Yes...the temple...being a Shogo Warrior."
"Hahah...it's Shoku Warrior." Raimundo chuckled a little, Coby blushed a little, feeling slightly embarrassed - but in a minor way.
"Sorry…..heheh…."
"Well, there's nothing much going around my life: I was a poor, but stylish boy living in Rio; I had to go to a lot of hustle to go and give a nice life to my big family."
"...H-how big is it?"
"Very big one: 8 brothers and sister for starters."
"Woah! That's...that's…"
"Big? And I haven't even talked about the other family members."
"Oh….heheh….it's bigger than mine."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, haha."
The two giggled a little and the Brazilian continued:
"Anyway, I did have to do a lot to help my parents to maintain the family, even I got to go on...ehem...some sketchy places to help, and even the circus."
"The circus?"
"Don't ask….hahaha; but where else I got my sweet moves?"
"Really?"
"That and because I learned some capoeira."
"What's that?"
"I'll teach you one of this days."
"Okay…."
"So….how about you...anything interesting you wanna share of your life?" Raimundo asked, but Coby got quiet again, before meekly saying:
"No...not really."
"Really? You must have something amusing on your life to tell me about…"
"Not really."
"Whatever you say, ." Raimundo give a light nudge to Coby, Coby softly laughed at, and nudged back - albeit even lighter and weaker.
"Get some rest, we have a nice day ahead of us."
"Yeah…..goodnight?"
"Goodnight."
The two boys went to sleep, Raimundo holding his teddy bear softly as Coby tried to get into deep sleep, then Coby turned and raised his body a little; seeing the Brazilian boy sleeping, and he thought:
"Should I tell him? Or….should I not?" Coby thought "But...what if he doesn't accept me? What if he rejects me...but, he looks so beautiful."
Coby shook his head swiftly at that thought, wanting to forget all about what he was thinking. But then, other thoughts invaded his head…
"Use me...use me...use me.."
"N-N-N-No!"
"Why not?"
"It's too dangerous…..please...stop….tempting me…."
"You wanna be stronger, don't you?"
"N-No, I-I mean yes….I mean…...leave me alone…."
*BOOOOM*
An explosion is heard outside of the temple, waking up everyone on the room to its presence, Coby being scared and having no idea what could've made the noise.
"AAAH! W-W-WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Coby shouted, to which he got in response:
"Whatever it is, it doesn't respect closing hours." Raimundo commented "Quick, let's get changed!"
"Okay….is there even enough time for that though?"
Meanwhile, outside of the temple; Jack Spicer was mounting a giant golden bot with bowling pins coming out of his head, sporting a black and silver bowling shirt and a cannon mounted on his left arm. And it wasn't the only robot that as there was at least 10 of the same robots.
And there he was :Jack Spicer - wearing a black and silver bowling uniform.
"BOWLER-BOTS! " he commanded, "READY TO FIRE…...NOW!" and the robots started to fire bowling balls like cannons towards the temple.
He continued in his mocking:
"Xiaolin Losers...come out to plaaaaay!" Jack Spicer said as he had a couple of glass cola bottles and started to clink them, making noise.
"Xiaolin Looooseeeers!"