Wow, I haven't updated this in almost a year. AGAIN!

I wasn't really thinking about this story or even this fandom when I decided to come back to this and write another chapter or two, but because it was coming up to almost a year since I last updated this, I thought I should because I didn't want to neglect this story. So I tried to get my brain back into the fandom by rewatching episodes of the show, reading my old favorite fanfics of the show (even some new ones), and looking at it's fan art. But now I understand that I shouldn't push my creativity if my brain isn't thinking in that area.

Just like what BeyondtheClouds777 said in her explanation on why she isn't going to be posting anymore of her 'Race to the Edge B Seasons' (love them, love her work). She said, and I quote:

"It's just really hard to write in a fandom I'm being drawn out of, and I don't want to force myself to write, because if I do that, everything I attempt will be mediocre, and you guys don't deserve that."

Plus, forcing it takes most of the enjoyment of writing from the writer.

She said she may come back to it if/when she gets back into the fandom, but even she doesn't know when that will be. So I am not going to force myself anymore.

*Little warning; because I wanted to spice this up with more love, I wrote in a bit of bold actions for our couples of this story. Most likely will be carried on with future chapters.


Five days later (9 days till the contest):

Raimundo was in his cubicle, packing a bag for their trip. His family wanted him to come home and celebrate the upcoming celebration of Carnavale with them, and invited Franciscka and the other monks to come as well. The parade was just the day after the contest after all. This was okay with Master Fung, provided that Dojo accompanies them in case a Shen Gong Wu goes active while they're gone. And they bring a few Wu and their Wudai weapons to defend themselves if they are attacked by the Heylin.

After strapping all their bags to Dojo's back and waving good bye to Master Fung, the five young adults were up in the air, heading for Brazil. Seeing the error in the last time she rode on the dragon with the others, Franciscka took her seat behind Raimundo instead of in between him and Kimiko.

"You guys are going to love Rio," Rai told his friends as they flew. "It's always sunny, there's a lot of fun places to hang, and my ma is the best cook," he boasted with a grin, excited to see his home again.

"So will we be staying at your home Raimundo?" Omi asked from up front.

"Yup. I mean, I have a big family but don't worry, we've got plenty of room," he reassured them.

"So who exactly are we meeting when we land?" Clay asked from the back, behind Franciscka.

"Well, first off my parents, then there's my five younger siblings, my older sister Larissa," Rai listed off with his fingers. "Oh, and my grandmother Gloria," he added.

"That is a big family," Omi marveled.

"That's just the people that live in my house Omi," Rai chuckled. "My aunts, uncles, cousins, other grandparents, and my oldest siblings will be coming for our little party at the house the day before Carnavale," he told them. Everyone all cheered, liking the sound of the party before the parade.

But then I thought occurred to the girl in front of Raimundo. "But Rai, isn't the dance contest the day before Carnavale?"

"Ah, you are correct my dear Dragon of Fire," Rai said playfully, earning a light chuckle from both females on the dragon with them. "Which is why everyone is going to meet us at the house and they will all be coming to watch the contest. Then afterwards, we will celebrate the coming of Carnavale back at the house for the rest of the evening," he explained happily.

"That and we'll also celebrate any victory we may win," Franciscka added.

"Also true," Rai said to her, turning slightly to fist bump his partner. Kimiko watched this with a smile, happy the two were prepared to do their best to win, and no longer fearing she was at risk of losing Rai. She knew Franciscka. They were actually very good friends now, and she knew this girl was already in love with another, so she had nothing to be jealous of.


About an hour of flying later, Dojo and the young adults finally arrived in the skies of Rio de Janeiro. Remembering the place from a few weeks ago, Dojo flew to a small town just at the edge of the city.

"Welcome to Tubarao guys," Rai said as Dojo flew lower. They continued to glide just over the roofs of hut-like, slightly run-down houses and shops until they approached a small hill that overlooked a majority of the town. A some-what large, but old looking house standing tall.

Dojo landed not far from the yard and everyone leapt off before quickly unhooking their luggage from the dragon's flank so he could shrink. No sooner than after the dragon was his small self, the front door of the house burst open, followed by five kids running out to them.

"Rai!" They all shouted. Raimundo ran halfway to meet them. One girl, who looked to be the oldest out of the other kids met Rai first and hugged him, and the other four latched onto him in any way they could manage in a big group hug.

"We missed you, you big goofball."

"How's China?"

"Where else in the world have you been to?"

"Did you bring us any souvenirs?" All the kids asked Rai while he chuckled and tried to get them off him so he could make some introductions.

Raimundo faced his friends. "Guys, this is Isabelle, she's fourteen," he said, giving the oldest of the kids a pat on the head. "Fernando, he's ten," he pat the oldest boy among them. "The twins, Paulo and Patricia, seven," he pat the boy and girl that looked identical with both his hands at the same time.

"But I'm older by five minutes," the girl, Patricia, bragged. Her twin quickly stuck his tongue out at her.

Raimudo chuckled before feeling something tug on his pant leg. Rai looked down and saw his youngest brother, his little hands clutching onto his jeans. Rai smiled fondly and stooped down to pick the little boy up. "And little Andre, four years old," he introduced as Andre looked at all of the new comers with his big brown eyes, his thumb in his mouth, before quickly hiding his face away in Raimundo's neck. A majority of the girls in the group 'awed' at this, including Kimiko. She remembered Rai saying that his mother was still pregnant not long after arriving at the temple for the first time. She knew how Rai could be caring as a leader, but now she gets to see how caring of a brother he can be. She didn't know why exactly, but she was excited to see that.

Kimiko then saw three more people walking out of the front door and over to them. One was a girl who looked a bit older then her, and the other two were an older man and women. She assumed they must be Mr. and Mrs. Pedrosa.

"Raimundo!" the women exclaimed joyfully. Rai handed Andre over to the older girl beside the women before letting the women crush him in a motherly hug.

"Hi Mam-ma," Rai mumbled into her shoulder. They pulled away after a minute, then the man stepped in and hugged Rai.

"Good to have you home son," the man said after the hug ended.

"Good to be home again," he said to his parents. "Family, these are my friends from the Xiaolin Temple," he said, gesturing back behind him to his friends. "Omi, Clay, and Kimiko," he named off as he pointed to them, each giving their own greeting. "And you all remember Franciscka," he gestured to the last girl, also saying hello.

Mrs. Pedrosa stepped passed her son and started hugging the monks one by one. "It's nice to finally meet you all," she said before finally hugging Franciscka, happy to also see her again. "Now, grab your things and follow me inside," she told the group. Everyone grabbed a bag, some of Rai's family helping, and headed inside the house. The living room was the first room through the front door, a staircase to the left, a hallway under the stairs, a kitchen passed the living room toward the back of the house, followed by a back door that lead to a patio. "Up this way," Mrs. Pedrosa said, directing them towards the stairs.

Kimiko was about to follow, but stopped when she saw Raimundo change directions from the stairs to the patio door. With just her purse over her shoulder, Kimiko took a few steps forward, trying to see passed the wall and through the screen door. And as Rai walked through it, she watched as an elderly women stood up from a chair on the patio, with Rai's help, and the two hugged.

"That's my mother, Gloria," Mr. Pedrosa said from beside the female monk. Kimiko snapped her head to the older man. "She moved in with us when my father passed away six years ago," he told her gently.

"I'm sorry," Kimiko said.

Mr. Pedrosa just smiled and placed a gently hand on her shoulder. "Go on upstairs, put your bag down, settle in." Kimiko smiled and gave a nod before walking back to the stairs.

Once she was upstairs, she saw a long hall with several doors. There was walking space on both sides of the stairs and doors all along the walls. Some of them were opened and she saw a few of Rai's siblings inside, playing.

"Hey," a voice snapped her out of her looking. Kimiko turned and saw it was the older daughter that came out with Rai's parents. "You'll be staying with me," she said, gesturing for Kim to follow her further down the hall. Kimiko followed as she opened a door and walked inside. It was clearly an older girl's bedroom, but with two beds. One half of the room was decorated with pictures and posters, with a colorful bed spread. The other side had blank walls and no personal trinkets on any of the furniture. The second bed was made up, but with plainer sheets and blankets. Her other bags had been placed on top and on the floor beside it.

"You're Larissa, right?" Kimiko asked, placing her purse down as well.

"Yeah. Rai tell you about me?" the older girl replied.

"Are you the oldest?"

"Oldest in the house," she kindly corrected. "Our oldest sister Caroline moved out last year and moved into an apartment in Rio with her boyfriend Miguel. She's twenty-one. She used to share this room with me," she explained, nodding to the opposite side she was on, where Kimiko stood. "And the oldest of us all is Emilio; twenty-five. He moved out three year ago after he got married. He lives in the city too, with his wife Marissa and their little girl Bia."

"Rai's an uncle?" Kimiko asked, almost flabbergasted.

"You sound surprised," Larissa raised a brow.

"Well Rai never mentioned it," Kimiko shrugged.

"Well she's only two years old. I mean, we called Rai and told him but he hasn't met her in person yet," she explained. Kimiko was silent after that. Rai hadn't even met his own first niece yet? "I'll let you get unpacked. Make yourself at home," she said kindly before walking out and closing the door behind her.


Kimiko spent the next hour unpacking all her clothes and electronics. And thinking.

She never realized how much one can miss out on their family while away for as long as they have. True, she remembers Raimundo leaving to visit his family a few times over the years. As did she and Clay. Kimiko missed her papa all the time, but Raimundo had a big family. A lot more people to keep up with. More people to miss.

After she was satisfied with her settling, Kimiko walked out of the room and back down the stairs. Rai, Omi, Franciscka, and Rai's younger siblings were all seated in the living room.

"Kim, there you are. Come on over," Rai said, turning from where he sat on the couch, Andre in his lap. Kimiko smiled and walked over, sitting on the couch next to Raimundo. "Clay wanted to help mom in the kitchen. Dinner will be really soon," he told her. Kimiko just smiled at her best friend, then looked to the little boy in his lap, giving him a smile as well. "Can you say hi to Kimiko, Andre?" Rai softly asked his little brother. Andre turned and looked at the black haired girl on the couch with him and his brother, smiling at him.

"Hi," the little boy said in a small voice.

"Hi Andre," Kimiko said sweetly. Andre looked at Kimiko for an extra few seconds, then proceeded to climb off of Raimundo's lap, crawl over to the next couch cushion, and laid his head on Kimiko's lap, closing his eyes.

Isabelle and Patricia chuckled behind their hands. Fernando and Paulo rolled their eyes, but with amused smirks. Omi and Franciscka just watched with quiet 'aw's under their breath. Raimundo chuckled too, looking back from his youngest brother's peaceful face to Kimiko's shocked, but not displeased face.

"You don't mind, do you?" Raimundo asked honestly, but still smiling amused.

"No, not at all," Kimiko waved off. "I just thought he was shy."

"Oh, he is, but he warms up to new people pretty fast. Especially if he knows they are close friends to family members," he explained. "And especially girls," he chuckled again.

Kimiko chuckled herself, quietly as to not disturb the four year old trying to nap. "Is that so? Well I'm certainly warming up to him," she said playfully, placing a gentle hand on the boy's head, softly carding her fingers through her dark brown hair. Very similar to Rai's hair.

Raimundo watched with admiration as Kimiko stroked his youngest brother's hair. Kind, caring, gentle at the right times. She looked almost motherly. Realizing this warmed Raimundo's heart. Seeing Kimiko getting along nicely with his family. The Dragon of the Wind was however, snapped out of his lovely viewing when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it," Rai said, getting off the couch and going over to the front door on the other side of the room.

Kimiko, one hand still stroking Andre's hair, the other slowly rubbing his back, looked over to Franciscka on another chair. The girl from Sao Paulo gave the girl from Tokyo a smile, adoring the cute little picture she was painting in the Pedrosa's living room. She knew, out of all his older brothers, Raimundo was Andre's favorite. So any friend of Raimundos', Andre was gonna trust and want to curl up with in almost no time. Especially if his friend was a girl as pretty and kind as Kimiko.

"Franciscka," Rai called from the door. "You have a visitor," he said in a happy, sing-song tone.

Curious, Franciscka stood and walked around the couch Kimiko and Andre were on and made her way to the door. Rai stepped away from the door to reveal who he had just let in.

"Renny!" Franciscka squealed before sprinting to the teenage boy in the wheel chair just inside the door way. Kimiko turned in her seat to watch as Franciscka practically leaped into Renny's lap, sitting down with both her legs hanging off the right side on his legs, her arms wrapping around his neck, peppering his face with kisses. Renny held her close and kissed her back.

"I missed you so much," Renny said after the two pulled away to look at each other.

"Not as much as I missed you," the girl in his lap said before kissing him full on the lips, hungrily.

"Excuse me," Larissa said, entering the room from the kitchen. The two love birds stopped and looked at the older girl with a rag in her hands. "Mam-ma's busy in the kitchen, so she sent me out here to remind you two that there are children in this house," she said firmly, nodding her head toward their younger siblings, playing with Omi on the living room floor.

"Right, sorry," Franciscka apologized with a blush as she stood back up, only to lean forward and give her boyfriend one last kiss on the forehead. Larissa smirked at the two before walking back into the kitchen to help her mother and Clay cook.

Renny looked up to Raimundo and offered him a hand. "Good to see you again Rai," he smiled.

"You too," Rai said happily, shaking his hand. "You guys wanna stay for dinner?" he asked after letting go.

"Oh, well thanks, but…" Renny stuttered before looking to his girlfriend. "Franciscka, your aunt expects the both of us back at her place for dinner," he said.

"Really?"

"Yeah, she was just going to call you but I wanted to come over here myself and meet your new friends," he said, taking her hand, smiling up at her. "Plus, I couldn't wait to see you." Franciscka smiled back down at him before looking over her shoulder at Kimiko, still trapped on the couch by Andre's head and Omi playing attentively with the rest of Rai's younger siblings. And Clay was busy helping with dinner.

"They're a bit occupied at the moment," she chuckled. "Why don't we all meet up tomorrow?"

"Sure. We could meet up in the city and show your friends around," Renny suggested to Raimundo.

"That sounds awesome," Rai agreed.

"Great. Well, we should go," Renny said before looking to Franciscka. Taking the hint, Franciscka walked around Renny and took the handles on the back of his wheel chair.

"See you tomorrow," Franciscka said to Rai, also looking back over to Kimiko. Kimiko looked back as well and gave her a quick wave.

"See you tomorrow," Rai said to the two as Franciscka pulled her boyfriend's wheel chair backwards and out the door. Raimundo looked out a window by the door and watched as Franciscka and a driver helped Renny into a car. Franciscka got in herself after him, and the driver closed the door for her before walking around, got into the driver's seat and drove down the hill.

"Raimundo," a stern female voice said from behind him. Rai turned and saw his mother standing in the door that connected the living room to the kitchen. "Help your sister sit the table," she told him.

"Yes Mam-ma," Raimundo nodded respectfully. The women smiled warmly at her son before going back into the kitchen.

On his way out of the room, Rai spared one last look to Kimiko, still on the couch with Andre's head in her lap. Still tenderly stroking his hair and rubbing his back. Andre's eyes were still closed as he sucked his thumb. Kimiko's eyes stayed on him, watching his steady breathing with care and a deep fondness.

He had never seen Andre look so peaceful. And he had never seen Kimiko look more beautiful.


Reinaldo laid on his back on his bed in the guess room of Franciscka's Aunt Clara's house in the city of Rio. Franciscka was on her side against him, half lying on top of him, making out feverishly, anxious after being apart for almost a full month.

Renny wore a plain white t-shirt and red pajama pants, Franciscka wore an adorable two piece pair of silky, sky blue pajamas. The blouse helm ending a few inches passed her waist, and pants that ended in the middle of her calves.

Franciscka's right fingers were locked lovingly in her boyfriend's hair, her other hand resting on his chest. Renny's hands ran constantly up and down Franciscka's back and sides, occasionally trailing lower to give her plump ass an affectionate squeeze. Resulting in a deeper moan from the young women above him each time.

After kissing for too long, the two parted for air, breathing heavily while looking into each other's eyes. Franciscka smiled before pecking her beloved's lips one more time, then pulled away, rolling over to sit up on the left side of the bed.

Renny watched his girlfriend give a heavy sigh as she weaved a hand through her hair.

"You okay?" he asked a bit concerned, propping himself up on his elbows.

"Yeah I'm fine," Franciscka sighed again. She looked over to Renny and he did not look convinced. "It's just… I don't know what to do about Rai," she admitted.

"Is he still ticked about last time?"

"I honestly don't know. He said not to bring it up ever again, but now it's like we can't even talk about what we're going to do about this contest," she admitted with frustration.

"You think he's just assuming it's the same old deal?" Renny asked, turning to lie on his side, facing his girlfriend.

"He's not going to agree to our old deal again. Whatever place we win, he knows I'm going to try and give him my half one way or another," she exasperated, flopping her head down onto the pillow behind her in frustration.

Franciscka rubbed her forehead, not knowing what to do. Renny started rubbing her arm to show a bit of comfort as he thought of how they could handle this.

"So make him a new deal."


I have already written the next chapter and will post it in a few days. After that, I don't know when I'll come back to this.