Hey guys, I know I liad because I didn't update on friday! I'm sorry just life got busy, I went on a date on friday night and I didn't have time to write it, then on saturday I was writing when my sister broke my laptop charger and it shut down, and my house computer doesn't work(didn't work) so then I had nothing to work with and the public library is closed Sundays, ya so today is sunday I know and I got my home computer to work by using the mobil AP on my cellphone, I'm sorry 21hugs I know this is so delayed! So to make it up I'll use your charcter for a very Important role.

21hugs: I'm sorry times a million times! So you'll be in like 4 different chapters!

OK guys today is also TheXGrayXLady's birthday! so they asked me to mentiopn their stories! so guys check out...

Sky Heart: I've been reading this but haven't gotten to the end yet, but it's really good trust me! Also there's...

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OK guys here's the next chapter I know it's over due, I'll update again tomorrow or Tuesday!

disclamier: I do nto own the lyrics to the Portugese happy birthday song, and it's to the tune of Only time by Enya. The other song Best Friends forever is also not mine it's by Brynt Oden... I think, the guy who wrote the duck song

Chapter 8

The boy stood by the window watching the clouds as they rolled by and out of sight leaving darker clouds behind, but the occasional sun beam braking through. He watched as the branches swayed in the wind.

"Quentin, why don't you wait downstairs instead?" the boy turned to see his mother standing there eyeing him. He was supposed to be waiting for the worker, but the winds outside told him otherwise.

"Fine." he said noticing the look on her face. The one she always gave when she was daring him to talk back. He quickly got up and headed downstairs to what used to be the servants room but was now the main entrance. It had been repainted, redecorated and re-floored now it looked just as nice as the rest of the palace. He walked outside and inhaled deeply as the cool September winds whipped his face. He stepped forward and walked down a few steps then took a seat waiting.

He waited for a while until he noticed a branch shake violently and a few leafs come off. He grinned to himself then began to wave his hand after whispering wind. He caused the leaf to twirl and spin, flip and dance. He smiled watching it then soon it broke into flames and the ash blow away with the wind. He groaned realizing he still couldn't fully control his fire side. Then there was a change in the wind pattern as if it were warning him.

He whipped his head up and his eyes went wide at the sight. A girl... more like an older woman, she looked to be about 21 but the way she was dressed she looked to be seventeen. She had on a black dress that was tight and fitted at the top the from the waist down it was flimsy and gave her an hour glass figure. Her skin was a pale milky white like her mothers but seemed smoother. Her face was flawless and looked smooth, her lips were a deep shade of blackish/purple. The bridge of her nose and eyes were covered by an elegant black butterfly mask that made her eyes blend in with it, they seemed a dark black possible purple by the way she shifted her weight and the sun hit them. Her bangs came down past her eyebrows and just above her long thick eyelashes, they were quite noticeably even from a distance. The rest of her hair was knee length and was straight until you hit the bottom where it curled slightly giving it the figure of a cape.

He stared unsure of whether to run or stay still. He jumped when he heard the door behind him open and his parents stepped out laughing and holding hands. They froze noticing Quentin's tension he quickly pointed a finger up and they moved there gaze upward then...

"holy shit!" Raimundo shouted doubling over in shock, he clutched his chest then looked back up at the girl. She wasn't ugly in fact she was the opposite of ugly, but yet the way she stood and stared gave off the impression of a ghostly killer. "I thought you were some escape Mannequin come to kill us all for being devilishly handsome." he said joking around and suddenly the girl flipped forward landing in front of him in a few quick jumps.

"and I thought you were an escape character of Team umizoomi." she whispered in a dry playful tone after looking at the blue hoodie he had on with blue jeans. Raimundo stared in shock then she broke out laughing. "Take it easy, just a joke, anyways I'm Ceara Young the new worker, sorry for the scare." she said holding her hand out to the unmoving Raimundo.

"Forget him, I'm Kimiko, that's Raimundo my husband and that's our son Quentin." Kimiko answered shaking Ceara's hand.

"I thought you guys would be older and wrinklier." Ceara said not a single hint of joking in her voice.

"We don't age pat twenty until the last elemental dragon thinks we've completed our mission in life." Kimiko answered. Ceara nodded then looked over at Quentin. He had black messy hair and pale skin with bright green eyes.

"you know Quentin, if you were a few years older and had darker eyes you would be just my type." Ceara said walking past them inside. Quentin stood there in shock and looked at his mother who shrugged. They walked inside and caught up quickly.

They walked in silence Raimundo eyeing her suspicisly after hearing her last name. Young. Could she be related to Chase Young in anyway? She sure seemed like it. She could be here to kill them all during the night!

"Do you know Chase Young?" Raimundo suddenly asked and they all stopped.

"What?" Ceara asked in confusion.

"Chase Young, do you know him, yes or no, it's not that hard." he said to her.

"No, I have no idea who you are talking about." she answered crossing her arms. Raimundo shrugged and they went on their way.

"Well... this has been fun and all... but I think I'll be going now..." Quentin said stepping to the side slowly.

"Oh no you don't!" Kimiko snapped. "You're going to show her around, your father and I have work to do." she said dragging Raimundo away.

"But! She scares me!" he cried out to her.

"Deal with it." Ceara snapped then began to walk down the hall. Quentin followed in silence until she stopped him. "Just so you know, don't piss me off, don't let me be hungry, and don't wake me if you know I'll be tired, or I will be your worst nightmare, got it?" she said to him.

"What'll you do if I do any of the above?" Quentin asked.

"You won't like me then, and trust me, I can be highly sarcastic with a dry sense of humor." she said to him.

"Doubt your sense of humor could be worse than my dads." Quentin mumbled.

"shut up, and just give me the stupid tour so we can get this over with." He nodded and they headed down an empty hall. They walked down past Quentin's room the past his parents room when she stopped him. "Where's the door take you?" she pointed to the small door handle in the bottom corner in the wall just past his parents room.

"It's a secret door that leads to the real end of this hall and just past that wall is a bedroom, Lavender's bedroom a sister I was supposed to have but she ended up as a miss-carriage." he told her and she nodded. He soon found his mind drifting off towards Lavender Young, the girl from the streets and how her looks reminded him of his own father. But no, she can't be my parents told me she was a miss-carriage.

"Don't always trust your parents Quentin, sometimes your mind knows the truth with out you knowing." she whispered her eyes giving off a distant look.

"what?" he asked quickly.

"Lavender." she whispered then shook her head. "What did I just say?" she asked giving him a confused look.

"I don't know..." he mumbled then began to walk down the hall and turned a corner just before the fake wall. they walked in silence their footsteps echoing through the empty hall. It was normal for the palace to be this empty at lunch time but some how, the feeling was strange with Ceara around.

They walked into the lunchroom to find Quentin's dad and mom waiting for them. Ceara ran up to them seeming a bit happy.

"Could I sing a little song to everybody?" she asked a big grin on her face, her eyes glowing with hope and joy behind the butterfly mask.

"Um, yeah sure." Raimundo answered she clapped in joy and ran off towards the small radio set they had in the corner on the lunch room. She pulled out a CD and stuck it in. She walked back smiling then stood on a table and closed her eyes waiting for the music to begin.

Soon a soft tune began and she waited eight beats before singing.

Hoje é um dia especial she surprised everybody with her voice, it was like silk as it flowed nicely with the tune of the song.

Parabéns para você, she held the voce for a few beats then dropped it and she dropped her hands in front of her bending her head forward

É o seu aniversário she lightly swung her hands upward and slid her left foot forward

Os seus amiguinhos estão aqui she jumped down her long black hair flying into the air then down around her shoulders.

Para juntos com você she again held the voce out for a few beats then she spun around and began to walk down the rows of lunch tables while the children stared in silence

Poderem celebrar

Por mais um ano de vida she stopped at the end of a row and turned on her heels she looked around at everybody and gave them a smile

Que o Senhor concedeu she began to spin down the row on right heel then left heel then right heel, her hair flying around creating a black flying wall around her.

Papai e a mamãe

Também felizes estão her voice began to echo off the walls and it sounded like back up singers

É bom lhe ver contente she stopped and placed her hands above her head in a circle, she stood there while singing

Agitando sem parar she whispered swinging forward an spinning

E ver você crescendo

Com Jesus no coração she stopped and stood in place singing while looking at everybody

Ah, ah, ah, she sang three times in a row

Tchup, tchu ru

Tchup, tchup ru she sang it twice each

Parabéns para você

Pelo seu aniversário she took slow steps forward, bobbing her head slightly her hair swinging from side to side.

Tchup, tchu ru

Tchup, tchu ru she sang twice again

Que Deus lhe abençoe her voice echoed more off the walls like somebody was singing back to her

E lhe faça feliz

É bigy, é bigy, é big, é big, é bigy she sang this line four times then stood and began to walk back to the first table

É hora, é hora, é hora she flipped forward and landed on the table, she stood and smiled at everyone

Ratimpum. Parabéns!

Parabéns, parabéns, pra você! the echo came back and the tune finished just as she sat on her knees bending her head forward to hide her body in her long black hair.

She stood and jumped down walking over to Quentin, Raimundo and Kimiko just as the kids broke out clapping for her. She smiled gingerly at them and removed her mask, the light causing her eyes to shine purple.

"Who's birthday?" Raimundo asked in Portuguese. She smiled and spoke in a soft voice.

"Mine." Kimiko looked up in confusion.

"What?"

"It's her birthday." Raimundo explained.

"Oh." Kimiko and Quentin spoke at the same time.

"Yeah so as another birthday gift, Kimiko and Raimundo mind singing this for me?" she asked handing them a sheet with lyrics. She stared at her as if wanting to say no but she shoved them forward onto the table while they complained.

"bo-we really- ugh-er-um you know, we have- no-" they stopped one the song began.

We don't always like the same things, take ice-cream we like different flavors Raimundo sang unsure of whether he was singing correctly.

And we don't always see things the same once you called me a name and I returned the favor Kimiko sang in her breeze like voice. They began to smile as they realized this song was nothing but the truth about their relationship.

But you are my best friend forever, we won't ever let that end, no never, you are here for me and I am here for you that's what best friends do. They sang together as Raimundo crumpled the paper and tossed it over his shoulder, they had decided to sing their own lyrics.

We don't always see eye to eye, don't ask me why, Kimiko sang happily as they jumped down from the table going in different directions.

but we don't mind it, and we don't always get along but our friendship's strong, we can always find it, Raimundo sang as they stopped at different ends of the lunchroom their lyrics matching perfectly with the tune of the song.

and you are my best friend forever we wont ever let that end no never you are here for me and I am here for you, that's what best friends do Kimiko sang as they meet in the middle of the lunchroom, they smiled agreeing on something unknown to the rest of the people watching.

we don't always fit in with the crowd but we still stand proud Raimundo sang holding the word proud for a two beats

and we stand together Kimiko finished for him as she made a ball of fire and he made a ball of wind to show they didn't fit in with the crowd because of their elemental powers

and we don't care what other people say we go our own true way ,that works a whole lot better, they sang together smiling as the ball of wind and the ball of fire disappeared.

and you are my best friend forever we wont ever let that end, no never, you are here for me and I am here for you, that's what best friends do Raimundo sang and she let a smile crawl to her lips.

you are my best friend forever and we wont ever let that end no never you are here for me and i am here for you, that's what best friends do, Kimiko sang as they held hands smiling

that's what best friends do they sang finishing the song, thjey turned and bowed as the children clapped for them

They walked over to a smiling Ceara and a laughing Quentin.

"I had no idea you guys could sing." Quentin said laughing.

"Oh yeah we figured that out back a while ago when we were forced to sing on stage at a restaurant because Kimiko ordered a sandwich." Raimundo said with a straight face and Quentin raised an eyebrow.

"Um... ok?" he mumbled and Ceara nodded.

"Keep the CD, I had to be on my way now." she walked towards the door.

"Wait! I thought you were going to work here." Raimundo said stopping her.

"Eh, not my thing, work... too much to do, anyways I have places to be, things to destroy, kids to scare." she said shrugging her shoulders and putting her mask back on after unclipping it from her belt.

"Wait, but you said you were going to work here." Quentin said holding her arm to stop her from leaving.

"I never said anything." she said shrugging her shoulders and pulling her arm out of his grasp and she turned then stopped. "Oh and Quentin, you might want to rethink you're assumption about that stranger... she might not be that big of a stranger." she said winking an eye then walking out the door.

"Wait!" Kimiko shouted as she and Raimundo ran off into the hall only to stop to find an empty hall not a trace that she had ever been there. "Where'd she go?" Kimiko whispered.

"who knows but we have a new theme song."

I know kind of short and really slow, don't blame me! Anyways...

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