A/N: What has to be THE sweetest chapter in the story. I don't own Xiaolin Showdown. I wish I owned Jack, but that privilage belongs to Mikaela. Or does it? Oooh. We'll see! We'll finally get to see what Jack wants Dojo for as well. I'll try to get the rest of this up before the end of the year.
The Proposal
"Hello?"
"Hey Mickey. How much of the movie have I missed?"
"Hmph. I'm at the part with the magic carpet ride. Why haven't you taken me on a magic carpet ride?" Her voice whined into her cell phone.
"I don't have a magic carpet, Mick. If I did, we would have gone on a magic carpet ride." He heard his girlfriend sigh. "But... I do have something else. Come outside."
She held the phone away from her, and looked at it with disguest before snapping it back to her ear. "Are you serious? Jack? Hello? Ugh! Nice of you to hang up, butt hole!" She said, pausing the movie and walking to the door.
"First you walk out and then you hang up on me. Real princely, Jack Spicer! You should know, that I-- I-- I--" She stuttered, unable to finish her statement. Jack was there, true, but he was also on top of a majestic looking green dragon. One that looked sort of familiar...
"DOJO?!?"
He winked. "Nice to see you too. Are we going or what?" Mikaela ran over, jumping on, with Jack's help.
Soon, they were back in the sky, both of them basking in the cool spring air, the moonlight on their backs. "Oh... This is sooo sweet!!! Thank you!" She said, hugging Jack.
"Hey, no problem! I love being woken up in the middle of the night to fly around China aimlessly!" Dojo yelled irritably. Mikaela laughed and hugged Dojo as well, feeling him grow kinda warm.
"And thank you, too, Dojo." She turned back to her boyfriend. "So, what's the occasion, Jack? Really?" She asked.
Jack looked her, his eyes alight with kindness. "Mikaela... I know you don't want me to die. But if I don't, then someone else will have to. And they all have full lives to live, and a world to save from evil. They're heroes, you know how that goes. And I know I'd have you, and Alexis if I didn't do this, but... I can't do that to them. They're like friends, or something. But... I couldn't leave you thinking that I would just abandon you." Mikaela wiped a tear away.
"Jack, I wouldn't think that..."
"Mikaela? I truly do love you." She bit her lip.
He made it sound as if he was dying right then. "I love you too, Jack. Really and truly."
"You mean it?"
"Of course I do!"
"... Would you marry me?"
Her glowing hair whipped around her face as she stared hard at him, hardly thinking she could believe her ears. She wanted to say what, and to have him reply 'You know, in a year or two, when we're older, after the baby comes.' But she knew, just knew that's not what he meant. She knew he meant 'Would you marry me?', the kind that men say to women they've known for a long time, when they want to get married in a few months, or as soon as possible. She knew he meant 'Would you marry me? Now, before I die, so I can really and truly be with you, always?'.
"... Yes. I will." Jack smiled and hugged her, but recoiled when he felt something cold and wet hit his arm.
"Dojo, are you crying?"
"J-just you wait... I'll be c-c-crying m-more at the wedding!"
They flew, then, to the Xiaolin Temple, and hung in the air above it for a few minutes. "You see that garden? The one with the cherry blossoms? That's where..."
Mikaela squealed. "Seriously? OH... yeay..." Was all she could manage to say, as her excitement peaked and she started to cry, and she thought she couldn't get any happier. Dojo landed in front of Master Fung, coiling around the older man's shoulder once he shrank.
A bit of movement from the back window caught Kimiko's eye. "Huh? Hey, guys! Jack's back! And he brought Mikaela!"
That got the guys' attention for sure.
"Mikaela's here?" Kimiko nodded, and they peered out the window, as Jack appeared to be explaining something to Master Fung, indicating to his girlfriend several times, and pointing to the trees around them a few times, to which the girl would clap. Master Fung, surprisingly for the monks, seemed calm through all this, pleased, even, to the point of being...
"Scratched pink?" Omi offered, as they tried to figure out what was going on.
Clay shook his head. "Tickled pink, Omi. Tarnation, it must be somethin' really great, 'cuz Mickey seems more excited than a dog at a free steak house." Raimundo stepped away from the window.
"I couldn't have said it better myself. Come on, we gotta find out what's going on."
"... and I'll set up everything from there. So it'll all be fixed up in a week, don't worry." Jack said. The warriors looked at him.
"Spicer, what are you doing here?" Kimiko asked, scowling at him.
Jack opened his arms. "I'm NOT doing anything wrong, if that's what you're wondering, Tohomiko." She looked irritated and frustrated, but settled with wrapping her arms around herself.
"So, I don' git it, Spicer. What ARE you doin' here? You come here, firs' to talk to Master Fung, and again now... what're you up to?" Jack began to talk, but stopped when Mickey interrupted him.
"OH! Can I tell them? PLEASE? Oh, I really REALLY want to! Can I? I wanna do it, pleasepleaseplease?"
Jack closed his eyes and shook his head, quite amused at his fiance's giddiness. "Fine. Go normal. She was crazy to begin with." He added, earning himself a punch in the arm by Mikaela. "Ow! That huuurt..." He whined. She ignored him, and stepped forward, pausing for a second, before sliding next to Kimiko and whispering something in her ear. Kimiko's face went into shock as Mikaela stepped back, a smug look on her face.
A few seconds of uncomfortable silence. Then...
"YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED!?!?" She shrieked.
Mikaela looked over at Jack, who was staring at his girlfriend questioningly. "She's got a louder voice than me."
A rush of questions, statements, and congratulations filled the air, as Mikaela saw fit to answer all of them. Jack walked back to Master Fung, to finish discussing the preparations. It was the last nice thing he could do for the girl he loved.
A/N: AWWW!! I told you, sweetest, cutest chapter I've ever written. Super fluffy, I know. Not my style AT ALL! But, no worries. It'll be back to normal in no time! Don't forget to review, any types are welcome!
