Four reviews, you guys are getting better. This chapter is a graduation and birthday gift from me to me. Start excepting sooner updates now that my academic year is almost finally over. I still have another whole freaking week of school but that'll fly by. Maybe…

Ah, ah, ah, ah, Chapter Five, Chapter Five, ah, ah, ah, ah, Chapter FI-I-I-IVE!

That is a cheep imitation of "Stayin' Alive"

"Do you think they are dead?" Clay heard Nisha's voice.

"I do not think so," there came Omi's voice. Someone poked Clay in the side and he groaned. "Oh, Clay, you are not deceased. That is a relief," Clay opened his eyes to see Omi and Nisha beaming down at him, but the bright late morning sun shadowed their faces. Clay shifted and sat up. There was a soft feminine moan and something slid down his arm. He looked to his right; it was Carly lying on her front. Asleep. He'd fallen asleep with a girl. He nudged her a bit; she groaned again and lifted herself up.

"What?" she asked irritably glaring at him.

"How long we were asleep?" he asked back. Carly pushed up her sleeve to see her watch. She stared at it for several minutes trying to make sense of it.

"I think…" she began still looking at the watch, "Three hours?"

"Well," Omi began as he and Nisha started walking away, "We have much making in to do," The two of them turned their backs and were soon out of view.

Once Carly figured what Omi had said she yelled after them, "Too much information!" She turned to Clay, "Wanna go see a sparring?"

"Sure," he replied. She quickly pulled him away back toward the jade dragon fountain.

XxX With Raimundo XxX

"Kim, can I talk to you?" Rai asked her as she sat on the branch of a tree watching Tori and Steve from a distance.

"Sure Rai, what about?" She kept her eyes on the two dragons on the stone bench fifty feet away.

"Well," he began but fell silent, "I…" he trailed off, "It's just that-no…" Rai couldn't even form the sentence in his head.

After another couple failed attempts, Kimiko took her eyes off the Aussie and Grecian and looked down at the Brazilian boy on the ground, "What are you trying to say?"

Rai sighed and started all over speaking slowly, "I don't think that,"-he took a pause-"That Steve likes you like the way that you like him," He stopped for a whole minute then, when Kim showed no signs of killing him, kept talking, "I think he likes that Tori girl like the way that you like him," You sound like such an idiot! He yelled at himself, She's never gonna talk to you again,

Kimiko did talk to him again, "You're just jealous," she said watching the other two again, "That Steve's just a better guy than you," Rai saw the two figures get up off the bench and start walking again, "They're moving. I gotta go, Rai," she said nimbly jumping off the branch, "I can't get too far behind," She left him leaning against the strong old tree with a hurt expression on his face.

XxX With Carly and Clay XxX

The blonde girl raised her arms in defense to several spears of ice flying her way. A wall of shining light materialized in front of her and the shards shattered and fell to the dirt floor of the sparring circle. She swung her right up a diagonal to the left. Her left arm swung up diagonal right. Right arm diagonal left. Left arm diagonal right. Four boomerang shapes of radiance zipped at the gothic girl on the other side of the circle. One hit her legs knocking her to the ground. Once she was down, before she could rise, the other three pinned her down. The stringy gangly bandy-legged African boy crouched on the sidelines ran up to the pale Irish girl. He raised her arm and shouted, "Victor! The Dragon of Light!" All cheered particularly Carly who was already by her friend's side.

"Damn good job, Scotty," she said lightly punching her in the arm.

"'Tis nuthin'" She crossed the field and offered a hand to her fallen opponent. "Twas a good fight,"

The girl got up on her own. She dusted off her black clothes and brushed her greasy black hair, which hung in sheets, out of her face. "Whatever," she muttered shoving her hands in her pockets in skulking away.

"Weirdo," Carly said quietly.

"Aye," The Irish girl agreed.

The two girls returned to Clay who was talking to the African boy who'd refereed. "So you can talk to animals?" he asked in interest.

"Yes," the other boy nodded.

"Let's see it then," the Texan challenged. The dark-skinned boy made a short bird call. A noble stately hawk came in quick response. He offered his arm to the bird that perched with chest puffed out in pride. The boy too puffed out his chest and gave a big ear to ear Omi-like smile. Clay was unconvinced, "That just looks like bird calling. Can you really talk to it?" The other boy sighed and turned to the bird of prey on his arm. He gave it what you could guess were instructions. The bird flew off again and was soon gone.

"What's it doing?" Scotty asked him.

"It's gone to find the Dragon who brought me here," he replied matter-of-factly.

"And that is…?" Carl asked.

"I think her name was Victoria, but I am not sure,"

XxX With Tori and Steve and Kimiko XxX

"Do you have the feeling we're being watched?" Tori asked her companion. He shook his head.

"Nobody else here but that hawk," he pointed at the dark fowl sitting in a tree. Without any warning, it swooped down and grabbed Tori's sky blue shirt and attempted to pull her in the direction from which it had come. She started screaming bloody murder. "Calm down!" Steve shouted over her, "I think it just wants you to follow it," Tori began moving with the bird; it let her go and began flying fast. They had to run to keep up. Kimiko was not far behind, still stalking them. Raimundo followed, stalking Kimiko.

The hawk brought them to the sparring pavilion where Scotty, Carly and Clay stood with a tall African boy. The hawk perched on the boy's arm. "I told you so," the dark skinned boy said to Clay with a look of defiance.

"I know when I'm beat," the blonde replied scratching his head.

"Hey Tori," Carly picked up the conversation, "How's your day been?" Tori said it'd been fine but Carly wasn't really listening. Something had caught her eye. She saw over Tori's shoulder that Kimiko was approaching the pavilion; out farther off she saw the unmistakable shape of Raimundo.

Kimiko came up to them. She began talking as though she'd just come there by chance, "Oh, hi Steve. I haven't seen you all day," she was clearly lying but Steve didn't pick up on it.

"Oh, yeah," he replied with an awkward smile, "G'day, uh, what's your name again?"

Kimiko tried to keep a smile on her face, but there was a sad disappointed undertone in her expression and she said, "Kimiko," through slightly gritted teeth. He nodded and greeted her properly. Meaningless small talk quickly ensued in which Kimiko's coy behavior began to vex Tori and Scotty. Carly seemed unaffected by the flirtatious behavior and high pitched giggling coming from the direction of the Japanese girl. She talked pleasantly with Steve, the subject of the conversation wasn't clear but it could have been the weather, "I can feel it," Steve said, "Tori can too," The girl by his side was locked in a glaring contest with Kimiko, "Something big is coming. There's a lot of electricity in the air. Stuff like that happens before something like this," Carly stood nodding politely. She was really paying attention to Raimundo who had come closer to the group standing under the pavilion. The African boy had left with his hawk quite a while ago, disappearing without a word. Clay and Steve had begun talking about their lives back home. "My dad runs a diving business off the Barrier Reef. I'm a guide for first timin' blokes,"

"My daddy runs a beef ranch, been ropin' the lil doggies since I was nine," The talk continued on. Scotty listening politely; Carly had snuck off somewhere. Tori and Kimiko were still locked in glaring combat.

Raimundo watched the whole affair without much interest. True, he wanted to go down and join them but Kim would know he'd been following her. He was so busy swimming in his musings that when he felt a hand on his shoulder, he jumped five feet in the air. It was only Carly. "Got a problem, honey?" she asked with a happy but concerned look in her amber eyes.

After steadying his mile a minute heartbeat, Raimundo glumly told Carly what had happened when he'd tried to talk to Kimiko. "…And she says I'm just jealous of Steve, and I still want to tell her how I feel but I know she won't listen," he sighed dejectedly.

"Rai, you gotta get over this. I'm gonna do you a favor, I'll get everyone else to leave, then you make your move and tell Kim," She got up and in a flash was gone. He saw her reappear by the group under the pavilion. "Hey Tori," she said to the olive skinned girl who snapped her gaze from Kimiko and set it on the red head.

"Yes, Carly?" she asked.

"I found the greatest little amulet at a Druid temple in Scotland. I got it for you; it's up in my room. Why don't you go get it?" At the prospect of jewelry, Tori pulled Steve away. Luckily, Kimiko didn't follow.

"Carly," Scotty leaned in to her friend, "there aren't any Druid temples in Scotland."

"There's no amulet either," the other girl replied with a smirk. She pulled Clay down into their little huddle and whispered, "Make up a reason to leave. Rai's gonna make his move on Kimiko once we're gone," she said rather loudly, "I feel like playing a little flute, so I'm gonna go get it," She walked casually away. Scotty soon followed saying she'd left her hat in the grand hall. She trotted off in the same direction as Carly. Clay gave a huge fake yawn, mumbled something about catching a few Z's and lumbered off in Raimundo's direction.

Clay saw Rai leaned nervously against a tree. He went up and punched the smaller boy playfully in the arm. "Go get 'er, partner," he pushed the Brazilian in the direction of the jade pavilion where Kimiko sat fiddling with one of the braids her hair was in. Raimundo took a couple of bold steps at Clay turned his back to start walking away.

Raimundo came up to Kim and sat by her. He sighed. "Is something wrong?" she asked leaving her black hair half braided hanging down her shoulder.

"Well," Rai began, "What would you do if you liked someone, but you didn't want to tell them?"

"I would suck it up and tell them; honesty is a great qual-" Rai cut her 'ity' off with a kiss on her soft pink lips. What the hell do you think you're doing? His thoughts screamed. After only five second of bliss and ecstasy, Kimiko raised her hand and gave Raimundo a smack across his tan face. She scrambled away and stood up spitting and wiping her lips. "I can't believe you just did that!" she spat out eventually. "Raimundo Pedrosa, you are the sickest boy I have ever met!" Her words burned holes in his soul like venom. She stormed off. Raimundo brought his knees up to his chest. He rested his forehead on them feeling like he was going to cry.

Not the RaiXKim you expected, huh? Things may sort themselves out…I haven't decided yet. I'm just gonna stop here because I'm really tired and I have a German test tomorrow. Wish me luck and review!

Until Next Time,

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