Author's Notes
1. I do not own Xiaolin Showdown but I do love both of the series. I do own Gloria/Gizmo who is Jack's daughter in fanfiction; she'll be a character throughout the story and I hope you will all like her
2. This fanfiction is an updated version of a story that I had started writing in 2014 and stopped working on in 2016 due to a lack of time and inspiration. Unfortunately I lost the original files and thus have no other choice but to post an entirely new version of the story that was copied and pasted from the original and then edited. Hopefully this version will be grammatically correct and have less errors overall.
3. Time to meet Jack's mother, since she's unnamed in the show I will be giving her one; I also don't remember her being shown in the show so her personality will be complete guess work on my part, hopefully no one will mind me doing so.
Also, you guys get to meet Jack's brother and mother in law; they're original characters of mine just like Gizmo is, hopefully you'll like them.
4. There will be more yaoi in future chapters, but if that makes you uncomfortable then you're in luck because there's none in this particular chapter; just know that it will be returning at some point.
5. French and Italian translations in this chapter are provided by Google Translate, if anything is incorrect please let me know. Anyway, here are the translations:
French:
1. Bon travail à tous, vous pouvez tous retourner à la cuisine maintenant. Je vous dirai ce que tout le monde pense de la nourriture
- Good Work everyone, you can all go back to the kitchen now. I'll let you know what everyone thinks of the food.
2. mon beau-frère pâle
- my pale brother-in-law
Je m'en assurerai
- I will make sure.
3. Mangeons tout le monde!
- Let's eat everyone!
4. Bien sûr que je le fais, tout est délicieux
- Well of course I do, it's all delicious.
5. Oh mon, y a-t-il quelque chose entre ces deux-là? Quelque chose de romantique peut-être?
- Oh my, is there something between these two? Something romantic maybe?
Italian:
1. Sei uno che parla di comportarsi. Faresti subito un controllo medico a Jack se non avessimo bisogno di mangiare.
- You are one who talks about behaving. You'd give Jack a medical check-up right now if we didn't need to eat. (This was supposed to be worded a little differently but this was the best Google could do.)
2. Ma come è il tuo italiano
- But how is your Italian?
3. Sono ancora fluente anche in questo per fortuna.
- I'm still fluent in that as well thankfully
They had all been talking for a few minutes when suddenly the doors to the kitchen swung open and the kitchen staff quickly made their way around the table with covered plates in hand, carefully they set the trays down on the large table and uncovered what looked to be an amazing variety of food before they all made their way to the kitchen door just in time for another figure to come out. She was a very small woman at only 5ft tall, she had fiery red hair that had been tied up under her chef's hat, her eyes were large and bright green and she had a very sweet smile on her face; she was a very adorable woman over all but Jack knew from experience that there was more to this woman then just her cute appearance.
"Bon travail à tous, vous pouvez tous retourner à la cuisine maintenant. Je vous dirai ce que tout le monde pense de la nourriture." The small woman said cheerfully in French to the group of chefs that were lined up and the kitchen door.
"Merci, chef de cusine!" The group of chef's said together, clearly trying not to look relieved at her praise as they all headed back into the kitchen.
"Oh Cosette, only you could mortify my Mother's entire kitchen staff into speaking a different language. I can't imagine what you put them through." Jack said in an amused tone as he looked at the food that had been put in front of them.
"You say that like I did something wrong?" Cosette said her cheerful french accent as she removed her chef's hat and apron.
"It's so good to see you Jack, you've gotten so thin mon beau-frère pâle." Cosette added with a slightly sad smile as she glanced at Jack.
"Yeah I know, luckily I have you to fatten me up again." Jack said in a teasing way.
"I don't think it's physically possible to make you fat, but you mark my words; you will have gained weight by the time these two weeks are over. Je m'en assurerai." Cosette said with a determined smile.
"Oh I'm sure I will, but at least I won't be the only one." Jack said with an amused smile as he glanced over at Chase and Hera who were both staring at the all the food in shock.
"Oh that's right I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Cosette, I'm Vincent's wife and I will be cooking for us all for the next two weeks; I do hope you both enjoy my food." Cosette said happily as she introduced them both.
"A pleasure to meet you, I am Chase Young. This all looks fantastic, we are very grateful to have the chance to eat your food." Chase said politely, looking slightly intimidated by all the food.
"I am Hera, I did plan on gaining weight these two weeks but with all this wonderful looking food I imagine that will be hard." Hera said politely, also looking intimidated by all the food.
"Don't worry dear, I've made Cosette promise to behave herself in the kitchen after today." Jack's mother's voice said suddenly, causing them all to turn their heads towards the dining room door.
With his mother was Gizmo and two other people Jack knew well; one was a curvaceous woman about his mother's age with dark auburn hair, honey brown eyes, and a heart shaped face. The other person who had come in was a three year old boy who had Vincent's black hair but had inherited Cosette's bright green eyes as well as her fiery personality; though at the moment the poor boy was clearly still waking up.
"Good luck with that Miss Spicer, I don't think it's possible for my Cosette to behave herself when it comes to cooking." Vincent chimed in before Jack could comment.
"Sei uno che parla di comportarsi. Faresti subito un controllo medico a Jack se non avessimo bisogno di mangiare." The woman next to Jack's Mother said to Vincent in Italian.
"She has a point Mon amour." Cosette said teasingly as she took a seat near her husband.
"Yes well, I think I'm doing very well at behaving myself since I'm allowing him to eat first." Vincent said, looking embarrassed.
"Anyway, perhaps we should all sit, I'm sure our guests are hungry and getting annoyed with making them wait." Vincent added, clearly trying to change the subject.
"You're not annoying us in the least, if fact I for one find the interaction between you all rather charming." Chase said with a kind smile.
"Though I must admit I am hungry." Chase added earning in an amused chuckle from those that were already sitting.
"Well in that case we stragglers should sit so everyone can eat." Jack's mother said helping Gizmo onto a chair by her Father as Vivianna did the same for Felix
"Now then, let's eat everyone. If something in particular looks good please speak up and we'll be happy to pass it to you." Jack's mother said after she and Vivianna both sat.
"Everything looks good, we might as well just start passing things and take as much as our plates will fit." Hera suggested, having spoken for the first time in a while.
"A good idea dear, let's do that." Vivianna said with a nod in agreement.
With that decided, everyone grabbed a plate and took a little before passing it to the next person. Once everyone's plate was filled the passing of the trays finally stopped.
Mangeons tout le monde !" Cosette said cheerfully once everyone's plates were full.
Needing no further encouragement everyone dug in, there were a few comments on how things tasted but over all everyone was so hungry they focused on eating. Jack for one had not had Cosette's cooking in two years and was eager to take more food after he had finished his first plate; which earned a smile from Cosette
"Je vois que tu aimes toujours ma cuisine Jack, ça me rend si heureux." Cosette said gleefully in French as Jack finished filling his plate with food for the second time.
"Bien sûr que je le fais, tout est délicieux." Jack compliment back in French after swallowing a bite of food.
"I see your French is still excellent, I must admit I'm a bit surprised and impressed that you didn't lose any of your skill over two years." Cosette complimented Jack.
"Well having a good memory helps, though I am a bit rusty." Jack said in a slightly embarrassed way.
"You certainly don't seem rusty dear. Ma come è il tuo italiano?" Vivianna said complimenting Jack but then speaking in Italian with a teasing.
"Sono ancora fluente anche in questo per fortuna." Jack said back to her in Italian, feeling a bit embarrassed when Chase looked over at him in an impressed way.
"How many languages are you fluent in Jack?" Chase asked curiously.
"Fluent in? Oh uh well... There's French, Italian, and Chinese; I'm also fluent in Japanese, Korean, English, Spanish, and Vietnamese." Jack explained, blushing as Chase and Hera both stared at him in shock.
"That's eight languages in total. How long have you been fluent in them all?" Chase asked curiously.
"Oh Jack's been fluent in Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean, and Vietnamese since he was young; French and Italian are his two most recent languages." Jack's mother said proudly before Jack could answer.
"Mom you don't need to brag about..." Jack started to say in an embarrassed way but getting interrupted.
"Oh nonsense, I'm very proud of my genius son and all his skills; and I will brag about you to anyone who asks." Jack's mother said, chuckling as Jack started to turn pink from embarrassment.
"And you should be proud, just like I'm proud of my son." Vivianna complimented, causing Vincent to blush now.
"Woah now Mother, there's no need to bring up..." Vincent started to say in an embarrassed way when Jack interrupted.
"No, by all means; let's hear all about how wonderful Vincent is." Jack said half teasingly and half serious because he wanted the subject to change.
"Why is it young men never want to have their accomplishments talked about, you two should both be very proud of everything you've done." Cosette said in an amused but also sweet way.
"Like you're one to talk, you get embarrassed too when your accomplishments get brought up." Vincent said, still looking embarrassed.
"I do not!" Cosette said, rolling her eyes.
"Okay then, let's talk about the fact that you graduated culinary school at the age of seventeen, or how about that you then opened a restaurant that earned its first star when you were eighteen." Vincent said to Cosette who immediately turned very pink as Chase and Hera stared at her in shock.
"How about we go back to eating, there's still so much food left." Cosette said, clearing her throat to hide the embarrassed squeak in voice.
"There she goes trying to change the subject, and you said you didn't get embarrassed when..." Jack started to say in a teasing way when he was interrupted.
"She does have a point, we do have a lot of food left to eat; we should get back to it." Vivianna said, clearly feeling a bit bad that she and Sylvia had caused so much embarrassment in their family members.
"We'll just have to tell you more about these three later, they can't get embarrassed and make us feel bad if they're not around." Jack's mother said with an amused chuckle.
"That would be lovely Miss Spicer, it would be nice to get to know more about these three." Hera said as Chase nodded.
"I'm sure Chase would like to know more about Jack in particular." Vivianna only half whispered, causing both Jack and Chase to blush.
"Oh mon, y a-t-il quelque chose entre ces deux-là? Quelque chose de romantique peut-être?" Cosette asked in French in an intrigued way.
"No, you are not allowed to get involved!" Jack said in a stern way before his mother or Vivianna could answer.
"And when have I ever done as you said Jack?" Cosette asked with a mischievous smile.
"Oh lord, Vincent, please help me." Jack said, looking at Vincent desperately.
"You really think I can stop her? She may be my wife but when it comes to things like this I'm afraid you're doomed Jack." Vincent said with an apologetic shrug.
"You and Chase may as well resign yourselves to your fate, you've got three grown women who are going to interfere and there's nothing you can do about it." Vincent added when Jack groaned out loud.
"And an adorable but nosy little four year old girl who started this all by telling her grandmother's about it in the first place." Jack said, glancing at his daughter who smiled innocently at him.
"I love you Daddy." Gizmo said sweetly with an innocent smile before shoving food in her mouth.
"I love you too, you little stinker. God, we are so doomed Chase." Jack said first Gizmo with a sigh and then looking at a clearly embarrassed Chase.
"It is as Vincent said, we may as well resign ourselves to our fate and let them interfere; it will be interesting to say the least." Chase said, trying to regain some of his composure but still looking embarrassed.
"I for one am looking to seeing how these two weeks will turn out, I suppose I will just have to watch and see. In the meantime I suggest we focus on today, specifically the large amount of food that still needs to be consumed." Hera chimed in with an amused smirk before going back to eating.
Knowing there was no more point to arguing any further, Chase and Jack both did as Hera and suggested and started to eat again; Jack could feel eyes on them both but chose to ignore it, though as he ate he couldn't help but wonder just what the four females would get up two in the two weeks they'd be there.