Me: Welcome back peeps! So good to see everyone again and here is Book 4 of the Thunder and Lightning series! Yaaay!
Cari: Shockingly, I'm back too!
Me: That is surprising. Why are you here?
Cari: I figure I may as well enjoy the ride while it lasts. So is this gonna be the last story in the series?
Me: Haven't figured that out yet, but like you said, might as well enjoy it! So here it is, Eternal Love!
Raimundo Pedrosa thought it safe to say that Kimiko Tohomiko, soon to be Kimiko Pedrosa, was extremely stressed. It was kinda obvious, considering that since the three months when he had proposed to her, she had been working like a machine, wanting to plan her perfect dream wedding. And Rai had no problems with that. But it was starting to get a bit worrisome when it got to the point that Kimiko was so distracted that she couldn't match her clothes. That's when he knew it was serious. Kimiko never mismatched her clothes. Ever. So Rai hatched a plan to have Lilia and Emeline take over the wedding plans for the day while he took Kimiko away to relax. But of course, that was easier said than done. For starters, getting Kimikoto let go of her phone was like wrestling a bear for his honey. Kim tried every trick in the book so that Rai would leave her alone, but seeing as how he cared way too much for his future wife, nothing worked. Finally, Lilia and Em waved a cheery goodbye and discussed flower arrangements while Raimundo took Kimiko away, the latter struggling to remove the Tangle Web Comb.
"Let. Me. Go." Kimiko said dangerously.
"Nope." Rai said happily. He had strapped Kimiko in the passenger seat of the Silver Manta Ray and for the last half hour she had made all sorts of threats, including a desperate bid by saying she would call off the wedding. Nothing was working but Kim wouldn't give up. Now, she changed tactics.
"Please Rai. Please let me go?" she asked quietly, tears shining in her eyes and lower lip trembling.
"Sorry bella. This is for your own good." he grinned at her.
"Hmph." she pouted, looking out the window. After a while, her curiosity got the best of her.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"Rio de Janeiro. It's time you properly met my family, seeing as how we're getting married." even as he spoke the words, Raicouldn't help the note of pride in his voice as he mentioned their upcoming wedding.
Kimiko smiled and looked back out the window, only to see Hannibal Roy Bean, sitting atop The Ying-Ying Bird, headed straight for them.
"Oh that's just great. Rai, we have company." she said disgustedly. Rai turned on auto-pilot before unstrapping Kimiko and getting their Shen Gong Wu.
"Moby Morpher! Wings of Tinabi!" Hannibal changed to a larger size and used the Wings of Tinabi to stay in the air.
"What's he even doing here anyway?!" Kimiko said as she strapped on the Cat's Eye Draco to her arm.
"Emmy's sending me a text. There's a Wu alert! The Shen Yi Wings. It makes the user as light as air. But wait, the coordinates she sent me are right where we are. But we're in the middle of the Atlantic! Where could it possibly be?" Rai said, exasperated. Kimiko opened the sunroof and her eyes widened.
"How about up there?" she pointed. There, high above their heads, was the Wu. It was a pair of wings, gold-coloured with black laced in. Hannibal cackled madly as he swooped in for the kill.
"Oh no you don't!" Kimiko leaped into the air.
"Cat's Eye Draco! Arrow Sparrow!" the flaming birds hit their mark, sending Hannibal spinning off course and giving Rai the opening he needed.
"Shoku Star Wind!" he gave himself the boost to reach and just made it. Unfortunatley, he wasn't the only one.
"Raimundo, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown." Hannibal gave him an evil grin.
"Fine. My Blade of Elements against your Sword of the Storm." Rai narrowed his eyes.
"The game is air hockey. The first one to get the puck in the goal wins."
"Let's go! Xiaolin Showdown!" the scene changed to reveal a white air hockey field floating in mid-air with a very large puck sitting in the center. Kimiko sat on a nearby cloud.
"Gong Yi Tampai!" they yelled. Rai went to charge, but Hannibal was quicker.
"Sword of the Storm!" Hannibal used the gust of wind to not just propel the puck forward, but to aim an attack at Rai. He managed to jump out of it's way, but then realized with horror that because he had jumped, the puck was now speeding towards the goal.
"Thank you so much for makin' this very easy." Hannibal drawled. Rai thought quickly and propelled himself in front of the speeding puck.
"Shoku Dragon Ventus!" he crossed his arms in an X-shape and used the strength of the attack to bring the puck to a screeching halt.
"Blade of Elements! Fire and Earth!" he brought the blade up, meaning to bring it down in an arc, but one of Hannibal's vines wrapped itself around Rai's wrist, making it impossible for him to move his arm.
"I think it's time we end this." Hannibal smirked. Rai didn't even have time to form a response before he was flung over the edge of the field. As he fell through the sky, he managed to witness Hannibal Bean score the winning goal. The scene changed again and Raimundo and Kimiko were back in street clothes. Rai landed hard on the Silver Manta Ray to Hannibal's laughter. Kimiko helped him up as they both glared at Hannibal, who was madly laughing as he flew away. Once they could no longer see him, Rai angrily punched the roof of the Ray.
"Rai, look at me. It's ok. So you lost a Showdown, big deal. We've all lost Showdown's before too, ya know." Kimiko said gently but sternly. Rai sighed.
"I know Kim. It's just that....during the Showdown, I had this feeling that I couldn't let him win. No matter what. I don't know why, but now I have a really bad feeling. Maybe we should go back to the temple." Rai looked worriedly in the direction they were coming from.
"And you thought I was the one who was stressed." Kimiko muttered. She kneeled down in front of him and cupped his face in her porcelain hands.
"Look. You are the one who is kidnapping me and taking me across the ocean. We're already more than half-way there. And besides, I'm not letting a mini-vacation like this pass me by. So in other words, we're going to Brazil. Besides, you know the others can definitely take care of themselves." Rai grinned as she kissed the tip of his nose.
"We'll we're not gonna get any closer if we're just sitting here. C'mon hon, we still have a lot of ocean to cover." they laughed as they slipped through the sunroof. Soon, they were zooming through the skies, the lost Showdown forgotten. For now.
Hannibal chuckled as he stroked Ying-Ying.
"Soon Ying-Ying, we will be the ones controlling the world. We will do what Chase was too weak to do." he scoffed at the mention of Chase.
"That idiot was alive for 1500 years and not once did he manage to take over the world. Serves him right for locking me in the Ying Yang World. Now, he'll be a prisoner in there for the rest of eternity. And the irony is, I have those Xiaolin Monks to thank for that. Well, once I set my plan into motion, they'll wish they had killed me instead of Chase." Hannibal's evil smirk stood out against the inky darkness.
Me: So I was watching an XS episode online last night, one of my favorites. The Return of PandaBubba. I swear when Kimiko started to cry i felt my heart break. Then she goes all kick butt on PandaBubba which totally rocks! Oh right! So tell me what you thought via review! Click the little green button please!
