Chapter 2

Raimundo couldn't help himself. After the group had arrived home, they all gathered outside under a shady tree, when Lupe went inside to talk to Master Fung about her powers. She had been gone for at least twenty minutes, and Raimundo was just too curious and too impatient to wait any longer. He quickly snuck inside the dojo, and went towards where the group usually trained. He reached the opening and peeked inside.

On the opposite side of the room sat Lupe and Master Fung.

"So I can manipulate all of it? Even the tiny little sparks in the air?" Lupe's eyes sparkled.

"Yes," Master Fung nodded.

"Can I shock people?" Lupe smiled a devious smile.

"You should be able to, yes."

"So, let's say, if Raimundo was spying on us right now, I could center all the electricity in the air around him, spark it, and he would be zapped to a crisp?"

Master Fung smiled, then silently nodded.

"Wait, what?" Raimundo whispered to himself. In that moment Lupe's eyes turned straight toward him, and he was shocked with a giant spark of electricity.

"I'll…just…be go…going n…now," Raimundo coughed as he started to head outside, behind him, he could hear Lupe cracking up.

"Raimundo, what happened?" Omi jumped to his feet the moment he saw that Raimundo looked like burnt toast.

"Lupe shocked me," he coughed again.

"Is that her power?" Kimiko asked, tilting her head.

"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with electricity," he growled. "I don't even know how she saw me! I was on the opposite side of the room around the corner, and I know for a fact neither her nor Master Fung looked over in my direction."

"It's because I can sense the electricity your body gives off," Lupe said, appearing out of nowhere from behind Raimundo, making everyone jump.

"Yeah, but how did you know it was me?" Raimundo whined a little, gesturing to himself.

"Simple," Lupe smirked, "one, each person gives off a unique electrical field. Two, you're the only one who would be spying on me."

Raimundo turned bright red under all the black soot. "N...OMI WOULD SPY ON YOU!" he pointed.

"I WOULD NOT! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO THINKS SHE IS CUTE!" Omi shouted up at him.

"I DO NOT!"

They continued on for who knows how long until Kimiko and Lupe got tired of all the racket and went inside to talk.

Before long, the boys finally noticed that Lupe and Kimiko had left, and ran inside to find them.

"When did you guys leave?" Raimundo asked, walking into Kimiko's room.

"Boys are so spacy sometimes," Lupe laughed. "We left you guys at least a half hour ago."

"Yeah, now please…" Kimiko sighed, "GET OUT OF MY ROOM! YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED IN HERE!"

"Oh! Clay I found them!" Omi called down the hall as he walked by.

"Hey Bob the Builder, what's up?" Lupe joked.

Omi's face immediately lit up. "Oh I forgot! It's on in a few minutes! I will see you girls later!" Omi quickly ran out of the room and down the hall.

"Nice one, now he's going to hog the TV," Raimundo smirked.

"Oh, sorry, didn't mean to upset you," Lupe's personality immediately changed to a sweet puppy-dog eye, innocent kind of personality.

"Um, I guess it's all right," Raimundo sighed, looking at her face. "Whatever… see you guys…"

Out of nowhere, there was an extremely loud bang outside. Everyone looked at each other and quickly ran out to find the source of the noise. What they found was a small black jet, with a red hair boy climbing out of it.

"Crud! If he sees me, he'll know I'm one of you guys!" Lupe whispered, hiding around the corner.

"Come on, he has to find out sooner or later," Raimundo scowled, obviously not wanting another plan involving her flirting with Jack.

A new person popped out of the jet behind Jack this time. A girl who's skin tone was very similar to Jack's, with golden eyes, makeup under her eyes also like Jack's, long brown hair that hung on the side of her face, covering one eye, dressed in all black.

"Who's that?" Lupe questioned.

"I don't know," Kimiko squinted, "I've never seen her before."

"Wait a sec…" Lupe squinted a bit, trying to get a good look at the girl.

Out of nowhere, Jack spun around, pointing directly at the group. "Xialon monks, I will defeat…" he quickly spotted Lupe as the five walked out into the yard. "HEY! I KNOW YOU! YOU'RE THAT LUPE CHICK FROM EARLIER! YOU STOLE MY SWORD!"

"I'm very sorry about that…" she sighed, giving him a puppy dog face.

"So Jack, who's your new girlfriend?" Raimundo asked, half stepping in front of Lupe as if to protect her.

"She's not my girlfriend!" he shouted, obviously hearing that phrase much too often. As soon as he said that, the girl cringed slightly, as if the comment was like a small punch in the gut. "Anyways, this is Noname," Jack gestured to her.

"Wait…" Lupe popped out from behind Raimundo. "I KNEW IT WAS YOU!" she quickly ran over and hugged Noname.

"Who the…" Noname partly growled, pushing the girl off until she saw her face up close. "Wait…LUPE?"

"Yep," Lupe nodded, hugging Noname again.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?" Jack and Raimundo shouted in unison.

"Noname and I are… I guess you could say pen-pals. We met at my parent's hotel a couple years ago and we've been trying to keep in contact, but I haven't heard from her recently. So THIS is where you disappeared to, huh?"

"Yeah, Jack's an old childhood friend of mine," Noname smiled.

"I do remember you mentioning a Jack a few times I think," Lupe winked.

"Uh, Lupe?" Raimundo tapped her shoulder.

Lupe quickly spun around and smiled up at him. "Yes?"

He quickly grabbed her by the arm and dragged her back over to the other three Xiaolin monks. "THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS!" Raimundo shouted, pointing at them.

"Noname's not bad," she scowled at him, quickly walking around Raimundo and grabbing Noname by the arm. "Come on! I want you to see my room!" Quickly, the two girls ran inside to leave the rest out in the yard.

"Ha ha! I knew having Noname with me was a good idea! Your little friend trusts her way too much, and she can totally use her!" Jack started laughing maniacally.

"Just be quiet," Raimundo sighed. "This new girl…"

"Well, if Lupe and Noname are friends, why don't we just let her do what she wants?" Kimiko shrugged, obviously not caring that Lupe was friends with one of the, quote 'bad guys.'

Raimundo didn't listen; he was too busy staring down Jack. "So why are you here anyway?"

"I want my sword back."

"It's not yours anymore, its Lupe's," Raimundo continued to glare.

"She took it from me after I found it!"

"That's because you were stupid and let your guard down to her stupid plan."

"MY PLAN WAS NOT STUPID!" Lupe shouted, appearing out of nowhere. Everyone spun to face her, seeing she was really not okay with Raimundo's comment.

"Yes it was! We could have easily got it by fighting him!"

"At least it WORKED!" she half yelled, half cried as her face started turning red. "So far, maybe I'll be with these guys! AT LEAST THEY'ER NICE TO ME!" Lupe quickly ran back inside as Noname followed her.

"RAIMUNDO!" Kimiko shouted at him. "YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOT!" Kimiko quickly ran inside after Lupe and Noname, leaving all the boys outside.

"Dude," Jack sighed, shaking his head, "I live with two girls. You did NOT handle that well."