Yikes! It took me forever to get this up! With thanksgiving, working, school, and procrastination, I haven't been able to get this up. I have been BUSY! I wanted this chapter to go further, but I liked where I ended up stopping, and I hope you do too!
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The sun was just rising over the horizon. Yet the weary travelers paid no attention to the astonishing site. Clay and Dojo were more preoccupied with what breakfast he could manage to find, and Jermaine was still sleeping, even though he was standing. Omi of course, was ranting about how glorious his weapon was sure to be, and trying to rush everyone along. But due to Omi's ignorance, he didn't notice everyone was ignoring him.
They were truly lucky for Omi's impatience though, because he packed everything they used for their makeshift camp. All they had to do was get on Dojo, and head the rest of the way to the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Kimiko looked away from the Looking Glass and looked around the current camp. She had done her best to pack up the camp, so they can be ready to follow the Xiaolin. She wasn't quiet with her disassembling of the camp, and had already taken the tent down, but that didn't mean Raimundo was awake.
She looked at the sleeping beauty, and rolled her eyes. Not only was Raimundo still asleep, but he was able to train Candida to follow his sleep schedule. She only moved once, and that was after Kimiko woke up and left Raimundo's side, and Candida proceeded to take her spot.
"I knew she would get jealous." Kimiko spoke aloud, hoping that her voice would disrupt the two. She wasn't so lucky, and stood up with an aggravated growl.
She stormed over to the two, stomping on the ground. She stopped at Raimundo's feet, and kicked the bottom of his foot. His only reaction though was to curl his knees to his chest, and continue on snoozing.
"Are you kidding me!" She shouted, throwing her hands in the air.
She then turned her attention to Candida. She never woke up a tiger before, and wasn't sure if there would be consequences. Although it would be nice to have Candida awake first so she could pounce on Raimundo and wake him up. It would be more fun that way for her.
She gingerly poked the sleeping tiger on her back with her foot. She heard a small grunt escape, and poked her a few more times. Candida grunted once more, before lifting her head, to stare behind her, at Kimiko.
"Candida." Kimiko spoke slowly. "It is time to wake up." She let the big cat stretch out, as she walked carefully around so she was now kneeling down in front of Candida. She started scratching her behind the ear, and Candida's tail started to move (like a regular cat's tail). "Wake up Raimundo please." She cooed gently.
She could have sworn she saw a glint of happiness in the eyes of Candida at the mention of Raimundo's name. Kimiko stood up and took a step back as Candida stood as well. Candida turned to face her masters sleeping form.
She then proceeded to nudge Raimundo, who only rolled over on his back, uncurling his knees from his chest. Candida then sat down on top of Raimundo, and placed her front paws on his chest, then started licking him all over his face.
Kimiko started to laugh as Raimundo's eyes flew open, and he started yelling in his native language. From her best guess, it seemed that a tiger lick would probably be pretty slobbery, and a rude awakening. But the look of disgust, and shock on Raimundo's face dispelled any guilt that may have been brewing within her.
"Isso é o suficiente. Pará-lo." Raimundo yelled pushing Candida finally off of him, then glared at the giggleing Kimiko. "Why couldn't you just wake me up."
"I tried to wake you up!" She yelled gesturing to the camp that was now packed up. "I never even tried to be quiet. I even took the tent down, and I stepped on you twice."
"I'm a heavy sleeper." He shrugged.
"Come on and get dressed. I know where we are heading. I guess you can say I eavesdropped. They siad we are heading to the outskirts of Rio." She smiled, proud of everything she was able to accomplish. But she was confused by the look of terror on Rai's face. "Are you okay?"
He gave out a nervous chuckle. "Oh yeah!" he blurted standing up. "I'm just going to go change, so you can just..." he paused for a moment. "do something else."
He ran behind the enlarged Manta Ray, luckily remebering his bag that he had clothes in. Thoughts raced threw his mind. What if he did see any member of his family, or worse they saw him. How would he explain everything; his two year absence; his abilities; his enimies; his weapon's; Kimiko.
God he hoped that the outskirts of Rio wasn't the outskirts he lived in. Yet at the same time he wanted to see his family. Well maybe skip his dad, that wouldn't be pretty.
Still with in his thoughts, he walked out from behind the Ray now wearing jeans and a black muscle tee-shirt. He threw the bag in the Ray, and continued to stare out into space. He was thinking of every possible situation that could happen, and thinking of what he could say. In every thought, everything was just a bad situation.
Raimundo jumped a little as Kimiko snapped his fingers in his face. " Really Rai, whats wrong with you?"
"N-nothing!" Rai barked out, an edge of nervousness in his voice.
"Please Rai, you are worrying me." Concern in her eyes.
Raimundo fretted with telling her or not. He knew that Kimiko found family exteremly important, and knew already that she was curious about his family. Chase had actually told him that she had questioned about his past. He then finally decided.
"I will tell you if I know for sure it will be a problem." He smiled at her, trying to reassure her.
She gave him a questioning look, but accepted the answer.
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Master Fung looked at the scroll before him that Guan had brought back. Clearly this was not a prophecy, and fool could tell that. This lead Fung to beleive that Chase had taken procautions in case of this problem. It was truely a simple spell to put in place, but practically impossible to reverse unless you knew what the actual prophecy said.
Fung rubbed his temples. This prophecy was proving to be very complicated, and they had not a clue what it was truely about. Fung didn't like not knowing things that could possible endanger his students.
Maybe Monk Zedong would have input. He always seemed to know about prophecys like these, and seemed to know quite a bit about the hardships the Dragons would have to deal with.
Fung then stood up, and headed for the area the temple monks usually kept to. It was in the south west wing of the temple, and even had its own gate. He walked threw the gate, and headed for the garden that was located in there. This was usually were the monks were at this time of the day.
"Good Afternoon." Fung greeted. "By chance have you seen Monk Zedong?" He asked one monk.
The monk turned to him, a smile on his face. "Afternoon Master Fung. I beleive that he left to spend some time in town very earlier this morning."
"Do you know when he would be coming back?"
"You know, he didn't say." The monk responded regretfully.
"Well thank you for your help nonetheless." Fung assured him before he left the temple monks private estate.
'Strange.' He thought to himself. 'Normally monk Zedong would never leave the temple.'
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"Are we close to wherever it is we are goinng!" Jermaine yelled from the back of Dojo.
"Yeesh!" Dojo muttered. "Could you ask a little nicer."
Jermaine crept up Dojo's back, so he was in the very front of Dojo, right by his ear. "How about I grow to a humungo size and fly everyone around, and you can listen to the grapefruit and how damn glorious he is!" Jermaine hissed in his ear.
Dojo actually contemplated this situation, tilting his head to the side. "About thirty minutes." He answered after a few seconds.
"I think you can move a little bit faster Dojo partner." Clay then interrupted, poping up behind Jermaine. "If I have to deal with another thirty-seconds of this rugrats anticpation of his most amazing weapon, I'm going to use my spurs on you."
"Hows fifteen sound."
With that Dojo speed up, causing Jermiane to cling to Dojo, and Clay to hold on to Jermaine. Omi on the the other hand held on to Dojo as well, but contined about his weapon threw the rush of air.
Jermaine happened to glance behind him, intending to send a glare to Omi, but caught a glimpse of something silver, but when he blinked, it wasn't there. He stared for a few more minutes, before facing foward again.
If Jermaine were to guess though, he would say that it was either Jack and Wuya, or Raimundo and Kimiko. No matter what, he knew that searching for the remaining weapons would not be easy, nor fun. He also coulnd't wait till Omi found is weapon, so he could grab it from him and hit him over the head with it.
"Dojo!" Omi yelled. "What is with the speed. Now you can't hear about how glorious my weapon will be, and how much more magnificant I will be with my wonderful weapon!"
"You didn't mention humble." Dojo yelled back at Omi.
"And modest." Clay added
"Don't forget silent." Jermaine put in as well.
Omi's brow furrowed in confusion. "Would this be the sarcasm I have been told about?"
"No..." the three said together rolling their eyes.
"Was that sarcasm."
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"Why are they speeding up?" Kimiko questioned, one eyebrow rasing, well painting her nails.
"Who knows." Raimundo blankly replied, not truely hearing what Kimiko said.
He could see the skyline of Rio coming closer and closer. In his mind he was hoping that he wouldn't have to follow to the monks further west of Rio. He wasn't sure if he ever wanted to go back to Tubarão. He couldn't face his family either, not yet.
Maybe he could see his brother Alexandre. He was actually really the only person he wanted to see. They shared a room, and besides, they were Irish twins. Alexandre was the older one though. They were very close, and they truly did look alike. Hell, his whole family looked very close to each other. If one of them just walked down the main road in Tubarão, people could say, "Hey, that's a Pedrosa right there."
He didn't miss that at all. But out of his whole family, he was the only one to have green eyes. Everyone in Tubarão probably had dark brown eyes; actually he knew that for a fact. It was frustrating to see the least.
"Rai."
Mainly though his dad was what made it hard. His father never really gave a damn about him. For the life of him, he couldn't figure out why. His dad is what really caused him to act out probably, gain unwanted attention for the mayor of the town.
"Raimundo!"
Besides he was in the middle of nine kids. Four older brothers, two younger sisters, and two younger brothers. Kimiko was right about the kids in the middle, they are the troublesome ones. Of course he made sure he lived up to that title pretty well. But he did usually bring Alexandre and his sister Lina, who was a year younger than him, into the situation as well, but he was the one who got grounded the most though.
Raimundo was then quite literally knocked out of his thoughts as Kimiko pushed him out of his seat to steer the Ray in the direction of the Xiaolin. He shook his head a little, trying to wake himself up a little. He looked out the windshield, and froze up again, his thoughts racing again.
"Maldição."
"Come on Rai! Whatever it was you were worrying about before has become a problem." She then paused. "Well bigger."
Raimundo looked at her, his mouth hanging open slightly, trying to think of something to say, but nothing came. He looked back out the window. They had just past the center of Rio, and would reach his home in maybe ten minutes. He looked back at Kimiko, who was currently steering the craft.
"We are heading to Tubarão." He stated, his face revealing no emotion.
Kimiko sat there for a moment, processing what he had just said. "Is that were you are from?" she asked carefully.
Raimundo nodded. He didn't know what to say. He had done so good forgetting about his family over the past two years. He always thought, well hoped, that his family would make the first effort to make contact. He wasn't even sure if they reported that he ran away to the police, or made up some story about where he went.
"So you get to see your family again." Kimiko said happily.
"That's why I'm worried Kimiko, I don't want to see them." He said in a cold voice.
"Oh." Was Kimiko's sad reply.
He sighed. He didn't want to make her upset, or angry at him. "Look Kimi. I ran away, and I haven't seen them since. That was two years ago." When Kimiko remained silent, he continued. "I didn't leave on the best of terms with anyone, well my dad primarily. I still didn't tell anyone I left, so I'm sure some will be sore about that. Hell they probably just forgot about me."
"No one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten in family." Kimiko shot back at him.
"When did you become so wise?" Raimundo said, rubbing the back of his neck smiling.
"That was from Lilo and Stitch." She grinned.
"You could have just left that out."
Kimiko continued to grin at him. She then turned her attention back to the large green dragon they were following, and saw that he was diving down to land. She easily followed, well still staying hidden, and she practically felt herself tense up as she sensed Raimundo stiffening as well.
"It won't be that bad. If it bothers you that much, we can avoid your family." She tried reassuring him.
Raimundo shook his head. "Kimi, my father is the mayor of the town, and they know all of his children. It will be extremely hard for me to walk down a street without being recognized, and having them tell my family."
"Well, maybe it won't be as bad as you think." She said, but her eyes narrowed, "Don't you dare say anything negative here either; I'm running out of encouragement."
Raimundo closed his mouth.
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"Welcome to Tubarão." Dojo said shrinking down to his small lizard like state. "Ya know, this place sounds and looks familiars." He said scratching his head.
They had landed on a hill top overlooking the medium sized town. It was a rather simple looking town, with a downtown area, with curtsies shops and little eateries. Some office buildings, of average sized, were also in the area. Then streets lead away from the center, leading to homes, and small businesses such as hair salons and such things.
"Well this is a nice small town." Clay commented.
"Yes it is, but let's continue the search for my weapon!" Omi cried running down the hill.
"How far do you think he will make until he realizes he can't understand anyone." Jermaine grinned crossing his arms.
"He will come running back to us before we are even down the hill." Commented Dojo.
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Kimiko shoved the miniaturized Manta Ray into her bag, and looked back to the top of the hill to see that the monks had started walking down the hill. She then turned to Raimundo, seeing his apprehensiveness.
"How do you suggest we go about finding your weapon?" she asked.
Raimundo pulled a blue sweatshirt out of his bag, and threw it over his head, leaving the hood over his head. "Well, my plan is to try to blend into the group of people, and hope that those crazy monks take everyone's attention."
"And if that doesn't work?"
Raimundo grinned and kissed Kimiko on her forehead. "Then hopefully everyone pays attention to you."
Kimiko felt a blush creep across her face, but easily fought it back down, and decided to change the topic. "What about your family, if they happen to be out."
Raimundo decided it would help if Kimiko knew what his family looked like, so if she happens to see one of the many, and he didn't, they could still avoid them. He reached down to Kimiko's bag, and opened, pulling the Looking Glass out.
The Wu slowly started up, showing an Image of what looked like a family photo. "This is my dad." Raimundo said pointing to the man with dark brown hair, which was combed back. He had tan skin, and brown eyes, and looked to be in shape. "Then my mom." He said pointing to the women next to him. She had light brown hair to her shoulders, with a few freckles, and brown eyes.
"You look most like your dad." She commented, but Raimundo didn't reply.
"Migel is my oldest brother, then Isidoro, then its Zacarias, then Alexandre." He pointed to each brother who all had tan skin, but Migel had dark brown eyes whereas the other three had lighter brown. Migel and Zacarias both had shorter brown hair, just a little longer than a buzz cut, where Alexandre had darker brown hair, but resembled Raimundo's hair perfectly. Isidoro's hair on the other hand, was light brown, and was gelled up in a Mohawk, about an inch high, not too dramatic.
"You and Alexandre look a lot alike." Kimiko said examining the photo.
"He is my Irish twin." He told her, but he moved onto the rest of his family. "This is Lina."
Kimiko looked at Lina. She had darker red hair, and dark brown eyes, and her skin was lighter then everyone else's. She was the only one so far to resemble the Raimundo's mom.
"Then it's the actual twins Paulo and Jaco." He said pointing to the identical boys. They both had light brown hair like Raimundo's, but had the freckles like their mother, but their hair was curly then everyone else.
"Last but not least, Calisto, or Cali for short." Raimundo said smiling. She also had red hair like her sister, but it was curly. She had freckles as well, and had big brown eyes. She looked like her mother very much.
"How old is everyone now?" She asked looking at Raimundo in the photo, who was on the end by his brother Alexandre.
"22, 20, 19, 18, 16, 13, 13, and 8." Raimundo said thinking for a second.
"I wish I had a big family." Kimiko muttered, looking sad.
Raimundo put an arm around her. "Trust me, if you meet mine, you won't."
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"It appears that a festival is taking place. And also, I do not know the language. " Omi stated as he ran back up to his teammates.
"Told you." Dojo whispered to Clay and Jermaine.
Both boys covered up their snickers with a fake cough, and patted their chest.
"Are you two becoming below the clouds?" Omi questioned at his friends.
"Oh no Omi, jus' got a tickle in ma throat." Clay said, 'clearing up' the situation.
"Yeah, what he said." Jermaine agreed.
Omi smiled at his friends. "Good. I don't want you two coughing on my new weapon." Under the glares he received, he revised his statement. "I mean, that it is good that you are not sick…and just that." He smiled nervously.
"Yo, let's go. I want to go experience the beach after this, so I can at least relax." Jermaine announced.
Dojo seemed to perk up at that statement. "Why aren't you listening to him you cowboy? Move!" he said well poking Clay.
Grudgingly, Clay started walking, not liking being poked.
Following at a distant, Raimundo and Kimiko waited few seconds before they followed. Both were now hoping that the peculiar trio would take the attention away from them. Raimundo made sure that his hood was all the way up, causing a shadow to appear on his face. Kimiko grabbed his hand and gave him a reassuring squeeze.
Raimundo looked down at her; she had also put her hood up of her black zip up sweatshirt. He was happy to know that she supported his decision, even though he knew that she would want him to reconcile with his family. But he had made up his mind. If he could avoid any member of his family, he would do everything within his power to do so.
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So this was a shorter chapter for me, but I really wanted to put this up!
Anyway, if you didn't know, Irish twins are siblings born in the same year. Like let's say the one kid was born in January of 2011, and then their sibling was born in October of 2011. That's Irish twins.
Then Raimundo is 18. If you couldn't guess.
Maldição- Damn
Isso é o suficiente.Pará-lo - Thats enough. Quit it.
So if you have any questions about this chapter or story ask me, because i feel like im forgetting to mention something, but i have not a clue what! So just ask. Oh, and please review, pretty please!